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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09

the initial force in its musical inspira-
ton. Upon this basis he builds his
belief in the efficacy of music as a fac
tor in a nations preparedness, and in
this theory he is sustained by ]. Rosa
mOnd Johnson, director of the colored
Music School Settlement, and one of
the foremost composers that his race
has produced. OF this characteristic
of the colored people Mr.. Names says:
Their musical inspiration as a rule
has as its initial force an intense spirit
ual feeling so common in the black
race, literate and illiterate. True pre-
%paredness means the stimulating of
the %poetical, musical and dramatic
qualities of the child Of today so that
the man and the woman of tomorrow
shall resist the ~onslaughts of material
aggression"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09

To perpetuate the work of Booker 7.
Washington at Tuskegee institute it
is now proposed to raise n fund which
will make a permanent foundation for
the work carried on at the institute by
him and now under the able charge
of Robert r. Motion. Tuskegee insti-
tute has accomplished a vast deal of
good for the Negroes-both for those
who have attended the school and for
those who, While neve within its
walls, have nevertheless profted by
the principles inculcated there. Tus-
kegee institute has also been a valued
help to the white people of the South
in their efforts TO assist the Negroes
to become a useful and efficient part
of humanity. Certainly every South
erner will be glad to see ample funds
placed at the disposal Of the instltu-
ton to insure its permanence in a
widening scope of labor for the best
interests of both the races.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09
EMPTY LOTS MADE TO BLOOM
DenVer's School Garden Crusade is In
tenced to Turn Them All Into
Patches of Beauty. 3

Denver is carrying on a school gar
den crusade that is expected to make
a beauty spot of every empty lot in
that city. Already the results are said
to be remarkable. Houston has thou
sands of vacant lots-more of them
probably than any other city Of our
size in the cOuntry-and they are not
things of beauty. Few of them are at
all ~presentable, but they are ever pres
emit. Some there are that are examples
of the loneliness that any vacant space
may be made to show, but these are
few. Yet it is easier to make a lot
beautiful here than anywhere else In
the country. There is no excuse for
a single ugly spot in any city. .
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09

Jersey and cancels hair cloth, are
most satisfactory. The sweater goes
without saying as the most important
feature in the sports outfit, and some of
the smartcst ones have wide belts,
while practically all of them have
pockets. Matched sets include
sweater, cap, and scarf to match, or
sets of hat, scarf and bag, or cap, scarf
and mutf. The convertible scarf is
something new, in a long scarf which
may be made into scarf and cap in one.
All sorts of sets are trimmed with
heavy yarns and worsteds in contrast
ing colOrs.
Eiderdown is a familiar material
that serves the purpose for making in
expensive sets. In white trimmed with
white yarn it makes a cap, scarf and
bag for the skates, of much distinction.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09
Down With the Street slnn.

Signs that encroach upon the streets
are a nuisance that ought not to be
tolerated, and Philadelphia streets Will
be safer and less cluttered up If the
police will really enforce the recent
municipal ordinance limiting the size
and position of such structures. Signs
OF this character belong in the same
class as overhead wires. They are dis
figuring to the streets over which they
hang and they introduce a distinct ele-
ment of danger at times of storm or
fire. We have been to Indifferent or
indulgent in the past, and the growth
of the signs under the stimulus of COM
petition has passed the point Of tolera-
tion.-Philadelphla Public Ledger.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09

The heavy yarn is used for overcasting
seams and edges and for tassels which
finish the scarf ends and decorate the
cap and bag.
These yarns are used In the same
way on hats and bags Of silk for
sports e "a One of the ~handsomest
novelties is a set of hat and bag of
blue silk lined with gold. Blue and
gold yarn overcasts all the seams in
the bag and in the crown of the hat.
The t~assels. of the same yarns, are
fastened to the top of the hat and the
bottom of the bag with snap fasteners,
and may be removed SO that the set
may be worn either side out. Mustard
colored fabrics look particularly well
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09

1TOWR
IS HELPS
BUILDING ON DEFINITE PLAN
Country Has Been Quick to Recognize
Advantages Of Having Expert
Lay Out City.

Town planning has received so much
attention within the last ten years that
it is developing into a new profession
and n that promises to be most re-
munerative. The obvious advantage
of a brand new city, built up from the
ground on a plan in harmony with
modern developments, over the city
which was evolved from a small vii.
lage in which sanitation, convenience
and civic beauty were unthought of,
has been recognized by a number of
corporations in the selection of sites
for manufacturing plants. The need
of persons competent to plan new
cities as well as to remodel old ones
led the University of Pennsylvania to
establish a course of city planning. It
has been under the direction of b. An
trim Haldeman, city engineer of Phil.
adelphia Carol Aronovici and Bernard
Newman of the Philadelphia housing
commission and Prof. James p. Lieh-
tenberger of the university.
A number of cities are now estab-
fishing commissions for the purpose of
procuring a definite plan suited to in
dividual municipal need. New York
recently established such a commits
sion and the group of public buildings
which, are adding so materially to the
efficiency and beauty of Cleveland
were built from plans which recog-
nized the peculiar and distinctive con-
ditions of that city. Dallas and Cal
weston, Tex, Birmingham, Ala, and
Reading, Pa, are among other cities
which have recently adopted a definite
plan upon which future improvements
will no hoSad
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09

crown and in a heavier cord of silver
on the brim. Large, full-blown metal
lie roses, in pale rose color, harmo-
nize beautifully with the gray velvet
and silver cord, for they have a sheen
of silver over their color. If the best
man. or some other good fellow, is
not made captive by those rose-adorn-
ed ropes of silver he is a hardened and
hopeless bachelor. a
Next appears an enticing poke bon
net, covered with olive green velvet,
1t has a soft pulled crown and a brim
cut away at the back. There is a col.
lar of gold ribbon finished with a bow.
at the back. On the front a little
basket is outlined in gold thread, filled
with tiny ~gay-colored silk flowers, set
fiat against the collar. A similar mod
ell trimmed with narrower ribbon tied
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09
In WOman's Realm
Practical Sports Clothes Have Been Designed by the Leading Paris
ian Modistes, of Which This Skating Suit Is a Sample
Bridesmaids Hats That Have the Sanction Of
Recognized Leaders of Fashion.

There are plenty of practical sports
clothes for those who really take part
In winter pastimes, and there are just
as many sports clothes de luxe for
those who dress with an eye to placing
themselves in harmony with their en-
vironment. These are made to be
looked at and are marvels of adapta-
ton Of exquisite materials to sports
styles.
A skating suit, shown in the picture,
is made for real service. 1t Is a MILDLY
blouse of a special knitted material
in Scotch colorings, trimmed with a
plain knitted material. The plain
trimming matches the pr~edominating
color in the MILDLY, and the skirt is
made of the same plain cloth.
For real utility sports clothes, soft,
lightweight but warm materials, like
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09

with tassels of ~vari-colored worsteds.
Any month in the year is the best
of months for a wedding--if the bride
chooses 1t. An Indian summer setting,
or a snowclad little world as a back
ground, may seem a happier choice
than June when all the details of the
great event show a reckoning with
the season.
In the three hats shown in the illus
tration prevailing styles in picturesque
millinery give the bride a choice for
herself or for her maids, that cannot
go wrong. Each one of them repre-
sents a type recognized as appropriate
in any season. The largest hat, with
wide, graceful brim, is of light gray
velvet faced with pale rose satin. The
ever-present metallic touch appears in
the lacing of silver cord across the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09

Let us turn from the creative field
to that of performance, and e what
the future holds out for US there. AS
the Negro lends his own infection to
any tongue he learns, so his touch on
the piano differs from the white mans.
Here, too, his natural potentialities
must expand" asserts David Names
In an article written for the New York
Evening Post. Negroes either pick
on instruments or play On instruments
Of percussion to my knowledge they
have never turned to bowed instru-
ments. SO it is that the difficulty for
the Negro in playing on the violin lies
in the bow. In their management of
it they may approach the fine and nat
ural legato of their W voices.
"If people could hear Miss Richard
son, the pupil of Nine. Leginska and
now an instructor at the Music School
Settlement for COlOred People in Har-
lem, play the 'Toccata' of Debussy and
TO a Wild Rose by Mcdowell, they
would realize that between those pieces
lies a varied range of musical dynam-
les all within the reach of our colored
people"
Mr.. Names emphasizes the intense
spiritual feeling" of the Negro race as
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09

in a simple bow at the front is a
shade more demure. 1t was worn at
a morning wedding by a maid in a
redingote dress of olive velvet carrying
a big bouquet of yellow chrysanthe-
NUNS. No man beholding it could call
his soul his own.
The third hat is a shape of the hour
made of ~light-colored panne velvet
with an extension border of chiffon
about the brim. Picot-edged ribbon
and a brilliant fancy feather herald
1t as strictly up to date.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09

tensions. 81 wouldn't marry you in a
million years." she said. 1.-The man
marry must go to college"
Arthur planned to work his way
through college, but his mother lived
through a long period of invalidism,
and that put an end to his ambitious
plans. What happened was that Ben
nett senior took the boy into his bank,
where, at twenty-five, he was earning
ten dollars a week. Soon afterward
Bennett senior died, leaving the banks
ITO Jim, and Jim came home from col
1ege with the expressed intention of
making things hum.
Millicent and Arthur were on speak
dng acquaintance, but the young fellow
had never got much further with her.
When Jim came home there. was not
much Wbubt whom she preferred. She
did not take much pains to hide 1t
from Arthur, either.
Arthur went to work for Jim, who
considerably raised his salary to
twelve dollars. He told him, with a
grin, that he would be able to get mar
ried on 1t, If he lived frugally.
By this time Jim Bennett and Mill
cent Patterson were as good as en-
gagged, in the opinion of the townspeo-
ple. Jim Bennett operated a car-two
cars, for the matter of that, and the
two were to be seen together every
where. People went so far as to say
that If they were not engaged they
ought to be.
They were engaged, but what deter
mined Millicent to have it announced
was the behavior of Arthur Royce. He
was calling on her by this time, and
one evening he seemed somehow diff
ferent from what he usually was. Mil
aicent said to herself, with a laugh,
that he was falling in love with her.
But she was not prepared for his sud
den proposal, nor for the tragic way in
which he took her refusal.
II always told you I'd marry a rich
man and a college man, and you are
neither, Arthur" said Millicent.
"And 1 told you i would marry you,
and l WILL" answered the boy.
Maybe you WILL" replied the girl,
rfbut I'm going to marry Mr.. Bennett
first, anyway" She stretched out a
slim. white hand. "This is my engage
ment ring" she said. isn't it prettyP"
Arthur ran from the house. A week
later the engagement was announced.
Somehow there lurked the rudiments
of a heart in Millicent. She was sorry
for Arthur, and she said nothing about
his proposal to Jim.
But that was what was at the back
of her request that the announcement
should be made. Nobody was greatly
surprised, and everyone said that she
was a lucky girl, and maybe Jim Ben
nett would steady down a bit with her
hand on the checkrein.
They were married in the Presby-
terian church, and the wedding was
the event of the week. There were
columns about it In the papers. Ar
thur read them In his hall bedroom.
His grip lay, packed, on the bed. He
had resolved to run away, anywhere,
without notice, but when he had finish
ed reading them he suddenly sat up
and squared his shoulders.
.I1i stay" he said. "And I'll get her.
Somehow-in heaven If not on earth"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09
Evening Coats Like capes.

All evening coats have the swing of a
full cape in their ampleness. One of
deep violet velvet has a high collar OF
gray fur, which comes up to the ears,
then rolls back to the shoulders in cape
form, dropping a bit in the back. The
sleeves are large and have bands Of
gray fur so deep as to be veritable
muffs. The wrap is ankle length, with
a fonrinch band of the gray fur about
the hem,
Another French evening wrap is like
a CAPE. and a very full one at that. II
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09
BEST KIND OF COMBINATION
White Lilies With Background Of
Blue Delphiniums Will Make
Any Garden Beautiful.

Put it down in your garden note book
that in another year you will have
rows of white lilies with a background
of blue delphlniums. If you have once
seen that combination you will not
rest content until you have it in your
W garden. In a place neal Tuxedo
N. Y, there have been this year four
rows of lilies with the delphinium
background across the entire end Of q
large garden. Its beauty was equaled
only by the fragrance.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09
Artillery in the Bible.

Did you know that several kinds of
artillery are mentioned in the Bible7
Most of the machinery mentioned in
the Old Testament is a sort of cannon,
intended for siege. During the reign
OF Uzziah, engines, invented by Gun,
ming men, were put on the towers and
upon the bulwarks TO shoot arrows
and great stones I'll Chronicles 26:15l
In his great prophecy. Ezekiel fore
told that battering rams would be set
up against the walls of Jesusalen
(Ezekiel Az; 21:22). jeremiah or
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09

Los Angeles recently appointed a
Negress to the office of policewoman in
connection with the juvenile bureau.
She is Mrs. George A. Robinson and
she is the first woman in the United
States to hold such an Office.
She is a most unusual woman. Be
fore taking up her residence in Los
Angeles she battled for woman suf-
frage in Colorado. All her spare time
she has devoted to the requirement of
an education. She speaks French flu
emily and is now mastering Spanish.
To do good to her race and to society
Is the handspring Of all her energies.
She has organized various political and
civic clubs among the colOred people
until now she is known as the Booker
7. Washington Of Los Angeles.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09

The movement of Negro laborers
from the South in large numbers dur
Ing the past few months has created
considerable discussion in the public
press, North and South. and not a little
nee in parts of the South, writes
a correspondent of the New York
Times. A striking feature of most of
this discussion is the absence of state
ment about the migration of Negroes
before the present movement. The mi
grafton of Negroes northward in con-
siderable numbers year by year for
b last two or three decades has been
quietly going on, although it may not
have attracted much attention.
The indication of this movement
since 1880 is shown by the percentage
Of increase of the Negro population of
the following nine Northern and Dor
der cities: Boston, Greater New York,
Philadelphia, Chicago, Cincinnati, Ev-
ansville and Indianapolis, Ind, Pitts
burgh and st. Louis. The census fig
ureS for these nine cities showed that
between 1880 and 1890 1t increased
about 36.2 per cent from 1890 to 1906
it increased about 74.4 per cent, and
from 1900 to 1910 about 37.4 per cent.
In the first decade the increase was
more than three times the increase of
the total Negro population in the sec
n period it was more than four times
as large and shows the influence of the
economic 6isturhopoaS of Tho porioJ
In the last period the increase was
nearly three times larger than the in
crease of the total Negro population.
The rate of increase in the southern
cities has been large, although less
than that of the northern cities during
the same period, indicating that SINH.
lar causes were operating to draw Ne.
groes to southern cities, although these
causes were weaker than those oper.
ating in northern cities. The percent.
age increase of Negroes in Is south.
ern cities was, from 1880 to 1890, about
1871; from 1890 to 1900, about 2O.6
from 1900 to 1910 nc cities with add.
ton of Birmbinham, Ala.), 20.6 pei
cen These percentages are based
upon census figures for the following
cities: Wilmington, Del. Baltimore
Nd; Washington, d. c.; Norfolk and
Richmond, Va; Charleston, S. c.; At.
lanta, Augusta and Savannah, Ga.
ouisville, KY; Chattanooga, Memphi,
and Nashville, Tenn. Birmingham anG
Mobile, Ala, and New Orleans, La. II
may be added in passing that from
1880 to 1910 the increase of white DOB
ulation in these southern cities has
been very similar to that of the Ne
groes.
The causes of this movement during
this longer period have been the sam,
as those affecting the Negro popula
ton In the last few months. The onl,
difference has been the increase in tht
volume of the movement because OF
the increase in its influencing causes
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09
True RESIGNATION.

The Splnster Gan invalid)-Is IL
true that marriages are made In
heaven?
The Parson-That is the universal
belief.
The Spinster-Well, If that's the
case, PHI tell the doctor not to caIs
again.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09

inch deep in its faces. The post
is about seven feet in height and
costs approximately So. In addition
to being of substantial construction
it has the added virtue of sightliness-
On the other hand, it is of a type
which IL difficult to read at night n
less exceptionally we'll Illuminated
Popular Mechanics Magazine.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09
Was LookIna For EASY Money,

81 asked for alimony of $50 a week.
1 see wimmen are getting that right
along" BUS madam" expostulated
the lawyer. "your husband is earning
only $12." whats that got to do with
itp / thought the government provided
the alimony."
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09
The
m
Blu H. N. EGBERT


N~VpyAibhbt ASAVs W w. W. Ohdpiudh.(
Jim Bennett and Arthur Royce were
described rs the two boys In the VII
lage who least resembled each other.
Bennett was selling newspapers when
he was seven and planning a monopoly
among village magazine, subscribers.
Arthur Royce at that age was describ-
ed as the best pupil in the Sunday
school. Naturally Jim was the favor
lite among the townspeople, who adj
mired hustle a good deal more than
they admired sanctity.
However, Arthur was not sancti-
monious. He was just a Woodworking,
docile sort of chap. At fifteen he was
clerking in q store to support his
widowed mother, and turning in his
three dollars a week to exc out her
Civil war pension. AT the same age
Jim Bennett was expelled from school
as incorrigible, and being laughed at
and petted by his adoring parents,
who were already planning his college
career. Thomas Bennett was presi-
dent of two banks and reputed to be
rolling in money.
At the same age Milicent Patterson
was publicly telling Arthur hat she
preferred Jim anyhow, because he
wasn't a milksop, and beside Jim was
rich and she mean to marry a wealthy
man when she grew up.
"I'm going to be wealthy" answered
Arthur, setting his teeth, land you're
going to marry me-"
Millicent was secretly impressed, but
she made short work of Arthur's pre-
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09

is ankle length and the front edges are
cut so they form a muff when the
hands are clasped, The collar. high and
rolling like the one just described,
turns in a muller with pointed ends,
which drop long tassels from the Shout.
der because the scarf ends are crossed
in front.-New York Herald.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09

Some years ago, when there was
danger Fisk university, the school for
Negroes at Nashville, Tenn, would
have to close for lack of funds a group
of students went owe the country sing
ing Negro folk songs to obtain money,
Again money is badly needed at
Fisk, and again the Fisk Jubilee Sing
ers are raising funds.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09

Notre Dame university of Wisconsin
has a Grand Army post composed en-
tirely of priests. After the war many
of the priests who had taken part met
at Notre Dame and organized the post.
The first commander was the Very Rev.
William E. Corby, chaplain of the ia
nous Irish brigade of New York.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09

of small boys in
thickly pOpulat-
ed neighbOrhoods,
have been de-
signed to carry
the street names
at intersections OF
thOroughfares in
lincoln, Neb.
Each is four
sided and near
the top pieces q
square concrete
cap which bears
the street in let
tiers cut a half
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09

dered the children of Benjamin to
pour out the engine of shot" against
Jerusalem der. 6:6). Ezekiel also
p~rophesied that ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
would pour put the engine of shot and
would set up engines of war against
the walls of Jerusalem Ezekiel $500.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09

The Philippines assembly has put
up a substantial prize for a means of
destroying Il tobacco insect pest with
out injuring the tobacco.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09
The Union.

81 see where an illuminated keyholel
has been invented"
'That will be great for a man who
comes home lit up.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09

The reach of the inner surfaces Of
the teeth as well as the outside is the
aim of a double-ended toothbrush In
vented by a Memphis dentist.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09
New idea In Walls.

A new idea is to wear a veil with a
single thread run motif SO placed that
when the veil is adjusted 1t forms a
trimming on the front Of the hat.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09

From heretofore waste tomato seeds
Italian Gamers are making an oil with
rapid-drying qualities that is useful In
varnishes.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09

A man in California has fenced in his
estate by chains connecting cement
posts, made and colored to represent
tree stumps.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09

safety first" signs are placed in
hemispherical bases. so they right
themselves In case they are knocked
out Of place by passing vehicles.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09
Some Effort

"Why do people SO often lock tho
stable door after the horse is stolen?s
"Just to show what they can do when
they try"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09
Just Possible.

"Oh. see the dancing snowiakes, "
exclaimed the fair maid.
YES" said her gentleman friend.
they T practicing for the snowfall
probably"