davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17
A Poem a Day
WORDS.

WORDS.
IL isn't always what we say
As much as how W esay IL.
Our words may like the sunshine
or Hidden thought, betray It:
Were oft more harsh In word and
tone,
TOO thoughtlessly have spoken,
And then when once the arrows
flown
Have pierced a heart that's broken.
Words may be coined in censure's
And no ofranss be taken
II not In spirit chill and cold
No hatred they'll awaken;
Whereas IL harsh they're like the
edge
OF rapier or sabre
And often prove the op'ning wedge
To part a friend and nsiGheor.
The kindly word that's gently said
Is like q polished Jewel,
IL opens riffs In clouds Of dread
And softens lives once cruel:
IL breathes OF kindlinsss of heart
Makes heavy burdens lighter,
Makes springs of sympathy TO start.
And al about seems brighter.
-Augusta TrsadweiL
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17
Paid in His Own Coin

In the days OF the country inn and
when travelling overland was done
on horseback or I'm carriages. the
eccentric John Randolph, OF Roa-
noke, was passing over a road that
was new TO him. He stopped at an
inn for dinner. The neal being over,
the driver hitched In his team and
was ready to resume the journey,
when the innkeeper. doubtless with
the best intentions, iusUired OF Ran
dolph where hs was going.
I've l,su bny v.,., a.'u I,o none
OF your business" gruffly answered
tho traveller.
About half a mile from the inn
Ran1olph found that the road forked.
lie. of course. did not know which
end to take, 40 he sent the driver
back to inquire of the innkeeper.
"You can tell Mr.. Randolph that
he has paid his bill and that he can
take whichever way he chooses"
returned the innkeeper.-Holland's
Magazine.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17
The Keep Well Column
TIE BUSINESS WOMAN.

member that within certain limita
tlons her well.being rests largely
in her own hands.
Here are four essentials TO good
health:
Eight hours sleep in the fresh
air.
Regular exercise.
Sensible clothing.
Wholesome food.
No woman should try working
on her nerves. This may be kept
mp for quite while when pleasure
or the demands Of business tempt
one TO rob themselves OF the neces-
sary amount OF rest Invariably
one must foot the bills, so In the
end the reaction Is apt TO prove
dangerous.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17

II you have a son. or a friend, who
seems deficient in moral power, and
If you are sincerely anxious TO help
him develop il this important re-
spect. here is hint that you will
tnd useful:
Try to persuade your son or your
friend tc take regular. daily, outdoor
exercise, preferably some form OF
exercise that VIII be OF real interest
10 him
The element Of interest is of i'm
portance for two reasons.
In the first place, IL his exercise
does not interest him, ne will not
persist in IL. In the second place,
unless il is interesting il will not
give him a maximum OF physical
benefit.
Exercise that is tedious fatigues
rather than strengthens. All exer-
else, Of course, IL carried to an ex-
treme, is fatiguing. But tedious ex-
ercise fstigues almost as soon as 1t
Is begun.
As a result, the healthy stimula-
ton OF the muscles and bodily pro-
oesses which exercise should give is
frustrated. And this stimulation II
Is as important 10 obtain for the
sake Of the moral life as Of the
physical.
Few people sufficiently appreciate
The benign inference which healthy
functioping OF the processes of the
body exerts upon the morality. 1t
does net. TO be sure, take the place
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17
THANKSGIVING VOWS

Would II not be a good thing on this Thanks
giving Day to dig well, gather about it. and
record our vows that will say good.by to
selfishness, to thoughtlessness and to sin of
every sort.-good-by to all that has dlspeased
God and ourselves goodby to life OF failure,
and set our faces toward life OF victory?
A well has always been a place OF refresh
ment Jesus spoke Of well in this way. He
said: "He that drinketh of the water that I
shall give him. IL shall be in him we'll OF wa
ter" Would Il not be a good thing on this
thanksgiving day To make up our minds 10 lay
hold upon those things which mean spiritual
refreshment and spiritual conquest Some OF
us have been drifting from our Bibles Why
not go back to them this day, Of all the daysf
The Christian Herald.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17

workers IS one OF the utmost I'm
portance. not alon~on account Of
the efficiency Of the individual but
because the future welfare OF the
race may be materially affected by
he health Of these potential moth.
crs.
The woman in business should re-
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17

~ moral training But II makes a
man more receptive TO moral train
ing
Let a mans blood be circulating
freely and richly through his brain,
let his food he digesting well with
consequent benefit TO his brains
nutrition, let his nervous system in
general be up 10 par, and II will al.
ways be easier for him to think more
morally than II his brain were i'm
poyerished AMI poisoned by poor
blood supply.
Exercise enrIches the blood supply
through improving the circulation,
he digestion, and the respiratory
and elininative organs. This is why
exercise-active, outdoor exercise
Is always 10 &c recommended rs an
aid in moral development.
Make sure, therefore. that your
boy gets plenty OF exercise. Encour-
axe him in his fondness for play
always, however, making sure that
he does not overdo II. And get plen-
~ OF exercise yourself.
II you are too old for any OF the
so-called violent" games, content
yourself with walking, riding, or
playing golf But exercise in some
way. II will help you keep physical
ly well, and IL will help you keep
morally well.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17
Sane Auto Drivers Should
Give New Law a Fair Test

Let us accept the view OF the Llttle-
field auto ordinance that is advanced
only by the selfish driver who imagines
the streets are for his exclusive use, and
concede. for the time being, that upon
it's face it is impracticab1e and unwork-
able.
In what better way can its faults be
determined. if it really has faults, than
by an honest test of its provisions, mark
ed by earnest, whole-hearted co-opera-
tion Of the automobilists.
It is pointed out that one BAD effect
of the law will be tendency on the part
of some drivers to put on speed when
approaching a street car in an endeavor
to pass it before il has come to stop.
The police can do their share toward
a fair trial for the Littlefield ordinance
by taking care of these fellows just as
soon as they show themselves, and by
making of them an example for others.
Our safety zones will have been es-
tabhshed for naught and will offer no
protection whatever to the citizen wait
ing for car if the police, for an in
slant, tolerate the motorist who aims to
get around the new law with speed.
He would make the safety zones
DANGER zones, and the Times sug-
gests his prompt yanking up as men
aoa IN tho community
The most thoughtless Of those who
have opposed the Littlefield ordinance is
the man with the opinion that its pro-
visions will hurt the auto industry,
but we ask this man, too. if he drives
an auto, to get in line and do his S%re
toward fair test.
What we mean is THOROUGH test
not a test such as given the skip-stop
plan, which the council revoked after
few hours trial.
Let all join in and comply literally
with the new law until there has been
ample time to make comparisons.
It's object, it must be borne in mind,
is to protect the pedestrian and to re-
duce the number of accidents in our
streets.
1t WASN'T passed out Of any consid-
Grafton for the man with so little re-
gard for life and limb that he will at
tempt to turn his city's principal, bus
lest and most congested thoroughfare
into speedway.
Incidentally, the Littlefield law was
not passed to relieve the pedestrian of
HIS responsibility to himself in the mat
ter of protecting his own neck.
The inan approaching the street or
standing in the street will still do well
to keep awake.
If the law had been intended as lul
laby for the pedestrian, they would have
set it to music.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17
FAHRENHEIT
BY DR.. FRANK CRANE
Copyright 1915. by Frank Crane)

III Newton's law of gravitation con-
fllcted with vested interests" said Mac
aulay. 1T would not be accepted yet"
The Germans have a proverb, Habit
is an iron shirt"
II you find anything being done by
whole nation, or by any class of people,
you may be sure that the reason 10
simply that they have always done it.
One OF the most astounding enigmas
is why thousands or millions of free, ra-
tional agents continue to act In GER
tain irrational way, from sheer force Of
inertia To do thing because we did
it before. and others do II, suits the
natural laziness and inborn timidity Of
the ordinary mind, which breads, most
Of all. responsibility.
In 1920 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, .
German from Dantzig, but long q resi-
dent in Holland and England. construct
ed a thermometer, and placed his zero
at the lowest temperature he knew-S2
degrees below freezing. For 1876 years
since then 160.O0O,00O English speaking
people have gone on using q system Of
heat measurement that Is tnscientifc
and absurd, for the same kind Of reason
that makes them 60 on wearing stove
pipe hats and stiff collars.
In 1871 Rene Antoine Ferchault Do
Reaumur, Of Paris, devised thermome-
ter with the freezing point at zero.
which was a step toward simplicity, yet
he put the boiling point at 80, for some
reason. His instrument was used in
France until the Revolution. at which
time, in an orgy of reason. France un-
dertook to rationalize everything, in
cluding the thermometer, and adopted
the Centigrade measure.
The Centigrade thermometer was in
vented by Anders Celsius, professor OF
astronomy in the Upsala University OF
Sweden. In most countries it is still
called Celsius instead of Centigrade.
| This thermometer is now in general
use almost everywhere except in the
United States and England. 1t is strict
ly scientific, and bears about the same
| relation 10 the OlfeI l"V iHoti uih0H'o 40
the decimal system in money and
measurements bears to pounds, shillings,
and pence, and inches, feet, and yards.
The Fahrenheit heat measure is an
unmitigated nuisance. Year after
year" says a writer. "thoue inds Of
learned men, fuming with impatience.
spend valuable time in converting Fab
renheit into Centigrade degrees, and
vice versa, when there ought to be no
need of conversion at all. Year after
year we have grumbled and growled
and groaned at the lethargy which al
lowed the wrong system and the right
system to continue side by side and thus
create so much unnecessary labor, doubt,
confusion, and vexation; year after
year every one of us has waited for
somebody else to make the move"
Representative Albert Johnson is to
introduce bill abolishing the Fahren-
heit thermometer and establishing the
Centigrade in all United States govern
ment service 1t ought to pass.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17

clad rags II took all the gods In
Valhalla TO hold the crowd back.
But she was a nicc little thing for
all that and Just dotted on music.
and springs and flowers. She had a
chariot drawn by cats which didn't
nave tho speed OF nivver car.
Probably milk was cheaper than
gasoline in those days.
Tomorrow we will tell you all
about how Saturday was named.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17

l n ! I g q states.
They are repre-
sented in almost
every branch OF
commercial activ
ity.
The question OF
the health Of
these wo n q n
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17
A NAMELESS PROPHET

There is a great mystery about the prophet
Malachi The name means my messenger"
and some scholars think that II simply the
title of the one who wrote the book not his ac-
tual name. But whether the prophets name
was Malachi or not, II is evident that he cared
more about his message than about getting any
personal credit for delivering IL. He forgot him
self in his message--and It is messages like
these tha, last through the ceuturies-The
Christian Herald
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17
Big Christmas Mail

Enormous quantities OF mail NOV
Ing throughout the country. which
the postofice department attributes
10 the progress OF the business re-
vival. as we'll as the approaching
holiday season, have caused special
notices 10 be sent 10 all postmas-
ters that all surplus sacks and
pouches be gathered quickly at the
depositaries 10 meet the extraor
dinaryily heavy demand.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17

Here is picture OF Freya the
Goddess OF love of the oli.time
Scandinavians-t same Job that
Venus had on Olympus.
II was for her that Friday was
named.
She was The wife OF Wolen the
loss god and mother 81 Thor the
trong god
Also. she was some locker Sav'
When she got all dolled NJ in her
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17
Seasons Sentences

=
I'D like to come over and spend Sun
day, but the fire would go out and you
know we have bird now"
They'll expect us to give them some
thing. you know"
Aren't the crowds something ter
rible?"
"Y' ought t ave had chains on"
~
For another thing, the population of
Chicago goes to show that no matter
how hard some people try, they never
get any place.
Wife who said last week, "Now. John,
1 know you are pinched for money this
year and don't want thing for Christ
mas" is beginning to hedge.
Pa always speaks of the Christmas
season as the December thaw.
There seems to be a quite general
opinion that this preparedness thing is
loaded
Now comes threatened increase in
the price of coal. An increase in the
price Of coal is one of the surest signs of
a hard winter.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17
The Last Word.

"a woman always has the last
word"
mot always" replied Miss Cay
enne Sometimes she condescends
TO let man write II as the sigma
ture 10 n check"
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17
When the Country Has
Gone Dry, the "MOvies"
Will Have Helped a Lot

VIII have HelpeO Lou
Drinking of alcohol by the working
Il classes in our cities is on the wane.'
\ Authority for the statement is DR..
h John D, Quackenbos. president emeritus
~ Columbia university, who gives the
xnedit to the moving picture theaters.
se In the early days of the movie this
cOlumn welcomed it to place in the
community with the suggestion that its
felfect could be exactly that which DR..
Eouackenbos has found to be reality.
The man who formerly spent his time
night in saloon, now seeks the pic
kure play.
The barroom door at the Ladies En-
France" does not swing as frequently
e young girls, many of whom, unfor-
fanately, yielded to the bright lights
because there was no other place their
oun1 men could take them-to hear
heir young men tell it.
NJ These girls can tell their young men
;ow that they can take them to
movie
or they can go alone, in perfect
3Iokety, to worship their screen idols.
Well may we indorse the moving pic
{re theater for standing as substitute
~ the saloon and the drinking rooms
4 NJ women.
Wall may we indorse it as safety
1cno for the girl who works and occu-
e 80 = cherries room for her home and
Rpkcse evenings are lonely-whose lone
Z r. eVenings have so often driven her out
\ ITO bad company, to the drinking room
IA to her downfall.
However, there is another side to this
\ jntter, which takes from the moving
\ ire theater none of the credit that
6ne Il, but which shows that the
E<ncViesr could not have come along at
u better time than they did to find well
Guene and gather in the nickels. So
'eiety has made place for them.
u It wasn't so very long after the movie
was introduced to us that there came
over the land wave of reform which
began wiping out saloons entirely in
some sections, and making it very un-
B desirable to be found going into one even
a sections where the saloon had not as
\ yet felt the wave of reform.
Big corporations began firing out
their men who drank and filling their
places with men who did not drink, and
% the man who frequented saloons was
s getting to be pretty unpopular at just
s about the time movie" sign suggested
y : warm and better place for him to b,
hanging out, across the street or further
\ down in the block.
When Michigan has been voted dry
which is inevitable, and when the ma
Il ton has been voted dry, which is in
v irritable, the moving picture theate
NDil not be entitled to all the credit fo
~ two facts, but it will have played it
zART and played it well
We viii have it to thank for breakin
up the. crowd that used to be foun
I every night at "the place on the cor
\ ner,' and for having thus impaired tn
4 barkeep's organization.
The rummies cannot take "the boys
broond to the voting booth with tn,
-time regularity. for it is too Otter
~ fact that "the boys are over at tn,
Sovie" show.
And having won the boys out of a bac
(xonment, let's make good and sur,
TIE making Of our laws and in tn,
<ofte Of our public officials. that tn,
ntyie" II kept clean, so that 1t viii no
.Ner1te into an influence for evi
win Be sustained as an infuenc
oood such rs 1t has helped to ac
u
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17

Il suppose you'll be in the gay
west-end social whirl this winter
Who? Me? Not a chance. The
further my wife gets into society
the more she realizes that I don't
belong"
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17

she--I suppose you know all tho
best people in town.
TIe--Yes. but I don't have TO as
sociate with them-Judge.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17

The henpecked husband develops
into a free-thlnker when his wife
goes away on a visit.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17
From Another Point of TeD
BIZ c. T. S.

We infer that Ben Tillman has dis
patched the colonel again in the direc-
tion Of the encyclopedia.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17
DEFINITION OF A GOOD WIFE.

Anna Carlson says a good wife is one who
loves her husband and her country and doesn't
Insist on running either of them.-Kansas CITY
Journal
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17

There are more than eight mil
lion women wage earners in the
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17

Besides, the woman who wears those
muffs around her shoetops doesn't want
them approved; it is really her choice
that they should be looked down upon
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17

Congressman Kitchin says our navy
ranks second to Great Britain's. Pre-
paredness advocate suggests that we all
rise and sing Where has our navy
BEAM"
The Detroit times., 1915-12-17
EXERCISE AND MORALITY

H. ADDiNoToN BRUCE
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-04-19

salmon and one-fourth cupful of
cracker dust. Set it away to cool.
Form into chops, coat with beaten
egg and cracker dust. A small piece
of spaghetti will represent a chop
bone. Brown in deep fat.
Fig LOaf.-Cook a cupful of figs in
a double boiler with one and one-half
cupfuls cold water; when tender add
one-half cupful sugar and cook ten
minutes. Pour off the syrup. Soften
a tablespoonful of gelatin in table
spoonful of cold water, and stir into
three-fourths cupful of the hot syrup.
Chop the figs fine, mix with one and
one-half cupfuls shredded wheat bis
cult pulverized, mix thoroughly with
the gelatin and syrup. Pour into 4
buttered mould. Serve cold with
whipped cream.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-04-19

Among prominent deans expected to
be present are DR.. Eleanor Lord, of
Goucher College; DR.. Irene T. Myers,
of Pennsylvania College, and DR.. M.
L. Keller, of Westhampton College,
president of the Southern Association
of College Women from 1912 to 1914.
The formal opening of the meeting
of the association as whole will be
held in a public session in the audito-
rum of the Hotel Ansley Thursday
night. Miss Cleveland zahner, presi-
deut of the Georgia branch, will de-
liver the address of welcome. The re-
Spouse will be made by Miss Elizabeth
A. Cotton, president of the association.
Miss Cotton is the professor of Eng
fish in Meredith College, Raleigh.
The principal address of the evening
Oh GTGSGuJ LAY 1u6dlS III Iuo EQuCd-
ton of Women" will be delivered by
Clyde Furst, secretary of the Carnegie
Foundation. Mr.. Furst was for num-
Der of years secretary of Teachers
College, Columbia University.
The morning and afternoon sessions
of Friday will be devoted to reports of
Standing committees, officers, and the
various branches of the association, of
which there are now twenty-five, locat-
ed in eleven Southern states. An es-
pecially interesting and important ad-
dition to the morning program will BE-
an address by Miss Vida Hunt Fran
els, secretary of the Association of
College Alumnae. Miss Francis topic
will be How Can the A. c. A. and the
S. A. C. w. Co-Operate?"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-04-19


John A. Cobb, Mrs. R. S. Broadhurst.
Cemetery-Mrs. Egbert Allen, Mrs.
Welborn Clarke, Miss Mabel Galloway.
Parade-Mrs. w. D. Ivey, Mrs. Shell
ton Howell, Mrs. F. D. Lambert.
Museums. James Harris, Jr., Mrs.
H. B. Mashburn, Mrs. Harvey Weaver,
Mrs. Ernest Tullis, Miss Sara Mathis,
Mrs. Joseph Bryan, Mrs. Thomas
Lane, Mrs. George vardaman, Mrs. Fl.
o. Jones.
The new members received by the
chapter are Mrs. Frank Lanier, Mrs.
H. o. Jones, Mrs. Charles Crisp, Mrs.
A. B. Howard, Mrs. Ella Cameron Nc
Arthur, Mrs. Alice Drane, Mrs. Walter
Rylander and Miss Stella Edwards.
The annual meeting of the Colonial
Danes will be held at Savannah April
% to "a, at which time several of the
large towns in the state will be repre-
scented. Going to the convention from
Marietta will be Mrs. John Graham,
prominent in the D. A. R. and other
patriotic organizations, Mrs. Henry
Goetchius and Mrs. Frank Lumpkin,
of Columbus, will attend, as will Mrs.
William NJ. Jordan and Mrs. Thomas
Barrett, of Augusta Mrs. F. D. Aiken
and Mrs. w. D. Parker will represent
Brunswick. Macon will send a repre-
sentative in Mrs. E. T. Conner, and
Mrs. Frank Orme will go from At
lanta.
The annual meeting of the Southern
Association of College Women to be
held in Atlanta during the week will
have as its first semi-public session
the Conference of Deans of Women, in
the parlors of the Hotel Ansley on
Thursday afternoon at o'clock. This
feature of the associations annual
meeting was introduced last year, and
the Conference of Deans then held at
Louisville proved interesting.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-04-19
SPRING TERM CLASSES
BEGIN At LOCAL
Y. N. c. 4.

Special spring term gymnasium
classes begin at the local Y. M. C. A.
this afternoon. Three classes will he
held each week from now ON till fan.
The hour is els, and the days are
Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Activities at the Y. M. C. A. are d.
cidedly lively just now. The Y. M. G.
A. baseball team is organizing. The
boy scouts are planning an encamp>
ment and altogether the Y. M. C. A. is
the center of attraction these days.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-04-19
MEMORIAL DAY
COMMITTEES

The meeting of the U. D. c. chapter
with Mrs. Frank Harold on Friday at
ternoon was a very important and in
teresting one, inasmuch as arrange
ments were completed for Memorial
Day exercises and several new mem
bers came into the chapter A delight
full program was rendered.
The committees for Memorial Day
are as follows:
Decorations - Mrs. w. W. Dykes,
Mrs. Thomas Hooks, Mrs. R. E. Cato.
Monument-Miss Rosalie Smith, Mrs.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-04-19

Summer is coming. Place your CT
der before the rush is ON for that AVA
ing, | am the only local represents
tive for The Anchor Supply Co., man
ufacturers of the worlds best avn
ings Chas. Lingo. Phone 246 or zSi
advt-16-tf