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Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-28
HATS AND BALD HEADS.

Why do men grow bald? Simply because they wear hats says Dr. Arthur R Reynolds in the American Mag azine
 He says he has proved by careful observation that hats
 affect the growth of the hair by compressing the arteries veins ymphac vessels and that supply and nour ish hair The of the hat the of the moisture hasn't anything to do with it. All the trouble is caused by the hat band And if you places where his hat presses tightly, you will fnd says Reynolds that the beginning of the bald area corresponds with pressure spots the head is round and the hat band presses tightly and uniformly around the whole circumference the hair is likely fall uniformly the top of the head Caps less badness because they are not so tight.
 The writer therefore urges that hats be discarded.
 The Creator" he says put hair on the head as ering adornment It all covering is quired by adult except during the days of weather, in a northern latitude. The city man who from his residence conveyance that carries him to his shop office needs hat at al except to meet comply with the dictates of custom" He reminds that in out-ofdoor sports find their hats ill the way, and discard them, in the brong summer heat Yet man who has been playing golf puts on his hat when he enters covered automobile.
 "The sense" he declares, lis do away with hats altogether either an article os utility"
 It's doubtless sound advice. The trouble is, in getting the started A Cleveland banker began doing that thing several years ago. when he Sound him. self becoming bald In spite of ridicule he continued seadfastly going everywhere about the city without hat. the year around His example, however doesn't seem to have many converts so far.
 When men come 10 fear petty social convention less than badness they'll get back healthful barehead ed habit of antiquity.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-28
TRAFFIC DEMoRALIZED

DURANGO, Col, Jan. 27.- Traffic was demoralized and hundreds of head of cattle on ranges are believed starv- ing while snow ranging from six to twenty feet deep covered the extreme southwestern part of Colorado as the result of the snowstorm which has been continuous for nearly ten days. The cold wave froze the wet snow into ice which railroad men declare blades of rotary blows were unable to cut. Seven engines pushing the rotary a. bandoned the effort tonight. A report Of Denver & Rio Grande officials stat cd that the, Silverton branch would be closed for weeks. Telegaphic com munication is also cut.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-28
FOREIGN TRADE
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 theirs, except in two instances which provide automatic penalizations where such articles as potatoes and wheat and wheat products have imposed up- on them a duty when imported from the United States"
 "It may be claimed" Mir. Culbertson said, that reciprocal tariff measures will remove discriminatory tendencies but in the case cited of our negotia- tions with the Dual Monarchy the mor- al effect of the reciprocal arrange ment was nil.
 "The remedy should be found either in establishing automatic penalization or by empowering the President to inn .Pose such penalty as shall insure speedy and permanent correction of trade discrimination against us by oth- CT countries"
 EDUCATIONAL DEFICIENCY
 Serious defects in American educa- tion were revealed in the results of a ouestionnaire submitted by the Nation al Foreign Trade Councils Committee on Education for Foreign Trade to 800 corporations, firms and individuals en- gagged in foreign trade, with a view to determining the efficiency of American education in the young men for over seas commerce, according to a report today to the Third National Foreign Trade Convention by Wallace D. Sim mons, President of the Simmons Hard ware Company, St. Louis, chairman of the committee. The most pertinent conclusion of the report is as pillows:
 ''The inquiry instituted by the Com mittee reveals a widespread dissatis- faction, not merely with the special training for foreign trade, but with the more fundamental teaching in our schools, both elementary and seconda- ny. This point was brought out more frequently than any other"
 The Committee quotes James J. Hill. Chairman of the Board of the Great Northern Railway, as writing:
 "The greatest difficulty this compa- my experiences in securing competent employees is the radical deficiency in thorough education in the elementary branches. High school graduates who come to us with good record and rec IOmmendations are unable frequently to write a letter in fair English, to spell correctly or to make simple arith- metical computations, either quickly or accurately. From this experience two conclusions as to the efficiency of current educational methods may be drawn: First, pupils know a little of many things, but no one thing thor loughly. Second. too much thought ap- pears Co be given to the best subjects for study and not enough to the train ing of the mind in accuracy. It is up- ! or tho correction of these defects. es- Decially in elementary education. that attention should be concentrated" ! The report of the Committee on Ed , reation for Foreign Trade adds:
 "If this criticism is as fully justified as so many seem to feel, it is obvious ly of the greatest importance and must he thoroughly considered in any pro gram of education which shall equip our coming generation to appear to ad- f vantage in competition with the repre- sentatives of other nations in which
Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-28

At last the Cuban Maine Memorial commission has called for bids for designs for Maine Memorial to be erected by the Cuban government. This project has been hanging fire for It generally sup posed in this country that the Cubans had either forgot ten all about it. disliked that they deter mined to have no American memorial at all mere Yankee, finds it hard to imagine why such monument wasn't erected long ago The fact however, to be that the Cubans far from feeling grateful for free ing them from Spain, begrudge the having fought for them.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-28
THE WORST FAILURE."

article in the New Republic called "the whom the writer took general types and con- cuded that because woman's fundamental instinct to please man, she a failure
 An interviewer for the New York Sun went to Mrs. Mary Virginia Terhune (DIaron Harland) ask about it. Mrs Terhune is eightyfve years young, does big days work every day and has been conspcuously cessful not only as writer but as wife, mother home maker hostess and friend. This part of what she said:
 q do deny that the instinct for coquetry exists in agree with anyone who believes is onemnded, limited, everything does traceable the underlying motive, the attraction of attention. Work is that end with universal woman. Sex has part in it.
 q believe" concluded Mrs Terhune "ny fathers idea that well should purpose in life dissocated with the personal invaluable it was very advanced idea for his time Yet safe in saying that, in all the years have tried follow his teaching my outlook has been bigger than any tuaed by the motive of living to please my honored temporary-man, lived to do my work the best of my ability God me-that's all And I believe the fact that many, many all the land living various perceptions. makes them the worlds failure but numbers them among its most valuable as sets.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-28
pR. EREEMAN,s 40.

Dr. Charles M Freeman of Metuchen N J. is not only the husband of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman the story-wr ter but since father he has been the owner and manager of large lumber coal business Dr. Freeman perhaps because of his medical training didn't use to believe in advertising. Now he does. Probably because tried His ad in the weekly Metu chen Recorder began like this: s6765S3S
 introduction devoted mild speculation concerning actual definition of the word business by the people of this borough he finishes thus:
 "On Jan. there was due us from the people of Metuchen and it's suburbs the sum of s67,653.3S
 some of it from six months to six years. This does not include several thousand dollars bad debts charg- ed off to account of profit and loss.
 "We have helped the widow and the orphan and those temporarily embarrassed. No one has been re- fused credit that has shown the slightest disposition to help himself.
 We have never doubted the good intentions of our customers That is why fail to understand their lack of appreciation Send partial payment of what you owe Then tell how you situated Iand we can easily arrange for monthly payments to follow regularly. You will never miss them and you will be dealing squarey with your fellow men. Show that you to do what is right and will meet you half way.
 Cordially yours,
 MANNING FREEMAN & SON" In days the doctor had taken in s2OO6 of the money, and according accounts it is still coming in.
 The trouble that everybody thought, everybody paid his bills dreamed the business in any danger of going in hole It is only too com for this kind of thing to happen to doctors where there isn't the of lumber business and money-making wife to help out A good many of them might follow Dr. Freemans example to their profit And the right thing for the easygoing debtor is to stop suming that other people carrying the expenses of the doctor lawyer business who serves him, and to start right out paying his just debts.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-28

Major General Wood says, We have not, in any one single em the necessary material for the needs of the first call of the coors" Quartermaster Gen. cral Aleshre tells congressional committee that we equipment 1000 men in army and militia de pots and assurance of manufacturing equipment for 100000 within ninety days The authorities ought to get together on little matters like this
Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-28

Whichever side one holds upon those points which separate men into rival sects. it is we'll to remember that a strong scriptural argument can be put up on the other side.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-28

We've seen no more Illuminating on the war up to date, than this from the Chicago Herald:
 "Of Germany has won a lot of things but the trouble is she somehow get time to enjoy them"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-08

of the rope about this; then with a
coarse needle, threaded with the
stem of n Uf the crosses, sew the
turns n to another, using a plain
over-and-over stitch. Splice other
punches of grass on to the rope as
you need them, and sew each turn of
the coil to the preceding one, as you
build. If you haven't a coarse enough
needle, you can use linen thread to
sew with, instead of strands of grass.
Draw the stitches tight, to make a
firm structure, and, while building one
turn upon another, pull in or spread
them according to how much and
where you want the sides of the bas-
ket to fare. When the rim of the
basket has been formed, cut off the
end of the coil, and trim back the
grass blades to different lengths so the
coil will bevel off on to the rim.
The basket in Fig. 5 has a handle,
and the making and attachment of
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-08

very conservative. The models sent
owe by French tailors depend upon
c~leverness of cut, correctness of lines,
and perfection of workmanship for
distinction. Perfect fit and finish con-
tribute to their fine effect. They ig-
more fussiness.
American women are very partial
to navy blue-'the gentlewoman's
color" as the French term it. There
fore a large proportion of model
gowns are made up in this becoming
and ~serviceable shade. The majority
are dark in color, but many OF them
are frightened by vests Of brocaded
or plaid silks.
A model that is interesting from sew
eral s%tandpoints is shown in the pic
ture. The fullness of the skirt, a con-
cession of the seasons mode, is ap-
propriately disposed in plaits. The
coat is cleverly cut and easy fitting,
with peplum pointed at the sides and
back, and laid in plaits to give it full
ness.
The sleeves are plain, with deep,
slightly aaring cuffs. A girdle extends
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-08

long. / inch wide and / inch thick;
then saw it in half ~diagonally. Cut a
strip of tin about IL inches wide from
a tin can. for the sleeve F, tack one
end of this to the straight face of
block D, bend it around the pole, make
the other end meet the first end. and
tack to block d. Make the sleeves fit
loosely so they will slide up and down
the poles easily. To fasten them at
the desired point, 1t is necessary to
slip the wedge e between the pole
and block D. and push it up until the
sleeve fits tight. Use a lightweight
stick, or piece of c"lothesline with
weight attached to each end Gig. ~.
to hang across the uprights.
Fig. 8 shows a boy ~rope-vaulting. II
you have never tried this form of
leaping you must do SO. because 1t is
lots of fun.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-08

the springtime in one corner of each
handkerchief. Butterflies and bees and
blossoms are reproduced in unusual
colorings and with beautiful workman
ship. Similar designs show owen
tional flowers in one or two colors
with white.
Four of these new ideas are shown
here.
A springtime fancy appears in the
clover blossom in pink with stem and
leaf in greenish blue outlined with
black. The bee has a black body with
orange stripes and his gauze wings
are merely outlined with the tiniest Of
stitches.
A butterfly with outspread wings is
a marvel for its f%aithfulness to nature
1t is in tan, black, white, and orange,
and everyone has seen the same beau
tiful insect flying about. Another but.
terfly pattern shows gold wings spot
ted with blue and white. The body
is white and it and the wings are out
lined with black.
A conventional rose is shown in nat
tier blue, tan, and white, outlined in
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-08

o. T. Jackson, founder of the Dear
field Settlement of colored farmers To-
Gated in Webb county, Colorado, is a
big man of broad views, determined
purpose, and tremendously vigorous
personality. His outlook is distinctly
tactical, according to the Southern
Workman. He lives to put as many of
his race as possible on their feet. At
this moment he has a bunch of $50
of them fairly started toward indie
pendence. He is deeply conscious of
the fact that colored people are of
the soil in tastes and capacities; he
is getting them close to the soil. In
a word, he is, in a way and to a de-
gree, a Booker Washington in convic-
ton, purpose and endeavor. ITS band
of settlers is the pluckiest lot of ag-
ricultural toilers of whom | have any
knowledge.
The first year there were only
seven families in the settlement"
says Mr.. Jackson, land we had only
three teams. We managed to get in
garden corn, melons, pumpkins,
squash, Mexican beans and potatoes.
We cleared a few acres of hay ground,
removed the sagebrush by hand, the
women and children welding grub
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-08

grasses CT equal length to make d
thickness a triffe less than the dame
ter of a pencil. Then grasp these
grasses in your left hand, and taking
a long strand of grass, wrap it around
tie bunch from stem ends to blade
ends, bringing the turns close to one
another as shown in Fig. l. When
you reach the ends Of the grass
blades, take another bunch Of equal
thickness and splice them on to the
ends of the first bunch, tapping the
ends about an inch Zig. q, and bind
ing them together with the covering
strand Of grass Zig. 81. An 1S-inch
rope is long enough to begin the bas-
ket with. Fig 4 shows how to start
a basket bottom. Coil the end OF
the rope over on to itself, to form a
small button. and coil several turns
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-08

The New Orleans public school
board has arranged for a summer nor,
NAL school for Negro teachers to be
held at Straight university, June u
to July q. superintendent Gwinn has
appointed Prof. A. Lawless director
with the following advisory commit.
tee; Mrs. Sylvina Williams, Prof. j.
w. Hoffman, Prof. A. Priestly, Mrs.
Hattie V. Feger, Florence Lewis and
Rev. H. H. Dunn, registrar.
An unusually strong faculty will be
secured. Many applications are COM
ing in from rural teachers and from
all indications the Httendance will be
much larger this year than last. Now
Orleans enjoyed the distinction of
having the largest summer normal in
the state in 1915. New Orleans of
fers many superior facilities and ad.
vantages in its public and private
Libraries and the splendid lectures
given by some of the finest educators
in the country, who are instructors in
the Tulane summer normal.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-08

port the uprights. The upper end of
a clothespole has a right-angie notch
cut in it for the clothesline to fit in.
This notched end of the pole is used
for the base end OF the jump stand.
ard, and fits over a cross strip A Gig
~, fastened between the sides of the
box, in the center of the bottom. Cut
a pair of sticks to fit lengthwise be-
tween the ends of the box (B, Fig. 81,
and fasten them just far enough apart
to permit the clothespole to slip down
between them. Then cut the pair Of
sticks C of the same length as stick A,
cross them over the pair of sticks B.,
and fasten between the box sides with
just enough space left between to
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-08
BY JULIA

While in other departments of dress
extremes of style and more or less
eccentric fashions present them.
selves. the tailored costumer is con
sentative. The tailor in his work
seems to cling to a happy medium, a
middle-of-the-road course. He takes
cognizance Of the latest ideas as to
form and outline. but refuses to be
beguiled by the extravaganza of crino-
line effects and a tendency to over
trimming.
The %cleverest ~tailors are showing
both two and ~three-plece suits that are
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-08

bers as industriously as the men,
though not as sturdily perhaps; and
after grubbing we plowed, narrowed
and burned the remaining brush. Our
sufferings were intense, as we had
scarcely any wood to burn. Three of
our horses died from starvation and
the other three were too weak to pull
an empty wagon. Now we have 20
teams, % cows and calves, 32 breed
ing hogs, 100 chickens, and all kinds
of farming implements and tools. We
have sos acres planted to crops and
300 acres in native hay. Conditions
point to a very favorable season and
we hope to prove u worth to the
soil and the community in which we
live by raising a bumper crop, so that
u success may be an %inceptive to
thousands of others of our race to
come back to the land in some part
of this great divide region"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-08

allow for the width OF the c~lothespole
upright.
1t is not necessary to mark the
height measurements upon the up
rights. You can have an additional
pole so marked, for the purpose of ad-
justing the cross bar or rope to
heights desired. Still, it simplifes
matters to have the poles graduated.
Rule the foot" divisions across one
face and edge, the "half-foot" divisions
across the face, and the inch divis-
ions halfway cross the face. Mark
the foot" divisions 81" go" 49," etc.
The adjustable supports for the
cross bar or rope are made of tin
and wood Gigs. 6 and y. To make
the wedge-shaped blocks D and E first
cut a block of wood about 3 inches
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-08
his requires explanation.

this requires explanation. A piece of
wire-electric bell-wire will do-forms
a center core of the handle, to give it
stiffness, and several strands of grass
are placed outside Of the wire to add
thickness; then all are bound togeth-
er and concealed by a strand of grass
Gig. g.. To attach the handle, bend
the end of the wire core around the
rim of the basket, as shown in Fig.
Z; and fasten the ends of the grasses
to the rim, also. Fig. 6 shows a bas-
ket with another style of handle made
In the same way.
Square baskets Gig. 81 are o sub
stantial unless REINFORCED by other
material. The best scheme is to use
a cardboard box as a foundation, and
to coil the grass rope around the sides
Zig 100, anG glue Il to the box. The
inside may be lined with silk instead
of grass.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-08

across the front and back, but is lack
ing at the sides. 1t is finished with a
bit of embroidery, which is repeated
on the standing collar.
A vestee and high turnover collar Of
satin, with cuffs to match, may be
made in plaid silk If more color is pre-
ferred. Or they might be of pique or
organdie, since they are separate
pieces.
"The world is filled with a number
of things" as is usual with the return
of spring, designed to ~captivate the
fancy and the favor of the beauty,
loving summer girl. Among them are
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-08
AFRO-AMER|CAN CULL|NCS

The late DR.. Booker T. Washington
graduated from Hampton, and his
work was the direct result of Hamp-
tons influence. Mai. Robert r. Mo
ton, successor to Doctor Washington
as head of Tuskegee, who spoke In
Carnegie hall, Pittsburgh, on the oc-
casion of the Hampton singers visit
March %, is another product of Hamp-
ton.
The hearty Endorsement of we'll
known public men and educators has
been given to the work done there.
President Woodrow Wilson. William
II. Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Edward
Everett Hale, Charles w. Eliot and
many others have enthusiastically in
dorsed the work.
The Hampton quartet, known from
coast to coast as the best Afro-Ameri-
can quartet in America, famous for
singing Of the plantation melodies or
spirituals of the South, are the picked
musicians from the big choral of 300
voices at Hampton institute, Virginia.
Unique and inimitable, it is the only
music of this country, except that OF
the Indians, which can claim to be
folk music. These singers make
tours to all parts of the country in
the interest of the school, and during
the past summer won the gold medal
at the Panama-Paciic exposition in
San Francisco.
Hampton is neither a state nor a
government school, and must depend
largely upon voluntary contributions
for it's support. 1t was founded by
Gen. Samuel Chapman Armstrong in
1868, and was designed to instruct
Afro-American youth in morality, in
dustry and thrift, as well as in earnest
and practical Christianity. Ten years
later Indians were admitted to the
Hampton school, which from a humble
beginning, with two teachers and 10
students, has gradually developed into
an industrial village, with over 1900
students, 200 teachers and other work
ers, more than 140 buildings, and an
instruction farm of 500 acres.
Hampton has sent forth ove eight
thousand young men and women,
equipped to earn honorable livings as
teachers, farmers and skilled trades
men. 1t has imbued in it's students
a desire to be of service, and by their
own homes, their work and their daily
life, to act as examples and teachers
to the less fortunate among whom
they live. Many Of its graduates have
been tremendous forces in the strug.
gle for advancement.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-08
In Woman'S Realm
Tailored Costumes Continue to Be Conservatvely Cut and in the
Simplest Styes-0ne Of the Best of the Prevailing Models
~Pictured-Auring Handkerchief Novelties Offered
for the Approval of Femininty.

pretty novelties in handkerchiefs to be
worn in the pocket of the tailored coat.
After glimpsing them in the quickly
passing throngs on the streets one is
apt to run them down for a better
view. In the shops their beauty is
Haunted in the eyes of appreciative
womankind.
There are small handkerchiefs of col
ored linen lawn, with narrow hens in
contrasting color, to be worn with the
new colored checks. They are plain
and chic. Next in the favor of admirers
are white handkerchiefs with colored
embroidery, in a design that suggests