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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-22
AN INSULT TO WoMANHoop.

You no doubt remember, near the
beginning of the war, soldiers were
urged to marry; and in a manner
which amounted to almost a con-.
mand. The request seems TO have
been largely complied with. Now. al
the expiration of six months of war.
and when thousands of these men
have been killed, these poor widowed
war brides are urged commanded
for all we know to remarry. This
is a matter of news. Papers are call.
ing attention to the fact that the bel.
hgerent Nations desire more children
born as nearly Immediately as the
exigencies permit, They graciously
permit us, the women (for the women
OF these countries are our sisters), to
dispense with or ignore convention.
alities, that would never be recog.
nized at any other time. And, need.
less to say, are infamous now.
1t would seem that the only word
which can be offered in extenuation
is that the fury and passion of the
trying hour, the thought of the domi.
nant part of those people is giving
away to a mesmeric reign Of unrea
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-22
A. 6 NJ. CARNIVAL.
Formally Opens Saturday Afternoon
With Agricultural Parade.


Formally Opens Saturday Afternoon
With Agricultural Parade.
An agricultural parade with float,
, from the various agricultural depart
ments Of the 4. & NJ College. will
formally open the annual carnival
which is TO be given Saturday on Kyle
field al the A. & w. College. The
carnival viii be the climax Of a week
OF festivities which began Wednes.
day with the defeat Of the University
Of Texas baseball team.
The parade will pass directly in
front Of the grandstand at the close
Of the interscholastic track meet The
queens float viii stop in front of the
grandstand and the medals will he
presented to the winning track mer in
both high school and academy classes.
At the conclusion of the parade and
the presentation Of the medals the
tent shows on the midway will open
for patronage and the carnival will
"be on" officially. This years shows
will include attractions by the civil
engineers, mechanical engineers.
chemical engineers and electrical en-.
gteers, a tent Of freaks and a big
vaudeville show The tent shows.
while strictly humorous, yet will be
representative Of the work of the de.
partments.
Dancing will be held in the gymna.
stun and at night a masquerade bali
Will be a feature of the carnival.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-22

This is the season for whitewash
Ing the shade trees. Besides being
beneficial to the trees 1t also adds to
their beauty. - Mckinney Courier
Gazette.
This thing OF whitewashing trees
to improve their beauty has become
so popular as TO cause us to wonder
why the Lord omitted showers Of
pure whitewash in the spring to i'm.
prove the appearance Of one Of His
most beautiful creations. 80 Austin
American.
Whitewashing the higher-ups ac.
cused Of crookedness, has made the
custom very popular
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-22
WEDDING FRANKS
MAY PROVE FATAL
Friends Started to Take Man on Car
and Ligaments Of Heart
Were Strained.
ny Associated Press. ]

Muskogee, Okla, April 22.-Pranks
OF friends at the wedding Of Arch
Voitch to Miss Elsie Ellington OF
Wagner Okla, may prove fatal. The
couple started to Oklahoma City on
q honeymoon. Voitch's friends
thought It would be a Joke to drag
him on the train and let the bride
go alone. In the struggle that follow.
ed Voitch strained ligaments in the
region Of his heart and is IN a hospl.
tai here with slight chances to re.
cover lie is stockman with
ranch at Maize. Okla.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-22
DAMON AND PYElAIHs.
Beautiful Picture Delighted a Large
Crowd at the Queen.


Crowd at the Queen.
The Eagle does not hesitate TO say
that the great photoplay, Damon
and Pythias." presented at the Queen
last evening under the auspices OF the
local lodge of the Knights OF Pythias.
was the most superb picture ever
shown In Bryan. II was a master
piece and charmed all who saw II. II
was not only beautiful in its portrayal
and sentiment, but was interesting
and INSTRUCTIVE from q semihistoric
and acknowledged standpoint. In
history the ancient customs OF the
Greeks were depicted. their dress,
methods OF warfare, parts OF some OF
the ancient cities, the war chariots,
the triremes, etc. In mythology and
tradition the touching story OF Damon
and Pythlas, involving the supreme
test Of friendship, was portrayed in
manner that was simply captivating.
The order OF the Knights OF Pythlas
have incorporated as part OF their
creed the lesson Of this beautiful
story and this gave the picture add.
tional interest to the members OF the
order
The management Of the Queen Is
to be commended for making II post.
BILE to have such merltorious pictures
shown In Bryan.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-22
THE NEW WATcHWoRD, HELP
FuLNEsS.

Is the farmer coming into his own
is there an awakening on the part OF
the people to the fact that civilization
begins and ends with the plow? Is
there crystalizing in the public mind
the great truth that all production
originates from the soil? Is the world
at last convinced that It's paramount
obligation is due the farmer? Is the
idea gaining ground that the farmer
is entitled TO something more than a
living, bare existence bereft OF all
pleasures, all profits, all comforts?
We believe II is. This editor had the
pleasure of spending a short time
Wednesday at the picnic rendered the
boys and girls clubs Of the county
at the experiment station near Col.
lege, and there we received new evi.
dence Of this great awakening, this
new day. There we heard Colonel
Ousley, one of the greatest minds in
all Texas, stand before an audience
OF country people, mostly boys and
girls, and tell them Of this new agrl.
cultural birth, this new baptism, this
renewed and quickened interest, this
bright, this glorious future that Is
coming to the farmers OF the future.
and which is even now at our very
doors. or this new worldwide inter.
est in agriculture, which Is sweeping
all other questions aside, which Is alb.
sorbing all other interests and which
is engaging every energy and re-
source of government, State and Ma
tional, In bringing that scientific as.
sistance to the farmer that is destined
TO make him the most important citi.
zen Of the community and his bust.
ness the greatest and most exalted
in all the earth.
We heard a Bryan lady stand mp
before those people and tell them she
had been commissioned BY the club
women Of the city to bring them a
message of friendly interest, of co.
operation. Of mutual helpfulness. To
assure them their interests were the |
same and to pledge them their assist. |
ance in every way possible. and at !
the anne time to ask them for their
assistance.
We saw a graduate Of Cornell Uni.
Versity, one Of the greatest institu.
lions of learning in the United States.
teaching those people how to raise
chickens scientifically in its every de.
tail. Chicken raising has always
been regarded as the least activity
of the farm, and yet here Is a gradu.
ate Of great institution teaching the
people how they can make II, to nut
1t In the language of Colonel Ousley.
"a greater business even than the
cotton industry"
we saw other people, ladies' and
gentlemen, trained along different
lines, giving the visitors the benefit
OF what they had learned at great
expense in order to fit themselves in
this great uplift movement.
This same thing is taking place all
over the country, this same spirit is
abroad in our land, and If there is
any truth in the signs of the times.
new and a greater day is dawning
Tor agriculture.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-22

The Houston Post thinks Governor
Ferguson should eschew the private
car in his presentations and take to
hand car II he would escape a
blistering at the hands Of Cyclone
Davis and Cullen Thomas.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-22

That smile on the countenance OF
poet Judd Lewis, who occupies the
starboard column on the editorial
page OF the Houston Post. is genuine
enough to be catching. We confess.
however, that 1t is a little long drawn
out.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-22
STORM WRECKED
ELECTRA OIL FIELD
Eighty Derricks and Two Houses
Blown Overwhelming Fired
Several Tanks.
IBy Associated Presa.1

Wichita Falls, Tex, April 22.-
Eighty derricks and two small cot.
tages were blown down in the Electra
oil field last night during an electrical
and wind storm. The lightning set
fire TO several small oil tanks.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-22

doing business, even the big depart
ment stores, are now reported TO be-
closed for an hour at noon. because
there are not enough clerks left to
relieve one another at lunch time.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-22

We opine that a voting woman
would not make a bowling success
at raising the children or looking al.
ter home affairs in general.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-22
FEDERATED LABOR
FOR SUFFRAGE

Austin, Tex, April 22.-The Texas
Federation of Labor adopted resolu.
ton favoring an amendment to the
constitution today for woman suf,
frage.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-22
Notice, Ladies'.

I am now prepared to give facial
messages and manicurlng. Phone mo
for engagements. Phone 1868.
MRS. G. L. sORRELL.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-22
TO THE LADIES.

This is your opportunity to buy
New York's latest models in the new.
est materials, in the new colors and
shades, at big reduction in price.
WEBB BROS.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-22
MARRIAGE LICENSE

]. w. Holloway and Miss Willie
Boyett.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-22
PICKED PARAGRAPHS.

A clear conscience needs no cos
metics to enhance its beauty
Deseret News.
The man who has money to burn
generally has friends to roast.-New
York Times.
A man who is carried away by his
own thoughts is usually fixed in one
spot-New York World.
Anybody can get into a fight but
It takes an adept to play the game
Of neutrality.-Memphis Commercial
Appeal.
occasionally the cynic is supposed
to laugh inwardly, but il is probable
that the effort gives him pain.-New
York American.
1t tickles man more to be patted
on the back than to be touched under
the short ribs.-Deseret News.
Which had you rather do. give
yourself away or feel that somebody
had sold" you?-Memphis CONNER
cial Appeal.
Now and then one runs across a
person who seems to be thankful that
he has nothing to be thankful for
Toledo Blade.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-22

The man who has money to burn
generally has friends to roast-New
York Times.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-22

A man who is carried away by his
own thoughts is usually fixed in one
spot.-New York World.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-22

A clear conscience needs no cos.
metics to enhance its beauty
Deseret News.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1915-09-10
September 10, 1915.

~ like your son Norris" she said with
affectionate imprudence, II like the way
his hair curls and
Mrs. Letinsky's face had changed quick
w. sparks flashed in her black eyes, and
her voice grew harsh.
uShameless one! Is it my son she looks
at? Ny Moshe, so froom he is, he should
be raw! Nay, for thee is good enough
the son of Lena Harris who washes mil
chike and fleishike with the same cloth. &c
helm, shameless one!"
Mr.. Letinsky's gray eyes twinkled mer-
rily as he pulled at his gray curls, and
shrugged one humorous shoulder.
"Nay, Feigela, nay. Till Yiddishe
shiksa grows fat, our Moshe will not look
at her. Who will wed with such a stick!
Give her therefore bones to eat, and no
Aesch if we would keep our son."
Mrs. Letinsky's eyes filled with tears.
"Come,' she said to Mary. "Forgive
me that I am mother. Thy mother,
peace unto her, would speak so of my
son. When thou hast held thy first born
in thine arms so wilt thou speak. Thou
art Yiddish as my man tells thee, but
also thou art shiksa and apart. But love
thee almost as my child, and when thou
hast studied much, my sons sons shalt
thou have to teach.''
"Better your son s sons than your son.
laughed Mary, as big Morris entered the
room and grinned indulgently at her.
"They will be small enough for me to
spank when do not like what they do"
And chuckling into the baby's ear, she
I'm how nj oh in hon6 on6 tho
Komsh Brot, Mrs. Letinsky's peace offer
ing, into the other, and hurried home.
When high school days were over, Mary
decided to continue her studies at the Uni
versity Of Minnesota. That meant harder
work and more careful pinching than
she had known before. In order to
save carfare she parted from Mrs. Green
and her babies, and worked nearer the
campus. Days and nights were filled so
compactly with duties that she rarely saw
Sixth Ave. North; then only when discour-
aged and disheartened she ran to Mrs.
Letinsky for comfort. Rachel, Sophie and
David went to work at once to make way
for younger brothers and sisters. Leah
and Philip went to University too, but as
both took professional courses Mary saw
them rarely.
Withdrawn suddenly from the old, warm,
companionable life, and thrust into the
middle of happy, unnoticing crowd, Mary
found her old shyness and aloofness again
taking possession Of her. She lived again
in her books, the one solid creature in a
world Of shadows
One day of poignant happiness at grad
uation, when Mr.. and Mrs. Letinsky came
to the campus just for her sake, was fol-
lowed by miserable months Of job-seeking.
Mary, too ashamed to show herself to the
friends who had expected so brilliant a
career for her, hid until she had finally
late in the fall signed her contract to
teach in very small country high school.
She wrote few letters; Mary wrote only
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shrieks, woke into family life which was
as foreign to her experience as the daily
food of the Letinskys. Shyly she learned to
adapt herself to both; ate picked herring
with suspicion, lockshen kougel with the
rapture of youth; and read Alright the
kindly spirit which lay beyond Mr.. Letin-
shy's jibes. 'Kleine shiksa,' he called
her, or sometimes "Sheine meidel," until
he saw her learning with grave effort the
distinction between kosher and taeipha
and milchike and feschike. Then he
named her "Yiddisne shksa' and called
her nothing else as long as he lived.
At the end of the happy week, Mrs.
Green, young married woman, who was
expecting her first baby and was not feel
ing strong, asked Mary to come to work
for her after school time.
CIT is good,' said Mrs. Letinsky, "you
can work hard but not too hard, and much
you can learn, for when, please God, you
have your own house and man,
Proud Of being self-supporting, Mary
packed her few possessions into battered
telescope, the gift of Mrs. Letinsky, and
went to her new work. Here she secured
and cleaned, and worked with a nice re-
gard for ritual laws; and revelled in the
preparation for the beautiful Shabbos SER
vice. Mr.. Green's voice was deep and
rich, and he read the centuries-old service
with fine feeling, and as Mary listened
she watched the candles flicker and shine
with mystic exaltation. She could not be
scourged for the sins of her co-religionists,
nor was she a genius to heal the wounds
Of Russian Jewry, but she could serve, and
could put into that service her deep sor-
row and devotion.
When the baby came, Mary was the
first to rock him to sleep with the tradi-
Mrs Letinsky, against this very hour of
need. It was from Mrs. Letinsky, too,
that she learned Of the angel who had
taught the baby all knowledge in heaven
and earth during the long months of gesta
ton, only to erase all memory Of it with
tap of his fingers at the baby's birth.
Mary, who loved to believe all she was
told, felt that angels who engaged in such
futile pastimes were no longer to be re-
spected. But nevertheless she held the
baby little in awe and touched the de-
preston in his upper lip with reverent
fingers. At the "B riss' she passed fruit
and cakes with as proud heart as either
of the two grandmothers.
When the mother was well again, Mary
with very ill grace allowed her to battle
the infant, and scolded shrilly at every
frightened, awkward move Of the novice.
But the young mother bore with her pa
tiently, treating her with as much loving
consideration as a sister might and teach
ing the baby to call her aunt.
Mary did the shopping, bringing an alb
sent mind with difficulty to it's business
Of serious decision. She was sent once for
beef tongue, being first carefully drilled
in the proper Yiddish word. But she went
skipping along the street, dreaming of the
baby's curled up pink toes, until, when,
she entered the dingy kosher butcher shop,
she found she had quite forgotten how to
H.
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oughly enraged, the keeper OF inc snoP
cried "shiksa,' and, coming from behind
the counter showed her vigorously towards
the door and out-fortunately into Mrs.
Letinsky's arms. Mrs. Letinsky, equal to
all emergencies, made apologies for both
sides, and secured the tongue.
Through the next five years Mary lived
a very busy happy life. There was the
baby Chain whose charms increased with
age; there was another baby, and yet an
other, to fill her with fine sense OF I'M
portance and responsibility. There were
the new dresses, and the presents which
Mrs Green g ingenuity eked out OF
small purse. And there were the long
walks to North High school with Sophie,
and Rachel, and Leah, and sometimes with
David and Philip who usually preferred
more fitting masculine company. Here
they threshed out grave questions Of doc
trine and practises, the boys easily scor-
ing because they had studied with rabbis,
and could easily floor the girls by quoting
Talmudic quotations and looking WISE
Mary practised looking wise before the
bath room mirror, but although later in
life she came to look more or less intel
ligent, she never acquired the naughty in
tellectuality expressed in David's brow
and nose.
Best of all, thought Mary, she loved the
many holidays, Purim and Pesach and all,
for then it was she met the older and more
characteristic people more intimately, and
had most strongly the sense that she was
living between the covers of the most
wonderful book she ever read.
Then she would 60 visiting, and mother
ly fat old ladies would heap before her
the dainties of the season-haman taschen,
strudel, knedlach, geflte fisch or borsht,
according to the holiday. And Mary with
her full plate neglected would try to
stammer forth what was in her full heart,
only to be rebuked sharply by her hostess.
"Eat, eat, 'narele' foolish one).
can talk, am so thick, why should eat
But you so white and skinny! My God,
my worst enemy should not be so thin as
you. Without you get fat no husband shall
you have"
And Mary purring like kitten beneath
all this petting would eat all she could
and more, and go home with hand and
pockets full.
But though she was everywhere petted
and spoiled as only Jewish hearts can
spoil an orphan, and fed more than any of
the human young should ever be allowed
to eat, nowhere was she more thoroughly
spoiled, more scolded, more teased and
more loved than at Mrs. Letinsky's house,
AID I,
never very strong, and quite swamped in
work for her three sturdy babies, depended
on Mrs. Letinsky for the dill pickles,
strudel and all the good eatables which
take so long to prepare.
One day Mary with the youngest baby
in one arm, went over for a pail of
pickles, and found several neighbor wo-
men in the large homely kitchen chatting
with Mr.. and Mrs. Letinsky.
"Ah, here is our Yiddish shiksa,''
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WOMEN's PLACE THE HOME.

One OF the measures suggested to bring
the question of Votes for Women before the
people of New York was a woman s strike
However the Publicity Council Of the En-
pire State Campaign Committee decided
against the strike. The Council issued the
following statements:
cit will not, it seems, be necessary to
inaugurate the women s day at home demon
stration The point has already gone home.
For years every opponent Of woman suffrage
who wanted to hide his paucity of motives
did so with the almost universal Woman IS
place is in the home' Mr.. Taft said it,
Mr. Root said it, Mr.. Stimson said it, Mr..
Wiskersham said it, Mr.. Nugent said it
everybody, intelligent or ignorant, high or
low. 1t was a huge bluff which frightened
credulous world. Now the bluff has been
called. Those who last week were most
sentimental in their insistence that woman s
place is in the home, this week are most
lugubr;ous over the prospect Of her staying
there for even one day.
"Anti-suffragists have fairly fallen over
their own feet in their haste to condemn
women for the proposal to abide by the time
honored anti precept that woman s place is
in the home. In the language Of one Of
them, for women to stay in their homes for
even one day would be to prove the limit
of lawlessness to which suffragists are pre-
pared to 60, in order to gain their ends
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THE. EDUCATION OF THE
WAGE-SPENDER.

The public has become quite thoroughly
awakened to the evil Of food adulteration
As consequence, we have many excellent
pure food laws and many vigilant house
keepers who are on their guard against food
adulteration.
Another phase Of this same battle is the
one being waged against the use OF adu.te1
ants in the manufacture of fabrics A study
Of the matter reveals the facts that silks,
cotton and wooden fabrics are lover
weighted' and ''finisned. - Starch and
pipe-clay are used to "fill in' sheetings
and muslins and tin, zinc, glue or iron
are used to overweight silks. Other adulter-
ants used are china-clay, chloride OF mag
nesium, chloride of zinc, chalk and gypsum
In one instance, it was found that thousands
of pounds of macaroni were used to over
weight cotton goods.
1t is logical and right that women who
SO largely control the disbursement of the
household funds should become thoroughly
informed. We need efficient wage-spenders
as well as capable wage-earners
To quote Ida Tarbell-''So poorly have
women discharged their obligations that
dealers for years have been able to manipu
late prices practically to please themselves,
and as for quality and quantity, we have
the scandal of American wooden goods, Of
food adulteration and false measure. No
one of these could have come about in
this country if woman had taken her bust
ness as consumer with anything like the
seriousness with which man takes his as
a producer.
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in some small way economic and political
problems that presented themselves from
time to time converted me. AS years have
passed I have become more and more i'm
pressed with the difficulty and completely
of those problems and also with the power
Of society to solve them; but I am con-
WINGED that for their solution we must look
to the many, not to the few We need all
the people, women as well as the men. In
the democracy which is to solve these prob
lens we must have not a part of society,
but the whole.
''The insight which women have shown
into problems that men did not and per-
haps could not understand has convinced
me not only that women should have the
ballot but that society demands that they
exercise the right.