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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-04-19

Miss Porsena of Foozleum,
AS oft she'd done before,
Sent out a call to play at bridge
Sent out from door to door.
She sent the invitations
And named a trysting day,
She babe her messenger go forth
East and west and south and north
And summon to the fray.
Horatia came to visit
Horatia knew few games;
She knew some of the picture cards
And knew some of their names.
She thought the queen of diamonds
AS cunning as could be
And said "Since you've the party planned
I'll sit right down and take hand
And play at bridge with thee"
Then outspake Mrs. Lartius,
A woman proud was she,
With manner grand: 81 take hand
And play at bridge with thee"
And outspake Mrs. Slammer,
OF bluest blood was she:
Look to your hand, for 1t takes sand
To play at bridge with me-"
The four sat calm and silent;
Miss Porsena she dealt;
Horatia opened UP her purse
None knew how cool she felt.
She took the first trick gayly
And jumped a joyous jump,
Then carelessly flung down card
And asked: what was the TRIUMPH
She outplayed Mrs. Lartius,
And exc the Slammer dame,
Referring to the book of rules
To see about the game.
She won all of their money
And rose from where she sat
And said she must be going
For she must buy hat.
Miss Porsena of Foozleum
She gasped in sore dismay,
The Slammer and the Lartius danes
Cannot forget that day.
! With signing and with wonder
Still is the story told
How Miss Horatia played at bridge
Until her feet got cold.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-04-19
Cleansing With Care

AT Riverdale on the Hudson there
is an old family mansion which was
vacant for number of years and
finally was leased for a girls school.
Putting the place In good condition
was serious task. The new mis-
tress demanded perfection in, restor-
ing the beautifully carved woodwork
to its original state and was especial
ly anxious to preserve the pure gold
overlay in the drawing rooms. 1t was
shockingly dimmed and she gave
strict orders that the workmen
should not attempt to clean it except
under her personal supervision. Then
she hied her to one Of the best soap
manufacturers in New York and told
him, 81 wish to buy case of soap
that will not injure the finest painted
complexion" No hint did she drop OF
woodwork. The chemist provided her
with a "savon' guaranteed to have
more than human intelligence in dis
eliminating between dirt and cosmet
les and to leave the latter uninjured
by its application. The result today
Is dainty colonial drawing-room OF
ivory and gold which is credit tc
both present and original owners
New York Press.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-04-19
Faithful Gellert AGAIN.

A dog pa SEE is endowed with intel
ounce the same as human beins IL
if we Civ them creddit where creddit
is due we will soon varify this CRATE
& sollem trooth witch was the reeson
why he tride to proove to ma that
fathfie Gellert could understand evry.
thing that was sed to him
we was all sittin in the liberty and
fathfe Gellert was stretched out in
frunt of the crate with his he'd on
his paws when pa begun talkin about
how intelgunt the dunn brutes RELY
are and fathfle Gellert looked up in
pas face and wagged his tale
thare pa SEE don't that show that
the intelgunt beest understands that
/ am talkin about him?
am frum missoury ma sed latin.
very we'll pa SEE will proove my
theory Gellert go out in the hall &
bring me my umbrella.
Gellert looked at pa agen and wag'
ged his tale sum more
go out in the hall and bring me my
umbrella pa sed reel stern and faith
fle Gellert wagged his tale sum more
agen
mebbe it Skes time for his intel
ounce to understand wot you meen
ma sed
Gellert did you heer me pa asst go
out in the hall and bring me my UNI
brella but Gellert shut his eyes and
quit Vaughn his tale sum moar
then pa sed we had to be pashunt
with the dunn brutes witch had not had
our advantages and so he took Gel
lert by the collar and stood him up on
his legs and pointed to the hall and
sed it all over agen and Gellert licked
pas hand and wagged his tale and
lade down agen
go out in the hall pa yelled like he
does when he is mad, but Gellert had
his eyes shut
mebbe you otto talk to him In dog
grel ma sed latin hartily
then pa grabbed fathfie Gellert &
thru him out in the hall and put him
out in the yard & Stand the dore and
come back and sed he thot 1t was time
for me to go to ged
& after while ma let fathfie Geller'
In & give him bole of milk.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-04-19

Miss Ruth Russell and Mr. Charles
Bennett had arrived at a point. Miss
Ruth was eleven years old and Mr..
Bennett was two years older when
their fathers quarraled about ques-
ton of chemistry or Jurisprudence or
something or other, and the boy and
girl used to make up faces at each
other over the line fence.
The professor would not admit that
under any circumstances could he be
wrong He had gone over the ques-
ton, whatever 1t was, hundred times
and he could not find any flaw in 1t
on which to base a change of opinion.
Bennett bigoted ass and drop his
acquaintance.
Judge Bennett hadn't had to turn
the question over in his mind. He
knew he was right from the start, and
he knew the professor was wrong. On
most any other question he would
have given up but on this-never!
There was no open hostility. It
was simply understood that the prin-
cipals and their families avoid each
other altogether, and that the Ben
nett goat and the Russell dog should
not cross the line between the two
estates. When the gentlemen met
there were two cold and distant bows
nothing more.
It's only natural philosophy that a
girl of eleven and a boy of thirteen
may make up faces at each other at
that date, and yet at nineteen and
twenty-one be in love with each 9TH
er. 1t worked out that way in this
case. Until they were actually en-
gagged neither one seemed to remem-
Der the arrangement between the
fathers. Never since the misunder-
standing had one father spoken to the
offspring of the other. In fact as the
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-04-19

years drifted past the boy and girl
drifted out of recollection. Now the
young folks were engaged and had a
nice little rumpus ahead of them.
my father will never consent" an
nounced Miss Ruth.
Nor mine either
"Oh, if they only had not quar-
reled!"
But you see they did"
How will you ever go to my father
and ask his CONSENT"
L don't know. He will never give
it,"
Never, but I must ask him If he
refuses me your hand We shall have
toto"
Commit suicide." finished Miss
Ruth.
Young Mr.. Bennett was deeply in
love, but he wasn't going to shuttle
off the mortal coil until he had tried
various other ways and made failures
OF them. He drew long breath
braced up and set date to face the
lion in his den, and when the hour
arrived he was there
Charles Bennett, err" replied the
professor, without looking up.
yes, sir
"Any relation to Judge Bennett?"
isis son, sir"
Eli, what! And you come to me
and ask for Ruth"
I'VE love each other, sir
but your father is a bigot sir--s
bigot and an asst"
And he says the same of you sir!'
He does, Ell? That shows he /,
worse than thought him. You ma,
retire, young man. have alread!
selected husband for my daughter
Then followed an interview will
Miss Ruth. 1t didn't last long. It al
most began and quite closed with tn
father saying:
Ruth, it's time you were thinking
of marriage. I have selected a hus
band for you
but ! wont marry him."
81 think you will"
Il know won't I'll commit suicid
firstl"
The lovers had a talk about tn
changed condition Of things, and afte
eliminating every other course the
settled on e'opement. Elopements ar
always in order as last resort Their
was nc hope that the father would r,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-04-19
noted CAFE CLOSED
New Orleans Health Board Or
ders Resort to Suspend.
Every Tourist Who Has Visited
French Quarter in the Crescent
City Win Be Grieved to Learn
Restaurant Is No More.

rew Orleans-Mme. Begue's restau-
rant-that delightful old place just
opposite the French market in New
Orleans-has been ordered closed.
Not only has 1t been ordered closed,
but the order came from DIR. Oscar
Bowling of the state board of health
And unless Papa Begue obeys the
demands of the department, the
Crescent City will lose one of it's most
famous landmarks, known to tourists
and epicures throughout the civilized
world. Doctor Bowling AYERS the place
has been weighed in the sanitary
scales and found wanting.
Until her death, October 20, 1906,
Nine. Begue, dark, short, plump and
smiling, was the presiding genius Of
the Begue establishment. Her expert.
ence and handicraft created the dish.
es which remain sacred in the mem.
DRY of every guest. Since her death
Papa Begue has conducted the rendez-
vous for tourists.
Located in the darkest, dirtiest,
noisiest quarter of New Orleans, al.
most part of the stir and chaos of
the French market, the food bazaar
of bizarre food became known to tour
lists as the Begue Exchange.
Breakfast at Begue's was an eight
or ten course meal which began at II
o'clock in the morning and continued
until o'clock in the afternoon.
Three hours of cuisinic medleys;
three hours whiled by the babel of
foreign tongues; three hours of fun,
of eating, drinking and smoking.
The meal fascinated and satisfied
from its beginning of French bread
and wine to the strong coffee and
cigars, and not until the time had
nearly expired did one wonder that
the Begue Exchange served only one
meal day.
Time and prosperity did not enter
into the fashion and furnishing Of the
Begue Exchange.
One of the most interesting fea
lures of Begue's was the trio Of reg
listers. Many and many a widely
known name is written on these
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-04-19

thumbed pages. Henry Irving, Ellen
Terry, Marion Crawford, William H.
Crane, Joseph Jefferson, De Wolf
Hopper-these are only few taken
at random.
In Eugene Fields handwriting is
the following:
I'm very proud to testify the hap
piest of my days is March II, '95, at
breakfast at Begue's. Eugene Field.
Selma Fetter Royle turns to Scrip
ture and writes:
20 Lord open thou our mouths and
our lips shall show forth our praise
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-04-19
SCALES ALL OVER HER BODY

ALLOW me to say few words in
praise Of the Cuticura Remedies.
About three years ago, was affected
by white scales on my knees and
elbows. I consulted a doctor who
treated me for ringworm. l saw no
change and consulted a specialist and
he claimed had psoriasis. l contin-
ued treatment under him for about six
months until l saw scales breaking
out all over my body save my face.
My scalp was affected, and my hair
began to fall. then changed doctors
to no avail. l went to two hospitals
and each wanted to make a study of
the case and seemed unable to cure
1t or assure me Of cure. l tried sew
eral patent medicines and was finally
advised by a friend who has used
Cuticura on her children since their
birth, to purchase the Cuticura Rem
edies. / purchased cake of Soap, the
Ointment and the Resolvent. After
the first application, the itching was
allayed.
Il am still using the Soap and ONT
ment and now feel that none other is
good enough for my skin. The pso-
riasis has disappeared and | every
where feel better, My hands were so
dishgured before using the Cuticura
Remedies that had to wear gloves
all the time. Now my body and hands
are looking fine" (Signed) Miss
Sara Burnett, 2135 Fitzwater st., Phil
adelphia, Pa, Sept. 80, 1910. Although
Cuticura Soap and Ointment are sold
by druggists and dealers everywhere,
a sample of each, with 32-page book.
will be mailed free on application to
"Cuticura," Dept. L, Boston.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-04-19

The "change of life is a most
critical period in a woman's ex-
istence, and the anxiety felt by
women as it draws near is not
without reason.
When her system is in a de-
ranged condition, she may be
predisposed to apoplexy, or con-
gestion of some organ. AT this
time, also, cancers and tumors
are more liable to form and begin
their destructive work.
Such warning symptoms as
sense of suffocation, hot flashes,
headaches, backaches, dread of
impending evil, timidity, sounds
in the ears, palpitation of the
heart, sparks before the eyes,
Irregularities, constipation, vari-
able appetite, weakness and
inquietude, and dizziness, are
promptly needed by intelligent
women who are approaching the
period in life when woman's
great change may be expected.
These symptoms, are calls from
nature for help. The nerves are
crying out for assistance and the
cry should be needed in time.
Lydia E. Pinkhani's Vegetable
Compound is prepared to meet
the needs of women's system at
this trying period of her life. 1t
mvigorates and strengthens the
female organism and builds UP
the weakened nervous system.
1t has carried many women safely
through this crisis
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-04-19

IhsAe-~0Ias>G1
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-04-19
City La Old Name.

Kansas City.-The city of Kansas
City, Kan, was once the town Of Wy
andotte. The natives had a clever
way of saving time by writing It
"Y&."
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-04-19
Comparative Values.

my wife can make tart reply"
my wife can do better than
that. She can make a pie speak
for itself"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-04-19

Nothing jolts an egotist like the re-
fusal of people to pay any attention to
him.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-04-19

Garfield Tea, for the ills resulting from i'm
pure blood, is a remedy of tried efficacy.
Drink before retiring.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-04
JOHNSON WEEDS WHITE GIRL
Gets $4,000 for Moving Pict-
ures of the Wedding.

Chicago. Dec. 3.-"Jack" Johnson. negro
pugilist, this afternoon married Miss Lu-
cile Cameron, aged nineteen, the white
girl of Minneapolis who recently appeared
as a witness against him before the fed
eraI grand Jury which returned indict-
nents charging him with violations or
The Mann act The ceremony was per
formed at the home Of Johnson's aged
mother. on the South Side, by II. A. Rob
crts, a negro preacher. in the presence
of a dozen negroes.
Miss Cameron wore a talor-madc gray
suit OF shepherd plaid and large black
picture hat with purple plumos. johnson
had a suit OF the same material especially
made for the occasion.
curious crowd of nearly a thousand
men and women gathered outside the
house, and a squad OF police was kept
busy maintaining order.
The marriage will not affect his case
before the federal court, according to
Johnson's attorneys.
The prizeighter said moving picture
concern had agreed TO pay him 5000 to
make a film of the wedding.
Chief OF Police McWeeny declared that
IL legal means could be found he would
not permit public exhibition OF the pict-
ures
1.-The whole affair is antagonistic to
public policy and morals generally" said
Chief McWeeny.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-04
WILLIAMS TALKS AT YALE
Says Day Of Individualism in
Journalism Is Past.
Inv Telegraph TO The Tribune.

New Haven. Dec. 3-Talcott Williams,
director of the Pulitzer School Of jour
nalism. delivered to-day the first of the
two lectures on journalism annually pro-
vided tor by the Bromley endowment at
Yale University. DIR. Williams spoke on
Journalism and the State"
After paying tribute to the career
and work OF Isaac II. Bromley. the
founder of the endowment, he said, In
part
Education, legislation and public opin-
ion are to-day each concerning them
selves not with editors or newspapers,
but with the whole fabric OF the periodl-
cal press, daily, weekly, monthly. Laws
seek 10 regulate its advertisements and
10 secure publicity for its ownership and
circulation. The public has awakened 10
The publc relations of journalism.
Journalism and the state have taken
the place OF journalism and the indivio-
nal Journalist. The public or readers mas
grown. Public knowledge OF indiViduai
Journalists is less. Journalism began IN
the utterance OF the individual; ~ 10
and function. directing and rejecting, al
fecting and expressing the body polite.
journalism has become the organized
social consciousness OF the community as
knows itself as a Republic. able to act
ne one. In the newspaper the state
knows itself as a public able TO feel, to
he Instructed, TO be led and, In time 10
register the opinion and will OF the pub
lie in the laws and elections, OF the state
century The editor or journalist was the
newspaper. In the last fifty years the
newspaper has had a life apart from any
journalist or editor.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-04
TWO SHORN OF SAME WIFE
Bigamist's Three Husbands Re-
duced to One by Court.
fBy Telegraph 10 The Tribune

Albany, Dec 3.-Joseph l.. Tracey, Of
Schenectady. and George II. Reader. of
this city, met each other for the first
time to-day I'm the chambers OF Justice
Chester of the Supreme Court. They are
two of the husbands Of Veva l.. Porter
who. when arrested here two weeks ago
for bigamy, attempted suicide by jumping
in front OF an automobile. Each wanted
his matrimonial bonds severed. Justice
Chester annulled Tracey's marriage, and
granted Reader a divorce. Miss Porter
was represented by attorneys, but made
no answers TO the complaints.
Reader told of his marriage to her IN
March. 1911 saying that he lived with
her "on and off, until last July Tracey
said that he married her last August, and
that she left him six weeks later. He
declared that she told him he was getting
"a true gifl' just before the marriage.
Edward l.. swazey. of this city. who IS
under twenty-one years of age, Is an
other husband Of the woman, having mar
ried her in Troy. twenty days after
she married Reader. He has taken no
action for an annulment
Miss Porter is described as an attrac-
tive girl.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-04
In Spite of Discussion,
Home Hospital Continues

The association boasts that the Home
Hospital is a genuine example OF "ade-
quate relief' which many preach ana few
practise. The Stransky family came from
squalid, half furnished rooms, aud all
their worldly possessions were not enough
to make the home comfortable In spite
of this painful lack OF the luxurics OF
life the number OF youthful Stranskys
kept increasing faster than papa Stran-
sky could buy beds TO go around. In her
earlier youth the sixteen-year-old daugn-
ter had slept on cot, but as the de-
scendants of the house OF Stransky in
creased she had been driven TO get what
comfort she could out of nights spent on
two chairs. The hospital provided good
iron beds. with mattresses and blankets,
for the stranskys, and when the tribe
arrived they were dazzled by the unex-
pected luxury.
The magnitude of the blessing did not
dawn upon them. They thought it
loan which would be withdrawn when
their own belongings arrived. Dreading
the evil night when she would be Obliged
TO return TO the solace OF two chairs, and
wishing to make hay both by daylight
and when the moon shone. the eldest
daughter prepared for bed at once and
announced her intention OF staying there
so long as the beds remained,
Even when a gift of furniture is not
included the wonder of the apartments
themselves Is almost too great to be easily
grasped. Fireproof floors, a warm tan
in color, curve into the baseboards, with
no cracks or corners for dirt and germs;
inviting white porcelain baths in soIid
cement base, having no space underneath
to defy a careless broom; long, broad
windows, divided into three sashes, allow
ing varied means OF regulating the cur
rents Of fresh air; walls tinted in va
rety Of soft pastel shades; cement hoored
balconies. wide enough to nold a conf
Portable cot; metal lined, ventilated clos
cts, large enough for a garbage pail ana
few scrubing brushes, set into me
kitchen walls-all these things are appre-
ciated by the families living in the hos
pital.
Their families eager acceptance OF ana
quick sdaptabilty TO their changed sur
roundIngs are not at all what would be
expected by those persons who consider
typical the oft repeated story of tine
family which used the bathtub as re-
ceptacle for coal In New York city a
bath tub is not to be had In every tene-
ment. and. moreover, ii is a luxury that
makes itself apparent In the amount Ok
the rent bill. Consequently, those VINO
do not wish 10 use a tub in the usual way
are not likely to pay additional rent TO
save the cost of a coal box.
In the case OF the Mooney family how
ever, appreciation raE TO an extreme.
They moved in at $50 ''clock one after
noon. and kept the bathtub-the first
they ever had.-in constant use, taking
il turn about, until the middle of the
night, when they were too weary for
further ablutions ana retired TO seek
well-earned rest.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-04
An Attempt to Prove That
tuberculosis Can Be
Cured in a Home
Scientifical.
ly Run.

The Home Hospital continues to be the
centre OF hotbed Of discussion as to the
pros and cons of scientific housekeeping
for consumptves in tenements.
Germs blow about so I'm the wind,
says the timid lady who lives In the
house opposite, but the employees Of the
hospital will emphatically assert that nc
germ, be it ever so lucky. can escape the
strict discipline of the place.
Then skeptcal lady who lives in the
Junior League House. almost directly
across the way in the other direction, as
serts that II is scandAlous the way the
patients keep their windows closed.
Fortunately this astounding observation
was made to some one who knew the
methods employed by Miss Smith, the
nurse in charge and the scandalized one
was Informed how the watchful Miss
Smith had a habit OF going out just be-
fore bedtime and looking up at the win
dows to make sure that her open window
laws were obeyed. Later the lady Of
the Junior League House admitted that
she had been looking at the wrong house,
being under mistaken impression as TO
which was the hospital
The Home Hospital, which occupies the
house at the northeast corner of the
group known as the Vanderbilt Terements,
was opened last summer. II is an ex-
pertinent in sanitation, intended as a
demonstration that tuberculosis can be
cured at home provided the home is a
clean, we'll ventilated place. The advo-
Gates of this doctrine have such implicit
faith In II that they consider the success
OF the experiment a foregone conclusion.
But its opponents regard the whole move
ment as one which may distract the at
tention of the public from the crying need
for more hospital beds.
Until the New York Association for I'M
proving the Condition OF the Poor, which
is back Of the experiment, succeeds In
demonstrating its theory or is defeated in
the attempt. few periodicals will have the
temerity to prophesy as TO the outcome.
Announcements we're made OF the innoya-
ton when it was begun, and the subject
seemed to drop out Of print. as it were.
This Is not At all the same thing as
slowing up its activity, however, and the
care OF the twenty-three families in ner
charge keeps the superintendents hands
and brain busy, and, it must be con-
fessed, frequently gives exercise to her
risibilities as well. Everybody engaged
in social work knows that for the sadness
and the misery the social worker comes
in contact with she is rewarded and
the tension is relieved by che most
Unexpectedly funny things. The case
OF the Stransky family is one in point.