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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-01

TN Denver, Colorado, looms at the pres
ent moment happy promise of a So
= luton of the veXatious servant girl
problem. How happy that promise is will
be seen in the fact that a Housemaids'
Union now organizing in that city will
be conducted on lines which have the
frank approval of Denver's most promi-
nent hostess and society leader.
Mrs. Crawford Hill, noted Southern
beauty and acknowledged head Of Den
ver's inner social circle-called the
SACRED Thirty-six" Miss Jane
Street, the capable leader of the dlssatis-
fed cooks, housemaids and parlor maids,
are represented as working hand in hand
In this effort to make mistresses and
servants satisfied with each other
Servants have to be trained" is the
unanimous declaration of the other Den
yer mistresses.
e "Mstresses have to be trained says
Miss Jane Street. spokeswoman for the
crusading Denver servants-to which
Denver's society autocrat is reported as
asserting with an emphatic Aye aye"
Most great causes in social evolution,
as is well known, have had an insignlf-
cant, oftimes ridiculous, instigation. In
the present instance that honor belongs
to an egg-to be precise. two eggs.
9 These two eggs lay side by side in the
refrigerator in the kitchen on handsome
Denver residence. When Mary, the cook,
opened the refrigerator door one morning
late in August her gaze rested on them
and certain difference in their outward
aspect inspired her with brilliant idea.
Mary knew-from long experience,
alas! only too well--that one of those
eggs was new-laid, virgin-fresh, specially
ordered for her mistresss breakfast, and
that the other egg fairly exhaled age.
cheapness and cold storage.
Well, Mary, the cook, promptly acted
on her nspiration-being further in
spired by memories of long list of SINH
lar grievances against her mistress.
She boiled the virgin-fresh egg and ate
st. Feeling much refreshed in body and
in spirit. she then boiled the cheap and
ancient cold storage egg and served 1t to
her mistress.
The rest of the story is best told as
Mary, the cook, herself told it that very
night at the regular weekly experience
meeting of dissatisfied domestic work
ers. Said Mary, the cook:
"She fired me, and | had to go for a
policeman to help get my clothes and my
money"
Capable Miss Jane Street presided at
this same experience meeting" Right
then and there the agitation was begun.
which now promises so much for the SER
want girls of Denver-and, incidentally
for their mistresses.
OF course, there were other expert
ences" related at this historic meeting.
The ears of the wife of a certain rich
Denver merchant would have burned had
she heard her cook frankly discuss her
eccentric ways, and many another promi-
nent woman would have blushed to hear
her maid graphically describe her lawful
temper" and tell how lazy she was.
Il worked for Mrs. X" said one cook,
mentioning the name of a prominent
woman. "She always bought fresh eggs
for the family to eat and the cheapest
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-01

1.-THE morning papers say that certain
women on Capital hill held meeting the
other day to form a housewives assem-
bly,. These housewives are going to help
the maids become more dignified and re-
move from domestic service the stigma
of degradation. They are going to help
u.s. We don't want their help.
1--WE are not asking anything Of them.
When the time comes we will not ask
anything; we'll demand our rights. Re-
move the stigma of degradation from our
work! Why don't they say they will
emancipate us from slavery?
"They talk of us like we're slaves. We
don't need any one to remove the stigma
Of degradation from our work. There is
no stigma about it. If there is any de-
graduation about it, who put 1t there but
these same housewives who talk so much
about it?
There is more dignity about our work,
let me tell you, than there is about the
position Of a society woman"
you've got to train the woman you
work for" said one maid, who declared
that she had model mistress. spoil
'em and you work like a slave. The cook
at my house has luncheon ready at 1890
" SiOCh. put IL iiSHl vi lu6 tdDle. IL
the family isn't ready to eat it that's
their business.
Luncheon is at 1890 o'clock, and If
they're late they have to eat cold food.
We're treated white in our house because
we demand our rights. We demand short
hours and we get them"
Miss Jane Street, organizer of the
Housemaids' Union, speaking of its pur-
poses said for publication In this news
paper:
"Of all the abused people on earth
none is worse treated than the general
housemaid. The majority Of housewives
follow an aged tradition of looking down
on those who serve them and their fami-
lies and refuse to practise patience or
give counsel or regard the women they
hire as human beings with like impulses,
like passions, like aims and hopes as
their own.
Can you tell me why, when the eight
hour law was passed for women, the
housemaids we're not included? big.
stout man will work for eight hours and
quit, while poor, frail housemaid works
fourteen. II she gets through her house.
work she must answer doorbells, she
cannot go to her room and rest.
1.-THE girl must be on her feet all day
long, and frequently until or 10 o'clock
at night. Few women express apprecia-
ton or add little money for the extra
work done. We are going to try and
correct such conditions. We will de-
mand $12 week and no work on Sum
days, shorter days and better treatment.
The average house servant has no lei
sure time for cultivation nor rest dur
ing the day. Generally she cannot re-
ceive any friends she may have. and not
infrequently she Is looked upon more in
the light Of a slave than a self-respecting
servant.
1--WE intend to change this by a sys-
tenn of our own. You may call It sabo-
tage or what you please. We will not
poison food nor resort to any crude
methods of violence. Members of the
Housemaids' union will resent Ill treat
ment and quit. Yes, there will be a
blacklist Of Denver mistresses who III
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-01
Methods
of Bringing
Them Back
to Paths OF
Proper
Considered
ton and
Hun1bleness

cold storage eggs
she could buy for
the servants to eat"
Another speaker
took a fling at the
n e Why organized
Housewives assem-
bly,.
She said:
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-01

treat their servants and eventually those
women will not be able. to get any SER
wants. We hope to get the employment
agencies to act with us.
Here are some of the DONTS for the
Housemaids Union" she continued as she
checked them off on her fingers:
Don't wash the dog or the windows.
Don't tend furnace.
Don't work fourteen hours day.
Don't answer the doorbell il you are
the only maid in the house.
"a general homework maid is hired
to do kitchen work, not, to be a parlor
maid. Every girl should have one day
for herself. She should have a pleasant
room, a good bed, good food, not left
over scraps, and above all she should be
co ,siderately treated as human being"
Denver's society leader, Mrs. Crawford
Hill, holds much the same views as Jane
Street, servant girl organizer, regarding
the treatment of of servants by their
mstresses. Mrs. Hill says:
Girls should be provided with sitting
room for the reception and entertainment
ftheir friends. hope that the union
will correct the abusive treatment accord
ed many servants.
1.-THE only way to arrive at practical
understanding is for the girls to become
more intelligent and for mistresses to
become more humane and for both to
remember that any labor. however
humble, may be dignit1ed by the laborer."
However not all of Denver's house
wives have much sympathy with the
alleged ill-treatment of servants and the
plans of the union. One of the members
Of the housewives assembly, giving her
unofficial opinion, said:
THE average girl hiring out knows
as little about her business as Hot
tentot. Many of them can't cook; they
know nothing about cleaning; waiting on
table is an unknown art to them; as laun-
dresses they are jokes, and from every
point they fail. Yet they demand big
wages, and become abusive when they
are corrected or asked to do better than
they are doing"
Another prominent Denver society
woman, Mrs. G. L. McCord, said:
"Good heavens! We poor housewives
OF Denver can cry, Help, help. Since
the union started my cook has become
so independent that we have been afraid
to speak to her. She informed me this
morning that she was going to leave.
She said that she would get $55 month
in q smaller family than mine. She has
Copyright. 1915, By the Star Compa
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-01-27
sThe 9th Degree Oath of the
kniQEts of Columbus"

TO meet the bluff and the falsehoods Of
those Americans who have foresworn
loyal princi Piles, and have become oath bound
subjects of foreign power, | have carefully
prepared the above-named pamphlet.
The men who take that oath are traitors
to our government, and spies in our camp.
They are armed and drilled, as military
men, and kept in readiness to use their steel
swords, and their up-todate rifles against
their fellow citizens.
Get my pamphlet and study the facts for
yourselves. Priced ten cents.
This question of Popery is the most import
ant question now facing the people of
America.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-01-27
PAGE NINE
Speech OF Hon. y. j. Brown.
President OF Farmers Union
Georgia al the Meeting I'm
ICOrdefe, Jam. %, 1876
CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.)

arrive at declaration Of principles that no one
can misunderstood
I appeal to those who hear me, not for my
sake, or for the sake of the Farmers Union, but
for the sake of Georgia, to stand fast to the pTn-
cipes that shall blaze the way for real economic
freedom for these United States and for the world
Upon Georgia, upon those who now within the
hearing Of my voice. rests the responsibility for
new and regenerated world. Europe with its
devastation of military struggle America with it's
no less awful devastation Of industrial war, await
the light of manly peace-nOt pusilanimous sur
render the peace of economic cemetery in
which the majority decay and few fatten, but
the strong, calm, peace based on stern, sound
righteousness, invincible morality and the appli-
cation, for the first time in all the ages of the
Golden Rule in the relations of man and man.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-01-27

Bethany, by Thos. E. Watson. A Romance
of the Civil War, with vivid pen pictures Of
plantation life, before the war. Bound in
cloth. Price, $1.00, postpaid. The Jetferso-
MAN Publishing Company, Thomson, Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-01-27

The Jeffersonian, $1.00 per year; in clubs
Of Ten, so cents.
The day book., 1916-03-24

The company, of which brother-in-
law is the other partner, recently
completed the Cape Cod canal.
Aside from his ambition to shine
as a chef, Bill is a bug" on antique
furniture and oriental rugs.
Dinneen stands out as the only
pitcher who actually released him
self against the wishes Of his en-
The day book., 1916-03-24
BOXING-SPORTS OF ALL SORTS-BASEBALL =

BOXING SPORTS OF
If Jess Willard and Frank Moran
could meet in a vacant lot some
where and battle until one or the
other was licked, it would be a fight
worth going miles to see. But when
they are billed to fight for a small
fortune, and the hangers-On with va
rious claims to fame can horn into
the picture, much is taken from the
interest in the meeting.
There has been more printed about
their auto rides, their various suits
/ in court, how good they are to their
families, and such bunk, than about
their actual f1stiC ability. No predic-
ton has been ventUTed as to which
: is really the better man, and tOmOr-
row nights fight is not liable to be
conclusive.
Either man, if he starts to work
with the purpose, should be able to
get through the ten rounds without
! receiving much damage. If either
decides to make the affair a rushing,
slam-bang rumpus, there may be
another outcome.
If one starts to evade punishment
the other is not clever enough to cor
ner him and put over any stout wal
Iops. That goes for either fighter.
The columns of expert dope from
high-priced critics isn't worth two
boots, when simmeTed down. A man
who would call either of these heav-
les expertly clever would opine that
Jack Pfeister was the heaviest hitter
baseball ever saw.
Leave out all this bunk when figur-
ing a winner Both men are big,
both are sluggers, both can stand a
lot of punishment, but neither is a
ring general
The day book., 1916-03-24

pIoyer. After leaving Boston he
Joined the st. Louis Brown. One year
his arm gave him trouble. He gave
it a long rest. The Browns were
scheduled to play an exhibition
game. Dinneen requested that he be
allowed to pitch. The bush leaguers
made 25 hits off his delivery. He
turned in his suit that evening.
The day book., 1916-03-24

ALL SORTS BASEBALL
If they will stand up and slam each
other around the fans who pay ad-
mission will get somewhere near their
moneys worth. But if either tries to
be clever we will be treated to the
most amusing spectacle put on since
Pete Kniseley tried to play second
base for the Cubs, which is about the
than whichest" spectacle in mem
ory.
Manager Tinker in splitting his
Cubs for the exhibition jaunt through
the Southern league has picked
Safer, YeTkes, DOOlan and Zimmer-
man for his first squad, with Multi
gan playing short for the second
crew. Flack, Mann and Williams are
the first string OutfieIders.
This selection means nothing final,
as RoIlie Zeider, who is to be put in
charge of the seconds, will have spe-
cia instructions to watch Mulligan
and Mccarthy, with a view to their
worth as regular material. One or
both are certain to get utility jobs.
Doolan is by no means a fixture.
He has to show more than he has at
any time this spring, more than he
was showing when the Federal
league season ended last year.
The outfielding trio may be a per-
manent affair Mann is given a
choice because he is a right-handed
batter, the only one of the gardeners
who swings from that side of the
plate. He wifi be needed, as the Cubs
will face a flock of sOuthpaws during
the coming season.
With Archer back of the bat the
first team, as now picked, boasts only
four right-handed batteTs. With
Fischer catching another left-hand-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-22

Rev. J.. ). Bowles, pastor Of the First
Methodist church, announces that a spe-
cial Easter song service and sermon will
mark the observation of Easter at his
church.
AT the morning service prominent among
The musical numbers will be IN Easter
hymn by the choir and a solo, Jerusalem
by Corporal Sheasby "a the Fourth lnfan-
try Dand.
Tie evening services at the Methodist
church will be conducted by the Knights
Templar, who viii ~ IN i body. The fol
lowing song service has been arranged:
Hymn, Coward Christian Soldiers"
Song, ~All Hail Emmanuel" Choir
Solo, Miss Lille Harvey.
Song, Grown Him King" Choir.
Hymn, "All Hail the Power Of Jesus
Name
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-22
Hotel Arrivals.

Miller Hotel-Mr~. Henry Klo-,ncr
Miss Anita klo~-ner, Mis- Roxana kos
ner, Y. L. Clo-ner, Edinburg: G. r. Cone
and, New York: u. J.. Mum. Tulsa: "
NJ. Buck, Los Indio~; J. l.. VOORHEES,. San
N%ntonio: Mr.. and Mrs. q. u. Stevens
Raymondville: Mrs Tracy sullivan. 81
Louis; Mat F~ricndman, }. Friedman, Dial
laS; lke Haas. New York; X. Wright. Cal
weston.
Traveller Hotcl-O. ". Laurie, Hous-
ton Roht. Purvin, Houston: q. RI. Lann~-
borg, Dallas: y. TelteIlcr. Kine-villc.
Charles Therkeld-en. McAllen; c. II.
Boyd. King.ville; &. +. Clark. Austin: r
AL Miller, San Antonio; III. Savage. Cornu-
Christi.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-22
SERVICE
AT THE CHURCHES
SPECIAL PROGRAMS PREPARED FOR
OCCASION AT MANY OF LOCAL
HOUSES OF WORSHIP.


Easter Sunday viii he observed with
special musical aud service programs AT
al of the local churches, the pastors have
announced.
Chaplain John Chenoweth OF the Fourth
United States Infantry viii preach at the
Church Of the Advent, Episcopal, Easter
morning. Rev. George MacDougall, the
rector. announces the following program
TOR the morning:
professional hymn.
Chant, Christ Oar Passover"
GLORIA Patria,I Blumen-tcin.
Tie Deum, Alzamora.
Sermon.
ofertory solo, "The Resurrection
Morn
Anthem, "Welcome Happy Morning"
occasional hymn.
Soloists-AIrs. John Gregg, Mrs. Ira
Webster, Miss Mamie Hanson. Miss Flo
rife Pierce, Captain Lawrence Butler, b.
G.. Stegman.
Chorus-Miss Mamie Hanson, Miss Flo
rine Pierce. Mrs. L. A. Kinder, Theodore
Kirkham, +. 5. Order. Captain Kent.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-22
Church Of Immaculate Conception

The church ot the Immaculate Concep-
tion viii hold appropriate Faster services
tomorrow. The first mass Will ID at Z
o'clock w the morning and at : O'Clock
the knights of Columbus Will celebrate
holy communion ~ a body. Al Q o'clock
high mass will be sung and \ sermon will
be preached. IN ~ O'Clock Y special mass
for the children viii be read.
Special Holy Saturday services have
been in progress today and nearly two
hundred children were N the church this
afternoon Tor addressing IF The Easter
water.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-22
Easter Service.

* Sunday, April ~, 1916. Browns
49, Vile Commadcry No. 50. knights
Tcnplar will meet in special con
clayc at the Masonic temple TOR thc Gus
truary services at this season. Opening
1T p. m. March 10 church; church -crv-
ices at \ ~. m. After service return
inureh ~ asylum. Visiting Sir Knights
cordially invited to join III thc services.
". X. Mendenhall. commander; J.. J.
Cooke, secretary.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-22
PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. c. 4. Stevens Of Ray
mondyille motored TO Brownsville yester-
day.
Mai Friedman and J. Friedman Of Dali
las are registered at the Miller today.
Randolph Wright Of Galveston Is in
Brownsville o. business today.
Robert PUrvin. 4 Houston travelling man.
Is in Brownsville for the week end. tie
j. registered at the Travellers hotel.
O. Teftelle7 Of the Gulf Coast Lines Of
fees at kinesville Is in Brownsville to-
day, a guest al the Travellers hotel.
Charles TherkeIdsen of Brownsville.
vino j. now engaged in contracting work
u McAllen. j. in tie city for the week end.
a guest al the Travellers hotel.
Miss Eleanor Cavazos, teacher il thc
Laurel school. Cameron county. j. visiting
relatives in the city today. Ms Cavazos
gill return to Laurel Monday morning.
Joseph X. Wells and Oscar Dancy rel
turned this morning for a short business
rip up the Valley.
John Champion Of Point Isabel i ii
Brownsville today on a short business
visit.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-22
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications. as they cannot
reach the diseased portion Of the ear.
There Is only one way t0 cure deafness.
and that ~ hy constitutional remedies.
Deafness IS caused by an infiamed condi-
ton of the mucous lining of the Eusta-
chan Tube. When this tube is inhamed
you have a rumhllnE sound OF imperfect
hearing. and when III ~ entirely closed.
Deafness Is the result. and unless the in
ilammation can be taken out and this
hearing VIII be destroyed forever. nino
cases ont of ten are caused by Catarrh.
which III nothing but an iuiamcd c0ndi-
ton ~ the mucous surfaces.
We viii give one Hundred Dollars Tor any
case Of Deafness fcuused by catarrhl that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars. free.
Fl j. CHENEY n Co. Toledo. Chio.
sold By Druggists. T5c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-22

Rev Y. A. Ross. pastor of the Mexi-
can Presbyterian church. announces sun-
rise services at & o'clock Easter morning
10 his church with 4 Resurrection sermon
TN Rev. Dc-idcro Cavazo~. There viii W
D program Ut chorus music and solos.
Usual services Wi mark the balance of
the days religious celebrations, with sun
day school WI q o'clock. and sermon VI =
p. m, by the pastor, DR.. Ross.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-22
CITY NEWS
Attended C. C. Seryice-Father B. P.

Attended c. C.. Seryice-Father 3. P
Hermann Of the Oblate Fathers, Browns
vile, returned last night from Corpus
Christi. whore be attended the BLESSING
Of the Holy OILS" N the Catholic cathidra.
ID that city. occurring Thursday morning
The service was under the direction Of Ia
Their Nussbaum, and priests from all part,
Of this diocese were in attendance. Fa-
Their Hermann represented the Oblate Fa-
therS Of Brownsville.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-22
Monday, April "a

I'll A. Salisbury. with government aid. secured wonderful film records of the
world 81 Fin, Fur sd Feathers One New York crhc states: "Seyen reels and
not a soul thought t was enough"
scope Of Fr+we--TrnH their life from Spawn to fish. remarkably clear
-eo~e NJ" views Mr. and Mrs American Eagle and Family. BuzzariS, yellow,
fuzzy and erotes4ue. Pelican bird colony Quail and pheasant hunting. Bear,
lynx. cougar freed and canst after fierce turl Nj GREATNESS suspense
Recommended IN the greatest educators VII the country a the most exciting
interesting and eeareSt set III wonderful pictures ever brought TO our notice
Many yearStf pahent hunting with the movie camera brought 10 yur seat and seen
ii. v hours. and every moment cramnsd with interest.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-22

Solemn services and holy communism al
Z a.. H.. Sunday school and solemn high
mass with sermon, 9 a. m. nj the Q o'clock
services Father Frigon will preach on THE
Resurrection and tn choir will sing
letters Mass in ID.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-22
Christian Church.

The Sunday school and church of the
Central Christian church will hold Joint
Easter services Easter morning ~ 10 80
O'Clock. DR. IS. X. Hallam, acting pastor.
has announced that n appropriate service
will be given.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-22
American Presbyterian Church.

Rev. y. II. NJ. Ramsey, pastor "a the
American Presbyterian church, will-prcach
at the morning service Easter Sunday. Mr..
and Mrs. +. j. Tucker viii sing a duet.
sunday school and other services AZ the
usual hours, are announced.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-22

7 hereby announce myself ~ 4 candidate
for the Office Of Sheriff 81 Cameron county,
for reelection. Subject 10 the action of
the democratic PRIMARIES.
NJ. r. NANN. Sheriff.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-22
Sacred Heart Church.

Father !. =. f'riaon, pastor of ihc sac
red Heart church. ha- announced the fol-
lowing services for Easter Sunday.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-22
Powder Factory Explosion Kills 20.

thy Associated FresS.l
BORDEAUX. France, April 2l.-An ex-
plosion in the powder branch Of a gre
made factory today killed twenty and In
inrcd many persons.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-22
INSURE
N
AMERICAN
wv. X. Mendenhail
PHONE AZ.
Political Announcement

The Herald IL authorized to announce
Zeb Y. Nixon of kingSyillc. Kleberg coun-
~. a a candidate for District Attorney for
the Twenty Eighth Judicial District. sub
jet TO the action Of the Democratic Pri-
mares.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-22

VIII ReceIve LIst-Secretarv Cobulinl u
the Board Of City Development expects to-
day or tomorrow TO receive from Dallas
the list of business men IF that city who
viii w members Of the trade excursion to
Brownsville next Wednesday. The list
viii include over eight men. and a band
of twenty-five pieces.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-22
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Matinee AT 2 p. M.

Ruth Roland and Henry King in
THE POMP OF EARTH.
Edna Mayo and Darwin karr give a vivid
Interpretation IL
A BIT OF LACE-A charming romance
and true To life.
Monday-s'Wild Life in America"