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Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-07-21
At Hotel MARYLAND.

The following are on the register a;
Hotel Maryland:
Mr.. Elmer Hough, WeIlsburg. w.
Va; Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Williamson
BALTIC, Nd; Mr.. c. S. Gale, Washing
ton, d. c.; Mr.. L. H. Griffith, Wash
ington, D. c.; Mr.. S. J. Harris. New
York City; Mr.. j. T. Brennan, Robin
son, Md; Mr.. J. s. Smith, BROOKLYN.
Md; Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Vincent
White Marsh. Md; Mrs. Abraham
Rider, Brooklyn, Md; Mr.. Fred. c.
Thomas, Gloucester, Ohio; Mr.. r. A.
kenon, Baltimore, Nd; Mr.. Harry
Lewis, Philadelphia, Pa. Mr.. and Mrs.
N. W. Myers, Hagerstown, Md.
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All coupons redeemed at Hohber.
gers, ia Main ST. i1s.ID
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A CARD OF THANKS.

we wish to thank all kind rela.
sives and friends for the beautiful
mowers sent and sympathy and condo
lenee offered to US at the time of our
bereavement by the death of our he
loved daughter MARIAN AGNES.
MR- q MRS. EDWARD t. TYDINGS.
advltjy2i
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-07-21
On Motor Trip.

Miss Margaret n Martin and her
sister Mrs. Blanche Struble with a
party of friends are on a delightful
motor trip in Delaware and Pennsyl-
vania, near Pocono Lake, and the IA
nous Beauty Bridge" across Tunk-
hammock Creek. =
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-07-21
Knights Of Pythias
Special Meeting.

A special meeting of Friendship
Lodge No. s, Knights Of Pythias. will
be held tonight. The meeting i CALI
ed Tor TIE special purpose of installa-
ton Of officers. The Grand chanceI-
ior VIII be present and install the OFF,
GERS elected for the term.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-07-21
Milk and Ice Fund.

Mrs. j. de P. Douw has deposited in
bank for the milk and ice fund the sum
of SAT so, the same to be used at the
disposal of the District Nurse, Miss
Doyle, as she may see fit.
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the same I would rather be here than
a fixture in town. and we can wait
some years yet before bothering
about the kiddies' education
Now this happy-go-lucky attitude
has its distressing consequences. The
Federal Commission on Industrial Re-
lations in investigating conditions
around the city has revealed the fact
that there are over 1000 children
living aboard barges visiting New
York harbor who never go to school
and who are in a fair way to reach
maturity and be as illitemte as the
run Of their parents. With this
illiteracy goes ignorance, and because
of the conditions under which they
are reared in their cramped homes
there are physical and moral short
comings of a distressing character and
degree.
True this state is more especially
prevalent among the children of coal
bargemen. Somehow with the dirt
and CRIME of the cargo Is bred slat-
ternliness in the mothers and distress
ing habits among the children. This
is not TO he wondered at when ut
times as many as ten persons ara
measuring ten by fifteen feet.
Miss Mary Oakley Hay, for some
years visitor for the Society for the
Improvement of the Condition of the
Poor declared "A few months ago that
of the barge people that came to the
association for aid 40 per cent. were
suffering from pulmonary tuberCulo-
sis, and that other bodily weaknesses,
due to the circumstances Of life aboard
these craft, were very prevalent.
"In many cases from the day of
birth The children aboard of these
itinerant homes are exposed to perils
and hardships. Indeed. this heritage
antedates their very birth in the form
of privations and exposures to which
their mothers are subjected. The an
nails Of our coastal coal trade show n
shocking number of wrecked or foun-
dered barges every year. When
storm proves too much for the labon-
ing tug then the steam craft cuts the
lines and sets adrift her utterly inn
potent tows. Sometimes the wave
tossed barges are rescued or other
wise survive. but not infrequenlly the
people aboard Of them go down with
their sinking homes or perish or suffer
grievOusly in an open boat in a battle
to reach n haven.
Again children may be sick aboard
these barges and without medical at
tendance for days. or they may be
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amused herself by inventing dances
and teaching them to the other chill
dren. so that before long she was
made a regular teacher in the dancing
school conducted by her mother.
Meanwhile she was herself acquiring
every variety of technique by study
ing with one teacher after another.
always appropriating what seemed
good to her and discarding what was
obviously bad.
A professional engagement AZ the
first fairy in Augustin Days produce
ton of "A Midsummer Nights Dream"
brought her TO New York and Lon
don. But her independent ideas soon
freed her from the restrictions Of a
theatrical management
1t was in an attempt to interpret
the quatrains Of Omar Khayyam that
Isadora Duncan first evolved the
scheme of combining words, music and
dancing. When she presented this
new type Of art in London 1t was at
once labelled Greek" The coincidence
led her to begin a systematic study Of
the life and art of ancient Greece.
She copied the poses of the figures on
Grecian urns, took note of details Of
costume and rad every authoritative
discussion OF the Greek religious festl-
vals.
But it was in Paris that her system.
which had previously been vaguely
experimental. became definitely and
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now doing their share Of training the
French. Russian. English and Amer
lean children who joined the school
last year.
The six star pupils who appear with
1sadora Duncan in her exhibitions
form an interesting group. They are
known only by their Christian names.
Anna. the eldest, is actively con-
cerned with the affairs Of the world
about her. Therese and Irma come
next. an impulsive and spirited pair.
Lisel is long haired and long legged,
physically the best dancer them
all.
Gretel is a thoughtful child. filled
with a sense Of her dignity and some
what mystitied with the American
manner Of doing things. Erica. be-
ing the youngest. is also the most Sc
rious. She has recently had her hair
bobhed. but not quite So short as l~a-
dora Duncan's. one must bee con-
SENTATIVE in such matters.
As for the little ones. their names
must have been taken directly from
the chorus Of a Partisan operetta
There is only one boy. and he Of
course is Jean. Then the list reads
Annette, Huguette. Yvette. Colettc.
Marie, two Valentines ,known as
big Nala" and little Nala'D, Alex
andra. Minuka. Helen and Florence.
They have all mastered the funda-
mentals Of rhythmic motion and are
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as graceful in their way as their
elder sisters.
Scores of applications have already
been made by American parents who
wish to enroll their childrn in the
Duncan school. But Isadora Duncan
refuses to commercialize her project
and prefers to wait until her own
resources permit the establishing OF
an American branch similar to those
abroad free for all children who prove
themselves properly qualified.
II the ideal is ever realized there
will be schools in Russia. France.
England, America, and possibly
Greece, with 1sadora Duncan herself
dividing her time equally among them
and occasionally moving an entire
group Of pupils from one country to
another.
Any one Of the -FOUR oldest girls
would be competent to conduct a
branch Of the school at present but
the entire plan must wait for the
settling of Europe's troubles. The
properties at Grunewald. Darmstadt
as hospitals
Meanwhile the Isadorlans are pur-
suing the exposition Of their art for
the benefit of overcivilized Ameri-
cans in the hope that eventually the
seed now planted may grow into a
permanent educational institution OF
practical as well as artistic value.
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Copyright.
Arnold Gen,he

A VAST blue-gray stage, covering
n almost the entire floor space
I \ of the auditorium great cur
tains OF the same neutral
shade. gracefully draped at the back
and sides a mysterious light falling
from an invisible source upon the
dancing figures Of reincarnated Greek
goddesses: thus did Isadora Duncan
transform the Century Opera House,
changing 1t from a theatre into an
amphitheatre and turning its civilized
artificalities into the natural beau
ties Of classic art.
The Duncan theories" the Duncan
cult and the Duncan school, have
been vaguely discussed for years by
people to whom the terms meant little
more than Greek costumes. bare feet
and a general freedom from the con-
yentlonalities of civilization. Now
that the European war has planted
the entire organization in the con-
seryative lap of New York city a still
more incoherent flood of conjecture,
gossip and enthusiasm has been
turned loose.
II Isadora Duncan is by instinct a
dancer she is still more instinctively
a teacher With a life record Of
battling against the accepted order
of things it has become a habit with
her to impress her radical ideas upon
any minds that she can possibly reach
As a child in San Francisco she
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the entire responsibility for the chill
dren's welfare. but with the under
standing that frequent visits would
he permitted.
The children. all Of whom had to be
between and 2 years of age. were
selected by "A process Of elimination.
those who showed Imagination. ply
steal adaptahility and sense Of
rhythm being kept for three
months trial. after which they were
either regularly enrolled or finally
dismissed The strict German school
regulations We're oheyed in every de-
tail. for in addition to the special in
struction in dancing there was fun
curriculum. including musical, gym
nastic and religious training.
All this was exactly ten years ago.
since which a branch of the school has
been established at Darmstadt. and
more recently complete rcorganiza-
ton effected at Meudon. near Paris
The little girls of the early blue and
white stage have grown up into
miniature Isadora Duncans and are
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Hopes Little Group Driven Here by European War; Will
Remain as the American Branch of an
international Chain

permanently fixed. Here she finally
settled upon the simple Costumes by
which the beauty of the body should
be enhanced instead of Disguised.
Here she decided that n plain hack
ground of a neutral shade was more
effective than any scenery and that
no stage properties Were necessary
beyond few garlands of flowers or an
occasional scarf of flaming color
The stiff broken lines character
istic Of the conventional ballet had
given way entirely to the continuous
curves which alone according to the
Duncan theory are beautiful. Relax
alton and imagination became the
guiding principles of her technique
Europe received the new art with
spontaneous delight. A tour of the
Continent and later of England re-
suited in sudden multitude Of
Greek dancers" the establishment OF
a Greek cult" and the appropriation
of the Isadorian ideas for every
cause" from dress reform to woman
suffrage.
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brought into the world in thu midst OF
n gale and under circumstances that
make a physicians assistance impos-
sibe. Indeed as many will testify. the
rough, unframed services Of the barge
man has had to suffice. supplemented
by such help as his children could
render at the time Privation and an
utter lack Of privacy just when care
and separation meant as much to all
the offspring as to the mother.
And yet married men, and prefer
ably those with families, are well nigh
uniformly demanded by barge owners,
because this combination gives them "A
firmer hold upon the men entrusted
with the care of their property. The
fear of being discharged and landed
upon the dock in midwinter binds these
employees to their jobs despite the
meagre wages.
But all Is not gloom in this floating
population. Some of the canal boat
men either own or are buying their
craft just as the suburbanite Is win
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ming n permant mt home for him self,
Upstate builders Will fashion 200
ton canal boat for $500 down and let
the skipper owner pay the rest of il.
say $4,000. by instruments at the rate
of per cent interest. over at Erie
Basin there is now a great fleet of
these cargo carriers making ready for
the beginning of the spring and sum-
MIR business. In a few weeks they
will be loaded and bound up the Hud-
son and thence north 10 Canada via
Lake Champlain or westward II Buff
falo by the trail OF the Erie Canal
During the past winter the schools
of Brooklyn have felt thu influx of the
wandering children of this notilla. and
now they long for their days of travel
that will bring them in touch with
scenes heard Of only by most of their
shore classmates.
To the city bred mother it is ever
a marvel that these Riddles of the
canalboats live to grow up with the
constant menace of deep waters. but
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International Chain

1t was only after some years Of
successful performance in public that
Isadora Duncan was seized again with
the desire to teach her art to others.
An unusually successful series of ex-
hibitions in Germany led to the pur-
chase of large house in Grunewald.
near Berlin. and the establishment OF
a permanent school.
Everything was in readiness for
twenty-five children before the first
pupil arrived; n schc-olroom with
twenty five little desks, a dining room
decorated in blue and white with
places set for twenty-five, and a dor
mitory with twenty-five little blue and
white beds. each with its blue and
white mat alongsd- and a Della
Robbia plaque on the wall. while
twenty-five blue and white uniforms
hung upon pegs. ready to be worn by
twenty-five little girls.
In less than a month the school was
filled to its capacity. Every pupil was
completely supported by Isadora
Duncan herself, the parents resigning
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Pushcart King of the East Side

has as" Scen is S'" 'Sis e @HS ,a "s
seven years and he is now
making over $4,000 annually. He has
over 200 customers; busy. early rising
men who have implicit faith in his
capacity and honesty. And yet his
Office has never seen a telephone, a
storngrapher or hookkecper. As a
matter Of fact his office is in almost
total darkness throughout the day.
The only article of furniture it pos
sesses is a shiny stool, with one leg
missing,
Mr.. wilkins customers are not rich
men, far from it. \ few of them make
as much as five or six dollars day,
hut the majority earn barely enough
To keep them comfortably clothed and
fed, And yet they are typical husi-
ness men. of certain sort not only
OF New York, but Of every big city
in the land.
The rush hour in Mr.. wilkins bust
ness is about q \, NJ, Each day at
this time long line of his customers
are waiting outside his place of husi-
ness. and as soon as the doors are
opened they file in, choose their wares,
deposit ten ar fifteen cents in Mr..
wilkins broad palm and issue forth
to the fortunes of the day. They are
n heterogeneous tribe of merchants,
Caparisoned in every vagary OF misft
And picturesque raiment: and waiting
to buy Of hem and Of others in the
same business is fully third of the
populations of the metropolis
Only two years ago Mr.. Witkin was
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himself one Of them, but that indeh-
nable something which puts money in
the pockets Of some men worked hap
PLY for Mr.. Witkin, and he soon found
himself possessed Of "A thriving bust
ness. with lime at his disposal and
money in the bank.
What is Mr.. Wilkins business Go
down along Avenue \ or the BOwery
any Saturday night and YOU will see
lined up along the Curhs thousands
Of vendors with all kinds of wares; a
wild riot of color and confusion. Every
vondor displays his goods from a small
pGshcart, and If You should ask one
of them whore the pushcart came from
he would in all probability name the
place Of business Of Samuel Witkin.
Ncs. Samuel Wtkin Is Familiarity
known as he pushCart King. His GUS
toners are men who ply the prccarl-
Gus trade of the street wonder. Mr..
Witkin now has 200 pushcarts, and he
is constantly increasing his stock His
office Is the basement of fiat on
East Tenth street, dark and grimy. to
h. sure. hu" answering the purpose
admirably. Here he has locked up
every night 200 or more empty push
carts. which the following morning
will he trundling all over the various
parts Of the city filled with mcrchan-
disc. In the summer he rents them
for II cents a day and in the winter
for 10 cents day.
Seven years ago he landed at Ellis
Island a raw, awe inspired young Rus
sian. To-day he is making $4,000 q
year is happy and ambitious.
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l. is a curious fact that but few
OF the barge youngsters are ever
drowned. The wee ones play at the
end Of leash when the mothers are
too busy to watch them. and some
how it is not long before the smallest
OF them learn to swim. This Is. the
least of the dangers TO which they
are exposed. 1t is not always easy
for the canalboat man TO get pure
water for drinking purposes. and here
turks the threat Of typhoid. This is
doubly so in the sewage tainted rivers
about Manhattan, and while this water
is used generally for washing purposes
only still the germs linger and reach
the vegetables and fruits in the larder.
The right kind of canalboat
mother. and there are IA great many
of them, believes her children better
OF in that floating home than others
of like modest circumstances living
ashore. She can always have her
eye upon them, unless, unhappily. she
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has To board them ashore for the sake
Of schooling, and she is watchful Of
their moral we'll being and tries as
far as possible to make them happy
within their necessarily narrowed
zone.
Watch the youngsters at play and
II will be hard To find a more joyous
lot, but 10 the shore mother their
romping seems reCklessly near sure
death. with the sweeping tide swirl
ing by. But those Canalboat kid
dies are surefoOted lot and. happily,
they don't go overheard. The young
sters have plenty to occupy them and
not few of them boast their little
gardens. where blazing geraniums and
other Towering plants supply dashes
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OF color, and even vegetables serve
the double purpose of decoration and
usefulness.
Indeed a fleet Of these canalboats
sounds like floating barnyard at
times as they are towed up and down
the Hudson, for chickens are fire.
quently to he found aboard as regular
members of the household. while cats
and dogs lend more animation to the
atmosphere Of domesticity.
The children born aboard barges
are very much influenced by that
environment. The Toys generally fol-
low in their fathers footsteps, while
the girls marry among the boatmen
and thus perpetuate distinctive
class.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1915-11-26
TWIN LAKES

Nov, 22.-Mr. and Mrs. John Olek
:and son John were city visitors On
Wednesday.
Walter Deering of Little Falls spent
a few days Of last week with Mr.. and
Mrs. Martin Deering at this place.
August and Leo Piehowski and John
Witte were city visitors Thursday.
Joe Deering was at the county seat
Ion Thursday.
John Deering was busy hauling hay
to Little Falls all last week.
John Schippritt and son Frank made
a business trip to Little Falls Satur.
day.
Well, Twin lakes are frozen in fo1
1915. They froze in Monday.
Many farmers took cattle to Little
Falls Thursday.
Otto Newman autoed to Little Falls
Thursday, on business.
Frank Deering, Lawrence Cimenski
Leo Piehowski and John Stoltman
were in Little Falls on business Sal.
'urday.
Well, winter is here for good. Have
you got all ready good felt boots, a
storm proof fur cap and No. 80 nit
tens?
A card party was held at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Deering Sat.
-urday evening and it was we'll attend
ed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Deering left
Thursday morning fol Montgomery,
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1915-11-26
NORTH ELM DALE

Nov. 22.-E. M. Larson and daugh
ter Annie went to Upsala Monday
with cream.
Bremie Zellner of Swan River pass
ed through here enroute to Upsala to
get feed ground Saturday.
Miss Ella Davies was staying at the
home Of Arthur Thomas Of South: Elm
Dale a few days last week.
A number of farmers took cattle
to Bowlus Monday.
Reinhold johnson, who has been ILL.,
is improving.
E. NJ. Larson purchased new single
harness from Aleck Anderson Of Up
sala last week.
Carl Anderson of Swan River passed
through here, enroute to Upsala to gel
feed ground Saturday.
Christ Schlag has gone to Shovel
Lake to visit with G.. R. VALET.
E. M. Larson and son Walter ana
daughter Annie, went to Little Falls
to do some shopping.
Paul Rasmussen has purchased a
new wagon.
Monday we had our second snow
storm Of the season.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. J. jacobson and
son Roy, went to Little Falls on bus
mess last week.
E. M. Larson called on Philip Chock
of Swan River Tuesday afternoon and
also went to Little Falls.
Joe Kulla went to Upsala with lum'
Der last week.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1915-11-26
BRICKYARDS

Nov. 23.-The chicken pie supper
which was given at the Assembly hall
Friday evening was well attended and
the sum of $3.50 was taken in. Those
who attended from Little Falls were
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Muncy and daughters
Jeanette and Merle. Mr.. and Mrs. r.
Muncy and little daughter, Rev. and
Mrs. J. Watson, Mr.. and Mrs. II. Ho-
vey and daughter Fay, Arthur Sim
mons, Mrs. w. Simmons and the
Misses Gertrude Taylor, Kate Long
and Lucille Smith.
i Miss Nellie Russell of Little Falls
was the guest of Miss Elsie Savage =
few DAYS last week.
Mrs. A. Olson returned home Tues
day from an extended visit with rela-
tives at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Connolly and daugh-
ter Esther and son Harry Of Little
Falls spent Sunday at the home Of
M. and Mrs. E. o. Westberg.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. Geek and children
went to Swanville Monday to attend
the Reconsideration wedding.
Miss Della Quine Of Culdrum spent
the weekend at her home here.
Sam Olson returned home Tuesday
after short visit with friends at
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
A number of young folks from Lit
tie Falls and the Brickyards enjoyed
themselves at a skating party On the
Clay Pits Sunday.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1915-11-26
CUSHING

Nov. 23.-C. A. KEENAN, is build
ing new house on his farm and will
occupy the same as soon as it is fin
ished.
Supt. of Schools. M. E. Barnes was
Cushing visitor last week.
Ed. Swanson of Little Falls is here,
the guest Of his sister, Mrs. B. E. N.Y.
gard.
B. E. Nygaard motored to Randall
Saturday.
Mrs. John Anderson of Lincoln was
the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. Jens An.
derson Of this place Saturday and Sun
day.
Miss Anna Carlson, teacher in Dist.
Ill, spent the weekend at her home
in Little Falls.
Oliver Bennett and Miss Emma Oberg
were married in Little Falls Monday,
returning home at noon the same day.
They will live in the house owned
by Mr.. Bennett and are now at home
to their friends there. Their many
friends and acquaintance wish them
long and happy married life.
Mrs. w. B. Wilson left Monday
morning for Willard, for a short visit
with relatives.
There was dance in Hafar's hal
Thanksgiving evening.
Miss Edith Kastanek returned home
from Little Falls last week.
f. Schafer was Little Falls visitor
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Liljegren and o
Bennett visited at the home Of Mr.
and Mrs. John Hussman in Clough OF
Sunday.