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The Washington herald., 1917-10-12
WOMENM THE WAR
BY G. KAY SPENCER.

PrussiaR campaigns, she showed such
extraordinary courage that she was
recommended to be promoted to be-
come a colonel, although her sex had
been found out, and as q colonel she
has served ever since. Her soldiers
are devoted to her. and none of them
can sit astride horse with more ease
than she or endure longer hours In the
saddle. She was born in the Ural
Mountains and spent most of her life
In the open.
Alexandra kokovtsova is only one
OF the innumerable Russian women
who have become brilliant examples
OF the feminine fighting qualities
when once aroused to action.
The former Grand Duke Nicholas
admitted women to the ranks In vari-
ous regiments from the beginning.
So II Is announced now, and there
was no necessity of concealing their
sex IL they were willing to be as
signed to duties in the transport and
commissary. But, accepting those re-
strictions, they nevertheless rushed
forward and filled up the gaps when
they noticed the men falling. They
were afterwards allowed to retain
their positions won so bravely.
Numbers OF them have been pro-
NOTED and have become full-hedged
officers. and others have been deco
rated for gallantry with the military
Cross Of st. George. The youngest.
perhaps, is an 1s-year-old wilma
schol girl, Kira Bashkirowa, who en-
listed under the name of Nicholas
Popin. She had her feet frozen, but
continued fighting until she was
wounded and taken to the field hos
pital. where 1t was discovered that
she was a woman.
As Russia was the first country
where women were given control
over their Inherited property, and as
Petrograd has had for some years
the largest medical college for women
In Europe. 1t Is not strange that
women have taken such an active
part In the military campaigns. In
all the revolutionary movements the
women students have been moro dan
gerous perhaps. to the government,
than the men. It is believed that the
majority Of the women amazons are
revolutionists and that their military
experience was sought for the oppor-
tunity 1t gave them to spread their
doctrine.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-12
HOROSCOPE.
Friday, October IL, 1917.

According to astroIogy this is not a
fortunate day for the Sun and Jupiter
are adverse. while Neptune Is family
helpful.
While the morning may fe fairly for
tunate for commercial transactions
the evening is not lucky time and it
IS wei to finish all trading long be-
foe afternoon.
The sway is not an encouraging one
for lawyers or for their professional
interests. although they may find
many demands are made upon them.
Colleges and universities probably
will discover that the influences tend
toward something in the line of remi-
niScences that are sad.
New lines of work for professors and
teachers are presaged by the stars and
many instructors will be sent abroad
while the war still wages, it is prog
nosticated.
Warning Is given not to test ones
luck in any attempt to better posi-
tons already held or to procure new
employment. 1t is an especially SIMS
ter rue under which to seek political
pTeferment.
During this conhguration steel and
iron works are supposed to- be ben
aced and care should be taken to
safeguard against accidents.
Neptune in this configuration is sup
posed to aid those who have psychic
gifts. Occulists declare that an army
officer will develop foresight that is
d1e to powers of divination.
Again churches will occupry public
attention and religious differences
may cause trouble.
Astrologers who have cast the horo-
scopes of men in the national army
predict that plans to send them abroad
before the new year will be frustrated
by some unexpected events.
The end of the year may bring new
problems to the President who may
EXPECT conditions adverse to foreign
relations. Shipping may suffer se-
verely at this time. From the middle
Of November the burdens of state will
be even heavier than previously.
Persons whose birthdate, It is should
safeguard themselves against financial
loss. IL possible.
Children born on this day are likely
to receive much help from friends, but
they may be rather self-willed and
impetuous so that arrangements may
be numerous.
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enjoying their babies or who realize
that they are eating their white bread
Of life while their children are playing
about their feet and begging for bed
time stories7
They expect to enjoy their children
sometime, but not just now. Now
they worry and fret and scold be-
cause Johnnie gets his face SO dirty,
and tears his clothes. and Mary spots
the tablecloth. and little Susie broke
her best doll, and there are toy SOL
diers under foot In the hall, and the
best hair brush has been used fer a
submarine In the bathtub, and the
cooky jar has been raided, and hair
ribbons are always getting lost
Oh. certainly. mother and father
are going 10 enjoy their children af-
ter a bit, but before they know IL
there are no more children to be
tucked into bed. no more little praS-
ers TO be heard. no little figures
climbing. up on their knees, and lay
ing drowsy little golden heads against
their breasts. The children are gone,
they are men and women out ga the
world, and their house is left empty,
with only the barren memory for
comfort that they missed the best
thing that life ever offered to them.
Most Of US could be a thousandfold
happier than we are, and get far
more out Of life, II We only had in
telligence enough TO enjoy the pres
ent moment and get the most pleas
ure out Of II. instead Of putting OF
enjoying things to some indefinite
future that never comes.
We are tired and overworked and
we need a rest and a pleasant trip,
but In place of taking IT while we
still have health and strength enough
to enjoy 1t We walt until We are so
sick and miserable that the only
place we can go TO Is a sanitariunl.
We scrfmp and save and deny our
selves all the little indulgences that
We crave and that we would so en-
Joy now in order 10 pile up money
to enjoy in our old age. And then
we find out that when We are old
We no longer want things, and there
are no pleasures that our money will
buy US
Life has not taught us the elehen-
tary fact that We only live one day
at a time, and that what we have
missed today We have missed for
ever. Therefore the wise man and
woman make the best of now and
here. 1t is all We have OF time and
opportunity.
Copyright. 1917, by The Wheeler
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington herald., 1917-10-12
Charles S. Davis Elected
Single Tax League Head

Charles s. Davis was elected pres
ident Of the Single Tax League at
the regular annual meeting of the
league In the Public Library last
night. Other officers elected were
Benz. T. Lindas. vice president; Mrs.
L. F. Shfdy, treasurer, and W. /.
Swanton. secretary.
Addresses were made by H. Martin
Williams, Arthur P. Davis, of this
city, Western Starr. of westover, Nd,
and DR.. Norton, Of Aurora, Ill.
Reports Of progress in the adoption
OF the single tax were made, and
II was stated that Perryville and Cap
itol Heights. in Maryland, had adopt
ed this system OF raising all municipal
revenue, and also that Sydney, NJ.
s. w. Australia, the largest white
city outside OF Great Britain In the
British empire, had adopted this meth
Cd OF raising all of its revenue.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-12

band objected 70 the Operation
and got me to try Lydia z.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. 1
poon commenced to get better and
Am now well and able to do my own
homework. I can recommend Lydia
2. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
10 any woman as a wonderful
health restorer."-Mrs-s BLANCHE
JEFFERSON. 7os Lyon st, Des
doines.
This famous remedy, the medlci-
nal ingredients of which are de-
rived from highly priced roots and
It's value in such cases. Women
everywhere bear willing testimony
% the wonderful virtue of Lydia z.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Adv.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-12
ALEXANDRA KoKOvTsOvA

A gray day In Austrian Poland.
All through a weary. wet. rain-blown
day the gray armies of Russian
peasants have been wading through
seas Of mud and entering a dripping
wood. An Austrian observation bal
loon is suddenly released to one hun
dred feet on the opposite border Of
the woodland. A novice In the car
riage would have observed a start
ling view of the situation. Like
children following a pied piper. the
mole-like armies OF Russia advance
into the far side. Nowhere can they
be seen to emerge; on the contrary,
other armies are entering from the
Austrian side of the forest.
Yes, those men are going into an
inferno that Dante could never
imagine. They are meeting in there
somewhere" fighting. dying and
being ground into the moss and mud
to make a firmer footing for the liv-
ing to continue the holocaust. Heavy
peasant fingers clutching inches deep
into the towls and the flesh of enemy
peasant necks and angry steel dart
ing and parrying on its way to the
life centres of humans.
The guns Of both sides have been
intermittently Smelling the woods and
the forest is gradually becoming
shorn Of leaves and branches and
takes on the aspect of midwinter or
the debris Of a particularly severe
forest fire.
Late in the afternoon a Ural Co.'S
sack regiment is dismounted and or
dered into the melee
Col Alexandra Kokovtsova was
enlisted In that regiment. She re-
membered going into that hell, and
of killing several laundering foemen
with her revolver in the tangled maze
Of steel and splintered boughs. But
Of anything her senses experienced
after the top Of hell was blown of
before her there lie no vestige remain
ing in her memory.
After months in military sanitar-
fums she was eventually strong
enough to talk Of herself. She had
enlisted under an assumed name in
this Ural Cossack regiment. Her
husband before her had belonged to this
regiment, which had fought through
the Russian-Japanese war. After hav-
Ing been wounded twice In the east
The Washington herald., 1917-10-12
DIED.

BARNwELL-on October 10, 1911. at
Atlantic City, n. J., r. G. BARN
WELL, 1904 w street northwest.
Notice Of funeral hereafter.
BURCH-Suddenly, on Wednesday.
October 10. 1917. at his residence,
sS5 Fifth street northeast, HARRY
p beloved husband OF Sophie E.
Burch.
Notice Of funeral hereafter.
IcooKE-on october 10. 1917. at her
Nd, ALBERTA MAY COOKE, be-
loved wife of the late Alfred Z.
Cooke and mother OF Mrs Eugene
A. hattingly. aged So years
Funeral from her late residence to-
day. at $50 o'clock a. m Funeral
private. Interment Gienwood Gem
etery.
DAKIN-On Tuesday, October .. 1917.
ANNA RUTH DAKIN, beloved
daughter of BENJAMIN and Annie
Dakin (nee Neit1ey).
Funeral from Lees undertaking es-
adjustment at l:3O O'Clock today.
sional Cemetery.
DIcKERSoN-on wednesday, oc-
tober 10, 1917. at II a. m, ADA
GUTHRIE DICKERSON, yEow
Of Perley Brown DickersOn. BED
&Funerai service at the late residence.
sls Seventh street northeast today.
at O'Clock p. m lnterment at
Arlington.
HoART-on Thursday, October II.
1917, at a. m. THEODORE, be-
loved son Of J. A. and Z. l.. Hosrt
(nee Nelson.
Funeral from the residence Of HIS
parents, $50 Eighth street Com
gress Heights today. Z p. m. In
terment at Blandon. Pa, Gene
terry Saturday. 10 a m. Relatives
and friends invited TO attend. deb
anon. Pa, and Reading. Pa, papers
please eopy)
JoHNSoN-On wednesday, October
10, 1917. at his residence. &c Eye
street northwest. ROBERT A., be-
loved husband Of Rosa A. John
son (nee Murphy.
Funeral from his late residence to-
morrow morning. High requiem
mass at st. Aloysius Church at
s;so O'Clock; est Louis papers
LEWIS-On Wednesday. October 10.
1917, at the residence OF her SON
tn-law, Julius L. Rockwell, 81 $
street northwest SUSAN ROSE
LEWIS. widow Of Samuel A.
Lewis.
invited. lnterment private. Kind
ly omit flowers.
PARKER-On Wednesday. October 10,
1871, at 17OS Seventeenth street
northwest. ADELAIDE RAY PAR
KER. beloved mother OF Frederick
ID. Parker and sister of Anna J.
Jasper. Glen b. Parker and Fred
Parker.
Notice of funeral hereafter.
OBINSON-Suddenly on Wednesday.
October 10. 1911. az LES a. m.
CHARLES. beloved husband OF
Melvina Robinson and the devoted
father Of Lavinia Hillmsn. Bertha
Z. Tyler. Blanche L. Howard, ADA
II. Green, John B.. Abraham l.
and Edward william Robinson.
Funeral from Vermont Avenue Bsp-
list Church, on Vermont avenue
between Q and r streets northwest
today. at p m. Rev. James +.
willis, pastor. Friends and rela-
tives Invited 20 attend.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-12
Board Of Trade VIII (
Honor Service Members

A patriotic meeting In honor of the
thirty-two members of the board OF
trade who have Joined the colors since
war was declared win be held IN
Central High School next week. The
date as yet, has not been decided,
because Of repairs to the stage OF
the auditorium there.
Members Of the board and those
whose sons have Joined, viii be the
honor guests Of the occasion. Pa
triotic speeches will feature the
meeting.
Several of those who have Joined
the army already heve left the city
on their way to France.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-12
NEW YORK HOTEL ARRIVALS.

New York, Oct NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
registered I'm New York hotels today
include: II. Barchkies, Miss NJ. d.
Collins. H. E. Huntsbery. C. L. Bast.
Miss Z. McGill. Mrs. ]. c. Nourse.
Miss E Hart. J. A. Hobson. Mrs. NJ.
G. Hoitt. AZ Fourth ave, Miss A
Hagan, az Fourth ave.
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today had V not
been for Lydia
E. Pin k hams
Vegetable Com
pound. I suffer-
ed from a Sc
rious Z e m a ! e
trouble and the
doctors said /
c o u Id not live
one year with
out an opera
ton. My hus-
The Washington herald., 1917-10-12
THE RING WATCH.

Wrist watches are as familiar as
can be, OF course. but how about
ring watch?
A jeweler on F street between Thir
teenth and Fourteenth streets is ex
hibiting tiny watch which serves
as the central setting of an elab-
crate diamond-encrusted dinner ring.
The face Of the watch is about two
thirds the size Of dime.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-12
Along Peacock Alley
BY LUCILLE CAMERON.

A debonair beauty, with hair of
the wonderful dark red tone of Olga
Petrova's entered the Raleigh 81
yesterday. Her chic frock of pea
cock blue jersey de laine was treat
ed to various soft and becoming
touches of flesh colored georgette.
A saucy little hat OF peacock blue
hatters plush boasted a band of gray
squirrel AMI tiny bunch of metal
lie flowers. Effectively toning in was
a long stole Of gray squirrel posses
sing the quaintest of pointed pockets
on either side.
Quite charmingly flushed with pride
was the wife of a newly created gen.
eral as she received the congratula-
tons of several friends yesterday in
the Shoreham lobby. her conserva-
lively smart gown of purple velve-
teen was absolutely without con-
trasting trimming, a string of pearls
furnishing decorative relief. A hat
of black panne had several square
sections cutsout OF its brim and the
resulting spaces filled with the most
delicate of black feathers.
Getting out of somebody's rakishly
smart Stutz racing car was a blithe
little lady. And no wonder. She had
a most thrillingly expensive coat o;
Hudson seal and mole with a huge
collar and a belt that went all the
way round. Her small motor hat of
mole bore an embroidered motif In
silver and French blue
A leader Of the extremely exclusive
first society of Philadelphia came out
of the Lafayette with her inquisitive
little prize Pekingese tucked safely
under her arm. Her suit of taupe
velours had bands of oppossum on
collar, cuffs and its vertically set in
pockets. Big green wings flew from
the narrow brim Of her green plush
hat.
Pretty as q Harrison Fisher cover
was a young girl who lunched at the
Powhatan yesterday with her i'm
pressively wealthy father. Her skirt
and broad sash Of Jofrre blue gab-
ardine were supplemented by a jacket
of blue velvet In the same tone
A collar and vest or organdy en-
broidered with a faint, tracery Of
gray-blue and a small tricorne of
blue panne crowned with gray vel
vet completed an absolutely charm
ing costume
Who wouldn't stroll leisurely down
the Willard peacock alley II she pos
sessed an authentic Martial ct Ar
mand suit Of hunters green cloth
trimmed with marmot. Especially IL
it was companioned by little Chinese
"a
fare a. Of curly black feathers around
The Washington herald., 1917-10-12

ternal massage which relieves pain
and discomfort at the crisis; makes
elastic those fibers and muscles which
nature is expanding. and wonderfully
glands.
1t enables the expectant mother to
preserve her health and strength, and
she remains q pretty mother by hav-
ing avoided the suffering and danger
which would otherwise accompany
such an occasion. Every nerve,
muscle muscle, and tendon Is thoroughly
fabricated. Get a bottle today from
the druggist, and write to the Brad
held Regulator Co.. Dept. q, 800 La
mar Building, Atlanta, Ga. They will
mail you an intensely interesting little
book. Motherhood and the Baby"
The book is free. Every woman
should herself aid nature in her
g,osious work: Mothers Friend"
and sheald be used reeuiSrly without
sau nasht and morning \.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-12
CARD OF THANKS.

full apprecist ton and thanks TO our
relatives, friends and neighbors for
their kind sympathy and foral tributes
extended at the death OF our son and
brother. Albert
AND BROTHERk
The Washington herald., 1917-10-12

A Swedish Baptist Church in New
York City. recently rendered the use
of their church to a Jewish congrega-
ton which was unable to raise funds
to build a synagogue.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-12

The Senate has approved Senator
Lodges bill to permit Americans to
retain decorations received from for
eign governments.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-12
THIS WOMAN
TOLD TO CHOOSE
Between Operation aid Death.
Cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.

Des Moines, Iowa.-"My husband
says I would have been in my grave
The Washington herald., 1917-10-12
Women Love Babies

1t Is woman's ma
ture to naturally
respond to t h e
charm of a pretty
child. Who does
not admire babies?
The longing to pos
sess q baby Is often
outweighed by the
Inherent fear Of the
period Of distress.
There Is a most
wonderful external
preparation known
As !" NJ o t b g r. s
Friend"
The Washington herald., 1917-10-12

Viscount and Viscountess di Sibour
have leased their house on K street.
to Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Straus, of
New York. who will spent the winter
In Washington Mr.. Straus is a mem
Der OF the Food Commission. Wis.,
The Washington herald., 1917-10-12

Mrs. William S. Carroll and Miss
Grace Carroll have returned to their
Massachusetts avenue house after
spending the summer at Monterey.
Pa
The Washington herald., 1917-10-12

Captain Cornilly w. Shut. aide de
camp to the chief Of the Russian mil
ltary mission. has an apartment in
stoneleigh Court
The Washington herald., 1917-10-12

Capt. de Jarny, of. the permanent
French Iission, and Nine. de Jarny
who have an apartment at the Bright
on for the season. entertained a
company at dinner last evening at
the willard in the cabinet suite.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-12

The temporary financial delegate
and Madame Vladimir Novitsky have
zen the house at Bob Q street. ana
1Hhve with them Mr.. D. p. Pertzoff.
financial secretary.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-12

Mr.. W. W. Pushkareff, temporary
financial secretary, and Madame
PushkareI have taken an apartment
in the Brighton.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1917-07-14
THO ST. LOUIS MASSACRE.

The massacre at East st. Louis, iii.
nois grows in horror, the indications
are that even the State officials
were direlect In the performance of
their duties. The charge Is made that
the members Of the National Guard
sent to the city were .unarmed, or
rather had been provided with empty
rifles. They were about Just as much
service as wooden soldiers would
have been. Colored people were dis.
armed hnsl and white people were permit
thd not only to keep firearms but to
use them upon men and women.
The report Of the affair shows Tho
deprayity OF human nature in some
sections OF this country. Pleading
begging, frightened, women were heat
on and even little children were burn
gu To- death and their bodies cremated
IN the houses In the section assigned
to colored people. Right across the
Mississippi River were thousands Of
couored people, many of them prosepr
Gus and well to do. They were helm.
less while the slaughter of their peo-
pie was taking place. The affair Is
sickening and the reports of the af-
fair make the crimes committed all
the more hideous.
Colored people will yet learn that
they must organize for mutual pro.
lection, that they must learn to pro-
tect themselves first and then expect
others to protect them afterwards.
Sympathy is oil right and expressions
or horror over an outrage of this
kind timely, but we should be prepar-
ed to act at the time the butchery Is
taking place. Cns hundred determin-
ed colored men could have produced
panic among this class OF people and
the story as finally told would have
been different. towards are willing
to slaughter sheep, but these same
edwards hesitate to kill bulldogs
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manifest. Like officers, like men.
Lieutenant-C Colonel Young Is seeming
ly resigned to- the seemingly inevi.
table and he takes All optimistic view
of the situation. Those of us who are
in active contact with this mammoth
racial prejudice political machine
know exactly what this move means.
No one thing could arouse the color
ed people more than this threatened
retirement Of one of the ablest Off
GERS in the service, when this retire
ment Is brought about by question.
able procedure.
If man under medical examination
is diagnosed as having heart trouble
and yet he can pratice deep breath
Ing and indulge in strenuous exercis
es with no apparent inconvenience or
injury to himself, what does it matter
to him or to any one else If he has
heart trouble. II an officer has high
blood pressure and the high blood
pressure Is not known to him and 1t
does not inconvenience him in any.
way and he Is able to discharge all
his duties, In fact can run, skip, Jump
march and do every, thing else re-
quired OF him, why should he be de.
clared to be unfit for active service
when ey "a SHOULD he dte.$hIs sean life
would be lost and this life belongs
to him and no one else has right to
DC concerned about it, If he is satisfi-
ed?
Gentlemen, it will not do. This
"race-projudice business Is being
carried too far. Every citizen in the
United States, both white and color
cd should. write letters to their con-
gressmen and senators to bring abou.
an investigation Of this affair. W.
cannot believe that the distinguished
occupant in the White House will be
a party ia such an outrage. We see
no reason why an efficient officer,
who Is without high blood pressure
with high blood pressure as one
who Is without high blood pressure
should be believed Of active service.
Possibly ii Col. Young could be re-
lleved In some other way Of tho posi-
ton he occupies in the line of promo
tlcn In about As hours afterwards, it
might be discovered and ascertained
that the L"high blood-prcssure" In
his anatomy had disappeared Selah.