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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-04-13
Society

Mrs. George Milton Savage and
her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Law
renee Clark. will entertain about
100 guests Wednesday and
Thursday afternoons at their
home on Prospect hill. Bridge
will be played at both affairs.
One Of the smart events of the
week will be the Alumnae dance
to be given this evening at the
Tacoma hotel by the graduate
girls of the Visitation academy.
Many out-of-town guests are ex-
pected for the dance.
The Ancient Order of Hiber-
mans and Ladies' auxiliary will
give their annual ball at st.
Leo's hall ON April II.
The current meeting OF the
Seventh Ward Prohibition club
has been changed from Tuesday to
Wednesday evening, at the home
of Mrs. w. Nj. Mcdowell, 635
Steele street.
One of the important events I'm
student circles is the spring term
recital this evening by the
schools of music and oratory of
the University of Puget Sound. A
small admission fee will be
charged, for the benefit of the
new piano fund.
The Seventh Ward w. G. T. U.
Will meet tomorrow at 2 o'clock
at the home of Mrs. w. e. Dudley,
642 North Fife street.
Mrs. W. II. Pease will enter
tain tomorrow at one of the
handsome events of Easter week,
luncheon for 40 guests honor
ing her sons wife. Mrs. Vance
Pease, formerly Miss Jean Hol-
gate. Attractive Easter appoint
ments will be carried out.
Mrs. w. j. Fisher will give a
handsome Easter luncheon to-
morrow at her home, followed by
bridge. Mrs. Fisher has asked
her guests to contribute each a
sheet and towel for the Children s
home.
The wedding of Miss Ruth Lin
german and Robert Badger will
take place Wednesday afternoon
at 1:15 o'clock at the home of
the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
]. b. Lingerman on South Biz
mingham street. The ceremony
will be attended by 60 relatives
and intimate friends. and will be
followed by reception, for which
200 invitations have been issued.
Mrs. G. X. Drew and Miss
Mary Drew left today for Long
Beach, Cal, to remain five
months.
The No Name Dancing club will
give complimentary dancing
party Thursday evening at Sloan's
hall, closing the delightful series
of winter dances given by the
club this season.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-04-13

Dear Miss Grey: VIII
you please tell me the origin
of the stork as related to the
birth of children? | hear 1t
made use of so much and
would like to know whence
the saying, THE stork Is
coming" Thanking you, l
remain, GUSSY.
A.-The stOrk story originated
In Germany, where this specie
builds its nest on the housetops
and sometimes on the chimneys
The natives never disturb mol
harm them, and IL became an easy
matter to still a child's natural
and rightful curiosity with this
beautiful lie. Personally,
think the birth of a little child
beautiful enough without impos'
ing on children by pretending 1t II
something of which to be
ashamed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-04-13
LOCAL DRUGGISTS
. MAKE MANY FRIENDS

= The French Drug Co., 1855
Pacific av. and The Owl Drug Co..
gO4 C St, report they are max
Ing many friends through the
QUICK benefit which Tacoma peo-
bic receive from the simple mix
ture of buckthorn bark, glycerine,
etc, known as .Adler-i-ka. This
remedy became famous by curing
appendicitis and 1t is the most
thorough bowel cleanser known.
acting on BOTH the lower and
upper bowel. JUST ONE DOSE of
'Adler-i-ka relieves constipation
and gas on the stomach almost
IMMEDIATELY.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-04-13

We are off today with the first
great story In the NOVEL A
WEEK. It's "Dinmond Out Dia-
mond." Start Il today. Finish IL
Saturday.
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Local Amateurs Try This Week
For Vaudeville Circuit Contr act

scented include the Texas Tommy,
Gaby Glide, Hesitation Waltz,
Tango Bowery Glide, Kangaroo
and others.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-04-13
TACOMA PLAYHOUSES

Tacoma TheatcrHenrieta Crosman THE
Monday night.
Empress TheaterIn York clever paylet present
by George Hoey and company, and other acts
Panages TheterThe Aiskeys greater
Hawaans other
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-04-13

We are off today with the first
great story in the NOVEL A
WEEK. It's diamond Out Dia-
mond." Start II today. Finish 1t
Saturday.
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We are promised that white
lingerie gowns will be much worn
this summer, although at present
the wash materials are mostly
heavy.
However, the exclusive shops
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-04-13

Dear Miss Grey: l have
come to you with a problem,
which has bothered me
greatly.
One evening I was at a
friends house. and had her
baby in my arms. Her niece
said, "Myl you love babies
would you like to have one?"
| said, II would give any
thing If l had one OF my
own" My friend left me,
saying 1t was such a terrible
thought for q young girl to
say.
Miss Grey, I have always
wanted a child of my own.
and | am afraid l always
will. Am | wrong, and Is it
such a terrible thought for a
young girl to have? My
age is twenty-four, so you
can see 1t is not a slip OF
girl who is asking you this
question.
A.-To want a child of you
,wn is no disgrace; but to b
,areless i'm the selection Of tn
'ather of the child, or to neglec
% give IL the best possible chanc
# being conceived and born prop
,rIy would be a crime.
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Dear Miss Grey: l am
girl IA years old and am In
an awful scrape. I go with
a boy Is years old, and he is
such a sissy l cant stand
him, but still | love him.
wear long dresses and he
wears short pants. Now,
Miss Grey, we look awfully
funny walking down the
street together, and will you
please tell me some nice way
to tell him to wear long
pants? Yours truly,
MARY JANE.
A.--Why don't you ask hin
when he is going to get his frs
long trousers? Maybe he'll b
goose enough to do IL to pleas
you. Personally, prefer boys hi
age I'm knickerbockers, and thin
you should not wear your dresse
below your shoetops, for you ar
still "A little girl.
Take my advice and let thi
love business alone, until yol
have judgment enough to under
stand It.
Dear Miss Grey: l have
been going with a girl two
years younger than l am.
What | would like to know is
IL it makes any difference
III | keep company with her.
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Dear Miss Grey: / am a
reader of your column and
am coming to you for advice.
My mother works and
stay home all day long and
do the Homework. and, In
the evening when ! want to
go out to show, or some
place, | generally take my
little sister with me, and
when | talk to a boy or girl
she always says I'm going
to tell mamma on you"
Now, Miss Grey, | am six
teen and think 1t all right to
go out of an evening IL
come in by 8, and when
do come in my sister starts to
tell mamma pack of lies. 1t
wouldn't be 80 bad IL she
would tell the truth. ] can't
go out once without her GO
ing home and telling what Is
not true. have gone to bed
many night crying over it,
for 1t makes me feel so bad to
think | am trying to be good
to her and take her out.
Now, Miss Grey, | feel so
disguised that | feel like run
ming away from home. Please
do not throw this in the
waste basket as | will be
waiting anxiously for your
advice. WORRIED.
A.-Dear girl, IL you are sur
you are doing right and you
mother Is suspicious, ask her {
go with you. Your little sister
getting very wrong view Of lii
IL she thinks IL a crime for
girl to speak to a hoy she know
well, and Of course you would nc
talk to strangers.
l do not approve of girls run
ming out every evening i'm scare
of enjoyment, even when they &c
home early. The home should b
a place of happiness, and surel
you have friends who enjoy visit
Ing You.
Your mother should invest
gate the matter. and IL your III
tie sister does tell falsehOOds sh
should be shown how wrong
is.
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Dear Miss Grey: Please
tell me when James Whit
comb Riley's birthday ami
versary Is and oblige,
A READER.
A.-James Whitcomb Riley's
is October z.
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The No Name Dancing club will
give complimentary dancing
party Thursday evening at Sloan's
hall, closing the delightful series
of winter dances given by the
club this season.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-04-13

Mrs. G. Il. Drew and Miss
Mary Drew left today for Long
Beach, Cal, to remain five
months,
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-26
Reporter Finds But
Eleven Smilers in
London in an Hour

LONDON, July 25.-Whether Londoners
really wear "a look OF helpless gloom"
is a question that has stirred up the
London newspapers, following an inter-
view with A. C. Carmichael, the Austria
lian politician. who says they do. Many
charges and defenses of an indefinite kind
have been made.
One journal has sent out a reporter for
exact data. After wandering an hour
through London's busiest streets and
covering such centers of life as the
Strand and Ludgate Hill, the reporter dis
covered but eleven smilers. OF the eleven
with cheerful faces, three were women
Of the coster class. two shop girls, two
stock exchange employees and three news
vendors. The eleventh was a small boy
who was tormenting a horse by flicking
a dirty handkerchief at its nose.
The other thousands wore the London
scowl," which the reporter defines as a
deep, vertical frown between the eye
brows. puckered eyes, a moody glance.
and the mouth drawn in a tight line,
dropping at the corners"
One of the merry eleven, a human
derelict selling papers on the embank-
ment, said that in his philosophy he
found # as easy 70 look happy as glum
"Appy looks'n do a sight more for
yer" he explained. 'Tf only some Of
them awkersd chuck the dismal line and
go in for the merry and bright, they'd
soon see the difference in their takin's "
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-26
Germany Proposes
to Make New Rule
On Criminal Records

BERLIN, July 25-There are many in
teresting phases OF the proposal TO be
laid before tho Reichstag this year for
a revision of the penal code whereby a
convicted person II he conducts himself
bamelessly for period OF years may
completely absolve himself from the
stigma of crime, so far as official rec
Ords go.
At present statistics show that evary
twelfth person In Germany is 'Vorbe-
strait" that is. has a criminal record.
The conviction may be for only a petty
mlsdemeanor, but after meeting all re-
qulrements for punishment under the
law, the guilty person is made TO suffer
in many ways from this blot upon his
record. Upon later conviction for crimes
they lose the benefit of milder penalties
for persons OF blameess records; and
their crediblllty as witnesses suffers, and
they have difficulty in finding employ
ment.
While this rule holds TO some extent
ried TO a greater length than elsewhere,
A young man who has been fined for al
lowing his dog 10 run loose in a park,
for instance, is no longer a person OF
blameless life within the statute giving
youths Of certain grade OF education
the right to perform their military service
In one instead OF two or three years
These are only few of the disabilities
attending a record Of conviction.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-26
Travels Much.

BY Marian S. Langhorst, Aged 10 Years.
Fontenelle, Neb Red Side.
Last summer we took trip to sterling.
Neb.. 20 visit my aunt and uncle.
I had a lot OF fun feeding chickens and
playing. Next we went to Atchison, Kan
had good time there with my cousin
went downtown and saw the town. My
cousin works In a store. They have many
street cars.
Then we went to Quincy, Ill. When
we reached there my uncle took us
from the train in his car. We crossed
the Mississippi river when We went there.
The next day we went to the Sailors
and Soldiers home and shw some deer,
fawns, geese, swans. bears, foxes, wolves,
and reindeer and then We saw tho
fire engine called to fire.
| was at a picture show several times
one evening we went to the picture
show, then we went to the park and
heard the band play
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-26
Englishmen Wish
to Dispense with
Coats in Summer

LONDON, July 25.-Englands hot spell
has started an agitation for reform in
mems summer dress, but 80 far none
have had courage to follow the American
fashion OF appearing in the street in
shirt and belt An Englishman never
dispenses with the coat except when
playing tennis and cricket and boating
on the river, To appear without a coat
on the links is quite as objectionable
In England as TO go coatless in the street.
MY long-suffering brothers." asks ono
writer in a daily paper. why not defy
the women. take off our coats and waist
coats and be cool2 They do these things
In America, where woman is a very in
dependent creature. Why can't we do
them here? Haven't we the pluck?
II was moved to these remarks" he
continues, by the sight Of a gentleman.
presumably from the States. sauntering
down Shoe lane He looked radiantly
cool and serenely happy. And for the
first time in my mortal career I envied
an American. AS a fact. he also looked
smart. His straw was neat; his soft
collar and horizontal tie were dressy; the
awkward transition from gauze to tweed
was masked in a becoming silken band.
lIe did not look at all feminine; on the
contrary, he looked far more male than
the poor fellows In bales OF tweed and
homespun slouching around him."
The writer ends with the confession:
I'VE do not like our muggy dress. We
do not hug our fetters; we suffer. though
with tears. for the sake OF the ladies.
The ladies like 10 see us looking smart
Smartl Good gracious! And We are not
even allowed to powder our greasy cons
pieXions."
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-26

iowa without even time to SEQ his dying
father.
Power Grows Rapidly.
other powerful officials tried to check
the advance OF Rasputin. only to find
themselves in dlsfavor, Rasputin be-
came the intimate of the royal family,
gave orders to the ministers and con-
Quoted himself as the supreme power.
The only successful attempt TO induce
the court to send Rasputin away resulted
disastrously for the plotters. Before
leaving Rasputin warned the empress
that misfortune was sure to follow.
When the heir 10 tho throne fell Ill,
the frightened empress recalled the IA
vorite in haste.
Since his return Rasputin's power has
continued to grow. His counsel is called
for In deciding every question OF impor-
tance. II is said on high authority that
he brought about the ministerial change
last year that saved Russia from a war
with Austria lie lived as a prince, with
a magnificent villa at Yalta, in Crimea-
One OF his daughters by his present wife
is being educated In an aristocratic girls
college in St Petersburg and is chief
companion to the emperor's daughters
Rasputin is even reported 10 address the
Tsar as thou" and thee" a freedom
denied even the grand dukes.
month ago Rasputin wos ordained
a priest by minor bishop OF his native
district This act had aroused the an
/ taFonism OF the powerful heads OF the
| church. II is with these big ecclesiastici
that Rasputin will now have to deal ir
! holding his position.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-26
LONDON DOES NOT LIKE
HOT WEATHER FOODS

LONDON. July 25,-American hot
weather foods failed TO take with the
London public during the recent torrtd
spell. when the thermometer touched 90
degrees in the shade. The English res,
taurants in the business section reported
no falling off in the orders for roast
beef and Yorkshire, steak and kidney
pudding and pease and potatoes. although
there was an unsual demand for cur
rant roll.
"All this talk about summer diet and
keeping cool is Tommy rot" said the
proprietor OF an inn celebated for its
steak and kidney puddings, Il believe
In "A man sticking to his grub"
A customer ordered a glass OF ice
water from an old fashioned English
walter.
Iced waterl No, sir" he replied,
Stout or ale, sir. are very nice in this
eat, sir"
At the same time, the shops selling
soft drinks did a heavy business dur
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-26
SWISS CEMENT COMBINE
BLOWS UP FACTORY

DITTINGEN, Canton OF Bern, switzer-
land, July 25.-The cement factory which
used to be the pride OF this town because
II represented the principal industry of
the place. was blown 10 pieces by it's
owners. June q under tho supervision
of the local police. The great mill had
been bought by syndicate and closed
as unnecessary 70 the system. Tho
syndicate had TO continue TO pay taxes
as heavy as though the works were in
operation, and 1t was decided therefore
20 destroy them. Charges OF dynamite
we're placed under the tall chimneys and
al various places In the walls throughout
the manufactory. The cartridges were
exploded simultaneously by electric con-
nections, and the whole place became a
mass OF broken walls and piles of brick.
Some Of the townspeople cried. as they
saw the place tumble into ruins
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-26
UNUSUAL MONUMENT FOR
FAMOUS FRENCH CHEMIST

PARIS, July 25.-A monument which is
10 be unveiled soon In memory OF Pierre
Berthelot, the great French chemist, in
front of the College de France. is an
unusual memorial. The sculptor, Paul de
Saint Marceaux, has not only made a
statute Of the chemist alone, but has
placed him in bronze group, which In.
cludes his wife and the great writer,
Ernest Renan, author of THE Life OF
Jesus" Alp three We're for years united
in the closest bonds of friendship. Renan,
who was the first TO die, was long
mourned by the Berthelots, who outlived
him some fifty years and who then died
on the same night
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-26
(Third Prize.)
Florida.
BY Emily Lee, Aged Years, Hampshire.
Wyo. Blue Side.

BY Emily Lee, Aged Years, Hampshire,
Wyo. Blue Side.
In 1911 we rented out our home in North
Dakota and took trip to Florida 1t
took us about a week to go there by rail
and certainly enjoyed It, as had never
Travelled before.
We rented small bungalow about
three miles from wildwood, Fla. and
forty-five miles from the coast The
land In that section of the country was
almost a perpetual turpentine pine for
est, some of the largest clearings being
only 100 acres. The pines ranged in
height from fifty to sixty feet. The soil
was pure white sea sand. About the
chief industry around there was gather
ing turpentine, and IL was very interest
ing 20 watch the negroes, clad only in
turbans and short white trousers, shaw
ing the bark from the trees and then
cutting strange little pockets at the end.
1 had a number of adventures while we
were there, some of them quite exciting.
One night when we were sitting on the
porch we discovered the woods around
us were all ablaze. We were quite sur
rounded by fire. Papa grew excited,
thinking we were caught like rats in
trap but the owner Of the place sitting
calmly by, asked him what was the mat
ter. The man said that every year the
vegetation grew so rank and became
such harbor for snakes and insects that
they were forced to burn It, the fire
leaving the trees unharmed. Upon learn
ing this papa procured a bucket of kero-
sene and several torches and we all went
out and helped burn. We lived about
half a mile from large lake which was
full of alligators. Every night we would
hear them roar and below. A man
killed one sixteen feet long, weighing
1900 pounds He sold the skin for 50,
thinking he got a good price for 1t. He
kept the head to show us. Both jaws
opened and ! could sit with ease in his
mouth.
We lived three miles from the largest
orange grove IN the world. Florida
oranges are sfnooth-skinned like a lemon
and very sweet and Juicy. While ! was
there 1 discovered that bananas grew
upward on the bunch instead of down
ward, as they hang in the shops. There
were bushels of wild nuts and persim-
mons. Papa purchased a barrel OF grape
fruit for $3.50 and two gunny sacks of
oranges at 81 per sack. When We were
going north we went through Palmetto
county, the entire county being an i'm
mense forest of palm and palmetto trees
We crossed an arm of the Gulf of Mex
leo, Pensacola bay, Lake Ponchartrain
and Lake Charles on the train. We were
out of sight of land several times. We
also ran onto ferry and steamed up
the Mississippi with six other trains.
Northern Florida was Just bower of
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-26
Story of Flax.

BY Edna Carlisle Aged 12 Years, Under
wood, Ia. Blue side.
am bit Of flax, and thought l
would tell you the story Of my life l
am not very old, but have gone through
many hardships. When l was In tho
bloom OF youth, the farmer cut me down
and took me to tho barn. l was then
threshed and spun into threads and
woven into a piece OF beautiful linen,
was then sent 20 a merchant who
placed me on his shelves for sale, one
day lady came into the store to buy
some goods for dresses and she chose
me from all the rest The next day l
was taken from the trunk and made into
dresses for two beautiful girls, who We're
twins. They cut me with scissors and
pierced me with needle. l could
hardly stand il, but was finished at last
and was admired as being very beautiful.
The girls wore me long time, until
the threads began to break was sold
to man who was buying rags and
taken 20 the paper mill and was made
into book called, "A Children's Delight "
and a farmer bought me and took me
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-26
GERMAN SOCIALISTS SCORE
Prosecution of Woman for Slander-
ing Army is Boomerang.
A1LEGE MIsTREATMENT OF MEN
More Than Thousand Cases Pro-
duced when Government Calls
for Evidence, and Case
is Continued.

BERLIN, July 25.-War Minister Won
Falkenhayn, whose tactless speech in the
Reichstag on the occasion of the zabern
Interpolation undoubtedly contributed
greatly to the strength Of the vote of
censure against the government, is gem
orally considered to have made another
exhibition of bad political strategy by
causing an action to be brought against
Rosa Luxembourg for insulting the Ger
man armw Even the loyalist press is
criticising him severely, and the unex-
pected adjournment of the process for an
indefinite time, against the strong pro-
tests of the defense, appears. when taken
in connection with certain other aspects
of the case. to indicate that the war min
lister has realized he has exposed the
most vulnerable point of the institution
which he had intended to protect.
Frau Luxembourg, who is one OF the
leaders of the extreme radical wing OF
the socialist party, said recently in a
speech in Freiburg against the mishand-
ling of soldiers by officers and non-com-
misioned officers:
Day in. day out, there are enacted in
the German barracks dramas of which
only small part becomes known to the
public"
Many witnesses Appear.
General Won Falkenhayn saw in this
statement a slander OF the army, and he
promptly made information to the state
attorney. with the result that prosecu-
tion vas begun. Vorwaerts, the central
socialist organ, thereupon published an
appeal to it's readers for witnesses 10
acts OF brutality against private soldiers.
The success OF this appeal was evident on
the first day of the trial, when attorneys
for the defense submitted a list OF $50
men who were wiling 20 testify to mall
treatment Of themselves or other soldiers
in their presence General Won Falken-
hayn protested that this testimony was
irrelevant, except insofar as 1t covered
cases having a fatal outcome. either
through mishandling or through suicide
to escape further maltreatment-the
latter a thing that repeatedly occurred.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-26
(Second Prize.)
Makes Wren Nests.

BY Hertha Stoldt Missouri Valley Ia
Aged Years Blue Side
One Sunday afternoon last spring papa
made three little wren nests. They looked
like real houses. He put one on the
cob she'd one on the windmill and one
on the house. Early in the morning, g
week later. we saw a little wren carry
straw and sticks in the one on the house
In the nest on the cob shed a bee swarm
built nest one time. Brother Ernest
got stung by big swarm of bees. After
that every summer there were bees ir
our attic.