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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24
WILL OBSERVE
PAST MASTERS NIGHT
Team of All Past Masters Will Confer
Master Mason Degree in Column
bian Lodge Tomorrow Evening.

Columbian lodge, No. 36, F. & \. NJ,
will observe past masters night tomor-
row evening, when team of all past
masters will confer the Master Mason
degree. The following will be the act
ing officers: W. NJ, Kittredge Haskins
S. w, William IL. Vinton; j. w, Isaac
d, Bailey; sec, Edwin IL. Putnam;
treas, Charles II. Grant; S. D., James
b. Randoll; J. b., Anthony +. Schwenk;
chaplain, Robert w. Tabor; marshal,
Christie B. CrowelI; $. s., James A.
Hoadley; j. s., w. +. Hubbard. All
arc past masters of Columbian lodge
except Mr.. Tabor, who is past mas
ter of Eureka lodge of New Bedford,
Mass. Mr.. Vinton has served as master
of Columbian lodge and Brattleboro
lodge. Following the work refresh
ments will be served. Mr. Haskins was
raised in Social lodge in Wilmington
June H.. 1857, Mr.. Vinton in Column
bian lodge May l, 1860, and Mr.. Bail
ely i'll Columbian lodge March 8, 1870
The three have given the craft .
combined service of 152 years, or an
average of over so years. .f
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24

greatest pleasure, in muscular reaction
to the music \ third, who undcrstooa
musical composition, studied the pieces
as works of art. But in every ease, while
one impression was dominant and usual
iv different from the experiences of 9th
ers, all the complex Factors Of enjoy
ment were present in varying degrees
and by shift Of attention the nearer
could easily pass from one typical pro
cedure to another. OF course. the same
group of imagery or of Ideas was never
conveyed by the music into the minds
of all the auditors.
Doubtless, Mr.. Sheehau is right when
he contends that music does not simply
appeal to the emotions. as Wagner in
sisted but stimulates 'tffE wh6Ie consei
BUSINESS of 81 man, -farm0nIzing his pow
crs until he feels a Joy in their liberia
tion. Mr.. Sheehan belieSes that in this
democracy the benign influence of music
should be brought more directly upon
the masses, exaiting theh consciousness
and enriching their lives. There is no
question that this is music-loving
town. 1t is equally certain that proyi-
sion has not been made for supplying
good music to its people at prices with
in the reach of all.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24
JAMAICA
Jamaica Native Back from Alaska.

Adams Twitchell of Bethel, Alaska,
is visiting David Eddy and calling on
his many friends in town. Mr.. Twitch-
ell went to Alaska Is years ago and
has been very successful in the min
ing and trading business. He left his
home in Bethel Nov. 10, 1912, and
travelled 900 miles by dog team before
taking the boat On the way he visit
ed Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
several places in Texas and then came
to Orange, Mass, to visit his mother,
Mrs. LeVerna Twitehall, who is 81
years old. Il
Mr.. Twitchell has come to Jamaica
to visit the place of his birth, which
is the Adams TwitcheI farm on
Twitchell hill, now occupied by Louis
Robertson. Mr. Twitchell is very in
teresting talker and thoroughly under
stands the country which he has been
over. One of the narratives which he
relates is of his digging for a well,
when he went ia feet and did not get
through the frost, and gave it up as
he did not care to go through to Eu-
rope. About May he will return to
his home in Bethel. where his family,
a wife and seven children, are await
ing his return.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24

TSHE entire country has been ask
ed to unite in a campaign in
Il behalf of working girls who are
unprotected and surrounded
with an environment of temptation
and vice. ..--...-.
The initial step. in the movement
was taken when the Illinois state vice
committee sent the following telegram
to governors throughout the country:
Are you in favor Of minimum wage
for women? il SO, what wage? DO YOU
favor a state law or national law? VIII
you cooperate with Lieutenant Governor
Barratt O'Hara. chairman of the Illinois
committee which is now investigating with
an aim to enact legislation for women in
an effort to stamp out white slavery
At least a score of state executives
replied Immediately, each assuring the
Illinois investigators of hearty support
and cooperation.
One of the first to reply was Cover
nor Sulzer of New York. who said
that New York would fall in line with
any move aimed to eliminate traffic in
women. ....... ..-.-.-....
A message from. Utah stated that
the state legislature passed bin fix
ing the minimum wage for women at
10 cents n day for the first years serv-
ice and after that SIPS day.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24
FORMER TEACHER AN
ACTIVE CLUB WOMAN
Mrs Eva Gowing Ripley, Once of High
School Faculty, President of Kos
mos Club in Wakefield.

Mrs. Eva Gowing Ripley, formerly
a capable member of the Brattleboro
high school faculty, is president of the
Kosmos club of Wakefield, Mass,
woman 5 club which is doing an, i'm
portant work. In. an article illustrated
by a two-columh picture of Mrs. Rip
ley, the Boston Herald says:
"Kbsmos club of Wakefield is IN the
midst of a very successful season I'M
der the leadership of its president,
Mrs. Eva Gowing Ripley. The cluo
membership has grown steadily all TINS
season. and has taxed the capacity of
the hall. BY recent vote the member
ship is limited to 300, and the waiting
list already numbers nine. The club s
favOrite philanthropy is the students
loan fund, to aid graduates of its high
school in college, and has added to
that fund this year, and will approprl-
ate an additional sum to it from the
treasury before the season closes. The
town Improvement committee is ex-
pending its fund in improving school
yard and is giving money to tree
nursery.
"Under the auspices of the Kosmos
club, the Visiting Nurse association
was formed few months ago. 1t has
a nurse. at work and is proving its use
fulnCss in many ways. The club Will
make a gift, probably, to the associ-
alton, many of whose officers are also
club members.
''Mrs. Ripley is a college woman,
and took post graduate work in the
University of Heidelberg, Germany
and at the Sorbonne in Paris. She
speaks German, French, and some Ital
ian. She has been devoted to club in
tCrests, and has made especial efforts
to promote a spirit of friendliness am
cordiality within the club, and tC
bring the club into touch with the
work of the state federation through &
special group of federation correspond
cnts. The revision of the constitution
now being done by the president anl
the directors will add several working
departments in harmony with those Of
the state federation. Mrs. Ripley i.
considered a Just and gracious presid
ing officer and good at impromptl
speechmaking. Her services as speake
are frequently sought by clubs. Sh
Iectured this season on An American
College Woman in a German Universe
tv before the Whittier club of Ames
bury, and on March u before the Me-
rose Highlands club on Contemporary
Life in Present Day Fiction. She ha
just been reelected to the Wakefield
school board for three years. She
vice-regent of Faneuil hall chapter,
A. r., and active in an afternoon liter
airy club called the Penultimates TIL
president has worked to create in tn
club a sane interest in municipal a
fairs, and it has taken several time
n stand in matters affecting the tow
at large. The afternoon programs, bot
literary and musical, have been of a
unusually high order this season, an
favorably commented upon. ..s
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24

A unique way to destroy horse was
performed by the old pathfinder, Ezra
Mceker at his farm near Puyallup.
Washington. For 30 years the horse
had been faithful animal but had
come to a precarious condition SO that
Meeker decided to destroy it painless
~. He bought two sticks of dynamite,
caps and bit of fuse lie tied the ex-
ploslve to the horse s neck. inserted
the caps and attached the fuse. When
all was ready the fuse was lighted and
Meeker ran for the orchard.z1OO wards
away, as fast rs 20 years would permit.
The old man had not gone far when
hearing noise, he turned to behold
the old horse following him at a brisk
trot. The animal was frightened at
the sizzling fuse dangling from his
neck and was trying to find protection
from its master. Meeker realized his
danger and ran faster 4 barbed wire
fence separated the orchard from the
pasture and this the old man hurdIed
like deer The farmer. with his clothes
in shreds, found himself in an apple
tree. The old horse had vanished to.
gether with so yards of the fence.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24
HINSDALE, N. H.
Mrs. Sophia Clark.

News was received here Friday of
the death of Mrs. Sophia Clark, widow
of ARA Clark, in Keene at the home
of her son, Charles Clark. The body
was brought here this afternoon on the
3 O'Clock train and the burial
took place in the family lot in Pine
Grove cemetery. Rev. \. L. Hill of the
Congregational church offered prayer
at the grave.
Mrs. Clark was we'll known by the
older residents, having formerly lived
here many years. She leaves two sons
Charles, of Keene and Arthur, of Hing
ham, Mass.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24

\ man who was very miserly hoard
ed up his stacks of hay year after
year in the hope of making double the
price he was offered for them. \ we'll
known hay and straw buyer in the dis
trict one day asked the price Of a stack.
An enormous sum was asked, which the
buyer accepted.
g How about the terms of, settle
ment asked the old .T6isGr. .i
"Wcll YOU ser said the buyer,
my terms are to settle when Iafetch
the last load away.
''That 5 a bargain, said the miser,
slapping the other 5 hand.
The Old chap watched every load 90
away except the last, and that the buy
err has never fetched'yet.%
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24

Miss Mabel Strceter of West Wards
boro is working for l.. r. Barnes.
Mrs. Livermore went to Townshend
Thursday to visit her brother two
weeks
We have had big run of sap and
that makes the sugar makers smile.
Mrs. A. V. d. Piper is spending a
few days in BrattlebOro.
The Potter boys, who have been
saving wood in the village with their
gasoline engine outfit, have returned
home to run their sugar orchard.
is Miss Emma Thomas of New York
city is spending the Easter vacation
with her brother, DIR. A. w. Thomas.
On Thursday Myron H. Johnson fell
while working. in the Cheney Broth
ers' mill. disloeating his right elbow
and breaking both bones in the arm
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24
..The Effect Of Music

Is the title of an interesting article
in q late magazine article by Joseph
F. Sheehan. That music is not merely
emotional " nor "intellectual'' bat
that it plays on all the harpstrings OF
consciousness, is the theme OF Mr.
Sheehan : article. and is based on Har-
~ Porter Weld 5 experiments in the
psychological laboratory of Clark uni
versity. DR.. Weld wished to know
what really goes on in the mind aId
body of an individual while listening to
music. Four men and four women.
graduate students, representing differ
emf degrees of musfcal culture. but lis
tening to music of the same expression
from Photographic records, were the
subject of the experiment. BY means
of tracings on a smoked drum, it was
found that heart beats increased.
breathing became exceedingly irregular
in depth and in rate, and there was a
tendency to rhythmical muscular move
ment. The excitement varied with the
kind of music.
Beautiful pictures arose in the mind
of one auditor. Another found his
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24

The schools will close Friday for the
spring vacation.
Rev. Father Cahill has been in Man
chester several days.
Mrs. Fred Butler visited several days
the past week in Greenfield.
Miss Kate Conway is at home from
Keene for a several days stay.
Mrs. Skinner of Keene spent Thurs
day with her sister, Miss Emma Well
man.
Miss Ida Walsh of Keene was a guest
at Elmer Aldrich 5 several days last
week
Miss Ruth Quigley came home Friday
from Northampton to remain over Eas-
ter.
Mrs. John Johnson visited Saturday
in Brattleboro with her daughter, Mrs.
Rex Coane.
All work was suspended on the
railroad job Sunday to enable those who
wished to enjoy Easter at their homes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Collins of Bar
ton, VT, who visited Il week in town
with relatives, returned home Saturday
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Aldrich and
child left Saturday for a week visit
with relatives in several places in Yer
mont.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Bridge returned
home this week from Springfield, Mass.
where they spent the winter with theil
daughter, Mrs. OpPenheimer.
The Knitting club was entertaine,
at the home of Mrs. c. A. Gray Thurs
day afternoon, in observance of he
| birthday anniversary. Refresmnent
were served
Attention is called to the Easter Mon
| day concert and ball to be given unde
the auspices Of Phil Sheridan corps NJ
II, S. Of V. Lyman S orchestra of !
pieces viii furnish the music. Goncer
s to 8; dancing from to 2.
The business meeting of the ladies
missionary society of the Congregation
al church was held at the parsonag
with Mrs. A. l.. Hill Thursday after
noon at , clock. These officers wer
elected: Mrs. A. L. Hill, president; Mr.
Lizzie Fisher, vice-president :; Mrs. Res
Metcalf, secretary and treasurer. A
the close of the meeting refreshment
were served.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24
STARTED
THE SOCIAL VICE
Minimum Wage of SO Weekly
Is Demanded-NeW
Laws on Way.

of workshops and factories giving &c
tailed information as TO wages, hours
of employment. etc Governor Cox has
announced himself in favor of mini
mum wage for women workers, but
the bin as drawn does not provide for
that feature.
A legislative committee to investigate
the causes of white slavery In Califor-
mia and the effect Of low wages in that
relation has been under the chairman.
ship Of Senator Gates Of los Angeles
F. Governor Hiram W. Johnson declared
himself IN favor Of a national cam
paign for a minimum wage scale foI
women
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24
Massachusetts, Plans Commission

Governor FosS of Massachusetts ad-
dressed n letter to Lieutenant Governor
O'Hara replying to his suggestions. he
said:
a resolution has already passed the
senate of Massachusetts to provide for
an investigation of the white slave
traffic. so called, which If enacted viii
authorize the governor and council to
appoint n commission of five persons
with ample authority for the purpose"
That a working woman needs $500
a week except in domestic service to
support herself in Milwaukee is the
opinion expressed by the social service
commission Of the Milwaukee Fedora
ton of Charities.
The commission urges young women
who expect to support themselves to
keep away from the city unless they
have an assured income of at least 50
week. domestic service excepted,
A bill has been introduced I'm the
Ohio legislature requiring all persons
or corporations employing FIVE or more
women to report to the state inspector
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24
Holland - Care For Its Old.

The second chamber of the Neither
lands parliament recently adopted by
"a votes against 80 bill providing for
compulsory old age and sickness in
surancc for workngmen.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24
Effect of Low Wages.

1--WE were forced to realize that low
wages We're the real fundamental
cause of white slavery and that TO
study the effect and ignore the cause
would be TO give TO our investigation
the appearance and reality or a farce.
We refused to lie parties to a farce.
The people OF Illinois. which took the
lead in the final solution of black
slavery. stand back of us Loyalty, and
the work will go on regardless Of
whom or where 1t strikes.
Our merchant princes and our kings
Of manufacture, the very people who
have been the witnesses before our
commission. admit that there must be
a readjustment OF wages. To n man
they have entered into sincere and ear
nest cooperation with us.
The crisis is not confined to Illinois.
IL is national"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24
Governors Fall In Line.

All the governors expressed them
selves emphatically in favor Of a min
imum wage, and many of them prom
iSed to send messages to that effect TO
their legislatures.
The Chicago merchants who testi-
fed before the committee held a secret
meeting recently. The wages and con-
ditions of girl employees We're discuss
ed for several hours. Since the inves-
tigation began the department store
proprietors and others have made a
careful study OF the probable effects
of establishing among themselves Il
minimum wage.
Girls in some stores have already
asked higher wages, and it was learn,
ed that all were assured that they
would be taken care OF" as soon as
something definite had been decided on
by the employers.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24

Thomas Hart is assisting at Franklin
Inn.
Miss Bertha Hemmings is home from
Hartford for the Easter holidays,
Miss Esther Graham of Bethlehem.
n. H., is a guest of Miss Mildred Goe
Miss Myra Sutherland of Springfield
spend the weekend in town visiting
relatives.
Mount Hermon boys were given a
holiday Saturday and many came to
Northfield.
Mrs. James McConaughy, formerly of
this locality, is now at Hampden hos
pital, Springfield.
Mrs. James r. Hamilton is visiting
her daughters, Mrs Frank and Mrs.
Burton Spencer, in Greenfield
The Good Government club of Mount
Hermon, of about so tudents, banquet
ed at the Mortified hotel Saturday
evening. -.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Charles Bellows and
two daughters and John Bellows Of
West Leyden moved to- the Oscar Slate
place this week zt
Rev. David Lewis Yale, who lectured
III tne SehlhdfN flluaN evening, gave
the same illustrated lecture at Mount
Hermon Thursday evening on the Life
of Christ.
Fred Proctor recently bought six
western horses. He also bought last
week a pair of heavy draft horses OF
J. w. Wheeler of Orange which have
many excellent points.
/ Northfield seminary il one of tn,
Shedd of lowell, and 100000 will %,
available at the death of Mrs. Shed,
and her daughter.
The Grange will meet tomorrow
night and viii discuss the fish an,
game laws Of the state. Some Of thos,
we'll vefsed in farming viii discuss til,
iold and new methods of farming. Mrs
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24

There are only = European states
under absolute autoe = Mecklenberg-
Strelitz and Meckle. - Schwerin.
Their grand dukes have. agreed
to the establishment of moa, 1nsti-
.tutiOns
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24
Better English For SIGNS.

Declaring that modern advertising is
4 ruthless transgressOr against the
rules that govern the use Of the Eng
lish language. Edwin Farley of the
Jamaica high school, New York, ex-
presses the opinion that every city and
community should have a commission
on English whose function it would be
to examine or edit the reading matter
on any advertising sign before it is
placed before the public
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24

The people who are eqJtiek to- take
offence have no difficulty in finding d
plentiful supply
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24

New York is the greatest market for
California fruit.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24
MORTIFIED, MASS.
Special Town Meeting March 90.

\ special meeting has ben called to
be held in the town hall at o'clock
Saturday, March 20, to consider the
following articles:
To choose a moderator.
To see if the town viii raise and
appropriate the sum of $S6s.72 10 pay
the deficit incurred by the school com
mittee for the year ending Feb. !,
1913, or act thereon. .a-.-
TO see if the town will raise and
appropriate sum Of money to pur-
chase a power sprayer for the use of
the tree warden.
To see if. the town will raise and
appropriate a sum Of money to repair
the bridge. on Plain road near the
Billings farm. t.4 e.... ...
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24

r'For the lands sake-use Bowker' 2
Fertilizers. They enrich the earth and
those who till it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24
Have Probed Conservatively.

Senators Tossey and Woodland have
declared themselves in like manner.
We have investigated this matter sane
ly and conscrvatiyely. We have tried
10 let the sunlight in on 4 condition
and to spare individuals. We have
accorded to al witnesses exact jus
tice and full courtesy. and mt the end
OF our labors so far we are appalled,.
stunned. Mortified.
American womanhood is in grave
peril solely and only because Ameri-
can manhood profits from the helpless
ness Of womanhood to enrich itself
There is no other conclusion 10 be de-
rived. 1t is 4 national shame, but It
must be faced now and boldly
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24
O,Hara Makes Statement.

Lieutenant Governor Barratt O'Hara
Of Illinois recently made the follow
ing statement on his project in behalf
of women:
''Our investigation into the causes
and effect of social vice has shown
conclusiyely that thousands of good
girls are going wrong every year
merely because they cannot live upon
the wages paid them by employers.
The conditions revealed 10 our com
mission have been only half told in
the press reports. Senator Edmond
Beall, a veteran of the civil war and
a man OF wide experience with the
world broke down completely and
wept duriag the examination Of the
victims Of low wages at our executive
session
Senator Beall IS a retired manufac-
turer. worth a great many thousands
of dollars. He told me that he intend
ed TO spend every cent OF his fortune
and every hour OF his time to save
American womanhOod from the pite-
Gus menacas that our investigation has
shown constantly surround her.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-24
NATIONAL WAR
f., AGAINST
Score of Governors Enlist
In Movement to Aid
Working Girls.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-03-28
The Operetta, Sylvia.
Argument.

Act l. Sylvia tired of her bethro
thed wanders into the bayfield, where
she overhears Betty bem gaming her
fate and wishing she we're engaged to
marry nobleman instead of honest
William. Sylvia suggests that, as
they each envy the other her lot,
they exchange places for the rest Of
the day. that Sylvia masquerades as
the farmers daughter and Betty as
the maid of honor to the Queen.
Betty tells of a flower called "Cupid's
Eye," which would blind the poet and
the farmer to che fact tfiat such an
exchange has been made, and the
two girls set off to find the mag ic
flower and change costumes.
In the meantime, Betty's compan-
ions, who had left her In the bayfield,,
return to find her. They meet the
farm lads on their way to the plough
field and half promise to meet them
at the stile on their way home from
work. A cloud appears in the sky,
which throws them into great con-
sternation as they fear rain, and
when Prince Tobbytum appears they
besiege him to know what the wealth
er will be. Indignantly, ne informs
them who he is and they apologize.
He accepts their apology and offers to
allow them to kiss his cheek. They
pretend to accept but instead dance