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The Washington herald., 1915-04-12

deavor. amounted to more than half =
million dollars for the denomination in
North America.
Progress has been made in the Sab
bath school department. new schools
being organized at Belmont and Cliff
ton. The school offerings amounted
to s3.467.60. an increase of s593.IS
over the previous year.
President Harter cheered the hearts
of the delegates when he spoke of
the success that ha sattended the eff
forts put forth in medical missionary
work in the district. He dwelt on
the work that is being done at the
mission hospital under the direction
of the denomination in the southwest
ern section of the city.
The medical side of the denomina-
tion may be associated with the
evangelistic campaigns this. summer.
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FRANK DECISION EXPECTED.
Supreme Court VIII Give Out Nor,
Opinions To-day.

The Supreme Court will hand down
another grist of opinions today. Chief
interest centers in the case Of Leo NJ.
Frank, convicted at Atlanta. Ga. of
the murder of Mary phagan. The case
has been under advisement for several
weeks, and it was expected that a de-
cision in the case might come down
last Monday.
Fifty or sixty other cases are under
Amusement in which a decision may
be expected.
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Kensington Bonds Sold.

Special to The Washington Herald.
kensington. Md. April l1.-ln response
to advertisement for bids opened Sat
urday. the entire issue of $4,000 per
cent water and sewer coupon bonds was
purchased by \. r. Leach 4 Co. of New
York. Contract for the construction of
the improvement has been awarded to
the CantriIl Construction Company. Of
Philadelphia. Pa. work to be completed
within four months.
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Hill. Thomas Priest, Raymond He'll
muth, owen Nugent, and Norris Ro-
land.
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KNNOLNT,
INWMAN /
~ AER
4 RL2ZEZZlA1 |
AND Yours n
July 7-Margaret Cliff
Parton.

Better known as Fanny Fern" is
the American writer. Sarah Parton. who
was born 104 years ago today. Her
writings under the name of Fanny
Fern" were widely read half a century
ago. She was the wife of a distin-
guished editor. James Parton.
Margaret Clifford. Countess Of Cum
beriand. was born in England 355 years
ago today. She was beautiful young
noblewoman, who was married at the
age of seventeen to the Earl Of Cum
berland. but because of an intrigue
carried on by the earl with a court
lady of high degree Margaret was soon
separated from her husband. Her
daughter, Anne Clifford, Countess of
Pembroke. was Gell-known writer of
her day. She describes her mother. the
Countess Of Cumberland. as being "a
woman of great natural wit and judg-
ment. Of a sweet disposition. truly re-
ligious and virtuous. and endowed with
a large share of those four moral vir-
justice, fortitude. and
The death of her two
sons did SO much afflict her that ever
the book of Job was her
constant .compa
In the portraits of the distinguished
countess still to he seen in several
in England she is always
shown with a book of Psalms in her
hand.
DOWNRIGHT 1851
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Copyright. lsis)
We are, as Ruskin said. but children
Of larger growth" and. like children.
! We emerge but slowly from the habits.
fears and limitations of our childishly
simple beliefs.
Tell one suffering from fear which
makes itself manifest in a thousand diff
ferent ways, such as stomach trouble.
nervousness, heart and many organic de-
| rangements. that to change her thoughts
would be to change her bodily condition
and ehe would hug her old beliefs to her
as child a well-loved toy and belief
that such change were possible would
be Cat firsD far from her thoughts But
get her to try right thinking as a cura-
tive agency, with the additional benefits
to be derived from habits of deep breath
ing and exercise for the vital organs, and
see her-even as a child-throw far from
her the tattered rags of her unbelief in
which she had so closely wrapped her.
self. and with the whole-souled enthu-
siasm of a child enter into the marvellous
heritage that rightfully belongs to US all.
Some two thousand years ago we were
told by a lowly~ Nazarene that the king
dom Of heaven was at hand. He also
told us that the words He spake were
not just for a chosen number of people or
for a limited number of years. but for
all people and all time. Today We can
say with truth that the kingdom of
health is at hand for all time.
With the senses dull, clouded. and
therefore thoroughly unreceptive of the
real meaning of the words LAS a man
thinks SO Is he we have read them for
years and centuries. little dreaming of
the health and happiness they contain.
That fear Is the origin of a large per-
centage of the diseases that the human
race is troubled with is admitted by the
medical profession. Think of few
cases where fear has played havoc with
our health and lives generally We all
know how worry will cause US to lose
our hair. and worry is fear. Diabetes
and other serious diseases frequently
follow on the heels of grief and pro-
longed anxiety.
Fear renders us liable to contraction
of various infectious diseases while
faith is a material aid in resisting them.
1t is natures stimulant.
Interesting experiments of the effects
of faith and fear on the regulation of the
blood pressure have recently been made
by a learned professor. and 1t was ex-
traordinary the way faith regulated to
normal while fear or depression had the
effect of either raising or lowering the
blood pressure to away above or below
what it should be.
BE still and know that am God has
sound. therapeutic advice in it. Many a
nervous patient would cure him-or her
self by the silent realization of this great
truth.
Little minds, by the wear and tear of
their eternal fretting, fritter and wear
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CUPID FINALLY TRIUMPHs.
Young Couple from Virginia Over
come Obstacles and Are Married.

Young Couple from Virginia Over
come Obstacles and Are Married.
Miss Pearl Barksdale. 10. and Dallas
c. Jennings, 81. of Charlottesville. Va,
the young couple who made an unsuc-
cessful attempt to get married the even
ing of Independence Day. were married
yesterday by Rv. L. NJ. Chambers. Of
McKendree NJ. E. Church. at the Ebbitt
Augustus Gumpert, clerk at the hotel
who did everything possible to arrange
for the ceremony on the arrival of the
couple, was master of ceremonies. He
acted as witness and was the first to
kiss the bride after the bridegroom
Early yesterday morning Mr.. JENNINGS
with the air of Mr.. Gumpart, started
out in search of license, wedding ring
and preacher and by noon all arrange
ments were complete. Soon afterward
Rev. DR.. Chambers arrived and in a
short time the young couple were united
Following the ceremony the young
couple. accompanied by w. Able Barks-
dale. brother of the bride, went to the
cafe.i where wedding break EAST was
served. They were greeted at the door
by strains Of the wedding march. the
young couple will remain in washington
several days.
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| Copyright 1851
What sweeter memory could child
have than that of the bedtime hour
when he snuggled close to mothers
| side, perhaps before a glowing fire,
and Whispered to her the happen
ings of his day or heard from her
lips a story from the Bible or fairy
book? How many of you, members
of the Mothers Club. keep up the
sweet bedtime hour with your little
ones? Do you gather them about you
at the close of each day for the sa-
cred confidence which knit mother and
child together as no other influence
can? 1t seems to me that the mother
who does not do that loses half Of
the happiness of bringing up her chill
dren.
One of our members told me the
other day that she had never failed
to give an hour to her children just
before she put them to bed, no mat
ter what her other engagements or
how great her hurry. And she had
been repaid, she said. 1 will tell you
the story as she told 1t to me.
1T has~been the very sweetest thing
in my life, that bedtime hour with
my babies. They are boy and girls
now. almost grown, but we wouldn't
miss our twilight confabs for anything
in the world.
II began 1t when they first came.
always undressed them and made
them ready for the night myself.
though my friends and even my moth
er-in-law used to say I was over
careful with them. Little BY little, as
they began to understand, I would
talk to them. tell them some simple
story that they could comprehend;
then, as they grew older, and al
lowed them to sit up a little longer
after their supper, we got into the
habit of sitting for few minutes be-
fore the nursery fire and seeing pic
lures in the Goals or telling little tales
to each other. either imaginary fables
or real events of the day.
do you know, I think the modern
steamheated house is responsible for
the lack Of Imagination we hear child
students complain about todayf An
open IRE IL a great incentive to story
telling. And though We >have q new
house ourselves instead OF the dear
old home in which 1 was born and in
which 1 went to housekeeping myself.
I have insisted on having one IRE
place where we can have an open nre
to cit beside. / couldn't keep my In
Now my boy 10 away at colleges
and the two girls will be ready In .
year or two, but We never miss our
bedtime hour. a. we still call It. When
my boy vas At home for his Easter
holiday this spring I had my reward:
he whispered to me one evening while
We were sitting before the CRATE in
which log was smolderins. DO you
know. Aumsy. our dear old bedtime
hour has kept me straight many 81
tfmey Things come up. you know. that
are AwfuIly hard for . fellow to de-
The Washington herald., 1915-07-07
Aunt Chatty's Mothers Club
Conducted by Mrs. Charity Brush
THE BEDTIME HOUR.

II HIS real Mothers Club for the benefit of mothers everywhere
who struggling with questions Of discipline. training. eduea
ton. clothing. for the children Write Aunt Chay of problems
which vexng YOU and she will advise and help solution of
them Write her of discoveries of methods you have
found successful smoothing the rough paths of life for the tender
childish through Mothers Club your experience may
benefit other mothers still tangled the web perpex
you have so happily unraveled.
Cooperation the any business: why in
the business of motherhood that and hottest calling which always
has been and always will b. of glory
other of usefulness be opened herr Address Mrs.
Charity Brush. of this pager.
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DAILY SHORT STORY

you know" he went on. land il behave
like sin, you won't mind too much, will
your"
mo, indeed" she said heartily.
Good" he said. Il wanted you to I'M
derstand from the start. / shall probably
take to cussing before long"
You rnay-'cuss' as much as you like,
she laughed, and since it was an infec-
tious laugh, McGregor laughed too.
In the ensuing days McGregor thought
much. Heretofore. life had been to him
the market, the club and his horses. Day
by day he became more conscious that
something very vital had been left out.
and what that something was he was
well aware when he looked into a pair of
big. dark eyes or listened to low. sweet
voice Instead of being a patient devil
ish hard to handle" he was docile and
acquiescent. He was experiencing a
strange. sweet contentment that all the
previous years of his hard. unrelenting.
self-made success had never given him.
You haven't 'cussed,'" she reminded
him mockingly one day.
you've made me forget how" he said.
looking at her with an intensity she
found disconcerting.
McGregor had progressed rapidly. That
afternoon he was propped in a chair by
working miracles with the trees and
grass. II had grown too dark for her to
read aloud to him longer, and she laid
aside the book
You won't need a nurse much longer"
she laughed
"Huhn said he won't l. though? I'm
worse than you think"
NONSENSE. You're nearly as good as
new"
II shall always need nurse" he said
with grave deliberation. Life isn't
worth living without one"
She moved as IL to rise from her chair.
He suddenly caught her wrist In his
strong right hand and held her fast
You've changed my whole standpoint
Of life," he said earnestly. The horses.
the money. all the rest don't matter now.
The only thing worth while Is you-Ma-
bel"
"Its-it's Just because you're III and
weak" she began with averted face.
1T isn't" he denied fatty.
you are rich. she said weakly. "Peo-
pie would say I married you for your
money"
IF you loved me, would you care what
they said?''
She shook her head.
Look at me-" he commanded DO you
care what they sayr,
NO." she said softly.
II wish you'd call up the stable for
me-" he said.
She went to the telephone in the next
room.
Here they are she called presently.
''Tell them to give Diavolo all the oats
he wants." said Mcores"r happily.
tCopsrisht, islsJ
The Washington herald., 1915-07-07

Are women people?"
up to the members of the New York
State constitutional convention last
week.
A delegation of suffragists headed
by Alberta Hill. representing the
New York Women's Political Union,
who has frequently been heard in this
city, appeared with this question
before Louis Marshall. chairman Of
the bill of rights committee in AL
bany. A letter was sent by Mrs. Har-
riet Stanton Blatch. president Of the
Woman's Political Union, to every
member and chairman of committee of
the constitutional convention, re-
iterating this question
The letter calls attention to certain
sections of the present State consti-
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Inc stars incline. Dut DO not compel.
Wednesday, July z, 1918.
Again good and bad influences are sup
posed to alternate. Uranus. Mercury and
Saturn are adverse today. while the Sun
and Venus are in benefic aspect
1t Is a time when caution should guide
both men and women. Financial matters
are not satisfactorily ruled. but fortune
will wait on many In the next few
months
The evil power Of Uranus. which early
In the year indicated many explosions.
is still strong and accidents are fore
Swallowed.
This is a sway most unfavorable for
aged persons. The death OF a man Of
distinguished career Is presaged this
week.
Pleasure parties OF all sorts have q
sinister sign. The week may bring a
serious disaster.
A fnancier who has extraordinary
power in Great Britain will meet sudden
death, before the end of the summer. the
seers predict. and warning is given Of
a panicky condition in London.
The stars indicate the prevalence OF
diseases of the throat when the autumn
winds blow MaIadies of unusual char
acter may cause concern.
Children continue to be under q sway
indicating cruelty and excessive NOR
tality in this country as well as abroad.
Scandals in public, institutions are fore
told.
Holland continues subject to sinister
influences. In common with South
Africa and other places under Cancer 1t
will suffer during the next few weeks.
An earthquake in the West Is indicat-
ed. Hawaii will be the center of VOL
canic disturbances, 1t Is held.
In the evening the sway IL fairly
lucky for entertainments of every sort.
especially those given out OF doors. Ro-
nance will be strongly active in the as
ISOLATION Of men and women. II IL q
fortunate time for making new acquaint-
ances.
Many weddings will take place IN the
autumn. TheSe will be an unusual num-
Der among persons of wealth.
new Lady Bountiful will win fame
before the summer ends by wise philan-
thropies and deeds of heroic service
There Is a lucky sign for sculptors and
painters Architecture, also. Is subject
to a direction which presages extraor-
binary recognition for Americans.
Persons whose birthdate II Is should
not travel or remove IN the next year.
They may have many small annoyances.
but they should be fairly lucky.
Children born on this day may be rest
less. high strung and ambitious. These
subjects Of Cancer often have talent for
artistic pursuits.
(Ccpyright lN5)
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FOR HEALTHY OLD AGE.

To make old age healthy and happy,
to study its peculiar ills and handi-
caps is the object of a newly organ
lied society of eminent physicians.
So far physicians and scientists have
taken peculiar interest in the diseases
of children, of youth, and of middle
age. Enormous sums of money have
been spent on research that will less
en- the ills and discomforts of the
young. All this is in striking contrast
to the lack of interest that has been
given to old age conditions. The Pc
culiar diseases of old age are, of
course, known in general way, but
with nothing like the thoroughness
that is devoted to those of youth and
childhood. The general feeling is
is it not?-that the money and time
devoted to old age maladies do not
yield such rich returns. Old people
are not long for this world anyway,
SO why spend money and time over
their maladies that might be spent
in saving the fife or making for the
efficiency of those with their life's
course still before them. 1t is this
same telling that makes it so much
harder for the promoters of charities
for the aged to collect funds than
those whose interest is for the young.
Ut is ever so much easier to sell tick
cts for an orphan asylum bazaar than
for benefit for the old folks home.
Are suffragists better looking than
ants? Well, of course, the old idea
used to be that every advocate of
"woman's rights" was, by virtue of
rher advanced ideas, a trump and
frightfully dowdy. 1t really is fact
that one of the things that prevented
many women from joining the
ranks of the suffragists dec
ade or so ago was their unwill-
ingncss to be associated with such a
sctNef frumps." But such is no long
er the case Even the ardent anti
has TO admit that many of the most
active of their opponents are exceed
ingly we'll dressed and good to look
at. How did it all come about? Was
it because a different class of women
arc now attracted to the cause of
Votes for women" or because the
suffragists. seeing what they were los
ing by their indifference to appear
snces. deliberately improved their
ways and pushed TO the fore those
of their number whose appearances
were most winning?
The Washington herald., 1915-07-07
Answers to Correspondents.

Miss Cocroft will endeavor to answer
all questions relating to her department
as promptly as possible. AS it will not
be practicable to print an answer to
every inquiry. a stamped envelope should
accompany each letter All letters should
be addressed TO Miss Susanna Cocroft.
care Of this paper.
, POck Marks.
Mr.. W. T. writes: KINDLY let me
know IL there is any method OF removing
peck marks. the result of smallpox"
If the pits have not gone far below the
cuticle. and into the true skin. the
blemishes can be removed by reeling the
skin. I should advise your going to a
skilled dermatoloGist He could give you
the treatment necessary. II they have
gone deeply into the true skin. they can
be but PARTIALLY removed.
Remedy for Earnche.
Mrs. r. D. asks: "My little girl Of S
years is greatly troubled with earache.
What can put in II for relief"
To begin with. l never advise putting
into that delicately adjusted
organ. the ear. The risks run in so doing
are too many. For instance. If there be
q tendency of the eardrum toward de-
preston. the weight of the oil pressing
upon 1t is bound to further this depres-.
SIGN. and the result might be that the
drumhead would rest on the small bones
in the inner car; II so the drumhead
would not vibrate and the result would
be impaired hearing. There are reme-
dies for earache that will help without
danger of injury. Steam heat will help
this painful trouble as much as any
thing. Take a glass of water so hot that
it steams, oil the flesh of the ear and
around it. wrap a clean cloth around the
top of the glass and let the little girl
lay her head over the glass with her ear
inside.
A few drops of warm sweet oil Is often
dropped into the ear. but do not do so ex-
cept upon the advice of an aurist. Your
child's hearing is too valuable and you
should consult the best aurist You can
find but the permanent relief must come
In the child's general health.
Keep her bowels well open and see
that she is kept warm and free from
colds.
The Washington herald., 1915-07-07
His New Standpoint.
By r. BLAIR EATON.

McGregor opened his eyes and cast a
bewildered look about the place. 1t was
his own room: there was no doubt what
ever about that. There were the riding
hats. the hunting crops. the spurs on
the wall. Something stiff and unyielding
encased his left leg: his left arm was
rigidly bound in splints. He put his right
hand to his face 1t was absurdly deco
rated with surgeons plaster. and a band
age was swathed about his forehead.
The odor of carbolic and iodoform filled
the room.
It was evident something had hap
pened; but how and when? McGregor
tried to think 1t must be early even
ing, for through the window he could
see the western sky all aglow with red
twilight. His head throbbed strangely.
and sharp pains shot through the left
arm. He tried to raise himself with his
right arm. but sank back again with a
groan.
Some one rose from a chair in the
corner and came quickly and noiseless-
Iy to the bed. 1t was a woman clothed
in dull fray and wearing trim white
cap. She gently smoothed the pillow.
and with a deft touch. eased the bandage
on his head. McGregor closed his eyes
and set his teeth until the paroxysm of
pain. occasioned by his attempt to rise.
had passed. Then his eyes openeo wear
lily. He was faint and giddy.
whats happened?" he asked.
The voice that answered him was low
and soothing
You met with an accident, Mr.. Nc
Gregor-a serious accident But it's all
rlsht now. Iiine ana auie' VIII w "oH-
ders for you"
How'd 1t happen said ne.
You were thrown from a Trap
"Ah! he said with sudden ennsnten-
ment. "Diavolo bolted at the road roier
ran like sin-rein broke-i was JUST get
ting him down when 1t broke. This MORN
ing. wasn't it?
Tuesday morning" she corrected.
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eide. and sometimes I have wanted
to go out with the boys on some ex-
petition or other. but 1 would always
stop to think il could tell you about
it at our bedtime hour. 1 couldn't help
1t, you know. 1t wasn't priggish. I'm
sure, but I'd have to decide every
time. in spite of myself. il I could
tell you about it. And IL 1 couldn't,
l just couldn't CO."
That made me the happiest mother
in the country, But 1 have been Just
as glad. many times, for the oppor-
tunity our little custom has given me
to help my girls in their difficulties.
They are attractive girls, don't laugh
because you think that Is only my
mother pride-but they are; they have
many friends among the young people,
and now that they are growing into
young ladyhood they are beginning
to have men friends. too.
Now, they talk these things over
with me Just as freely as IL were
another girl with them, and last year
had occasion to be prayerfully
thankful for that. Their set of girls
had become acquainted with a young
man who had recently come to our
little town to live. They were all
crazy about him, as the girls say,
and many of the mothers permitted
MIN 10 Call upon their OauSnteTS.
had invited him to the house. also, as
I make 1t a point to know all my
girls friends, but I decided he was
not the kind of man I wanted them
to know and SO ] felt 1t necessary
to discourage his attentions
MY daughters were invited to a
party one evening and although the
friend who gave it knew that I OBJ
jected to this ypung man. he was one
of the guests. Before they came home
the girl hostess suggested to my
daughters that they need not tell me
they had met the man; that il would
be no harm II / did not know II. In
some surprise they said, why. don't you
always tell your mother everything?
But she only laughed at them. They
did tell me. OF course, together with
the advice Of the other girl not to
tell. and we had good. hear-to-heart
talk about II.
ITO make a long story short, the
man soon after ran away with the
girl who did not want them to tell,
and deceived her. She IN today a
broken.hearted young mother. her life
ruined.
Il wish you would tell the Mothers.
Club about this. for I. have often
thought II would make . good talk for
the club" &
/ like to give these individual ex-
periences ASH know each one will
help some mother. All our problems
are very much alike.