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Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01
PENALTIES OF WISDOM

ITO be a woman and be sensible is the most difficult" mourned the girl who likes to talk. sgFhey ought to give the Nobel prize every year. to know that I can'tl Every once in while I have a session with myself and explain firmly but kindly to my frivolous ego that all foolishness is to be cut out.
 ,'Why, I demand sternly, should a woman expose her chest to the wintry blasts all one season and muffie her throat in furs to her nose tip the next? Why should she wear pumps and thin silk hosiery and scorn good weather, and cost the family all sorts of money for trained nurses and un- dertakersg Why should she eat five meals a day at tea fights and dan lon? Why, should she stick to French heels and go tottering down stair cases and hunting chiropodists? Non sense, say! I will be emancipated!
 "Then," continued the girl who likes to talk, fate takes me by the hand and with a pitying, negligently hum orous smile shows me how impossible are my ideas.
 q was especially indignant the other day on the topic of high heels and thin soles for street wear After you have been downtown with your feet rigged out in that manner you come home cross enough to snap nails in two and aching to your hips and your pretty shoes are all mud and slush, and 1t takes you hours to get them in order. Moved by a realization of these facts, defiantly/ put on my fiat heeled, broad toed skating shoes for shopping bout.
 "As I sat in a tearoom eating my leisurely luncheon I found that un- consciously I had been watching the progress of woman down the room toward the cashiers desk. For some reason I was staring at her in dis taste. Then woke up fully and dis covered why. In the first place her skirt was of sensible length-short enough not to touch, but far too long to have that smart look which real nifty skirt should have this year. or course no intelligent woman of 40 is going to wear skirts as short as her daughters, but if they don't do 1t they look just as this woman dtd-as though she had no soul above static tics on something and the exact num- Der of carbohydrates in her children s food.
 "The crowning touch was her shoes. They were -eminently, bowling sensi- ble-fat heeled. broad, comfortable, warranted never to produce toe trou- ble She came clumpety- -clumping along, splash. splush, and closed my eyes and gave a low moan. I swal- lowed the rest of my luncheon whole and dived for the shoe department where I bought pair of shoes with heels three inches high and. paper soles and extreme stitching, and then I hunted up the restroom and pinned
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01
PROTECTING MAIL SEIZURES

It was a straightforward and sen- sible protest which was made to Great Britain by this government concerning the manner in which mails are being interfered with. There have been occasions when the plea of military necessity has been put for ward with much emphasis by the na- tions at war in explanation of the course which they have adopted but when it comes to holding up, seizing, opening, delaying and destroying mail aboard a neutral vessel it is go- ing too far. inasmuch as internation- al regulations stipulate that even mail on belligerent ship is. inviolable.
 It must therefore be apparent to Great Britain that it is pursuing an unJustifled course, and in view of the fact that it has notified this govern ment that the matter Is being taken up with the other allies, it becomes evident that it recognizes the justice of this country's protest even to the point that it is unwilling to shoulder all the blame therefor in the future.
 It must be apparent to Great Brit ain that it has no more rights to de- part from international law in this respect than it or its enemy has in other directions, and when it does it must expect that it will be called to account. Great Britain has agreed not to do just what it is deing. Be- cause Germany followed just the same sort of a course when 1t disregarded its promises to Belgium 1t Is we'll known what the attitude of Great Brit ain was It is different sort of vii olation which is under consideration now out 1t concerns neutrals the same as it did then and Great Britain even after a conference with it's allies ought to be able to distinguish the justifable from the unjustifiable.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01
Take Iron, Says Doctor, If You Want Plenty of ".Sfay There"
 Strength Like an Athlete!

you have gained. have seen dozens of nervous, rundown people who were ailing all the while, double their strength and endurance and entirely get rid of all symptoms of dyspepsia, liver and other troubles in from ten to fourteen days time simply by taking iron in the proper form. And this af- ter they had in some cases been doctor ing for months without Obtaining any benefit, But don't take the old forms of reduced iron, iron acetate or tlncture of iron simply to save a few cents. You must take iron in a form that can be easily absorbed and assimilated like nuxated iron if you want 1t to do you any good, otherwise 1t may prove worse than useless. Many an sathlete or prize fighter has won the day simply because he knew the secret of great strength and endurance and filled his blood with iron before he went into the afray. while many another has gone down to ipglorious defeat simply for the lack of iron.
 NoTE-Naxated Iron recommended above b. Dr. Sauer. is one of the newer organic Iron com pounds. Unlike the older inorganic iron pro- ducts 1t ts eaSdly assimi1ated does injure the teeth. make thcm black. upset the stomach; the contrary. it is most potent remedy, in nearly all forms of indisestion we'll for ner- run down condition It is dispensed in this city by chas osgcod Co.,. Lee and osgcod and ell other druEgista
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01
THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Society

"Laaos, the Bulgarian seaport re- gently bombarded by a British squad ron, is, probably one of the most ex- posed points on the frontier of the Central Balkan Kingdom" according to primer just given out by the National Geographic Society. Tt is built in the midst of a plain stretch ing low back from the sea, and a wide bay, deeply cleft into the land, forms a splendid harbor. The low plain runs unbroken across the Greek Afacedon- ian border, leaving the city with a natural frontier as unfavorable for defense as that made where the level iong-rolling fields of East Prussia and the Russian Government of Su- walkf meet.
 donia occupied by the Allied forces, lies only about 50 miles away. Dedea- gatch, bombarded at the same time as Lagos, is situated 30 miles to the east of the latter port, and is con- nected with the Bulgarian hinterland by rail. This railway, the Adrianople Saloniki line, however, skirts Lagos almost 20 miles to the north, running along the base of the Rhodope Noun tains, the great natural bulwark chain of Bulgaria. Offshoots of these noun tains approach the coast east of La gos, nearer Dedeagatch. and these, to- gether with its advantage of railroad connection, give the port upon the Gulf of Enos, certain clements for de- fense.
 F Lagos. on the other hand, lies
 open upon the land and open toward
 the sea, It Is, however. scarcely more than a fsher-folk's village, a scanty collection of huts and modest build ings, little port whence Greek and Bulgarian sponge drivers regularly sailed before the war for their dam
 gerous underwater hunts along the northern cOast of Africa The fields
 around the small port, protected from l harsh winds by the mountains in the
 north, are productive. but they are sparsely settled. Although its har- bor is better, the Bulgarians, after l their acquisition of Aegean coast | following the war of 1912, doubtless | influenced in their choice by the ex- posed position of Lagos, selected Dedeagatch as their Aegean port with a future, and planned here to develop I their commercial city for the randling
 of their port of Mediterranean trade"
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01
TOO IMPORTANT TO DELAY.

Senator Newlands who recently took occasion to criticise the administra- tion for some of the mistakes that it had made is now advocating the ap- pointment of commission to investi- gate the question Of preparedness He would have such a body go over the entire matter, study the existing con- ditions and the needs and defer action along the line of national defense un- til it has reported.
 This if he will remember is what Congressman Gardner sought to have done many months ago. which if it had been undertaken at that time would have been completed long since. but it was strenuously opposed and defeated after slight consideration In view of that action there seems to be little chance for the Newlands pro- posal now.
 The question of preparedness is one which ought not to be needlessly de- 1ayed. Through the reports which have been submitted by the general board and adnirals concerning the condition of the army and navy and the need which exists for increasing our defenses there is already pos- sessed an array of facts which simply need to be digested in order to arrive at a sensible conclusion as to what this country needs to do in order to bring them up to a proper state of preparation against the possibility of trouble.
 In the opinion of the president who Is as close to the situation as anyone there should be no delay in respond- Ing to the countrys needs He de- clares that the dangers are infinite and constant and it is believed that congress possesses as good ground Tor action now as it would following the commissions report some months hence. It is too important to delay.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01

my skirt up several inches under my Jacket, and then. only then, did saunter out with an afr of confidence
 Then there was the time when I seriously regarded my complexion and said that it served me right. Any complexion that didn't have the self respect to get mad and break out and over and under in indignation when cakes and ices and salads and tea and chocolate and things were crowd cd on 1t every fifteen minutes wouldn't be worth calling a complexion. l decided to exert my will power and not eat between meals.
 Have you ever tried to sit with a lot of woman who are devouring things they know they shouldn't, and yet you endeavored to refrain from doing as they are doing? You know, when you are right and the other per son is wrong, the other person always instincttvely hates you, just because you make his conscience uncomfort- able. We'll, these women see you sit they are slowing away pounds of weight, and it makes them mad. They don't know what it is, but they dis approve of you violently and begin to see all sorts of disagreeable faults in you, and pretty soon that intangible swamps and engulfs you and you feel all alone on a barren shore ready to burst into sobs.
 ''The woman next you eating her second cream puff takes a look at you and says sweetly, How wonderfully clever you are in fixing over things! Nobody would dream that was a last years hati' I got it on the avenue
 last week. and say. tartly, and turn your back on her. Tell me, dear, murmurs the woman across the table, weren't you just ready to graduate from high school when came in a freshman? I can't remember. Yes you say sweetly, and unless you are ready to be translated among the an gels you add just sweetly: But
 graduated very young. Let's see-are
 you three, or is 1t four, years older than I am?"
 And then everybody hates every body else. and you see it's no use and you drink three cups of hot chocolate | with whipped cream, and people take you back into favor againl I tell you ] it's no use-if you want any rose | leaves on your path in this world you've got to be just as unsensible as | the rest Of 'em!''
 Then heaven help youi" said the
 man who had to listen. But on the
 whole. I like 'em kind of foolish!"-- J Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01

houses just now, too. The Registers objections to the three-famiIy house are that it is unsightly, presents a fire hazard, cumbers land with edi- fees of low taxable value and has a tendency to lower surrounding real estate values. The nail will be driven in the coffin of the three-family house when people recognize what was pointed out in The Republican the other day by F. J. Histon, who says that 1t is not a good permanent in vestment That will kill off what has become a characteristic but ob- noxious feature of New England ci- ties.-Waterbury Republican.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01

Ordinary Nuxnted Iron VIII Make Deli
 cate, Nervous, Rundown People zoo
 Per Cent. Stronger i'm Two Weeks
 Time, in Many Cases.
 New York, N. Y.-Most people fool ishly seem to think they are going to get renewed health and strength from some stimulating medicine, secret nos- trus or narcotic drug. said Dr. Sauer, a specialist of this city, when, as matter of fact, real and true strength can only come from the food you eat. But people often fail to get the strength out of their food because they haven't enough iron in their blood to enable 1t to change food into living matter. From their weakened, nervous condition they know something is wrong. but they can't tell what. so they generally com mence doctoring for stomach. liver or kidney trouble or symptoms of some other. ailment caused by the lack of iron in the blood. This thing may go on for years, while the patient suffers untold agony. If you are not strong or we'll, you owe 1t to yourself to make the following test. See how long you can work or how far you can walk without beconplng tired. Next take two fve-grain tablets of ordinary nuxated iron three times. per. day after meals fer two weeks. Then test your strength again and see for yourself how much
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01

which the kaiser'a aviators persist i'm killing the defenseless in England and France makes 1t evident that 1t may not be possible to defer much longer the retaliation which the people are calling for. It would of course be no worse for the people of Germany to suffer from such attacks than 1t is Tor those of the other countries and there is the possibility that the lesson thus taught would have the desired ef- feet. Germany has lost all claim that it might have for protection from such repriSals.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01
A YEAR AGO TO-DAY
Feb. i, 1915.

Germans evacuated cernay and turned Alsatian towns as the French advanced.
 Russians retook Rorjimow trench ca and captured many of German landsturnn.
 Severe cold hampered operations in Galieia.
 Turks withdrew forces from AdrianopIe to defend Tchatalia.
 German airmen dropped bombs on DunkirgS.
 Official order issued in Germany reservina all copper and other met als used in war materials for the army.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01

We are human here in New Eng land. The confirmation of MT. Bran deis's nomination would be an insult to New England, whose ultra punish ment for mistaken judgment in rail- road management can be attributed more to him than to any other man, with the exceptions of Supreme Court Justice MacReynolds formerly Attor- ney General, and United States Attor- ney General Gregory. MT. Brandeis is lacking in judicial temperament. In the interest of all concerned his nom- ination should be rejected. Whither is President Wilson drifting ?-New
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01
OTHER VIEW POINTS

It would be difficult to conceive of a more depraved or atrocious criminal than the one who deliberately gave a quantity of acids to a four weeks old New York. baby as it sat peacefully in its go-cart, from which the poor little innocent died soon after. No punish ment can be too severe for such man as this, should he be found to be sane and responsible for his dastardly act. -Ansonia Sentinel.
 Rockville should bestir itself and take advantage of the provisions of its charter amendment relative to side
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01

The possibility that another sub marine has been lost doesn't make the service on such vessels loom up as especially alluring. yet there always appears to be plenty of recruits to man them.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01
Suffrage Meeting Mrs. Beatrice Forbes obsrtson Hale
 SPEAKER Town Hall, Tuesday Evening,
 February 1st
 AT 8 p. M. Admission Free
Haven Journal-Courier.

The profits of munitions making, like the profits of any other business, are really the wages paid to the men whose brains and money make the business possible. The advocates of government monopoly are willing to pay the wages of the men whose physical labor creates the war supplies but they are not willing to pay the wages of the men who furnish the brains which make the process of creation efficient. And, goodness knowsl there is nothing on which the government could more wisely expend money just at present, than 6n the hiring of brains.-Waterbury Ameri- can.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01

testing against the cheap wooden, three family house as the least desir-
 able of buildings, except from the standpoint of temporary profit to the owner. The frame three-decker has recently been interdicted in Bridge port, which happens to need plenty Of
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01

walks. The amendment passed by the last legislature awaits action by the citizens before 1t becomes effec- tive. It's adoption means that the city bears one-third of the expense of con structing sidewalks, and the ahutter the other two-thirds. Rockville needs miles of new walks. As a preliminary to getting same under way in the spring. a special city meeting should be called at an early date to accept the aforesaid amendment.-Rockvi Journal.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01

The man on the corner says: Say what you may and believe what you like, but the fact remains that the worlds greatest discovery is human nature
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01

While the French are unable to drive the Germans out of their newly won trenches 1t must be admitted that it is no new experience.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01

Georgia may be deploring the recent lynchings, but no determined effort has thus far been made to run down the participants.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01

It may be as reported that Rumania is considering what part it can take in the war, but if it moves no faster in the future than it has in the past 1t will be found about where it is when the war ends.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01

When the president says that he would rather surrender territory than ideals possibly he has in mind that Baltimore platform.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01

Italy is reported as sending addi- tional troops to aid the Albanians. Coming at this time it looks like an after thought.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01

From the condition of the rivers of the middle west the workingmen of the country are not the only ones to know what an increase means.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01

It may be little unreasonable here,
 but no one Is envying Colorado with l it's deepest snow in 35 years.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01

1nasmuch as January has brought forth the peepfrogs, it ought not to be too much to expect a robin most any day.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01

After extensive alterations to the ship purchase bill another effort is to be made to see whether it will stay a1oat.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01

When the actions of Mir. Ford's peace party eclipsed the war it is possible he considers it worth all 1t cost
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01
EDITORIAL NOTES.

It is possible that Kentucky will look upon its flood as a new prohibition movement.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01

Weatherwise there is no good reason why the departure of January should be viewed with regret
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-11
Asks More Pay for white Wings

4 resolution offered by A. II. +. Hol-
stem urged better pay for the street
cleaning force known as white wings"
and contained a provision for blue uni
forms.
Then l suppose A1ey will be called
blue birds" suggested Prof. Percival
Hall.
James NJ. Wood. Dr. Starr Parsons
and others amended and debated the
resolution, and the association finally
went on record as favoring an increase
in salary to 81 day and requiring the
District to furnish and launder the uni
forms.
President Tucker reported that the
executive committee is heartily in ia
vor of the erection of new munich
pal hospital to take the place of Wash
ington Asylum Hospital. Years ago,
he said. the association denounced the
hospital building as being unsuitable
and too small. Following his sugges-
ton. the association gave its approval
to the move that is being made for a
new building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-11
OHIO SOCIETY ELECTION.
Mr.. Justice Day Is Chosen President
George E. Martin Presiding,

Officers were elected at a meeting of
the Ohio Society of Washington last even
ing at Rauscher's as follows Justice Will
liam r. Day of the Supreme Court of the
United States. president; Thomas Ewing,
Mrs. William Hamilton Bayly and Walter
W. Warwick. vice presidents William L.
Symons. secretary; Frederick Eichelber-
ger, treasurer: lev DIR. H. n. Couden,
chaplain; Frank G. Carpenter, historian,
and Milton r. Allies and Leroy T. Vernon,
trustees for terms of three years each
Justice Day. who is in Canton, Ohio
convalescing from a severe illness, was
notified by telegram Immediately after
his unanimous selection as president
George Z. Martin, vice president of the
society. presided.
The Lighthouse Service was the sub
5ect Of an illustrated talk by John S. Con-
way. deputy commissioner of the bureau
of lighthouses. Selections were given by
the Holt orchestra, composed of Walter r
Holt, 3. n. De Loss, X. F. Cowng and l..
W. Teller. Miss Helen Rogers Smith
sang several solos.
-Four new members were admitted
They are Joseph G. Butler. jr.. of Youngs-
town; Rollin NJ. Morgan of Mount Yer
non. Mrs. Florence A. Needham and Miss
Carrie Needham of Gallipolis social
session. supper and dancing followed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-11
Rehearsal Of Opera Tonight.

Another rehearsal of the opera Mar
tha," the work undertaken by the Com
munity Singing Society this year. is to
be held tonight in the auditorium of
the Thomson School, 18th and L
streets northwest; men at 1880 o'clock
and full chorus at s o'clock. More
members will be welcome. This society
is community society and those inter-
ested in it's work hope that everybody
in the District will feel that it is their
organizat ton and get behind it in its
work. DR.. S. Percy Hicklins. president
of the Medical Jurisprudence Society
of America, will address the society to-
night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-11
GAS VICTIM A WAR VETERAN.
Tennessee Congressman Provide for
Interment of Soldier.

Anthony J. Apple, seventy-two years
old. who was accidentally asphy xiated
by Illuminating gas in his room, at 434
was employed as Waterman at the Post
Office Department. He was a Confed-
crate veteran. He served in Archer's
Brigade, eth Tennessee Infantry. and
was captured and detained in the big
military prison at Point Lookout, Md,
whence he was discharged in 1865
Members of the Tennessee delegation
in Congress had the body taken to
Carthage. Tenn, his former home, for
interment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-11
REGISTER OPPOSITION
TO THE JOHNSON BILL
Northeast Washington Citizens Say
Community Forum Should Not
Use Public School Buildings.

A resolution voicing opposition to the
Johnson community forum bill last
night was adopted without dissenting
vote by the Northeast Washington Citi-
zens' Association at a meeting held at
Northeast Temple W. c. Arnett, a
visitor. was the principal speaker to
oppose the passage of the bill.
81 want the bill utterly slaughtered,
he said 81 am opposed to the use of
the schools for any purposes other
than those for which they were erect
ed
If the johnson bill is passed. Mr..
.irnett said, the next move will be to
accomplish the change that vas sought
in the bill which provided for placing
the schools under control of the Com
missioners.''