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They Were Once Slang.

II we had never allowed slang to
legitimize itself in orthodox language
where should we be today? A refer
ence to old slang dictionaries gives the
answer Take Crosses, published at
the end of the eighteenth century
the dictionary of the vulgar tongue.
by the first photographer who recog
nized the word slang" itself. We
find him CHASING under 1t such words
as bay window, hedizened. bet, blus
ter. budget. brogue. capon, grouse
churl, coax. cobbler. cur. domineer
eyesore. fabhy. fog. f1out. founding
fuss. gag. malingerer. messmate, saun
ter, slump. sham, rascal. trip and yelp
Wait until the next anti-slang purist
uses one Of these words and then con
found him by reference to Crosse
London Chronicle.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-21
NEW PARIS. OHIO.

NEW PARIS, Ohio, Aug. 21.-Miss
Glennah Taylor and sister Cohee, of
Campbellstown, left Tuesday for Hunt.
ington, Ind, where they will spend a
week.
Miss Alice WEIGH and Dorothy Arm
strong of Xenia, and Miss Marie Jonte
of Russell, Ohio, are the guests of S.
I. Horner and family.
The Misses Carrie Whitaker and
Nellie Mcneil we're the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Gus Hafner, in Richmond
Monday.
Miss Julia hartman returned home
Monday from Richmond
Mary Porterfield spent Saturday
night and Sunday with Miss Fay Hoff,
who is the guest of Mrs. c. H. Harris
Miss Fanny Penland is visiting
friends at Winchester, Ind, this week
Robert Boyle and Lee Thurston
spent Sunday at Chautauqua, Ohio.
Mrs. O. R. Davisson attended the
funeral of Mrs. Elliott at Richmond
Monday.
Miss Zella Whitsell of Richmond, is
the guest of Mrs Martha Laughlin
An indoor picnic was given Monday
evening at the home OF Mrs. Will
Wren in honor of Miss Fay Hoff OF
GAINESVILLE. Ohio, and Miss Lucille VIII
king Of Lowell, Ohio, the house guests
of Mrs. c. H. Harris Those present
were Misses Grace Wren, Mary Por:
terfield, Mary Hawley, Helen and Kath
crime Davis, Margaretta Horner, Ger
trude Hawley, Fanny Penland, Mildren
Campbell and Mrs. Shirley Rein
heimer.
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Collins had for
Sunday guests Mr.. and Mrs Clifford
kessler of Richmond, Mr.. and Mrs
Carl Reid, and Mr.. and Mrs c. R. Col
Inns, and Don HORNE and wife of New
Madison.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Brown of Hol
/ lansburg, Sundayed with Mr.. and Mrs
J. M. Barnett.
Rev. Scott of Dayton, preached al
the Presbyterian church here Sunday
The Misses Marie, Anna and Heller
and Edward Mcmahon returned tc
their home in Cincinnati, after a visit
with hteir aunt, Mrs. Mary Young
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Wenger and
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Daugherty an6
family spent Sunday with Mr. anG
Mrs. Bert Daugherty.
! Mrs. Devertt Hazeltine and children
of Richmond, spent Sunday with
friends here.
! Mrs. M. o. Penland and children re
| turned Friday after visiting in Dayton
and Jamestown.
Mrs. G. w. Richard and son Clifford
visited with friends in Glen Karn Sun
day.
| Mr.. and Mrs. M. A. Sullivan anG
daughter, Helen, Mr.. and Mrs. c. E
Samuels and daughter Grace, and Do
ma Morrison, returned home Tuesday
after weeks outing at the Chautau
qua at Franklin.
| Miss Pearl Barr and John WHEREBY
of West Manchester, were married las,
Wednesday at GLASGOW, KY.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-21
Thackeray's Favorite Books.

In her introduction to the Round
about Papers" in the centenary edition
of Thackeray. Lady Richie speaks OF
her fathers favorite books. Thackeray
had an old Montague, which he al
ways kept on the table by his bed. He
had second copy, still older, bound III
white vellum. OF the book shelves III
his study. Lady Richie cannot re
member that he had any particular
feeling for special editions. He useC
a cheap, battered old Boswell with dou
BILE columns. the companion with
whom, as he said. he could have beer
quite content to dwell for year upor
that problematical desert island. He
loved his Don Quixote.' He also likeC
his shabby. worm eaten copy of John
sons poets. They had been to Indie
and back, and bookworms are very
common out there" Millions sonne
to Shakespeare in Johnson's poets was
Lady Richie adds. one OF the las
things Thackeray ever read.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-21
WEAK, WEARY WOMEN
Learn the Cause of Daily Woes and
End Them.

.S0tb viz S~SSS W ~~'J ~'S
End Them.
When the back aches and throbs,
When homework is torture,
When night brings no rest nor
sleep,
Whom urinary disorders set in,
Women's lot Is a weary one.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for weak
kidneys,
Have proved their worth in Rich
mond.
This is one Richmond woman's tes-
timony.
Mrs. Rosa Brook, SIT N. D ST., Rich
mond, Ind, says: "Doan's Kidney
Pills were very beneficial to me and
willingly recommend them. | had
dizzy and nervous spells and my back
panied me. At night l was restless
and mornings felt tired. Doan's Kid
ney Pills fixed me up in good shape
and in short time I was WELL"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. -Milburn Co., Buffalo, N.
Y, sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
take no other.
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Learning His Fathers Business.


WHAT" exclaimed the wealthy
Cleveland papa who had put his son tt
work in order to teach him few
things. what? Fired after working
one week?"
Yes, dad; was discharged"
"IWhat was the trouble?'
.They said l was too green fol-
them"
"What was your mistaken?
IT paid bill the first time the col
lector calledv'
"Aha! And now you see how foolish
you were?"
Eyes. dad. Til never do it again"
my son, you have served your ap
premiership and learned your lesson
You may now come into the Office will
Plain Dealer.
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His Composition.

"Now, Johnny" said the teacher aft
or she had explained the meaning OF
the word. II wish you would write g
sentence containing the word defeat
After a struggle which lasted for abou,
twenty minutes Johnny announced
that he was ready to be heard. PLEASE
read your composition" the teacher di
rected. when you git shoes OATS toe
tite," Johnny read. Its hard on de
feet"-Chicago Record Herald
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Thankful For His Escape.

Thankful For His Escape.
tits useless to urge me to marry
you When l say no mean no."
"Always?"
"Invariably.'
"And can nothing ever break your de
termination when once you make VI
your mind:''
Absolutely nothing"
"Well, I wouldn't care to marry {
girl like that, anyhow. Tran
script.
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Very OBSERVING.

Muggins-Do you believe women are
more observing than men? Buggins-
Well. my wife met a friend on the
street today for two minutes. and ii
took her two hours to describe what
the other woman had on.-Philadel.
phia Record
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-21
Luminous Seas.

The sea Is often luminous on summer
nights because the phosphoric acid
contained in decaying jellyfsh, being
deprived Of oxygen. is converted into
phosphorus This unites with the oxy-
gsn Of the air and becomes lnsntnoua
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-21

the bluecoats were huddled. He trum
peted. The officers tried to get still
higher in the branches and just then
clangity-clang, came the patrol wagon
They don't have patrol wagons in
East Africa. 1t was a new one on
Nero. He cogitated for minute-then
he fled and was captured.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-21
seven YEARS
OF MISERY
How Mrs. Bethune was Re-
stored to Health by Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound.
Sikeston, Mo. - "For seven years I
suffered everything. was in bed for

AooI oT I'VE Gays at d
time every month,
and so weak / could
hardly walk. l had
cramps, backache
and headache, an d
was so nervous and
weak that / dreaded
to see anyone or
have anyone move in
the reern. The doc
tors gave me medi-
cine to easa ma at
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-21
Maan.

Mean.
"What did the lady say when you
told her I was out?''
"She smiled and said. fridays not
always an unlucky day."
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In so far as you approach tempta.
ton to man you do him an injury
and If he is overcome you share HE
guilt.-Johnson.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-21
Stoo Your Worry

II yen are inclined to worry today
stop and think of the worrying you
did yesterday and how little it really
amounted to.-Chicago News.
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No Taste For Them

mo a8to FOR Ih6Fn.
II notice that you always have a box
at the horse show. Are you a lover OF
horses?''
'Oh dear. not I'm a strict vegeta.
rian."-Chicago Record Herald.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-21
Bureau of Information.

Stranger-Can you tell me where
will find your bureau of vital Stats
tics? Farmer Brown-I kin give you
the village dressmaker's address. She
knows the age of every woman in
town-Lffe.
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Greenville Fair, August rs,
~, %, 20, 80. post
No Free Hand Drawing,

No Free Hand Drawing.
Son-Father, I've decided to become
an artist. Have you any objection?
Father-No. provided you don't draw
on me- Boston Transcript
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Thu Inevitable.

There is mo good in arguing with the
inevitable. The only argument avail
able with an east wind is to put on
your overcoat.-James Russell Lowell
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-21

The man who cannot forgive any
mortal thing is green hand in life
r. L. Stevenson.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-01-26
Tux ZVG Mz722E1
Z24IzET ./S>-
J2l[E2D

the burning of red fire" when Little Eva went to
heaven. Now behold elaborate systems OF
special lamps and colored globes that reproduce
the effect Of dawn, sunset twilight and moonlight
10 say nothing of the glare of the MONDAY sun.
And, as has been limited, all this challenging
Of nature costs pretty penny. Indeed, the mod
ern manager will often spend much a sin
gle production would have sufficed to pay
all the expenses of theater for an entire year
In the old times. An expenditure of 100000 on
painted canvas and tinsel and gilt and costumes
ia nothing unusual ere the public gets so much
as peep at the gorgeous array, and then when
tne manager undertakes to transport all this para
phernaha from city to city he finds that he must
needs charter special baggage cars, which adds
70 the expense Then, too much time is required
70 produce such stage pictures The player folk
and the opera singers enjoy long vacations in
the summer time, but the scene painters and the
property manufacturers and the costume max
ers are never idle. Why, only recently one big
nrm in New York spent three years in prepare
uon for stupendous stage spectacle and they
even sent their scene painters to the heart OF
inc African desert In order that they might study
the sand wastes they were to depict on canvas.
The painting of the scenery might be desig
mated the first step In the preparation for the
arical or operate production, as 1t Is, in point
OF magnitude, one Of the most important. The
biggest undertakings in scene painting those
~ preparation for productions of grand opera as
given in largest cities. The explanation is
smple-the grand opera house stages are so
much larger than the stages of ordinary theaters
OF auditoriums that infinitely greater expanses
ot canvas are necessary to I'LL the space. Why,
Just by way Of illustration 1t may be noted that
Ae painted palace which is so conspicuous in the
opera Aida" is sixtysix feet long and thirty-six
Ieet wide. The monster picture Of the harbor OF
'agasaki Japan, which forms the background for
scenes In the operate version of Madam Butter
ny measures 1900 square feet.
There are many preIiminaries. connected with
scene painting. for the managers and directors OF
opera and playhouses must approx of the de
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-01-26

manent communities. and could build
great communal houses and long sys-
TENS Of canals. we're by no means IN
tutored savages. Civil order and sub
mission to the viii OF the majority
must have been as well developed
among them al among US. Such a
view leads one to believe that, If only
we could trace it. the history Of the
primitive Americans would prove
quite as interesting, and to us possibly
more interesting than that Of the ear
~ oriental peoples to whom our schol-
ars devote so much time and our mil
lionaires so much money -Harper's
Use salt and water to clean willow
ware. Apply with bresh and rub dry
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-01-26
is HEAD OF POSTAL BANKS

Theodore l.. Weed, chief clerk of the
postoffice department and Postmaster
General Hitchcock's principal execu-
tive assistant in the management of
the department, has been appointed
director Of the postal savings system
at $4,000 year. He will assume his
duties Immediately.
The extraordinary development OF
the postal savings system caused Mr..
Hitchcock to organize special bureau
to take up the work.
Mr.. Weed was appointed to the gov
eminent service from Connecticut in
1898.
Mr.. Hitchcock predicts that before
the end OF the current fiscal year the
postal savings deposits will exceed
$s0.000,000 and that the sygtem not
only will be self-sustaining but
source of profit to the government.
Already the deposits have reached
total In excess of $15,000,o00
or the four important Offices that
opened for business August L last, Chi
ngt available afaffatfoa lad with danne-
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-01-26
Scientists Do Not Agree

Mexico, were not all inhabited at one
time, so they tell US. Most represent
more temporary stopping places where
migratory bands of people supposed
to have been ancestors of the Indians
settled for a few years and then
moved on. At the outside limit. so
say these Psychologists. the entire
population never amounted to more
than a few score thousands, whose
civilization was of the lowest and
most Insignificant type. Other stu
dents, fewer in number than the ortho-
dox school, hold that the majority nf
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-01-26

the ruins were all occupied at the
spme time and for century after cen
fury. They say that the population
Of the arid southwest must have
amounted to many hundred thousands
decidedly more in all probability
than the country supports today. Fur
thermore. if this were so. although
the type Of civilization may have been
most primitive compared with ours,
vet it was by no means 50 low as
that Of the modern Indiana. 1t must
have been Of the same grade as that
Of early Babylonia Egypt, Palestine or
Greece before tie art Of writing was
invented. People who could dwell
peacefully for centuries in large. per
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signs and color schemes of the stage pictures ere
the painters are allowed to proceed with the
ecution of the work. In order that his ideas may
be approved in advance the head scene painter
prepares preliminary sketches just as a portrait
painter submits rough outline sketch to give his
subject an idea of the pose he has adopted The
first sketch of a theatrical scene or drop curtain
is executed in water coors on a sheet Of paper
not onethousandth large the original will
be, but it nevertheless gives an idea of the
rangement and coloring and enables the director
to indicate to the scene painter whether or not
he desires any changes made in the plan.
With his water color sketches duly approved
the chief of the corps of scene painters proceeds
to construct a miniature working model Of the
which is for all the world like the toy theaters
that are the delight OF children, is big Inn
provement over the water color sketches because
it is in effect working model and not merely
smallscae picture. The latter would be all right
as a guide if the task in hand was the painting
of a drop curtain other fat surface, but
stage set" 1t will be understood comprises not
a uniform surface of that kind, but is made up OF
a number Of different pieces of scenery, Of diff
ferent types, which are to be placed on the stage
at different angles to one another. There is the
drop" or curtain which forms the background OF
the whole picture and there are also ceilings and
wings" and mayhap even make-believe houses
or trees to be set out in the middle of the stage.
Now it goes without saying that these different
units can be fashioned in proper relation 10 one
another only when the scene makers have tiny
fac-simile to serve as guide
There are two different schools" or methods
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questions would be productive of
THE countries
to find in France powerful auxiliary
results"
diplomats
labor In behalf
Like Mr. Ambassador" the President continued congratulate
States his adhesion
that application this
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-01-26
GOVERNOR ENGAGED TO MARRY

Robert Perkins Bass. governor OF
Hampshire, is engaged to be married
TO Miss Edith Bird, daughter af
Charles S. Bird Of East Walpole, and
a granddaughter of the late Francis
w. Bird. She is well known IN the
Norfolk Hunt club and for her exploits
in the hunting field. For the last two
or three years she has made her home
in New York. She is a brilliant con-
versationalist and young woman of
striking personality.
Mr.. Bass is the first public primary
governor Of New Hampshire. He was
nominated in 1910 over Bertram Ellis
Of Keene in a statewide primary in
which the old organization supported
Ellis and the so-ca1led Progressives,
who had grown up around the Win
ston Churchill candidacy, voted for
Bass. He was elected in November,
1910. He was one Of the speakers at
the recent meeting Of Progressive Re
publicans in fremont Temple, in Bos-
ton, With George L. Record Of New
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-01-26
S'"lde into Two Camps on the Cues
Ton Of History of the Earliest
Known Americans.

now long were the ruins of the
southwest Inhabited? and, how dense
SS the population In ancient times?
Solne Of the best Psychologists have
ss.'ongly insisted that appearances are
.,1iVing. The hundreds, and indeed
,l-'ousands. Of sites of ancient villages
- colorado. the Texan Panhandle.
elan' New Mexico and Arizona, as
H as in similar parts of northern
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-01-26

T is the beauty and
perfection OF modern
stage pictures. quite
as much as the art OF
the singers, the must
clans, the actors and
the actresses that
make for the enjoy
ment of present-day
entertainments. Yet it
is pretty safe to say
that not one in a hun
bred Of us who enjoys
an evening at the the
ater, the opera or the
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-01-26
FRENCH CHIEF WITH TAFT

President Taft's efforts to secure the
ratification Of arbitration treaties with
France and Great Britain was the spe-
cial theme of an official speech made
recently by President Fallieres at the
New Years reception to the diplomat
ic corps at the Elysee palace In Paris.
There was a large attendance of dip
lomats at the function, among them
being Robert Bacon, the American am
bassador.
Sir Francis l.. BERTHE, the British
ambassador and dean of the diplomat
&c corps, presented to the French ex-
ecutive the New Year fluctuations of
the foreign representatives. He de-
clarcd that he and the other members
Of the corps felt certain that France,
would continue to be a powerful aid
in every work having in view the
progress of civilization. He added that
this permitted the hope that the gem
erous initiative Of the president OF the
United States In favor of the extern
sion Of arbitration to international
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-01-26
WHO'S WHO AND VIII
i 49, ~ J Y ~ - z
NEW MAYOR ON THE LID

Corrupt and contented" no longer
describes the condition of Philadel.
phia. The new administration of May.
or Blankenburg is purifying the city
and vice is already on the run, seek
ing cover.
The other Sunday for the first tima
in 80 years the saloons of the city
were closed and ali of Philadelphia
from center to circumference was as
dry as bone. Not only we're the sa-
looms closed, but even the unincorpo-
rated clubs shut their doors, and the
various speak-easies, of which there
are more than 1000 in the city, were
in the main as quiet as a graveyard.
The few that opened were promptly
raided. The doom Of the speak-easies
has been sounded in Philadelphia, for
not only is the administration opposed
to their existence, but the brewers and
licensed saloonkeepers are also max
ing war on them and soon their names
win be only a memory.
But the reform administration OF
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-01-26

moving picture hall ever bestowE a
passing thought upon the time and
work and money that is represented
by the setting OF a pleasing
scene" Yet it is in this rather
than in any other phase OF the en-
tertainment world that we find ths
evidence of twentieth century prog
ress. Our grandfathers and our
great -great-grandfathers may pos
sibly have seen acting, as good as
any we may witness today, but as
suredly they never beheld the
make-believe stories enacted before
such marvellous backgrounds.
II is indeed fer cry from the
days of long ago when the player
folk, having no scenery whatever,
peries and common boards, to the
current stage spectacles wherein 1t
puzzles the spectator to determine
what is real and what is artificial.
Yet as a matter of fact, modern
stage scenery, for all that 1t is so
important, is only one of several
factors in the creation of the mas
terly stage pictures OF this age.
Quite as important are the proper
ties, the furniture, the art objects
and the thousand and one other
things (not painted, but really which
have places in the stage counter
ieits of gardens and palaces and
temples and prisons. Even the light
ing facilities play an important
part. Possibly you can remember
the time when the only lighting eff
fects In the theater were found in
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-01-26

ergey Governor
the the vceednta nominee on the
Republican
and president Of the New
small
brother John
Bass Robert Bass borD
Harvard the class Of 1896
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-01-26

Bankenbug
under the Fully 600
a
who depvng them they consider
Philadelphia
n morally.
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464 and St Louis fourth With $119606
establish
that moneyorder business
The Delta independent., 1912-06-07
TELEGRAMS URGE TAFT NOT
TO VETO HOMESTEAD BILL

Citizens throughout the West are
up in arms against the proposed ac-
ton of President Taft in vetoing
the homestead bill. Reports have
been received that Secretary of the
Interior Fisher is urging the veto
Of the measure, and yesterday a per
soual message was sent to Preident
TAFT, filing a protest against such
action.
james T. Macy, Chas. NJ. Kruger
ard Ben B. Jones sent the following
telegram to the president:
Reported here Secretary Fisher
is urging veto three-year homestead
bill. Citizens of all public land
states are unanimously in favor of
said law and pray that you will not
veto this wise and benificient legis-
lation ON recommendation of east
ern people, entirely iHnorant of westt
ern conditions and needs. This pro-