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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-04-06


"scandalous conduct" in connec-
ton with his personal finances.
What do you think constitutes
"scandalous conduct" in connec-
ton with ones personal, private
finances?
Congress may be in session
until August. 1 urge immediate
attention for the tariff bills and
Lorimer case."-Senator Bris-
tow, of.KansaS.
The senate is the greatest de-
Lucrative body in the world" and
some of the members mistake
that word "deliberative" for ode.
liberate," and Bristow's away off
if he thinks he can get them down
to hard work.
Despite the protest of the
business men" of Indiana, the
senate labor committee has re-
ported favorably bill providing
that all employees working on
government contracts shall not
be worked more than eight hours
a day. Bill already has passed
house.
House labor committee has IA
vorably reported bill creating
new department of labor" with
another member in presidents
cabinet. Will separate labor de-
partment from department of
commerce.
Sounds like good BILL Com
merce and the interests of the
business men of the nation have
not much to do with labor.
Pen Rafhrick (DeTn 0l has
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-04-06

For fifth time, anti-woman suf-
frage burglar looted Offices OF N.
Y. woman's suffrage party. Got
away with $3.50.
Young Mems Hebrew associa-
ton, of Perth Amboy, N. J., has
started crusade against teaching
of Merchant of Venice" in public
schools.
Senate passed resolution intro
duced by Uncle Shelby Cullom,
appropriating $4,000 to protect
Mound City, Ill, from flood wa
tiers.
Whenever it's a question of
protecting property" our below
ed government moves with the
most remarkable activity. But
when it comes to appropriating
few thousands to feed starving
people, they become afflicted with
economy.
Question: Would that $4,000
be better spent protecting Mound
City property, or feeding the
thousands of homeless, shivering,
hungry people of Hickman, KY,
and the St. Francis basin?
Rebels who were defeated and
driven out, of Parral, Mexico,
have recaptured town, and driv-
en- federal army South.
81 am not afraid of what the
American people will do in the
way of changing Our government,
but 1 am afraid of any change
made in it without the approval
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

all ready to be lighted They are so ready that
when Pantaloon looks out of his window before
making up his face for the day he sees that
the candles have burst into fame-fowers in the
night
Then Columbine takes out pipe and she puts
some magic soap into nectar and stirs it round
with the bowl of the pipe until frothy suds ap-
pear And then she blows bubbles that float up
and out of the window until they reach the
Christmas tree, when they turn into great gilt
tering glass balls, all sorts of colors and show
pictures of the world all colored and shining
The children in the World look up and think
they see Harlequin and Columbine floating down
as gently as feathers. but they don't say so be-
cause their elders would only tell them it was
the clouds. But 1T is Harlequin and Columbine
and Pantaloon end Clown follow soon after
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13
0DDSCOTCH Church
Greeaock EdifiOe at ST. Andrea,
N. B., Erected in 1924.
Building Is Novelty in construotio,
I is Queerly carved-Ras a IT,.
Double 0eeked Pulpit Of Mahcg.
any-coss $500 in England.

Montreal.-At the quaint car,a;.-
town OF St. Andrews. N. b., u MIL
up the ST. Croix river from Fastnor.
Me-, is a novelty in church constr,,,
tion. Greenock church was aroo..,
in 1924. Its queerly carved and nai,.
ed oak tree on the front Of tho ~,
tower can be seen from a considarolt.
distance. Inside the church is a Iarr,
double-decked pulpit of mabo~ar,.
with sounding board on ton and IVY
fights of steps reaching the preach
Ser's stand. It is protected with g9tos
and an inclosure of red curtains -
was brought out from England At =
cost of $500. "
At the time this Scotch church voc
erected the town was prosperous and
the donor expected his congregation ~
pay yearly dues or taxes, but il j.
related that they neglected to attend 70
this. The story goes that one SUNDAY
morning the donor mounted the pulnit
and faced a large congregation. that
he displayed a brace of loaded pistoIs
which he fired into the air, and tho
frightened people rushed to Their
homes. The donor closed the church
poeketed the key, and said that when
the churchgoers paid their dues thew
might have the church again.
The walls and the center of the
church show decorations of large
sized Scotch thistles, Handsomely
painted and carved. There is a heavy
old-fashioned lock on the front door
and the massive, quantity shaped iron
key is kept in wooden box on the
ground near the entrance, where anv
visitor can find it and visit the church
at all times.
The church is less than two miles
on the ST. Croix river from where the
world-famed Dement'S island is To-
Gated and where the celebrated French
explorer Demont and his companion
Champlain made a settlement in June
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13
HURT; WILL NOT STAY IN BED
Contractor, 81 Years Old, Injufei Rid
ing Bicycle, Says Maybe He'll
Be Better.

Neutrality-suspicious. Fitzpatrick,
contractor, was run down by an auto
mobile while riding bicycle here.
When he recovered from the shock he
was asked his name, which he gave
and then sitting up Indignantly
vouchsafed the further information
that he was eighty-one.
Don't you know better than to
ride a bicycle around the streets?' IN
quired a young inferno sternly.
I'm as young in spirit as you" re-
torted Fitzpatrick angrily. Where
my bike? I'm not a dollhouse plant
and l don't propose to sleep on your
beds. When get old I'll cut out some
of my rough-and-tumble ways-may-
be-"
The aged man rode briskly off aft
er several bruises had been treated
Apparently he was none the worse for
his experience.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

but ashole in it in the morning
And when it is dark these four quaint figures
fit through the country, city town and village
like conspirators, Harlequin tapping doors and
windows with his magic wand Open open!'
he cries to the Spirit of Christmas Let the
rich uncle reward his needy nephew, and the
unforgiving father his repentant SON. Mothers,
forget to be jealous of your elder daughters
growing beauty. Children forget your spite ana
naughtiness. Let's be oldfashioned. Let's be-
lieye in ghosts. I'll tell you ghoststores stories
of yourselves when you children and played
Pirates on the stairs
And Clown says as he taps on the doors with
his red-hot poker:
open, open, you old grousers, And let the
Spirit of Fun come into this house. Romp a bit
and lose your twopenny dignity, for pompous
stiffness makes the gods laugh"
Pantaloon, taking his turn. taps with his walk
ing-stick and says:
open, open and let In the food of memories
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

again to twiddle between his teeth
If you know the way and the Cheshire cat viii
let you, you walk down the garden path past the
butterfly lime and arrive at the neatest little
cottage in Olympus.
Now this is the dwelling place Of the Harle-
gum set-Harlequin, Columbine, Clown and Pan
taloon. 1t is cottage in little colony
the lower slopes of Mount Olympus (where the
high gods dwell: Jupiter and the like), and is
most important because it contains the oldest
inhabitants
up The Four Queens and Kings live in a square
of pagodalke houses, and are waited upon by the
Knaves. Pierrot and Pierrette live in romantic
secusion by a pool in tumbledown place
cred with blue roses. And away behind the
fields of stars where the focks of clouds Craze,
there is another village where the Seven Prin-
cesses live, and the Third Son and Ogre and
Talking Rabbit and all those peculiar and
beautiful people who are entangled in our minds
with the memories of night nurseries, and the
scent of our mothers who bent over us in won
derful toilettes and told us to go to sleep, or
they'd be late for dinner
When it gets to be about Christmas there Is
a sort of aroma of excitement the lower slopes
of Olympus, and. especially in the house where
Harlequin lives-a delicious sense of something
exciting happening
Columbne opens the lid of the well that looks
down onto the world, and there comes up muir
muir of children's voices, and you can near the
quaintest things being said about the hanging
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

and no friends and hope, and / will be the
warm nesting thing you covet for your frozen
hearts, and you shall feel my soft cheek against
yours till he tears come and your heart takes
life again. You shall give joy to other peoples
children. And if you have no friends who have
children. are there not thousand, thousand chill
dren who have friends? Go to Them and give
them all you can, and you will be rewarded al
most more than you bear for there is link
between those who suffer. Are there not some
you have forgotten neglected? This lonely
man, that lonely woman whom you have left un-
cared for, perhaps for years. Put on your hat
and your coat, and put your heart on your sleeve.
so that all may know your Grand
To see her pleading before black sombre houses
where thin light shines under a blind to see
her face pressed against the window of some big
mansion where man woman sits alone with
hearts like stone to see her tears as she essays
to melt an aching heart is to see something so
touching and beautiful that one almost wonders
the doors and windows are not instantly opened
10 admit the spirit of love she begs for so pitt
fully
Look at yourselves Messieurs ct Mesdames
Importance, and remember the funny little things
you used to be when you bit at coral and bells
and wore bibs and thought everybody in the
world mad enough to eat when you hated to go
10 ped early. and crept downstairs in your night
gowns 10 listen over the bannisters to the voices
ia the dining room; when no jam for tea was
Tragedy. And when your mothers knee was the
throne OF justice and mercy for YOU buried your
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

stirring up old memories in dull people. so that
uncles must remember all their nephews in re-
membering when they were nephews themselves
and lad peculiar hunger at Christmas.
CoiImbine is awfully practical Her sentiment
extends from the joy of watching the making Of
babyclothes to the pleasure of remembering to
put nice soap in the spare rooms. 1t is she who
sees that children get the right presents and
when they don't it is NOT her fault, but the fault
of some stupid person in a shop.
1t is she who suggests the secret delight of
keeping presents hidden at the bottom of the
wardrobe; and it is she who suggests the secret
delight of peering children when they are
asleep
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13
MOSCOW PUPILS BIG DRINKERS
Reports Show 66 Per Cent OF Boys
and IS Per Cent of Girls Use
Intoxicants.

MISUNDERSTANDING to official re-
ports prepared by the Moscow town
council, inebriety is rapidly increasing
among Russian school children gen
orally, but particularly in the Mosco"
district. inquiries show that 80 per
cent of the adults addicted TO drink
acquired the habit while at school. AMI
of 1874 schoolboys between the ages
of eight and thirteen, in the Moscow
district, 1852, or &c per cent. have
taken to drink. The percentage
among girls of the same ages Is
scarcely less appalling, 4,733 out OF
10,404, or As per cent
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

and the chimes will be
very melodiously for you
and for those whom you try
to make happy. And re-
member. you can't feign
Christmas without being
caught as an impostor,
both by your own con-
science and by the feel
ings of those about you.
The very value Of Christ
mas is that it puts the gen.
uineness of everybody to an
unerring test.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

bringing the
tire Q with
N o W their
each to his
Columbine to
to preparing
that m Il s t
this season.
easily as a
in a breeze.
his m a gic,
things must
tiful now.
must buy the
Indies. And
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

There are Pagan Saints who find Arcadia every
where Pan pipes as much in the crowded city
Mount Ida when the sun is high. And
Columbine finds roses where the world sees
thorns and Harlequin finds magic in motor
buses; and Pantaloon digs away for pleasant
memories in the most unlikely places and finds
them bright and clean. and good as new
These half-gods of mine land yours) come
down at Christmas to correct the bilious attitude
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

of the rest
They C o m g
S e e d s that
ers in the
hearts. They
ence t h a t
give a man
instead of a
the b in g
that the bus
weighs more
timent ha d
up his stock
mas Eve, and
feels like to
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

it that splendid thing
Mother Goose" or that en-
trancing production The
Yellow Dwarf?
Such things are conjured
up by Just that one pipe ca
tobacco smoked in the cot
tage on Olympus, and on
that hight a gentle breeze
blowA up through the well,
laden with the poignant,
eternal memories OF child
hood, and the candles on
the Christmas tree are
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

head there with her hand in you:
hair, and forgot to be afraid of the
dark"
Columbine has her own very par
tucular work, and she calls it in
her mind Secret Delights. She calls
1t that because she delights in MAX
Ing up odd names for emotions, as,
for instance, when she pointed out
two lovers to me one day in the
spring, who were seated under
hedge, yellow-fushed with prim-
roses; they were holding hands and
looking at the hills beyond just as
IL some wonderful thing was about
to come over the hills to tell them
what their feelings meant. And the
peace was so great and the moment
SO held that the World seemed to
have stopped breathing, and some
thing superhuman to have poured
out cup of stiffness. And she
called it Liquid Velvet. Liquid
Velvet moment. And | understood,
1t is Columbine who watches that
beautiful comedy of the newly mar
ried, who steal about their house
hand-in-hand, fearful of waking the
very new servants, fearful OF creak-
ing the boards as they gaze enrap-
tured on the very new furniture,
looking with joy on the very new
pots and pans in the kitchen, turn
ing the electric lights up and down
all over the place to see the effect
in their new bedroom And he has
a dreadful brooch for her hidden
where he keeps his razors; and she
has knitted him tie he will have
to wear But it is all perfectly
beautiful
Someone wrote the other day that
people who read are more interest
ed. nowadays, in business than in
love, and I'm so sorry for that man.
He is more blind than thought
ANYBODY could be. Business may be
the means to an end, but Love is
the beginning and the end. And 1t
is Just at this season that Love
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

makes business: hence the shops full of gifts
Imagine a poet writing:
Gent per cent. the moon is rising,
Watch the stocks upon the bank;
Rubber shares are too surprising,
Spectators are surmising
Who the deuce they have to thank"
No one can get heartbeat out of that, and
whatever your business says, he knows he
gets all the good in his life out of heartbeats.
So this Christmas Spirit creeps about the world
Knocked at scorned, but alive yet. And you who
feel these things may night this quaint
quartet at work perhaps for a second at the cor
ner of your street perhaps just vanishing down
the drive or moving swiftly down country
lane. And you may say wonderingly: TT is a
cobweb, moth, and the branch of tree. and
the starlight makes them look like-like some
thing remember"
But tell you who they are-Harlequin, Column
bine Clown and Pantaoon. And If you hear
child's laugh ring out suddenly. and it brings
new, quick emotion, of them has conquered
you!
The spin. Christmas doesn't cling to presents
in proportion to their cost-uness you very
rich; and il you are very rich the voice OF the
jeweler and of the furrier and of the motor car
maker will seem to you as wise as the word of
happy poor man, though he were philosopher.
Simple and genuine and glad-strike these notes
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

of the year.
to SOW those
grow to flow
still innocent
are the inhu-
makes you
fifty &c n t s
quarter. And
W no sa Y s
mess of life
than the SEN
better hang
ing on Christ
see what 1t
find nothing
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

~ N the left, just past
I'D the wea t h er hens
nest, and not more
than two steps from the
box where they keep the
cuckoo, there is the long
bed where roses bloom all
the year round. And they
grow like this so that
Columbine may always
have one to stick in her
hair, and that odd, mock
ing, soft-hearted cynic Pier
rot NOV a11Il ono v,Ouy and
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

son, and there is flower called Colum bine and
X is so called because it is like four doves with
outspread wings. and the French dove is colombo
and the dove is the symbol of the soul So the
world Is never allowed to forget beautiful things
even IL the burden of history is borne on the
back of flower. And the god-like glow and gilt
ter of Mercrry's limbs still shows in the glsten.
ing sequins on Harlequin's clothes parti-colored
as they have always been. to show how he Gov
cred his nakedness with rags.
All this, beautifed by the essence of Time like
things put away in a cedar chest comes back
when Harlequin blows on his pipe that air the
shepherds learnt in Greece from Pan
The next night Clown will take out anoth--
kind of pipe, long churchwarden of white clay
and fill 1t with tobacco and then as the fragrant
clouds roll up into the rafters. memories come
OF all the great people of the Harlequinades they
play down in the world, all inspired by them and
they see the figure of Tarlaton, who was the first
clown, and invented the very clothes they now
wear hand in hand with Grimadi that great
clown. And they seem to see all the great Italian
Hariequins. and the dainty French Columbines
and the old dandies of fifteenth-century Venice
whose clothes Pantaloon wears
Do you know that elderly gentlemen In the
World smell that magic tobacco or something
like It. and they forget their paunches or their
bald heads, and they sit and dream of the time
they went to their first pantomime? Was 1t
Cinderella" Beauty and the Beast? Or was
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

of the good old times!
Holly and mistletoe and
robins, and church bells
sounding over the snow.
And hampers all packed to
be sent away, and plenty
to eat at home.
And then mbfne
steals up to the windows,
and taps them with the
rose from her hair, and
she whispers:
Open, open to me all
You who have no children
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

A New York corporation has
hquidated because women are giving
up petticoats. And some husbands
are liquidating because they won't
give up pettieoat rule.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

1t is maintained by Boston minis
ter that 1t is possible to marry and
live comfortably on SIS a week. 1t is
possible at least to marry on that In
come.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

G h r i s t mas
them.
work begins,
own job and
hers. Clown
the laughter
spring up in
and ripple as
barley field
Harlequin to
for common
appear beau
and a penny
wealth of the
Pantaloon to
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

The horse no longer smells the bat
tie afar off. The enemy afar of now
gets a Whit from the approaching
war auto when the wind is blowing
toward them
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

The new Zeppelin airships are
equipped with kitchens and the dis
posal OF garbage from them is. of
course, matter of the attraction of
gravitation.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

A fire in a snuff factory put the
Chicago fire department out of COM
mission. A fire of that sort is moth
ing to be sneezed at
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

They say that the new diamond
weighing 1,649 carats is a little off
color, but. If so, we have seen neckties
that would match it.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

A Bantu tribesman has been discov-
cred with forty-five wives. If the
tribe allowed suffrage, no doubt he'd
be perpetual king.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

And perhaps the worst thing the
recent campaign inflicted upon long
suffering country was the mongrel
verb ''straw-voted."
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

All the song birds migrate to the
south except the particular kind that
waits on the big cities for the open
ing of the opera season.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

Us heat a substance?" asks the Lit
erary Digest; and any householder can
tell the magazine that heat is an ex
pense.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

A western telegraph manager adver-
tises for girls with wheels" He
ought to find them by going to any
moving picture show.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

Christmas trees from New England
are to be quarantined. The next
thing we know they will be fumigat-
ing Santa Claus whiskers.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

Less than 100000 New York chill
dren took advantage of the public
baths last year. Childhood is ever
the same
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

She Japs are reported to be taking
TO American beef in the hope of grow,
ing taller. After they get the butch
er's bill they will find 1t really leaves
them very much shorter.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

A Philadelphia man has died. leav-
ing 100000. without any indication
of where he wants 1t to go, However,
the lawyers will get 1t, Just the same
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

A bird said to be a French owl was
captured by a policeman. France is
the last country in the world to think
OF for producing anything owlish.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

Real babies are to be used in
school of mothercraft at Acton. Eng.
where girls will be taught the art of
infant management Poor little kidsi
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

If they could only kill few more
bandits as they did that one at Delta.
Cal, 1t might discourage the business
of train robbing
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

When an artistic arrives at New
York from Europe, carrying 500 pairs
OF shoes you may rest assured that
she is either a centipede or a dancer.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

railroad company is asked to pay
100000 for the death of chimpan-
zee. Evidently its owner is not eager
to work for bis living now.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

The price OF steel hoops has been
advanced 50 . ION, but not because
hoopskirts are coming in.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

A Minnesota health officia' says the
only place to kiss a woman Is on her
photograph. Not on your tintype!
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

A New York bigamist has been SEN
fenced to prison for FIVE years. one
year for each wife. Why not make
him live one year with all Ave wives?
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

A New York woman of eighty is
starting to learn trade. A person
is never too old to learn. even in New
York.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

The next thing t. become popular
is the auto milk cart. Then well
probably find gasoline in the bottles