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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-01-22
THE HOUSE

Following discussion of the bills
against enticing farm laborers from
their employers and against untrue or
misIead ding advertising. the House yes
terday morning settled down TO bust
ness and nine uncontested bills were
passed on to third reading and en-
grossment. These we're of local
nature. A dozen other bills on the
day.
The House was in session nearly
two hours and considerable progress
was made in disposing OF the cafen-
dar. About thirty-tive bills were pre-
scented. among them a new pension
law. an amendment to the Constitu-
ton affecting the elective franchise
and qualifications, one prohibiting the
sale of hares or rabbits. one opening
the rivers mouths one-half to give
ample channel ia let shad In to
spawn. and another increasing the
pay OF the secretary or the State Board
OF Charities and Corrections from $2,-
600 to s2.5o0.
Most interesting was the debate on
the pure advertising bill in which
Messrs. Epes. OF Nottoway; Willis. of
Roanoke; Murray. OF Newport News:
Moss of Lynchburg, and White, OF
Rock bridge. 1t was concluded when
an amendment was presented by Dele
gate White for the insertion of the
words ''fraudulerttly and knowingly"
Mr.. Epes felt that already there Is too
much OF trying to do business by legis-
lating and on such grounds based his
opposition. Messrs. Willis and Muir
ray were favorable to tho measure.
Mr.. Moss and Mr.. White also favored
the bill though they were not quite
satisfied with it's construction. The
amendment offered was approved and
the bill sert on.
Before adjournment was taken
Colonel williams read committee an
nouncements.
From now on the calendar will be
we'll filled and the legislative mill will
work steadily.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-13
THE CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE
Dear Mrs. Selwin Expostulates.

ing Of his will. perhaps should be
content"
That was your despair instead Of
your courage talking" said Mrs.
Selwin, quietly.
II could not bear it, dear friend"
said as | held out my hands to
her. THE only way l can keep
from going insane is to cut myself
OF from everyone as much as pos
sible. II I were to allow myself to
watch for Dicks comings and regret
his goings l would probably begin
to ask more and more of his time.
You know that most sick people are
very selfish.
"No, dear. I must constantly re-
member and try to make Dick un.
derstand that he has no longer a
wife In Margie Waverly. but an in.
valid who asks nothing of him that
he does not give freely
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-13
Why Do Some Women
Think the Lily White Type
of Beauty Attracts Men?
BIZ MARY K. WALTER
copyright, 1915, by NJ. r. waiter)

tests with Glen Ferguson, and
tramping trips with Arthur Fry and
his sisters.
Medora, protecting her untouch.
able Gainsborough loneliness. sat
through the whole summer out Of
the sun. embroidering with soft
hands when she wasn't lying down
with headache. drinking tea to get
warm, or taking pills to prevent
cold. From the men who came TO
sit and chat with her, she exacted
the waiting on that went out Of
style with the days Of chivalry.
Winnifred explained the situation
by saying Medora was peevish from
lack OF exercise. Medora called
winnifred's appetite vulgar.
But winnifred's appetite. like
any honest appetite. nourished her;
air and exercise kept her body In
good condition. As a result she had
healthy mental attitude toward
every experience. This brought
happiness and that drew friends.
She made chums OF the men she
knew and from them she exacted
only the give and take OF good fell
lowship.
When summer ended Medora, by
one method Of comparison, was still
lovely--paler pink and more lily
white. winnifred was still plain.
Winnifred had a most OF men
friends. Most Of the girls had be-
come friendly with winnifred. be-
cause in the matter of men they
were no longer envious.
w1nnifred had three proposals,
which was many. considering her
aunt's chaperoning. The fortunate
fellow who was accepted BY Winnl.
fred said TO a loser:
There is still Medora."
NO." said the loser. Il don't want
to marry an invalid"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-13
#a OF INTEREST TO WOMEN AND THE HOME,

that when the nervous tension Of
the hours in the operating room
were over she would collapse.
Their fear was increased when
they heard that tho operation 1t
which she was to assist was TO be
on a child and she was devoted to
children.
"The mother and sister waited for
her through the night. In tho early
gray Of the dawn they heard her
lstch-key In the door, then her swift
step down the hall: she flung open
the door, and stood there her face
radiant. oh. mother! It was so
beautiful she cried.
During those hours when she
had given the best Of herself in
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-13

Don't you think you are making
a mistake, Margie." Dear Mrs. Sci
win had come upon me as ] lay In
the enclosed porch. My thoughts
were far away.
Making a mistake about what,
dear Mrs. Selwin?'
Not about what. but whom, dear
child" she replied with smile.
Look how charmingly that male
bluebird makes love to his mate l
said, pointing to the trees.
Don't you want me to talk to you
about Dick?" asked Mrs. Selwin.
81 always want you to talk about
anything you WISH" answered eva
sively.
Mrs. selwin looked down into my
eyes with so much love and under
standing, and lack Of that pity j
have been seeing in most eyes. that
instinctively / held my arms up to
her.
Dear Mrs. Selwin, I know OF what
you are thinking" said. Perhaps
am making a mistake seem to
have been making them steadily
ever since I married-but Just what
is the particular one you think am
making now"
Cutting yourself so completely
of from Dick"
looked at her In surprise. "Is
not that the kindest thing could
do to him?"
"I don't think So"
But I don't think you under
stand. Dick has many cares. Must
I add the burden of my affiction to
Them"
"My dear Margie, you cannot by
any possibility take away that bur
den. Fate has taken It out OF your
hands. You are his wife and you
are helpless. He must bear his part
as you must bear yours"
Yes, but don't you see that II I
can impress him with the idea that
all I shall ask of him is the mate
rial and physical comfort with which
he and you have so generously sur
rounded me, II will make 1t easier?
am worse than dead wife, Mrs.
Selwin; worse than an unfaithful
wife, for II were dead In time he
could forget me and II I had been
unfaithful he could divorce me.
"Now. whenever he thinks of me.
he must understand that my great
est suffering Is not for myself but
for him and that must add to his
troubles in spite OF all I can do to
make him feel that he is perfectly
free to live his own life In the fu.
ture."
"That Is Just II, dear Margie. Dick
IL not free. He can never be free
a. long as you are alive and lying
hero helpless. Your assumption that
he can throw on all responsibility
except that Of seeing that you have
purely physical care. shows him as
we'll as mo that for some reason
you have lost faith In him."
did not know what to say. little
book, for she had hit the nail on the
head. II could not hold Dick when
4 was we'll. attractive and active.
how could I hold him now.
still. I think I am right. my dear
Mrs. Selwin. After a man is tired
out with the problems OF business
he surely does not want to come
home to-this.
AT first he probably will be hurt
and think I am queer TO insist that
he shall practically live away from
me, at the other end OF your beau
tiful big house. but after little he
will be glad"
But, my dear Margie. there is
one thing you have not taken into
consideration. A man OF Dicks tenn
permanent needs responsibility OF
Just this kind"
laughed Historically. This h
the first time, dear Mrs. Selwin. I
have been able to nnd any reason
why should be afflicted in this way.
but II II II for the stabilizing OF
Dick's charsctss and the strengthen
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-13
7 IOUSEHOLD
F1ELIP 3. -

II wish you might have heard the
talk we had this afternoon" said
Mrs. Happy Homemaker.
when II was announced that Mr..
A. the art critic on one Of the
daily papers, was to give q lecture
some OF us felt somewhat disturbed.
You know the sort of thing which
men usually give to women's clubs:
soothing syrup type Of lecture
with all kinds Of pretty platitudes
and nothing vital In 1t. Our appre-
hension was increased when the
title was announced a. Beauty
'T had decided not to go when
Betty Best called me up. She was
In the same frame Of mind. Our
meetings have been 80 fine and
helpful this year that we felt we
did not want to be present at a
let-down. But we finally decided
we ought to 90. and now We feel
that II we had missed this lecture
we would have lost about the best
OF our series.
HE began by saying that Any
thing which gives US growth, re-
creation Of self by self, Is beauty
He told about young woman OF
his acquaintance who was taking a
trained nurse course; she had come
to the time when she was to go
through her first operation. She
was tired with the strain OF the
work, and her people were afraid
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-13

That Medora vinton was lovely
enough to turn other girls green
with envy was conceded by men and
women alike when the vinton twins
came TO spend the summer with
their aunt. Winnifred, her sister,
looked like any ordinary girl of %.
Medora was the lilly type" physi-
cally and mentally. She was pale,
pink and dainty white. OF course
her beauty drew q crowd OF Eel.
lows" about her at the party their
aunt gave on their arrival. Her
big iris eyes elected her admirers
gallantry and appealed with languid
sweetness to their protection. As
one man they al declared:
She's psaohy!"
A week after the party came n
country club event. Medora's ap-
pearsncs on the veranda was the
signal for masculinity to drop It's
tennis racket and feast It's eyes on
her Gainsboroush portrait dainti-
ness.
Msdora refused invitations to golf
--'ft spoiled her boots" Tennis
upset her. and croQuet and walk
Ing made her dissy!" So she re-
NAMED on the porch in state. out
of the sun. lest II burn her.
wlnnifred, the plain, In sport
toys. tennised with Winston Daw-
son, golfed with Donald Mclean.
tramped with Scott Perry, TIL Me-
dora chidsd her ~ hideously red
and spelling her hands. But Win
nifred's answering laugh limited that
much oxygen and good circulation
left no room In her system for care
or kinks. That evening wlnnifred
went home to big dinner and
baby-liks sleep. Medora couldn't
sst. She had caught cold and
stayed indoors for q week.
Another week WInnifred WAS rid
ins hoessboclk with James Andrews.
~ euleo1lsned roller skating con-
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-13

Rat-a-tat-tat! he 8 ready TO march
OF to Summerland and because
much Of mothers" summer sewing
is already done his wardrobe Ia COM
plete even though weather Is still
wintry.
This gcodIooking little suit Is
made of white linen with collars.
cuffs and pocket stitched In blue.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-13

convenient as only mannish pockets
can he. The skirt is black check
silk. and the white blouse with black
taffeta bands gives the effect OF a
waistcoat.
The umbrella has short handle
IA longer handle wouldn't harmon
ize with the short skirt.
The Fashion Art league of Amer
lea gives the stamp OF authenticity
to this smart little "magpie" trotter.
and TO all other combinations Of
plain coats and checked skirts.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-13

James X. Polk. Franklin Pierce,
U. 8. Grant. James A. GARFIELD.
Grover Cleveland and Theodore
Roosevelt were the only presidents
who had not reached or passed the
50-year-old mark when they took
once.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-13
~ BETTY BROWN.

~ BETTY BROWN.
I believe I have told you that the
navy blue tailored suit 10 popular.
and the much rufYled suit Of taffeta
10 the rage this spring. but let ms
tell you what the faddiest street
"get-up" Of the season is--rather
let me show you II pictured here
the plain coat and check-skirt cos
tune.
The coat Of black gaberdine Is
made IN mannish cutaway fashion.
With mannish pockets which are "a
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-13

supreme service; when G&S
helped to carry SoewaSd ~ r.
Vicious artistry Of soienee5
she had seen . lit&is warDoo
body given the chance -
strong and straight. shs ha1 r. Q
She had realised q new ~
had seen he power sn1 ~ ~
Of the work TO which che ~ 1
Gated herself. She had 49, 4
the very heart Of beauty W
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-13

The Amason river has 30 txlE
tariss each Of over 1000 milss
length. II
Raid speakers pronouncs N
1000 TO 1900 words an hours
about two words . second.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-17

and her children, and who took
pity on her when she was driven
out, she said.
NeighbOrs With Her.
Neighbors backed up her
statements.
To make living she got work
in Seattle hotel, where her hus-
band and the officers located her.
When she appeared before JUS
tice Linch then, her husband told
a pitiful story of how the children
had been crying for her.
He told the Judge he wanted to
take her back to care for them,
and the only punishment the
Judge gave her was to send her
home.
Since then the husband has
beaten her and struck her for
every little thing, she said. She
feared him. She feared the power
of the law and did not say a
word.
MY husband and I are trying
to forget the past and start out
anew" she told a reporter who
visited the home shortly after her
return.
1t will go hard with Alex Munce
If the charges against him are
true, says Judge Linck.
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of Deputy Prosecutor Thompson,
who made the charge against her
last month when her husband
and Constable Mitchell brought
her back home from Seattle.
Instead, Alex Munce, the hus-
band. is held Tuesday on a charge
of third degree assault.
He will have to answer the
charge of beating her and driving
her from her home and three
small children.
When the law took hold of the
girl-mother and brought her back
to Tacoma, she could give no
reason for deserving her babies.
n; Severely Beaten.
u don't know why / did it: /
don't know" was all that she
would say.
But Tuesday she sought out
Justice of the Peace Linck and
told him her whole story.
Her arms and body we're COW
cred with great black and blue
spots. There was a black welt
on the back of her head.
IL was fear of her husband that
made her keep silent when she
was arrested, she explained.
II did not leave my home and
children because wanted to-" she
told the justice. MY husband led
me several blocks away from
home. Then he gave me a shove
and told me not to come back.
81 went to Seattle to get work.
I had to live"
The other man in the case, she
did not entice her to Sc
attic. He was a man who had
been staying next door to her Ia
aoma horua. Who was kind to her
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-17
DRAKE STRIKES BACK At
CITY COUNCIL AND LEAGUE

For the first time since his re-
cent impeachment trial at the
hands of the other city council
men James G. Drake broke his
long silence Tuesday with type
written statement, in which he de-
nounced the council heatedly for
its recent action in transferring
him to the department of finance.
The entire move was made Tor
political purposes, declares Drake,
because he would not submit to
the remainder of the council in
making political appointments.
Drake also makes a direct at
tack against the Citizens league,
asserting 1t has been persistently
trying to gain control of the city
hail..
"The public will find that back
of the self-styled Citizens
league or interviewer with them,
will be found contractors, ma
terial men, their agents and 9TH
ers who profit through them, and
who l sincerely believe wished TO
secure control of s893,000 net
earnings of the light and water
department, under by administra-
ton, their purpose being to diver
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CAMPAIGN COLLAPSINC

is through with him.
The Evening Mail, supporting
Hughes, makes this interesting
admission
Roosevelt is a thorn in the
side of the campaign managers
who are afraid of the German
American vote. Very largely on
that account he has been shunted
off on speaking tour into ter
ritory where 1t is estimated he
can do the least harm"
457 to 800.
The Philadelphia Public Led
gers $4,000 prize contest for the
best editorial in support of each
presidential candidate was won
for the Wilson side by Ernest f.
Beddington of the editorial staff
of the Philadelphia North Amer
lean, which is half-heartedly sup
porting Hughes.
The Ledger today announced
that 459 contestants urged Presi-
dent Wilson's retention in office,
while only 329 editorials were
in favor of Mr.. Hughes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-17

CHICAGO. Oct. 17.-Miss Fern
Roberts, l6, who shot her father,
DR.. Grant J. Roberts, Il dentist,
three times last night, was ar
rested here early today. He will
recover.
Miss Roberts confessed the
shooting today, and said she had
resolved to kill her father unless
he consented to return to her
mother, from whom he is
estranged.
DR.. Roberts formerly was in
the u. S. medical corps in the
canal zone, and Is we'll known
here.
He was taken to the Norwe.
gian hospital after tie shooting,
where an operation was per-
formed.
To the police Miss Roberts said
she was taking one of her GUS
tomary evening walks with her
father. She lives with her aunt
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-17
PUYALLUP VALLEY
4TOlFOR WILSON

PUYALLUP, Oct. 1.-THE re-
suit of the straw vote" con-
Quoted for 10 days by the Puyal-
lup Valley Tribune indicates that
this community will overwhelm-
ingly cast its vote for Woodrow
Wilson.
While 1t has for some time been
felt by the close observers of all
parties that Puyallup and the val
ley would probably go two to one
for Wilson, very few, IL any, sus-
pected that the result would be
four to one.
The vote shows several inter-
esting and significant facts. 1t
will be noticed that there are
more former republicans now
voting for Wilson than there are
democrats altogether.
And also that there are more
than double the number of for
mer republicans voting for Will
son than there are progressives
voting for Wilson.
In order that there might be
no possible question raised re-
specting the absolute fairness and
good faith of the vote, the paper
required that each voter sign his
or her name to the ballot.
In order, further, to preclude
any doubt in the public mind as
regards the number and genuine
ness OF the ballots cast, the editor
chose bipartisan board, consist
ing of c. II. Johnson, jeweler and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-17
Especial to The Times. }

NEW YORK, Oct. 17.-Gloom
filled the headquarters of the re-
publican national committee today
from Chairman Wilcox down.
Reports have come from the
west and middle west that the
Hughes campaign has been fail
ure, and that President Wilson's
popularity is growing by leaps
and bounds.
Roosevelt's failure to stir up
Hughes sentiment has the repub-
lican managers worried.
Chairman Wilcox has received
many requests that he be taken
off the stump.
Papers Drop Hughes.
To add to the gloom, Fred o.
Greiner, republican leader of Buff
falo, told Chairman Wilcox that
the workingmen are for President
Wilson's reelection almost unan-
imously.
The hardest blow is the col
lapse of the republican candi-
dates metropolitan newspaper,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-17

such funds into channels where
by they and their satellites can
profit by improvements or other
wise as they deem most attfac-
tive to the public and profitable to
themselves" said brakes state
ment. - =
my shoulders are broad
enough to stand the prosecutions
waged against me, but in sur
rendering my office of commits
sioner of light and water, l wish
to warn all taxpayers and good
citizens to be watch'ul and active
that those who seek personal gain
under the self-made cloak of pur-.
ity may not succeed s
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support.
The New York Tribune, which
has a long and unbroken record
of republieanism and which a
few days ago felt compelled to
disagree pointedly with Mr..
Hughes Lusitania speech, yester-
day published a political fore
cast which amounts to a virtual
confession of the defeat of the
republican candidate.
1t is based on confidential re-
ports from every doubtful state.
Case Is Hopeless.
II gives Hughes only 2S4 votes,
including Ohio's "a and West
Vifginia's s, which everyone
knows are SO safe for Wilson that
If Hughes must have them to win
his case is hopeless.
Last night the New York Even
ing Posts story of the republican
campaign slump follows its edi-
torial declaration last Saturday
that Hughes has proved to be
disappointment. The Post, which
set out to be friendly to Hughes,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-17
QUARREL OVER KITTEN

commanding officers at the Pre-
sidio, Blackburn sought to bring
a kitten he had found into a
building to feed 1t, when Worm
ley objected.
Saturday the quarrel was re-
newed and Wormley knocked his
opponent down. Blackburn's head
struck cannonball, causing
basal skull fracture.
Nothing was known of the af-
fair until Frank l.. Blackburn of
Petaluma, called at the Preside
to see his nephew. He found him
dead, and the details enshrouded
in mystery.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-17
"a BOY FARMERS
COME TO TACOMA

The "a boy farmers who de-
feated LOO competitors in the
University of California's annual
crop-growing contest, thereby
winning a trip around the United
States in special car, are due
in Tacoma Wednesday. They will
be guests of the Commercial
club and will visit the Western
Washington experiment station
and the Puyallup G. Sumner Fruit
Growers association.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-17

school director; DR.. w. M. Harsh
ner and M. Exporter, city attor-
ney, to read and count them. Two
of them are republicans; the
other a democrat. Following is
the result:
For Hughes . &c
Il vi w llSou ZlU
Formerly progressive, now for
Hughes, 2; formerly democrat,
now for Hughes, 2; formerly re-
publican, now for Hughes, 3S;
formerly socialist, now for
Hughes, none; formerly progress
sive, now for Wilson, %; former
ly democrat, now for Wilson, so;
formerly republican, now for Will
son, Ga; formerly socialist, now
for Wilson, 10.
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Omitted Press Leased wIrcJ

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct.17. -
An army board of inquiry today is
investigating a second mysterious
violent death at Letterman Gen
eral hospital within a short time.
The probe follows the death of
Charles Walter Blackburn, a
chemist, Sunday after an encount-
er with John Wormley, attached
to the quartermaster's depart
ment.
Blackburn was undergoing six
months training at the Preside,
preparatory to becoming phar-
macist in the army medical corps.
According to the story told
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-17
BLAINE WOMAN
MISSING; MAN
KILLS HIMSELF

life. placed her body In a trunk,
and sunk 1t far out In the bay,
then committed suicide.
Chinn was seen 10 row out into
the bay with a trunk in his boat
early last Wednesday morning
and return without it.
Saturday he sold bundle
which proved to be the woman's
clothing.
Monday he set fire to his house.
fired three shots at a neighbours
window and then killed himself.
The missing woman IL said 10
have relative, John Smith in 81
Paul, MINI.