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The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-05-16
Evening Caledonian
FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1919
LOCAL NEWS
Established 1887

Mrs. L. E. Harris was in West
Burke, Thursday on business.
Lawrence Leach is home from
visit at Camp Winneshewauka.
Mrs. Augusta Phelps was visitor
at st. Johnsbury Center, Thursday.
Glenn Wilkins of Morrisville was
here on business Thursday.
Mrs. A. L. Piche is home from
visit to relatives in Lancaster.
Mrs. William Bemis of Lyndonville
visited in town Thursday.
Mrs. F. N. Carr of Danville was
here Thursday on business.
Judge Walter P. Smith went to
Montpelier Thursday to attend a
meeting of probate judges.
Mrs. John Lang was a guest of
Mrs. Charles Bailey at East Barnet,
| Thursday.
Walter Dutton, Judge Melvin
! Morse of Hardwck were legal visit
ors here Thursday.
Mrs. A. w. Coalt of Passumpsic
was guest of Mrs. E. M. Dow,
Thursday.
Major Leigh Harvey, who has been
a guest at Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Moore's
returned to Washington Thursday.
Mrs. Fred Rash went to Passump-
sic to visit Mrs. Eugene Bunting,
Thursday.
Miss Alice Brown is taking two
weeks vacation from the telephone
exchange.
Miss Ann Peck arrived home
Thursday afternoon from New York
on her return from overseas.
Miss Maude Sprague returned home
Thursday from month spent in Bos-
ton and vicinity.
Mrs. Carl Rollins was a guest of
her mother, Mrs. Jennie Forsythe at
st. Johnsbury Center, Thursday
Arnold Percy of Burke is here to
have his eye treated at Brightlook
Hospital.
Azade Demers of Lisbon, N. H.,
came Thursday to attend to the af-
fairs of his mother, Mrs. Demers.
Mrs. w. A. Brown went to Orleans
| to attend the funeral of Mrs. Wiley,
Wednesday.
Charles Lynch, Warren Scribner
and Bill Hobart were in Waterford,
Wednesday night on a fishing trip.
Report says they made big haul.
The Leigh Harvey place on Spcing
street has been sold to George Giffin
of Lyndonville. Sale made by C.
E. Kirk.
Mrs. Elmer Walter of East Haven
is in Brightlook hospital recovering
from an operation performed, We'd
nesday.
Mrs. Henry Powers, Mrs. A. 3.
Pringle, Mrs. Walter Sawyer of Cen
tervale, Mrs. E. P. Rickaby Of New
port visited in town Thursday.
j. P. Alger of Essex Junction, dis
trict manager of the Importing stores
was here Thursday in the interests
of his firm.
Ralph Martin has moved his fam
lily from Spring street to a tenement
in the Follensby house on the Fair
ground road. ----,--
Mrs. Benjamin Beauregard of
Lyndonville visited her sons, Albert,
Louis and Wilfrcd Beauregard,
Thursday.
Glenn Robinson went to Springfield, |
Mass, Thursday to attend a musical
festival and visit her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Elmer Robinson, the re-
mainder of the week.
Mrs. Mantle Palmer went to Dan
vile Thursday to spend the remand
err of the week with Mr.. and Mrs.
John p. Weeks, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Bickford.
There will BILE piano recital by
the pupils of Maude E. Brown at the
Armory, Saturday afternoon, May
18th, at three o'clock. The public
is invited. adv.
Mrs. Avis Williams, Mrs. Elmer
Reed of Concord, Mrs. Marie Auburn
of Lyndon, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Marshall, Mrs. Shute of Burke, mo-
tored to our city Wednesday on Wis
it and shopping trip.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08

for ne-a woman experienced in
the ways of women-to tell the bad
girls l saw from the innocent.
"And think Of the moral effect of
all this upon the young men of this
modern Babylon. Surely, no New
York youth can retain his respect
for womankind when his sisters, his
mother and-yes, his grandmother,
too-dress and be-rouge and be-
paint themselves like the creatures
of the underworld who skulk forth
at night, the scarlet banner Of their
shame Haunted on their lips and
cheeks"
Upholds Boston Girls.
"Thank Cod continued Miss
Meredith, that in Boston, where |
come from and where women seem
to have cornered the intellect of the
country, the girls have too much
sense to daub their faces. l believe
that in Boston girls do not paint
and girls make futuristic canvases
of their countenances, is because
New York damsels are not half as
pretty as their Boston sisters. The
New York girls walk is wiggle-
due to her heels and her corsets.
In Boston half the women are going
unlaced. For instance"
DR.. Meredith, who was being in
terviewed in her luxurious suite iii
an uptown hotel. stood up, inflated
Zoe eli, et,;rt ct,d hneov, with
deep breath and placed her hands
upon her firm, slim, black skirteI
hips. She bent to show how supple
woman's form can be without
corsets. . -= ....
Were going to start a campaign,
beginning tonight" she went on,
and | mean it almost literally.
We're going to see if we can't per-
suade New York women to save
their nervous systems and lengthen
their lives by wearing sensible foot
wear. Form-fitting shoes with flat
heels are what l mean. The next
step is to be stockings. and then
shirtwaists and then clothing gener-
ally. Hats are well enough as they
are and women's underwear is quite
right, too. We wear the same sort
of things winter and summer. Its
healthy. Health, decency and COM
fort will be the three points and this
campaign is going to give great
stress. The work will be educa-
tional in FORM"
Advocates Long Rope.
LET 'em wear what they want
and be done with it." impatiently
declared DR.. Copeland tonight.
Lord-what hornets nest I've
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08
Admits Murder Of Wife;
Body Thrown in Well

Americas, Ga, Dec. samuel
Duckworth, arrested after his wife's
body had been found in the well on
their farm near here, has confessed
the crime, Sheriff Harvey states.
I'VE had been quarreling and |
had been drinking and | could not
control myself were the words
Duckworth used in admitting the
killing. according to officials. The
woman's throat had been cut and
there were evidences near the well
indicating there had been struggle.
Duckworth was quoted as saying
his young son, Sidney, saw the crime
committed and helped ME put the
body into the we'll"
Mrs. Salle Duckworth, aged
mother of the accused man, was ar
rested with him. but he was quoted
as saying she had nothing to do
with it.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08
IDENTIFY TWO
ASBANDITS Who
RAN FROM CAFE
Policeman Rich Says Two
HoIdup Men Shot on South
Side Same as EIuded
Him.

Police Officer William Cich last
night identified William Wolf, Is
years old, Sl05 w street, and George
Pecheck, p years old, 3ll8 Q street,
the two men who were shot satur-
day might as bandits by the South
Side police. as the two alleged gun
men who tried to hold up Farley's
cafe, Twenty-fourth and Cunning
streets, Friday night, and who es-
capped from him after he had them
covered with a revolver.
Ernest Small, grocery boy in the
employ of Sam Riseman. 1908 Cum
iag street. also identified the two
men, the police say, as the two who
held him up Saturday evening and,
after forcing him to drive more than
a mile in his delivery truck, robbed
him of $50.
Wolf and Pecheck were seriously
wounded late Saturday night in a
running gun fight with three South
Side police officers. Both men are
critically i'll in st. Joseph hospital.
At midnight last night it was re-
ported at the hospital that they were
resting easily and that their chances
OF recovering were slightly better.
Officer Cicl says the two alleged
bandits came into Farley's cafe early
Saturday morning and were about to
hold up the proprietor when he in
tcrrupted them and placed them UNI
der arrest While he had them COW
cred with a gun, he says, he tried to
call the police station and they es-
capped in an automobile.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08

stirred up. l merely said that silk
stockings did not throw open most
women to influenza because women
are used to thin stockings and
flimsy clothing in cold weather
Now the Y. w. c. A. women are on
my trail.
1T seems to me that since pure
food and drug act has seen to it
that cosmetics contain no harmful
ingredients, women may paint and
powder without harm to themselves.
| think they will continue to use
make up" if we are to judge by
history. From the beginning Of
civilization women have been max
ing the most of their charms by
artificial aid. Show me the beautl-
full women from Cleopatra down,
who has scorned the eyebrow pencil,
the lipstick or the powder pull.
Women themselves are the ar
biters of the things they wear. Their
bodies grow accustomed to their
corsets. Their feet and stride fit
themselves to their shoes. The vary
ing fashions of the ages do not seem
to have shortened the lives OF
women.
Il am in favor of the utmost free
dom possible to the limbs. The
more Artistic and beautiful the cloth
ing, the better. Simplicity is the
keynote | would like to see struck.
AS for the morality involved-go
see the preachers about that.
ITO my way of thinking, however,
the world is growing more moral.
By that / mean RIGHTEOUSNESS is
dying. Morals differ with the ages
and countries.
The matrons and girls of ancient
Greece wore flowing robes, split
from the feet, to the hips, and were
considered paragons of virtue"
DR.. Meredith is a tall handsome.
dark-haired woman with flashing
black eyes. She says she never used
powder or paint in her life and she
is justly proud of her peony-like
complexion. At the conclusion Of
her interview she left her hotel IN
her limousine to drive herself to a
public meeting she was scheduled
to address.
And she stepped into her car
whisper tit was seen that her
skirts just reached her ankle tops
and her stockings were made of
silk. ..
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08
WEEDS Again at 80:
Afraid of the Dark

London, Dec ~ was afraid to
be alone at night is the explana-
tion given for his third matrimonial
venture by 90-year-old John God
frey. who has just married Mrs.
Sarah Parsons, aged 76. The bride
has for some time acted as house
keeper for the. bridegroom, who is
wealthy and hale.
At the wedding ceremony the
bridegroom's stentorian answers to
the clergyman suggested one much
nearer 40 than CO. He spends most
of his time making models of rail-
way engines which he trundles along
in every local hospital parade.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08
NO ONE KNOWS
WHO FURNISHED
JENKINS BAIL
AT Any Rate. Whoever Does,
is Keeping Quiet About it
Investigations Are Begun.

Washington, Dec. There was
no word tonight indicating solu-
ton of the mystery which has de-
veloped from the sudden release of
William o. jenkins, American con-
sular agent. from the Puebla jail,
after the determined demand of this
government apparently had failed to
influence his Mexican captors.
Both the State department and
Jenkins himself already have started
nvestigations with the object of de-
termining what influences were in
strumental in putting up the $500
bail bond which the Mexican gov
eminent so readily accepted.
Admitted the crux of an interna-
tional situation of utmost tenseness
two days ago, the Jenkins case has
now become diplomatic enigma,
the solution of which offered inter
esting but not dangerous POSSIBLE
tiles.
A careful investigation of reports
that Mexico has taken steps to aug
ment her aviation forces has failed
to corroborate the statement that a
squadron of "a modern pursuit
planes" are available for service. In
formation obtained through reliable
sources considered by military and
state agencies to be thoroughly de-
pendable puts the total strength of
the Mexican air department at less
than a dozen planes, none of which
are of the type evolved as result
of the experience in the great war
and with trained personnel, only suf-
ficient for the duties of experiments
and tests.
To Release 40 Mexicans.
Laredo, Tex, Dec. Forty Mex
leans of Santa Maria and San Ber-
nabe, held as witnesses in connec-
ton with the abduction of William
0. jenkins, American consular agent
at Puebla, Mexico, will be released
at once "as there is no proof against
them of wrong doing" according to
the Mexico City newspaper Excel
sior.
The newspaper, copy of which
reached here. prints Puebla dis
pdtCH ullueI udte OF last FEludy SlN-
ing this information. The contem-
plated action, the newspaper says,
Caused jenkins to say in. an indig-
nant tone that he would have the
guilty punished if it took all his
capital, including those who had
threatened the natives to make them
testify against him"
jenkins, the newspaper account
adds, was notified at midnight
Thursday that he was free "by order
of the Judge" and was released with
out any further explana zion. Ex-
celsior declares it is ruinored the
judge will be removed and succeed
ed by Judge Guzman of Cholula.
A dispatch from Atlixco, Puebla,
published in Mexico City, reports
the surrender of many rebel officers
to General Pablo Gonzales, Car
rama army commander. Those who
have surrendered include Juan
Ubera, one of the men accused of
having abducted jenkins. 1t is
claimed the entire state OF Puebla is
row pacihed.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08

New York, Dec. 7.-(By Uni
versal Service. )-When Health
Commissioner DR.. Royal Copeland
remarked to reporter the other day
that women should be allowed to
wear whatsoever they chose, be-
cause it >mattered little to their
health whether skirts are volumin-
Gus or scanty, whether stockings be
of silk or homespun, he had no idea
that he was stirring up agitation
which resulted in the start of a
Y. w. c. A. campaign to reform
women's dress UP and down the
country.
DR.. Florence L. Meredith, who Of
iginated from Boston and is girl
health expert at the Y. w. c. A.
health demonstration center in this
city, is the woman who has taken
UP cudgels against Mr.. Copeland
and will head the fight to make the
women and girls of America wear
respectable" clothes.
Down With Rouge"
Down with rouge, high heels,
powder, paint and perfumeryp cried
Miss Meredith tonight. The women
of New York all seem to be dying
on their short-vamped, high-heeled
shoes. Underneath their facial cal
somining of paint and powder their
compilations are paler than the lily
and by no means as pure.
"As l walked up Broadway and
saw the shockingly scanty costumes
and the falsely faring cheeks of
women and girls, it was impossible
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08
ISpiritism Largely Due to Sixth Sense,
Famous Mental Therapeutist Believes
Manifestations at So.
Called Seances Can
All Be Explained.
BY MARGERY REX.
Written for the International News

New York, Nov. 29.-ls spirit
ism or Spiritualism-as you villa
thing sublime or ridiculouss
Are any of us justified in saying
the outgivings of paid mediums are
mere twaddle, or, on the other hand.
precious tidings2
And is ghostly message more to
be relied upon when we do not re-
celve it at great outlay and expen-
diture?
Recent revival of interest in the
world beyond is due. naturally, to
the great numbers of those who
have, left this mortal land in combat
SO suddenly and so terribly that des-
pairing relatives of the dead have
resorted to that last of last resorts.
the medium and her invocations.
But every now and then comes
reliable and worthy citizen with an
apparent power, whether from the
spirit land or from the subconscious
mind, none can say. Such a per-
son is Mrs. J. H. Curran. whose
brain-child, or spirit friend, Patience
Worth, has attracted much COM
ment.
Fair Minded Scientist.
We were curious to learn what
fair minded scientist and mental
specialist would say about Patience
her relationship to Mrs. Curran, and
the fact of the strange literature
Patience produces so politically.
The views of DR.. John Duncan
Guackenbos were sought, he being
a distinguished physician whose
work in mental therapy and whose
outstanding views on all modern
questions have brought him fame.
Il believe that the. writings of
Mrs. ]. H. Curran, which she says
come from a spirit named Patience
Worth, are the expression of her
own subliminal SELF that is far
reaching and powerful, and has &C
cess to much that is fine and beat
tiful. However, l have no right to
deny that perhaps spirit is giving
it to her, but | will simply say | am
agnostic there.
"In the case of persons who make
the ouija board move, l believe
there is presiding inner force
which does this, an inner mind.
These supernormal expressions are
sometimes due to what we may call
a sixth sense
Depend On Facts.
II try always in explaining these
phenomena to get rid of the idea of |
spirits and to depend on the facts of
the inner forces of personalities.
81 have never seen any evidence
Of reliable communication with the
spirit world, Sir Oliver Lodge and
others to the contrary.
There has never been any COM
munication of value impaired in this
way And understand, am talking
of spiritism-a better word than
spiritualism-when stripped of all
its trimmings and humbug.
Ninety per cent of it anyway is
1egerdemain and deception.
What is left outside of that-the
remaining 10 per cent have al
ways attributed to the automatic
exercise of a psychic force that is
resident in every human being, but |
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08

manifested by comparatively few,
WHO are known as mediums That's
where l stand on the subject.
Respect for Personality.
II have great respect for the hui
man personality or. subliminal self.
l believe that your spiritual part or
mine is just as capable as any
'spook' Why isn't it?
II believe in immortality. | can't
see why my spiritual personality
shouldn't be as we'll endowed as
that of dead soul.
"All peculiar manifestations that
take place at so-called seances can
be explained on a psychological
basis.
when a woman makes a table
move, though, she isn't under a
spirit control, she simply has hid
den force in her that makes this
thing possible. She possesses psy-
chic force.
"In regard to healing ills by call
ing spirits to help, | am an agnos-
tic as regards that possibility. !
have never seen it proved, but to
some extent have seen it practiced.
/ don't really know.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08

when apparitions are seen, it is
due to a telepathic projection. At
some supreme moment, such as
death, or under some great stress,
2 human being can project an aud
ible, visible or tactile impression.
The being is not there, but can pro-
ject himself in this way.
There are persons who have
what is called the 'X-ray vision
While in a hypnotic state they can
look into the physical condition of
another. | knew only one such
man. He was the son of a noted
doctor. But this sort of thing is
so rare that it may almost be said
rot to exist.
"In my work, which is mental
therapy. often put patients to
sleep-I don't like the word hypno-
tism, because it has. been used by
so many charlatans-and then sug-
gest the right thing for them to
Go. This is the only remedy for
k1eptomaniacs and other preversi-
ties of humanity. | rarely treat the
drug addicts, because they don't
want my help. They want more
dope"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08
''Wet'' Christmas or No
To Be Decided Today
By the Supreme Court

Washington. Dec. THE validity
Of the wartime prohibition law may
be decided Monday by the supreme
court, in which event the country
will get final answer to its big
question whether this will be a wet"
Christmas.
The court will reconvene at noon
and the impression prevails gen.
orally that the constitutionality of
the wartime law and the Volstead
act for its enforcement may be set
tied at the opening session. Unless
the court decides before January 10,
its opinion will have no effect, for
the country will be dry then by con-
stitutonal amendment.
After handing down decisions to-
morrow the court will hear number
of important cases during the week,
including appeals from New Or
leans and Baltimore, involving the
right to manufacture beer contain
ing more than one-half of per cent
under the wartime prohibition act
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08
Brief City Neos
Have Root Print lt-Beacon Press
Vacuum Cleaners-Burgess- Gtanden Co.

Have Root Print lt-Beacon Press
Vacuum Cleaners-Burgess-Gt andsn Co.
Ice Cleared of Snow-Omaha skat-
ers yesterday found that the park
commissioner had kept his promise
TO have the ice cleared of snow from
the park ponds.
Watch the Crankers - A new
amusement has developed In Omaha,
that of watching the poor fish,, as
they are called, trying to crank their
cold cars. Picturesque words are re-
ported to have been added to cur
rent vocabularies.
Owing to the grave fuel situation
1t is necessary to suspend the oper-
alton of passenger trains wherever
possible In addition to service al
read suspended. Train II will be dis
continued, Omaha to Manila, eff
fective Monday, December Sth. Con-
suit ticket agent for full informa-
tion,-Ady.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08
Steamer Still Afire.

San Francisco. Dec. Fire
which broke out Saturday night in
the main bunkers of the Norwegian
tramp steamer Terrier, which ar
rived here Friday from Seattle, still
is burning. The fire was thought by
the police to have resulted from the
placing Of fire bomb in the vessels
hold in connection with recent water
front labor troubles here.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08
Boy CoIIides With Man
CoaSting on Capitol Ave.

Clarence Williams, IS years old,
son of A. J. Williams, 1921 Chicago
street, suffered severe scalp wound
at 9:55 last night while coasting
down Capitol avenue on his sled
from Twenty-sixth to Twenty-sev-
enth streets. Williams sled collid-
ed with traveller" coming up the
hill. He was attended by police
surgeon and taken to his home.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08
Plunge Into Icy Waters
When Landinq CapSizeS

Seattle. Wash, Dec. Forty
persons were thrown into the icy
waters of Puget Sound when land
ing float at Manette, 80 miles west
of Seattle, capsized under the weight
of passengers leaving a ferry boat.
An unidentified woman was
drowned. ,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08
British Embassy in Berlin
Badly Damaged by Fire

Berlin, Dec. FLAMES of un-
known origin damaged the British
embassy building Saturday. The
roof of the structure was burned off
and the upper rooms and marble
staircase suffered badly.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08
Rouge, High Heels, Powder
and Paint and Perfumery
Banned by Woman Doctor

"Women of New York All Seem to Be Dying on Their
Short-Vamped High-Heeled Shoes" Asserts DIR.
Florence L. Meredith, Who Originated From
Boston, and Who Has Set Out to Purify the Nor
ais Of America via the Sane Dress for Women
Route.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08

DR.. Quackenbos
is a mental thera-
peutist of wide
fame. He achiev-
ed remarkable
success in cor
recting bad llab-
its, and even
criminal tenden-
cies, by the
power of the
mind. His sug-
gestions to sub
jects who yield
themselves fully
to his treatment
are said to have
lasting results.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08

The government of Venezuela will
erect a radio station near Caracas
sufficiently powerful to communicate
with similar stations in the United
States and Europe.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08

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