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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-27
Robespierre's Curious Watch.

The number of watches OF various
kinds and size and value which are
now seen in the windows of the jewel
er.watchmakers of Paris reminds a
correspondent of l'Eclaire Of the watch
which once was the property of Robes
pierre, and which the correspondent
saw at an exhibition of curios. 1t
surely should have long ago found its
place in the Carnavalet. The watch
was in the shape Of "a pear and Of the
size Of one, and was made of silver.
It opened in the center, the face be.
ing in the lower section, while the TOP
section was ornamented with pear
leaves wrought in silver. A watch
the size of pear, and good deal
heavier, IS plainly indicative of some
what bizarre tastes on the part of the
| Friend Of the People" That is, al
any rate, how it strikes rEclair's cor
Observation-Disclosures Science Moni
tor.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-27
WOULD BE FRIEND IN NEED
Grateful coIored Man Promised to
Go if Services Should
Be Needed.

The race riots in Chicago remind
rue of the same cOrt of excitenents
that ran around Atlanta when ! was
living there as young man." said
George Mcdaniel of Metro, Cal, re-
Gently.
MY brother and were both medi-
cos-owners of smooth and virgin
Sheepskins. We shared the same of
fee and lunched at the same counter.
In the midst of wild confusion, one
LAY. wounded negro rushed into our
office and begged for protection. This
was freely granted, for we had no
race prejudices, in spite of our South
ern upbringing. We also poured salve
On the negro'S bruises.
"'Yo' shuah been good to me- said
The grateful darkey. turning TO my
hrother-who. by the way, is now
practicing in Los AngeIes-'an' III
member it, doc. Say, if yo' ever kills
anybody NAH friends and III get you
ont If we have TO bust the jail 70 DC
it'-Los Angeles Times.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-27
oneratinu Under Difficulties.

The Huan provincial government is
operating directly the Shut kou Shall
lead silver mine. one of the larges'
in China. The ore is being smelted
as It is mined. hit The government
IS short of funds and the tack of sufti
eient capital is a serious handicap.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-27
kitchener's Doc.

Lord Kitchener's fayorite dog, which
he left in the hands Of Admiral Grant
before embarking on the cruiser Hamp-
shire, is believed To have become a
good Australian. Admiral Grant. who
has been appointed first naval mem
Der of the Australian naval board,
brought Kitchener's pet TO the com
monwealth on board the battle cruiser
Australia. Ordinarily the common
wealth does not encourage the land
ing of cats and dogs from overseas, but
Australia holds Kitchener in such dear
memory that one may safely conjec
ture that exception will be made il
this instance.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-27
LOST.

LOST-Collie dog, answers to the
name Of Winter Reward for any in
formation. Z. A. Waldron, West Brat
tleboro. 3-255
LOST-Dee. % on 10 0 clock car
from Fl Dummer, or from Catholic
church to Central St, sweetheart
locket with baby picture Finder
please return TO Reformer Office.
253-n54 >
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-27
WarhIers of Ali Colors

Not taking into account the human
beings who are sometimes referred to
as warblerS. YOU will find on looking
into a bird book that there are many
kinds of warblers, ranging alphabet
cally all the way from gray-breasted
warblers to yellow-rumped warhlcrs
says the American Forestry associa,
ton, Washington.
If you had a collection of them al
together they would take in about al
the colors of the rainbow, yellow
orange, chestnut. black. white, green
gray, brown and other colors. will
numerous shades entering into theii
beautiful plumage.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-27
- - - -
Radio Telephone Useful.

The extraordinary value Of wireless
telephony for direedonal purposes In
connection with aircraft has been EN-
phasized recently in its relation &C
night flying. says the Scientific Amer
lean. 1t often happens OF course. thai
in daylight. inter-communleation he
tween planes. or between wireless sta
lions and aircraft, is unnecessary, bn
in flying across country at night il'
use of the wireless telephone will Ger
talflly become more eflicaeious.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-27
CHINESE WOMEN HAVE
FINANCIAL ABILITY
They Carried Y. w. c. A. Campaign
lover the Topn

Much has been said about the hon
esty and skill of the Chinese business
man. The world has neglected TO mem
ton the financial ability of Chinese
women. They proved this ability in
the last financial campaign Of the Y.
w. G.. A. in Tientsin.
Ordinarily three weeks are allowed
in which to raise the budget by sub.
scription after the finance committee
has decided upon the sum necessary
TO carry on the work Of the coming
year. The Tentsin campaign was car
rled on entirely by Chinese women and
broke all records by going over the
top In ten days with u large Surplus
@yer TIE budget.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-27
Cxpcricnce.

1t seems TO ME it is The same with
love and happiness as with SORROW
the more we know OF it the better we
can feel what other peoples lives are
or might be, and so we shall only be
more tender to them and wishful TO
help them.-George Eliot.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-27
CHINESE WOMEN
STUDY HEALTH
Three Doctors Return From
America to Begin Active Health
Campaign Among Women.
ALL AGENCIES COMBINE.
American Y. w. c. A. Will Support
Women's Part of Chinese Health
Campaign as Part of World
Service Program.

As q result of the Y. w. G. A. Inter,
national Conference of Women Ply.
sicians, held during September and Oc-
tober, Chinese women are TO have 81
far-eaching health program.
DR.. Ida Kahn. DR.. Ii Bi-Cu and Dr.
Dau, three OF China's half hundred
women physicians. who attended this
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-27

WANTED-Raw furs. c. l.. Howe,
lJS Main st. 24O-tt
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-27
WANTED.

WANTED-Kitchen man. Scoville 5
Restaurant. 247-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-27

The first woman to become honorary
colonel OF a regiment was Princess Char
lotto OF Prussia, who married Car Mich
olas l., and who, on becoming a widow,
asked her brother, then king of Prussia,
to transfer to her the colonelcy of the
Sixth regiment of Prussian cuirassiers. He
did So. and thus the fashion started. -
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-11
LITTLE TALKS BY


own thinking, object to other
women exercising that right.
But there is no woman earning
her w living who "a afford to
let some one else think for her
these days. She owes it to herself
to know all about what is known
as the woman question" 1t has
TO do with her pay envelope, her
hours of work, her holidays and
the sanitary condition under which
her work is done. Such important
questions as the minimum wage,
child labor, the increased cost of
living, old age pensions inc
teachers inadequate salaries, are
directly concerned with votes for
women
There is absolutely no excuse for
any self-supporting woma being
uniformed on these subjects, If
she does not marry. and it is highly
probable - considering the over
balance of the sexes due to war
that she may not marry-her whole
future happiness, peace and pros
perity are bound up i'll the woman
question. This is certainly no time
to farm out your thinking.
All the anti-suffragists I have
known have been rich women
ladies enjoying ease as the result
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-11

The wal will make ten million
women among the Allied nations
celibates, according to the calcula-
tons of statisticians. And while sta
tistics are always being attacked on
the grounds of their unreliability,
they may at least be regarded as
straws showing which way the wind
blows.
Perhaps ten million may be an
extreme figure, but there is no de-
nying that the hopes of millions OF
girls, as far as the big experiences
of life-love and motherhood-are
concerned, lie buried in No-Man's
Land.
Sheer overbalance of numbers
must cause millions of to
reverse their normal impulses
toward home-making and mother
hood, and turn their energies in the
direction of the industrial or pro-
fessional world. The war, about
which they were not consulted. has
completely changed their position
in the scheme of things; in the
United States alone, approximately
twelve million women work for
their living. And the Bureau of
Labor has urged them to keep their
jobs, proving beyond the powers of
L IitlOll llldi lllSSH q NN oOO1'
In the next Presidential election
49, 900 women, representing
twenty-seven states, will be en-
titled to cast their votes for Presi-
dent, while the influence of m
in the party conventions may well
be the determining factor in the
choice of party candidates.
Yet in the face of the figures
we have earnest anti-suffrage ladies
and gentlemen frantically playing
cards and drinking tea for the bene-
fit of THE Association Opposed TO
Woman Suffrage" Alack and alas!
Think Of the waste of energy, not
to mention the waste OF tea! for
tidal wave after tidal wave of the
cup that cheers and mountain range
after mountain range of cards can
not prevail against the influence OF
women in the next election, or In
the world for that matter.
And speaking of a~nti-suffrage So
coietis brings to mind other lost
cause associations. In England
there still exists The White Rose
League" the object of which is to
restore the Stuart dynasty in Eng
land. And up to the beginning of
the war at least members of the
league were in the habit of heaping
white roses at the base of the
Charles 1. statue lear Whitehall.
In Republican France to-day there
are several Royalists' societies. one
of which supports the Bonaparte
claims, the other the Bourbon and
a third those of the Duke of Orleans.
Professional weak Women
So we may expect quite a bit of
tea drinking and card playing on
the part of professional weak
women" who, declining to do their
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-11

of some n else's labor. L have
heard of such anomalies as sell
supporting women who are anti
suffragists, but l am free to con-
fess l have never met one. L nave
known wage earners to plead igno-
rance of the cause or, in a rev
instances, to claim they were not
vitality interested, but 1 have never
known, personally, any WORKING
woma actually opposed to sutlrase'
Some Slaves Were Opposed 10
And if some of them do happen
to be opposed to suffrage it would
not mean any more than dld the
petition of ten thousand negro
slaves signed during the Civil war
and pleading that freedom be with
held from them. Or the petition of
East Indian women to the British
Government begging hat Suffice be
not abolished.
The war with the consequent
sweeping changes it has made IN
the position of women, forces every
conscientious woman to think serl-
ously of her position in the world
TO-DAY. and any woman too mao
lent to think these days is a dis
tinct menace to the country. Re-
sponsibilities are piling up at her
door, responsibilities that she car
no longer shift to some n elses
shoulders.
And if the war has really taken
some of the poor, spineless pur-
poseless, ambitionless female mol
luscs and shaken them into a semb-
lance of energetic. efficient woman
hood it will have done omething, at
least, to atone for its worldwide suf-
fering.
One of the most vital questions
to be considered is that of child
labor, the tainted money we acquire
through exploiting these little mes
will be trebly expended later in fos-
tering the wreck of them to survive
in insane asylums, homes for the
feeble-minded and tubercular. And
what about the absurd salaries we
have been paying teachers? We
entrust the care of future citizens
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-11
Better Than Mother Made

Dinner will be ready in about five
minutes now" said Mrs. Highly, as she
went over to where her husband was
reading.
He looked up with a smile. do you
remember he teased, when we were
first married-how you used to fuss
about dinner, and get SO tired that you
were done out for the rest of the even
ing?"
do II" replied his wife emphatic
ally. 1t was dessert that did it, too.
The many weary hours I've put in try
ing to make cornstarch pudding be-
cause / knew 1t was your favorite des-
sert-well"
THANK goodness" they both chanted
solemnly. for Puddine."
Were going to have It tonight for
dessert, too-Iye made the most lus-
dine" said Mrs. Highly.
"Fine!" replied her husband en-
Observation-Disclosures eat"
Later as Mr.. Highly was eating his
dessert-and enjoying II immensely
Mrs. Highly aid I'VE nave Mrs. Doran
to thank for this. III never forget the
afternoon she stopped over when | had
just finished "a cornstarch pudding that
was lumpy, and thin, and just generally
impossible.
" Don't you use Puddine?" she
asked. It's the very dessert you should
lhi-ON = ~ - ~
All you ha re to do Is just to add milk,
| either fresh or condensed. and sugar,
/ and boil three minutes -"
Il was very skeptical. And nave 1t
turn out like his cornstarch pud-
dingY / said.
Nothing of the kind she retorted
Indignantly. You pour it into a mold
and when 1t is cool. you have a firm,
smooth mound of the most delicious
- ert you ever tasted-choeoiate. rose
"%rnilla. range lemon-any flavor you
like "
Il remember the first time you had
It." said Mr.. Highly.
1.-THE reason YOU like II so we'll" re-
piled his wife. els because you can eat
as much OF 1t as you want to-"
perhaps you're right he replied
but when II comes to the pie and cake
filings and ice cream-to saw nothing
of desserts that you make with Puddine
well the things that rctiier used to
make have nothing on yours :"
Mrs. Highly smiled conteatedly.
And to think. she said. that Puddlne
iz so inexpensive. I've served Is gen
eroua he'nlngs with onc i5c box of Pud-
i-~"
When you order your groceries to-
day, include puddine.-Adv.
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BY n Isle
CCXLIV
copyright, 1919, King Features syn

copyright. 1919. King Features syn
dictate. nc.
One demonstration of the little mo-
tor car was sufficient to make jim
and me decide to buy it. we were
promised delivery in a month Next
we went over to arrange for me 10
take a daily lesson in driving.
Then I began to realize thai the
Barbara Anne Lee who had once
worked hard for enough to support
her in boarding houses and ready
made blue serges had passed out Oh
existence. In her place was Anne
Harrison, who bought her clothes at
wickhams, had two servant and
drove her own a I enjoyed being
the Harrison lady who had luxury
and love.
When we got home from making
our purchase and celebrating II py
81 dinner in keeping with u gay
we found Neal walt
ing for us:
"Evvy's sick" he began without
preamble. II can't figure out what
TO do. I've been waiting here for
an hour or so. She won't see a doc
tor"
Then she's probably not very
sick" replied wondering guilty.
il l should have thought of Envy
during my happy evening with Jim.
81 can't figure out what to do
repeated Neal looking pleadingly at
Jim. 'Evvy's the head of her
house. When she says she doesn't
want a doctor, her folks give right
in. Do you think l ought to ring up
DIR. Kellogg and risk her slamming
the door in his face?"
"I wonder" - began Jim turning
to look at me with a fash in his
eyes that communicated itself to
me. Was Envy shamming sick to
get out of having Val Cosby pour
at her tea?"
We understood each other, but
neither of us said a word of our
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-11

to make me distrust Jim. I'm
afraid you're feverish-or VIII be IL
YOU go on like this. I'll call the
nurse or your mother"
Envy laughed. There was malice
and scorn in her laugh, but when
she spoke, her husky voice seemed
almost to caress me.
Don't worry about me sister
dear, l got a wonderful rest mere
in bed. You know Tve decided lts
silly to wait till Winter to be mar
ried. 1 think well go out pen
Mason Towers for the summer as
soon as I'm a bit stronger, say In
about three weeks, n right AFTER
that we'll be married. It's cruel TO
keep Neal waiting. Yes, III let the
dear, impatient boy have his way
and tonight I'll tell him Wen set
the day for a month from to-mor-
row.
Evvy's eyes opened wide with the
old look of wistful innocence. But
there was a malicious twist TO her
mouth as she went on;
why don't you say how delighted
you are, Amer"
Father Andrew can't come on
during the summer" 1 began but
at sight of Evvy's face I shifted to:
Anything that makes Neal
happy 49,,
Neal, Neal! Why don't you think
about his making me happy? why
don't you wonder whether he Isl
demanded ENVY, sitting up in bed
and Selling my hand in hers as II
there were something more she
wanted to say.
II hope he does-and is re
turned formally, never less at ease
1--WE just told you what a won
derful lover he is. To be NeaIs
wife, your sister and Jim's - Is al
most too much for n one m
| often wonder what I've done to
deserve it. But now that L have
this splendid opportunity I'm glad
I was spared to - make the most OF
it., aren't you. Amer"
There was a threat in Evvy's
tone. 1 felt suddenly tina my W
happiness, as well as Phoebe's and
Meals was at stake, but 1 couldn't
guess from where the attack, was
coming. I didn't know how to
To he continued.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-11

I thoughts to Neal. His attitude to-
ward Envy was so protecting and
| chiyaIrous that Jim and l were in
accord about being very chivalrous,
too, in our dealings with Neal. Jim
couldn't say much concerning the
| girl who had once loved him and
who was now engaged to Neal
| And as the wife of one and the Sis
ter of the other, l began to see that
my hands were tied, too. But
| didn't care why the reception was
| called off if only Phoebe could be
saved from the unhappiness and
humiliation it must cause her.
BY the next day things were out
of Evvy's hands. She was so i'll
that the timorous mother sent for
a doctor in spite of all Envy could
say or do, and within a few hours
a trained nurse was established at
Eyvy's bedside and rumor of in
fluenza came to us.
For a week Envy saw no one.
Night after night Yea came to
dinner with us, and sat staring at
his plate of untasted food. 1 be-
gan to wonder if he cared-or If.
like me, he was fighting cruel and
inhuman thoughts of o perhaps
now, our problems were going to
be solved in the higher court. l
forced myself to pray over and over
again that ENVY would get well,
because | knew in my heart of
hearts that l was having a hard
time to want her to.
On the da yafter the date set for
the reception, which bad worried,
me so. Envy sent for me. She lay
in bed looking haggard and hard.
on1 I fntnI " hart ROinp ont TO
her in pity. Her first words, how
ever. hauled me up short.
We'll, 1 didn't nave Cosby pour
at my tea, did II" she asked fever
ishly. "I thought I'd have to give
in to Jimmie. He's always been
able to twist me around his little
finger and get me to do what he
wanted. Perhaps wen when 1
Tilted him. But his time Fate in
terfered in my behalf. Looks like
an omen as if 1 were going to get
the upper hand of our Jimmie
now"
She smiled lazily. fixing her blue
eyes on me with an expression that
puzzled me. l wondered If she were
feverish, or if there really was pas
sion and hate and an ugly desire
for revenge in the air.
You're a very jealous woman,
aren't you, Anne?" Envy went on
brushing aside my attempts to say
a few words of sympathy. 81 can
remember when you were afraid
that Jimmie's old fondness for me
survived. But we can both see that
he is more fascinated by Val Cosby
han by either of us now. And as
I'm going to be your sister-in-law
and to find complete happiness in
the arms of your ardent young
brother, you know you need never
be jealous of me again but that you
can count on me to help you fight
Val"
"Evvy!" 1 cried embarrassed and
annoyed by every word she said
about herself. but finding myself
untouched by her awkward attempts
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-11

to these women demand much of
them in the way of culture and then
deny them living wage"
What about the increased cost of
living, and the vanishing power of
the once almighty dollar? What
about food lost by lack of railroads?
Do you know hat hundreds of tons
of vegetables rot on the ground
within ten miles of the Nations
capital because the roads are so bad
they cannot be hauled with profit?
1t has been said of us that our
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-11

To he continued.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-11

chief vice as a sex is mental indo-
fence, we adore mental ease. and It
requires heroic efforts to make a
woman read anything in a news
paper but the society news and the
death column. If this be true, please
let us mend our ways, and take a
normal interest in the questions of
the day. The Turkish women have
discarded their wells, and are study
ing politics according to the latest
from Constantinople. Let us at least
keep pace with the lady Turks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-11

Dime will be ready in about five
minutes now said Mrs. Highly, as she
went over to where her husband was
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-11
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a SMART COSTUME FUR Fl
GROWING GIRL
2s45-This makes a pretty suit for
linen, ~taffeta, shantung, gabardine or
serge. The waist could be of matched
satin, or of ~organdie. The design Is
also nice for Bingham.
The patterns is cut in three sizes:
IL, IA and 16 years. Size Il requires
Ave yards of 44-inch material.
A pattern of this illustration
mailed TO any address on receipt of
10 cents IL silver or stamps.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-09-06

The Oregon Congress of Mothers will
hold their state convention in Med
ford in the early fall, the dates to be
announced soon. Mrs. -Frederick Schilke
president, who arrived from La Grande
last night, will plan with the board
members for the big meeting. Mrs. A.
Bayley, in charge of the parents edu-
cational bureau, states that the con
gress has been asked to put OH eu-
genie tests at the state fair in Salem,
and this is being considered. The tests
are not like the old fashioned baby
show in which beauty alone was a
requisite. The tests as made by the
bureau are from 10 standpoint of physi-
zeal and mental fitness The bureau is
regarded as one Of the leading institn-
tions in this work in the country, and
is one of the important activities of
the congress Of mothers.
Mrs. Norma Terwilliger has been APP
pointed as one Of the delegates at
large to represent the Woman's Relief
Corps at the encampment in Columbus
Ohio. She left with group Of women
active in w. R. c. work, Thursday eve
ming. The other delegates in the party
were Mrs. Mary Reed of Portland,
Mrs. Mary E. Watt of Corvallis and
Mrs. Anna Stenebach of Grants Pass
Miss Anna Mullen, who has beer
spending the past month in Minneapo-
bis, has returned home. Miss Mullen
was called east by the serious illness
of her father and his improved eondi'
ton is responsible for her return.