The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-02-02
FIGHT HIGH PRICES
Women of Washington In War on
the "Food Trust"
MRS. HENDERSON A LEADER
She 10 a Vegetarian and Total Alb
Standardization Of Sunday En-
tertalnlng 10 Again Being Dis
eussed In National Capital.
by GEORGE CLINTON.

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Washington.-The campaign which
Ia being waged in Washington against
the high cost Of living has been In
dorsed here by most OF the women's
clubs, which include In their member
snip many women high In official and
social life. The Woman's Anti Food
trust league has Mrs. J. b. Hender.
son, wife OF former Senator Hender.
son OF Missouri. as president.
Among other reforms the mem bers
OF the society pledged themselves to
abstain from purchasing meat. This
VIII be no hardship for Mrs. Hender.
son, who for years has been a vege-
tartan and an advocate of simple iiv-
ing. Her dinners are among the
smartest affairs In Washington, but
neither meat nor wine Ia served.
The Henderson home is always
spoken OF as Boundary Castle, as It
Is Just beyond Florida avenue. the for
mer boundary line OF the city, and 1t
Ia perehed on top OF Sixteenth street
NIL. Mr.. and Mrs. Henderson have
Duilt dozen handsome homes near
them, some Of which are occupied by
representatives OF foreign powers as
legations and embassies. One of the
largest houses is the residence OF Sec
rotary MacVeagh.
Poured Her Wines Into Cutters.
Two or three years ago Mrs. Hen.
derson invited to her residence a tent
OF the Order OF Rechabites, OF which
she Is member. The guests poured
into the cutters OF Sixteenth street
the priceless wines from her cellars,
since which time she has stood for
total abstinence as we'll as vegetarian
ism. Mrs. Henderson has convictions
and the courage that should go with
them. and in making her the presi-
dent OF the Anti-Food Trust league
success for the movement was prom
ised.
Mrs. Henderson several years ago
put her ideas into q book which she
called THE Aristocracy OF Health"
The book has been translated into
Chinese through the influence OF for
mer Minister WI Ting-fang, who is a
great admirer of Mrs. Henderson's
views on simple living. Mrs. Belva
Lockwood, who at one time was q
candidate for the presidency OF the
United States, rs also a member OF
the organization. as is also Mrs. Mary
8, Lockwood, who is prominent In ID.
A. n circles.
Sunday Entertaining Discussed.
The question OF Sunday entertain
tanning Is being discussed again in
Washington. The "wide-open" Sun
day came to the capital with the for
eign element and has steadily spread
until the Americans who give din
ners, breakfasts and parties on the
first day OF the week outnumber the
aliens.
There was one notable obJector in
the diplomatic set to the continental
Sunday" and that was the wife OF the
former Norwegian minister, Nine.
Gudet who established In the Nor
wegian legation n strict observance OF
the Sabbath day. She neither accept
ed nor extended Invitations to festivi.
ties on Sunday.
II Is well known that Mrs. Taft de-
plores the increasing tendency toward
Sunday merry-making. She attends
regularly either st. Johns church on
Lafayette square or All Souls Uni.
tartan church. where the president
worships.
To Honor Lundy's Lane Hero.
Senator Jacob II. GaIlinger OF
New Hampshire was born In Can
ada, where his mother and father
we're born before him. The fact did
not prevent Mr.. Gallinger from intro
iucing bill In congress for the cree
lion OF the statue to the memory OF
Gen. James Miller, the hero of Lundy's
Lane. In pretty nearly every school
history Of the United States is told the
story OF Gen. Mtller's charge on a bat
terry, and his capture thereof. II mem
DRY serves. Miller at that time was a
captain, but the chances are that most
Americans remember neither his title
nor his first name. but know him
only as "rll Try, Sir" Miller When
Miller was asked II he could charge
and take the battery HIS answer was
III try. sir" and the answer has
stood him as front name ever since.
1t may be that some of Senator Gal.
fingers immediate ancestry fought on
the British side against Scott and
Miller and the rest at Lundy's Lane,
but back of the immediate ancestors
the senator had other ancestors who
fought on the American side in the
Revolutionary war. He gets his Amer.
icanism from an original pure font.
TAFT Didn't Care About Wolves.
Since William Howard Taft has
been president of the United States
there have been no articles on natural
history written in the White House
In the days when Mr.. Taft and Mr..
Roosevelt were close friends and when
the legislative policies of one were be-
lieVed to be absolutely the legislative
policies of the other, the great "faunal
naturalist" attempted to interest Mr..
Taft, who was then secretary Of war.
10 the subject Of natural history.
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