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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-08
* Dorothy Dix on Contemplating Matrmony 8

boy, but fatal to act upon, for of
all misfortunes that can happen TO
a man the very worst is to be tied
down to a sickly wife. II means
nerves, which in turn means tenn
per and bitter, unjust speeches.
1t means working your fingers to
the bone Ia pay doctors. II
means never having one minutes
peace or freedom. 1t means go
ing from a hard days work TO a
home that is fun of querulous
complaints and whining. II means
a life that is a nightmare.
If sickness comes after mar
riage, and the wife becomes an
invalid, a husbands duty is 10
comfort her as well as he can.
That is an unavoidable misfor-
tune, and must be borne as such,
but no man need hunt for trouble
as NE does when he picks cut a
delicate woman for q wife.
The moral Of all of which is.
my son. to select the kind OF
wife you need and can afford. If
you've got a parlor mantlepiece.
then the Dresdent statuette may
bv an right. Otherwise stick to
SeryiCeable delft.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-08

ing, after marriage she'll still re-
cline on a couch While her nus
band goes out TO the delicatessen
store and buys a pickup dinner
after he comes home from work.
And if q girl is so selfish she
viii let her old father work him
self to death for her, be sure she
will be a slave driver to her hus-
band.
And, by the same token, the girl
who is sensible and helpful and
practical and competent, who is a
good daughter, and a good sister
before marriage, viii make wife
whose price is beyond rubies.
A Lovely Sentiment.
Furthermore. son. / would call
your attention to the fact that
Annette is as delicate and as
fragile as a dollhouse flower.
There's something i'm that very
weakness that strikes a chivalric
chord in strong mans breast.
and makes him want To shelter
her from all the storms of life.
It's q lovely sentiment my
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-08
Nelson at Copenhagen
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY

Danes. Forcing a passage through
the Belt. the admirals appeared
before Copenhagen and at once
attacked the city and its protect
ing fleet. Of the % Danish ships,
Is We're captured or destroyed.
There was forthwith a. cssss-
zion OF ho~til.ties. followed by the
treaty of peace ,licl smashed the
NoylI Coufedegecy Of the Moth
Eue.aad's menace had disau-
uearol. and she 10 longer needed
To fear what might come to her by
way Of the narrow -iJboa OF Wal
ter on her southern boundary.
OF course. Napoleon cared
nothing for treaties if they stood
in the way of his ambition. and
six years later he and the Car
Alexander entered into a pact by
which they hoped to create for
England the same dangerous sit
uatiOn that she faced in 1901.
Sweden was forced into line with
Russia and France. and the royal
pair had also made up their minds
TO secure the fleet of Denmark.
once more the maritime suprem-
acy which was England's real
defense was threatened
And once more England struck.
Upon the refusal of the Danes to
surrender their fleet. the British
warships duly. 1S01h bombarded
Copenhagen ana captured the
whole Danish fleet which was
safely conveyed 70 British ports
Thus was ended -ue second 0ut
1.--. @--H-H-- nt GIN. -saa- E&ll.I-
-.- goo destroy E.- ag.- -uE..-u-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-08
By DOROTHY DIX.

MY Dear Biliy--And so you
M are in love with Annette ana
YOU are thinking ofasIing
her TO marry you. J don't blame
you for being bewitehed by h"r.
son. shes as pretty and as daiu-
~ and as fragile as Dresden
statuett,. And just about as
practical and useful.
] don't blame you for wanting
her You want her on the eternal
human principle that makes us all
prefer the Injuries 90 the uecessi-
ties of life; but ir YOU get her.
what arc you going 10 do with
her son" WHAT place has %
Dresden statucttg iu your scheme
of ifas Annette would make 20
perfectly lovely parlor ornament
for some rich mans home but the
only home you can offer your
wife rs the home of poor man.
where there win Toe mo- space for q
pagIor ornament for many "a year
20 come. but where there Will b.
q crying need for serviceabIe
kitchCnware.
Try. at least. in selecting a wife
10 show as much intelligence as
YOU would display in buying your
clothes. or ordering "a meal You
wouldn't spend your money for
silk socks and patent leather shoes
if you were purchasing footwear
I'm which To tramp a thousand
mites. Neither would YOU expect
-g bo able to stay your stomach
ou oiet composed wholly of
chocolate eclair~. Yec these would
uu. hy lu.e iUyuuZ -lpu~ au. i'd.
lots. performances ,a,u for Sd Door
uau. IS mo has gi- way ro make
Don tire world. jo pick uur for rrlr-
self society butterfly COR 90 wife.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-08


y was one hundrod ana Twelve
years ago-ApviI >. lS01-that
L Parker and \e1s,n made their
merry NlS''S 10 Il'e 1"'-'"i VI len
mark.
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during those wars. was Tor
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-08
RecrirninatiOn
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
Copyright, 1913, by Star Company

CAD Life to Death Methinlzs if | were you
- would not carry such awesome face
To terrlty the helpless human
And IT, indeed, those wOndrous tales be true
Of happiness beyond. and if l knew
About the boosted blessings of that place
| would not hide misery all trace
Of my vast knowledge, Death, if | would lean
Above the pathway of each sorrowing soul,
Hope in my eyes, and comfort in my breath.
And strong conviction in my radiant mien,
The while | whispered of that beauteOus goal
This would | do, if | were you, o Death !
- AID Death to Life, If were you, my friend,
- would not lure cOnfiding souls each day
With fair false smiles, to enter on way
SO filed with pain and trouble to the end.
| would not tempt whom | should defend.
Nor stand mmoVed and them 90 astray.
Nor would | force unwilling souls TO stay
Who longed for freedom. were YOU my friend
But like tender mother ! would take
The weary world upon my sheltering breast
And wipe away It's tears and soothe It's strife.
| would fulfill my promises. and make
Ny children bless they sank 10 rest
Where now they curse-if | were you, . life.
IFE made answer; and Death spoke again;
L''I would not WOO from God sweet nOthngnesS
soul to being, if | could not bless
And crown 1t with all JOY. If unto men
My face seems awesOme, tell me- Life why then
Do they pursue me, mad for my caress,
Believing III my silence lies redress,
For your loud falsehOOds?' 80 Death spoke again.
oh. If is well for You | am not fair,
Well that ! hide behind a vOicelesS tomb
The mighty secrets of that other place
Else would You stand in impOtent despair
While untedged souls straight from the mother '
flushed /" my arms. and >pat upon your i"rr.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-08
The Kind You Need.

The kind of 81 wife sou need is
uuu that wiI Doe "a help and uat a
hiudrauDe 10 YOU. t1lr viii %, g
booster ana uoJ Cd milestone bout
your neck What you need is not
an ethereal being 60 whom you can
quote poetry. but husky help
mate VINO can wreStle with the
pots and pans and butchers bills
and tecthiuE babies without both
ering YOU about them
Believe me, son. that while tenn
permanent is very a'luring In a
lady love. IL Is excess baggage in
a wife. and the less she has of
10 the faster YOU will travel You
viii have your work in getting ON
I'm the world cut out for you with
OUT having 20 stop 90 smooth
down the seusjbiities of wife
WHO SIS too fine and good for hui
man natures daily food
Consider Annette and s.. WAY
-.- has been brought ul aE-
.Hs -sy"u- .r. against fHs
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-08
By wINIFRED BLACK.

TT stands in the window, the lit
tie thrifty growing plant.
Green, so vivid green. l Won
der what it is. I have never seen
quite its like before. I wonder if
it will ever flower, or if it is just
pretty enough as it is, green and
feathery and flourishing to make
lis remember what the whole
world looks like when summer
really comes.
There is green somewhere"
said the little plant, only wait,
lust wait. The sky will smile
again, and see how sturdily l
grow and I am only one. There
are thousands like me out in the
world, green, and friendly, and
full of glorious vital life. l grow,
| grow, and cheer the whole of
the street where l live with the
remembrance Of summer days
The plant in the window, l
wonder what Il Isl
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-08
THApE FoR THE sourA-


Editor The Georgian.
AppreciaunE the good Warl,
your paper is doing in everything
that is for the best interest of
the people, not only i'm our i'm
mediate section. but % the whole
country. I want TO suggest that
YOU write an editorial on the
opportunity NJ hand Of our gov
eminent To- send efficient business
men To- the South American
countries as cur representatives
Co show them what our people
can do IN the way of supplying
their wants
I'm cotton goods especially we
should he able 20 eliminate praC-
tically an competition. IL meu Of
ability are sent Co these people.
who win study thoroughly their
needs. Ln-iHud and Germany a-a
HaE.-s la-i tHr this uad. ara
.-- u.w Hu.iHu- 3D. number. u.
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-08

German primroses and English
ones, too; laburnum, a warming
blue; and what was it hung from
the hanging basket, so blue like
June sky? / can't think Of the
name of it, but knew it well at
grandma's house-as well as I
knew the flavor of her cookies.
And Grandma's doughnuts. with
heads and arms that we named
after people we didn't like, and
ate rayenously, crying cruelty
There goes his head. here zoe,
his arm"
And the gingerbread she mads
in great slabs. and how well ".
children knew the way to the
jar where she kept it, and how W.
used TO creep into the pantry and
make off in triumph with a slab
big enough for half the skaters
on the pond.
The weeping willow across the
rOad-the first signs Of spring
came there, and the rhubarb-"pip
plant" we called it-peeping red.
nosed and inquisitive out Of saa
half barrel where il grew.
Home! Oh what a home il wasl
Are there any such left anywhere
| wonder? or is il all janitors
and electric bells, and caterers
and prize bulldogs, and orchids
and American beauties.
You made me remember II all.
you little thrifty green plant In
the window. ] wonder who YOU
are and where you came from.
The little plant in the window
somehow il gives the whole house
friendly look / know the mis-
tress of that house smiles when
she meets you and the master Of
it has his coffee as he likes II
What a kindly thought Il was for
all who pass that way 10 set the
little green plant in the window,
wasn't il?
So shall / try to DO with the
window Of my countenance, put
my best, my kindest, my most
generous thought in the window
there for all who are weary, and
discoura ged, and sick at heart 10
see and be cheered by it.
I'll Show Him / Care"
The janitor's wife looks deli
cate, I'll ask her how she is the
next time | see her sCrubbing
down there in the basement The
woman ] barely know across the
street, some sorrow grips her
heart; ] read it'in her tired eyes
I'll smile In friendly sympathy
the very next time we pass each
other in the crowded street.
The man I've known for years
he seems cross and Ill at ease o.
late. I'll show him that ] care
The friend OF years ago, / won
der il she's as happy az she Of
ways was. as light Of heart. III
rejoice with her II she IS, ana
cheer her If she is sad.
Yes-rll set a plant in the WIZ
dow, a green and growing plant
that says hope and JOY ano COM
fort and heart -home-to all VINO
pass that way. So much nave
YOU done for one heart, mite
thrifty plant. smiling In your
friendly window. Long may you
flourish
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-08
Works No Miracles.

But she viii never learn
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"'''N'
ana th'h IN desperation. beaten.
you will give up the fight and
ioir tho army of u,fse,,,I, Ia, ra~s
-.-,-
"p'"t '''''S' NiioSe IN es are 100
lazy Go do anything but press "a
bu.rru To- have rE.rr wants SIM
mites. and .... .,-,.r -t,..,. .....-.
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hunting bargains SONG T." matt
uees and playing ari.e-. And tile
husbands af these women ar. ivsr
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H. ''ahe drl l.r a'"rupu-e-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-08

tastes and habits i'm their daugh-
rers, on beer incomes. She is
Dollar Princess without even
dollar. She will go 20 the man
she mauies empty handed. but as
helpless, as useless. as eXJrava-
CANT as amy pampered daughter
of ID millionaire.
She can't cook. She can't sew.
She can't clean up a house. She
can't do one useful thing on earth.
II you put her where your wife
belongs, in a little flat where it's
her business to make YOU a COM
Portable home, she viii give YOU
dyspepsia with her cooking: she
viii bring nervous prostration on
you with her tears. and she viii
break your heart with her COM
plants. You viii stand it for a
little while, hoping that she viii
learn the things about housework
lhat You thought all women were
born knowing, trusting that she
will comprehend that your whole
future success in life depends up-
on your having "a comfortable
and serene home, and upon your
working and saving when you're
Young
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-08
Men, Women, ChiIdren---
TAKE CARE OF YOUR TEETH
They viii Take Care Of You They VIII Proong Your Life
They Are Your Most Important Tools

would laugh at a carpenter allowed his and
chses and other tools You would refuse to pity him
you heard him weeping and complaining because ne couldn't
work well and make decent living with rusty tools
You would say him. Fool why did you take of
Why you them go wrack and run?
AND you would talk in the way to the careless farmer
who leaves his agricultural machinery out in the Winter storms
and nnds it ruined in the Spring.
Bur reader the who neglects his TEETH far
than the carpenter who negees his tools
For the the worst the carpenter buy set
of tools just as good even better.
BUT YOU CAN NEVER GET BACK THOSE TEETH
WHEN ONCE YOU HAVE LOST THEM.
is most unfortunate thing country that nine
the people the knowledge the energy
tect their teeth and that only small percentage know
enough to protect the teeth OF THEIR CHILDREN
There nothing idotc earth than parents
worrying the looks of their chdTen clothes while allow
ing their teeth that would protect them all their lives to to
ruin
You know by sad experience how much power there
your jaw if you bit your tongue.
You that because of the extraordinary power your
jaw YOU CAN CHEW INDEFINITELY WITHOUT GETTING
TIRED, WHEREAS ALL OTHER EXERCISES MAKE YOU
TIRED This part of Nature efforts to your stomach
Remember that whatever your teeth DO NOT DO your
DO Every particle of food that changed by
your body blood and flesh and bone HAS GOT TO BE RE
DUCED TO IPALPABLE POWDER If you don do this with
your teeth your do it. and nine of
ruin their health destroy their somachs and cut twenty thirty
good years they sensible enough
their and the stomach from
that it should do
We talked you before about chewing thoroughly
just want interest all of readers and
especially those responsible for the of children protec
ton of the teeth themselves.
There is of telling a to chew IF HE HASH
GOT ANY GOOD TEETH 1t impossible to keep people from
eating hastily swallowing their food half whole their teeth
are in bad condition.
Meanwhile will tell you ths-the life insurance
the world good teeth Over and over when you
kept alive vigorous longer ordinary you
also casually mentioned the that HIS TEETH ARE IN
Feet CONDITION OF they If they had been
he would have been dead long before.
You want A GOOD TOOTH BRUSH.
You want A GOOD TOOTH POWDER.
You want A GOOD MOUTH WASH that will destroy the
germs that attack the teeth in the mouth.
You ought to know how to these things AND YOU
OUGHT TO USE THEM EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE
You ought and take your children every months at
realize that toothpc besides being crminay indecent
sroy the gums and the teeth should be
used.
No imagine the OF suffering poor little
babies have gone through this earth during teehing
period, WHICH is THE PERIOD OF GREATEST MORTAL
ITY AMONG HUMAN BEINGS.
knowledge of few simple would help to mitigate
the suegs of babyhOOd and to increase health every year
thereafter.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-08
A Lovely Thing It Was.

Do YOU remember that German
ivy your grandmother had? 1t
grew, and grew till it was al
most a scandal. Old ladies came
for miles to see it. They fairly
tiptOed into the room where II
Crept over the window.
"My.my," whispered one of them,
as If she looked upon a miracle.
My, my; why, it's almost scarey
when Ii grows so tall"
4 lovely thing it was, the Ger
man ivy, green and glossy, and
shining. Five points the leaves
had didn't they, like little fingers
on a delicate hand?
Creep. creep, up the old win
dow IL felt its way, up the south
side first. looking for the sun that
cheered its day, across the top,
down the north side. a regular
curtain that made fiecks OF shad-
ow on the old floor and caused the
puppy to leap growing upon the
dancing spots when a draught
stirred the leaves.
There were other plants in the
window there at grandma's, set
on a wire stand Who has seen
one Of those wire stands for
years? II was banked high with
plants, geraniums, fish and rose:
whoever dared call that sweet
flower a fish? Which was it had
the crinkly leaf and when you
crumpled il in your hand II smell
ed oh, like Araby the blest?
What big, strong, smooth leaves
the other kind of geranium had,
comforting TO stand in a vase by
the bed when you had the measles,
white Powered, pink and scarlet, I
loved them the best, they were so
pretty 10 wear in your halr at the
rhuyat, festival
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-08
WAGE FOR WOMEN WORKERS.

Editor The Georgian
] have read with keen interest
the editorials i'm The Georgian.
especially those relating tn pow
erty, disease ana prostitution
After q thorough and sWeeu.uS
investigation the evidence Sc
cured by the Vice Commission
I'M Illinois has clearly proven
49, lUW wages is ~he cause 81
- aIsv part eft tire proStitu-
Fheu the we#ETv wage has
mueH .s s" few women
lar #r| - rH- w.-s lr.
rH. Hr.s -. fallen Women
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-08
All! Those Doughnuts!

And then there came the fever
fews tall slim. fluttery things:
YOU hated the name, it sounded so
ominous, and once when you We're
iii you begged grandma to go
down and throw the fever-few
away, for you knew that was
what gave you the fever.
Heliotrope, little clusters OF il,
very precious and only plucked on
grand occasions; sweet alyssum,
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-06-11
PARK SAVINGS BANK
TO HAVE NEW HOME
Building Will Be Completed by Sep
TENDER l Near Site of Present
Structure.

The new building for the Park Savings
Bank is in the course of construction.
and is expected TO be completed about
September !.
1t is located at Fourteenth and Kenyon
Streets. near the present bank in the
Arcade. The building is TO be two stories
in height, with basement and a parking
of more than twenty feet. which will
beautify the appearance on the north
side. and a parking of fifteen feet on
the Fourteenth Street front. The bank
is to occupy the first story and the base
ment. The second floor is designed for
a large hall and ante-rooms.
The building will he built of tapestry
brick with stone trimmings, and the
front will have a portico, two large
Doric columns of stone two piers, and
bronze doors. The entrance to the second
floor is from Kenyon Street. The bank
ing room will be finished with granite
floor with Tennessee marble borders, also
fixtures of marble base and bronze
screens. The size of the building is
twenty-five feet on Fourteenth Street
and lG2 feet on Kenyon Street.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-06-11
ANACOSTIA PROPERTY
WILL BE IMPROVED
Three-story Brick Structure Is to Re-
place Lohr Printing Es-
Enlistment.

Anacostia Council, No. l6. Junior Or
der of United American Mechanics. de-
cided at its meeting last night in the
local Masonic hall. to conduct a meeting
next Sunday night in the Wilson Me-
mortal Methodist Episcopal Church in
Eleventh Street Southeast, in commence
ration of Flag Day. The members Will
meet in Eleventh Street near the church,
Maurice McGrath. Arthur L. Demiug,
and j. L. Jones constitute a special COM
mlttee having the arrangements in
charge. Several candidates last night
were admitted TO the order.
Electra Chapter. No. 2. Order of the
Eastern Star, OF Anacostia, met last
night in the local Masonic hall, with
Mrs. Bertha Haines. worthy rnatron. in
the chair. Several candidates were ad-
mtted to the order.
"A three-story brick structure will re-
place. in Nichols Avenue, the present
wooden building which now is occupied
by Charles G. Lohr as a printing estab-
lshment The property has been pur-
chased by the Anacostia Quality Shop
Decatur Council, No. d Daughters Of
Liberty. will observe Flag Day tonight
with special patriotic services on the
lawn adjoining the Linger estate in Good
Hope Road.
The yestry of Emmanuel EpiscopaI
church will purchase the Watson prom
erty in Maple View Place for a new
parish rectory.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-06-11
MAY ASK WILSON
: TO Save SLAYER
Porter Charlton's Relatives
Likely to Make Last Effort
Against Extradition.
SUPREME COURT ACTS
Case Has Been Hanging Fire for
More Than Three
Years.

New York, June 1o.-An appeal proba-
bly, will be made to President Wilson to
save Porter Charlton from extraditior
to Italy to answer the charge Of murder
ing his wife, Mary Scott Castle Charl-
ton. at Lake Como. in June 1910. This
il was learned that the United States
Supreme Court had ordered his sur
render to Italian officials for deporta.
ton to Italy.
The news of the adverse decision of
his appeal from the refusal of a writ
of habeas corpus by Judge Blair in the
Hudson County Court was communicated
to Charlton in the Jersey City Jail where
he has been a prisoner for three years.
He was greatly downcast and declined
TO make any comment
We have not abandoned our efforts in
Charlton's behalf" said Edwin Smith,
one of his lawyers. The President OF
the United States can stop his extradi-
ton
will you appeal to the PRESIDENT"
was asked
II will have to consult with my asso-
ciate, Mr.. Clarke. on that" was the re-
ply.
r. Floyd Clarke stated tonight that he
had cabled Charlton's father. who is at
present in Porto Rico. and that it would
depend upon the answer received whether
or not an appeal would be made to Presi-
dent Wilson to rescind the eXtradition
order. With the decision of the United
States Supreme Court. Mr.. Clarke's ac-
tivity in the case ceases.