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The Washington times., 1915-03-02
Make Way for Genius
Carrying His Torch!
! Says Winitred Black
1Vomen Although They Praise His AttainmentS Say They
Pity His Wife. Is Their View Correct?
F.A Do They Know.
Yy WINIFRED BLACK.
wright 1915. by Newspaper Feature Servi ice. Inc

down the rising chill Of night. no fire
to cook by. no friendly flame to tighten
the face you loved and make It spring
from the shadows like a sudden miracle.
BLOW, blow, and even when she came
calling into camp you did not rise TO
answer him. till the fame leaped and
all was red with fire.
For that was your part Of the work.
you were keeper of the fire.
Is 4 so. I wonder. with the man we
called a genius?
Is he the keeper of the fire. and must
he keep 1t sacredly. no matter what be-
falls?
Must he pass by his friend with avett-
ed eyes? Must he let the one he loves
call to him sometimes. unanswered?
Must he. though 1t storms and the
tempest rages and the great trees fall
in the forest and the wild wind screams
fro'r the black skies. must he crouch
TO his task. and keep alight. at any
cost. the flame he has been given 10
guard?
7 have 9 friend who is a genius. and
somehow when 7 see him in a crowd
he makes me think Of the old picture
Of the Torch Bearer
Do YOU remember It? The man. rum
ing. with a lighted torch held high
above his head.
Make Way For Him.
And all the crowd melts away wherS
he appears, and nothing stops him.
nothing makes him hesitate, nothing
appeals to him. he hears nothing. sees
nothing. feels nothing. but the torch.
the torch! 1t Is his to carry. his to
keep aglow. his to bear aloft in splendor
the Torch Bearer.
Who are we to try to stop him?
Why should We and our petty affairs
get between him and the goa Of his
desire
He did not make the torch-he did
not even choose to cary Il. IT was
thrust into his hand. aflame. and now
he must run with it, Run fast and
hard and breathless to keep the torch.
the sacred torch. alight.
AnG who and what gre we--the mere
little. common folk in the pressing
crowd that watches him-io criticise
lin because he docs rot ston and reply
to our ina,e com nonp'ac"s"
I am glad ! am not a gents But II
| wero. II 7 had b""l bonded the
torch. 7 would c"r"y it a"d carry It
rIight. though died in nv ira ks to do
Il. And would haze the re son-no
m"tter how dearly loved bef >re-who
tried to stop me
See! There he comes r'om the outer
ri'n Of the gray world. the Torch
Bearer.
Make way: Make wev for him and
his torch.
The Washington times., 1915-03-02

any degree the medical world di-
Iectly, they took the more round
about but effiCacious method of go-
ing directly to the patients OF the
doctors themselves.
The first American baby born at
Freihurg. under the twilight sleep
Is the child of Mrs. G. Temple ELn-
NETT. granddaughter OF John Jacob
Astor. and prominent member Of
New York society. She was elected
president of the Twilight Sleep AS
ISOLATION. and has now had three
babies by the Freiburg method.
One of the speakers will be Mar
guerite Tracy. the first woman to
make the twilight sleep known to
America at large. through the
year ago. which appeared in a
well-knewn periodical. Another
speaker will be Mrs. Charlotte Car
mody, formerly a Washington
woman. whose baby was also born
Twilight sleep has made great
progress in America despite the cold
reception which 1t was given at the
hands of the majority Of the medical
profession.
The statement is made by the Twi-
light Sleep Association that within
one short year, 1900 cases as against
the 5000 cases at Freiburg have been
carried out in this country.
The OffCerS or the twilight steep
Association are Mrs. G. Temple En-
NETT, president; Mrs. Mary Ware
bennett. first vice president; Mrs.
Julian Heath. second vice president:
Mrs. Cecil Stewart. recording secre
tary, and Mrs. Frederick A. Stokes,
treasurer
The following Information on tho
Twilight Sleep is compact state
ment OF the treatment. and Is sent
out with the Endorsement Of the
association
What Is Twilight Selep?
Twilight sleep Is condition mid
way between pain-lessening and COM
plete painlessness. 1t is actually in
stantaneous forgetfulness of pain.
The Washington times., 1915-03-02
A Modern Chronicle.

A little old lady in cap and lace
Sat in tinselled dancing place,
With a strange. sad look on her
kindly face.
The dancers whirled in tho modern
wise,
She watched their efforts with pity
ing eyes.
And her breast it fluttered with sor-
rowful sighs.
Eftsoon she rose with a shake Of her
head,
And stepped to the floor where the
gay dance sped
They none Of them know the new
steps, she said.
Then. catching her skirts with a
practiced air.
She beckoned her grandson out Of his
chair
Oh, never was seen a dance so rare.
The fiddlers they laid her thousand
laws
But she kept them all without rest or
pause
And the room it rocked to a great
applause.
She ceased with a step Of the latest
style.
And ! heard her say. with a slow.
smile,
Il guess that'll hold 'em for a while" {"
Dana Burnet in the New York Sun
The Washington times., 1915-03-02

pains. but If so. only the poets
themselves know it. They write
poems and relieve themselves Of
grief or passion. as kissing sounds from
cylinders relieve the pressure in an en-
gine. When a fellow cudgels his brain
to find any rhyme for sorrow besides
borrow or tomorrow his woes are near
an end.
Prot. Thorndike's psychological ex-
periments upon eighty-nine graduate
students are the first to show measure
ments of the effect of four hours con-
tsnuous mental and physical work at
writing poetry. The quantity and the
quality Of the product produced in a
given time. as we'll as it's "satifying-
ness" were examined by him.
These experiments upon fatigue Of
thought. muscular effort. and original
ity consisted IN writing lies to COM
plete los couplets. That Is to say, the
first lines were taken from such poets
as Pope, BYRON. Shelley and the like,
and the near-poet or subject was ex-
The Washington times., 1915-03-02
Peters Adventures in
Matrinnony
BY LEONA DALRYMPLE

MARY TAKES GINGER ALE.
GLANCED at Joan and thought of
Dr. V. VS. words "All that love-
illness without and none Within
Was Joan. then merely beautiful.
cultured, restless huntress with an eX
auisite regularity OF feature and Won
dcrful. overeloauent eyes? In her heart
did she like it. this daring. frivolous
game she played? Or was she secretly
tired of it all. and. like many another
modern woman. the victim of perverted
sex?
Surely. that great. stirring energy
within every normal woman cries for
one Observation-Disclosures some
women don't know 1t, some deny it. and
some refuse to hear the cry. But
thwarted. it vents itself in irritation and
aoalless activity. And the prisoners Of
instinct. rush wildly about seeking in a
hundred fruitless ways to still force
that continues to clamor until it finds
rest In the love of a child.
The Age.Old Game.
Joan Arbeck was a victim of pre-
cocious maturity. A splendid spend
thrift finging broadcast that marvel
Gus electric femininity that nature in
tended for the good of the race. And
1t would be this girls shame that when
the exquisite edge of the great gift was
blunted she would shun her one solace
children. The maternal instinct dies
like a rare and lovely flower in the heat
OF the white lights.
I must have spoken my thoughts
aloud. for Reed laughed and shrugged
and answered me.
what do they see in it?" ne asked.
THE game"
There's saying" I hintcd. that
the game isn't worth the candle!'
And it isn't" he admitted quickly,
but can you preach against the hunt
Ing instinct 20 a man who knows the
thrill Of fox hunt? It's much the
The Washington times., 1915-03-02
The First Woman Governor.

VOW that suffrage is being
given a fair trial the prognos-
" tigations of some of the for
mer foes of suffrage are eth
er coming true or falling perfectly
flat. A woman may actually be
governor of the state of Nevada.
We are finding out many things
from the States. The worst Is yet
toromc. perhaps!
Those who predicted terrible re-
suits from suffrage were of two
kinds. Those who actually foresaw
what might happen. and those who
made wild and false deductions.
Those who foresaw what would
happen, and who really stated the
truth were all right and were on the
right track. but they are falling
short because of just one thing.
They didn't count women as hu-
man beings. All Of their arguments
were founded on the fact that wom-
en- were hopeless.
When such person said. ''Why,
we can't have suffrage. They II run
for office. they'll ruin politics. they'll
try to get in the House and Senate!
Imagine the shame of seeing a wom-
an, oh, Horrors. in the Senate
And they would stop right then
and there lust as if that clinched
the question of suffrage. 1t did for
many women and many men. and
there are some left now who Will
say "a woman may be governor of
Nevada" with the most terrible In.
sinuation Of instant obliteration of
the State of Nevada.
But what of it? What if woman
will be governor" 1t really is pos
sible The women in Nevada are
doing what some of the foes of suf-
frage foretold. They are acting very
much as if they were going to herd
torether dust like men have herdrl
together from the end of timel. and
elect their own candidate. If the
women Of Nevada vote en- masse they
can control any election.
The suffrage question is deeper
than it looks on the surface.
The question involves the equalitT
Of sex in the strongest sense of the
word. For many years exceptional
women. just because they have 1cen
women. have been crowded out
from their rewards simply because
they were women.
The fact that they happened to be
The Washington times., 1915-03-02
Lecture Tour Will Include
Washington on March 10.
Prominent Society Women
Actively Interested.
By FLORENCE f. YODER.

~O diSSenlii.atr lntOfIld' ION on
the subject of Twiligh: sleep.
among inpuiring mothers and
othe.s by correspondence
lectures and the distribution of 1T
erature.
To standardize the use of s"opola-
mine morphine in childbirth in
America by the Freiburg method OF
true Twilight Sleep.
To collect funds for the founding
of an open hospital for teaching
the Twilight Sleep method to ply
sicians.
With these avowed purposes tho
Twilight Sleep Association OfSAmeri-
ca has been formed by the women
of New York. and the lecture tours
which have already started Will IN
clude Washington In their itinerary.
On March 10. at the Columbia Thea
ter, series Of 'Twilight Sleep
Talks" by Twilight Sleep Mothers
will be given.
American mothers whose babies
were born under the Twilight Sleep
at Freiburg. Germany. will tell OF
their own experiences. and every
caution has been taken that the in
formation which they give out Is
correct in every detail.
The formation of the Iv'ili.hr
Sleep Association was made neccs-
sary BY :he insistent attacks made
upon the writer's of the first signed
articles to appear In this country
on Twilight Sleep. for since the
writers of the articles We're not OBJ
stetricians. many felt that their in
formation was incorrect and that
they were not qualified to speak with
authority upon the subject.
Serious az ccidents resulting from
the use Of the scopolamine-mor-
Dhine injection by obstetricians
unframed ip the correct method Of
administering the twilight sleep.
spurrcd the twilight sleep mothers
in this country to the lecture plat
form. for. unable to influence in
The Washington times., 1915-03-02

his wife for being married to him. And
among those who were sorry was a
woman whose husband never talks
about thing but money and how to
make 1t. or women and how to make
them fall in love with him.
And another woman whose husband
lies to her and lies to her. and every
body knows it. and she knows they
know 1t.
And another woman whose husband Is
tpt to drink too much--poor. foolish fel-
low-and when he drinks too much he
Is really quite too
Keepers of the Fire.
And another whose husband is not as
honest as he should be. and another
whose husband is in bis grave. But we
all were very sorry for the woman who
is married to the genius because, as we
told each other SO confidently, we knew
what that meant.
] wonder il we do?
What does 1t mean. really. to be a
genius?
Did you ever camp In the deep woods
and get short Of matches? And do you
remember how you crouched by the
camp fire when you first lit it and
blew and blew to make the tiny sparks
In the splintered sticks glow into a
flame?
Il it should go out. what them
No light to keep off the beasts from
the outer darkness, no warmth to beat
The Washington times., 1915-03-02

fascination Of playing with edged tools.
and back Of 1t all" l put It, "vanity
.the saa's vanity Of adding just one more
suppose there's another side to II -
said Reed. thoughtfully Men proved
upon women so long,
+. And women upon men always" put
in. ITS age-old either way"
True. but the open huntress among
the respectable classes Is something
that offends and horrifes."
J0an's Charm Secret.
But once more the crowd was filing
back to the table. and our philosophical
discussion ended. And. truly Manhat-
tan. Reed. after his disgusted repudiat ton
or the frivolity about him, ordered anoth-
er highball.
Joan was drinking white mint with
dainty sips. and Mary seemed disposed
to follow suit in flattering continu-
ance OF her imitation. | simply came
into the breach and expressed myself
with sufficient candor to have squelched
most any party. l said that | would not
have my wife drink any more. and |
said 1t calmly and with smile, but
Mary. meeting my eyes. flushed hotly,
and murmured something about ginger
hale.
Joan laughed. a soft. silvery, little
laugh with the essence Of sophistication
in it.
'Oh. Peter, Peter she said, truly
you are deliciously funny"
l flushed to my ears. I don't know
why. ! had learned that part Of Joan
Arbeck's charm. however. was her daz-
cling and dainty impulses OF informality.
must be ruthiessly honest. liked this
/ girl to call me Peter" / even liked
! the very tiny possessive suggestion in
her air, until I glanced at my wife and
Hugh Jaynes. when I toboganned into
revolt at the situation about me- And
whenever l glanced at Mary, Joan some
how contrived to lure back my interest
to her. ! was striking the first danger
reef in the sea of monogamy. | was
finding Joan Arbeck little too interest
ing
The Washington times., 1915-03-02
Unable to Convince Medical
Experts, Women Decide to
Appeal Direct to Patients
of Doctors Themselves.

This. as the mother experiences il. is
actually the same as complete insen-
siblity to pain. After it Is all over,
she has no knowledge whatever of
the birth. She has to recover from
none of the shock and none Of the
exhaustion which usually follow
childbirth.
Method.
The twilight sleep method of using
scopolmaine-m in childbirth
worked out by DR.. Carl Gauss at the
Womens Hospital in Freiburg, Ger
many. has proved to be the best
method of painless birth in use at
the present time. Other efforts to-
ward making the whole period Of
birth painless. either bv the use Of
this same drug. scopolamine- NOR
phine. or by ether. choroform. or
other anesthetics as now generally
used, go too far or not far enough.
Effects On Mother and Child.
As the dose required for twilight
form OF anaesthesia. the usual dan
gers Of anaesthetics are reduced to
a minimum. In the Freiburg Wom-
ems Hospital. twilight sleep has been
used for ten years In 5000 cases
The normal birth process has not
been interfered with by its use. nor
has it necessltated the Use Of instru-
ments. 1t has not caused death or
injury to mother or child. The Frei-
burg Women's Hospital has the low
est mortality Of mother and child Of
any lying-in hospital in Europe or
America.
Literature.
Leaflets and pamphlets comprising
reports from physicians and hos
pitfalls and authentic articles by lay
men will be published from time to
time and may be purchased from the
association at nominal prices.
Address Twilight Sleep Associa- :
tion. sos Fifth avenue. New York
city.
The Washington times., 1915-03-02

Sweaed IaDOTeTs,
are legitimately
entitled to honest
fatigue. Poets are
a simple race!
They substantiate
shadows and lend
existence to moth
ing. If I he y
weave fustian most
sublimely bad. ii Is
still poetry and
not prose run mad.
There may be a
pleasure In poetic
fatigue and Doctic
The Washington times., 1915-03-02

We all said. In a
chorus of acquies-
cence: "Oh, yes.
we know what that
means!" And then
We told each other
how much We ad-
mired the man for
his work, and how
We respected him
for his ideals. and
how we looked up
to him for his prin-
ciples. and how
aOrry wa felt for
The Washington times., 1915-03-02
OMMONLY enough. the notion is

- OMMONLY enough, the notion Is
held that poets arc monde
Y script lot OF lazy, indolcht,
ne'er-do-wells. TO think OF n
poet az separate and distinct from "A
tired feeling Is to go beyond the bounds
Of experience. The reason behind the
wan and exhausted state of a poets
well-bcing has been attributed very
often to want Of food and poverty. Ex-
periments. however, carried out upon
eighty-nine poets. near-poets. would-be
poets, and nomentary devotecs Of the
muse, by Prof. Edward L. Thorndike
Of Columbia University, New York.
prove that poets. no less than brow
The Washington times., 1915-03-02
DAILY EDITORIAL
For Women Readers

better than hundreds of men didn't
make anv difference.
The wSnan governor of Nevada,
II there ever is one. may not be per-
feet, but she will probably be just
as good. and Just as human as any
of the other Nevada human beings
who might have been governor. And
If there is hue and cry raised BE-
cause the women are standing to-
gether against the men. what can
be said by those who have indeed
herded together against women and
separated them for so many hun
dreds Of years. 1t takes two 70
make n quarrel. The question Of
sex antagorism can be settled i'm
mediately. if the men wish it to be-
The Washington times., 1915-03-02

RAC1OUS!" said the woman
/ know. don't live in the
same house with them, II
you can help 1t. not even at
q summer resort.
"She's all right, but he's genius.
and you know what that means!' And
We all sighed. and some Of us groaned,
and some cast their eyes to heaven, but
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-09-23

By never smiling at meals but by
wearing q crouch and trying to make
the rest of the family miserable.
By over eating and under exercis-
ing. By constipation, intemperance
and excuses. by everlastingly hurry
ing. worrying. fretting, stewing and
straining to keep up appearances.
BY sleeping with the windows
closed and by staying In doors all the
time.
By drawing more out OF your ply
steal and bank account every
day than you restore.
By always reading medical books,
medical adds, and trying to diagnose
your W case, especially II you didn't
have any case to start with.
BY taking every old medicine re-
commended by your friends and neigh
bors.
By telling everybody else how badly
you feel and trying to outpoint them
In their petty ailments.
By enjoying poor health-yes, Just
that. There are a few people one
occasionally meets who really enjoys
poor health. They feel badly when
they feel good because they are just
sure they are going to feel worse
afterward. Are you one Of them?
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-09-23
COST OF RIGHT LIVING Low


The monthly health letter of the
Life Extension Institute give much
sound advice on what we should eat
and what We should spend In order
to be well nourished but not pamper-
ed. 1t maintains that the cost of
the real necessities OF life has not
increased to a point hat should cause
hardship, ~privation or undernutrition
even among small wage-earners. For
instance, air, the first requirement of
life. costs nothing.
Food, the next requirement of life,
costs little, If what the body really
needs is considered. 10.6 cents a day
will provide plain, simple, palatable
food (hot pork and beans, or its
equivalent, bread and butter, milk
and coffee, and the fuel to cook it,
sufficient to nourish a person of aver
age weight and activity. When the
cost of food prepared In the homs
rises above 80 cents per day per in
dividual, there is certainly either waste
or luxury.
The greatest satisfaction In eat
ing is provided by sound health and a
natural appetite. not by the titilla-
ton of the palate of the gastronome,
who passes from M indulgence to
another until appetite, digestion and
health r mere memories.
within reasonable limits, food
should be prepared and served In an
appetizing way. But 1t is more i'm
p~ortant to create appetite by bodily
conditions than by food conditions.
ITO a healthy, hungry man. moth
ing a taste better than plain bread
and butter and milk. The trouble
with most people is that they are
overfed rather than underfed."
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-09-23
RAISING OF THE lLL-FATED
EASTLAND.

Just three weeks after capsixinr At
its dock and carrying more thar 800
ptcknickers to their death. the Inflated
steamship Eastlanc, its hull patched
ana decks stripped. vas raised out of
the mud OF the Chicago river and
lowed into east branch" A page
group of views in the October Popular
Mechanics Magazine shows how the
task was completed.
A number Of completing situ-
ations confronted the engineers in
charge OF the salvaging. The major
lily OF these were more exasperating
than serious. however, and served
principally to delay the final opera
ton OF righting the vessel. The cues
ton of supplying sufficient power to
float the half-submerged ship did not
prove so troublesome In the end as did
much OF the preliminary work. al
though this constituted one of the in
terest1ng phases of the undertaking.
II Will be remembered that the YES
sci listed away from its berth and
turned over on the port side, SUBJ
merging about two thirds of its beam.
After as many Of the bodies had been
recovered as could be reached. the
tunnels, spars, and all other deck OBJ
strucuons were cut off by divers and
sealed. While this was being done the
openings which had been ripped In
the star board side Of the ship by res
cuers with oxyacetylene torches were
patched. Much difficulty was encoun-
tered in closing the portfolios and the
gangways on the under side, for these
were DISTRACTED by great piles Of lug
gage, ship furniture and debris. The
closing of the matches was not SO diff
ficult.
Before the water could be pumped
out OF the vessel 1t was necessary to
seal and reinforce the aft bulkhead,
which had been broken through in at
tempts to penetrate the interior. This
work, which presented one of the try
ing problems, had to be done by div
ers. The entire partition, approx
mately 26 feet long and nine feet high,
when in normal position, was rein
forced by two by ten inch planks, lap
ped one over the other. Another
thickness of lumber was placed over
tnis, the planks crossing the first
ones. Canvas was subsequently
stretched over the whole to w
leakage. The sealing of this wall
prevented an thrush of water from
the stern of the boat when the centri-
fugal pumps were started to expel
that in the main part of the hull. Az
ter a part Of this had been pumped
out, however, the tremendous press
ure against the bulkhead threatened
to cause it to collapse. 1t was appar-
ent that elaborate bracing was re-
CURED TO forstall this, SO divers were
again sent beneath the water to do
the work. Beams were extended dia-
gonally between the bulkhead and the
deck, much of the carpentering being
done with the use of block and tackle
and pneumatic instruments.
The shifting Of the coal in the bow
to the port side, and the leakage of
some of the holes which had been in
adequately sealed, were also matters
which contributed to delay the work.
The ballast tanks on both sides were
filled in order to provide a rolling
weight which would assist In right
ing the vessel and In balancing 1t
when raised.