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New Britain herald., 1919-08-16


 At of raw materials both of which Eern other prices. If the value of the dollar is in based with the rising value of flour, i will be no different, in effect, than the flour were held down in price meet the lower dollar. The price gold has remained the same, said economist, while it has bought s. Why advance the price of gold? |ny not lower the cost of living? It simply two ways of approaching same goal--at least, that is the hrit &ppears to us.
 h speaking of the trolley lines and
 troubles, he made the point that k s4aSed rate, of fare was no longer Ks to cover operating expenses, as 5 nickel had but one-third of the krhasing power that it had when N sHm was determined upon. The. kfead thing to do, he said, would be crease fares, but that would be. |&ied equalization to the new prtGe |hIs of all other fixed charges, such nnterest rates and so forth. These eR charges should not be met with |le dollars to distinguish them from ] big dollars of pre-war days. xFt ,JI J way to meet the. difficulty as it &v exists The price of a dollar is Y 3fher here nor there. Enormous 3tlrns to few individuals is at the
 of our troubles. If the trolley |4panies are getting more than they kerve in returns on money invested, N are making the high prices; if workman on the trolley>lines IS k7kng more than he should, he is [sxing the high prices. When the bits start to go into one set of Ekets exclusively, whether they be ] pockets of capital or labor, the |ole of the rest of the world must E it's bit into those pockets. It lei then get more to be able to pay way. and the circle is on. We |st all pay for the greed of any Of When we all work to eliminate greedy, then will we see equity in lees. But we must remember that, s charity, generosity should begin home When we, ourselves, become kedy, we are destroying the har- BqAsl. that will work, eventually, for l. own good. In the days of bfteers we realize that it is Ike [lring water on ducks back to bach as we are. but the general lowledge and the general goodwill ] st come some day. When it does, F troubles will be over. But to return to Professor Fisher. fthe imported dollar so inflated our l,rency by raising our gold reserve, ly did it not defiate currency upon other side of the ocean? If our liar purchases less. why does not Englishman's pound purchase Ire in proportion? He has lost the Id; why isn't his equivalent of a liar worth less? It isn't; he is pay the prices that we are. if not Ire. for what he uses or wishes. Fhaps we are arguing away from point, but we feel that these estions are pertinent.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-16

Out in Berkeley, Cal, graduate of the university shot two of the profess sors the other day He perhaps thought quick dispatch was kindlier than letting them slowly starVe to death.-Chicago Evening Post.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-16

Fame and fortune await the man who can invent a form of exercise that will build up the system without increasing the appetite.-Arkansas Gazette.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-16

Swimming is now suggested as a cure for some forms of insanity. But many of the bathing suits are likely to cause mental e!-Balti- more American.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-16

Distracted business men may thank their lucky stars that the Office Boys union is not displaying any more rad .icat tendencies than usual-ProVi- dence Journal.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-16

Don't hoot at the man who raises Whiskers, and accuse him of lmltat- ing the kaiser! Maybe he is only try ing to beat the high cost of necktles. A~South NorWalk Sentinel
New Britain herald., 1919-08-16

Erom Rhineland, Wis, comes the srepsort that cows feeding on blueber- xriesS are giving blue-tinted milk. rms willtg give the milkman suspected or pat5onizing the pump a. new ahbl.- St Isaul Pioneer Press.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-16

The high cost of living has looked more formidable enemies than con- gross in the eye without trem bling.- Minneapolis Tribune.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-16

share as well as their own and some thing over.--- M ontreal Gazette. /
New Britain herald., 1919-08-16

How would 1t do for the trainmen, in lieu of higher wages, to take half the goods they are employed to haul? Dallas Morning News.
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New Britain herald., 1919-08-16
FACTS AND FANCIES
We refuse to credit the rumor Of strike on the Toonerville trolley that meets all trairs.-Providenc Journal.

Prohibition has fairly taken some peoples breath away--Pittsburgh Ga zette-TiineS.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-16

everything from anarchisn. Which was the original charge, to crass 1g- norance. which the Tribune lawyer tried to convince him was his status, has been awarded the price. of a rlde home on the trolley should his tour ing car break down. He is some where west of Danbury now, on - cation tour. He will probably re- Aie the news of his vindication with
 joy Too bad that he did not
 Iugh. damages to take the rest
 rowd, Thomas Edison, John
 \end the other boys on a
 E. We sympathize with
 hpld hate to be called an
 N cents with the price
New Britain herald., 1919-08-16
|ovEh LEAGUE.


 4tion before gathering,
 - or possibly they" are
 in their stand against the
 and are now willing to be
 n, if it lies within the power of
 Gesident to show them. Their sfforr~soo~ssSst information out of Sec Eetary. LaHsing was evidently a fafl- ure; they will have to go to head quarters for the details of the League upon which they remain unenlight- ened NJ
 The decision to make the confer ences open fits in with our idea of it, which we have been advancing in these columns for several weeks President Wilson is the one best able to explain and he is-evidently quite willing to doso. We, as private citi- zens, are very anxious to hear the calm. dispassionate discussion which pound to come about. Senator Lodge, Senator Borah and companv Will hardly dare resort to sarcastic. petty speeches in this discussion. The appealing cry of "Americanism" will be shorn of all of the oratorica1 trimmings with which they have sur- rounded their utterances on the Sen- ate floor and which were worthy of all the applause they got, because they were American. However, the tohanesque waving of the Anferican flag to- gain handciapping from loyal supporters of the fiag--if not h~Gn the arguments of the speakers&s may we'll be done away with here.
 We are, we hope, to consider fsle League as cold business propositida. We are to weigh it's announced sdH advantages on the same scales as Es advantages and decide upon ne merits of the casea1not from ne fiorid words of an 6l kor, but frdp.L the standpoint of 1eafdfed dissection. President Wilson's presence will force this. He will have as much. if not more, right to wave the American fla Q and proclaim his loyalty from the housetops as Borah or Lodge If the discussion should end in an. oratoricaIi contest, we are satisfied that the President will be able to cheer the loudest and evoke the most applause for his words. We do not believe that he will re- sort to the questionable strategy of l loudly proclaimed Americanism at the meeting. He has too much horse sense. If any attempt is made to trail out the "Grand Old Rag" as it was once produced in the finale of a | burlesque show that might have been a 'bloomer" but for the trick. the American public will turn with dis gust from the discussion. We are now down to cases. Let the discus l sion come. We should have had it | a long time ago..
New Britain herald., 1919-08-16
THAT MYSTIC "l3"
By. HANK LONG,

Who Has Story to Tell and Doesn't Ramble
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-06

In the death of DIR. Anna Howard Shaw
America has lost of the most striking
figures of the times, and the entire world
o. womanhoOd will grieve at her passing.
There is no corner of the civilized globe
that DR. Shaw's message of freedom for
women has failed to reach, and wherever
her life work has taken her. she has
bound friends to her who will learn of
her death with sorrow.
No romance could excel in interest che
nfe-story of DR.. Shaw. as told in her au-
topography. and an interesting side light
Is thrown on the picture in the following
excerpt: My father, through some out
side influence, turned his attention TO
trade, learning to stain and emboss wall
paper by hand, and developing this work
until he became the recognized expert
in his field Indeed, he progressed until
ne himself checked his rise by inventing
a machine that made his handwork I'M
necessary. His employer at once elaine d
and utilized this invention, to which, by
the laws of those days. he entitled
and thus the cornerstone on which my
father expected to build a fortune proved
the rock on which his career was
wrecked"
Her fathers ancestors were the Shaws
of Rothiemurchus, in Scotland, and their
castle may still be seen on the island of
Lcch- an Eilan, in the northern High
lands Her mother was the daughter of a
scotch couple who had settled in North
cumberland. England. OF her maternal
grandmother she says:
My thoughts dwell lovingly on this
grandmother, Nicolas Grant Stott for
she was a remarkable woman, with a
dauntless soul and progressive ideas far
in advance of her time. She was one of
the first U2itarians in England and years
before any thought of woman suffrage
entered the minds of her countryw omen
she refused to pay titiles to the support
OF the Church of England-an action
which precipitated a long drawn-out con-
fHct between her and the law. In those
days it was customary to asses tithes on
every pane of glass in window, and a
portion of the money thus collected went
to the support of the Church of Eng
land. Year after year my intrepid grand
mother refused to pay these assessments,
ana year after year she sat pensively upon
her doorstep watching articles of her
furniture being sold for money to pay the
tithes. 1t must have been an impressive
picture, and one with which the COM
munity became thoroughly familiar, as
the determined old lady never won her
fight and never abandoned it. She had
"a least the comfort of public sympathy
for she was by far the most popular
women in the countryside. Her neighbors
admired her courage; perhaps they ap-
preciated still more wha- she did for
them, for she spent her leisure hours in
the homes of the very poor, mending their
clothes and teaching them to sew
Anna Howard Shaw was born on the
fourteenth day of February. 1S47. Soc.l
after her father emigrated to America.
ard in 1851 her mother with the six chill
dren joined him.
The early childhood of DR.. Shaw was
spent in New England, and the glimpses
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-06

I chair. But she sewed with unusual skill
ard Lept her children well clothed, even
| so far from civilization.
| The division of labor was sewing for
the mother, housework FOR the two older
sisters, and the outdoor work for Anna
and her brothers. She tells of how she
and her young brother fished: I'VE had
no hooks or lines, but Harry took wires
| from our hoopskirts and made snares at
the end of a pole. My part of this work
was to stand log and brighten the
fish cut of their holes by making horrible
roIses, which l did with imprisoned
earEestness.
The first winter they lived largely on
corn meal making little journey of
twenty miles to the nearest mill to buy
it; they had had to go nine miles to
Grand Rapids to get the lumber to make
the doors and windows and flooring, but
tn Sc journeyings were spoken of as a
mail natter when many larger issues
were at stake. They felled their own
trees Anna hewing away like a man, and
made many articles of simple furniture
a settee for the living room, as well as
ia BILE and stools. In the summer she and
her young brother raised vegetables
There was nothing to pillow with 50 thev
chopped up the sod with an AK, put the
seed IA and let it grow. She says: The
seed old grow, too-in the most crafty
ing and encouraging way. Our green corn
and potatoes were the best 1 have ever
eaten" They also gathered wild fruit
guoseberries raspberries and plums-Cn
the la nks of the creek.
They grew at last Indifferent to the
night sounds but she says that their
greatest menace were the Indians. The
Indians were all around them she tens
q two visits. one of a band of sober
braves, who demanded a few trifling
things to which they took fancy, and
having received them, went their way,
to return later bringing a quantity or
vcnfson and a bag of cranberrtes, to show
their appreciation.
on the second visit the Indians, mem
hers OF another band. were drunk, and
the family all slipped up into the attic,
drawing UP the ladder and closing the
tran door Here they remained for long
time. while the Indians ate up everything
in the house.
In time. her father Joined them. AMI
after while Anna went TO school three
miles away from the cabin.
She used TO slip away into the silent
temple of the woods and talk TO the
trees and the creatures of the wild
preaching she called il. Coming home
from long day spent in her beloved
woods one evening she met with re-
breaches from her father.
She says: II knew that had done and
was doing my share for the family, and
o. NV career. For some reason / wanted
to preach-to talk to people. to tell them
things When my father had fin
fst.ed all he had to say. l looked at him
and quietly answered: Father, some day
am going to college Seeing a slight,
ironic smile on her fathers face, she add
ed recklessIy: And before / die l shall
he worth ten thousand dollars. In my
heart believed that no woman ever had
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-06

which she gives of those days are A de-
, lightful sidelight on the life of a happy,
normal little girl.
The Shaws emigrated from Lawrence,
Mass, to Michigan, then in the heart CT
the wild, in 1859. Her father was one of
a number of Englishmen wno had taken
up tracts in the northern forests of Mich
igan, and her mother, her two sisters,
Elanor and Mary, and youngest brother,
Henry, eight years of age, and Anna then
twelve years old. went to Michigan to
work on and hold down the claim, while
her father with his second and third sons.
John and Thomas, renamed in the East
for eighteen months longer.
DIR. Shaw says: My mothers mental
picture was. naturally of an English
farm. What we found awaiting US were
the four walls and the roof of a good
sized log house, standing in small
cleared strip of wilderness, it's doors and
windows represented by square holes, its
floor a thing of the future.
DR. Shaw describes that first night
spent in the Wilderness and how the
sen. James. who had preceded his mother
and the children to the forest and made
ready for their coming as far as posi-
bic for his youth strength, had built fires
about he cabin the keep ,ne wildcats and
wolves away, whose bowls they could
hear. mingled with the dolefuI calls of
the owls.
OF her mother. DR. Shaw saws s.Ero,,
|tfat moment (when she saw the little log
cabin in the clearing. and heard the cries
o. the night creatures) she took In again
her burden of life a burden she did not
lay down until she passed away but her
race never lost the deep lines that those
first hours of her pioneer life cut into it
OF her father she says: Though his
nature was one of the sweetest I have
ever known. and though he would at anv
call risk his life for others in practical
matters he remained to the end of his
days as irresponsible as a child To him
an acorn was not an acorn, but a forest
o. young oaks. Thus. when he
took up his claim of three hundred and
sixty acres of land in the wilderness OF
northern Michigan. and sent my mother
md five children to live there alone until
he could join US eighteen months later
he gave no thought to the manner il
which we were to make the struggle and
survive the hardships before us"
DR.. Shaw says: Il loved work-it has
always been my favorite form of recrea-
tion-and my spirit rose to the opportu-
mites for il, which smiled on US from
every side In a fortnight she and her
sister and brothers had laid a board
flooring and put doors and windows in
the yawning caverns.
She says: The general effect was tenn
permental and sketchy. On many
winter mornings we awoke to find our
selves chastely blanketed with snow
while the only warm spot in our living
room was directly in front of the fire.
place. where great logs burned all day"
In a few months her older brother
James, was forced TO return to New Eng
land for an operation Her mother, who
had become practically an invalid. could
not g,t about without the support of a
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-06
FOR THE MIDSUMMER BRIDE
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It's funny thing-the connection be
.ween school girl uniform and ear-bobs
lip sticks. and the rouge pot. Or rathe
than connection, one should rightly sa
aptipathy.
The point of the observation beins
that. in most cases where the ex
pertinent OF winning over nigh schoo
girls to the uniform idea has succeeded
the rough. lip stick. protruding hairdress
and kindred ensnarements such as eye.
brow and lash sticks. have vanished with
the incoming of the new favorites. ve..
lily, the mysteriously folding tents OF the
Arabs had nothing on the afore mention.
ed.
Take one large city high school. which
Will be let pass unnamed. over whicr
preades a well-beloved, understanding
and understandable principal When tn,
idea which had nagged and haunted fo
weeks finally won. and he decided to at.
tempt what many women had failed &c
accomplish-reform high school girls
dress-he put the question up to the
assembled girls for a vote. Ninety pc
cent voted TO wear uniforms in school
How much his personality and the girls
established reliance in his judgment hao
do with the vote aside from their own
good sense and balance. must remain
mystery.
few months ago appeared morning after
morning In transparent georgette waists
mad up" competitions. and intricate
ear-puffs. now present true girlish com.
pie xions smoothly combed hair con.
forming to the shape of the head-and
blue Bingham one-piece dresses, mad,
after the fashion OF the good old Peter
Toms Only in this case. no make be
lieve sailors insignia adorns the arm
an official school chevron takes it's place
the initials OF the school above stripes
Ia the correct number to show the school
year.
These for every day When some
dress" OCCASION comes. more do they
fret about "I wonder what Sadie VIII
wear. Wish had a new silk like
Marians-Im just sure she'll wear It,
III feel so shabby" Regulation frocks
OF exactly the same style, but of white
poplin instead of blue Bingham, are the
order OF that day.
but the monotonyr' Was the wall OF
some of the mothers when the idea first
grew. No such thing-poor in individu
atty is the girl who has not an idea OF
her own as 10 the style of collar and
cuffs. and color of tie to wear. And am
Pile latitude is given I'm that direction.
both with the blue Bingham and the white
poplin. Peter Pan collar with deep flare
cuffs, made distinctive with lustrous
black silk tie. set apart one girl; while
another may have added a pearl or dun
silver belt buckle And wavy, but neatly
held back hair, or smoothly combed thick.
straight hair, closely following the lines
of he
of two other girls as widely different q s
the seas but equally attractive.
More-the dresses are economical. Stiil
more-they are so simple OF execution
that the girls are inspired TO learn how
to make their own.
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BY BETTY BROWN.

Now is the time to shop for the deli
ca tie fabrics that clothe us with summer
charm and comfort-but before sallying
forth with purse and shopping list it is
we'll to prepare the mind with fore
knowledge of what's what in fashiona ole
fabrics. for bless you, even materials
have their seasons of popularity, and who
would wish to wear chambray when all
other persons appear in organdie?
For instance. ladies, it is well recog-
nized in the smartest shops of the largest
cities that the fabrics which are essen
TALLY TnE choice this season Of 1919 are,
II. their order, organdie. ginghams and
challis!
II the purse is full, and the seamstress
skilful, choose one of each material and
be sure you're right-but if only one may
be had buy organdiei
All the familiar pastaI shades are in
faN or-with the addition OF some gorge
Gus buturist designs and colors
When the frock is all of organdie 1t
should be ruffled from collar to hem
or IL allowed a few inches OF straight
lines IL should at least be much frilIed
with rows of tiny ruffles about the low
cut neck and the hem. or the skirt should
be whole series of ruffled aprons Of
varied size. Also the sleeves should be
short-quite above the elbow-a mere
puff, with three frills! And even organ
die may have its touch of wool embroidery
In tiny dots or flowers. One of the joys
of the organdie frock is that it suits
itself to either afternoon or evening so
c!al affairs-it's always good form
Combined with chintz. wolfe, and ginC-
ham and even silk. organdie is still the
"a brio keynote OF 1919.
After organdie comes Bingham, very.
very plaid. and very gay. and up in the
world as to price. Simply made and COM
btned with handkerchief linen or organ
die the ginghams are chic indeed Some
OF the best New York offers have round
necks, kimona sleeves and the seams
from neck to hem. coarsely whipped in
gay colored worsted with knitted nose
gay in brilliant hues blooming on the
girdle!
Then challisi Quite wonderfully popu-
lar is this quaint fabric of light wool tex
tCre. and equally becoming are its odd
old-fashioned printed patterns, and soft
colors. 1t combines charmingly with or
candle or taffeta. The all-over patterns
of challis and the color render much or
nGmentation a superiority. Good lines.
some distinctive buttons and sash are
all that is required to achieve smartness