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The Washington times., 1915-04-06
Miss Janet Richards Declares
"Rule As" Should Be Re-
pealed BY Board of Educa-
ton.
Woman, Trained Only AS
Educator, Must Go Back
TO School If Husband
Leaves Her.

PEAKING most informally before
an audience of women who were
- very busy with clicking knitting
needles and the heavy gray yarn
that shall forever be associated with
war to feminine America, MISS janet
Richards. who has been giving series
of talks on current events TINS WINTER
concluded her course for the season
yesterday, with an attack ON Ruie 70
of the school code, which automatically
dismisses a teacher when she mafrles'
"A recognized economic principle Is
involved in Rule 40 she said. Ihere
are years of skilled training necessary
before a woman Is qualified to be a
teacher in the public schools. After she
has worked for time it may be that
she marries, thinking that her husband
will be able to support her.
"Suppose he falls i'll or deserts her?
Husbands have been known to do such
things She has her skilled profession
to fall back on. She goes to the Board
of Education and says. Here i am, a
skilled worker but the door is more
than shut in her face: it's clammed.
Gives Discretion.
NY OplnlOn IL tildt th''' SiicN'' ~
no hard and fast rule. The present
law should be rescindcd and In Its
place there should be one giving option
10 the school board after 1t has heard
the circumstances. If there Is case
where the position means neglect OF
children. of course, she should not have
the position. The board should be able
to decide in these cases just as does the
utilities board or one of the courts.
Happily no longer in the District Ia
the father the owner of his children,
and the mother IS biological accident
This argument for an elastic law Is
shared by the wisest women of the
country today
Miss Richards also spoke of the sur
frage situation in New York. New Jer-
scy. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts,.
'.In New York" she said, the suftra-
gists will succeed because. OF the work
OF Mrs Carrie Chapman Gait. She is
the greatest stateswoman and the great
est organizer in America since the days
Of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. l am much
inclined to doubt that the women in
the three other States will win.
Much has been written about the chi
cago primaries and the failure of ILL
nois women as voters. Well, they have
a law in Illinois that people registering
as members of one party cannot change
The Washington times., 1915-04-06
THE TIMES DAILY MAGAZINE PAG
Fear, Like BraOery, Is
Entirely Physical, and
Is Easily Overcome
BY DIR. LEONARD KEENE HIRsHBERG.

tlmidity, lack of initiative, and pro-
nounccd fear
Gontrafiwise, to be up and doing with
a. neart Tor any fray, means muscles
uuclhE inc chemicals necessary to more
lnan overcome worries, fears and anXi-
cues. In fine. courage and heroism are
thus developed.
Environment Kills Fear.
rear, then. like bravery, is distinctly
a physical thing. The absurdity, there
fore, of saying that "to overcome fear
ard scared feelings is the effect of
mind over matter is plain. Since both
rear and courage are material IL Is a
chemical and physical performance. A
quiet; restful ministerial, indoor life
breeds the fluid principles of fear: tho
lively, active, muscular outdoor be.
havior manufactures the muscle Juices
of anti-fear and courage.
obviously, 1t is clear that the sur
roundings. atmosphere, acullaIntanCes
associates and circles in which a child,
youth. and adult moves and has his he
ing, plays a huge role in generating
either a harassed. worrisome. anxious or
mistakenly called "nervousness' of de-
meanor. If child hears uuarrels yclls.
and all sorts of terrifying hubbubs in
his carly life he becomes cowed and
his muscles shrink and remain undc-
yeloped.
II good cheer, laughter, and animal
spirits are given proper vent, the mus
cles of the child thrive and TEEN with
life. Cowardice. fear, and their con-
comitants receive no encouragement
His environment dampens out the fear
stuff.
When intelligence guides Judgment
and urges action, fright is driven to
cover by flood of muscular materials
Since judgments are the upshot of sim
pie apprehensions, and these come from
the ideas which are only
tions of real things in the environment.
fear and courage thus depend finally
upon your surroundings, more than
upon Inheritance.
The Washington times., 1915-04-06
ADVICE TO GIRLS
Bv Annie Laurie

number of friends instead of CORE
spending with one only.
6. Flirting surely is dangerous. The
chief danger is that no one ever be-
lieves that the chronic nirt Is sin
cere. Think of the girls you know
who firt a great deal. DO you ever
hear of people taking them serious
ly?
!. If you slap a boy when he has
been behaving in an ungentlemanly
manner. you will be nearly as impo-
lite as he. However, some boys need
that kind of a lesson to be brought
to their senses. The best thing for
girl to do under those Circum-
stances is to leave the room or to
say that his conduct demands an
apology.
8. 1t is hard to know what to ad-
wise to relieve your embarrassment.
The best thing to do is to change
the conversation as soon as you can.
.. Twenty or twenty-one Is the
average age for girl to become en-
gagged. Before then what she con-
siders love may be merely a passing
fancy, and when she is of age she is
likely to be surer of her affection
10 TWenty-one or twenty-five is a
good age at which a girl may marry.
Miss Laurie will welcome letters O
inquiry on subject of feminine interes
from young women readers of thi
paper and will reply to them in thes
columns. They should be addressed t
her care this office.
The Washington times., 1915-04-06

uOne before. -.
Was Dramatic Critic.
That is real American business-and
1t has certainly worked out well in the
somewhat please Italian sys-
TEN.
Il tried everything but commerce be-
fore l started In business" said Mrs.
tractive, and who, despite her keen
business sense, is "A decidedly feminine
woman. II was dramatic critic on the
Portland oregon, and later l was on the
stage with Frohman.
Two important maxims-quite novel
in Rome are--be orderly and be on time
When l promise a thing at a certain
time-it is ready"
1t Is safe to say. and I'm sure the
ist who ever visited Itaiy-that Mrs.
Vita stands alone in this respect
While many shops in Rome have been
closed owing to war depression. The
American is open and doing business.
Il We got my good years, l m willing to
stand pat when a bad year comes," said
Mrs. Vita: Rome was good to me, and
let me tell you, Italy is a mighty goou
place fora person to start in business,
for the government gives any new ven
ture one year free of taxes-just to give
person a chance to make good
Another American woman whose
name Is known to every American and
English resident of Rome, as well as to
tourists. Is Mrs. Joyce Cullen Ttrano.
Mrs. Strano Is Californian and her
tea rooms in the Via Gregorianna and
at Frascati are evidences of her sue
fNssful commercial invasion of lhe
Eternal City.
Niece of Admiral Schley.
In the Piazza di Spagna there is an
English library of many years stand
ing called Piale's. The enterprising pro-
prietor today of this muCh-frequcnted
place is an American young woman.
Mrs. Sinclair Pouley. Mrs. Poulcy Is a
niece of Admiral Schley.
The exquisite art photos of Ruth Tur-
ner Liberma are known wherever asthe-
tic standards are established. Tho work
of this American woman places her in
a niche of Rome's commercialism.
Miss Agnes O'Gorman. who comes
from New Jersey, is the owner and
manager of the Hotel Angleterre. She
years, and is continuing to do so in spite
of other hostelries around her closing
their doors. Her American business
quality of succeeding in the hotel bust
ness even in hard times may nave been
helped along by her aunt, Miss Mac
! Nannee. who made the villa Trollope"
famous in Florence.
| Miss Lille Werner, formerly of The
New York School for the Deaf, has
made success in Rome of being a
courier She is a prominent member OF
the Archaeological Society, and has com
mercialiZed satisfactorily educational in
formation for the sightSeer.
Miss A. McGuinness is another Amer
lean who has succeeded. Her business
is not only that Of purchaser and shop
per. but she supplies servants as we'll
as bargains.
The Washington times., 1915-04-06
A Sure Way To
End Dandruf

There is one sure way that has never
failed to remove dandruff at once, and
that is to dissolve it. then You destroy
It entirely. To do this, just get about
four ounces of plain, common liquid
arvon from any drug store Cthis Is all
You will need, apply it at night when
retiring; use enough to molsten the
scalp and rub it in gently with the fin
ger TIPS.
By morning most, If not all, OF your
dandruf will be gone, and three or four
more applications will completely dis
solve and entirely destroy every single
sign and trace of it, no matter how
much dandruff you may have.
You will find all itching and digging
of the scalp will stop instantly. and
your hair will be fluffy, lustrous, glossy,
silky. and soft. and look and feel a
hundred times better-Advt.
The Washington times., 1915-04-06

~ EAR stares the eyes and chalks
- the face. 1t Is cloak which
II some men huddle about their
hearts to keep themselves warm.
Fear is a liquid poison, generated at an
internal fountain. The fountain is in
herited, but its cascades and showers
are turned on or off by the environ
ment.
The accidental temperaments of guar
dians, nurses, teachers, parents, and
associates, the drive and slams of your
station In life. the stimulation, inhu-
ences, and effects played upon these
fountains" makes for the quantity
and kind OF fear that will be poured
forth from them to be asserted in your
cosmos.
The physiological structures within
the hidden recesses of your anatomy
which generate fear are not the nerves,
spinal cord, or brain, but certain glands
such as the supra-renal or near kid
neys, the thyroid particularly, and
others.
Inactivity Breeds Fear.
Muscular tissue as well as strength
and endurance shrinks or remains un-
developed. where there occurs an excess
outpouring of fear stun. That is to
say timorous, easily frightened, and
| worried individuals have fiabby, inactive
muscles
On the other hand. muscle Juice seems
| to be an antidote or neutral!zer to the
glandular fluids Of fear. One counter
| acts the other. If there is more muscle
juice produced; IL the biceps and ham
| strings yield an augmented output Of
| material, they overcome the liquids OF
| fear.
These new physiological discoveries
actually account for the facts of ex-
perience as well as for the bravado aud
| daredevil courage of soldiers in ac-
| tion. Inactivity in the trenches or the
want of aggressivcness to be found in
| defenders of forts and redoubts, breeds
The Washington times., 1915-04-06
American Business Women
Invade Eternal City and
Set the Commercial Pace
Group of Enterprising Women Have Made Themselves
Known To Every Tourist In Various Lines of
r.. Endeavor AS Economic Factors"
By ALICE ROHE.

ROME, March % (by mail to New
York).-The American womans com
mercial invasion of Rome is a study in
the much discussed feminine cconCni2
independence" which even war with It's
depressing effect upon business cannot
change.
The Italian wife OF the money earn
ing classes has ever been an active
adjunct of the husbands affairs but 1t
remained for the American woman to
enter the gates of the Eternal CITY and
spell business in large commercial type.
The most successful and the most
prominent American business woman in
Rome is Mrs. Juliette Downs vita.
Every Amrican tourist knows MRS.
Vita's big Roman pearl establishment
in the picturesque and historic Piazza
D'Espagna When Mrs. Vita started in
the Roman pearl business eight years
ago and began to collect large patron
age because she made pearls that didn I
.iWear or she called her place The
Roman Pearl Co." The denizens of the
United States with the tourist haoit
were always inquiring. however. Have
you visited the American or nave
YOU. seen the pearls at the American;
SO Mrs. Vita took down her original
sign and now in the Piazza ID Espasna
one sees greeting the shop disgusted
tourist the welcoming sign The Amerl1
place, one of the biggest pearl estab-
iishments abroad, is called. Sometimes
II Is called THE American Club, for
no American ever visits Rome without
having entered the portals OF this busl-
ness house run by really and truly
American woman.
Native of Alabama.
Mrs. Vita comes from Mobile, Ala.
Her father was vice president of the
Great Northern railroad and lost his
life in wreck in Washington. Her
mother is Mrs. Ellen Kirk Downs, and
both mother and daughter, since the
death of MIR. Downs. have illustrated
In different lines what women can do
as economic factors.
Mrs. Downs, the mother, Is writer
and lecturer. Her book on the Sistinc
Chapel has been adopted in the Ameri-
can summer schools. Her lectures on
Roman History and Life are features
of intellectual Rome. This year. how
the scarcity of Americans, Mrs. Downs
is going back to America to lecture. AS
founder of the "Womans World and
editor of that magazine for years Mrs.
Downs when she entered the COM
mercializing of history and art in Rome
Her daughter, however. when economic
reasons urged her into the earning a
living business. decided even in Rome
with its history and art to go straight
to the commercial end of life.
How did l ever choose Rome for a
business life." repeated Mrs. Vita
why. just because Americans have
found trading in Rome SO discouras-
ing. Remember one thing. If you want
to go in business, go in one that is
well known ana don't start a new one.
But go in the well-known trade and
The Washington times., 1915-04-06
A Belief
By MIRIAM FEICHNER.


| believe
In the face of the woe in the world.
The men back to wolfishness hurled
BY the greed of their fellows whose
lust
For gold getting shows them as just
The damning OF body and soul
OF the weak. if 1t leave them but
whole
Their goldcn-sheened life web to
weave;
believe
That. hidden in deeps far below,
Though it's meaning they never may
know.
Their pity would conquer their might;
'Tis only-they see not Alright.
believe
In spite of the babies who wall
For food and the women. too pale,
Who work when their fingers are
numb.
Or smile when the tears ache to
come;
I'm spite of the thoughtless who laugh
At woe not their own. and would
But of joy, careless whom they be-
reave:
I believe
These gay ones who claim not to
care,
So long as they grasp their full
share,
Perforce. would be pity-full, too,
II but they could know what they
do.
The Washington times., 1915-04-06

the wheel had broken they would have
been flung far out over the heads of
the multitude that watched them and
Cheercd them on to greater eXertion
But the straps did not break and the
wheel held intact, and the effect was
very strange and interesting when view
ed from a distance. For upon their
heads the men wore great fiber head
dresses resembling chromatic discs and
they blended at the higher speeds.
Finally the wheel slowed down and
the men fell to the earth as they were
unstrapped. But when their dizziness
around the grounds, the heroes of the
oCCa sion.
The Washington times., 1915-04-06
Copyright, 1915, by Mrs. Christine

FredeTtck.)
HE colonial bride started in
to be cconom cally valuable
i to her husband the moment
she married. She began at
once to spin, to weave, to make the
tallOw dips. the rag carpet, the
quantities Of preserved and Jared
foods needed by the family. In
other words, when she married she
married into industry. Her work
was worth so much to her husband
and family. She was producer.
The bride of today leaves off be-
ing economically valuable as soon
as she marries. She may have been
clerk or a teacher or a highly
pad offiCeWoman, but with few eN-
ceptions when she narries she gives
up this productive work worth "A
dctimll, sum IN the open market; in
other words, when she marries she
marries out of industry. Her work
Is worth very little TO her family.
She is a consumer.
How can the modern bride approx
innate the value that the colonial
bride was TO her husband? How
can she be economically valuable"
The Washington times., 1915-04-06
Economic Intelligence.

Instead of quilting numberless
small pieces into patchwork, she
will bring to her home a knowledge
of color, of ornament, of harmonious
furnishings, so that she can taste
fully and attraCtiVely furnish her
home with small expense.
these values that the modern Wom-
an can bring her husband are quite
as real, quite of as much economic
value as those of the old-time bride.
But We must make sure that she
does bring them, that she is trained
as n hoqne-maker i'm the new sense
the sense Of the purchaser, the con-
sunlsr, and not the old sense of the
producer How she buys, what she
buys, the brands, the weight, the
measure, the purity of all these prod
ucts-that is her share in economic
responsibility. The woman who
Knows is as economically valuable
AS the woman who tolls.
Economic Intelligence is worth as
much as economic labor-one is as
necessary as the other to society.
The Washington times., 1915-04-06
Substitute Brains For Labor.

There is but one way. She must
become better consumer, a more
discriminating buyer, q more thrifty
purchaser. Some of the time which
she formerly put into actual pro-
duCtiOn she must today put into a
study and knowledge of consump-
tiOn. The money she formerly
saved her husband by the actual
work of her fingers she will have
to save for him today by the actual
work of her brain.
Instead of sailing and curing meat
and using ii wholesale because it's
cost was so slight, the modern bride
will have to know the anatomy OF a
steer and be able to assist on low
price cuts, which has the most
nourishment and what the food
values of all meats are, what are
meat equivalents, and the most eco
nomiCal methods OF cooking.
Instead of weaving and spinning,
the modern bride should be able to
know shoddy from wool, make
home test for weighted fabrics. lend
her influence TO a pure fabric law.
The Washington times., 1915-04-06
Colonial Brides and Modern Wives

Instead of making tallow dips, the
modern bride will know the relative
values OF fuels, how to manage
Eas oven, and how to cook with
conserved heat.
The Washington times., 1915-04-06

Surely you don't condemn your
laundress to hard labor over one
Of the old-fashioned scrubbing
boards? Even though you have al
ways said that a washing-ma chine
was too expensive you would not
object to paying 81 for n hand
washer that works ny suction. BY
sousing it UP and down in the suds
the dirt Is forced out OF the soIcd
clothes at very slight expenditure
OF energy.
The Washington times., 1915-04-06

A white waist. with low collar
and double frill down the front
tucked to simulate plaits, may be
had for 81 at a Seventh street cloth
ing store. The same establishment
has also some beautifully simple
waists of crepe de chine at s.. These
are very plainly made and their
chief trimming is the embroidered
collar done in old blue silk.
The Washington times., 1915-04-06
SEEN IN THE SHOPS
By the Shopper

of pongee-colored crepe de chine are
particularly practical.
'Tipperary pups are novelty
that should prove popular with ad-
mirers of Ireland aud the famous
war song. They are very scraggly,
a bit battered, yet with one ear
raised in unQuenchable bravado. A
bright green ribbon bears the legend,
IT'S Long. Long Way to Tip
perary." Small pups are so cents and
the larger ones 81.
Information giving the names Of
shops t1hich carry the articles re
Jerred TO in these columns UiN be
furnished on request. Kindly mer-
tion date Of issue 1chen possible, and
address "The Shopper.")
The Washington times., 1915-04-06

Elizabeth HI think if three girls
are planning to go to New York to
work, the most sensible thing for
them to do is to have an apartment
together. In fact, it's great deal
safer than patronizing a boarding
house, which YOU would probably
have to do otherwise. You will have
more liberty to entertain your girl
friends. too, If you're not living in
bOarding-house with cranky
landladT. | feel sure there will be
no harm in carrying out your plans.
l.. S. T.-Wait until he tells you
Mss Inquisitive.-1. kissing games
Just give an excuse for kissing. 1t
isn't good taste to play them.
2. No, girls and boys should not
have their pictures taken with
their arms around each other. You
know there always are persons who
would delight to gossip about any
thing of the sort.
g. II those who consider holding
hands an amusement only knew how
very amusing they look to other peo-
pie am sure they would stop it.
T. 1t is very nice to have boy
friend that you could talk to just as
II he were a girl. However, that
doesn't give him any excuse to kiss
the girl when she goes away.
5. A girl may correspond with as
many boys as she wishes. In fact,
It's great deal nicer to write to a
The Washington times., 1915-04-06

Speaking of waists, an Eighth
street store has been selling some
tailored ones of crepe de chine at
the very low price of 95 cents Those
The Washington times., 1915-04-06
One Married Into Industry While
The Other MarrieS Out of 1t.
By MRS. CHRISTINE FREDERICK

when ii is no longer for her to make
soap or weave homespun or cure
meat?
The Washington times., 1915-04-06
- ERHAPS- you haven't thought
that you need a new bouton-
Mere Just yet. IL your Easter

But wouldn't you like a little nose
gay Of clovers, or perhaps a daffodil
and a couple of cornfiOwers? You
can get them for 50 cents at one of
the + street shops, and somehow
they seem a great deal more spring
like than the roses and cameliias of
the winter-and a great .1eal less
artificial.
The Washington times., 1915-04-06
Was Dramatic Critic.

| do it BETTER than it has ever beel
done before"
The Washington times., 1915-04-06

l.. S. T.-Wait until he tells you
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-16
Jewish Governor.

Governor Moses Alexander, the
new chief executive of Idaho, is the
first Jewish governor in the history
of the United States. Born of poor
Jewish parents in Germany sixty. one
years ago, he was brought to this
country when fourteen years old.
The family settled at Chillicothe, Mo.
Young Alexander was self made from
the start. He entered politics and
became councilman and later may
or of Chiiicothe. he went to Boise
in 1891 and started a chain of cloth
ing stores, reaching from Blackfoot,
Ida, to Baker City. Ore. He was
twice elected mayor of Boise. He
was elected governor over Governor
John M. Haines. Republican, by
about 1900 plurality. He was nom.
mated by the Democrats for COVER
nor ia 1913. but was defeated, al
though running 1000 votes ahead of
the national ticket. Henderson
Cleaner.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-16

The German naval staff have in
vited a number of American war
correspondents to join the subma-
rines during the proposed attacks in
the English channel on British mer-
chant vessels The correspondents
have asked the German authorities
to insure their lives, owing to the
risk involved. 1t is probable that
several will be allowed 10 go as
honorary stokers" in the next raid.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-16
Student Weaklings.

The dismssing Of forty nine stu
dents of the State university because
they failed in fifty per cent of their
studies in the recent mid.term ex-
animation, and the placing of one
hundred on probation because they
failed in one-third of their studies is
rather startling. 1t is said not to e
unusual in the number of failures.
but SO only in the fact that the fac.
uty rule is being enforced. The
evils that becsm, so conspicuous in
the 1914 session of the legislature
when the university was probed
pretty thoroughly seem not to have
disappeared. rhe general and ex.
cessive smoking OF cigarettes. which
was then gr' ATTY stressed. seemed to
be sti ! study. d sstroying habit and
it is jlsc az probable that the friv-
cities of near-hszlng and OF excess
sve fondness for plays and games
are a. pronounced as YER Owens
boro Messenger.