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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-30
IF "a FULL HOUSE" WAS A PHOTOPLAY

Like all other stage successes, "A Fun
House" a0aI probably be made into q
motion picture some day. Anticipating
this probability, the Evening Ledger sent
fts Diotfe ezperf 20 see thas farce, Goith
instructions 10 prepare q scenario. He
declared, on his return, that the action OF
the farce at times too rapid euen for
the camera; but he did his best, aud here
is the result
SCENE Mrs FIeming's apartment
on Riverside drive. New York. Mr.. Flem-
ing decides TO go to Europe on business
and Mrs. Fleming decides to sublet her
apartment while she is rusticating on
Long Island during her husbands Rb-
sence.
SCENE miss WinnicRer's cott8ge az
Honkers- George Howell a young law
yer, asks Ottilie Charters to marry him
at once. in spite of their two weeks ac-
auaintance. Miss Winnicker. Ottiles
aunt, objects 10 the speedy wedding, but
Howell has his way.
SCENE 3--MHs. Flemings apartment.
The newly-wed Howells arrive and are
shown the apartment They admire and
rent it, taking possession at once and
assuming responsibility for the servants
Parlles, an English butler, and Susie, a
housemaid who has strayed to New York
from the wiids of Sioux City, and whose
one longing desire is 10 get back TO that
Western metropolis.
CLOSE UP-Susie studying the C, b.
and Q. time table as a race-track fiend
studies his dope" chart. Takes quar-
ter out of her pocket, adds it to sum OF
money IN another pocket and wonders
how soon she will have saved the neces-
sary $3.50 for a scalp ticket to Sioux
City.
SCENE 4-Grand Central Station, New
for Boston. Ned Pembroke is saving
good-by 10 Vera Vernon, beauty of
the chorus
SCENE 5-Howell's law office Ned
Pembroke appeals TO Howell to go to
Boston and secure the love letters writ
ten by him to Vera Vernon the show
girl. Ned desires 10 propose TO Daphne
Charters, but fears Vera will make use
of the ardent letters he had written her
and start a suit. Howell objects. not
wishing 10 leave his wife the day after
the wedding. but Ned finally wins him
over.
SCENE 6-Ars. FIcming's apartment
Having packed his grip, Howell bids his
bride a fond good-by. He has told her
he is going 20 Cleveland on business, as
he desires to keep his mission a secret.
SCENE 7-Cafe of the Touraine Hotel,
Boston Howell and Vera seated at a
table. Howell pretends TO make love to
the show girl. finally extracting Neds
letters from her handbag.
SCENE S-Boudoir OF Mrs. John PEN
broke, Beacon street. Boston Mrs. Penn
broke, returning from the DE Lancey
ball. has placed her famous ruby neck
lace In her dresser and has retired Mich
olss King, burglar, appears In door.
With a dark lantern, he searches the
premises and finally secures the necklace,
valued at $4,000, and quietly departs.
SCENE South Station. Boston. mid
night. Nicholas King, carrying a large
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FEW TRUE BLOODHOUNDS
WE'RE USED I'M SOUTH

original trail and make fresh at
tempt to follow it..
The pure bloodhound was never nu-
merous even in the far southern and
devoted mainly to the culture of sugar.
cotton and rice. The bloodhound was
rather rare in Virginia and Maryland.
The common dog on the farms of the
Potomac river country and the com
mon hound throughout the south was Il
big black and tan. that. while neither d
pure foXhOund nor pure deerhound,
WIS trained both to running fox and
deer aud was also used for following
he scent of fugitive slaves, though
there was little man tracking by dogs
in the territory tributary to Washing
ton. Fugitive slaves were usually re
captured. if at oil, by means of ad-
vertisements in the newspapers, giving
a description of the runaway and Of
ferinC a reward for his apprehension
Runaway white indentured servants
We're advertised for in the same way
. The true deerhound is near de-
scendant of the bloodhound. has the
general conformation of the grey
hound or the Russian wolfhound, and
has rough hair coat. The true fox
hound is well known. there being a
number of packs around Washington
and many fine types of this very intel
ligent dog are owned in Washington.
He is derived from the bigger and
heavier hounds. but has been bred for
speed. endurance and dash. Harrers
and beagles. the favorite hare and rab-
bit dogs. are small foXhoundS. with
some variations in type
The big black and tan hound COM
mon throughout the south is com
promise among these hounds. Some
times and i'll some places he is called u
bloodhound. or deerhound, or foXhound.
He is a kindly dog with a keen sense
of smell, and he can be trained to fol-
low the trail of anything. He is AN in
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FNHE bloodhound is given more of
II the i!mcliGht of publicity in
the American press than is his
due either by reason of his num-
berS and ability or his lmpor-
tance as u tracer of criminals. The
sheriff : posse and its bloodhounds are
about Us prominent i'll the news from
places where crime has been committed
as are th" ycggmen who blow open the
post office safe and escape on hand
car. y great many men have been
Killed on the evidence of the blood
hound. and to men familiar with the
bloodhound and the various other
hounds aud mongrel dogs that arc
called lloodhoundS the evidence fur
nIShcd by these dogs does not seem
w"iGhty enough to warrant the taking
Of mans life.
Bloodhound" is u word that is often
misused. There has been for many
centuries a dog of that breed, but the
race is not numerous. The Encyclo-
paeuia Britannica. in the chapter on dogs
and under the heading of hounds" "
says:
These are large dogs. hunting by
smell, with massive structure, large
dropping ears and usually smooth
coats, without fringe of hair on the
ears. limbs or tail. The bloodhound is
probably the stock from which all the
English races of hounds have been de-
rived The chief characteristic is the
ma @nificent head, narrow and domelike
between the huge pendulous ears, and
with transverse Fuckers on the fore
head and between the eyes. The pre-
Vailing color is tan, with large black
spots RioodhoundS or, they are
sometimes termed. sleuth hounds. have
been employed since the time of the
Romans in pursuing and hunting down
human beings. and small variety,
known as the Cuban bloodhound. prob
ably of Spanish origin. used to
track fugitive negroes in slaveh olding
times. BloodhoundS quest slowly and
carefully. and when they lose the scent
cast backward until they recover the
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efforts of AN American woman. Mrs
Clara Washington Lopp. The second
shipment is TO go abroad soon, if il has
not already gone. and in ono of these
shipments it WIS arranged to send a
ease of 3.00u good cigars to Cen Joffre
and Albert. KING of tho Belgians.
The fonduess for and need of toba eco
felt by the soldiers is, of course. under
stood by every man who smokes. 1t
would seem that the pipe. the cigar and
the cigarette have not altogether stified
the physical manhood of Europe and
destroyed the nervous system, or given
Il palpItating heart to all men who use
the weed, because those fighting men
III Europe must have steady nerves and
strong hearts. An expert writer on the
subject of troops and tobacco said:
The smoking of tobacco offers relief
to the nervous tension of men under
continuous fire. 1t serves to pass the
days and nights of lull and dampness
pangS of hunger when inceSSant action
or swift marching makes the commits
Sdri;t temporarily unavailable. And il
serves TO smother the odor which now
arises from every field and farm and
wood in northern France and Belgium.
No army takes the field these days
without the tobacco supply being as
carefully planned for as amy other
The spread of the tobacco habit
throughout the world has been more
general than the spread of the coffee.
tea and sugar habits. 1t may be tina,
tn" people of the far east smoked a
tobacco thousands of Years ago, but
Europe. and probably all the rest of
the world, was introduced to tobacco
after the discovery of America. The
use of tobacco in its various forms was
universal among tn" natives of America
from Hudson bay to Cape Horn at the
time of the coming of the first Euro
peans IT was on the first voyage of
Columbus that two of his sailors re-
ported that they had seen natives of
the new found world with hrebrands in
their mouths and smoke issuing from
their lips.
Investigation showed that these ma
tives were smoking the dried leaves of
a plant which up to that time was not
known by Europeans, and that the
leaves were rolled in a dry corn shuck.
This might be either the original cigar
or the first form of the cigarette. 1t
WAS on the second voyage of Columbus
that a Franciscan friar. by name Ro-
man Pane. discovered that certain ma
tives of the West Indies pulverized
dried tobacco leaves and snuffed the
powder up their noses. When Column
bus reached the mainland of South
America in 500 il Was found that some
OF the natives there chewcd the dry
leaves Of the strange plant.
Bearing ON the antiquity of the to-
bacco habit the census bureau, in a
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Ambassadors to Receive CE1ile1rers Plea for Pea

rltor, gained ny any war ,nulu b, tuught
MANY times over hy tn" motley Sit"- {
on war. In our own civil w;r the pun
chase 10y iho government of al IN. sE.N,S
owned hN the south ut th. highest m.,rk.t
price would not hay" cost on..-t.uth =
what the war cost. to say nothing If ITO
thousands OF brave men whoSH iIN,S
would nave been saved tur great r., .'-
iamin Franklin said There, never VS.
Il good war nor Il bad peace.
War IS the enemy of maukr'id NA
hope that rs you sign the petition. Huu
will make 4 silent il"dg" to ynur~clN,S )
always 10 work for schools instead ut
battleships and for libraries rather than
batteries.
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war may strike at them also Their
harvests. too. are ungarnered. or the
women and children are forced to do the
work OF the absent men
And America We. too. must pay
the price. though SO far away. our hearts
are wrung by the slaughter of friends
or brothers. our mines, our factories
our lumber camps are also closed in
many places. our trade is impaired
What American farmer rejoiccs at the
high price OF food. when it means the
death of thousands Of good men and the
changing OF happy families into weeping
widows and orphans?
Children, We want YOU to remember
that war is always stupidity. The ter
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bulletin in 1900. PVT forth tho follow
ing:
The cultivation and use of tobacco
are of such antiquity that authentic
history does not record their begin
nings The claims of certain Europea Ii
and Asiatic countries to an acquaint-
ance with the plant prior to the dis
coverv of America by Columbus are
not supported by accepted history nor
satisfactorily demonstrated by the &c
searches of the antiquarian or the
archeologist. 1t is fairly well set
tied that tobacco is Indigenous to the
western hemisphere. and that the
aborigines practiced its cultivation
and use from remoteSt times and
spread their knowledge to the rest of
the world"
However, one may find writings by
learned men in which the claim is
known to the Chinese. the Hindoos and
the Egyptians ages before the prac-
tice was observed by the sailors un-
der Columbus.
1t has been settled to the general sat
isfaction of students of tobacco history
that one Hernandez de Toledo intro
duced the smoking habit into Spa III
and Portugal in 1853, and that he
brought his tobacco from Santo Do
mingo. Jean Nicot was the amba ssI-
dor of France at the court OF POrtuga ]
and he, acquiring the habit in l.iShon,
carried il with him back to France,
where the habit took hold in fashion
able circles some time before Sir
Francis Drake and his men carried In
dian pipes and tobacco to England in
1855, at which time Sir Walter Ralei gh
set the pipe smoking fashion at the
court of Elizabeth. whence it spreat!
over England. The habit of taking
snuff followed closely in the trail of
the pipe smoke
Americans have always been pipe
and cigar smokers. In the early days
of the colonies cigars We're imported
but it is safe assumption that the
great bulk of cigars smoked by our
colonial ancestors were homemade or
home-rolled. Gentlemen made their
cigars or had them made by their
servants just as they generally dis
titled their own brandy from their own
fruit. The cigar-making industry did
not begin to be a factory industry
until 1910. when the first American
cigar factory was established in Con-
necticut, but the factory-made cigar
fourished and by 1925 there were
numerous small cigar factories in Con-
necticut, Kentucky, Massachusetts.
Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Mary
land and Virginia. There was then no
internal revenue tax on cigars or other
forms of prepared tobacco, the first in
ternal revenue tax on domestic cigars
and other tobacco products being laid
under the internal revenue law of 1862
which was, of course. a war revenue
measure.
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MISS KATE DENERE,t BLAKE.
Mother OF chiIdren's peace petition.

itary appropriations ana the militar-
lists are trying to force military tram
ing on the boys of our public schools.
Every woman in this country should
lift her voice against training boys To
he made food for powder. While We
have ignorance. poverty. disease ana
vice among us, boys and girls should hc
trained to use their power to d%ht
these enemies OF mankind rather than
TO murder oneanother.
Miss Blake organized the chiIdreu's
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'p'troI OF our government. ana unless
ihe% ar" reached with an earnest mes
sage telling them the truth about war
'ney IN their turn will lie the victims
"i horrors even worse than those that
are aflctinS the world today.
am happy that our committee has
heen able to spread this peace Nuowl-
e"se among the children of America.
now that our timorouS legislators az"
shouting their fears abroad and clam
orlng for an increase in naval and mil
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struggle on different sides of this ter
rife combat; We implore you to stop
the frightful slaughter. for to US it
seems lik" SaVagery fighting against
civilization. We beg this on behalf of
the helpless children of Europe and
Asia who are being deprived Of their
fathers and their education and are
neing irreparably degraded by the
hIdeouS conditions created by war
Tn" petition is to be brought to
Washington and presented to the am
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bassadors of the warning countries 'or
transmission to their SovereiSnS. 1t :.
to be presented by committee "l
school children chosen because 'heH
are natives of the countries at Wal
The original intention was to have the
plea presented at New Years. but an
accident to Miss Kate 'eNefea uN
Blake. who organized the WORK itf'"
who was TO have conducted IN" nei'
cation to the capital. has dclaNea Us
delivery 1t is to he formally pre-
sented early in February. as val
entine wish and message of love ana
sympathy to the little cousins Suhtr-
ing in the titanic conflict.
1t was at one time proposed That the
American Peace Society. with head
quarters here. OF which Arthur -
Call is executive director and Dr- r.
T. Trueblood is secretary. should de
liver the petition. At executive StS-
sion of the society il was decided
that nothing should he done to detJact
the least bit from the pirtur"sHu"n"SS
and sentiment of the work, ana th'it
this would be strengthened by having
the children themselves bear ii I" TN"
EN- mbassies and legations IN III" M
tional capital. 1t is recognized by
all peace workers tIat this petition
SHOWS better than anSihInS eisc cpulh
how the hearts and homes of The Cit
zenS of the United States are eager foF
peace on earth.
IT was as a pennace that the children :
peace campaign was started by Miss
Blake, who is principal of school in
New York She says she did this III
atonement for not having taught his
tory as it should be taught to all the
children who have passed through her
hands. "It is a movement to discour-
age the spirit of militarism in our
American children by giving them
higher ideals" Miss Blake said. 1T
may not bring peace. but 1t Will breed
pacificists. When the war broke out
was campaigning for woman suffrage
in Montana and North Dakota and did
not realize the horror of the situation
until / returned to st. Paul and got
the eastern papers. Then an awful
sense of personal responsibility took
possession of me.
Il felt that if l and all the other
teachers of the world had taught his
tory as il should he taught thIs war
could not have happened And | could
not rest until | thought Of some way
to help to try to end war for the flu
ture.
The children of today viii soon have
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peace petition committee, with the fol-
lowing executive board: Mrs. Carrie
chapman cat, president of the Inter-
national Woman's Suffrage Associa-
tion: Mrs. Thomas w. Churchill, Mrs.
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unwicl,ily has II necome that il is now
arranged in hig scrolls bearing about
:. 200 signatures each.
Tho children of the New York city
schools have done the work of putting
the petition IN shape for final preseu-
tatiou. The children Of Public School
No. 6 counted the names on the petition
and helped in mimeographing The
boys Of til" Trade School for the Deaf
printed the first petitions to be sent
throughout the country for signatures.
The girls of the Washington Irving
High School counted the names, did
nini"ographing and typewriting for it.
Tn" hoyS of the Vocational School did
the final beautiful copies of the petit
tton to head each roll of names. The
h"Es of the Vocational School and of
StuNVeSant High School turned the
little wood spiudies on which the pc
titIou is rolled. The girls of Manhat
tan Trade School pa asted the sheets to-
gether and measured them. finding that
they were more than mile and a
half long.
There arc At least dozen different
forms of the petition. as in number
of places the children did not wait to
yet printed headings for their sigma
lures from the rhildren'S peace petit
lion committee. but in their enthusi-
assn composed their own petition.
signed it and sent it in. But the Off
Cial petition it is to be presented
is as follows:
We. the undersigned. children of
America. plead with YOU. the rulers OF
these great nations. to call for an i'm
mediate armistice aud to let the diff
ferenc"S of the warning nations lie
submitted to The Hague tribunal for
amica BILE and just settlement and to
promise to adjust all future difficulties
peaceably in the same way. We are
the children and the grandchildren of
your former subjects: we are many
of us tied by blood and affection to the
soldiers now contending in their death
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VALUE OF PETROL, MOTOR
I'm THE EUR ROPEAN WAR

m HE chief points of difference be
tween this war and previous
q wars may be traced back to the
development OF the internal conbus-
tion motor. That is the foundation on
the present colossal and sauguinary
strife rests or the root out of which
have sprung most of the changes in
war.
During this terror period men write
and talk of the uses of the aeroplanc,
dirigible, submarine. great gun trac-
tor, motor lorry. motor bus, rapid dis
position and redisposition of troops in
the field and the adequate supply of
ammunition. food and forage to the
heaviest masses of armed men that
have ever trodden the earth. The an
swer to all this is to be found in
the development of the internal COM
bustion motor.
If the dirigible balloon or the Lep-
pelin airship of the rigid type has not
demonstrated all that was claimed for
it, it is probably because the magina-
tions of men, contemplating this new
wonder of the world. carried them too
far afield or too far aloft The moral
force of these war engines has already
been shown to be great in partially
terroriZine nations and compelling vast
measures Of defense against them, thus
divertinE by Just that much national
resources which without any fear from
the ZeppelinS or other menace of that
type might have been otherwise ap-
piled That the airship has not demon
strated all the offensive power claimed
for il does not prove that it may not
vet do so. 1t is an engine OF horrlpie
and hideous capacity. 1t may travel
by night and through fog and from IL
can be dropped explosives of the great
est destructive potency.
The aim from considerable heights may
he uncertain and non-combatants may be
slaughtered and buildings and works dedi-
Gated to peace may he blown to dust. but
this rather adds to, than detracts from,
the horror and the terror of this new war
device
The aeroplane has accomplished all that
military men believed 1t would and it has
performed some service better than many
men believed would be possible. From
great heights the aviator has picked out
and orientcd the positions occupied by
hostile troops and has directed the fire OF
artillery upon those positions when other
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HG91f- S"ihirfN "i EUROPE battIIIlS
II armies have been restricted in
y the 1is, cf str,n.. ,JrinL md hcer
-. ,,
Nn'c ''S'i i''io' "''"E n''"''" ''H t"F
highest officers 3dN!Sa BILE IN the IN
,.rcst or the hcaIb discInliue and
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~
.iPu"' oao'' mas 'etn discouraged, the
tobacco hahit has not beer adversely
touched upon While Sp.rit drinking,
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-"'oNi" h'''7 N''""ol mas beeh
tro~Hed on-ha|. Sco"led upon and
scorned-while Princess Nicotine has
der NAV not have his fagon or his
task, but may have his pipe and 'haccy
pouch: h. may not have his .,roa,. bur
he may have his cigarette
The story is ever and anon coming
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var. and tn addition 10 ,.oyrrur,e,,t
purchases of tobacco various move
'Nehl" ,'f' ''tn"t 'i' IN" neutral a. well
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districts iry:f,l. .lftd s,.r,-i,... i, 10 ~.
men in PORTIONS .tud 1T intervals as
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IMll day are appealed to by the
Nj children of th. United States
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dren by the thousands IN the war
wasted countries Of Europe. for peace.
While tn. I-uit.d States and other
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pN. AFRAID 10 oithd ''C"'HSi ie't''i'''
by even a suggestion that the heniGcr-
ents J.clar. AN a,attistira or agree TO a
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n't'o states nave u'd''e" '"''' '''