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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-08
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

The luncheon of the w. c.. II. L. will
be served promptly at 6 o clock Thurs
day night.
Anyone shooting ducks on the river
lays himself open to prosecution under
the federal migratory birds act. A large
number of ducks have been seen on the
river the past day or two and some have
been shot at. This item is therefore
made as warning. A federal warden
is watching the situation.
The funeral of Mrs Addie ?. Den
nison, who died early Thursday morn
ing in her home on Main street, was
held Saturday afternoon at CLOCK
in Bond s. Son 5 undertaking parlors
Rev. Z. Q. S. Osgood, pastor of the Uni
tartan church, officiating Relatives act
ed as bearers The burial took place il
Prospect Hill cemetery beside the body
of her husband
The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Doyle
mother of Mrs. John A. Gum, was held
this morning at o'clock in ST. Mich
ael' Roman Catholic church. Rev
James p. Rand officiated The bear
ers were Edward Gum, Timothy Den
ming and David Meany of Brattleboro
and Frank McGovern of Rochester, this
state The burial took place in the
Roman Catholic. cemetery Those who
attended from out of town were, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank MeGovern of Roches
ter and Mrs. p. M. Hennessey, Mrs
Margaret Keefe and Miss Ellen En-
right of Bellows Falls
Easter sale and supper by women OF
the Unitarian church in the parish house
Thursday afternoon, April 10, beginning
at o clock. Cards, cretonne novelties
flowers Supper from 6 to Z. Menu
creamed fish, stuffed eggs, cabbage sal
| ad. rolls. cake. eoffee--40 cents. 323:
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-08
WEST BRATTLEBORO
The Late Mrs. Sadie H. Rideout.

Mrs. Sadie (Hamilton) Rideout. 50,
who died March q in her home in
Westminster, was daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. c. NJ. Hamilton of this village.
She had been i'll 10 days with influenza,
her death following just seven weeks
after that of her husband, who had
been in i'll health several months. Be
sides her parents, she leaves one son,
Gordon, s, who has come here to live
with his grandparents, and one brother,
Merrill II. Hamilton. The funeral serv-
ices were held at the grave in West
minister and the burial took place there
beside her husband.
She was born in Marlboro March II,
1884. When she was 10 years old she
came to West Brattleboro to attend
school in the academy and lived in the
home of her grandmother, Mrs. Sarah
Halliday, her parents moving here a
few years later. After finishing her
course at the academy she entered the
Randolph normal school, from which
she graduated. She afterwards taught
in Westminster three years, where she
met and married Sumner c. Rideout
Two children were born to them. One
son died five years agosat the age OF
two months
Mrs. Rideout united with the Congre
gational church in Marlboro when {
small child and afterwards took her let
ter to the First Congregational churcl
| in West Brattleboro, which membership
| she retained Many friends here, a!
well as in the east village. viii remem
Der with kindly affection Sadie Hamil
ton. She was a true Christian woman
loved the good things in life and wa
devoted to her home and family.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-08
Daily Thought,

Dead he is not, but departed-fol
the artist never dies.-Longfeilow.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-08

DR.. f. G. Kinney, representative from
Greensboro. has recently received word
from his son, Lieut.. Albert Kinney, with
the medical corps of the American expe.
dictionary forces in France, that he has
been promoted to the rank of captain.
Captain Kinney is a graduate of the Uni.
versity of Vermont medical college in
the class of 1912
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-09
THE PROMOTERS WIFE
THE INTERIOR DECORATOR
TAKES CHARGE OF THE
HOUSE.
CHAPTER LVIX.

CHAPTER LN1A.
Lorraine Morton, of course. knew
nothing of Neirs business matters.
She had said to me:
You must make use of that hand
some husband of yours to help you
socially. Many of the men he must
know in a business way are probably
also prominent in a social way. 1t
isn't easy to get into the set in which
1 happened to be born, but you are
clever and educated, and so is your
husband. 1t will perhaps take time,
but YOU will get there in the end if
you are persistent
Lorraine, as she said, had been
born" into the set in which she
moved. She hadn't much money, not
nearly SO much as we had, or rather
as we spent; but she lived in an old
mansion on Washington Square which
had been in the family for years
forever" she said-and was received
nearly everywhere.
l had no desire to be one of the So
called -four hundred" But 1 did wish
to belong to the select coterie of peo-
pie whom Lorraine knew, a few of
whom 1 had met. In my new house
1 would entertain. in way 1 could not
think of in an apartment. So while
shopped Lorraine and 1 jubilated to-
gether over what we should do in the
way of entertaining when all should
be ready.
Neil had gasped when I told him
the decorators price for making over
the interior, but had said:
go as far as you like! just sold
a big block of stock the other day.
There's no need to economic. Just
give me the figures SO I can have
some idea of what this thing will to-
tall
Neil's generosity delighted me, and
made Lorraine cape.
Mr.. Forbes must have slathers of
money to give you carte blanche like
this she remarked For all that she
was one of the elect, Lorraine was
dreadfully slangy at times. But she
could do as she pleased in that, as in
other things. Her position was Sc
cure.
I really wanted people to find me
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worse. Has any novelist ever por-
trayed the real horror of the lack of
spiritual susceptibility? ITO the i'm
pure, all things are impure" is a hor-
rible characterization of a not uncom-
mon mental state. The plight of the
pit is that of the man who has no in
nocent thoughts, no simple and pure
pleasures, no delight in whatsoever is
lovely and of good report. What a
price to pay for disobedience!
The Voice That Strikes Terror.
Some cynic has invented the story
that every man has a hidden secret
that haunts him; and that telegram,
"All is known; look out" would send
the best of men into panic. OF course
it is not true. Thank God there are
myriads of men and women whose
lives are an open book-tho the evil
minded cannot believe this, which is
one of the punishments of loss of inno-
cence.
AS Adam and Eve shrank from the
voice of God in the garden, convicted
by the knowledge of their own guilt,
SO guilt of soul finds accusation in
every glance, betrayal in harmless in
cidents, and remorse by night and by
day. Already, when our first parents
knew themselves out of fellowship
with God, they had begun to taste,
death. No excuses could palliate or
atone for their offense. Theirs, and
ours. is the suffering.
What says the Golden Text of the
Lesson. summing it all up? For the
wages of sin is death; but the gift of
God is eternal life thru Jesus Christ
our Lord"
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DINNER STORIES

Two ladies met on their way home
from shopping.
Has Peggy got her divorce YETI"
asked Mrs. Brown.
Not yet" replied Mrs. Jones.
why, she expected to get it last
week. Hasn't the case got in court
YETI"
"Oh, yes.''
,"She asked for SIS, 900, didn't she ?"
Yes, 1 believe so, but the amount
asked was so large the case was com
promised"
Compromised? Shed never take a
penny less than $4,000, l hope"
well, her husband said he could
not pay that much"
How much did he pay?"
Nothing; it seems they just kissed
and made up
1t was young Mrs. Robinson's first
party, and she was suffering the usual
terrors of the inexperienced hostess.
However, the cook rose to the occasion
splendidly, and, so far as the dinner
itself was concerned, Mrs. Robinson
was delighted.
The only fly in the ointment was
Jane, the new parlor maid; she was
slow, clumsy and her waiting was
bad. But, in addition to these faults,
she insisted on keeping her mouth
open.
This so got on Mrs Robinsons
nerves that at last she exclaimed:
Jane, your mouth is wide open!"
Jane withdrew her gaze from the
ceiling and said, looking down with a
CHEEKY smile:
81 know it, ma'am; I opened it my
selft'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-09
MY HUSBAND AND /
BY JANE PHELPS

worth while. I longed to be a sort of
leader-which 1 knew 1 could not be
for a long time, if ever. The idea had
rather gone to my head. I was SO
shopped so indefatigably, that 1 was
worn out. For the first time since
our marriage. I began taking my
breakfasts in bed. My conscience
pricked me at first. Often the morn
ing was the only time 1 had to talk
With Neil. But after a while that
ceased to trouble me. I wasn't think
ing where all this would lead; 1 only
thought of what I, myself, wanted to
accomplish. 1 did not even see where
my domestic life was going, because
did not think of domestic things. And
all the time j rarely saw Neil. 1 mean
saw him to talk to him or to ask the
questions. which I used to ask about
where he had spent his time and with
whom.
Then one day I received quite the
greatest shock 1 had had since the
day 1 had listened at the door when
Mr.. Frederick and that Mr.. Black were
in the library with Neil.
1t was Lorraine who dealt the blow.
What is your husbands business.
Bab?" she asked one day, Il thought
he was a broker. l have heard him
mention stocks, and you have also
talked of them. Isn't he on the ex-
chanSeE
"No-he is a mining and oil pro-
moter-or perhaps they are sometimes
called brokers? 1 know nothing about
business. Lorraine. Neil doesn't be-
lieve in talking of his affairs at home"
But Bab-a promoter! That ac-
counts for it,"
Accounts for what?" 1t had been
a long time since I had given Neirs
business any thought, so taken up was
1 with my new idea.
"Why-I-heard-t he had many
undesirable acquaintances." / knew
by the way she hesitated that she had
more to tell me.
"Undesira BILE"
Eyes, men of shady character and
vulgar habits. l hate to say such
things to you, Bah, but it will be no
use for you to try to do anything in
a social way if this is So
Queerly, there came into my mind
the whispered expression I had caught
when dear father talked to me:
"a house of cards.
(Tomorrow-Lorrain dashes Bab's
hopes of social success.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-09

Some time the whole truth will
come out in regard to the millions
spent for aircraft spruce that never
got within a thousand miles of an air
craft factory. Also, perhaps, the truth
will be told about favorites who were
transferred from the Atlantic sea-
board to the spruce production serv-
ice in the Pacific Northwest and why
we sp:nt $625. 100000 on aircraft
production without producing any air
craft. but in the meantime, do your
own duty y subscribing to the victory
loan. We can settle with those who
have proven themselves incompetent
or worse, later.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-09

We Americans are much amused.
writes Ed Howe. because the Russians
have increased the pay of factory
workmen until the total income of
the factories will not pay the men.
1.-THE Russians are a very ignorant
Glass; we say, in explanation. They
cannot realize that a factory must not
only earn its pay roll, but a return on
its capital, and a fund with which to
buy raw materials" Yet. he adds.
exactly the same thing is being done
with the American railroads. 1t does
not become US to laugh at the Rus
slams: we have adopted their precise
methods: the pay of our railroad
workmen has been increased until the
pay roll cannot be met and millions
of poorer paid men and women are
being taxed to make good the deficit.
1t will not do to advance the pay of
railroad men. and tax workers of other
classes to meet the increase: all must
be similarly benefited. And when this
is brought about our paper dollars will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-09

And everything that He does is in
spired because everything done by
Him in every one of US. 1 believe to
be. inspired.
There are p great many things that
l do not understand about my God,
but within that fact alone. do lie my
greatest beliefs in the rightness and
the glory of the God in whom 1 do
believe.
My idea of God is not One clothed
in rich coverings and adorned with
magnificent gems. but rather of One
simple and beautiful and gentle@and
strong My God is no respecter of
persons, because all that He sees and
understands is the person in whom
abides HEART.
The God in whom I believe en-
bodies the one nd only requisite re-
ligion-the religion of Love. And
Love, being az impartial affair and
very personal. must necessarily re-
fleet the character of Him who is
Lowell
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-09

A pipe in sur celler started to leek
wattir yestidday AFTERNOON, squerting
up in the air like a regular fountain
Supposed to do that, and ma quick
tried to fone GROUND for the plum
mer but the line was bizZy, ma saying,
Benny, run GROUND to the plurnmers
and tell him to come immeeditly-
Shall 1 run as fast as can, ma?
sed.
Yes, yes, hurry for 'goodniss sakes,
the place will be flooded, sed ma.
WITCH L started to do. all my, mite,
and Pubs Simkins and Leroy Shooster
was standing down at the corner,
Pubs saying. Watts your hurry, Benny,
are you going somewares?
Is enybody chasing you? sed Leroy
Shooster.
We got a Ieek in our cellar jest
like fountain 1 sed starting to stop.
The heck you have, sed Pubs Sim
kins.
The heck we haven't. I sed. And I
stopped all the way, saying, Come on
back and Ill show it to you if you
wunt to see it. And me and Pubs and
Leroy Shooster ran back to my house
and looked down the celler window
and the pipe was still going like a
fountain an there was wattir all over
the floor like the ferst part of a
flood, Pubs Simkins saying, G, wish
We had one in our celler.
Well, 1 got to go for the pIummer,
L
street agen and L met Ed Wernick
coming up, saying, Watts up, Benny :?
Watts Pubs and Leroy Shooster look
ing down your celler for?
We got a fearse Ieek, I Sed.
Go on, sed Ed Wernick. Meening
he dident bleeye it, and l ran back
with him to show him, and the wattir
in the cellar was getting high as eny-
thing, Ed Wernick, saying, Gosh,
Benny, you always was lucky.
WITCH jest then ma looked out the
End story window. saying, Benny, wat
did the plummer say?
Amt bin yet, G., you awt to see
how high the wattir is now, ma. 1 sed.
Come in the house immeditly, sed
ma! WITCH did, and ma tried to tele-
fone agen and it wasent bizzy andS the
plummer came GROUND and fixed pipe
with monkey rentch and another
plummer, and L wasent allowed out
last mite and 1 amt going to be tonite,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-09

"In the destined hour" wrote Leo
mid Andreiev recently, Russia will
rise from her grave, will come out
into the path of light and will take
up her place among the great nations
of the earth" This hour seems to
have struck. The Siberian army is
marching from one victory to another.
After taking Perm and Ufa, the ST.
berian army is marching towards the
region of the Volga, and during the
last few days it has taken Sarapoul
and Buguruslan. The Bolsheviki are
retreating in disorder on the entire
eastern front. The peasants are ris-
ing against the Bolshevist tyranny in
the regions north of Perm and south
of Samara, and the victorious Siber-
ian troops are drawing nearer and
nearer to Samara and Kazan. SINH
lar reverses have overtaken the Reds
on the western front.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-09
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
Protect Your Old Age-r.

The one inevitable misfortune of
life is age. Only by dying young can
we escape that. If We live we are
bound to come, every one of us, to
the time Of the sere and yellow leaf.
Our mental powers fail, our strength
goes from us. We can no longer hold
our own with lusty youth and we be-
come helpless and useless, mere cum
berers of the ground
The most pathetic thing on earth is
poor and dependent old age. There
are two spectacles that wiring the
heart of every observer. One is of the
old man and woman, weak and feeble
but forced by dire necessity to toll
beyond their strength at some mental
task in what should be the rest time
of their lives.
The old, gray, bent clerk, working
far into the night over his ledger be-
cause his dulling faculties make him
slow and inaccurate; the old, totter-
ing man, pushing his little peddler's
cart with a few poor wares he is try
ing to sell; the bent and crippled old
woman down on her rheumatic knees
scrubbing office floors; the wind and
weather beaten toothless old woman
at the corner with her little bundle of
papers. There is not one of us whose
eyes have not stung with tears at the
sight of these.
And not less pitiful are the old men
and women who live on the grudging
charity of others, who feel themselves
burdens even on their own children,
who are sighted and scorned, and the
bread of whose dependence is bitter
in their mouths.
These are not new thoughts. The
dread of age is ever present with us.
The tragedy of poor, dependent age
is sight that is continually before
our eyes, and this makes it the most
amazing thing in the world that so
many people take no step to try to
protect themselves from the greatest
catastrophe that can possibly happen
to them.
There is, of course, no way in which
We can ward off age, but We can pro-
tect ourselves against the things that
make it desolate. We can keep the
end of our day from being a cold and
bitter closing in of the night. and
and glorious twilight, if only we have
enough intelligence and courage to
take counsel of facts as they are, in
stead of as we wish they were
To do this we must realize in our
youth that the one, and only thing,
that takes the curse off of age Is
money. We must realize that the only
staff upon which we can lean in our
age with any certainty that it will not
break under us. is a bank account.
We must realize that the respect with
which we are treated, the considera-
ton that is shown US, even the affec-
ton of our children is in direct ratio
to what we have to leave in our wills.
This may sound cynical, but no one
will dare dispute its truth. Between
grandpa without a penny, grandpa
who must be fed and clothed and
housed, and grandpa with fat wallet,
grandpa from whom a stream of pres
ents continually flow, there is a great
gulf fixed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-09

The newest thing in labor union
circles is the organization of a house
servants union. The nucleus has been
formed in New York and the move
lment may be expected to extend all
over the country. Members will be
known as home assistants" The
plan is to promote new system by
(which the worker in the home shall
he engaged for standardized duties
which shall command a regular scale
of wages. Among other rights to be
.enioyed in the future are an annual
holiday, two hours rest daily, half
day and an evening off each week, and
"a half day on Sunday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-09
THE TROUBLES OF THE GREAT.

THE TROUBLES OF THE GREAT.
Skies were often overcast
For the great men of the past,
came their way;
They had many a rainy day;
Many a burden hard to bear,
Many a stony path to fare;
And because today you think
You are standing on the brink
OF disaster don't give in!
Keep your courage and your grin!
See your time of trial thru,
Washington had troubles, too.
Lincoln had his days of DOUBT,
Days when he was hedged about
By pack of dangers grim,
But they never daunted him.
There were times when hope seemed gone
But he bravely kept right on;
Held his course however assailed;
Never once his courage failed,
And today We find his name
Linked to everlasting fame.
Care may make a man of you,
Lincoln had his troubles, too.
Men who never meet woe
Never have to bear Il blow,
Never rise above the throng;
With the stream they drift along.
Only those who dare to fight
For a cause they know is right
And can set their teeth and hear
All the heartache of despair
Conquer failure; they alone
Make success at last their own.
In this thought find courage new
Great men had their troubles, too.
Copyright 1919 by Edgar A. Guest.
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In the first place, 1 have never seen
Hmm His One-Person. But have
seen Him in the many, and l have
felt Him in my ME- many, many
times.
I do not ask anyone to agree with
me about my God. To me. lie is
something more than a Spirit-some
thing more than a superior Intelli-
gence-something more than a Faith
er-something more than a Brother
something more than a Partner-He
is everything of the BEST of every
body.
My God really exists, however. lie
is very much in mystery. but He is
very understandable, because every
minutest flash of human feeling in the
world is felt in His heart and record
ed, as the slightest outside influence
might be recorded on the most sensi-
tized plate prepared by the scientist
My God is Divine, because every
thing good in you and me is Divine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-09

During the years 1917 and 1918 the
dalton for war work amounted to $17,-
t042.440; John ID. Rockefeller, who
pays every dollar expended by the
Rockefeller Foundation, did much
more personally: during the years
named. he expended about ten million
dollars more in promoting the welfare
of mankind thruout the world. Here
is a private citizen who gave more
than million dollars a month for the
good of the world and yet he was Sc
lected as one of the victims of the
bombs recently mailed to prominent
men at the New York postoffice.
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QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS.

O. What are the divisions in the army
of occupation in Germany?
A They are the list. 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 9Th.
eth. 2sth. 32nd, 33rd, 42nd, 10Th, S9th and
Goth.
Q. What painter is known as the poet
painter" IN. w. l..
A Jean Baptiste Camille Corot has been
frequently called the poet-painter because
it was said that his success Was not in the
skill of his brush alone. but in the beauty
and Significance of his design. He was an
impressionist. not a colorist, and he usual
ly painted in tones of green. brown and
silver gray. Corot has had no imitators.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-09

+ The presidential campaign of 1920
will be inausurated May 10. when
congress will meet in extra session, at
the call of President Wilson, cabled
from Paris. 1t may be confidently
expected that all legislative action will
be dominated by political considera-
lions with a view to obtaining parti-
san advantage and there promises to
be a period of speechmaking unprece-
dented