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El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-04-12

"Bliggins says he's a Socialist"
"What does he mean by that?"
HE has never heard Of any form
of government that would suit him,
but he is still hoping something worth
while will turn up by and by."-Wash-
Star.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-04-12
HERBERT c. HOOVER
TO HEAD FOOD BOARD

London, April 11.-HerDert q.
Hoover, head Of the American com
mission for relief in Belgium after
consultation with his colleagues on
the commission has accepted the
Craftsmanship offered him by the ma
tional defense council of the new food
board in the United States. MI.
Hoover expects to leave shortly for
America. Meanwhile he has initiated
a wide inquiry in France, England
and Italy regarding the existing food
situation. The inquiry includes exam
nation Of the prospects of the COM
ing harvests, import necessities, meth
DDS of food regulation and control
now in operation in the allied coun-
tries and the results now achieved.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-04-12
It this freedom-of

"How about this freedom-of-the-seas
propositions"
Il don't profess to know all about
It," rejoined Mr.. Chuggins. IF | cal
keep track of all the regulations that
apply to street crossings I am doing
very w~ell."-Washgton Star.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-04-12

Patience-She spent two months at
the seashore last sumner, and not a
man asked her for her hand.
Patrice-Rather disappointing.
Eyes, but she's going to try her
hand in Florida this winter."--Yonk-
,ers Statesman.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-04-12
Sherman, Republican, and laid on the
table at his request without debate.
WAR FINANCE BILL
REPORTED IN HOUSE

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El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-04-12

IT didn't call you a liar"
"You did"
II didn't" l merely said that you
would make a splendid adjunct to the
weather bureau"
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-04-12
II T VESSELS

SUNK TN a WEEK
London, April 11.-During the week
ending April 10, II British merchant
vessels of more than 1900 tons were
sunk. Two vessels of less than 1000
tons were sent down. This was off
cially announced tonight.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-04-12

an incursion into his lines north Of
Fontenelle."
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-04-12
GOVERNOR TO

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El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-04-12
TEXAN WOUNDED
CARRYING OLD GLORY

ITO a young Texan who came TO
Ontario to enlist and who is now
lying wounded in the hospital" the
dispatch reads, belongs the honor Of
first carrying the American flag Into
battle In the European war into
which the United States as a beIIiger-
ent, has just entered. He went up to
the assault at Thelus carrying the
stars and stripes on his bayonet and
fell thus"
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-04-12

PARIS, April tilt was decided
today that the Lafayette flying squad
ron, composed Of Americans who have
distinguished themselves at the front,
will change from the French to the
American military uniform and here
after carry the American flag at the
French front.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-04-12
American Flag,
NOW Flies on
French Front

ny Leased Wire to New MexIcsn.)
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-04-12
BAGP|PES

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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-16
AMERICAN DRAMA MASQUE
SPONSORED BY SOCIETY
socially Prominent Boxholders, Emer-
gency Aid and Relief Committee
to Attend

"ehef organizations including the Emer-
.e"cy Aid and other committees, will attend
me me performance of the Masuue of American
sma' in the Botanical Gardens, in a body
nroS,,n rhe proceed of the big outdoor
suuc'ion, which won wide commenda ton
'. critics at its premiere Monday night
ni,. e 10 De given to the University Base Hos
ba ana members of relief committees
themselves.
wi,i i'iue n from the relief committees, society
~ oe well represented tonight Among
sn ns ooxholders are Mrs. w. Yorke Steven
or spencer X Mulford, Mrs. Randall Nor
n mrs James Newman Carter, George
nosengarten and George Burnham, Jr.
., N.hough the attendance last night shot
.su, ahead OF that Of Monday, vacant seats
s ~, sprinkle the big outdoor auditorium
NJ george F. Kearney. director of the
ins iaSaue, que issued a statement last night call
s lor the public to kill two birds with one
,s"e-see ,s an artistic production and aid
'"e University Base Hospital.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-16
STEALS TO BE IN PRISON
NEAR CONVICT HUSBAND
Woman Accused Of Shoplifting Admits
Crime and Gives Remarkable
Reason for Her Act

n frail little woman was arraigned he
fore Magistrate Pennock and told an un-
usual story. She was accused Of shop
lifting In Market street store and gave
her name as Julia Wagner, twenty-six years
old, of 2934 Melvale street
Yes she said II stole things until they
caught me so that | could he arrested and
sent near my husband. He is serving a six
year sentence and says he has no chance OF
commutaton."
The woman added that her husband was
up for burglary and that she wished moth
ing better than to be sent to keep him
company. Her story impressed those in
the Night Police Court Police Surgeon Dr.
John Wanamaker Sd. said that she was too
fral TO live in Jail and that she probably
would die within three months II sent there.
The magistrate held her in $400 bail for
a further hearing.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-16

The whole story OF civilization. Mr.,
Thompson tells us, can be told In terms OF
the garments women have hidden them
selves in
There is nothing on earth so mmodest
as skirt" he writes. "Womans first
rebellion must be against the indecency of
wearing specialized sex garments in public.
Until she has gained the social right to
dress like a human being she will gain few
other rights"
Dressing like a human being. from the
Thompson viewpoint, is dressing like a man
that is to say in trousers. Are women
people? Well. hmm, it hasn't been decided
yet il would seem.
Though, Of course. there's nothing to be
said against trousers, only against Mr..
Thompson's logic. which holds that although
the skirt is sex dress because it has been
worn by woman, the trouser isn't a sex
dress. having been worn by men. Women,
ii would seem. have cornered the sex
market IL there's panic in It now it's all
their fault, Men, of course, have had moth
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-16
ing to do with sex. IT'S stock they don't


ing to do with sex IT'S a stock they don't
deal in.
Let's have the trouser by all means II
we want II. and II we can do our bit the
better for the wearing OF II. But why cast
odium on the petticoat? It's been nice
little petticoat Sometimes II has served
an actual esthetic purpose, hiding anatomi-
cal eyesores Lots of men would be more
attractive for the wearing Of them. Let's
not invest the petticoat with all the errors
or an out-worn age until we discover
whether or not women remain who can he
iust as coy and kittenlsh and parasitic in
their bifurcations
It's doubtful, after all. II women are
people They really are women. Just as men
are men and were men none the less back
in Biblical times when they too had a fond
ness for skirts.
In the meantime read Woman" II you
want to be entertained but II you want to
know what real feminism is. divested Of
masculine sentimentality, look to the woman
eSponents OF t.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-16

While the new woman Is pusily engaged
evolving" herself. the "od" man--for the
creature of masculine persuasion has never
thought for a minute that he needed the
tonic effects of an eNOlution--iS sitting up
late to write books about how she ought
to do 1t, what she is going to look like
when she Is "evolVed" and the thoroughly
enjoyable place this old world is going to he
to live In when that millennium arrives.
One thing the literary gentlemen have
decided Upon is that we can't be new and at
tractive at one and the same time.
Even II. G. Wells, who has shown us
some charming women. has depicted the
new woman IS the lean. gaunt. weather.
beaten mate"
Comes now one Vance Thompson The
same he is who told us how it is possible
to Eat and Grow Thin" and Drink and
Be Sober"
His latest literary contribution to the
field Of feminsm might be entitled How to
Re Happy, Though Married" II is in
stead called Woman" and is published by
f.. p. Dutton & Co. New York
once Mr.. Thompson went to California
There he met the new" women.
wild. cold. companionabc women" he
writes. 'breeched and gathered girls-who
will saddle up a dancing broncho toss
themselves athwart his spine and galop
you twenty miles before luncheon-talking
politics the while. They are the future
They are sane and salutary companions
They are not ohGessed with little parasitic
sex intentions--like the pettcoated females
They are women"
EVOLUTION OF NEW MAN
1t occurred to my illogical feminine brain
while reading this passage that somebody
ought to be doing propaganda work to
create interest in the evolution of a new
man. There must be a new man, otherwise
the new girls are going to he powerfully
lonely.
Take the men Of your acquaintance. for
instance Select the most radical, the new
est" Preferably he should be in love with
you or on the borderland of love. Have
the groom bring up to the curb two dancing
bronchos Toss yourself on the spine of one
of them. Bid your man do likewise Gallop
with him twenty miles. omit none of the
rigors. Make 1t before luncheon. Assail
his political arguments. open all the gray
cells in your head Talk him down.
If the wind and the exercise makes the
color mount to your cheeks'and he remarks
the fact. cast not your eyes down coyly.
Instead bring him sharply to himself with
an icy glance and rebuking word. Ask
him why he hasn't enlisted
Try the experiment,
And then see if you have sweetheart
left!
Personally. I'm awfuly fond Of the new
woman But like the that the women
feminists portray | like the new woman of
Olive Schreiner and Ellen Key the new
woman whose intelligence and Liberation
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-16
BY M'LISS

from old enshackling ideas but intensines
her feminnty.
virtually all Of the male writer's who
nave taken their swat at the new woman
pplne that OF the many types of the old
woman the vampire is the most abhorrent.
Nnd yet ! must confess that their desCrip-
tion of the rugged. weatherbeaten new"
types cold and wild. comes perilously near
being as unSavory as the rag, bone and
mank Of hair" Of Mr.. Kiplng's vampire.
II would be nice to be cold and wild some
times wouldn't il? And. oh, To be able to
tell the truth just for once to a man,
But the new womau--and there are many
OF her already--is SO exceptionally intelll-
gent; so awfully canny, and she knows that
it Just wouldn't do-for a while at any
rate. Not until the New Man. who can
bear the whole truth and nothing but the
truth without running to some little para
site vampire for consolation. looms upon
the horizon. Then only can she be wild and
cold and rugged and weatherbeaten. Then
only can she be exactly what she WANTS
to be.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-16

o'clock, according 70 a. enpp0zl6(
Mrs John MarkoS. A4mlsslon WIN g
Many PhiladeiphIa women are I60I
forward TO the meeting with great inter-
Bishop Brent is powerful and maerG
orator. He has been to the front In Fr1f|
where he visited the army Of General n
on the Arras and Ypres lines. He also r
resented America at the America Day sel'
ices In st, PaHs Cathedral in London
mark Americas entry into the war.
Bishop Brent In 1908 was chief comu11
sioner for the United States and was pfUl
dent OF the International Opium Conf6
ence held in 1911 at The Hague.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-16
BISHOP BRENT TO SPEAK
ON WOMAN'S WAR DUTY
Head of Philippine Diocese, Who Was
at Ypres. Will Be Heard -
Friday

Bishop Brent, Of the Philippine islands.
will deliver an address on The Duty Of
Women in Warfare" at a meeting in With
erspoon Hall next Friday afternoon at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-08

you in the daytime, sir, the telephone would ring and somebody would want you; we'd be interrupted by somebody from your office desiring you to come to town at once on important business; old Tattletale would be on your trail for game of dominoes at the club or you'd be too eligrossed in reading the war news in the papers to give any attention what ever to my words; so after due con- sideration all round I've come to the conclusion that the hours between Il p. m. and a. m. are the most desirable and wife; then there IS one retreat for you, and most husbands would lie still and listen to what was being said, but I'm afraid with you, MT. Caudle, that there is no time at all for us to discuss things together, as you've taken to going straight to sleep the minute your head hits the pillow and there's no recourse now for me; however, I shall adopt the same attitude in marriage as in war, in which one is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy and so shall talk little louder and a little harder and little more emphatically, and per- haps you can be made to listen occasion ally"
 owl, I've decided to boot only at night? How dare you, sir? I shall boot day and night if I choose. You believe that?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-08

Why certainly; why shouldn't you? What's that you say. That I told the truth when I said you were blessed with an indomitable constitution? What do you mean, sir? That you couldn't have lived with me these 25 years if you hadn't been and listened to my wagging and cackling and talking? Well, MT. Caudle. I call that the most inhuman, the most unkindest cut of all, but I'll say right there, sir, that 1t will take me 25 more years to get through dilating upon the grievances and troubles and put up with on account of your incon- siderate treatment, your nerve racking behavior. and your unnatural, peculiar, strange performances"
 What's that, sir? That a tiny circlet like a wedding ring which seems so small, gives woman the privilege of abusing a man and talking him to death and treating him like dog and that no small feminine third finger will ever again wear one from you? Oh, Have you no fine feelings? Does it not ever occur to you that I'd like to be spoken to at least considerably every now and then, and not like I'm a slave or servant? Now let me tell you some thing, sir; I don't believe you could ever get any other woman to wear a ring of yours on her third finger If she
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-08
THE GENTLE ART OF LISTENING)

knew about you what I do But then that's just like you; counting on being widower, wishing that I was dead and out of the way, so you could marry some little minx who is young enough to be your daughter? That Tattleta1e girl for instance; and I suppose you'd have no more decency than to take my wedding ring off my finger after I was dead and give it to Mrs. No 2. But let me tell you something, MT. Caudle; you may or may not have heard of 'haunts, but you'd hear of one then; not only hear of one, but see one, sir. for as sure as my name's Arabella Maria Mushy Caudle, I'd come back and 'hant' you and any woman who tried to take my place and be the mother of my eight children. Alas, sir, you may think that a wed- ding ring is just a hoop of gold in- tended to encircle the third finger, but you've reckoned wrong this time; like the ring of Saturn, that tiny hoop of gold, for good or evil encircles whole world; or to take less gigantic figure, 1t com passes a vast region-the region of our married life and our aims and objects; when that ring is put upon woman's finger, it makes her one with the man who puts 1t there, aud I propose as long as wear mine to exercise the preroga- tives that go with it."
 Are you listening, Mr. Caudle? It seems to me I heard a strange sound.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-08

Isn't 1t you snoring? Dear me2 It Is MT. Caudle; 1t Is; I thought couldnt mistake that noise Arouse yourself, MT. Caudle; don't you hear me talking? Whats that? You never hear anything else? Why can't I hold my tongue? You know, when I'm dead and gone that you'll still hear the sound of my voice. the wag of my tongue, giving commands, remonstrances, and all sorts of horrible things? Boo-hoo MT. Caudle, you are a. brute, and III am the most unhappy of women-the most abused of wives! I have to say! Dear me; its seldom enough that I speak, to be sure; you'll never have another wife who talks so little, and finds so little fault and who is as patient and kind as I am when you aggravate the very life and soul out of me! All your other faults are bad enough, but to think that you can't even listen! You can't even stay awake long enough to hear what I have to say! What are you coming to, MT. Caudle? I'd like to know!"
 Don't ever expect me to feel the same to you MT. Caudle, after your behavior tonight, and the unkind things you've said to me, sirl When you really are left In this cruel briery world without me, as you daily guide and nocturnal monitress at the age or five and 50 or maybe 60, you'll be sorry; then it is that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-08
CHILD GETS SICK CR0SS,FEVER|SH
 F CONST|PATED California Syrup of Figs' can't harm tender stom-
 ach or bowels

A laxative today saves sick child tomorrow. Children simply will not take the time from play to empty their towels, which become clogged up with waste. liver gets sluggish; stomach sour.
 Look at the tongue, mother! If coated. or your child is listless. cross, feverish. breath bad. restless. doesn t eat heartily. full of cold or has sore throat or any other childrens ailment, give teaspoonful of California Syrup of Figs" then don't worry, because 1t is perfectly harmless, and in few hours all this constipation poison. sour bile and fermenting waste will gently move out of the bowels, and you have a well. playful child again. A thorough inside cleansing" Is oftimes all that is necessary. It should be the first treatment given in any sickness.
 Beware of counterfeit fig syrups. Ask your druggist for 50-cent bottle of "California Syrup of Figs" which has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly printed on the bottle. Look carefully and see that 1t is made by the Cali fornia Fig Syrup company."-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-08

get local currency. But in the open ports where the foreigners do business there has developed fairly standard ized though still hectic system.
 The first thing you will have to get used to is Mex" The standard of prices wherever foreigners do busf- ness is always Mex and the coin chief ly used is the Mexican dollar. Among the earliest traders to come to the newly opened ports of China were the Mexicans. They left behind them their silver dollar. and, curiously enough, it has been used ever since.
 So, then, is money in China the root of all perplexity as well as of all evil. Until China has a uniform system of currency throughout the country 1t cannot do business on an efficient na- tional scale. And until 1t adopts the gold standard it cannot truly be ad- mitted to the family of nations finan- cially. At any rate, foreign capital will always hesitate to enter where to tho ordinary risks of business are added the uncertainties of a currency which may wipe out legitimate profits over night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-08
POINTS THAT MAKE FOR
 SUCCESS INTRODUCING CAPONS
Simple Treatment That h. creases Weight, Improves Flavor and Creates High CT Prices-General Pur- pose Breeds Are Best; s o m e Specialists Use Crosses.
By PROF. JAMES B. NORMAN Former Expert for the United States
 DeDartment of Agriculture

Former Expert for the United States
 Department of Agriculture
 As rule it is hardly profitable to pro- duce capons from small breeds of fowls. A breed like the Plymouth Rock is best for this purpose. It is possible with the heavier breeds of fowls to produce ca pons from cockerels which could not have been grown to good broiers. On some poultry farms where broiler rais- ing is made speciality, the better birds are sometimes fitted as broilers. while the poorer ones are retained as capons. In this way every bird is made to yield the highest profit.
 Cockeres matched at any time of the year can be grown into fine capons. Ex- ports vary in their opinion as to the age cockerels should attain to be suc- cessfully caponized. Some believe the operation should be performed when the cockerels are about two pounds in weight. Others recommend that caponizing should be done even earlier As a general rule the operation may be performed success fully when the birds range from 11a to pounds in weight, and when they are from two to four months old. believe that three months is about the right age for caponizing. Cockerels that have reached the age of six months should not be so treated. The size Is equally as important as the age of the bird.
 From April to October are the months usually chosen for caponizing. During these months late winter and spring
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-08
s. c. WHITE MINORCAS

Minorcas, Spanish and Andalusans are all of one race, and all from the same country-Spain. The former have been bred in England for almost 100 years. According to some authorities the earliest name of the group was Minorca, White Faced Blue and Black, and later. when white sports were successfully bred and reproduced, the name changed to White Minorca.
 White Minorcas have been developed from albinos of the black variety, and as layers of large white eggs they equal their black cousins They are large, striking fowls; white plumage, legs, beak. and earlobes contrasting strongly with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-08

Some experts keep tho birds from both food and water. while keep water from them only during the latter part of tho time The object of enforced fasting Is to empty the digestive organs and to di- minish the amount of blood in the blood vessels, which reduces the danger of rup- turing the arteries.
 During the fasting period the cockerels should be conned in clean, well ven- tilated coop or shed. Shut them up early in the morning so that their fast will end about noon of the following day.
 Where caponizing is frequently prac- ticed a regular table is used for the pur- pose. Holes are bored in the top. The cockerel should be held on it's side on this table and secured by passing a strong cord around its shanks and an- other around both wings close to the shoulder joints. The cords may be held in place by attaching weights to the ends passed through the holes under the table.
 When the bird Is fastened to the table remove few feathers from the upper part of the last two ribs just in front of the thigh joint. Moisten the other feathers around the spot so that they will not interfere with the operation. Pull the flesh on the side down toward the hip. Make an incision well toward the back about an inch and half long between the last two ribs Insert the spreader provided for the purpose, hook up and cut the lining membrance of tho abdominal cavity. push away the intes- tines from the back, and the organs can be seen. The necessary parts are care- fully removed by proper instruments and in accordance with the directions of the manufacturer.
 When the operation has been completed the birds should then be kept quiet and fed on soft food.
 One of the objects of caponizing Is to make the bird grow larger. A capon be- comes gentle and fattens more readily than cockerel. Its nature Is changed to marked degree. It loses its activity