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The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-11-26
MASS MEETING TO BE HELD
FRIDAY EVENING
TO DISCUSS THE UNEMPLOYED
PROBLEM

A meeting of the unemployed of Ev-
erett will be held in the Socialist hail.
1912 California street, Friday evening
at 8 p. m, November 27. The meet
ing will be held to discuss ways and
means of solving the unemployed
problem of this city. Everybody will
be welcome. Platform will be open
to any one who has a plan to suggest
in aid of unemployed.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-11-26
SOME VERSES AND
A HANDKERCHIEF

Comrade Ella K Stone sends us a
beautiful embroidered handkerchief
for our social, the design of which
carrier us back many years. With
characteristic aptness she appends a
short rhyme:
What will you give
Chat our paper may live)
For this embroidered kerchief of silk?
Tho quaint of design,
(Of a now long-gone time)
1t surely should not prove blk.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-11-26
OVER 1000 IDLE
MEN IN EVERETT

Jack Retlaw, an expert in relief
work, finds that from 1000 to 1000
men are unemployed in Everett. Jack
has been here for several days study
ing the unemployed problem.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-11-26

Christmas will soon be here You'd
better let the home folks know your
alive. Send them a photo made at
the MYERS STUDIO.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-11-26
THE WISH

Who buys this, buys the wish from me
That he shall battle valiantly,
To end the rule of greed and stealth,
And usher in the commonwealth
Where war and want shall plague no
more,
But peace and plenty bless each door;
Where truth shall teach and justice
reign,
And freedom burst each captive's
chain. L. ]. d.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-11-26

The best Coffee for the money is
our Favorite Blend, lbs. for $1O0 or
11A lbs. for 80 cents M. H. Clausen,
1912 Rockefeller. Telephones 581.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-11-26
ORGANIZATION NEWS
COMRADE Elk MAYOR DUN
CAN INSPIRED BY HAND
KERCHIEF SOCIAL IN
EVERETT

Butte, Mont, Nov. IS, 1914.
To the Women's Committee, Local
Everett No. E, Everett, Wash.
Yes, comrades dear, of Everett,
send a handkerchief, you bet;
And hope that II will reach, by gosh!
Some Henry Dubb who lives in
Wash
For when II reaches Henry's nose,
IT'S certain that some good hard
blows
win clear his head. This may as
sist
TO make the Dubb a Socialist
But should this kerchief from these
dlggins
Be purchased for some Jimmy Hig-
gins,
This, also, would the doner suit
A fitting link, 'twould be with Butte.
For Jimmy, there as here, | ween
Has need to keep his flues real clean.
The fuller, freer breath he draws,
The ADLER fights he for The Cause.
Perchance some pampered bourgeois
beak
This linen fine Is doomed to tweak,
Or haply, some begrimed proboscis,
OF proletarian genus, the nose is.
AS Hamlet says AYE, there's the
rub"
But, turned-up, aquiline, or snub
Boots not the nose unless the owner
Fulfills the wish send-The Doner.
II EyVJS I nIrNrAN
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-08-14
SMALL TOWNS SHOW DECLINE
While the Country Increases In Popu-
Iatlon Small Places Have Lost
Many Residents.

A striking warning that the towns
are losing their population more rap
idly than the open country was sound
ed at the twenty-sixth annual conven-
ton in Kansas City of the Southwest
ern Lumbermen's association, the Sur
vey states. The organization COM
prise 1000 retail dealers in Arkansas
Missouri. Oklahoma and Kansas.
Nine states were cited in which
6,956 towns lost population, while the
population of the whole country in
creased 81 per cent. Out of 277
county seats in these nine states. 217,
or nearly 28 per cent, lost population,
although they are the political, admin
istrative and business centers OF pop
ulation.
This decline of the town is greatest
in the richest and most thickly settled
parts of the nine states. Wisconsin
lost population in BAG towns, Missouri
in $40, Iowa in 564. Indiana in $50.
Michigan in SIT, New York in TAG, Illi-
nois in 1888, Ohio in 1.136, Pennsylva
MIA in 1920.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-08-14

never had been so happy! In Ber-
lin we went about like two children.
1t was play. He brought me to the
Opera and took me away; and we had
the most charming little suppers. l
never wrote you or mother because
wished to surprise you"
you have. Go on"
Il had never paid much attention
to Flora Desimone, though knew that
she was Jealous of my success. Sew
eral times caught her looking at Ed
ward in way | did not like"
"She looked 50 HIM. huh?"
1T was the laaf rorformance of the
season. We weI married that after
noon. We did not want anyone to
know about it. was not to leave
the stage until the end of the follow
ing season. We we're staying at the
same hotel with rooms across the cor
ridor. This was much against his
wishes. but prevailed"
Il see."
Our rooms were opposite, as said.
After the performance that night l
went to mine to complete the final
packing. We were TO leave at one
for the Tyrol. Father, saw Flora
Desimone come out of his room"
Harrigan shut and opened his hands.
do you understand l saw her.
She was laughing. l did not see him.
My wedding night She came from
his room. My heart stopped. the
world stopped. everything went black.
All the stories that | had read and
heard came back. When he knocked
at my door l refused to see him.
never saw him again until that night
In Paris when he forced his way into
my aRartment."
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-08-14
FOrehanded Beetles.

Several farmers we're sitting around
the fire in the country inn and telling
how the potato pests had got into
their crops. Said one:
Them pests ate my whole crop in
two weeks"
Then another spoke up;
"They ate my crop in two days and
then sat around on the trees and
waited for me to plant more"
Here a commercial traveller for a
seed house broke in:
well, boys" he said, that may be
so, but I'll tell what I saw in our
own warehouse. saw four or FIVE
beetles examining the books about a
week before planting time 70 see, who
had bought seed"
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-08-14
HAVE FIGURES OF ATHLETES
American Business Men Of Today Far
Better Proportloned Than Those
Of a Generation Ago.

THE American man, the American
business man OF forty or forty-five, has
got new shape" said a tailor. Hes
got a lean, straight shape-full chest
narrow hips. But If you could have
seen him generation ago!
1.-THE business man of forty expected
to be fat and soft a generation ago. He
rather admired, in fact, fat, soft
shape. The richest business men were
fat and soft-and that made fashion
of it-just as Queen Alexandra's lame
ness made a limp fashionable in Vic
torian times.
What stomachs our fathers had at
forty or forty-five! Feather-bed
stomachs which they balanced by bend
ing backward. A big stomach was a
sign of success, sign of gentility. II
you were lean, why, you must be a
laborer-perhaps you didn't get
enough to eat.
What is the cause Of the slender,
agile figures of today? Open air and
exercise-that's the cause. Golf is the
cause. Motoring is the cause.
"My friend" the tailor impressively
ended, my books show that the mid
dle-aged business man of today Is
four inches bigger around the chest
than the middle-aged business man of
1890, and Is inches smaller around the
stomach"
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-08-14
DIDN'T KNOW THE COLONEL
Steward Thought Cigars Had Roose-
Velt's Endorsement and Therefore
Must Be Good.

William H. Childs, a leader Of the
Progressive party. has yacht called
Joyance. 1t was this yacht that went
out to meet Colonel Roosevelt when
he came back from Spain few weeks
ago. The other day Childs had anoth-
or guest aboard the Joyance. After
dinner the steward, recent recruit,
brought cigars. Guest and host helped
themselves and each lighted up.
my goodness" said Childs. as he
drew the first Whit, "where'd you get
these cigars?"
II get 'em from de sto, sub"
what did you pay for them?"
81 give six cents apiece To- UNI, sub"
Childs tossed his weed over the side.
Didn't tell you to buy good cigars"
he asked, disgustedly.
"Yassuh, you did, suh-you sholy
did. / thought these was pretty good
cigars, sub. give one to Cun'l Roose-
welt, sub, an he put it in his pocket"
For the reinsurance of those who
do not know, 1t may be remarked that
the colonel is not a smoker.-New
York Evening Post.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-08-14

worst scoundrel in the world instead
of the dearest lover, the patientestI
All, can you forgive me-"
Forgive you, Nora7" He wac
numb.
Il am a miserable wretchI doubt
ed you. II When all had to do was
to recall the way people misrepresent.
ed things | had donel sent back
your letters and read and re.
read the old blue ones. Don't you
remember how you used to write them
on blue paper? Flora told me
everything. 1t was only because she
hated me, not that she cared anything
about you. She told me that night
at the ball. She was at the bottom
of the abduction. When you kissed
me didn't you know that !
kissed you back. Edward. am a miser
able wretch but l shall follow you
wherever you go, and l haven't even
a vanity box in my handbag!" There
were tears in her eyes. Say that |
am a wretch"
He drew her up beside him. His
arms closed around her so hungrily.
so strongly, that she gasped little
He looked into her eyes; his glance
travelled here and there over her face,
searching for the familiar dimple al
one corner of her mouth.
Moral" he whispered.
kiss mel"
And then the train came to stand,
jerkily. They fell back against the
cushions.
"Lecco!" cried the guard through
the window.
They laughed like children.
81 bribed him." she said gaily. "And
now :"
Eyes, and now2" eagerly. If still be-
wildered.
Let's go back!"
THE END.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-08-14

have laid me cold. used to laugh.
Well, guess they were right. Court
landt's got the stiffest kick ever ran
intos A pile driver, and II he had landed
on my jaw, It would have been dormi
bene as you say when you bid me good
night in dago. That's all right now
until tomorrow. | want to talk to
you. Draw up a chair. There! AS
said, I've never caught you in a lie,
but find that you've been living a lie
for two years. You haven't been
square to me, nor to your mother, nor
to the chaps that came around and
made love to you. You probably
didn't look at 1t that way, but there's
the fact. I'm not Paul Pry; but acci-
dentally came across this" taking
the document from his pocket and
handing 1t to her. READ 1t. What's
the answer"
Nora's hands trembled.
Takes you a long time to read It.
Is It true?"
yes"
And 1 went up to the tennis court
with the intention of knocking his
head of; and now I'm wondering why
he didn't knock of mine. Nora. he's
a man; and when you get through with
this, I'm going down to the hotel and
apologize"
"You viii do nothing Of the sort;
not with that eye."
"All right. l was always worried
for fear you'd hook up with some duke
you'd have to support. Now, want
to know how this chap happens to
be my son-in-law. Make 1t brief, for
/ don't want to get tangled up more
than is necessary"
Nora cracked the certificate in her
fingers and stared unseeingly at It
for some time. Il met him first in
Rangoon." she began slowly, without
raising her eyes.
when you went around the world
on your own?"
Eyes. Oh, don't worry. l was al
ways able to take care of myself"
IAN Irish idea," answered Harrigan
complacently.
II loved him. father, with all my
heart and soul. He was not only big
and strong and handsome, but he was
kindly and tender and thoughtful.
Why, l never knew that he was rich
until after l had promised to be his
wife. When learned that he was the
Edward Courtlandt who was always
getting into the newspapers, laughed.
There were stories about his esca-
pades. There were innuendoes re.
garding certain women, but I put
them out Of my mind as twaddle. All,
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-08-14

Quite Appropriate.
my dear, that cap is perfect riot
of color"
well, why not? It's a mob cap"
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-08-14

Love brings the parson in, but only
common sense will keep the divorce
Judge out.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-16
HOW BRITISH HAND
OUT WAR NEWS

While what meagre news OF the war
the public is getting, is given out by
the war offices inParis, Berlin and
Petrograd (St Petersburg), the Brit
isn government has established a spec
ial department for the dissemination
of such information as the authorities
think the people should have. This is
known as the Press Bureau and is
jointly maintained and supervised by
the war office and the admiralty.
The Press Bureau is the clearing
house for contemporary history
Through the modest upper rooms of a
ramshackle building in Whitehall
passes news that may thrill the world
But the world rarely learns the news.
In modern warfare most news is con
traband, and experts from the Admir-.
ality and the war office sit day and
night and estreat information CLEANED
at considerable expense and some per
sonal danger.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-16

Mirrors help make a room brighter
and reflect the light. We are just be-
ginning to use decorative screens ad-
vantageously. The new screens in
Period, lacquer wood or other designs
give cosy touch about the fireplace
and are used to partition off certain
space or to shut off drafts.
Plan your home so that convenience,
comfort and cheerfulness are your
watchwords. Purchase each article only
after it has stood the required tests of
convenience, utility and beauty.
THE LIVING ROOM
has become the most important room in
the house, and is probably frequented
by a greater number of persons than
any other and should be furnished with
this fact in mind.
The owners personality should be
strongly apparent in this room and the
surroundings ought to diffuse a welcom-
ing air of hospitality, relaxation and
comfort. Comfort is evinced in window
seats, easy chairs and rockers, large,
roomy davenport in front of an open
fireplace, tables for different purposes
and whatever will add to the comfort of
the different members of the family
Antique mahogany is favored for the
living room and it is quite the fad now
to have the red mahogany re6nished in
the duller hue The various English
Periods are adaptable for use in the
living room, but it may interest you to
know that there is not such a rigid adj
herence to any special Period. England
France, Spain and Italy often contribute
to the furnishing of one room. Period
furniture is usually named after the
time in which it was first used or some
times after the person who designed it,
Cane and wood are used extensively
Even the radiators are sometimes hid
den by cane and wood frames Uphol-
stored furniture with loose cushions ex-
presses both comfort and elegance
Pushes, velours, mohairs, brocades
striped velvets and tapestries which
blend with the general color scheme
come in multitude of new patterns.
An unusual type of Mission furniture
is built on more graceful lines than the
ordinary examples. 1t is termed ere
fined Mission" The English Manor
furniture is a recent addition to the al
ready numerous designs. Black is used
to great extent. No room seems quite
complete without touch of black
Dutch designs, in strong and substan-
tial patterns, come in wide and at
tractive variety.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-16

New carpets in tile effects in black
and white combined with vivid colOrs are
used with Modern Art furniture Pulled
linen shades are used, but hangings,
arranged with pulleys, to exclude or to
let in the light, have in many instances
eliminated shades Velvet hangings
adorned with silver or gold galoon hang
straight to the floor, but a valance is
nearly always added. Black net curtains
appliqued in white are about the last
word in window hangings. Domestic
chintzes, hand blocked French linens,
cretonnes, taffetas, and soft silks in high
colors give sense of warmth and rich
ness to the ROOM
From China and from Germany come
a wealth of curtain fabrics. Marquisette,
very satisfactory because of its dura-
bl;ty, is woven in squares, stripes and
all-over patterns. Curtains suggestive of
German influence are appropriate for
certain rooms. Plain bobbinet with silk
overhangings is very smart window
treatment Scrim, embellished with
Cluny and Venetian point, for motifs,
never seems to lose its popularity.
There is growing vogue for colored
curtains and panel effects.
Curtains of artificial silk, toile de Jouy,
flake wolfe; easement window materials
all come in a perfection of lovely pat
terms. The Madras, which has some
patterns on heavy black warp, recalls
to us the style of twenty years back,
which proves that thing has only to be
old enough to be considered new.
A convenient card table, with four
chairs which fit underneath the table,
takes up little space and is an acquisition
to the living room.
A table which may be developed in
two parts and used as two consoles
against the wall or as table, is another
novelty. An exact replica of an old Eng
lish knitting table, with four secret
compartments, is Of mahogany; small
mahogany standard in the center of the
table supports a large revolving basket
formed of wooden strips. A tea table,
which has various uses, is fitted with a
removable tray which can be tilted
against the wall when not in use.
For the smokers there is small round
table with an adjustable reading lamp.
This may serve different needs and
comes in old English Period design.
A telephone stand in triangular shape
with stool to fit underneath, stand
ing book-holder with sections for books
and flower boxes in unique shape are
The ''chaise Tongue" with large, loose
cushions is for Use in the living room as
we'll as in the bedroom
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-16
The Lure Of Artware and amps

Itarsia desk sets, smoking sets, book
racks and other articles come from India.
The wood is inlaid with similar metal
and is a revival of old metal work.
These pieces harmonic well with walnut
wood.
Nature plaques are glass plaques
mounted in sterling silver. Between the
upper and lower glasses, Theoretically
! sealed, are gorgeous butterflies from
India, arranged on background OF
The result is indescribably beautiful.
Bronze book racks with symbolic fig
ures are among the valuetul offerings
for the library.
The selection and placing of lamps
form an important part of the decorative
scheme of a room. Often a room looks
uninviting and cold in appearance until
the soft, warm glow and glimmer1ng
illumination of the lamp transforms its
monotony into home-like appeal.
Some interesting pottery lamps have
hand decorated silk shades matching the
design of the base, and finished with
fringe and tassels.
A stunning gilded carved standard was
used for the base of Tudor shaped
frame. Instead of silk, brocaded velvet
in sapphire blue on tinsel background
was used. 1t was ornamented with gold
tassels and fringe.
A recently imported antique mahog-
any lamp has figured silk shade which
is finished with fringe of large wooden
beads, each strand tipped with an amber
bead. The bead fringe promises to sup
plant the silk fringe as a finish for
shades.
Dainty Dresden figures hold up lamp
which has an old-world enchantment
about it. The silk shade takes its pat
tern from the base and is in quaint
Dresden design.
A lamp of decorated black lacquer,
topped by Japanese print shade is sur
prisingly reasonable in price.
A silver urn, long treasured as an
heirloom, was used as standard for a
brilliant red shade. Silver gimp out
lined the hand decorated panels of this
shade and produced an enhancing effect.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-16
THE DINING Room

The Adams style prevails for the din
ing room, though other Periods are used
The new sideboards are versions of the
older styles and often a serving table
does duty as a sideboard. The square
table is gradually coming into vogue.
AS dancing is such universal diversion
in these days table with a removable
top is an excellent feature, for the room
can be cleared and used for social pur-
poses.
The Jacobean gate-leg table, with legs
at both ends, has two legs which remain
in the center and bear up the table when
more leaves are added. The chairs are
often upholstered in tapestry or plain or
striped fabrics and have high backs.
A clever idea is to make the radiator
into a warming cupboard by adding two
shelves and two doors, SO that the food
may be kept warm. A marble slab on
the radiator will also serve to heat the
dishes.
A Chippendale tea table for afternoon
tea has spaces in the wood for the plates
Success in the dining room arrange
ment is not so much dependent upon the
money spent as upon the originality and
good taste of the home-maker. The
flowers, hangings and silverware go a
great way in the decorative scheme
About the dining room there should be
that highly desirable air of nominees tina,
goes so far to make it place of sincere
hospitality and cheer.
CHAMBER FURNISHINGS
The bedroom, more than any other
room, should possess a personal touch
that reflects the taste of the owner. An
abundance of light and good ventilation
are prime requisites.
Satin wood is used in some of the
finest bed-chamber sets this season
Painted sets, with panellings adorned
with stripes or flowery designs, are
among the more satisfactory sets. An
ivory enameled set with pretty garlands
of flowers was equipped with ivory
handles. This was used in a room with
gold and blue hangings. The rug was OF
old gold with black border. Cushion:
and lamp shades repeated the gold anc
blue in their designs.
Light blue is good color for the
bed room The blue walls will gain in
character if green and blue rug is used
A light enaInelled set with cane panel
lings and a pretty blue and green flow
cred chintz for the hangings contribute
TO the furnishing of charming but in
extensively contrived room.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-16
TROOPS OF INDIA
FIGHT FOR ENGLAND

The throwing by England Of thous-
ands of her Indian fighters into France
to combat Germany and the importa-
ton of French African troops into the
field, have given amazing aspect to
the international war. Germany now
is opposing English, French, Belgians,
Russians, Hindus and Africans
The remarkably short time after the
beginning of war in which the British
Indian troops were seen crossing Can
ada from the Pacific to the Atlantic,
astonished the Germans. 1t indicated
thai the Asiatic soldiers were on their
way about the same instant that war
was formally declared in Great Brit
ain.
England, if necessary, can pour into
France from India, 23S, 900 trained
men, Of which $4,000 are trained Brit
ish troops, including some of the crack
regiments of the Royal Army, the re-
mainder being native Indian soldiers,
fit comrades on the firing line of
Frances Purcos and Spahis.
Distinct traces of light have been
detected in the ocen at depths Of more
than three thousand feet by an English
oceanographical expedition.