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The Glenwood post., 1917-03-03
snr1zDAY PARTY

Mrs. ". H. TAFT gave a delightful
evening at home February 20. Tho
guests were her Sunday class Of eight
boys, also Rodney Bell, Ray olden-
burg, Mr.. Sims and Mr.. TAFT. A fea-
ture Of the refreshments was . large
birthday cake, built with names and
candles for Mr.. TAFT and Joe ALEU-,
whose natal day came on the s1st.
The Glenwood post., 1917-03-03

Washington, March 1.-The Associat-
ed Press is enabled to reveal that Ger
many is planning unrestricted submar-
inc warfare and, counting its conss-
quences, proposed an alliance with
Mexico and Japan to make war on The
United States if this country should
not remain neutral.
Japan, through Mexican mediation,
was urged to abandon her allies and
join in the attack on the United States.
Mexico, for her reward, was to re.
ceive general financial support from
Germany, re-conquer Texas, New Mexi-
co and Arizona-lost provinces-and
share in the victorious peace terms Ger.
many contemplated.
Details were left to German Minister
Won Eckhardt in Mexico City, who by
instructions signed by German Foreign
Minister Zimmerman at Berlin, jana
ary 10, 1917, was directed to propose
alliance with Mexico to General Car.
ranza and suggest that Mexico seek
to bring Japan into the plot.
These instructlons were transmitted
to Won Eckhardt through Count vol,
Bernstorff, former German ambassador
here, now on his way home to Germany
under safe conduct obtained from
his enemies by the country. against
which he was plotting war.
The Glenwood post., 1917-03-03

Washington, Marsh 1.-Pedging con-
tinued friendship TO the United States
and continuation Of its relations with
the allies, the Japanese embassy this
afternoon issued y formal statement
declaring that under no circumstances
would the Japanese government enter
tain such an invitation ss Germany at-
tempted to send to Toxic. .l- .l-
Er So An110S f F.
Berlin, January 10, 1917.
con the first Of February We intend
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-28

Walt Whitman makes the best Mother
Goose for very young children. The
majestic ocean roll of rhythm in those
titan lines will surely soothe almost any
childish fret. And do not want to have
to depend on Mother Goose entirely. I
am no poet, but l want to make nursery
rhymes of my own for the little lad.
A. | do not want any companionship
to mean more to him than that of his
father. l can hire people to do business
for me, but can't hire anybody to take
a fatherly interest in my boy.
5. One problem | shall have to think
out is whether | shall let him have toy
soldiers to play with think that per-
haps the world has had enough real SOL
diers in the past few years.
6. When it comes to teaching him
about God, l think shall have to leave
that to his mother. | think he knows
more about God than l do; and I'm sure
she does. But can teach him to worship
beauty, and perhaps that is the same thing.
7. Sex teaching: here think it will be
my duty to tell him things myself. This
was the most dangerous stumbling-bloc
in my own boyhood. l was never told
anything, and my curiosity was almost
frantic. 1t seems to me now that father
owes it to his son to be pretty frank in
these matters.
g. One Of the things am most grateful
to my own father for was denying me
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-28

under the growing burden
will fill him with wonder.
And beneath all the doings
of his daily life there will be
a dragging, haunting fear.
When my wife went down
into the dark valley of
agony six nights ago, to
wrestle with the cruel kind
illness of birth and bring
back to me the tiny crea-
ture who looks so strangely
like me, l too trod some
bitter hillsides. l can never
forget the hours l paced
outside the hospital, biting
nervously on my empty
pipe, and remembering with
shuddering pangs how many
blunders | had made in our
years together. How many
times, in thoughtlessness
or short temper, l had
brought tears to her dear,
brave eyes. And now, with
all the gallantness of her I'M
daunted womanhood, how
she was suffering for me. 1t
was a CHASTITY shock to me to
learn what horrible suffering
childbirth is-can | ever
forget those agonized cries
of pain? Thank heaven, l
think she will forget that
side Of it sooner than l.
And then, just as the
dawn was breaking, they
brought down the news. A
boy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-28

4 LMOST every time pick up one
~ of the women's magazines | find
~ something said about @the expec-
Il - tant MOTHER" but never word
about the expectant father. Is it sup
posed that the father does not have great
expectations too?
My son, my first child, was born five
days ago. In the busy preoccupations Of
these days l have been cropping for words
to set down something Of the greatness
and strangeness of this experience that
has come into my life. And, as am not
accustomed to putting my deepest feelings
on paper, am almost at loss to express
what have in my mind.
The expectancy" of the mother seems
to be technical term for her feelings and
emotions before the child is born. When
the baby has come her expectancy ends.
But it is just then that mine begins.
have no words to describe the strange
snarl of thoughts and impulses of the
father in the few months before his first
child is born. He sees this world-old,
strictly animal and yet marvelously spirit
ual miracle proceeding before his eyes.
He is impotent to hasten or retard. He
finds the happy routine Of companionship
with his wife hampered at every turn.
He may be petulantly annoyed, and yet
ashamed of his annoyance. His wife will
be full of the strangest fancies and i'm
patiences. Her courage and endurance
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-28

thlngs-things l thought l
wanted but did not really
need. l shall always be a
poor man, and | want my
boy to be a poor mans son,
because they are the hap
piest-and the most useful
to the world.
8. And | want him to see
as much as possible of his
grandparents. If there is
anything as fine and pure in
the world as a mothers
love, it is that of q child's
grandparents; it is the sign
and symbol of the con-
tinuity and indestructibility
of human life on this planet.
Probably people get more
real pleasure out of their
grandchildren than from
their children; because as
soon as our children are old
enough to take an intelli-
gent interest in our thoughts
they have to leave us to earn
their own living.
10. And l want to remem-
Der that any system or set
of rules, however carefully
tabulated, must leave some
thing to sheer luck.
l have set all this down
in the exuberance and humil-
ity Of beginning fatherhood.
| wonder if fathers of long
standing will have any adj
vice to offer, or any COM
ments to make?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-28
How 1t Feels
to Be a Father

our deeper feelings, we recognize and
And he who can not see it in the new-won
mother with her baby at her tender breast
is callOus indeed.
What an enrichment of life has come to
me even in these few days as 1 have
walked about the wintry streetsl Now
at last have felt kind of significance in
my own middle-class self. have added
man to the worlds store-more than
Joffre or Hindenburg have done in these
last bloody years. l have nodded no
nations policies, made no ringing speeches,
bought no motor-cars; but have been
true to the first duty of the good citizen:
| have given the nation good, clean lad,
and he weighs eight and quarter pounds.
Do you wonder that stand smiling into
the shop windows until the shop-keepers
grow nervous?
And, bordering about it, have drawn
up for myself a rough ten commandments:
l. l brought this boy here without con-
s,lting him. He did not ask to be intro
duced into this very interesting but faulty
old world. Therefore it is up to me to see
that he gets fair start. And my idea of
fair start is one not so easy that it will
handicap him. (There is no danger of
that, by the way.) Generally speaking, a
fair start is one ten per cent. better than
you yourself had.
2. l must try to remember my own
boyhood: what made me happy and what
made me unhappy. My childhood was
so happy that l saw it drift away with
passionate regret. Even now it gives me
a twinge every now and then to remember
that l have to earn living, and can not
just ramble about and watch the phe-
nomena of this amazing world If l can
sharply recall what was valuable and
happy in my own childhood, it will help
me to make my boy happy.
3. want to surround my son with all
that is beautiful in books, pictures, and
music. l shall begin reading poetry to
him as soon as he comes away from the
hospital soon as | can rescne him
from the facilitating influence of trained
nurses First l shall read Walt Whit
mans "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rock
ing" to him. l have often thought that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-28
MAGAZINE SECTION for January 9S, 1917

They refuse to let me stay with her
more than few minutes at time. And,
barring those things that absolutely have
to be attended to at the Office, have been
pacing the streets, thinking about it all.
How strangely we are caught and en-
meshed in the unending web of life! Be-
cause once happened to visit certain
clearinghouse, and met there pair of
honest, laughing brown eyes, now there
lies in a bassinette, wrinkling his tiny
forehead at the queerness of everything,
this quaint splinter of humanity. Once
the current of life takes hold of you, who
knows on what islands you may land?
Now that | am in truth an expectant
father unreasonably great
things of this son of mine, | fear,-what
principles may discover for my guidance
in dealing with him?
One thing that has always impressed
me is the prevalence of my father in my
self. do not know how it is with other
men: know that in my own case can
often see and feel my father acting in me.
Every now and then notice myself look
ing, acting, or feeling exactly as l know
he would have done in the same instance.
| see his gestures, his angers, his loves
written indelibly upon my being. They
are part of my brain and fiber. Therefore
it is surely not unreasonable to think that
the same will be true of my son. My own
virtues -such as they are-I shall have
to encourage in him; my own failings-
how many!-I shall have to combat.
Wherever | have eaten the sour grapes of
bad temper, laziness, dishonesty, or i'm
purity, it is his teeth that will be set on
edge, as the quaint old proverb puts it.
1t will be stringent way Of living my
own life over again.
Some father wrote in the Saturday
Evening Post not long ago paper called
"How My Boy Brought Me Up"-show-
ing how it is often really the son who
proves the teacher for The father. Surely
that is properly so. These little ones
come to us SO fresh from the steep shore
of eternity, so unmarried by all the COM
promises of earth, that we may we'll learn
things anew through their clear eyes.
However much we men jest among our
selves, and however we seek to conceal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-28

TIHAT woman should hare
been able to understand so
Il soeH the ruthless congueror
Napoleon as to iuriie one of the best
biographies of him ever tpriffen;
that she should hare been able to
iUrife a biography of Lincoln and
a history of the Standard Oil Com
pany that topers like a monument
among all the literature of busi-
ness; that she should hare been
able to unfdngie the snarl of our
tariff history in book that euen a
layman can undersiund-aH this
is Interesting and glorious enough.
But those ipho knoiU Ida M. Tar
bell are most grateful to her for
proving irifh her oiDn life that n
,coman may do iohdf used to be
knOicn as a "man's Work in the
ioorid may do il so ,ocH as to
Cin International reputation, and
yet in doing it gain added measure
of the siceefness and charm and
tenderness Which is the glory of
the woman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-28
MESSAGE TO THE READERS
OF THIS MAGAZINE

: : !:
g ANY whose business it has been watch and
~ record the onward march of social
inevitably to feel that, after all, the strength and
~ future of people rests finally in the hands of its
mothers Every home is perorce good or bad educational
1t does its work in spite of effort to shrk
supplement it, No teacher entirely what it does
ouh hare a
chds mind depends its first intimate relations These
% rule with the Mother 1t is the Mother who takes
m
shall open frankly and feaess How she does her work
depends less her ability than her
been nOttO them less hpr
lead auhoratvey into great fields than her efforts to
all III. push child ahead him: be
NJ to
button the chids development"
ed 10 be = =
in the Of
UcHdsh
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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-30

Good quality black leather
vamps with fancy tops a very
vogueish shoe as we'll as a salts
isfaction giving shoe, sizes 21h
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-30
smoky CITY S0LO|ST
At CHORAL RECITAL
William Rhodes Will Sing
Group Of Songs Decem-
Der IL.

Chora! Society will give its fourth
recital in the First Presbyterian
church in this city. AS previously an.
nounced one half the proceeds of the
concert will be given to the Red
Cross which orgapfzation is cooper.
ating with the Choral members in the
sale OF tickets.
The society, under the direction OF
Prof. Louis Black of the w. v. U.
who has successfully directed each
performance Of the society will pre-
sent a miscellaneous program and
will be assisted by William Rhodes
OF the First Presbyterian church
choir in Pittsburgh. Mr.. Rhodes will
sing the aria in cantata "Hiwa.
tba's Wedding Feast" by Coleridge.
Taylor and also render group of
songs. The society will sing in al.
dition to the cantata the Hallelujah
chorus by Beethoven, Pater Noster
by Verdi and the national anthems of
the Allied nations. Tickets are sell.
ing at so cents each and with the
former success of the Choral society
the additional stimulus of the Red
Cross behind the movement, there
will no doubt be large sale of tick
cts.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-30
County Bar Assn.
Arrange Banquet

Members of the Marion County Bar
Association met last night at the court
house and decided TO hold the annual
banquet of The organization on Monday
evening, December 81. The place OF
holding the same has not been select
ed as yet. The following committee
was named to. have charge of the
event: NJ. w. Ogden, chairman; Trevy
Nutter. j. p. Kirby and'P. M. Hoge.
AT the meeting last evening the re
Fort OF the executive committee was
fayorably received. The next meeting
will be held on Thursday evening, De.
cember 81.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-30
Thanksgiving DAY
IN LOCAL CHURCHES
Collection Taken at First NJ.
E. Went to Nursing
Service.

The Union Thanksgiving services
held yesterday morning in the First
Methodist Episcopal church on the
West side and in the Diamond street
Methodist Episcopal church, on the
Fast side, were well attended and OF a
inspiring nature.
In the First NJ. E. church Rev. w A
Eddy. pastor OF the First Bs0ast
church, preached patriotic SERMON OF
the subject, Thanksgiving in Periious
Times" The choir of the chruch fur
nished an excellent program Of music
and other pastors, Rev. C. D. Mitchell !.
Rev. R. ]. Yoak. Rev. c. E. Goodwin
and Rev. John S. Robinson. participant
ed in the order OF service.
Rev. c. C. Lawson, pastor'of the Firsn
NJ. P. church. delivered the sermon
the Diamond street church. HisS
mon abounded in helpful th1
The choir of the Diamond stree
furnished splendid music fc
casion.
A thank offering Of $45 va
the First Methodist Episc,
which was turned over ID
Health Nursing Service
Goodman, one Of the prqi
Nursing Service was =
service and made q few
concerning the needs
the organization.
Thanksgiving service
ed at Christ Episcopal
day morning, Rev. Charl j.
ell, the rector. preachingl lid
Thanksgiving sermon. Spd llsic
was furnished by the chd TOT the
church. An offering was taken which
will be sent to the Sheltering Arms
hospital. charitable institution near
Charleston.
Rev. Clarence D. Mitchell. pastor of
the Central Christian church. deliv
cred talk at the Thanksgiving SER
vice conducted at Cook hospital which
was attended by large numbers of the
nurses, hospital attendants and con-
valescent patients. Rev. Mitchell talk.
ed entertainingly of the work of the
rurses in various hospitals all over the
land and in closing read beautiful
roem entitled Gods Nurses" Special
music was furnished by Misses Bertha
Dilgard and RadeI Herndon.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-30
Tho cIinalno Vine.

Percy Noodles says that when he
asked tho capitalists daughter why
she meyer thought of hin seriously she
saidshnt probably it was because every
time Spell oked at him she felt like
powttiF:." his nose and brushing his
hair Morning News.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-30

MdssdCuuSetlS AIPll luUeTCulUSlS
League. &,
Some of the facts set forth are:
Consumption can be contracted by
those who are weak run down. or i'll
any way in poor condition.
In private life any person may take
chances with his health without neces.
sarily hurting others. In time of war
the soldier owes 1t to his country to
maintain his bodily efficiency at the
very highest point possible. This is
the best way to avoid consumption.
When soldier is on duty the details
Of his life are regulated. When he is
eff duty he can do himself physical.
tarm or good. Therefore he should
spend his time profitably by increas.
ing his bodily strength and energy
Excuses weaken a man and render
him liable to infection.
Germs of consumption and other
contagious diseases are spread by spit
Never spit in closely crowded quar-.
.ers, barracks, tents, etc.
Danger signals. If you develop a
cough with or without spit, which
hangs on for some time; II you raise
any blood; II you are losing weight ana
strength. don't wait but go at once tc
the proper person and place these facts
before him.
II you know you have consumption
even though you have passed the pbysi
cal examination don't conceal It. The
chances are you will break down later
en-. You will do your country no good
and you may do your comrades a great
harm.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-30

Mr.. and Mrs. R. E. Rightmore and
children left yesterday for Columbus,
O.. where they are the guests OF rel
attves. Mr.. and Mrs. Rightmore have
moved from Hillcrest to their new
residence on Mt. Vernon avenue.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-30
LITTLE CHILD DIES

Thomas the year old son of Mr..
and Mrs. William Shaw died last
night at the home Of his parents on
Market street. He had never been
strong and his death was not unex.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-30

pected. The funeral party will leave
the residence at 10 o'clock Saturday
for Mt. Zion where services will be
held on arrival and interment will be
made by Undertakers Carpenter and
Ford
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-30
HINTS

Facts for fighters are being issued
and circulated among Massachusetts,
suardsmen and drafted men by the
Massachusetts Anti tuberculosis
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-30
Suits for Boys at $500

An assortment from nothing good is miss;,.. .
casmeres and plain novelty chevios in beted
pinch backs double and and
SYKES Every garment strictly WOOL pants knickcrbo
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-30

These beautiful and servicea.
BILE all wool serge frocks show
handsome and jaunty style ere.
atoms with fanciful contrasting
collars, they come in black, navy
and rich green colors. honest to
goodness $40 yalues.-Third
Floor.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-02
+. THE FIRST WAR TIME DUTY.

You and I have a war time duty to
perform whether we leave our own
homes to serve our country or stay
In them. It is not enough to read the
papers and to be eager for the sue
cess Of our country. That alone Is
not true patriotism!
The spirit of loyalty is the spirit
of devotion to a cause. And the spirit
of devotion to a cause is the willing
ness to sacrifice for the common good.
Once we have reached the point of
being ready to give up our goods. our
comfort, our business, and II neces-
ssry our lives; or to stand and wait"
serving where we are to the best of
our ability. then, and then only, are
we truly patriotic.
However, peoples in times past
have misunderstood the necessity for
sacrifice and it La possible they will do
so again. In their eagerness to show
their earnestness, religious Zealots
have punished their bodies, gone into
exile, thrown themselves before the
wheels Of an oncoming a of Jugger-
maui, and counted it all gain.
Useless sacrifice like this is foolish.
It is foolish to feel that we must. give
up all our pleasures and live in a con-
tinual atmosphere of expectation OF
disaster. It Is a mistake to neglect
our personal duties or to press for
ward to render services which others
could do better and are ready to do In
our stead.
It may be that the finest service
+; we can render is to be cheerful, to be
willing to spend our none to help
the government, and to keep cool.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-02
MAN
STROKE VICTIM
O. H. Philips succumbs to
Apoplexy Late Sunday
Prominent Mason.

o. H. Philips. aged So years, for the
past 81 years a prominent machinery
dealer of Larimore, died last evening
from apoplexy, after an illness Of one
day.
On Saturday afternoon Mr.. Philips
was taken suddenly i'll, while con-
versing with friends at his office. He
vas rushed to his home and given
medical attention, but he failed to re-
gain consciousness, except for short
intervals, until last evening at 1885
o'clock when death came.
The death Of Mr.. Philips is a keen
loss to the community, Larimore los
ing an active member of the school
board, and an earnes promoter of
civic welfare. For two terms he was
mayor Of Larimore, and has held
nearly every position Of honor that
can be given to a respected citizen. He
was a prominent Mason and a mem
Der of KEN Temple Shrine Of Grand
Forks. For many years he has been
interested in politics and at the time
Of his death was a member Of the
Democratic state central committee.
Mr.. Philips was born near Fairfield,
Iowa. and in 1885 moved to Larimore
where ne engaged in the machinery
business. In 1890 he was married to
Lena Olmstead, daughter of pioneer
residents. Besides his wife the deceas-
ed is survived by two daughters
Marion, age 10 and Helen, age IL,
and four brothers and two sisters.
Funeral arrangements had not been
completed this afternoon but will
probably be announced tonight.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-02

been described, and the signs on the
curb direct machine owners to h
districts where "a are not per-
mitted to remain.