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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-02-16
A Masterpiece.

This apOstrophe to water is suit
able for scrapbooks."
A fine tribute, eh?"
Eyes. 1t was written by a preacher
who never touched drop Of alcoholic
liquor In his life, but he could not have
been more surprised If he had been ad-
dessing a large pitcher Of ice water
on the morning after a New Years
party"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-02-16
Santa ClausI cards.

Bacon-I understood the favorite
Christmas diversion In England In the
time Of George III was card-playing.
Egbert-Well, even now Santa Claus
always comes with q pack on his back.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-02-16
Tho Reason-Coin,

She-Why, young Jobson has mar
ried old Miss Antique. Just think Of
the disparity in their ages.
He-And also think Of the disparity
n their bank accounts.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-02-16

from my age mac
when going up
stairs I had to 60
very slowly with
my hands on the
steps, then sit down
at the top to rest.
The doctor said he
thought I should
have an operation,
and my frie do
thought would not
live to move into
our new house. My
dauChtar aaked ma
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-02-16
Qualified.

"Have you any qualifications for this
government clerkship for which you
are applyingr
"Yes. Ny wife can make q small
salary 60 further than any woman you
ever saw"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-02-16
Avoid Sitting Down.

"Going skating today, BillyT
mo"
"Why not?'
"Well, mother used her slipper on
me this morning. and I'm afraid II will
hurt more when I sit down."-Yonkers
Statesman.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-02-16
CLIMBED STAIRS
ON HER HANDS
Too Tito Walk Upright. Operatiou
Advised. Saved by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.

This woman now raises chickens and
does manual labor. Read her story:
Richmond, Ind.-''For two years I
was so sick and weak with troubles
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-02-16
Friendship.

Friendship is an order of nobility;
from Its revelations We come more
worthy into nature.-EmersOn
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-02-16

Paradoxical.
1T Is a funny thing about some Of
these elections"
whats funny about themr
where they say II Is the silent vote
which does the talking"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-02-16

Recently invented stuffed animals
for children have skins that can be re-
moved and washed.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-02-16
No Feminine Trait.

She-Mr. Bings has a clever par
rok It remarked the other day that II
wasn't worth while talking when you
had nothing to say.
He-Then what does he call II Sally
fort
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-02-16


and by the historic chateau be restored and
personal
Mrs William
the the
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-02-16
No Wonder.

"The first time Cholly tried to run
his new car 1t turned turtle"
Probably to show its sympathy
with its owner. He's such a lobster"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-02-16

Dr.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the orig
inal little liver pills put up 40 years ago.
They regulate liver and bowels.-Adv.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-02-16
Health.

Health.
Health is the condition of wisdom
and the sign is cheerfulness-an open
and noble temper.-EmersOn.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-02-16
Probably.

Probably.
"What. was the matter with the
groom who did not show up at the
weddingf"
Il guess it was a case Of heart fail
ure."
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-02-16

DEATH Turks IN A WEAK HEART,
30 on first symptoms use "Renovine"
and be cured. Delay and pay the awful
penalty. "Renovine" is the hearts
remedy. Price $1.00 and 50c.-Adv.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-02-16

Well to Remember.
Brain used in getting ready for a
task saves Drawn afterward.
The Washington times., 1917-01-28
CHILD LABOR DAY

The observance all over this coun-
try today of "Child Labor Day" is
a reminder that a Federal enact
ment frequently comes far from
achieving the complete reform at
which it aims.
The Federal child labor law puts
each State on a par with respect to
the child labor it may employ in
turning out those products intended
for interstate shipment. It does not
affect employees in many branches of
commerce and industry which deal
only with products intended for dis
tribution within the State.
Enforcement of the Federal law is
likely to be rigid and uniform. States
still will continue to be gagged, in
respect to their social progress, by
the way in which they regulate those
fields open to exploitation of child
labor. For bringing about a general
realization of the iniquity of such
labor a prolonged educational cam
paign ma yet be necessary. The
work of the National Child Labor
Committee will not be done until it
has accomplished this education.
The Washington times., 1917-01-28
TO AID RUSSIAN WOUNDED
Nine. de Melssner to Give Lecture
Here February 7.

In an effort to raise funds for the
relief of Russian soldiers wounded
during the war, Nine. Sophie de Meiss-
ner, authoress and lecturer, will give
a talk on Preparedness in Russia" ct
the Washington Club Wednesday
morning, February Z, at 1880 o'clock.
The proceeds of the lecture will be
sent to the Dowager Czarina, head of
the Russian Red Cross, by Ambassa-
dor Bakhmeteff. Nine de Meissner re-
Gently has received a personal letter
from the Empress, thanking her for
her work here and for the last funds
forwarded.
In her next lecture, Nine. de Meiss-
ner will sketch the life of the Russian
soldiers, and will tell Of the Russian
military schools, in which the officers
receive their training. d.,
Patronesses for the lecture are
Nine. Bakhmeteff, wife of the Russian
ambassador: Mrs. Stephen o. Richey,
Mrs. Harriet Blaine Beale, Mrs. A. c.
Downing, Mrs. Henry Wiley, Mrs. A
A. Snyder, Mrs. n. s. Lincoln, Mrs.
Randolph Coyle, Mrs. Thomas HamiI-
ton Wilson. Mrs. A. W. Greedy, Mrs.
Seaton Schroeder. Mrs. Downes l. VIII
son, Mrs. Charles J. Bell, and Mrs.
William B. Orme.
The Washington times., 1917-01-28
cITY'S SOCIAL NEEDS

The joint year book of the Asso-
ciated Charities and the Citizens
Relief Association is significant not
only for its resume of social prob
lens that confront the District Of
Columbia, but for thefight it sheds
on the changing viewpoint of philan-
thropy.
The day when charity meant mere
ly the giving of aims has passed.
Then came the stage when charity
organizations went in for restoring
folk to a position of economic indie
pendence, and helping them help
themselves to get a living. There
was the stage when institutional care
was overemphasized. The reaction
brought a realization that there was
no substitute institution for the
family than the home.
The present report emphasizes the
up-to-date conclusion that many OF
our social problems do not have their
basis in physical need. Its descrip-
ton Of the present most urgent needs
Of the city, health eenters, social in
surance, colony for the feeble-mind-
ed, and the new municipal hospital,
bear out this assumption.
Philanthropic efficiency knows
pretty well by now how to deal with
those cases where "soup and soap"
are the principal needs. The prob
1ems of the deserted wife, Of the
feeble-minded child, Of the suonor-
NAL physique of wage earners, of the
disrupted home, are some of the per-
plexities which are troubling social
workers most.
The Washington times., 1917-01-28
THE SCHOOL CLERKS

While teachers and janitors Of the
public schools have long been seek
ing an increase of the abnormally
low pay they receive in Washington,
the clerks have been heard from for
the first time in a set of tables just
submitted to a subcommittee of the
Senate Appropriations Committee.
An examination of their presenta-
ton shows that six of them receive
as low as $500. and that twenty
two Of them get less than $1,000.
This rate of pay will be found ridicu-
lousy low upon examination of the
work these clerks perform: They are
really not clerks, in many cases, but
secretaries to school officials. They
carry much of the burden of detail
work from the superintendent down
through the high school principals
and supervising principals Of grade
schools. Some of them have been
with the schools for years and have a
grasp Of technical details of their
work that puts their work far be-
yond the clerical classification.
Especially is this true of the clerks
assigned to officials in the Franklin
School. These clerks must deal with
visitors ranging from irate parents
high school Officials Of other cities.
The Washington times., 1917-01-28
REPUBLICANS IN THE NEXT
HOUSE -.

Events already confirm the belief
of many folk that;the even alignment
Of the two big parties in the next
House, with five Independents hold
ing the balance of power, is going to
be a. mighty good thing for Con-
gress, and especially for the Repub-
lican party.
Soc far as the G. o. P. is con-
cerned the situation is compelling it
to think four years ahead, and its
leaders realize that the performances
of the Republicans during the next
session of Congress not only will
have a profound effect on the Con-
gressional elections two years hence
but upon the Presidential campaign
in 1920.
The Progressives, and the progress
sives with a small pr within the
old party, are assuming their full
share of the responsibility, and under
the House leadership of Augustus P.
Gardner, are pointing to the need of
injecting more issues into the G. o.
P. platform than the high tariff. One
of the items said to be strongly
backed by this element is the budget
system for governmental expendi-
ture. The public is more keenly
alive to efficient financial methods
than it was ten, or even five years
ago. and the business men whose
support the Republican party must
enlist are especially sympathetic to-
ward reform in eur antiquated fiscal
machinery.
The radicals in the Republican
wing are proposing legislation that
would go the Democrats one better
such measures as social insurance
and a Federal eight-hour law for
women workers. The conservatives
frankly are willing to concede much,
just as much in fact as they believe
will satisfy Theodore Roosevelt and
his followers, who are keeping a
mighty close watch on the Republi-
can legislative program.
At the Republican caucus to be
held within a week or two there will
be showing of strength that will be
deeply significant for the perform
ance of the G. o. P. for the coming
two wears.
The Washington times., 1917-01-28
1000 PAROLES HELD UP.

One thousand prisoners in the Fed
eral prisons at Leavenworth and At
lanta entitled to parole by law are
held in prison, because the Attorney
General is unable to pass upon ths
great volume of parole recommends
lions. according TO the testimony OF
Earl f. budding, president of the
Prisoners Relief Society. before the
House Judiciary Committee yesterday.
He urged governmental machinery
that would give these men freedom.
The Washington times., 1917-01-28
Tomorrow.

Concert. Psttine and Mandolin Club. under
direction Of Mrs. Ella C. Mooney, lobby Of
Y. NJ. Q. A, p. m.
Charity play, My Curate." by ST. Patrick q
Dramatic Association, Carroll Hall. s p. m,
Celebration OF Kansas Day, banquet ana
dance. Kansas State Society OF Washington,
New Ebbitt. p. m.
Meeting. committee in charge OF knights of
Columbus celebration OF washIngton's
birthday. in X. OF c. hall. 7:3o p. M.
Meeting, public order committee of the
Board OF Trade, In rooms OF the Board, 4:4S
Meeting. Central Labor Union. Typographical
Temple 1880 p. m.
Reception and entertainment in observance
Friendly Society OF Epiphany Church, in
church hall. p. NJ.
Smoker, senior Glars OF Georgetown Univer-
sity Law School. Raleigh Hotel, D. m.
Graduating exercises. Business High School.
3 y. M.
Course 4. teacher training. under auspices Of
the Board OF Religious Education of the
piocsse Of Washington. Epiphany Church
Hall 1877 q street northwest. p. m.
Meeting RandIe Highlands Citizens Asso-
citation. In headquarters. p. m.
Gypsy smith revival meeting, tabernacle,
Sixteenth and V streets northwest, $50 p.
Concert. L. 8. Marine Band Orchestra. Ma
rine barracks. $50 r. m.
Mass meeting, TO discuss proposed increa ses
in fares on KensinEton railroad, Kensing-
ton town hall. y. NJ.
Address on objects OF League TO Enforce
Tcare william II. Short. Georgetown Uni
yeruIty Law School sos f street northwest.
I,so,urc. "Re'igIous Conditions and Needs -
Dr. Thornton B. Penfeld. Y. W. C. A., $50
n m.
p.c,ntion and dance. Ohio Society Of Wash
Ington, RRurch~r's. 3 p. m.
Ma rnnic-Anacostia, No. IL. Royal Arch Ma
sons .
naarOu No. IL,
The Washington times., 1917-01-28
SUFFRAGISTS ELATED
Glad Veterans Are to Take Up
White House Pieketina.

of the White House will give a warm
welcome to the Maryland Spanish
War Veterans when they come here
to do picket duty in the interest OF
increased pensions for members Of
their organizations, according to the
officials of the Congressional Union.
1--WE are being criticised for stand
ing out front, principally because we
are women" said one of the sentin-
els. Now we wonder what the pub
lie will say II a number of men line
up at the White House gates?"
Sunday Is day OF rest for the
Suffrage sentinels and none of them
was seen on the White House picket
lines today.
The Washington times., 1917-01-28
Here andThere
In the News

Gypsy Smith will begin his work
in Washington today. He will be here
month and those who have been
planning for his coming expect that
the people will be much benefited by
his minbtrations. There is plenty Of
room for him here and the place and
its people would be much improved
by serious thinking of the higher life
As an old author has expressed 1t:
1--WE have just enough of religion to
make us hate. but not enough to make
Is love one another" 1t is to be
hoped that Gypsy Smith will be able
to take the town out of its selfish
ness and at the same time to make
the people see that there is something
very real and substantial in true re-
ligion; not the terrors of the law, but
the love of God; not the hypocrisy Of
the Pharisee, but the faith of the
Publican; "the true spirit of religion
which as another eminent writer has
said, cheers, as well as composes
the soul, banfshes an levity OF be-
haviour, all vicious and dissolAte
mirth, and in exchange fills the mind
with a perpetual serenity, uninter-
rupted cheerfulness, and an habitual
inclination to please. others. as well
as to be pleased in itself" Hear what
is written in the Epistle of James:
IF any man among you seems to be
religious. and bridleth not his tongue.
but deceiveth his own heart, this
mans religion Is vain. Pure religion
and -undefiled before God and the
Father, is this: To visit the father
less and widows in their affiictIon
and to keep himself unspotted from
the world
The Washington times., 1917-01-28
5000 Galleries NOT
ENOUGH FOR WILSON
White House Attendants Say
President Expends More
Energy Than Policeman.
DAILY ROUND OF GOLF
Numerous Tasks accomplished
Daily BY Executive Make Or
fetal Day Arduous.
DAILY ROUND OF GOLF

When Mrs. Eula 4rcclary. New York
dietieian. estimated that II. 1t re-
quired $500 calories of food to keep
the average policeman In fighting
trim all the time, 5000 calories would
be sufficient for President Wilson, her
calculations were bad.
This is the declaration Of White
House officials who keep rather
close tab on what the President does
In the run of a day. They believe that
II confined to the two-bit-a-day
menu suggested by Mrs. McClary for
any length of time. Mr.. Wilson would
be starved to death.
Contrary to the general belief that
he Il q non-active citizen when Il
comes to taking physical exercise,
and that he leads a sedentary life.
President Wilson gets q lot more
exercise and consumes much more
energy during the course Of q day
than the average business or pro-
fessional man.
Golf Every Day.
Practically every day in the week
Mr.. Wilson spends an hour or two at
golf. To go over the links at the
Chevy Chase Club, as crow flies. the
golfer would cover a distance of
something like four miles. Up and
down the hills. and taking the zig
rag courses which even the best
golfers at times must follow. this
four miles often Is stretched into ave
and one-half and six miles
The President walks from the club
L. =
the various courses about Washing
ton He walks back to the club
houses at the conclusion of the game.
Daily Walk Anyway
When he fails to go goInng. he
almost always walks briskly about
the city, sometimes for couple Of
hours at a time
The White House employees do not
maintain that he does as much walk
ing In a day as the average police
man, but do say that he gets much
more exercise than the public thinks
Physical Labor Great.
Add to this the energy expended
in. receiving callers six and eight
hours a day. which the President
does; the shaking OF hands with
scores upon scores OF persons: the
physical labor involved in looking
up references In the big library al
ways at his elbow. and the amount
OF energy actually expended by Nr.
Wilson will not be far below thatsof
the average policeman. especially
those detailed in the downtown sec
lions where the beats are short
Then, on top of this, give him
credit, the officials say. for wear and
tear on brain in studying over the
various problems which he Is forced
to- face every day. He has confer
ences with Senators and Congress
men, both day and night, at the
White House and. Capitol His dicta-
ton and his own typewriting, part /
of which he always does for him
self and half a hundred other things,
REQUIRE more calories in day than
one of Mrs. McClary's 25-cent menus
provide, they say.
The Washington times., 1917-01-28
WHAT'S ON PROGRAM
Many Interesting Events of Import
anee Are Scheduled.
Today.

TOoay.
Concert, United States Soldiers Home Band
Orchestra. Stanley Hall. $50 D. m
Address. +. Lewis Epstein, before Ahovos
Zion Society, l2o6 Sixth street northwest
p. m.
Concert, Paul Institute. 2io7 8 street north
west, 9 p. m. Anniversary celebration
Epiphany Branch OF the Girls Friendly
Society. Epiphany Church. 8 p. m
Lecture, How to Choose q Vocation" Miss
Louise Cults Powell, Hotel Portland, $50
..
Meeting. women's wage-Earners' Associa-
ton, In rooms Of the Columbia Academy
704 T street northwest, q. m.
Religious services, in charge Of Fidelity
Chaptet. No. 10. Masonic and Eastern Star
Home, , p. m
Opening revival. Gypsy Smith. jr.. Sixteenth
and V streets northwest, 7:3o .. m.
Lecture, by Judson King. Some IdeaIs NJ
Popular Government" Perpetual Bufldjn1
Hall. Eleventh and z northwest, $50 b M
Meeting. Young Willing Helpers Club Per.
petual Building Hall. Eleventh Ind z,
Lecture. The Constitution" DR.. Mary E
Walker. Pythian Temple. 3 D. m.
Lecture America a Christian Nation WILL
liam Knowles Cooper. Boys Department.
Y. NJ. c. A. go p. m.
Lecture, Heroes q the Civil War; GEN
w. Z. Harvey. 4. NJ. c, A. Hero Club.
Lecture, THE Bahai Teaching as a Factor
In World Peace" William H RandaiI
Studio Hall. LIS Connecticut avenue. BIS
p. m.
The Washington times., 1917-01-28
LUTHER's OUADcENTENARY

The celebration planned in Wash
1hgton of the four hundredth ami
versary of Luther's reformation is a
part of a nationwide tribute being
arranged for that reformer which
has an interest far wider than the
confines Of that particular denomi-
nation. Most folk do not know that
the, denomination named for him, or
rather nicknamed for him under his
protest and that of his followers, is
now the third in this country in point
Of numbers.
Like all reforms the religious
reformation of the early sixteenth
century needed. for historic purposes,
a personality to be remembered by.
Luther was no more alone as a lead
er in attacking certain church prac-
tees than was Darwin n develop
ing the theory Of evolution. But
the names of both, perhaps, will
stand for these two historical move
ments. -....-- 70 .
1t is interesting, too, to recall that
Luther intended to found no new de-
nomination. His followers, long af-
ter him, did that. His theses, nailed
to the door Of the Wittenberg
Church, were singularly mild when
compared to the length other Prot
estant leaders, such as Gustavus
Adolphus, Philip Melancton, and
Wesley. went in their breaking away
from the traditional faith.
If there is one lesson that stands
out in the life of Martin Luther, af-
ter 400 years, it is his protest against
Journalism. 1t is the, same message
that Emerson and Philips Brooks
and modern religious insurgents
brought to our own time. Yet Curl
ously enough the followers Of the
great reformer, from Luther on
down, sometimes seem curiously
inimical to the type of indie
pendent thinking which the founders
of their denominations advocated. A
Winston Churchill, with a book like
"The Inside Of the Cup" can bring
down upon his head, for the serious
study of modern religious problems,
all the anathema, if not the persecu-
ton, that st. John, a Luther, or a
Calvin encountered in their times.
The Washington times., 1917-01-28
STUDIED IN CAPITAL
Violin Vlrtuoso Received Training
While Washington Resident.

When Elias Breeskin, violin virtu-
oso. appears at the National Theater
next Sunday afternoon. Washington
music lovers will have an opportunity
to hear a real product of this city.
For Mr.. Breeskin, although a Pole
by birth is a Washingtonian in the
full sense of the word, for II was
here that he received the real start in
has musical education. and it was by
Washington people that his talent was
first recognized and appreciated. He
received the elements OF his musical
education in Cracow. Poland, ann
came to Washington at the age of
eight years.
The Washington times., 1917-01-28
TO HEAR OIL WITNESSES.

Testimony in the famous billion
dollar oil suit brought by the United
states against the Southern Pacific
Oil Company will be taken at the De-
partment OF Justice Tuesday by Fed
eraI Judge BenJmin F. Bl .soe, OF the
Sixth California district. Senator
Hoke Smith will be one of the wit
nesses examined. The suit IL one by
which the Government seeks to can.
Gel patents 10 land in San Joaquin
valley. California. which is valued at
$500 900. 900 and from which OIL TO the
value Of 81, DOC, 900 has been extracted.
The Washington times., 1917-01-28
FUNERAL OF MICHAEL FLYNN
Services to Be Held at st. Stephens
churcsh Tomorrow.

Funeral services for Michael Flynn.
a retired merchant OF Washington for
the past sixty years. and woh died at
the home OF his daughter. Mrs. ]. j.
OE.eary, of 1900 Twenty-ninth street
Friday night. are to be held at St.
stepehen's Catholic Church tomor-
row morning at 9 o'clock.
Requiem mass will be said by the
Rev. Robert Froelich. Interment will
be In Mt. Olivet Cemetery Mr.. Flynn
was eighty years OF age and is sur
vived by Ave daughters. Mrs. Dennis
o'Connor. Mrs. J. J. O'Leary. and Mrs.
Annie OBrIen, OF this city, Mrs.
Charles Tucker. OF Douglas. Ariz.. and
one son. John Flynn. OF this city.
The Washington times., 1917-01-28

and they must not only have grasp
upon a mass of details, but possess
rare tact and courtesy. Investiga-
ton has shown that no school sys-
TEN of the United States in a city
the size of Washington is conducted
with so small an expenditure for
clerical help.
The Washington times., 1917-01-28
HOSE WAGON IN CRASH
Automobile Runs Into Lamp Post,
But Firemen Escape Injury.

Willie responding to an alarm early
today, the automobile hose wagon OF
Engine Company No. 3 coIlided with
lamp post at First and l. streets
northwest. demollshing the lamp and
breaking the front wheel of the ap-
paratus. None OF the iremen was
injured.
The fire was on the second floor OF
the home OF John McLarney. 10 ].
street northeast. and was eXtinguish-
ed after So damage had been done.