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Evening journal., 1912-01-13
SUFFRACLTTES
AFTER SUPPORT
AT ASSEMBLY Y

Continued from First Page.)
Japanese lanterns drew very few away
from the pretty and picturesque ball
room scenes.
supper was served about 1890
o'clock, the individual tables and buf-
fet being decorated with pink carna-
tions, narcissus and fern. Hoxter was
the caterer. Wilmington concerns be-
ing employed in the dining room and
for the music. furnished by Robinson's
Orchestra.
The ball was closed by a cotillion,
exceptionally pretty in its fancy fig
ures and in the Partisan favors held
by the dancers. Heads of rabbits and
ducks, mounted on green-frilled sticks,
hand-painted silk panels, paper para
soils, ash trays, and tissue-paper caps,
were the favors.
Hosts and hostesses at dinner pre-
ceding the dance were Mr.. and Mrs. II.
T.. Brown, who entertained the follow
ing guests at the Country Club: Mr..
and Mrs. Irenee DUPONT, Mr. and Mrs.
Francis |. dupont, Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
dupont, Mr. and Mrs. Felix DUPONT
Colonel and Mrs. r. G. Buckner, Miss
Christine Fritz. Miss Katherine Tall
man, Miss Ethel Tallman, Miss Mar
garet Barnard, Lieutenant Morton
Poole, Eugene dupont and Willard
Hall Porter.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Burling Thomp-
son entertained sixteen guests at a
delightful dinner at Brookwood, III
honor of their daughters, Misses
Mary and Katherine Thompson. Mem
bers of the receiving party, and Carlos
Mayer and DR.. Ward Brinton, of Phil
adelphia, were among the guests.
Harry G. Haskell was host TO forty
dinner guests at the Country Club, the
guests wearing their mask costumes
Mrs Frank l. de Almond gave
dinner for Miss Sophia Norris, of Phil
adelphia.
out-of-town guests at the Assembly
were;
Miss Elizabeth Amory, Of Philadel
phia; Mr.. and Mrs. j. Amory Has
! kill. of New York; Miss Haskill, OF
New York; j. w. Donaldson, Mrs
Martin Griffin. Of Vancouver, B. G.
w b. Sturgis. of New York; Miss
! Edith Riker of New York; DR.. Ware
| Brintou, of Philadelphia; Carlos May
! er. Of Philadelphia; Df. ana Mih
John McF Bergland Of Baltimore
Md; Miss Mary Breta Bergland, o
Baltimore. Md Edward S. Perot, o
New York; Richard Sellers, of Phil
adelphia: Henry Cohen of Philadel
phia; Frank Watkins, of Wynnewood
Pa; Clement S Bunting, of Chester
Pa; Miss Sarah Lee Perot of Nonk
ers. n. "; Miss Margaret Mel. Wat
kins. Of Wynnowood, Pa; Miss kath
crime Oakley, of New York; Miss
Helen Corbit Perot. OF Germantown
Phila.. Mrs Joseph Wood Miss
Wood. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles w Cul
len. OF Georgetown, Del; Miss Ger
aldine Emory, Baarton Fox, of Louis
Vile, KY; w. S Carpenter, Mrs. Pills
bury, Mrs. William II Hay. Miss
Phoebe Wetherin. of Chester Pa.
Miss Mary NJ. Stablor, of Sand,
Spring. Md; Mrs. Higginson. Of Bos
ton, Mass; Richard Ward, r. Godoy
{. Miss Nina Mercur. Miss Cramer, o
Charlotte, n c.; Mrs. Walter
Mitchell.
The assembly committee include
Mrs. Henry b Thompson, Miss Am
dupont Mrs. Felix dupont. Harry G
Haskell and Harlan G.. Scott
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THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
Trade Better Than Bank ClearingS
and Railroad Earnings Indicate.

Trade Better Than Bank Clearings
and Railroad Earnings Indicate.
Dun's says that trade is better than
some of the usually accepted symp-
toms seem TO indicate.
The business outlook is better than
Is Indicated by the current statistics
of bank cloarings and railroad earn
lngs Clearings this week decreased
outside New York 30 per cent. from
last year and s from the year preced-
ing, while in New York there were de-
clines of 4 and % per cent respecti-
vely. and railroad earnings for De-
rember increased only 3 per cent
But these figures are completely over
shadowed by the significance OF the
favorable developments In the iron and
steel and dry goods trades. These de-
velopments are in the line of progress.
sive improvement. In dry goods, while
the movement continues on a con-
servative basis and with an absence 81
snv speculative expansion, there is
nevertheless q notable influx of buy
ers from all parts of the country ano
both the domestic and export demand
for cottons is good. The woollen anC
worsted business is also IN an en-
couraging state. Reports from thf
iron and steel trades are almost sel4
sationai IN their record of expansion
Ala unified business of tbQ leadinl
A. dlicer r5parted Ia .9Ce''sa5er show
ING not only the largest gain in an,
one month on record but making
total larger than At any timS In nearl!
two wears.
Evening journal., 1912-01-13
SIMON WOLF CLUB
TALKS NEW HOME

The Simon Wolf Republican Club
will meet in the Fraternal Building,
Eighth and Orange streets, at ?
o'clock tomorrow afternoon, when
business Of Importance viii be con-
sidered. Several speakers will ad-
dress the members and their friends.
One subject to be considered will be
the establishment of a new home for
the organization. Tho organization
also intends to give all assistance
possible to unnaturalized citizens to
secure their papers for them.
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NORTH END BALL A SUCCESS.

Nearly a thousand persons attend
cd the annual ball Of the North End
Club in Turn Hall last night. Bird
and Edwards Orchestra furnished
music and dancing was indulged in tc
the small hours of the morning.
Tho committee that arranged for
the affair was comprised Of Joseph d
Hall, chairman; James A. Kelley, sec
retary and treasurer; William ID. Nor
row, Cecil r. Recder and Joseph Fen
ton, Walter w. Talley. master OF
ceremonies. James Sweeney was floor
manager with Daniel p. DuRoss, ]
Thomas Hall and Harry MacDanieI
as his assistants.
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RESIDENTS WANT
CORNER FOR PARK

While no mention was made at the
City Council meeting on Thursday
night relative to the proposition to
purchase for park purposes the site
upon which the burned building of
the United Leather Company stands,
at Fourth and Monroe streets, it is
understood that petitions are being
circulated by the residents Of that
section of the city and many are
signing them. The site is looked
upon with favor and It is expected
that something Will be done shortly
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WEEkLY BANK sTATEMENr.

BY The United Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1S.-The weekly
bank statement shows the following
changes.
Excess cash reserve increase. S5,-
3326O0.
Loans. increase S39,9S2 600.
Specie, increase Sl4,43S0OO.
Legal tenders. increase S3,035,0OO.
New deposits, increase S46.29S 600
Circulation, decrease S150,0OO.
Total loans, $1.920,O37 600.
The surplus of the banks ic S29,-
O5S $50 as compared with S27S1S,350
year ago and S22,416 800 two years
ago.
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LASCAR SAILOR DIES.

Awang Ban Aliiiabas, one of the
four Lascar sailors taken to the State
Quarantine Station at Marcus Hook
from the British steamship Karema,
and supposed TO be suffering from
beri-beri. die dyesterday and was
buried in the graveyard connected
with the station Il is impossible to
determine with any degree of certain
ty the real cause of the seaman's
death, but in all probability it was
caused by cold and exposure incident
to the Karema's stormy passage. The
other three seamen are improving.
The quarantine officials have decided
to take another seaman from the Ka-
rema today, who will be held for OBJ
servation. The dead sailors home
was in Calcutta.
Evening journal., 1912-01-13
Our Great Combination Offer

The FARM JOURNAL has now four
million readers. II is the best farm
paper I'm America, and It pleases the
women-folks an to pieces. We have
made special arrangement with the
publishers by which you can get the
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FARM JOURNAL for five years, both
for $500 which is the price OF our
paper alone. After January 81, l8l2'
we cannot do this. Send order with
Evening journal., 1912-01-13
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL

BY The United Press.
NEW YORK. Jan. 1S-The stock
market opened unsteady. prices
changes being divided between gains
and losses.
IL oclock-Towards the end of the
first hour the tone was easy with
specialties showing pronounced
strength. Government bonds un-
changed; other bonds steady.
+. ID. Lackey and Company say;
THE market shows little more
strength than for the past few days,
and the short interest is very large.
that It leads one to expect the next
movement of consequence to be on
the up tack"
c. 7. HrNson and Company say:
"The c9alers- will continue the
leaders for a time. although we would
not follow them up. Buy only on
drives"
Evening journal., 1912-01-13
PERSONAL.

d. II Roberts, a well-known singer
Of New York city, is visiting his sister,
Mrs Benjamin Green, who is in in
this city.
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M rt .SSlFN

<cSrNa Sf1S WorIb IKE no cor.
respond with young lady % 70 % years.
Impossible TO receive answers later than Mon
day January 22d Address The Evening
Journal Office g. d. F. J.. j13-6t
OST--A RAZOR ON SATURDAY MORN.
l. ing probably on West ST. between Del.
Ave and Fifth St. Reward il returned 20
r A. this office. i13.1t
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a.,srtsd daily Dy F. d. Laeksg q
ce bankers and brokers. memosrs
phi,adeiphia Stock ExchanEe. SN
MARKET ST. ..o,-a
Evening journal., 1912-01-13
IN MEMoRIAM.

Millions use Gold Medal Flour.
LUCRETIA.
Evening journal., 1912-01-13

had long conferences there with
President Taft regarding the various
inquiries into dynamiting matters.
They will appear before the Federal
Grand Jury here before returning to
Los Angeles
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Fraud on the Watermelon.
the Philadelphia Press.

From the Philadelphia Press.
The condescending foreigner visiting
our favored shores has often ventured
to wonder at the native Partially for
the watermelon. An experimental in
diligence in a segment Of the spherical
fruit has evoked an expression Of dis
appointment. The fame Of the deli
cacy is universal, but the luscious
promise of the roseate pulp is not al
ways fulfilled by the flavor Conse-
quently the condescending foreigner
advances the theory that the water
melon is not only an acquired taste.
but probably is an endowment of the
native born.
Watermelons lovers may hereafter
commend the cOndescending foreigner
to partake of the artifically favored
waiting. Out in Injianny, the home of
James Whitcomb Riley, growers are
playing tricks on the unconscious
Watermelon. By means of a syringe
they are making hypodermic injections
of fancy sirups into the stems. This
favored strip is assimilated by the
growing melon, which falls victim
to the dope by yielding its own flavor
to that which has been surreptiOusly
administered to the unsuspecting vege-
table.
But, oh, what a prospect! When the
customer asks for watermelon and the
waitress glibly enumerates the f1avors
of the day the transaction will be like
that in an ice cream parlOr or at a
soda water fountain. Vanilla is report
ed as the fiavoring that the watermelon
best assimilates. That circumstance
raises q doubt as to whether the eX-
pertinent is worth much alter all. As
between the natural flavor Of the fruit
and diluted vanilla. no one but the
understanding foreigner would prefer
the vanilla dope.
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To Reform the Calendar.
from the Philadelphia Inquirer.


1t is surprising that such conserva-
tive body of men as the International
Congress of Chambers of Commerce
should go on record as unanimously in
favor of reform of the calendar. Many
suggestions of the sort have been made
for many years, but we believe this is the
first time that Endorsement has come
from what may be called representative
body. Fortunately the plan is a simple
one and calls for very slight readjuSt-
ments. 1t is simply to drop New Year
day from enumeration and call the I'd
of January the 1st This leaves four
quarters of ninety-one days each, save
in leap year. when the odd day is also to
be omitted from enumeration and called
simply leap day." It is proposed to
make it come after the last day of June.
By this method there would be two
months of thirty days and one of thirty
one days in each quarter. But the great
benefit is in the fact that in every year
the same day of the month would fall on
the same day of the year. This would
be valuable in fixing holidays. although
in the reformed calendar the days might
not fall exactly to suit all concerned. In
business circles the plan is accepted
with enthusiasm, because the present
calendar entails an enormous amount of
work in calculating interest. One thing
that does not seem to be considered is
that inevitably there is to be a loss of
Sundays. The first week Of the year will
be eight days long. as will be one in
June every four years. This is certain
to upset the religious calendars, and from
this source no little opposition may be ex-
pected. Beneficial as the plan seems to
be to the business world, much friction
as it would save in many ways, the world
at large is so conservative that there is
no reason to suppose that it will be adopt
ed until there is a very different state of
public opinion from that now existing.
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Easier Loans for Farmers.

u rom harper = weekly
We have not observed ii single really
hostile comment ON the plan TO set up in
this country banks and loan associations
Tor the farmers on the model of those
now in successful operation III Germany
and France. ON the contrary the idea
seems To be welcomed by all classes. q All
classes. apparently, are disposed TO agree
that the farmers ought Ia re enabled 10
borrow money more easily and on better
terms 1t Is suggested. too, that the gov
eminent ought TO help III the plan. and
even this feature OF it,has not as yet pro-
voked any audible opposition.
Here is evidence Of general good will TO
the farmers. Possibly the very great rise
in the prices OF farm products should be
taken as in part explaining the universal
readiness To make farming more nd more
attractive, but we do not think the feeling
On the subject is mainly selfish. If il We're
Il would work out differently. II would
work out vindictiyely. not benevolently
People do not hold the farmers RESPONSE
bic in any culpable way for the rise in
he prices of what they have 10 sell The
: st of us do not envy them the pros
terity that has come to them this au-
tumn. 1t is not regarded as Injurious 10
other classes. but the opposite. We want
It TO continue and are willing to help
make IL continue.
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Word for the Oyster.
the Providence Journal.

From the Providence Journal.
When the Lancet representative Of the
medical profession of Great Britain, says
anything good about anything. it is lis
tened to with emotions of mingled sur
prise and respect. Some one has re-
marked that every time he picked up the
Lancet he discovered he was doing some
thing right along. or taking something
that was surely killing him. 1t has a
good word for the oyster just a the time
when that apparently innocuous edible is
exciting the scrutiny of our always fever
sh advisers. the psychologists. This
distingu' shed. IL usually alarmist author
ity declares that the oyster is tonic
of the first order. and a complete food,
most beneficial to weakened patients and
those in whom appetite is deficient
Clinical results of a most favorable ma
ture are reported where oysters are given
to persons suffering from tuberculosis. If
oysters are indicated for the diet of per-
sons in the state described. they must be
wholesome for the rest of us.
There was never any doubt about this,
of course, before nervous psychologists
sought to fill us full of fear instead of
oysters. He was brave man who first
ate one raw, according to the philosopher
of the breakfast table; and now the bac-
teriologis.s challenge our courage The
Lancet's commentator should hslp to
sustain timid souls at this crisis.
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Grumblers!
from Leslie's

We are all natural-born grumblers
From childhood to the grave We look for
the few things that are wrong and forget
the many that are right. When We are
strong and healthy we offer no prayer of
thanksgiving But let us have an ache
or pain, cut finger or sore thumb
and hear the walls of distress.
We expect to be healthy. happy and
we'll We feel that that iS an inheritance
to which we are entitled. So We think
nothing of ii. But how we magnify our
little troubles.
We forget that if we inherit health so
We may also have an Inheritance of suf-
fering. If We have days OF sunshine we
must also have days of storm. If We eX-
pect to enjoy happiness We must also
anticipate hours of pain. If We have
joys we must also have SORROWS
We never voice contentment. We al
ways proclaim our discomfort. Hear the
cries of unrest by those VINO magnify
their grievances acainst the present or
der of things. This has much to do with
the clamor in favor of upsetting our es-
tabished form of government and trying
experiments. costly, unnecessary and in
many instances foolish.
The grumblers are responsible for the
unreason. discomfort and unbe .ief that So
widely prevail 1t has been so always
from ancient biblical times to this So
called new century of progress
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- YER the affairs of the National
Guard of the District Of Column
bia there hangs Thanksgiving
holiday lull. The past week
was one of the most quiet the
brigade has ever seen, and mad IL not
been for the drill at Fort Myer. to ~h1ch
members of the LIST Infantry and the Isl
Separate Battalion were invited. it wouio
have been almost uneventful. Lieut.. Col'
Almon L. Parmerter, adjutant general
has left the city for Norfolk, where he
will Join Col. Ourand and Col. Harvey at
the annual meeting of the National
Guard Association. The sessions of the
organization will continue until Wednes-
day night.
The I'd Infantry. list Battery Field Ar
tillery, and Signal Corps Company
National Guard of the District Of Co
lumbia, will be the guests at Fort Myer
next Friday night. Officers of the brig
AIDE staff will be the personal guests OF
Col. Joseph G. Garrard, 18th Cavalry,
commanding Fort Myer.
The question of reserve corps is
agitating the War Department. and the
brigade headquarters. A copy of 1t Will
be sent tomorrow to commanders of all
organizations for expressions of opinion
The letter follows:
81 am directed by the Secretary Of War
to inquire:
Whether there exists in your state any
system of reserves which will provide
trained men to raise the organizations
of the organized militia to war strength
should they be called out by the national
government, and if so to inform this
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Danger in Slums.
'hicago Tribune

From the Chicago Tribune
Children work out their destiny along
the lines of environment II two in
fants. one born I'm slum howell and the
other in palace, were exchanged on the
day of birth, each would work out his
destiny in accordance with his surround
ings. The child of the howell would grow
up to the palace. The child of the palace
would remain on the level of the slum
hovel.
While a noted physician was making
these statements before a body of learned
colleagues, jury in Chicago found three
boys. aged consecutively seventeen eight
cen and nineteen years. guilty of murder
and convicted them to long terms in
prison. The slayers We're all slum prod
ucts. Their youth saved them from hang
ing.
Society cannot afford to wax senti-
mental over a murderer because of his
youth Its duty. in self-preservation, is
to inf1ict punishment part of this self
preservation duty, however. is to pre-
vent the growth of murderers. In so far
as society allows slums to exist and
other degrading influences to be fOstered
il is not without responsibility for the
criminal
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office as to the details of such system.
Twill YOU ascertain. if possible. and
inform this Office what would be the
effect on enlistments of the establish
templated term of service with the
colors and an additional term of service
in reserve. with the understanding that
only in case of war. or an occasion re-
the United States in national emer-
gency. would a reservist be called into
active service
AS a preliminary step toward providing
the two local regiments with the requi-
site number of sanitary troops. following
the field service regulations. assignments
of members Of the present Hospital
Corps have been ordered by head
quarters The regiments will eventually
have twenty-four men attached to the
regimental inf1rmary. with an organiza-
ton similar to a company of infantry.
The men assigned by the orders which
will be issued tomorrow, will form a
nucleus for the new organizations.
The men assigned to the LIST In
helm Fennel; private, first class, Harry
c. Arnold; private, first class. Roy A.
Sommers. and private, first class. NJ.
Lawrence Turner. These men will report
to Maj Romolus A. Foster, Medical
Corps, for duty.
To the I'd Infantry the following have
been assigned: Privae, first class Fred
Davis: private, first class, Warner l..
Wilmeth. and private. first class, James
Milford. The men will report to Capt.
A. B. Bennett, jr., Medical Corps, for
duty.
First Lieut. Herbert J. Bryson, Medical
Corps, and Capt A. s.. Bennett, jr.,
Medical Corps, will be detailed as re-
cruiting officers with the list and I'd In
fantry, respectively. so far as enllstments
for the Hospital Corps are concerned.
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Open Air Schools for Children
Now Running in Washington

two years ago at the Blake School, the
children in the Stevens open-air room
were selected from all grades. About six
teen of these youngsters, all of them be-
low par physically. make up the class,
though it is expected to grow to about
twenty-five.
Though it is too soon to show any def
mite proof of the advantage that the pu-
pills Of the open-air class at the Stevens
School have derived from this treatment,
a general survey Of the class is most en-
couraging,' said DR.. Murray recently
I'm preparing for this fresh air class our
first step was to purchase the blankets to
be wrapped around the feet and limbs
Of the children in such a manner that
they are practically sitting in wooden
bags. A cup Of cocoa and bun served
to each pupil at certain period in the
morning is another protection against
the cold that is naturally penetrating
when one sits still for any length of
time. So far these two precautions to-
gether with regular intervals of physical
exercise. are the only advantages we have
ben able to provide for the children
ut is my expectation, however, within
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TIVE fresh afr crusade that has found
it's way into the public schools OF
the country is now to bring Wash
ington to a place beside those other large
cities possessing open-air schools. Quite
recently, as an experiment that is expect
ed to bear practical results. an open-ai1
class was established in the Stevens
School. ~.
Through the6chool fund Of the Associated
Charities, obtained by the collection of q
Thanksgiving offering of the school chill
dren blankets and other necessities have
ben provided. To DR.. Arthur l.. Murray OF
the District health department falls the
work of investigation. Examinations OF
the children and tests of their heart
lungs. ETC., have already been made. and
though Dr. Murray has found 1t little
too soon to make comparisons and de-
termine in actual figures the gain made
in weight and in general physical i'm
provement, the faces of the children are
beginning to fill out, and further steps
are being taken to perfect this method.
Unlike the open-air class first started
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TOmmy-Pop. what is a free thinker?
Tommys Pop-A free thinker my son,
is any man who isn't Observation-Disclosures
phia Record.