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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1917-01-25
TeiItale Parrot.

They were sitting close together in
the parlor.
He-I gave you that parrot as
birthday present, did not, Matilda?
She-Yes, but surely, Albert, you
are not going to speak Of your gifts
as if
He-It was young and could not
speak at the time?
She-Yes, and it has never been out
of this parlor.
He-There are no other young ladies
In this house?
She-No, there are not.
He-Then, why-why, when kissed
your photograph In the album while
waiting for you did that wretched bird
initiate your voice and say: Don't do
that, Charlie; please don'tT
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1917-01-25
Worlds TalIest Women.

After taking measurement OF the
height of women in France, England
and America, doctor announces that
the English woman Is the tallest and
the American comes next. The aver
age height of the FrenchwOman Is
FIVE feet one inch. The American wom-
an is nearly two inches taller, and
the women of Great Britain one-half
inch taller than the latter. American
women are heavier, their average
weight being about III pounds.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1917-01-25
Cause of the Delay.

First Cook-How do you like 1t at
the Bumps?
Second Cook-No good. I'm cooking
breakfast all the time from 8 to IL.
First Cook-You don't say! Why,
I always heard that they all got up at
the same time.
Second Cook-They do, but it takes
them all the way from little .Willie's
fifteen seconds to Miss Bumps three
hours to dress.-Judge.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1917-01-25
Had Proved II.

At an evening party the hostess had
coaxed protesting guest to sing. AT
ter the song she went up to him smil-
ing. "Oh, Mr.. Jenkins" she said, "you
must never tell me again that you can't
sing-I know now"
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1917-01-25
ViuiIance Required.

"All things come to him who waits,
you know" he said, yawning.
Eyes, replied his wife; but they
don't always break in and wake him
up."-Boston Transcript.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1917-01-25
Schedule In Effect November 26, 1916
Subject to change without notice.
GOING WEST.

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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1917-01-25
Sawed.Off Sermon.

It's easier for camel to go through
the eye Of q needle than 1T is for a
Chinaman to get through the need Of
an idol.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-17

Social Gossip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ward Burgess have
returned from sojourn in California
with Mr., and Mrs. E. E. Calvin. Mr.
Burgess contracted bad cold, which
has kept him at home since their re-
turn.
Mrs. Perry, Alien returns to her
home in New York Sunday evening
after a visit with her mother, Mrs.
William G. Sloan. at the Colonial.
Mrs. Frank Thomas and her daugh-
ter, Dorothy. have returned to their
home in Chicago after a five days
visit with old friends in Omaha.
Mrs. w. A. Willard went to Lin
coin Friday for visit with Mrs:
Franklin D. Barker, but she will spend
the weekend with Mrs. R. 6. Clapp.
This afternoon Mrs. Barker gave an
informal tea in her honor and to-
morrow evening DR.. and Mrs. Orr
will give St. Patrick's party for her.
Mrs. l.. D. Fowler, who is visiting
in Lincoln, was the guest Of honor
at a luncheon given yesterday at the
home of Mrs. A. w. Johnson. The
guests included sixteen former SUIT
ton residents. Mrs. Fowler was for
merly. of Sutton.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-17

up to some clever story writer as a
great genius" and his Craftsman
ship" and crude ventures in Inter
preting life and character" are set
up as models of intellectual achieve
ment. The pupil is made to feel
ashamed If he does not know about
the methods and performances Of
these masters" but nobody points
the finger of scorn at him if he can
not tell why the moon changes its
figure as il travels through the sky.
In truth | have reason to suspect that
some of the teachers themselves
would have difficulty in explaining
that!
The world is held back by such a
system OF education as this. Litera-
ture should be the dessert on lifc'S
table; but it is made the main dish.
find that my little girl knows all
about Carlyle. Kipling ct al, but if
she knows anything about the sun
and the moon her knowledge is not
derived from her school teacher.
She reads Burke "On Cancellation" /"
and Kim" and the Essay on Burns
as prescribed studies, but somebody
outside the school has to teach her
to read nature, greater orator,
preacher and romancer than all of the
word weavers put together. We ought
to count the age as long past when
Learning was regarded as Identical
with the ability to write ard to scan
Latin verse, a la DR.. Jonson, but the
spirit of that age is with our educa-
tors still.
OF course, | do not mean to decry
literary education, kept within reas-
enable bounds, but It is not literature
that has pushed mankind to the point
OF mastery over the forces of nature
which, with much labor, and the ex-
penditure of much time. il has, at last,
reached. Let us be just to ourselves
and to our descendants.
A very few story tellers will amply
suffice for the words needs, and it is
robbed of its need of real laborers
in its teeming and waiting harvest
fields when thousands of young
minds, in every educational center,
are imbued with the notion that they
may be inchoatI literary geniuses.
To return to the question about the
moon, and this is perhaps the hun
dredth time that have heard it asked
by educated" persons. The visible
form OF the moon changes because,
first, it shines by rejecting the light
of the sun and not by giving forth
light Of its own, and, second, because
it travels around the earth in. such a
way that it is sometimes between the
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-17
Schools Teach "Culture",
But They Neglect Science

tain conventional lines
A pupil comes out OF school know
ing no more of nature than his un-
trained senses teach him. He is
taught to write and to read, which are
admirable and indispensable human
inventions. but he is not taught to
understand many Of the simplest nat
ural phenomena, by which he is to be
surrounded and puzzled all his life
through.
The shadow OF the old classic idea
still hangs over our educational sys-
TEN. In place of Greek and Latin we
have modern literature" In substi-
tuition for Homer and Virgil we have
the up-to-date spinners Of words and
yarns.
The young mind is taught to look
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-17


earth and the sun and sometimes on
the opposite side OF the earth iron
the sun.
At the beginning of the month
Ounar) the moon is between the Garth
and the sun. and being an Opaque
body, the sunlight cannot pass
through it. so that it is invisible to us
because the side of it that receives
light from the sun is turned away
from the earth. As it swings out IRON
the lin. between the sun and the earth
a part OF that halt OF the moon wnicIl
is illuminated begins to come into
view from the earth, and tins part mas
the form OF crescent, because It Is
the edge OF globe or sphere.
You can graphically illustrate thi'
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-17
FAMILY WELFARE
WORK IS EXTENDED
Church and Club Women Vol.
unteer to Help the Home
Make up" Bureau.
MASS MEETING ON MONDAY

Women representing churches OF
the city will meet next Monday at )
o. III. in the city council chamber to
discuss with members of the Board OF
Public Welfare and others the prop
osition OF establishing "convalescent"
work in connection with the family re-
habiliation department Of the well
fare board.
Mesdames Lynn NJ. Lockwood, F.
H. Cole, G. c. Edgerly, 6. c. Bailey,
w. A. DeBord, Albert Miller, 7. F.
Sturgess, G. G. Wallace, +. A. Nc
Cormick and Frank Carmichael are
some OF those interested.
The Omaha Woman's club, Visiting
Nurse association of Omaha and hos
pitals will be represented.
Superintendent Schreber OF the
welfare board offered the following
statement on this new feature OF his
work:
NCCu 10 HPpaiShN'
The need of this work is appar-
ent to any thinking person. Many
deserving persons able during the or
dinary demands OF life to hold their
own and keep out of debt find them
selves at the end of all illness without
money and without credit. Sometimes.
patients have homes to which they
may return, but have no means nor
friends who can afford to take ade-
quate care Of them. The friendly Wis
itor can help sometimes by supplying
funds; this help may be in the form
of loan to be returned when the pa
tents health is normal. During the
patients convalescence the friendly
visiting would be frequent; gifts of
delicacies to eat and books and maga-
zines to read; CHEEKY ways Of making
less dreary the ofttimes weary way to
health; then securing employment and
helping regulate income and expenses
until all debt has been cleared away.
This would constitute adequate
friendly visiting of the convalescent
worker. At the time that a patient
is able to resume work employment
will be secured through the good Of
fees Of the free employment Office
maintained by the welfare board"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-17
BY GARRETT P. SERVISs.

"Why is it that at the beginning
OF a new month we first see a
fourth of the moon, then, as the
month goes by, one half, and finally
the whole moon?-Constant Reader,
Chicago"
Such a question ought not to be
thrown into the waste basket simply
because it exhibits ignorance of the
most primary facts OF science. 1t is in
teresting and important as commen-
tary on the utter failure Of schools to
produce enlightenment outside of GER
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-17
In Clubdom.

In Clubdom.
The Association of Collegiate
Alumnae's general meeting for March
will be held Saturday at 2:30 o'clock
in the ball room OF the Fontenelle.
Prof. Paul Grumman Of the state
university will lecture on THE Cor
relation of Artistic Activity" under
the auspices of the music section.
Omaha club women and especially
the visiting women who came for the
Second district convention have been
invited. No admission is being
Charged.
April 20 or 81 is the time set for
the opening of the Franco-Belgian
art exhibit at the Fontenelle by the
Omaha Society of Fine Arts. Be.
sides the 800 paintings works oi
sculpture will also be exhibited.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-17

clubs met this week with Mrs. Vic
tor Reynolds. In two weeks the club
will be entertained by Mrs. George
Greenough.
DR.. and Mrs. Fred Wearne will en-
tertain at the dnner-dance at the
Blackstone tomorrow evening, when
covers will be laid for eighteen guests.
The occasion is DR.. Wearne's birth
day.
Mrs. E. J. McAdams will entertain
her neighhorhood bridge club on
Thursday, March %.
For Bridal Party.
Miss Alice Duvsi will entertain the
members Of the Burket- -Copley we'd
ding party this evening at bridg,
dinner at her home. The table will
have for its centerpiece a Tiffany
basket filled with pink sweetpeas ant
violets, and pink and lavender tullt
extending from the chandelier above
the table will form large, fluffy bows
at the four corners of the table. The
place cards will be dinnergrams in
Western Union telegram envelopes
and containing clever messages about
each guest. Pink paper crackers will
be the favors at each place.
Miss Mary Taylor entertained at a
kensington tea at her home this aft
ernoon for Miss Harriet Copley
Pink and lavendar sweetpeas were
used on the tea table.
Mr.. Earl Burket entertained the
men who will be a part of his we'd
ding party at dinner last evening at
the Blackstone, and at the theater
,fterward
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-17
Omaha Man Takes Ride
In Airboat al Miami

c. N. Deitz of Omaha added a new
thrill to his long list of experiences
Sunday at Miami, Fla, when he
joined Aviator E. K. Jaquith in
flight in one Of the Curtiss type flying
boats.
Mr.. Deitz, who has tried out Yep
pelins, says the sensation is much the
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-17

More than usual interest is being
manifested in the lectures pertaining
to the world war which Prof. F. M.
Fling of the state university is deliv-
ering in Omaha this year under the
auspices of the Equal Franchise So
ciety. This lecture this evening will
have for its subject THE Marne,
Verdun and the Danube. No meetings
of the suffrage school are scheduled
for this evening, in order to allow
all the suffragists to attend DR.. filings
lecture.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. Russell will
entertain at dinner this evening for
DR.. Fling. A basket of red roses will
form the table decorations. Covers
will be placed for DR.. Frederick Nor
row Fling of Lincoln, Mrs. J. M. Met
calf and Messrs. and Mesdames r. L.
Burke, John Mcdonald and DR.. and
Mrs. B. B. Davis.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-17
On the Calendar.

On the Calendar.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clement Chase will
entertain at dinner at the Blackstone
Saturday evening for Mrs. Perry AL
len of New York. ..-5
Mr.. Henry Hart of Council Bluffs
vii entertain? Miss Elizabeth Reed
and her guest Miss Laura Stone of
Wyanlusing, Pa, at a theater party
this evening.
Miss Reed and her guest will be
entertained at tea at the Fontenelle
Saturday by Mr.. Charles Mclaughlin.
On Monday Miss Stone will continue
on her way to California.
One of the Monday bridge luncheon
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-17
e6oeH&!!!osA!t6;1] {! # Y
March 16 III By WzeIZ.Jccln .-aeE
March 16
Some People Have Dislikes.

Some People Have Dislikes.
Never call DR.. J. L. Summers Doc
ii you wish to be his friend. Any
horse doctor in the country is Doc,
but he is doctor! DR.. Leroy Crum-
mer does not mind If you call him an
unmarried man." but please refrain
from calling him a bachelor" That
is taboo.
Mrs. H. c. Sumney likes to be
called "suffragist," although she de-
tests the term feminist" as applied to
herself. Mrs. H. Y. Cook has dis
tict aversion to being called board
ing house keeper" She prefers to be
called the ''proprietress OF the Colo
NAL" -.
Two delightful matrons of promi-
nent families always sign themselves
Madame to distinguish themselves
from the other members of their fami-
lies. One is Mrs. T, L. Kimball,
mother Of Miss Arabell Kimball and
Mr.. r. R. Kimball; the other Madame
Smith, mother Of Mrs. William Sears
Poppleton and Mrs. Lucien Stephens.
Mrs. Franklin A. Shotwelrs aver
sion is a nickname and Miss Belle
Dewey is said to object seriously to
being called a reporter, although she
feels complimented when referred to
as a newspaper woman.
Episcopal rectors have likes and
dslikes in respect to their titles. ta-
ther Lloyd Holsapple objects to the
title Reverend. On the other hand,
Rev. T. J. Mackay will not be called
Father.
Each of us has some little aversion
to differentiate him from the rest.
Usually these seem mere triAes to our
friends, but they are based on deep
seated dislikes and are highly impor-
tant TO each Of us.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-06-24
PARADE SUBJECT
 GENERAL COMMENT BY PINE BLUFFIANS
Drum and B ugle or Fife Corps May Be Formed as
 Adjunct Home Guard.

\ drum and fife corps. or a drum and bugle corps, Will likely be or ganized here by Ideal boys, perhaps by Boy Scouts, aS Ol-C outcome of the parade Thursday night.
 There was consih era ble discussion of this propositioI yesterday, quite a number of persdhs expressing the opinion that such f ccrps would be an excellent and most desirable ad- diton to the Homd Guards organiza- ton.
 Pine Bluff spent most of it's leisure the weekend talking about the big Rotary clubs Red Cross parade and demonstration, and everybody was batting everybody else on the back and saying what . fine turnout t was, something never before pulled off, ill the state, and a "stunt' that ablished a new record for Arkan- sas.
 Every organization, and every in- dividual, who participated in the pa rade had proud air, as if it or he felt the full importance of it's or his part in the affair, bat when every body was pinned right down to "cases," it was generally admitted that the women and the girls made up the best and brightest part of the whole affair, and made it the great success it was.
 There were some features not men ftioned in Fridays account of the big parade, which were prominent and pleased the thousands who saw the turout. Perhaps the Home Guard made up the biggest of these. Altho they have received training only the past two or three weeks, the Home Guards marched and ma neuvered like so many veteran Sol 'diers, and their evolrtions brought cheers of praise along, the line of march.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-06-24

The Eagles. who were among the strongest in the line. brought out a new wrinkle. wooden crosses, the tops being in red to represent the Red Cross, with a plain handle by which the crosses cou'd be held.
 A dozen girl employees of the Kress store were a feature. the girls being handsome in white dresses. With tho Red Cross nurse heaGdress.
 X dozen or more of the older mem bers of the local Daughters of the Confederaey formed a part of the pa rade which brought back tender memories to the older spectactOrs and marchers. The ladies carried a banner With the incription. I've Served in '6l, We Serve Now," and among those in the delegation were Mrs. M. A.. Browning. Mrs. J. R. Mar tin, Mrs. B. F.. Benton, Mrs. Sue Trip lett. Mrs. Met. l.. Jones. Mrs. A. $. Rosenberg, Mrs. NJ. Brown. The la dies led the Daughters, Mrs. Hunter Knox carrying the Starr and Bars.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-06-24
Paris Sewing Girls Set New Fashion
 For Conducting Strikes to Success

and London-even Berlin. They are generally vast and always sumptuous with majestic liveried porters at. the doors and snsaYtly dressed footmen inside. ''-7
 Elegantly dressed saleswomen re- ceive customers in show rooms that resemble fashionable saloons, with soft carpets, antique furniture, prin- cely tapestries and rare objects of art. Everything in these rooms and in the fitting rooms suggests hign prices, yet on the other side of the partitions that divide the show and fitting rooms from the workshop there were, before the strike, girls alent of thirty cents.
 Although thousands of these girls were working for ba,e existence in these places of fashion yet to their inborn taste and skill were due the development of those houses and the reputation of Paris as the centre. of fashion. The proof of il is that dress making concerns with Parisian reputation have tried to do elsewhere and with other help what they did in Paris with the aid of the "midinet- tes," and failed.
 A great many American women have paid hundreds of dollars for dresses made in these establish ments, but the American woman does not suspect that the ''midinette" who made her rich gown for little less than living wages has made one like it for herself atnight of the same pat tern and quite as perfect in cut and fit, but of less rich material bought with money saved from her lunch al. lowance. Few look forward to an i'm provement in their situation unless ] fortune sends husband.
 If the husband never is found she l makes fun even out of that. At the fete of Saint Catherine on Novembe, 1 25 each year, "midinettees" who hay: 1 reached their 25th year and pass into the category of "old maids" are fetei by their comrades an1 sometimes by their employers. It is one of tho merriest fetes of the year in Paris.
 The milliners of Paris, benefitting I from the success of the sewing girls strike, gained their point or less than half the time. The trim mers," the best, paid employees in this trade, earned before the strike $16 { month in the retail trade. Hereafter
 they will receive about six dollar: a month more. ,-l
 The victims of "sweatshops" alst benefit from the new schedule.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-06-24

Associated Press Correspondence Paris. June 15.-The sewing girls aof Paris have set new fashion in the conduct of strikes and added dig :. 'nity to a nickname that had become more or less familiar. They have shown that hab-nailed boots and bludgeons are not the only effective means of persuasion in labor con- tentions.
 The "midinette" stl ike is already a precedent though it ended only re- gently. Several other strikes model led after it have succeeded since and others are in process of settlement. Never again, in all probability, will the condition of working women in Paris be what it was before, and what it had been during the war, with thousands of girls working ten hours a day for from. thirty to forty cents.
 The strike was called the "mid. inette" strike, though in the begin nlng it was purely a dressmakers' strike. The "midinettes" are not only { sewing girls, but mi.hners, feather workers, embroiderers;:% and other workers who trip out into the Rue de Ia Paix. avenue de pOpera, and other streets of Paris every noon from the hundreds of houses whose business IS to clothe woman elegantly and luXhriouly.
 They are called "midineetes" be- cause midi or noon is the hour when s lhey are to be seen by twos, threes and even fours, arm in arm, hurry ng away to creameries. lunch coun- lers or chea restaurant for a mod sst meal For, weather permitting, to tae public squares ard gardens to snare a lunch on a park bench and lseo crumbs to the sparrows.: The second syllable, nette,a is nothing more than diminutive, that fits them quite we'll. The computation, midi naa.. ne..e might be translated little
 The buildings from which these aogn girls come are the centers of ,aseions for the world. In these uailulngs are created each season the s's'es that are worn in New York
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-06-24
INDIAN WAR VETERANS
 CAN NOW GET PENSIONS
Recent Act of Congress Recognizes V#IOr Of Those Who Fought
 Against AbOrigines.

The Graphic is in receipt of a letter from Joseph Meier of Atlanta, Ga, announcing that all eX-soldiers and widows of eX-sold,ers 62 years of age or older who have served against the Indians between the years of 1859 and 1891 are eligible for pen sion. The cX soldiers will receive a pension of $20 month and the widows SIP month.
 It is thought there are several Jef- ferson county residents eligible for this pension, to whori the pension would come in nice during these hard
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-06-24
STOPPED HIS B\CktCHE.

George Lawrence, railroad fireman, Kittrell, Miss, writes: 'I used three bottles of Foley Kidney Pills when ] was so sick l hardly could stay on the engine, and they cured me. My back ached all the time; kidneys acted sluggish; dull headache; felt sleepy all the time; nervous; had to rise many times each night. For Sale by Mmn's Pharmacy.-Adv.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-06-24
JUST WHAT SHE NEEDED.

When women complain of weari- ness, backache, dull headaches and similar ailments, they accept those troubles as their lot because they are women, when the ailments may have been the result of disor dered kidneys. Mrs. Mary V. Bunker, Milton-on-the- Hudson, N. Y., writes of Foley Kid ney Pills: "Just what I needed" For Sale by Mann's Pharmacy.-Adv.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-06-24

month. Confederate soldiers and wid- ows who also had United States ser- vice are included in above act am a member of the National Indian War Veterans association and wish to see all who are entitled to this pension secure the same"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-06-24

The first American man-of-war built at Portsmouth, N. H., was the frigate Raleigh, 32 guns, which was launched May 31, 1776, having been completed in just 60 days from the laying of her keel.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-06-24

The Signal corps of the army form l. erly conducted the weather bureau service which was inaugurated, and. to a large extent, developed under this corps.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-06-24
Blood Is
 v Life

Ihls is the time of year when you should clear up that com- plexlon and renovate and purify iMe blood. Go to Brasher's Drug n Clore and ask for one pint of vllon Blood remedy. Prepared
 a one of the largest laborator- sss ,es m the world. !, Recommended " lS'ooO doctors and druggists ; .o pc one of the very best blood .sMedys known to the profess { an Iion today. It is the most re- naole and efficient alternative ,m tUs all impure or impoverished ts,ooo. boils, pimples and other T iSrms Of blood and skin disease. uee a4n rom, alcohol. mercury and ..,a vtner dangerous drugs. One bot ! sr.s ns,, VIII convince you of it's su- :. iy.rtor r;a.o merits. Start the summer .aat n,;.a by cleansing up the blood
 "''n Orion Blood remedy.