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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-10
He Needn t Starve Now.

The poet need no longer starve in
a garnet, getting his living through
quasi-mendicancy or the uncertain
favor Of patron. Advertising has
opened up a field for any one who
can push a pen, shake the literary
brush piles ana put salt on the tail
Of an idea
Twenty-Five years ago the aayer-
Using man was unknown. The pro-
prietor OF a store wrote his own
ads, and, Of necessity. inertia pre-
vailed to such a degree that an
"ad" once written was run in the
paper until the type wore out. The
idea of new advertisement every
day was thing unguessed.
\. +. Stewart wrote his own adj
verusements, He wrote them in the
impersonal style, simply:
Mi a. T. Stewart hegs 10 in
form the people of New York that
ne has jus, eeciyed "A few cases Of
Irish linens. especially selected for
him in Belfast These viii be opened
on the sidewalk, in front of the
Palace of Business. and offered 10
the drst corners at fully ten per
Gem, below the figures which th,
Sam. goods will bring after they
Aa carried into The store"
I'n hire d man inst o., f..L ..tt-..
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-10
Some Get Large Salaries.

Life consists either in being in
and looking out or in being out and
looking in. And the man who is
outside looking in has little better
view. often, than the man who is
inside struggling with details, per
picked, aggravated. worn and Won
dering whether he will ever get his
money back.
There are now upward Of twenty
thousand men in America prepar-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-10
Literature and ADVERTISING
BY ELBERT HUBBARD.
By WINSOR MfCAY.


-''' '''i'''i -'e"S "ei IL
: Your advertising would have been
regarded as rank. eEtravagance at
that time. The argument would also
have been made that no man could
write about things unless he were
an expert in handling them. We
did not perceive that a few simple
rules apply. and that the outsider
often gets better perspective than
the man who is close up against the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-10
Looked Like Ravens.

Any of us who are middle-aged
can recall two or three old ladies
with long sweeping black wells. and
mourning garments and melan-
eholy countenances. who used to
come and visit our mothers. They
looked like ravens, and they spent
the day in a perfect orgy Of tears.
When they went away our mothers
would explain rhat these women
had lost their husbands, or a child
or a mother some 80 or 80 years
before, and that since tina, time
they had never worn q stitch OF
colored clothes, or LET up the parlor
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-10
Life Hash t Changed.

We have to get a perspective on
the past to realize how different
conditions are today and how we
have cheered up without realizing
it. We no longer mistake bilious
ness for Specification. Indeed.
there are several religions, with
millions of followers, that are based
\ on the cult of happiness.
For our souls sake and our stom-
ach's sake we are adjured alike by
priest and doctor to think bright
and joyous thoughts and to dwell
on the good in the world instead
Of the evil. People with tales Of
woe 10 tell find no ready listeners
and are made to feel by the public
attitude toward them that they are
towards and winners, and if vom-
en- have tears to shed they shed
them in private, where they won't
afflict anybody else. nor ruin their
own compilations.
Life hasn't changed, nor have its
sorrows been vanquished. The
griefs that have torn the human
heart since the beginning of time
have not been exercised. Death still
robs us of our beloved; sickness
tortures US; the treachery of those
we trusted stabs us to the quick;
riches fly out of the window. and
poverty crawls in through the
crack of the door
Women still keep lonely vigils
waiting for the drag of drunken
footstep on the stair; mothers bend
above empty cradles, and gray
headed, old wives are deserted for
younger and fairer faces. Nothing
in the whole category OF sorrows
is changed, but somehow we have
struggled up to Drawer attitude
toward life and saner way OF
meeting our troubles.
Just as many terrible things hap
pen to US now as ever happened
TO our forbears, but We do not let
a single misfortune, however great.
ruin our lives as they did. It isn't
the fashion to be miserable. and so
We make a blur at cheerfulness
We should be as much ashamed to
be pointed out as broken-he
as We would be to be pointed out as
having a peniteutiary record.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-10

window shades, or smiled. They
had been monuments to grief. They
had put in lifetime carefully cul-
tivating their sorrow, until they
had actually become melancholy
mad.
Where are those sable ladies to-
day? You never see them. None Of
these Niobes come and bedew our
carpets with their tears We
wouldn't stand for such an afhic-
ton, and no modern woman, no
matter what her grief, would think
of burdening her friends with fl.
Women are just as devoted
daughters, just as adoring mothers,
just as loving wives as they ever
were, and when they lose parents.
or children, or husbands, they are
just as gr1eVed as any woman Of
the past ever was. But they mo
longer sacrifice the living to the
dead, and instead of parading their
woe before the public, they hide it
out of sight, and try to add their
mite of cheerfulness to the world
instead of burdening it with their
gloom.
In other days it was the fashion
never to recover from any heart az
fair, If man was lirted by
pretty coquette, or a girl was Tilted
by a faithless swain, public senti-
ment demanded that he should be-
come a surly misanthrope who
hated all women forever after. and
that she should either pine away
with a broken heart, or else live on.
a sweet, sad spinster. NOWADAYS
we take an injury to our hear.
about as seriously as we do piu
prick to our fingers. 1t may huw
for the minute, but we apply a it,
tie of the antiseptic Of some other
Woman's or mans society to til,
spot, and know that by tomorrow it
viii be entirely healed.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-10
By DOROTHY DIX.

THERE is one feature of mod
ern progress that has not at
tracted the attention it de-
serves and that is that people are
happier and more cheerful than
they used to be.
In the past. in America at least,
piety and gloom were synonymous
terms and the more melancholy the
individual the more religious he or
she was esteemed. 1t was thought
that to be cheerful showed you to
be light-minded, and those who
laughed easily. especially women,
were looked upon with suspicion
as being no better than they should
be. When people met together
they told each other their trou-
bles, and women enjoyed them
selves by mingling their tears when
they foregathered for pleasant
afternoon.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-10
Sunday Afternoon Concerts
a Blessing to Atlanta

They Given Hour That Interees With No Service of
Religious Character and Upon Day Furnishing Hundreds of
People With Their Only Possible Opportunity to Attend.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-10

ing advertising copy. Some of
these men command salaries of
princely magnitude. say a thousand
dollars a month, and there are a
dozen or so whose figure is just an
even hundred dollars a day.
There is no doubt. however, that
the genius required in writing adj
vertisments has been more or less
overrated, and there is soon to be
a swinging back of the pendulum.
We must understand the truth that
writing is more or less of a knack.
Dean Swift said that a good man
could write on any subject and
make the theme interesting.
Then" said Stella, write me an
essay on q broomstick." And
straightway the Dean accepted the
challenge and wrote an immortal
thing in literature.
Charles Lambs essay on Roast
Pig" is another example of good
writing about nothing in particu-
lar.
Both Charles Lamb and Dean
Swift, if they lived today. would be
writing advertisements Tor depart
ment stores. and they would be
making a deal more money than
they ever made in literature.
America has 5000 men who can
write just as well as Dean Swift
Charles Lamb, Colerdge, Dick
Steele or Or. Johnson.
It Will Be Standardized.
We work from the complex to the
simple. Your high school graduate
and Your "highbrow" write John
sonese-long. involved, strange SEN
fences. Men with minds like little
fishes write like whales. Good ad-
vertising copy has the gentle flow
OF Addison and the swing OF Victor
Hugo
The ad writer's who get the large
checks would do wei TO enjoy their
brief moments of butterfly exist
ence. Advertising is going to be
come standardized, and not forever
will this financial gulf exist be
tween the clerics and the ad writ
ers. All the colleges are putting
in courses in advertising.
Good literature is an advertise
mont and an advertisements. ,,,,lt
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-12-06
RE E-ENAcT old SERVICE ELKs TO HONOR DEAD
Services Held 13O Years. Ago to Be-
Reproduced in Christ Church
Tomorrow Afternoon

Representatives of pa.roitic socie-.
ties from all part of Virginia, i from,
the District of Columbia and other,
communities, headed by Mrs. VIM
Ruffin Cox, of Richmond, pres;I ent
of the National Society CT Colonial
Danes of;America,sare expected ht's
tomorrow af .ernoon to attend tie
services at historic Christ Church.
which will be a replica of the services
held on December Z, 1883 to comem-
morate the departure of the BIRTHS"
from the shores Of the United Sta eS.
Two services will be held under the
auspices of the Alexandria Committee
of the Colonial Danes Of America IN
Virginia The decoration of the church
and the services to be cor lucted Wi
be as they were carried our 1870 years
ago The pew winch was used -.
General Washington when b" was
a vestryran in the church. vii e
reserved for President Wilson "ho
has been invited to attend. Accord
ing to press dispatches the President
lis slightly indisposed and il Is hardly
thought that he will appear.
Space in the church will be rese1v-
ed for all members of the Daughters
of the American Revolution and
Daughters of Mount Vernon Chapter
will meet at the residence 81 Mrs.
George Uhlel ari' procehd TO The
church in a body. Members OF inc
AleNs, sraa Colombo 3amrs WI.
meet a? the residence Of Mr.. Powell.
The program will be Is f1:iow.':
Anthem Come Than Almighty
King SOLO. "The Lord is W.; Shcr-
herd" Mrs. Sherman Fo%','r; lessen:
solo, open TO me the Ga e$," Mrs.
DeDer;4nthem from Psalm Us, Mrs.
Robert F. Downham and kenn"sa
Ogden; solo. Crock Of Age, i'I@hlrd
Writ: address by the rccsn". She Rev.
Wan. J. Morton. from the text:
"Yca thou shalt see thy children ::
children and peace upon Israes',
ouartctte. Sing AIlelulia," Mrs.
Downham. Mrs. O'Bren, Kenneth Og-
den and Geo. Fl. Evans: benedct'"E
HYMN. "How Firm Foundation.
The services will commence at $50
O'Clock.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-12-06
Program For Annual Memorial Ser
vices at Opera House To
morrow Night

-. Memorial services in honor of TWEEN
Ety- eight members Of the order who
shave diei. since The organization Of the
tAlexan;1lia Lodge will be" celebra ed
Thy Alexandra Lodge of rElks at the
kOpera House tomorrow night. The
( theatre will be deliberately decorated
For the occasion, flags, bunting, and
/. electric lights being used for the dec
grafton. The stage will be banked
wi h palms.
The memorial address will be made
by Hon HID. Flood, member of Con-
gress from the Ten1h Congressional
district of Virginia Mr.. Flood noti-
fled the committee yesterday that he
would be unable to appear but when
he founit that he lodge would net be
able to secure a speaker in the short
time remaining, he reconsidered his
Ceciination.
! The program will consist of the
rendition of the ritual by Exalted
Ruler Bales and the officers of the
lcr'ge. he calling of the roll of the
deceased members by the Secretary,
Waited NJ. Donnelly, and the follow
musical program:
Solo, abide With Me-" Richard
Writ; trio, praise Ye,T Miss
Kathryn Brill, Richard Writ and
James Young; vocal solo, selected,
Mrs. VIM. P. WooIls; violin solo, solo
selected. James Young; solo, selected,
Miss Kathryn Brill. The bene fiction
will be pronounced by Rev. John Lee
Allison.
The following is list of the de-
ceased members of Alexandria Lodge:
William l.. Hayes, George r..
Steiner, Charp Walker, Camuel 5.
Wingfe!d. Donald Mclean. Daniel
Ruben. Thomas F. Spinks, Peyton
Dearborn. Jr.. VIM. A. Moore, Edward
l.. Jordan, Peter Sinclair, Henry A.
Lilly. Thomas E. Gorham. Henry
Strauss. William f. SiSSon. Zorro
Hill. Louis Brill. Frederick Srhwab,
Henry H. Kelly, Henry Bladder, John
Nv Riley, .F.Board, A B. Marshall,
Louis f. Shuman. Peter S. Healy, Jno
"A. Marshall, c. R. Davis, William II.
Peck.
The memorial committee Of Alex
andria Lodge is as follows: Geo. 7.
Cation, chairman; Harry FleiSchmann,
Henran FrcdlaW'jer,. J. Owen Lynch.
and Charles y Marshall.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-12-06

! Miss Chloe Cooke has returned 10
her home in Baltimore, after Vlat
with Miss Esther Burke, IN Prince
! street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-12-06

Miss Roxie Doniphan will enter
tain the Five Hundred Club Of which
she is a member, at her home in the
Fairfax Apartments this evening.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-12-06
HEARING POSTPONED.

The hearing which was set for this
morning in Police Court OF five men
charged with robbing cars of the
Washington Southern Railway and
having stolen goods in their posses
sion was postponed by agreement of
their counsel and S. G.. Brent, attor-
rcy for the commonwealth. James
Mason, colOrcd, one of the men, who
was arrested in Philadelphia, was
brought here yesterday by Officer
Ferguson vino went after the man
With requisition papers signed by
Governor Mann.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-12-06
LINE DISCONTINUED.

\ ferry line that has been in OPP
crat11n between Alexandi a and
Washington, for several years has
been discontinued Cap. Douglass
Ramsey. owner Of the power beat
Frank Philips, which replaced the
ferry steamer used at one time, re-
Gently withdrew his boat from SER
vice because of lack of patronage
Clerks in the navy yard, for whor'
fer:y was operate il seems, PIE
fcrrcd he electric ears.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-12-06

Mr.. George T. Zachary has return
ed to his home in Del Ray latter
spending the past summer and$z fall
IN Ohio. :iz@
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-12-06

Miss Alice Wilton. continues sick
at her home in north Columbus
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-12-06

Miss Lee Ruckcr, Of Washington
ID. c., is the guest of Miss Lucy
Webb, at her home III the fairiaA
Apartments.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-12-06

Mr.. C. Page Waller, Jr., has re-
t,,,ned from short visit to ba!tl-
more
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-12-06
GUNMEN PLEADS GUILTY.

An Alexandrian named Nails was
brought before Justice kerby at
Rnat's Blacksmith Shop. corner
Franklin and Patrick streets a day Or
TWO ago charged with cunning on
the premises of Miss Walsh, in Fir
fax county on Thanksgiving Day.
without permission Nails plead
guilty and WAS fined 50 and 81 costs.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-12-06

Mrs. Hattie Pettett, Of Alexandra
has been spending a few days with
her sister, Mrs. A. Willett, IN Mar
bury
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-12-06

DIED December 9Th 1913, $40 p
M. MRS. WILLIAM +. BAKER
ST., iii her 5lSt year Of age. Fun,
cTal from her late residence, 90
Duke street. Sunday, December r
IT ] p. m. Friends invited to AT
Tend. Services will be conGuctad
by Rev. w F.Watson, Of the First
!HniiSt .iurch.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-12-06
MEMORY.

IN the year of 1912. we hal our
da ling brother. Last year a: tins time
he was bright as star. He now IS
out of our presence. He now we hope
i in heaven. and is in better home
then we have today. Santa Claus
will have to put his ihingS on the
Toyiand express for heaven. nope
we will soon meet him In heaven
where he will have hos home here
after. t,,,,,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-12-06
] R F SSE j
DOL Is
Will Delight the
Girls

Dressed Dolls. On, size; some infant
dolls Included. all nicely dressed with
shoes and stockings. Boxed for 25c.
Dressed Character Dolls, l0-in. in
size: boys or girls; some dresSe- III
rompers others to go prorenading on
the streets. Boxed and offered
choice at :. :. :. DUG
Dressed Dolls, l3-in. size; some
have hats and dressed in boy and girl
attire: boxed. Special values at,
choice. :. :. .''c
Dressed Dolls, some IA in. tall, rep
rescnting Sunbonnet Sue, Pajangl Boy
all: others: boys and girls in the 'ot.
an unusual value at, choice -. Sl.25.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-12-06
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
.
Interesting News Notes About People
of Alexandria Happenings z:
lin Society.

Miss Alice Wilton, continues SICK
lat her home in north Columbus
street. 39sf
Mr.. George T. Zachary has return
, ed to his home in Del Ray ssafter
spending the past summer and*z ian
| IN Ohio.
Miss Chloe Cooke has returned to
her home in Baltimore, after VlAI
with Miss Esther Burke, in Prince
street.
| Miss Roxie Doniphan will enter
tain the Five Hundred Club Of when
she is a member, at her home in the
Fairfax Apartments this evening
Miss Lee Ruckcr, Of Washington,
| D. c., is the guest Of Miss Lucy
Webb, at her home i'll the FAIRFAX
| Apartments.
Mr.. c. Page Waller, Jr., has re-
turned from Il short visit to ba!fl-
more.
; Mrs. Hattie Pettett, Of Alexandra
has been spending few days with
her. sister, Mrs. A. Willett, in Mar
bury.
Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett PFc''-
don't If the National Council OF No-
men will leave tonight for Newport
News, where she will attend the N'r-
minia Conference of Charities ana
Corrections to be held in that city
Mrs. Eleanor Griffith Fairfax, widow
If DR.. William Fairfax, Of West
m,rcland County. Virginia. Is the
ruest Of Mrs. William Morgan smith.
Mrs. Fairfax is the glcst-grano
daughter of the Rev. DR.. Griffith. VINO
90 rector of Christ Church, con-
Quoted the service $50 years ago. a
,cpIca Of which will he held toner
row afternoon.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1913-11-20
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eUIl DING UP A CITY'S PARKS
ExperE Sets Forth Some Sound Pr'n'
c. r..s Which 1t VIII Ee Profit
able to Observe.

There are a few principles In the
selection of lands for parks, parkways
and Fairgrounds which are III ding IN
creasng acceptance by city authorl-
ties. Briefly stated they are as FOL
lows: "a To acquire those easily ac-
ccssible small tracts in different parts
of a city which may most cheaply De
ADAPTED to serve as local Fairgrounds
or recreation centers; GU to seek also
some moderately large tracts, even
thoush less accessible for the present
s,nerrtioa, provided they are capable
OF conversion at relatively small cost
into uSrk which will have the beauty
OF natural scenery; 60 to acquire
property for la"ge parks in advance
of a general settlement OF the neigh
ho,hocd; (D to select generally,
.hough not always, lands which are
not well adapted for streets ana build
|, es: C5) to distribute the lands over
the city In such a way as to give the
raXinum OF use to the people VINO
will be called upon to pay for their
ACQUISITION, development and main
tennrce.
"lhese five common-sense principles
have been approved and followed by
the leading landscape architects,
.avs .Iohn Nolan in his report on Ne"
London.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1913-11-20
farm
ElllI)[|1>El|Y.
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STAPLE FOOD FOR POULTRY
Grain Will Be Used as Long as Fowls
Are Kept on Farrns-iien Must
Have Certain Varieties.

Grain is the staple food for poultry,
will be used for that purpose as long
as fowls are kept Oh farms; but hens
cannot give good results on grain
alone. 1t is beneficial to them, and
will be at all times reliahed, but the
demands of the her are such as to
call for variety. In the shells OF
eggs, as we'll as their composition, are
several forms of Mineral matter and
nitrogen, which can only be partially
obtained from grain.
Even though grains carry III COM
position for long time, hens will be-
giu to refuse it, as obey may be over
supplied from other sources. For this
reason they will accept a change OF
food which is of itself evidence that
the best results for bis hens can only
be obtained from a variety of food.
Corn and wheat may be used as food
with advantage, but must be given
as portion of the ration only, and
not made exclusive articles of diet
In grain the principle articles or ele-
ments required to keep hen in good
laying condition are found, and it Is
for this reason that your hers may
continue to lay for some time if only
given grain, provided they find the
other elements necessary while run
ming around the farm. But the trou-
bic with this manner of feeding Is
that it is too uncertain.
You are taking the chance of the
hen finding the otter elements re-
CURED. No hen has ever laid an egg
unless she has taken into her system
elements from the vegetable, animal
ind mineral Kingdoms. Grain can re-
present the vegetable kingdom, bugs
or insects, the animal, and grit or
oyster shell, the mineral. 1t is ahso-
luteiy necessary that every hen par
take Of these elen.t ats before she can
produce single egg.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1913-11-20
EXHIBITION OF ROAD MODELS
Greatest Display Ever Shown in Any
Part of World viii Be Seen at
San Francisco in 1915.

Arrangements are to be made by
the United States department of agri-
culture, through Logan Waller Page,
director of the Office OF public roads,
to place on exhibition in 1915 the
greatest collection of road models ever
displayed in any part Of the world.
The models will furnish exact dupi-
Gates CT the old Roman roads, French
roads and all of the various types OF
modern roads, together with miniature
models of road machinery operated
by electricity
The Office of public roads made an
exhibit of road models for the first
time at the Alaska YukonPacitic eX-
position. The aim was to put on view
such striking examples In miniature
OF road models that visitors would
not only appreciate the beneficent eff
fects of improved highways, but would
at the same time be able to under
stand the methods Of their construc-
ton
Since the Alaska Yukon-Pacitic eX-
position closed, the exhibition has
been displayed at various other expo
stions and fairs, Since that time the
collection hal. been greatly augmented,
until every single type of road is
now represented and every known
device used in the making of roads
has been reproduced in miniature.
AS result of the instruction fur
nishpd lby these road models, many
farmers have joined forces to improve
their own highways, and the road
building movement has had great
Impetus.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1913-11-20
Problems OF CITY Euiidinu.

"Ore Of the problems in modern
city building is to allow proper space
on the sidewalks for shade trees" said
Henry r. Deacon of Detroit, Mich, at
the Hotel Stafford Every country in
the world is advocating the planting
of shs de trees in cities. Many of the
modern cities that are being built
special attention is being given to the
shade tree problem. The United States
Cove rnment has taken up the matter
and is making a close study of con
ditions that exist In other countries.
Some cities pave close up and by
thus cutting off the natural surface
water supply contribute to the early
death of the tree. Others have an un-
paved circular space around the tree
which Is often dangerous for pedestri,
ans, and is unsightly. There is city
in Belgium that solves the problem by
leaving a space Of two feet all around
he tree and paving up smoothly to
flush iron rirR, having a recess inside
to receive sectional removable iron
grating flush with the sidewalk This
makes neat walk and saves the
tree"