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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
1917 Pounds Gone!

The rema rkable case of Miss Artie
Adams Of Shelby, Ohio is illustrated in
her own words:
when | look back to the time before
took your wonderful obesity cure l do
not see how l stood il. My weight is now
1851. pounds. and / have lost just 1011a
pounds. ] can hardly believe that there
has been such difference in my feelings
and appearance. But OH. how thankful
am that l found a cure for my awful
burden of fat. in Kellogg's Safe Fat Re-
ducer. l can hardly realize that ] weigh
now only 1851 pounds. You can use my
letter as q testimonial if you wish.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
Fed 81. Copp for Crusade.

The following are letters commencing
the crusade against depravity:
Zed IL. Copp, probation officer. sends
this letter:
To the Editor Of The Star:
The parents. of this city heartily COM
mend your fearless action In exposing
the ''man-traps' operating to debase and
degrade the young.
The evil is SO deep-seated and far
reaching that q spasm of agitation will
not effect cure. The community con-
science must be quickened: customs al
tered and laws amended before perma-
nent change in present conditions can
be secured.
Having official knowledge of the UNDER
world related to the sorrows of
drunken songs" 'one-night matrimony"
and buddy joy rides / wish TO say
the fight should be made an epoch-mak-
ing one for righteousness by calling a
mass meeting OF Washington citizens,
looking to the formation Of a committee
Of 100 on social service to conduct a
flight it out on this line campaign
against the evils of the city.
Meanwhile let parents do their duty to
their own children. FED IL. COPP.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20

is sold to children has expressed his alb
horrence at the practice and expressed
the hope that the proporietors of such re-
sorts will be put out of business. We
surely do not want such fellows as as
sociates either in business way or So
cially.
Another saloonkeeper declared the prac-
tees described in. The Star are almost
as bad as the white slave traffic He ex-
pressed the hope that the public would
draw slime of demarkation, and wide
line at that, between the legitimate
liquor seller and the fellows who keep
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
Faint Earthquake Recorded.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. March 19.-The
seismograph at Harvard University show
ed today that an earthquake had been
recorded about $50 pm. yesterday. The
scientists at the university have not yet
computed either the distance or the di-
rection of the center OF the disturbance.
The record on the seismograph is faint.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
Loses $50 Pounds.

Mrs. Rosa Steesy of Elk Point, South
Dakota. writes: have lost 1873 pounds
and am still losing slowly. When L COM
menced your treatment l weighed 1868
pounds: now j weigh Do pounds. Your
Reducer is all right and did just as you
said il would. 1 can hardly believe that
am the same woman Ally daughter Is
greatly reduced in weight and l don't
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
Important Duty Is Plain.

That drastic action will be taken by
the Retail Liquor Dealers Association
against malefactors was evidenced on all
sides last night. While protecting the
law and their trade from aspersions, the
members said, they would also be per-
forming the more important duty of pro-
tecting their own families.
!. The retailers everywhere in Washing
ton last night expressed qualification at
the action of the Mercantile Association
through, Hugh r. Harvey, one of its of
ficers, in condemning the practices COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
SI.O0 Free Package Coupon

Although the State Department. of
ficials decline to state whether the
United States will send warship to
the scene of the trouble there is reason
to believe the matter is under con-
sideration, with the probability that
gunboat now in the West Indies viii
be sent to Santo Domingo to protect
American interests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
Business Is Rotten

The Stars stories Of the excise situa-
ton were the topic of conversation in
more than one music hall. One "restau-
rant which has long since given up the
idea of ever serving anything to eat in
the evenings, and which has become
known as grand old place to take a
young girl for an evenings drinking, held
at least one group of men who sized
up the situation in this way:
II was just over talking to the boss
of this place. was what one of them
started off with, land i asked him how
his business has been i'm the last two
nights. He said it had been rotten.
Il asked him what he was going to do
about all this muss they are raising. He
said he wasn't going to allow any more
fellows to come in here unless they came
with girls, and that he was going back
to the legitimate restaurant game III
earnest.
He's got fine chance. hasn't he?
Say, IL they close this place up y will
be the last decent place where fellow
can have any fun"
He then went on to explain his idea of
fun. 1t dealt, to some extent, with the
sale of drinks to young girls; but the
ma jor portion of his idea of what fun is
cannot be printed in a newspaper From
his conversation after that any one could
have learned how excise violations and
debauchery run hand In hand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
SaIoonkeepers Going After
Associates Who Violate [ aw

Men who keep resorts where LIQUOR is
sold to girls and boys and where the
youth of this city is debauched will be
handled without gloves by the members
of the Retail Liquor Dealers Association
of the District of Columbia IL they are
satisfied that such violations of the law
have taken place.
This information was given last night by
leading member Of the organization,
which has a membership of nearly 400
men in the saloon business. He added
that offending members of the association
when found will be cited to appear at the
next regular meeting at Eagles Hall, or
at some future meeting, and show cause
why they shall not be expelled from the
body for fragrant violations of the law
and the ethics OF the trade.
Should the offenders be expelled this ac-
ton will be followed by the appearance of
committee of the Retail Liquor Deal
ers Association before the excise board
with demand that the licenses of the
expelled members be revoked.
For the Good of the Community.
I'VE are trying to ascertain who are
the men who have been charged by The
Star with offenses against morality and
good ORDER an officer OF the association
said last night.
For our own self-respect and the good
of the community we will mete out to
them such punishment that they will not
soon forget. The idea OF debauohing in
nocent girihCod is utterly abhorrent to all
saloon men, except the few engaged in
such nefariOuS Wo.k for gain.
MANY men in our business have young
daughters and rear them tenderly and re-
specially. Therefore we are in deep SYM
patty with the parents of the girls who.
as charged by The Star, have been lured
into resorts by me nof shady reputation
where bawling roNsterers sing ribad
songs and professors play doubtful and
suggestive music on pianos. while the
girls and their staggering escorts fill UP
with liquor.
NO shadow of odium shall be cast
upon the respectable and law-abiding sa-
loonkeepers of this city by men in the
liquor business who make depravity a
part of their trade. Selling strong drink
to girls and boys is an offense' we will
not stand for.
THE men WHO do so will have to pay
dearly. for their lapse if the charge Is
proved against them
Saloonkeepers Indorse Crusade.
The Star was commended last night for
its exposure of upstairs rooms where
drink Is furnished minors in the very
business center of the city. by practically
all the local saloonkeepers.
Their only plant was that they did not
want the bad work of handful of sa-
loonkeepers to cast reflections upon the
several hundred men engaged in the hq-
uor business In the. District.
Violating the law is no part of re-
spectacle saloonkeeper's business" an
other saloon man said. Heaven knows
We have enough to contend with, and we
are not looking for new troubles.
Every man in the trade with whom
have talked since The Star opened its
batteries against the places where liquor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
Clergyman Has Evidence.

This communication is from a clergy
man:
WASHINGTON. D. c., March 1S 1910.
To the Editor OF The Star:
+ have read with great interest the re-
cent articles in your paper concerning
law and the saloon. i think it unfor-
tunate that the law Can be so construed
that the saloonkeeper can sell liquor and
escape the penalty Of the law.
have seen minors coming out GER
tain saloon In this city with beer.
have called the attention of the police
to this fact. They have said to me they
did not think they could make a case
because the law reads: eff the saloon
keeper knowingly sells liquor to minors =
1 have specific case. / made men,
orandum Of the hour OF the day saw a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20

think she will need any more of your
Obesity Reducer. We now are both cured
You may refer any one to me-.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
Grand Mix-Up of Girls.

Annapolis is tonight In a most peculiar
condition. Possibly five hundred young la
dies from all over the country are here
to attend the midshipmen's hop at the
Naval Academy. but while the hop Is be-
ing held these young ladies and those of
the Annapolis naval set are practically
without escorts. The youths who invited
them to come TO Annapolis are not al
der issued by Supt. Bowyer today. AS
result the young ladies with their chap
erons were forced to go unattended to the
academy gate, where there occurred a
wild scramble as eight hundred midship-
men attempted to pick from the infiowing
streams of femininity the particular girl
each had invited to the dance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
M|DD|ES KEPT IN"
Whole Brigade Punished for
''Giving the Silence"
NONE MAY LEAVE GROUNDS
Five Hundred Girls Invited to Hop
Have to Come to Academy
Unescorted.
NONE MAY LEAVE GROUNDS

ANNAPOLIS, Md, March 19.-For hay
ing given an officer Of the department of
discipline what is known as silence at
supper formation last night, Capt. j. NJ.
Bowyer. superintendent of the academy,
today issued orders suspending all gen.
eral and special privileges for the whole
brigade. Until further orders no mid
shipman will be allowed to leave the
academy for any purpose whatever. Per-
mission to hold hops during April and
May has been revoked, and the organiza-
ton of the first class club which was in
process of formation has been indefinitely
postponed.
! Giving the silence to an unpopular
officer is a practice at the academy which
Is almost as old as the institution itself
It consists of keeping absolute silence in
the mess hall during the meal at which
the officer against whom the resentment
of the midshipmen has been aroused is
present. and in this instance 1t was di-
rected against one who has a reputation
for being a strict disciplinarian.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
Leaves No Wrinkles.

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20

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far beyond his years. The walters. the
barkeeps, the proprietors were all on the
lookout, and wore worried expression.
for they knew not how many investi-
gators from headquarters at the District
building were on their jobs.
The loudest OF them shut down alto
gether True it is that the lights were
lighted and the walters were there. but
it was only because the bosses did not
want to acknowledge that they had
been hit. and hit terrific blow.
But the walters can buy no Easter
shoes with the tips and commissions they
received last night, as far as those who
have derived their income from the es-
Establishments which have VIGOROUSLY
and openly violated the law are con-
cerned.
Last night was SO quiet that q sar-
for his job. chose as his favorite effort,
that significant ragtime vocaltzation:
Put the soft. soft pedal,
Hush, hush. don talk so loud.
Thursday night was so quiet there was
no fun at all for the regulars in the mu-
sic halls Scarcely a young girl was seen
anywhere. The police conference was the
ceipts.
But the record-breaking dull evening
occurred last night.
Solemn as a. Funeral
The very place that up to the time The
Star began telling the facts of this ex-
else situation had the record for having
the noisiest easiest most young-girl-in-
tested upstairs room in the city was
quiet enough and deserted enough last
night 10 have been the scene of dismal
funeral.
The lons-haired ragtime singer was
there. TIE piano player was there. The
corps of walters was there. But only
for show.
Mighty few drinks were served. Mighty
few maudlin, vulgar songs were shouted
on. No girls under twenty-one years old
were there.
And while a Star reporter sat and view
ed the depressing scene there We're no
women at all-merely few old-time
sports who had dropped in to see whether
the boss had taken to cover or not.
The man who dropped in stayed
through a drink or a cigar and then left
In the phrase of the day, there was
nothing doing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
ssThe Empty Chair" Is Numerous

Tn third place. not at all as conspic-
nous a violator as some Of the others,
there. were 100 chairs, arranged around
about fifty tables. Scarcely twenty chairs
were occupied all at once during the en-
tire evening.
This is one place where girl could
come in and have one drink, after which
the walters would desert her entirely, so
she would leave in disgust. Should she
come with a man she could stay and be
welcome, regardless of her age.
However, last night, during that period
Of the evening when the music halls are
supposed to be taking in large cash
drawers full of money. there appeared
to be more walters than customers. 1t
was a vacant scene.
Two singers took turns at the ragtime.
A boss and two assistants wandered up
and down the floor. The soft pedal was
on, all right.
3 No one could join in the singers
chorus. Even a man who wanted to
wear his hat while drinking was told he
would have to go hatless or get out
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
Waiting Till It All Blows Over.

A disgruntled crowd gathered about the
once hard-worked "ladies' entrance" and
talked the situation over The general
impression was that things would have
20 run quiet for time, and after that it
would be all right"
Not far away from this once gaudy
bit of excise violating territory is an
other hang-out for the gilded youngsters.
Las. night and Wednesday night it was
a doleful place indeed.
The orchestra, composed Of sympathetic
souls, had been bathed in the prevailing
spirit of the occasion. and was entirely
out OF tune. The leader chose mournful
melodies. There was no use i'm using up
strength on red-hot rollicking ragtime,
because there was no one to appreciate
it except a few persons who were per-
fectly entitled to buy drinks under the
law.
Downstairs. as The Star reporter went
opt, the boss and a friend were discuss
ing the situation The friend said:
LAS long as these people are raising
Ned. then you'd better be quiet. Hey?"
To which the boss. who has been re-
ported against to the excise board. and
whose record stands in black and white,
replied in bravado tones:
"Ah. 1t don't worry me none"
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-08-26

ribbon, as is the square wastebasket
OF pink on green and gold. This should
be of very heavy paper throughout;
even an extra lining Of thin art paste
board would not come amiss. It is
made in four pieces, with heavy card
board bottom, and is then laced to.
gether.
Those articles where the inside
shows should have lining more arts
tic than brown paper. Plain colored
wallpaper, perhaps, the same as the
background, is good; and then there
are tar paper and old shading.
Both the candle and lamp shades
should be mounted over wire frames,
The dimity lining may be sewed over,
stretched tight, and the others pasted
on It. The fringing can be bought by
the yard at any upholsterer's. Tho
candleshade is blue on gold; the lamp.
shade, two shades of green and white.
The picture frame may be Of any
shape, and has a cardboard back.
pasted ON so that the glass and pic.
ture can slide in easily. Or plain
Cardboard frame may be purchased
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-08-26
The Practical Shower.

A young woman much beloved IN
her neighborhood, was to be married
and this delightful shower was ar
ranged: She had grown up from baby
hood on the same street, and one OF
her mothers friends suggested that
the neighbors contribute the price OF
a dozen napkins and tablecloth. Then
they had thimble party and the
linen was hemmed and monogramed.
The bride was perfectly delighted. Try
this when planning linen" shower.
It was no more costly than for each
guest to give a separate bit Of linen.
The same idea has been carried out in
sheets and pillow cases, also towels.
BY the way, at afternoon affairs ginger
lemonade IS quite the thing with tiny
fancy crackers or biscuit, as our Eng.
lish cousins call them.
MADAME MERRI
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-08-26
The fly net is a saver Of feed.

The fly net is saver Of feed
Some untitled fields are better so.
The moving farmer gathers no gear.
A rain time Is worth nine out Of
season.
Making poor hay means milking a
poor cow.
Too many men mistake promise for
prosperity.
A spoiled fruit is told by the swelled
cans and a weak brain by swelled
head.
A Sunday morning in church will
not Offset week Of sharp dealing
with ones neighbors
The main reason why so many farm
1ers are failures is that they are trying
TO farm and buy their living, instead
of raising it.
The time will come when we will
nave hornless cattle as sure as we
now have thornless cactus. Horns are
as useless as thorns.
OoMe tuluk IL al extravaganza lOr a
farmer to have motor car, but we
cake the position 1t is better for him
TO buy gasoline than beer.
There is coined money enough in
the United States to give each resi-
dent $35, If you haven't got yours
2ry working on farm this summer.
Ii you cannot afford to buy a
manure spreader better rent-not bor-
foW-your neighbours. The use of
Sented one for two or three seasons
will enable you to buy one.
A gasoline engines sometimes balks,
out so does horse. You can find out
what's the matter with the engine, but
no one has ever yet discovered the
workings Of the mind of balky horse.
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-08-26
Games for Children,

7 A young mother said to me the 9TH
ar day: your department Is fine and
| often find just what l want, but can
you help me out with new games for
the children?"
During vacation 1t seems that the
what-to-do question frequently comes
up for mother to solve. I hope the
following pastimes will prove interest
ing, and make loads of fun for the
youngsters. The first is called HUI
man Nine Pins. The boys are set up
lust like nine pins at the end of the
room or on the lawn; they stand on
one foot Cleft one), with the right one
placed behind the left knee, arms fold
ed. The girls roll the ball, taking
turns. When the ball Is rolled they
may hop aside to escape being
touched; but If the ball touches them
or they put down the other foot, they
ire supposed to be knocked down and
'ut. This continues just like the real
game, a score being kept and prizes
awarded.
Young children love this game:
Take barrel hoops and wind them with
gay ribbons or crepe paper, suspend
small bell In the center. Hang the
loop up and give each guest small
bean bag the same color as the hoop.
The aim is to ring the bell when
thrown through the hoop.~Five trials
are allowed, the one who rings the
most out Of the five is given re-
ward.
A little game called royalty" needs
IN equal number Of girls and boys.
One boy is chosen king" and a girl
as queen" Then they sit in two
rows facing each other. Each follow
Or is numbered. At the same moment
he king and queen calls number,
The two players bearing the numbers
get up and run around the circle, the
queen after the kings follower. If she
catches him before he completes the
circle he pays forfeit; If she does not
the kings subject collects a tribute
from her. When all the numbers have
been called the game is finished.
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-08-26

per, old dimity or lawn from worn.
out curtains Cor some like soft mate
rial) and two kinds of wall paper,
one with plain, striped or chained
background and one with large con-
ventional or flower design in con-
trasting color.
Cut out the background paper in
the shape and form desired, applique
on 1t the figures cut from the other
paper in regular pattern, line with
the dimity and paste double layer
Of the wrapping paper over the back.
1t is all very simple, but little taste
and ingenuity will devise all sorts Of
quaint and unusual articles.
The lamp mat is perhaps the east
est to make; the one shown in the
drawing was in wistaria design over
silver paper. The edges may be bound
with narrow passepartout tape of
the required shade, but careful past
ing is really all that is necessary.
The cottage jardiniere is made to
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-08-26

Creeping steaIthily Into the Room.
equitable distribution of Henry's
hoard.
The raid was planned and the two
youngsters proceeded to climb up the
fire escape in the rear of the building
till they got to the fourth floor,
Peering into the open window they
saw Henry slumbering peacefully on
his cot and the savings bank on the
bureau. Creeping stealthily into the
room, they seized the bank and were
about to make their escape when Hen
ry awoke with a start.
Hist" said Splitter the leader.
Gimme my bank" whimpered the
little capitalist.
Keep quiet, or you die like dog"
Kissed Miller, who had carefully read
Three Fingered Pete; or, The Mys-
terry Of Dead Mans Gulch."
Henry did not understand wild west
methods and began to cry.
The two diminutive highwaymen
bounced on him and punched him Wig
,orously, and Splitter, taking out his
handkerchief, bound 1t lightly around
the victims mouth. Then they tied
his hands and feet with rope they had
brought, and with a parting admoni-
ton to Henry as to quietude they took
their departure.
Henry's father, who slept in an ad.
Joining room, was awakened by the
groaning Of his boy, and, running in,
found him bound and gagged. The DO.
lice were notified and found the young
desperadoes two blocks from the scene
of the robbery.
When searched in the police station
II was found that they had divided the
SIS equally between them.
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-08-26
TWO BOLD BOY BANDITS
BIND and ROB VICTIM
ENTER HOUSE AND
TAKE BANK FROM LAD AFTER
GAGGING HIM.

New York.--It was neighborhood
gossip that Henry Madison, the four
year-old son Of Louis Madison of 25S
Reid avenue, Brooklyn, was very well
to do for boy of his years. It was
whispered that he had SIS In savings
bank that was kept on a bureau in
d1s sleeping room, and that some day
when Henry grew up, he would go
into business.
This rumored opulence on the part
OF Henry naturally reached the ears of
Louis Splitter, aged nine, who lives
with his parents In tho same building,
the Nadelsons occupying rooms on
the fourth floor and the Spitzers on
the ground floor.
Young Splitter has no savings bank.
He discussed the wealth of young
Madison with Antoine Miller, aged
ten, and they decided 1t was unjust
that so much money should be In the
hands of one person. So they pre-.
pared for what they regarded as an