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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-23
THE MOTHER.IN-LAW AS
A MAKER OF TROUBLE

commences in the cradle, and l can
think of nothing on earth that is SO
piteous as that every mother in the
land could provide some woman with
a good husband, or some man with a
good wife, and she doesn't do it. She
could save the broken hearts, the mis-
cry, the tears, the wrecked homes, the
little children that are made mother
less or fatherless, and homeless, and
she doesn't do it.
Surely if there is one thing that is
past even the mercy Of God to forgive,
it is this.
There is no mother who pillows a
little baby girls head on her breast
that cannot raise that girl up to be a
true, good sensible woman. She can
teach her to control her temper, to be
reasonable and practical, and to have
some sense of responsibility, and some
idea of her duty to others. She can
teach her how to make a home, and
make of herself the kind of wife
that is blessing instead of a curse 10
the man who gets her.
There is not mother with a little
son standing at her knee who cannot
teach that boy to be chivalrous and
tender to women. She can teach him
to show every woman reverence and
respect. She can teach him how to
treat a wife, how to be generous to
her, and unselfsh, and tender and af-
fectionate; how to be the kind of a
husband that will make woman bless
her stars every day she lives that she
was lucky enough to get him.
1t is the mothers who turn out the
bad wives and the brutal, neglectful
husbands. They furnish the raw ma
terial out of which matrimonial mis-
cry is made, and they are responsible
for the ensuing divorce.
Nor does the mothers aid to di-
vorce end with having supplied for one
poor unfortunate man, or woman,
wife or husband that nothing but
martyr could stand. Mother throws
fresh fuel on the fire in the shape Of
backing up her son or daughter in
their domestic quarrels.
When Mary comes running home
to mother with her tale of woe about
some little matter in which she ami
John have disagreed, mother begins
pittying her for a poor, prosecuted
angel instead of saying to her: Go
home and forget it. l am ashamed Of
you for being such a little coward as
to come whining back the first time
anything goes wrong. What did you
think marriage was. A picnic? Wei
it isn't. It's profession, a calling,
where you shut your teeth and do your
duty and make the best of things"
Niney-nine times out of hundred
mothers could stop a divorce in the
very beginning if they would only hold
their sons and daughters up to per-
forming the obligations they have TAX
en- upon themselves. But they don't.
They side with their own, sympathize
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-23
dorothy Dix

Have you noticed that the mother
in-law joke is dead? That the car
toonist and the humorist have ceased
to exhaust their wit in depicting a fat
and fussy old lady, descending like a
pestilence on an unwilling house
hold?
You have noticed it? And you sup
posed that the ancient jest had per-
ished of old age, didn't you? Not at
all; it is because we have suddenly
recognized that the mother-in-law is
not a thing to make merry over. She
is the greatest menace there is TO
domestic peace and happiness. She is
no longer a comic figure. She is a
tragedy incarnate.
A few days ago distinguished and
conservative jurist who tries so many
divorce cases that he is called di-
vorce judge, declared that over IS
per cent of the men and women whose
matrimonial difficulties he was called
on to settle would have gotten on we'll
enough together if it had not been for
their in-laws.
Sometimes it was the mans mother
who made the trouble; sometimes it
was the woman's mother, but every
where it was the mother-in-Iaw who
was the first aid to divorce
This is an appalling state of affairs,
and it is time that women faced the
fact that the divorce evil is not going
to be cured by preachers, nor sociolo-
gists, nor laws, nor lawyers, but it is
in the hands of mothers, and they
must settle it, if it is ever settled.
Of course, any young couple who get
married and who go to live with either
mother-in-law could save money and
worry by buying a marriage license
with a divorce coupon attached to t,
for unless the whole family of them
are pin-feathered angels-which most
people arent-they are foreordained
to pickering and jealousies and every
known species of the fifty-seven differ
ent varieties of domestic misery.
Nobody knows why, but no house
was ever yet built that was big en-
ough for mother-in-law and a daugh
ter-in-law to live in together in peace,
and mother-in-law and a daughter
in-law would be forever treading on
each others toes, although they had
all the room of the Waldorf to move
about in.
When woman's children marry she
should make a cast-iron resolve never,
under any circumstances, to live I'M
der the same roof with them, not to
visit them too often, never to interfere
in their family affairs, and to refrain
from giving advice even though she
has to bite her tongue off to keep from
doing it.
The responsibility of mothers for
their children's divorces may end
with their keeping their fingers out
of their married sons and daughters
pies, but it doesn't begin there 1t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-23
" WOMEN HAVE LEGAL RIGHT
TO BE JURORS" SHE DECLARES

and from trial by women jurors con-
travenes the Constitution. 1t is dis
eliminating, it is class legislation, AMI
it denie" the equality of protection by
law and denies woman the right to adj
minister the functions of government
There have been several United
;, States supreme court decisions on
tkis. In the case of CrandaIl versus
Nevada the court said: The right to
administer the functions of govern
ment and fill its offices is the civil
right of all citizens
"A jury of women would interpret
the law and the evidence in a way far
j, different from that of men jurors.
Take the case of Susan Anthony, ar
rested and convicted few years ago
= and sentenced to hard labor for vot-
ing. Had there been women on the
jury they would have looked at it in
different light.
Women are against capital punish
ment If women had anything to do
with it, capital punishment would be.
abolished A woman would look at the
evidence from a different standpoint,
because a woman understands the sex
problem in a way that man can new
er understand.
IF a wife is brought up for shoot
ing an unfaithful husband, she is us
ually found guilty by jury of men.
But if man is brought up for killing
another man because of attentions o
his wife jury of men will discharge
him"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-23

with their owns injury and magnify
the others fault until they widen the.
breach between husband and wife past.
all bridging, and are thus accessory 10
the crime of breaking up a home.
These are hard words, but they are,
true ones. 1t is the mothers who no 4
the solution of the divorce question in
their hands There would be no more
unhappy marriages and nobody would
want divorce, if only mothers din
their duty and were little buster be-
fore their children's marriage, and a
little less busy afterward.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-23
Mmzem
Ou2th
qetoA;o1'G

When suffering from some form of feminine
disorder is told that operation is necessary it of
frightens her.
The very thought of the hospital operating table and the
surgeons knife strikes to her heart and wonder.
quite true that these troubles may reach stage
where operation the only but thousands of
have avoided the necessity of operation by taking
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound This fact is
attested by the grateful letters they write to after their
health has been restored
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-23
MRS. WILSON WAS THE DESIGNER
OF HER OWN HOME IN PRINCETON

Much has been published telling OF
the cleverness of Mrs. Woodrow Will
son, wife of the president-elect, but
few are aware to-day that she is the
architect who designed the Wilson
homestead in Princeton.
So well arranged is this house and
so comfortable the interior that the
entire family look with dismay OH
having to reside anywhere else. 1t caA
be safely predicted that they will
grasp every opportunity to return to
their faVorite haunts and stay in the
White House only when Governor Will
sons duties demand it.
Mrs Wilson has done an immense
amount of architectural work, and
often acts in an advisory capacity
with New York architects. The garden
as we'll as the Princeton house, shows
the artistic tendency of it's designer.
Flowers are massed against a back
ground of shrubbery with splendid eff
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-23

New York, January 22.-"Womep
not only have the right but should ac-
tually be required to sit on juries, ="
said Mrs. Harriette Johnston Wood,
one of the foremost women lawyers in
the city and an active member of the
Woman's Suffrage Association, TO-DAY.
1T is her legal right and her civic
duty. Not to do so and not to be al
lowed to is to be denied the equal pro-
lection of the law To be denied that
equality is a reflection and declaration
of inferiority.
1T is the duty of a juror to admin
ister the functions of government.
Therefore woman should be eligible
as a juror. The idea of a woman serv-
ing on a jury is nothing but the idea
Of equality of privilege, which under
the Constitution of the United States
is guaranteed to every citizen of the
United States, regardless of creed Or
color.
More, every person (and that in
cludes woman) is entitled to trial
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-20
CAUSED A SENSATION.
By High Play at Baccarat in a French
Gambling Place.

Paris, Sept. 20.--The Aga Khan, the
immensely wealthy Prince of India, who
among other things is head of the Mo-
hammedan religion in his country,
caused a sensation at Deauville Casino
recently by his high play at baccarat.
He seemed to be quite Indifferent wheth-
er he won or lost, and many people who
observed him expressed their conviction
that he had no actual knowledge at any
time on this point.
II was the custom of the prince
to go TO the gambling rooms accom-
panied by servant carrying a valise
full of bank notes. The prince, from
time to time during the play, would
either request his servant, who stood
behind his chair, to remove the piles of
winnings and stuff them in the valise. or
else to supply him with fresh bundles of
l000-franc notes to hazard Perhaps the
servant was more observing than his
master and knew whether fortune
smiled or not, but TO observers he was
as inscrutable as the prince, and gave
no sign.
The Grand Duke Boris of Russia d.
vided the attention of onlookers with
the Aga, frequently winning or losing
$4,000 (Sl0(000l francs at sitting.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-20
Girl Forger Gets -Four Years

New York, Sept. 20.-Guilty of for.
gerry in the second degree Harriet Co.
hen, % years old, stenographer, of pa
Lenox avenue. was sentenced by Judge
Mulqueen to four years in the Auburn
prison for women.
In 1908 Miss Cohen was found guilty
of IA charges of forgery and was SEN
fenced TO the Bedford reformatorv. She
was discharged after three years. Aft
er leaving the reformatory she became
stenognpher for the STANDARD Steam
Speciality Co. Of $40 West Broadway. on
whose complaint she was arrested. 1t
wac alleged that 100 checks were forged
BY Miss Cohen when in the eompany's
employ and that, in all, she collected
between $1,000 and $4,000. ..s~.-,..,...
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-20

1tulls. lln to1Ic IHgftultHlS toilc up
the system, and thus invigorate the
stomach's functions to normal aetiy.
ity.
Mr.. Rifles experience is especially in
teresting at this time of the year, be-
cause it shows the close relationship
there is between a nervous breakdown
and neglected cold.
Pe-ru-na should be kept in the home
at all times, that cold upon its first
appearance may be treated promptly
and successfully. This often saves mon
ey and time, and what is more impor-
tant, great deal of vitality.
Mr. Rifle, of 75S Gautenbein avenue,
Portland, Ore, writes: Il have found
Pe-ru-na a most remarkable medicine
for building up the system and for cur
ing coughs and colds.
~ took it for four weeks few months
ago when | was all run down, nervous
and debilitated, and it quickly restored
my health.
Il always keep it on hand, as a few
doses will cure cold if taken in time"
People who object to liquid medicines
can now obtain Pe-ru-na Tablets.-Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-20
A COPENHAGEN WELCOME.
Was Not Very Joyful When People
Expected Andrew Carnegie.

Copenhagen, Sept. 2U.--Hearing that
1 Andrew Carnegie had telegraphed to
Copenhagen from Bergen for hotel ac-
commodations. the city became Carnegie
Imad, and when his nephew, George
Lauder Carnegie, turned up instead of
the steel king, he received a reception at
the railway station which caused him to
flee in dismay.
From the day that the Copenhagen
papers announced that the philanthro-
pist was coming to Copenhagen the
American legation was overcrowded
with people seeking introductions to
! the laird of Skibo. Many of them were
possessed with sincere desire to make
the acquaintance of the library donor,
but most of them had schemes for aid
ing him in his philanthropic plans. Many
women came to the American minister
with most extraordinary devices which
they wanted him to assist them in selling
to Carnegie. One wanted him to buy
what she said was a lock of Abraham
Lineoln's hair, and another wanted to
sell the ironmaster a portrait of John
Kelly at Saratoga. People came from
as far as Norway and Sweden to inter
est Carnegie in charitable institutions in
their countries.
When the train arrived the station
was crowded with newspaper men and
towns people out to greet the Napoleon
of charity, but no one appeared. Some
one in the crowd heard quiet young
man tell a hotel porter that he had en-
gagged rooms at the hotel in the name
of Carnegie. The shout went up, "Here
he is" and before George Lauder Car
negie could gain the SHELTER of the hotel
omnibus he was almost mobbed. Dis;
appointed of the greater celebrity the
people had to content themselves with
the lesser. and, during his stay in Copen-
hagen, young Carnegie learned that
being the nephew of a famous uncle en-
tails some disadvantages.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-20
STATE PROHIBITION
MOVE IN DENMARK
Leader of New Liberal Party Starts Agi-
tation in Favor of It--People
Growing More Abstemous.

Copenhagen, Sept. 20.-I. c. Christen-
sen, leader OF the Liberal party, has
started an agitation for statewide pro-
hibition in Denmark. Not long ago the
Liberal party successfully fathered a
bill which enforces important restric-
tions on the sale of liquor in bars, res
taurants, and similar places, and the
Liberal leader evidently intends to fol-
low this up with a law enforcing total
prohibition of the sale of intoxicants in
Denmark
| During the past few years the Danish
people have become more and more alb
stemious in their habits, and as the
younger generation is especially tenn
perate, the agitation for prohibition is
not based on any growing insobriety on
the part of the people of the country.
In explaining why the Liberal party,
which stands for large measure of
personal liberty, should be backing such
a bill, Mr.. Christensen says alcohol is a
poison and that the state should forbid
and regulate its use just as it does in
the case of other recognized poisons.
Until the late temperance legislation
went into effect, Denmark had depended
upon education to fight the evils of in
temperance, and this is the first time the
advocates of the prohibition movement
have sought government regulation of
the liquor traffic.
1t is believed that the people will &C.
quiesce in the proposed legislation in
Spite of the alleged attack on personal
liberty, which they feel must be limited
for the benefit of the community. Some
of the leading Liberal papers have pro-
tested strongly against the bill, one
pointing out that person is not edu-
Gated by making him incapable of man
aging his own affairs, but by letting him
his life in the largest possible liberty
under the responsibility of himself and
the community.
The opposition papers attack the min
ister's new policy, and insinuate that it
is for the purpose of catching votes.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-20
"CASCARETS" FINE
FOR THE BOWELS
The Millions of Cascaret Users Never
Have Headache, Constipation, Bill
iousness or Sick Stomach.
Get a IO.cent box now.

Are you keeping your liver stomach
and bowels clean, pure and fresh with
Cascarets -or merely forcing passage
way every few days with salts, cathar-
tic pills or castor oil This is impor-
tant.
Cascarets Immediately cleanse the
stomach, remove the sour, undigested
and fermenting food and foul gases
take the excess bile from the liver and
carry out of the system the constipated
waste matter and poison in the bowels.
No odds how sick, headachy, bilious
and constipated you feel, Cascaret to-
night will straighten you out by morn
ing They work while you sleep, A To-
cent box from your druggist will keep
your head clear, stomach sweet, and
your liver and bowels regular for
months. Don't forget the children
their little insides need gentle cleans
ing, too.-Advt.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-20
STARVED NIECE
TO SAVE MONEY
SO, 600 Put in Bank Out of SIC a Week
Young Woman
Earned.

New York, Sept. 20.--A life of unre-
hitting toll and frequent hunger, hidden
by an appearance of comfortable living
was disclosed in the report of Appraiser
Martin on the estate OF Mrs. Catherine
Keller, who died March 10, 1911, leaving
a total estate of Sll,lll.2l in bank ac-
counts. With the exception of 81 500
these bank deposits represented the saw
ings above all living expenses for fam
lily of three from SIG week earnings of
Mrs Keller's niece, Mrs. Ella A. Cot
trel.
In testifying before the appraiser TO
prove that the bank accounts of Mrs.
Keller were her own savings, to which
she was rightfully entitled, Mrs. Cottrel
told the story of her life. At the age of
D years in 1888, being an orphan, she
went to live with her aunt, and from
then on always called her mother and
was introduced as her daughter Mrs.
Keller's husband, bookkeeper, died
four years later having his wife about
81 500. From that time on Mrs. Cottrel
said she had worked necessarily, with
the exception of the year following her
marriage, which resulted in her return
ing to her mothers" home with
daughter
Mrs. Cottrel is a watercolor artist and
was formerly employed by a publishing
house to do copy work She told the
appraiser she was paid by piece work.
In addition she scrubbed floors
Her earnings she turned over to Mrs.
Keller, who rented S20-a month apart
ment, furnished food and clothing, and
gave the breadwinner 20 cents a day for
carfare and luncheon.
So poorly nourished was the worker
that four months after Mrs. Keller's
death her mind gave way and she was
placed in an asylum for six months.
Other witnesses bore out Mrs. Cot
trels testimony.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-20
7so-PoUND LUMP OF LONELINESS,
Six Men and Freight Truck Required to
Aid Stout Lady Change Cars.

st. Louis, Mo-, Sept. 20.--Her hus.
band, three ushers, two baggagemen
and a large freight truck were required
to help the stoutest woman who ever
passed here Thursday night. She was
Mrs. Lizzie Gion, and, according to her
husband, tips the beam at $50 pounds
The Gions came here from Cleveland
o. They declared they had covered 1900
miles in vain search for homestead
through Canada and the West. Gion
weighs less than 1870 pounds At the
time OF their marriage, Mrs. Gion. who
now is 81 years old, weighed 400 pounds,
he said.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-20
HOLDING THE HOUSE.
Moral influence Is Needed in Washing.
ton.

Washington, Sept. 20.-The big Dem
ocratic majority in the House will be
kept in Washington as moral influence
over the slender Democratic control in
the Senate while the currency bill is
under way, according to plans made
yesterday by House leaders, who def
nitely rejected for the present at least,
the idea of thirty days recess. After
a conference with President Wilson,
Representative A. Mitchell Palmer,
chairman of the House caucus, said no
effort would be made for an extended re-
cess for the House. 1t is understood the
president believes the presence of the
House will have the effect of strength
ening the administrations efforts to
pass the currency bill in the Senate
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-20
AMERICANS GoUGED.
BY Charges Assessed at Resorts in
France.


Paris, Sept 20.--Amercans taking
their vacations at French resorts this
season have been amazed at charges
which appear to be higher than any
where else in the world. A room with
a bath for 80 francs tS7) a day during
July at one of the frequented hotels in
Deauyille, rose to 200 francs tS40) a
day throughout August The ordinary
charge for a single room at the resort is
100 francs $50 a day These are prices
asked of all corners, whether Americans,
Russian Grand Dukes or Frenchmen
A Partisan journalist made note of his
experience at DeauyiIle. The clerk at
the first hotel he entered replied to his
enquiry for room that one remained
at so francs (Sl6) a day, just room
for one person, with, OF course, no bath
The clerk seemed to apologize for the
low price, and to fear the visitor might
suppose that a room at so trivial a rate
could not be of much account. "We
abandon it to you at so francs" said he,
because it is not large, but it really is
a good room" The enquirer hesitated
at that and crossed the street to another
establishment. The best that could be
done there was a room for l20 francs
1924 day. he returned and took the
so franc room. simple lunch at S3l so
{S6.30l, a cab to the races after CON
siderable bargaining, 40 francs 1881, and
dinner at 43 francs $500 completed an
expensive day.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-20
1870 YEARS TERM FOR MURDER.
New Mexico Judge Gives Longest Sen.
tence in States Record.

Estacia, N. NJ, Sept. 2O.-Probably
the longest sentence ever meted out to
a murderer in New Mexico court was
imposed yesterday by Judge Edward L.
Medler in the district court here, when
he accepted Justiano Moya's plea of
guilty of murder in the second degree
and sentenced him to the state peniten-
tiary for not less than $50 years and not
more than l60 years.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-20
BESIEGED BY A BULL.
Michigan Man Held Captive in Burn
ing Tree.

Muskegon, Mich, Sept. 20.-Attacked
by a bull and forced to take refuge
in tree which later caught fire from
a burning brush, was the thrilling ex-
perience of R. I. Lane, farmer OF Egg
gleston township, living near here, on
Thursday. Lane managed to beat out
the fire in the tree, but had his eye
brows burned off and his clothing was
scorched.
The bull kept in the neighborhood of
the tree and Lane was unable to make
his escape for several hours. Finally =
line of fire forced the bull away from
the tree and Lane was able to descend.
He fled through the hot embers OF the
brush fire.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-20
Home Treatment
for Epilepsy or Fits

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