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The daily Alaskan., 1916-08-04
Naturally.

'I do not care for mutton chop whis kers on a man.
 "No; they tend to give him sheep Ish expression" Baltimore American.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-08-04

L. s. KELLER, Publisher
The daily Alaskan., 1916-08-04

OFFICIAL CITY PAPER
Abilene weekly reflector., 1916-03-30
Women and High Cost of Living

w olueu anu f1lSu OOSI OF Living
For number of years, one of the
greatest problems confronting the Amer.
ican people, has been the High Cost OF
Living. 1t is discussed at such length
that 1t has become material for the Joke
smiths, but did you ever happen to notice
that most of the advice and articles con-
cerning it, appear In the socalled 'wo-
mems magazines" A person entirely un-
acquainted with the condition of things,
would suppose that women had been di.
rectly responsible for the raise in the
price of food stuffs, by the multitudes OF
schemes which are devised whereby wo-
men might economize. The poor rural
mother, and the club women in the city
are both made to suffer; the farmers
wife comes in for her share Of admoni-
tions, and even the girls In the schools
are taught marketing. All this to help
bring down the High Costs of Living
And very worthy idea is this but II
does seem just little bit unjust that all
these plans for economy are hurled at the
head of innocent woman Think Of the
things which she is advised to do in or
der to help pay off the mortgage or start
the educational fund for the coming gen
GRAFTON. Whole pages in hundreds of pub
lications are given up to this one theme
and it is harped upon until If woman tri-
ed all the guaranteed plans which are
dshed up for her, she would be in danger
of landing in the institution for the fee
BILE minded. And 1t is especially the
small town housekeeper and the
farmers wife at whom these things are
flung. They are told how to make over
how to use up leftovers from
the family table; how to retrim last
years hat; how to make macaroni take
the place of meat for dinner; how to
make a nourishing soup out of FIVE cents
worth of bone; how to revarnish old fur
niture so that it will deceive the eye of
stranger; how to convert the sewing ma
chine into couch and the china closet
into dining table, or other things quite
IS absurd And the women read all OF
.hese things with the very best of inten-
ions and no doubt many of them profit
hereby, or fancy they do. But seri.
,usly now, did you ever happen to see in
my sort of publication page devoted to
aiding out advise to the men, as to how
hey might contribute to lower the High
,ost of Living? Think how sensibly such
page would read There are so many
hings which the men might do and so
cry very few which they find 1t convent
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us to chastise our children with the rod,
so also are we paying less heed to good
st. Paups advice to wives, in which he
says, that they shall be subservient to
their husbands, in all things, for we are
fast beginning to see that these things in
Our Bible are there, not because the
Great Father nor the Gentle Jesus wish
ed them to be, but because they are an
idiosyncracy of the times in which they
were written. They are a part Of the
local color which we find in all books and
help to show us how the people of that
day lived, moved and had their being
And nobody will deny that in those
times women were nothing more nor
less than slaves although they were not
all sold from the block. The women did
not realize the condition of their servi-
tu lie, and were doubtless happy but nei-
ther did the men sense the magnitude of
their dominance, and therein lay the in
justice. And so it has gone on down
the ages. Gradually, like the progress
of all great evolutions, woman has risen
from the lowness Of her station until,
now, at least, in the speeches of all ora
tors and in the books of many writer's
she is the most perfect and superior of
created beings. In the vernacular of to-
day, we might say that woman has the
name without the game. And for this
only she is to blame, because she gives
too much of herself She is still sub
servient to her own menfolks because
she cannot help it; she is held down
by that heritage of long ago, and she
cannot break away from that. She is
not always unselfish because she is try
ing to make a martyr of herself, nor
because she wishes to cultivate a vir-
tue, but because it is so much easier to
give up her wishes than it is to assert
her desires. And half Of the women who
get the credit for being the most model
1t pleasanter to indulge loved ones than
to cross them. 1t is the nature of wo-
man to minister to her men, handed
1own from generation to generation, i'm
oedded in her makeup SO deep that the
from the servant to the
Individual is harder for her to grasp
han it is for the men,
However it is high time that women
hould set about scattering this virtue
# unselfish giving to which they have
lad the exclusive right for so long. 1t
s high time that they demand more
hought from their husbands and sons,
nd what blessing it would prove to
he men themselves. For, go into any
ousehold in the land, and find there the
Abilene weekly reflector., 1916-03-30

high type of the wife and mother and
there you are almost certain to find an
utterly selfish family. They have been
trained that way. The mother of the
house instead of thinking of the mould
ing of their characters has been thinking
only of their wishes. She has given up
to them her little desires, her little pleas
ures, her thoughts and even her very
personality. She has become so sub
merged into family that she has ceased
being an individual and become merely
a wife and mother. AS the years go
by, she finds herself expressing her hus-
bands thoughts along all lines; copy
ing her clothes after her daughter, and
looking at her home community through
the eyes of her son. She has given,
given and given, until at last she has
come to that woeful place where she
has nothing left to give except the mere
labor of her hands and those have al
ready grown old and wrinkled in the
service of others. The picture of such
women drawn by master hand makes
very fine reading in books, and our
hearts go out to them in unspeakable
admiration, and then when they are
dead their obituaries are filled with fat
tering remarks, and the little circle
wherein they dwelt realizes that model
woman has gone But what of the fam
lily they leave behind? That family
who at first is SO lost without the "serv-
ant in the House.. The daughters are
nearly always incompetent and giddy;
the husband is so dependent upon the
services of a woman that he Is obliged
to go off at the earliest opportunity and
remarry so that his little wants may be
attended to at once again; and the son
when he chooses mate is so tyrannical
and selfish that his wife unless she is
of the same type as her mother-in-law
cannot get along with him 1t is truth
that too great an unselfishness in one
will breed selfishness in others Our
Bible says ut is more blessed to give
than to receive" but women have enjoyed
this blessing exclusively for so long, that
It is time they were training men to ap-
Dreciate its worth and receive some of
he reward of merit attendant upon 1t.
Jnselfishness is one of the greatest
orces of good in the world, but in or
Ter to do its best work it must not be
concentrated but scattered broadcast
'ver the land. A little less of giving,
therefore, on the part of the women, and {
little more of giving on the part of the &
nen would idealize conditions and make I
he coming generation far superior to ,
his.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1916-03-30

ter class includes so few that
1t is but the exception which proves
the rule There are, we know, numbers
of women scattered about in the world
who are thoroughly and entirely selfish,
and who are constntly demanding from
others, both men and women, the things
which they desire, but we also know
that these women are greatly in the mi
nority. Therefore, when we speak Of
woman, the Giver, we mean that vast
hord of wives and mothers sisters and
daughters who are to be found in large
numbers in every quarter of the globe,
those women who give increasingly of
themselves, Of their labors, their bodies
and their souls.
The world of women has changed mar
velously within the last few centuries.
Women are breathing new air and learn
ing new freedoms, but there are still
many shackles which are to be thrown
off, and these are welded on not by the
men, not by conditions, but by the wo-
men themselves.
In the breast of every women there is
an inherited instinct which has come
down to her from the time of Abraham.
The instinct which made Rachel mute
when her lover Jacob was given her sis
ter when it was herself he loved-the in
stinct which closed the lips of the Mag
dalene when the Greatest man the world
has ever known said LET him without
sin cast the first stone"-that instinct
which says forever, give, give, give and
expect nothing. This is the one thing
which women find the hardest to part
with, this age old inheritance which tells
her that she is inferior, and has always
been so.
These women who give so much of
themselves and expect so little in re-
turn are still among us and nowadays,
we speak of their sweet unselfishness,
their lovely dispositions and their care
full thought of others. And every one
feels that unselfishness is a virtue
greatly to be desired, heaven sent gift
which should be cultivated to the ut
most, but not exclusively by women. For
1t is the unselfish wife who generally has
the most dictatorial of husbands, the un-
selfish sister who has the most thought
less of brothers, and the unselfish mo-
ther who has the most wilful of sons.
Just as we are growing away from that
admonition of Solomon's which counsels
Abilene weekly reflector., 1916-03-30
WOMAN, THE GIVER

WV y OMEN are divided into two
NA/ classes those who give and
W those who take, but the lat
ter class includes so few that
Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-21

class will Sherman Spicer Kenyon music, High school orchestra. The ex- ercises will be under the direction of Miss Reardon. The graduating ex- ercises will be held in Borough hall. Thursday evening.
 Dr. James M. Crowley of Westerly and Miss Sarah C., daughter of Post master and Mrs. Joseph Leahey, will be married In St Maryss church next Wednesday morning.
 Rev. Dwight c. Stone, pastor of the Second Congregation church, is ex- pected to return to the borough this week in improved health.
 Rev. J. H. O'DeH and family of Troy, N. Y, have arrived at their summer home in the borough
 Arthur Palmer Douglass, of New Haven, formerly of Mystic, and Ada May Kennedy, of Stonington, were married in New London Saturday, by Rev. c. Harley Smith, pastor of the Federal Street Methodist Episcopal church.
 The se1ectmen are to place silent traf7cmen at Coleman and Cutler streets, bearing the red flag by day and red light by night, warning to automobilists to exercise care The sentinels will be in position by Thurs day.
 Mrs. B. J. Smith and daughter, Miss Marguerite, Of Hartford, are at the Trumbull college for the summer.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-21
IooaI Laoonica.

Rev. E. J. KloclS, of Somers, Conn.,. formerly of North Stonington, was in Westerly Tuesday.
 The Narragansett Electric Light and Power company today, and with out change in the local office force.
 All state troops ordered to respond to the call to arms by the president are now in camp at Quonset Point.
 George R. Miller, the veteran gate tender at the Palmer street crossing, has been retired by the railroad com pany and placed in the pension list.
 Miss EIsbeth Jones, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. F. c. A. Jones, of Wes- terly, was graduated with honors from the New England Conservatory of Music.
 The Young Mems club of Christ Episcopal church repeated the play let, Peter Piper's Troubles, in the Broad Street Christian church Tues day evening.
 The Westerly High school baseball team will play a picked nine of the Alumni, Thursday afternoon. It is ex- pected that the school team will be up against the old time stars, with Andy Martin at second and a battery composed of Burrows and Foley.
 Westerly High school graduating exercises will be held in the town hail this afternoon, and class day exercises and banquet in the Rhode Island ho- tel this evening. Alumni meeting on Thursday morning with address by Dean Randall of Brown university.
 Organizer James McLavin of the Painters Union, was in Westerly on Tuesday and 1t is said his intention was to order union painters from Bos- ton, who are on special work here, to quit work and return home, while the members of the local union are on strike. The local union men held a conference with the employing pain ters Tuesday afternoon, in the hope on since June l.
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trfbuted. Westchester's linen is par dcularly beautiful. Each piece ex- hfbited is Of a. different weave. Hebron has an old silk christening blanket whose soft pinks are lovely against the green wall on which it is hung.
 No refreshments were served in the garden yesterday, but the porch where the tables were set is enclosed in glass and with the bushes and bird houses right on the level of the eye, one does not realize that the garden is not in use. For refreshments there are tea, ing, sandwiches and cake-enough for supper if one wishes 1t. or for tea if one prefers supper at home. Because of the rainy weather, the collection is to remain on exhibition for an extra day.
 Chamber of Commerce. Meets.
 A special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held Monday evening. The committee on the clambake which the chamber will hold July Fourth reported progress. It was also re- ported that the shoe factory property on Norwich avenue has been sold to Goldman Brothers of New York, who will use the building as a skirt and cloak factory and win commence soon to get the factory ready to occupy, They will bring experienced help with them and will give work to large number in this place.
 Elmer Foote, who was graduated from the Connecticut Agricultural col- lege at Storrs, is at his home 4n town Oliver Woodhouse lodge. No. 6z, K of P. held a meeting Tuesday evening
 William Gerhardt who is attending { the Connecticut Agricultural college Is at his home in town for the sum- 'mer vacation
 1GrssG GeorgesR Reynu1ds euf Hart.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-21
MYSTIC
Annual School Meeting of First Dis- triet-Five Mill Tax Laid-Members of Charity and Relief. Lodge Attend Funeral of Robert MaeGreaaor.

The annual school meeting of the First district, Groton, was held in Academy hall, Monday, with an at tendance of 35. Rev. George H. Miner called the meeting to order and Geo. E. Tingley was elected chairman. The clerk. Benjamin F. Burrows, read the warning and the report of the school committee, Rev. George H. Miner, was read. His financial statement was as follows: Received from the town $3,- SSS:S6, as follows: Teachers salaries, $3450, for coal $424.95, for wood $S.91, for school supplies $105. The town ap- propriation was s430O. Turned back to the town treasurer $311.14. The dis trtct money orders were drawn as follows: Interest paid $192375, on principal 5000. insurance $225, jani- tor SAYS, plumbers repairs $15414 mu- sic teacher $S7.50, manual training $97.50, enumerating children $7.33, salary o treasurer $15, salary of conn mittee $25. Other orders for school supplies and current expenses total $461412
 The indebtedness of the district in notes held by the Norwich Savings Society is now $42, 800, the debt hay ing been reduced over $3000 since the school was built. MT. Miner stated that he had hired seven regular teach CTS during the year, music teacher, manual training teacher and a draw ing teacher. The grounds around the school house have been put into ex- cellent shape and the school house had been put into good repair. His report was accepted. MT. Miner want ed two years faithfully, but the mem bers present at the meeting ruled against him and after considerable persuasion he yielded and was re- elected school committeeman for an- other year.
 The report of the treasurer, Benja- min Burrows. showed balance in
 The collector, John s. Edgcomb, made the following report: Taxes col- lected $3S40.25, due $641.71, levy of 1915 $S0.47. His report was accepted, It was voted to lay a five mill tax on the school district. The following officers were elected: School commit teeman, Rev. George H. Miner; clerk and treasurer, Benjamin Burrows; col lector, John S. Edgcomb.
 School Picnic.
 The children of the West Mystic school, Miss Eula Dunnack, teacher, enjoyed a picnic Tuesday on the grounds at the rear of the schoolhouse Games were played, and at noon dim ner was served.
 Address on Burmah.
 Mrs. Henderson for many years a missionary to Burmah gave talk to l the missionary class of the Metho- dist, Congregational and Baptist church Tuesday evening in the yes | try of the Union Baptist church. Her subject was The People of Burmah Attended New London Funeral. l The members of Charity and Re 1 lief Lodge. No. 72, F. & A. M, met ir Masonic temple Tuesday afternoon al l 1 o'clock, and went to New London where they attended the funeral oi
 their late brother, Robert MacGreg-
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The, more a visitor examines the loan exhibit given by the ladies of Calvary church at the home of tue Misses Bigelow, the more he finds to look at.
 There are a4 shawls in the colIec- ton, Paisley, camelshair, Broche, net silk, printed shawls, embroidered shawIs-no two alike. Two bed r1gs made long ago by sisters, and handed down in different branches of the fam fly, are visiting together again, within a few feet of each other. The luster- ware exhibit fills the mantlepiece and overflows on to the sideboard.
 One cabinet contains pieces of old fashioned iewelry, earrings, bracelets brooches. rings, stickpins There are two long hair chains, alike except fol slight difference in an ornamenta. leaf
 The walls of the rooms in which ths exhibit is held are almost entirely covered with the sklawls and hangings 1 old prints, pictures and mirrors. Hebron and sVVestche ester c!th con
Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-21
NoANK

Divorce Granted Wife of Harrison
 Merton Ward-FuneraI of Mrs. Mar
 garet Morgan, 94-Ship Timbers Too
 Big to Be UnIoaded Here.
 Word has been received here of the granting of a divorce to Mrs. Josephine Chapin Boerum Ward of Bridgeport from Harrison Merton Ward of Noank the allegations being intemperance and cruelty. The custody of a minor child was given the mother. MT. and Mrs. Ward were married in 1912, but lived together only short time.
 Dies at e4.
 The funeral of Mrs. Margaret Mor- gan was held Monday afternoon at the home in the east side of the village. Mrs. Morgan was 94 years of age and leaves four children, Wayland Nor gan, Augustus V. Morgan, Mrs. liar riet Chester and Mrs. Emeline Weav- CT. Burial was in Valley cemetery.
 The women of the Methodist church entertained the Methodist Brotherhood of Mystic Monday evening in the enjoyed.
 Kindergarten Term Ends.
 The kindergarten school of the vil- l lage, taught by Miss Ruth Eyerts, closed Tuesday for the summer sea SOll.s It IdS DGGn Q1llCulLH IO keep IL in session for so long time as usual on account of the prevalence of measles in the village, many of the l little ones being i'll.
 Tirsers Too Long to Unload. The seven big sticks of timber which arrived at the station from Ta- | coma, Wash, for use in masts and l spars for the five-masted vessel build ing at the Palmer yard by Pendleton Brothers were found too long to unload l here on account of the turns in the street and were taken to New Lon l don to be reshipped by water. They are 120 feet long. The freight on the material from Tacoma was $1,ooo.
 Five New 5arses. Il Work began yesterday on the seven If new narges for the Reading railroad which are to be built at the Palmer shipyard. Men are greatly in demand at the plant.
 York are spending the summer in the
 Dennis walsh of New York has been spending 8 few days here.
 MT. and Mrs. Charles Smith o1 Keene, N. H., are visiting Mrs. Hattie
 Mrs. Hattie sticlxles has returned tc ter home in Hartford after a visii here.
 Miss Marie Russell of New York vii arrive July 1st for the rest of tht summer.
 MT. and Mrs. Thomas Rowland o. Hartford are visiting here.
 A meeting of Liberty council Dangh ters of America will be held thil CWednesday) evening. William Rathbun, who has been i'll | has recovered
 Contractor F. B. Barlow, who hai | been suffering from burns in his eye inflicted by hydrated lime, Is at las improving.
 Remembered on soth Birthday.
 Mrs. sPhebe [. Davis passed her s0tl | birthday Saturday, and was pleasant l ly remembered by. many friends.
 The schooner Star, Capt. B. w. La tham, has gore to New York with big load of codfish and haIfhut. Fl Mrs Ralph Passmore and daughte 1 Helene of Boston are at Riverview cot lHage Tor the summer. NGrs. Easnlpr
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for, which was held from Byles' un- dertaking parlors at 2.30 o'clock. Bur ial was in Jordan cemetery.
 In a Few Words.
 Mrs. Charles Stoddard and son Charles have returned from visit to Mrs. Stoddard's sister, Mrs. Jennie Cercey in New York
 Misses Quingen and Marion Wat rous spent Monday in Norwich.
 William Moves has resigned at I. w. Dennison's store and is employed in the Noank ship yard. His place has been taken by Clarence Cragan.
 Arthur Douglas of New Haven has been spending a few days with his parents, MT. and Mrs. Arthur Doug las.
 weeks in Brooklyn.
 diers home, a former resident of this place, is spending a few weeks in town, renewing acquaintances.
 stephen J. Austin of Watch Hill spent Sunday in the village.
 Prof. Walter E. Hammond is spend Ing a few weeks in New Jersey.
 Miss Elias Bunsen is in New York for a short stay.
 Miss Emily North Murphy of Prov idence is the guest of her parents, MT. and Mrs. William Murphy.
 George S. Richmond spent Sunday at the Willimantic camp ground. Mrs. Edward Loomis and Miss FL sic Loomis of New Britain are the guests of MT. and Mrs. J. W. Chap man.
 Mr and Mrs. Willard w. Keigwin are entertaining Mrs Keigwin's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. William Deutcher 1 of Danbury, Ct.
 Miss Edna Chapman spent Sunday in New Haven. Miss Cecelia Gaffney has returned 1 to New York, after a visit to her sis 1 ter. Mrs. Harry c. Allyn. Mrs. Frances Sisson is i'll at the home of her son, Herbert B. Wolfe Mrs. Emily Spencer is visiting in l Attleboro, Mass.
 MT. and Mrs. G. Albert Thompson have returned from New Haven.
 Lester Coughlin of New York spent l Saturday with Conrad Kretzer
 Miss c. Louise Harris has returned to New Haven. Samuel Edgecomb of Providence is | the guest of his daughter. Mrs. Alden Fish,
 Prof. Frank Wheeler and family ot Hartford have arrived in town for the summer
 L. E. Kinney is improving after a serious illness. Letter Carrier Erastus Fish has re- l turned to his duties after a vacation l Substitute Carrier Bergen l. Green covered his route for the week.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-21
sToNINGTON
High School Class Day Exercises This Afternoon-SeIeotmen Decide Upon Silent Traffic Men System.

This afternoon the class day exer- cises of the Stonington High school will be held in the borough, when the program will be as follows: Music, High School orchestra; History, Ed win Carlton Higgins; address to Un- dergraduates, Sarah Jane Adanson; prophecy, Horace Stevenson Williams; La Czarine, Game, Senior class; pres entation of gifts, Stanton Albert Bur dick: acceptance of gift, William Hen ry Moves, IT; presentation of gifts to class, Clarence Myer Woodworth; |;