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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-03
"woMAN's PLACE" IN WAR TIME,

The British Board of Censors re-
Gently passed letter to an official OF
the British government, now in the
United States, containing word pic
ture of London in war time, which
wildly illustrates the wonderful way
in which London women are helping
to keep things going while their men
folk are at the front. Here are some
excerpts from the letter:
THE householder in the suburbs
hears the postman's morning knock,
and behold the letters are delivered
by a postwomen. The milk arrives;
it is handed in at the door by la
latiere up-to-date. The city man
leaves his home after breakfast,
boards motor bus and gives his
penny to a highbooted, slouch-hatted
lady conductor, who handles the bell
punch as to the manner born; at the
tube station he buys paper of a
bookstall girl; purchases his ticket OF
female clerk; descends to the lower
regions by the grace of a lift girl, OF
is confronted at the barrier by an
amazon, who clips his ticket cody and
regards him merely as a bifurcate6
nonentity. At his destination his
ticket is collected by uniformed sis
ter, and on the way he has seen pla
toons of portresses with mops, buck
cts and brooms attending to rows o
waiting trains.
"If he keeps his eyes open he per
ceives that women are taking live
ly part in the work of the war itself
They drive motor cars for the Minis
try of Munitions, for high staff off
GERS of the War Office itself; the,
have become engineers, machinist
and munition workers in their thor
sands. This is by no means al
Women have done much more tina
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-03
WORK DONE BY
WOMEN MISSION BOARDS

| The following item taken from an
exchange relative to church work be-
ling done by members of the Meth
odist church, will be of interest to
all members of that denomination and
their friends:
Seventeen thousand Southern Meth
todist women, organized in eighty-nine
cities mission boards and three dis
trct boards, are carrying on in the
principal cities of the south vast and
effective program of city missions.
Settlement homes, of which the Wes-
ley house is the best known type, are
the centers for most of this work.
Thirty-six Wesley houses, Bethlehem
houses, or social settlements for work
among negroes, and other social set
Elements are conducted, says an ex-
change.
In the various cepters maintained
$500 children were last year enrolled
in industrial classes; $500 girls and
young women had the benefit of train
ing in various clubs; 1,575 babies were
cared for in the day nurseries; 1902
children were instructed in twenty
four different kindergartens; eighteen
night schools gave opportunities to
S51 people who had been deprived OF
the privilege of primary education
and 10000 patients were treated.
i Eleven cooperative homes furnish
homes and protection for 799 working
girls. Resident deaconesses and mis-
sionaries made nearly 71,000 visits
during the year.
There are thirteen Wesley houses
among foreign-born people, which
touch 7,775 homes directly; twelve at
cotton mills, touching 3,525 homes
nine in native industrial centers
touching personally 1899 homes; two
Bethlehem houses, touching 1,450 ne
gro homes-making a total Of thirty
six settlements, reaching 1929 differ
ent homes.
, The city boards expended $76,584.9t
in prosecuting this work.
All these activities were directed
i by eighty deaconesses and eighty-fivt
: missionaries. Sixteen deaconessel
3 served as pastors assistants, three al
E travellers aid, and nine as head resi-
dents and workers in cooperative
Q homes.
. City missions, however, as large al
9 enterprise as it is, is only one of sew
eral, phases of hime missions con
Quoted by the women of Southern
n Methodism. Among others may b
mentioned mountain schools, work Il
mining sections and among foreigners
missions to Orientals on the Pacifi
| Icoast, Cuban work in Florida, and pos
. work among arriving immigrants.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-03
Nav Decide Route OF
Cross State Road
GIRL ACTS AS GOVERNOR
FOR A DAY

When Governor Craig of North Car
olina was recently isolated at Ashe-
Vile on account of the flood that put
train service out of commission be-
tween there and Raleigh, the state
capital, Miss May Jones, his private
secretary, performed the duties. OF
chief executive for a day. In addition
TO the routine activities of the COVER
nor she performed several important
duties which demanded immediate
attention, announcing the appointment
of a hundred delegates who are to
represent North Carolina officially at
four gatherings, including the Deeper
Waterways Convention and the Ma
tional Negro Educational Conference,
and issuing extradition papers for an
alleged bigamist wanted In Georgia
and held by the North Carolina au-
thorities.
Up to date no one but the alleged
bigamist has complained of the way
in which Miss Jones held down the
governors job. The state did not &c
to rack and ruin nor did any Of the
other terrible things happen that the
anti-suffragists delight to forecast
Maybe if the governor had beer
stranded away from the capital be
fore the democratic national conven
ton, Miss Jones ability to run the
affairs of state might have won ovel
the IL out of the "a state delegates
who voted against the inclusion of ;
suffrage plant in the national demo
cratic platform.-Ex.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-03
Florida Coolest
Section In
United States
Berkshires Are Hot and Tourists
Long for Cool Nights of
Flowery State

Jacksonville, Aug. 3.-The ad-
yertising of Florida in New York
newspapers which was conducted by
the Jacksonville Tourist and tConven-
ton Bureau last week, was carried
under the headline Come to Florida
and Be Cool" This was particular
ly effective and appropriate at time
when the inhabitants of New York
and the surrounding States were suf-
fering from the severest and most
continuous swelter from the heat
known since 1898.
One lady writes the bureau that
she saw its advertisement while in
the Berkshire mountains of Massa-
chusetts and that she read it while
the thermometer registered 101. She
said she regretted that she had per-
mitted her friends to induce her to
go there, but wished she had taken
trip to Florida instead. She declared
that for three successive nights last
week the guests of her hotel were
compelled to bring cots to the veran-
da to sleep, owing to the oppressive
heat, and that friend at the same
hotel who had formerly lived in
Florida, told her that she had never
experienced anything like it in this
State.
The bureaus correspondent con-
cTuded her letter by saying that next
year she will spend her vacation in
Florida and that she is sure 1T can
not be as hot here as in New Eng
land, even though it is as far south
as Ell Paso, where she once visited in
July and found it quite warm.
The bureau responded with a nice
letter of welcome assuring the good
lady that while Ell Paso might be ex'
pected to have an occasional warn
J spell, especially with Mr.. Villa hang
ing about the horizon and keeping
everybody hot under the collar, sh'
would never find the guests of an!
] Jacksonville hotels sleeping on thu
veranda as it would be too much OF
/ nuisance to have to get up in tn
middle of the night to hustle aroun'
r in the dark after blankets.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-03

Every druggist here, yes your druggist and
everybody's druggist has noticed a great falling
off in the sale of calomel They all give the
same reason. Dodsons Liver Tone is taking its
place.
"Calome is dangerous and people know it while
Dodson's Liver Tone is safe and gives better re-
suits" said prominent local druggist Dodson's
Liver Tone is personally guaranteed by every
druggist A large family-sized bottle costs only so
cents and if you find it doesn't take the place of
dangerous, saivating calomel you have only to ask
for your money back.
Dodson's Liver Tone is pleasanttasting, pure
ly vegetable remedy harmless to both children
and adults Take spoonful at night and wake up
feeling fine, no sick headache, biliousness, ague
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-03

sour stomach or clogged bowels Dodson's Liver
lone doesn't grippe or cause inconvenience all next
day like calomel
lake dose of calomel tonight and tomorrow
you VIII feel sick, weak and nauseated Don't lose
days work.
Dodson's Liver Tone is real liver medicine.
fouH know 1t next morning because you will
wake up with your head clear your liver active,
bowels clean, breath sweet and stomach regulated
You will feel cheerful and full of vgor and ready
for hard days work
You can eat anything afterwards without risk
OF sallvating yourself or your children
Get bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone and trv #
on my guarantee. You'll never again p.1t dose
OF nasty, dangerous calomel into your stomach.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-03

The inevitable white frock finds
its sweetest expression this summer
in the one-piece model. Muslin and
lace insertion are combined In this
model, which requires for average
size, 6% yards 36-inch material with
" yard lining 36-inch wide for foun-
dation yoke and yards Pinch wide
lace.
The waist is first gathered along
the shoulder front, after which the
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-03

invade the sphere Of undignified man
ual labor. The business man watches
her, trim and slim, and, armed with
a pen behind the counter of his bank,
and realizes that having good figure
and being good at figures are not nee
contradictory. Even in the
Bank of England women clerks are
now in the majority. The typist, the
lady clerk, the lady secretary is ev-
erywhere, and the very latest develop
ment is that there are girl auditors
in the city.
"This new condition of things is a
wonderful demonstration of the adapt
ability of English womanhood to war
conditions. The far-sighted people
are little disturbed by the problem
of what is to happen when the war is
over. The English woman, especially
the young English woman will never
again be content, save under excep
tional circumstances, to settle dowT
without an active part in the life Of
London and the country itself. The
war is popularity supposed to have
put the suffrage movement in Eng
land to sleep. 1t has done nothing
of the kind. When peace comes, the
movement will be found to have beer
revitalized in an Astonishing way by al
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-03
pante,s Claim Rejected.

What was that tenderfoot tryin' to
sell your" asked Broncho Bob. "Dante's
Inferno" replied Three Finger Sam.
Il told him didn't see how Dante had
any business stakin' claim on what
Crimson Gulch was liable to produce
gratis and abundant any minute
Washington Star.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-03

for a placket. Join cores as nots
ed, close center back seam, gather l
per edge of skirt and make til
rows Of gathers below upper edge
inches apart.
The large 60" in the foundat
yoke indicates the middle Of
front. Close center-back seam .
adjust to position underneath
skirt. Adjust skirt to position slit
ing upper edge over upper row
gathers in waist, center-fronts {
center-backs even.
, The collars and cuffs look more !
tinctive If scalloped and embroidss
than If finished with lace rufles
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-03
Effect Of Shell Fire,

When a 12-inch shell strikes the
water it throws up splash higher
than battleship's mast. This splash
weighs about 1000 tons, enough to
sink a small ship.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-03
On Him.

"You haven't got anything on my
husband" said the woman in the drug
store. "oh, yes, l have" replied the
druggist; hes wearing porous plas-
ter he hasn't paid me for yet"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-03
What the Bible Contains.

Somebody possessed of unlimited
time and patience has figured that the
Bible contains 3,5S6,473 letters, form
ing 1883 words, 31,737 verses, 1,1Ss
chapters and sc books.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-03

that has happened during the last 20
months"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-03
Dangerous CALOME[
IS SELDOM SOLD NOW

Caome Savates Makes You Sick and You Lose DAYS Wo-Dodsons
Liver Tone Acts Better Than CaOme and Is Harmless for
Men, Women ChIdren-Read Guaranteed
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-03

A dainty frock for summer, fash
toned from white muslin trimmed lace
insertion. Cape collars and cuffs are
scalloped and embroidered.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-03

Pictorial 67a4 Sizes "a to AZ inches bust R
Is
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-03

LAKELAND, FLORIDA
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-09-14

come tax returns of individuals and
corporations. Nothing except the
discretion ofSPresident Wilson now
stands between the people and un-
restricted access to the returns of
every income tax payer in America
At the morning session of the last
days converting. of the house, Lind
berg directed the attention of con-
gress to the facts published in the
newspapers served by the Newspaper
Enterprise assn to the effect that
the United States treasury is being
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-09-14
DIsCRETIoNoF WILSON ALONE NOW STANDS
BETWEEN PEOPLE OF AMERICA AND ACCESS
TO INCOME TAX RETURNS

robbed of more than three hundred
million dollars year by income tax
evasions which are made possible
only by the secrecy that now protects
the tax returns.
In a short speech he served no
tice that he did not propose to per-
NIT an adjournment of congress I'M
til steps had been taken to prevent
these frauds and save these millions
for the people.
He announced that unless the con-
ference committee agreed to restore
the house provision giving the presi-
dent absolute power to make income
tax returns public, he would raise the
point of mo quorum and would
compel the house to recall the mem
bers who are now scattered all over
the country and force a rolI-caIl on
the question of publicity. Of income
tax returns.
He was Immediately assured Of
strong support from progressive De-
mOcTats and Republicans.
Early in the afternoon the strong
est possible political pressure was
brought to bear on, Lindberg to in
duce him to withdraw his threat; but
he was unyielding. About 5 o'clock
he was approached by the ,conferees
to find out what he would accept as
an inducement to withdraw. Again
he was unHelding and told the con-
ference committee that the least he
would accept was what he had de-
manded- complete power for the
president to make the returns pub
lie.
At $3.50 p. m. Congressman Kit
chin, who was in charge of the bill
for the house, announced that the
conferees had agreed to meet Linda
berg's demand fully. LindBerg in
sisted on knowing the exact language
of the provision which had been
agreed upon and refused to accept it
until he was satisfied that there vTasp
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-09-14
BY BASIL M. MANLY

Washington, Sept. 14-Congress-
man Lindberg of Wisconsin by an I'M
compromising, last-minute fight in
the house of representatives forced
congress to grant to the, president
full power to make public the in
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-12-16

css. IL Is, therefore, only partly
parasite SO far as dependence upon
host for food is concerned, but ap-
parently none the less harmful on that
account. II secures from its host only
what the normal shrubbery plant de-
riyes from the soil. namely, water and
certain necessary mineral constituents.
Imagine grapevine or trumpet
creeper. while retaining It's foliage. To
sever connection with the soil and To
thrust rootlikc outgrowths into the
body OF the tree to which it clings, In
order TO absorb from the tree what
before II absorbed from the soil. This
would represent the relation which
mIstIctoe sustnins to its host"
1t is interesting to note that there
are points of difference between the
American mistlctoe and the European
mistletoc, to which such a wealth of
legend and romance attaches. But the
points OF difference are not import
ant, and the American is very Ike
the European mistlctoe In Its appear
nncc and Its habits OF life. The name
"mistletoe'' wns long ago applied to
the mysterious parasitic European
shrub to which centuries later Lin
naeus gave the name viscum album.
Since that time related species have
been found in nearly all parts OF the
world. especially in the warm coun-
tries. The family of mistetoes is
now known to be large one, en-
bracing more than six hundred species.
1t hns been written that in the course
of botanical explorations In the west
ern hemisphere numerous representa-
tives or the family We're found. and
among them was one which so close
ly rcsembled the original mistietoe
that It was given the generic name OF
viscum, with the specific designation
of "havescens." and one early botan-
ical explorer. the celebrated Thomas
Walter, called the specimens which he
found In the Carolinas viscum album
under the impression that they were
identical with the European plant
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-12-16
PLANT A PARASITE
MistIetoe, Christmas Decoration,
Lives off Other Trees.
Fastens Itself Upon Host Where u
Thrives and Destroys-Differenee
Between American and Euro
pean Varieties

,1~ HE mistletoe season
ESHkA, is at hand, and
~ AA great many thoughts
@1HS are being given to 1t
and great many re-
ferences, humorous,
semihumorous and
sentimental, are being made to it.
Many boughs. branches and pendants
of this beautiful and mysterious plant
are being severed from the oaks and
other trees and now hang from chan
deliers, gas burners, door jambs or
other places where women and young
girls may pass beneath 1t.
A great deal has been learned about
there is much about the curious plant
which the wisest men do not know.
The variety with which people are ac-
qualnted is a parasite. yet 1t is not
altogether parasite.
William L. Bray, an investigator in
forest pathology for the Department
OF agriculture. has written this for the
Washington Star:
THE plant is a parasite. II fastens
Itself upon its host, the tree, pene-
trates its tissue and draws nourish-
ment from It, deformlng II and sap
ping Its vitality. Yet the mistletoe is
green, leafy plant; that is, 1t pos
sesses the pigment chlorophyll, which
gives the green color to normal veg
citation. Some Of the tropical species
Of mlstlctoe bear leaves as large as
those OF the American elm.
The presence Of green leaves in
dicates that the mlstletoe has the
power. which independent green plants
everywhere possess. OF constructing
organic foodsturs. such as starch.
out Of Inorganic compounds-curbon
dioIidc and wutcr-utIlizlng sunlight
as the source OF energy In the proc
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-12-16
Unkiudest Cut Of All.

Unkisdest Cut Of All.
"Whats Dodsworth so mad apoutf
"You know he weighs approximate
ly two hundred pounds. and prides
himself on being every inch manT
"Of course"
swell. some spltefui person sent
him wrist watch for n Christmas
present"
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-12-16

Try Principe de Lees cigar for an
after dinner smoke Union made.-Adv.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-12-16

Beats them all. La Belle Sc cigar;
union made in Dcnver.-Adv.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1916-04-28
FREE RAILROAD PASSES

In order to ride into Office or
In the hope to vent their spleen
on the railroads some politicians
in Tennessee will attempt to get
plank in the platforms of the
two parties against the issuance
of passes by the railroads, claim
ing that the railroads use passes
for corrupting influences. If the
parties are wise they will have
nothing of the sort embodied in
their platforms. No railroad in
Tennessee has ever yet attempt
ed to coerce a newspaper be-
cause it issued a pass to that
newspaper. The issuance of
passes to attend farmers insti-
tutes do not purchase the recip-
tents nor does it in the least, cor
rupt them. Railroads batting
has been a favorite game with
some politicians who would have
no show whatever for Office if
weighed by his merit, so the
batting of railroads is taken up
in order to pose as reformer.
The railroads have a right to is
sue passes, and they should con-
tinue to have it. Politicians are
the only ones who have ever i'm
posed on the railroads in the
matter of passes, and numbers
Of Ithem have literally held up
the railroads in order to get
passes, and a stop should be put
to this practice. The delegation
to the State Democratic Conven-
ton should not become "a party
to this anti.pass law, and it is
hoped that it will fight it to the
last ditch. Murfreesboro Home
Journal.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1916-04-28

is thrown away on experiments and
faulty construction. There is no ex-
cuse for the continuance of this waste,
for there is now enough experience to
guide any community in selecting a
type of construction that will give
good service and in choosing materials
that will stand the wear and tear Of
traffic. Starting with these, adding
good drainage and good workmanship,
and there is no reason why good roads
cannot now ba-had at reasonable first
cost and moderate upkeep.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1916-04-28

Rome has a great reputation as a
road builder. Her roads consisted Of
three courses of stone several feet in
thickness. Even with cheap or even
slave labor Roman roads must have
cost from $4,000 to 100000 a mile.
Though they lasted for great many
years we should not want Roman
roads now-a-days at any price. They
were rough and permitted only slow
movement of traffic.
The demand now Is for an elastic
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1916-04-28
LONGEST CONTINUOUS
RAIL ROUTE N WORLD
Burlington and N. c. & St. L
To Operate From Seattle
To Jacksonville

The longest continuous train
service route in the world will be
the elimination of steps now be.
ing taken at Paducah. KY, to
connect the Nashville, Chatta-
nooga & St. Louis Railway with
the Burlington route, thereby
forming a through service be-
tween Seattle, Washington. and
Jacksonville, Fla.
This route will enable these
roads and their connections to
handle business from the great
northwest to the southeast, and
already traffic officials are work
ing on a schedule which will be
one of the fastest in the country,
distance considered.
This connection will be com.
pleted with the construction of
the new Sc, 100000 bridge across
the Ohio river at Metropolis. ILL.,,
by the Paducah & Illinois Rail.
road company, which company is
owned and operated by the
Burlington and the N. C. & St.
L. At Paducah the road will
connect with the tracks of the
N. c. & St. L.. and at Metropolis
the P. l. will connect with the
Burlington. The city authorities
at Paducah are now being asked
for certain trackage rights in the
city for the erection of central
passenger and freight terminals
which will place that city on the
main line of the Paducah & ILL.
nois railroad.
| Inc new route will serve such
cities as Seattle, Minneapolis, St.
Paul. Chicago, St. Louis. Nash
vile. Chattanooga, Atlanta and
Jacksonville.
In connection with this ar.
arrangement, the N. C. & st. L.
will have trackage arrangements
from Paducah to st. Louis over
the Burlington. The latter ar
rangement will give the N. C. &
st. L its own trackage rights
from st. Louis to the southeast.
ern coast and Jacksonville.
The Burlington already oper.
|ates trains between st. Louis and
Seattle. These run over its own
tracks between st. Louis and
Billings, Mont, and between
Billings and Seattle over the
Nothern Pacific and Great North,
ern allied lines. Philadelphia
Public Ledger.