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The Washington herald., 1913-02-05
Topics Of Interest to Every Woman
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0LD.TIME FOOTSTOOL
RETURNS TO FAVOR
Colonial Designs Of Various Soris
Lead in Popularity.

What is it. a desire for comfort or
woman's vanity. that accounts for the
increasing popularity of the footstool?
Certainly We are a comfort-loving peo-
pie; formality and stiffness repel US.
Certainly to the dainty footwear of
womankInd seeks a means to show itself,
and where can this be so well accomplish
ed as on one Of these footstools, which
are in themselves works of art? At all
events these luxurious necessities of our
grandmothers have apparently came back
to stay.
Footstools always have been made in
the various French periods of furniture,
for, France is the home Of the modern
footstool. and no room furnished in any
OF the historic French styles would be
complete without accompanying foot
stools. But within the last year or. so
footstools have been demanded for use
with every sort of furniture. and to-day
the best dealers meet this demand with
a bewildering assortment.
These present-day footstools are not the
small doll-like articles which gave pleas
ure to our Grsndmothers. They are size
able pieces OF furniture. most of them
twelve by eighteen inches square perhaps,
and they stand from eight to twelve in
ches from the floor Some. to be sure,
are smaller, perhaps eight inches wide.
foot long and four or five inches above
the floor. These generally have little
arms or handles at the ends. and can be
easiyl carried from place to place.
The Colonial Footstoo1.
Colonial designs of various sorts seem
to take the lead In popularity. Except
ing in formal drawing rooms 1t is un-
usual to have the footstools designed
with special reference to the rest OF the
furniture. but a mahogany footstools in
colonial design fits in harmoniously in
any room where mahogany furniture Is
used.
One Of the most serviceabie footstools
is shown with a mahogany frame IN
straight. simple lines. with red, brown,
or green leather cushion. Tapestry IN
various dull hues and upholstery of other
sorts in cnlors that would blend with
the color scheme of almost any living
room are also used to cover the cushions
of these useful foptstoois.
very comfortable design Is the IN
clined footstyol. The dull mahogany
Frame covered with a cushion two or
three inches thick. is only an inch or
so from the floor in front. The back Is
perhaps eight inches from the floor, so
that the top Of the foOtstool Is fixed at a
slant that would assuredly bring rest to
the weary foot.
Small Virginia cclonia! mahogany foot
stools with bulging ends. which suggest
the horschair sofas OF our Virginia an
cestors, II we are fortunate enough to
have any, are especially suitable to
rooms furnished with old American colo
NAL furniture.
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The Washington herald., 1913-02-05
Ry FRANCIS sHAFFER.

When, a day or so ago. Clarence Van
! Nostrand, an eighteen-year-old youth OF
Glen Cove Long Island, went TO his work
in a leather factory at the hour or !
O'Clock in the morning, he did not guess
that something was to happen to make
1t possible for a long-cherished dream
ito come true.
His mother-is a widow, with two other
children. and as an eight-year-old boy
he started out as a bread-winner. For
ten years he worked in the mill. all the
while wishing that in time he might be-
come a mechanical engineer.
He did not see much light or, hope
] ahead, and the other morning when ne
put on his leather apron to, go to work
I he expected to do 1t for many more
mornings and years to come
! But that day there was something diff
ferent for a score of worKmen crowded
around him, shouting congratulations and
showing him a dispatch from Pittsburg.
where the Carnegie Hero Fund Commis-
sion had been in session.
When the air cleared I'D bit. the boy
found that the dispatch announced that
he was the recipient OF a bronze medal
for his bravery in rescuing three chill
dren from drowning and assisting in the
rescue of a fourth.
Courageous Rescue.
1t happened more than a year ago on
the mill pond
The children had been skating on the
ice, when they struck a thin piece and
all three of them fell through. And
when the fourth, thirteen-year-old
girl, went to their assistance, she. too.
came to grief, and all were fiounderins
about in the icy water as the i'm
promptu life-saver came by. 1t was not
easy work, for the firm ice was pretty
far away, and four benumbed children
were no slight burden to handle. by
only a boy at that. But he got three
to safety, and then, when he began
to think, as he put il, that 1t would soon
be ''all up with him and the youngest
boy two men threw out a rope to the
boy and both were helped ashore
And there the story ended, at least.
the young rescuer thought It had ended.
But it must have travelled until It
reached the commission. for last Sep
tember a stranger appeared in Glen
Cove and asked the boy "a lot Of Ques-
tions"
And nothing more happened until the
other morning when the award was an
nounced.
what IL May Mean.
a bronze medal and $1.o0O-
Apart from the recognition, and not |
considered as an award. that is not |
much money TO change the current of
human life But il the $1,000 proves |
sufficient to make the young hero's |
work-dream come true, II will be a |
mighty sum, indeed.
The boy hopes to use 1t to help him in |
the study Of mechanics, for the ambition |
TO become a mechanical engineer has |
lighted up many a gray morning when |
he tied his leather apron about him and /
went to work in the mill. He knows he |
cannot graduate from an engineering |
school unless he has a vaster sum than |
that, but he is ready to work on the |
side, satisfied to Go anything IL at the
The Washington herald., 1913-02-05

Middleboro. Mass. In 1872 recorded
ninety-six marriages and IN deaths.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS TUESDAY FEBRUARY A. 1913
Joe Mandot, Though Not
In Trim, Hands Decisive
Walloping to Sheridan

EMPHIS, TENN, Feb A.
WI Joe Mandot, one of the
Southern aspirants to the
lightweight title, gained the deci-
sion over Mickey Sheridan. of Chi
cago, in an eight-rouud bout at the
Phoenix A. c. Monday night.
Sheridan made what was regard
ed as a game showing, but proved
10 match for Mandot. who enjoyed
an advantage in every round.
The Chicago boy tried to stem
the tide in the fifth round. when he
forced Mandot to adopt a defensive
role. but Mandot came back in the
sixth with a rally that threatened
to end the bout Sheridan was
rushed to the ropes and corners. but
always managed to cover up. He
gecuperated rapidly for the seventh,
and finished the last round with
plenty of strength In fact, specta
tors were under the impression that
had the bout gone much longer
Mandot might have succumbed, ow-
ing to his poor condition.
Mandot claimed that he was
weakened by the weight he was
forced to do in the short space of
two days. They weighed in at 1873
pounds at 6 p. IN.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
-----77--
TOGO, ONCE STAR BOXER,
Is NOW DOWN AND OUT

FORT SMITH, ARK. Feb. 4.-Young
Togo, once a prominent claimant for
the bantamWeight championship, re-
turned today to Fort Smith, the scene
OF his former triumphs. But it was not
Young Togo. The Demon" who re-
turned: it was Young Togo. THE
flasher Togo appears down and out
as far as the ring is concerned. He
is still husky looking lad but mere
ly shadow of his former self Instead
of being greeted by a cheering crowd
of fight fans like that which babe him
welcome when he returned with fistic
trlumphs year or so ago, Togos re-
turn was unheralded and unsung He
came in from San Francisco to work
III local restaurant
The beating that Bat Nelson gave the
once wonderful little Jap in bloody
slX-round battle here took all the fight
possibilities out of the boy Shortly
after the Nelson bout he left Fort
smith and went to San Francisco,
where he was used as a punching bag
by second and third raters until he
decided to retire from the ring.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
SUNDAY BALL ATTACKED
BY MONTGOMERY JUDGE

MONTGOMERY. ALA, Feb. 4-Judge
ArmStead Brown took a fling at Sunday
baseball in his charge to the Montgom-
cry county grand jury yesterday. He in
structed the jury to investigate all vio-
lations of the law prohibiting baseball
on the Sabbath and bring in indictments.
He also demanded an enforcement of the
blue COR sky laws, which prohibit the
selling of soft drinks. cigars and other
things on Sunday.
Baseball on Sunday is prohibited by
state law he charged, land ] have
charged every grand jury to enforce the
law, and am going to keep it up as long
as | have anything to say to the grand
juries. He hoped some day a grand jury
would take action against the Sunday vio-
latOrS
1t is doubtful if the grand jury could
mdlct legally for the playing of South
ern league ball here on Sunday. The act
allowing Montgomery TO have commission
government gives the city commission the
right also to regulate its amusements,
and the commissioners authorized Sun
day baseball, 1t is not played in the
city, but within the police jurisdiction of
the city, which is considered the same.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
Iohn k. Tener S Record in the League

ton when leader of the Cubs as a
driver of pitchers and a man who
was capable of getting everything
out of a twirler. Chance will have
Russell Ford, Jack WARRIOR, George
Mcconnell, Ray Fisher and some
others to depend upon.
The Chicago White SoX are GER
tain to furnish excitement with
such pitchers as Walsh. Cicotte,
Scott, Bentz and White. Frank
Miller, the sensation of the Pa
cific Coast league in 1912, will be
with Comiskey's men next season.
Hugh Jennings task of picking
pitchers will be more difficult than
it has been in recent seasons. How
ever. George Mullin has promised to
keep himself in condition and pitch
the best" he knows how. If George
holds true, and his friends have
every confidence that he will, the
Tigers will be visibly stronger.
Then there is Jean Dubuc, the
pitching sensation of 1912; Edgar
Willet Dauss, Klawitter and a doz-
on others to pick from.
HOLLY MURPHY'S alienation
campaign continues. The last
to leave his camp was Red" the
bat boy. Red" will join Frank
Chance at the Yankees camp in
New York. Whats the use of
sticking around here?" asks Grover
Galligan-that's Red" whats
the use. l say? There's Chance
gone. There's Tinker gone. No
body's left but Evers, and he'll bawl
everybody out all season long. 1t
won't be like the old gang. Jimmy
Sheckard is due to get the hook,
and I'm quitting before it gets me.
The Cubs used to win when they
did what l told them. They knew
that when | had bunch it was
real bunch. I'll give the Yanks my
tips next summer"
IN Cincinnati, where all baseball
talk seems to originate this win
ter, Murphy is still credited with
an ambition to get First Baseman
konetchy and Pitchers Sallee and
Herman from the Cardinals. He is
said TO have told Miller Higgins
that he is willing to let go of Jim
my Sheckard, Larry Cheney, Vic
Safer, Bill Phelan and Catchers
Cotter and .Heckinger, and Higgins
can look 'em over and pick out
what he wants in return for his
trio
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
RED SMITH HAS SIGNED
TO PLAY WITH BROOKLYN

BROOKLYN, Feb. Al. Carlisle
Smith, who during the summer months
answers to the name of Red" Smith,
has sent in his signed contract to
President Ebbets. The salary offered
Smith must have pleased him. for he
goes to the trouble of writing a letter
to President Ebbets. in which he says
Il wish to assure you of my best eff
forts toward making our team stronger
at the third corner"
He says further that he is eagerly
waiting for the time of the training
season 10 open and that both he and lis
wife are very pleased to again be res
dents of Brooklyn.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
MEYERS To HELP
NJ GRAW COACH
jim THORPE
BY w. j. McBeth.

~ NE Of the reasons why jim
I Thorpe picked New York as
his gateway to big league
baseball fame is the fact that his
good friend and wise counsellor.
John Tories Meyers, is a member
of the Giants, and will take pains
to see that the famous Carlisle ath-
lete gets started right.
OF course, there are other con-
siderations. The principal one is
that MCGraW offered Thorpe q bet
ter contract than any of the other
clubs. Then the great all-round
champion likes New York best be
cause he has competed in many
meets here and has many friends
in the city.
1t is believed that Thorpe will
draw no less than $4,000 for his sea-
sons work with the Giants. He
could have earned more money,
perhaps. by going into vaudeville
first. but he hasn't yet reached the
stage when he puts money above
all other considerations.
Aside from other advantages Of a
New York engagement, Thorpe will
profit by instruction from one OF
the best teachers in baseball He is
not only proud to be a Giant but he
and his mentor Glen Warner, both
believe that if he is to develop as
great baseball player John Nc
Graw is the man to bring out the
best that is in him.
Thorpe will be under the special
"tutelage' of John ]. McGraw and
John T. Meyers, to use term made
famous by Charles Victory Faust
McGraw counts on Meyers to give
the younger Indian good advice
concerning things on and off the
ball field. 1t is probable that
Thorpe and Meyers will room to-
gether on the road and that they
will live together in New York.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
By "Chick" Evans.

" HERE is a strong probability
that a group of American pro-
fessional golfers will go abroad
to take part in the British and
French open championship toulna-
ments. The Golf de Paris club has
invited a team of four American
professional golfers to compete on
the LaBoulie links. A substantial
purse has been put up and travel
ing and maintenance expenses will
be paid. if it is the same team
when completes in the British
open.
These facts remind us that the
West has some excellent profess
sional golfers. who deserve to be
considered in this connection, and
one of whom is the subject of to-
days article.
Jack Croke was born of Irish
parents in New York city. but
went to live in Ardsley-o n- the
Hudson when very young. His
first knowledge of golf was OBJ
tanned at an extremely early age at
the Ardsley Golf club, where he
served an apprenticeship under
Willie Dunn. and he caddied for
that professional in his match with
Willie Park. When Willie Dunn
laid out the Ardsley course Croke
carried the paint pot for "dobbing
trees, and in every way managed.
to make himself useful about the
links. Afterward he worked in the
shop, not only for Willie Dunn, but
for his successors. John Dunn and
John Foreman.
Is Professional at Calumet.
Later he went to the Onondaga
golf course. Syracuse, n. Y and
thence to the Waterbury Golf as
ISOLATION, at Waterbury, Conn, for
one year. From Waterbury he
went to Roanoke, Va, for another
year, and then he spent four years
at the Nashville Golf and Country
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
MONTGOMERY WILL USE
SAME OLD BASEBALL PARK

MONTGOMERY, ALA. Feb. q
Southern league baseball will be played
in Montgomery this year on the old ball
lot at Capitol Heights. Workmen have
already begun repairs on the grounds
and 1t Is expected to have them in
shape by March |, on which date the
players have been ordered to report.
Manager Dobbs is expected here this
week from Chattanooga
Richard TilIis was figuring for some
time on moving the ball park to
Pickett Springs, and double tracking
the car line to the grounds. The
squabbIe over the retention of the fran
chise in Montgomery prevented the
change being made this year, but if
Montgomery is assured baseball mex,
year, it is not unlikely that MIR. Tilis
would move the park
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
American Pros VIII Probably
Compete in Big Foreign Opens;
Evans Pays Tribute to Croke

club. Then, after five years at
Grand Rapids, he came to West
ward Ho, where he is at present
employed. His winter work has
been at the San Francisco Golf and
Country club.
His records are as follows:
San Francisco Golf and Country
club, Sc holes, 1873.
San Francisco Golf and Country
club. Is holes, g.
Westward Ho Golf and Country
club. Is holes, So
Westward Ho Golf and Country
club, So holes, 14l.
Grand Rapids Golf and Country
club, SO holes. 14i
Grand Rapids Golf and Country
club, IS holes, 20.
Nashville Golf and Country club,
IS holes, 81.
Croke Third in Western Open.
In the Western open at Stoke,
which was won by Willie Ander-
son, CrOke stood thlrd. he was
also third at Grand Rapids in 1911
He was second to Bob Simpson, Of
Kenosha. His favorite clubs are
the driver and brassie. He is one Of
the longest drivers in the coun-
try His stance is open and he
uses the Vardon grip Croke has
been successful in teaching, Philip
Stanton, the Michigan state cham
pion, being one of his pupils.
Jacks athletic achievements have
not been entirely confined to golf.
He has won several cups in bicycle
races at county fairs. He believes
he played better golf at eighteen
than now. However that may be,
his record shows he has been play
ing eXcellently for many years.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
MONTREAL TAKING NO
CHANCES WITH SCHEDULE

MONTREAL, Feb. 4.-Steel bars and
armed watchmen must fail in their duty
if the Montreal baseball club of the In
ternational league is fined this year for
releasing the leagues schedule of games
before the proper time
The club was fined 5000 last year be-
cause enterprising reporters printed the
contents of the schedule ahead of time
Today, when the document reached
here, it was hurried TO a safety deposit
vault and put under lock and key
The clubs officials win object TO rati-
ficatiOn of the schedule because. they
assert, il cOmpels the team to travel
800 miles more this year than last.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
CHARLEY FAUST WANTS
3-YEAR GIANT CONTRACT

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-Charlie Vic
tory Faust, the JinX- Destroyer, who
was with the Giants for the greater
part of the season of 1911, has bobbed
up again. The nut" twirler from Ma
rion, Kans., is wintering in Pasadena,
Cal, and has enough money to send tel
egrams from the Golden State to New
York. Manager McGraw received the
following telegram from Charlie yester-
day:
Dear Friend-What is your very
best offer a season on three year con-
tract? You get first chance if YOU
want me, but want condition that the
club can never sell nor trade my sery-
ices to any other club. nor fine me I'M
less | purposely disobey the rules Elk
penses for board, room and doctor:
also good advance of money.
CHARLES VICTOR FAUST"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
ANA EUR RULES
WRONC, SAYS
JIM NJ ALEER
BY James McAleer.
president Boston Red Sox.l

II OSTON, Feb. 4.-To me it
seems absurd that jim Thorpe
should be considered a pro-
tessional in track sports because he
has played baseball professionally
| am aware that there are rules to
this effect, and ! do not commend
Thorpe for having concealed the
fact that he had transgressed them.
But the rules themselves do not
seem to me to be either just or
sensible.
| should say that the convention
al distinction between amateur
and professional" is more or less
a survival from a conception of
social life which the world has out
grown. just as it has outgrown the
idea that kings rule by divine right.
Nothing Demeaning in Baseball.
1t is hardly a twentieth century
idea that there is anything demean-
ing in the act of playing baseball
professionally. a professional base
ball player does not have to say
club house or hotel by the side
door.
The notion that a professional
baseball player can not regard even
his own particular game from a
thoroughly sportsmanlike stand
point is merely silly. The profess
Sional understands the amateur
point of view even though the force
of circumstances compels him to re-
gard it as a luxury which he per
sonally can rot afford. He can turn
to other branches of sport, how
ever, and participate in them with
just the same kind Of pleasure and
the same love of sport for it's own
sake which the best amateur of
them all experiences.
Doesn't Change Man.
When it comes to baseball,
should say that any expert anna
teur player, who was really "stuck
on the game" would feel decided
temptation to try to join profess
sonal club, as only by so doing
could he find out just how good
he was"
Playing baseball for money does
not essentially change a mans ma
ture. any more than it changes his
nature to sell goods on the road
1t may modify it in time. but |
have seen veteran leaguers cry over
a defeat. and I've seen college anna
tours who, | knew, were not try
ing. I'll bet you Snodgrass would
rather not have got cent for play
ing in the worlds series than to
have muffed that fly in one game.
] don't think a boy who plays
ball professionally should be al
loved to play ball as an amateur.
I very decidedly believe that he
should be allowed to row, or play
football, or run on the track or
take part in any other branch of
school, college or amateur sport.
Thorpe's baseball playing did him
no good as a track athlete. In fact,
baseball tends a little to stiffen
man up, and so unfit him for track
athletics. If the contrary were the
case, there might be a chance for
an argument
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
GREENVILLE WILL HAVE
NO BASEBALL THIS YEAR

GREENNlLLE. :. c.. Feb. 4.-Everv
Greenville baseball player who was under
contract with the loca club is d free agent
ana may sign with any club in the couu-
try This means that Greenville viii
have no baseball next season The talk
Of forming a Georgia Carolina league
Vile. Columbia, Spartanburg. Anderson
and Charleston. has played out in this
quarter it seems. and there is small
chance Of this circuit being formed.
Local fans, however, believe that if
the Georgia Carolina towns could get to-
Eether it would be a winning proposition
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
BERMUDA RACE TRACK
MAY BE OPENED SOON

HAMILTON, BERMUDA. Feb. g.
Sporting interest here has revived be
cause several bali teams will train here
nounced today that the Bermuda Jockey
club is making plans for the reopening
OF its once famous race track
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
STABBED IN
FACE: CUT NOT SERIOUS

CHATTANOOGA. TENN. Jim Bas-
kettle the right handler Of the Cleveland
American league team, was seriously cut
by a Or Carl Wilson Satur-
day night according TO nforms ton re-
ceved here today. Details Of the affair
are meager, but the wound Is stated 10 be
flesh incision that will heal in from
ten days 10 two weeks.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
0'DAY Is SAID TO HAVE
SIGNED WITH B. JOHNSON

CHICAGO. Feb 4-Unofficial an
nOuncement was made at the American
league headquarters today that Hank
O'Day, former manager of the Cincinnati
Reds, had accepted job on the Ameri
can league umpirng staff
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
CALLAHAN KEEPS LORD:
MAY TRADE OTHER MEN

CHICAGO, Feb. 4.-Manag ger Callahan,
of the White SOX, today denied that he
planned to trade Harry Lord to the New
York Americans, but admitted that he eX-
pected to meet Manager Chance within
the next week and that trade talks might
take place