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the buds of the coming winter. With her
second brother. Thomas Thatcher, she
accompanied her mother the three
months tour of Europe. 1t was she who
planned the itinerary and who will in a
way be the cicerone. though this is her
first visit to the old wor... Mrs. Kent
and young Thomas Thacher and Miss
Elizabeth sailed on the Lusitania and will
make a coaching trip through the lake re-
gions of England and Scotland before
going to London for some weeks. They
will then go to the continent, motor
through France, Switzerland and the
Rhine country and will sail for home
by the Mediterranean route in October.
OF the seven children. Albert. the eldest.
has already graduated from Yale and
Thomas will finish his academic course
this coming June. The third son. Will
liam. jr.. is at Pottstown. Pa. one of the
oldest of Yale's preparatory schools, and
will enter the college proper in October
Of this year The second girl Alkaline
Dutton Kent. and the little boys. Sherman
and Roger, attend private schools in this
grandmother in California, having made
the transcontinental trip early in June.
accompanied by their eldest brother, who
came from Nebraska to attend the Chi
cago convention and then made a short
visit here.
Mr. Kents family is a pioneer one of
Suffield, Conn, and their name appears
frequently and always with credit to the
local condition Immediately preceding the
war OF independence. The Kents orig
inally came from the shire of the same
name in central England, and arrived In
the new world about the middle of the
seventeenth century. Mr.. kent's mother,
born Alkaline Dutton. who is part own
er with her son of the splendid estate
kentfield, also belongs to an ancient
family of New England.
The home of the kents has been an
important social center through the win
ter, the spring and summer season. 1t
is comfortably furnished after the meth
cd of people who are Injured to life In the
open. The handsome salon is filled with
scenes of California. and radiant flowers
successfully transplanted bloom on tables
and in window recesses. But the sun
parlor, a large addition with glass in
cased walls on the southeast and west
sides. is really the living room of the
house. 1t is furnished in large willow
chairs and lounges, with soft tinted mat
ting rugs on the floor and a myriad of
Towering plants, birds and hunting tro-
phies as adornments. The room Is well
heated by steam, and the sunshine pours
in all through the day and the flowers
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Concern
Well-knOWn PEOPLE.
Before the Reformation.

IENRY r. HUNT. the reform mayor
! of Cincinnati, said, apropos Of po-
litical corruption, in an address before .
woman's club:
when / think of political corruption
am reminded of Chicago in the old
days. They do say. you know. that in
Chicago in the old days. at every meet
ing of the board of aldermen, all hands
before the meeting was half over would
be drinking the ink and signing bills
with whisky"
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resides. 1t is a lovely land and one
which seems to absorb all other interests
and take away the desire to live in any
other spot. After his fathers death, and
when he had completed his law course in
Yale. Mr.. Kent took up his profession in
the old home of his father, Chicago, and
here we lived during the first years of
our married life.
Our romance began when Mr. Kent
was at Yale, where my father was pro-
fessor of Latin and from which / had six
brothers to graduate. We lived in Chi
cagO during the winter until six years
ago. Every summer / made the trip
across the continent to visit the old
Kent home and gave my husbands
mother chance to meet her grand
children. There always seemed a new
one to present to her loving care. 1t
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gave me some experience in travelling.
making such move twice year. and
coming back and forth to Washington
does not appeal to me at all. My young
est son. Roger. was born the spring of
the awful disaster. and for a time 1t
seemed that my entire family had been
wiped away except my infant and the
next youngest hoy. Sherman, who was
just two. My husband and the older
boys were making their customary spring
visit to Kentf1eld and my younger chill
dren were in Los Angeles, where my
brother now resides. From the first
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PLEASANT home
in the ancient resi-
Dental section OF
W ashington ! 8
that of the mem
Der Of Congress
from the fourth
district of Call
fornia, William
Kent. His family
consists of his
wife. one of the
useful and popu-
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bloom as gayly as in their native CLINE
at Kentfield. Here Mrs. Kent serves a.
cup OF tea to the casual guest, and on
more formal occasions. after the visitors
have greeted her in the salon. they are
ushered into bit of spring, even though
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OULD you like to
bend a piece of
wire and collect a
million for that
simple act? 1t has
been done. Would
you like to turn a
screw and find
that you had add
ed one of the
greatest convent
ences of modern
civilization. and,
elm 0a0 0nO9 This
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the snow is inches deep outside. Her
refreshment table is always laid in the
sun parlor and the visitors partake OF
dainties listening to the song OF birds
and inhaling the perfume OF the choicest
flowers.
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AS indicative of the fact that invention
knows no class, the success of Francis
H. BuzZicott. a private in the army, may
be cited. Buzzicott was detailed to the
mess squad. The responsibility Of cooking
three square meals a day for some fifteen
hundred men fell to him and few asso-
ciates. Moreover the meals must be pre-
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feature that the world has ever known.
x X
So simple was the claim upon which
jenkins applied for his patents that they
were at first refused. He was told he
had no idea that had not been applied in
previous machines. Jenkins insisted that
his machine worked while the others did
not. In the end the commissioner of
patents passed favorably upon his claim
simply because jenkins demonstrated to
him that the given machine actually pro-
duced the result while the others failed.
Jenkins did not make a fortune on this
invention. but sold it outright for 5000.
and other people have reaped the chief
profits, while the inventor has since grown
aff1uent as result of other children of
his brain.
Probably the best paid piece of labor
the world has even known was that per-
formed by DR.. Alexander Graham Bell
when he twisted a screw one-fourth of
one revolution and Hereby invented the
telephone and made a hundred million
dollars. 1t is likewise interesting to know
that the invention was made by accident
and that DR.. Bell did not realize that it
was OF any commercial value for months
afterward
DR.. Bell is by nature and training a
very learned and original scientist His
father had invented an alphabet for the
deaf and DIR. Bell had been a student
from childhood of methods of training
the deaf to speak. 1t was through this
work that he first met the young lady
whom he afterward married and who had
been entirely deaf from childhood The
inventive mind of the scientist sought a
method of making speech visible by some
such device as electric flashes that he
might talk more freely with his wife In
connection with this attempt he was US
ing continuance which another man had
invented and which attempted to carry
speech to distance by means of cleo
tricity and a WIRE The former inventor
had been using an intermittent currant-
that Is current that jumps a gap Wnd
therefore is not continuous. When Dr.
Bell turned the screw already referred
to he closed this gap. making the current
constant. and the principle Of the modern
telephone was established
Dr. Bell found that he could talk
over his wire which bore an electric
current. He rugged ups system
through which he talked from his Gel
lar to his garrett. One night, weeks
later. he demonstrated this continuance
to party of friends who were calling
upon him. One of these friends saw
the commercial possibilities that lay
back OF it and pointed them out to DR..
Bell ana urged him to protect himself
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IL We're, the Dupont Circle of it's day.
ana r. and II streets shone in re-
nected glory. Fine substantial man
sions went up slowly and sedately as
work was done in those times and the
casual visitor to that quiet, almost
wholly abandoned section will be
amazed TO note splendid homes with
exquisite stained glass windows, hand
somely carved marble trimmings and
balustrades, wide and spacious grounds.
III is In such a mansion that Mr.. ano
Mrs. Kent have established a home
and here they remained throughout the
season and far into the summer de-
spite the weather Only last week Mrs.
Kent closed the home in order to take
two OF her children to Europe, to full
fill promise made last year when 1t
did not seem that Congress would
make such prolonged sitting.
Representative Kent hopes to be
able to meet his wife in October
When / am asked about my favorite
occupations said Mrs. Kent, a few DAYS
before sailing for Europe, Il have to con-
fess that the work of rearing such fam
lily has almost swallowed my interest in
outside concerns. and the labor OF keep
ing home running In proper order took
Il
always believed I'm suffrage and iabored
to have Ii advocated. but / consider this
all part of being good wife and
mother. The suffrage which appealed to
me was the part which relates so init
mateiy with homes and families and the
raising of standards for all classes |
always took time TO attend suffrage meet
ings and to read the last word on the
theme. Last autumn helped to organize
many small clubs into one large one and
we had charge of the posters. which an
nounced for women their first opportunity
to cast their vote. Ii was a memora BILE
occasion, and one in which all who par
ticipated will never forget Our posters
were too hne Tor words, big white and
yellow affairs. artistically designed and
We think most vehemently worded For
instance. our shibboleth was Lincoln be-
heved in government by the people Wom-
en- are people, and similar phrases stat
ing our cause. October 10 was election
day, and the sex was well represented, il
is needles: to say.
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In my own family | have unusual op-
portGnity to judge Of the effect of suf-
fraSe on boys and girls. The boy shibbo-
leth was Lincoln believed i'm right and
usually he votes as his home folks in
cline. / am sure every mother will agree
that few young men of twenty -one. two
or three bother about studying political
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G. Francis Jenkins is the inventor of
the moving picture show. He was a gov
eminent clerk before he became an in
yentor. The idea of a machine that
would project pictures in such a way as
TO show scene of action had been stick
ing in the back of his head for a long
time. There We're other people working
upon it. among them being Thomas Edi-
son. They had developed a crude ma
chine that approached but did not ac-
complish the desired result. The machine
depended upon the operation of a shut
ter or revolving disk. In this disk was
a hole. and every time the hole came
around a new picture was projected.
Then the light was shut off and a new
picture shifted into place by the time the
hole came around again. This left the
curtain dark for so long period that
the desired idea of a continuous scene
was not produced
All that Jenkins did was to enlarge the
hole. He extended ii until it became a
slit that took up nine-tenths of the dis
tance around the disk. Thus was the pic
ture exposed nine times as long as the
curtain was kept dark Operated rapidly
this gave the impression of a continuous
exposure and the instant of darkness
during which the shift of pictures was
made was not apparent The moving pic
ture machine was thus perfected and the
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incidentally, earned 500. 00e, 600? This
also has been done The moving
picture show, that diversion of all
the civilized world. was made possible
through the simple device of making a
slit bigger than ii had been before. 1t is
because Il farmer lay lis back in the
middle OF the night and thought that the
world has the convenience of the plat
form scale. Every year IS seeing the adj
dition of more conveniences and the
amassing of fortunes from them.
a hundred Years ago this government
decided that it would be advisable to
protect the inventor in such a way that
H. might be allowed the exclusive right
to profits from his invention for term
OF seventeen years after making it. 1t
was held that making invention profit
able would add to the advancement OF
the race. All the important nations have
taken the same view OF the matter. All
have protected the ideas OF their in
ventors. The advancement of the world
during this practical age of mechanics
has proven the wisdom of this PLAN This
government has issued a million patents
10 date Ii is issuing a hundred of them
every day. o some ninety-odd of these
nothing is ever heard. but there are
few that are regularly making good. The
story of them makes pale those yarns of
gold strikes and milliOnaires made in
day. Here are a few.
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way was made clear for it's development
into the most universal entertainment
feature that the world has ever known.
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GOVERNMENT Patent
~ Office Shows a Record of
the Million-dollar Thoughts
That Have Been Protected
and Realized Upon-Appar-
emily Foolish and Freak
Ideas Have Been Among the
Most Notwithstanding
the Moving Picture and the
Te;ephone-The Army Belt
Invention of the Sewing
Observation-Disclosures That
Aided Women.
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By MARGARET Il. DOWNING
Evening journal., 1912-02-12
FASHION HINTS

The black velvet coat over the white
gown is one of the characteristic be-
longings. one might say, to this par
ticular season.
The blanket coat is a novelty This
is made OF material resembling soft
blankets Il is reversible, and comes
in all shades and tints
Latest advices from abroad pro-
claim the extreme modishness Of
pansy shades, from the lightest to.the
dark, rich purples and a hint of ruby.
Smart little tailored costumes in
snowy white whipcoards, beautifully
baridod, or white serges. also braided,
are ready for the southern season.
The blanket coat, I'm its delightful
warmth and its beautiful lining Of
brocade, comes to us in a practical
model that is far from being cheap.
A smart hat Of cerise taffeta Is
made effective by a facing Of black
velvet. A bunch of tiny roses placed
on the brim forms the only trim
ming.
The fchu shape so much in evil
dence in gowns is out in little fur
neckpieces that cross over the front
as quantity as the lace fxings Of a
matinee.
For the evening the hat trimmed
with flowers may be worn, but hats
trimmed with aigrettes or feathers are
more effective, and certainly more
popular
The newest slipper buckles, instead
Of being merely underlaid with vel
vet. have a section of that material
made into the buckle as a separate
LAYER, between the setting and the
buckle back In the same manner,
cut steel buckles, natural and in the
bronze finish, are contrived
The most pronounced feature Of a
tailored or a semi-tailored costume is
the combination OF two materials (;
skirts of satin and velvet appear be-
meath the neat tunics and coats Of
serge or wool, and skirts Of white
cloth and ratine are much used on
the coats Of dark wool and velvet.
Black furs. with their relief in
brightly colored Innings, are most SER
viceable, and can play a double role
for evening an daytime. The striped
effect is very noticeable in the sew
ing Of the peltry. Borders Of fur in
this effect are used on the huge col
lars. revers and the bottom Of the
coats.
Hats for the evening are large. and
while some have quite fare at the
sides, other are twisted and bent n
such a manner that, although they ft
we'll down upon the head. they are
rolled in the front to show the hair
Because Of the twists and turns OF the
brim they give an impression Of being
smaller than they really are
Evening journal., 1912-02-12
SEVEN GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS
Thomas A. Edison Writes to Denver
Post Concerning 1911 Work.

Thomas n tdlSOn nrlteS 10 DenYer
Post Concerning 1911 Work.
1. Attempt to establish a Chinese
Republic.
2. Discovery by Erlich of Salvara-
san for the cure of specific infectious
diseases.
3. Unexpected rapidity Of the con-
struction OF the Panama Canal.
4. Improvements in aerial navga-
ton.
5. Important discoveries in surgi-
cal technique Of the Rockefeller In
stitute
6. Final proof Of the efficiency of
typhoid vaccination
Z. The rise and near perfection OF
the Diesel Engine.
The Diesel Engine is a gas machine
built on the principle Of internal COM
bustion, and has been on the market
for several months.
,Adolphus Busch, the celebrated St
Louis brewer. millionaire and philaR-
thropist, furnished thousands of dol
lars to make DR. Diese's invention a
possibility. A vast plant is soon to be
built In st. Louis TO manufacture the
Diesel engine. Thousands of men will
be employed.
The forethought and daring initia-
tive of Mr. Busch is now apparent
However, it took years Of faith in the
principle of the engine before success
was assured.
DR.. Diesel's invention is a radical
departure from all preceding inter
nal combustion engine construction
it's methods of operation make tn,
use of the lowest grade Of crude oil
or residual oil possible and results
in an efficiency far superior to tha
Of the most modern steam engine.
Mr. Busch first exhibited the Die
sci engine at the ST. Louis Worldi
Fair in the Alps Concession. and
furnished the light and power on thei
ground. and caused widespread atten
tion among the worlds engineers.
Evening journal., 1912-02-12
How TO be Certain of
Curing Constipation

Letters recently received from Mr..
J. w. Eidmiller, 2S4s Wilson ST..
Wheeling, W. Va. and Mrs. Jno Taber,
Waynesboro, Va, are but few Of
thousands showing the esteem in
which DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is
held. 1t is mild, gentle, non-griping
not violent, like salts or cathartics.
1t cures gradually and pleasantly so
that in time nature again does its own
work without outside aid. Constipat-
ed people owe it to themselves to use
this grand bowel specific.
Anyone wishing 60 make a trial Of
this remedy before buying it in the
egular way of a druggist at fifty
cents or one dollar a large bottle
iamily size) can have a sample bottle
sent to the home free of charge by
simply addressing Dr. w. b. Caldwell
i05 Washington S. Monticello. III
Your name and address on a postal
card wilHdo.
Evening journal., 1912-02-12
MEDICINE USED IN RURAL
DISTRICTS.

Over 35 per cent of the population
OF the United States are said to live
in rural districts remote from physi-
clans or drug stores and they are
obliged to depend upon proprietary
medicines to a very great extent
To the women in these homes, such
standard remedies as Lydia e Pink
hams Vegetable Compound come as a
boon and a blessing
For nearly forty years this splen-
did medicine. compounded from roots
and herbs, has been relieving the wo-
men of this country from the worst
forms of female ills. Merit alone
could have stood such a test.
Evening journal., 1912-02-12

Prejudice is a hard thing to over
come, but where health is at stake
and the opinion of thousands of relia-
BILE people differs from yours, preju-
dice then becomes your menace and
you ought to lay It aside. This is said
in the interest of people suffering
from chronic constipation, and it is
worthy of their attention.
In the opinion of legions Of reliable
American people the most stubborn
constipation imaginable can be cured
by brief use of DR.. Caldwell's Syrup
Pepsin. You may not have heard of
it before, but do not doubt its merits
on that account, or because it has
not been blatantly advertised. It has
sold very successfully on word of
mouth recommendation. Parents are
giving it to their children today who
were given it by their parents. and
it has been truthfully said that move
druggists use it personally in their
families than any other laxative.
Evening journal., 1912-02-12
Don't Pull Out
The Gray Hairs
A Few Applications Of Simple Rem.
edy WIN Bring Back the Ma
tural Color.

AuAnA ANAuAs
pull out one gray hair and a dozen
will take its place. is an old saying,
which is, TO a great extent, true, II no
steps are taken 10 stop the cause.
When gray hairs appear It is a sign
that Nature needs assistance. II is
Natures call for help. Gray hais, dull
lifeless hair, or hair that is falling
out. is not necessarily a sign of ad-
vancing age, for there are thousands
of elderly people with perfect heads
Of hair without a single streak. OF
gray.
When gray hairs come or when the
hair seems 10 be lifeless or dead, some
good, reliable hair-restoring treatment
should be reported to at once. Spe-
cialists say that one of the best prep
arstions 10 use is the old-fashioned
sage tea" which our grandparents
used. The best preparation of this
kind is Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur
Hair Remedy. a preparation of domes-
tic sage and sulphur, scientifically
compounded with later discovered hair
tonics and stimulants. the whole mix
ture being carefully balanced and
tested by experts.
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur is clean
and wholesome and perfectly harm
less. II refreshes dry, parched hair,
removes dandruff and gradually re-
stores faded or gray hair to its ma
tural color.
Don't delay another minute. Start
using Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur at
once and see what a difference few
days treatment will make in your
hair.
This preparation is offeed to the
public at fifty cents a bottle, and is
recommended and sold bv ali drug
gists.
special agent Miller Drug Co.
Evening journal., 1912-02-12
ON THE HONOR ROLL.

The following pupils in the gram
mar department Of Marshallton Pub
lie schools have made an average of
80 per cent. or above for the month
OF January.
Eighth grade-Clara McVey, Helen
Kitchens. Clarence Guest, Ralph Ken
nedy. Margaret Groves, Edna Klair
Edith Bedford, Grace Collision.
Seventh grade-Ella Shakespeare
Florence -Klair. Edward Mullin, Le-
Roy Parker, Paul Naughton, Irene
Bryson. Nathan Frankfurt.
Sixth grade-Lewis Crouch, Helen
Groves, Edwina Crouch.
Evening journal., 1912-02-12
SALES BY THE SHERIFF..

Sheriff Logue at the Court House
Saturday sold a property Of George
T. Aikens, at Eleventh and Lombard
streets TO Frank L. Speakman, attor-
uey, for $500 and a property at
Taylor and Buttonwood streets be-
longing to Rebeca Adelman to Leon
ard E. Wales attorney. for $75.
Evening journal., 1912-02-12
CONTRACTS FOR
Mr.. SCHUNDER

Contractor Joseph Schunder has
been awarded the contract to erect
a dwelling for Frank Jacobs, at No.
Pip Market street, to cost $4,000 He
also is low bidder on extensive inn
provements to the building at the
southeast corner of Seventh and King
streets. occupied by Frederick steinle,
a baker.
Evening journal., 1912-02-12
5000 FOR MIssI0NARY WORK.

The largest missionary offering of
West Presbyterian Church was col
lected at the meeting Of the mission
airy Society Of the church on Thurs
day when S152.15 was handed in.
When the regular Offering Of the day
was added. the total amount reached
about 5000.