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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-05

Fashion be blowedl Let her wear what she wishes. Why should one make her self uncomfortable. compress her lungs, crsmp her stomach. press her feet into corns and bunions. and make a moving hospital of her body. simply because Fashion says she should7 Fashion is irn- perious and has been so in every age. Look at the fashions of history, when a woman's hat or bonnet was as tall as church steeple. Look at the neck of Queen Elizabeth in the picture, with it's ruff as stiff as steel, and see her paniers extended several feet beyond her body. Look at the styles of today. Women walk as if their feet were crippled. and such a thing as climbing up the entrance of street car is out of the question if she would be decent. Fashion be blowed. woman has right to dress as she wants to. Why shouldn't she7 If Fash ion Is first in her consideration, then let her dress as this tyrannous dame re- quires. But If she wants health and bodily vigor, let her dress as she pleases, be her attire in the fashions of the first or the twentieth century, and lot no one say that she Is out of style. Each woman Should De an authority Tn style TOT her self. Let this thing of man tailor and man millner setting the fashions for women be blowed., once for all. We have a right for each ones self to set the styles. and we're going to do 1t. And so forth and so on.
 THE HUSBANDS NAME.
 At the meeting designated above one lady spoke on the subject, 'The Right of a Woman to Keep Her Own Name" She advocated woman's keeping her maiden name intact after her marriage, Her husbands name be blowed! She said, 'If a woman is to change her name simply as an acknowledgement she loves a man and has married him, why should not the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-05
1T TO HEART TALKS-By Charles N Lurie

on them war to the death until the last one lies crushed under our feet
 If your troubles are big ones or little cnos fight them as hard as you can.
 From Germany comes pathetic story:
 "A tragic incident has occurred in a court of law at Aniberg. A young girl who was called as a witness begged to swer the usual questions with regard to her past
 She had, she said, position as cash fer and had just become engaged, and she feared she would be utterly disgraced if she were obliged to state publicly the fact that she had when very young been punished for a small theft
 ''The court nevertheless insisted on her answering the question, and the girl thereupon opened vein in court Sh, now lies in danger of death"
 Whose was the greater fault-the girls stoned for by years of repentance and honest. upright life, or that of the judge sternly and implacably demanding his last ounce of legal fiesh?
 He had a legal right to ask the ques. ten, and "the majesty of the law must he upheld" To the utmost farthing the 
 ruined lives are not weighed in the scales of the balance whereon Justice places hei sword.
 We need not go to Germany to find similar cases. We have them here ir America. Only the other day, in Phila delphia, woman who was acquitted oi the charge of murdering her entire fam. ilv vas arrested on a charge of stealing from a family which employed her as q domestic She said.
 ''It has followed me like ghost, that awful murder charge. It followed me wherever l went. I changed my namc and changed again. I worked for years and prayed to God to help me to make new life. and when it looked at las as if had succeeded and when I saA seme chance to be happy and useful fl all came back like something out of { Erave and wrecked everything I gues. would be better dead.
 Guilty girl in Germany, innocent wom ar in America
 Each thought she would be better deat : each victim of the almost incredibl, willingness of people to rake up and holt up against an accused person the pas
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-05

should ask me of the most excellent of modern plays I should name first Peter fan.' yet that is an old fantasy of the ages past; and then I should place sec ond Forbes -Robertson's Mice and Men which finds it's spice in being as old as the race of mankind" As the finger bowls were brought by the waiter and tine tip laid on the table, we both agreed that the custom of tipping should be blpwed!
 STYLES OF DRESS
 There was held in the winter at the Cooper Union. New York. under the aus pices of the Peoples Institute, a femin- ist meeting. Marie Jenney Howe pre- sided over the meeting. and introduced each speaker as "a practical liver of Ter own feminist theories" Among the speakers there was a Nina Wilcox Put nam Her subject was ''rhe Right to Ig- Eore Fashion The modern slit-sl<irt seemed not to find favor with her, nor Was she pleased with the clamped- tight gowns into which so many women seem to have been poured. Her dress and the sentiments she publicly expressed, oeclared loudly that old styles and new styles of fashion should be blowed. |" She stood before the audience arrayed in a kimono, a great flowing affair that looked like a balloon as she advanced to the speakers stand In color the kimono was a startling yellow. Around her forehead. and binding her hair close ly to her scalp, she wore a broad silver band Around her neck hung a huge string of beads which were yellow, green. red and white. Thus dressed, and Solomon in all his glory was never ar rayed thus. the lady began to deliver her address. Fashion was tyrannical, unreasonable, inconvenient and eondu- oive to i'll health.
 The women of ancient Greece wore loose garments, so did the Indians. If a woman wants to do so in this age, why,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-05

achievements songs and ballads, to tell Of ife's intensity and haunting pathos are more to him than his necessary food. With inc hunger of his mind goes a hun ger of his muscles. Yon shall train him for whatever he will and yet with ad- vaneing skill and growing knowledge his hunger will be the greater. while he exults when he finds something that no teacher taught him, supremely exults when he has learned to dd something with marked skill all his own. Give him romance, biography adventure, travel, history. Let him scan the technical mag azines. Be sure that if he Is of the true order he will not miss the good things you provide. But don't compel him. Both he and nature prefer that he should com pei himself. The boy who must be urged to read will never read, at least until he finds out how sweet and wonderful tho breath of the mmortals is.
 It would be singularly interesting to learn how many of the men and women who are influential in the life of a com munity grew up in bookess homes. But If that story must be left untold at least we may assume that the growing assemblage of great books in our city hall will hinder many q man and woman,
 many boy and girl, from drifting and being driven Into the shadows, a prey to vapid and insipid days because there is no known channel out to the great Elm pire of the Deep, beyond whose billows are the gate of Eden and the cherubim whom we must fight to win our way to the Tree of Knowledge.
 Since there are more days for child hood than for mature manhood, so much the moro deplorable Is the bookless home to the child than to the man. Beside that tho child's loss is his own, a dooming to defeat or half attainment. But the largest loss is that sustained by the whole community whose sons and daughters might have been valiant helpers but arc w1ltad. like frosted peach blooms, soggily dripping from the parent stem It was their fate to be starved. but the army needed them as officers. color-beareru. fighters in the war with wrong.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-05

L<K Z1vE ON" said the California
 MI towns to "kelly's army"
 AvX And so they got rid of the army of the unemployed, telling it's mem ters to take their troubles elsewhere. Pass them along" was the word sent from one town to another.
 Sometimes these men were passed along with a meal and clothing. Some times they were driven out of town with streams of water impeled by powerful fire pumps Sometimes they were coaxed out of town; at other places they were forced to leave.
 But everywhere they were passed along"
 No place wanted them to stay Each one wanted some other town to shoulder the. responsibility of answering the huge grave problem of unemployment and want Pass it along!
 It has been said often and wisely that towns reflect the character of the per- sens who make up its population. As the populace is, so is the city or town or village.
 Therefore
 Do these folks who sent Kelly army elsewhere pass along the problems which bSset their private individual lives os do they make a square, stand up, honest attempt to solve the queries of existence. And the rest of us--do we pass along cur problems?
 It is so easy to say to the vexation Pass along now, that's good fellow Don't bother me, and ~hen l have time III take you in hand and consider yoi and find an answer for you. I'm busy now, you see. with other affairs. Jus move along and let the other fellow 1rpE at vou for awhile
 But the other fellow has his troubles too
 He temporizes with them, just as yot d. and tries to give them the nudge oI the shove in the same direction, alway. oil.
 By and by the trouble completes thu c.rcle--and it takes sometimes an amaz inely short time-and comes home to u' to sit and rest by our firesides. to brood by our bedsides. to fill our waking hours ard those that should be restful.
 Nothing Is ever settled until 1t Il settled right says the old saying.
 And the way to settle a question righ is not to t'pass 1t along" The righ
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-05

hygiene, care for digestion, exercise of
 the brains, memory, ina gination, con
 temptation, understanding, mastery of
 facts and truth. This is seldom due to
 fanaticism. Commonly it is the result
 of sheer laziness and habitual neglect
 You may visit house after house. in
 city or rural district, and find no pro-
 vision for the soul, no books, no indi- cation that the occupants are aware of sky above the earth, a fellowship with the inherited intellect of mankind They show not so much as one indi- cation that books have any meaning,
 any a1lurement, any message of power In their homes. And these are not all the poorest and the most Ignorant.
 Many of them are keen in business,
 wonderfully active in politics, in a de-
 gree influential and intelligent among
 their fellows. But the arrangement of
 the home has left no provision for those who would read Such necessities as a shaded lamp, a clear light a comfort
 able and convenient chair and table, telling of someone's interest in thought and culture and study, are too often lamentably lacking. Instead of the words of the wise, the best you can find to their credit is an occasional news paper or popular magazine. As though even these things did not imply an en- cyclopedia at least, a dictionary, an
 atlas, a historical compendium with
 good index! Some adequate culture must precede the use of the daily paper Otherwise that most valuable institu- tion ends in becoming a further but
 tress to prejudice and mental ob- scurity.
 Now here is an interesting question: Who loses most, child or parent, by the absence of books from the home By books do not mean the school books, Latin grammar, universal hfs- tory, literary textbooks and all the paraphernalia of high school, but real books. I have. indeed, known even a high school students home apparently quite guiltless of a book shelf hard
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-05
"y E have classic authority for the w use us. of the imperative phrase w s.he hlowad Tob,

A/ use of the imperative phra SC
 W 'be blowed." Sir John Fall staff in Shakespeares King Henry the Fourth said Honor be blowed" It is euphemism, and is sometimes employed by people whose consciences will not per- init the use of the stronger and unvar- nished term of disapproval
 man may say let it be blowed, = without opening his lips. The sense may be conveyed by a shrug of the shoulders, by a mere gesture of the hand, by a su- percilious curl of the lip, and by an ex- pression of the countenance which con tains the thought of condemnation, Of discredit. and of depreciation in general It may apply to man, to a movement in civic affairs, to books, to opinions, to cus- toms, and to a thousand other things Some things that we regard with respect and reverence, seem only to invite .hc 'let them be blowed" from dissentients and then we lose our temper, unless we be very careful If one should say os our church or of religion, let it be blowed," the remains of the old Adam immediately springs to the surface and we assume fighting mood. No less a sentiment than impatience takes posses sion of us when we hear other things that we greatly respect and prize depre- ciated. I beg to illustrate what I mean. not forgetting, the while, that the rarty or the second part may accuse us of us- ing Falstaff's euphemistic exclamation
 OLD WRITERS
 We were talking of books and literature in general when she mentioned the last novel that she had read, and enthusias,i- cally questioned, Have you read it?" "Yes, but l thought afterward that had wasted three good hours in its perusual D l answered. 70, how can you say SO? Just adore him, and think his stories are we'll worth while. No other books SD
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-05
BYPATHS OF HSTORY-KING ALFRED-By B. F. Riley D. D.

No, many were the virtues of Alfred, that his reign is a golden chapter
 in English annals His timely as tension of the throne was more than an epoch, 1t was an era in British history
 He was as great in affairs that were seemingly small as he was in vast con- cerns that bore prophetically toward the future. Details of commonplace no more escaped his attention than mighty poli- cies Though living and reigning in a rude age, and in inchoate conditions. AL fred exhibited traits of rulership that would have distinguished one at any time. Like the elements entering intto the character of our own Lincoln, they shone more resplendently because of the encompassing gloom. To use an old fig- nre it is night that brings out the stars Direction on the borderland be- tween rudeness and civilization requires power of superior quality. Racial and national transitions are always attended with difficulty. To hold fast that which
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-05

way is to grapple 1t and wrestle with 1t in sincerity of soul and purpose with all of one's strength until it is settled. In the jungles of Africa and Asia are l many wild beasts of visibly huge size
 and known ferocity. Hunting them is
 dangerous business. yet many daring men 1, and some brave women do not hesitats, to take up the chase.
 They tell us in their books how, with
 infinite pains and disregard of peril to
 life and limb. they risk being "mauled''
 by lions or gored by rhinoceroses. But many of them also tell us.and
 herein lies the present text-that the worst peril of the 5uneNe is not found I in the fangs of the lion or tiger or in
 the tusks of the mad bull elephant It is found in the menace of the in- sect.
 | Besides being a region infested with | huge beasts of prey which eat their feI- i low animals and with herbivorous crea-
 lures who are not less ferocious when 1 reused to anger, the jungle is fearfully
 infested with noxious bugs of every sort Every damp place and fallen log har-
 tors it's swarm of ants and gnats which are ready to seize upon anything edf- 1 hle which has the misfortune to fa,]
 within It's range.
 | It is easy enough to destroy an in-
 6ividual member of the swarm, but no
 wise explorer attempts to fight them all.
 He finds it far easier to move his camp | to a safer place.
 1 The big troubles which beset the road 1 of life are the Hons and tigers and lcopards and elephants and rhinoceroses
 To meet them bravely and manfully you arm yourself with the express rife of courage, loaded with the powder and
 ball of experience, and knowledge, and l you go forth to slay them.
 When you get back from your jungle
 you bear with you proudly the skins
 and tusks which attest your fortitude
 and endurance. You are proud of the scars.
 | But as in the case Of the African hunt
 CT or explorer, the swarms of little troubles are harder to fight And they
 are not infrequent like the big fellows but encompass us or seem to do SO wherever we pitch our tents.
 l Sometimes, as does the jungle invader we find 1t easier to move than to fghl
 them. At other ttmss we have to wagt ] 4|
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-05
The Gall of the Rail"

From the Electric Railway Journal
 Men cannot be long in touch with t,;e transportation idustry without realizing that, despite the increasing burdens and complex problems constantly demanding attending. railroading has a fascination for those engaged In it which never seems to diminish. This is peculiarly true In the electric railway field, where prob- lems are ever changing in character and where the progress of electrical engineer ing, and of operation. the broad yet close relations with the great public and the mechanical aspects Of the industry de- mand the most careful analytical study. The "call of the rail' Is as real a chal- lenge to men of red blood and keen minds as the sustained impulse to employ ones talents in pioneer work on the fast dis appearing frontier of civilization. Once it is heard 1t stays for lifetime, and a sympathetic interest in railroad prob lems Is never lost M
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-04-17
ECZEMA ITCHED AWFULLY

80 Atkinson St., Bellows Falls, Vt
Il had eczema on my head and it
itched something awful. 1t seemed
sometimes as though l would go wild.
The eczema was dry and faky. One
day l combed it hard with a fine comb
and made it all raw. My hair nearly
all came out gradually so l had
small twist Of hair and did not use
but one hairpin to hold it.
Il tried -- but in vain; it did no
good. Then l thought would try Gu
ticura Soap and Ointment. l used them
three months and then my head was
all cured and my hair began to grow
so it is quite thick now; have four
times as much as l had" (Signed)
Mrs. Ellen w. Adams, Nov. 16, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post.
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. ADV.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-04-17
OATS WILL PRESERVE EGGS
When Carefully Packed in Barrel and
Placed in Some Cool Corner They
Will Keep Sweet.
CBy MRS. D. RYMER.)


Every year I pack great many
eggs and they keep from two to three
months, and even longer in perfect
condition. l have tried water glass"
and other things, but find that oats
will keep eggs longer than anything
else.
pack them in half barrels and use
plenty of oats. l first place a layer
of oats about three inches on the bot
tom, and then a layer of eggs, never
allowing one to touch the other, or
the sides of the barrel. And then fol-
low with another layer Of oats until
within about six inches from the top,
when I fill up the barrel with oats.
If the barrel containing the eggs Is
placed in a cool corner of the cellar
or in the attic, or any other dry place,
they will keep perfectly sweet, but
If allowed to become damp they will
spoil.
have packed eggs In October IN
this way leaving them in the barn IN
til nearly Christmas and then bringing
them to the house. l have used these
eggs as late as the following April
and have sold them-always stating
exactly what they were-and never
had a complaint.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-04-17
MAN THEY WERE LOOKING FOR
Fortune Was Good to Youngsters
Eager for the Delights of the
Moving Picture Theater.

Going in?" queried the small boy
excitedly.
His question was put to the elderly
pedestrian. Behind the boy came
other boys, all peering eagerly into
the pedestrians puzzled face,
They hung to his footsteps until he
found himself, little further on, in
the midst of a numerous crowd Of
youngsters. Each boy clamored for
the pedestrian to accept a five-cent
piece.
What is all this?" demanded the
pedestrian sharply.
1--WE are too young to go in alone"
volunteered a ready spokesman. III
you will buy our tickets for US we can
go in with you"
Then came a sudden light and the
old man smiled broadly. He went to
the ticket window of an adjacent
moving-picture theater, where he
paused to count faces.
Nine tickets" he said.
There is a law against children"
objected the ticket. man. Are those
little people with your"
They are" declared the old man.
Come on. boys-going in?"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-04-17
FARM
POULTRY
-. pZyS Y
THINGS ABOUT GUINEA FOWL
Birds Make Excellent Substitute for
Game and Many Big Hotels Serve
Them as Pheasants.
CBy MRS. A. JOsEPHJ

10y MINIS. \. JOSEfH.l
The demand for guinea fowls grows
stronger every year and is increasing
as people become acquainted with the
good qualities of their flesh. Those
who have learned to appreciate the
flavor of the flesh of a plump guinea
are not slow to express surprise at
the fact that the excellent qualities
of this bird have not been more wide
ly recognized.
1t is true that the cook book fails
to refer to them at all and yet there
is not the least question but that
they are superior eating to either the
duck or the goose.
The young fowl are best broiled,
while the older birds may be cooked
by any recipe devised for the cooking
of chickens, and in any case the re-
suit is far more palatable.
The flesh Of the guinea is rather
dark, but is finely grained, possessing
gamey flavor. For this reason the
fowl makes an excellent substitute for
game and many hotels in the larger
cities serve it for pheasant. The eggs
are also much relished on account of
their rich favor.
Every family in the country should
keep a few guineas, if for no other
purpose than for a watch" for the
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-04-17
UNREASONABLE THING TO ASK
Thirsty Tourists Inclined 10 Be Fin
leky Should Visit ireland During
the Winter Months.

Two New York men were touring
Ireland last summer by automobile.
On a hot July afternoon they came
TO an inn. Stopping. they went into
the bar. A red-cheeked peasant girl
was the barmaid. The travellers or
dered Irish and soda. The girl served
them and went on with her inter
rupted work of wiping the bar. One
of the men tasted his drink and found
it tepid.
Il say, my girl" he said, won't
you please put some ice in these
drinks?"
Her mouth went wide open and the
hopping cloth was poised in mid-air.
Amaze held her silent for a moment.
Then she found tongue in a hurry.
Ice, is it? And who the - ever
heard of ice in July?"
Whereupon she fell to polishing
again.