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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-03

Highness and portrait painter 70
royalty?
AT the Plaza the combination was
so potent that her wish to have tho
MOTEL elevator to herself in gettjn-
to and from her apartments was rn
spected by the hotel management am,
all the regular guests. Unfortunately
the Duke and Duchess of Manchester
when they once put UP at the Plaz,
were Ignorant of this unwritten Law.
When the Duchess entered the Gle.
vator Of which a solitary female was
the only other occupant she was
aStounded at that womans assurance
IN politely requesting her to retire
and wait until the Princess Lwoff.
Parlaghy had assembled
The Duke made quite fuss about
1t, until the situation had been ex.
planned to him, when he decided to
let the matter pass. This incident
led to the report that the hotel neo.
pie had built a private elevator FOR
the Princess use.
Before establishing herself at the
riaZa some three years ago Princess
iariaghy made several visits of pre-
iimlnary observation to this country
IN 1916 She astonished the philadel.
phlans by taking a large portion of
one moor ut one Of the big hotels for
the accommodation of herself. her
suite and her menagerie.s THE
menaserie consisted of eighteen ami
mais. comprising dogs, cats, MONKEYS
an alilSator or two and a bear She
toid the newspaper interviewers thai
she felt lonesome with only eighteen
OFT OF her total Of sixty animal not
She told the newspaper peoDle-or
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authorized her first attachc" tn do
so-that she WAS here TO paint thirty
representative Americans and present
their portraits To the nation. From
The Princess Second attachc" it was
learned that her price per portrait
was $4,000.
Her third attachc" also acted as
secretary. The suite" also con
tanned marshal, a first lady's maid
second ladys maid, Il Swedish
nurse, butler, a chef, n courier. n
conchInan. Il coiffeur. "A physician and
keeper Of the animals.
Her later appearance in New York
at Tie Plaza saw her surrounded by
virtually the same suite" except for
the animal keeper. the menaccrie
having been left at home in Austrin
One OF the first sensations projected
by the Princess from her Plaza studio
was contained in her statement that
she could not possibly include John
ID. Rockefeller in the list OF tho
thirty great Americans whose nor.
traits she was going to paint.
<. For love Of art only | am mint.
Ing" she said. and not for monev
NO money could induce me to pajnt
MIR. Rockefeller. The desire to nc.
cumulatc money is not qualification
TO place an American upon nv list"
the Star Connonv cro,+ D,
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baSador lerrick Further Sit,inys
were necessary before the por,rai,s
would he ready for exhibition ana
delivery TO The owners. II Was this
i'a.htihs OF the portraits Of American
hotaDies mat influenced the Princess
III ihah!hs this country her home.
Her representative. Mr. Deliug. had
already given til" interesting infor-
NATION that Princess i.woN Parjayby's
zee Tor painting the pOrtraitg of rich
or Otherwise Important Americans
was S21.Wp for ful length and
f'''"oo Tor threcquartcr length.
AT The time " this interview Ind.
ihcht had been rendered againgt the
Princess in the amour, Of 500 for
unpaid commission due 10 George 4
p"""en Tor Having induced the ate
'"'tco II. llasSln 70 sit 10 her for his
pof'rAit. As Nr. iiaygin sat in tho
same Catherine j. MntiJ chair I'm
"hich tile German Kaiser sa, wner
'"e Princess painted that uo,cu,a,..
ana as me portrait was fun ylz. Hr
liASSin b!II vas $4,000. Hui vb.n
inc aged subject received the bili T..
i'pudia'ed the transaction. thus .dd.
'hs 10 me mystery After hig death
'naee Alton y. Parker, whose Dor,
'rait tnc Princes had painted c1ro.
iT"nls ed with the heirs on the iasis
!. ne i'fihcr@s' representative wished
y 20 Dc understood that II wag NOT
necessary for the pupil NJ the Ger.
man court painter, I.cnbach. wi,o her.
sen had painted Tic Kaiser amt
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-03
Living Like a Crowned Head, With
All the Expensive Fads of Grand
Opera Prina Donna, Her Pic
turesque Career Abruptly
Comes to an End

dozens of other royalties, to pay com.
missions to get proper subjects for
her easel. Mr.. Dowden, a New York
art dealer and frequent caller at
her studio. had made the proposition.
and being pressed to do so she had
consented. In spite of the fact that
she had received less than half her
price for the portrait, she had paid
Mr.. Dowden $500. and given him her
note for $500 more.
You Sec" explained Mr.. Delius
the Princess cannot argue with peo
pie about slch matters. She paws
like Il Princess-all sorts of unjust
claims. All sorts Of frauds are con.
Stantly dipping into her purse. She
would rather pay than be bothered.
Unfortunately, it happens just now
as 1t occasionally happens to other
entirely responsible people-that the
Prlncess is short Of ready money"
Before this Princess Parlaghy had
always paid her enormous bills at
the Plaza more or less promptly.
Usually she paid in cash, handing
over TO the cashier thousand.dollar
sreenbacks as though they were as
plentiful as dollar bills. 1t appears
that she has been quite frank with
the hotel management about her lack
OF ready money, and that this poor
rlch Princess was not actually dis
possessed for non-payment of rent
as the ordinary poor are. The hotel
people merely asked for part nav.
meht OF what was due, and when the
Princess was unable to meet the do.
mand she was asked TO release cor.
tain rooms occupied by her servants
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rof HForm
eur Guard Her

She then, SO it Is explained. pro-
posed going into less expensive quar-
ter-, where she could proceed with
h"r portrait painting and settle up
her debts. Hence those locked doors
and the seals upon them The hotel
people are not worried, as their
own appraiser has looked over the
Princess art collection and declared
~ 70 be worth at least 100000.
Among these treasures are the CON
tents Of the Gothic Room-furniture,
tapestries and cccicsiastical paintings
Oh ~ood, examples Of German art
daphg back " the eleventh century,
ana none more recent than the four
Gnnth century. There are her por-
traits ~ The German Kaiser, Of Bis
mhrrk and Won Moltke. and Of cc!e-
DRAFTED digDitarieg Of the Catholic
church; algo bronzeg and great
variety " other objcctg valuable for
ihcir great antiquity.
Pcrnan; there Iiea the key to the
mystery that surrounds her guddcn
entrance IN the ranks of The poor
ri"h. j. IL iosgibc that the profits
"f her portrait painting have failed
~ reimburse her for the many thou
tabds spent for publicity and pro-
Ho,ioD" In exploiting herself I'm the
c1DeDsiye dual capacity ri Serene
rS,<, 4
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-03
BY Charlotte Perkins Gilman

by Chaflotte Perkins Gilman
Uhe WcH-hnOWn Author-SHfGagisU
rHIS great world and all thai: is
n it belongs to women as
much as to men. 1t is our
world in full half share; not to d.
VIDE and manage separately, but to
administer us whole together.
: AL our previous history up to date
has made the mistake Of assuming
this to be mans world; and. laboripg
under this initial error, man has run
1t all by himself in his own way.
Woman meanwhile was carefully
relegated to circumscribed region
called home. This, she was told.
was her world-al the rest was his.
She was the queen Of the home"
and he was everything else.
Now, II the home really was a
separate world, entirely under her
management, our story would have
been very different. AS matter of
fact, the home was his home, like
everything else.
The home belongs to man and
woman both, of course; and the
whole world belongs to man and
woman both-equally, Of course.
1t is time that the women Of the
world realized this, and accepted the
responsibility. Men tell lis our work
is nobler than theirs 1t is. We
make people. There Is no nobler
work than that. But look ut the
people we make. Are you satisfied
with them?
The world is woman's home-if
she makes her world happy, all will
go well. Suppose men get up a war,
which they continually do. Men
fight by nature because they are
males.
Why should they? 1t is merely
the old brute instinct of seX-combat
that makes men fight; it is not a
human ACKNOWLEDGEMENT a male
one. Yet so convinced are they of
the superior beauty and service of
the art of fighting that they would
deny us share in the government
because, forsooth. we cannot fight
VIII some one please show the So
cial service of fighting? ct de.
fends the country" they cry. De-
tends it against what? Against
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st. MoritZ. where she would enter.
tain American notables on grand
scale.
y part Of the mystery is that she
never did it.
As recently as last October Princess
Lwoff-ParlaGhy said to representa-
tive of this newspaper that she had
definitely decided to make this coun-
Try ner home for the future. AS she
made this statement she waved her
plump little hand at half dozen I'M
finished portraits standing on easels
in her Plaza studio. The subjects
were Thomas \. Edison. Nicola Tesla.
hudson Maxim. Percival Lowell. the
astronomer; Henry Phipps and Am.
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Why War Proves the World Needs Mother

whom? Against the encmy.n thew
answer
What and who is this enemy?
A foreign nation" they tell us.
Never in the world
Never in all history did one nation
attack another. 1t was always and
only the men.
a nation is composed Of men and
women.
a nation does not fght-men fight.
They have retarded civilization
from age to age by their man
slaughtering; strewing our green
world with death and agony; vast
ing the wealth of generations in
noise and destruction.
The duty of women, when they
wake up, rub their eyes, see that
this world belongs to them, too, and
that it might be much better man
aged-the first duty of women will
be to stop the fighting.
We do not study social conditions
nnd out the causes for our general
poverty, and unite to remove them
The trouble lies in this blind accent
ance Of the old talk about "woman's
world being the home. The home
is only part Of woman's world. TIL.
point to learn-to learn thoroughly.
and live UP to-is this newly ner,
celved fact that tho whole great
world belongs to us as much as to
anybody.
Then We begin to examine the af.
fairs in this world of ours-and wa
40 not approve Of them. We do NOT
IKE the way children are treated.
we do not like the way women are
treated. We do not even like the
way men arc treated.
And we propose to take a hand
and improve things. They tell ne
all sorts of sweet and lovely things
about our power in the home.
what is home without a motbery1
they say
"Well-what is the world witbou,
a mother?" ''
1t is what men have made Il
Biack with smoke-which need nor
De made red with blood--which need,
not be shed; full of noise and mior'
relling from top to bottom. poon
world! 'oi'
The world needs it's motner-and
1ts mother is coming!
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Her Two Falcons
~HERE is no mystery about III

poor-"the poor we have nj
ways with us But for the
poor the mystery OF the poor-rich is
one OF those fascinating enigmas for
which no solution seems possible.
Just Tow that battling speciality
among mysteries centres in "IIer
Serene Highness Princess Lwofl'-
Participation thus she was adj
dressed in the formal engrossed and
illuminated acceptance by the di-
rectors of the New York metropolitan
Museum of Art of her portrait of the
Hon. Joseph H. Choatc
For how is it possible that a
Princess who lives at the rate Of
$4,000 year, and says she has con
siderably more income than that.
should suddenly find herself, fgura
lively, at least. evicted from her
home for non-payment of rent?
The precise source OF the Prin.
cess's income has remained mys.
terry. There is more or less
mysterious chateau in France
which is all that is known here of
her landed estates abroad. Chateaux
in France are not income yielders.
Has The Princess earned $4,000
and more a year BIZ her portrait
paia,ing?. How any portrait, painter
could DO that is the greatest mys-
terry OF all
For severa! years, until two or
three weeks ago, surrounded by her
retinue OF attendants and diverted
servants. she has lived ii the Hotel
Plaza IN apartments overlooking
Central Park, on Q sale approach
ing regal magpiticance.
During that period the Princess
repeatedly confessed that She was
living at the rate OF $4,000 Z year.
That confession could easily be
credited. The Plaza apartments alon.
an immense studio. two specially
decorated rooms Tor the aCcomm ia
ton OF her collection Of antiques and
other ART objects. a handsome dining
room en- suite with these. and living
rooms for herself hcr attendants and
her Servants-must have eaten deeply
into that sum total
Now. suddenly. tn" outer doors OF
those rooms are locked. with seas
upon them: and the Princess. owing
the hotel management a compare
lively insignificant balance ol $1,000.
is said 10 be living with friends on
Riverside Drive
Behind the locked and sealed doors
of those regal Plaza apartments r.
main. for the present, all the Princess,
art treasures. which She has often
the pr" Princ :" De s, mDrSn $'o""o, !!
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1er serene ghnes Princess Lof ghy with "Bobbv
First Favorite of Her Zoo "

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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-05-13
THE KNOCKERS CREED

I believe that nothing is right.
l believe that everything is
wrong. believe that I alone
have the right idea. The town
is wrong, the teachers are
wrong, the people are wrong,
the things they are doing are
wrong and they are doing them
in the wrong way anyhow. l
believe l could fix things if they
!; would let me. If they don't
will get lot of other fellows
Nike myself and we will have a
law passed to make others do
things the way WE want them
done.
l do not believe that the town
ought to grow. 1t is too big
now. l believe in fighting every
public improvement and in
spelling everybody's pleasure.
l am always to the front in OPP
posing things and never yet
have / advanced an idea or sup
ported a movement that would
make people happier or add to
the pleasure OF man, woman or
child. l am opposed to fun and
am happiest at a funeral. I
believe in starting reforms that
will take all the Joy out of life.
It's sad world and I am glad
of it. Amen.
Il Il
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-05-13
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
AS Taken from Office of Leon Loan
and Abstract CO.-FrOm April
9th to May 6th-As Re-
ported by w. A.
2 pOuSh

Henry Wion to c. R. Piercy, 40
acres in Bloomington twp $500.
M. j. Bennett to J. D. Scofield,
lots in Lamont i. -. $500.
S. A. Roberts to A. H. Aten, 100
acres in High Point twp ...$84OO.
A. A. Buell. to E. Buell., lots in
F. E. O'Neal to F. Weseman, STU
acres in High Point twp ...$435O.
N. Bumgarner to W. o. Rosen-
grant, 79k acres in High Point
II: A. Ellis ct al to P. Grimm s'c 14s
acres in Decatur twp -. ..$145OO.
80 acres in Hamilton twp $4,000.
A. +. LaWless to NJ. Brown, lots 2,
3 and 4, New Buda twp ..$5666.
w. j. Latta to ]. c. Hagan, 10
acres in New Buda twp j.. ..$11OO.
G. F. Smith to J. R. Smith, 200
acres in New Buda twp $4,000.
w. Dunbar to J. E. France, all n 70
NV "A 19-67-27. -. -. ..$5634.
R. G. Hutchinson to J. McClain,
24o acres in Woodland twp $4,000.
j. S. Bond to l.. N. Stephens, so
acres in Bloomington twp ..$2S00.
J. M. Barger to J. F. Hewson, 240
acres in High Point twp ..$2SSO0.
j. F. Smith to L. l.. Richardson,
lot in Leon. -. :. :. $4,000.
]. L. Meter ct al. to G. E. Smith,
35 acres in Center twp =. ...S5OOO
r. Crosby to /. Short, lots in Van
I. Short to E. p. Castor, lots in in
Van Vert. -. -. -. ..S15OO.
I. e. Smith to N. Bumgarner, 40
acres in High Point twp ...S420O.
J. Hidlebaugh to S. Wasson, ct
al, lot in Weldon :. -. 5000.
c. NJ. Corrington to Roy Havcns,
lots in Decatur. -. ..... 5000.
Della Aten ct al. to G.. w. Bartlett,
40 acres in High Point twp. $1,000.
O. Boatman to j. McJimsey, lots
in Van Vert . -. -. ..$225.
C. F. Smith to Levi Brooks, so
acres in New Buda twp. ...$55OO.
c. F. Smith to G. E. Weable, 80
acres in New Buda twp. ...$55OO.
NJ. Richardson to F. Killillay, sub
urban lot to Pleasanton -. .$4O0.
C. E. Tansey to j. S. Pollock, lot
in Weldon 80. -. -. =. $4,000.
w. j. Ramshaw to D. S. Tapscott,
40 acres in Fayette twp. $4,000.
G. E. Smith to G. NJ. Kline, lots
c. Bonner, to S. H. Covington, $40
acres in Franklin twp -. -. 81.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-05-13
Van Vert School Notes.

The week of May 18th will be OBJ
served as commencement week. On
Sunday evening, May 18th, will oc-
cur the Baccalaurcate sermon in the
Christian church by Rev. A. B. Cor
nell. The school exhibit will be
held at the school building Tuesday
evening, May 18th. The school pro-
gram will be given Thursday evening,
May Goth, at the Christian church.
On Friday evening, May 21st, will
occur the graduating exercises. The
commencement address will be de-
livered by DR.. D. E. Cloyd of Des
MoineSs College.
The class in agriculture has per-
formed a number of successful ex-
periments in milk testing. Work in
judging stock will now be taken up.
Plans are being made for tho in
stallation of the domestic science and
manual training apparatus.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-05-13
100000 Autos Registered.

The number Of automobiles regis
tered in Iowa passed the 100000
mark May 8. When the Office of sec
rotary of state closed Saturday night
May LIST, only fifty of the first hun
dred thousand plates were left on
hand.
1t is now estimated that the num-
Der of machines which will be regis
tered in this state in 1915 will pass
the 10000 mark. The registration
applications continue to pour into
the Office at the state house at the
rate of 1000 day and the Office is
more than two weeks behind in send
ing out plates. 1t has not been pos
sible to put on sufficient force in the
department to keep up with the
rush, the officials say.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-05-13
500 Reward, 500 .

The readers Of this paper VIII Be
pleased to learn that there Is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all its stages. and that 10
Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure now known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being constitutional
disease, requires constitutional! treat
ternally acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces Of the system. there
BY destroying. the foundation Of the dis
ease. and giving the patient strength BY
buildin4 up the constitution and assisting
nature IL doing It's work. The proprietors
have O! much faith in its curative pow
ero that they offer One Hundred Dollars
Tor mt 81 tsetimonials.
)sAAdlVo 4. ]. CHENEY . CO., Toledo, oAijs
eoldsl9 ~ Dsue4tses, he.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-05-13

y IS
In 1914 the number Of machines
did not pass the 100000 mark until
late in August
According to the state depart
ment, about two-ffths of the ma
chimes now being registered are new
cars.
Owners of autos seem particular
ly anxious to get number plates
without delay at this time of the
year. The supreme court has ruled
that owners of cars may operate
their machines as soon as they send
in their registration fee to the Sec
rotary of state. The fact that the
state department can not Immediate
ly ship number plates should not
prevent the use of the autos, the
court has held
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-05-13
1917 Per Acre.

Ninety-five acres of the old Cy
Taylor farm near Sully, in Lynn
Grove township, was recently sold
by Macy Brothers, who had owned
it about a year, to Jake Ellscott for
$317 per acre-a total of 100000.
There were no, improvements on the
place excepting barn. There is no
telling to what price Jasper coun-
ty farm land will yet attain.-New-
ton Record.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-05-13

Don't forget the Saturday after
noon matinee at the Idle Hour
theatre 1T 3 O'Clock. Admission y
and 10 cents. ~ &
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-05-13
Motorcycle.

New and rebuilt, on monthly pay
ment pler. Dealers and riders want
ed. Eagle Motor Co., Cedar Falls,
Iowa.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-05-13

Just received car of bran and
shorts and a car of oil meal.
Cannon Bros. Mill.