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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27
Officials Assert That Many Wives Are IndoIent

A SHARP arraignment of the. farm
~ ers' wives and daughters Of the
country and incidentally their city
sisters is contained in a report made
the other day by George K. Holmes,
chief of the divisionNof production and
distribution of the agricultural de-
partment. Although wages have ris-
en- steadily during forty-four years.
Mr.. Holmes declares that the women
Of the present age have forgotten or
are too proud to indulge in household
work on the farm. The lure of 80
ciety," which has reached out to the
farm, he says, is much to blame for
the conditions, which he described as
acute"
Country girls, as we'll as city girls. -
says Mr.. Holmes, In reporting to Sec
rotary Wilson, seem to regard house
hold labor for hire as undesirable.
Joined with this fact is the other one
that the women Of the farmers fam
lily are neither able nor willing to re-
peat the manual labor performances
of their grandmothers on the farm"
The raising of the standard Of liv-
ing on the farm, the report continues,
Is responsible in a measure for the
women of the farm now engaging in
social functions" which the govern
ment expert holds to be incompati.
bic with the performance of household
labor" The passing Of the old-time
domestic industries is deplored. and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27
Washington Library
Oliver Optic Is Barred in Wa

Horatio Alger's juvenile heroes have
too ready road to success. OF Ayers
works the committee said: &C. A.
Henty, while not writing any better
class of literature than does Alger.
stands just across the border line
which divides the good from the bad.
The mediocre writings Of Henty
based on historical truths inspire the
boys to read better literature Alger
spoils the capacity for better read
ing"
The ELSIE" books, dear to the
hearts of every schoolgirl OF the '70s
and sos and heretofore regarded an
harmless because SO highly moral, are
roundly condemned as tending to
make a girl interpretive and "goody-
goody." The same charge with less
vehemence of utterance is laid at the
door Of the "Pancy'' series.
"Only a shade worse than Old
Sleuth and Nick Carter" is the view
of the library committee with regard
to list including the revolutionary
series, by George Warren; the college
sports series, by Lester Chadwick
the Jack Ranger series, by Clarence
Young; the Boy Hunter series, by
Capt. Ralph Bonehill: the Motor Girl
series and the Dorothy Dale series, by
Margaret Penrose.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27
Cinging Gown Nearly Costs This Man His Life

4 TLANTA, GA-Form fitting femin.
"A Inc fashions-and you all know
what they mean-a six cylinder auto
mobile and a stranger in our midst
from the country were the dramatis
personae in a fall curtain opener that
electrified pedestrians on the White
hall viaduct at the luncheon hour. The
play turned out humorously, and it is
probably that all the cast are living
happily ever afterward. Just the
same, the gentleman from the country
gaZed for a moment over the brink
of eternity.
It all happened at the crest of the
noon halt In business. At the Ala.
bama street end of the viaduct the
throng was thick and busy.
There came along, with the grace OF
a Godiva and clad almost as snugly
as one. a member Of the feminine pop
ulation of Atlanta adorned in the ex-
IRENE fashion of today as it applies
to the softer sex. You understand
about those tight skirts, of course.
Well, the young woman had on q
tight skirt, and then some. 1t was as
though she we're poured into it-above
and below meridian, torso and all.
This vision was nearing Alabama
street when across the viaduct strobe
a sturdy specimen of the best yeo-
many that Georgia produces.
He had half way negotiated the
streets, congested at best, when The
Vision crossed his horizon. AS though
hit by the buck ague. he came to a
dead stop in his understanding
like a pointer comes to full stop
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27
and points game He was enthralled
He gazed at The Vision, and was OBJ.

and points game. He was enthralled
He gazed at The Vision, and was OBJ.
livious.
Swat! Swish! Crash!
He was plastered against one of the
plate glass windows of a viaduct CLOTH
ing store.
A six cylinder machine, going at
really a moderate gait had lunged in
to him. The chauffeur conscientious
to the last, had sounded his horn again
and again. But what was one little
old horn against the mesmeric influ-
ence that glued the victims eyes to
the latest specimen of Atlanta's FASH
ions?
Bystanders who had witnessed the
play dashed quickly to his assistance.
He beat them to It," Swiftly he
scrambled to his feet. With one jump
he recovered his hat; with a light
ming stroke he pulled down his coat,
which had covered his head in transit
He wasn't hurt, a bit. But scared!
Before kindly help reached his side
one long, continuous streak spoke of
his disappearance down toward union
station.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27
Worked as Tailor by Day and Burglar by Night

breaking, attracted the attention of
Patrolmen Stevens and Muse, III North
western avenue, near Twenty-seventh
street, about 2 o'clock in the morning.
Just across from where they stood
were two stores, and between them
was a narrow passage. They watched
silently in the shadow of building,
and did not have to watch long. The
sound was repeated, and after a mo-
ment's silence a shadow that seemed
a part of the wall Of the building sep
arated itself from the entrance of the
dark passage.
Here, you-up with your hands
I'll shoot" commanded Stevens. The
shadow melted back into the passage
and became a noise Of running. A
second sharper command brought Joe
Graeber, the tailor. to halt.
"You know me, boys. don't you.
boys?" he said. You scared me SO I
ran"
Stevens and Muse looked with sur
prise into Graeber's face. They both
knew him and said so. But they
couldn't understand why the honest
tailor should be just where Graeber
was. Under the circumstances, how
ever, he was searched. and a very
good Jimmy" and a patent glass cut
ter were found in his pockets.
Graeber confessed. He said he tried
to pay rent tailoring and couldn't so
he took to burglar work at night.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27

w ACKNOWLEDGEMENT scien-
" lists in Washington displayed
great interest In dispatch from Win
n1peg a few days ago, announcing
that Harry V. Radford, the American
explorer, had discovered more than
500 wild buffalo in the Slave lake dis
tr1ct of the Hudson Bay country.
The wild buffalo Of the American
plains are gone and nothing remains
OF them save a few museum and
geological park specimens.
Outside Of the national geological
park In Washington, the Bronx Zoo,
In New York; Yellowstone National
park. and few other collections of
domesticated bison there are no
known living specimens of the buffalo
IN this country, and the last wild herd
In the United States is believed to
have been exterminated. For many
years reports have come out Of the
Hudson Bay country concerning the
existence of new and distinct spe-
cies Of buffalo, but only within the
last ten years have scientists agreed
that this species is different variety
from the American bison.
We are very much interested in
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27

n H1CAGO-In the daytime Joe
~ Graeber, thirty years old, under
sized and agile, sat cross-legged in
his little tailor shop at Twenty-sixth
street and Northwestern avenue, and
stitched with industry. He worked
hard and was acquiring the reputation
Of being an honest and thrifty trades
man.
But at night Joe Graeber, the tailor,
became another man. The deft needle
work was dropped and forgotten and
instead and quite as skilfully. Joe
welded the Jimmy" In the daytime
Joe's needle went in and out cease
lessly. Joe himself went I'm and out"
as industriously at night, the police
say, and quite as silently. Graeber
himself says tailoring paid about as
well as burglar work and at neither
could he pay his rent.
The sharp, frosty crack of some
think that might have been Ice under
foot, and again might have been glass
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27
New Herd of Bison Of Interest to Scientists

Mr.. Radford's discovery" said Dr.:
Richard Rathbun, assistant secretary
Of the Smithsonian institution, In
charge Of the United States national
museum. 1--WE know this explorer
very well. The object of his expedi-
ton was to visit the home of the
wood bison in the almost unknown
region of northwestern Canada. west
of the Slave river, and north OF the
lower Peace river. This expedition
started in 1909 and has included track
surveys over many hundreds of miles,
and furnished Mr.. Radford the oppor-
tunity of closely studying the wood
bison in it's haunts, and of making the
first recorded observations on this
rare animal in life.
eighteen specimens were seen by
him during the first part of his ex-
ploration tour, and under a permit
from the Canadian government one
was killed by him. It weighed 2,402
pounds. and both the skin and skele-
ton were preserved. The skin was
presented by Mr.. Radford to the
Provincial museum at Edmonton, Al
berta, while the skeleton was obtained
by the National museum at Washing
ton.
This skeleton and the skull are
very fine specimens. and the skeleton
is probably the only one of q wild
buffalo In any museum. Our informa-
ton was that Mr.. Radford had not re-
turned, and that his expedition con.
tinued into the Slave lake country
and beyond. This Is the first word
we have received from him since this
specimen was obtained"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27
I'VE are very slightly changed
From the semi-apes that ranged
midas prehistoric day"
JUDGES New Domici|e Keeps Things Sparkling
n LEVELAND. O.-shocking! Per

- LEVELAND, O-shocking! Per
- fectly shocking!
That's what Is said Of tho homo OF
George Baer. municipal Judge, at lbs
East One Hundred and Sixteenth
street. And the house is shocking
the judge admits it.
"Ecstatically speaking" Baer adds.
When the judges wife arose the 9TH
er morning and started to ply a comb
through her locks q cracking sound
arrested her. She dropped the comb
and felt of her sleeve connection.
There had been no rip, but when she
started to comb again the cracking
resulted.
She touched the judge on the fore
head to awaken him. A little spark
jumped up more promptly than his
honor.
Here's your coffee, George" she
said at breakfast, and as he reached
to take it their fingers touched and
another little spark jumped from the
contact point of their digits.
And then-and here's the real rea-
son for the Investigation started by
Caer-when the judge was about to
leave for downtown he and his wife
stood near the front door, "saluting,"
large spark rose from the point
where their noses touched. Twas .
shocking kiss.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27
When Herring Is Herring It Is a Herring

A CCORDING to Secretary Of the
IA Treasury MacVeagh . herring 10
a herring when herring.
The secretary of the treasury. who
returned to his Office the other day,
was called upon to render . decision
on what is a herring, and he did it 40
cording to the foregoing paragraph.
He decided also that a herring is not
any one Of q number Of fancy fishes
popularly classed as herring, a. many
Of the importers would like to have
the customs officials believe that they
are herring.
Like the question, What is whis-
key and lis a hen a bird" What is
a herring" has caused considerable
trouble to custom officials. Assistant
Secretary Curtis wrestled with the
herring. that is the herring question,
and then passed it on to Secretary
MacVeagh and the latter Che having
beer g wholesale grocer for many
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27

Mr.. Holmes adds that 1T Is rare that
one of the younger women know how
to knit"
Throughout large areas" he says.
the pride of the housewife In great
stores of preserves, dried and picked
fruits, berries and vegetables exists
chiefly in history, and dependence is
placed mostly upon the local store for
the products of the cannery and the
evaporation"
Within the period mentioned Mr..
Holmes reports that wages paid to
men laborers on the farm have arisen
as high as 70 per cent and that har-
vest hands are now paid upward Of
$50 a month with board. For the
farm laborer who lives on the farm
the year around, Mr.. Holmes declares
the money paid does not represent the
real value of his remuneration, for
the "cost of living" virtually is solved
for him.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27
Ancient Egyptians Used Our Up-To-Date Styles

trast some of the new styles with the
old.
There is a plaster cast of an Egyp-
ton lass wearing one of those gowns
that begin to hobble right at the neck
and never vary all the way down, ex-
cept as nature asserts itself. This ef-
feet Is popular, also, in 1912.
The women of Crete were wearing
corsets about the same time-four
thousand years ago. They have such
corset in the museum, and it looks
like one OF a pair Of puttees worn by
a stout cavalry officer. In the illus
trated lecture it is declared that wom-
en- wore corsets of link steel in Queen
Elizabeth's time.
One whole glass case Is labeled
Secrets Of Beauty, Past and Pres.
ent"
Inside there is q quite modern "lay-
out" Of rouge. powder and mirror, and
alongside lie the implements with
which some dusky Cleopatra touched
herself up to win an Antony's praise
and admiration.
and admiration. The women OF Egypt
and Peru used rouge and stenciled
their eyebrows, and the women Of
Greece held things together WITH
safety pins, much as is done today.
There is such a safety pin in the ex-
hibit
In the treatment of hair all races
have taken advantage of the oppor-
tunity to look beautiful, according to
their lights. Down in New Guinea,
among the Melaneseans. where nature
is sparing Of blondes, peroxide is un-
known and lime Is used.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27

n LIVER OPTIC, Horatio Alger. Mrs.
~ Alden ("Pansy'), and a score or
more Of the lesser lights of the juve-
nile literature of generation ago will
suffer permanent eclipse in the pub
lie library of the District of Columbia.
The executive committee of the II.
brary is cooperating with the teach.
ers to discourage indiscriminate read
ing Of juvenile stories by the youth Of
Washington.
In the opinion of George F. Bower
man, librarian, books that tend to in
stitute false ideas in the minds of the
growing youth, those which force an
interpretive trend In little girls and
those which falsely depict actual con-
ditions of history must be set aside.
Oliver Optics works are classed as
"purposeless.'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27


DID, He Bulgarian mill
Peters
Paris 1.-The
endowed with
In
figure with upturned
mustache
Until the hoes savon colonel of the
Kings
responsible
King Ferdinands
Is his military
he planned his campaign against Turkey.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27
WOULD PENSION ALL U. S. MOTHERS

That each woman who bears q
child shall receive a pension of $25
is one of the provisions of bill
which Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey
the dean Of the Washington College
Of Law-the only exclusively women, !,
law school in the country-is advo-
eating before congress-
Mrs. Mussey's bill contains a num-
Der Of unique provisions, all putting
premium on motherhood. She
would provide the mother not only
with $25 for every child born, but
would have tbs government allow
mothers $3.50 a week for three
months before and three month";
after the birth of a child. In addition
to this a woman forty-flve years cid
with six children should also get q
pension, the amount not yet being
named.
Mrs. Mussey, in discussing her
bill, said that much of the blame for
the white slave traffic in this country
could be laid to the failure Of mothers
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27

In different
be
b
be1te magnitude
OF
England has no direct interest in the which the political
territorial ultimately
the other
conflict
voice when the time a
bellgeency continues
which, handled
recncae Emergencies
practcaaspect they
wider ement"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27
AS0UlTH DEFINES ENGLAND'S POSITION

Speaking at the new lord mayors
inaugural banquet the other night,
Prime Minister Asquith made the
emphatic statement that he believed
it to be the general opinion of Europe
that the Balkan states should not be
robbed of the fruits of their victory.
Premier Asquith referred to the
unsuccessful efforts OF the powers to
prevent the conflict aud to the great
changes the war had made in the map
of Europe, and continued:
In these anxious times it is salts
factory to be able to announce that
the relations Of England with the
other powers, without single excep-
ton, were never more friendly and
cordial
THE great powers are working
together with a closeness of touch
and frankness of discussion which
is remarkable and which may seem
almost unintelligible to those who be-
lieve that because, for certain pur-
poses, the powers have been and are
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27
CRUSHED AN EMPIRE IN FOUR DAYS

Military experts are eagerly look.
ing up details as to the career Of
Savoff Of Bulgaria, conquero7 of the
Turks In four days, out of the
shadows of the Balkans, he has risen
to eminence among European mill
tary commanders. His campaign In
Thrace, leading southwark in series
of desperately fought and brilliantly
maneuve1ed battles to the gates *
Constantinople, has written a new
chapter in the science of warfare.
The great turning movement,
the speed with which he moved hi7
forces, his marvellous success in keep
ing his heaviest artillery apace with
infantry and cavalry are all separate
chapters of dramatic war yet to be
written.
Turning to the man himself, there
is the most meager information con-
corning him. The situation called for
one of his abilities and he responded.
All that is known of him is that he
S&
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27
DR. EMIL HlRSCH FAyoRS PORK CHOPS

DR.. Emil g. Hirsch, preaching to
tho young Jews of Chicago, Who are
departed from orthodoxy and lacking
religious anchorage" under the aus
pieces of the Peoples Synagogue asso-
citation, created a sensation when he
denounced the devotion to "supersti-
tious observance that characterizes
orthodoxy in some Of its manifesto
tons, and SAID:
Il urge you that, instead Of ponder
ing about the observance Of the
dietary laws, abstaining from certain
foods, you lead lives of righteousness
and help to spread our religion among
the people. We believe in ono God
and that God in spiritual form. Let
US carry his word to our brethren.
"The Reformed Jewish church has
nothing to do with obsolete forms of
religion. 1t has to do with the unfit
cation of the peoples of the earth un-
der one God, and the koshering of
meat is far less important in our
scheme of things than the rescue of
human beings from moral, Intellectual
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27
That was the last straw.

That was the last straw.
Mot that the wife and l are not
used to sparkling" says Baer, telling
Of the incident, but this is a new
brand, and 1t isn't pleasant I've gone
to the telephone and electric light
companies to see what the trouble is.
The whole place seems to be charged
with electricity.
only the other night Judge Nc
Cannon and his wife came out to the
house and a spark rose when he and
l shook hands. More sparks from the
greeting of Mrs. McGannon and nv
wife. Shocking? Well, it sure is."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27

years and an importer Of herring)'
promptly held that herring 10 . her.
ring. and that anchovies, brisling, car.
dimes. sprats. pilchards. and alewfves
are impostors and hereafter shall not
be behring's.
To the importer this means that
herr1ngs when imported will be a.
sessed 1 cent a pound IL fresh, and
half a cent pound II packed any 9th.
er way, and that the importers shall
pay duty Of three-fourths of a cent
pound. or 30 per cent. ad valorem. s
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27

Again the playful gun is in evidence
in different sections of the country
Until the joke of taking chances IL
pulling triggers OF supposedly un
loaded weapons is foregone by trust
ing iokers, funerals will continue t.
follow the joke.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27

Americas oldest doctor says modern
physicians are not much better on
cures than the healer Of q half cen
tury ago. But the old fashioned doc
tor didn't have all the ailments and
diseases to treat they have nowadays
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27

When a submarine is cut in two b.
an ocean liner, and torpedo boat de
,stroyer is put on the damaged list b.:
a tramp freighter, the mind goes int
curious speculation over the check t
sea power that might be administers
by q tough little tug.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27

A playful person threw a melon into
4 passing taxicab in Brooklyn the 9th
er night. Many an actor along the
great white way is praying that mel
ons do not become popular substitutes
for hen fruit.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27

Beef is probably going higher, but
rabbits will soon be on the market
At the same time they will not be
widely popular until someone invents
a device to dig shot out Of the teeth
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27

Milk makes an excellent tonic FOL
the hair, according to the prima donna
who discovered the $4,000 lump O..
ambergis Those press agents de-
have TO work hard for their money.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27

IAN FRANCISCO, CAL.-1nspired
y probably by the recent highly sue
cessful fashion show of 1912, in which
was displayed the very latest prog
ress of sartorial art, from double deck
ed coiffures to diamond heeled slip
pers, Professor A. L. Kroeber. cura-
tor of the Museum Of Anthropology at
the affiliated colleges. arranged an ex-
hibltion of fashion in retrospect, with
considerable emphasis on what they
were wearing In Egypt and such places
In the fall Of 1912 B. C..
The exhibition was thrown open to
the public, and the weary husband
who thinks his wife looks queer in
her new French toys that cost none
but husbands know how much should
20 out that way. With Kipling, he
likely will say
I'VE are very slightly changed
From the semi-apes that ranged
midas prehistoric day.
Professor Kroeber and his assistant,
II. w. Clifford who gives the lecture,
are Of the opinion the change Is less
than slight, and they have proceeded
with a delicate sense of irony to con-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27

A taxicab in Athens, according tt
an exchange, is called polipolytan
tocinetharmoxaxe That's what Z
taxi chauffeur is called in this country
when he presents his BILL
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-12-27

A Los Angeles youngster stood OF
his head on the top Of skyscraper tt
test his nerve" He was arrested
for shattering the nerves of passers