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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-21

sociability which the well-regulated.
store. or factory should recognize, and
many of them do.
Fellow employees should be friends as
well as business associates. They should
enjoy one another company at work as
well as out of hours.
A hearty Good morning." an ex-
change of smiles, pleasant Joke. =
kind word even during the heat of
business, helps to bring the strenuous
ness of work to a livable level and as
sistS rather than retards the action OF
business
Get acqua inted with YOUR fellow clerks.
Know something Of their personal life. a.
well of their business Organize ban
teams, associations for business and
social betterment. Connect with the EN-
ployes of similar institutions. 1ntermn-
gle and interchange.
The greatest business men in the world
are members of boards of trade, cham
bers of commerce. and other organiza-
tons. They lunch together unafraid of
competition. Their principles should he
emulated by the employees. who, collec-
lively, are "a strong a factor in success
as are those who command them.
Let your wife come into this social
and business life, if she will.
Do not draw too sharp line between
business and family.
Pass along the good things you have
to others. and they will reciprocate.
The more you get together. the greater
will be your accomplishment.
Remember that you alone amount to
very little. that you as a part of COM
posite mass may hold great responsible
ity.
The successful man is not a hermit.
He circulates rather than boards. He
shakes hands with his competitors, eX-
changes experiences with those of SINH
lar callings. He has a normal social
life, the kind that does not interfere with
his business. He renders unto business
all that business deserve. and does not
forget that there is something beside bus
mess, something which. il properly han
died, will push rather than handicap
trade
Don't live by yourself. Get away from
yourself. Get together.
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their ancestry to Thomas Wellcs. who.
as legend has it. landed first at Salem
tthen Naumkeak), Mass. and who later
became governor of Connecticut and
held many other public offices. And this
Thomas Welles. il is supposed. came of
an English family which could trace its
lineage back through the centuries 10
the time of William the Conqueror. when
II came with him from Normandy. In
Normandy and in the days of William
the Cor queror the name was probably
known as DE Welles.
Gideon Welles. famous secretary of the
navy in Lincoln's administration. and a
lineal descendant of this Thomas Weiles.
used to say, My father. Samuel Welles.
who died in 1884. used to tell me that our
English ancestors were of the nobility"
There was John Welles. who fought
on London Bridge in 1880 with the Earl
Of Crawford, who. according to histori-
cal account. was Lord Welles. and there
were other men of the name in the early
days who were noblemen of note.
1t is supposed. because of a strange
piece of evidence contained in an old leg
acy. that the WelIes family was connect
ed with the family of William Shake
speare. Dame Elizabeth Barnard. a
granddaughter of Shakespeare be-
queathed 80 pounds to be given tn her
cousin. Thomas Welles, of Carlton. Bed
ford, England. who it is supposed was
of the same family as the American i'm
migrant.
To "One of the Fays.'' who asks for
the early record of the Fays in this
country:
The first of the Fays in this country
was John. who came over in the Speed
well, in 1856. settling in Massachusetts. 1t
was his daughter Mary, who married the
Indian Warrior" as he was always
called-Jonathan Brigham. He received
his name from the following incident:
While at work, one day. he saw an In
dian lurking near: seiZing his gun. he
stepped forward in full view. saying:
Shoot straight, you Indian Both fired
at once, the Indian dropping dead.
Brigham escaped unhurt.
John, son of John the Pilgrim was
the first town clerk of Westboro, Mass,
and filled many offices of trust and
honor His home. a cabin built in the
hillsides. was, in a manner. preserved
by his descendants. until about seventy
years ago. and called their Ancestors
Fort" John was a large land owner
Play is a colonial form of the name,
found in old records.
Copyright. 1851
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-21

Mrs. Cawthorn brought her two chill
dren. one aged five and the other
seven. to the Athenaeum with great
hopes but some trepidation. as Stet-
son, who was quite a character in his
way was very hard man to satisfy.
On the opening night this trepidation
increased to actual fear as the Stet-
son contract included a clause which
said the act could not appear after
the opening night if they did not
make good. Stetson had a peephole
in the curtain at one side of the
stage. where he could stand as each
act went on and watch the audiences
reception of il. II the act did not
make good he would simply say
Come off" and If the performers did
not obey him, the curtain would be
dropped in front of them and their
engagement would be at an end. The
act appearing before the Cawthorn
Children was a soubrette and before
she had sung the first verse of her
opening song Stetson uttered the fatal
words and she had to leave the stage.
so. naturally, Mrs. Cawthorn sent her
children out on the stage very fright
ened. while she herself stood behind
Stetson to see if her children would
receive a similar fate.
The opening of their act was quite
a long dialogue and to Mrs. Cawthorn's
horror Stetson kept repeating to him
self over and over again: Too blank
ETY. blank much gab"' However, he
didn't say Gene or" so she still had
hopes. and when the children sang
their first song and the audience COM
menced to applaud. he walked away
from the peephole. which was a sure
sign that the act had made good. When
the children came off at the end of
their act he picked up little Joseph
and sat him on a trunk and said:
Little fellow. I've got two big bath
tubs down stairs. one is filled with
ice water and the other with boiling
hot water. If you don't cut that blank
CAB out of your act. I'm going to dip
you into both of these tubs
OF course the offending dialogue was
cut out at the next performance and
the children made big hit the rest
of the week. Their salary was SIS for
the week and after the last perform
ance Stetson called Mrs. Cawthorn into
his office and counted out the money
for her. She had been so much worried
through the week that everything
would not turn out right that she
unconsciously heaved a sigh of relief
as Stetson paid her the last bill.
Whats the matter-are you ill., in
quired Stetson.
NO. replied Mrs Cawthorn. out
have always heard you were such a
devil and / have been so afraid some
thing would go wrong"
Stetson replied We'll. I am a devil.
but it's these rotten ham actors who
make me that way Now / am going
to tell you something that will put
feather in your cap. Your children can
play my house six weeks out of every
season from now on. You can say l
said so and you can put that In the
Clipper il you want to-" And needless
to say. Mrs. Cawthorn did put this
statement in the Clipper and 1t result
ed in a long string OF engagements for
the children, as praise from Stetson q
that time was the highest Endorsement
a vaudeville act could have. and he
also kept his word and for several
years the Cawthorn children played q
six weeks engagement at the Athen-
aeum.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-21
GETTING A START.
The Social Life of Business.
By NATHANIEL c. FOWLER. JR.

BUSINESS, while often hard and even
"ruel, does not refuse to consider the
human side of life.
Thousands of captains of industries
and merchant princes recognize the
needs of man as well as those of trade.
and encourage many forms OF social in
.ercourse among their employees, includ-
ng the establishment of libraries, read
ng-rooms. Eymnasiums. and the organi-
:ation of athletic and other societies.
Exhaustive experiment has shown that
1calthy social life can be added to bust
ness without detriment to financial
profit, and that the more employees get
ogether. play together as well as work
:ogether, the more efficient they are
likely to be.
Workers of the same grade naturally
ave much in common. and there is no
Jason why they should not enjoy one
mothers company in business and out Of
!, why they should not have common
business interest and a social acquaint-
lnceship and friendship.
OF course. business must be attended
a. and any social life which interferes
With the conduct of business cannot very
vel be tolerated, but there are forms of
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-21
A CONER IN ANCESTORS.

Seventy in l6nS-the second attempt to
colonize Virginia. A hardy and indie
pendent woman Mistress Forrest must
have been to brave the hardships of col
onization without a husband to depend
upon. but the records are provokingly
silent as to her history in the New World
That she was a woman Of some means
is apparent from the fact that she
brought with her a maid-Anne Burros.
who married soon after landing, one
John Loyden. and thus brought about
the first marriage of white people in
America.
Whether or not Mistress Forrest ever
followed her maids example and married
is not known. and so we can never know
whether or not blood flows through the
veins of some of the old Virginia fam
lilies.
To Mrs. J. B.. who asks for a descrip-
ton and explanation Of the Beardsley
coat-of-arms:
The coat-of-arms of the Beardsleys is
blazoned: argent two bars gules. on a
canton of the second, a maunch of the
first. The maunch. or sleeve. is found in
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-21

Among the arrivals at the Hotel Nc
Alpin yesterday were Mr. and Mrs
Henry w. Watts. Washington. II. {.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-21
Makes Garments for Hospital.

a guild 20 work for the interests of the
Garfield Hospital was organized last
week. 1t will BE- called the Garfield
Guild and will supply garments for the
free maternity ward of the hospital. The
guild is composed of thirty members who
will hold working meetings each fort
night. The officers elected were: Presi-
dent, Mrs. p F.. Bringle: first vice presi-
dent Mrs. J. s. Wall: second vice presi-
dent, Mrs. O. G Slapler; treasurer. Mrs.
William NJ. Simpkins. and secretary, Miss
Myra NJ Hendey.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-21
McAlpin Hotel Events.

New York, Feb. 20.-At the meeting
of the Women's Peace Party. New York
branch. held yesterday afternoon in
the Hotel McAlpin. a constitution was
adopted. and officers elected Mrs. Ber-
tina King Boxer read the preamble of
the platform adopted by the national
organization. Miss Alice Carpenter
spoke on the passing of old ideas and
the coming in of new with regard to
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-21
Leaves for Suffrage Conference.

Mrs. AntOinette Funk, vice Chairman
of the congressional committee of the
National American Woman Suffrage As
scciation and a member of the national
campaign committee. will leave for New
York today to hold a conference with Mrs.
Stanley Mccormick. chairman of the fl
nance committee, and the New Jersey
leaders on the approaching campaign in
New Jersey.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-21
District Population Grows.

Andrew Boyd, who Is compiling
Boyd's directory, yesterday said that
information gathered by canvassers
showed that the population Of the Dis
trict has increased $4,000 during the
last year and that reports Of decreas-
ing business and an excessive number
Of vacant houses have been found un-
true.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-21

war. and the attitude of women. Mrs.
Amos Pinchot spoke on the necessity
of adjustment of individuals in their
own lives to render them Mt to promote
peace. Mrs. Amos r. T.. Pinhcot was
chairman: honorary vice chairmen were
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. Mrs. Char
lotte Perkins Gilman, Miss Florence
+, Guernsey. Mrs. Adolph Lewissohn. Miss
Melinda Scott. Miss Rose Schneider
man. Miss Mary Shaw. Mrs Rose Pas
tor Stokes. Mrs. Wilhelm Cumming
Story. Miss Ida NJ. Tarbell. Mrs. Nor
man de Il. Whitehouse. Mrs. Henry
Willard: secretary. Miss Anne Moore:
advisory council. Mrs. Crystal T.. Ben
edict. Miss Alice Carpenter. Mrs. Frank
II. Cothren. Miss Madeline Doty, and
Miss Elizabeth c. Watson.
Among the arrivals at the Hotel Nc
Alpin yesterday were MIR. and Mrs.
Henry W. Watts. Washington. II. {.
There will he a colonial the dansant
in the Winter Garden of the Hotel
McAlpin on Washingtons Birthday.
from 4 until $50 p. m. with exhibition
dancing of the minuet in costume. and
several professional dancers in special
numbers. A feature will be the grand
parade of colonial DANES and beauX.
The colonial the dansant is under the
direction of Mrs. Il. W. Hawksworth
and Mrs. NJ. 7. Groner who also are
arranging the Thursday fashion the
dansants and the Saturday the dan
SAINTS in the McAlpin Winter Garden.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-11-27
Frame.


John Manning heard a humorous
story that ran like this: IF Jack
Johnson. Charlie Chaplin and Billy
Sunday were walking down the street.
what would that suggest to your"
Chocolate nut sundae, of course"
John went home, and he thought he
had & regular dinner joke, waited I'M
I'll a favorable time and pulled it In
this manner: IF Billy Johnson, De
Wolf Hopper and Billy Sunday were
walking down the street, what would
you have?"
And John looked all around to see
whether there had been anyone who
had heard the joke before, but the
faces over the soup were blank.
Well,' said his father expectantly.
"Frappe,' said John, and burst out
into a spasm of unrestrained mirth.
But he stopped suddenly, for there
was not smile around the table. and
1t really didn't sound as funny as 1t
did the first time.--Indianapolis News.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-11-27
British Afforestation.

Afforestation as a national under
taking is being kept insistently be-
fore the British government. At a
meeting of the Scottish Arboricultural
society in Edinburgh the other day a
resolution was adopted, in which the
government was urged to give facil-
tiles. and to provide funds for putting
schemes of forest tree culture into
operation. Afforestation carried out
on considerable scale, II is averred.
would afford suitable employment, I'M
der healthy conditions. for large
and increasing rural population. while
II would also assist in solving the
problem of finding work and wages
for the large number of soldiers who
at the end OF the war on returning
home may not be able to resume their
former occupations. The matter is
really one of some national urgency
AS the chairman pointed out, the war
has made clear the dangerous extent
to which Scotland has hitherto been
dependent upon foreign timber, for
since the outbreak of hostilities every
article in which wood is used has
gone up considerably in price.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-11-27
Spook-Ridden Babylon.

In lecture in connection with the
Egypt Exploration fund, on Burial
Customs in Mesopotamia and Egypt"
DR.. l.. w. King said the spirit which
animated the Egyptian in their varied
and changing practices toward the
dead was based on affection and rev.
erence. but the Babylonian, in the
main, was prompted by fear. The
9abylonians we're probably more
spook-ridden than any other nation
of antiquity, and their magical texts
made it clear that the most terrible
class of spirits were the ghosts Of
the dead who for some reason had
been unable to enter the underworld.
Driven to hunger and thirst, such a
ghost might roam about and fasten on
anyone with whom it had relations
in this life, and 1t would plague him
until he performed the rites that
could give peace. 1t was mainly to lay
the ghost and prevent 1t from haunt
ing that the Babylonians were scru-
pulous in performing the due burial
rites.-London Times.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-11-27
Work Of Japanese Girls.

For Japan's coronation ceremony of
taishosal next November 81 pretty
young women have been assisting in
transplanting the young emerald rice
plants in the sacred fields of the
Mikawa province. Half way to their
knees in water, they toiled daily. like
their less privileged sisters, at the
work. Bending down. they laid the
tiny shoots in place. and rising, sang
sacred Shinto songs. for the rice
grains OF the rare festival must be
perfect in shape and color-true
seed pearls of the Way of the Gods
The girls are from sixteen to twenty
one years old. or these things the
papers took note. The photographers
snapped them in their coming and do.
ing and going. Not only from the
neighborhood but from afar have
come insistent marriage proposals
and all but one are said to be en-,
gagged and are to be married the day
of the coronation.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-11-27
CLEANLINESS
IS NEXT To
CODL|NESS''

Absolute cleanliness Is Godliness."
And It Is for this reason that we
have installed an American Sanitary
Steam Clothes Pressing Machine.
This way of pressing clothes Is &C.
knowledged to be the only positive
guard against carrying and spreading
garment germs.
Clean, hot, dry steam is applied to
every garment. The heat of this
steam is so intense that mo living
thing can hope to survive, and in
fact your clothes are subjected to a
sterilizing process while being press
ed. The dirty sponge cloth and
filthy press rag-these have mad their
day. They served their purpose un-
til you and the general pubic be.
came aware of the SANITARY meth
DDS now employed by us.
The old time merchant tailor finish
has come back. Our American Steam
Press is designed to press into any
kind or class of garment the natural
body shape. The application Of
steam instead of a wet rag and hot
from renders thoroughly uniform
finish, brings out the color, raises the
nap, sets and dries the fabric, and
gives the entire garment an appear
ance of newness.
Your clothes win last longer. The
AMERICAN method of pressing is
really CLOTHES insurance. 1t is a
way which prolongs the life of your
wardrobe, for there is no pulling,
hauling and twisting of the fabric to
draw 1t out of shape. The press
does it naturally, easily and beauti.
fully.
The value of clean outer apparel
IS of great Importance. We know by
hearing comments expressed by all
classes of people that ones outer APP
pearance is most essential, for many
times the selection of man or wom-
an for a better position depends, in
q part at least, upon his or her per
sonality (clean and well pressed
clothes.)
Our cleaning methods are simple
but resultful. In cleaning clothes
we use materials that clean without
injury to the fabric. This care TAX
ing" process is more costly to us
than the ordinary methods employed
to clean clothes, but we find 1t pays
to serve our patrons in the most eff
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-11-27
THE GARDENS
OF EAST
AURORA
,continued from page seven)

CONTINUED from page seven)
itua' ize it. To be sure, these must
come from tae individual, from with.
in and not from without, but indus.
trialism controls the conditions.
Give men home and garden. be
It ever so humble, and you appeal
to elemental Instincts They are
drawn out under the influence Of the
sun and the sky and of growing
things shorter hours and higher
wages mean greater leisure TO dig
and to plant And ne who pants in
his own garden reaps not only food
for his table but food for his soul
re cultivates hope and faith and pa
tience, the great garden trinity. Hope
springs eternal in the garden. If
our corn and tomatoes are not fine
this year, watch ussnext year. In a
word, the garden humanizes. 1t feeds
that creative spontaneity in the hui
man soul, without which life is
naught.
In the gardens of East Aurora
they do not talk strikes and boycots.
With forty bushels of potatoes in the
cellar and your pantry filled, social
ism is an academic question. And
let us not forget also that your gar
den of growing things is something
of a university for young and old.
II education fails, 1t is for the same
reason that industrialism fails. II
does not properly relate itself to ac-
tual life. Schools put the emphasis
on the wrong spots. Text books and
museums are not half so instructive
as living things-be they but beets
or potatoes. IL YOU doubt 1t, go
forth to the field for week with
fresh air child. All children are in.
terested in growing things so that
every garden becomes n school, an
educator Of hand and head, mis-
sionary of the free spirit, and an APP
estle of the humanities.
SO It Is in the gardens Of East Au-
rora-so it has been in the history
of all great peoples. In the pristine
days of ONE every citizen had his
homestead of two and one half acres.
Cincinnatus left lis unyoked pillow to
assume the leadership of the Repub-
lie. The British Empire was built
not by industrial laborers, but by the
yeomen who tiled its fields. Prussi- |
an efficiency begins not with its fac
tories but with its agrarian reforms.
The abiding achievement OF the Re
volution was the division Of France
into its gardens.
In the gardens of East Aurora
without revolution or conscious re-
form, but simply with watering pot
and hoe, they are restoring the past
and assuring the future.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-11-27
Wireless Station for Antarctic.

One OF the objects of Sir Z. Shackle-
tons present South polar expedition
10 10 establish wireless station in the
Antarctic, the stan to be relieved once
year. The main purpose of the sta
ton would be to keep the civilized
world acquainted with the meteoro-
logical conditions around the pole
theoretically the power of such sta
ton need not be very great for long
distance transmission, but during Cap
tain SCOTS Antarctic Investigations 1t
was discovered that the Aurora aust
trails (the South pole equivalent Of
the aurora borealis in high northern
latitudes), by "damping" the ether
waves, somewhat counterbalanced the
lessened interference OF sunshine.