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The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-03-31

No more was said, but that eve
ming, as we sat in our rooms, Doctor
Emmanuel outlined to me his plan.
1T is a desperate chance" he said
land l confess l am not altogether
sanguine of success. But it is worth
trying. l fancy that the main trouble
with Lady Sibyl is that she is an ideal.
list; she knows nothing Of life, with its
crudeness, it's cruelties, it's passions
She has always lived in the exalted
region of the intellect. If she could
see this Axel as an Infatuated savage
l think the shock would produce an
intense reaction. Now l have been
to his meetings, for the psychology
Of conversion has a great attraction
for me. He Is a magnetic speaker
away When he breaches he is &C
tually self-hypnotized. He says that
he speaks as the spirit directs him
and / have not the slightest doubt
that he Is, at such moments, largely
dominated by his former self-or role
rather, for the self does not change
Do you know the Kensington Taber
nacle"
mo-" I answered.
1T is a large room, fitted up for
meetings Of a religious or secular
character. It occupies the central
portion of the building, and radiating
out of it are numerous smaller rooms,
which are also rented for the night
to scientific and learned societies
which hold their regular meetings
there. Now here is my plan: if we
can rent one of these rooms and make
it the setting for our drama, and
bring Axel in there while he Is still
under the emotional influence Of his
sermon, self-hypnotized, that is to
say, it Is possible that we may cap.
ture the elusive Hajid, bring him to
the surface, and SO display the real
man to Lady Sibyl."
There wasn't much peacefulness in
Hajid," / said.
mo, and there isn't in Axel. But
there's more to come. I have been
talking with Noureddin. I recollect
that. when we were in Athens togeth-
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-03-31
Gum Arabic,

Gum arabic naturally exudes FROM
the bark of Acacia Senegal. tree ma
1--WE to North Africa. Other species of
Acacia are drawn upon, though yield
Ing slightly inferior product. Traga-
canth Is from shrubs of Astragalus, a
native OF Asia. While Astragalus is
common In western America none Of
them seems to be Of value for traga-
canth. The most shrubby local spe-
cies Is A. Brauntonil,
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-03-31


Emmanuel threw open the door and
We trooped in, and somebody-Car-
ruthers, I think closed it, and we
were inside Syrian house.
It was like one Of those little repro
auctions Of foreign scenery that one
encounters at expositions; 1t was at
once genuine and yet unreal. The
couches, with their Oriental cover.
ings, were such as might have been
seen in any home; the rugs were
from the ambassadors own reception
rooms, where ! myself had seen
them; the leopard skins, too, that
strewed the floor, were such as one
sees in furriers' shops. It did not i'm.
press me as spectacular-it was mere
ly grotesque and ornate.
Above our heads the sword, the
yataghan of the prophet, swung with
slight oscillating movement from its
support Of woven camel hair.
saw Lady Sibyl look at the room
In surprise; Carruthers glanced at
each of US, not understanding; the
Turkish ambassador, whom l had rec.
ognized on the platform, attired In
rather rough clothes. and evidently
DESTROYS of concealing his identity,
smiled slightly at me, as though in
depreciation Of the stage setting. But
the next moyqent we were all looking
at Axel.
Doctor Emmanuel. standing on tip.
toe, had placed his hands upon the
great fellows shoulders, and the mis-.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-13

blush this looks as IL mans legs would
first have to be shaved down. but tailors
and cutters say that very few men have
used shoe horns as yet to put trousers on, as
they do in France We may have thouser
shoe horns this year, Then there is that
question of the trouser cuffs. A well-known
tailor explained this phase very aptly.
ut took us quite a while to learn to turn
up our trousers when it rained here he
said. "Englishmen had been doing 1t for
years when we learned how. Now we do
not care to drop the style We hold to it
most tenaciously."
At every convention for the last ten years
the tailors have tried tc rule out the trouser
cuff. But they never have succeeded So
this year they are going to admit defeat
and let the trouser cuff continue undis-
turbed.
Tailors say that hard-hnshed goods are
the most difficult to get now on account of
the war. If the conflict lasts much longer.
they say, hard-fnis shed woolens will drop
out of the market altogether, leaving the
softer and fuzzler types Brown and green
will be the prevailing colors this year. Blue,
say experts in this line, is very unservice-
able.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-13
UNIQUE EPITAPH OWNER
DIES IN HIS 89TH YEAR
Norristown Manufacturer "Did Not
Anticipate Heaven Nor
Fear He'll"

NORRISTowN, Pa. Feb. 1s.-Charles
b, Weaver, retired sea captain, tack manu-
facturer and former health officer OF Nor
ristown, is dead. aged eighty-nine years, To
his energy and financial outlay, with other
leading manufacturers in the early eighties,
were accredited the swinging OF the county
from the Democratic to the Republican
column. -
Five years ago Captain Weaver pur-
chased a lot in Riverside Cemetery and
upon the tombstone which he had erected
he had inscribed.
"Without anticipation of Heaven,
Or fear of Hell.
with malice toward none,
With charity to all;
/ go hence. Nearer, My God to Thee
Nearer to Thee"
While a sea captain he rounded Cape
Horn five times, in the days before there
was a transcontinental railroad. He Wis
tied all the principal harbors OF the world.
while sailing the barge Union Jack the Con-
federate Captain Semmes, OF Alabama
fame, captured and burned his ship and
cargo. ana set Captain weaver and his
fsr0i1x Ashore at nahia, This expeFlepce
&1 ~ rnonr nn6 he CANA - W1r<
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-13
EXPERTS TO EXPLAIN
DOMESTIC ECONOMICS
Kitchen and Sewing Room Ad-
vice by Members of State
College Faculty

Housewives interested in economics or
the kitchen and the sewing room should at
tend some of the sessions beginning today
in the Chamber Of Commerce rooms in the
widener Building and in the Friends Cen
trail School, at Fifteenth and Race streets
The advice comes from Prof NJ S. Nc
Dowell of State College.
The discussions will not be along any
academic lines; all the talks are to be
wholly practical, the kind at which the
women can learn how to really save the
pennies and nickels.
The meetings are being given by the
PENNSYLVANIA State College School of Agri-
culture and Experiment Station. They will
begin this morning and continue until
Thursday night.
In the Chamber of Commerce rooms the
whole study will be given over to milk
There will be talks by men expert in the
field men who. know the dairy side, the
farm side, the distributing side, and SO on
Plenty of opportunity will be offered for
questions, and the humber the inquirer
the more welcome will her question be,
The state College men want to be asked
every question that is bothering the house,
wife, and promise TO clear up whatever
troubles her.
The same system will be followed In the
Friends Central School. where experts from
the same college will give lessons and an
swer questions on all branches OF nome
economies: food, patterns. buying in the
stores and so on, The home economies
sessions at the school will be at 2 O'Clock
this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon ana
at 10:30 Thursday.
The milk sessions will start at 10 each
morning and at o'clock each afternoon
There will also be sessions at the Champer
of Commerce each night.
Dairy specialists from the Pennsylvania
State College represented on the program
include: Prof Fred Rasmussen, head OF
the dairy husbandry department and an
authority on dairy economics; Prof. A a.
Borland, in charge of dairy husbandry ex-
tension; Prof. F. S. Putney and Prof: II. L.
Anthony, of the dairy husbandry depart
ment, and l.. C. Tomkins, of the dairy hcs
bandry extension staff,
E. S. Kelley, market milk investigator
for the United States Department or Agri-
culture. will lecture at one of the ses-
sions.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-13
General Idea Is for Slim
ness, but Not Too
Much So - Trousers,
However, May Require
Use of Shoe Horn
By s. ART ORR

The Prince Albert coat, that nerenpial
encaser of statesmen preachers kings and
patent medicine men, will be officially
counted out by the National Association of
Merchant Tailors, which started its conven-
ton this morning at the Bellevue -Stratford
The Prince Albert was sentenced three
years ago, 1t appears, but since that time
II has had n reprieve or two Last night
was spent in solitude and this morning the
Prince ate hearty breakfast of ham and
eggs,
The Prince Albert coat" said william
n. Dixon, chairman Of the model commit
tee at the convention. "is-bulky and has a
whole flock of deficiencies 1t makes the
fat man look fatter the short man look
shorter and even the perfectly built man
looks very slovenly when his Prince Albert
happens to be open. It may come in again.
but not for a long time, How much neater
is the cut-away coat commonly called the
English walking coat
They are going to cut evening clothes
moro to the shape of mankind than ever
before. But IL some men have no shane
that will not mean that the suits will be
cut regardless.
This years styles" said a tailor from
the West, will require much more artistic
work on the part of the tailor than ever
before. He will have to build a fat mans
coat so as to not make him resemble a
sausage bursting in the middle. He will
have to make human bean-poes contour
resemble something else than map of
some stern and rock-bound coast Alto
gether there will be quite a hard time for
the inexpert tailor this year"
1t has been rumored during the last few
years that some men do not own evening
dress. A man who had only one whole
pair of trousers was recently discovered
How about the chap who can only get two
or three suits year and still wants to
look stylish?
In the first place a man must consider
his shape more sincerely this year than ever
before.
"A lot of men with fifty girths see those
pictures we have of slim, natty youths in
tightly fitting clothing and imagine they can
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-13
NAVY WANTS JUST MEN,
NOT ADONISES OR HERCULESE<
Farragut and Jones Probably Could Not Pass PresenDa
Test-Applicatons None Too Numerous,
Recruiting Officer Says
BY M'LISS

IF DAVID FARRAGUT and John Paul
Jones. naval heroes emeritus. were to
come back to life and step up to the naval
recruiting station on Arch street the likeli-
hood is that they would be rejected as unfit
for service.
History records that both the first ad-
miral of the United States navy and Its
most daring commander wore countenances
that were unprepossessing in a marked de-
gree. When prizes for pulchritude were
handed out these two didn't bulge from
the back row.
An unsightly face keeps you out of fhe
navy; likewise, oorns buniors. harelip,
squint and score of other more serious
Affections
The recruiting officers wear a dour look.
More than one-half of the applicants are
rejected because Of physical defects and
not enough are applying
yesterday out of the twenty-three men
who applied for admission to the navy only
eleven could meet the physical test Twenty
three applicants is shameful number in
these stirring times"
The American man judged from these
statistics, Is no Adonts According to the
recruiting officer the standard of physical
requirements is low rather than high, Uncle
Sam does not demand a perfect male for a
Jackie He just mustn't be too imperfect
Is the way the recruiting officer phrases IT,
"A man must have at least twenty good
teeth he said land no false ones, He
cannot have an unsightly face, with blem-
ish on 1t. This might lay him open to un-
Kind remarks on the part of his cornpan-
ions and that would make for strife and
unhappiness
"A great many persons are color-blnd
and don't know it. Three out of the twen-
ty-three men who came in yesterday picked
out bright red and browns or blues from
the worsted when they were told TO select
greens
Some applicants stutter when they state
| their business. Suffering is not tolerated
in the navy. These are unfit and rejected"
In 1915, out Of the 100000 men who APP
piled for admission to the United States
| navy $4,000 were weighed in the balance
and found wanting: $4,000 for defective
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-13
FATHER OF BOY KILLED
BY COPS RUSHING HOME
Will Demand Policemen Be
Brought to Trial for Murder,
Family Intimates

Edward Kippax, father Of Arthur Kip
pax, the seventeen -year-old pupil of the
Northeast High School. who was shot to
death by Policemen Schottmiller and O'Con-
nor on Sunday night is expected to arrive
in Philadelphia today.
An employe of the banking firm Of f.
w Clark & Co, Mr.. Kippax was on his
way to Shreveport. La, on a business trip.
hut has been recalled by members of his
family by wire. These intimated that he
would make strong appeal to bring the
two policemen to trial on the charge Of
murder.
The victims mother is In a serious con-
dition at the home of her father-in-law,
Joseph Kippax. ais Pechn street, Rox-
boSough suffering from prostration caused
blythe shock of her sons death.
Friends of the Kippax family are unani-
nous in declaring the shooting n piece of
gross and criminal stupidity" The boy
they say. was liked and respected. He had
more than $500 in bank, which he had
saved to pay his way to the University of
Pennsylvania. All agreed in vouching for
his honesty and integrity.
Manayunk business and professional men
who have known the boy for years ap-
parently unite in saying that his habits
were exemplary.
There was considerable unfavorable com
ment when it was learned that O'Connor
and Schottmler had been given their lib
erty although one or the other had killed
Kippax and wounded Sobey. while the three
schoolboys, charged with a minor crime.
were held under heavy bail and sent to Jail
Both policemen insisted yesterday that
they had fired merely to frighten the four
persons whom they found in the store Thev
said they did not know their identity at
the time.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-13

wear clothes of that sort" said Mr.. Dixon.
we haye to get them and fit them and pad
them and press them and even then the
clothes we have put on them are not the
cut of those in the Autographs They want
TO look stylish in young, slim way when
they are old and fat"
There are certain rules that reasonably
well proportioned man should follow il he
wishes to be strictly up to the minute in
style. once again there will be no padding
in the shoulders of coats. Tailors are eX-
perimenting with a "chesty" type of coat
In some manner they are building out the
bosoms without padding them, and in this
way pairing embonpoint and giving the stout
brethren the straight up and down look"
The lapels of coats are going to be mar
rover than last year. the soft roll and
the 1at-pressed lapel will go about fifty
fifty on the new coats. Two-button coats
will be in the majority, but a decolete one
Dutton affair for vestless summer days is
put forth also.
When the so-called Englishman's styles
hit this country seven eight years ago
the vests were cut so high that they re-
sembed new-fangled wooden bibs. Grad
ually they have dropped until this year they
are cut just as low as the coat itself Silk
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-13
DELINQUENCY OF GIRLS
TOPIC OF CONFERENCE
Means of Prevention to Be Discussed
at Meeting of Council of
Jewish Women

Means of preventing delnquencies among
girls will he discussed this afternoon at a
meeting of the Council of Jewish Women to
be held at 2.30 O'Clock in the Keneseth
Israel Temple Alumni building, Broad street
above Columbia avenue. The two prin-
cipal speakers will be Mrs. Jane Deeter
Rippin, chief probation officer of the Mu-
nicpal Court of this city. and Miss Maude
Minor, secretary Of the New York Proba-
tionary Association, Reports will be made
at the meeting of the work accomplished
by the Personal Service Bureau, conducted
by the Council of Jewish Women. This
bureau was established to care for delin-
ouent girls, as we'll as girls who are i'll or
out Of employment.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-13
GOLD MEDAL GIVEN TO GIRL
WHO SAVED DROWNING MEN
National Swimming Instructors AS.
sociation Rewards Miss Harber
for Bravery

!. PITTSBURGH, Feb. 13.-Miss Nell Har-
per, Of Aspinwall a singer and member of
society, at the Pittsburgh Natatorium, last
nlsnt was presented with a gold medal by
me National Swimming Instructors Asso-
slation Tor rescuing two men from drown
ns IN the Allegheny River, at the Brilliant
Dam, last September.
MISS Harber, who is twenty-one years
~, ~. was asleep in her home when she heard
sles OF distress. She got into skiff and
FOUND two men, one floundering in the water
anu the other clinging to piece of a
mrecked motorboat Their craft had gone
aJser the dam and broken. The men were
End IVY 1"u'' u i"''
MISS Harber took the men safely ashore,
"nefe they were resusctated,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-13
SAVES SCHOOLS MONEY, N
WINS INCREASE IN PAY

A clerk at the headquarters of the Board
of Education received an increase in salary
of $3.50 a year today because he saved the
taxpayers thousands of dollars through his
services. The clerk Is John j! SchiedeI,
Jr., who Is attached to the office of William
Dick, secretary of the Board Of Education.
1t is Schedel's duty to inspect all requisl-
tions for textbooks and supplies. BY
eliminating the ordering of unnecessary
materials. a large saving effected.
Accordingly, upon recommendation of Mr..
Dick the finance committee decided to In
crease his pay. which heretofore has been
1880. The increase was made possible by
the fact that there Is an appropriation for
another position under the Board of Educa-
ton which was never filed the duties Of
which were discharged by Schiedel
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-13
LOBSTERS JUMP FROM 40
TO 65 CENTS A POUND

Although the price of food, certain
class of food at least has taken another
jump skyward, the poor man, for once IN
his life need not worry
What matters it to him II the most re-
cent increase is blamed on the war or
weather? Both causes have been mentioned
to explain the fact that Holsters are soaring
1t is true Regardless of shape or form
they are served in, the price of Holsters has
increased
Lobsters formerly were bought at forty
cents pound. Now they've jumped to
sixty-five cents. On fish days the price takes
an extra jump of from five to ten cents.
making the price only seventy-fve cents a
pound. Such is life in lobsterdom
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-13

eyes, 5000 for hat-footedness, and more
than 1000 for poor teeth. "
Always large number of reflections are
because the men are too thin or too fat feE
their height The minimum height for an
adult applicant is sixty-four inches. Suc0
a man must weigh 12s pounds and have ~
chest measurement of thirty-three inches
The maximum height is seventy-throo
inches with a weight of 17e pounds and 8
chest measurement OF thirty-six and three-
quarter inches. Boys of seventeen are ad-
mitted with the consent of their parentss
They can weigh as little as 110 pounds. W
We're not looking for Herculeses or
Adonises," the officer said emphatically,
but we do want men,"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-13
THEY DREAD OLD MAIDENHOOD'
Unmarried Women of Western Penn
sylvania Town Organize a Club

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. Feb. 13--The unmar-
ried young women of Kantner, a nearby
mining town, have organized a Club for
the prevention of old maidenhood"
Owing to the lack of remunerative en-
ployment for many of the young men of
Kantner, and the alluring offers received
from other business centers. the marriage
able youths have all gone and the girls are
viewing the future with alarm.
The club will make an offer to revive old
engagements and open new matrimonial
deals.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-13
BOY SCOUTS ARE READY
commissioner Says 450O Lads Could
be Mobilized in Four Hours

%ccre than 1900 Boy Scouts can be mobil-
Nc,s al Independence Square within four
|f,ass IN case of need, according to e. u.
49, scout Commissioner, who spoke
saM night at preparedness for war mass.
tphnls OF 400 commissioned officers of the
y y rm1adeiphia headquarters.
Ik.s. Q. Cowing, scout executive, said the
cness crss OF the Boy Scout was not to bear
AZ 70 ~ Dut to relieve the men who had gone
s,s,a e front. aid the Red Cross and help
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-13
Wills Probated by Register

Wills probated today were those Of
Charles Sylvester, an insurance broker,
who died on January 26 in the Jefferson
Hospital leaving to relatives estate
valued at S2S.500 Henry Why 236 Man
helm street, $4,000: Charles c. Fl. Rose-
mann, 1889 Wolf street, S24o0; Mary Stern
hagen, Camden $4,000, and Elizabeth
Borden, 629 North Nineteenth street, $4,000.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-13
IAlLORS PUT BAN ON STAID PRINCE ALBERT
WITH MOVEMENT TOWARD SENSIBLE STYLES
Delegates to Convention
Here See Decided
Trend Toward Fash
ioning Mems Clothes
Along Human Lines

shirts, held In retirement little when
vests were so high as to make shirts in
visible, will probably burst forth again. The
lower peaks of vests will he moderate.
neither very long nor very short
Trousers are getting narrower, At first
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-13
Miss Hills Body Sent South

|n,s SAD group of women, many of them
T,,aners OF the Pennsylvania women's
E,,toh for National Preparedness
"A $1,000 ~ az the West Philadelphia station
s@e pennsylvania Railroad today TO pay
well tribute to Miss Elizabeth N. Hill.
menneer Of the division. when her
(Qr {hei< lnrf Ea.kInG pleoa. ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-13
Newlyweds Don't Want Mothers-in-Law

ATLANTIC CITY Feb. 13.-"Mothers-
in-law have their place, but II is not In the
homes of the newly welded" said the Rev,
Herbert c. Betting in sermon on How
to Be Happy Though Married"
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1917-08-02
HIGHWAY BONDS GARRY

The highway bond election held in
cottonwood and Ferdinand districts 70.
suited IN both carving. The amonnt
OF bonds voted upon in the .ottonwood
district was $4,000 and the vote was
zof for and 80 against, The Ferdinond
district voted upon bond issue of $o5
ouo and the vote there was l53 for and
~ against. This means these two dis.
trlcts are srepared to provide their
snare OF the cost of the North and. Soutb
nlehway through that section of Idaho
county which win take the road to tbe
- lewis county line. There remains vot
m, q financing of the road through The
rem district but surely the peonle
over there will do their share when tbo
ELECTION is called. Congratulations 70
. nom cottonwood and Ferdinand npon
TINS evidence of their enterprise. '''''