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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-02

Complimentary Tree.

1t has been the Christmas custom
of Mr.. and Mrs. f. Brady for the
past several years to provide tree
in their home inviting all the chill
dren of Billiard Heights to join them
in pleasurabie afternoon.
On account Of the gloomy weather
this celebration was postponed IN
til Saturday at $50 when more than
seventy-fve children shared the
bounties Of this generous home.
A genuine Santa Claus to pro-
woke mirth while he gave to his
beneficiaries delighted ;he audience.
Fur dressed dolls for little girls. sets
Of dishes for larger girls. horus and
toys for the boys were numbered
among the gifts.
The hostess was assisted in these
preparations by her cousin. Mrs
Clarke Of Dallas. Through her
kindness an array Of doh hats We're
provided each girl selecting her
own design
Tile refreshments we're The usual
Christmas goodies and many chill
dren will cherish fond memories Of
1919, occasioned by Tho Hospitality
Of he Brady home during the Christ
mas season.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-02
Couaplsmentar, free.

On last Monday afternoon siXt>
young ladies responded to an invita-
ton To spend an afternoon IL III,
Mccartney home on Marsin street
With the blooming poinse'tas
placed In the receiving rooms and
the use Of red lights to cnphasize
the yuletide mirth and cheer this
home with it's handsome appoint
ments presented a beautiful picture
not soon to be forgotten by THESE
guests.
After slsort musical program
during which time their new Edison
WAS cbritened real Santa Claus
announced that the scehe OF action
would change to the living room
Here George Groee, whose merry
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-02

ners given during the holiday sea
son.
A thirty-pound bird. nine, small
experienced housekeepers formed an
.a#kard beginning for 3 very com
pIete dinner made possible by the
valuable assistance of Mrs. c. l..
Kennedy at whose home on Ferris
avenue this social affair occurred.
Nine willing hands rendered as
sistance and by six in The afternoon
the Hve-course dinner was ready
In the dining room d Christmas
canopy formed an attractive ceiling
from the center of which hung huge
Christmas bell The table held as
its central adOrnment crystal vases
filled with large poinsett9a, while in
crystal candalabras red tapers we're
capped by holly shades Red bows
finished the crystal receivers and the
plate fayors were poingettas. ~ de-
Iicious fiye-course menu emphasiz-
ed the Christmas season John Her
ring with humor and seniality sery-
ed as the POSTMASTER. Holiday
greens in the music room gave an
additional attractiveness to the en-
yironment and those enjoying this
event were Frank Cronk and Miss
Emmy Owens, Royce Brackin, Italy,
agd GLADYS Rushing, Leonard Keep
linger and Beatrice Harding, Stuart
Moore and Miss Allie Shelton, Ernest
Forrest and Miss Maude Kennedy.
John Herring and Miss Elsie Nc
CARNEY. Richard Edmondson and
Julia Mae Ward, Lee Hammett
Smith and Miss Sarah Chapman.
Stacy Moore and AHeen Kennedy.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-02
1 birthday Dinner.

When 0aae Kelley returned home
Al noon Thursday delightful sur
PRISE Was awaiting him in the din
ias raom. Ills neither Mrs G. W,
<e5eg h4d prepared tempting
afthdas dinner and without his
know edEe hs8 invited a number OF
5's E3sga man friends They wero
seafad afoaaa "a table laden with
afSey and All The deleetable access
aries vbea osce entered the dining
room Ii MAS a merry occasion aud
@atie nartnbiae Of the bonntifui
spread the guests wished many happy
returns 8t The day.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-02
Afternoon Affair.

Miss Lucille Harding was host ess
last Saturday afternoon OF delight
fully planned party given at the home
OF her parents on Main street.
Christmas decorations and APP
pointments suggested the happy holi-
day season. As surprise pleasure
gifts were distributed in q unique
manner to each guest
Il WAS a special pleasure to have
Miss Alpha Penn ~ho is at home fos
tie holidays as a guest
Hot chocolate and q salad course
~ith fruit cake were literally served
to he party OF twelve.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-02
\ Character Party.

Miss Annie Sawyer WAS the hostess
Oh last Wednesday night OF unique
party. the evenings diversion taking
the form of varied contests On re-
quest, the guests had come prepar-
ed to act their aim in life. their man
ner at dress also being significant
in deciding who WAS who, Through
shrewd questions and jolly contests
the evening revealed each life's am
bition.
The physician must have been TAX
en- uaaNares, when asked what he
would do In case OF emergency His
quick Wit replied. Yell for help
The Baker twin brothers failed
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-02

1t vas very encouraging TO thu
ladies having 10 charge the hour tot
The children story telling 10 greet
one hundred and eight children Fri
day morning at Siuis Library Each
girl was introduced individually t.
the japanese twins after which Mise
Wilkerson entertained tie girls With
a story about these twin dolls Mrs
Leigh, With 4 rapturei fairy STORY
held the attention Ell her audience
nninterraptedly small though tbey
we're. In the afternoon Mrs Par.
neil gave reading for the girls
and a large crowd Of boys was pres.
ent TO hear Mr.. Mcknight reiats
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-02

One of the most Interesting mat
rimouial events e. the season Was
tie wedding OF Miss CuFriue Trippet
and Mr.. j Dudley Stephenson @!
fiilisbofo which was soieHnize&
Wednesday night in she Suaday
school rooms Of the Christian church
No cards were issued. only rel
at!yes and close friends were present
at the ceremony which was perform
e1 at eight O'Clock thp r0uUIn la.v-
ing Immediately afternard for Hills
bore. their future home
Tho flare, .I,,,.,.,,,,,,t ~ tho ,h,rlI4
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-02
G. W. Is. NJ. Program.

The following program viii bc
Monday afternoon at three O'Clock:
Hymn
Invocation, Mrs, Quincy Cetzeh-
daneF.
Bible reading, LIST Psalm, Mrs,
George Coleman.
Roll call. name ono OF the mis-
sionaries
Business session
Prayer Mrs. Sid Farrar
Children of the bible, Samuel,
Mrs, W l.. Harding
What our missionaries are doing in
MEXICO. Mrs. T, ". Lake
Hidden answers in November and
December tidings
Benediction, lmemorizej
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-02
Entertained in Benton.

he marriage announcement OF
Miss Corrinne Trippet. who was a
member Of the Denton Training
School faculty. was made at a party
in lhe home Of Miss Clarke IN that
city. This social favor w4s coer-
ta3y from the lady members Of the
faculty, Ivory comb aud brush tray
served q the honor favor
Another party It which $40 was
the chosen diversion and ivory man
icare accessories formed the chosen
houoree fagors was extended Miss
Trppot at the close of the school
session.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-02
The Love Knots Meet

This social club met in the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. p J. Herndon las,
week and spent a most plea8urable
afternoon On arrival hot chocolate
and sandwiches were served.
After a program a Christmas tree
which had been trimmed for their
benefit, was shorn of it's treasures,
each guest receiving just the thing
most wanted.
Program was as follows:
Solo, Beatrice Harding.
i'laGo solo, Emmie Owen.
Reading, Alleen Kennedy
liabo solos, Gladys Rushing, Eve
iFD, Herudon, and Julia Mae Ward
History OF Club, Elsie Mccartney.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-02

soul helped to make him jolly
good Santa. revealed the beauties Of
well ladaned Christmas tree by
clipping from it's links a Temem-
brance for each guest
After this, light Refreshments
we're served, the hostess being as
sisted by Misses Ella Pierce, Myrtle
Cole, Ruth Chapman and Neil Pow
ers of Dallas
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-02

On Tuesday evening II .'bass -, $
week M aud Mrs. w, Il. Mek
opened their home to the yo,
people of the Baptist church II
vas the second festal oeeaslaa Of
yuieiide aesson, the aest beinr
christHas trea on Christmas
night. when the frieisds and ns
hors partook II tbs pleasures
ever abound IN this home. Tha
was intact The hailg aud mss
was much III evidence whiEe
criiasoh poinsattaa literally fiaine
from vases artisiteally isiaeed HI KIM
receiving suite Mr. Mcknight il
tbs tes1ehar Of the Besnan etssss assa
this entertainment waa slissiAptiyAiy
10 honaf his class and tho Ffdelisl
| class Of young ladies', bat Iii tise
Continued o. gase ss
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-02
\ amiis Reunion.

The home OF Mr. and Mrs II r.
Roberts WAS the scene OF a happy
family reunion oa Christmas day
Mr., aud Mrs Roberts have teu chill
dren. 1--WE OF whom are married
All the children and the grand chill.
dfca were present to enjoy this de.
lightfuI occasion
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-02
A Home Wedding.

a quiet and impressive marriage
ceremony vas performed at the
home OF Mr. and Mrs, G. Il Sos
sions IN University addition last
Thursday morning at ten o'clock.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-02
\ Complimentary Dinner.

An informal proposal from nine
boys and their girl friends to sup
ply the Christmas turkey II the girls
would cook il successfully resulted
in one OF the most delightful din
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-02

Mrs. T. p. Littlepage and son, who
spent part of the Christmas season
il Mexia, have returned.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-09
A BAD BILL

IT would be hard to find a more use
less piece of legislation than that
proposed by the bill recently intro
duced in the Legislature providing
for the creation of a boxing COM
mission in Pennsylvania.
The bill is not to be taken very
seriously. 1t is foreordinated to be
defeated If it does not meet the fate
of it's predecessors of 1918, and sleep
away it's brief career in the pigeon
hole of the committee to which it has
been referred
The State will not be dragged into
the boxing bout business. Harrisburg
has never had any trouble in regulat-
ing it's boxing exhibitions and no other
city will have where the police de-
partment is honest, vigilant and awake
to its duties. The trouble is that fight
promoters back of this bill want to
force boxing upon a community
whether the people want that kind of
sport or not.
1t is true that boxing can be car
ried on along lines that place it above
serious objection, but in most in
stances direction of the sport falls into
the hands of those all too liable to
abuse it. Pennsylvania has never been
in the prize fighting business, and 1t
is difficult to believe that anybody will
seriously consider the present attempt
to place boxing on a State recognized
basis.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-09
WOODWARD HAS A
POLL TAX SCHEME
House Appropriations Committee
Chairman Would Raise Money
by a Unique System
WOULD TAX MALE RESIDENTS
Congressman Ainey to Deliver. an
Address in the Hall of the
House Tonight

In order to raise the million dol
lars which it is estimated should be
provided to adequately care for
mothers pensions for the two-year
period beginning June, James +.
Woodward, chairman of the House
appropriations committee proposes a
tax of fifty cents head on all male
citizens over 81 years of age. Mr..
Woodward says the money is not in
sight to give everything what it should
have and his idea would raise over n
million.
There are 2,s2s,694 men who
would be affected and 1t would raise
$1,164,347 which could be specifically
appropriated to the pensions. The
last Legislature gave 100000, which
is too small, as several counties will
soon enter the system.
Congressman w. d. Il. Ainey of
Montrose, u member of the house
committee on foreign relations in the
present congress and an authority on
Japanese relations. will speak tonight
in the House on America and the Pa
cific. He has just returned from a
visit to Japan and the Philippines and
is one of the best posted men in the
State on the subject
ID. Clarence Gibboney, of Phila-
delphia, was about the legislature last
night In the interest of his prohibition
plan.
--Messrs Forster and Ehrhardt
started a good custom in the House
last night when they explained bills
| they had in charge. Both were quick
ly understood and went through.
| A delegation of Carlisle Indian
girls sat in the gallery of the House
| last night during the proceedings and
attracted much attention. They were
keenly interested, especially in suff-
rage.
The State Board of Censors was
granted use of the House for an eXhi-
bition of movies on March 2.
The Spangler bill for management
of jalls in counties having less than
10000 population was recommitted
at the sponsors request in the House
last night. So was the Wilson civil
case code, and the Geiser hospital bill.
Just 199 members, or five less than
the full membership, voted on House
bills last night. 1t was an unusually
large vote.
House Chaplain Stanley made a
strong suffrage prayer last night in
opening the session. 1t was freely
commented upon by the advocates of
suffrage, several of whom congratu-
lated him.
| R. c. Hassieck, who had charge
| of publicity work in independent
movements that were well meant but
ill-starred last Fall, greeted friends at
| the Capitol.
! representative G.. w. Hibschman,
of Lancaster, was back in his seat last
night after his recent illness.
Reports of the Pittsburgh Flood
| Commission were sent to members last
night.
| Numerous House committees be-
gan consideration of bills in subcom-
mittees to-day.
Speaker Amber was late in get
ting started last night for the first
time this session.
Representative George Brown
and Mrs. Brown came down from
Wilkes-Barre for the sessions last
night.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-09
FEBRUARY
BY Ella Wheeler Wilcox

by Ella Wheelcf WILCOX
Copyright, 1915, by Star Coz
Month of good Saint Valentine
Sends the sap into the vine;
Birds begin to dream of nests;
Tender thoughts stir human breasts;
Little egos waiting birth
Linger near the plane of earth.
Valentine, Saint, good and great,
On the bosom of earth may lie deep
SHOWS;
The garrulous winds from the north
may shout
Wild tales of ice-bound lakes and
rivers.
And yet by a code that Nature knows,
From root to root and from sprout to
sprout,
A message goes forth, till the forest
quiVers
With the conscious turn of the year
toward Spring.
A wonderful thing, a wonderful thing.
Silent the message, and yet 1t is heard
Far and wide over b-ake and void;
Whatever has life feels new life
waken;
All things sentient are thrilled and
stirred
BY something subtle and sweet, and as
old
At the age of the earth Git was there
in the making);
And it finds q voice when the first
| birds sing;
A wonderful thing, a wonderful thing
Something subtle, and something
sweet,
And something old as the primal plan,
Stirring the soul of the world to Won
der;
On the level of Nature all things
meet,
And the bulb in the sod, and the heart
in the man,
The bird on the branch, and the wild
beast under,
In this great love impulse are one in
| Spring;
A wonderful thing, wonderful thing.
Valentine, Saint, good and great,
! Give each longing heart its mate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-09

late before gettin the job three years
hense. He said 1 acted like I never
seen a dickshunary, which is not troo,
because I ust to see one every day up
in the corner at school, but L never
looked in it because 1t was too big
and / was afraid tackle>it.
This here book" said the editer,
turnin over the pages, contains 80, 900
words of all sizes and descripshuns,
which Is only a condensashun and alb
bridgemint of a vastly bigger number
in the big dickshuneries that men like
me are infinite with. Now, my boy,
you must endever by persistuncy, pur-
tinacity. and indormitibel ag-gressiv-
nez to persoo and captur a least one
new word for your vocabilery each
and every day of your life, and you
mustn't go to sleep or say your prayers
at mite without being sure you have it
If not then get right out of bed and
study some more, for I tell you this, if
you don't there wont be any job for
you here in three years. because the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-09
a UNIQUE STATE CHARITY
philadelphia Bulletin.1

The action of the managers of the
State Institution for Feeble Minded,
at Spring City, in asking the Legis-
lature for maintenance allowance of
$500 less than it received from the
last Legislature is SO unusual that it
ought to be recorded in red ink in
the annals of the appropriations COM
mittees at Harrisburg.
Time out of mind it has been the
practice of most of these charita BILE
institutions, both State and private,
to apply for increases whenever there
was the slightest Justification, real or
apparent, on which such appeals could
be based, and the reason given in eX-
PLANTATION for this exception to the rule
ought to prove enlightening to similar
homes.
Instead of depending almost wholly
on the States bounty, as formerly the
management decided to make efforts
at self-support. This was done by cul-
tivatng the tillable land-about 400
acres-and training the inmates to do
the work. In other words, the unfor-
tunates housed at the institution were
transformed from patients into pupils,
adding to their health by outdoor eX-
ercise, adding to the revenue of their
home by their labor, and adding to
their self-respect by the knowledge
that they are earning something them
selves.
While charitable institutions are
clamoring generally for double the
amount of money that the State ap-
propriated two years ago, it is decid-
edly refreshing to find at least one
that feels a responsibility to enforce
an economical, but prudent, policy If
the idea could only be made to spread!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-09
BLOOD WILL TELL
\R. LOUISA BURNS, in recent
lecture before the New York
Osteopathic Society, said:

HR. LOUISA BURNS, in a recent
] lecture before the New York
Osteopathic Society, said:
The pulse records the vagaries
of a mendacious mind just as surely
as a dictagraph. A man may learn
to lie with straight face, but the
human being has yet to be born
who can lie with a steady blood
pressure.
Hereafter, it will not be necessary
for the court to "swear" a witness. The
Bible and the solemn oath must give
way to whatever hyphenated Latin
name this new blood testing instru-
ment may be called. Instead of being
asked to hold up the right hand and
promising to tell the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth" the
court physician will strap a metal dial
to the wrist of the witness and watch
eagle-eyed for any signs of variation
by the little hands on the face,
We would suggest, however, before
this ewly-discovered telling
machine is put into any general use
that it be tested out pretty thorough
Iy and be constructed so as to with
stand sudden and unexpected jars. We
suspect there are those in even this
truly-loving little old town who, upon
occasion, might strain to the break
ing point a device of the kind unless
Constructed of Harveyized steel or
Krupp armor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-09
THE IUsIrANIA INCIDENT

w PLY all this excitement over the
M Lusitania incident From
w time immemorial it has been
the custom of the sea captains
of warning nations to masquerade un-
der the colors of some neutral country
In our own history, example of this
method of saving a ship from an
enemy are not lacking. In the pres
ent conflict, the captain of the Emden
fooled an entire English garrison by
rigging a false smoke stack to his
vessel and replacing the German flag
with that of Great Britain.
No particular harm has been done
in the present instance and the only
possible trouble that might arise out
of a continuance of such practices
would be that ships properly flying the
American flag might be placed under
unwarranted suspicion and unduly de-
tanned by German warships, whose
commanders might desire to make
sure they were what their colors indi-
Gated.
But there would seem to be no good
reason why the United States govern
ment, which has swallowed far greater
indignrtIes than this, should grow ex-
cited over an incident so we'll author
lied by precedent and having so little
to do with either the honor or the
material welfare of the nation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-09
STORY RITEN'
BY the Messenger Boy

dickshunary will henseforth be
my steady hip-pocket companyun,
which will help to do better at this
story-riten business This is how it
happined: The editer give me a
talkin-to the other day in his office,
which is a cubby-hole parted off from
the ordinary reporters full of spider
webs and junk and with a tiperiten
machine that he rites the editorial
page with.
He told me to sit down and said that
all the 10 stories so far was rottin--as
he said before--eXcep one or two
that might pass on a pinch; but he
said he'd give me a little longer
chance, and looked solem. Then he
give me a second hand dickshunery
that you can get new for ten cents;
and it has a lot of pages tore out.
He said 1T was a speshul favor and
he hoped 1 had sense enough to ap-
preshiate it. He said it would be an
ineXpressibel suckor in perfecktin my
vocabulary and an inestimibel posses
shun in forwardin and promulgatin
my risin ambishun to be a accom-
plished ritter and reporter for the Tele-
graph, which he said l must akumu-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-09
a PROPER SENTENCE

= TO less than twelve nor more than
M twenty years in the Eastern
Penitentiary was the sentence
imposed yesterday by the Dau-
phin County Court on ex-Patrolman
Robert r. Scott, who was convicted in
January of murder in the second de-
gree of Nathaniel Banks, following a
quarrel in the SibIetown district.
Both of the principals involved were
negroes, so that no possibility of race
feeling entered into the verdict. The
sentence was severe. but we'll deserved.
AS Judge McCarrell pointed out, Scott
was at the time of the shooting wear
ing the uniform of a city policeman,
but there was nothing to warrant the
use of the weapon he carried. Police
officers are permitted to carry revolvers
in order that they may enforce the law
in cases where the life of the officer
man to be arrested is known to be a
desperate criminal bent on escape or
resistance. But there can be no ex-
cuse for such q reckless disregard for
human life as Scott displayed. The
revolver in the hands of an impetuous
policeman is quite as dangerous as in
the hands Of private citizen; some
times more so, for an officer of that
temperament would doubtless use his
gun where q civilian would hesitate.
There has been all too much of
shooting first and explaining after
ward. The sentencing of Scott to a
long term of Imprisonment ought to
and no doubt will have a very desir-
able restraining effect on hair-trigger
officers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-09
THE WASH DAY LUNCH
BY Wing DinEcr

a friend of mine. who has soul
said to me yesterday:
Come. Wing and have some lunch with
me-"
/ Joined him right away.
lie took me to clubhouse where
a lot of fellows sat
Around = table Ioaded down
With good things, lean and fat.
I met them all, and then sat down
To give myself treat
Because ii isn't often that
On someone else | eat.
/ had fine time eating up
All food within my reach
Until some senseless guy let loose,
Wing Dinger, speech, speech
speech"
| rose, and like a boiler works
They started with their noise;
BY gosh they acted, not like men,
But like a lot of boys.
But what can you expect from men
Who dine thus each wash day
While wives at home, with nauSht tc
eat
At tubs do scrub away?