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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27

Louis Biegler would represent Chi.
cago well In Congress.
Patrick F. Haynes mas always
served the public we'll. He deserves
q good once.
The Home Brewery 10 not only Chi.
Cages youngest brewery, but II 10 one
Of her most successful. No brewery
In the United States ever achieved
success in such q short time 40 the
Home Brewery. lts besr already has
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27
Nail Bleach.

Simple lemon juice is the best pos
siblc nail bleach.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27

show what the artist can do with
homely material. These hats are
high in price and in the favor Of
fashionables.
A hat made Of small silk pieces in
many different colors, Joined together
with hemstitching, appears to be in.
spired by the crazy quilt" Of other
days. As patchwork is an American
art this bit of bright headwear ought
to appeal to Americans. At any rate
II is faced with plain satin and IL
beautifully made, Haunting its gay
colors among fine Panamas and Bang.
koks whose elegance is never ques-
toned.
Stripes have lodged themselves
firmly in the popular mind as the best
of the several styles in materials used
for sports hats and other sports
! clothes. A hart and sweater coat are
pictured here made Of blue and white
knitted fabric, and hat OF white
canvas cloth with varicoiored stripes.
They are dependable styles for outing
wear.
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Nail Bleach.
Simple lemon juice is the best pos.
siblc nail bleach.
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lines as any other accomplishment.
Then every woman would leave some
thing behind which is really of beauty
and of value. something for her dear
ones to cherish reverently.
Il had charming young girl in my
class some five years ago who loved
lace with a depth of feeling that is
rare. She was married not long ago
and there is a little daughter now to
brighten the home. She told me that
when this little one was but six weeks
old she began fiounce about three
quarters of yard in width which is to
deck the wedding robe of her daughter
If she gives about an hour or so daily
to this work she will complete the
f1ounce in her daughters eighteenth
ynar. But what work of love and
what glorious ideals and aspirations
sne will weave into that lace. l should
like to hear of hundreds and hundreds
of American mothers who are begin
ming to make fiounces and wedding
wells for their infant daughters.
X =
IT like to appeal to the patriotism
of my pupils, and this I shall advise when
our cooperative society has its branches
all over the land. We are all from some
distant region in Europe remotely or
within memory. My people Were from
England and settled in Worcester,
Mass. when it was under Puritan DOM
ination. But they must have brought
with them deep love of that old Honi-
ton lace which was brought to Britain
by the Dutch exiles just about the
time that my forefathers adventured
to the new world, for l love it above all
other varieties and I wear a fragment
habitually.
so l always advise those of British
descent to learn to make Honiton, and
they usually become interested wnen 4
picture that perhaps their faraway
grand danes sat about the fire, or in
their gardens working on Honiton pat
terms. For the Irish what more tempt
ing than to learn that there is fine lace
known as Carrackmacross and Liner
ick? There is nothing made daintier
than these two kinds of lace, and l have
quite a large class learning it under
me at the Carnegie in Pittsburgh. I
hope they will be an inspiration and
aid to all of their blood who aim to
follow the revered ways of their grand
danes.
"The Italians. French and Spanish
need no such incentive; they cling to
their ancient ways and continue the
same work their people have done for
centuries. So, too, the Be1gians. and
we shall have many a lace center in
the near future made up of these pa
thetic exiles.
Concerning the origin of lace, / have
that we know nothing real
ly deflnits. When was q small girl
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in Nebraska. where my parents had
gone in my infancy, l became fasci-
mated with an aged Jewess who made
wonderful Syrian lace with fine cotton
thread and just an ordinary sewing
needle. She told me she had learned
TO make this lace, in many intricate
and lovely patterns. in Jerusalem,
where she had spent her childhood.
She said that this knowledge was
handed down among the people from
the earliest times; and she quoted
Isaiah. They that work in fine fax
and they that wear net work She
believed the same kind of lace which
she made was fashioned when the Ark
of the Covenant was reverently held
aloft for the first time and when the
high priest put on fine linen and lace
for the ceremony"
Miss Merrill is the daughter of the
late Harrison w. Merrill. who left
Worcester and settled in Lincoln, Neb.,.
many years ago. She relates that her
mother loved. lace and taught her the
difference between the real and fmi-
tation, and she also taught her some
of the simpler ways to make narrow
edging. Miss Merrill says that when
she was but ten years old the idea
formed in her mind to study lace and
to learn to make it.
She took the full course at the Uni
versity of Nebraska and graduated as
bachelor of arts. with signal honor
In 1893. But her youthful longing to
see lace the best in the world clung,
and SO two or three years after COM
pletlng her collegiate course she gave
up her classes there and set out for
Europe without any very decided plans
of procedure.
But she had read of Barbara IJttman.
and her steps bent where she could i'm
blbe most of the proto-lacemaker'
theories. in the great National Needle.
work School in Berlin She was grant
ed the unusual privilege, for the for
eigner of entering the school, and she
received diploma after two years
very dfligent application. From Berlin
she went to Queen Margharita's school
at Burano, near Venice, and there
learned the essential features of fhe
famous old lace which adorned the
doges and the great ladies' of the
Adriatic
She then continued her pilgrimage
Wherever world-famous lace is made
Mechlin. Valenciennes, Madrid
and to the Lady Aberdeen schools in
ireland. She has taken the course at
all these centers. and is therefore. II is
said. more perfectly prepared In the
for the work of co-operay
ton which she has started than any
other woman In this country.
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O19E OF Die GUATEMAIAJ AFRoPIAr4E,
BoRDER PATPoL NAcBnEs

should be shown without such a re-
quest-from a foreigner. Mr.. Sanchez
Latour was made to understand that
the ceremony of requests would be
dispensed with-that an American re-
porter was after facts-just facts.
Whereupon ] was placed in posses
sion. for the time being. of the military
secrets of the Department of Retalhu-
leu. Guatemala. Col. Jorge Ubico. COM
manding Col. Ubico placed his visitor
in touch not only with his maps
battle SCARED with flags, as strategists
and military scientists know how to
use them-but with some of the actual
physical results of the use of those
flags, across the street from his head
quarters. in the city of Retalhuleu of
which state by the same name he is the
military governor.
Here. across the street. in the jails.
! saw the Mexican bandits gathered
all along the Mexican border and
shipped to this point. Some of them
were poor wretches, as supine and as
naked as those Mexicans we cor
respondents found in the old fortress
of San Juan de Uloa at Vera Cruz
when we went down to Vera Cruz with
the Atlantic feet; and others were
filed with as much braggadocio as
cruel boast about having used dunn
dunn bullets and caused much trouble
to Guatemalans might seem to inspire
in such ignorant and dulled minds.
Here was a good place from which
to see things-the city of Retalhuleu-
and to keep in touch with them. Trips
up to Ajutla. right smack on the bor-
der were all very well in their way.
but RetalhuIeu was the heart of things,
and it was a temptation. very easily
yielded to, to spend very little time in
camp at Ajutla The click of the tele-
phone and telegraph in Col. Ubico's Of
fice, reaching out all along the border,
to a newspaper man. wanting the facts,
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did of the terrorism on the Guatemalan
border of Mexico.
Former Gov. Arguello of the Chiapas
district of Mexico told the same sort
of stories So did every other refugee
with whom one came in contact. To
find an optimistic story about the pos
sibility of decent relations along the
Mexico-Guatemala border in the near
future between the peorles of the two
countries one would have to hunt for
the proverbial needle in the haystack.
From the best) reports obtainable
there are said to be 10000 Guatemalan n
troops distributed along the frontier
between Mexico and Guatemala This
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fine embroidery. The calm, impassivle
nature of the Indian is well adapted for
lacemaking, and we rely very much
upon them in giving this nation dis
tinct place among the laceworkers OF
the world
There are lace lovers and lace maxi
ers to be found among American wom-
number and to get all interested in
each other that a small group of lace
people have conceived the idea of CO.
operative society. With the statistics
gathered from the census, we will send
out circular letter and ask for the
names and addresses of all who can
claim even the slendereSt connection
with lace; and when we get our army
mustered we shall lay out plans for
the campaign. For shall bring
makers in touch with connoisseurs and
collectors, and we shall make the work
of authors and lecturers more fllum-
mating by getting them to observe how
the fine lace is really made; and for de-
signers we shall present both theory
and practice.
This is all to be in the interest of
lace lover and producer. and as yet we
do not aim to affiliate except on very
dealer. My idea is to render lace max
ing popular, to have it one of the
things American girls and women do
habitually, just as Dutch youngsters
knit and Mexicans do their exquisite
drawn work. While diversity of
opinion exists, even in our own ranks,
as to whether lace making can ever
be made an industry through which
any appreciable number of women may
find good living, l am committed to
the idea that it can.
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thing but the best, and the best can
never be reproduced: so it would be
sacrilege to spoil it. Women pay a
regal price for lace nowadays: but 1t
does not wear as have those precious
heirlooms. But there is dainty, lovely
lace which will wear, and which will
glorify the plainest costume. like Honi-
ton, f1let, some of the finer French
laces and some of the simpler patterns
of bobbin or pillow lace.
These simpler kinds are being made
now and they will be made in vaster
quantity when we get our campaign in
working order. We wish to encourage
those who have the divine touch in lace
making, to make them feel that they
have a purchaser just as soon as they
finish an order, and that they. will sell
direct without parting with one penny
for commission. There is nothing more
alluring than the Italian cut work. and
1T is kind which makes up so rapidly
that an Industrious worker can make
a fine living if she is given sufficient
orders.
This cut work is among the first va
rieties of lace for lace making in its
initial stages meant but to cut hole
In something woven. and then to fill it
in with threads in fantastic patterns
This cut work may be utilized for
gowns. especially for summer, in lieu
on evening wraps. Also, it is adaptable
for table linens for towels and drap-
1ngs Tor the summer home.
But I see a long vista when .Ameri-
can women will really love the hand
made article. when they will universal
ly reject all that is spurious for that
which is worthy and lasting. If 1
could only paint the good it does ones
soul to work on pillow lace. I might
come into violent collision with spir-
itual leaders and mind culturists.
When 1 am utterly tired and downcast,
a few minutes with my pillow lace re-
stores my nerves, brightens my out
look on life and calms my fears.
I'VE all have the love of the beautiful
and the desire to create something
beautiful Lace making gives oppor-
tunity in both directions, and to make
it must be counted as refining and
spiritually uplifting as the culture of
flowers, listening to good music. read
ing good books and looking upon
worthy pictures. I wish l could teach
every woman that she can with little
practice learn to make pillow lace, be-
ginning, Of course. with simple pat
terms and gradually conquering the
difficult ones. 1t is now scientifically
taught and along the same padagogic
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includes an aeroplane observation pa
troll. of which Delphino Sanchez Latour
is one Of the leaders.
I heard many stories of the work of
this corps while on the Mexican bor-
der of Guatemala, and although there
is no method of comparison, the i'm
preston was gained that the work
done by the Guatemalan aeroplane bor-
der patrol is as good as that so far ac-
complished by the United States bor-
der patrol
In the capital of Guatemala-Guate-
maIa City-they talk these things over
sitting around in the parks at night.
In these places all the world gathers
all the Guatemalan world-to regret
the situation in Mexico, to wonder how
long it will continue, to wish to take
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7T Is a pleasing prospect to women
in general that there seems a pos
sibility of obtaining fine lace made
'o in America. For more than ten
years a crusade in behalf of the Ameri-
can school of lace has been carried
steadily forward by a few devoted ad-
vocates and the time is now ripe to
call national attention to the endeavor
The central figure in this movement is
Miss Bessie Evelyn Merrill, head OF
the home arts and crafts department in
the Margaret Morrison Carnegie School
for WomeH In Pittsburgh. a maker of
fne lace herself and a lecturer of ma
tionsl reputation.
When Miss Merrill walked into the
Department of Commerce not long ago
and asked for statistical information
about lacemaking there was quite a
furry. Never before had just such
figures been requested and the brisk
young men in the census Office felt hu-
inflated that they could not produce
them ofrhand.
She gave the census people quite a
discourse upon the difference between
lacemaking and lace manufacturing
and cheerfully predicted that in less
than fve years lacemaking, by hand
will make a fine showing in the census
and that American women will no long
er have to go to Brussels, Venice and
parts of France to obtain suitabl en-
bellishments for state occasions.
I'VE lacemakers ourselves" said Miss
Merrill, do not agree in designating
what constitutes lace y distinct from
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part in 1T, to gossip about the part the
United States may play and to wonder
about the future.
AS in the United States, Guatemalans
the correct expression is "Guate-
maltecos'-of the feminine sex are
wondering in these parks, just as the
women of the United States are, when
their husbands, brothers fathers will
be called forth; and, in way, history
repeats. itself in 1916, for Guatemala,
just like the United States, has been
mixed up with the fortunes of Mexico
before.
Mexican politicians have long played
on the ignorance and fear of the in
ha bitants of that country by con-
stantly exciting in their minds an ap-
prehension of an alleged American
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MISS BESSIE EVELYN MERRILL Who Probably Knows More
" About Fine Lace and Its Making Than Any Woman in This
Country Is Head of Department Of Home Arts and Crafts in the
Margaret Morrison Carnegie School in Pittsburgh Recently
Visited Washington Gather Statistics With View of Uniting
Makers, ,Menders, Designers Connosses and Collectors.
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W went to ascertain the true con-
\ ditfons in regard to the
Mexican situation SO far as it
concerns the country on the south of
Mexico compared with the country
on the north. there is one big, outstand-
ing fact to report:
The people of Guatemala, in the de-
partments of San Marcos. ouezelte-
mango and Retalhuleu. corresponding
to the states of Arizona New Mexico
and Texas in the United States. are as
badly of. so far as outlawry and ban
ditry. depreda tions killings murder and
rapine are concerned. are the people
of the United States
The Guatemalan people resent the
conditions in Mexico just as much as do
the people of the United States. It was
plainly evident that the people Of the
United States and the people of Guate-
mala are in the same boat. Both are
suffering the same tortures
The southern border of Mexico along
the Guatemala line. is troubling the
people Of Guatemala in the same way
that the northern border of Mexico,
along the Rio Grande line. is angering
the United States. if one may write that
way about inanimate objects.
The result is-the statement NAV be
made with authority-that Estrada
Cabrera, the President Of Guatemala
has been wondering what the United
States government intends to do in
Guatemala. I asked him what his atti-
tude toward Mexico is. and he answered
in these dictated words, set down from
my note book:
MY attitude toward Mexico has been
that of an outsider toward a quarrel
between man and wife. far as these
recent contending factions are concerned
] have maintained between the Mexican
factions a scrupulous neutrality strictly
in accordance with the policies OF the
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IN Tn. PATIO Or TIE r1LI-
EARH~ScHO0L. The VEST
POINT OF GuAyEMALA
WfERE OFFICERS
ARE TRAINED.

Washington government. confident tina
the Washington government, in its wis
dom. prestige and good counsel, will
eventually be able to contribute toward
restoring peace in Mexico.
But our people on the north and west
are in the same position as those on the
southern border of the United States.
What can we do? We have troops on
the Guatemala Mexico border. We do
our best. We await the leadership Of
the United States for any further actor" !"
After this converse ton with the Presi
dent Of uatemala, 1 went to the Guate-
mala- Mexico border, and the information
contained in this article is gathered from
personal contact during a weeks trip
from the capital Of Guatemala. Guate-
mala City, down to the Pacific coast (the
west). and up to the Mexico line the
north). Proceeding to Retalhuleu. 1 went
on up the line to Ayutla. and south to
the Pacific coast. to Limones and Ocos
all of these points being on the Mexi-
can border.
were talked with-meh of all nationalities.
too, including German citizens who had
been farming in Mexico on the Guate-
mala border, and American citizens OF
ly occupied, but who had been run out
of Mexico into Guatemala.
One OF the latter was Peter kritZ-
berger. formerly of Lincoln, ILL.,, who had
had ranch at San Pedro, Chiapas, Mex
leo. and it may be said that the writer
was the first American citizen he met as
he came, running. from the threat Of the
Mexican bandits guns. telling the same
sort of story of pillage and almost sud-
den death as is told by all refugees in
Arizona. Texas and New Mexico.
Again. I met Manuel Rovelo Arguello.
former Governor of Chiapas. Mexico. un-
der the old regime in Mexico, who told
many stories of towns in Chiap pas, Mex
leo. changing hands from day to day. first
under the banner Of alleged Vfllistas and
again under the banner of alleged Car
ranzistas-au of them really carrying the
black flag of banditism and terrorism.
This inspection trip to the Mexican
border of Guatemala was made under
the personal convoy of Delphino San
chez-Latour, a member of President
Cabrera's staff. He showed his personal
orders to the effect that ! was to be
allowed to see everything about which
inquiry might be made-and more
1 told Mr.. Sanchez -Latour that I had
once been personally conducted through
the fortress Of Quebec in Canada.
evinced at that fortress desire to see
the cannon the British had captured ESQ
l had read in my history books) from
the Americans al Ticonderoga.
1twas explained by .he British that the
cannon would be shown me at an iso-
lated place on the ramparts because /
had asked. but that there would have been
no such courtesy if the request had not
been made. because it was the order of
the British government that no battle
trophy OF the British government
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People of Guatemala
Also Have,a "Mexican
Situation" - Border
Raids From'Chiapas, in
Southern Mexico. Into
Cuatemala's Northern
States-2O,OOO Guate-
malan Troops Patrolling
Boundary Against Mex
lean Raiders - Estrada
Cabrera, President of
Guatemala, Declares
He Has Endeavored to
Maintain3Neutrality on
His Border Some Un-
successful Bandit At
tacks From Mexico on
Cuatenala-The Well
Drilled, Well Fed and
Soldierly'Looking Qua
temalan Troops - A
Cuatemalan Aeroplane
Patrol for the Mexican
Border - Guatemalan
Jails Filled at Border
Points With Mexican
Horse Thieves.
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textiles, so 1t is not surprising that the
census has failed to find many lace
workers. In reality we have a splendid
number to begin our cooperative or
background for this important divis-
ion Of the fine arts the American peo
pie will be astonished. For instance.
how few know that in at least one COL
lege, knowledge of lace. either theo-
reticai or practical, forms a group of
essentials looking to a degree.
I'm the Margaret Morrison Carnegie
School l train teachers who will go out
and begin lace centers in other schools
or in communities. In short time lace
making will be among the arts as
drawing, painting and music are now
1t will also surprise many to know the
number of lace schools now in full
operation in different cities, usually as
a part of settlement work.
There is one in the Greenwich House,
Boston. where Italian and Syrian wom-
en- continue making the lace which was
their means of livelihood in their own
wise woman, Mrs. Sayre of Aquidineck
College, Newport. R. l., conducts lace
classes all through the summer for the
children, mainly to give them some
thing definite to interest themselves
and to prevent their running loose In
-
1T is encouraging to see how the
youngsters grasp the fundamentals of
lacemaking and how they love 1t. 1t
sire for lace and our society aims to
bring this innate feeling to the sur
face. There are well conducted schools
for lacemaking among the Indians and
they are fashtoning excellent thread
and hiet lace and some cut work and
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and the movement Of troops in and out
of the city, reminded one very much of
the exchanges of telephone and tele-
graph messages between Washington
and the border points, orderlies COM
ing and going, too. And as we sat in
the commanding officers office at Re-
talhuleu, reading dispatches: rubbing
our bruises from our trips to Ajutla
and so on, the experience was very
much like home to newspaper man
accustomed to hearing reports and
writing about them in connection with
the cities of San Antonio. Brownsville
Ell Paso and other cities of the United
States that have suffered on the north
ern Mexico border.
kA
One might write a column about
what Peter kritzberger. lately of San
Pedro. Chiapas. had to say about his
experiences on the Guatemala Mexico
frontier. The story has been written
one hundred times. Two hundred or
three hundred. perhaps, or even more.
If one chose to go to the State Depart
ment and carefully search the records
in Washington. or il one chose to do
so in the Guatemala state department
Il lived about 200 kilos from the
frontier" Mr.. kritzberger said. They
set my house on fire and looted it.
There was a band of $50 Mexicans.
They said Col. Culebra was in charge.
l had been there four years. / came
from Lincoln. ILL., When you write this
in the United States please be sure to
send A copy of it to Lincoln. Ny moth
er will want to know how I got but.
They ran off my cattle. First they sur
rounded the house. This was in broad
daylight. I tried to stand them Off
but they were too much for me. l got
out of the back door and beat it,
This sounded very familiar to those
who had been In touch with Mexican
affairs. But Kritbergers hands. nerv-
ously moving too rapidly, for which he
apologized, told a better story than he