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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-08-02

rated the office stool ALA
chair.
A word more and a
my preaching. cApa
r'ed in another year, aud
II to say that am a
keeper than l possibly
been if l had passed Ii.
years in a down town or
COOK COOK, and sew as well as ~ M.
dolls dresses. ard lnl
pleasure in a well Brow! .g.,,
and a hemstiched apron H.,
ia my latest doll g.rmen-
a riding coat on one sid, .na
pire gown on the other.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-08-02
He" Cne Cir, 1hr, wn On Her
Own Resources, Made Good

ttht ItulQ Inv ItNSe'oA pAO-
J, AIDED: Could a man Of this spec
allied age shoulder an axe, 90 into
the woods and without other aid
make a living for himself?
am not going to try to answer
that question. am not man, you
see. But if the experience of a Girl
OF 20 who shouldered a metaphorical
axe, went into the world and has
made her own living there will cas-,
any light on the question. am thar
girl, and here ere my experiences.
says a writer in the Kansas City Star.
The necessity which forced me at
~ to give up the things a girl of
this generation is trained to believe
are hers without the earning is no;
a part OF the story at least ! shall
not dwell On that part OF it. 1t is
enough to say that when my father
died it was found there was nothing
for my mother and me to live ON. TO
provide comfortable living for us.
ard educate me and give us glimpse
Of outdoors every summer he had
spent his entire income as fast az he
r.aGc ii. He died Il victim o! thai,
ci,- librarian Wh II mglp life and lib-
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-08-02
Turning the World Over.

When Archlmedes ho,'ered Give
me lever and | will li:t ard trrn the
world over" he Mas only prr,'.o wing
the coming powers OF cur Yoh,.cn style
OF advertising that is making the
whole world whirl round four or five
times day whore II turned only onco
q year in old Chinese days.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-08-02
Have an Object and Work For Il.

Define an object as early as you can,
and 60 after it. Shape up every act Of
your life to 1t and its attainment. II
you find it is not what you really de.
sire. discard it after giving the matter
sufficient thought but not until you
are convinced tEAt some other goal Is
more necessary 10 you, when you must
seek it with eIual Zest.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-08-02
Procf Of Common Or;cin.

Professor Eoi,h in Il London lecture
Oh the evolution Of man, said that the
resemblance Of The prehistoric mon.
keys found in thn Faynm in upper
Egypt to Sau'h american monkeys
indicated ttc common oricin Of the
anthropoids cf t!e u. and ncW world.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-08-02
Charity in COMPROMISE.

The best methods 81 @ ss
are always the simplest, Ill. y.
plest are founded c&
mutual charit}
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-08-02

scrpriSed at his interest.
"Lordy." said the manufacturer,
with sigh Of relief, ! thought So
and-So (naming competitor) had
lut one over on us
1t was that girls last day as ste
;; nographer in that office. Now she
is showing her employer how to
make new kinds of corrections, in
rcw shapes and with new names
and he is paying her $4,000 a year
t0l doing ii.
Could Dress A Doll-and Did.
TO return to my own case: When
| asked myself what could do iha-
came within the narrow compass OF
the female help" wants in the bus
mess world | was obliged to confess
could do nothing. And il was only
after had canvass"d every posi-
bilily and had given up in despair
| that evolved the theory that yield
| cd The final solution. reasoned thus:
Stcn0graphy and bookkeeping and all
tie othpr grooves into which the bus
i ircc5 world has thrust women are no
| rart 81 he original scheme OF things.
| Women existed before iypcwriters
! ,,Af - 4. |.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-08-02
The Orly Road That Was Open.


do not take amy extraordinary
eredit 10 myself in discovering u read
to Independence Frankly tool
thn read did because did not see
any other road open to me. II !
could have written shorthand ! would
have bcceac a stcnosraphcr. II ]
Had known anything Of 81 lcsm@ nshio
would have gone behind the euun-
ter. But because | knew nothing II
al | Was Obliged 10 - rrcaae tn
inside my head, - - sQeaA, AID =
stumbled ONTO III original idea TIA.
mad NOT suspc ted was hidiHs tuere
Mad le en- going further let D."
sc il cannot put in w'rd j {"
lhat shall help sirls 10 understand .
iiji,e thai thei; hcads and aa'a
m rs u.uiRl o. ihem ,1es u.s. =
lhc business mcn who nay So ''.
tgr thym. When a airi Aot+ - .,=.s,
sic never thinks q. s2in to N..N f.s
io,aelf The VAcWr7 {. tuot., at
nsr in ;ar hua.nvs wf,j aa. 49,
Ia. IL rE.H., I'D. aIn.a I'D.
erA rp under ace lWA .e.ee. 81.
work and sllesmla Biz. ~ eH
ll5.hr i':;o these uaraw asees.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-08-02
Cashier and Cook-Horrors,

There j. hardly a household art
thai has boon woman's since III.
world BEGAN that does not offer q
great an advantage rs "Cainful Co.
cupa-ion. if pursued commercially.
- any afforded hy tn thousand enaY
office doors Of the eity's skys -ra9crs
Yet what is ,ommoner than 10 see
: girl with skilled fingers and a-tis-
.ic tastes. who ri =h, Easily ol'o.t
royalties 81 christmas - Easter -av-
elites and who could d, su L pleas
an. work in the nriya Y and ca-rsor.
o. her own hocc-wlat Is ccw~cYo~
than 10 Sc sIch Z cirl sitting in T..
cigar smoke Of rrhlir oei5e blunt
ire the ends Of her fineers on 4 tz0e-
writer What sir Of ills genera.
zion can avoid making AZ least
,,,cn-a, distiftion between 4 steao--
=, he- and 4 reedlcwcman. 10 II
s:sadvantace CT the latter? And
,asbier and cook-oh. horrors-thero
c,n he no comparison. Yet We had
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-06

government makes it necessary to define What
state what
cusively.
alliance may money issue pa
per money It law destroying
with
being recognized that
impartial
of all
acts and its own consti
tuition to the constitution the United
Ii
constitution Like the Federal departments
legislative. executive
state
officers by
Of
Federal prison while
OF
zen
England and VET NOS
independence the Union
left
ac und W
constitution commerce between
nations requires that no state SHAH
o and
necessary establish the interstate
commission body Of seven members r
of all kinds e
the states 1t investigates freight equipment of
cars ana locomotives 1t fix
matter matters arising ont Of
the extensive transportation control
Bit of ourc
of business b - Win
probably be time before practical direction is
Like Department Store
a
and its division of business branches stream that
flows into river must ultimately point
ovoro
direction -
gradually i accomplishing something toward it. ~ ~
With affairs of
ways something yet be done and when conditions will bay.
brought up something else
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-06

took almost as much interest in
the commonwealth as if she had
been a free agent in managing it.
But she was not personally much
occupied with affairs outside her
family circle. Spinning, weaving,
the supervision of the children and
the Observation-Disclosures were the
things that occupied her time, if
she were not frivolous in mind,
and her habitually faithful per-
Torrance of such duties has given
her imperishable renown and made
her a model in history.
The modern woman" has diff
ferent ambition. She wants to COM
pete with her brothers, and even
with her husband, in things which
in ancient Rome were regarded as
peculiarly the business of men-as
they have continued to be gener-
ally regarded in all civilized lands
since Rome became only a grand
memory Literary activity is not
included in these, nor works of
charity and morality. She is a
dashing rider, a bicyclist, an auto
driver, an aerOplanist, a public
speaker, a laborer in a thousand
occupations, and every day she does
many things which would have
caused a great scandal in Rome.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-06

II VERY thoughtful reader must
=, be greatly interested by the
discussion in Hearst's Mag
azine for July OF THE New Woman
and the Old" 1t is a subject which
touches the most intimate relations
OF the two sexes of mankind, and
is concerned with the basis of their
happiness on earth.
Ferrero takes as typical Of the
woman of old Roman matrons, and
his exhaustive historical knowledge
enables him to make some state
ments which will, undoubtedly, sur
prise many readers who have not
given much attention to such
studies. He brings out in startling
contrast the difference between the
conditions of married couples in an
cient Rome and in modern civilized
nations
In Rome it was her father-in-l law
that the bride had to please rather
than her husband. The father Of
the bridegroom had the power, at
any time after the marriage, to dis
solve its bonds in case, for any rea-
son, social or political. he were dis
satisfied with the bride Then he
could compel his son to take an
other wife more to his (the ia
thers) liking.
Often it was no personal objec-
ton that the father-in-law had to
his sons wife. but merely some
reason of policy. which led him to
exercise this tyrannical right He
would do it for what he thought
was the advantage of the family as
whole or for his own sole advau-
tage and safety
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-06
Modern Woman Has
Made Herself Interesting.

Thus the modern woman has
made herself interesting from
great number of new viewpoints,
but there are those who question
whether she will appear as admir-
able on the pages of history as
does the single minded Roman ma
iron The modern woman has di-
vided the interest of the opposite
sex whereas the Roman woman
kept it concentrated. But the sum
total of the interest she eXcites can
not be increased through such di-
vision. That total was fixed at a
maximum by nature when it de-
creed the existence of the two sexes.
And so again there will be doubt
ers who will question whether in
the subdivision Of interest as af-
fecting herself, the modern woman
gains anything in the end Some
will even go SO far as to suggest
that the final effect of the division
will be loss-just as the many
faceted eye of the fly is a less elfec-
tive organ Of vision than the sin
gle set Of lenses that fills the hui
man orbit. In other words, the
question is whether the attraction
and the power of woman are not
stronger when exercised as a unit,
that unit being simple womanliness.
than when they are spread over
broader field and penetrate what
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-06
:: On a Diet =:
BY PERCY SHAW.

GINTO wonder" said the doctor,
y AS he looked the fat man
DER,
THAT you feel trifle heavy
And without esprit de corps.
You must quickly take to fasting,
For by starving you I can
In a month or so transform you
To nearly perfect man.
"Scorn potatoes, frown on coffee.
Spurn red meats and tidbits fried,
Cast away cigars and liquors
With a high and mighty pride.
Turn your face from pies and candy,
Put your ban on all things sweet,
And whatevers left, with caution,
You may taste, but do not eat
in the morning just at daybreak
Run ten miles with gentle sweep,
Now the lawn before the noon hour
Drink a glass Of milk and sleep;
Cut a cord of wood by sunset,
Go to bed by eight or SO.
So you won't be walked or bothered
BY the merriment below"
Thirty days the patient suffered,
Then his temper rose within
IF I've got to die. I'd rather
Make the journey fat than thin"
please excuse me-" said the doctor,
As the victim voiced his rage
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-06
The Old Problem of Man and Woman
What Learned
BY GARRETT P. SERVISS.

derstand that woman played as i'm
portant a part in public affairs
then as now, although mainly with
out volition on her part. All that
was demanded of her was to take
exceeding pains not to throw any
shadow on the pathway Of her ia
ther-in-law's ambition. But woe
to her if he happened to cast his
eyes upon some other woman who,
in the character Of his sons wife
would forward his purposes better
than she could
But there is another side to the
picture. With all her submission
to the irresponsible will of the ia
ther-in-law the Roman matron
was. In many ways, a model of
marital virtues. At the mention
of her we think instinCtively of
Cornelia, the mother of the Grac-
chi, Wanting her sons above all the
jewels of her worldly minded ac-
quaintanCes, The Roman nation
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-06
How to Go To Sleep
Here Is a Suggestion offered Most Humbly


aOou' sons - 'ep m '' ~ " " ~ ~ anu " ~ "
sleeping ana the sleep comes TO thenn'
But the sleep problem important and as terrifying
as that other problem chow O digest
1t worth to help solve these problems For the
sa work that IS done in the world is the work that uses ND the
- 49, fo4 +b broi, oo,sirr Ioss,oes and tho ,r4or
.
ing Una" accompanies
Nh lu NC to, ;ro, 70 +lo MON who con mot sloon
o man iI all Won, 40 Iio with yo,r o,oe sbrt IMAGINE sheen
1"i'f"s " 7' ~
Another VIII TEL you 10 count from one up 10
you go to sleep
Many wide than when they try
to invent sheep or to keep track of their counting
At various times in this column have given advice this
subject, some o it. perhaps, utterly worthless.
For instance if YOU wake up and can not 90 to sleep again YOU
- L. ,.:-,:... nan. Ill . ,o4,,o - noa1,on -,o ,.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-06
Like a Department Store.
j.: A Little Song
BY Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Copyright 1912. by American J ournal- Examine

Copyright 1872 by American Journal Examiner
OH, great world, fair world true world find it.
~ A sun that never forgets to rise
On the darkest night star in the skies
And~a God Of love behind it,
Oh, good life sweet life, large life take #
Is what He offers to you and me-
A chance to do, and chance to be-
Whatever we choose to make it.
Oh far way, high way, a way He leads us:
And If the journey at times seems long
We must trudge ahead, with a trustful song.
And know at the end He needs us
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-06

Va YHEN the Revolutionary war
wv broke out the colonies
were thirteap in ,o,tr,har
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-06
The
Education
of
the Voter
The State and
the Nation
By THOMAS TAPER.

Va YHEN the Revolutionary war
w broke out the colonies
were thirteen in number.
They were dependents of the Eng
fish government, and subject to the
English king.
Each of the thirteen colonies,
however, enjoyed a certain amount
of independence of self-govern-
ment-just enough, In fact, to make
it clear that they could very easily
manage all their own affairs. BY
the Declaration of Independence
and the struggle that secured it
each one of the colonies became
virtually a separate nation.
Then the colonies, with freedom
won, adopted each for itself a con-
stitution based more or less direct
ly upon the original charter which
had been granted to it by the
crown. In fact, Connecticut and
Rhode Island adopted their Eng
lish charter VERBATIM as their
new constitution.
From 1888 to 1890 the thirteen
independent states became a Union,
and this Union had, in turn, to be
provided with a constitution. There
were then fourteen constitutions in
active operation.
From that time to this, new com
muntttes have grown up and have
petitioned to be admitted to the
Union. This is allowed when a
sufficient population is attained and
a constitution submitted that is
satisfactory to the congress Of the
United States
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-06
officers of the Nation.

The nation as a whole provides
itself with a president, vice presi-
dent, a senate, a house of represen-
tatives and such other officers as
are needed. Likewise, each state
has its governor, its lieutenant gov
ernor, its senate and house Cor as
sembly).
This identity in principles be-
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-02-29
ANOTHER PIONEER PASSES.

At 7 o'clock this morning William
Wakefield, former resident Of Rock
wood and Silverton, the father of Mrs.
Giles T. Vandegrift, died at La Junta.
Mr.. Wakefield was 81 years of age,
death being caused by a general
breaking up of the system, due to his
years advanced almost to the four
score years and ten of which the Bible
speaks, as being beyond the allotted
term of mortal life.
: Three daughters, Mrs. G. T. vande-
grift of this city, Mrs. Frank Brad
shaw of Olympia, Wash, and Mrs. L.
E. Sears of La Junta, survive him,
Mrs. Wakefield dying about two years
ago. Since his wife's death, Mr..
Wakefield made his home with his
daughter, Mrs. Sears.
Mr.. Wakefield was one of the early
pioneers of the San Juan, coming to
this section before the railroad and
for number of years being resident
of this part of Colorado, and as such
was well known to the older citizens
of San Juan and La Plata counties.
His friends in Durango and vicinity
will hear of Mr.. Wakefeld's death
with regret and will sympathize with
his daughter, Mrs. Vandegrift, to
whom the news was great shock.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-02-29
WHAT THE SUPREME COURT
DECISION MEANS TO DENVER

The probable effect of the supreme
court decision in the commission form
of government for Denver cases may
be a continuation of Mayor Speer in
office until after the November cleo
tion and possibly for another two
years. The court deadlocked on the
question as to whether District Judge
Teller's order directing the city coun-
Gil to order special election should
stand. Under statute, this leaves
the order in effect and unless the cit
izen's people recede the election will
be held. The election would be on
the proposition of amending Denver's
city charter from its present form to
a commission form of government.
These amendments were proposed
through petition and not through a
charter convention. The court explic-
lilly states that in no manner did it
pass on the validity of the proposed
amendments or on the manner of their
submission. 1t took the position that
when the legislature is enacting a
law, the court has no right to inter
| fere but does have the right to declare
the law invalid after it has been en-
acted. 1t claims that the same prop
osition prevails before the city of Dem
yer. That the people have assumed
the right to enact law. That the
court has no right to interfere, that
l ,ffAy tha 1,tr h.. h,
court has the right to say whether or
not the enacted law is legal. Judges
Campbell and Garrigues dissent from
the opinion as noted above. They
claim that Judge Teller had no right
to issue the order directing the coun-
ell to hold special election because
they contend that the proposed amend
ments are unconstitutional. Judge
Hill, in special opinion, did not pass
on the constitutionality Of any of the
questions involved but he did contend
that the court should pass on them
now and that it should not put Dem
yer in the position of holding a spe-
cial election with the chances that it
would be declared unconstitutional
afterward. Judge Hill maintained that
the court should settle the question
now and if the citizens were not pro-
ceeding along proper lines they should
know it. The result will probably be
that special election will be held
and the people will adopt the proposed
amendments to the charter. Then the
Ave commissioners as provided for un-
der the proposed amendments will be
elected either at the regular election
or at special. When they apply at
the city hall, Mayor Speer will refuse
to vacate on the ground that they
were not legally elected. They will
then have to 20 into court to test
the matter with good opportunity
for Speer to win. This would leave
him IN ofhcs indefinitely and Il the
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-02-29
GOVERNOR sHAFROTH Ex-
PLAINS IN A LETTER

Governor Shafroth has written a
letter to the Weld County Farmers
club in which he maintained that while
the state institutions are not getting
their money, still the last legislature
gave them, in many instance, twice as
much as was ever given them by Re-
publicans. In other words, the gov
ernor takes the position that De-
mocracy is to be complimented for
over-appropriating and that Republic
ans are to be condemned for keeping
their appropriations within the amount
of cash on hand. The governors let
ter, together with his speeches and
interviews, has had the effect of Grip
ping the collections that were being
made through public subscription for
the purpose of keeping the institutions
running.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-02-29

court finally held that the charter
amendments were legal, the decision
could not be reached until after the
November elections, which would leave
Mr.. Speer in control of the city hall
in November. The court was asked
to pass on the validity Of the pro-
posed amendments. The council re-
fused to submit them on the ground
that they were not valid and the ques-
tion Of their validity was squareiy be-
fore the court. Whether they intend
ed to or not Judges White, Bailey and
Musser certainly wrote an opinion and
participated in deadlock, the effect
Of which shows an apparent victory
for the friends of commission form of
government but results in very
strategic position politically for the
Speer machine. The special election
will cost not less than $4,000 and the
chances are that it will be declared
illegal because three of the judges
have practically said that it was H.
legal and the other three side-stepped
that issue.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-02-29

FOR SALE--Department of the In
terror, Office Of Indian Affairs, Wash
ington, d. c., December 80, 1911.
Sealed bids marked outside IBID, Tim
Der Sale No. 2, Jicarilla Indian Res
ervation, New Mexico, and addressed
to the Commissioner Of Indian AZ
fairs, Washington, D. c., will be re-
ceived until 12 o'clock noon, Eastern
Time, Friday, March 20, 1912, for
the purchase and removal Of all mer-
chantable dead timber standing or
fallen and all the live timber that
may be designated for cutting by the
officer in charge on = designated area
Of approximately 10000 acres upon
both tribal and allotted lands Of the
Jicarilla Indian Reservation, New
Mexico, located within townships 81
and 80 North, Ranges 2 and 3 West,
New Mexico Principal Meridian, lying
north Of Coraques watershed, west Of
Sawmill Canyon watershed and south
and west Of the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad tracks, and contain
ing approximately, &c, ,o0o. 900 feet, B.
NJ, Of timber, principally yellow pine.
A deposit of $3.50 n tAs form sf .