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!ish millIantS upon our British fellow
men have been slow to adopt what |
now realize j. the enlightened opinion
regarding tn" suffrage question. |
have not 50 far left behind me the
coasts of reaction. preclude" and sex
narruwucs~ not To appreciate the point
Of View of my stand pat brethren vino
have uot felt the influence of the
white light that the Western states
are throwing upon the problems of de-
mocracy.
"l.ct California and Colorado, Ari-
iona and Alaska try Whatsoever gov
ernmental experiments they may
choose says my white haired old
New Yorker. hab.tually distrustful OF
all Innovations. "buI don't disturb the
glorious mission of our great Empire
State by Introducing into the clector-
ate IN element that might exert "a
chaotic influence"
My old New Workers. sons are men,
tally more daring than their father.
They show a Willingness to investigate
the record uf woman suffrage m the
states where il has been established
for several years. To weigh carefully
the arguments We s~ufragists present
In favor Of milking New York white
Instead e black upon our electoral
man.
While there are striking individual
exceptions that appear To make - gem
erali2ltion in this connection hazard
Gus, it seems to the writer to be evil
dem that among the men OF New York
state the Older generations are In con-
iilCt on the suffrage question with the
yOunuer That the latter are destined
10 have their way either this fall or
late: IN No student of the history of
democracy can doubt. What the
young men of a community are think
ing to-day is fatcd to become statute
law tomorrow or the day after to-
morrow.
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ny EDWARD =. VAN ZII.E.
MAN who has the nerve. the
voice and the convictions nee

A MAN who has the nerve, the
IA voice and the convictions nee
\ eSsary 10 the equipment OF a
speaker advocating votes for
women may rest assured that IL he
essays oratorical pe~regrinations in be-
half OF suffrage he will undergo ex-
pefiences Of both a pleasant and an
unpleasant nature.
Applause and encouragement will
come to him from men and women
VINO sympathize with his point of view,
but, on the other hand. he will be
denounced by anti'suffraglsts of both
sexes for disloyalty to a divine right
that, they assert. was conferred upon
him at birth. The suffragists nay
call him "a Patrick Henry, but there
Will be among his acquaintance those
who duh him a Benedict Arnold. Every
great cause, of curse, demands it's
martyrs.
Not the least heroic among the ad-
vocatcs OF woman suffrage who are
made 10 suff.r for their beliefs is he
who c~ourageously stands forth upon
a soap box in the glare of the street
bulbs and raises his voice a. night in
tA' VIZ b - wi EAit'N NtltlA I % CHS
their ballots IN November in favor of
the suffrage amendment. The raucous
noses Of n great city seemed To be
leagued against him and his most eff
feciIve syllogism may be ruined by
the interposition OF a surface cars up
roar between his premises and his
conclusion. And when SILENCE like
a poultice comes to heal the blows
OF sound the chances are that the
small boys on the edge OF the crowd
Will set up n yell, or an antisuffragist
with a pet dog in her arms will pinch
n" tai, of her beloved and launch its
bark upon the sea of noise.
To suffer in silence Is the dire ordeal
that every outdoor speaker for suffrage
must undergo. That they also serve who
only stand and wait is an assurance
that offers small comfort to him who,
erect upon "A wabbly underpinning,
strives to resume the thread OF his dis
course 20 the end that he may take
arOthcr fan out OF the ghost of George
III, may restate IN the twentieth CEN
Ilry the elGht' nth cCntury's conten-
ton That taxation without representa-
ton is undesirable.
But # noise. IN muitifarlJus guise,
is an aihiCtion to the o~ratorlcal martyr
who undergoes butchcry at night to
make p~erchanCe a suffrage holiday. the
Jack of 1t at certain moments may be
an even greater burden to bear. If
ytu happen to he "A man who has made
political speeches at the height of a
hot Presidential campaign you have
learned how stimulating to A speaker
is "A round Of applause at the climax
of an argument, or "A lusty cheer when
you have been lucky enough to strike
d chord to which your auditors re-
spond. Hands that clap have been
your palms OF Victory. But that was
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Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw.

run; I couldn't stand to live In one
Of those topsyturvy homes; l can't
stand dirt and disorder.
But | feel that a we'll trained cook
knows how to cook better than l do
and a well trained chambermaid
knows how to sweep better than I do.
so l never interfere in the n In
which they do the work as long as the
work itself IL satisfactory. I suppose
It il fortunate that | have a knack for
management because when ] went to
housekeeping l had not had the solid.
sensible background that Mrs. Gait
had had in her housekeeping training.
My major training had been in dane
ing and French"
"Have you had trouble with the SER
ant problem" began the interviewer.
"Not a Bit" broke in Mrs. White
house bllthely. II never have trouble
with servants, and I employ both men
and women. ] think putting the re-
sponsibility upon employees makes
them take more pride in their work.
MY servants know how | want my
house run. and they vie with each
other in getting the right results.
W nen'l correct u SerNunt j never make
II a personal matter. sugges that
this thing or that thing needs atten-
ton. and the fault is quickly rem
edied."
Your little daughter is not Jealous
Of your suffrage work."
NO. | have never let my suffrage
AFFAIRS interfere with the time | give
my little girl. take my child as an
embryo person and do not try to force
my individuality too much upon her.
As far as possible | permit her to
work out her problems in her own
way. Matters relating to her comfort
and pleasure she usually decides for
herself. To illustrate my point: The
ether day We had n discussion about
her hair. | thought it was too Ions
and should be cut. But my daughter
didn't want II cut. and her reason was
that 1t was her hair. But suggested
her governess. If IL is your hair YOU
are your mothers little girl NV
daughter Immediately took exception
to the remark Il am my own little
girl she announced stoutly.
But to return to housekeeping"
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| afford sufficient servants To permit Of
their specializing in their work. The
servant problem Is in the home where
there IL only one ervant, wFO * cook
and laundress. chambermaid and wait
ress. But where the roo does only
the cooking, the chambermaid only the
chamber work. the butler only the
serving. the work is not hard; their
living conditions are comfortable and
their wages good. ! have never had
any trouble with my servants"
Do you consider it necessary for a
~houSekeepcr to do her own marketing
20 get the best FOR her table,"
II certainly do not. | am glad YOU
asked me that question. hccause II
brings up q subject about which |
have something tu say. In this day
of telephones. errand boys ard high
class markets it is absurd for a busy
woman to take an hour or more If her
time every day picking over food. 1t
is the butchers business to send the
h~ousekeeper the kind of meat she or
dcrs. II il, the grocer's business To send
the kind of groceries ordered, the fruit
ercr's business to pick out the perfect
fruit. let my butcher ana my grocer
understand that | hold them RESPONSE
be for the quality of all food sent to
me If II ISM a certain quality it goes
back.
When ! am home | personally over
look the meat and fruit and the vege-
tables: If | am not at home the ook
does. make "A point Of engaging
cooks who have a very keen sense Of
smell and who can detect at once If
anything is wrong with the food. |
haNe had 10 make some changes in my
tradespeople, but | consider It every
housekeeper's duty to hold tradespeo-
pie responsible for the food sent out
from their shops"
"You believe, then, in using the tcIe-
phone"
Il believe in using Il. hut not in
abusing il. | don't believe. for in
stance. that a housekeepor should ask
Ecr grocer OF her butcher tn make half
"A dozen trips "a day To her home to
supplS her needs. ! have my servants
trained to order once a day, and only
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There is another suggestive line OF
thought that CumeS, after a short eN-
perience ON the stump, to the peri
patetic suffrage speaker, closely con-
ucctcd with the impressions referred
to above. Facts are stubborn things,
wrote Sterne. and he might have
added that their stubhornneSs cNerts
an eternal fascination upon the minds
of thinking men. If tho Suffrage
amendment To the New York Consti-
tuition is defeated in November the
result viii he due largely to the phys
lCal impOssibility Of placing certain
facts, statistics and the deductions
To- Ice made from them before all the
voters Of the State, despite the SPLEEN
did, highly efficient efforts of the Nari-
Gus suffrage organizations,
That the average American is loyal
to- the proposition that taxation with
u representation is unjust Is a on
yiCtinn that a suffrage advocate
quickly derives from his experience
ON the stump, but he discovers early
IN the game that II Is essential that
he should prove TO men voters that
under existing conditions they are
committing the same injustice toward
women that the British Parliament
inflicted upon the American colonies,
lie must. therefore, become a Grad
grind, present facts in a convincing
way, and establish by statistics the
foundations upon which alone depends
the efficacy Of his widely accepted
generalization,
"If YOU can show me that my wife's
taNcd by the state said a highly in
t~elliGent farmer to me recently, I'll
vote for the amendment. But it's
always looked To me as II | paid the
and she bought the bonnets,"
1t is not the purpose Of this article
To present the facts. figures II sta
%tistics. derived largely from States in
which woma suffrage has been tried,
upon which the suffrage speaker must
rely for the establishment of his basic
contention. That they are convincing
to an open minded male voter who is
not suffering from hardening OF his
mental arteries my experience on the
stump leads me to believe.
But that every voting Gradgrind in
New York will get the facts and fig
urcs providing him with the cnlight-
eminent that makes for human prog
rcss in time to influence his ballot in
favor of the suffrage amendment is
open to question. surely the really
heroic efforts If the women organiZed
in this State to throw light upon the
darkness that aNiicts the minds of so
many thoroughly conscientious men
hut, as "N-President Taft says, if that
victory does not come this fall il is
destined I" he eventually achieved.
The tired fingers of the anti-suffra-
gists will eventually fail to plug up the
holes in a dixie that Is sure to break
at last.
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Is to take the order and subdivide 1t
into States, and these into individual
post offices, As she Ices this an as
sistant-an expert stamp counter
draws from the stamps the number
required To Ill each order, Then an
expert veriier goes over these To make
sure of no mistake, AT the end of the
job, il all the stamps are disposed Of,
they know that their orders are cor
rect.
To insure against theft while in
transit the large sheets OF stamps are
all stitched together and stapled on
the edge, This makes II impossible to
modest a single stamp without detec-
tion.
Two hundred thousand stamps is
the largest number allowed TO he
shipped In one single parcel, Where
a post ONCE orders more they must
DO put In a second or even q third
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package. The average daily output
from Miss Kerfoot's department is 25,-
OOO,O stamps, though AS many as
zoo 900 600 have been sent in one day.
All packages OF stamps are sem reg
istered mail.
Miss kerfoot has been in the bureau
OF engraving and printing for thirty
two years.
Or, Augusta +. Bronner, assistant
director of the P~sychopathic Institute
attached to the Juvenile Court OF Chi
cago, Is convinced hat recent report
Of the proportion of feeble minded chill
dren among the juvenile criminals of
his country have been greatly cx-
aggerated.
III 20 per cent. of the inmates Of
r~eformatory institutions are found to
be mentally defective" she says, that
does not mean that 20 per cent. of
all Offenders are mentally defective,
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IN. so to speak. your palmy days.
IrBins voters TO support Wilson
Tor President. or Roosevelt, or Taft,
was not without its immediate reward
IN stimulating applause. \ candidate
Tor onice is the incarnation of IA cause,
a platform turned into a personality,
a name To conJure with, a human
entity. for the m in the lime
llght, reference To whom may serve
as the spark to fire the powder mine
or a crowds political enthusiasm. The
stump speaker in a Presidential cam
paign Is in command of various de-
vices whereby whenever he needs en-
~couragement he ma stimu,at. his
nags1ng energies by obtaining signs of
approval from his audience.
To the suffrage speaker. especially
To the male advocate of votes for
women. there is ~vouChsafed from tae
average throng no such braCing re-
Spouse as rewards the trained political
orator. The desirability of a suffrage
amendment to a State constitution Is
an academic question, u an inspiring
personality. 1t may interest the mind
of the average man, but it Is not likely
to stir his blood.
The suffrage orator discovers at the
outset of his career that every audi
ence he confronts comes apparently
from Missouri. His are the lahors If
S!syphus. And If ne succeeds in roll
ing the rock of his argument to the
top Of the hill he is rewarded not BY
cheers, but with the more or less
relevant queries OF so-calied hcck,ers.
Patrick Henry was greatly aided as
a Revolutionary orator by the fact
hat the injustice against which he
protested was incarnated IN the per
son Of the King of England, lie could
give dramatic force to his speech by
making il boldly reasonable. But the
suffrage speaker %denounciny the tyr
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nor that onc-fourth Of all crimes COM
mitted are To- hr explained ON the basis
OF mental ~incapacitN, The majority
Of such data as has appeared has
been based upon the study of those
In institutions in reformatorics and
state industrial schools. When this ia
true We have not merely "A selected
group, hut rather "A selected portion of
an already S'>cctcd group. such in
vesilgatlons take in only the caught
offenders"
Dr. Hronncr questions the value of
the Binet-SimOn tests when applied To
chlldrei over ten years of age. She
recently made N examination Of 6O5
boys and girls in the detention home
OF the Juvenile Court. taking them
"~"ns"cutir"'H ~ they entered. In 0a
dltion Ia the iiinct test she also used
ordinary school examination papers.
She found that $50 per cent. OF these
children were Enthusiastically normal.
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lSS MARGARET KERTOOT is
responsible for the correct and
; nrnp,nt IaIi,.,r 80 ,,,. o,

~ l'F'
4 stamp sent by Uncle Sam from
Washington to his thousands of post
masters throughout the country. Last
year she sent out ~, 200, 600, 900 post
age stamps Of various denominations.
This year, because of the millions of
picture postcards sem from the two
California expositions, it is estimated
that this amount will be greatly in
creased.
Orders for stamps are always sem to
the Third Assistant Postmaster-Gcn-
eral. In his Office they are assembled,
made out and sent down to Miss Kor-
font to MI. She mus go over the on
tire order, and after MAKING sure there
is no mistake she draws the requisite
number Of each denomination of stamps
from the deposit vault. Fer next step
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,ainlN should lie able 20 had some lei
sure from their domestic routine
DO you ind the servant problem
began the interviewer.
"D.tiCuitr There * no servant
problem FOR the housckrcprr who can
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RACE LEADERS WHO ARE FAMOUS AS
Even Hunt for a Ser.
want Problem Among
Them Proves Futile.
One Husband Tells
His Experience

careless housekeepers demand of thor
tradespeople mean the extra cos, q,
service added on their bills; tho more
errand boys a store has to keen. tho
more telephone calls II has TO make
the higher ii has to charge for i,s
Stock
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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1915-03-11

tary of the Board, teachers room,
janitor's room, a stock-room, a
boiler room, four toilet rooms, wide
corridors and stairways, ample cloak
rooms and an assembly room, or
auditorium, on the main entrance
floor to seat ESQ., This Board may
be under some temporary and un-
thinking criticism for planning to
erect new building: they would be
under lasting and unanimous con-
demnation if they should temporize
and build an addition.
Men Teachers.
The assistant commissioner of edu-
cation in charge of High Schools,
Mr.. Meredith, is strongly of the
opinion that at least SO per cent. of
the High School instructors should
be men. The reasons for the en-
ployment of some men teachers on
the High School force have been so
widely discussed and are in fact so
obvious that / will not take space
for them here. | insist only that
men teachers we employ should be
good men teachers. A second-rate
man teacher is never as good as a
first-rate woman teacher. Good men
however cost more, and | would
recommend that the salary budget
be increased to provide for the en-
ployment of a man when a vacancy
occurs which it is advisable to fill
with a man.
Ungraded Room.
Progress of pupils in the Ungrad-
ed Room is remarkably good. The
teacher informs me that conserva-
tive estimate would put the average
rate of advance of these pupils at
two years in one. Manual work is
a feature in this room and serves as
tremendous incentive to intensive
application on the part of the pupils
to their books. The boys have put
cane seats in SO chairs this winter
and the workmanship on every chair
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There are four full grades in
temporary quarters on Coryell street.
There are two grades too many in
the Third Ward building. There is
one too many in the First Ward.
Two large Fifth grades this year
make two Sixth grades inevitable
next year instead of one. Thus we
are to be confronted at the beginning
of the next school year with the
necessity of providing for the ac-
commodation of ten more grades
than we at present have room for,
if there is relief all around. If an
addition to the Third Ward School
is contemplated it will have to be a
ten-room addition and even that
would be inadequate the following
year since two Seventh grades are
hardly to be avoided in the fall of
1916.
Moreover / wish to take oppor-
tunity at this time to protest as
vigorously as possible against making
an addition to any of our present
school buildings. These buildings
are all small and antiquated. To
build to any of them modern
addition of any size would ultimate
ly be of no satisfaction to anybody.
A ten or twelve-room addition to
the present four-room Third Ward
building would come perilously near
to being grotesque. Scarcely any
one would seriously advocate a
building of that size without an
assembly hall and the cost would
not fall very far short of a new
building with adequate facilities for
all our needs. Plans for the new
building call for twelve rooms ex-
clusively for the use of the grades
below the High School, seven rooms
exclusively for the use of the High
School, large rooms for the library,
for manual training and for do
nestle science, an office for the
supervising principal and the score
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Howard Kerr
Willis Moore
Daisy Stevenson
Helen Ham
Congestion.

The problem of housing the school
children of Lambertville is fast be-
coming a desperate one. In the
Hill building two grades are tres
passing on room that is urgently
needed by the High School. Both
recitation and laboratory work in
Physics, Chemistry and Biology,
much of it simultaneous, is carried
on in one ordinary-sized classroom.
Latin and German classes recite in a
room about adequate in size and suf-
ficiently convenient in lighting ar
rangement to serve as stock-room
for books. Typewriting is done in a
room partitioned off from the boys
cloakroom and so small that the
pupils are in each others way at
every turn. The part of the cloak
room remaining for the use of so
boys is exactly 9M feet long by ~
wide. The supervising principals
desk has been relegated to the teach
ers' cloakroom. At assembly and
music periods pupils sit three at a
desk and on benches across the front
of the room so close to the platform
that those on the front row haven't
room for their feet. Taking the
Seventh and Eighth grades off the
hill would still leave no room to
spare in that building at the most
optimistic calculation.
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DINGOES VICINITY
Az And Along the Neshanic Brook

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Hunt were
rendered a variety shower Thursday
evening at the home of Mrs. Hunts
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Friz-
ell, between Sergeantsville and Rim
goes, and about sixty guests were
present. The evening was passed in
games and music, and refreshments
were served. Mrs. Hunt received
many beautiful and useful presents.
Those present were: Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Stewart, Mr.. and Mrs. JOS
eph T. Haines, Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob
Abbott, Mr.. and Mrs. Brewer John
son, Mr.. and Mrs. David Larson,
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Rynearson, Mr..
and Mrs. Sylvanus Hunt, Mr.. and
Mrs. Clark Holcombe, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Fisher, Mrs. Manning Potts.
Mrs. George Wilson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Bond, Miss Mary Abbott,
Roy Higgins, Fred. Johnson, Earl
Hartpence, Harry Hartpence, Earl
Trout. Charles Wilson, Ernest Gulick,
Archie Gulick, Robert johnson, Ed
gar Everitt, John Frizell, Israel Will
hanson, Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Frizell.
Masters John Hunt, John Abbott,
Elmer johnson and Elmer Hunt,
Misses Edla A. Higgins, Blarche
Wilson, Olive Holcombe, Magdalen
Haines, Aurela Haines, May Hart
pence, Myrtle Potts, Viola Kitchin.
Alice Fisher, Elsie Kline, Emily Rit-
tenhouse, Elizabeth Daniel, Dora
Hoppock; Messrs. Theodore Higgins,
Carl Holcombe, John Rynearson,
Barton Young and Clarence Bond.