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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-02-02

Brooks comet is moving towards
the sun, induced no doubt by chilly
feeling.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-02-02

Arabs in Tripoli who killed Italian
wounded soldiers were not bidding
for gentle treatment.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-02-02

Now the fur overcoat begins to stir
uneasily amid it's moth balls.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-02-02

In one city in Connecticut boys are
taught cooking in the public schools.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-20
coLoRs

~ HE old idea that the delights OF
colored raiment were suitable
tor only the young 10 one Of :hs
many superstitions that have now
gone into the melting pot. We know
now that only youth ran NJ 9rd to n
n drsary gowns anG som' Or shades.
Youth supplies its own ,olor In the
shape Of bright eyes ..nd glowing
cheeks. but when the light Of the
eye grows dim and the rose on the
cheek fades the color must be sough
elsewhere. When the hair turns gray
Or white, however. along with other
changes. this rule does not hold so
strictly. Such hair has 4 wonderfully
softentng and Frightening sfIsct-as
our ancestors recognised. subcnn-
scsously. when they poxds,ed thsir
tocks--and often makes somher at
tire possible. Black and gray ara
very beautiful with iron gray hair.
but while the hair retains t. natural
color black is seldom possible for the
woman past her first youth While
that enchanting color. gray. can s.
worn only II II Is Frightened u s.
some way. as with touch OF blue
and gold embroidery. The idea that
the dignity Of age calls for sod-coi.
ored rsament II quite exploded.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-20

than she IL. II she will let her hal,
% past 20 also. and has cared for II
we'll. brushed, washed and looked aft.
er 1t, what. matter that 1t is streaked
with gray or is beginning to turn
She may be far prettier that 1t is SO
women who grow better looki 81
they grow Older are by*no means un.
known. and gray hair Is very becom.
Ing.
To b. more than 40 is to havs
enormous, compensations for net bs-
Ing 20. II = woman did but know It.
With increasing years she has aad
experience. Is more interesting. has
more 70 talk about. and knows far
better bow to get what she wants.
She =, In 4 word. more attractive. :.
except TO y0ungstsrs. and even With
them IL tt riot prov3rbiAi that youn1
mans first love Is always for an old.
er woman?
> But 1t 10 not merely because she II
more than 10 that sho Is Charming;
1t IL because from the preceding years
she has gained, good and wisdom, the
knowledge Of hQN to make the best
Of everything. including herself.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-20

DESIGN
BY AGNES AGNEW.

TT HE story OF lae corsage 10 indeed
an interesting ofs.. Tor, dssixu-
Ing the various beautiful orna-
mentations for this vital portion al
the costume is a science In itself.
Those who are engaged in this
work must have a practical knowl-
cage OF art: they must know color
and the combination Of colora: they
must take into consideration all the
peculiarities OF the various figures
II Is necessary At, and they must
be thoroughly convarsant with ma
serials, textures and trimmings.
Knowing these things, the design
er sets to work. b aim bein the In.
PRODUCTION OF some new touch, some
clever trick OF style that will give
Individuality and extreme beauty to
ths uDDsF portion Of nnffady's gown.
OF course. the cut 81 the de-. ollet-
age decides % : certain degree how it
shall b trimmed. There are three
essential VAN 10 cut out the neck
Of gown and any other style will
only 81 . deviation OF these lines
namsly. the point or v. the square.
ana tbs roundlng.
This season will see corsages Of the
most 0lmy texture, even II the other
part Of the gown 10 Of plain heavy
material for with the high waist tine,
which necessitates q short line and
little material in the bodice. one can
take all sorts Of liberties with the
corsage decorations.
Lace and insertion. combined with
chiffon, mousseline dc sole and nets,
form the basis OF the corsage on many
model gowns. Shell-pink chiffon
cloth II frequently used for the 'ininx
OF gold and silver laces and lilet nets,
which. In turn, are incrusted with
jewels or edged with jewellsd gal
lO0ps.
Very often the trimmtng Of the
cOrsage ID carried over the Shoulders
and forms the sleeves. These. ~ thu
way. are often conspicuous " thar
abscsnce: = band, crossed ribbon
or nero -un Of tulle II al that Il
required
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-20
THE WOMAN OF FORTY
Can Retain Her Charms By
legitimate Arts.

WI HAT pity that 20 many wom-
\" - dread growing old, and
what greater pity that they
ever allow themselves to get into
middle age without becoming more
attractive with every year. As a
mattsT Of fact. a woman is never
more charming. more interest nz.
and-eGaln TO use the word-more
attractive than when she gets into
middle aEs and beyond. II onl she
VIII keop herself fresh. On the 9TH
q hand. there Il nothing worse than
the "kittenish" woman, unless It b
Z sloveuiy elderly one.
u u . curious thing to observers
tnat tie average woman, at the very
time shs cost needs the aid OF legiu-
nsts arts and graces to render n.r
.phyGically attractive. becomes care
less Of them. There In 90 much that
u appealing about youth and its
fresAnsss that minor details then are
For example. . pretty piquant girl
G. 10 may have frowsy hair without
dstractang from her powers Of At
efaetaoa. Ffowa3 hair In woman
q % = crime against womanhood,
Tor such . woman Is made by her
head - look Older, careless and alto
gothsr unlovely. 1t 10 . fact, and an
unfortunate one. that a middle-aged
woma0 who takes care OF all the MI
nor details OF personal appearance Is
The exception. Instead OF trying to
1sAke herss1f look better. she allows
hsr0sIf = look worse. which Is suff-
c1e4tly illogical 70 b thoroughly
6antnlno.
NJ Gans-mipded person can call the
- " 4yes and cosmetics making 4
WD0Aa, look better. unless she 10 be-
A1n4 tn footlights. In truth. these
DAlDGb5o ao-called aids are him
1fADcQo - wosDe. There ID nOthing
1ogD eoellaat than : woman whose
0nolS1lno1 ~ wT1nkied face pro-
G1a1Um h1e ~ ~ past 20 and whOss
~ ri = tslght ehagtnut, owing 70
~ mnoN9 Gv0A TIE hair - - much
2m0o1 thAn tAe face II frames that
i enot - sDpears ever olday
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-20

n HE prettiest Of the new couture
ornaments are undoubtedly the
mock peacock's feathers. dyed
In pearl-gray and white ana biscuit
color and white, the eye Of the feath.
or being composed Of tiny massed se-
quins shading from deep peacock
blue to pale turquoise or from purp;e
to lilac. Frequently these feather
are actually designed to match ~
gown which they are 70 accompa ~
bsing varied to suit ~ faste 81 IS:
wearer, while tiny rosette with !
jeweled center holds them II plaea
among the soft curls Of the coiifurs.
Bunchss OF dyed clipped vuitures.
SoatAeeS are usad Il . great exten4 -
cot6urs ornaments. tAG somewhat ~.
compromising stj3nboe q theDo being
aoftene0 by means Of tho lovely
shades ~ which they Aye d4slensd. !
little circular decoraGioa n, the torn
Of : coiled snake giving the llnishing
touch
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-20

NsNW 80 -
% ANplAVA - aCw - eneIeaIs
ID nole - ooanscs.oa xita sven.
us to.s.t Inss t1o w0sase
no W. NV ~. - 80 !oo.s xiM 49,
scesatsc. put - s.ssI e Isct;
sas ssssses som.S - : sHeN 9,
oanueaux ana u I".ys Glao 70 aoo
ano.neI 20 ner coaiection 81 coinure
o.na"sn.s: ~. paI.iculasy y sue can
"aAe ~ WIN nel own n.nos.
One novelty 10 0andsaux -
broken wreath OF loops OF knottsd
ribs interspersed with ARTIFICIAL green
silk leaves. The right side and 1T
this circle tApers sharply into point
Of twisted ribbon ana tho left SIC
terminates with = ciuseer u long
knotted loopes.
Suggestions Of tho Egyptian type
Of hair ornaments - noted - The
bandeaux made q gole ~ atveS RIB
bon sewn with MISUNDERSTANDING
the jewei-coiorsd Dteree4 ottttta1te---
and maAe high - ~ ~ 80 -~sea, =
half circle Of jeweieA nppon support
ing . fan aigrette q ostrich sptrals-
4 variation Of this neAAeenx 1Aoxe
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-20
A Convenience.

IL Convenient to have ON hand 4
supply OF paper and string. A hold
er for these may l., made from half
yard Of denim or any suitable ma
teriai. Turn the cloth the long way
Of the goods and double over the bot
tom until within about nine inches
from the top. Stitch thu part Aouble
over. 70 - TO make three pockets. 4
large one In the middle for paper ana
small one on each side. ono for
string and one for heavy Irvine.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-20
Fry Round Steak.

To try round steak and make 1t
tender cut each piece the desired size,
pound It . little. then dip each piece
In beaten egg. then In rolled crack
er crumbs. fry until brown on both
sides. season after removing from fry
ing pan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17

the conclusions he had already reached a system of distinct value.
 I. wonder today how many readers of these lines have also read Edwin Brood It Is possible. of course, to be lover of certain works of Dickens without tackling the mystery; but 1t is not possible to be student of Dickens or lover of the author himself and not follow him into this last, and, unhappily, incomplete TO- nance. I should like to stir everyone to read it, or even to re-read it, and then to judge between the latest expositor and all who have preceded him in this field.
 The essential facts may be thus re- stated:
 Two young people, Edwin Brood and Miss Rosa Bud. children of the ancient city of Cloisterham, have been fore ordained by their departed fathers, who were bosom friends. to wed each other. Droods uncle and guardian, leading chorister of the Cathedral, and opium victim. has a fierce passion for the girl, and she instinctively dreads his approach. Brood, however, is too shallow and con ceited a youth. despite many good quail ties. to suspect his friend, whom he calls Jack, and the rest of the world, MT. Jasper
 When Brood disappears his body is not found, but certain of his trinkets and be- longfngs are discovered in the river. A
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This endowment scheme was sugges- ted in "The New Machiayelli' In rather an unpleasant fashion, but lately work
 ed out finely by that brilliant Ellen Key in her Love and Marriage"
 This mental dynamite has been drop ped in the Great State camp, and has evoked Cicely Hamiltons essay on Wo- man in the Great State. l do not know why this lady was selected by H. c. w. to> handle woman's attitude toward the Great State, for her grievances against man seem to be vexing to the point of seeing red. He would much better have enlisted for his undertaking Ellen Key, Olive Schreiner, or even our own Jane Addams. Yet with all of her bitterness. that her American sisters in ten states have already secured the ballot. Refer- ring to the clamor for equal suffrage, she says: "One realizes the difficulties of so complete change not only in the attitude of man toward woman, but in the attitude of woman to herself. Two of these difficulties at the present day loom omlnously; the economic and the sentimental. The Great State, ono supposes. would deal trenchantly with the first-the economic - difficulty; even it's sourest spinster would not need to starve. But the stodgy mass of false sentiment on the subject of sex ual relations and children that has come down to us through the ages-the glerification of motherhood however compulsory however stupidly unthink- ing-that is more insidious and more
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17
DICKENS UNSOLVED MYSTERY-By George Eaves D. D.

book is a splendid scientific justification of it. He studies afresh the literary methods of Dickens, accepts Edwin Brood as the masters reply to critics who accused his plots of being too sim pie to deserve the name of plot, sets down external and internal evidence plainly side by side. and remorselessly eliminates theories which cannot stand the tests he applies.
 In the first place. external evidence supplied by Dickens's daughter and his son-in-law, and by the artist who was illustrating the story. shows that Brood was dead. Internal evidence points over whelmingly in the same direction. It Is amazing that for 30 years the Proctor theory should have been so generally ac- cepted, if 1t was accepted, by the mass of Dickens students. More than once Dickens himself asserted that Brood was dead. and Dr. Nleoll regards that ques- tion as settled.
 But who was this quaint, white-haired Nemesis, watching and waiting in Clois- terham and keeping score on the inside of his cupboard door? Could he of the large head and enormous shock of white hair, which he so often shook like a big dog. and walked uncovered by any hat, be a 1.-the young girl7
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17

State where the price of buckwheat or heefsteak or tomatoes shall be uniIn- portant.
 Yet somehow at this moment, looking out on the world as it is, those best gestures of our social life seem vitally important to me Deep though we may be flung in the Servile Life there re- mains so infinitely much to be done in the matter of relieving distress, heal ing the sick, and on the whole making society fit and wholesome as we can. that the appeal of the Great State can- not come as an especially eloquent ap- I,eal. The act of accepting aims, let us suppose is a servile thing, as indeed 1t is; in the Great State We might sup pose it would be criminal thing. Yet the finest thrills to be won while we live are the thrills that come from service; in the Great State man will miss those thrills. for none will there be who need service there will be only ones self to serve. There will be one's own concept of life to shape into splendid reality ie one pleases, with long and pleasant leisure for the shaping. That Indeed will be sweet and fine if it come to pass that all tears shall be wiped from our eyes. But is not this of ours at least Great State in embryo, here where We are at least privileged to do good to those who are not so well?.. For the Great State as take it will be one in which all are intelligent and striving. with no particular necessity for work any more than for play-indeed the ideal anarchy where none shall be un- happy save of his own choosing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17

ular reward for service, nor prizes to be won for ,excelling. We are led by the delightful MT. Wells to suppose that after strict and careful trial of socialism the races of men will be irked by the re- quirements of a social state whose chief requirement will be life of self-imposed service for the state
 And this superimposed order of to- day. such as 1t is,' he declares, with its huge development of expro- priated labor. and the schemes of the socialists to fix this state of affairs in an organized form and render 1t plaus- ibly tolerable. seem doomed to catas- trophic tensions. Bureaucratic schemes for establishing the regular lifelong subordination of a laboring class, enli- vened though they be by frequent in- spection, disciplinary treatment during seasons of unemployment, compulsory and a cheap and shallow elementary education, fail to satisfy the cravings in the heart of men..... The drift of any Servile State must be towards a class revolt, paralyzing sabotage and a general strike"
 This is curiously true, that until men are freed absolutely from the stress of life that mpels social swinishness, we cannot get very far toward any sort of social righteousness. Clearly mers money getters cannot be made gods in the twinkling of an eye any more than thistles may be made to yield figs-any more indeed than we can leap all at once from our Servile State to the Great
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17

It is a fine and brilliant scheme MT. Wells has worked out, and throwing down of the gauntlet to the Fabians. l am curious to know what great guns and rapid-fire artillery MT. Bernard Shaw will level at the Great State camp
 The fault of Mir Wells. and the fault of many other idealists, however, Is that they see men as rats and mice and with all of the little and vicious na- lures of rats and mice.
 His vision of woman emerging as a cit izen of the state is but casually loted. though his opinion of her as a political and social factor of the future is thor oughly given in his First and Last Things" His last word Is in part:
 'The whole spirit of the Great state.e he says lis against any avoida- ble subiugation; but the whole spirit of that science which will animate the Great State forbids us to ignore wom- ans functional and temperamental dif- ferences A new status has still to be invented for women, a Feminine Citizen ship differing in certain respects from the normal masculine citizenship. It's conditions remain to be worked out. We have indeed to work out an entire new system of relations between men and women, that will be free from ser vitude aggression. provocatlon, or par asitism. The Public Endowment of Motherhood as such may perhaps be the first broad conception of the quality of the new status."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17

suggestive interview between Jasper and an official of the graveyard of the Cathedral indicates quiclllme as a means of obliterating human rsfnains.
 Everything points to Jasr as the murderer, with infatuation (. Miss Rosa as the motive, and the disordered mind of the opium smoker as the vicious, ex-' planation of the crime. But suspicion is made to fall on a young man narhed Neville Landless. who had auarreled with Brood. Landless is arrested and dis charged for lack of evidence, but Jasper haunts him and so diverts suspicion from himself. Brood goes to London to study and, if possible live. His sister follows him, and apparently devotes herself to the task of lifting the terrible gloom which has settled upon him through the suspicion that he was the murderer, and especially through the feeling that he is being inadvertently watched.
 Shortly afterwards a new character appears in Cloisterham, an old gentleman with masses of white hair, but with black eyebrows, who takes up lodging in the home of the Cathedral verger, close by Mir. Jasper's dwelling. It ultimately ap- pears that MT Datehery, the aforesaid white-headed arrival in Cloisterham, keeps a peculiar score on his cupboard door, after the manner of tavern keep
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The most convincing argument in the case must be the elimination of all other possibilities, and to this task pr. Nicoll powerfully addresses himself. The most attractive rival, the Bazzard- Datchery theory. is shown to rest at last on few phrases which have the marks of a false trail, intended to puzzle the reader. Baz- gard is a queer and inconclusive person indeed utterly different from Datchery, and without known motives for following the criminal. The girl, however, becomes more and more evidently indicated by the author when once the reader has her suggested to his mind. She is the de- voted sister of the suspected Neville. an accomplished actress, unafraid, with a great love for Miss Rosa, the object of Jasper's hateful attentions. Certain curious sidelights are thrown by the critic on the central situation. as for in- stance the curious fact that Dick Datch- cry keeps his hands unostentatiously out of sight; that the shaking of the head is a woman's way of seeing if her head dress Is secure and side by side with this he sets Dickens letter in which the writer expresses the greatest admiration for Mrs. Oady) Bancrofts impersona- ton of boy, which he closely studied.
 All this Is circumstantial, problematicai
 and to many 1t win be unconvincing. But
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17

of government and society need in, any
 way unsex woman. I do not believe, as did the glorious Clemintina In Mir. ". L Lockes pretty story, that most women wear thelr sex, as a millstone, hung about their neelks." We have no real cause to suppose. nor has Cicely Hamilton. think. that because the state looks with 'sen- timental eye on woman" there can be no hope for release from her bondage; and just what the lady defines as '.the stodgy mass of false sentiment on the subject of sexual relations and of children and of motherhood" I am at loss to conceive. Indeed. out of a world that is all too tiled with sham and humbus we had come to believe that these natural emotions be- tween man and woman were the things we could least dispense with-the things that were n O false and sickly imagin- ings And yet 1t may be that the par tlcular woman who bears children for the race and concludes that she is no more than breeding factor for the race. is for her part, no more than that We usually measure pretty well np to the mark we set for ourselves. I find.
 When we have fully entered into the Great State of indeed we ever get past this Normal Social Life) I suppose we will also be past all snarling and oiut- ter over the sex question. This fear that generous and limitless love between man and woman will be somehow scotchsd when woman thinks and acts on larger and liberalIer lines for the sake of the race, is mere bogie talk kept alive by the fat-minded fraternity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17

A LITTLE group of thinkers in
 "A England have compiled a vol- 4 ume under the title Socialism and the Great State" That master wri- ter. MT H. G. Wells, who discusses equally well Martians and Men, princes and beggars, contributes an introduce tory essay. It is perhaps the meatiest publication of the twentieth century. not because of any new announcement it brings, but for it's assembly of facts regarding mans behavior on this plan ct It is sort of counting of his steps rom the jungle 10 the cleared space in the jungle, from the cleared space to the matched hut, from the matched hut to the community life, from the community life to the urban center. It is q clever tracing of mans path from d state of savagery to his last civilized gesture, and a quite serious examina- ton into the progress he has made and is making toward what MT. Wells terms the Great State
 This state is a sort of super-socialism "a greater social life which will not even admit of necessity that man shall be his brothers keeper The so- cialism of Marx and those later schemes of the Habians with their visions of the ideal social life is, according to these preachers of the Great State, no more than a sort of wayside inn wherein the marching men may take their rest for a while-a place where the least shall be as the greatest. and where there shall be no caste any more, nor partic-
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CTS. and that his unconscious client is MT. John Jasper. There the fragment ends, withs an intelligent understanding between MT Datchery and the old bel dame who has on several occasions sup piled MT. Jasper with the place and ma terials for an opium carouse.
 am aware that this summary Is all too incomplete, but so Is the fragment. There emerge, however, two problems: CD Did Dickens intend to bring Brood back, or to make him irrevocably dead? and @ Who was Dick Datchery?
 2 To the first of these questions early criticism was inclined to echo Proctor's answer; Brood was not dead. and the climax of the story was to be his emerg- ence among the living. Proctor was the creator of that school of interpreters. But since 1905, when J. Cunning Walters is- sued .'Clues to the Mystery Of Edwin Drood." and identified the white-haired Datchery. evidently "a detective and an amateur, with Helena Landless, sister of the suspected Neville Landless, there las been a storm of disputaton, over 15o books and pamphlets on the subject hav- ing been issued,
 Dr. Nlcoll considers this Identification ''one of the most brilliant conjectures or
 dentifications in literary history" His