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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26
DIET SQUAD DANCE
PLEASES GUESTS
Rockies Best Girls" Eat
While Subjects of Test
Just Look On

Galleries and that fourth dimension
of food known as vitamines have
worked all sorts Of miracles with
rockies. according 10 the six best
Urls" who appeared last night at the
roost TO take part in the diet squads
drst dance.
AZ said that they were going to
learn about scientific planning and
cooking Of meals, for If calories could
keep their friends" in such continued
good humor it was worth the daily
mental struggle Of mathematical cal
culation.
Nut cakes with a value of 200 Gallo
ries and grape juice punch. which
iust amt cOuntable," according 10 Han
pibal Vesey Parsons, guardian angel OF
the pots and pans. were served to the
Young women. while the rockies tired
hard to look interested in watching
other people eat.
Adrian Plate was almost responsible
Tor the abdication of the rockies
cook. for when the magician pulled q
long. green, evil-looking snake out OF
Hanniba's apron pocket he thought
he had seen quite enough OF the Diet
kitchen and Do tOOh seNeIai Duuulli =
strong arms Of the law to keep him
seated.
The evening wound up with a calorie
dance. which will probably cost the
squad a loss OF all pounds gained so
far. unless they take immediate re-
course to the sugar bowl and use
double helpings in their coffee.
Yesterdays menu was:
BREAKFAST
Oatmeal and milk
Buttered toast
Coffee
500 Calories-Cost, Z cents
LUNCH
Nacaroni croquettes and tomato sauce
Graham bread and butter
Cornstarch pudding and raisin sauce
Tea
$50 Calories-Cost, s cents.
DINNER
Beef pot roast
Carrots and onions
Whole wheat bread and butter
Caramel tapioca
Tea
zoo Caiories-Cost, 10 cents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26
PUNY ITALIANS SINGING
WINS HIS WAY INTO U. S
Ability to Make Living Doubted until
He Renders Aria


Boston, Jan. 25.-Dominic Pacificio,
thirty years old. sang his way into this
country to-day. When he arrived re-
Gently from Italy he was held because
Of his puny physique, the immigration
officials doubling his ability to make
his way in the United States.
But | can. if you give me q chance, "
said Pacifcio. 81 am an opera singer.
"Sing, them" challenged an inspector.
Before the board of special inquiry
the Italian struck up an aria from ia
Tosca." When the song ended the
board of inquiry unanimously voted
that with such a voice it was not likely
Pacifcio would become a public charge.
The Italian said he would 60 TO Phils-
delphia to join a brother, Giulio Man
dolfe, priest.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26
Sidewalk Reduction Urged


The Commissioner recommended the
widening of Lexington Avenue from
Twenty-third to Seventy-second streets
and Madison Avenue from Thirty-nlnth
TO Seventy streets by reducing
the width of the sidewalk six feet on
each side. which would still leave a
sidewalk twelve feet wide II the OBJ
structons, stoops, etc, were removed.
lie suggested the immediate accom-
pishment of the proposed improve
ments on Park Avenue, particularly at
Thirty-fourth Street, and the reduc-
Central Park West from Columbus Cir
Gle to 10th Street from q feet
inches, its present width, TO feet !
inches. ..
The Commissioner suggested specific
matters which should be considered
by traffic commission, as follows:
"The opening up and making svaila-
Bile of all north and south arteries OF
travel These are at present overtaxed.
and should the use Of automobiles con-
tinue to increase in the same proper
ton as during this year, it is obvious
that within a few years north and
south travel in the Borough of Man
haitian will be closed up 10 such an
extent as seriously to affect the trans
action of business in the city. The
situation would be helped IL the ele-
waited pillars now obstructing the road
WAYS on the following named streets
and avenues should be removed and
placed on the sidewalk at the curb
lines: Second. Third, Sixth. Eighth.
Ninth and Columbus avenues and
Forty-second Street and the Bowery.
Plan of Coordination
"The working out of plan of effec-
tive coordination between elective and
appointive departments that have to do
with city traffic, that is, between the
Public Service Commission, the various
borough presidents Offices, the Police
Department and the Dock Department
"The consideration of needed legisla-
ton. It seems certain that traffic con-
ditions would be better in this city, for
instance, if certain classes of vehicles
could be kept off certain streets at busy
hours.
/ "As the population Of the city grows.
| it is imperative that adequate port and
I terminal plans be worked out TO handle
/ it. In connection with this, adequate
traffic plans and methods for the city
should be worked out ahead.
Working out arrangements whereby
a considerable portion of the traffic OF
the city could be done at night, and
whereby the cooperation Of merchants
could be secured so that deliveries in
certain zones would be eliminated dur
ing rush hours"
The Commissioner finally suggested
that a commission could do much
toward the prevention OF accidents BY
extending the social and educational
work now being done in that direction
by the Police Department.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26
Asks for New Commission
to Regulate Congestion
Problems in City
PERIL TO BUSINESS
FEARED IN FUTURE
Wants Madison and Lex
ington Avs. Widened and
81" Pillars Moved

In letter to Mayor Mitchell yester-
day. Police Commissioner Woods sug-
gested plan for the relief OF the
congested traffic conditions in the city.
lie declared that the problem was get
ting beyond the Police Department
becoming more and more difficult each
year because Of the rapid increase OF
automobile traffic. he recommended
the appointment of a traffic commits
sion. entirely apart from the Police
Department. to handle the situation.
The police, OF course. would continue
to regulate traffic at important street
intersections.
The Commissioner suggested that
such commission should have the
power. working in cooperation with
various city departments. TO widen GER
tain streets and avenues, placing the
elevated structure at the curb instead
Of in the middle of the street on GER
tain avenues, and generally improving
the physical aspects OF some OF the
more important arteries of traific.
The Commissioner pointed out that
the number Of automobiles registered
in this city last year showed an IN.
crease of $4,000 over 1915, He called
attention to the large number OF trafilc
accidents,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26
1SNMD aNAM c,. a" Absolute Sa's ;,
SeNsSSex ~'ea' a'''e oa'e o'

WOmen'S 6 Misses Suits & Coats
Before Stock Inventory. Sale Begins To-Day
6z Suits: STYLES the newest materials gabar.
dimes, serges, popIins and veIvets; colorings,
brown, navy, green checks stripes and black.
For this sale 1275 to $500.
Values from 1900 to $500.
Is Coats in loose and sem-fitted models, with or
without belt; materials plush, wool velour,
wool plush and broadcloth; coIOrings, brown,
navy, gray and black; plain or fur.trimmed
effects.
For this sale 1880 to 2775
Values from 1900 to $500.
1TeaawayAM ana EN- Ste.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26
10000 AUTOS HERE
DRIVEN FOR PLEASURE

Police Commissioner Woods
pointed out yesterday that
the number OF pleasure auto
mobiles in New York City IN
creased from 10000 in l9l5
to 10000 in 1916. Which
may or may not be an index
Of prosperity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26

Macaroni croquettes and tomato sauce
Graham bread and butter
Cornstarch pudding and ralsln sauce
Tea
$50 CaIories-Cost. 5 cents.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-26
This MEDICINE
women value
Positively Relievesthe
Suffering.
More Convincing Proof.

When Lydia r. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound was first introduced its cur
alive powers were doubted and had to
be proved. But the proof came, and
gradually the use Of il spread over the
whole country. Now that hundreds of
thousands Of women have experienced
the most beneficial effects from its use
its value has become generally recog-
nizcd and it is now the standard medi-
cine for women ills.
The following letter is only one of the
thousands on our files.
Dcnnison, Texas. - 81 cannot feel
that / have done my duty until tell
what Lydia +. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound has done for me. ] suffered
from female troubles so ! could hardly
drag around and do my work. | was
very nervous, and had dizzy spells, heat
flashes, and headaches until life was a
burden. My husband brought me a bot
tie OF lydia Il. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound and soon began TO improve.
/ continued its use and am now free
from all pains and aches that made life
burden. You may use this letter in
any way you like for | want the world
10 know what a grand medicine Lydia
H. Pinkham' Vegetable Compound is. .
Mrs G.. o. LOWERY, Oh ). Barrett
Ave, Denison, Texas.
Write the Lydia +. Pinkham Medi-
cine Co, Lynn, Mass, for free advice.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-26

Pinky was indeed funny; oh the
prize will be a surprisor
Then l don't think I'll try for it.
1t might be something / don't like
And Pinky strutted off again. Back he
went to his pen and digging his nose
into some soft mud he forgot all about
Mr.. Rooster :. nd his prize. for being
noble.
But the rest of the Animals had
been very much interested.
"They got Mr.. Rooster to tell them
some more about his plans and they
all decided they would enter the con-
test.
THE Farmer hardly knew what to
make of his Animals that week. They
seemed so wonderfully good and anita
Bile and nice.
1.-The cold weather must agree with
them said the Farmer. But I should
think they'd get cross spending such
4 great deal of time indoors. They're
very fine lot of Animals anyway
ITO be sure they were q fine lot of
Animals but they We're all trying to
be very noble this special week. Day
after day passed and Mr.. Rooster APP
peared TO be very much taken with
| many of the noble acts which had been
performed. He really didn't know how
he would ever be able to make up his
mind at the end of the week to give
the prize to any one Animal.
| $50 he thought and thought and al
last the day came to give the prize.
| "'Who is to have that prize?' they
| all asked in their different voices.
"Its very hard matter to decide.
said Mr.. Rooster. You've all been SC
noble!
"They all clucked and chatted anf
| crowed. and Mr.. Rooster continued
But | have decided TO give the first
and second prizes to Mrs. Cow and hel
family, and to Mrs. Hen and her fam
| lily. Mrs. Cow and her Sisters have
given so much good milk, and Mrs
Hen and her Sisters have been won
derfully kind the way they have giver
eggs. But the rest of the Animals
must all have prizes too
Does Mrs. Cow, or does Mrs. Her
win the first prize?' one of the Ami
mails asked.
It's toss-up,' crowed Mr.. Roos
ter. You mustn't ask me-
And here are the prizes ne salt
as he showed a great deal of grain am
nice things to eat out to the Animals
which he had been saving all the weel
for prizes. For he had Oeen nobl
himself and had saved some of his owl
food for the rest. But Pinky Pig, h
his pen, grunted with disgust at sucl
nonsense ~
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-26

quay and Brazil and his trophies con
sist of some three thousand bird skins
and four hundred skins of animals, to
say nothing of hundreds of samples of
the strange fauna of the South Amer
lean swamps and a priceless collection
of pictures taken in the field. To a
group of newspaper men Mr.. Cherrie
told of the South American male os
trich, who sits on the family nest while
his wife frlvols at ostrich cabarets and
tango parties; or newly discovered
woodpeckers, with bills curved like a
sickle; of parrot apartment houses,
built on the community plan, with ele
vators for each floor; or giant ant eat
ers that climb trees to the Amusement
of scientists, and of other freaks and
wonders of the dark damp jungles.
And for the Colonel s private ear. Mr.
Cherrie brings word of the best deer
hunting III all the world. The explorer
found it IN the swamps of Paraguay
where the deer. rather small but game
and we'll worthy of the skill of 9
mighty hunter, are so numerous that
Mr.. Cherrie counted forty bucks in {
single day. And he will also be tolC
about the jabbirue, the South American
stork that looks like an aeroplane IL
flight and stands six feet high whe1
it stands at all
Strange, ism t it, that a few year
ago we would have given Mr.. Cherri
half the front page. And his feat j
just as great now as then. Our sens
of proportion is all mixed up.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-26
CAN'T DO THE WORK.

1t s too much to try to work every
day against a constant, dull bac kache,
or sudden darting pain in the small Of
the back. Be rid of it. Try Doan S
Kidney Pills. Your neighbors recon-
mend them.
John Fenton, blacksmith, 16 Law
renee St, Brattleboro, says: About
five or six years ago, owing to the
heavy lifting l did at my work, |
strained nv back and it affected my
kidneys. The kidney secretions were
highly colored and too frequent in pas
sage. obliging me to get up two or
three times at night. | had distress
ing pains above my kidneys and 1t was
difficult for me to do any heavy lift
ing. When | did lift, the pain shot up
and down my back and | could hardly
stand erect. Reading so much about
Doan S Kidney Pills, | bought some
from the Brattleboro Drug Co. After
I had taken them for three days,
felt better and when | had taken two
boxes, l was completely rid Of the
trouble. l had no attacks of kidneg
complaint until last spring when
again had baekache. | used Doan :
Kidney Pills and one box relieved me
of the trouble
! Price soc, at all dealers. Don't sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Fenton had. -Milburn Co.
Props, Buffalo, \. Y.-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-26

Maine legislature haas submitted the
question of full suffrage to a special
referendum of the people on Sept. 10,
next. The lower house Of the legisla-
ture of Vermont rejected q suffrage
bill by a vote of ia to III, which is
closer to vote IL favor of the project
than the Vermont legislature has ever
come before, aad was taken after a
two-to-one adverse report on the bill.
The Minnesota house has passed a
bill submitting the question of full
suffrage to the people, in the form of
constitutional amendment, at the
next regular election in November, and
the bill is now before the state senate.
Suffrage measures are before other
state legislatures and seem to be max
ing progress in spite of the frequent
reflections of suffrage constitutions
amendments by the people of the
states. The development of the idea
of vote for women for presidential
electors and congressman, while par
| ticipation IN the election of state anC
local officers may be denied to them
is an interesting matter. The advo
Gates of woman suffrage may submit
| to this partial arrangement with
good grace, for it contributes direct,
to the advancement of the nationa
constitutional amendment project.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-26
BY Way Of Variation.
CIolvoke Transcript J

George X. Cherrie, whose name al
WAYS slips into the foreground along
with that of Fred Selous when one
thinks of the Roosevelt expeditions to
South Africa and South America, is
Just back from the wilds of the latter
continent Mr.. Cherrie, who has a
home near Brattleboro, was with Col.
Roosevelt in 1914 when the latter
sailed down the River of Doubt, now
the Rio Roosevelt by grace of the Bra
lillian government. He returned to
complete his field work in May of 1915
under the auspices of the American
Museum of Natural History. Col
Roosevelt Clipped in $4,000 toward the
expense of the expedition, which cost
five times that amount. The tales Elk
plorer Cherrie tells, if they were told
by Col. Roosevelt, would raise mighty
storm of debate, but as Mr.. Cherrle
limits his activities to exploring and
telling about the explorations, he gets
off lightly. Besides, he makes it a
point not to tell a story that he has
not a picture to back up with.
Explorer Cherrie s wanderings this
time took him into the wilds of Para
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-26
EVENING
GEAIRY TALED
b. MARY GRAHAM BONNER.
Mr.. ROOSTER'S PRIZES.

''The Barnyard Animals" said Dad
dy, ''had been having great many
talks and discussions during the cold
days"
"What are discussions?" asked Nan
cy.
They're long talks and arguments, ;"
said Daddy.
"Oh l see" said Nancy. "Well, what
did the Barnyard Animals talk about?''
cor discuss?" laughed Nick.
''Mr. Rooster" continued Daddy.
said that he would give a prize at
who did the noblest deed.
81 don't want to be noble said
Pinky Pig.
land why not?' asked Mr. Rooster
Now here's your chance. Just show
you can be noble
"'But what must do to be noble?
asked Pinky Pig.
well said Mr.. Rooster, cluckins
| to himself with amusement, for vel
| he knew what Pinky would say to his
| suggestion, Why don't you find foot
! for someone else instead of yourself
Or when you see some put in your per
ask one of the rest of us if we won
| have it instead
How absurd said Pinky. 'TheI
| your idea of being noble is to have tn,
rest of US feed your
"'Oh no. said Mr.. Rooster 4 dom
I I 70 h.
you can do something for someone be
sides YOURSELF
Being noble is silly to my mind
said Pinky. The idea of giving some
thing away Too absurdr And h
grunted in annoyance.
But | am offering a prize sal
Mr.. Rooster.
oh, squealed Pinky, turnin
around. That's little different. An
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-26

According to the National GeOgraph-
lie mazagine: 1.-The state of South Aus
tralia has, since 1891, erected 29,14S
miles of "vermin fences" enough to
encircle the globe and with the rem
nant build a double line of fence along
the southern United States. New
South Wales has expended over S27,-
100000 for rabbit determination and
has within its borders $4,000 miles of
fence. One of West Australia 5 fences
extends entirely across the continent
OF late years the rabbit has been re-
paying in part for his keep-paying
board, as it were. He goes to swell
the total of food exports from the
Commonwealth. Along the country
roads rabbits may been seen hung OF
the fences awaiting the passage of the
rabbit carts which convey them to the
packing houses to be prepared for ship
ment as frozen meat and hides. Prac
tically all are exported (the Austral
! ian does not eat vermin and dur
| ing 1913 frozen rabbit and hare to tn,
value Of $l,40O 600 AID skins to tn
value of 100000 were sent from
Commonwealth ports. -
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-26
We Might Initiate Them.

In Montevideo are located two of the
great packing houses. Over 1000 of the
workmen have formed a club with
a night school, and Miss Long gives
them English lessons once a week
A class of SIKH women and children
come once a week for sewing circle
two hundred girls and women from the
canning factory have asked what can
be done for them Fifty boys and girls
and young women are gathered IN
the morning and evening classes. Miss
Long is expecting two other teachers
to help her soon and hopes shortly
to have a school organized. All honor
to this worker, who is laying the
foundation for a brighter future fol
these needy people!-The Christian
Herald.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-26
Advice to MIR. Hunt.
Burlington News. J

The Hunt bill is dead. Yet Author
Hunt, who makes boxes, barn doors,
and sich in the summer, and laws for
the guidance of his less enlightened
brethren in the winter, sits back with
complacent smile and calmly awaits
the coming from committee of that
other monstrosity which would have a
statewide referendum annually on the
liquor question. We suspect that Mr.
Hunt will wait long while III view
of the wall-known attitude of an over
whelming majority of the voters il
the state.
But we advise you, Mr.. Hunt, not t.
wait too long. When the balmy
brcezes of spring just begin to waf
about these here parts, Mr.. Hunt, ge
out your hammer and your saw, builC
good strong box, that the sharpes
teeth cant gnaw through, and ciml
in, for the squirrels will git You, sure
if YOU doa t watch out.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-26
A Nine-Judge Job.

est. Johnsbury Caledolian.)
No man should delude himself in
the thought that the demand FOR few
er judges is q piece of newspaper en-
terprise. The newspapers have been
instrumental in getting the informa-
ton TO the people but the people them
s. Ives decided that it was unwise to
support two sets of judges TO do thu
work that one set formerly did. The
records show that aside from divorce
causes more eases were tried in the
county courts when seven judges die
the work of the county courts anC
superior than six judges working i.
the county courts alone try now. TIL,
people feel it is not just to be required
to support y judges for nine-judg'
| lob
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-26

When the full history of this war
comes to be written, as it surely will
be written by people in the future who
have conscience and Intelligence, there
is no doubt that the indictment against
the morality of Germany will be tire
mondous and overwhelming. The Ger
man people DO not seem to realize the
long list Of facts which they are put
ting o. record to prove the case
against them before the bar Of the
word. The New York World, review
ing the bad faith of the German gov
eminent in ordering the destruction of
the steamship Cccilie when it was ly-
ing in Boston harbor, under libel Of
the court, reviews some recent history
TO show how the ancient epithet of
Pnir faith to characterize vile
hostility may well be changed to
Gcrmanie faith" for similar rea-
soning as that Rome found against the
ancient Carthaginians. Says the
World:
The Sussex was the channel steam
or sunk without warning March "a,
1916. with great loss OF life. April 10,
German officials denied the act, mcnda-
Ciousiv as most people think, admit
ting, however, that submarine had
at the same time and place attacked
British transport. On this falsehood
or bubble, the first war orders to Cap
tain polack were issued. May s, the
evidence Of German guilt being over
whclmng, the foreign Office in Berlin
acknowledged the error expressed re
greet and said that the commander OF
! the submarine had been appropriately
punished. Some weeks later this of
I ticer, Steinbrink b. name, was said I,
| have received a decoration
1t is to be noted therefore, tina
| twice within 10 months the German
/ government had reason to believ
that it's acts would lead to war wit
the United States; that its respect 70
treaties was so neglible that on on
occasion it stood ready to commit AM
at another actually engaged in aggreS
sion upon country at peace, and tina
honor and sovereignty it revealed
conviction that we were likely to b
equally false to our obligations. Fin
words and diplomatic phrases hav
done much to hide such performance
as these, but they cannot explain ava
the malice and the hostility that, a
We now know, lay behind them.
| I'm its lolg wars with Carthag,
ancient Rome gave to the world tn
phrase Punic Faith as stigmatizing a
that was treacherous in n nation de-
titWe of justice, conscience or trutl
Recalling the many assurances Q
friendship for the United States r,
ccivcd from official Berlin when it wa
incorporating the Sussex case an
when il finally broke its submarin
uromises-quick to engage in sneal
ing acts of war in both instances
some people may wonder if eiassi
: pcrtidy hereafter ought not to }
known as 'Germanic Faith.
The World S point is well takei
While German people must he expecte
10 side with their government in Il
main, vet there ought to be disti1
tiou made in eases like this. &c
many is indicting itself before all tn
world.