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The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1916-02-26
Good Provider,

To understand the force of this
story one must first know that Gains
storehouse is the place in New York
where the scenery and properties of
most of the theatrical productions
that meet an untimely fate on Broad
way are sent for storage.
A group of members sat in the snug
gerry of the Lambs club on an after
noon not long ago. A somber gentle
man, wearing his hair long and wide
rubber rims on his eyeglasses passed
through.
who is that?" asked one of the par.
ty. addressing Hap Ward, the c"me-
dian.
Ward looked and recognized in the
passer a playwright who wrote no few
er than three pronounced failures last
season.
"Oh, that" said Ward, that's Gains
favorite author. Saturday Evening
Post.
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1916-02-26
RELICS OF ROMAN LONDON
Interesting Discoveries Made When
for Any Purpose the Soil Is Dug
Into at Some Depth.

Roman London lies buried about
eighteen feet below the level of Cheap
side. In nearly all parts of the city
there have been discovered tessellated
payements, Roman tombs, lamps,
vases, sandals. keys, ornaments, weap-
ons, coins and statues of the Roman
gods.
When. a little over a century ago,
deep sections were made for the sew
ers in Lombard street, the lowest
stratum was found to consist of tes.
sellated pavements. Many colored
dice were found lying scattered about,
and above this stratum was a thick
layer of wood ashes, suggesting the
debris of charred wooden buildings.
While building the Exchange work
men came upon a gravel.pit full of
oyster shells, bones of cattle, old san
dals and shattered pottery. Two pave
ments were dug up under the French
church in Threadneedle street, ami
other pavements have been cut
through in several parts of the city.
The soil seems to have risen over Rc-
man London at the rate CT nearly a
foot a century. Still further must the
searcher dig to find the third London,
the earlier London of the Britons.
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1916-02-26
MAKING CHOICE OF HUSBAND
Methods Vary In Different communi.
ties-Peculiar Custom That Has
Long Prevailed in Russia.

To ninetynine girls out of hundred
the most important duty in life is
choosing a. husband Methods of
choice vary a good deal of course.
chiefly perhaps as between town and
country.bred maidens.
To the town or suburban girl a
mans clothes count almost for every
thing The bride is to the best
dressed The cut of a coat or the color
of a cravat weighs more with Clara
than character
Her country cousin, on the other
hand, knows better than to pin her
faith to a tailor's dummy. She is
guided in her choice by more occult
signs. BY agitating with her hand the
water in a bucket she can see the
image of her future spouse. If she de
sires confirmation she has only to
throw broken eggs over a friend $
head and the same image will ap-
pear.
The peasant girls of Russia arrive
at similar result by seating them
selves in front of small looking
glass in a semidark room, when a vi
sion of their future lord and master
will be certain to present itself.
Once a year an exceptional oppor-
tunity occurs. At II o'clock Christ
mas eve every girl who can contrives
to steal out in order to ask the first
man she meets his name. Whatever
he gives is that of the bridegroom-to-
be.-EXchange.
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1916-02-26
al Am a c at"

A Japanese critic in the New Re
public described a recent humorous
masterpiece in Japanese literature.
The tradition is that Japanese litera'
ture very seldom smiles. 4 am a Cat
appeared in our literature to relieve
the long strain of lachrymose history
with a thoughtful, cynical smile-a
smile, at any rate. 1t is the biography
of a nameless cat residing in the home
OF an absent-minded professor. The
cat is baptized in a gutter OF Tokyo
and saves himself from the hands OF
a brusque student with an enormous
stomach and big stick trying to pay
him a compliment, which marks the
first episode of the feline career. He
goes into the professors house and OBJ
serves the ingenuity and prejudice OF
that somnolent specimen of humanity
and there he stays in spite Of his
tastes and philosophy, and the story
runs on agilely until he dies, poisoned
like a Socrates, Cats are not as smil'
able creatures as dogs, so the differ
ence between Soseki's book and that
OF NJ Anatole France lies mainly in the
nature of their smile. the difference OF
mewing smile and barking smile
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1916-02-26
SNOBBERY IN THE CAPITAL
Residents Of Washington Said to Have
Prejudice Against Those Who
Are "in Trade"

In the American Magazine a mem
Der of the house of representatives
was unusually frank in giving his
opinion of Washington society. Among
other things he said:
"One evening my little boy came in
and mentioned that the boy next door
had refused to play with him, stating
as his reason:
You folks are just renters, and
don't own your own home like we do
1T was a trivial matter, of co irse,
but it reminded me that we were liv.
ing in a hotbed of snobbery. The
youngster next door had not thought
up that himself. lie had got it from
some of his elders. | wondered if, in
the event that we came to our own
home, my boy would have absorbed
so much of the snobbsh atmosphere
that he would brush by some other
boy and tell him he was nothing but
a renter | can give you another line
on the snobbery that prevails in the
capital of our democratic nation when
| tell you that two of the leading clubs
in and about Washington bar from
membership all persons who are in
trade. A man may be highly edu.
Gated, a well-bred and accomplished
gentleman, but if he owns an estab-
lishment where anything is bought
and sold across a counter he cannot
be a member of a certain one of the
best clubs, because. as | once heard
an Englishman express it, the fellow
works for living.
That reminds me that Washington
more than any other city abounds in
signs which say, 'Tradesmen to Rear
Entrance. Everybody seems to have
a horror of coming into personal con-
tact with persons whose living is pro-
vided by the work they do"
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1916-02-26
The Voice of the Farmer

Necessity of tension for the natural
processes of organic unifcation or
combination. This constitutes the rea.
son for the inability of our modern
scientists to use this power of com.
bination, which many farmers had un.
consciously recognized, for curing con.
sumption in their plants and trees. Our
scientists fail to study the results of
tensile forces in their relation to or
ganic compounds, as our common
farmers instinctively used them with
surprising results in the treatment of
plants. animals and men. In the same
way as the misguided imagination of
the modern scientist inflicts millions
of injuries upon humanity, that same
imagination, guided by Divine in.
fiuence leads us to the knowledge of
these tensile combination of forces,
which are in reality curative forces.
The ideal of the aeronaut is the
dirigible airship. The founder of the
theory of tension committed a fatal
error when he thought the mechanical
just as our modern scientists pay at.
tention to the material symptoms only.
They both neglect the wonderful
mental forces which have built up the
organism, as evidenced by the organic
cooperation which make up the organ
ism of birds. The possession of the
material curative agent does not suf-
flee for the cure of the apple or pear
tree, the diseased plant or the suffer.
ing human being. but it is necessary
to guide the remedial agent in the
process of assimilation. Similarly. it
is not sufficient, in considering the
flight of birds, or the construction of
flying machines. to take into consider.
alton the mechanical contrivance only,
by which the force of gravity is over
come, but we must study the directive
or grinding force, enabling the bird or
the machine to make curves or turn,
if We would gain a knowledge of the
tensile conditions which make these
wonderful movements of birds pos.
sible. Such study would teach us that
it is an organic combination of physi-
cal and mental forces which guides
the motions of the bird, the same com.
bination, in fact, as exists in the
necessary tensile conditions OF sick
plants, animals or men.
A thorough recognition of these po.
laric forces which are absolutely
necessary for sustaining mental and
physical life will lead our scientists
to victory in their efforts TO cure con
sumption of the lungs. and many other
deeply rooted chronic diseases in
/ plants, animals and men.
ROBT. |. YOUNG.
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1916-02-26
Value Of Art.

The managers of a certain evening
newspaper that publishes a great
many pictures found it necessary to
cut expenses. They dismissed a spe-
cial writer and two reporters, and
most OF the other employees became
nervous about their positions. There
was one man, however, who was not
uneasy. He worked in what was
called the art department.
One of his friends said to him, why
aren't you afraid of losing your job?"
"Oh, they can't fire me- he replied
Why not? They are cutting all
along the line. Why do you feel safe?'
Well, you see, our paper cannot af,
ford to make a cut in it's art depart
ment. We have so many subscribers
who can't read YOUTHS Compan-
ion.
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1916-02-26
C0CKNEY AN OLD DIALECT
Writer Asserts That Peculiar Pronun-
Citations Have Been in Use for
Hundreds of Years.

Cockney speech has found a defen
der in Mr. Mackenzie MacBride, who
undertakes to show that Cockney is
no modern dialect or corrupted form
of the Kings English, but that it is
of ancient and honorable lineage run.
ming back for nearly thousand years.
1t is pointed out that when the per
son born within the sound of Bow
Bells" says tibet" for that" "benk
for bank" and "byliff" for "bailff,' -
he is really guilty of no corruption OF
the English language, since these pro-
nunciations have obtained not only in
London but in Kent and Surrey for
hundreds of years.
In like manner is justified "abaht'
and "ahtside" for about" and out
side" 1t is suggested that many Lon
doners have been laughed out of these
ancient and excellent" pronuncia-
tions. Mr.. MacBride earnestly urges
them not to change their speech be-
cause of any uncalled-for animadver'
sions against it.
Whether Mr.. MacBride be correct or
not in his contentious, it is a fact that
Cockney has survived for many CEN
turies in the midst of speech that is
deemed more cultured. 1t is a curious
fact that in the Bahama islands which
were settled more than 200 wears ago
by Londoners, the Cockney speech is
as strong as it is in Cheapside.
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1916-02-26
To the Editor of The Observer:

To the Editor of The Observer:
For the purpose of finding an answer
to the question, How DO Diseases
Cure Themselves" it becomes neces.
ary to first obtain a knowledge of
the existing relations between the laws
of polarity and those of life, because
the vital or natural forces which must
be energized in cases of disease are
the result of the amalgamation of the
elements of matter and of force. which
are reciprocally the complement of
each other.
When the farmer surrounded his
trees with rocks. these rocks repre-
sented the force. and when he added
other substances, united of fertilza-
tiOn and water. these latter represent.
ed the amalgamating elements of
matter, which were reciprocal compile.
ments of each other, or in other words.
the polarities, which, in their recipro.
cal action upon each other, effect the
building up and rejuvenescence of the
organism.
Heat and cold, as well as some min.
erals. have decomposing effect upon
rocks. Their elements freed by such
a decomposition enter into new and
varied chemical compounds. which are
absorbed by the roots of the trees.
and form their food We may call
the power which produces this process
the power of acquisition or assimila.
tion.
However, such combinations of mat
ter are possible only where a prev
ious tension of the diseased. weak
ened parts exists, which tension must
be powerful enough to impel them to-
wards the other elements of matter,
with which it is to enter into com.
bination. The whole process is some
what like a steel spring which springs
back into place.
The powerful effect of overcoming
gravity by the instantaneous applica-
tion of fleXibility and supleness may
be best observed in the rapid spring
of the tiger, as compared with the
slow movements of the bear While
the tiger springs as if his whole body
consisted. of flexible steel, the bear
moves as if heavy, cumbersome ma.
chinery were set in motion.
Now. as all physical, political. social
and industrial forces may be said to
overcome the laws of gravity, it be.
comes evident that the care of physi.
cal. mental and social ills, or the re.
moval of the conditions of weakness
which cause them, requires most of all
the production of the necessary ten,
sion.
Most of the would-be healers OF
physical, political and social disease
seem to be absolutely ignorant of the
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1916-02-26
Getting the Better Of an invention.

Very wrong verdicts are come to by
people who use modern inventions in
the wrong way. The moving staircase
at the Embankment station offered a
proof OF this, says the Manchester
(Eng) Guardian. A country woman
was seen trying to ascend the de-
scending side of the moving staircase
there. There was no official about
and after two plucky attempts she at
last made progress and doggedly
worked her way up to the top. Some
people who saw her efforts waited for
her at the top. When she recovered
her breath she said: "Sh, | don't
think them movin' staircases all the
talks about is any better than the old
lift!"
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1916-02-26
To start ChlId's TRAINING.

The inventive mother will do a great
deal OF her own constructive planning
for the development OF her nursery
brood. She will visit the kindergarten
shops, the toy shops and all the places
where the wonderful and much herald
ed constructive materials and tools are
shown to the purchasing public. But,
more than this, she Will select for her
self such materials as she believes are
suited to her own experiences, and
then will work out her own plans in
accordance with the individual devel.
opment and requirements of her chill
dren.-Mrs. Louise Hogan in Good
Housekeeping.
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1916-02-26
London Rentals Highest In World.

Fifty years ago London was one of
the lowest rented of the great capitals
OF the world. Nowadays it is one Of
the highest, For shops Bond street is
the dearest thoroughfare in the world.
Broadway in New York comes next,
and limited radius near the Place de
rOpera in Paris ranks third. A small
shop in Bond street readily rents for
from $4,000 TO $500 a year. This in.
cludes the shop and basement, but not
any other part of the premises. The
shops in Regent street cost even more,
but then they are larger, thus making
the rent to the square foot work out
less.
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1916-02-26
"Excelsior Springs Route"

Electric trains leave 8th and Ed
mond half after every hour from $50
a m. to 1886 ?. m, then $3.50 and
11:l5 p. m. for Willow Brook, Dear
born, Camden Point, Liberty, Excel.
sior Springs and Kansas City
Limited at 7:3O and 1880 a. m, 1:3O
and 4:30 p. m. Call Main 311 for
further information.
The Press., 1916-12-07
LEGEND OF ST. BRENDAN.

1t Claims the Irish Monk as the Real
 Eiscoverer of 54saerisa.
 The. first discoverer of America, ac- cording to an old Irish tradition, was St. Brendan. Brenuan lived in the sixth century and: according to legend fitted out q vessel and sailed westward in the hope of discovering an island supposed to contain the paradise once tenanted by Adam and Eve. He was accompanied by fourteen monks. and the ship was ''victualed for seven years"
 After sailing forty days and forty nights they came to an island, where they found "a hall with tables spread with good meat and drink" They then sailed on for long time and came to another island. wherein were the whitest and greatest sheep they ever saw" After stopping for a time they proceeded with the voyage and came to a third island, called the par adise of hirds.'' After wandering about for seven years from island to island St. Brendan and his monks re turned to Ireland, where they aston ished the natives by tales of the won ders they had seen.
 In spite of the H-ild and improbable features of this legend it was for cen turies accepted as truth, and the Span isl government sent out several eXpe- ditions in search of the islands of St. Brcndan. The St Brendan legend formed one of the causes which led to the discoveries made by Columbus.
The Press., 1916-12-07
THEY Tc-D THE TRUTH.
C,ss Not All of 1t, and So Their Testi

r,ony Vas Misleading.
 An attCrAaY who has practiced law in Indianapolis for many years for merly was counsel for a railroad con- pany entering the city. He told the following story recently:
 "I remember a damage case we had once which illustrates how easily the truth may misiead if another material fact is withheld. A man had been killed by q raS.ienger train when cross ing a grade q few miles out of Indian apolis. It was at night. and the rattle of his covered wagon prevented his hearing the approaching train.
 Two witne ses testified that no headlight w&s burning on the locomo tive and that they did not hear any whistle. It was in the days when oil headlights were. universal, and each headlight was equipped with little shnde like window blind that could be raised and lowered The engineer and the fireman testified that they had lighted the headlight an hour before the accident and that they examined it after the accident and found it burn ing.
 We won the case. Several days aft CT that l met the engineer and asked him, John. how did it happen those other people testified the headlight was not burning:' We'll he said, they were right in way. We lighted the headlight early and pulled down the shade. It was still down when the accident occurred, but we told the truth when we said it was lighted " Indianapolis News.
The Press., 1916-12-07
SPAN OF TWO L0rlG LINES.
They Connect the Era of the Zeppelin
 With That of the Sedan Chair.

They Connect the Era of the Zeppelin
 With That of the Sedan Chair.
 The late Henry Gassaway Davis. once vice presidential candidate. saw and heard as boy iii Baltimore in 1923 the ceremonies at the o.icial be ginning of the Baltimore and Ohio rail road.
 The parsonage of the occasion. the driver of the first spike" as we should say nowadays. was the last surviving signer of the Declaration of IndcEend enoe. the ri hest American of thc e.ght !eeath century. the great gentleman and ilustrious patriot Charles Calrol If Carro.lton.
 Born in 1131. Charles Carol Lad yet four years to live. Thus these two lives are all arch of nearly 13) years bet ween the American colonies of George LIS time and the third year of Mir. Wilson's Administration. wher Air. Davis long fife came to an end Tie veal, O. h.s birth was 1923.
 \ mere two dozen of such lives as ;.rrolrs and Davis, dozen of their united span of years. would take us q k to ae first Punic war. Charles a.roll and Henry Gassaway Davis, who saw him. together take Us from the sedan chair period to that of the Zeppelin. New York Times.
The Press., 1916-12-07
UNION.

Merrick T Marcy is moving his steam sawmill to a new site on the same lot in the south part of town.
 Mrs. George Towne and daug Josephine aud Florence, have been spending a few days with Mrs. B, H. Barber.
 Mrs. Henry Leffingwell and little daughter of Melrose have been with Mrs. Bruce Horton for a few days, and Mrs Horton accompanies them to their home for a short visit this week.
 The very stormy Thanksgiving was disappointment to some. Mrs. Willard Richards spent the day with friends in Brimfield. L. M Reed and family were guests of MT. and Mrs. F. L. Upham at Stafford Hollow.
 Miss Cooper and Mir. Sterry opened their schools again last Monday. Miss Carrig, who spent the Thanksgiving recess in Boston, opened her school Tuesday, and Miss Amidon, who has been out because of illness, is to com mence school again the 1th.
 The school meeting which N, J. Bond has been planning for the 1th is to be held at the Center next Mon- day evening. He expresses the hope that all, teachers, parents and others who are interested in the welfare of our schools, will attend this meeting.
 Don't talk at your telephone talk
The Press., 1916-12-07
SOMERS.

Lucius Beardsley has returned to his home in New York.
 MT. and Mrs. Walter B Whitlook and Mrs. Ella Mahoney of Newington spent the holiday with MT. and Mrs A. Vail Smith
 Mrs. Charles NJ. Needham and Miss Clara L Russell went Thursday night to Crescent Beach with MT. aud Mrs. Elmer w Russell.
 Miss Marjorie Moore, q stu"eut at Mt Hnlyoke college, has beCu spend- ing several days with her mother, Mrs. Frank c. Moore.
 MT. and Mrs. Harry Cahanu of New Lonlou are visiting in the home of Mrs Cahoon's parents, MT. and Mrs. Elmer J. Worthington.
 MT. aud Mrs. Willard Prior oi Worcester aud Arthur Prior of Spring field have beeu visiting their parents, MT and Mrs. Henry Prior.
 Mrs. Charles NJ Gager and daugh. ters, Misses Mabelle and Rebecca, spent Thanksgiving with their cousins, MT. and Mrs. Donald Spencer in Hart. ford.
 Misses Evalene l.. Smith, Gertrude Pinney and Verna Gowdy were home from the State Normal school in Willimantio for the Thanksgiving recess
 MT. and Mrs. Raymond S. Bugbee and family spent Thanksgiving with Mir. Bugbee's sister and family, MT. and Mrs. E. N. Burt in, East Long meadow.
 MT. and Mrs. Arthur Keery have had as guests Ms. Margaret Keery of Stafford and Mrs. Wm. Thresher and daughters, Doris and Eunioe, of East Longmeadow.
 Miss Irma Chapel, who teaches in Colebrook, came Nov. 20 to spend the remainder of the week with her parents, MT and Mrs Frank Chapel, who also had as guests Saturday
The Press., 1916-12-07
ASHFORD.
 Westford

Miss Sophie Shustric was at home over Thanksgiving.
 Clarence Lee and sisters, Hattie and Lottie, were Hartford visitors Saturday.
 Miss Elsie Scranton spent Thanks giving and the week end with her parents in Union.
 John Gardner aud family spent Thanksgiving at Woodstock with Mrs. Gardner's parents, Mir and Mrs. Red. head.
 Mrs E. E. Waite of Cambridge, who was here to attend the wedding of her daughter, returned to her home on Monday.
 Mrs. Jennie Barlow and daughter, Gladys, are to spend the winter with Mrs. Barlow's siste,, M s. Ida Goodell in Mansfield.
 Westford Hill.
 Mike Seeker is working ill New York.
 H. P Amidon is bailing hay for Justin Burrill.
 Mrs. Mary Squier of Coventry is visiting Mrs Susan Hughes @
 Miss A. D. Amidon returned to Thomaston Monday, having spent the thanksgiving recess at home
 Miss Gillingham and Miss Lipps visited school at Eastford, Tuesday, it being visiting day for the teachers of Ashford
 WarrenviIle.
 Mrs. Louis Durant and son, Henry, of Southbridge, visited relatives here last week.
 A party from Willimantic gave a minstrel show in Bakers hall on Wednesday evening.
 The annual church sale with enter tainments will be held on the even ings of Dec. 12th and 18th.