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The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-24
Chicagoans Are to Be Taught
 How to Play.
Professor Chubb of University of New York Says Children Are Losing True Spirit of Youth and Get
 ting Into Adult Ways.

Chicago.-Prof Percival Chubb of department of English and pageants in the Ethical Culture school of New York, lectured here the other night under the auspices of the Chicago Ethical society. He sought to give i'm petus to the Playground association of Chicago and to other agencies which are attempting to teach children and grown people how to play, for he de- clares that it is lost art.
 The old-time play spirit has been almost entirely forgotten" he said. Children do not know how to amuse themselves. They no longer play games at parties; they don't indulge in puppet shows and minstrels.
 The Sunday comic papers are among the chief offenders against children. In the schools, for example, we work to develop a certain stand ard of literary and aesthetic tastes in children. Constantly, in school and out of school, the Sunday supplement works against any educative efforts. In place of better qualities, in the trough of the comic sheets children learn smartness, vulgarity, money tricks and irreverence.
 Besides establishing bad habits of taste the Sunday supplements make for a 'scatter-brain' state of mind among children. The habit of sus- tained attention is lost. I for one would prohibit these papers to chil- dren until they are sixteen years old.
 The whole environment of the child is that of the adult. On the streets, for example, the advertisements greet him. Some of them suggest that, child as he is, one brand of whisky would be good for him. Another sign suggests that If he has a headache by drinking certain preparations the ache will be cnred.
 Advertisements take the place of the old criers. We have forbidden the noise of one as a nuisance, but the appeal of the more recent method is just as loud, just as ugly as the older street cries. The whole glaring, blink ing system tends to lower the stand ards of things Children become precocious-adults before their time
 The same state of affairs Is true when you come to the amusements of children. They are all adult amuse- ments. The theaters, the songs, the gutter ditties and the ragtime, even the moving pictures which have i'm proved in tone, present things unfit for children. I don't mean necessarily immoral things, but ideas which are not intended for children
 T would urge a system of festivals and pageants in which schools and settlements should unite. At Hull House childrens plays are given
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-24
Whites Food Kills Eskimos.

Chicago.-The EsK1mos of Alaska are fast becoming extinct, according to David Johnson Elliott, former gov ernment educator, who has spent the last twenty years in Alaska educating that race and Investigating gold min ing companies.
 The natives are passing away rap idly" he said in an address before the Hawkeye Fellowship club. They can't live on the white mans food. chiefly because they cannot cook it. The children die of indigestion"
 MT. Elliott claims the honor of be- ing the first white man to End gold in Anvil creek, near Nome.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-24

Weather, fair. Temperature, IS.
 '.Wind, southwest
 Course, northwest.
 Passengers, Miss Blanche Hulse, John Parker Manning.
 Pilot, Dr. Sidney S. Stowell"
 As far as ballooning went, that gave Dr. Stowell an ample record. The miles made the hours of flight, the carrying of passengers were now all down in black and white, but certain details quite important, were wholly omitted
 T was too busy leaning over the side of the basket taking my photo graphs" said MT Manning, "to guess what was going on. But I could di- vine without more than a look that my attention to things on earth be- low would be appreciated by the other passengers"
 Of this Dr. Stowell says:
 Whatever John Manning may say about it, if he admits he looked over the edge of the basket, that eliminates him as the only witness of whatever proposition I submitted to the then Miss Hulse. We were up about two miles, and so with his observation accounted for I think We can safely say we were beyond the attention of unsympathetic third parties.
 Just Ballast"
 As for inviting Miss Hulse, that is simple enough. I needed about 100 pounds or so extra weight, and so when I saw her in the crowd as we were getting ready to go up l asked her to take the trip with me, for had known for long time that she wished the experience of a flight. It was an ideal day for it, and we sailed over some of the most beautiful spots in the Berkshires, including the es- tate of Senator Crane, in the town Of Windsor.
 "The most interesting part of the flight? We'll, I dropped from the altl- tude of 10000 feet by loosening the appendix cord instead of pulling the rip cord, and let the balloon come uONu III DluSllI OOllI olieAPO Hbo S~ RN'H~ chute. My passengers didn't mind, and we landed gently on the Nelson farm, only seven miles from the rail road station at Shelburne Falls. Miss Hulse was a first rate air sailor, and as Mrs. Stowell she will accompany me on flights this summer" The marriage was performed by Rev. c. Rexford Raymon, pastor Of the South Congregational church in Brooklyn. As for the honeymoon, the bride says
 q shall be glad to go up again with the coming of warm weather. l enjoy flying. Afraid? Why, that never en- tered my head when Dr. Stowell was the pilot. New York World.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-24
Most Important Part of Mans Face Is His Chin and Beard Hides
 His Character.

New York.-Miss Della Clarke has written play in which the despairing hero finally wins the girl by shaving of his facial tapestry, thereby remov- ing her objections.
 Whiskers have no charms to soothe even the savage breast, if we are to believe Miss Clarke. In her play Neamata, the little Indian girl, re- fuses to marry the man who has loved her through four thrilling acts. just because he wears a beard.
 Mystery may have its charms" said this young woman, but that does not apply to the face of the man you fall in love with or marry.
 "The most important feature of a mans face is his chin, and If 1t is lost in primeval forest of beard, how is a girl to tell whether she is intrusting her future to a weak creature, who will go down at the first little tap of
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-24
LOST ART

weekly. Already dancing is becom- ing fad in New York, and in Chi cago, also, suppose. Dances to some extent fall short because in them selves alone they do not carry any great idea. This is what the pageant accomplishes. The pageant recalls old-folk arts, old songs, dances, and gives them place in an artistic and aesthetic culture.
 T am opposed to the idea that edu- cation is for work alone. I am in favor of an education for leisure Un- der the modern system of industrial organization, if a mans soul is to be saved, he must fall back on his leisure hours. We must educate him for this. We must create or draw out new ca pacities for enjoyment so that he can fall back on himself"
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-24
DOG GUARDS BIG RHINOCEROS
Little Fox Terrier Fights Off Rats in Central Park Menagerie and
 Smiles Is Happy.

New York.-Jim, little fox terrier that is one of the privileged charac ters around the Central Park men, agerie, is sleeping every night now in the cage with Smiles, the rhinoceros, to protect the latter from rats. He is the best rat catcher that has ever been around the menagerie, outclass- ing all the traps by a ratio of to 1.
 For long time Smiles was not liv- ing up to his name. The rats fright ened him until he became sullen. Now that Jim is on the job every night the rhinoceros has grin on his face that will not come off.
 cat keeps the rats out of the lion house, but all the other houses are badly infested with the rodents, which care not to go near any of the traps set for them.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-24
ALONDON LANDMARK
St. PauPS Cross Links Present
 With the Past.
Shalt Recently Unveiled Is Successor of Others Whose Earliest History Is Lost in the Mist of
 Obscurity.

London.-An interesting link con- meeting the London of today with the London of remote ages was made py the recent unveiling of the heW Paul's cross in St. Paurs churchyard. There on the highest ground Ill the great metropolis was made the hrst settlement in far-off days and there 1t is believed once stood a heatheh temple, which in due time gave way to the first of the Christian edlnces which preceded the present cathearal.
 The cross recently unveiled is the successor of other crosses, the hls- tory of the earliest of which Is lost in the mists of obscurity. At the tlme of the Reformation there were prop ably fewer than 5000 crosses In Eng land, varying in size and shape ana varying, too, in their uses. They were to be found on the roadsides, at cross roads and at many other places all over England, and a pretty and inter- esting tale could be told of the Varl- ous kinds,
 Some beautiful specimens of preach ing crosses still remain, but the most celebrated one in Europe and one which played a most important part in the history of England, is old St. Paurs.
 It was a tall wooden structure with a leaded roof, and stood upon stone bases. Octagon in shape, it was large enough to hold the preacher and three A low wall surrounded 1t.
 Kings and queens often visited PauPs cross. The marriage contract between James ". of Scotland and Margaret, daughter of Henry VII. Of
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-24
Are Whiskers Bar to LoUe?

diversity or one who will make a mans fight with the world?
 Faint heart never won fair lady or whiskers, either. There are many grouchy old bachelors today who might have been happy husbands if they had had the good sense to shave at the psychological moment"
 But you believe seriously that the mere fact of his shaving them of could make a girl fall in love with him?"
 q certainly do. I know of several cases in which women who had mar- ried men with boards were shocked and disillusioned when their husbands took freak to appear clean shaven And that wasn't at all because they admired boards, but because they real ly saw the men they had married for the first time. as they really were.
 The girl who marries a man with whiskers makes as reckless a gamble as the man in eastern countries who never sees his bride unveiled until aft. CT the ceremony"
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-24

England, was proclaimed there, and in 1588 Queen Elizabeth attended in state at thanksgiving service for the defeat of the Spanish armada. Eight years later, while the lord mayor was at service there, he received an order from the queen to raise 1000 men to aid the French in the defense of Calais. Before eight o'clock that eve ming the men had been recruited and were marching on the road to Dover.
 Among those who did penance at the cross was Jane Shore, the fa- vorite of Edward w., while still more remarkable case was that of Lady Markham, wife of Sir Griffin Markham, who in 1917 stood at the cross In white sheet and was fined S5,000 for marrying one of her serv- ants while her husband was alive.
 This was the spot chosen, too, when anything had to be denounced, and consequently the bull of Pope Paul II, was read from, threatening all shoemakers who put peaks ( more than two inches long on the shoes they made, and censuring, as well, all, whether shoemakers or not, who went to fair on a Sunday.
 These are but a few of the things which took place at what was, in old time, the center of the public life, not only of the city, but also of the union for it was at once the exchange, the club, and the meeting place of Lon don. Here heralds proclaimed the news of victories by sea and land; here, we are told, men threw up their bonnets when they heard of Crecy and Agincourt;" here 1t was that sovereign brought his new-made wife to show her to his faithful sub jects; and last, but not least, 1t was here that the wives and daughters of the citizens gathered for their little gossips and flirtations.
 It was doomed to destruction. The last sermon was preached there in May 30, 1850, before King Charles l., and in 1643 the cross was demolished by order of the long parliament.
 The new cross is built in accord ance with a bequest of the late H. c. Richards, who left s25,000 for the pur- | pose It consists of Doric column on the top of which is bronze figure of St. Paul. nine feet high.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-24
Oriuln of Dollar Bills.

Washington.-"That dollar siver certificate you have there has been gathered together from all over the world," said the bank cashier. Part of the paper fiber Is linen rag from the Orient
 "The silk comes from Italy or China The blue ink Is made from German or Canadian cobalt The black ink Is made from Niagara Falls acetylene gas smoke, and most of the green ink is given green color mixed in white zinc sulphate made in Ger many.
 When the treasury seal is printed in red, the color comes from Central America"
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-24
SYSTEM NEEDS MUCH WATER
Also as Aid 10 Beauty and Health, It Is One of the Finest Things
 Imaginable.

Two great aids to beauty and health fin the world are the simplest and least often followed A woman who will not fail to take obnoxious medicine recon mended by her doctor, at the most in convenient times, finds it too difficult to adopt these two remedies-fresh air and quantities of pure water.
 Even those who have successfully educated themselves in the fresh air cult still neglect the equally important habit of drinking plenty of pure water. They daily bathe the body externally without thought of the necessity of Internal bathing.
 Any doctor will tell you that cer- tain quantity of water should be talk en daily; pint and half is the very least that one is supposed to drink. Yet there are many people who never drink water at all.
 When one thinks of the cleansing power of water upon the body applied
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-24
Jewels Rise in Price From 20 to 25 Per Cent. in Nine Months
 Will Go Higher.

London.-Buy your jewelry for the coronation now, for in short time it will cost you more.
 Every kind of precious stone. with the exception of the ruby and opal, has risen in price from 20 to 20 per cent. during the last nine months.
 "The reason for the rise is,' we'll known jeweler said recently, that the Americans have recovered from their recent slump and are buying every fine jewel they can lay their hands on.
 At the present moment we are paying from 25 to 30 per cent. more for diamonds. Consequently, a stone costing 910O year ago cannot be bought now for less than &125 or G130,
 "Sapphires have risen 20 to 30 per cent, and the other stones, with the exception of rubies and opals. are
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-24
SHOWS GRUB WORMS IN EAST
Connecticut Man, Stanch Member of Temperance Party, Testfies
 to Phenomenon.

Winsted, Conn.-Abram c. Shelly, an aged and stanch member of the temperance party, while walking along Torringford street the other morning during snowstorm, perceived hun dreds of live grub worms on top of the snow. He gathered handful of them and brought them to Winsted to corroborate his statement. In warm room the worms appeared as lively as in the summer
 Shelly is certain the worms did not crawl up through five inches of snow, and the only way he can account for their presence on the snow is that the winds picked them up in the South and they came down in Winsted with the snoWstorm.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-24

because i'll health saps vitality Each time one is i'll tiny bit of youth and freshness is sacrified. Ones reserve force is lowered, and every illness acts against the preservation of ones good looks.
 Begin at once to throw open all your windows and to drink water all during the day, and you will be astonished to see how much younger you will look and how much prettier you will be. And youth-in face and figure-is now the aim and desire of every woman. She strives for it's slim freshness as she used to strive for beauty.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-24
ANTI-0LD MAID CLUB FORMED
New Jersey Girls Agree to Find Illus. bands Before 30 Years of Age
 Thirty Members.

Trenton, N. J.-The "Anti-Old Maid club" has been organized here. It's thirty members agree to marry before they are thirty years of age.
 The means for securing husband is left for each club member to figure out. There is only one stipulation and that is that each damsel gets the husband, no matter how.
 The club intends to do all 1t can to rid the city of old maids, and in tais il has the support of the "Cupid.s Wing club" unique organization composed of young matrons who hand. ed together to mend broken hearts and bring about domestic felicity.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-24
Hardly in His Line.

Sad Looking Man-L see you have a sign out, Maker of Womens Hab- it's" Do you mean 1t?
 Ladies' Tailor-Certainly I do?
 Sad Looking Man-Well, since my wifes been going to the club she's lost all the good ones she had, and wish you'd make her complete new set regardless of expense. And please include the habit of staying at home once in a while and mending my clothes.-Stray Stories.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-24
$13.0OO Statue for Late kino.

London.-Albert Toft, the sculptor, has been commissioned by the Birm- ingham King Edward VII Memorial Fund committee to provide, at a cost of $13,000, life-size statue of the late King Edward to be erected outside the municipal buildings.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-24
Not as Bad as He Had Feared.

"You are as false" she cried. "as false as-as-"
 AS false as what?" he tauntingly asked.
 AS false as he'll" she missed.
 "Oh. l was afraid you were going to call me as false as the complexion you are wearing g"-Exchange.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-24
Statue to General Wolfe.

London.-Lord Roberts recently un- yelled statue to General Wolfe at Westerham, Kent, his birthplace. Lord Strathcona, Sir Charles Tupper. Sir Frederick Young and George Wolfe were present
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-24

perienced eye that she would shoot up in the air like a rocket-something that every aeronaut dreads.
 He glanced about. There was no more ballast-yes, there was Miss Hul- SC, who stood smiling by the side of the basket to watch Dr. Stowell make his upward shoot into the air. Per haps something else beside mere bal last was in his mind too
 Perhaps there was something in a pair of merry eyes!
 Invitation Accepted.
 Anyway, the budding man of the air made up his mind right then and there. The helpers were ready to let go and cast off
 ''Oh, Miss Hulse," sang out Dr. Sto- well, just a minute, please. Remem- Der what you asked me the other day? Here's your chance We need a little ballast Want to come along?"
 Tn minute!a laughed Miss Hulse.
 Her mother was there. and several of her friends. They protested. Why. there were two in the basket of the balloon already. and a trip in the air was most dangerous, and the sky looked threatening and-oh, it was al together too perilous.
 For answer to all these objections the pretty girl let herself be helped into the wicker basket that hung un- der the swaying bag of gas, and in a minute more the lines were loosed. Up, up, shot the airship into the blue. The crowd cheered for moment but held It's breath when the balloon hit into a cross current and barely missed ending it's trip then and there. It missed the tall chimney of a factory, just escaping disaster by a foot or two. Then began in earnest the flight into the turquoise of the sky.
 In jiffy the balloon was only a dot among the clouds. The last of the crowd saw them, the new-fedged pilot and his two passengers were leaning over the side of the basket waving their hands at the people be- low-three midgets moving under a big blue bowl.
 Landing Safely Made.
 That night wire to the club brought the news that landing had been made safely 25 miles away, at Shelburne Falls, but nothing was said of the really important feature of the trip. Nor was Dr. Stowell's "ascen- sion card" any more enlightening In view of subsequent events, however, this card, which he filed with the rec ords of the club as required by the rules, Is of interest. If an airman of the future were to find this card in looking up the records of balloon ing in the early twentieth century he would find that it was to all appear ances a most uneyentful trip.
 As the card runs
 Ascension, No. '.
 Balloon, Pittsfeld, Heart of Berk- shires.
 From, Pittsfeld.
 "To, Shelburne Falls.
 Time up, 1925 a. m. Down l D. m.
 "In air, hours 35 minutes. Miles, 25.
 Altitude, 10000 feet
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-24

W ASHINGTON.-The home of the
 w new Playhouse club, one of the
 most artistic theaters in the country, was formally opened, the evening of February g, when a play by Count de Buisseret the Belgian minister, was presented by prominent society people.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-24
NON BRIDE WHILE: [: IN A
 THE A|R"

EW YORK. - "I needed about 100 pounds or so ex- tra weight, and so, when I saw her in the crowd as we were getting ready to go up in the balloon, I ask ed her to take the trip with mel had known for a long time that she want ed to have a flight in the air"
 And so Dr. Sidney s.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-04-20
Legislation That Is Needed.

II the Illinois legislature will de-
vote the time that it has been vast
ing in the consideration of bills de-
signed to suppress the right or in
fiuence of the press, to such remed-
ial measures as are needful to the
practical operation of the commits
sion form bill, which has been adopt
ed and is in effect in many of the
important cities of the state, 1t will
do a public service. Petty spitework
should have no consideration at the
hands of lawmakers, but the demand
of the people should be given atten-
ton. There has been no doubt from
the first of the existence of defects
in the commission law, not the least
of which is the recall provision.
Moreover there is generally prevail
ing opinion throughout the state
that those imperfections were delib-
erately overlooked TO weaken the
measure should il become popular
as it has proven the case.
With full realization, neverthe-
less, of the shortcomings, the peo-
pie Of some of the principal cities,
including Rock Island, Moline and
Springfield, amply assured that
such provisions. which either were
not satisfactory or might give rise
to technical contention would be
remedied with emergency clauses,
the people Joined hands and adopted
the law, with complete reliance upon
the Legislature to see them through.
While the law stipulates that the
entire act shall not become invali-
dated by reason Of the weakness of
any one section. there is always
danger where the conStitutiOnality
OF any enactment is brought up for
judicial Interpretation and hence the
demand that the people who have
walled themselves of the option be-
slowed by the legislature 10 adopt
the law have a right to expect thar
the law be made whole and perfect
in all its requirements and provi-
sions.
Sh9rld through adverse ruling of
the supreme court the communities of
the state where the law is IN operation,
be precipitated into a state Of po-
litical chaos because neglect either
on the part Of the last Legislature
or the present legislature. there
would rise a cry OF indignation that
would be heard in all parts of the
Gfa4a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-04-20

The Lee O'Neil Browne vengeance
bill against the press met a pitifuI fate
IN the house yesterday. II was
beaten so badly that Browne attempt-
ed TO stop the slaughter by withdraw
ing ft-but the roll call proceeded far
enough TO indicate how much was
thought OF the measure. and incidental
iy what side the thinking was on
When the Illinois legislature sinks to
mat low ebb where it permits Lee
oNeli Browne and his meagre follow
ing TO choke the press OF the state. ii
VIII be time TO draw down the curtains
and shut out the public view from ali
that happens at Springfield Browne
has brought enough notoriety and dis
grace on the state without being toll
Grated, much less seriously considered
IN his schemes 10 wreak revenge upon
the newspapers.