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The Washington herald., 1914-04-05

I've got heaps and heaps OF money
Marry me-"
So palpably evident was his reason for
asking her that Rose had a sudden desire
to laugh outright, even while the good
ness of Peters heart touched her deeply.
1t was so like Peteri II she only
thought Peter loved her the least little
bit and wasn't just doing all this out OF
pity and a sense of duty. for she knew
her father had talked with Peter just be-
fore his death,
''Oh, Peter. please-not that" said she
She fancled Peter looked very much
relieved. Peter was thinking he didn't
blame her. II he were a girl like Rose
girl with such pretty face and such
quick Withheld be hanged IL he
wouldn't work his hands TO the bone be-
fore he'd ever marry such a chap as was
he himself.
you couldn't think of il, them" said
he a little wistfully.
That. again. was so like Peter.
why. of course not, Peter" said she
You're awfully good and dear"
well, don't tell me you'll be a sisteI
to be. anyway" said he with a forced
grin, striving TO make the best of a bad
matter. Then maybe sometime in the
future I'll have a show
So they talked little more about the
matters Of Roses fathers depleted estate
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When word reached Mel. Trotter's
father, also a barber by trade, that his
son had arisen for prayers at a Chicago
mission, nc had little faith in his re-
formation But the mother, who taught
Mel. Trotter his prayers at her knee. said:
Il know he will never drink again." She
lives today and there is no happier
mother in America.
Becomes n Homeless wanderer.
Mel. Trotter does not like to sit down
with an interviewer and in cold blood tell
the story of his slavery to alcohol. When
he is on his feet, however. talking to
derelicts or to business men a flood OF
feeling often causes him TO recall some
Of his individual experiences
, Il went home" he will say. and found
my dead baby in its mothers arms"
To me he only said: The liquor habit
ruined my family. / can't go into de-
tails. ] was a barber at Davenport.
Iowa. After the death or our child. |
turned my face toward Chicago. Our
home was gone. My wife, way down
there on the river, said: Some day. Mel.
you will change. When you do. send for
me- She had faith, as had my mother.
Il did send for her. a long time after
ward, and she came. And it is right
for me to acknowledge that to Mrs.
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and then Peter took his departure.
Rose had a most admirable gift for
telling stories, so three weeks later she
was entertaining select audiences of very
small and very eager children at her
friends house, and finding a most prom
ising number OF engagements ahead and
real chance to be OF some use in the
world and incidentally make something
decidedly better than a merely good
living.
Being very busy she saw little of Peter.
Two full years drifted past before She
realized IL, and Rose was beginning To
look thOughtfully In the mirror now ana
then and wonder what those deepening
lines about her mouth foreboded: also
she thought much of Peter. IL Peter had
only really cared little
Then came the word that Peter had
lost all his money. His big. foolish. soft
heart had. Of course, been responsible.
No one seemed to know where Peter was
He had disappeared.
Then one day IS Rose was crossing a
little park-like enclosure in the center
of a square. she caught sight of Peter
on one of the benches-a shabby. rather
tattered looking Peter With a little
cry she sped to that particular bench.
Peter looked very much embarrassed.
He seemed more i'll at ease than ever.
He looked down at his shabby clothes
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Mel Trotter, Once Common Bum" Now Accomplishing
Great Things in Rescung the Fallen and Making Them
Good Citizens Through His Eloquence

I three years. The mission was established
and much to Trotter's delight and amaze
\ ment ii was given into his charge. So
began his really extraordinary career. He
is a man Of ideas and strict business
methods.
| No deficit ever cools the enthusiasm of
| his patrons or interferes with his own
work Give me $1,000" he tells his sup
porters, many Of whom are merchants.
both Jews and Christians. "and l will
do the same this year as last. Give me
Sil.0o0 and I'll hire another assistant.
| Cut me to 5000 and I'll drop one of the
assistants | already have"
For 1914. Mel Trotter has pledges
amounting to $4,000. or 5000 more than
ever before. That is one of the testi-
monials, after fourteen years in Grand
Rapids, to which he points with JOY and
pride. Meanwhile he Is collecting s2io0
| in other cities of the United States for
the chain of missions to which he has
| Joined a part of his life.
Financially" he said to me, II was
a success as a barber. Yes, sir, barbering
was my trade. / could sell a man hair
tonic and make him believe I had done
him a favor. Some BARRIERS poster their
customers. / put salesmanship into my
efforts-when / was sober. No man In
any OF the shops where l worked ever
took in more money than myself"
Trotter's Theological Victory.
It is business from the word go with
Mel Trotter. His business at present
Is to transform drunkards and he says IL
will remain his business until the end of
the chapter. There is no bread and but
ter side, however, TO his own efforts. He
Is poor as Jobs turkey. but never broke
II am working now" he proudly says
for Jesus" Can't Is not to be seen or
heard either in his manner or his Ian
guage. He carried his brisk. direct ways
and words. seven years ago. to the meet
ing of the Presbytery which was to pass
on his merits as a candidate for the
ministry. First, he was examined on
what is termed Christian evidence.
Are you saved?" he was asked.
You bet" he answered vigorously.
How do you know?'
why" be replied with a confident
smile, II was there when IL happened" 8"
Are you a Calvinist or an Arminian?'
another preacher inquired.
Search me-" Mel Trotter replied
Dads Irish and my mother is German
Getting right down to cases. I am any
thing you please 70 call me so long as I
can help drunkard OF the ash heap and
send him home to his family"
Then rose a clergyman named Spencer
Il think" he exclaimed, mat there
should be a place in the Presbyterian
ministry for any man called by God, no
matter how little he knows about
theology"
So in seven minutes from the time Mel
Trotter entered the meeting he took his
departure and his name ana title ever
since then has been Rev. Melvin Trotter
But Mel. Is what he prefers and so he
is known through all the dark places of
bumdom. from Boston to the Pacific Ocean.
There is another Trotter at the head of a
mission in Portland, oreg., and still an
other Trotter brother is leading a mission
in Los Angeles, Cal.
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BY JAMES D. MORROW.

Mel Trotter used to be drunkard
Then one night there was miracle Now
Mel Trotter Mel for Melvin is a great
rapld-fre orator and the most famous
specialist in the United States among
the down and cutters.
One Thousand broken families have
been brought together and re-established
by the magic OF his eloquence and the
seeming mystery of his work When he
talks TO outcasts their hands go up for
prayers. If he talks to business men a
good proportion of them sign the tenn
perance pledge before they leave the
room.
Mel Trotter has two lanGuaSes-one for
the slums and one for ordinary conver-
sation and the church. Hey. there,
brother" he will shout. the devil has
got your goat" On the platform or IN
the pulpit, pleading for forty-one rescue
missiens and a budget that requires S-e.
pO0 a year IN cash, he speaks by the oook
until the subject lets loose his emotions
whereupon the slangy lingo OF oumdom,
understood OF guessed at by all men.
rattles OF the end Of his galloplng tongue
and fairly sets the air on flame.
A rough spoken man at times. is Mel
Trotter Doubtless he even thinks In the
violent and picturesque vocabulary OF the
pavement and the gutter. oh, my
friend. he VIII IuuHuCI- gOh hoNS O
hog in your heart and as long as II Is
there you will carry il swill.
great truth expressed in shocking
Vnrdsi But the words carry the truth
home and that Is what Mel. Trotter
wants. The hog may be drunkenness, lust,
avarice, hate or a criminal desire.
have known men," Mel Trotter said 20
nae, who had whole herd Of swine
Ih their breasts. And they fed them
day and night. They didn't nave Tune
for anything else.
Grand Rapids in Michigan, is Mel. Trot-
ter's home As president Of the Brother
hood of Rescue Mission Superintendents
he travels all over the United States.
Every itinerant or anchored DOWN and
puter in the country knows Mel Trot-
Ter. personally or by character. Many OF
them have felt the grasp of his hand or
It's vise-Iike grip on their coat collars
shawn a. a Horrible Example.
.1 beIieve I'm muscular Christianity" he
will tell YOU A gray-eyed man OF, say.
five feet and nine inches. he weighs "a
mounds Yet he is swift with his nsts
and high geared on his feet. But love-
actually love, shines from his strong
handsome face and energy emanates from
the tips Of his fingers.
Fourteen years ago Mel. Trotter and
n few other transformed men were taken
from Chicago to Grand Rapids by Harry
Monroe as horrible examples" to use
Trotter's own phrase. Monroe had been
a drunkard and something much worse.
II was at his mission, the Pacific Garden,
that BILLY Sunday decided to change
The manner of his life.
BILLY graduated along about 1891 Mel.
Trotter told me. MY course at Harry
Monroe's wasn't begun until January.
1881"
Monroe went to Grand Rapids with the
,biect of founding a mission for human
wrecks. He had known Mel Trotter for
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Trotter belongs the credit for much that
Mel. Trotter has accomplished among
the down-and-outers. She goes into a
drunkard's family with sympathy and
knowledge. i know. she tells the
mother. exactly how you feel Then
she brings in food and I happen along
with the father and the reunion OF
parents and children is a great human
event, l know. that causes rejoicing
in heaven"
In Chicago on the night of January -.
1897, Mel. Trotter. not sober. saw the
lights and heard the music OF Henry
Monroe's mission. A man. he says.
boosted him into the room. Mel. Trot-
ter heard the personal stories OF those
who had crept out of the cutters and
found help and finally restoration.
One brother Saves Another.
At the time Mel. Trotter's brother. Will.
who had a barber shop OF his own and
who had been a drinking man himself.
was inside the mission II was his STRAIT
egy that brought Mel. into the building.
Mel. suddenly arose. a sign that he was
an applicant for prayer.
The world outside the church. he said
to me. cannot understand what instant
ly happened in my case. My appetite
for liquor vanished never to return.
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WOMAN DISPOSES.
BY GRANT OWEN.
fOnrright. Isill

(Copyright, lshl
Peter Knox folded up the papers anc
the memoranda and returned them to the
long leather lettercase. He cleared his
throat He seemed to find what he was
trying to say particularly dificult-
'I have made it plain, have II" he
Isked of the girl beside him, who was
rtaring thoughfully at the fire.
''oh, yes, Peter" said she Il haven't
anything. That's it, isn't it?'
He nodded, rather wretchedly.
mo one had any idea things were SC
badly involved" said he. II knew your
father was rather troubled for some time
before his death. but I hadn't the least
idea that things were as bad as they are.
II you could only keep the house here
She smiled up at him bravely.
Good old Peter" said she patting his
hand. Don't worry. I have my two
hands and a beautiful inclination to face
the world and"
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Made to Realize His Faiings by Same Evangelist Wha
Helped to Make BILLY" Sunday Change the Manner Of
His Life, He Now Is Doing Wonderful Work. :

was going some strictly as business
undertaking.
"It was a remarkable year. Fifty
four of the transformed men and women
became missione ries. at home or in the
foreign field. and more than half Of them
were boozers. Dan Bush. head of the
rescue mission IN San Francisco. was
one of them. George Trotter, superin-
tendent OF the Los Angeles mission. was
another. He is my brother. l gave him
his first drink and IL was at my mission
that he said the last good-by to liquor.
L. v. SiIlaway. superintendent Of the mis-
sion in Milwaukee, was also transformed
during that remarkable first year. We
lost him six times. but we got him at
last and Kept him.
by and by we bought Smiths s
Opera House for $4,000. II was the
toughest vice joint in the city. Then
we built an addition to the building.
Now we have 100000 worth OF prop
erty and it is paid for to the last
penny. That is going some. too. let
me tell you. in town the size OF
Grand Rapids.
What are the causes OF human fall
ure You pluralize when your inquiry
should be singular. Social specialists
hand out all kinds Of dope on that mat
ter. but sin is the one and only cause
of human delinquency. Sin often be-
gins in the home. where the training
OF children Is neglected. A boy doesn
learn. ordinarily. to drink In saloon.
took my first drink at the house OF
very respectable family and from the
hand Of a young woman. Later, when
was down. she wouldn't look al me
when we met In the street. wouldn't
recognize, you understand, her finished
product.
Gambling Is not learned in gamo-
ling rooms. Dancing is not learned st
dance halls. Ninety per cent OF the
girls found in evil resorts are the VIC
tins Of dance halls. My figures may
be startling, but Charles ". Crittenden
says they are accurate lot OF SOIL
headed highbrows are running around
the country telling the people they
ought to turn their school houses into
social centers.
The Hug I'm Dancing.
Il am dead against the proposition
unless the highbrows eliminate dane
ing from their suggestion. Take the
hug out of dancing and whole lot OF
people would pass up that sort OF en-
tertainment. Did you ever see two
men dancing together? Not toughs'
but real nice men from our best So
ciety and our large business instlIu-
tions. Not for a moment.
ssuppose two men were 10 dance.
Locked in each others embrace. They
would go around the hall just once and
then one of them would say: guess
ri get a glass of mineral water and
the other would answer: Me for the
hay: I am weary.
..Oh. l know a lot about mission
failures. Seven men stand up in one
of my meetings and ask for prayers.
one of them wants a flop. which trans
lated, means bed. One wants
his supper. One wants palr Oh
shoes One wants TO get bach 10
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with 1t Is also worn a wing trimmed
hat.
In both instances the wings are
placed on the hat in pairs set a,
right angles to each other. There IS
nothing momentous in the appearance
of these small. short and point-tipped
pairs Of wings. They are merely set
ting themselves up as rivals of flow
ers. They are undeniably smart when
pcrched on high-crowned and narrow
brimmed walking hats or at the top
and at back of plate shapes which have
no crowns.
A broadly turned-over white lined
collar is widely hemmed to CORE
spond with the finishing of a knee
overskirt in plain white serge. which
stands conspicuously away from 6
striped narrow skirt. Soutache also
embroiders the jacket Of the magpie
costume in taffeta and cloth illus
trated.
The jacket in white broadcloth has
deliberately braided fronts which,
crossing at the bust, disappear under
the short straight-cut sides at the
waist line and fasten invisibly at
the back. Straight sleeves, applied to
exceedingly low dropped shoulders
are deliberately braided below the el-
bow. and standing upward about the
throat from the button defined neck
opening is a soutache embroidered
narrow collar.
Wide scallops edge the ankle length
overskirt In black taffeta, the fulness
of which is held in the front by a
double row of shirrings. A wing
trimmed black and white flower
tooue continues the color scheme OF
a costume as smart as 1t Is unusual.
Tucked Tuno Eccentric.
Eccentric to a degree Is the tunic
Ct a blue serge frock. which, finely
tucked throughout its entire length,
starts as a very deep pointed topped
eirdle, adjusted over rather closely
fitted blouse, the tight sleeves CT
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shoulders, 10 shlrred into a second
frilling, which, instead OF standing,
fails down. with a black band separat-
ing the two frills. Unusual as is this
cape, 1t Is nevertheless a useful wrap.
Roman Stripe Fad Wanes.
The craze for Roman striped fab
RIGS shows signs of waning, but when
they have been discarded as TRIM
ming they will undoubtedly con-
tinue 10 be used for cape and coat
Innings az well as for certain Access
series, such as the waistcoat, the
deep, low-set girdles, the Norman
collars and the little wristbags. To
take the place OF the multi-colored
stripes a distinct inclination is mani
tested for white stripes on either
black or navy ground, or black
stripes on a white surface. Such eff
fects combiped with plain colors are
wonderfully smart.
Parasol gowns are the latest things
to come forward as candidates for
summer approval. The idea is that
the fabric OF the gown must be
matched in that of the parasol. and,
as nearly as possible, that t Ne ar
rangement Of the material o the
parasol frame must bear some rela-
ton to the drapcry Of the accompany,
ing frock.
DESIGN Of Parasol Like Gown.
There are, accordingly, parasols
with pulled tiers resembling the pam
niers of the Dolly Warden type of
gown; parasols with a succession Of
fiounces intended to reflect the
fiounced dress of the 1880 period,
also parasols with ruched borders,
with fringed edges, with ostrich bands
defining the hem. In fact, the fabric
and the trimming of the parasols are
as numerous as the shapes; another
way of saying that the variety is un,
limited.
Hats and parasols also match In
many instances. And certain of the
French dressmakers have decreed
that the ribbon trimming the hat shall
find its complement in the belt OF tho
lingerie dress.
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Scalloped Petticoat.
Embroidered in Iris Design, 1t
Lends Right Touch
to Frock.
TINE woman who wishes 70 be
we'll dressed is aware of the fact

TINE woman who wishes 70 be
we'll dressed is aware of the fact
that the way in which the bot
tom of petticoat is finished may add
to or detract from the general effect
OF a summer frock.
The petticoat illustrated belongs TO
a set embroidered in Iris design. The
material used is a good quality OF
nainsook. For a petticoat SO inches
long a four-gore model requires "a
yards Of material 40 inches wide.
A "four-gore" petticoat has a front
gore, two side cores and wide back
gore. A placket in the centre of the
back gore tends to take out some Of
the material, which otherwise would
form a pleat or shirring.
The front gore measures 20 inches
ac the bottom and 10 inches at the
belt. The side cores measure 1917
inches at the bottom and 6 inches at
the belt. The back gore measures 80
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which are tucked from half way above
the elbow to the wrist. The tunic
fits smoothly about the hips, but
gradually flares as it travels midway
to the knees at the front and sides
and to the knees at the back.
An odd detail of this frock Is a
high, faring collar in white batiste
attached to a white batiste shoulder
yoke, which buttons to the point o.
the tucked girdle. Between tho yoke
and the collar a black satin tie en-
circles the neck and bows beneath
the chin.
Undeniably queer is black taffeta
wrap that, starting in a fort7-inch
flounce, pleated frill headed, is at
tached to a bust-line deep fitted yoke
A high standing collar, covering the
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the hem. At the front centre. how
ever. il stands out slightly, and about
the hips it is held down by the deeply
pointed fronts OF a black and white
satin waistcoat filling the cut-away
portion of jacket. This coat, fasten-
ing blindly. has rows of buttons on Its
lapels and its cuffs.
Stitched Edges Sole Trimming.
Not so much as a single black but
ton is on a second model, shown IN
blue serge, the three-quarter long
tunic of which starts in box-pleats
from the deep yoke of blouse which
has cut-in-one rather long sleeves and
a moderately wide sailor collar. Like
the model In drsp Altesse, this cos
tune has doubly-stitched edges, and
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A TIMELY WORD TO THE WISE
71.v Have a Definite Decorative Value When Used in
Groups-Chcstnut Is Artistic Combined with White
and Mauvc-Wings Are Placed at Right Angles

of which falls a two-tiered tunic in
cloth. II starts as an untrinmed
bodice finished at its rounded neck
with twisted satin band over which
fares the pleated white tulle collar
yelling the tops of tight-htting set-in
sleeves.
At the waist the bodice blouscs
very slightly over brown satin girdlc
embroidered in the mauve tone of the
violets in lowered toque.
AS though depressed by their own
weight, long overskirts show ten
dency to cling rather closely to the
skirts which they so nearly cover.
The overskirt of a rose-colored
cloth tailored suit falls so fatty
against the back of the skirt that it
seems to be held there by weights in
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vestee Is a hemstitched strap OF white
net.
The skirt. made with yoke, is plain
in front. while the back has box
pleat. enabling the wearer to walk
with ease. A wide belt Of the material
Joins the waist and skirt. The waist
;s fastened with three buttons. con-
tinuing on the yoke of the skirt. Price,
S22 so.
Tennis Dress Of Linen.
Another linen dress is in a lovely
shade of purple, made in a simple way
suitable for tennis. The waist is plain
excen. for a standing collar OF white
o,oandie and is finished at the neck
hv a little black bow. The three
quarter kirnino sleeves have open cuffs
Giving room for moving the elbow IN
playing tennis.
The skirt has a long tunic OF mate
rial with small pockets on each side
finished by a pearl button. A wide
nurple belt trims the dress. which i:
closed in front. Price, SIS so.