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Imperial Valley press., 1916-12-13

Brewing the Jung Brewing Company and the Gutsch
Brewing Company have made use of the mails TO lns
gate and encourage violation Of law This is provocative
Of against the federal government subversVe
of the spirit of unity which should be most carefully nur
ued and tends to divide the country into antagonstlc
groups of states It is ntoerabe that the central gov
ernnent should contribute its services to the outng OF
law the provocaton of feeing between states and the
making of ant-socia attacks upon politically organized
communities
The statements above may be proved by quotations
from liquor tradesen and liquor trade periodicals. which
frankly avoid the tendency of liquor advertising to extend
the drink habit to abstaners to abstnent classes ana TO
the weaker social groups and which also express contempt
for all laws in restrain of their trade. ,
Midas Crteran of the Wine and Spirit Interests
says ThOusands of dollars spent each year during
the hot months in effort to get the public to grape
juice, pineapple juice and other fruit juices IL cold
punches. Why not advertise wine summer drink?
Many family that does not today drop Of wine
could be taught by attractive copy Illustrated with tempt
ing coored drawings light red and white wines
in punches and lemonades."
One mail order whisky house tried to sell It's lists to
the Kelley Company saying, "Our customers are your
future patients
The federal government at present benevolent in its
attitude toward the liquor traffic. is out of harmony with
the enlightened sentiment which has prompted $40 daily
apers and many thousands Of other publications to find
liquor advertising unfit for their columns out of har
many with the antiquor advertising laws OF Washing
ron Oklahoma, Oregon, West Virginia, North Dakota
Colorado, Maine, Alabama, Georgia South Dakota Vir
gnia and Misssspp is out of harmony with such great
organizations the Y NJ c. A. which has requested that
publications entering it's buildings include drink sales pub
lefty is of harmony with such trade organizations
he Associated Bill Posters and Distributors Protective
Company; is of harmony with the churches, colleges
and social welfare societies of the nation
The federal government is directly concerned because
alcohol is recognized Of national weakness be-
the extension Of the drink trade is at the expense
of legitimate trade is nmica to health and dangerous
i times Of national emergency.
4 law excluding liquor advertising and solicitation
rom the mails would be in accordance with the precedent
which has excluded obscene publications lottery tickets
shipments Of liquors and contraceptve devices The gov
ernnent already imposes restrictions which abused up
On recognition Of the peculiar character and tendencies
of the trade, and this additional restriction would be
logical development of policy, uniform in its operation
and Just to the various classes of citizenship.
Since harm is done by intoxicants, should the United
States government be party to it?
Imperial Valley press., 1916-12-13
SALESMAN
ATTEMPTS TO SELL A
WOODEN LEGTOQUEEN

Swain unwound every inch of his
line of talk Over the mysterious
frowns and restlessness of the COM
mitteemen he gave her much unsolici-
ted :lformation. He told her of his
climb to the slxyscraping dome of St.
Peters. If she didn't believe it, she
could ask the guide who had seen his
performance and had received his
card.
Afterward ne caught up a chair and
danced the grizzly BEAR" gliding
gradually into "hesitation." He end
&C his dancing spree with bit of
the tango" Apparently amazed and
amused at his stunts, the black-eyed
nurse made her thanks and disap-
peared
The American salesman thereupon
turned again to the committee. He
met thrundering storm of wrath.
Fool! FOOL" roared the chorus of
voices, didn't you know that was Her
Majesty, Elena, Queen of Italy."
"Holy smoke." sighed Swain. "To
think | had a golden opportunity and
used it like a nickel-plated one
Imperial Valley press., 1916-12-13
(By United Press).

Washington, Dee. l3.-With talks by
Mics Margaret Wilson, the presidents
daughter; Percy Mackaye, poet and
playwright, and DR.. Henry +. Jack
son of the United tSates Bureau of
Education, the twelfth annual con
vention of the American Civic Associ-
alton opened here today.
Miss Wilson presided at the afetr-
noon sessions, which was devoted to
Il discussion Of the use Of the schools
as community centers. She made no
extended talk, however. Or, Jackson,
o. the Bureau Of Education, discussed
the same topic at length, and MI.
Mackaye spoke on the growth u the
community drama.
The delegates Of the convention will
b the guests Of the Washington Raa.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-12-13
BY John II. iiearley

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent }
Rome, Nov. Is (By maiD How an
American salesman tried to sell a
wooden leg to the Queen of Italy un-
der the impression that she was a
Red Cross nurse was told here today
for the first time.
c. c. Swain, breezy drummer for
an artificial limb maker of Washing
ton, d. c.. had been doing his be It
to place an order with the hospital
committee representing the Italian
government. Just as he was on the
verge of giving the gentlemen up as
bad prospects in came a most charm
ing black-eyed nurse, and Charlie, TAX
ing heart, started all over again for
her benefit.
ITS all a question Of getting used
t. it," said Swain. See, can spin
around on mine ike a top" Swain
suited the action to the word, for
Swair's best example was his own left
leg.
The Red Cross nurse was intensely
interested.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-12-13
MISS RUTH ARMSTRONG is
REFRESHING WITNESS
rcoNruNrrrD FROM y,

vCoNTrNTrwD FROM pArw oNW,
handing of the letter to Deputy Sher-
Iiff Cummings, who was also investi-
eating the acid throwing circumstan-
ICES. 1t is claimed that the prosecution
will attempt to prove that Lytle had
written this letter and feigned disin-
Iterestedness when it was discovered
Iby Kemp. Kemp also identified a,
piece of screen that was cut from the
Armstrong porch, the screen showing
corrosive stains, it being claimed that
the acid was thrown through this por
Ition of the screen.
J. d. Votaw, night Waterman at
F.oltville testified regarding the find
lire of footprints Immediately after
Ithe first acid throwing attempt. These
prints were followed out of the Arm
strong yard and lost on the street.
William Potts, brother of Thomas
Potts. related that he had been en-
plcyed at Alamo at the time OF the
first attempt to injure his brother,
hut had later moved to Holtville, where
he had secured a position. He was IN
the Armstrong house at the time OF
tie second attack and testified that ne
had seen form dart through an open
window Immediately after the acid had
deluged his brother.
During the entire session yesterday
the seating capacity of the Superior
court room was taxed.
The ross-eXamination Of the prose-
cution's witnesses was done by At
torney Joseph F. Seymour and the
Girect examination by District Attof-
rev Galen Nichols. Both sides pro-
duced maps of the premises IN heroic
proportions, there being slight di1
ference in the location of the -ytle
house on the sketch submitted by the
defense. This was called to the atten-
ton of the jury by the district attor-
lrey.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-12-13
WILSON'S DAUGHTER
PRESIDES AT FUNCTION

Estate Board tonight, at which time
officials of the War Department are
expected to outline the plans of the
Federal government for the improve
ment Of Potomac Park, the District
Of Columbia's future municipal play
ground 49,
Imperial Valley press., 1916-12-13
CHARITY BALL is A
BRILLIANT AFFAIR
CONTINUED from Pege 1.)

CONTINUED from Pege ID
rlas eve, and the consciousness OF a
duty we'll performed will, no doubt
bring an added cheer to the young Ia
dies themselves, in the happy Christ
mas tide, for the thought they had
in spreading comfort and joy to the
needy will brighten many day to
come.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-12-13

Apparatus featured by electrically
heated rollers has been invented for
creasing mems trousers without re-
moyal from WearerS.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-12-13

The Santa Ana Walnut Growers AS
sociation is testing out new bleach
which is said to cost not more than
bali as much as the former chloride
Of lime bleachEand be fully as effec-
tive aa %
Imperial Valley press., 1916-12-13

y PfQpeTtEs ,oYnefs ~ the CAST side
~ Polpopa have been putting iH con-
siderable work in slcepcniag- tho chan
trel IN the wash which laHs rcaN did
1o much damage.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-01
Halls Return of ShaWIs.

The news from the fashion world
Is that shawls will come back, espe-
cially the old paisley shawls that our
grandmOtherS wore and looked so
well in, in the sixties and before 1t
will be a refreshing sight to see the
women wear Shawls again. Well
bet it will make them handsomer, if
It could be so, than the loose and
disjointed coats they have been wear
ing. Why, some of these coats have
been frightS; and if it were not for
the women themselves, they would
have scared off the populace. We
hope the shawl will return But we
have been wondering if the fashion
will include the men in its sway. Many
of our readers will remember when
men wore ShawlS. They were indeed
a luXury-so handy and warm. They
were generally of a light gray color
but many men affected stripes and
seemed very proud of their appear
ance. Our recollection is that the fash
ion didn't last long The men got
fidgety and returned to coats. But we
banker for our Old shawl again.-Ohio
State Journal.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-01
New Skirts of Interest.

Plated skirts showing panels OF
plaitS at front and back or at the sides
accomplish the required flare without
ungainly bulk. This type OF skirt
promises well. especially the boX-plait-
ed variety, which will be in vogue this
fall. Now there is a new skirt which
interests rather than pleaseS. 1t is
uarrel-shaped and encircleS with many
bands, which gives II the resemblance
which occasions the name.
This is slightly different from the
skirt with a flare at the bottom and
the wired hip. Another trimmed skirt
is called the lampshade. 1t consists of
alternate layers of taffeta puffs thinly
wired and wider puffS of net or chif-
fon. The whole resembles most accu-
rately the silk lampshade of days be-
fore the arts and crafts era. In the
same line of pretty summer frocks are
costumes made OF cotton wolfe or or
candle. trimmed with lovely girdles of
silk and ribbon. Wide ribbons swathe
the waiStline and are sometimes used
to make pannierS. Sometimes two col
ors are twisted to form the girdle and
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-01
Their Privilege.

Look here" carped a muddy mo-
torist, halting his muddy car in front
of where Mr.. Gap Johnson of Rumpus
Ridge was situated, draped over his
own fence. Are those Internal young
savages, just around the corner there,
your children?"
81 reckon" was the nOnchalant re-
ply. what have they been doing?"
Doing! Why, ten or q dozen of
them were playing in a mudhole, and
when | came along the whole squad
lined up and threw mud at me as fast
as they could sling it. Look at me !!
Look at my car"
Jaw, well. what can | do about it?
This is presidential year, and they've
got a right to sling all the mud they
yaw-w-w-Wn want to."-KanSaS City
Star.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-01
To Liue Long!

a recipe given by a famous ply
stefan for long life was: Keep the
kidneys in good order, Try TO elimi-
nate through the skin and inteStines
the poiSonS that otherwise clog the kid
neys. Avoid eating meat as much as
possible; avoid too much salt, alcohol,
tea. Drink plenty of water.
For those past middle life, for those
easily recognized symptoms of inflam-
nation, as backache, Scalding water"
or if uric acid in the blood has caused
rheumatism, rusty" joints, stiffness,
get Anuric at the drug store. This is
wonderful eliminator of uric acid and
was discovered by DR.. Pierce of In
valids' Hotel, Buffalo, n. Y. If your
druggist does not keep it send 10 cents
to DR.. Pierce for trial package and you
will know that it is thirty-seven times
more potent than lithia and that it dis
solves uric acid as hot water does
sugar.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-01
FROCk FOR Child
FLUFFY SKIRT OF BLUE SILK
NULL EASY TO MAKE
Home Dressmaker Will Find 1t No
Hard Task to Design and Make
Ready the Garment De-
scribed Below.

Like a flower of spring is this fluffy
skirt of blue silk null trimmed with
bias folds Of blue taffeta.
Every woman who can sew at all
knows that a ruffled skirt is the cas-
lest to make. A plain foundation IS
gathered to a waist band and meas
pred to the length on the child; then
ruffles are stitched around the skirt,
the upper ruffie forming the line for
those that follow.
1t will be well to fit the skirt lining
and then rip the basting at the belt,
because ruffles are more easily stitched
on the lining when it is smooth.
In this instance the ruff1es must have
the bias folds stitched on the right
side, then turned over and hemmed
down on the under side. By applying
the folds in this manner the stitching
will not show.
A mother, perhaps, is unwilling to
take the trouble involved in applying
these folds on scallops. The work, Of
course, is somewhat tedious. In such
case it is a simple matter to hem the
ruffies or make them of embroidery.
For ordinary wear the wise mother
will make this dress Of wash mate
rails which may be frequently laun-
dered.
1t is to be remembered that little
girls may wear china silk and sport
silk as well as silk null but chiffons
and taffetas are for the ''grown-ups.' =
The only variation from this rule is
in the matter of taffeta coats. which
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-01
Want Hens in English Parks.

In the hope of saving a large part
of the $40,00O000 spent every year for
foreign eggs, an agitation is on foot
to throw open London parks for poul-
try breeding. The scheme is receiving
serious consideration from the authori-
ties because it is one of the latest war
time economies suggested on Il large
scale. The promoters of the idea have
asked for part of one park to start
with. The plan provides for a site
of about three acres and accommodate
ton for 900 hens. The leading poul-
try breeders of the country will be in
vited to send six selected fowls of the
same breed and strain. Scientific feed
ing tests are to be made. All the eggs
will go TO the wounded soldiers, and
prizes will be awarded to the owners
of the hens laying the most eggs.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-01

of real old lace can be used up, for the
tiniest scrap will form Il motif if care
fully cut out and arranged in one cor
ner Of the square. Any shape viii do
as long as q motif is formed, such as
a circlet of leaves filed in with net, a
flower, etc, and other designs likely
to be found in old lace.
Sew these motifs on quite fiat and
very securely, then the lawn under
meath them can be cut away; all edges
must be gone over with over-and-over
stitch SO that all is kept neat: press
well down with a moderate iron when
done.
Initials are always suitable for hand
kerchiefs, though they should rot be
too large; they look very nice worked
with satin stitch and surrounded with
tiny French knots.
A collection of a dozen handker-
chiefs is thus soon made; it is interest
ing work for spare moments and well
repays the worker for the little trouble
spent.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-01
CABBAGES AND A KING
BY ELIZABETH VAN BENTHUYsEN

When the Walrus, in the time-hOn-
| Ored verse, called attention to the fact
| that the time had come to speak of
cabbages and kings, the beast did not
have any idea that the time would
| come when there would be any actual
| relationship between the two. Now
kings have come to know the value of
the cabbage while the value of the
| king has taken somewhat of a slump
in the opposite direction.
| This story deals with an Oil King
and a cabbage crop. Midas, with his
fund of gold; Croesus, long mentioned
as marvel of money, and the other
| owners of large kingly chests were
| but ordinary pikers compared to John
| d. Rockefeller. He has in one vault
| in the basement of the produce ex-
| change in New York more hidden
wealth than all Of the old kings put
| together.
Yet he has a lively interest in rails
| ing cabbages.
His interest in this direction is valu-
able to all of the persons in the coun-
| try who have garden plots because it
| is lesson in the economy of space,
and tip from the richest man in the
world as to the value of using every
| spare spot for raising something from
| the soil.
What he sees in New York is equally
| possible on the most remote hillside in
| America, and it is for this reason
I oh MI e
| the Oil Kings cabbage patch and tell
| ing you how the man with the greatest
| store of wealth wisely refuses to let
chance to raise even a tiny crop be
| wasted
When / say cabbages. I do not mean
that the patch is confined to this one
| thing. 1t is only one of many All
of the garden products that can be
| used in tiny space are utilized. and
| around the edges, to work in little
| art along with utility, there are flow
| erS.
The Rockefeller cabbage patch is
| located in the yard of the wOrld-fa-
| nous Rockefeller institute at Sixty
| sixth street and the East river, New
O1h city. II Is III llllS TeIDdEkdDlp
| institution that the wise men of sci
| ence try germs on monkeys and dogs
so that they can learn how to save
the lives of babies and grOwnups Many
of the greatest discoveries of science
have been made in the big building.
But when the master of the millions
came along he saw something beside
the germs and the mysterious re-
searches of science in the vicinity. 1t
occurred to him that the germs had
nothing to do with the yard about the
place, and that no amount of bacili
could interfere with putting the open
ground to some USE
So he ordered that the women and
children in the congeSted poor neigh
borhoOd be given a chance to raise
vegetables on the unused yard. The or
der brought about a transformation
Now on any day one may see the
woman with the hoe at work on the
garden that fringeS the skirts of
great learning She is not bowed by
| the weight of centuries like Edward
Markhams famous Man With the
Hoe" She is happy in the chance
to make a better table for her little
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-01
MONEY CAN'T MAKE A GARDEN
BY ELIZABETH VAN BENTHUYSEN

If one had all of the money in the
world and no artistic or practical ideas
to go with it, he could not produce
a garden worth while. | am struck
with this fact while looking at some of
the new landscape work at the rich es-
tateS that make the Eastern coast a
fairyland.
The accompanying illustration will
show a case in point. Here is garden
where money enough has been spent
to buy farm. Yet the figures are
stiff and grouped with about as much
art as the man used who first put fig
ures in a multiplication table. Regu-
lar. stiff and awkward the costly bits
of work are placed just like so many
paWnS on q cheSSbOard.
That is just what one does not want
Better take handful of natural rocks
and a barrel of moss and ferns and
mix the combination with q sense of
arrangement than to waste thousands
on q decorative scheme that only holds
up to pity the poverty of the mind
which cannot do with much what thou
sands actually accomplish with little.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-01
Loose Change in Safety.

Stockings, originally designed tC
keep the neither limbs from freezing,
have been since their very inception
used for other purposes. Witness the
original First National bank. How
ever, stockings, have always been
stockings, for there have never been
any improvements made since the
original ones were made sometime
back in the days when man was be-
ginning to come out of the "StOne age"
excepting, Of course, that they are be
ing made of finer and more expensive
texture In the days of Old no doubt
potato bags Gf such things there were)
were wrapped about the limbs and
pinned together or held in place with
the tWig of tree or tough grass. Now
there are stockings Of finest gOSsamer
and here is Miss Violet BristOw show
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-01
A DOG" FOR THE GARDEN
BY LIMA P. ROSE,

When n theatrical manager has a
new play, long before he brings it to
The chief city where it is to be pro
duced, he tries it on the dog" That
means that he takes the production TO
some small place and LET'S the actors
see what effect the play has upon real
people. If it works in the little place,
the manager brings it to the big city.
Maybe he finds some defects that the
little town made evident and they are
corrected.
The same idea is a fine one for low
ers of the garden. Make Il trial gar
den. Pick out some little spot which
has intensified soil and the best CON
ditiOns. If you intend going in for
any particular culture, try Il little of it
in the trial patch. Maybe the trial
will show just how to make correc-
tions which will avoid heartache in
the larger planting. A little time
spent in testing the possibilities of
a flower or plant before making any
extensive investment is always good.
The climatic and soil conditions are
not the same in any two sections.
The greatest expert on big cannon
in the United States was recently
asked if he could not tell by figures
and theory everything about big guns.
No" he said, Il want it to come
out of the gun"
That theory is fine one to use in
matters of the garden. An ounce of
real experience is worth a ton of the
ory-and, besides, it increases the joy
of having actual knowledge of the
wonderful things that sun, air and soil
will do with seeds and plants.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-01
Smart FroCkS CT Serge.

All during the summer smart one
piece frockS Of serge have been worn
by modiSh women. Usually such frocks
were fashioned from serge and chiffon,
serge and taffeta or serges and Georg-
cite crepe.
One of the SmarteSt Of the new fall
serge models is OF navy blue combined
with soiree silk in a beautiful shade of
purple. The purple silk trims the
bodice and cuffs and forms band at
the lower part of the skirt, which is
edged with futings of the serge.
This model shows no curve at the
waist line. but hangs uncompromising-
ly straight as many of the new frocks
do. Then there is the other extreme
-frockS with honed and scanned round
waists, which are likely to be too rad
ical for all save the daring few. And
in evidence also are radical bodices
without seams and bones. but shaped
TO show the curves of the figure and
fitting quite snugly at the waist line.
if not definitely pinched in.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-01
May Develop irish Coal Mines.

The idea that ireland will never
become Il mining country of any ac-
count is not the view of the Newry
Urban council which at their last meet
ing considered the proposals made by
the Irish Association OF Gas Managers
at Dublin, in view of the present con-
ditiOn of the Irish coal supply. If not
relieved, the gas managers said, the
smaller gas works must be shut down
and the government should be urged
TO provide an adequate supply Of coal
at reasonable rates. The Newry coun-
Gil approved this opinion and passed
special resolution to be presented to
the British executive stating that the
time was oppOrtune for the develop
ment of the large and valuable coal
measures which undoubtedly exist in
Ireland.