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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-06

MO ONE disputes the supremacy OF
IL the American-made shoe, its
shapeliness and style have won it an
undisputed place as the most excel
lent of all footwear. There is no
country, not even France, that has
won such results.
The progressiveness and originality
of American makers Of footwear have
been encouraged by a receptive pub
lie, which has been educated to the
point of being exacting Women
especially, demand so much in the
matter of style in their shoes that
those who lead in manufacturing have
placed before them this season what
might be called CONNECTIONS in foot
wear.
The shoes of today are distinguished
by little odd touches of style in meth
DDS of cutting the leather, and in COM
binations of leather with cloth and
the adoption of two colors in the COM
position of she shoe.
Three pairs of high boots are shown
here which illustrate these individual
touches and set forth the kind of
shoes that are correct for present
wear. AS Fashion has decreed very
short skirts for the street, women are
likely to grow more and more partic-
ular as to the appearance of their
feet.
A pretty boot, called the Ritz, is
made with patent leather vamp and
gray or fawn-colored cloth top. The
front Is stayed with tan leather, and
at the back the patent leather ex-
lends IN shaped stay almost to the
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-06

crippled in the hip, besides receiving
other injuries, l sent him to the dog
hospital for a week and he had the
attention of two veterinaries They
got. him all right except the hip, and
that kept him lame until last week
and seemed to get no better.
1.-TWO weeks ago ! took him up the
state with me-he loves an auto even
IL one did nearly kill him-and one
morning Jim showed up with two
holes gnawed in his ham, one about
six inches lower than the other, over
the affected spot and so situated as
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-06

~s.,assAsT-aAA~ ture, the red cross on
a white sleeveband, the symbol OF
comfort to those who had been denied
the kindly boon of sudden death,
those who had been left wounded and
suffering on the battlefield.
1t is now half century since the
work, begun by Florence Nightingale
during the Crimean war, was incor-
porated and made of international i'm
portance, and the accumulated expert
ence of so years will be none too
great to meet the strain imposed on
the brave women who have gone out
to do more than a soldiers duty. The
nursing of the wounded is the one
great service which woman can per-
form, in times of war, and from all
over the world come the announce
ments of women of rank and wealth
who are eager to learn something of
the hardship imposed by international
strife. In the main, these earnest
pleas for chance to do something
practical and useful are gently but
firmly rejected, since the woman who
makes them would be a hindrance
rather than help.
The requirements for membership
in the Red Cross ranks are excep-
tionally severe. The candidate must
not only be a graduate of a reputable
training school and a registered nurse
in the state in which she is practic-
ing her profession, but she must give
satisfactory evidence that she is
strong, both mentally and physically.
One of the royal leaders who was
accepted for real work was the sec
ond daughter-in-law of the kaiser.
Princess Sophie, who has not only
taken actual training as a nurse. but
who has devoted all her leisure time,
since her marriage, to philanthropic,
and especially hospital work. All the
other princesses have offered their
services; but the best they could do
was that of organizing sewing So
cieties for the making of bandages. to
be sterilized and sent to the war zone.
In Paris, our American novelist, Edith
Wharton, has established an institu.
ton in which the poor women whose
husbands have gone to the war can
earn enough money to keep body and
soul together. Their work is that of
making garments for the soldiers, and
they are paid from funds received by
popular subscription.
One Of the first suggestions, coming
even before Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt and
a score of other expatriated American
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-06

top of the boot. Fawn-colored gu
tiers are the most popular in style
dressy street wear. The Spanish h'
of leather harmonizes with the
mainder Of the boot in character, T
boots with fawn or gray tops are VIC
with all the fashionable colors
street gowns.
A smart boot with cloth top cut
look like gai.er is made in ia
color with black. 1t is fastened wi
small pearl buttons and provided wi
leather Spanish heel Exquisite fin|
in stitching is part Of all the nj
shoes.
A model called the French boot
sembles the Ritz, but is higher q
laces up the front. 1t has sh |
vamp of patent leather and Leaf
Louis heel. The lacing edges
faced back with strip of the pat
leather, making a snowy and eleg
design.
A good, sensible boot. made
durability, is shown with slight ex
sion sole and Cuban heel 1t is sn
in cut and plain in finish, with
at. the back extending to within
inch of the top. Wei kid, calf,
other feathers make this all-lea
model a reliable investment. For
kinds of weather and all kinds
roads it is the best choice.
JULIA BOTTOMLE
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-06

and many of the Red Cross nurses
wear the costume of a sister.
The Russian Red Cross is a state
institution, drawing a large part Of
its funds from the sale of passports.
During the Russo-Japanese war the
organization was unified and made eff
cient, after the fighting had been in
progress long enough to show the
futility of the two branches which bad
| long shown the keenest rivalry.
The Japanese Red Cross came to
the notice of America especially at
I the time of the Russo-Japanese war,
when it was assumed by most of US
on this side of the world that Japan
knew nothing about military nursing.
A corps of trained nurses was organ
lied, under the direction Of woman
| physician of Washington, ship char
| tered and a relief expedition sent to
! Tokyo. The mikado received the
ladies kindly, but informed them that
go back home, since they could not
| be permitted either on the battle
field or in the hospitals. The care
of their wounded was so well pro-
vided for that no outside help could
| be accommodated
In Germany, France and Belgium
! there is another interesting creature
who goes forth in search of the wound
ed, bearing the symbol of neutrality
and humanity 1t is the Red Cross
dog, trained to search for the wound
ed who have fallen into ravines or
are concealed by shrubbery.
OF greater interest to us than the
organizations Of the countries direct
ly involved in the war is the Red
Cross that has developed in the
United States, since the organization,
at the outbreak of the Civil war, of
the sanitary commission. When the
Geneva convention was called our
country was in the throes of the
most cruel war of modern times. AL
though there was a representative OF
the sanitary commission at the Gene
va convention, our government did
not sign the Red Cross treaty, and
in 1871 the American organization
lapsed. Ten years later the American
Association of Red Cross was formed
in Washington with five members
Clara Barton, William Lawrence, 10
seph K Barnes, A. S. Solomons and
Alexander w. f. Garnett. year
later the treaty of Geneva was rati
fed, hut the society was given no off
cial status by congress. Until the out
break of the Spanish-American wal
the society made little progress, and
its activity was confined to LOOKING
after flood sufferers and the victims
of fire, rail and mine disasters.
1t was not until 1905, when the so
ciety was reorganized by congress and
given a distinct place in the affairs
Of the nation, that the Red Cross be
gan to make real strides. Ex-President
Taft did much to establish this valu
able institution in the esteem of the
people, and in no other land has such
progress been made as that w..ch oul
Red Cross can show, as the result OF
nine years of systematic development
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-06

solve i've cupfuls of sugar in a cupful
OF boiling water and cook without stir
ring until it forms a soft ball when
dropped in cold water Add a cupful OF
sweet cream and cook until it hardens
when dropped in water Add a half
teaspoonful of vanilla and turn into a
buttered tin until cool enough to pull.
After pulling cut in pieces and set
away in alright jars to become
creamy.
Another dustless mop which is
rightly recommended is a sugar sack
wet in kerosene and hung out to air for
day, when it will be ready to use.
When visiting or travelling and one
wishes to be unhampered with extra
baggage use a rolled newspaper tied
in the middle with a string to hang
dresses on.
To save a zinc table from becoming
marred with the clamps of a food
chopper put a piece of pasteboard or
a holder under the clamps. 1t saves
the constant slipping, also, which is
very annoying.
When it is necessary to remove wall
paper, go over it with a thin paste
which does not dry out as quickly as
water and the paper will be more east
ly removed.
Strap a small rubber band around
the spools in the basket and keep them
from tangling
To mend lace curtains take a piece
of lace, dip in starch and iron down I'M
til dry, Any rough edges may be
trimmed away and the patch will never
be noticed.
Old lace curtains make fine dish
cloths. Fold and stitch several thick.
nesses together.
Gasoline and -four mixed to a paste
makes fine cleaner for gloves or 9th,
er things needing hard rubbing.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-06
TeEG<-- 1A~,<sssA-.
Quiet and Safe.

Spends Quiet Day in Jail" OBJ
serves a headline. One can be quiet
in Jail. There are no orchestras there
hat insist on playing in the palm
room when one is trying to eat his
Inner. And you can spend whole
lay there without being in danger Of
being run over by motorcycle.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-06

seems nothing in
the house to serve
them and very lit
tie time to pre-
pare anything, 1t
is, indeed, the time
which tries wom-
ems souls. Let the
forehanded woman
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-06
KNEW MORE, THAN THE VETS
Dog Acted as His Own Surgeon After
the Doctors Had Failed to
Effect a Cure.

Medical degrees are not conferred
upon CANNES" remarked II. T. CAL
pin, owner of the lifesaving Great
Dane, jim, but if they were my dog
jim ought to have one, summa cum
laude.
when Jim was struck by big
automobile some months ago and
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-06

One thousand five hundred persons
ire killed and FIVE thousand are in.
Iured each year as a result of fires
n the United States.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-06

to act as a drain. They were not
good to look at, but Jim was in bet.
ter spirits than usual and within two
days he was walking almost as good
as new, and now the wounds have
healed and guess it won't be much
longer before his leg is all right.
He did what the vets couldn't do.
or didn't do, and just how he knew
how to do it is more than can tell
you."-New York Press.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-06

Your mind will be all the better for
not running on one point continually.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-06

There are over fifty thousand
in the secondary schools of ]
studying English as q part Of
course.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-06

There is perhaps no profession, how
ever useful no pursuit, however meri-
torious, which can escape the petty
attacks of vulgar minds.-Dickens.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-06
HURRY-UP DISHES.

When the unexpected company
oops down upon you and there
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-06

amount. Cut the skein
In three parts, and put
1t into a good mop ham
die. Oil it well and you
have a floor mop which
will answer every .pur-
pose at a third of the
cost of a patented one.
Cream Candy. - Dis.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-06
THEM1cHEN
0ABlNED

The word OF a gentleman Is as good
as his bond-sometimes better.
Love though said to be afflicted with
blindness, is a viglant watchman.-
Dickens.
Every man has a right, undoubted
hight, to regulate his own proceedings
by his own likings and dislilkings. pro-
vidtng they affect no one else.-Dick-
ems.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-06
THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

Buy a skein or two Of the coarse
heavy yarn which sells for a small
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-06

The United States makes the steel
pens for about fifty countries.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-06

HEN the first shock of
an unexpected war had
abated a little the mind
of the world turned for
relief to the one bright
spot in the dreary pic
ture, the red cross on
New-York tribune., 1914-11-29
WHEN MOTHERS TAUGHT IN THE HOMES
If They Could Teach in the Good Old Days." Why
Not Now, in This Age of Specialization?

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Every now and then writes let
ter 20 newspaper which says in effect: why
should married women who, presumably, have hus-
bands TO support them. be allowed to enter the
mercial world and take bread from the mouths OF
poor, needy, unmarried women The recent
teacher mother controversy has brought number of
such letters.
Ages ago. when civilization was young. the family
home, self-sustaining and produced nearly
everything necessary for its needs-food, cloth
ing shelter and even education.
AS civilization grew 1t was found (curousy
enough that some persons we're better fitted to
make clothing and some to teach.
People began TO specialize, each producing that
thing which he she could produce best. Gradually
groups of people producing the same thing (be il
clothing or educaton) drew together and utilized the
same building for their labor building houses
for that industry which wont to call
factories Thus many of the industries taken
from the home and more economically admins
tered What natural essential than
that part Of the people who had done this work
in the home should follow il into the factory where
conditions and facilities although by no means as
good they should be- better for this produc-
tion than the home?
The making of garments and the education Of chill
dren were labors which usually fell upon the women
in those good old days" Education especially fell
to the lot Of the mother Of the children Why, then
when education has been carried TO the factori.s
which we term Schools" and every industry is AT
high stage of specialization why, ! repeat should
not part of the follow it, and those who are
fitted for the work continue to prosecute it in the
fairly sanitary and pleasant schools? The married
women of the old day produced wealth by saving the
expenditure for clothing and education, yet one
claimed they taking the food from the unmar.
ried women's mouths! In place of the goods which
they produced then we are now giving them pieces
of metal called money wherewith to purchase othe,
things besides the thing they produce; a neces-
sary medium of exchange in specialized system.
Yet the unmarried woman feels that something
is being taken from her Why, pray? II we accept
the social and industrial conditions of oday land
most Of us must though may not think them
righO must accept the industrial revolution"
which has taken the married we'll as unmarried
woman from the home into the garment factory and
the school | hold brief for woman suffrage
which is matter between man and woman. but as
between and woman | believe in equal rights!
New York, Nov 26, 1914. 4. L. BuRDICK
New-York tribune., 1914-11-29
The Trouble with 4 Progressives.

Whether the ProgreSsives soemnly commit harl-
kari at Chicago next Wednesday or just wander of
and starve to death. there isn't much doubt abroad
that the party which began so militantly IN l9l2
has come TO an inglorious end. 1t may struggle
along in some states, but the struggle Will be n
losing one. Professional politicians of both the
old parties demonstrated their knowledge of hu-
man nature by predicting many months ago that
no "one-man party" could endure. Mr.. Amos
Pinchot. who soon found that the reformers them
selves needed reforming, diagnosed the trouble as
a case of endeavoring to be all things to all men
something not even a Rooseveltan political en-
tourage can accomplish successfully. Both esti-
mates are true, and the two make the sum of the
truth regarding the present state of the party.
Even Colonel Roosevet's great popularity was
not enough to keep a national party going after
the first flush of indignation at the "outrages" of
1912 had died away. Then came all the great
campaign against "the invisible government" and
for social Justice including woman suffrage.
This was fne-if it had been real. But the cam
paign against the invisible government Tin this
state, at least) proceeded on the good old polit-
cal lines, and save in the matter of protestatons,
the difference between the Progressives and the
older parties was as between tweedledum and
tweededee.
They had their Big Boss and their sub-bosses.
If they didn't have corporation financial backing
they had an "angel" who was no novice in that
method of influencing political action. They
landed few jobs for the active job seekers and
had hundreds of bitter jealouses and wrangles
over preferment, just like a real party. And
somehow in all this politics. the campaign for So
cial justice got lost, and the voters realized that
it had got lost.
screaming radicalism. The Progressive party
wasn't very radical. If it had been there would
now be no question about the manner of its OBJ
sequies.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-29
The Stock Exchange Reopens.

Four months almost to the day, the Stock Ex-
change remained closed. -Four months in which
history galoped along and events shaped them
selves almost too fast for understanding to follow
them. On that July morning when the governors
of the exchange could find no alternative but to
keep the doors of their institution closed if the
ruin of half the Street were to be averted, it was
black future, indeed, that showed itself
With Europe liquiGating its securities here in
Niagara before the war was even begun it was
hard to believe that the peril of panic could be
at any time less so long as the war lasted Pre-
dictions that the exchange would remain closed
until the middle Of next year were based upon
predictions that the war itself would continue
that long, and extensions of the war and of the
closing period were expected to keep pace.
Now the exchange is open again. The doors
have yet TO swing wide it is true, and the
trading, confined TO bonds, is still in leading
strings. But the exchange is open, and that is
the significant thing; all the more so because of
the caution with which the first steps have been
taken. And there has been no deluge Against
that the authorities of the exchange in part pro-
vided, but the changed attitude of investors both
here and abroad did more
Between dealings in bonds under restrictions
and dealings in stocks, likewise under restrictions
there is no great gulf. There might have been
had not sentiment changed and confidence grown
rapidly under the stimulus of such things as
the recent election, the opening of the Federal
Reserve banks and the splendid handling of the
foreign exchange market. As it is, Wall Street
has reason to expect a gradual but steady return
to the activity and opportunities of normal times
For that the rest Of the country will fee hardly
less satisfaction than does the Street itself.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-29
THE MINIMUM WAGE
What Follows in Its Train Arouses a
Reader to Doubt.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Hearty commendation is due
The Tribune for maintaining "An Open
Forum for Public Debate" Some Of
our papers will not publish a commu-
nication unless it comedies with the
EDITORS view. The topic | wish to dis
cuss is the minimum wage, concern
ing which The Tribune had something
TO say editorially in the issue of No.
vember 25. Will the editor or some
one well yersed in Jurisprudence kindly
inform me as 70 these points:
First Does not the right TO estab-
lish a minimum wage presuppose the
right 20 establish maximum wage?
Second--Does the right 70 establish
a minimum and a maximum wage pre-
suppose an equal right 10 establish an
intermediate wage? In fact, all wages
Some profound thinkers aver that
wages are properly based on efficiency
and are modified by the immutable law
OF supply and demand; moreover, that
any Legislation subyersive Of the in
herent right Of employer and employe
20 agree or disagree upon matters Of
compensation without interference by
third party is most unwise leglSla-
tion. WILLIAM WEST.
New York, Nov. q, 1914.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-29
tuberculosis Week.

tuberculosis Week, period for impressng on
the community the need for hitting this dread
disease begins to-day. This is a community mat
te- in its essence for so long as the community
permits conditions 60 exist which breed tubercu-
losis reccptveneSs in individuals, individuals VIII
acquire the White Plague and die of it. For that
reason it is an encouraging sign that less empha-
sis this year is to be laid on building sanatoriums
and more on proper housing and economic cond-
tions.
All the Sanatoriums which public and private
charity could build in year would not cure the
cases of consumption produced in that length OF
time by the effect of tenement dwelling on over
worked, underpaid and undernourished factory
workers. tuberculosis can best be fought by pre-
venting it, When there are no "old style tene-
ments and no greedy employers who overwork and
underpay their employees, there will not be much
of a tuberculosis problem, and the sanatoriums
can be turned into summer resorts for the work
ers That's the important lesson of tuberculosis
Week II ought to strike home
New-York tribune., 1914-11-29
VERA CRUZ AND ITS LESSON
Europe's Quarrel Easy to Understand
After Our Bloody Invasion of Mexico.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A constant reader of The
Tribune is puzzled over the action Of
the United States at Vera Cruz. Was
not that city seized because Huerta
refused TO give twenty-one salutes TO
our flag on account Of the arrest of
some Of our marines who trespas sed
ignorantly on military preserve ?
And yet Huerta was not the law
full head of the Mexican people,
but only usurper to be cast OUT
Did not Huerta release our men and
make an explanation or apology? And
did not Congress back President Will
son in his position with an appropria-
tion OF S50,OO0,0O0?
Thus we were brought close 70 war,
and had Mexico been anything of a
match for us we would have preci pi-
tated a conflict whose length and cost
in men and money might have been
enormous. As It was, the action cost
the lives of about twenty of our boys
and OF many more of the Mexican
people, besides millions OF dollars eX-
pense. II we came SO near 10 bloody
and expensive war. under such trivial
circumstances, comparatively speaking,
can we wonder that the nations of
Europe. so closely packed together
and with many rival interests, become
embroiled in war?
The whole proceeding is a lesson of
warning TO the American people that
we ever keep calm and put forth no
unwise action in dealing with other
nations. JOHN X. JONES.
Metuchen, y. j., Nov. %, 1914.