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The Washington herald., 1918-01-28

when Donna selected that very
delicate and dainty little garment. and
said she would take Il for her blessed
and ugly little son-to-be, burst out
without thinking and said. Don't buy
that, Donna Then I blushed furi-
'ously.
"oh. know what is in your mind.
Margie," said Donna quickly. You
are thinking that this dainty frock
will make my Billy look uslier than
ever. Well, / really don't care a bit.
want everyone to know that love
him and that 1 consider that nothing
1 can buy is too good for him."
But, Donna. don't you think that
slip would look better on q girl baby
than on a boy7''
'I guess you are right. Margie."
she said slowly. and she gave the
frock back to the saleswoman rather
reluctantly. "why don't you buy It,
Margie?''
Because I'm going to buy palmer
things for my baby" said. could
not bring myself to tell her that
simply had not been able to take any
interest in buying things at all as
yet. for 1 had not been able TO even
make myself believe 1 was going TO
have a baby-.all for my very own.
When we got home that night we
found Donna's attorney awaiting u.s.
He told us that Billy got his gray
eyes and carrotty hair from Irish an
cestrY When the lawyer got this far
in describing the baby's parentage and
the circumstances OF his birth, Donna
said suddenly. II don't care to hear
any more, Mr.. Stein. II you say that
can hayo BiI1y right away that's
all l care to know. That will make
me very happy"
But. my dear lady" said the law
yer, don't you want TO know some
thing about the boy 80 that you will
be able to tell whether he is all right
physically"
NO" said Donna. '1t the poor lit
tie fellow Is weak physically so much
the more reason for my taking him
and doing all in my power TO make
him strong"
well. Mrs. Tenney, l can assure
you that the baby is all right organi-
cally."
That is all I want to know. When
can I get him?"
'If you will sign all the papers. 1
think you can have him tomorrow" {"
said Mr.. Stein.
Donna's face fell. She had set her
heart on having tho bSby with her
that night and she was the more dis
appointed as I had received a letter
from him that morning which made
me see that Dick was so lonely and
discontented that had decided TO
take the night train home.
Il think, my dear Donna" said.
you will be happier anyway when
you get your Billy boy II you are all
alone. You will have to get your life
adjusted to 1T around the life Of q
baby and am not sure that you will
not find caring for a baby more than
you bargained for"
The Washington herald., 1918-01-28
The Domestic Morale.
By DOROTHY DIX.
The worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

good cheer may not pe a model house.
keeper, or a Gordon bleu as a coax,
put her family doesn't care q whoop.
she keeps everyone bright, and In
terested, and happy, and that's the
tning that counts with them.
And in thus keeping up the morale
of her family the woman does some-
thing more than merely make them
happy. She puts into them the ,cou-
rage to fight and the ability 10 win.
just as keeping up the morale OF the
army gives the soldier the spirit that
carries him on to victory.
Figure It out for yourself. All day a
man has been fighting in his office to
hold his own. fighting just as desper-
ately as any soldier ever fought on the
battlefield. He comes home exhausted
In mind and body, his nerves strained
to the breaking point, his soul fainting
within him with weariness. What he
needs more than anything In the
world is something to wrest his mind
into a different channel, something to
cheer him, to comfort him, and put
fresh heart into him.
Suppose he finds a dark and unlit
house, children that are quarreling
and grouching. and who pounce upon
him like young wolves demanding this
and that, and who snarl IL they can't
have it, and a wife who deluges him
with all the petty worries OF her day
the misdeeds of the children, the in
competence OF the servants. the ex-
tortion Of the tradesmen. her own
neuralgia. and the woes OF her family
who are generation Of Jobs full Of
nj N fhn - Eol, ng1 -
heir.
Suppose. on the other hand, the tired
business man comes home to a bright
house, where light and warmth run
over the threshold to meet him; to a
wife with a tender and understanding
smile in her eyes. and who bubbles
with gayety and laughter over a thou
sand funny little things she has saved
up to tell him; TO children who are
jolly little tikes waiting up for a romp
with dad.
1t doesn't take much Of a prophet to
tell which man Is going TO make the
winning fight, and which one Is simply
going to lay down his arms and sur
render, does It? One man has tho
last drop OF courage in him squeezed
out by the depressing conditions Of his
new hope. new strength put into his
breast by the cheer that greets his
Homecoming.
The gay heart goes all the day. The
said heart tires In a mile. says the old
song. II is true. There is nothing we
cannot do. nothing we cannot achieve
as long as we go about II cheerfully.
The work we sing at is not work, but
play. It's our state of mind that makes
the difference. and IL We can keep this
good. all lifo is good.
Keeping the domestic morale good
lies solely in woman's hands. Surely
when they appreciate the importance
of that we shall have more cheerful
homes and fewer husbands and chill
dren hunting pleasure away from wife
and mother.
Copyright. 1913. BY the Wheeler Syndicate. Inc }
The Washington herald., 1918-01-28

we'll I do not think the vege-
table Compound can be beaten for
woman's ailments."-Mrs. L. TIM
MEEMAN, 3011 N. Hutchings St,
Kansas City, Kansas.
Women who suffer from head
aches, nervousness, backache, the
blues and other symptoms Of a
functional arrangement should
give this famous root and herb
remedy q trial.
For forty years II has been over
coming such ailments Of women
after other medicines have failed.
II you want special suggestions
in regard to your condition, write
Lydia q. Pinkham Medicine Co,
Lynn. Mass. The result Of long
experience Is at your service, and
your letter will be held In strict
sonndence
The Washington herald., 1918-01-28
Miners Raise $S00,O0O
To Fight Court Verdict

Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. q. - The
United Mine Workers of America,
at their convention here today,
raised $S00.o00 to be put up as COL
lateral while an appeal is taken to
the United States Supreme Court
from the verdict of a Federal court
Of Arkansas which assessed a pen
atty against the organization for an
alleged violation of the Sherman
law.
The union also decided to seek
Congressional action to prevent the
issuing of an injunction by a West
Virginia court restraining the union
against organizing.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-28

Sbuo Cdu5eu Dy
q functional de-
ran cement. I
was nervous and
had headaches
most of the
time So many
people recon-
mended Lydia
E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Com
pound to me, I
tried 1t and
after taking six
hnffIoa n am
The Washington herald., 1918-01-28
Disloyal Student Punished.

Greenwich, Conn, Jan. q. A
near-riot was caused when Angus
tus H. Batten, Columbia University
divinity student, and his sister re-
fused to stand during the singing
of the Star Spangled Banner, and
the Marseillaise at patriotic
meeting here tonight.
A minister yanked them to their
feet.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-28
HOORAY! BABY To
rule THE HOUSE

No Longer Do Women Fear tk<
Greatest Of An Human BIessinE<
The Washington herald., 1918-01-28
PAINS IN BACK
and SIDE
Yield to Lydia E Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.

Kansas City, Kansas.-"I suf-
fered from pains In my back and
The Washington herald., 1918-01-28
HOROSCOPE.

The stars incline, but do no. compel"
The Washington herald., 1918-01-28

Mrs. william Gibbs McAdoo will
be the honor guest at the tea to be
given at the National American
Woman Suffrage headquarters. 1926
Rhode Island avenue, Wednesday
afternoon from 4:3o to 6 o'clock.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-28

Miss Laura Margaret Hoppe,
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis d.
Hoppe. of Marietta, Ca. is passing
the winter here with Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert II. Brown at their apart
ment in the Stoddert.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-28

TtHE only thing that seemed at home
hneked and screamed steel
head raised Flat against the keep themselves
Hor the of the Destroyer And
ABOUT tnere was fear his heart his
carried no
come-a cofee-pot
on his arm he bore the red triangle Of the NJ Of
thousands who with that
Read the story of what doing by Francis Ssyr. in
The Washington herald., 1918-01-28

Mrs s. p. Ficklen will entertain
about IS debutantes at a luncheon
tomorrow in compliment to her
daughter. Miss Daviette Ficklen.
Mrs. Ficklen and Miss Ficklen will
be at home informally tomorrow
afternoon.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-28

The floor committee for the ball
to be given Saturday. February .,
at the New Willard. for the benefit
Of the Episcopal Home for Children.
Is composed of Mrs. Newbold Moves.
chairman; Miss Frances Noyss, Mrs.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-28

The infantry branch OF the army
emergency committee will distribute
wool every Monday after 2 o'clock at
the residence Of Mrs. L. V. Bookmiller,
1865 Columbia road.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-28

Mrs. william c. Harllee, wife Of
Maj. Harllee, U. 3. NJ. c., was hostess
at a reception yesterday afternoon.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-28

Miss Lula Clark. formerly Of this
city. but now living in New York
state. il the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. }.
Miller Kenyon.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-28

Assistant Attorney General and Mrs.
Charles Warren have rs their guests
Mr.. and Mrs. George Whoelwright, jr.,
of Boston.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-06
GIRLS! THICKEN AND
BEAUTIFY YOUR HAIR
AND STOP DANDRUFF
Try thisl Your hair gets wavy, glossy
and abundant at
once.

To be possessed of a head of heavy,
beautiful hair; soft lustrous, fluffy,
wavy and free from dandrufT is merely
a matter of using a little Danderine.
II is easy and inexpensive to have
nice, soft hair and lots of il. Just
get small bottle of Knowlton S Dan
dcrinc now for few ccnts-all drug
stores recommend it-apply a little ~
directed and within ten minutes there
viii be an appearance of abundance,
freshness, fluilness and an Incompatible
gloss and lustre, and try as you VIII
YOU cannot find trace Of dandruH or
falling hair; but your real surprise Will
be after about two weeks use, when
you will see new hair-tnc and downy
90 frst-yes-but really new hair
sproutng out all over your seallr-Dan-
derinc IS. we believe, the only sure
hair grower. destroyer Of dandruff and
cure for itchy scalp and it never fails
10 stop falling hair at once.
II YOU want TO prove how pretty and
soft your hair really is. moisten a cloth
with little Danderine and carefully
draw il through your hair-taking one
small strand at time. Your hair will
be soft, glossy and beautiful in lust
few Moments delightful surprise
awaits everyone who tries this-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-06
OVERMAN MEASURE
STILL DEADLOCKED
Senate Judiciary Committee Now Seems
Likely to Pigeonhole the I'm
portant Measure

WASHINGTON, March 6-The sen
ate judiciary committee still stands at
complete deadlock over the bill to
grant blanket powers of reorganization
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-06
HIGHER DEATH
RATE IN GERMANY
Fifty Per Cent Increase Over 1918 on
Account of Undernutrition-Pa-
pers Have Little to Say.

NEW YORK, March German
newspapers of the first half of January
recently received here have suspicious
L. little to say on the food situation,
which for two years before was an i'm
portant topic for discussion in practi-
cally all the Berlin newspapers The
coming political strike, evoked by food
difficulties and the prospect of an in
definite prolongation of the war through
the attitude of the German delegates
at Brest-LitOvsk, was, perhaps, casting
its shadow before and causing the cen
sor to diseouraging publication of news
calculated to augment the diaatisfac-
/ ton of the working people.
! A decree of the Prussian commission
on food administration mentioned how
ever that mortality during recent
months had been as high as 50 per cent
above that of 1913 and, for that rea-
son, prescribed increased rations for
tubercular patients, upon whom the eff
| fects of undernutrition are felt with
particular severity
Food Director Waldow launched a
! Illumination against various offending
municipalities, which were paying
above the maximum prices for various
! kinds of food in order to assure a sup.
ply for their inhabitants and were
/ thereby. he declared, contributing
largely to the steady driving up OF
prices and to the disregard of the food
law
The newspapers, none of which is a
friend of the food dictator, reported
very sharply that it was impossible fol
the municipalities TO secure enough
food to feed their populations without
disregarding the maxima, which is {
general practice throughout Germany
and declared that Minister Waldov
could find. if he sought them, lawbreak
crs enough among the Prussian stat,
Offices and war food bureaus.
Norwaerts, for example remarked
that the central administration of tn,
province of Brandenburg distributed
flour among its employees for Christ
mas at Il price equivalent 10 50 cent
|per pound: that the Berlin prefectur,
sold butter to officials at the equiva
lent to $2.l2 per pound; that a stat
factory gladdened its employees witt
{ marmalade at - cents and beef 70
I $1.lS a pound and that one of the foo,
f distribution bureaus under Ministe
. WaldoW secured for It's employees as
Christmas favor n very poor qualit,
: of pork, which it sold to them at $l.7
- per pound.
The principal rations of the Berlin
population were still on the sam
meagre scale as for months-namely
G pound of potatoes per day, four pound
+ of bread, one half pound of meat an
:. about an ounce of butter per week.
, a slight improvement in the mil
+ situation had been noted, permlttin
o the restoration of the earlier rations o
n milk for children, one quart for thos
Iup to two years, three quarters of
: quart for those below the age of fou
G and pint for children between fou
n and six years Expectant mothers ais
: receive a ration of unskimmed mill
SKINNED milk could be obtained b
other privileged ones, not by the ger
I eral population.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-06

porations, banks, and warehouses indi-
cate that the money and property in
this country belong to Germans and
subject to sequestration by A. Mitchell
Palmer as alien property custodian.
will approximate more than $500. 0OO,-
600, and may even approach billion
Among the notable properties taken
over were those taken over by the
Countess Szechenyi, formerly Gladys
Vanderbilt, amounting to 100000,
and the investments, stocks, and bonds
of Countess Bernstorff, formerly Jeanne
Luckemeyer of New York, amounting
to 100000. Much larger properties,
including the Hamburg American Line
and other corporations, owned by alien
enemies have also been taken over.
In many eases the alien property Gus
todian has liquidated the affairs of con.
Germs taken over. In many other cases
it was found more advisable to keep
the enterprises going and turn the pro
ceeds into Liberty bonds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-06
VERMONT REGIMENT
is WELL INSURED
Men Have Taken Out So, 963, 900 in Pro
lection, an Average Of S8,400 for
Each Applicant.

RUTLAND, March cit is under
stood that Lieut.. Col. B. S. Hyland of
this city is insurance officer at Camp
Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S. c., for the
57th Pioneer regiment, formerly the
First Vermont Every one in the regi-
ment is now covered except about 35
and they are recruits that went in re-
Gently. Company A of Rutland has 80
enlisted men and they are covered for
S305.0 900. The regiment has taken out
81, $685. 00 an average of over $500
for each applicant.
Because of the large number of Rut
land men at Camp Wadsworth. the fol-
lowing item relative to the camp cen
sorship, published in a South Carolina
newspaper, will be of interest:
"There has been good deal of COM
plant lately because some persons in
the military service have been acting
as correspondents for newspapers and
have been writing stories which, in
| Justice to the military service, should
not be printed AS result of this,
Lieut.. G. ?. Franehot, acting intelli-
gence officer of the 9th division. was
j named as camp censor, and in the flu
ture all articles written for publication
/ by soldiers in camp must pass through
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-06
Alien Custodian Calls for
Purchasers Who Will
Make Deals in Private
TOTAL VALUE RUNS
INTO MANY MILLIONS
Countess Szechenyi and Countess Bern
storff Are Among the American Born
Women Who Still Have Large Hold
ings in This Country.

NEW YORK, March 6.-The general
business department of the alien prop
erty custodian announces that it is pre-
pared TO place on sale enemy property
in business concerns partly or wholly
owned by German residents. These con
Germs include business enterprises in
every possible line, dye factories, steel
and iron plants, import and export
houses, and establishments possessed of
large holdings in metals. cotton. and
wheat. The German owned interests
which are to be sold in Individual con
Germs are worth from 100000 to $500
600, and to total value of the business
stock to be sold eventually runs into
many millions of dollars.
Joseph 4. Bower, head of the bust
ness department of the alien enemy
custodian of tho United States. de-
clared that the negotiations between
the alien property custodian and the
principals who desire to purchase viii
be conducted entirely in private and,
cd at the sale will be equal to the ac-
tual value of the property involved
In other words. he desires to have it
understood that the sale of enemy prop
ertv will not be a bargain-counter af-
fair, wherein valuable interests will bt
sold off for almost nothing and for less
than value.
Mr.. Bower quoted n phrase which ap
pears in an advertisement. announcing
the sale of enemy business concerns
1t reads as follows:
The general business department
of the alien property custodian will
come into possession of various
business concerns enemy owned, in
this country, which will be put on
sale. ANY one interested in any
business which may be offered
should confer with the general
.hssbDfss ajepaTtmentv Jonu ,lh2o,
III Broadway, New York. from
whom they can gather such facts
as can be given at that time Bona
tide principals only need apply.
1t was stated that the names o
none of the concerns to be sold coul
be made public, because publicity o
that nature would only tend to dam
age the value of the interests involved
Much of the property offered, consist
only of shares in coneerns-shares fol
merlv owned by alien enemies. bu
taken over by the United States GOV
ernment under the alien property act
When thi1 act was put into force, tn
alien property custodian took posses
sion of property of all sorts-bond:
dividends, and holdings of aliens Twin
in alien territory, including the prop
erty of American women married t
aliens, and the securities of America
citizens resident III enemy lands
BY the end of December, 1917, $l35
100000 worth of property was on tn
custodian : books. Estimates based o
scattering returns received from co
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-06
FOR HOUSING SHIP WORKERS.
$50, to Be Spent in Building At
lantic Coast Yard Quarters.

WASHINGTON, March eight
million dollars of the $50,000.0O0 given
to the shipping board by congress for
housing shipyard workers will be spent at
the government fabricating plant at Hog
Island, Pa. The rest will be spent at
various Atlantic coast yards in sums
ranging up to S3,000,000.
At the Hog Island plant and at the
government yard at Chester, Pa, the gov
eminent itself will purchase the land
and build the houses Where housing Is
provided at private yards the government
will lend the money to subsidiary com
panies, taking mortgages on the prop
erty.
No houses will be built at the third
government yard at Newark, as housing
there has been provided.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-06
AUTOMOBILE FERRY.
Vermont and New York Shores to Be
Connected Gateway for Tourists.

ELLINGTON. March g. New
York and Vermont viii be connected
at lake points, Grand Isle and Cumber
land Head by a large automobile ferry
if the plans Of automobile owners in
both states are carried out.
\ company has been formed, to be
known as the Grand Isle Ferry Co.
inc, and large ferry boat that has
been plying at Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, has been bought.
The craft il of the double end ferry
type, the same as used between the
New York and Jersey shores, and is So
feet inches long. 1t has a beam of
80 feet 6 inches, depth feet and
draws feet OF water. Contains two
passenger cabins, one of which is 4
| smoker. 1t has a tonnage of 139 tons.
The power plant consists of two in
clined low pressure, surface condensing
| engines of $50 horse power, two boil
ers of the locomotive type.
The steering gear in both pilot houses
| is controlled by steam and the boat
| has a fully equipped electric light
| plant which furnishes power for the
adequate lighting of the boat.
| The craft is seaworthy and will
weather any kind of a lake storm.
| She will be brought down the coast UNI
| der her own steam by the way of Bos-
ton, New York, thence up the Hudson
| and down the new barge canal az soon
as the ice goes out in the spring.
The new ferry will prove great
| gateway fer all tourists from Canada
to all eastern points, as well as New
EnglanderS who want the shortest and
| safest routa between thp main hi oh
| was of both states.
The ferry will operate ON q regular
schedule between Gordon S Landing
Grand Isle, and a dock that is to b,
erected at Cumberland Head, \. y.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-06

In spite OF the gravity OF the food situa-
| ton, a starved heart causes greater pangs
| than an empty stomach Philadelphia
| Record,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-06

of the entire executive branch of gov
eminent to the President.
The Overman bill as framed without
specification Of the intentions of the
President or their delimitation in the
measure, could not be reported from
the committee, but stands every chance
of being pigeonholed by that body.
4 week ago the committee stood nine
to eight against the bill in its present
form. There was one absentee, Sena-
tor Walsh (Mont.) but even should he
return his one vote would only tie the
vote and protract the deadlock.
Senator Shields (Tenn.) is one of the
Democrats opposing the President s
wishes. 1t is believed Senator Shields
would yield point if the administra-
ton would insist only on having the
power to reorganize the war and navy
departments. That would permit the
bill to be reported by 9 to s vote and
throw the fight over its terms into the
senate
just now, however. the adminiStra-
ton seems not to be i'll mood to com
promise. Whether the President has
been appraised of the committees atti
tude or whether he knows that in addi
! ton to the bill i three Democratic op-
| ponents there arc in the senate almost
| half a score Democrats more who will
| refuse to vote for the Oyerman bill un.
| til 1t is made innocuous and impotent
to provide for any changes in the fun
| damental arrangements of the execu
| tive branch of the government is not
known. The blanket powers seen
| doomed horpyar
The committee put off further dis
cussion of the Oyerman bill unit
| Wednesday,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-06
CHARGED WITH BIGAMY.
st. Johnsbury Woman in Jail-One Hus-
band Accused of Larceny.

ST. JOHNSBURY, March 6.-Mrs.
Mary Towne Whalen, who was arrested
in Kirby on the charge of bigamy, is
now in the county Jail here. She is a
young St. Johnsburv woman and it is
charged that while she was the wife of
Patrick Whalen she was married TO
Fred Hall Of Concord. who is now in
the St. Johnsbury jail charged with
larceny AS Hall lives in Essex coun-
" the officers here are waiting for Mrs.
Whalen 5 transfer to Guildhall Jail and
her final appearance in the county court
there