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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-26
DRAPERIEs TO SOFTEN LIGHT.
Sunproof Madras a Material Much in
 Favor Now.

New weaves of madras designed to darken a room without excluding the air are now on the market. These are called sun proof and for the time being they are having a wider vogue even than cretonne for inner or side window drapings for living rooms and bedrooms with and without a valance across the. top. In either case the curtains are hung independ- enlty from a pole so that they can be brought together in the centre or showed back. The most stylish ar rangement is to have them cover a third of the window on either side, leaving the middle third to show a white curtain which stops at the win doWsill.
 This madras may be bought by the effective as the other, the curtains having an all around border that the material sold by the yard lacks
 The other day g. purchaser who has suburban cottage was selecting madras forty inches wide, by the yard, to drape the windows of three rooms. and madras curtains for an- other room, and she gave her req sons:
 ITO pull down green shades dark ems a room but keeps out every breath of air, and thick curtains are just as bad. And without green shades or thick curtains rooms are too uncomfortably light in hot wealth. er."
 The best qualities of these new cur tain madrases are used for parlors and libraries, a salesman explained The made curtains selected by the purchaser were intended for a living room furnished in green. They had dark green, almost black mesh. covered with a large, conventional design done in lighter greens and dark browns illuminated with touch es of dull red. In the border these co1ors were combined in a smaller pattern with Oriental effect.
 A particularly good pattern with an indigo blue mesh suggested an old stained glass window, many colors being combined in the border. Many of the most stylish curtains shown had a black foundation and pattern of neutral colors picked out with bright color.
 In madras sold by the yard some of the very best designs include no bright colors at all. For instance, the purchaser referred to chose for one room madras combining several shades of brown in oblongs, triangles and scrolls covering a tan mesh. The greater part of the design was in very dark walnut brown, the finer lines in cinnamon brown
 Dark brown and burnt orange made the combination in one large design with an ecru mesh. An exception to the no color rule showed an Egyptian design done in several shades of dull blue with here and there a trace of old rose showing. There were wonderful com binations of greens and of greens and khaki color and of deep blues and khaki. Conventional designs are considered newer than the floral and the best of these in turn cover the in closely interwoven rather than in a scattTed effect.
 In hanging these curtains they must reach from the top of the win dow moulding to the floor and be gathered on a pole and not pleated. The white sash curtains on the other hand ought not to hang lower than 10 a few inches below the window sill. The shorter curtain gives op- portunities-for- an ornate lower Dor
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-26

sub-contractors and other persons hav- ing charge of( or responsible for, any work involving a risk or danger to the employees Or the public, shall use ev- cry device, care and precaution which is practicable to use for the protec- tion and safety of life and limb, lin- ited only by the necessity of preserv- ing the efficiency of the structure. ma chine Or other apparatus or device, and without regard to the additional cost of suitable material or safety ap- pliances Or devices
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-26
MARRIED.
BOUTELLIER-COOK.-At

BOUTELLIE.R-CO Shelton. Miss Mary Cook, of Shelton, and George Boutellier, of Derby. ELWELL-WORTH.- Sprfngdale, May IS, Miss Alice G. Worth, to Walter F. Elwell of Brooklyn. COLLAR-COWLES.- Norfolk. May IS, Miss Mabel Pauline C6yles and Amos Burton Collar.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-26

New York-Leon lungs lawyer tried to clear him of a policy charge by tell ing the court that the ticket found in his DOS session was "a beautiful Ori- ental prayer to Confucius." A, Chin i.,i Iads alI [.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-26
Boston Transcript.

The Serpent-What's Adam so grouchy over to-day?
 The Ape-Oh, he says that the ar rival of woman means that all his plans for universal peace have been knocked in the head for 7good.-Puck.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-26
CHAFF.

s.What is the reciprocity proposition, anyhow"
 'eWhy, it means that a state agrees to recognize the automobile licenses of the adjoining states. s."-Pfttsburg Post. Bacon murdered Shakespeare? Non
 sense.
 How could that be pray? Why, we saw an actor do 1t Only yesterday.
 Boston Transcript.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-22
DRINK HABIT IS CONDEMNED
Sir Victor HorsIey, Distinguished
English Medical Authority, De-
nounces Pernicious Custom.

Sir Victor Horsley, the distinguish,
ed English medical authority, recently
addressed in Liverpool, England, a
meeting of medical practitioners and
others, arranged by the United King
dom alliance, at which the lord
mayor presided.
Sir Victor's subject was "A Social
Basis of Teetotalism," and in the
course of his address he condemned
the custom of Standing drinks" and
of providing alcohol at public and pri.
vate banquets and dinner parties. He
recalled the fact that his late majesty
the king was the first of the rulers of
the British empire to break through
the custom of alcoholic drinking. when
he gave leave for his health to be
drunk in water. Sir Victor went on
to suggest that If medical practition-
ers were to be active and patriotic
citizens, they ought all to be total alb
stainers, because the social reforms
that were of interest today were only
to be carried as soon as they succeed
ed in getting rid of the national GUS
tom of drinking alcohol
The scientific view was that even
small doses-what was called the diet
etc use of alcohol-had an iniurious
effect 1t acted upon the higher and
most intellectual part of the brain
by weakening initiation and loosenipg
control of the judgment and the
tongue. 1t was a common remark at
dinner parties that people did not
begin to talk until the wine had gone
round. Mr. Justice Bargrave Deane.
in his evidence before the divorce
commission, had expressed the opin.
ion that the worst evil was not the re-
suit of drunkenness, but the result of
small quantities of alcohol. In a num-
Der of cases he believed that as med.
ical practitioners they could all saw
the same thing of their own knowI-
edge The way to get the nation to
give up this alcohol drinking custom
was surely by securing a diminution
Of the opportunities of getting alcohol.
The last license bill having been
thrown out of the house of lords. the
only other alternative-the high H.
cense overwhelmingly for the
community, had been carried In the
budget, and local option was another
method which might be applied.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-22
"AND THOUGHT
THE WORLD
WELL LOST"

Up leaf-strewn Kay street, which
leads to the Newport reading
room, strobe a solitary figure
~ the other day. Hands In his
pockets and coat-collar turned
up, he walked along with bowed head.
He was Amos Tuck French. clubman,
millionaire and brother of Mrs. Elsie
French Vanderbilt.
Not two blocks away, around the
corner in Everett street, two laugh
ing young people were posing for
their pictures in big automobile,
with a dog between them, says a writ
er in the New York World. She was
tall, well-groomed. arrayed in fetch
ing frock, and nesting close to the
young fellow who sat at the wheel of
the machine. They were Mr.. and Mrs
John Edward Paul Geraghty-the
young couple who eloped last August
she from Amos Tuck French's villa
near the Cliffs, he from his Newport
garage.
All society knows of their runaway
fight in their automobile last sum-
mer, with detectives, Mr.. French and
Mrs. Vanderbilt on their trail in
autos. And society knows of the
reconciliation that never was because
the pretty bride would not go home
unless they accepted her chauffeur
demonstrator" he likes to
little cottage home in Newport where
young Mr.. Geraghty, son of one of the
town hackmen, has an interest in two
garages now, one in Fillmore street
and the other In South Baptist street.
Modest but Happy Home.
Come in," laughed young Mr.. Ger
agility, opening the door of his Ever
EFT street cottage.
1t is a pretty little cottage-his
modest home where the girl from the
Cliffs has come to stay. Outside it
Is dun green; inside it shines with
new wall paper, new rugs, new furni-
ture, new china. All that is old in 1t
are the little girlish souvenirs of her
former life which the clipping bride
brought from her other home.
We'll" laughed the young bride
groom, here it ts-this is our new
home. And don't forget, everything
is bought and paid for"
The Geraghtys live as a thousand
other Newporters live who are neither
poor nor rich. There are 10000 of
them. but only 300 get their names in
the society columns. AS yet the for
mer Miss French has not been chron-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-22
Man Who Conquered He'll Gate

sions. He told me to pay no heed to
them. He said he had worked out
every detail of the explosion to the
uttermost point. He was sure he
could describe to me exactly what
would happen when the nitro-glycerin
was discharged
But l said. you have nearly 22,-
600 feet of tunneling under Middle
reef
Yes he said, I have, and | need
it all. And the holes that have been
drilled in the tunnel for receiving the
nitro-glycerin would stretch a distance
of over % miles if they were placed
end to end. and in these holes l am
going to put about 100000 pounds of
explosive which will be discharged
simultaneously by means of an cleo
trio spark. But tell you now that
when the discharge comes all you'll
see will lot of water shoot up in the
air and, perhaps, some stones. There
may also be little vibration on land.
but thatll be ALL
"1'll take your word, general ! re-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-22
SMALL DOSES ARE INJURIOUS
Maintained That Temperance or Self
Control Is Promoted by Total
Abstinence From Alcohol.

The Immediate effects of small doses
of alcohol on the nervous system have
only been demonstrated comparatively
recently, says an English temperance
publication. Prof Victor Horsley has
lectured on the action of alcohol on
the brain and nervous system, and has
quoted the experiments of Kraepelin,
who found the reaction time q. e., the
time between observing signal and
indicating that 1t had been observedD
distinctly diminished by alcohol al
though not consciously so to the per-
son affected. These have been con-
flrmed by DR.. Kellogg and others. DR..
Schmidt and DR.. Furer have published
elaborate tables of numerous expert
ments on the action of alcohol upon
mental operations, such as learning
by heart, associations, requiring chief
ly automatic movements, were at first
rendered easier, yet these were soon
done with increasing difficulty, while
the higher associations were, from the
first, enfeebled.
The increase of automatic actions
is no proof of stimulation. All such
actions are performed more readily
when the attention is not fixed upon
them. 1t is as would be the case
were narcotic to affect a horse and
his rider, but to affect the rider first
AS the grasp of the reins relaxed
the horse might start off more quickly
and more erratically, depending upon
| c ~ n ftnr al, ,t,,,
free from the check and control of his
master. AS the influence extended
gradually to him his movements would
become increasingly sluggish. The
excitement of the drinker Is the re-
suit of surrounding stimuli, not
checked by the judgment and WILL
which are at once enfeebled. Hence.
it is maintained that temperance. i. e.,
self-control, is promoted by total alb
stinence from drugs such as alcohol,
which weakens It.
Other functions of the nervous sys-
tenn have been proved to be impaired
by alcohol, even in small doses, such
az one or two teaspoonfuls, for in
stance, the sensibility OF touch, the
acuteness Of vision and hearing, and
the muscular sense. In all these cases
the subject is perfectly unaware Of
any injurious alteration. and 1t can
only be demonstrated by sensitive and
accurate tests.
1t may be truly said that the devil
in solution is a devil OF dissolution,
disease and death. The immediate
effects of small doses can be shown
to be injurious by precise observa-
tons, but the effect is cumulative and
becomes obvious after several years
of continuance
1t is this fact of unquestionable
harm done by alcohol without warn
ing to the drinker, both Immediately
and after years of moderate drinking.
through chronic degeneration of It's
sues which render the advice to take
it moderately so dangerous, apart al
together from the real risk of acquired
craving for excess.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-22

tradesman who has nice little bust
ness in shoes or fish But 1t isn't
anything like Tuck's Eden, at Tuxedo.
or the villa of Newport, where the
Amos Tuck Trenches live
Difference in Homes"
1t isn't the kind of home that the
pretty bride had up to that Hateful
day in August last when she made
up her mind to run away with young
Geraghty and upset Newport by the
elopement as it has seldom been up
set before.
The hall Is In red, with few con-
ventonal pictures hung about There
Is nice, new rug, a hat rack, and the
telephone stands on little table. The
parlor-it can't be called a drawing
room-is modestly papered In green
and the dining room back of it is in
brown. There is mission furniture
brand new-and a few pictures, but
the most interesting thing Is the great
collection Of photographs in silver
frames that line the center table and
| the mantel
These are of society people, Mr. and
Mrs French, all the other members of
the family, the Newport society girls
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-22
Partial Eclipse Of the Honeymoon.

In early American households ma
ternal authority was not lightly to be
defied When Charlotte Fenwick, a
southern beauty of the Revolutionary
period was fifteen years old, she
took advantage Of the absence of her
mother in England to fall in love with
northerner, Maj. William Leigh
Pierce, and to marry him.
On Mrs Fenwick's return to Savan-
nah. which had been fastened by
news of the approach Of the English
army to Charleston, she was highly
indignant to find her daughter mar
ried to a stranger.
And who is this Major Pierce?"
she demanded.
"A gentleman, madam!" young Mrs.
Pierce haughtily replied.
GO to your room, madam!" COM
manded Mrs. Fenwick, severely, "and
stay the rest of the day."
And the little bride meekly obeyed
Youths Companion.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-22
Little Thinus Hurt,

1t is the little things of life that jar
and fret. The tiny stabs that are not
too little to hurt. but too little to
shock us out of ourselves into a calm
acceptance The big things we brace,
up somehow to bear But the little,
things that prick and sting and gnaw.
are the things that make life hard.
The cold look of some one we love;
the thoughtless act and unfeclirg
word-such little things as these can
overcast our sky. darken whole
and utterly incapacitate us. when we
could perhaps stand up and smile like
hero in the face of fire and food.
1t is a curious thing that not one of
us would be guilty of visiting catas-
trophies upon another; yet daily we
wound in thousand nameless ways
that are harder to bear than catastro.
pies.
Life itself brings philosophy to bear
the big sorrows. But somehow years
nor experience seem not to give US
the courage to bear bravely the little
pangs of every days sordid expert
ence.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-22
DR.. Loring Was True Prophet

Dakota suitable for wheat in sufficient
acreage to keep the United States sup
piled with all the wheat its people
could eat for at least ten years. L
had been telling him that there was a.
lot of talk to the effect that we were
getting to the limit of our capacity to-
produce wheat. and that was his con-
fident answer, though | was not so
confident that he was correct in his
belief.
Nov, however, ! have discovered
with my own eyes that this trappers
statement was true. You may say. II
you want to, upon my authority, that L
am confident that as soon as the rail
roads blaze the path, making it easy
for people to reach this great region
west of here, Dakota will shortly
thereafter be found to be producing at
least one-third of the entire wheat
crop of the United States.
And you may also say, II you want
to. another thing on my authority, and
that is, believe that the kind of land
which is adapted for the production OF
the best kind of wheat reaches far be-
yond our northern boundaries and
am persuaded that within the course
of the next Is or 20 years one of the
worlds great wheat granaries will be
established in that part of British
North America which is now almost
unbroken wilderness or steppes. I
would not be surprised If within that
period wheat should be cultivated at
the arctic circle.
IF | were younger man | would
cheerfully make the prediction that in
my life time it would be found that
British North America, heretofore util-
lied chiefly by the Hudson Bay com
pany, had become one of the worlds
greatest wheat producing regions.
That may seem like foolish predic-
ton. But my study of the character
of the soil. the geographical confirma-
ton of the northwestern part of the
American continent, and the certainty
that in British North America there
are about three months of the very
kind of summer which grows and
ripens the best kind of wheat, justify
the prediction.
Il have said that you may quote ME
to this effect. But If you print what |
am now telling you shall undoubted-
ly be laughed at. Yet If live to be
very old man shall be able to
laugh at those who now would find
something very humorous. to say the
least. in my prediction"
DR.. Loring died in 1891. He lived
to see the Dakotas covered with
great wheat fields; but not until after
his death did the world in general
awaken to the fact that in northwest
ern British North America 1t had one
of It's very greatest wheat granaries
Copyright 1911, by E. J. Edwards. Az
Rights Reserved)
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-22
Gen. John Newton's Cool Confid ence
In the Safety of His Plans for
the Blowing Up of Mid
die Reef.

Il think that the coolest, the most
perfectly self-possessed man in the
face of a grea risis whom ever met
was Gen. job Newton, the conqueror
of He'll Gate laid the late William r.
Grace, elected mayor of New York
city in 1880 and again in 1884, and for
years before his death, which occurred
in 1901, one of the great export
merchants of the country.
Hell Gate, you know" continued
Mayor Grace, ''is at the exact point
where Long Island sound and the
East river meet and the difference in
the tides in the sound and the river,
as we'll as the numerous jagged reefs
that were in the channel made the
passage of He'll Gate very dangerous.
For long time the federal govern
ment was a little doubtful about the
ability of any engineer to hit upon a
plan by which the reefs could be re-
moved and the channel made compar-
atively safe, except at a cost, possibly,
that would be prohibitive.
NJ last, JOnl 4>SWlOui WIZ bdu
gone into the engineering corps of the
regular army following his graduation
from West Point, and both as an en-
gineer and fighting man had won a
volunteer brigadier generals commits
sion In the Civil war, was summoned
before the authorities at Washington
and asked if he thought he could rip
out the reefs in He'll Gate and make
navigation safe there. Yes, that can
be done, and l think | can do it. was
General Newton's reply; and he was
set at the task forthwith
Under one of the lodges, known as
Hallet's reef, which extended from the
Long Island shore in to the East river,
General Newton excavated a number
Of tunnels and in the pillars support
ing the roof of the tunnels and in the
roof itself he drilled a number OF
holes. in which cans of nitro-glycerine
were placed Then the tunnel was
flooded with water, the explosive dis
charged, and Hallet's reef was nc
longer a menace to navigation.
THE removal of the reef occurred
in centennial year. Eight years later
when | was mayor of New York city
General Newton had almost completed
under Middle reef much greater tun
mel and drilling system than that
which he had constructed for the pur
pose of blowing up Hallets reef. This
| fact was we'll known, and many peo
| pie from all parts of the city and Long
Island came to me almost daily and
! told me that If General Newton set of
all the nitro-glycerin under Middle
reef which he was planning to do, the
explosion would cause an earthquake
which would probably destroy many
buildings on both the Long Island and
the Manhattan sides of He'll Gate.
General Newton and | were in
innate personal friends, and l spoke
to him of these widespread apprehen
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-22
How Rufus Choate, Though Suffering
Agonies, Delivered Eloquent
Address and Speedily Re-
covered from Attack.

When Zachary Taylor was nomi-
mated by the Wings for president in
1848 one of the great orators of that
day. who today is famous in history
as one of Americas greatest orators,
was Rufus Choate, cousin of Joseph
II. Choate, formerly ambassador to
Great Britain. Rufus Choate had also
long enjoyed the distinction of being
one of the country's leading Wings,
and because of this fact and his great
oratorical powers he was besought to
take part in the presidential cam
paign as a supporter of General Tay-
lor. Though his law practice was then
almost overwhelming him. Mr.. Choate
promised to make few speeches.
Among the places where he was as
signed to speak was one of the impor-
tant suburban towns near Boston
Brookline. But when, on the day for
the speech to be made there, the COM
mittee called upon Mr.. Choate at his
hall in Brookline, the great lawyer
was found to be suffering from a rag
ing headache. The agony was so
great that he could hardly speak; and
in the hope of getting some relief
from the pain he had saturated his
long curly hair with some sort of
counter irritant, the odor of which
was very palpable to the members of
the committee.
Notwithstanding this physical
agony. Mr.. Choate, saying nothing,
went from his house to the carriage
that was awaiting him, and the jour
ney to the hall was begun. All the
way there he pressed his hands to his
temples. supporting his elbows upon
his knees; and he gave other signs of
such deep distress that the commit
tee was afraid that he would be I'M
able to make his speech. In fact, the
members advised him not to attempt
1t, saying that they would procure
substitute speaker. But to his sug-
gestion Mr.. Choate shook his head