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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-01
HINSDALE, N. H.
FRoM HINsDALE BOYS
Local Relatives Get Interesting News
from Blouin and Maynard.

4 letter from Edward Blouin of
Company G, lo3d United states in
fantry, written in France March ., has
just been received by his mother, Mrs.
n. A. Blouin of this town, and il will
he of general interest to the people Of
this locality. He writes:
Dear ALL
| received your most welcome scttcr
a couple of days ago while | was III
the trenches. | am feeling fine and
enjoying life under the circumstances
Il is net half as bad the way we live
as | imagined it would be. have sent
my December allotment Of money home
and glad to hear that you have received
the November amount which / sent.
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Legends Of the Sugar Naples.

Nobody knows exactly how the early
settlers learned that the maple trees
OF New England Welded san which
could be made into strip and sugar.
Probably the Indians were their instruc-
tors. There are many traditions as to
how the Indians themselves learned the
secret Of tile maple tree According to
one Of them. all Indian squaw was boil
Ing some meat one day il the sap from !
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rlDle cramps every
month so | was IN
able 20 do anything.
/ had tried every
doctor in w est
Plains, also every
remedy could think
Of, without relief
One day when | was
suffering greatly a
friend was at my
hous @ end said,
why don t you try
Lydia +. Pinkham g
VaCptabIp Corn
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

DIR. +. X. LYNCH, Surgeon. Office, Park
Bldg, rooms, and 3, telephone $40. Office
noufs. until a. IN, TO 3, and TO 9 e. m. !;
Melrose hospital, telephone 2ll 9 to 10 a M.
Residence, ~ Canal St, telephone. III. Sun.
daxa nv aDpDfutp1sut ouly
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1t is reported from Rome that Italian
women are giving up iewelry and house
hold silver III order to make the fifth
Italian war loan success.
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ans fitness for the mission and
asked him to look ont for her and
help her all he could All he ask
ed was, is she good looking?'
And when he was told that she
was, he said earnestly, Me for
her.
DO you know, Margie, am
almost beginning to think that
women will never do any very
great things in the world until
we do away with that very silly
idea that above all else a woman
must be beautiful"
But, Donna" interrupted.
don't you think that air women
as well as all men should look
as well as they CAM"
"Of course, every human be-
ing should look clean, well
groomed, and healthy, and every
human being should wear, IL DOS
sible, clothes that are suitable to
his station and duties in life.
But l do not believe that any
human being should try to en-
nance his beauty for the mere
pleasure of the eye of the COM
munity In which he lives.
"Hear-hear the pretty widow
with the ruined white hair" ex-
claimed, and we both laughed. -
ITO Be Continued,)
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Reed Knocked Sky.Hi6h

BY using smoked glasses and turning them upon
an object scintilating little higher up than the
moon, you will be able to observe gent named
Reed, who has been what you may call "hoist by his
own petard," referring to the Missouri senator
whose rigorous investigation of Hoover has result
ed in great personal triumph-for Hoover
Reed started out to dscredit the food administra-
tion before the country. 1t was disclosed that D-
rector Hoover may have, in some particulars, ex-
ercised more authority than Reed and his col
leagues ever granted him, and that he may have
smashed some perfectly good theories in behalf of
kctual practical effects
When Hoover entered upon his work. saving Of
sugar and wheat for the allies were the immediate
war necessities The allies got the sugar and the
wheat
Moreover, while Hoover was squeezing the sugar
and wheat out Of u.s. the refiners and millers were
not squeezing exorbitant prices out of us for what
sugar and wheat we could get.
Instead of 80 and 49, we have paid 49, to 10 cents
for sugar. and three or four hundred millions OF
dollars has been saved to consumers of flour, with
producers of wheat getting unusually fair prices.
Mr. Hoover has played both ends against the mid
die, and won for the people, It is enough to make
Reed and his ilk red hot, but these actual results
stick out and the folks want more of Hoover, how
ever he does it.
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evening because OF business.
That evening | was seated in the
lobby of one of the large hotels,
when to my horror, who should
come down in the elevator, but
my f!ancee and her friend in the
uniform.
The next day asked her for
an explanation, and she CON-
fessed all, telling me a straight
forward story Of how the affair
had been going on these past
four months. The only excuse
she could give was that she
didn't know what came over her.
Now, Miss Grey, had anyone
told me this, I would have
knocked him down; but See
ing is believing" you know. I
am certainly nonplussed and al
most insane. The girl asked my
forgivness and wants me to
think and be as l used to when
we were so happy; but, Miss
Grey, am afraid / never could
take her and respect ner as l
once did, and make her my
wife. o. w. N.
There Is just as much excuse fol
the girl as there would be for yO,
under the same circumstances; nj
more or no less. Bearing In mint
that women, as well As men, ar,
human beings, and crave cOmpan
put yourself in your fian
GEES shoes. II you were the gull
ty one would you expect her to for
give and forget and still become
your wife? II SO, she is not to ex
pect less from you.
Remember, l am not attempting
to shield her. The act was mos
tlishonOrable, deceitful and uncall
ed for. You have both learned {
lessOn-that absence doe
not make the heart grow fOnder
but invariably brings upon one Of
both parties these complications.
II you feel that you cannot Hreo
ly forgive your fiancee and fOrgei
all about the incident, you wOult
not be happily married. In view
Of this, the sooner you break Of
your engagement and each go you
separate ways, the better.
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preciate a straightforward an
swer to the following:
I have been keeping company
with a young lady here for
about two and one half years.
1t was understood that we would
marry just as soon as l could
prepare a home for her which
l have been arranging for.
was called east Nittle over a
year ago and remained away
until this Christmas. / arrived
home on the oath of December
and she met me at the train and
said how pleased she was to see
me, etc.. and 1t was a very happy
meeting for me.
We had been corresponding
regularly and about four
months ago she wrote of a nice
young man from her old home
town who had been called here
by the war. She said she had
been going around with him
some, and asked my approval. I
certainly gave 1t, as I trusted
her fully.
When / left her on the eve of
my arrival l told her 1t would
be impossible to see her the next
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THE TRAGEDY OF BLUE HAIR

THE TRAGEDY OF BLUE HAIR
My first exclamation when
arrived in her town and looked
at Donna Tenney was, what in
the world have you done to your
beautiful white hair?"
Donna turned to me a face that
was doubly indicative of tragedy
and a desire to laugh.
you don't mean to tell me,
Donna, that you have been fool
ish enough to try to color it," l
said.
Mercy no." she ansered, "but
I was foolish enough to submit
to the ordeal of having it perma-
nently waved, and this is the
color the heat and the chemicals
they used made it,"
But it is blue!"
81 know it perfectly WE'LL" she
answered with a rueful laugh.
"In their endeavor to nullify the
yellow tinge that my white hair
took on, they literally dyed it
with a strong solution of ordinary
laundry blueing which gave 1t this
steel blue color. am heart
broken, of course.
why will women be such
fools, Margie?" continued Dom
ma. 1T cost me $35 to have this
atrocious thing perpetrated on
me and l would willingly give s35
to have 1t removed. Alas and
alack, I've got to look like this
until the blue and the yellow
wears off.
Donna's white hair had been
one of her greatest charms, and
consequently her greatest pride.
But, you see," she explained, 81
spent about four hours a week
lat the hairdresser's having it
curled SO l concluded to have 1t
fixed up once and for all. I'll tell
you, Margie, I'll be mighty glad
for the sake of my sex-for I
won't be here to see it-when the
time comes that women will not
be judged first, last and all the
time for her looks.
You may have the mind of
Minerva and the soul of an angel.
but IL you haven't the looks of a
Venus, all else will avail you moth
ing in this vale of tears. What
matters It IT, a woman gains her
greatest ambition il she loses her
good looks?"
You are right, Donna" L
said. 'It is an awful common
tary on humanity when we women
must still gain what we want
from the world of men on mere
physical qualifications. know
a woman who was going abroad
on a most important mission. one
which would require courage, a
trained mind, sympathetic
sense Of dramatic values, enthu-
siasm, diplomacy and knowl-
edge OF the technique of her
trade to succeed to any extent.
"A friend OF hers was speaking
to man who might help her
much. She dilated On the wom-
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The "Master's" Crouch
BY CYNTHIA GREY


wrote libre about
him that she would the Of
flee him with bought the thaer tickets and order
ed a little dinner.
right conded to the gentle reader that
rather called for the
comedy and his dinner
will synathze with him. and insist that they
would feel just the about it.
he spoiled
meaning oh dear, no!
Which brings question: How is that always knows
better than a what is good for her?
And his feelings hurt whenever she acts def
mite wish Of her own?
Any with knows the pathetic
he can't help it,
a pleasure of motor
tickets them knows what to defend and
perfectly harm
less idea which they have thought out and want to try out
Doubtless that when there but and
the world Adam felt ust 500 the first time Eve acted
O her own initiative
female
well known conversation with the
pent!
had little bit by the fruit OF
the enough
ems efforts to make them happy.
gouchng about whether he is master
ought Paradise would regained
o The majority Of
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All Together. Sing
just listen to this, ladies!

just listen to this, ladies'!
''They're Wearing Them Higher In Hawaii"
bids fair to become an international anthem-for
The duration of the war;. -
The situation is dangerous and desperate indeed
when high government officials go pOking their
fingers into the women's fashions!
One of those shortages" the newspapers are al
ways talking about has hit the wool market and the
men are all in futter for fear women will put so
much in their spring suits that there won't be any
left for khaki uniforms and army blankets!
And then, just as if patriotic women wouldn't
take care Of that little job themselves, up hobs
Monsieur Jusserand, French ambassador to the
United States, suggesting to the Paris designers
that Economy be the watchword for 1918 dresses"
He further suggests that mo more than Az meters
Nfve vards) be allowed to each costume" So, what
those spring gOwns-especially for-hem-plump
ladies be is easy to see; aso 'easy to look
at!''
The Paris designers agreed to the suggestion OF
Monsieur Jusserand with alacrity and are reported
to be having ripping time with the full skirts
they had already designed and cutting up scandal
ousy in their frantic efforts to make two costumes
grow where only one grew before Tubes, hobbies,
riflebarrel and macarOni skirts may appear in our
midst any day!
With your kind permission will paraphrase
that popular ballad and join in singing They're
wearing Them Higher In WartimesW
sweetIy that other day
copyright lifted in Washington and given to
good This which the Teut
unders tand wi houts standing his head.
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Of Great Falls returned to their
home Friday evening after spend
ing several weeks in Tacoma as
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Joel
Vigus, S13 South 21st street. They
have son, Norman H. Gillette,
member of Company d, 316th
sanitary train, field hospital, at
Camp Lewis.
Mrs. Gillette and Mrs. Vigus
are sisters.
Miss Helen Gillette was the
house guest of Miss Ruth Vigus
during the holidays. She return
ed last week to Missoula, where
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-12
Pity Seattle

That is the heading the Seattle Star places over
. front-page editorial commenting on the disbar-
ment of Mayor Gill and two of his former law part
ners from practicing in the courts of Washington.
The Star says:
IF you have pity, waste no more of it on H. G.
Gill. Pity your city, Seattle instead.
'sPity your city because, after all it has endured,
all it has suffered, it still has its mayor, Ii. @.
Gill
ssPity Seattle because, after eight years of tur-
noil, eight years of police-mayoralty scandal it
still has enthroned at the city hall the Of it
nll-G illism'
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Are the mothers to blan
What is the remedy?
All these questions are being
asked and answered by many
Times readers as the result of a
letter written by M. L., in which
she put the first two questions In
the form of a positive statement.
The resulting discussion seems
to indicate, clearly this:
There should be more surveil-
lance of the young girl. There
should be a return to the old plan
of chaperonage.
There should be more care, on
the part of the girl, as to the
company she meets and the way
in which she meets 1t.
There should me more fore
thought on her part, in accepting
Invitations.
On the other hand 1t Is plainly
pointed out by women who an
swered, that men should not Judge
all women by the woman Of little
or no character with whom they
chance to make acquaintance in
the street or cafe.
Men are reminded that they
must go into the homes IL they
expect to find home girls.
Here are some more letters on
the subject:
Miss Grey: I have read the let
ter of M L. She speaks the truth
about men.
Some men Of today. both young
and old, are devils" They are
men who have been taught to re-
spect womanhood, but they think
II is smart to down a young girl.
Men get acquainted with girls.
get on the good side of them and
then invite them to drink some
thing, saying 1t will be good for
them. 1t simply lowers the girls.
Afterwards the men will laugh at
them.
l am a young married man. l
can swear I never went with a
young lady unless was intro
duced to her. II took her to a
show or to supper, her good
mother was along. When a
young lady in her teens goes out
with a young man, she should
have her mother along.
A mother and father should
see to their daughters protection
first and above all. Then there
would be lots OF good girls in this
country. Z. III. j. A. d.
Miss Grey: I am greatly inter
ested in your column. Recently
/ noticed a statement by one
writer that all girls who have a
good time pay the price" The
writer of that surely does not
mean that all sci their virtue be-
cause they love companionship
and the pleasure that goes with 1t.
II Is undoubtedly true that a
very great percentage of our
young people seem to go to the
limit in their gay life. And the
high cost of loving is on a part
with the high cost of living.
Time was when cause and eff
feet worked without hindranee.
But now modernism has largely
|nullifisd the effects.
READER"
Miss Grey: think NJ. L. is
wrong in supposing there are no
good men. 1t seems to me there
are many men who are quite will
ing to take girl to a place of
entertainment and to dinner
merely in exchange for the pleas
ure Of her company. g.
Dear Miss Grey: ! would ap-
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she is attending Missoula college.

she is attending MISSOURI college,.
Marriage Licenses.
Marriage licenses were issued
Friday to Orman N. Powell and
Marian F. Funkhouser of Tacoma;
Otto E. Snyder and Ruth Fren-
denstein of Tacoma; Lloyd Kuea-
per and Mac NJ. Brown of Ash
ford; Walter Edris and Maude
Duncan of Puyallup; Ernest d.
Rice and Ada Clarno of Seattle;
Horace 8. Steele and Violet Wat
terhall of Tacoma; Sam Martin
and Bertha NJ. Hall of Tacoma.
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A patriotic ball will be given
for the Red Cross next Wednesday
evening, which will mark the
opening Of the new market build
ing at So. 18th and Market SITS.
Mrs. Robert A. Mccormack is in
charge Of the arrangements, and
under her is working a large COM
mittee of Red Cross women who
are planning to make this one of
the biggest benefits of the year.
Miss Adele Essey and Dan ia
bour Of Prince Rupert, b. c., wei
quietly married Sunday morning
at high mass at st. Leo's church.
After the ceremony the bride and
groom left for short trip, after
which they will make their home
at Prince Rupert.
Alpha Degree Of Honor will en-
terrain at cards at Odd Fellows
temple Thursday evening. Re-
|freshments will be served and a
cordial invitation is extended to
all the friends Of the order.
The Young Peoples association
Of the Church of the Holy Com
munion will give a basket social
Saturday evening at 1907 So. l
st. All friends of the parish and
Camp Lewis soldiers are invited.
Tacoma Reviene No. 1 will give
a social dance Saturday night,
Jan. II, in Fraternity hall, lit
Tacoma ave. Members are asked
to bring their soldier friends as
guests. Refreshments will be
served.
Some of the more stringent
rules against rushing in the Uni
versity of Washington having been
abolished, the sororities and fra
ternities are announcing their
pledges for Tacoma and district.
For the sororities they are: Alphi
Chi Omego, Inez Nelson of Aber-
deem; Alphi Phi, Grace Barnes of
Tacoma; Delta Delta Delta, Esther
Duwfli of Tacoma.
The fraternities announce the
pledging of Carl Zamberlin Of
Olympia to Sigmu M, and of Roy
G Hall of Olympia for Beta
Theta Pi.
Tho regular monthly meeting
of the Tacoma Dahlia society
will be held Monday evening at 8
in the Commercial club rooms. All
members and those interested in
dahlias are urged to be present,
as there will be election of Off
GERS and other important busi-
ness.
The Query club will meet Mon
day afternoon at the home of Mrs.
r. e. Jones, 2909 No. Proctor st.
Mrs. J. @. Mason will give a book
review.
The annual vestry meeting Of
the Church Of the Holy Commun-
ION Will be held In the church
parlors Monday evening. The
church women will serve dinner
preceding the meeting.
Mrs. MACPHERSON, zoos So. 10th
St, will entertain the Degree of
Pocahontas at cards at her home
Wednesday afternoon.
The Women Of the Trinity
church will have charge of the
dinner and entertainment for the
soldiers of Camp Lewis at st.
Luke's parish house Saturday
evening. A well-cooked meal will
be served. followed by music and
dancing.
The retail clerks OF Tacoma
are giving dance Saturday
evening at Masonic temple.
Mr.. and Mrs. James II. Gillette
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Kerensky says the value Post, has "a Of
About mysterious should as corn
cOnverse
the horns He cried havocksky
suckngdove He hung his banners
md when cold of
mystery! mystery his the first
or second?-ChicagO Tribune.
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AN SWE RS |
BY CYNTHIA GREY
BY Cynthia Grey

Are men I'M Tacoma worse than men in other cites !?
Do they expect more than the pleasant company of
girl IN exchange for the money they spend upon her
in an evenings entertainments
Are the girls to blame?
Are the mothers to hlame2
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BURNS WILL co TO
JAPAN AS CONSUL,

A PACIFIC PORT, Jan. IL. -
Juan Burns, former Mexican con-
sui general in New York, is going
to japan as consul general for
the Carranza government and not
on any Secret mission" General
Ramon p. de Negri, consul gen.
eral for Mexico for the Pacific
coast, announced today.
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OF the Turkish atrocities I'm this
Turks had under the command
German The Unspcakabe has received lessons in
knbIeness.
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EDITORIALS

TACOMA Nsrthwest
Published Publishing
Rstss-By month; year; %
all Offices Times
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Six hundred men from Univer-
sity OF Washington have gone to
war.
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. comeback
rke se been es45O alleged
wish
erjeal Billie before
81 be Off easily.
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The retail clerks OF Tacoma
are giving a dance Saturday
evening at Masonic temple.
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Mr.. and Mrs. James II. Gillette
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solemn thought that other day
copyright lifted Washington and given to
is which the
undeasta w hout standing O his head.
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The Women Of the Trinity
church will have charge of the
dinner and entertainment for the
soldiers Of Camp Lewis at st.
Luke's parish house Saturday
evening. A well-cooked meal will
be served, followed by music and
dancing.
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Mrs. MACPHERSON, zoos So. 10th
St, will entertain the Degree OF
Pocahontas at cards at her home
Wednesday afternoon.
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The annual vestry meeting of
the Church Of the Holy Commun-
ion will be held in the church
parlors Monday evening. The
church women will serve dinner
preceding the meeting.
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The Query club will meet Mon
day afternoon at the home of Mrs.
r. e. Jones, 2909 No. Proctor st.
Mrs. ]. @. Mason will give a book
review.
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Tho regular monthly meeting
of the Tacoma Dahlia society
will be held Monday evening at s
in the Commercial club rooms. All
members and those interested in
dahlias are urged to be present
as there will be election of Off
GERS and other important bust.
ness.
Evening star., 1918-04-11
REPUBLICANS IND0RSE
SUFFRAGE FOR WOMEN
Convention at Greensboro, N. G., Ap.
proves Federal Amendment Mrs.
Fairbrother Reports.

Mrs.. Al yairbrothsr Of the Equal suf-
3raGe League OF Greensboro. N. c.. has
notIned the congressional committee Of
the NAtional American Woman Suffrage
NAssooistion here that the republican
state convention In session at Green's
boro has Endorsed the federal woman
suffrage amendment.
Commenting on the political situation
thus presented. Nrs. Helen H Garde-
ner. Vice president Of the National Suf-
ffaga Association. says:
'"rhe democrats In their state conven-
ton can hardly do less than the re-
publicans have done. They have moth
( Ing to lose and everything to gain. The
lormal republican vote in North Caro-
lima 10 about $4,000. Of which only
5000 to 5000 are colored. The normal
Democratic vote 10 10000. These cir
oumstancss. together with the fact that
thousands Of the leading citizens of
the state recently have been petition
ing the North Carolina senators to vote
for the suffrage amendment, show that
the situation 10 otso the democrats can
not afford to tribe with"
Mra, Maud Wood Park, Congressional
kchairman OF the National Association.
said: "rhis 10 another indication that
opposition to woman suffrage is fast
disappearing in the south. Within the
past Two weeks Texas has granted full
primary suffrage to women, and now a
party convention in another southern
state has fallen into line"