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Evening journal., 1912-04-01
Wayfarer'S S Note Book
MANY ROBINS DESERT

NE W NAo LII
New Castle until last year was noted
for its robins. Since then few of
the red-breasted songsters have been
seen there. Why they have deserted
a town in which there are so many
large and handsome trees and wide
and grass-grown stretches no one
seems to know. They have been pro-
tected against cruel boys and meat
hunters and the same conditions pre-
vailed last year and prevail this year
that existed in previous years, and yet
nowadays it is unusual to see one of
the popular birds which have figured
so prominently in song and story
1t was John G. King, formerly post
master in New Castle and now a
bailiff in the County Court House in
this city, who called the Wayfarer's S
attention to existing conditions. Mr..
King still lives in New Castle He
knows as much about that town, per-
haps. as does any man. For years
he has taken much interest in the
robins there, even going to the eX-
treme of protecting, with shotgun,
their ledglings against marauding
crows and other winged and four
footed enemies.
Prior to last spring the trees and
bushes were full of robins" Mr.. King
said yesterday. when it was time
for them to arrive last year l noticed
how few came to spend the summer.
Their absence was particularly notice.
able on the old Court House Green
and in the trees near my own home.
| could not account for it. Whereas
IN former years perhaps a score of
the birds nested and reared their
young in the neighborhood of my
home. last spring only two pairs ap-
peared there. ! was interested par
ticularly in the housekeeping of one
pair. The nest was built. four eggs
were laid and hatched and the old
birds worked early and late to feed
their young. Finally the nest was
discovered by a crow. / saw It swoop
down and attack the young robins.
Before / could run I'm the house and
get my gun it had killed and partly
eaten two of them. It was about 10
finish the two others when IL saw
me and started to fly away. raised
my gun and fired. Several of the
crows tail feathers we're torn out
by the shot, but the marauder escaped.
IL must have been stung pretty bad
ly, as IL never came back. From
the fact that the nest was not attacked
Dy an other crows, / guess the one
INTO whose rear elevation / had pour
ed that load of shot promptly warn
ed all the other crows that tbe
ROBINS nest in my tree was taboo.
rms spring the robins are scarcer
than they we're last year and If the
decrease continues next year as Il
mas IN the last two years there will
not be a robin i'm our neighborhood.
Evening journal., 1912-04-01
THE VOICE
Florence Elliott Perkins.
Dedicated 10 ID. and A.

If you wonder where of old we met,
Your hear the voice, the voice amid
the flowers;
II is my spirit that never can forget
Those hours with thee, those golden
hours.
Bend, if you will, and say a prayer
for me;
Think of our love, cali me. oh do
not fear.
OH Dorothy, in all the happy days
10 be.
My heart will hear my heart VIII
hear
Evening journal., 1912-04-01

THE EVENING JOURNAL uses the United Press
News Service received in its editorial over
special wire.
THIS is sale regularly at stand
IN Wilmington and the principal towns in the State Of Della
ware; also Station Tweny-fourh and
ChestDIt Street StBtion, Philadelphia Pa.
NOTICE TO v1sIroRs-IIIE EVENING JOURNAL has os-
tahshcd editorial Exchange Table for the
Of visitors in this city who desire TO keep in touch With tho news
home We exchange list covering all the Eastern
Of New England the South and
tcay az the important cities in the Middle West Those
will bo Exchange Table ready for the
free and unrestricted ouoown folk who here for
for short visits welcome all such visi
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Evening journal., 1912-04-01

Dover should not bcgrudee to Wilmington the S25O0OO
appropriation for harbor Improvement that Senator du-
Pout is endeavoring get for it. In years gone by
Wilmmgtonians have assisted materially in getting
appropriations Jones river and the channel Civ
ing access to IL. UnQuesuonaby they will do it again
If opportunity offers. Meantime all Deawareans have
an acute interest in the Improvement of Wilmington
harbor and the upbuding of this ctys commercial in-
terests and nothing should be done to embarass any
unselfsh movement for local benefit
Evening journal., 1912-04-01

It was very nice for those Democrats so meet in
Dover and decide that party and public interest calls
for the nomination aud election of Woodrow Wilson
ior president But wouldn't IL have been much more
convenient and economical if the conferoes had re-
mained at home aud telephoned in TO Willard sauls
bury.s onice The simple word "Ameng,
Evening journal., 1912-04-01
MANy TAINCUFS oIr

The warm weather yesterday caused
many boat owners TO give their craft
algeneral overhauling and several Of
the local boatyards presented an ami
mated scene Those who could. spent
the day on the river
Evening journal., 1912-04-01
Ar SCIENCE MEETING.

Mr. and Mrs. Caleb +. Burchenal
and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Warner at
tended the sixteenth annual meeting
of the American Academy of Political
and Social Science, at WitherspoOn
Hall, Philadelphia, on Saturday.
Evening journal., 1912-04-01

In the last ten years LOO churches have been
abandoned i'm Illinois and fully OOO the inactive
list in Missouri Kansas and Iowa also are suffering
from religious apathy that has had disastrous effect
on the churches there Those conditions show con-
cusively that there something wrong with the rei-
gious work that is being done. In intelligent
communities such as those referred to above churches
that are attractive to the public will close or
become inactive
Evening journal., 1912-04-01

The Newark Post congratuates THE EVENING
JOURNAL in the enterprise that prompted it 10 estab-
ish an exchange table for the of out-oftown folk
Who when in Wilmington, desire 10 read their home
papers We thank the Post for its editorial of COM
mendation, which assists in giving publicity to the
establishment in our Office of feature that should
prevail in all well-reguated newspaper offices
Evening journal., 1912-04-01

postage stamp collection that had ben built up by
years OF enthusiastic work by Robert Hoscher a
Budapest architect sold recently for $4,000. ono
stamp brought S17OO Il is safe to say that many per-
who knew of Mr. Holitscher and his work called
him "a bug stamps" being short-sighted they
could not far into the future as he could
Evening journal., 1912-04-01

such spirit pervading it should be productive OF a
complete understanding and much public good
Evening journal., 1912-04-01

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Evening journal., 1912-04-01
GUILD DUSI
makes pot and pan
spick and span

Soap and muscle won't clean
your pots and pans properly
thoroughly.
Ordinary washing of cook
ing utensils passes over whole
hidden nests of little wigglers
commonly called germs.
Gold Dust is a sanitary wash
ing powder that not only re-
moves the visible dirt and
grease, but digs deep afterevery
trace of germ life-sterilizes
pots, pans, pals and kettles
leaving them clean, whole
some, safe.
Shake a little Gold Dust in
your dish-water and see the
startling results.
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Evening journal., 1912-04-01

Tomorrow Mrs. Edwards will tell OF
"a Bit of Unwritten History of the
Second Lincoln Campaign"
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New-York tribune., 1912-11-20
MILITARY AID TO SULzER
Governor Elect Appoints Mem
ber of Old Family.

Governor-elect William SulZer an
nounced last night the appointment OF
CAPTAIN e. Gilbert Schermerhorn as mill
tary secretary.
Captain Schermerhorn, who enlisted In
the National Guard in 1855. rose through
the various grades to the rank OF cap
tain. He was retired from active service
In 1899.
Captain Schermerhorn is member OF
an old New York family. He is de-
scended from long line Of military an
cestors. His great-great-grandfather
General Ebenezer Stevens. was COM
mander OF artillery at Burgoyne's sur
render Captain Schermerhorn's ances-
tor Simon Schermerhorn rode from
Schenectady TO Albany at the time OF
the Indian massacre and saved the town
OF Albany from destruction.
Captain Schermerhorn is member OF
the 7th Regiment Veteran Association,
18th Regiment Veteran Association and
the 18TH Regiment Veteran Association.
lie belongs to the Military Society and
Veteran Corps Of Artillery, 1872; Sons OF
the Revolution. Society Of Colonial Wars,
ST. Nicholas Society Holland Society and
is a thirty-second degree Mason.
New-York tribune., 1912-11-20
The New Woman
Arrives in Spain

was great thing for little girl TO earn.
The highest wage she could ever hope
for was 81 week. The result was, Of
course. that the little girl began looking
about at once for some one upon whom
she could depend for support Her one
ambition I'm life was to get married Poor
thing! She did not know that men were
not to be depended upon.
"Of course, | don't mean American
men," Dona Matilde blushed and apollo
gized as ripple Of laughter swept the
room at this worldly wise remark. 1t
is different with Americans In Spain all
women are slaves Of men. Even now the
men so look upon US. Ny own brother
says to me often You are just a woman
You have no idea what it means TO
Spanish girls to have such a place as the
International Institute. where they can
receive a liberal education; where they
can learn to develop their minds, to think
clearly and creatlvey. There girls are
fitted TO become the companions Of men
not their slaves. They must be so If they
are to be mothers Of a generation which
will regenerate my beloved country.
NOW, you assn, WHAT Is llltS 10 sAlIltll-
cans? Long ago a Spanish queen sacri-
feed her jewels-and 1t is not very easy
for a Spanish woman to give up jewels
in order that Christopher Columbus might
discover some land-Of course, he did
not know then that 1t would he America.
So it was really due to a Spanish womans s
money that the new hemisphere was
opened up and colonized. This debt the
Americans may now repay In the recol-
onzation of Spain, and by that l mean
in the Introduction Of American ideas,
especially about education"
Professor Katharine Conan, Of We'll
lesley College, one of the directors Of the
international Institute for Girls, told the
story OF how the school started in the
home of Mrs. Alice Gordon Gulck, a mis-
sionary and how now every year few
American girls are sent over to "leaven
the lump; that is, to pose as models
of modern girlhood for the enlightenment
of the timorous seiloritas.
Professor Conan told, too. Of the awak-
ening In Spain of the social conscience
of men of a new era, who were interested
in the new education Of girls, as they
were in all other modern ideas, such
as those gathered around the tea table
Of Miss Susan d. Huntington, director Of
the institute.
The assassination Of Premier Canale-
Jas recalls" Professor Conan said "a
question ] put to one OF these groups
Of liberals. What would happen 1 asked,
II this reform statesman should be re-
called or should die? Is public opinion
strong enough TO carry on his work%
"The answer came confidently. The
King will stand behind US, they said.
There can be no setback to this great
forward movement
New-York tribune., 1912-11-20
DIES ALONE WITH DOG
Police Find $4,000 on Body of
Supposed Poor Woman.
IBy Telegraph TO The Tribune.


Philadelphia, Nov. IA tiny black
poodle, which had been her constant
COMPANION in recent years, was the sole
guardian of the body of Mrs. Lulu Waslee,
who was found dead In her home here to-
day When the police entered the house
the dog tried TO prevent them from touch
ing the body.
As Lulu Wieant the woman married
several years ago George Waslee, resident
manager of an express company. They
were divorced, and Mrs Waslee continued
to occupy her North llth street home,
which was well furnished. In recent years
her former prosperous appearance had
given way to signs Of poverty, and she
was seldom seen In the street except with
the little dog.
PHYSICIANS said the woman died from
natural causes. but the coroner will inves-
tigate the case.
When the police searched the body OF
Nrs Waslee they found about $4,000
worth of negotiable paper, including
bonds, and also some mortgages, hioden
about her person
New-York tribune., 1912-11-20
Basketball and Chemistry
Substituted for Bullfights
in Senorita's Education.

A new day is dawning for the woman
hood Of Spain. The sefiorita who chat
tered OF bullfghts and was wise only in
the wisdom of embroidery and convent
lore will soon be superseded by the
Amerlcanized college girl, who knows
things like chemistry and basketball and
detetlcs.
The change was symbolzed yesterday
in the incident OF one Of the new type of
Spanish maidens addressing a New York
audience. She was Sehorita Dona Mat!lde
Malin, of Barcelona, who is now taking a
nurses training at a Boston hospital and
is going back next year TO teach her fell
low country women how to bring up their
children In accordance with Boston stand
ards of health and hygiene Her little
speech was delivered at a meeting held
at the home Of Miss Grace Dodge, No.
262 Madison avenue, in the interests OF the
International Institute for Girls at
Madrid, Of which Dona Matilde Is a grad
uate.
any one who fears that the new seforita
will he a creature lacking i'm the charms
Of the old Spanish type, that the COM
the extinction of romantic black eyes
and raven tresses, need only see DOna
Matide to be reassured. The black eyes
and the raven tresses We're there, all right,
with a red rose coquotlshly nodding over
one ear and the whole picture framed in
mist OF fine lace-a senorita true to life
Her words We're revolutionary enough,
- Il -.
accept only accentuated the strangeness
Of the message
Il VIII tell you what the life OF the
Spanish girls used to be-" she began. IN
the old days, when 1 heard that a little
girl baby had come into any ones home
said: Too bad! I'm sorry. She is a
woman, and a woman can have only a
life of sorrow, of labor, of slavery
The rich girls used 10 have only a
convent education. At sixteen they were
introduced into a whirl OF bullhghts. the
atrcs, balls. This lasted only a year or
two, until their mothers found them hus-
bands. After they were once married
they might as well be buried
The middle class girl had little more
education, though she knew a bit more
of life, perhaps. She saw more Of her
own mother than the rich child, who was
iutrusted 10 a nurses care, but she was
the same ignorant, superstitous, bgoted
little soul
THE girls Of tho poorest class never
learned anything at all. They had TO 20
to work at twelve years OF age. They
earned perhaps 20 cents a week. That
New-York tribune., 1912-11-20
AMERICAN WOMAN AIDS
BALKAN RED CROSS
wife Of SerVian Charge DAT
faireS in London Gets $10,-
600 for Relief Here.
TALK OF WINTER HORRORS
Having Started Collection Ma
chinery, She Is Now Arous-
ing the Interest of
Young College Men.

With the war still raging and the VIM
,sr coming on to add 20 It's toll Of suffer
'rg 10 the afflicted Balkan peoples, the
,,,ra woman from Servia is redoubling
Fs. efforts to raise that 100000 Her
sppeal has gone out through all the Red
cross AGENCIES, and in a day or two $l0,
"a has been collected, but the little wom-
q, is lust getting warmed up 10 the
rork and has no intention of stopping
u7tu American hearts nave been stirred
and American purses drained in the In
,srssts of her beloved people of the
Ealkans.
This is Nine Slavko Y. Grouitch, the
..r1, American wife of the SeTvian
charge d'affaires in London, and she
&c serving the people of her husbands
country i'm this way instead of on the
field Of battle in a nurses uniform, only
because she feels that the money she can
rs,ss will do more good than her personal
service
Il am ready to so, though, II / am
needed" she told The Tribune reporter
Yesterday al the Stratford House, where
she had just returned from Washington.
81 took a course in first aid 10 the in
iured last year, in order 10 be ready for
any service that was demanded Of me.
1T Is hard 10 be away from the people
who need me. Night and day my heart
is heavy You who have never seen that
country co not know what the terrors OF
this winter will be. now that the land is
filed with disease and sorrow.
Il have seen wars before. / was in the
former Balkan war, and have seen war
in Russia, TOO. know what ii means"
Having started the Red Cross machin-
ery Mime. GrOnitch is now turning her at
tention to the college boys OF the country.
She came yesterday from Princeton, and
Is going next week TO Harvard and Yale.
1T is situation particularly appeal
ing TO university people" she explained,
because Of its historical significance.
Greece naturally comes i'm for the deepest
sympathy Of the students, because they
know more about her, but the story of all
these plucky little countries hghting for
liberty stirs the enthusiasm Of every stu
dent
"a have q letter from President Hibben,
Of Princeton, urging students 70 help,
and another from Dean Andrew F. West.
Another letter from Mrs Grover
Cleveland urges the women Of America TO
contribute to the Balkan funds, for the
relief not only Of the wounded soldiers,
but Of the surviving widows and chill
aren in the terrible winter now at hand"
New-York tribune., 1912-11-20
MRS. ADRlAMCE HYSTERICAL
Testimony Halted in Former
Husbands Alienation Suit.

The trial of the suit OF James p. Berney
against Benjamin Adriance for $4,000
damages, because. as It was charged, the
defendant alenated the affections Of the
plaintiffs wife, whom he later married,
was resumed yesterday before Justice
Blanchard First came the complaint by
Charles r. Bradbury counsel for Berney,
who told Of an attack on him by James
T. Berney. son Of Mrs. Adriance. He sad
that the young man had threatened on
Sunday in New Jersey that he would XIII
him, and followed this up with the at
tack on Monday evening, after the case
had been adjourned for the day. Berney
said that the lawyer had struck him first
Justice Blanchard said that the incident
was dlsgraceful, but that he had no juris-
dction as the alleged assault did not oc-
cur in the courthouse.
Mrs. Adriance was a witness yesterday
for her present husband and against her
former husband. She said that her mar
rjed life with Berney had been unhappy,
and that ne struck and otherwise i'll treat
cd her. He also swore much, said Mrs
Adriance. but she didn't mind az long as
II made him feel better. The witness told
of Berney inviting friends 10 their home
and then sending out for pals Of beer
She objected TO this. She acknowledged
that her present husband kept liquor in
his home. bur declared he never sent out
for pals Of beer.
Mrs. Adriance. who obtained a divorce
from Berney in South Dakota, testified
that her lawyer told her the decree was
good anywhere, and he charged her only
half the usual fee for getting IT, because
he believed she deserved II and was poor
Mrs. Adriance became hysterical on the
stand, and her testimony was interrupted.
Adriance was again a witness yester-
day. He denied that he travelled alone
with Mrs Berney before she became his
wife. lie said that he, Mrs. Berney, her
brother and her sister-in-law spent some
time I'm Paris.
New-York tribune., 1912-11-20
GIRL WIFE LOSES SUIT
Court Holds Husband of Fifty
five Was Not Unkind.

Mrs. Irene Klein, twenty-one years old,
a former cloak model, with an abundance
OF golden hair and pretty, poutirg lips,
failed 10 convince Justice Clark, in the
Supreme Court, Queens, yesterday that
she had been III treated by her husband.
Edward Klein. ffty-fye years old. and,
in consequence. her plea for a separation
and alimony was denied.
Klein conducts a wholesale liquor
house in Corona. He was widower, with
five children, when, three years ago he
met the girl who later became his second
wife. He fell desperately I'm love and
began his courtship at once. After show
ing the young woman and her mother
HIS large real estate holdings Klein and
the girl went before Alderman Schneider
and were married. Then the young bride
was taken 10 Kleins home and intro
duced TO his five children, consisting OF
four daughters, their ages ranging from
seventeen to twenty-five years, and a son,
eight years Old.
They didn't get along well together,
and whenever company came for dinner
the children, ii was alleged, gave the
young wife a place all TO herself outside
in the hall. This led Mr.. and Mrs. Klein
10 set up housekeeping in Manhattan.
They had frequent disagreements, and
finally Mrs Klein left her home in Jauu-
airy last, taking her infant son. She has
since lived with her mother, Mrs. Mary
Vogel, In Corona.
Klein testified that he loved his young
wife, that he never treated her unllindly
and was willing at any time to receive
her back into his home
New-York tribune., 1912-11-20
INDUSTRIAL STRAIN ON WOMEN
DR.. Rosalie Morton Says Factory
Work Itself Is Not DANGEROUS.

WOIh llStll - NOG bduSSLOuo'
Most Of the women who break down
from work do 50 from causes which are
IN no way related to sex" This IS what
Dr. Rosalie Slaughter Morton says, and
Dr. Morton has just made a study o.
Industrial strain upon women for the re-
cent meeting I'm Washington Of the In
ternational Congress on Hygiene and De-
biography.
That there is a great difference in tha
effect upon health between factory and
domestic work DR.. Morton firmly believes,
She says factory work IS not IN its'if
dangerous to women IN fact in MANI
instances a woman's physical and mental
health are better when she is engaged
in a regular and impersoHal form OF
work.
OF course, when one sets out % invesu-
gate subject one cannot escape st8tis-
tics This is inevitable Therefore, Or
Morton produces figures TO prove her
assertions % be the result Of scientific Ie-
search ard rot mere theory. Erom such
varied sources as insane asylums and lie
insurance companies Dr. Morton finds hs-
ures to show that higher percentage Of
insane women come from The ranks OF
the housewives and domgsucs than from
women I'm trades and professions More
over, during the last twenty-five years
longevity has increased among women IN
general, and during the same period
women have been entering the industries
IN ever increasing numbers
But Dr. Morton is rot trying 20 make
the working womaus burden any heavier.
She adds her voice 10 the general plea for
shorter hours and fairer pay, saying t1at
these would lessen the effects Of indus
trial strain upon the working woman,
both individually and generally, TO an eN-
tent which would raise the health and
efficiency OF our race at least 20 per cent
Protesting that the endurance Of women
as class Is not so inferior 10 that Of
men. she SAYS: a point often overlooked
IS that their lower wages do not enable
them to purchase as sustaining food as
men customarily have. The average
amount paid by women in shops, fac
tories and clerical positions for their
luncheon Is 10 cents. The average paid
bv men I'm the same line Of work is %
cents. The resulting lack Of nutrition
naturally I'm a very short time lessons tie
endurance Of women workers"
one large corporation IN New York went
so far as 20 supply substantial luncheons
for 800 employees in the head Office, with
the result that absences on account OF IL
ness have been conspicuously reduced