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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-22
The Narrow Skirt
By Elsie Nc Elroy

~ TORSE luck for the women
M when the short narrow skirt
goes out of fashion-nOt the
hobble. mind you, nor the indecent
skirt. nor the one too narrow to take
the step Of a street car in. but The
short. narrow skirt with perhaps a
bit of leeway set in in inverted pleats
at the ankles
1t is the easiest skirt cur grand
mothers. our mothers, ourselves, or our
daughters have ever known
1t is light In weight
1t is the cleanest thing we ever wore,
there is absolutely no smell Of street
sweepings about IL after days shop
ping.
1t is high and dry on the wettest
days and so close reefed ii does not
ly out to catch the rain -
1t is the most comfortable thing to
take care of a baby in, except when
sitting on the floor playing blocks,
then, and only then, il has It's draw
backs,
it is percepubIy cheaper
II is infinitely prettier The mar
row skirt gives q woman some length
and line below her belt where the wild
er skirts trail her lines of Indefinitely
into so much tweed or SILK or clQtn-
The average woman or girl in her
comfortably short, comfortably narrow
skirt, her little snug round bonnet Of
a hat and ner good stout SnOeS looks
as pretty as ever any woman looked
since the fig leaf came in She is sen
sible. she is comfortable. and she is
mistress OF herself as clothes have not
allowed her to be before in many gen
eratiOnS.
The good promise about IL is that
these days while women are just as
fond Of fashions as ever, Yet they hold
on TO what is best in a fad The whole
world Of dressmakers and outfitters
have tried to bEea-z up the ShirtWalSt
habit in women, but the shirtwaist
STAYS. 1t is just about as wen patron
lied year after year, indispensable in
every rousseau. the simplest or most
elaborate. 1T is TOO convenient, too
clean. too becoming and too sensible
to give UP.
The one piece dress came to Gust the
shirCwaist and was promptly accepted
too for its especial comfort and grace.
but the shirtwalst did not lose ground.
1t is 10 be hoped the wide skirt viii
never come again
1t is possible and worthy Of belief
that women are really growing sensible
about clothes without losing a jOt OF
their just and righteous vanity in
them
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-22

spring. the Mother began relating
Wulies Infantile Bon MOts, but be-
fore she had got through the first
Installment, the Ola Man Clipped in
with a lot of Baby Wit that made
Willies best Efforts look like thirty
cents, whereupOn his Mother took the
Phenomenon by the Hand and liked
out for Home
And Bachelor.
You have saved our lives" cried
the Victims as they embraced the Old
Man, but how did you DO it,"
'Unhappily for me- replied ne, I
am an Old Bachelor, and as I have no
Children Of my own I was Good
Thing for all the Mothers who felt
that they could Bore me with Stories
about their Children, and that L could
not Retaliate with any Rival Anec-
dotes.
For many Years 1 endured this. but
at last il got upon my Nerves. and
so I studied up on Infant Prodigies
and filled up on Newspaper Stories
about Smart Children. and now when
any Mother comes at me with what
her Baby said I lay her out with Sta
Infants that make hers look like the
Report of a Feeble Minded Institute.
I know that it is a Cruel Thing 10 do,
but there is no other way to Choke
off a Mother
Moral: This Fable explains the
Curious Look on the Faces of our
Friends when we show off our Child
rem.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-22
DILLON MURDERED
A CHICAGO GIRL
Police Have No Doubt that
This Is True-MOre
Evidence.

Chicago, H.. May 22.-No doubt re-
mains in the minds Of the police that
c. c Dillon, who was killed by a train
last Saturday. was the slayer Of the
Los Angeles murder victim. and that
Miss Minnie Quinn. former Chicago
domestic was the slain woman.
A trunk. which relatives Of Miss
Quinn told the police belonged TO her.
was found in DiIon's home. The trav-
cling bag he carried back from Los
Angeles also was identified as Miss
Quinn's-
Railroad employees told detectives
that Miss Quinn and Dillon boarded a
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific train
in Chicago for Los Angeles April Is.
Mrs. Dillon admitted her husband, on
his return from California, gave her
q diamond ring, a WOman's watch and
a gold bracelet She turned them over
TO John AdcOck. OF Richmond. Va a
cousin of Dillon, who now is taking
DulOn's body 10 that city. The police
telegraphed AdCOck in an effort to re-
cover the jeWelry. Miss Quinn is known
to have had a diamond ring and a gold
watch
The Information given the police by
Mrs Dillon came after they had sub
jected her to a rigid examination
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-22

very sensible and practical, just as the
DOCTOR voice sounds when he says,
youu have it to do some day and you
might as well let me phone to the hos
pltal for your room right now"
But my husband does just two
things on earth, tends to business and
plays golf L can't sit in the office with
HIM, so I've come out here TO the links.
NJ e are having quite a honeymoon since
I've learned to play; We see each other
nearly two hours every single day now.
Its lovely, and then at dinner
there's always something TO talk about
that interests him Last night il was an
hour after dinner before he took W
the paper. 1 almost hurrahed in tri-
You see we got to talking about a
certain play he'd made the day before,
and how much better it was than a
play his partner made the day before
that, and we held quite an interesting
conversation.
1 hate the game myself L don't like
walking, the hours are always incOn-
yenient for me: 1 don't like getting
SO sunburned, but it yaps. 1 decided
that last night
oh" gurgled the engaged girl rap
tUrously, fitting her head at a senti-
mental angle tnat made US all long to
slap her. oh. he'd miss you terribly IL
he9"
The woman with the second honey
moon laughed quite cheerfully. We'll, .
she said. I'm afraid I'd do most Of the
missing.
The engaged girl gasped and looked
too shocked for words
May / ask broke in the bachelor
Laid-yOU can't call her a bachelor
maid any more, she's really a bachelor
'Cman-'nay / ask this one question,
Don't any OF you clinginE creatures
play because you like the gamer
And not a single woman there had
10 to
The bachelor woman shifted: Well -
she said, If my husband would learn
tc embrOider so as to be near me I'd
learn 10 play golf TO be near him, and
until he did I wouldn't"
The other woman looked with eyes
full Of divine pity at the engaged girl
and at the bachelor woman. Then they
gazed each at the other with a look
that said as plainly as any word ever
SPOKEN. or written, or wirelessed across
raging seas They don't understand
And come to think of il I don't be-
Ieve they did, do you?
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-22
IL FEARS Age To-
From The Herad OF l.
This Date 1893 Ody

Senior Felix Martinez and wife re-
turned TO the city on today santa
re from Las Vegas y NJ
The railroad boys at Santa Fe are
making up a purse with which to buy a
big flag, which viii be hOisted on the
water tank at that place.
A train consisting of 81 carloads Of
wheat went east yesterday evening
over the @. H. There are 1856 cars
Yet to come. This contract will keep
the wheels of the S. p. in swift motion
for some time to come.
a new bed is needed IN the city jail.
The present one is in a dilapidated
condition, and jailer Blacker says
When ne wakes up in the morning, ne
feels as If a brick house had fallen
Oh him and that not a brick IN the
structure missed him.
/ Arrangements are now perfected Tor
a ire time at Orn's grove near SIeta,
tomorrow All departments Of the s.
r VIII shut down to give the boys a
chance to enjoy themselves The train
VIII leave the depot at $40 and all who
go viii have. a fine time.
Probably the best time on record was
made in the shipment OF zoo head Of
cattle from Santa Rosa island They
We're shipped in two sections the trains
averaging SO miles an hour from the
time they left Los Angeles, Cal, until
they arrived at La JUnta, Colo
There were % dogs slaughtered
Wednesday, 20 Thursday IA on Fri
day. and there viii be about 20 killed
today. AprOpos of this, . Joke came
from Germany by fast freight this
morning. Now" said the little frau
to the little herr, you can cut up
parsley and put il in the soup" She
lad forgotten that the little herr had
a dog named Parsley, and II was only
when she saw the poor little beast
simmering away in pot on the stove
that she became curious why do
You stew the little dog Parsley, HERR"
20. 7 thought ] would parbOil him be-
fore 1 put him in the soup, as you told
me to do"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-22

patiently they bear up under 60 cent
beef and tax on salt, we begin 70
realize what Is the matter with the
French census returns. Wagner re-
NAMED in Paris twenty years, writing
operas. each one of which demanded
more muscle on the part Of the kettle
drums. In 1872 he returned to Ger
MANY and spent the rest Of his HE at
Beyreuth, where he built his own the
atcr-an idea which has since been
copied bv Maxine Elliott, George Co
han. and other great artists
FVaener's music was not under
stood while he lived and many Peo-
Die were severely Jared while trying to
Follow the melody which wandered in
among countless mOdulations and eres-
condos. His music consists Of a theme IN
definitely repeated for four hours by one
to $50 musicians armed with well known
instruments and some which Wagner IN
vented to take up the slack IN the dis
turbance His music Is an acquired
taste. bat millions of people are steadily
acquiring it at from 3 to s. a seat and
in Germany it is a national dissipation.
lit can be fed to a well built pianOla
with much success. and some of our
most promising Olympic athletes train
during the winter on ~Tannhauser's'
overture for the SS-uote foot power
player
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-22
WAGNER ~ e. e = .! % = Ez 5:E5:
Copyright, 1912, BY George Mathew Adams)
. BOARDING Wagner, America Is
X divided into two classes-those

n BOARDING Wagner, America is
X divided into two classes-those
who admire him for his har-
monte originality and those who wor-
ship him FOR his home runs.
1t VIII be a great shock to many of
the latter class to learn that there are
two immortal Wagners and that we
propose to tell of Richard and not of
Hans.
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was born
in Leipsic, May -, 1918, and was
about l02 per cent German in family
and feeling. 1t broke out in him early
IN life in the shape of an overture
which he produced at the age of y.
At p, he was conducting a forty fid-
die power orchestra and was writing
scores which caused the oldest and most
experienced flute players to lay down
their weapons and eNclaim: Bonner
wetter und bitten, was is los NIT
ihnen?7
In lew years more, Wagner was
so far advanced in music that ne did
not express merely love and sorrow
IN notes. but set mythology, jealousy,
spring fever, growing grass and brain
storms to music. His first great work
was Tannhauser, and after it was pro-
dueed the audience sat, dazed and sol
emn for some time, picking strange
harmOnies out of their ears and ex-
aiming them with much doubt. Wag-
ner was an insurgent in music, poll
ties, love and poetry. and after he had
infuriated all the musical standpatters
by writing pieces which made the
most celebrated prima donnas stand
around and help out the bull fiddles
in the orchestral score, he insurged
against the government, and was
elected from Germany with great en-
phasis in lS4S.
For many years afterward Wagner
lived in Paris and produced his great
operas for the French, who cheer
fully got up riot after riot in opposi-
tion to the diminihsed seventh and
other musical heresies. When we re-
allie how fercely patriotic the French
are regarding musical styles and how
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-22
Where Some Of the Money Goes

IMPORTS of diamonds year 1910;
about value of precious stones principally
doubles when retail Of
featured Jewels people having
100000 spend all
portion of diamonds those moderate
circumstances; many land people around their
savings the wetOdO
Of the pretty
value of uzuns imported this
exceed s2oooOOOoo that least ssoOoooOoo
when distributed consumers probably thought
Jewels works. s and
edeie champagne other feathers artificial flowers Peumer
cosmetics imported tobacco things
TO build the Panama another
estng commentary "cOst Of high living"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-22
GLOBE SIGHTS.

girl thinks a True Lover should put
special delivery stamps on his letters
Another trouble with a fast life is
the danger Of arriving at the end sud
denly.
Marrying for money and not getting
it must be about the worst disappoint-
ment-
It always creates 2 mild sensation
when an old maid fools people and gets
married.
Only a few people are lucky enough to
get what they want as much as half
the time
Those who have tried It say a vermi-
form appendix can hurt almost as bad
as a tooth.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-22

me LnAaLAOmeu Deep.
A muddy ssEetch OF shore; a cIouded
sky;
A crawling tide, vOiceless. opaque
and gray;
A blurred and sinking sun that
filings no ray
Of sanguine glory from its place on
high;
Landward an eastern wind and one
bird cry
All meanness, all dejeeting5 yet we
say
Some greatness saves it-takes re-
prOach. away,
For there. we know. the Unfathomed
Deep doth lie
So is our Iife-a poor and scanty
BREATH
A hating travail through a weary
land
Where goodness fails and evil
boldly tnriveS5
But 10; we lift our eyes, and there IS
Death
Enrolling all and straight we IN
derStand
Eternity makes great our little lives.
George Miner in the Living Age.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-22

at the links the other day.
1t was early in the morning-earl
enough to make the day a miracle OF
glorious beauty
hands of the middle aged woman
Swish, through the grass Travelled, not
so very swiftly, the ball she tried to
send flying.
Scat cried the man who played
with her, that's what 1 call a cat ball
And the middle aged woman laughed
and walked gravely to the place WnerS
the little white ball blinked up at the
early sun as if it shared a joke with
him, something about the middle aged
woman and the way she played golf or
tried to play it, I'm afraid.
Swish, clip, knock, the middle aged
woman worked seriously, and hello,
that wasn't such a bad drive, what:
Well, well, she may make golf player
after all
At II o'clock I saw the middle aged
woman going home
Dear me-" she said, I'm tired, but
it's a good tired I'm going home and
have a good rub down, and then il Will
be time Tor luncheon, don't you think? p
She rested ner muscles a little as she
stood for a moment at-the step. Her
face was burned, there were two wispS
OF nOndescript middle aged hair stray
ing from under her correct hat. Her
wrist hung as If IL was a little lame
but her eyes were very bright and her
voice was as insistently optimistic as
the robins who chiTped cheer, cheer
up from the tall maple. III be out in
the morning" she said, and with q
teuf, teuf, Of the motor horn she was
gone.
Then we all spoke at once
What fOr2' asked one woman
Never can make il in the world, q"
said another.
Trying to keep her figure said a
third.
Not a bit Of it, said the fourth
woman; shes trying to keep her hus-
hand. That's what do"
Her husband came the Mortified
and all too eagerly interested chorus,
why, is he-er-a-that is, movie
always seemed so-er-a-'
No said the last who had spoken
he isn't er-a-either now or any
time, but the same kind Of a husband
as mine, and mine is the best there is,
too.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-22
JOURNAL ENTRIES.
(TOpeka Journal

No human can get very far without
a little encourage
Nor is any man as good as he ought
TO be, regardless of his opinion IN the
premises
Some folk seem to have an idea that
a wedding IS a failure unless few
tears are shed.
If Satan did not invent whisky he
missed q golden opportunity to shine IN
his capacity as a trouble-maker-
Surgeons would even be more valu-
able members of society If they could
cut out the foolish IDEAS that obsess
most people.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-22
One-Sentence Philosophy
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York PreSs.)

REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press)
A 100! to know it shows much wis
dom
A man has to be exact about expenses
at home because he isn't down town.
A boy doesn't yell because his whal-
ing is hard enough to hurt he yells so
il won't be.
The reason a girl can be so cross with
her mother and father is she never is
with her beauX.
A woman's pretenses can be more
genuine TO her than a mans realities TO
him.
An Optimist is one who can fool him
self about a thousand times easier than
he can aybOdy else.
A woman with a new gown viii take
the same chances on rain that man
with some money viii on investment
A woman IS a hero to stand so
many Of them in her family.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-22
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
NChfca % News

It doesn't take very large trouble
TO worry a small mind.
It's easier to down some men than it
Is to keep them down.
Some candidates look around Tor an
issue in order TO dodge it.
The wise guy who knows it all is
usually the first to get stung.
II a young nan thinks girls piano
pfactlce IS music-that is love.
Ihe self-made man has an abundant
suppl! Of reverence for his maker.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-22
UNCLE WATTS DENATURED POEM
More Sunshine
By Walt Mason.

Old BIdad cheerful jay; the city
shine on his helpful for ALL
should all
For builds
pOttage. n
evil who has husband plant the apple and hoe
she's hust round by night and day keep the bong She works the
n
eeswas store and does his thinning and don't adnoe him much
labor The supplies tempting
gorify fe fifty lazy ginners.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-22
Living On 7c A Day

UsSIAN cotton operatives the for food
- Russia Is one of principal
manufactures still alive in the United States
that maintain that protective desirable The Russian
exists chiefly on bread vegetables half the calendar
church m these days meat butter other
food of origin The mills furnish bread and tea at low
Russian mills
with the demands abundant and wholesome food
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-22

It's all night T. protect tn farmer but
We shOuIdn' make him pay fer it ever
time he comes T. town. Tn hardest thing
about bein' a postmaster IS kiln tn
time.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-22
uation in the Republican party :

Of "Blan
be the
Hughes? would Hughes have
the states that hardly know him now?
Hughes Garfield had long
public national leader Hughess work has
esteemed and well thought of by
parties
"favOrite son. and elevate the other HarOn)
give would resulted from the choice Of vii
son by the Democrats
year" popular in his
Republican plurality
Both national conventions evidently open" the result
certain to very endo the ba1Otng
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-22

FL Paso county isolated and
definite adhered The
highway distance
until it crosses county to border
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-22
LINKED BY THE LINKS
May GOng With
WINFRED BLACK.

~ HE middle aged woman is learn
y ing to play golf. 1 saw her out
- at the links the other day.
The Washington times., 1912-02-16

Funeral services for George +. Max
field will be held from the home Of his
parents. 1l20 Prince street, Sunday af-
ternoon, at $3.50 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1912-02-16
v. C. T. j. HEADS TO
HONOR MEMORY OF
FRANCES WILLARD
Services Tomorrow At Capi,
tol Will Have Promi-
nent Speakers.

Lillian NJ. n. Stevens. national presi-
dent of the w. G. r. T., Anna A. Cor
don, national vice president, and Mrs.
Margaret Dye Ellis, national superin-
tendent of legislation for the organiza-
tion, will address the meeting in honor
OF the memory of Frances Il. Willard,
to be held in Statuary Hall in the Capt.
tol, tomorrow afternoon, at 4:S0 o'clock.
The statue of Frances Willard, the
only one of woman IN Statuary Hall,
the gift of the Illinois legislature, was
presented February II, 1905.
Chaplain Henry n. Couden, who will
open the meeting tomorrow with prayer,
performed the same Office at the dedi-
catory exercises seven years ago. When
the statue was received formal ad-
dresses were made by Senators Cullom
Beveridge. Hopkins, and Dolliver, and
Congressman FOss, Graf, Littleheld
Rainey and Brooks.
The Washington times., 1912-02-16
PLANNING
FOR CELEBRATION
Will Journey to Alexandria to Pay Tribute to Memory Of
George Washingon-Trp to Mt. Vernon In
Which President Taft Will Participate.

ginla, returned TO this city last night.
william B. McChcsney, who, for the
last two years, has held the office Of
grand master, has been succeeded by
Alexandria, was advanced from the Of
flee OF junior deacon to that of senior
deacon.
The sign language was brought into
play in the police court this morning,
was arraigned for destroying property.
When informed by the Justices agile
fingers that he would serve the next
ninety days in the workhouse, the
indicated how the sentence was re-
celved
A drill of Alexandria Canton, No. !.
Patrarchs Militant. was held in the
hall, on North Columbus street, last
night. 1t was reported that the COM
mittee on uniforms would report on
the bids offered at the meeting TO be
held February %.
Ten candidates from Fails Church and
two from Accotlnk will receive the first
degree of the order at next Friday, $
Injecting of Potomac Lodge of Odd Eel
lows. At tonight's meeting, the lodge
will confer the second degree on five
of its own candidates,
Commander II. Noel Garner has called
special meeting of NJ. ID. Corse Camp
Sons of Confederate Veterans, for mex,
Tuesday evening. at which time the an
| nual election of officers will be held
Funeral services for George +. Max
| field will be held from the home of his
parents, 1l20 Prince street, Sunday al
| ternoon, at $3.50 o'clock.
A civil service examination for a Clerl
| of the first grade will be held in thii
| city on March s, to fill the position o.
| Government storekceper gauger a
Abingdon, Va, at from 50 to s. day
I, Examinations for teachers i'll the Phil
| ippine service, at from $1,000 to 500
gear, will also be held on March j
| and H.