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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23

Needing a model for painting OF
female figure / intended to call Peace,
| hunted everywhere for one. l could
find plenty Of women with suitable fig
ures. but figure expresses nothing that
l wanted except symmetry. l painted
my picture in my studio, using model
for the figure whom I have often EN-
ployed, leaving a blank space for the
face, intending If ever found one suit
able to my purpose I would introduce
it. But time few by, and feared the
great European war, which rendered
my subject timely, would come to an
end before / could find model.
One day while looking out of a rear
window of my house 1 noticed sitting
at a window opposite mine girl whose
lineaments We're exactly what l want
ed. She. was sewing, and since the
window In which she sat was at an
angle with mine I got three-quarters
view Of her face. This was the posi-
ton Of my figure of Peace" in my pic
ture.
l noticed that the girl occupied the
same position nearly every morning
from about 10 o'clock till noon. 1t &C.
Cured to me to bring my canvas and
my implements to my room and use the
| girl for a model. She would be uncon-
scious that she was being used for the
purpose, and this would be great ad-
vantage. So I transferred my mate
rails from my studio to my chamber,
and, closing the blinds so that my
model would not see me copying her, l
set to work. Fortunately seldom
missed getting a sitting each morning.
MY picture was a great success.
How much its being displayed when
the European war was in progress had
to do with the publics appreciation OF
1t l don't know. Naturally the wal
created an interest in it. spent much
time In the gallery where it was hung
watching those who looked on it, and
noticed that the expressions of all who
viewed it were for the time being
s0ftened. -.......
But one who listens to criticisms OF
his work viii surely hear some fault
finding. During these eavesdroppings
I heard one adverse comment Two
ladies were viewing it when one said:
"She's a spitire."
Good gracious~ exclaimed the 9th
er. What do you mean? She is the
fmpersona ton Of amiability. How could
you have got such an impression?.'
II don't know, but I've got it all the
same"
They passed on, leaving me wonder
ing how one person Of the many hun
dreds who looked at the picture should
have OWNED such different interpre
tation of it from the rest. Surely the
judgment of the many was of far more
| value than the one. Nevertheless the
criticism troubled me. Might not 9th
ers have got the same impression from
my Peace" but left it unexpressed?
However, my picture did much to in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23

daily wage Garner nor that of the great
captain of industry will reflect what
the senator calls the "healthful CLEAN
of prospecting business" in the absence
of a foreign trade having a stable re-
lation to the production capacity of the
country.
Have the hide-bound protectionists
forgotten the last words of one whom
they once delighted to honor? Presi-
dent Mckinley said in his speech at
Buffalo, New York, just before his as
SaSsination:
"a system which provides mutual
exchange of commodities is manfestly
essential to continued healthful growth
of our export trade. We must not re-
pose in fancied securities that we can
forever sell everything and buy little
or nothing. If such thing were pos
sible it would not be best for US nor
for those with whom we deal"
The reactionary republican party for
which Senator Harding was the
spokesman at the Chicago convention,
has shut its eyes to the new light
which had dawned on President Nc
kinley and has treated with contumely
his maxim that reciprocity is the nat
ural growth of our wonderful indus
trial development"
The advent of reactionary republ-
can president and of a republican con-
gress. committed to the protective
tariff system as defined by Senator
Harding's keynote speech and the Chi
cago platform, would be the prelude to
period lessening industrial activity
and of disastrously contracted foreign
trade. 1t is depressing to find the Wis
ION of the reactionary republican ma
tlonal convention at Chicago so con-
tracted as to pledge the party to a
protective tariff policy that would
bring ruin to American industries now
so prosperous and profitable by rea-
son OF the democratic policy of Presi-
dent Wilson and a democratic con-
gress. If William Mckinley. who ut
tered the words quoted in this article,
were living today he would repudiate
the false economic policy demanded by
the reactionary republican platform
The republican voters of the country
should join with Mckinley in repudi-
ating the tariff policy of non-inter-
course IN trade with foreign nationA
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23
THE RICKETY BABY.

Ricketts, is a constitutional defect in
the utilization or "metabolism" of cal
cium or lime salts. 1t is not due to
the absence of lime in the food, but
to some inherent inability or failure of
the system to utilize the lime. The
bones, muscles, nervous system, blood,
in fact, the entire body suffers from
impoverishment or faulty nutrition.
But the deformities of structure are
most noticeable, and hence ricketts, is
looked upon by the layman as bone
disease"
The first symptoms usually appear
at the sixth to tenth month of age. The
baby is usually fat. His head sweats
too much. He is pale. He has much
collie, gas, indigestion, tendency to-
ward pot belly" He cries too much.
Later on, perhaps, his forehead seems
prominent and square, the fontanelles
or soft spots do not close completely,
the bones at the wrists are thicker
than usual, maybe the baby looks
chicken breasted" THAT is, the chest
is thick from front to back but too
narrow from side to side) and there
may be little chickering's on the ribs
few inches from the breastbone.
Adenoids, frequent colds" and Group
are usual in rickety babies, Bowlegs,
knock knees, curvature of the spine
and other deformities appear after the
child is few years old. The teeth
are late in erupting. The muscles are
weak, hence the child is slow to walk.
The chief cause of ricketts, is con-
densed milk, matted milk and similar
cheating. We mean that such things
cheat the baby if they are used habit
ually as substitute for real food.
The trouble with all these substi-
tutes for pure. fresh, live, cows milk
is that they are sterilized. dead, I'M
natural. Moreover, most of them con-
tain too much sugar, in one form or
another. and little or no fat. They
make fat babies, yes. And flabby,
anemic, backward, rickety babies. No
human hand or brain will ever create
a formula that can take the place of
pure, unchanged, fresh cows milk in
feeding babies that cannot be properly
raised on the breast.
The cure for ricketts, must be ap-
piled before the disease has produced
lfIeHeuldDle changes IN structure,
that is, the cure is prevention. And
the prevention is, feed fresh, live food,
not canned, lifeless substitutes, no
matter how "digestible' or "pre-digest-
ed" OF how well they "agree"-these
considerations do not determine the
suitability of the baby's food.
OF course, many of the baby-cheats
are now supposed TO be fed mixed
with various amounts of fresh milk.
But why mix any dead stuff with the
milk? What mother can't make bar
ley water or oatmeal water, if cereal
addition is desired?
Open air-live air-and fresh, pure,
clean. cows milk-live milk-are the
TWO remedies which prevent and cure
ricketts, If applied in time.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23

erection and maintenance of a district
almshouse.
The enactment of strenuous laws
prohibiting a county letting out its
poor farm and the care of its public
poor to the highest bidder for the land
and the lowest for the maintenance IF
the inmates. This custom prevails in
q counties in Illinois and is charac-
terized as disgrace to our state and
a reproach to our civilization"
A renewal of its recommendation
that the state architect system be
abolished. This was strongly urged
in the fifth annual report of this COM
mission. - -~-
The repeal of the support or REIN
bursting sections of the state charities
code. These sections of the law pro-
vide that patients in insane hospitals
who have means or who have rela-
tieves with means, must reimburse the
state annually for the expense of their
maintenance.
The commission urges a regulation
providing that nurses from the state
hospital shall be called to accompany
du JuuSCu DdlISHto liohl liCll hoidSo "
the hospital.
The commission denounces the prac-
tice prevailing in some counties OF
sending female children to public or
private institutions in charge of male
officers. For the same reason it urges
the employment of female probation
officers, saying: at would be wholly
superfuous to elaborate on the propo-
sition. The idea of turning a female
offender over to male probation Off
GERS, as is done in some counties, is
too appalling to be considered"
The last recommendation of the
commission pertains to the care of the
convalescent insane patient after his
release from the state hospital. The
commission believes that it is the
states duty to provide care and super
vision fo- the patient after his release
and until such time as he is fully re-
covered and is able to take care of
himself.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23
ESSENTIAL TO PROSPERITY.

Senator Harding. in his keynote
speech at the republican national con-
vention, said that he preferred pro-
tective and productive tariff which
protected America first, and would
choose the economic policy which
sends theAmerican workman to the
savings bank rather than to the soup
houses" The New York Journal of
Commerce. which is one of the best
economic authorities in the country.
says this is pure claptrap." The prac-
teal question is whether the economic
policy, of which the senator does not
offer any Ineligible definition, is one
really fitted to provoke American pros
perity and ward off recourse to the
soup houses Neither the fate of the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23

may be some comfort In this conpari-
son. but certainly it Is small comfort.
The Times says:
@To destroy out of a whole popula-
ton one per cent Of the strongest man
hood may have, is almost bound to
have consequences which cannot be
expressed statistically at all. The peo-
pie now surviving in the world are the
progeny of but an extremely small
fraction Of the number living a few
generations ago. There is a constant
elimination of the less adaptive, or
running out of the unchosen lines
which have not the qualities naturally
preferred for perpetuation. This pro-
cess has been thought to account for
perhaps five per cent of each genera
ton Thus, one does not have to go
back many generations to find the apex
Of the existing racial structure. Con-
slider, therefore, the consequences to
the future of marking at any time even
one per cent of the population for pre-
mature destruction, and Of selecting
for this fate, as war does, the most
virile part of that population. When
.centage which in the present seems so
small multiplies itself rapidly into the
future of the race, and causes one to
wonder whether the price the living
generation will have to pay for this
war is remotely comparable to the
price posterity will pay"
The Times also remarks that if the
loss in this war is ever accurately de-
tern1ined it will be the first time it has
been done in the history of warfare.
For military reasons the belligerents
report their casualties imperfectly. In
the present war the German casualty
list is said to be the best, but even it
has to be taken with reservations.
France publishes no list at all while
the Russian list is incomplete. The
English list reports accurately the
casualties among officers, but the ag-
gregate losses Of all ranks are only
roughly stated from time to time. The
latest British statement shows a total
of 26,304 officers lost since the begin
ming of the war. In the ten years OF
the Napoleonic wars the French lost
30, 600 officers. In other words Eng
land has lost in less than two years
more than half as many officers as
were lost in the ten years OF Napo-
| Icons campaigns.
How much longer is this useless
carnage to continue? There are still
no definite signs Of peace in spite OF
the fact that in less than two years
the destruction of life and property
has reached proportions hitherto I'M
| dreamed of in the worlds history.
Must the war-mad nations be reduced
Ito the last man and the last dollar
before peace comes2
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23
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out of the system when chronic, not
local treatment?
I Answer-Friend, you've been read
ing the almanac again. "Catarrh" is
just name, not condition. and there
is no remedy which will drive it out of
your system, because you can't have
it in your system. If you have some
nose or throat trouble you had better
seek advice from your doctor, who will
find out what is the matter. Catarrh is
word designed to help in the market
legged blood purifiers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23
cH0RDs 80
DIS

CHURCHILL'S lobster palace in New
York was partially destroyed BY fre
the other day. Thousands of tons oil
water poured into the building dld
heavy damage to the furniture and
dining room. Even the appearance of
water in such a resort would be enough
to shock the walls into collapse.
CHICAGO newspaper, in announcing
start of a fund to aid families OF SOL
diers, finds two things are necessary
money and information. II it will get
the dough the rest need occasion no
further worry.
IF you would know one OF the sac
rifices of war gaze into the face OF a
mother saying farewell to her khaki
dressed red.cheeked boy as he is about
to leave with his company for the
front. It's easy for a man who has
passed the age limit to talk about
shonidering a rifle, but what he says
or feels doesn't count. It's the boys
who face the shrapnel. their wives and
their mothers who must pay the price.
JOHN S. Wilson, aged 101, of Roch-
ester, n. Y, still takes an active part
in politics. If he'll just keep pegging
along one of the parties may nominate
him for a place on the national ticket
| four years hence
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23
Daily History Class-lune e.

l15I-Lord Give DESTROYED the HindS
army at the battle of PlaSsy Brit
sh rule established over Bengal
iSeo-Gnited States blockade of Con
federate seapogts was ended.
lW4-Japanese destroyers checked
sortie of the Russian feet at Pert
Arthur. The Russians lost a bat
tleship and a cruiser.
Northumberland armies In East
Galicia were temporarily checked
on Dniester river and suffered
heavy loss
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23

!. General Obregon is disturbed be-
cause the code duello does not apply to
the relations of the United States and
Mexico. In all contests of honor"
he says, "the contestants first take the
measure of their arms, in order that
they may be able to fight on equal
terms. If the United States desires to
defend its honor, unquestionably it
should take the same number of men
as we have, and equally armed, and
Hght on fields selected by mutual con-
sent" But first let the gallant gen.
eral call off his Mexican snipers and
assassirs and bandits and school them
IN his theories OF honor" in the field
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23

If the nimrods for and against the
federal migratory bird law will cease
their contentious for a few minutes
they will awake to the realization that
there is some Of the finest shooting
that was ever afforded south of the
Rio Grande. Uncle Sam wants some
good shots, many of them, in fact, to
pick off the ''greaSer birds"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23

Wednesday the Davenporters leading
the parade turned north on Seven
teenth street and yesterday they went
west to Thirteenth street when Fiji
teenth street was the advertised route
in both cases. Can it be that the boys
from across the pond are not yet able
to find their way about in Rock Is
land
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23

Lord Kitchener after visiting West
Point in 1910 described it in one word,
thorough" America may have many
lessons to learn from Europe in war,
but its officers are among the best
trained in the world.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23

The republican elephant and the
democratic donkey were both origin
ated by Thomas Mast in his cartoons
in Harper's Weekly in 1874 Their
conception grew out of hoax in the
New York Herald to the effect that
the animals of the Central Park me-
nageries had broken loose and were
wandering about the city. Soon after,
Mast labeled the two political parties,
as well as the Tammany tiger.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23

Financial men in Petrograd and
London are reported to believe that the
war is entering its final stage. Events
on the eastern front are wonderfully
cheering in those capitals.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23

Incidentally many young men bear
ing German names may be found list
ed among the members of the national
guard and on their way to mobilization
points
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23

The impossible has happened. T.
R. has permitted Murray Crane to
call on him. Yet there are some
who still pretend T. R is doubtful
about supporting the old guards
PROGRAM
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23

The civilian training camp at In
dianapolis has been called off. There
will be a training camp, however,
down along the Mexican border.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23

If one had the price Of all the in
ternal combustion liquids burned up
in Rock Island yesterday-but what's
the use?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23
THE ROCKIES GOODBYE.

ILL AhoohIL uooDD
Have you read the news today, little
girl?
They are calling us away, little girl;
Down along the Rio Grande
In the cactus and the sand
We have got to take a hand, little
girl,
Uncle Sam has waited long, little girl.
AS becomes a man that's strong, little
girl;
But they've worn his patience out
And we've got to fight a bout
There will be Greaser rout, little
girl.
Some of us may not come back, little
girl;
Owe your picture in my pack, little
GRID.
If the Greasers get my goat,
Keep that button from my coat
There's a swelling in my throat, little
girl.
II DO come back to you, little girl,
Will l find you good and true, little
girl?
(There's cinder in my eye!)
Soldiers sweethearts shouldn't cry
It's the bugle call.-Goodbye, little
w. KEE MAXWELL.
HANS Wagner, at AZ, is hitting the
ball with old-time regularity. He at
tributes his good eye to his refusal to
hit the high ball. Those who hit the
ball at night, you may have observed,
have difficulty in locating it after the
sun comes up. Then all they are pre-
pared TO hit is the hay.
THE Chicago White Sox have re-
leased Catcher Ray Shook to Rock
ford unconditionally. Here is a young
man that would be justified in changing
his name Immediately.
THESE are great nights for the can
didate who IS TO crate on Fourth of
July to stay at home and put together
an original perOrati0n on the Stars and
Stripes. Some times we weep for the
American flag. War is peace to il
compared with the attacks il must
withstand on Decoration day and
Fourth OF July.
Il have just learned that j. NJ
Sheets is one of the popular judges OF
this state" postcards lgnatz en- root
through Ohio. Also. might add. he
lives up to the dignity of his position
and does not go on tears like some OF
his brethren OF the bench that | have
heard about" J. NJ c.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23
Have Million Pounds Prize Money.

London.-The total amount of prize
money under the supreme court prize
deposit account has thus far totaled
nearly four and one-half million
pounds.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23
Rock Island-From River to
River.

Mr.. Hughes.a1so has three daughters
who might like the surroundings at
the White House.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23

Street Car Comedy.
What's the band playing for?"
They're having a rally for Hughes
on Eighteenth street"
What are they boosting him in Rock
Island for? Isn't he still manager of
the Moline team"
THE knights Templar apparently
have not been getting their regular
sleep at their national conclaves, and
accordingly have decided to meet in
Philadelphia in 1919.
EVERY man knows that none of his
sex lives up to the f1attering specifica-
tons shown in the summer underwear
advertising. That's why men believe
that the corset advertisements are part
of a world conspiracy to fool them.
ROOSEVELT Has Written the Swan
Song OF the M0Ose."-HeadIine. In
other words. the colonel has cut the
bull loose from the party. With the
bull gone there won't be any more
party than the W. k. rabbit.
LEMBERG, it is announced, has
been recaptured by the Austro- German
armies. Appears to be too strong TO
hold for any lengthy period.
JAPAN is Dragging of having 1000
islands in the territories comprised by
the empire. That's nothing. Uncle
Sam has thousand of 'em in a single
state. Then there's the dressing.
ANNOUNCEMENT of the opening of
new beer garden in Chicago refers
to its wonderful original coloring eff
feet The OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES variety
so to speak. The more you blow the
more impressive the surroundings.
THE spree is over. But it was neces-
sary the other night to lock up the
Wine OF Cardui jury in Chicago. The
court might have tried the Neal cure
as means of obtaining a verdict.
POLICEMAN in a nearby city is fac.
ing trial on charges of having cursed
lodge members in their meeting hall
Fresh initiates will believe this merely
part OF the frameup on them.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
1t Isn't in the System.

Is there any reliable cure for ca
tdrrh. something to drive 1t entirely
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23
On the Banks Of the Wabash.

Mrs. D. c. Keesling and Mrs. James
Woods spent few days at Wabash,
Ind, with Mrs. Keesling's husband, Mr..
Clark.-New Castle Qnd) Courier.
president Stands Pat on SUI
frage for Women.:'.He Headline. That's
easy. But wait till the girls start
kicking. That's the time for prepared.
ness, as Willie realized after he had
received an invitation from father to
meet him in the wOOdshed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23

POLICEMAN in nearby city is fac
ing trial on charges of having cursed
lodge members in their meeting hall.
Fresh initiates will believe this merely
part of the frameup on them.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23

Rock Island Member Associated Press,
Full Leased Wire Report.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23
THE ARGUS

BY THE NV. P0TTER co.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-23

THE knights Templar apparently
have not been getting their regular
sleep at their national conclaves, and
accordingly have decided to meet in
Philadelphia in 1919.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1916-02-03
TULANE.

ia sppearance of John Drew, the
.-,ryuisbed comedian. at the Tulane
|,atre, will be one of the most
.,,ut events of the theatrical sea:
n can readily be said without
!, d contradiction that Mr.. Drew
,rs.ses the last word in genteel
| .,,dy. His perfect knowledge Of
l. stare and the art of the actor
4, q born to 1t has been in evil
|.,r for many years, but never so
nh As now when touched by the
slowing influence of time. In his
,svu field Of light comedy that new
|, sends good manners or good NOR
Il he is the standard. THE Chief"
h new comedy he is to present here,
4 which has been received else
|ixr With much favor, is in the line
m, most attractive qualities, which
,su that In II he will be seen at his
|k The play In itself is a most in
|nfing achievement, with a gener-
h supply Of wit and humor and a
dm SIDE as well. There will be a
|rw Of notable players surrounding
h Drew, among them Laura Hope
|ss delightful and accomplished
|,1tdsnne.