Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 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-
tertaInlns ls Again Being Dis
cussed In National Capital.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

BY GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington.-The campaign which
is 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
ship many women high In official and
social life The Woman's Antt-Food
Trust league has Mrs. J. B. Hender-
son. wife Of former Senator Aender-
son of Missouri, as president
Among other reforms the members
OF the society pledged themselves to
abstain from purchasing meat This
will 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 is served.
+ The Henderson home is always
spoken OF as Boundary Castle, as 1t
Is just beyond Florida avenue. the for
mer boundary line of the city. and It
Is perched or top OF Sixteenth street
nil. Mr.. and Mrs. Henderson have
built 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 a member. The guests poured
into the cutters of Sixteenth street
the priceless wines from her cellars,
since which time she has stood tor
total abstinence as well 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
Used.
Mrs. Henderson several years ago
put her ideas into a 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 a
candidate for the presidency OF the
United States, is also a member OF
the organization, as Is also Mrs Mary
8. Lockwood, who Is prominent In D.
A. R 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 Tor
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.
the diplomatic set to the continental
Sunday" and that was the wife OF the
former Norwegian minister. Nine.
GUIDE, who established In the Nor
xegian legation a strict observance OF
the Sabbath day. She neither accept
cd nor extended Invitations to festivi.
ties on Sunday.
It 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 H. Gallingcr of
New Hampshire was born in Can
ada. where his mother and father
were Sorn before him. The fact did
not prevent Mr.. Gallinger from intro
ducing a bill In congress for the erec-
ton 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. Miller's charge on bat
terry, and his capture thereof. IL mem.
captain. but the chances are that most
Americans remember neither his title
nor his first name. but know him
only as I'm Try. Sir" Miller. When
Miller was asked II be could charge
and take the battery his answer was
.Iu try, SIR" and the answer has
stood him as front name ever since.
1t may be that some of Senator Cal.
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
Pollceman's Woes.
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