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Evening journal., 1916-03-14
nIrS OF PNErMONIA.

Joseph e. Stewart of No 535 East
Seventh street, died at the Delaware
Hospital yesterday Of pneumonia MT
Stewart was a patient at the Delaware
Hospital for several days.
Evening journal., 1916-03-14
FORMER MRS. SINCLAIR
NAllED As CORRESPONDENTS

MILLlN, Ca. March 14.-One Of
the most sensational trials of di-
yorce action in the courts Of Georgia
is promised with the assignment to-
day for trial of al action begun by
Mrs. Winifred Wadley Raoul against
William G. Raoul.
In the original petition, filed on
June 80 last year, Mrs. Raoul charged
her husband with improper conduct
with Mrs. Meta Fuller Sinclair. for
merly the wife Of Upton Sinclair. of
Arden, Del.
Evening journal., 1916-03-14
PEMIER AsOUITH I'LL.

BY The United Press.
LONDON. March 14.--Premier As
quith is i'll, Il was announced in q
bulletin issued at his office at 10 a.
m. today
"The Prime Minister is suffering
from bronchial catarrh,' said the
physicians statement.
Evening journal., 1916-03-14
RIOTING I'M MuNICH.

By The United Press.
LONDON. March 1.-THE Amsterdam
News reported today that serious
rioting has occurred in Munich be.
cause Of heavy Bavarian losses al
Verdun.
Evening journal., 1916-03-14
HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL CASES

Charles Corkery, Of Philadelphia
was treated at the Homeopathic Hos
pital today for confused leg. Other
cases treated at the same institution
were Joseph Bohen, fractured ankle
and julius Bohlen, No. 100 Scot'
street. arm injured.
Evening journal., 1916-03-14
I. 5. CONTINUES NEUTRAL

BY The United Press.
WASHINGTON. March 14.-Presi.
dent Wilson today signed a proclama.
ton OF neutrality in connection with
Portugal's entry into the war The
proclamation is in the same form as
those previously issued by this coun-
try
Evening journal., 1916-03-14
nn. RUCKMASTER RECOYERS.

DR.. II. G. Buckmaster, OF No. 400
East Fourth street, who has been Ill
for two months, has recovered sum
ciently TO be able to resume his OF
fee practice tomorrow.
Evening journal., 1916-03-14
wASHY PURCHASES HOSE.

The Washington Fire Company has
purchased 500 feet of four-ply hose,
fitted with Ially couplers. The hosel
will be shipped to this city at once.
Evening journal., 1916-03-14
GERMANS LOSE MANY OFFICERS.

BY The United Press.
LONDON, March la.--A shortage of
officers. due TO recent heavy losses at
Nerdun, is causing the German general
stal much worry, according TO Rome
dispatches today. All German officers
under the rank Of captain, now in the
Balkans, have been ordered to return 20
the western front, it was stated.
Evening journal., 1916-03-14
MUNITIONS SHIP DISABLED.

by The United Press.
NEW YORK, March 14.-The steam
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-06-07
DROPPING GRAMMAR.

A woman was telling the other day
about her husbands tricks of speech.
He is descended from one of the most
Iaristocratic families Of the state and
had every educational advantage
But now at his factory he constantly
associates with uneducated men, and
makes the same kind of errors in
speech that they do. If he had less
social prominence, he would be called
an ignoramus. One can forgive the
workingman, who never had much
chance 7at schooling, for such blund-
ers. But when a college bred man
says Amt this fine?" it does seem
rather slovenly.
Perhaps this man was an eXempli-
fication of the fad of dropping stu
dy of formal grammar in school,!
This educational theory has infiuen-
tial spokesman, as will be seen in an
address just delivered by an official
of the General Education Board of
New York, concerning which the
board asks for general expression
of opinion.
Some people ask, What use is
grammar anyway? Why is it not as
we'll to say them things" as those
things? The meaning is perfectly
clear, and if so, is not the purpose
of speech observed? Yet there would
be no end of confusion if the bars OF
grammar were let down. A fixed
agreement that certain forms are to
De used for certain ideas promotes
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-06-07
SAVE YOUR WASTE PAPER.

Old newspapers, books and ma
gaines are becoming extra valuable
these days. Time was when the pap
er on which they were printed was
worth so little as to be hardly worth
consideration, but conditions have
undergone much change of late. SO
much so that Chicago firm is ad-
vertlsing for housewives to save their
old newspapers, books and maya
zines. The company offers to pay one
cent pound for books and maya
zines and half cent pound for old
newspapers, and will send a wagon
to the homes to collect the papers.
The advertiser says:
THE war has shut off a large per-
centage OF the pulp making material.
We have merely taken flyer to see
IL we can get somebody to open up
on paper. There is vast supply gar
nered up in attfcs and cellars, and
we are making bid for it. 1t will
be OF advantage in the production OF
book paper"
Ihis waste paper is very useful
In the manufacture of paper board
and wrapping stock, but unfortunate
ly, cannot be made over into news
print on account OF it being impossi-
bic to properly remove the ink. Pub
fishers, among others, will find it
profitable to gather up their old pap
er, books and magazines and dispose
Of them in way that will 60 toward
helping them pay some of their bills.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-06-07
THE MOVIES In THE COUNTRY.

Quite frequently, as the editor
takes up his rural exchanges, he
flnds the news that this or that little
village has now a moving picture
theater. The place formerly could
not have supported one regular tho
atrical company a year. Yet now ii
may be having its movies every Sat
urday night, with the proprietor
making good money.
The little rural theater is apt to
have ambitious names borrowed from
metropolitan scenes. These poetic
titles may suggest glittering PLAY
houses on some White Way street.
The "Theater" may be merely the
hall over the fire engine company, or
where the Order OF Red Men raises
its chiefs up to their stumps.'
The decorations may consist mere
ly of whitewash, and the orchestra
seats may be only hard and low back
ed settees. But the scenes presented
may open window to the wide, wide
world.
The farmer is no longer a provin-
cial His travel trips take him city
ward, and he is apt to see good en-
tertainments. But still there are
plenty of country people who stick
closely at home and are reluctant to
sleep outside their own beds. Even
the stay-at-home does not feel out
of touch with the great world, when
he sees pictures from the trenches OF
Europe and the streets of great CAPT
tails, the romance and mystery of the
Orient, and the wonders Of aero
planes and submarines.
Proprietors of these little shows
10 well to remember that country
life is simple, sincere, and substan-
ial, and interested in real things. 1t
will care more about pictures of in
lustrial life, of great cities and ia
nous scenery, for truthful stories OF
enterprise and adventure, than it
viii for scenes of crime and marital
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-06-07

clarity of thought. The mind grasps
the regular form more quickly than
an irregular one. Ease of expression
and understanding are promoted by
the practice of regularity.
Some advanced educators, while
holding firmly to the need of gram
mar, argue that you don't need to
teach it in set lessons. If the child
hears correct forms in school, he will
speak them afterward, they argue.
This seems to ignore the influence
of ones surroundings after quitting
school, when one encounters a flood
of incorrect speech in daily life. The
memory of the way you used to speak
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-06-07
AUTOMOBILE COMPETITION
Railroads Have Been COMPLAINING
About Losses Through Auto
Competition.

Railroads that do heavy tourist
business have been complaining
about their losses through automo-
bile competition. With a good sized
family, the saving by using a motor
can be very considerable. 1t is one
OF the economies which people plan
in advance to offset the cost of the
car. But as a matter of fact there
may not be much saving here. The
average motor party probably spends
as much in hotel bills and garage
ices as 1t saves. But they think they
are saving the price of the railroad
passage, which amounts to the same
thing. The effect is seen in the pas
.senger earnings of any line doing
tourist business. In the commuter
towns around the large cities, the
motor partly takes the place of the
train. In the palmer communities.
the working people still scramble for
the 7:12 train for the city office as
they did of yore. But in Weather
neighborhoods the sociable sight of
the whole masculine element rusE-
ing en- masse for the 1894 is no more.
The swift moving motor gives the
business man five minutes longer
over his egg and coffee.
The railroads for the time being
Will be hard put to it to make econ
omies to counterbalance this loss.
Perhaps they could cut off some near
iy empty sleeping and parlor cars.
Many of these are hauled over long
distances with three or four people
lonely in solitary grandeur. These
cars are heavy and it costs good mo-
ney to haul them.
The railroads will always continue
TO be the great democratic highway
Tor the mass of the people. Long tours
N a motor car have zest for time.
BUT in time it ceases to be a novelty. |
The train covers the distance in the |
east time and the greatest certainty. |
&c costs more and more money to |
build a railroad, so that ali existing
light of way gets more and more val
liable, The country is growing, and
here will be many freight shipments
additional for every motor party that
S lost.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-06-07
WANT COLUMN.
Rates-One Cent per word. Moth.
Ing less than ten cents.

Rates-One Cent per word. Moth.
Ing less than ten cents.
''"'.'""'."'.".p,..D,.n,. .D,J..,..Y,.,..,..e..
IfOUND-Last Sunday near the Mil
waukee passenger depot, gold
bracelet. Finder may have same
by proving property and paying for
this adv. Inquire at Public Opin-
ion office. 23-2
LOST-Bracelet on Friday, initials
Il. c." Finder return to this Of
nee. 23-2pd.
WANTED-Suitabl suite of 8 Or 4
living rooms or small house. for
family of three. Telephone or call
at Public Opinion office. 23-tf
FOR RENT-Modern fiat. Enquire at
Fred j. Rosenthal's store. 23-tf.
FOR SALE-Cheap one surrey.
practically new; one single seated
top buggy good as new Rud Bros.
Decorah. 22-tf.
FOR SALE-To quick buyer one Of
the best 100 acre farms in Iowa,
70 miles east of Cresco, also my
residence property in Cresco and =
so H. p. touring car. Inquire at
farm. Mrs. Nellie Maxwell, Cres-
co, Ia. 22-2w
FOR SALE-My Residence with
eight acres of land, south part OF
town. Mrs. NJ. A. Burt. 21-3pd.
FOR RENT-Two good, large rooms,
suitable for office or living rooms.
Enquire Mrs. j. G.. Lamm, East
Water Street, DEBORAH, or at this
Office. 20-tf
FOR SALE-1916 Overland. Enquire
Commercial hotel. 19tf
FOR RENT-Good barn with pase-
ment, room for 80 head OF horses;
good location. Enquire at this of
flee or Mrs. J. G. Lamm, East
Water street. lift.
FOR SAI4E-Farm, 95 acres. For
price and particulars write Au-
gust Teske, DEBORAH R. Z. Tele-
phone at house. loft
FOR SALE-Second hand organs,
extra good ones, cheap. Rud Bros. |
DEBORAH. eff
BARRED ROCKS-Prize winners
wherever shown. Both matings.
Eggs for Matching three dollars
for fifteen. E. w. Cutting, Decor
ah, Iowa. 9-tf.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-06-07
Counting The Geese.

The Pennsylvania Dutch have Tie
reputation of being very economical
and very careful in watching the de,
tails OF domestic affairs, no matter
how small.
"Heiny," called the father.
Vat" answered the son.
Run an count dem geese again,
Heiny."
"All right"
Heiny went; Heiny returned.
"Heiny," said the father.
"Vat?" said the son.
Did you count dem geese again,
Heiny?"
Chess"
How many vas dey, Heiny?"
"Vun."
Oats right. Heiny."
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-06-07
LIVING ON LESS THAN $500.
Average Family Can't be Well Sup.
ported on Less Than $500
q Year.

A recent government bulletin say
that the average family can't be wei
supported on less than $500 a year
and that less than half of working
mems households have that income
1t asks whether workingmen shall
lower standards of diet, or put uI
with less healthful and we'll located
homes.
While less than $500 calls for
strict economy, the same pioneer spir-
1T that built up this country enables
many families to get along comforta-
bly, and respectfully on less. People
who have hankering for city life
will move into ten story apartment,
and have pretty jolly time of it in
three or four rooms. In smaller towns
rents are increasing, and many fam
lilies give up having individual hous-
es, and move into two and three
family dwellings and like them. 1t
is better than moving to a larger
house in a less agreeable neighbor-
hood.
There is such thing as having too
many household belongings A family
Of four do not need % chairs to sit
down in. The less space, the less
cleaning and the fewer steps.
Formerly many working people
had meat two or three times a day.
Now many persons of wealth, on ad-
vice of diet specialists, are largely
cutting out meat. They find a glass
OF milk equally nourishing, more di-
gestible, and it costs far less. A good
back yard garden of beans and peas
and potatoes makes one very indie
pendent of the butchers lordly pri-
ces.
So the family on less than $500
need not feel quite so discouraged as
his government bulletin would sug-
sest. They have lots of company.
among them many ministers, teach
ers, and social workers doing the fl
lest kind of work in the community.
P. S.-The chicken coop in the
back yard has made many a man in
dependent Of the beef kings,
Washable Toys are the Safest.
Childish ailments are often diff
ult to account for, and even doctors |
re puzzled at times. But in cases
Ike this one medical man, with |
hiidren of his own, always asks.
Where are the children's toys?"
hen often the problem is solved, |,
nd the case can easily be diagnosed |,
s one Of mild poisoning.
Most toys find their way into the
hlldrens mouths, the gaudy paint is
tucked off. and trouble naturally fol- |,
)Ws. Some toys, wooden or tin s
for example, have the paint ;
ctually on the mouthpiece Or within
n inch of it. India rubber toys are +
worries, but they should be uncol- {
red. as the paint becomes brittle. .
reaks OFF, and piece may be swal- {
WED and cause severe stomach a
'ouDle. =
washable toys are always the best. \
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-06-07

A baby boy was born TO Mr.. and
Mrs. Jacob Hummel last Thursday.
The Civic Club wishes to an
nounce that they will not meet this
week.
Walter Barthell came over from
Charles City Saturday on a visit to
his mother.
Henry Fisher of r. r. No. Z, de-
livered a fine black team to Roman
Bros. yesterday, for which he realized
neat sum.
MIR. and Mrs. Paul Preus and
baby, and Mrs. j. A. o. Preus, of
st. Paul, came down Friday on a
visit to relatives.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-06-07

Our advice to a girl is that she will
never be happy if she marries a man
who is in any way unappreciative of
the great favor she is comforting upon
him. For goodness sake, don't marry
a man who thinks the favors are the
ether way about.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-06-07

in school or college fades out. Then
comes in the use of the old parsing
lesson. The memory of nouns ana
verbs and possessiVes and detectives,
what they meant and how they were
related, comes back like a rock amid
the sands.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-06-07

There are just as many witches
now as there were in the old days
ana Just as many of us men fall un-
uer their spell, but we lead them to
the altar instead of the stake.
Sooner or later you will trade
at Miller's. why not sooner? 27tf
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-06-07

Hazel Dawn, Star, Today.
Pauline Frederick, Star, Saturday.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09

much of the old kind of quarantine and
disinfection.
9. That isolation of the patient and
those exposed to the disease and his
proper care, the destruction or disin-
lection of all body discharges, can
safely replace quarantine of families,
with all Of its medieval oppression and
burdensome restrictions.
TO- That typhoid and smallpox vac
cination will prevent those diseases;
that diphtheria antitoxin is both a
preventive and cure.
In short, she has acquired a knowl-
edge that at once makes her better Mt
ted for the job Of being woman and
the lob Of being a citizen.
Public health is question OF citi-
zenship. Through its nursing classes
the Red Cross is spreading public
health information that will help th'
nstjent in the sick room. 1t will also
helm the great. big public that public
health work is trying to keep well.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09

putting up a tent, breaking camp, TAX
ing care of sick comrade, all a part
OF ones early education-all essential
to ones development in childhood.
They have been proved in Mr.. Err
nest Thompson Seton's new education
for the boys and girls OF America
through the training afforded by the
Woodcraft League. an organization
which Mr.. Seton calls character MAX
ing with the blue-sky method
He contends that all education should
make for character development and
that outdoor education can do this for
both boys and girls; that the boy who
knows how TO take his tribe of Wood
craft fellow workers into the woods;
who can teach them how to unpack
their tents; how TO select the right site
for camping; how to make the tents
comfortable and healthy; how to start
the fires; how TO rescue a hardy little
brother from drowning in the lake, and
10 teach him the next morning TO swim
and paddle. so that he will run no
more risks; how. in an emergency. to
take care of a sick comrade; how 10
tramp for miles without any serious
inconvenience; how 10 make the most
of simple, plain food; how, if neces-
sary. 70 make his own wood costume;
how 20 signal in case of danger; what
10 do if he is lost in the woods alone
Mr.. Seton contends that the boy who
can do these things. and who can do
them because he loves them. has gained
an experience in life, a foundation for
character building.
This" he said in a recent inter
view. "is the real education for de-
mocracy, 70 teach our boys and girls to
face life independently, to take care Of
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09
The Sunday Dinner Fetish
By MARGARET HAMELIN.

what on the English plan; let those
who are tardy wait upon themselves.
Fruit, uncooked cereal. plate OF thin
bread and butter, with eggs that may
be boiled upon the table, will give all
the essentials of a nutritious break
fast, especially at this season Of the
year, when heavier, hot food is not re-
quired. With proper electrical appli-
ances, coffee and toast can also be
made at the table as needed.
When only one maid is employed and
she is absent from home for the after
noon. midday dinner is perhaps easi-
est for the housekeeper. The essentials
of this may easily be made ready on
Saturday. Thus the actual cooking of
the dinner need consume but half or
three-quarters of sn hour.
OF course, during the summer
months the problem is greatly simpli-
fed. on a hot day, iced or jellied
bouillon. cold chicken. dainty salad
and frozen or moulded dessert will sat
isfy even the most exacting. and this
is dinner that can be prepared en-
tire.y the day before.
Or, if hot meal is demanded and
it is always the wiser plan TO have one
in case there come a few days Of
AdUlD, COlu NtdNNtl ptbA4tH sArdA,
fried chicken. panned chops, a chicken
pie that can be made on Saturday and
will only require Ieheating, or one Of
the many savory dishes that can be
prepared in the fireless cooker. will all
be found excellent suggestions 70 less
en- the Sunday culinary labor.
In like manner try 70 arrange the
supper or high tea so that II will be
Of the simplest character. 4 variety
Of dainty sandwiches. cup OF bouil
lon. salad or some chaiing dish dainty
are easily prepared and. supplemented
by iced tea or coffee, fruit and waters
purchased By the box. offer the
housewife a wide range from which 10
make her selection.
Fortunately, il is not necessary for
US 70 90 back 10 the old-fashioned Sab
bath and the blue laws of Colonial
days, when the former began az sun
down on Saturday and lasted until sun
down on Sunday, and even the poor anil
mails in the stalls were sometimes
neglected by zealots. II is. however.
necessary for US 70 keep Sunday for a
day of rest, not only for Scriptural
reasons, but hygienic ones as we'll A
little experimenting. with careful plan
hing of the Sunday menus. will un-
doubtedly result in a brighter. better
feeling on Monday, the day on which
business, housework and the general
duties begin again, and which the
housewife should be ready 70 approach
with a rested mind and body
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09
Housewitey as Mucb d
Part of Training as
Woodland Lore

housekeeper, too. in time, with all the
important knowledge that was her
grandmother's and her great-grand-
mothers. She will brew sage tea and
make mincemeat and spin cotton and
make her own Woodcraft dress and
gather bayberries 20 make candles.
There is also tribe called Atassowin,
the Gamer and jelly maker. Boys ana
girls both may know how 70 can
chicken or make Jelly or prepare de-
lightful things TO drink.
Then there is the Hunter in Town,
where the city children are taught many
important ways Of helping themselves
and others. This is really a CIVIC dlVi-
sion.
The Needlewoman. and. also. IL may
be. the Needleman. will ind much de-
manded of them before they can re-
ceived a cOu for their accomplishment
in this simple art. There Is tribe,
too. for citizen making, and there rs
one called the Traveller, which teaches
both boys and girls 70 take care OF
themselves as they move about over the
world on Broadway as well as IN the
Adirondscks.
Ii is very simple matter 70 become
n Woodcraft boy or girl. There are
several ways, all of which Will be eN-
planned 10 any one writing 70 Ernest
Thompson Seton al the Noodcratt
Headquarters, New York. These bands
can be formed all over the country:
and can be afforded opportunities Of
meeting other bands that are in Sc
lected camping places.
The dues are very slight; 20 enter
the Little Lodges costs but twenty-five
cents annually. and il is advised that all
children earn the money themselves
which they pay into the Woodcraft
League.
Think Of the boy and girl who can
show a degree as camp cook. as camp
coniuror. a camp doctor. as camp hos
tess. And there are degrees for these
things as we'll as many others, all lead
ing to one end-a wise, healthtul
education for young people that viii
make them self-reliant, self-supporting,
healthy. cheerful helpful and kind.
A rather big ideal, and splendid
adventure in gaining H.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09
THE, TRIBUNE INSTITUTE

VIII offer readers of The Tribune next Sunday new group
Of household appliances tested by the experts the Institute
staff and indosed as being fully adequate to do the work for
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Full descriptions of each group of implements will be
published on these Institute pages but several of the mpe-
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