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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25
Beautiful Old Italian Furniture Pictures and Fabrics
Bring the SpIendor Of Bygone Centuries
Into Modern american Homes

chandelier which has already been fitted up
Tor electricity"
it hung just above my head, looking wee
bit like gigantic spun sugar decoration for
wedding cake, but far, far lovelier: 1t was
made in the famous glass factory at Murano
and consists of intricate twistings of white
glass on which grow flowers and leaves in soft
colorings-pink and blue and green. 1t is
Joy in the daytime, but at night, when the cleo
trio candles light up the dainty colors, one can
imagine that it must be beautiful, indeed.
BY dint of perseverance Letita had found in
an uptown shop three side brackets of the same
glass to 90 with the chandelier.
when look at that chandelier" said Le-
ttia, 81 can believe that the original glass
eaters came from Venice. 1t certainly tempts
one to take bite Good enough to eat and
no mistake
Tell me some more about the Italian salon."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25

| urged. Are there any pictures for it?'
"Nary one" answered Letitia. There is
quite enough decoration without pictures. The
only pictures that could possibly be used in
room of this sort would be old Italian portraits,
and am not sure that | should even care for
those Some day will give you my ideas about
pictures, but just now we must HE US to the
other Italian room which | promised to show
you. On the way out | will let you see two
charming bits of the Venetian painted furnl-
ture which shows the Chinese infuence-for
they are done in a wonderful mellow red
One of these was bureau with bulging
front, red with rather gaudy decorations in
bright colors, and the other was rather re-
markabe table with tray for the top. This
had the same red background, but it was
painted with quaint little Chinese figures. The
legs had most interesting turnings and alto
gether it was unique
Letitia looked at it with regret. 1T broke
my heart not to use that at Santa Barbara
she said, "but it just wouldn't go. feel like
murderer leaving it here where it's sure to
meet it's doom. The climate of Southern Cali
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25

con check or theatre tickets without second
thought We keep level with the fleeing fash
ions that decree a constant change of hats and
coats and frocks We give liberal allowances
to children who already have every need pro-
vided for and most fancies gratifed.
Why not divert some few of these dollars
and dimes to meet the need which as yet we
can hardly realize? There is no need to send
in S73. This is only the unit that must be
set apart for the care of each child. 1t can
be made up Of dollars and dimes quite as easily
as of ten and twenty dollar bills.
And-for the sake of the chldren--let the
children help Before you throw aside this
paper, why not call them around you and read
them not only the letter of eight year-old AL
berthe. but this other. small human document
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25


Two of these, Andree and Antonin Traucou
"a little girl of eight and boy Of six-owe
their home and their mothers love and care to
two American children who are too tiny to do
more than feel vaguely sorry for the little
French brother and sister. One of their
Christmas gifts from gentle, wise and far
seeing mother the money sent in their
names TO France. 1t was treasure laid up for
the little ones on both sides of the sea.
The third, Eliane Ruet, is the child of The
Tribune Institute, for the money that kept
this little girl of ten with the mother who
needed her so much was made up partly from
small contributions sent in by our readers and
partly from equally modest contributions made
by our own staff.
Oa4s three 1t is betty than nothing; but
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25

the names sent to this
country, the richest
and most lavish of all
the lands on earth,
mum Der fifty ttCo
thousand!
OF these, nine thou
sand have received the
tiny dole of 10 cents a
day that means home
and mother-love - if
not life itself-to them.
Forty-three thousand
are left unaided, in
spite of the unremit-
ting efforts Of those in
charge of the organ
ization formed to care
for the fat erless
children of France!
Why is the result so
S m all? Possibly be.
cause S73 looks like a
good deal to the man or
woman who is Crap
ping with the gulf
that yawns between
ends that will not meet.
Incomes are more mod
crate than the cost of
even plain living some
times.
Yet we pay out sew
eral dollars on a lunch
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25

This told you some
thing of the need of
these ch ildren OF
France for all the help
and comfort we could
send them. So little
would mean so much.
Only S73, 10 cents a
day for two years,
would make it possible
for some wi d o w d
French mother to give
her children a little
more to eat, clothes and
shoes that they might
90 to school, to keep
them at home when
otherwise they might
have to be taken from
her and sent to some
public asylum main
tanned by the govern
ment.
The money sent in
by kindly readers en-
abled us TO forward to
VI. Paul Croiset, sec
rotary of the Society of
the Fatherless Children
Of France, three units
of S73 each-enough to
tax G care of three
French children for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25

N OUR school are two scholars:
Solange, Z years, and Made
leine, A years old. Their papa
was killed in one of the
trenches.
"They have two brothers,
Andre, 9 years old, and Rene,
two wears old. Their Mamma
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25
By ELENE FOSTER

FOUND her standing by the ele-
vator in a downtown store
keeping time with her foot as
she hummed one of those catchy
little street songs which are the
essence of sunny Italy. l
watched her for a moment
Letitia from the Middle West,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-10-31
It HAPPENED IN BISMARCK
And Is happening to Bismarck People
Every Week.

The case told below is not an un-
common thing. The same occurs fire.
quently and will continue to happen
as long as folks have kidneys and
over-tax the kidneys.
Mrs. James Alsbury, GIL Sweet st.,
Bismarck, says: my back bothered
me for several years. At times
was so lame and sore, l could hardly
bend, and when l Strengthened, sharp
pains darted through my kidneys.
often cried out, because of the pain.
At night my limbs ached so severely,
| couldn't sleep well and l was tired
when l got up in the morning My
kidneys didn't act as they should,
either. I was advised to try Doan's
Kidney Pills and got a supply at the
Lenhart Drug Co. One box did me
more good than anything l had previ
ously taken and four boxes entirely
rid me Of kidney complaint and re
stored me to good health"
Price 60c at all dealers Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-ge.
Doans Kidney Pills-the same tina,
Mrs. Alsbury had. Foster Milburn Co.,
Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-10-31
TOday'S II. y. E. A. Activities

but more than 60 per cent of the city
children are doing work of high
school grade, 81 per cent complete the
eighth grade, and 32 per cent COM
plete the twelfth grade. And when it
comes to normal schools and colleges,
the cities of course make much bet
ter showing than the farms, and for
major reason that their elementary
and high school privileges and oppor-
tunities are greater in every way;
and what is true in North Dakota is
true OF at least three-fourths OF the
safes in the American union, and
hat makes it all the more a most seri-
GUS matter"
The Country Boy.
Consider, for instance, in our own
state the case of the country boy. He
is the states greatest single asset, be-
cause he represents in numbers the
largest of any on Of the four groups
OF school children, for there are
more country boys than there are
country girls, and there are more
country boys than there are city girls
and city boys com oined, and yet he
lCpI IlC olIldlICSL anu
the lowest percent completing the
eight grade and enrolling in and COM
pleting the high school. On the per-
centage basis there are four times as
many city girls completing the eighth
grade as farm boys. There are six
times as many doing high school work
as there are farm boys; there are
thirteen times as many of these girls
completing the twelfth grade as there
are of these boys.
1.-THE per cent of farm boys COM
pleting the twelfth grade is just three;
for the, farm girls it is six, while that
of the city boys is 25 and that OF
the city girl is 49, What waste
there is here, and what a tragedy be-
hind it all! .~- b..
There are school teachers and
school administrators who remain 81.
lent, safe and secure in the enjoy
ment of money wrung from country
boys, who are kept out of school to
help pay the taxes, to help pay their
salaries. They remain silent and in
active when the actual per cent of
attendance for country boys in their
schools is less than SO; when the per
cent of those completing the eighth
grade is less than Is, and the per
cent finishing the twelfth grade is
only three.
States Greatest Assets.
"The two greatest assets of any
state are moral integrity and trained
intelligence. The new American
school is to be a school for all the
people. 1t is seen in the country and
town in the organization of evening
public schools; in the adjustment of
the country school calendar to meet
the needs of the chief industry Of the
country; in emphasis that is being
placed on vocational training In 9TH
er words, and briefly, the new Ameri-
can school is to be q community
school" u"rn Agl"EEIs" 1T"F NstEja
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-10-31

"The procession of the ages ad-
vances to the sound of music" said
Dean Woodlands. TYPES of 5OO-year-
old instruments are in use today The
march of time has not altered human
nature in any great degree. We sing
and play upon instruments Of many or
few strings. We play upon pipes of
different lengths and shapes, and so
did they in those long, long centuries
ago, when the earth was comparative
ly young.
WARS rage and subside: continents
change; people rise and fall, music in
its varying forms goes on inspiring
great armies, accompanying hours of
ease and soothing those in sorrow.
Music, like the kindred arts, literature
and painting, must undergo a revival,
renewing of its integral parts In
these days we are passing through
such revival We have community
singing, community concerts, commun.
ity bands and other outcroppings of
the community spirit, not forgetting
community Christmas trees and COM
munity pageants Where, there was
one. community center Of music ten
Years ago, there are today literally
hundreds of cities and towns wheru
community music i'm its varied forms
rot only exists but flourishes.'
-.- Our Social Problems.
Who is going to solve our social
problems? You anticipate the an
swer: The People! In government
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-10-31
CONSOLIDATION, FUTURE
Of SMALL SCHOOL, STILL
NAY Be WORKED TO DEATH
Not a Panacea for all Rural Edu-
cational Ills, but the Logical,
Ultimate End

Even consolidation, which he recog
nizes as the logical future develop
meat for all Of our smaller school sys.
tens, has its limits, said Carl Gilbert
son of Ignite, president of the prin-
cipals of graded, consolidated and
third class high, schools, in address
ing his section Of the North Dakota
Education association this morning
1k Some Exceptions.
g"There are cases where the town
ship is too large a unit for consolidal
tion," said President Gilbertson. This
is true in some parts Of the state
where the roads are poor and the
country is sparsely settled There is
danger in some districts that the tax.
ess may become too burdensome. II
may be that there Is not enough tax
able property to allow a sufficient
levy. These conditions may make
public transportation well nigh i'm
posi- de in large consolidated dis
trict; but even then, if the people
are willing to cooperate, they can
easily solve the problem by private
transportation. .>-a 2'uonDd4.Fj.r,,
2 Policy of State.
&&sDo you realize that the main pol
icy of the state department of educa
ton is the bettermeht of rural school
conditions so that the country child
may have the same opportunities as
the city child. 1t makes me feel al
most pessimistic when some leading
citizen of village comes to me and
tells me that we are spending too
much money on our schools by trans
porting children to the village school
for the families who live within a ra
dius of five or six miles. Such a
person is selfish in that he begrudges
he country boy and girl the same ad
vantages as his children have A lit
tie heavier tax is a good investment
II we can properly educate these coun.
try boys and girls thereby.
Looking to Future
Il am trying to look to the future
oftOur smaller school systems. May
dare to say that all the graded and
smaller high schools will become con.
solidated schools in the not distant
future, at least in the sense that the
school is made to serve eighteen con,
tiguOus sections. The policy should
not be to create open-country consolid,
ated schools as fast as possible, but
where a town or village is located
there Is the most suitable place for
a consolidated school. The town or
VILLAGE forms the best nucleus TO,
such school district because it is
the natural center"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-10-31

like ours, the people themselves must
solve their own problems if they are
ever solved at all. l can hardly keep
up with WOur thinking now when |
say that the people cannot solve prob
lens that they know little or nothing
about They must therefore be taught
and the high school is the institution
that must do it," said DR.. Ross L.. Fin
ney OF the state normal school at Val
ley City, addressing the department
of history, civics and social science
Of the N. ID. r. A. this morning.
"Unless in the high school the ris-
ing generation of American citizens
are taught the economic principles un-
DERIVING taxation, immigration, trust
legislation, collective bargaining, stock
watering and dozen other problems
equally vital, they will blunder in
their attempts to solve such prob
lens. Social stress, perhaps even
social disaster will result"
DR.. Finney sees in the present stu
alton Of social unrest dire conse-
quences unless movements now gain
ing considerable momentum are prop
erly dealt with. Among such move
ments are the struggle of labor
against capital; the uneven distribu-
ton Of wealth; high prices that are
not the result of supply and demand,
the unrest among the laboring classes,
all of which is bringing the social
pulse of our body polite a danger
Gus and gradually increasing degree
of fever
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-10-31
HOPE ON! HOPE ON! HELP ON

HOPE ON! HOPE ON! HELP ON!
Hope on! Hope ever!" reads an
ancient cross-stitched boOkmark which
two sisters discovered the other day
in their reat-grandmother's hair
trunk.
"Hope on, hope ever,' repeated the
older girl Sounds so old fashioned
Cant be- said the other. IRE
member hope springs ETERNAL in
the human breast"
Maybe so. But we don't live by
it. Nowadays we go after what we
want, and we 60 hard, or the other
fellow will beat us to it. Just hoping
seems like expecting things to come
our way if we sit still and wait Lots
of people do that. It's optimism plus
I'd rather be a hopeless pessimist-
and trust to work.
"Why not be little of BOTH" sug-
gested the younger girl. "FOr a fair
compromise why not try help on,
help ever?"
And why not?
It's easy to hope without helping,
and hard to work without hoping, but
whoever cultivates cheerful help
on-help ever" spirit starts out with
about the right combination of energy
and courage.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-10-31

''In the long rum" said DR.. Finney,
I'VE are in more danger from the plu-
tocrat at home than we are from the
autocrat abroad, and while others are
fighting the one oyer, the seas, let us
show our far-sighted patriotism by re-
fusing to be obseSsed entirely by the
war and push forward the fundament-
ais of peace. Such is our only excuse
for remaining safe at home; and be
sure that when the war is over we
shall need the defense of adequate
education as never before" '..j
Wiping Cut Waste.
Had home economics been properly
taught in every school in our country
for the past generation, America
would not have become the wasteful,
extravagant nation that it is. Neither
would the food administration have to
ask the women of America to pledge
themselves to sane, economical meth
DDS of selecting and preparing food foi
the family" said Miss Nellie w
FarnsWorth, director OF the depart
ment Of home economics at tn estate
normal school at Valley City, address
ing the domestic science teachers this
morning on the subject, General
Teaching Methods"
Home economics more than any
other subject brings the home and
school into close relationship. II
strengthens the home lessons and en-
courages higher standards of living
We must look to this subject to teach
respect for labor and the laborer, tt
establish habits of cleanliness, order
illness, economy and accuracy, to show
the vital relation between food and
health. Women must be taught a
knowledge of foods, clothing, hygiene
and sanitation in order that they may
protect not only their own health bu:
the health Of the family and expend
the income intelligently both as re
CARDS food and clothing. The girls of
today are the women of tomorrow,
and if we would prevent the passing
of the American home, we must teach
through home economics reverence for
the home, for the family and the fam
lily life-for the family is still the unit
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-10-31
NEW AM ER|CAN
. SCHOOL To Be
FOR ALL i. FOLKS
Will be Community Institution
Serving Every Need and Doing
it Efficiently
OLD RURAL SYSTEM
HIT BY MACDONALD
~ -a
Declares Country Boy and Girl
were Robbed of Their Birth
Right by Indifference

The American public school is only
in the infancy Of its usefulness, N. &.
Macdonald, state superintendent or
public instruction, this afternoon ad-
vised North Dakota teachers at the
first general session of the North Da-
kOta Education association, held at
the municipal auditorium.
"rhe old American school as we
know it has served we'll it's day. 1t
has furnished most of the materials
out Of which we are rearing mighty
and magnificent temple OF learning
that shall be for America a crown Of
glory to its long list Of achievements
for centuries to come But a new and
better and more efficient school is
coming in, and coming rapidly to do
better most of the things that it once
did so well.
Our own temple of learning, repre-
senting the new American school, is
one in many of it's aspects a magnifi-
cent structure, with its original land
grant of 100000 acres, soon to be
worth in the markets of the world
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-10-31

over 100000, with its 5000 teach
ers and 100000 school children, with
the $9,0O0,0OO spent annually upon it's
maintenance, and with the temple now
in process Of construction costing $14,-
100000, it represents an achievement
of which we may well be proud. Other
states of the nation may have done as
we'll, but none has done better"lt"
- Rural School Problem H''a.
4 Taking up the rural school problem,
SuDt. Macdonald said: E. - lanuH
q" Sevcnty-fve per cent of our child
rem in this state live upon the farms.
Seyenty-five per cent of the tax in
come comes from the farms, but less
than II per cent O1.S) of farm chill
dren are doing work of high school
grade, only 20 per cent complete tho
eighth grade, and the disgracefully
low average of 4.G per cent complete
he 18th grade. The city children
make showing that is bad enough,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-10-31
SOM e GOAT.

OF course you noticed this nice lit
tie instance Of selecting the goat:
La Toilette, aiming to beat Uncle
Sans war policies, makes a speech
hostile to the liberty loan. He puts
his senatorial frank on thousands of
copies of the speech and Uncle Sans
pOstoffice force delivers them where
they'll hurt Uncle most, without
charge to La Toilette.
It's enough to make the ghost of
old Clement Vallandigham chortle
with amusement
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-10-31
A PUBLIC ENEMY,

A man embarked upon a long vOy-
age, taking with him food sufficient
to last throughout the trip If con-
sumed in moderation. But during the
first few days he ate it all, fairly
gorging himself, and throwing over
board food that no longer tickled his
palate. Then for day or two he
was content to do without food. But
that did not last long. Within few
daysS.the pangs Of hunger became
acut1sa in his starvation delirium
he prayed TO the waves to give up
the bits OF food he had tossed away
as undesirable.
A very foolish man, you say.
Surely, and SO are people stand
ing in our shoes today who would
waste food as many of us are doing.
The American farmer has finished
his seasons toll. He has given US
660,O00,000 bushels of wheat, 100000
more bushels than he was able to
raise last year. He has grown for us
3,2l1 100000 bushels of corn, 86,000,-
100000 more bushels than he harvest
ed in the record making crop year of
1912. He has dug 453,00O,O0O bushels
OF potatoes, 168,00O,0 900 more bushels
than in 1916, and the bean crop is
nearly double that of last year.
he did his best.
We start. the journey through the
coming war-laden winter with enough
food to feed this nation and to keep
our allies from starvation If the food
is not wasted II we are like the
foolish man in the boat and consume
our meat and wheat and waste much
of it in garbage cans and overloaded
stomachs therell be pangs of hunger
felt by millions of human beings
here in America and over the seas in
Britain, France and Belgium-before
another harvest season arrives.
1t will be too late to begin conserv-
ing food when most of it has been
used or wasted. The waves did not
give back to the foolish man the
crumbs and scraps of food he had
thrown away.
Clearly it is up to us to conserve
those millions OF bushels of food the
American farmers have grown for US.
And we must start now.
When Herbert Hoover set apart this
week as food conservation week he
hoped that every person would COM
mence the formation of a food con-
servation habit which would extend
over all the days Of food shortage
He would have US begin early-now,
at the very moment when the nations
farms are giving up all this food.
Hoover would put an end to every
food waster, be that person in the
kitchen, at the dining table, on the
farm or in charge Of the transporta-
ton and storing of foods He would
stamp as an enemy that person who
wastes food
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-10-31
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-10-31

A hundred and one offers swarmed
upon Marguerite Clark, asking her to
leave motion pictures and return to the
stage. She has spurned them and set
them aside, maintaining Il am bringing
more joy to many more millions OF
hearts through Paramount Pictures
than I could ever do otherwise. Why
shouldn't 1 be happy, when l make so
many more people happy? That's my
secret of happiness
Miss Clark can be seen in one Of her
best features, "The Valentine Girl"
at the Bismarck theater tonight.