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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-09
SCHOOL FOR OFFICE BOYS
ESTABLISHED IN CHICAGO

When the Office boys mistakes arouse
your ire do you ever stop TO think that
you, and not he. are to blame?
Did YOU ever learn how to do anything
without first being shown the way to do
it? 1t took you months to learn the
simplest of things, your c. One
person, your teacher, devoted her whole
time to teaching you. And she didn't
flare up and loose a hurricane of words
every time you made a break
When in answer to your hurry call the
office boy fills your ink well to over
flowing or mixes up your papers in dust
ing your desk just remember that he tried
to do his best; his error was through
ignorance and not carelessness-
A school for office boys has just started
at the Chicago Telephone Company.
Each class consists of twenty-five boys
and is conducted in the evening. The
boys will be trained in the actual duties
they will be required to perform in their
daily work The entire course of train
ing consists of twelve lessons.
Some of the subjects to be taught are:
How to answer a bell call, dust desk,
deliver a message or document to clerk
or manager; quick ways to fold. envelope,
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-09
WHY GIRLS GO ON THE STAGE
Easier than Working in Factory Ofce-Then There Is
the Ambition to Become Great Acress-And Back
of 1t All Is Vanity and the Glamour of the Pretty
Costumes Bright Lights, and Music.

Why do girls go on the stage, any
way?
Well, obviously enough. there are
reasons and reasons Let's look into
the matter a little.
Most musical comedy productions
employ thirty or thirty-five young
women as choristers, at an average
wage of 500 a week. Their ages run
from seventeen to twenty-five years
Taking the theatrical business by and
large. jumping all the girl shows"
whether from Broadway or Halsted
street, together, there are easily 10000
girls earning their living in this man
ner, at salaries ranging from s12
week, in "burlycue" attractions, to $40
week in the exhibitions of beauty
adorned and unadorned in Broadway
summer productions. 1t might be
added, however, that the $40 girls are
few and far between, while the Sl2
girls are numerous. Avera ging up the
wage scale, a just estimate of chorus
girls earnings is not over SIS a week.
Compared with the other occupations
open to unskilled and uneducated
female labor"-for all chorus girls
are unskiIled when they begin, and
education is a negligible factor-this
is a favorable showing for the stage.
from financial point of view. 1t rep
resents dancing in short skirts or pos
ing dangerously in evening gowns be-
fore the footlights as more lucrative
than FASTING labels on tin cans, or
working the levers on knitting ma
chimes, or even in pounding the keys
of a typewriter for some captain of
industry in a mahogany lined office.
Vanity Most Important Reason.
So score one mark for the stage girls
go on it to earn their iiviEgs, and sue
coed in doing so.
OF course there are the handicaps of a
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-09

short working season of thirty weeks in
the year at the most; of uncertain en-
gagements; of frequent dismissals for
trivial causes; OF expensive living in
hotels; of travelling expenses-but such
things. being the purely human element,
are never figured into a statistical argu-
ment- These are the reasons why no
chorus girl ever saves money or sends
any home to mother, while other work
ing girls on smaller wages often help
to support their families.
The second motive for going on the
stage that any chorus girl will allege are
the shorter hours and the cleaner work.
These are undeniable. A chorus girl
works from twenty-seven to thirty hours
week, while her sisters in shops and
offices are working from forty-eight to
sixty hours. The physical conditions of
their environment are usually better than
in factories and, in the first-lcass the
aters. just as good as in Offices.
Thirdly. however, and most important
of all, there is vanity. The girls on
the stage can wear pretty costumes-be-
fore the footlights and in the most
Haunting kind of public display-and they
have hopes of meeting stylish men,
and of being dined and wined in fashion
able cafes by the same persons. In re-
gard to the latter count, 1t may be said
that some do and some don't. But of
pretty things" they have an abundance,
and their hearts are contented by them,
even though they wear them only during
working hours as a kind of uniform.
Then. again, there is beauty-an item
which is, in the final analysis. merely
variant of vanity. All chorus girls are
pretty-that is automatic. II they are
not, they ought to be, and the dramatic
critics comment sarcastically upon their
shortcomings.
1t is a curious thing that while nearly
every chorus girl has beauty, or pretti-
ness, or personal charm of some kind,
few of them have talent to rise out Of
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-09
SEA CONTAINS
MANY MINERALS

Nearly all the minerals are contained
IN the sea in a state of solution In
the beginning the earth was incan-
descent; then gradually, as it cooled,
1t acquired a solid covering or crust
which for a long time remained at high
temperature. The different elements of
which the chemical combinations are
formed were at that time floating above
the earth's, covering in the form Of
vapor. When the temperature lowered
sufficiently these elements gradually
combined; then when the temperature
became still lower, water fell ripping
in hot torrents over tna terrestrial crust,
dtssolving everything that 1t could dis
solve and accommodating in the depres-
sions to form the first oceans. This Is
why the water of the ocean Is salt and
why 1t derives its sadness not only from
common salt, but from many other sub
stances.
Common salt gives the sea three-fourths
of its salinity. The other marine SUBJ
stances are chloride of magnesium, BIZ
sulphate of magnesia, sulphate of lime,
chlorate Of potassium. bromide Of mag
nesia, metaphosphate of lime, bicarbon-
ate Of lime-in short. nearly everything
used in modern pharmacy, not counting
the salts of the rare metals; rubidium,
caesium, silver, ard gold. The total
salinity Of the sea is thirty-four grams
to little over a quart In other words,
II little over quart Of water drawn
directly from the ocean is evaporated,
there will be a residue of thirty-four
grams of a mixture of all the different
salts of the sea combined and three
fourths of that mixture will be common
salt The enormous mass of salts held
in solution in the sea would cover $751;
10000 square kilometers to a depth of
sixty meters, and of that quantity forty
seven meters Of the layer would be
common salt The total volume OF the
European continent above the level of
the sea is only one-third as great as
the block of salt produced by the evap-
grafton of the oceans would be, could 1t
be laid out as solid.
This prodigious wealth of saline ele-
ments is not uniformly divided among the
different seas of the globe There are seas
that are not so salt as others. The warm
seas, which receive little sweet water
from rivers, are more salt than those that
receive floods that are free from salt.
The Red Sea holds the worlds record
for sadness: it contains nearly forty-two
grams of salt to every quart of water.
The Black Sea contains but nineteen
grams of salt per quart, the Baltic Sea
five grams per quart.
The seas contain from forty to fifty
milligrams of gold per ton. This appears
a very small amount, but there are a
great many tons OF water in the oceans.
and the total amount OF gold held in the
water, IL reduced to form a block and
divided equally abong the worlds popula-
ton, would give every individual a pro-
vision OF an insot weighing approximate
ly $1,000 pounds.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-09
SWAPPING TURTLE FARMS
PROFITABLE IN JAP N

six TO eight pounds are sunk in shallow
water. and in August the tiny shells be-
gin to appear on them. Here the stones
remain for two months, but, since the
young oysters cannot stand cold. in No
vember all rocks in less than five feet
of water are moved farther out, where
the temperature is more even. At the
end OF three years, when the shells are
about two inches across. they are taken
from the water, nuclei for pearls are
inserted in them, and they are put back
again, thirty of them to every six square
feet of bottom.
They are left there four years. Then.
being seven and half years old, they
are removed and searched for pearls.
The harvest of artificial or culture"
pearls is very large, but. unfortunately.
these are only little more than half
pearls, for although large, lustrous, and
CT fire quality. they are fiat on one side.
This farm has an additional source Of
income in the natural pearls that it's
oysters produce. for there is not lacking
in them the usual proportion of perfect
SONS to be found among oysters of this
variety.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-09

stamp, and seal letters. &c. As an in
ducement to attend these classes a good
dinner is given to the students at the
end of each session.
These boy students are the future man
ayers of the Chicago Telephone Company.
The policy of the company is promotion
based on merit; as fast as boy shows
his ability to handle job ahead of him
he is promoted. This school is also, in
a way. vocational. The company realizes
that many an inefficient bookkeeper might
be a good telephone engineer in embryo,
and many incompetent engineers might
have developed into crackerjack book
keepers, and so on.
During the boys studies an effort will
be made to learn for which class of work
each boy is best fitted and he will be
given special training along that line.
Boys who incline toward bookkeeping,
stenography. mechanics, and so on, will
be given free courses of training in these
special lines and every effort made to
develop them into efficient workers.
The company realizes that every en-
ploye who quits the service represents
money loss to them. 1t costs them from
SIS to 800 to break In A new man or
woman to fill even an ordinary position
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-09
AVIATORS MAY GROW RICH
IN EUROPE THIS SUMMER

Berliner Zeitung am Mittag will organ
ize festivities in their honor
From Berlin they will go to Bremen,
Utrecht, and Brussels. Thence they fly
to Calais and cross the English Chan
mel to Dover. on the way to London,
where the London Standard takes charge.
After London they go back to Calais
and then south to Rouen, finishing finally
in Paris.
The distance is over 1000 miles and the
dangers are extreme. Between Liege and
Berlin, and again in the north of Ger
many, mountain ranges have to be
crossed, and those who survivS have stfIl
to get across the English Channel twice,
and crossing the channel is easier than
flying over the rolling Kentish downs,
as the late J. B. Moissant found when
he tried to fly from Paris to London.
There. owing to the peculiar formation
the air rolls from one range of hills to
another in a series OF huge breakers, just
like surf breaking on a beach, and one
has to get up to 1000 feet or so to avoid
these air valves. The unfortunate who
gets caught in one finds himself steadily
forced down and down, in spite Of the
best pulling his engine can do. y
The leaders who reach London will find
1880 waiting for them as prizes for
the stretch from Brussels to London.
as they can afford in the race, only they
must all be of the same make.
An AII-British Race.
The next most important race is the
circuit of Britain for the $4,000 prize
put UP by the London Daily Mail. This
starts from London July 90 or there
abouts, and the course runs via New
castle-on-Tyne to Edinburgh. Sterling,
Glasgow, crossing the dangerous Cheviot
Hills on the way. Then the flyers cross
the rolling lowlands of Scotland, over
the Cumberland Hills 20 Carlisle, and
from there by Liverpool to Bristol
After a stop there they go right into
the heart of billy Devonshire. to Exeter,
and back to the Isle of Wight, which
means a good deal of sea flying. Thence
they return via Brighton to London.
This course also means taking big
risks, for, apart from the mountains and
the sea, the country is so thickly popu-
lated that the competitors will have to
fly over towns for several miles. II one
of them falls into a town, there will be
big trouble, for Englishmen are dead set
against anything new, and the populace
will raise a lot Of fuss
Probably some of the towns on the
course will put up prizes of their own
for the first men to reach them, and so
even those who do not touch the Daily
Nails $4,000 will stand a fair chance OF
raying expenses
Besides these big prizes, there are a
host of smaller ones, all put up for cross
country flying chiefly in France Eng
land, and Germany.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-09

the chorus to the rank OF principal.
Yet they all have hopes and ambitions;
they contemplate the Sallie Fishers and
1rixie FriganZas of to-day, who used to
he chorus girls themselves, and they hope
to do likewise. Many are called, in this
way. but few are chosen; because the
native gift is too often lacking.
But If they have no talent, why do
they do it?' the ordinary citizen will
ask. thinking of girls who don't have to
dance for a living. and who might be at
Tor instead of meeting them at the stage
door
The answer is that they were fairly
wished on the stage. From their
childhood UP their friends and relatives,
viewing their prettiness, their skittish-
ness, and their winsomeness with admir-
alton, have said: she ought to go on
the stage. She would be a second Mary
Anderson"
Suggestion Turns the Trick.
When they recited ''Curfew Shall Not
Ring Tonight Friday afternoons at
school, teacher has remarked: This lit
tie one is going on the stage some day
and will be great actress"
When they thumped cut THE Black
Key Mazurka" on the old family piano
of summer evenings and piped in tune
with a shrill soprano, Aunt Sue has
averred, THAT girl surely ought to so
on the stage, MolIie. She is pretty as
a picture, and my, what a voice.
So how could they escape? The stage
was 'dinned into them day after day,
during the impressionable years of
adolescence. Suggestion" as Augustus
Thomas would say, did the trick, and on
the stage they bounced, at the first OPP
portunity, even if they had to run away
from home to do it. The latter escapade,
by the way, is frequently encountered in
garnering the biographs of our leading
chorus girls.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-09
Just the Habit.

A travelling man who was a cigarette
smoker reached town on an early train.
He wanted smoke. but none Of the
stores was open Near the station, he
saw newsboy smoking, and approached
him with: Say. son. got another Gig
arette?' No. sir" said the boy; but
I've got markings" .An right" the
travelling man said. But I can't roll
'em very we'll VIII you fix one for
me?" The boy did. Il don't believe I've
got a match said the man. after q
search through his pockets. The boy
handed him a match. Say, captain" he
said, you amt got anything but tho
habit. have you7"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-09
Qufte True.

The discussion as to what is the most
beautiful sentence in the English Ian
guage still goes on. but the Boston
Globe says nobody has yet suggested
anything more artistically soul-satis-
flying than: Enclosed find check" As a
natural coroliary. the ugliest phrase
In the language u: please remit"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-09
A Curious Barometer.

A curious barometer used in Germany
and Switzerland consists of a pan of
water with a frog and a little step
ladder in it When the frog comes out
of tho water and sits on the steps Il
Is said infallibly to indicate rain.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-09

Moonshine, 1t is said. has marked
effect on stammering. People so afllicted
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-02-22

have been held in the thirty-five larg-
est cities of the country. Following
the same arrangement, plans have
been perfected for Jubilee Luncheon
to be held in this city next Tuesday
Mrs. Henry King will act as toastmis.
stress. Only out-of-town representa-
tives of the National Women's Work
will be heard. These speakers will be
Mrs. w. d. Pratt and Mrs. Frank
Wells, of Indianapolis, and Miss Car
RE Buchanan, of Hebron, Indiana.
The number of tickets for the Wo-
mans Jubilee Luncheon has been linn
tied to four hundred. They should be
purchased this week in order that ac-
commodations may be reserved.
The committee in charge of the
tickets consists Of Mrs. Lee b. Nus
baum, Mrs. John Johnson, Miss Mary
Jay, Mrs. Herschel Coffin, Miss Ella
Winchester, Mrs. John Coate. Mrs.
Geo. Knollenberg, Mrs. b. B. Myrick,
Mrs. Alden Mote, Miss Carrie Lesh,
Mrs. Test, Mrs. William Starr, Mrs.
VIM. Gartside, Miss Elizabeth Hin.
shaw, Mrs. II. s. James. Mrs. b. F..
Harris, Mrs. U. B. G. Ewing, Mrs. d.
ID. Ramsey. Mrs. J. w. Ferguson, Mrs.
Henry King. and Mrs. Thomas j. Ora.
ham.
Tickets are also on sale at the Nus
baum Dry Goods store. The luncheon
will be held at the Reid Memorial
| church at one o'clock on Tuesday
February Twenty-eighth.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-02-22
FADS AND FASHIONS

New York. Feb. aa-Venetian lace,
which. has been one OF the greatest
favorites during the winter. is ap-
piled to he cotton marquisettes.
voiles, lawns and linens. though usual
ly in combination with other laces and
in motifs set in with other laces rath-
er than in bands or large quantities.
Then there are certain heavy and eff
fective Russian and filet and Bruges
and Ciuny and Italian laces which con-
trasts piquantly with the vaporous
stuffs and are usually softened by
quantities of finer lace, preferably
Nalenciennes. although malines and
other laees not additionally associat-
ed with lingerie materials are also
used. AS no one dreams of Tubing a
fine lingerie frock nowadays the old
trimming rules and regulations may
be laid aside and what was once con-
sideren an offense against the eterna.
fitness of things. is now permissible.
Whether the new skirt invented by
famous French designer will at
tract the same amount of attention
as the "hobble," remains to be seen
But one would think the ''harem' con-
tanned even greater humorous posi-
bilities for. the funny Photographer
than it's predecessor. The ''harem'
resembles the garment worn by Turk.
ish ladies'. 1t is divided skirt, but
so subtly are the divided parts merg-
ed into the upper portions and SO
gracefully draped are those divisions
that the general outlines of flowing
skirt are preserved. The ''harem
skirt is designed for indoor wear up
on all sorts of occasions.
The monastic girdle is much in
favor. 1t is merely a heavy silken
or metal cord. which is girded above
the waist in the Classic fashion and
tied into knot. with two long ends
and tassels at the front or side.
Another appalling suggestion for a
girdle to define the approved high
waist is shown in a model OF old
spangled chiffon in ivory or pale
green. The girdle is made of broad
exquisitely supple gold and green It's
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-02-22
HOW TO SUCCEED
Depends Entirely on Superior Merit
and knowledge.

During the last few years. condi-
tons in all lines of business, even
professional life, have changed SO
completely that every man is waking
up to the fact that in order to win
success he must specialize and learn
to do some one thing and do it we'll
So 1t is with any article that is sold
to the people. II must have genuine
merit or no amount of advertising will
maintain the demand for the article.
For many years We have watched
with much interest the remarkable
record maintained by Or. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root, the great Kidney, Liver
and Bladder Remedy. From the very
beginning the proprietors had so
much confidence in it that they in
vited every one to test it, free of cost
before purchasing.
II is a physicians prescription.
They have on Ale thousands of let
tiers received from former sufferers
who are now enjoying good health as
a result of it's use.
However, IL you wish first to try
a sample bottle, address DIR. Kilmer &
Co. Binghamton, N. Y, and mention
this paper. They will gladly forward
you a sample bottle by mail absolute
ly free.
Sold at druggists in bottles of two
sizes-fifty cents and One-dollar.
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Edtted BY Miss e Lkabeth 4. Thomas -

vealed as mood pictures. perfect ex-
positions of the delightful texts to
which they are htted. The audience
Of Sunday rose to these songs in a
remarkable way, and success" was
written large all over the close Of the
program thereby.
The numbers chosen were "Appari.
tions." Evening Song" "My Star.
sad Memories" and June OF
these my Star" and June" had to
be repeated, though, as a matter OF
fact. Mr.. Miller sang best of all in
Sad Memories" All these have been
heard enough times that they are be-
ginning TO be well known favorites
except June" which Is comparatively
new. II is the most elaborate piece
of vocalism than most of the Down
ing works and is dedicated to Cecil
Tanning. who issinging 1t in all his
concerts. as indeed, is Mr.. Miller and
other artists.-Chicago Music News.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-02-22
WASHINGTON PARTIES.

There will be number of parties
and socials today given in celebration
OF Washington's birthday.
The members OF the Eastern Star
will give dance this evening in the
Masonic temple and the members with
their families and friends are invited
to attend.
A large dancing party will be giver
at the Country club.
Mrs. A. s. Johnson is hostess this
afternoon for Washington party Civ
en- for the members of the Alice Carey
club at her home in South Eleventh
street.
The members of the First English
Lutheran church have arranged for q
Washington social.
A social will be held at the Earihan
Heights Presbyterian church.
At the st. Andrews Assembly hall
there will be card parties this after
noon and evening.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-02-22
ATTENDED DANCE.

This evening in the Alambra hall
the members of the Racket club will
entertain at a colonial dancing party.
Colonial decorations will be used to
advantage, the colors red, white and
blue showing in pretty prominence
over the hall. The programs are
dainty white folders. bearing the let
ter r, and tied with long rose and
white cords. Shuman and Shuman
will play. The hostesses will be the
Misses Leolin Maddux. Mary McGuff
Charline. Hinkle. Eva Kruk, Mae
Matheson. Mayme Slayne, Loretta
Groman, Mary Kelly and Margaret
O'Neal. A partial list of the out-of
town guests are Ben Mag and Tom
Riley of Richmond; Harry Shea and
John F1avin of Anderson, Secilia Shea
to be the guest of Charline Hinkle
John ,Kigen. Lillian O'Bourne and Will
Mattingly of Upton, and Emory Lee
of Alexandria.-Mu Press.
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were Mr. and Mrs. John Parshall, Mr.
and Mrs Elmer Parshall, Mr.. and Mrs
James Kirkman, Mr.. and Mrs. Har
yey Kirkman. Mr.. and Mrs Win Hen
sley. Mr.. and Mrs. Reynold Gruelich
Miss Gussie Parshall. Miss Elizabeth
and Miss Hattie Gruelich. Miss Alice
kirkman. Mr. Andrew Parshan. Mr.
Roy Parshall. Mr.. Jesse Parshall, Mr.
Roy and Mr. Edward kirkman. Mr.
Oral Kirkman, Mr.. Neal Kirkman, Mr.
Andrew Gruelich, Mr.. Ora Mclean.
Mr.. Nimrod Riggs, Master Evera
Parshall and Mr. Herman Newlin.