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Funeral Director and Embamer who conducts of the most
successful undertaking establishments Chicago As result
the peoples appreciation Of honest funeral direction
the only Undertaken that furnishes automobile funerals for
price Hearse and carriages you from Fifty
to One Hundred Dollars a funeral.
You cordially invited prices with others before
making arrangements.
S15 caskets that others ask $50
$50 caskets that others ask $40
$50 caskets that others ask $50
$50 caskets that others ask 800
SIS caskets that others ask $50
We carry large stock hand from which select that will
suit the people.
Funerals conducted part the city suburbs with
out extra charged
Large Chapel free patrons Bodies shipped all parts
the United foreign countries the very lowest
prieOS
Phone West 1761 Lady attendant Office and chapel 1904 w.
L AXE St, near Lincoln St
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Phiisp Smith. eisarA tOAasss -
nsvs stanGsW. s7sA sEesa
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George 1. Martin. naksr Of Ans
cigars and news stand. - ". S1St
street. near statA
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R. n. Harvsys Barber sAsD. 1914
State gtrOsE
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T. =. HAn. laundry oncs. tosssss
and news staaA n w ia stsssa
nsar stAts. .l-
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Telephone Monroe 1851
l.. D. Williams
Painter, Paperhanger and
Calciminer
PIasterer & Whitewater
COS West Harrison Street
Chicago
THE BROAD Ak CAN - FOUND
ON GALE At THE FOLLOWING
NEWS STANDS.

From, on and Altar This ostS, The
Broad Ak Can Bo Found On sale
A. the Relieving N6NS Stands:
Evening star., 1911-01-08

cocktail or the cigarette. for the con-
sumption either by male or female. ON
the contrary, we approach the matter
purely i'm an impartial and investigatory
scientific spirit.
A cocktail Is stimulant. So likewise
is a cigarette. The two stimuiants are
absorbed into the human system in diff
ferent ways. But what difference should
that make? Both stimulants are nocu-
Gus in their different ways. 1t is not well to
indulge In either IL one is a stickler for
what is called the rational hygiene But
why should one of the stimulants be de-
barred In SO far as women are con-
cerned-publicly debarred. that is to say
when the other is considered perfectly
au fait. en- regle and several other things
that we could express quite as well In
English IL we wanted to?
The woman who takes a cocktail-or
two-before her dinner in a New York
restaurant Is not frowned upon either by
Mrs. or Mr.. Grundy. On the contrary.
she Is regarded as a person who has
distinct perception OF what is what. But
II. after the dinner, she should seek to
maintain the stimulated effect by inhaling
cigarette smoke into her frame, not only
would the Grundy family look upon her
as a pairson without hope of eventual
salvation. but the management of the
eating place would protest.
All or this being preliminary TO the
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ed is not suffering from impatience or
petulance because they don't all break out
in wreaths and curlycues of cigarette
smoke. That isn't the idea at all. But
or would ted him, just why, when
they're allowed to smoke when they
smoke abroad without the least conceal
ment or thought Of concealment, when i'll
their New York homes they are well
known to smoke, they don't take advan-
tage of the lifting Of the smoking lid by
the eating concern.
Certainly il is not because they have
any fear of the law. Women-oxcoose.
pleatSe-are perfectly we'll known not to
care that-meaning snap of dainty
little manicured fingers-for any such
thing or things as funny old laws: they
can ride over or under such trivial,
vacuous things as laws with all of the
aplomb or savoir-faire In the world. And,
anyhow, there isn't any law against
women smoking in public. True. the late
Timothy y. Sullivan--"Little Tim"-be-
came remarkably het up few years ago
at the suggestion that women were about
to begin to smoke In the restaurants of
New York. He was the top 'un OF the
board Of aldermen at that time and
power in the municipality. He gave out
the announcement that any New York
restaurant that permitted public smoking
by women would find itself without
license. OF course. he hadn't the slight
nouncement, but he was puissant per-
son in the affairs of the town. and the
restaurant folk didn't care to incur his
displeasure.
However since this is the season Of
prophecy, permit the undersigned to go
upon record with the prognostication
that, long before the year 1911 begins to
wabble toward its finish the women folk
will be smoking, without any thought Of
criticism, in nearly all of the leading
restaurants and hotel dining rooms OF
New York It's all q matter of the
break being made. The dauntless souls
among the smoking women will make
that "break'' just as surely as they made
the break" toward wearing hobble
skirts and ding-a-ling hats and other un-
canny articles of raiment: and then the
smoking thing for all Of the women folk
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Nnecdofe0 COncelhin0
Well-knOWn peODle.
''Thais." /"

TOWNSEND MARTIN
at a tea at the Hotel Gotham, in New
York, referred with a smile to the many
mispronunciations of the title Of Massa-
nets popular opera. ''Thais."
Some pronounce it to rhyme with slay
u.s." he said "Others make it rhyme
with face with baize' or with mice
1t all reminds me of a conversation be-
tween two young men at the Metropoli-
tan Museum.
"'How do you pronounce that there?'
said the first, pointing to a statue OF the
bereaved Psyche. is 1t Fix" or
"Ffsk'?'
Its "Fizz," OF course said the other
young man. You don't pronounce the
'z'' no more than in "zinc".'
But the first young man answered,
doubtfully:
"'Some, though. calls 1t ''Sike".'
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CULLEN WRITES OF GOTHAM DOIflGS

who really want to smoke publicly but
are a-skeeart to start will begin all of
sudden. There will, of course, be one
large interoceanic roar about it. too. for
if the thing ever Is started in New York
it certainly will be taken up in the other
major American cities.
T WONDER if that hat-'way-back-on-
the-head custom fop male beings yet
has reached Washington? I mean, to put
1t little r'ore clearly. the fashion of
wearing the hat so far back on the head
that the rear brim almost rests upon the
back collar of the coat?
Because, y'know. that's the way. It's
Londonese, and not only the chappies,
but whole lot Of males who otherwise
appear to resemble human beings are
wearing their. lids that way in New York.
About one-ha1f of the men saw strolling
in 9TH avenue on New Year day and
also on the day New Year was celebrated
wore their top-pieces in that queer, ugly,
''goes" for the derby and the soft hat,
but even for toppers; and il anything in
the world could be more silly-looking
than a plug rat with its rear rim making
a crease in the back of its wearer's neck,
the undersigned is from Joplin-in-the-
Zinc-Belt.
or course. way back yonder In the
early eighties. all OF us young and vealy
fellers. even in the provinces wore our
hats on the backs of our heads, SO as
to reveal the cutey little bear's-greased
spit-lock that we combed rakishly down
on our foreheads. thereby to strike
numb and dumb the little girls Of our
acquaintance. But men folks didn't do
it. 1t was boys foolish little vanity.
meant mainly to display an essentially
barberesQue haircut Now, however, 1t
Is the regular accepted and cut-and-
dried thing for so-termed fashionable
grown-up he-bipeds. Even on the stage.
shows now on view In New York, he
has his hat, If SO be as how he's wear
ing one at all. thrust way back, SO that
1t looks In momentary jeopardy of fall
Ing off, IT'S a strange and sad custom.
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of his keeper. is so rare as to be almost
Really. it begins to look as If the
feminine insistence upon adopting in
sane articles of apparel is spreading
to the male species. You can see more
freakish males, supposed to be males
of fashion, in ten-m1nute walk now
than you could see I'm In ;;Gd SIX months naIt a
it all is that, far from being "kidded"
into the abandonment Of their kinky
things, they are being promptly imi-
tated by envious fellow-males. Where
FORE let us say fOO-ey and strive our
best to forget it and them.
~.
REV Year day, nor yet New Year Inc
IN day after, on which the feast was
celebrated. did not see the big annual
swear-off this year. The accepted day
on which to abjure the hideosities Of the
fagon over here seems to be after the
celebration Of the New Year festivities,
which this year fell on January 3. The
argument, pretty plausible one. ap-
pears to be that to forever cut of dai-
lance with the amphora New Year day
is to miss what is popularity supposed
to be 'the fun; and SO the gang intent
upon swearing off had to wait till Janu-
ary 3 to. begin the new leaf stuff this
year.
A clever young notary public with a
keen eye to business did nice little
stroke for himself Tuesday las by set
ting up reg'lar swearing-on stand in
the most notable of the downtown ar
cades, an arcade through which thou
sands of men have to rush morning and
evening in getting to and from their
business. He had nice little table in
stalled and q large bunch of regular
swear-on blanks. and back Of where he
sat was the large placard. Swear OF.
You! And Do 1t Now!'
Well, literally hundreds OF 'em top
pied for 1t. at two bits per throw. They
fell for 1t all day long. lot OF 'em
were lottery and trembly and manifestly
nervous and head-throbby when they
started to pass through that arcade from
the trains that morning, and when they
saw this placard and the businesslike
young notary public sitting at his table
they just looked the outfit over out of
the corners Of their inflamed eyes, and
you could almost hear 'em saying to
themselves. It's bet. ] will!''
And so they began to line up at the
young notary public's stand and demand
him to fill out the never-again blanks for
varying terms Of years, and he just
raked in the two-bit pieces like some-
body selling pies at an encampment.
Word Of the thing spread all over the
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not seem either pleasant or funny at the
time. but Which have lost their impor-
tance with the years. Then my old let
ters are a source Of happiness. / am SO
old fashioned that I enjoy fetter writing
and getting letters, and I regret that
this favorite occupation of the educated
gentlewoman of a half century ago is a
dead art. No one has time scarcely to
read letters nowadays, much less to
write them. All that sort OF thing is
deputized or entirely neglected.
Another joy which ] find increasing as
time goes on is my love of the old books.
and themes are not interesting to me,
but / read SO little Of modern literature
that I should never pass for progressive
in the general Womans clubs. But
have decided affection for Van Dyke,
and he is rot so ancient, nor is Hamilton
Mabie nor come of the southern stories
of Thomas Nelson Page. But on my
table are three books which pick up at
random ana I always feel rewarded One
is that almost defunct favorite of the
Waltons Complete Angler, Shake
speare's works and naturally my Bible.
1 should get along famously with these
three books, If all the world of literature
besides were wiped out. though am glad
it is not destroyed. am partial to war
memories wren written by thoughtful
and intelligent people, and among my
other treasured books is "reminiscences
FcdCc anu w DIT, Dy MIS-. TSOSeT A.
Pryor. It is so humanity and yet so de-
lightfully ibid.
-"
Another grievance I have against the
age is how little time most women have
to read. They skim over vast amount
Of literature, in order to converse intel
ligently abou. the latest fad in novels.
But few have the time, no matter what
their inclination, to read and think and
ponder as We had in our less strenuous
life of thirty or more years ago.
II make no claim to have been ever in
Evening star., 1911-01-08
The Walkers.

TAMES M. BECK, the famous corpora
J tion lawyer Of New York. is q native
of Philadelphia, and to Philadelphia he
often returns to see his old friends
Mr. Beck at a recent banquet in Phila-
delphia defended corporations with an
epigram
1.-The trust buster and the socialist may
do what they please" he said, "but man.
kind will still be divided into two great
classes-those who walk TO get an ap-
petite for their dinner and those who
walk to get dinner for their appetite"
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benefactors. Domestic science is only
the proper knowledge of food and its
preparation. how and what gives strength.
bone and muscle and what causes their
depletion. In plain language, it means
knowing how and what to cook for the
three inevitable meals a day which civil
lied man requires. How to make them
as well as nisb Is n ome
mode of living is the most important one.
have told my daughters and all in
whom l am interested that a good, nu
tritfous breakfast for the busy man goes
far in keeping him in good trim from
every standpoint. Tt goes without saying
that ] believe in every woman, no mat
ter what her station in life, being con-
cerned i'm the ways of her household"
Mr. Stevenson personally realizes the
type of the high born American aristo-
crat. Her birth and breeding are mani
fest in the soft. gentle voice, i'm her
gracious manner and her dainty and at
tractive appearance. She was before her
marriage Letitia Green, daughter of
DIR. Lewis Walker Green, president of
the Presbyterian College at Phelps. Ken
lucky. 1t was while the former Vice
President was a student Of her father
that the two first met. The marriage has
been ideally happy. one Of those which
Is pointed out as an example of what
true love can accomplish without great
wealth to hamper. Mrs. Stevenson and
her three daughters formed one of the
most delightful family grohps which
official Washington knew.
In addition to these. her sister, Mrs.
Scott. and her two daughters were fire.
quently her guests, and the quiet hospital
ity of this regime is still quoted by those
who knew Washington in an older gen.
GRAFTON. OF the three daughters Of the
former Vice President two are happily
married and the small group of grand
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ITHOMAS w. LAwSoNS Thanks.
giving proclamation last month
was very good piece Of oratorical
writing" said a Boston banker. Law
SON is always full of quips.
Not long ago I attended the funeral
of millionaire financier-one OF those
real high financiers' whose low methods
Lawson loves to turn the light on.
I took seat beside Lawson and wfis.
pered:
How far has the service gomez
Lawson, nodding toward the clergy.
man in the pulpit, whispered back:
Just opened for the defense.
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Obvious.

MAYOR GAYNOR of New York in a
AVA recent address to a body OF min-
listers said, wittily:
Some people expect me to reform New
York entirely I'm twenty-four hours.
They forget that you ministers have been
at work on man for 1000 years and
haven't entirely reformed him yet.
1.-The answer to the complaints of such
people is obvious-obvious like Brougham's
words to Palmerston.
"Palmerston in an after dinner speech
stumbled.
"'They tell u.s. he said, that little
learning is a dangerous thing, but II il
better-it is better than-better than
BETTER than a great deal of igno-
rance Brougham prompted graveiy."
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to childless old age. To them the time
will come when they would give all the
riches of this world, and all it's vain am
bitions. for the sound of a voice that was
never heard, and for the sustaining and
protecting love whose worth they could
not comprehend.
sT see a great future when every woman
realizes that no such joy comes in life as
that which comes in the possession of
husband. home and children. That is the
mission. and those who fail of it through
their own fault may be pitied, but should
still be classed under the head OF failure
-
II am deeply concerned in those clubs
formed by women which look into the
questions which concern childhood, and
whose inspection and supervision has led
to the amendment of the child labor law.
and to industrial conditions generally
Those who made the public aware or the
menace in abusing children have done
noble deed. They are aiding the natloh
to have a stronger and more robust race
in future by looking after the child or the
present. Still my sentiments on one phase
of the child question Is well known, ana
this is that the nation needs quanty anu
not quantity. / was one OF those VINO
took issue with former President Roose-
yeN in urging this delicate theme before
the public for general discussion.
~ do not believe III taxing an nIeupe1
ate view of any sacred obligation, and
should like to see our publicists touch on
the elevation of all conditions necessary
to rear children who will be happy. use
full citizens and add to the prosperity OF
the nation
Mrs, Stevenson takes an absorbing In
terest in the welfare and development OF
tha DAUGHTERS of the American, RevOiu-
ton, sof which she was second ana Iourth
president general. and of which her sis
ter, Mrs Matthew T.. Scott, is now the
executive head. She is just now engaged
on the preparation of a history OF the
CONTINENTAL Memorial Hail. which was
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CHE Is a Frequent Visitor
- to Washington, and a De-
lightful Type of the Gentle,
Cultured and Refined, Yet
thoroughly Up-to-Date,
Woman - Mrs. Stevenson
Served Two Terms as Presi-
dent General of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolu-
!, ton, and Is a Sister of the
Present Head of That Or
iisganization, Mrs. Matthew T.
:sScott-She Delights in Re-
';Shewing Old Associations in
Washington and in Noting
the Passing of Many Familiar
Scenes.
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Just completed under such brilliant aus
pices by Mrs. Scott. She has the fpnor
of having cFystallized the moveeaent
looking toward the erection of this. val
halla and she gave intelligent and jealous
direction to the movement during both Of
her terms It was subject OF deep
qualification to her that the building
should have been completed by Mrs. Scott
and under conditions which reflect such
luster on the administrative ability and
business acumen of the present head OF
the d. A. R. She has been present at
all the important events connected with
her sisters administration which her
present rather fragile health would allow.
During the last continental congress she
spent two weeks with Mrs. Scott at the
Arlington and was absorbingly interested
in all the proceedings, and rendered not a
little valuable aid from her large expert
ence in it's affairs. Next to her own fam
iiy and it's ties she is perhaps more in
terested in the ultimate aims OF the great
organization which she did SO much to
foster than any extraneous subject.
:. x
II am not clubwoman, as the term
goes" said Mrs. Stevenson, "but l be-
long to a number of clubs, and I think
they ~have a splendid mission, which
should in no way conflict with their home
duties. I take an affectionate interest in
our Woman's Club in Bloomington AMI
also in the Federation of Clubs, which
has unified feminine interests throughout
the country. I see i'm the clubs fine
opportunity for solving the real issue.
For instance, l think that many a brave.
strong. well meaning man has gone down
to ruin for lack Of we'll prepared break
fast. Our woman's clubs as RULE are
not trying to read the riddles of the uni
verse. We are caring for the little needs
Of everyday life.
.All the big clubs nowadays have do
mestic science committees, and are really
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lower section of the town through the
day, and business increased all the time.
other and to double-dog-d dare each other
to go to that swear-off thing, and the
fellers who declined to take dare wab-
bled over to the arcade and got on the
wagon in battalions 1t wasn't any great
moral movement whatever on the part
Of the notary public. Nothing at all like
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any sense a public woman, but / take a
deep interest in all that concerns the well
fare of the public and in woman's duty
in promoting it. A favorite subject of
mine is the duties Of mothers. Theirs is
the highest obligation which any woman
can have. and can imagine no more un-
natural and unworthy woman than the
one who throws aside this duty to take
Evening star., 1911-01-08
By Margaret B. Downing.

MONG the most in
teresting of recent
visitors and one of
the keenest OBJ
servers of the pass
ing throng is Mrs.
-Adlai Ewing Ste
venson, wife of the
last demo c r a I j c
Vice Pre- 81 u ent.
Mrs. Stevenson is
one of the five
women still living
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pleasant conferences. Mrs. Levi p Nor
ton was her immediate predecessor, and
Mrs. Garret A. Hobart her immediate
successor. Then came the reign OF Mrs.
Theodore Roosevelt as second lady of the
land. and then Mrs. Charles Warren
Fairbanks. Mrs. James Schoolcraft Sher-
man, who is still occupying the throne, as
it were. is not included in this coterie of
cx-chatelaines, yet, following the pleasant
custom established years ago. the present
vice presidential lady always makes the
visiting one guest to whom special DEL
erence is paid. Mrs. Fairbanks once gave
a luncheon to which were invited Mrs.
Morton, Mrs. Stevenson and Mrs. Garret
A. Hobart, and no doubt Mrs Sherman
will follow the same custom when these
distinguished women visit the capital.
1T is my belief" remarked Mrs. Ste
venson. that our keenest joys come In
remembering and not in realizing things
that we hoped. So I tell all friends now
enjoying the privilege of official social
positions in Washington TO keep a scrap
book | have one, a big, bulky volume,
which would be blot on the landscape
in we'll appointed library, but which l
count among my genuine treasures l
began to collect small items from the
press and periodicals soon after came to
Washington, and then / added to the
printed data personal notes, invitations,
even menus and programs Of special
functions.
'No wealth could buy the JOY take in
looking over these old accounts, especial
ly after l have visited Washington and
return to my home In Bloomington. There
is, of course, the touch of sadness which
is in every variety of happiness. missing
old things and noting the passing or
things which have become dear through
long association. few leaves of my
scrap book are like the magician's wand.
''They translate me back to dear old
scenes, and cid friends greet me and
recall pleasant little incidents or funny
ones, or even sometimes those which did
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y the Ilfidl ANALYSIS,
as Mr.. j. Cannon
of Danville, H., so
frequently 5 a y s,
what is or should
be the difference
between q woman
drinking IL cocktail
or smoking "a Gig
arctic in public?
Far be IL from MS
10 argue either for
or against I n e
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tt is unthinkable that Washington
miles ever will fall for such foolish
ness But one never can tell.
And-oh, yes. are the Washington male
nersons,-eitheE of the Johnnie species
on regular men folks, wearing those
little fiat derbies that are breaking out