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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-05-15
OUTGOING AND INCOMING.

j. II. Scott. because of thr pressure Of
his ersonal business. was forced Ia tie
cline Il nominatiin for reelection ~
president of the Chamber of Commerce
Wednesday. In his place the hoard has
chosen =. 4. Tucker. president of the
Peoples Ice Mandatory and II The
Peoples Cotton Oil company. The Der
AID. but for the fear that il might l~
called fulsome. would like 10 give 10 each
of these men the tribute of appreciation
which il due Of cath. Mr.. Scott. ID We
mistake not. was present in the hall o.
the evening when the chamber was first
organized. lie has had a prominent and
most honorable part in the splendid
work of the organization. The work ~
the chamber aud his part in IL all can
only he appreciated by those who have
lived here during the wears which have
passed since that work began. IL -
work i'm which va have all been inter
ested. for very much of the Issue Of sue
ss.ss ar failure for the average citizen of
the town has been bound up ia the opera
tions Of the Chamber If Commerce. We
know where the chamber has stood OH
all matters which have concerned the
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-05-15

Any condition Of housing which is I'M
safe or unsaniiary. or IN any way inf
for living or homr-making. j. ha'
housing. ANY condition Of housin.
which is damaging 10 the community il
bad housing.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-05-15

The scarcity If good houses makes il
iecessary that many wcrkingmen's fam
lies. whom manufacturing calls "a our
shall take any house they can
ind. This very often brings them into
slum neighborhood and sometimes into
he same tenement with families whose
are a menace TO their own family.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-05-15

We have seen that many Of our veal
ny people are building the kind of
houses that eventually make the worst
sind of slums. We have learned. too.
hat slums are not a matter of size /:
hat they are not dependent. even. on
ongcstion-only made worse by il. just
Is disease is always more dangerous
when congestion occurs.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-05-15

Overcrowding brings serious "
results. These have been clee,s
onStrated IN a startling way w \
gestion chart which shows 90
dren reared IN Il onc-ruom DIV H'
smaller than children of the ssHi
and sex reared IN 4 two or tlr !
dwelling the weight and hcigL.
~crcasing with each added ROOFS Y
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-05-15

pie. IL goes ON To say. and points Ia
Cuba rs country where the bulk of
the people are treated rs animals
From this compliment attitude u
would infer that IL made little differ
.encc what sort Of treatment were melted
to people who are animals The
standards of modern civilization. how
ever. rigidly insist upon humane treat
mcnt. Had the iron heel ~ Diaz been
tempered with mercy there would lf
no revolution in Mexico today. England
controls the 4OO.0Oo.OO0 people of bar
barous India bv force indeed. but a
force that is dictated by the eternal
principles If Justice and human rights.
.-Galvcston Tribune.
Dies. of Texas. refers 10 President
Wilson as that Squarc-Iawed gentle
man up M the end of the avenue
Comc to think of IL. President Wilson :
jaws have all of the seductive attributes
Of a vice.-Corpus Christi Caller.
Mexicans near Vera Cruz must keep
away from the watrrworks. Pulqnc j.
good enough for them.-Philadelphia
Record.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-05-15

our NidltS has a nOii>llG iTOttl'GU.
We have learned that our working
people, as a rule, are poorly housed.
We have been startled by the r~ealiza-
tion that. Ia most Of our States. the
poor have apparently no legal right to
sunlight. air and water. and that in
many of our cities only those who can
afford 10 pay for these commodities get
them.
We have discovered that what we
have always thought were Just old
houses. where poor folks lived, We're
really Sums.
We have seen that many of our veal
thy people are building the kind of
houses that eventually make the worst
kind of slumS. We have learned. too.
that slums are not a matter of size I:
that they are not dependent. even. on
cOngcstion-only made worse by II. Just
as disease Is always more dangerous
when congestion occurs.
The old m,sconception that only great
cities could have slums II passing away
We have come 10 see that Just as Lon
don and Berlin. New York and Chicago
each has its distinct type of slums. so
has Boston. Cincinnati. Louisville. In
dianapolis. 81. Louis. San Francisco,
Milwaukee. and the smaller towns If all
our States. Even in our villages We
find types which would be a disgrace
70 a crowded city.
Only a few Of the States have rccog-
nized the fact that they have n housing
problem. Nevertheless. the same prob
dem exists in cvrey State Of the Union.
If there il amy difference in the slums
Of different sections of the country. il
IL no more than the difference in lam
guage of those sections-just dialects.
different RECOMMENDATIONS of poverty.
neglect, Indebtedness.
ANY condition of housing that. in IT
self. tends 10 impair the physical or
moral health Of the tenant. is bad nous.
ing.
The scarcity If good houses makes il
necessary that MANY wcrkingmcn' = fam
lilies. whom manufacturing calls IA our
cities. shall take any house they can
find. This very often brings them into
\ slum neighborhood and sometimes into
the same tenement VITA families whose
habits are a menace 70 their v famsy.
Any condition of housing which IS un-
safe or unSaniiary. ar IN any way unfit
for living or homr-making. is bad
housing. ANY condition Of housing
which is damaging 10 the community is
bad housing.
The physical consequences Of bad
housing are the ones most plainly seen.
There are always eases ~ sickness IN
the tenemcnts. One wonders. brrathine
that foul air. how any n can he we'll
in such places. In the dark. damp
rooms of the poor germs of disease live
AMI multiply. lacking air and sunlight
Ia destroy them. tuberculosis is fear
fully prevalent for this reason. Rhcu.
matisin and colds. with all their train
az troubles. are caused hy the dampness
OF the old houses. Hat ON the ground.
Typhoid. chills and fever are caused by
impure water and lack IF drainage.
Miss Harriet Fnlmer. superintendent
Of the Visiting Nurses Association If
Chicago. saw: "Two-hirls "A the de-
ltnauapf .hillrap cam. from hamaul
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-05-15

III ffiltlIfU lTtlU the Ntllf. Uflfif i -
the >hiftlesS mothers from the
two-thirds of the deserving father -.
the same. In a study If fifty baci, 80
children in an ungfaded schoos 80
large city. forty-thrcr az these 20
occupied homes that il should ha~ =
the business Of the State ~ see CO z /,
exist
Horsfall notes the detrriorai = 90
the English townSpeoplr. under IN -
fiuencc of bad housing. and SAY So
."Out Of 1000 men from Man,
only 1000 were physically fit Z. Z
the army. and quotes Il German e.
who saws that The men Of Man
are a degenerate race"
Hunter lays great stress on .
housing n one thing necessary 80
u man in good working cunditiui srr
English author boldly says:
" n largely due "a bad hOusinr. A.
an applicant for relief under a..
housing conditions and his hca :
IN most eases much improve. Al a
ham Ia earn more and taking ~hf'
the hands Of the charitable
Those who deal with hi, prolS a
charity can testify that this IL v
The moral effect Of bad H. wv - M
mol az first So apparent az the
Ii should require no argument. ts't
when overcrowding is involved 4
people are ''hrrdcd together
tie there can be- no privacy. thsi 81,
essential Of the home. H. IA ms "a "A
persons 6f low standards of =
sexes and ages all live togetht4 Arrfe
room, II Is almost bound 10 81 I'll
vice. 80 il Is when 4 number NJ 4 W,
lilies have To- use the same yaat "a
%sloset. hall and stairs. especially
The two greatest assets Of t-
are the land aud the people. 80
countries, realizing this prot Y
land and people bv their hous II -
ulations. They find thaf "larS s9'
ing does not pay. neither dc "
practice of crowding the poor n
land and leaving the cheap ~,
can't Preventing this. they - l
~ as we'll a. lives. -
n---u~l. -
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-05-15
HEALTH POINTERS
BAD HOUSING.
Texas Health Bulletin

awakened 10 the fact that every one of
our States has a housing problem.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-05-15
A POINT WELL TAKEN.

Wherever and whenever opposition
Ia the President : canal toll policy has
maicrialized. the Baltimore declaration
IN favor Of exemption IL exploited az A
trump card. but nothing is said about
another plank Of the platform in which
subsidies and special privileges are dis
countcnanced. Calling attention ia these
contradictions. Senator Lea takes occa-
sion Ia observe.
These two plans are inconsistent.
and the Democratic convention could
NOT have meant t. declare both for tolls
exemption and against subsidies. I'm
constituting the platform as t. which
plank is binding. we must take into
consideration what has been the time
honored tradition and policy Of the
Democratic party. and we find that IL
has always opposed subsidies aud spe-
cial privileges.
The point is we'll taken. There is
foundation for the charge that excmp-
tion "repudiates one part Of the plat
form. but thera Is not less warrant for
the assertion that IL ''ob-ys" anoth-
er. 30 the trump fails t. take the trick.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-05-15

Eastern publication of international
prestige. lies I'm the l3.OO0.0 600 uncivil-
wed Indians. which make a Democracy
in Mexico an impossibility. Interven-
ton will not help the lot Of these peo-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-05-15

We have discovered that what we
have always thought were just old
houses, where poor folks lived. were
really Slums.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-02

He is bending over the apparatus, catch
ing something. He speaks:
Washington won in the thirteenth
to g.
How did you get that?''
Radio station at Arlington" says
Thomas Edison Nilxirk, without emotion.
I'VE get the ball score here every even
ing"
one of the little jokes of the camp Is
the occasion when the wireless, quite un-
Intentionally. picked up fond, not to
say mushy, message which pair OF
honeymooners on board ship were send
ing back to the old folks at home. What
the honeymooners would think. If they
knew that the Boy Scouts were the aston
ished recipients of this message. furnishes
interesting food for speculation.
The sun has dropped lower. Now the
boys are lining up, their uniforms
ehanTed Th nesr look iiae Company q
soldiers. The buglers step out. The
first soft notes of retreat sound and
the American flag on top of the man
building comes slowly, slowly down.
Then there is a grand rush for supper.
On the trip back in the May Belle
Scout Commissioner Martin furnished
some interesting data. For instance,
the camp has a daily output Of sixteen
gallons of milk furnished by the four
cows which Bebee told about. seventy
five hens have their runway there near
the twenty -four pigs. The hens are
they quit it is the stewpan for them.
And" continued Mr.. Martin, within
a year we will have part Of the sixty
acres which we now use under culti-
walton.
The boys will have their own farm.
We will also have our mess hall board
ed up this fall and boys can come
down here during the holidays. One
half of the hall will be the living
room. screened off from the other half,
which will be the dining room
Another trip in the train A men,
Der of the United Brotherhood OF
or other is overcome. He
rests his weary head on the Rank Out
sider's shoulder until the latter slips
away. when he quietly slumps two
more degrees to port without waking
up.
Camp Archibald Butt is far away. The
humdrum. noisy city comes closer. At
last only the vision remains.
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Good Eatinq.
"MEcHN1KoFF. the MetchniA

ssKTETcHNIKoFF, the Metchnikon
AVA Of sour milk fame. is soon to
celebrate in Paris" said a Paris cor
respondent on furlough in New York.
his seventeen birthday.
'Since his sixtieth birthday, when he
began his sour-milk regime. Metchnixoff
has not aged. On the contrary. he has
become rejuvenated.
ITO the committee that has in charge
the splendid honors Of his birthday cele-
bration Metchnikof gave some advice
on the benefits of frugal eating-the
meat and an abundance Of well cooked
green vegetables. And he ended hie
lecture with this crystal of wisdom:
"'Good eating makes more pessimists
than bad luck"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-02

Are. the Millions of
Chambord Hoodooed2
Christian Occultism
of Old Duke Robert
Young Couple Inherit
Doubly From Marie
Antoinette-A Story
of the Long Separated
Earrings-The Finest
Old Castle in All
France.
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one knows how they will marry So with
Princes Felix. Rene, Louis and Gaetan.
bachelor Of forty. So. they say. will be
his brother, Sixte, aged twenty eight, sup
posed to be studying law in Paris. but
given to curious researches and respect
full Of his fathers occultism. Xavier, aged
twenty-six, is said to be in love with
an archduchess. Yet they never spoke
of "Xavier's luck"
For there is no denying 1t. two Of
these twenty-one children, almost from
their childhood. were supposed to carry
luck on tap.
Prince Ellie, Coughing boy at Chamberd,
discovered the secret closet where the
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one; Princess Marie Therese, aged thirty
nine; Princess Marie Pie aged thirty
eight and Princess FRANCHISE Josephe,
aged twenty-six, are all confirmed old
maids. though handsome and accom-
plished.
Princess Marie DIES Neiges became
Benedictine nun, in the Abbey of Ste
Cecile, at Ryde in the Isle of Wight.
Princesses Maria Antonio, Isabelle and
Henriette are all three under twenty. No
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Then he went back to his remaining
children. very pensive.
He had. at that moment, seven sons
and ten daughters.
Only one of them was married, Prin-
cess Beatrix, who had espoused her
ccnsin Pietro. There are no children.
THE hoodoo persists" unused Duke
Robert.
Now, how shall father who himself
has married twice. with twenty-one
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song books of Francis I were found
At Biarritz he stumbled on his mother s
lost necklace in the middle of the street
at am. At Wartegg he put out a fire
chateau. There is no end to the stories
of Prince Flies luck"
< x
Well, at the age of twenty-three
Prince Ellie fell in love with Marie Ann,
archduchess of the house of Austria
They were married, and have five
sturdy. beautiful children.
Princess Zita's luck, they say, was
given to her by her father, fourteen
year-old girl, at Chambord. Every year
the old Duke Robert opened Chambord
during a month for the hunting, when
the grand old castle came to life again
with the hustle. laughter and music of
entertaining honored guests.
One day Zita's father called her to
him in the round tower room, where. 400
years previously Henri II had been
foretold the manner of his death by
the prophet Nostradamus.
"Zita.' he said. take these. They
are your luck"
And Duke Robert handed her little
old brooch of sapphires and brilliants
and thick; short, heavy bottle of per-
fume, sealed, yet half evaporated.
Princess Zita grew up between Via
Reggie, Schwarzau and Vienna. increas-
ing in grace, wit and goodness. One
day. young man whom she liked well
noticed her brooch of sapphires and
brilliants. When she told him its
origin. he was strangely moved. DO
you know he said. lit was an ear
ring-and / have the mate to It. Did
you never hear the legend?" But he
would not tell her
One day he admired her perfume. "It
is haunting;- he said, yet gives good
But she would not tell him.
Princess Zita liked him well. He was
not particularly handsome or brilliant,
but clean-cut, trained down. cheerful,
And he was Archduke Charles. the heir
presumptive to the throne of Austria
Hungary. should anything happen to his
uncle, Francis Ferdinand. who had mar
ried morganatically.
It was not for this that Princess Zita
loved him. When he. wooed her, friends
tried to dissuade her. saying that he was
not brilliant enough of mind for so keen
and versatile an intelligence as hers. To
which Zita answered: IT like him be-
cause he Is so upright and true
X
And she softly repeated the motto she
than for me-" and the symbolical mean
ing of her sisters perfume-'for the peo-
ple."
OF course. girl like that would feel
that way.
What could she know of old Duke
Roberts porting over the quatrains of
Nostradamus? Or Of the supposed curse
laid by Marie Antoinette upon the mil
lions?
, But when they were married Charles
fetched from his safe, one day, a little
old battered leather case. Zita opened
it and saw a brooch of sapphires and bril-
liants just like her own.
They were originally a single pair of
earrings" he said. A'And they belonged
to Maria Theresa our great ancestress.
The legend is that she was strangely
troubled when she sent her young daugh-
ter to become Queen of France. A saint
ly woman by her said: Make brooches
of your earrings, and give one to Marie
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children at his death and forty millions
cash to leave them-how shall he per-
suade these children not to marry? 81
I think that he did not try.
He did NOT have to try, the hoodoo did
1.-THE hoodooed millions of the little
dauphin.
*
Look at the facts.
Up to the death of old Duke Robert in
1907, his eldest son and heir, the present
Duke Henri, had not married and today,
a bachelor Of forty -four, they say that
he will never marry.
Princess Louise, aged forty-three;
Princess Marie Immaculee. aged forty
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81 49, Lptt.
HAMBORD is the
grandest old royal
castle of France.
1t belongs to
Archduchess Zita's
brother. the Duke
Henri, by primo
geniture and fam
lily arrangement;
but by a hoodoo
of old millions Hen
ri has it only in
name. 1t is Zita's
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That's u.s. murmured Zita.
They were married only two years ago.
and have a fine son, the fllustriouu
Erzherzog Franz Josef Otto. and a baby
that is teething.
STERLING HELLO.
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Antoinette. We will pray upon the 9TH
er. Good may come of it, Now, all I
know said Archduke Charles, sis that
for near hundred years it has been said
that peace and happiness will come to
those who may unite the earrings"
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de Chambord and his sister Louise, who,
together, left it to her son, Duke Robert,
Zitas father. Actually, 1t is supposed to
amount to thirty-fve millions.
We see what Zita's father had to work
on with his Christian occultism. Cham
bord and its ghosts were purely his
the chateau by public subscription, and
the ghosts by inheritance. He and his
children were direct descendants of the
legitimate kings of France. They could
not pretend to the crown, because they
descend through female. but Zita and
her brothers and sisters are the sole and
direct legal heirs of Louis XVI and Marie
Antoinette.
Yet the millions seem hoodooed.
They had brought bad luck. without
exception-and the same kind of bad
luck--to every one who touched them.
All died practically childless-Louis
XVIII. Charles x. the Due de Berri and
the Comte de Chambord. And each
lost the crown he had or was entitled
to. 1t is as if the curse of Marie
Antoinette were on the millions-"Do
not touch the treasure of my little
dauphin!'
OF course, one cannot walk into a
great family and ask its secret motives,
but all passes as if the old Duke Robert
hoped to lift the hoodoo from his chill
dren by appropriate marriages-to
marry back those millions where they
came from. or not marry at all.
Here we have clue to Princess
Zita's luck
These are high matters.
Her eldest sister, Marie Louise,
proved the bad luck of marrying other
wise than into Austria. Beautiful,
.-ft
'ent Car of Bulgaria in the young days
when he was fascinating prince
Ferdinand" Duke Robert permitted
the match. He had discovered an old
Venetian prophecy that Constantinople
would be reconquered from the Turks
by -four kings" when "a patriarch of
Venice sits in the seat of st. Peter"
They say that Marie Louise believed
Ferdinand that. when Plus X was
elected Pope, he began feverfshly weld
ing the four Balkan states together.
Certainly, the four kings almost got
there. 1t may happen yet.
~
But lovely Marie Louise had passed
away She died of worry about her lit
tie son, after he was forced to be con-
verted to the orthodox creed as politi-
cal move She loved gardens, fountains.
swallows. whose nests she would never
permit to be disturbed. Perfumes were
a hobby with her, and she loved. above
all, the iris, or flag. or fieur de luce of
the old French kings, her ancestors
Orris powder is known to all, but no
perfumer had succeeded in producing
what the delicate fancy of Marie Louise
of Parma hit on-a concentrated LIQUID
iris, not insipid. a glowing central iris
1.-THE hoodoo persists" said old Duke
Robert. And he asked back from
Ferdinand of Bulgaria of all his dead
daughters trinkets. only a brooch of
sapphires and brilliants (diamonds),
which had belonged to Marie An
toinette. 1t was an heirloom of the
family from the Comte de Chambord
along with the hoodooed millions.
Originally one of a pair of earrings, it
had been transformed to brooch, and
as such Marie Antoinette had worn it
into France - a bride.
Thoughtfully. they say, Duke Robert
also obtained a bottle of the perfume.
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