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The Washington herald., 1914-03-29
THE HOUSE IN GOOD ORDER .

its charm, but it is finished, and what
can we do about a thing that is I'm
ished? Doesn't it seem that we are
back IN the old position OF Isabella
dEste - eager, predatory and
"thingyp And isn't it time for US
to pull up short lest we sidestep the
goal! We are so sure of a thousand
appetites We are IN danger OF passing
by the amiable eommonplaccs. We
find ourselves dismayed in old houses
that look too simple. We must stop
and ask ourselves questions, and. Il
necessary, plan for ourselves little re-
treats until We can find ourselves
again
What is the goali A house that
is like the life that goes on within il,
a house that gives Us beauty as we
understand it-and beauty of a nobler
kind that we may grow to understand,
a house that looks amenity.
Suppose you have obtained this
sort Of WISDOM sane viewpoint. !
think it will give you as great a salts
faction to rearrange your house with
what you have as to rebuild, redeco-
IdIC. hC ICsullo hON OC 50
charming, but you can learn by them.
You can take your indiscriminate in
heritance OF Victorian rosewood, Of
Eastlake walnut and cocobolo. your
pickle-and-plum colored Morris fur
niture, and make civilized interior
by placing it right, and putting detail
at the right points. Your sense OF
the pleasure and meaning OF human
intercourse will be clear in your dis
position Of your best things, in your
elimination OF your worst ones.
When you have emptied the tables
of rubbish so that you can put things
down on them at need, placed them
in a light where you can write on
them in repose, or isolated real works
of art in the middle OF them; when
you have set your dropsical sofas
where you want them for talk, or
warmth and reading; when you can
see the fire from the bed in your
sleeping-room, and dress near your
bath; if this sort of sense of your
rights is acknowledged in your rear
rangement, your rooms will always
have meaning in the end. II you like
only the things in a chair that have
meaning and grow to hate the
rest, you will. without any other in
struction. prefer-the next time you
are buying-a good Louis XVI fau-
teuil to a stuffed velvet chair. You
will never again be guilty Of the er-
rors OF meaningless magnihcence.
To most Of US in America who
must perforce lead workaday lives
the absence Of beauty is a very dis
tinct lack. I think, indeed, that the
present awakening has come to stay,
and that before very long, we shall
have simple houses with hreplaces
that draw, electric lights in the prop
er places, comfortable and sensible
furniture, and not a gilt-legged, spin
dle-shanked table or chair anywhere.
This may be decorators optimistic
dream. but let US all hope that it may
come true.
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to building contractor is mis-
taken, and most expensive, one. The
surer you are of your architects
common sense and professional abil-
ity the surer you may be that your
house will be economically efficient.
He will not only plan house that
will meet the needs OF your family,
but he will give you the inspiration
for its interior. He will concern him
self with the holdings, the light-open-
ings, the door-handles and hinges,
the unconsidered things that make or
mar your house. Select for your
architect a man you'd like for a
friend. Perhaps he will be, before the
house comes true. II you are both
sincere, il YOU both purpose to have
the best thing you can afford. the
house will express the genius and
character OF your architect and the
personality and character of yourself,
as a great painting suggests both
painter and sitter. The hard won
triumph OF a well-built house means
many compromises, but the ultimate
satisfaction is worth everything.
Development Of the Modern House.
I do not purpose to go into the his
toric traditions OF architecture and
decoration, but I do wish to trace
briefly the development Of the mod
ern house. the woman's house, to
show you that all that Is intimate and
charming in the home as we know
it, has come through the unmeasured
The Washington herald., 1914-03-29
THE STOCKING PURSE.

Evolved from the stocking purse. 4
stocking has arrived with a pocket. It
is a real patch pocket made OF silk. knit
in with the wool of the stocking proper,
with an envelope flap. fastening down
with a snap button. 1t is claimed for
this pocket that it is 4 safe receptacle
for money and jewels.
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style to make it possible to change II
to suit ones self. To many women the
hustle and the wired tunic are becoming.
to others the closely wrapped original
effect is most charming: for some the
narrow. straight lines of the square cut
coat. Fashion has given US all a chance
this spring. but to be original as well.
Miss Patricia Collinge: Modern FASH
ions are a lot more sensible than people
give them credit for. Girls nowadays
have frocks that fastsn in front. that
are straight and comfortable and far
more girlish and simple than were the
frOcks of a generation back.
Miss Emily Ann Wellman: Fashions as
they come to us should be like clay in
the hands of 4 potter. Paris takes the
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clay and makes a beautiful model which
We. in our clumsy way. try to copy. bu.
sometimes We would succeed better +
We made these models of ours more sim
pie. more suited to the unsubtle AmeTi
can atmosphere. That is what l lik,
about the fashions this spring-their sim.
Dlicity
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modern house, its romantic tradition
and architectural history.
By taking upon ourselves the duty
of self-taught lessons OF sincerity and
common sense and suitability.
By learning what is meant by color
and form and line, harmony and con-
trast and proportion.
When we are on familiar terms
with our tools, and feel our vague
ideas clearing into definite inspira-
ton, then We are ready to talk about
ideals. We are fit to approach the
full art OF -home-making.
We take it for granted that every
woman is interested in houses-that
she either has a house in course OF
construction, or dreams OF having
one, or has had house long enough
wrong to wish it right And we take
it for granted that this American
home is always the woman's home;
a man may build and decorate beau
tiful house, but il remains for wom-
an to make home OF It for him. II
is the personality of the mistress that
the home expresses. Men are for
ever guests in our homes, no matter
how much happiness they may find
there.
You will express yourself IN your
house. whether you want to or not,
so you must make up your mind to
a long preparatory discipline. You
may have only one house to furnish
in your lifetime, possibly, so be care
full and 60 warily. Therefore, you
must select for your architect a man
who isn't too determined to have his
way. It is a fearful mistake to leave
the entire planning of your home to
a man whose social experience may
be limited, for instance, for he can
impose on you his conception Of your
tastes with damning permanency
and emphasis. l once heard a GER
tain Boston architect say that he
taught his clients to be hdies and
gentlemen. He couldn't, you know.
All he could do is to set the front
door so that il would reprove them
if they wern'tl
Who does not know, for instance,
those mistaken people whose houses
represent their own or their archi-
tect's basty visits to the fine old cha
teaux Of the Loire, or the palace Of
Versailles. or the fine old houses Of
England, or the gracious villas Of
Italy? We must avoid such aspiring
architects, and visualize our homes
not as so many specially designated
rooms and convenient closets, but as
individual expressions of ourselves,
of the future we plan, of our dreams
for our children. The ideal house is
the house that has been long planned
or, long awaited.
Trust the Architect
Fortunately for Us, our best srchi-
tects are so very good that we are
better than safe If we take our prob
lens to them. These men associate
with themselves the hundred young
architects who are eager to prove
themselves on small houses. The
idea that it is economical to be your
own architect and trust your houses
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WHAT NOTED STARS
SAY OF THE FASHIONS

Miss Effie Shannon: Keeping up with
the fashions means holding old age at
bay. All women keep young when they
keep abreast OF the times. and no matter
how bizarre a fashion seems at first, a
woman can always suit it to her per
sonality and rejoice to ind it enhancing
her good looks.
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The House Achieved.

And so we women have achieved
a house, luminous with kind purpose
throughout. Il is finished-:hat is
our difficulty! We inherit it, all round
ed in its perfection, consummate in
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Miss Mary Se:ross: Most women are
afraid OF originality; they want 20 look
like paper dolls all cut from the same
sheet OF white paper. hut II is a mistake:
there Is always enough latitude in my
The Washington herald., 1914-03-29

1 know nothing more significant
than the awakening OF men and wom-
en- throughout our country to the de-
sire to improve their houses. Gail
IT what you will-awakening, develop
meut, American Renaissance-it IS
most startling and promising eondl-
ton of affairs.
1t is no longer possible, even to
people of only family aesthetic tastes,
to buy chairs merely to sit upon or
clock merely that it should tell the
time. Home-makers are determined
to have their houses, outside and IN,
correct according to the best stand
ards. What do we mean by the best
standards? Certainly not those OF
the useless, overeharged house OF the
average American millionaire, who
builds and furnishes his home with
hopeless disregard of tradition. We
must accept the standards that the
artists and the architects accept, the
standards that have come to US from
those exceedingly rational people, our
ancestors.
Our ancestors built for stability and
Use, and so their simple houses were
excellent examples of architecture.
Their spacious, uncrowded interiors
were usually beautiful. Houses and
furniture fulfilled their uses, and If
an object fulflls its mission the
chances are that it is beautiful.
1t is all very well to plan our ideal
house or apartment, our individual
castle in Spain, but it isn't necessary
to live among intolerable furnishings
Just because We cannot realize our
castle. There never was house so
bad that it couldn't be made over into
something worth while. We shall all
be very much happier when we learn
TO transform the things we have into
= semblance Of our ideal.
How, then, may we go about ac-
complishing our ideal?
By letting it gol
By forgetting this vaguely pleasing
dream. this evidence of our snug van
ity, and making ourselves ready for
new ideal.
By considering the body Of material
from which it is good to choose when
We have 4 house to decorate.
By studying the development of the
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First Signs Of Development.

The virtues OF simplicity and reti-
cence in form first came into being,
as nearly as we can tel, in the Grotta,
the little studio-like apartment Of
Isabella d'Este. the Marchioness OF
Mantua, away back in 1896. The
Marchioness made of this little studio
her personal retreat. Here she
brought many of the treasures OF the
Italian Renaissance Really, simplici-
ty and reticence were the last things
she considered, but the point is that
they were considered at all in such a
restless, passionate age. Later, in
1922, she established the Paradise, q
suite Of apartments which she occu-
pied after her husbands death. So
you see the idea of a woman planning
her own apartment is pretty old, af-
ter all.
The next woman who took a stand
that revealed genuine social con-
sciousness was that half-French, hall
Italian woman. Catherine de Vivonne,
Marquise de Rambouillet. She Sc
The Washington herald., 1914-03-29

EDITORIAL EoTE:-The following
Interesting article on The House In
Good Order" forms the Introductory
chapter TO Miss Elsie De VOLTS not:
able new book on the dsveloppsnt 9t
the modern house. II Il doubtful
\ more helpful and interesting chap
ter on this subject has been produced
than the one that follows. Miss De
wolfe has won an international repu-
tation In the field Of house decora-
tlOn. She win be recalled a. an act
ress Of splendid ability and since ieay-
inF the stage in 1905 has achieved not
able SUCCESS in her e, ne. .s. e.iiins; tss
decorstion Of the Colony Club, of
New York; the home Of ]. Ogden Ar,
mour. in Chicago; California home OF
william Crocker and many others
The following article goes 70 the foun,
dalton spirit Of home building, sna
may be read with profit By the build
er Of homes from the humolest 70 me
most pretentious. 1t Is reprinted here
through the courtesy Of the century
Company, New York. publishers OF
Miss De wolfe's book.
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influence of women. Man conceived
the great house with its parade room,
its grand apartments, but woman
found eternal parade tiresome, and
planned for herself little retreats,
rooms small enough for comfort and
intimacy. In short, man made the
house; woman went him one better
and made of it a home.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-10-06
Activities of Women.

There is one wage-earning woman to-
three wage-earning men In New York.
state.
When a woman loses her husband
by death in Korea she is forbidden
from marrying again.
Mrs. Estelle l.. Lindsay is running
for the Legislature In California on the
Socialist ticket.
In British Columbia women teachers
only are allowed to take the household
economics lectures.
The British Red Gross society has
over $4,000 nurses enrolled. of which
over two-thirds are women.
Canadian husbands desiring to go to
war must first get the wife's consent
before being enlisted.
The dowager empress Of Russia has
given a complete 6sld ambulance unit
for the French troops
The women Of NagasakI, Japan.
work side by sido with the men eoaling
steamers that come into that port,
Women are being put to work In col.
lieriss In Germany, assuring that coun-
try plenty OF coal.
The women Of Servia as well as
those OF Montenegro bear arms the
same as men during the time OF war.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-10-06
PREPARE FOR D. A. R. MEET
Mrs. William Cummings Story, Nation.
al President, to Attend Madi-
son Conference.

MISUNDERSTANDING plans are be-
ing made for the entertainment of
the state conference of the Daughters
of the American Revolution at this
city October Is and Is, with John
Bell chapter OF this city acting as
host. Mrs. William Cummings Story,
national president. viii be here, and
the two pages, who acted as Wiscon-
sins pages at the national convention
last spring will attend her They are
Miss Olive Simpson of the state his
torical library, Madison, and Miss
Maude Hawkins of Shullsburg. Mrs.
Story has recently appointed Mrs.
Henry L. Cook of Milwaukee as
chairman of the international peace
and arbitration committee Of the D.
A. r. Other Wisconsin women to
serve on this committee are: Mrs. E.
A. Morse, Amigo; Mrs. j. H. David
son, Oshkosh; Mrs. Edward E.
Browne, Waupaca, and Mrs. John So
gard, Racine, state chairman for Wis
consin.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-10-06
VICE COMMITTEE
TO MAKE REPORT
SENATOR TEAsDALE WILL CALL
MEETING TO DECIDE ON
FUTURE. HEARINGS.
NEED OF HOME TRAINING
Believed That Body Will Ask LeslsIa
tu-e to Pass Law Prohibiting
Sale of intoxicating Liquors
in Dance Halls.

Madison.-Senator Howard Teaadaie
of Sparta, chairman of the special leg
isIative vice investigation committee,
has advised Committee Clerk h II.
Hillyer that he intended to call meet-
ing of the committee in Madison to de-
termine whether the committee
should hold any more hearings and
making preliminary arrangements LOT
printing the committees report
1t Is understood that majority OF
the members of the committee DelleVe
that sufficient hearings have been held
and that the committee should now
direct its efforts to preparing It's re-
mort on the prevalence, causes and
remedies of immortality in the state.
1t will report that one OF the prlnci-
nal causes of immortality is lack Oh
proper home training and surveillance
of young people. 1t will recommend
that a law be passed prohibiting the
sale of intoxicating liquors at dance
halls, especially in Milwaukee, and VIII
suggest that women be prohibited
from frequenting places where such
liquors are sold.
The committee will, it is expected,
make a number of other recommends
lions for the suppression of immoral
ity. In it's report it will give sum-
mary of the testimony taken in the
different cities where hearings have
been held, and will also incorporate
some vice statistics based on the in
Vestigation in the state.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-10-06
WILL GRAFT SKIN ON INDIAN
Bottle of Alcohol Uncorked Lets Fluid
Soak Clothing and Become
ignited From Lantern.

Tomahawk.-Joseph Wabeno, n
years old, has enough friends to have
a fighting chance for life. Burned al
most beyond chances of recovery, the
Indian was brought to a hospital
here for treatment. Skin grating, it
was decided, was the only chance he
had for life and so many of his friends
volunteered that the necessary two
square feet of cutiele will be easy to
obtain.
Wabeno is the victim of alcohol. The
cork in the alcohol bottle worked
loose, his coat became soaked and the
fluid dripped from his clothing to the
lighted lantern he was carrying. Be-
fore he could protect himself his en-
tire body was enveloped In flames. He
threw himself upon the ground to ex-
tinguish the flames. He was picked up
by a farmer who heard his cries and
brought to this city.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-10-06
Infantry Decides tn. BATHS.

While there have been many dis
cussions as to the relative value OF
the different branches OF an army
there is little doubt, according to
writer in the Scientific American.
that 1t is the infantry that wins bat
les.
While 1t is probable the success of
battle will depend to large extent
on the support OF the field artillery, 1t
is certain that the principal and most.
important arm is the infantry. which,
in practically every case must decide
the final issue. The cavalry may be
the first to be drawn into battle,
and the artillery may destroy the en-
emy's artillery, but battle is never
won until the infantry has driven back
the enemy's lines.
The usual mode of advancing for
the infantry is to deploy them in a
line with long interval between each
soldier. This naturally, is for the
purpose of offering a smaller target
for the enemy, but makes II more diff
ficult, however, for the leaders to-
keep as good control over the men.
and for that reason one of the objectsi
of field artillery Is to make the en-
emy's troops deploy early
The infantry soldier is armed In all
the countries with a rifle and bayonet.
The rifle is the weapon upon which re-
lance is placed, the bayonet being
used only as last means, when-in a
hand-to-hand encounter with the eur
envy.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-10-06
TEACHERS MEET OCT. 1924
Central Wisconsin Association viii
Hold Second Annual Conven-
ton in Merrill.

Merrill-The second annual meeting
of the Central Wisconsin Teachers as
sociation viii be held in this city on
Oct. % and "a Among the speakers
who will have a part in the program
are: John E. Gunckel, president of the
Newsboys' association. Toledo, o.;
Mrs. William s. Hefferan, president of
the Colonel Francis Wayland Parker
club, Chicago; John F. Sims of the
Stevens Point Normal School; Peter
w. Dykema, professor of music, Uni
versity of Wisconsin; Harry L. Miller,
principal of the Wisconsin High
school; George w. Davies, superinten-
dent of the Sank county schools; E. L.
Luther, supervisor of county represent
tatives; H. l.. Terry, state high school
inspector; o. S. Rice, state library
clerk; SiIas B. Tobey, superintendent
of schools, Wausau, and F. ]. Smith,
mayor of Merrill.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-10-06
BEGINS VISUAL INSTRUCTION
University Prepares to Send Slides
and Picture Films TO Schools
in the State.

Madison-"The department of visL-
al instruction" of the state university's
extension department will shortly be
in full operation. Arrangements are
being made for shipping the first of
the educational films and slides to Wis
consin schools.
According to letters at the extension
department nearly half the schools of
the state will offer their pupils and
patrons weekly social-educational eve
nings this year, with the motion pic
ture equipment playing large part
in the programs.
A series OF thirty-five sets of slides
and films, covering subjects of art,
history, natural history, industries and
even fairy tales are offered by the de-
partment.
Each school subscribing to the bu-
reau will receive set of films each
week. The expense is the express
from the last place of shipment. This
is estimated at about so cents.
To date 100000 slides have been or
dered by the schools. This is com
pared with the record of the New York
state department, which last year pro-
vided 215,OO0.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-10-06
CARP REMOVED FROM LAKE
New York Firms Bid Accepted For
Fish-4o,0oo Pounds Selned
From Lake Mendoza.

Madison.-Two carloads, approx
mately 10000 pounds, of carp were re-
moved from Lake Mendoza in the vi
cinity of the Mendoza asylum for the
insane by w. e. Wiedner and crew
OF men under the direction of State
Game Warden Sholts. Bids for the
fish were received from a half dozen
firms by Mr.. Shots. The Lay Fish
company of New fork was given tt e
FISH for 51a cents a pound placed on
the track here, packed in ice, it being
the first company to bid at the rate
accepted by the game warden depart.
ment
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-10-06
R. W. SEARS EXPIRES
END COMES AT HIS SUMMER
HOME IN WAukEsHA.
Started PeddIing Watches at Fari-
bault, Minn.-Estabdshed Big
Mail Order House.

Waukesha.--h. w. Sears, founder
OF Sears, Roebuck & Co., died here
on his sumTler estate after a short
illness. He was 81 years of age and
remarkable figure in Chicago's trad
ing world.
Mr.. Sears, while telegraph opera
tor in Faribault, Mimi, started sell
ing watches, thus starting on his ca
reer as mail order merchant. Re-
turning to Minneapolis, he organized
a mail order house in 1890, and four
years later went to Chicago. There
he established the business which
later was incorporated as Sears, Roe
buck & Co. When he sold his hold
ings a few years ago, he is understood
to have received 100000 in cash
and stock. He retired from business
and the presidency of the firm four
years ago, and had since devoted
much of his time to farming.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-10-06
CRUSHED UNDER MACHINE
Edward c. ketchum of Grand Rapids
Met Death When Automobile
Turned Over.

Grand Rapids.-Edward C. Ketchum,
local ice and coal dealer of this city,
met death under his automobile. He
was returning from Pittsville. While
just outside or the city limits his hat
blew OFF and in turning to e where
1t went 1T is supposed that ne turned
the steering wheel at the sane time,
which headed his car for the ditch,
and in his endeayor to bring it back
onto the road turned too short, caus-
ing the car to turn completely over
He was crushed under the steering
wheel. HI suffered a fracture of the
skull and his left side was caved in.
He died before he could be brought to
the city.