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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-02
RENTS $4,000 Fine.
WILSON SIGNS sLuMs BILL.
Final Action Realizes Dying Wish Of
Mrs. Wilson.

Washington. D. C.-Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson's dying wish that the worst
slums in Washington be abolished was
finally realized when the President
signed the bill clearing alleys of dwell
ing places. On her death-bed Mrs.
Wilson expressed the hope that the
bill would be passed and both houses
of Congress acted. Although it diff
fered in some particulars from the
measure Mrs. Wilson originally cham.
pioned. the President decided 1t &C
complished the principal purpose
sought.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-02
MAY RESUME LOBBY PROBE.
Insldious Influences Again Reported At
Work In Washington.

Washington, D. c. - Frequent
charges and insinuations that insidious
Influences have been at work in Wash
ington in connection with antitrust
and river and harbor legislation have
prompted Senator Overman, chairman
of the special lobby investigating COM
mittee. to consider calling his commit
tee to complete its inquiry begun more
than year ago.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-02
SIGNS TRADE COMMISSION BILL.
President Will Not Appoint Members
Until December.

Washington, D. president Will
son signed the Trade Commission bill.
He announced several weeks ago that
he would not appoint the members of
the commission until the December
session of Congress-.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-02
DESTRUCTION OF NOTRE DAME AT
REIMS is GREATEST LOSS OF WAR

Aside from these notable monu-
ments thorough Smelling or confia-
grafton might destroy many lesser
buildings that have made the ancient
city a place Of enormous historic in
terest. Some of its old houses date
from the twelfth and the thirteenth
centuries and here and there still exist
remains Of the Roman occupation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-02
HIS DEATH PATHETIC.
Brakeman Fell Under Moving Train
and Was Fearfuily MansIed.

Harrisonburg. Va. Walter W..
Ward, % years old, brakeman on the
Southern Railway, fell under a movins
train near Mount Jackson, Shenan-
doah county, in sight of his home and
had one leg cut OFF and the other hor-
ribly mangled from the knee to the
hip. He was rushed to the Harrison
burg Hospital in an automobile, where
he died from loss of blood and shock
several hours later. On the trip in
the automobile to the hospital Ward
revived once and upon realizing his
condition asked the doctors to let him
die.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-02
SIMPSON NOMINATED.
To Be Ambassador To Argentina.
Fletcher Promoted.

Washington. D. C.-President VIII
son sent to the Senate the nomina-
lions of Frederic Jesup Simpson, of
Harvard University, to be ambassa-
dor to Argentine. and Henry Prather
Fletcher. now minister to Chile. to be
ambassador to that country.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-02
THE HOUSE PASSES
WAR TAX BILL
Rushed Through BY Democratic
Vote, 234 to 1875.
EXPECTED TO PASS SENATE
Elobson and Ten OF His Faith De-
clare Against Measure-Reer Tax
Lower-0asoline Assessment
Stands.

Washington, D. C.--The Administra.
ton War Revenue bill went to the Sen
ate following its passage In the House
by an overwhelming vote. Considera-
ton of the bill in the Senate now
awaits the action of the Finance Com
mittee. The committee already has
begun paving the way for its speedy
passage in the Senate.
The bill was adopted by vote of
234 to 1876. With the single excep-
ton of the vote of Representative Cop
Icy of Illinois, Progressive, every
affirmative vote was cast by Dem
ocrat, while the solid Republican
minority voted against the bill, as
sisted by Ii Democrats.
The bill had been under considera-
ton in the House two days. The
overwhelming defeat Of motion by
Representative Payne, Of New York,
to recommit the bill to the Ways and
Means Committee, preceded its pass
age.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-02
CUTTER TOTAL LOSS.
Crew OF Tahoma, On Reef, Taken on
BY Senator.

Seattle. Wash.-The revenue cutter
Tahoma is total loss on a reef 80
miles west of Kiska Island, in the
Aleutian chain according to wireless
advices received here. Her crew OF
nine officers and So men were taken
of by the steamer Senator. bound
from Seattle to Nome
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-02
INVESTIGATES BUTTER TRUST.
EloIn Board Said To Be Still Fixing
General Prices.

Chicago. Charles F. Clyne, United
States District Attorney, began in
vestigation into complaints alleging
that the Elgin Butter and Egg Board
is violating the Federal injunction re-
straining the price fixing" of butter
The inquiry is part of the Govern
ment's investigation of wartime prices
of food.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-02
STATE PUBLISHERS ORGANIZE.
New Association Formed At Parkers-
burg, w. Va.

Parkersburg, w. va-About SO
West Virginia newspaper publishers
organized the State Publishers Asso
citation here with the following Off
GERS:
President. c. E. Meredith. Salem
vice-president. John J. Cornwell. Rom
ney; secretary, Boyd B. Stutler
Grantsville; treasurer, P. w. Morris
Petersburg; poet. D. L. Pemberton
st. Marys; historian. S. A. Simmons
Spencer
An address by c. S. Clark of Gin
cinnati, on the Money End of the
Newspaper Business, was a feature.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-02
PICKED FOR AmpAssADoas4lp.
Prof. stimsOn, OF Harvard Chosen, for
Argentine Post

Washington, D. president VII
son and Secretary Bryan conferred on
diplomatic appointments, agreeing. it
is understood, to name Frederic Jessup
Stimson, lawyer. novelist and profess
sor at Harvard University, to be the
first Ambassador to Argentina, and to
promote Henry Prather Fletcher, now
Minister to Chile. to be Ambassador to
that country, both posts recently be-
ing raised from Legations to embas-
sizes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-02
SHE FALLS FROM BALCONY.
Wife OF York Physician Seriously Hurt
BY Plunge.

York, Pa.-Plunging headforemost
Is feet from balcony when the rail-
ing broke. Mrs. w. B. High, wife of
prominent York physician, was seri-
ously injured. She lighted on her
head and shoulders and it is believed
that she has been hurt internally. She
was found unconscious a short time
later by neighbors.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-02
Gasoline Tax Stands.

AS passed by the House, the bill i'm
poses an additional tax of so cents a
barrel on beer, 2 cents gallon on
gasoline, 20 cents gallon on sweet
wines and II cents on dry wines, stamp
taxes on railroad and steamboat tick
cts. brokers' contracts, insurance
policies, mortgages. telegraph and
telephone messages and special taxes
upon theatres, brokers. bankers. to-
bacco dealers and others. These taxes
are estimated to raise $1O5 .00O. 900
revenue annually.
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| am hoping to add my mite to the joy
Of babyhood. and also to prove that
comic" does not of necessity spell
"hideous."
The planning of these babies dolls
has been 80 delightful that IL has al
most made me forgetful OF the more
usual types: however. there is "a little
girl Of for bisque. As you see her
in plastiline she wears her own bobbed
hair. but on her return from abroad
AZ a full fiedged doll she will probably
have a wig. and also maybe glass eyes.
Those eyes! What a difficult aues-
ton they have proved TO the designer
who wishes her dolls to observe the ar
tistic proprieties. From that standpoint
Of course only modelled and painted
eyes are possible; but one cannot but
remember that as a little girl there was
great satisfaction in putting ones doll
to Aeep. For my part ] am disposed Ia
concede the mechanical eye, but will die
protesting against the backing brush
eyelashes and real" eyebrows.
doll with boys head IL real
Americana New Yorker who. with
characteristic New York Impotence and
rush, got himself painted before he was
thoroughly dry and through shrinking
What chance this question OF doll
material offers just now to the chemical
exp rimenter. With the discovery ot
something really satisfactory in this
country III" whole industry would he
transformed.
There is nothing so far to compare
with the European bisque. which We
cannot initiate. Yet blsque Is both
heavy and brittle. our American un-
brcakablos are heavy. too heavy for
babies dolls and also very uncertain as
to reproduction of the model ON,
American firm Is doing creditable work
in wood, but how unsympathetic ii is &c
the touch! How lacking in the precious
| quality Of cuddlesomeness. A doll OF
| any hard substance Is such a long. Ions
way from the Ideal; the meat baby
one exacting child dema nded Of Santa
| Claus. To my mind more or less
yielding body Is an essential TO the per
feet doll all designers are striving
| toward.
I would almost say that We need
| strive no further, that perfection has
| been attained in Frau Kate Kruse'.
adorable TOY babies" but THAI theil
necessarily high price puts them out OF
| general reach. And ! am for the demo
| cratic spirit in dolldom as elsewhere.
True, there are great possibilities in
the way of dolls de luxe. Think of a
little girl having one that would repre-
sent in feature and costume her own
grandmamma as small maid Of the
early COS. or a baby doll modelled after
her own first photograph. Then there are
all the famous children Of the art world
For example. the well known and loved
Baby Stuart. soft eyed little Penelope
Boothby. and for a modern selection
perhaps Manet's "Boy with "A Sword
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Her Innovations Have Abolished Complaints,
Given Servants the Same Privileges as
Guests and Been Widely Copied

Giving the privileges Of the laundry to
G certain number Of the guests was one
OF the changes that appealed to me at
trst though II took some little time to
arrange. Strange to say, much oppose
ton to this came from the guests them
selves. They didn't feel 1t would be well
for the house. Now | believe that any
feature that will help the girls, or any
considerable portion Of them, will prove
beneficial to the house. This opening
the laundry to the girls in the cheaper
rooms has proved so helpful that we are
trying gradually to extend IL toeany and
all guests who may care to use it,
Though the help now have a parlor
of their own it is not as large as the
one We are planning for them. Be
sides in our new building We are plan
Ming for a roof garden and a gymnasium.
While the house is seldom as We'll filled
during the summer as 1t is in the winter
there are so many guests that a roof
garden would be most acceptable during
the hot months.
Though the house has never been
quite so fun in the summer as 1t is in
the winter, last summer we had to
manmuvre considerably TO empty the
rooms which we wished to do over,
There were seventy-tive more rooms
held by the girls when they went on
their yearly vacation than the year be-
fore. Besides there was an unusual
number of women and girls from every
section of the country who stopped
with us in periods ranging from one
night to several weeks. by the middle
of October practically every room in the
house was taken permanently.
women who arrived too late to go to
some one of the houses which we recon-
mend were lodged for the night either
In some of our twelve private parlors,
the green room adjoining our concert
hall or In "a vacant hospital ward.
Fortunately this has been IA healthy
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be boy: but II was only the shallowest
pretence. and the latter case was not
very frequent either. for in the endless
rows Of importers samples the mascu-
line element Is as sparsely represented
as at afternoon teas and suffrage meet
ings.
Why, l wonder. do our small maids
care so little about mothering boy dolls !?
From my own observation I should say
that the request for a hoy doll usually
comes from a rather blase young person
who has tried everything else. To the
normal little girl a doll Is either little
girl or "just baby" as one knew ex-
planned on being asked whether the new
arrival in the family was little boy or
girl.
To-day what changes We see on those
sample shelves! Babies are babies
now; the wearer Of a quaint European
peasant costume will show the soft and
simply modelled features of the real
peasant child and the little chap in
trousers and belted blouse has boy"
stamped as plainly on his countenance
as on his clothes.
Not that Miss Florabella has disap-
peared, by any means. She Is still
numerOusly present and will be for
many a day to come. And what wonder
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All these might he reproduced for the
delectation Of little Miss Crpsus.
Here occurs to me a question that
have often asked myself In view OF the
fact that certain extremely homely
character babies have had a surprising
success. Is the LONELINESS an aid to the
childs illusion OF reality, or is 1t only
the far swing of the pendulum away
from Florabella OF the ininitesimal
mouth and preposterous eyes?
For a while I doubted the child's pref
erence; ! thought the choice was prob
ably OF the buyers themselves pleased
with novelty and that the doh mothers
accepted the ugly babies and loved
them just as real mothers do without
question or murmur but now ii does
not seem so certain to me that this is
the case. Yet there surely is no reason
why moderate comeliness should lessen
the human quality. 1t is dangerous in
doll designing, as in any other art--yes,
art. for that Is what II has come To be
To make prettiness the first Considera-
ton. lnsipidity is apt to result, or cold.
classic regularity. But in my work I
shall try to avoid either extreme in the
belief that character may exist with
some degree of attractiveness.
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Franklin Square House. This body II
made up OF twenty odd residents of the
house, nominated and elected by ballot.
Only the guests of the house are allowed
tn vote. II is AN advisory body and
can carry complaints or make sug-
gestions, either directly to the board Of
trustees or through Miss Swanson.
The first resident council led n busy
life. There were many complaints and
"A long list of suggestions resulting from
each monthly meeting. That was dur
ing the time when Miss swanson was
assistant superintendent. Since then
the work of the council has steadily
decreased. During the year just passed
the members declared It seemed hardly
worth while to go to meetings. There
were almost no complaints. and those
few so simple that they were all settled
by the council without resorting to
either the superintendent or the trus-
tees.
Speaking of another innovation which
has proved so valuable at the Franklin
Square House that 1t Is now being
adopted by every similar hotel through
out the world Miss Swanson said:
1T worried me very much when
first came to the Franklin Square
House to find that though there were
a number of rooms vacant all OF them
We're too high priced for the girls who
were then applying. As much as
deplored this state of things l had to
acknowledge that II would be an I'M
wise policy to let large rooms with two
windows at the same price other girls
were paying for small rooms with one
window.
Everybody assured me that II was
condition that just had to exist, that
first come first served was universally
accepted as the right and best policy
for such house. That the girls
couldn't get rooms within their means
was their misfortune because they
didn't apply In time and not the fault
Of the management OF the house.
Though l couldn't agree, l listened
to all such arguments. At last l got
the idea OF assigning rooms according
to the income of the occupant. After
! had worked out my plan II required
some little time before | could gain the
consent OF the superintendent to give
1t a trial. She said the guests would
object to being questioned about such
a personal matter as their weekly earn
ings. Many OF them did at first until
! made them see the other side Of the
question-how the very girls whom the
house aimed to help were being kept
out because they were not able to pay
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Plaster cast Of Miss JOrdan's first American
unbreakable doll; it was failure.

ment Of the Imagination but Of the
divinely implanted maternal instinct
that is the dolls chief business.
This being realized, what a wonderful,
what a responsible task Is that Of the
designer Of dolls. How. you ask. did
find the courage to enter such a high
calling? Or to get down to plain facts,
how did I happen to take up doll de-
signing? Perhaps had best evade re-
sponsbllity by answering that / didn't.
il took me up, almost.
Ten years ago when an art student
a very intermittent art student. much
of my time being spent earning ex.
penses-a certain job fell into my hands.
1t did not seem especially alluring in
Itself being the making of prosaic little
pen and ink catalogue rawlings in 4
large importing house. But as loathed
the fashion work which had hitherto
been my chief potboiler the change
seemed worth while. So il began, and
for years all the spring months were
spent grinding out the little sketches Of
china, toys and dolls.
OF course the dolls interested me
I most and let me say that ten years
aso they were not one-fourth so inter-
estng as now. II the past decade has
been one Of marvellous growth and de-
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ton which has attracted wide attention
among social workers. Men and women
who had been in social work for years
shook their heads when they heard that
Miss Swanson proposed to furnish the
Mattresses and Chambermaids with a
parlOr III which to receive their guests.
parlor just as comfortable and as
nicely furnished as those supplied for
guests.
1T seems very simple" Miss Swanson
explains, why we should give the en-
ployees Of the house all possible ad-
vantages. The aim of the house is to
supply a comfortable home for working
women and girl students. our wait
resses, Chambermaids and other women
employees all come under the first head
while many Of them are also students.
Wouldn't 1t be strange, perhaps in
sincere. for us to look out for the COM
fort and health of other peoples EN-
ployees and neglect our own? Charity,
YOU know. begins at home. don't like
that word charity. ! never use 1t nor
think 1t where working women or girl
students are concerned. They are here
on exactly the same basis that the stu
dents in our best equipped colleges en-
JOY the comforts of their up To date
dormitories.
Every woman and girl here pays her
way. every cent of 1t. The only par
ticular in which the house Is not as
other hotels financially Is that the build
ing Is supplied rent free and without
taxes. The building was purchased by
public subscription, the amount Of the
gifts ranging, from 81 To several thou
sand and II comes under the class which
is exempt from taxation in Boston. Girls
and women who live here are no more
accepting charity than those who live
In the dormitories Of the best colleges.
The house pays all expenses and has
enough left over to put by each year 50
that at the end of twenty years We will
be able to renew the heating and electric
equipment.
III my success as the superintendent
has been unusual II must he because
having been both IA college girl and a
working woman I get both points OF
view. My parents have a large family.
seven children. and both have always
had to work very hard. OF course We
children had to help.
81 worked my way through college,
teaching between terms and doing any
other work that I could get. After my
graduation taught In high school for
two years. then became the head of the
employment bureau at the Women's
Educational and Industrial Union Of
Boston. ! hadn't been there very long
when DR.. George L. Perrin, the founder
and president Of the Franklin Square
House, asked me to come here as assist
ant superintendent.
"Being deeply interested In the work
I naturally try my best to improve 1t.
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cessful in having such things done on
this side
Perhaps l might get them modelled
for him. I said. inwardly quaking at
my own duplicity. II I could ne adj
United that he would be interested.
And no 1t was that got n1y chance.
Two Of three heads I modelled were ac-
cepted to be forwarded to manufacture
ers in Germany. Perhaps they were
not taken entirely on their merits. for
I had owned up. and the importers
amazement and amusement, together
with his natural kindness, may have
made him forget to be critical. My de-
light was unbounded and I straight way
entered on an orgy OF modelling in
which II was hard to remember that II
isn't wise to tear down the old house
before the new one is ready for Oc-
cupancy.
For a time my Illustration work was
pushed into the background, regardless
Of financial consequences. Therefore
il was rather a salutary shock that
cooled my ardor when saw the made up
dolls that by and by came back in I'M
breakable composition from Germany.
Though quite Injured to the calamities
that befah the illustrator in reproduce
ton Of work l was not prepared for this
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She is so dazzling, so adorably FUZZY,
and besides has years OF tradition back
of her claim to he regarded as the
supreme type of doll loveliness.
For my part I frankly declare myself
opposed to F1orabella's claims. think
she reigns by dazzling rather than by
appealing to the affections and am not
sure but she has helped to start many
n little girl out in life with vitiated
taste and false standard of beauty
n as small child myself had no con-
ccption Of comelinsss apart from curl
ing golden hair and staring blue eyes.
whose fault was II. I ask. II not hers?
one would think 1t might have hum
bed the arrogant bcauiy's proud spirit
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l substituted another model, allowing
something for these disconcerting ten
denotes. the result being a decided i'm
provement.
In these early experiences the kind
ness and encouragement shown me by
both importer and domestic manufac-
turer were unbounded. It's something
worth putting down on the optimist
side Of accounts that these gentlemen
Of such unfailing patience and con-
sideration are the two foremost in their
respective fields.
This year my workshop contains
models in the making for bisque. I'M
breakable and celluloid. This last Ii
being beautifully produced now by the
foreign manufacturers, and because of
its light weight is to be preferred in
dolls for the tiny tots.
In a ''baby's baby" ! have aimed at
daintiness and simplicity in appearance.
while the soft body will be easily clutch
able BY wee fingers. The hands are
softly closed fistwise, for nothing about
II will be sharp or heavy enough to
hurt its tiny owner, no matter how reck-
lessly she may bang II about. A comic
doll. being also meant for very little
ones. is built of the same materials.
with a body OF similar design, With it
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somewhat to see how unfailingly the
dazzled recipient OF a Florabella goes
back. once the novelty has worn of. to
the old rag doll. But l fear she belongs
to the "ancien regime" which must be
superseded because 1t cannot change.
But I digress. was saying that
drawing 200 Florabellas Of varied size,
dress and quality could become q bit
wearisome. When the German charac-
ter dolls began to appear on the shelves
how I welcomed them. Sometimes very
homely and never Of the types We
Americans care most for. yet they were
human and appealing. Shortly after
their appearance came the rise Of the
American unbreakable doll at first but
crude limitations OF the homeliest Ger
man models, but soon improving into
something worth notice and really
American in type.
With keen interest I watched every
development. and they came fast. until
finally I felt I could stand 1t no longer.
I must get into the game. For some
time now I had been illustrating. with
children as my speciality, and my
fingers had long been fairly itching to
model them also. II modelling could be
applied to doll work. then I might at
ford to indulge the longing; but how to