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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1919-04-25
MIDDLEDUnY LOCALS

Miss Hazel Ketcham spent Sun
day at her home in Sudbury
Mrs. K NJ Price is visiting in
New York City
Mrs Randall Hammond of Bran
don is visiting at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. w F. Hammond
Major and Mrs. Dwight F. Smith
of Stowe were the week end guests of
their sister, Mrs. + A. Evans
Henry Thomas underwent an oper-
alton for the removal of tonsils at the
Mary Fletcher Hospital last week
Charles P. Smith has gone to Wal
lingford on visit to his sisters, Mrs
B. c. ingalls, and Mrs Malvina Hodges
The National Bank of Middlebury
has secured the services of Gushing
Hill to take care of the Victory bond
issue, The Office at the bank will be
open from 9 a. m. until 3 p. m.
Mrs Anna A. Evans of Burlington,
grand matron of the Order of the East
ern Star, attended the installation of
the Shoreham chapter Saturday eve
ming returning to Middlebury to spend
Sunday at the home Of her son, F. A
Evans
An address by Professor c. F ABB
bolt on the Primary Laws, which was
scheduled for the May 9th meeting of
the Suffrage Study Club, has been
postponed to the evening of May 18th,
when it will be heard in the Sigma
Kappa Rooms at 8 p. m.
The Civics Department of the Wo-
mans Club will have their postponed
meeting next Wednesday afternoon at
three o'clock at the Sigma Kappa
rooms. Miss Fuller will give a demon
stration of salad sandwiches and hot
weather menus. All members of the
Club are cordially invited.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Douglas have
received word that their son Fletcher
P Douglas has arrived from France
and is a member of Company A, lOlst
Ammunition Train of the 26th Divi-
sion, which is holding its grand parade
i'll Boston today Douglas expects to
lNNClNC MS uloNidA &c plOliPNAJ anu "
return to his home in Mddlebury next
week
The Middlebury Opera House was
well filled last Monday evening for the
first of the local entertainments follow
ing the Lenten season An Irish Ro-
nance, Kathleen Mavourneen" was
presented by Dorothy Frost and W
M Gibson in the leading roles and
Mildred Cady, Marjorie Cartmell Phil
ip LaFleur, James Geddes Harold
Stearns, Harold Searle, Joseph Riley
and Frank Bullock also in the cast
The proceeds went to the Middlebury
Grange
AT the annual conclave of Mount
Calvary commandery No |, Knights
Templar held in the Masonic temple
Tuesday evening the following officers
were elected: Eminent commander,
Howard L. Averill; generalissima,
Archie S. Hartman; captain general,
Arthur J Blackmer, S. W, Arthur R.
Davis; J W., Willis n. Cady; prelate,
Albert W. Dickens; treasurer, Thad NJ
Chapman; recorder, William H. Brew
ster; standard bearer, Frank c. Dyer;
sword bearer, Arthur w Eddy; warder,
Charles l. Button.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1919-04-25
Seasons First Auto Accident

An automobile accident occurred be-
tween Middlebury and East Middle
bury Wednesday morning when a car
containing Mr.. and Mrs o. L. Barnard
of Waites River Orange County,
was overturned on Blind Baker hill.
The car was headed toward Middle
bury. A tire on one of the front
wheels blew out causing the car TO over
turn. Mrs. Barnards shoulder was
broken and Mr.. Barnard was injured.
They were brought to Middlebury by a
milk truck and taken to the Addison
house. DR. S. S. Eddy was called and
Mr. and Mrs. Barnard were taken to
the Mary Fletcher hospital at Burling-
ton on the noon train.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1919-04-25

See Slader, Optometrist, at the Sar-
gent, Thursday, May Is
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1919-04-25

A LIMITED SUPPLY of milk cans
at $3.50 each. Carload of cement COM
ing to Salisbury, Middlebury and Yer
gennes at SO cents per sack Send in
orders at once Addison County Farm
ers' Cooperative Exchange l7t3
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1919-04-25
WE ARE SHOWING

the Spring Styles of
HATS in attractive
COlOrs
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1919-04-25

FOR SALE:-Hay IS per ton, stack
waste. Also seed corn 8 rowed, 90
day flint Tests 95 per cent germina-
ton $500 per bushel NJ H Hub
bard, Salisbury, VT l7t3p
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-19
The Problem of Pain

In Donald Hankeys charming o offer sound basis for optimism religion of facs the hardest the existence
 Some suffering is of med result doing all Other suffering directly indirectly and We all the worlds h which is to be urged responsible the
 
 of individual selfhness that Parents and but they entirely been absolutely perfect children go wrong may be in the main unmerited but entirely
 There class of suffering which would include of nothing Here would include handicap limitation disease anguish which fathers great multitude the ignorant walk the shadow darkness by which the best suffer the included category of unmerited
 Donald Gods the reasonable would be domac enough that knows the answ
 There Donald Hnkey book Christianity because the Cross symboizes the problem of pain"
 of Jesus also At they that Jesus to suffer and that follow him. would He His life lives for the brethren Paul If afflicted comfort salvation; this: fill that which is lacking the affcion
 suffering redemptveto ourselves others
 There the problem of God decreed that lift through suffering don't want to lift others then of problem is still making His there
 
 attack however and following the lead of Him who not be min sad Fathers possible for Paus height of 'e M. EDMoNDs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-19
A HOTEL BABY-By Frank Willis Barnett

the fact that he was open-faced anu joyous, got by without boing ruined in the face of his great popularity with everyone who came within the range of his happy voice, handsome face and winning ways. All the life he Knew up to the time he went off to college was learned within the four walls of a big, modern city hotel.
 I first got glimpse of him in long dresses, saw him when his proud moth CT put him in short clothes, watched him strut about with his first knicner- lockers, laughed at his pride in wear ing knee pants, took interest when finally they came down over his shoes, and joyed in him when, the very beau ideal of a soldier, he adopted the uni form of Uncle Sam and answered ths call of his country and went forth bravely to fight for democracy.
 It's bad enough for men and women without children to have to live in hotels; and I know it's trial to those with them to have to do so, for it is not only a peril to child life, but 1t is trying to the mothers who have to try and keep their little ones amused and out of mischief Small wonder then that tired mothers nerves grow taut and children's tempers grow fretful under the pressure of hotel life.
 sss
 What can we do about it? I do not know, but this I can truthfully say.s, never see a little lasse little fad wandering aimlessly around hotel ot- flee or lobby that I do not wish titat I could take the little miss out to where she could play with bevy of girls or kidnap the lonesome boy and introduce him to a gang of everyday, harum- scarum playfellows.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Film Very Educational

1 NO more important social service has been undertaken than the educa-
 tional effort of the Jefferson County
 Medical society and the Birmingham Association of Social Workers in pro-
 viding for the exhibition of the gov
 ernment film on social diseases this
 week in the auditorium of the Civic | association on four nights" said Charles l.. Harold.
 1 "Prudery, ignorance, carelessness
 and Responsibility have been the greatest enemies to the fight on social
 diseases. The best and most adanced
 thought of the sociologists, the gov
 ernment experts, the authorities on
 social hygiene appear united in the
 belief that a new and bold manner of
 treating the sex problems is impera- tive. This is reflected in the energetic educational campaign born of the war and conceived by the foremost think CTS on this subject. It is now resolved | to carry on the work in civilian life that has gotten such prodigious bene- ficial results among the soldiers. Revealing the great vial facts of reproduction in the delft, dignified | manner adopted by the government exports vii go far to check the long and widening stream of domestic trag- edies untold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-19

reached it by coach, he accepted the lat ter's invitation to dine together.
 His uninviting descriptions of the ron's accommodation lead one to believe that Dickens experience of the 'overgrown tavern as he calls it, were not of the
 pleasantest. He refers to the waiter as
 a corpulent man with "a fortnightly nap
 kin,' under his arm, and "coeval stock
 ings," and tells how this worthy ushered
 Mr. Pickwick and MT. Magnus into "a
 large, badly furnished apartment with
 dirty grate- in which small fire was making a wretched attempt to be cheer full, but was fast sinking beneath the dis
 piriting influence of the place" Here they
 made their repast from 'bit of fish and
 stealS.'' After finishing their scanty l meal they were conducted to their re- | spective bedrooms, each with a japanned | candlcstick, through "a multitude of tor tuous windings," MT. Pickwick's s was tolerably large double bedded room, with a fire; upon the whole, more con- 1 fortable looking apartment than MT. 1 I>ickwick's shor experience of the ac | cominodations of the Great White Horse had led him to expect
 Whether all this was ever true does not seem to matter much to the present pro- prietors, for they are not only proud of
 the association of the inn with PiclSwick but make no attempt to hide what the l novelist said of it's shortcomings. On the 1 contrary, they print in little booklet the whole of the particular chapter wherein | these disrespectful remarks appear. h. I'deed. that is the chief means Of adver- tisement to lure the traveller in, and when he gets there he finds PickWick pictures l everywhere on the walls to dispel any doubt he might have of the associations. 1. It is not necessary to retell the story
 of Mir. Pickwicks msadventure here 1 It will be recalled that, having forgotten his watch. in a weak moment, he walked quietly downstairs with the japanned
 candlestick in his hand to obtain it again. ''The more stairs MT Pickwick went
 down, the more stairs there seemed to
 be to descend, and again and again. when
 MT. PickwiclS got into some narrow pas sage. and began to congratulate him.
 self on having gained the ground floor.
 did another flight of stairs appear be- l fore his astonished eyes. Passage
 after passage did he exniore room after
 room did he peep into until ai length
 he discovered the room he wanted and aiso his watch
 The same difficulty confronted ehim on his journey bs ,kward, indeed it was even more perpiexing. Rows of doors gar
 nished with boots of every shape make and size. branched of in every possible direction He tried dozen doors before
 he found what he thought was his room
 and proceeded to divest himself of his Fclothes, preparatory to entering on his nights rest. But, alas! he had gotten
 into the wrong bedroom, and the story of the dilemma he shortly found himself in with the lady in the yellow curl papers. land how he extricated himself in so mod est and gentlemanly manner. is a story
 which 'every schooiboy knows"
 Having disentangled himself from the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-19
NEIcHBoRLY DIFFERENCES.

pretty sight and set me about my day 5 work with a song in my heart, because the good God had put into the minds of little women the desire to play at motherhood and use dolls as substl- tutes for children. Maternity is ele- mental and those who seek to stifie IL or decry it are wasting their time.
 Surely I know some people have to live in hotels and that old Doc Stork is very up-to-date and has found rooms with the same ease that he lets them down open chimneys, and l have scant sympathy for the owner of apartment houses who stick up signs discriminating against couples with children-and yet, somehow I feel that every hotel child has been cut out or the pleasures of childhood and I wei come the innovation of some of the modern ones which have playgrounds on the roof.
 I have seen some pert misses and rude lads brought up in hotels, ana yet it was hard to blame them, TOT they get wise to many things even during their tender years-and then the travelling men, tourists and reGu- lar boarders are apt to tease or spoil them, making it very difficult for pa rents to keep them normal. The aver age hotel kid is a precocious specimen of misguided sympathy, for the fathers and mothers away from their own little ones are inclined to pet and in- dulge those with whom they are cas- ually thrown.
 They say there are exceptions to all rules and I know of one in the case of a hotel baby. I know splen- did, soldierly oyuth who was born and raorad in a hotel hut who in spite cf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-19

Awhile back I was passing through one of the corridors of the Tutwiler and I saw an old negro nanny walking up and down softly singing 6 lullaby, and it SC. me to thinking.
 She was out of place and nothing could ever make her fit in with the surroundings. The red bandana head dress called for an old ante bellum house painted in white, set in grove of oaks and a green meadow, / and horses, cows and sheep.
 And a hotel baby is a misfit. It's hard enough for one to open it's eyes in an apartment house, but to be born and reared in a city hotel is a tragedy.
 Talk about stray cats bringing out the maternal instincts of old maids who but I can pass any number of lone some pussies and wandering tom cats without shedding a tear, but the sight of a baby in a great hotel makes me want to cry.
 All this because this morning as came through the revolving doors at the Twentieth street entrance and started up the steps leading into the lobby a little 5-year-old miss was standing behind a seat crowded up in a corner with a pair of scissors, uncon- scious of the passersby, serenely cut ting out paper dolls and their dresses and arranging them with all the care of real mother who was making lyette against the arrival of the stork
 stood and watched her for awhile, but did not have the nerve to break in on her time, for I could see it was her busy day, and she had no time to waste on strangers; yet she made a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-19
roo LATE THEN

From the Louisville Courier ournal.
 An officer home on leave took his wife to the seaside. When his leave was up he left her there and came up to his home for the night to sleep. leaving his house early next day to re- turn to the front.
 The postgirl brought letter few minutes after he had gone, marked "urgent," and addressed to him. A neighbor told the possgirl that he had departed and readdressed it to him.
 The mail boat was lost in the chan mel, but the mails were saved and the letter came, back, was again taken over by the same neighbor and again posted to the front.
 One morning the officer was in the dread act of going lover the top when the letter was handed to him and this is what it said: Dear George-Be sure to tell Mrs Williams that our cat is not to have cats meat more than once a week. as it makes the darling so fierce"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-19
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

The outcome of a marriage often de- pendS on the income of the male end of the sketch.
 When fellow falls in love the girl can always help him out by marrying him.
 Some wives wouldn't think of open ing mail that is addressed to their hus- bands-unless the letters happen to be marked Personal"
 What doth it profit girl to have four ministers officNate at her three ring wedding when Va year later ono dinky little divorce lawyer can undo the whole business?
 A man hates to playS poker with a bad loser almost as much \. as he hates to play it with good winner
 There is lot of old-fashioped senti- ment left among men. Anyws2y, you will notice that the mannish gprl usually the manless one. IN
 You can tell william the minute Ae comes on the stage. But in real lire he is more carefully disguised.
 Most jails lack modern conveniences and home comforts But man never thinks of that when he is doing some thing that will get him into one of them.
 In the average home. small boy likes to see that there is company for supper He knows that he is going to feed better than usual
 Put a woman in box at a theatre and she will imagine that the audi ence is looking at her and isn't paying any attention to the show.
 What has become of the old-fash- toned housekeeper who used to crimp the edges of her home made pies with her thumb -nailf
 The old-fashioned youth who had religion and no bad habits now has a son who has all of the bad habits and no religion.
 married man acts so mean when he has to stay in at nights that you would imagine his wife would be glad to have him stay out But she isn't.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-19
There Are Others

When it comes to coining ap; phrases dealing with current events the negro is hard to best" said Hay die Brown.
 "The other day a negro soldier, with an overseas Service stripe on his arm was telling some of his experiences in France to a group of dusky admirers He told Of several battles he had been in and concluded by stating that in the last fight he had killed a whole bunch of Germans
 "A little dried up negro standing by heard the somewhat boastful re- marks of the soldier and remarked to friend, Dat nigger is CT shootin' off his mouf bout killin' CT hole bunch CT Germans, an I'll bet two bits if 6e truf war known, bout de onliest thing what he killed war a bunch CT coot- ies''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-19
B. W. Matz, editor of the Dickensian, in the Christian Science Monitor

B. W. Matz, editor of the Dickensian, in
 the Christian Science Monitor
 as the sq a n.na ssss ss. of of lpsssn tss ~ay
 = short distance after you have passed through the open space fronting the Town Han, stands ar inn known far and wide by the appellaton of the Great White Horse, rendered the more conspic- uous by a stone statue of some ram pageous animal with flowing mane and tail, distantly resembling an insane cart horse, which is elevated above the prin- cipal door,"
 With these identical words, Dickens
 introduces his readers to and indicates precisely the position of the famous inn at Ipswich, and visitor to the popular city of Suffolk need have no better guide
 to the spot than the novelist. He will be
 she White Horse, which in reality is
 quito an unoffending and respectable ani-
 nal, in the act of simply lifting it's fore leg in trotting action. That is all: but
 he will be well repaid if, when he arrives
 there, he reads again Chapter XXII Of
 ''The Pickwic,c Papers," before ho starts to make himself acquainted with the in
 tricacies of ths interior. That chapter,
 we need hardly say, tells of the extraordi- nary adventure MT. Pickwick experienced
 with the midd,e-aged lady in the double
 bedCed rcom--one of the most amrstns incidents in the book, and one which has
 made the Great White Horse as familiar name as any in fiction or reality There are few inns in the novelist's
 books described so fully. He must have known it well; indeed. it is supposed that he stayed there when, in his early days, he visited Ipswich to report an election for the Morning Chronicle. and that a similar mistake happened to him as to MT. Pickwick. So when he says, '"The Great Horse is famous in the neighbor- hood, in the same degree as a prize OK, or county paper chronicled turnip, or lnwieldly pig-from its enormous size" he evidently was recalling an impression Of those days.
 II IS an imposing structure viewed run , without, with succeed walls and pill Jared entrance, over which stands the sign which so attracted the novelist's at tention The inside is spacious with still the air of the old days about it, and con- tains 50 bedrooms and handsome suites of ! rooms; but Dickens was little mislead- l Ing regarding it's size and little unkind 1 in his reproaches. At any rate, if the seemingly unkind things he said of it were deserved in those days of which h. writes, they are no longer.
 Never were such labyrinths of uncar. peted passages" he says, such clusters | of moldy, ill lighted rooms. such huge numbers of small dens for eating or !, sleeping in. beneath any one roof. as are collected together between the four walls l Of the Great White Horse inn
 Here on certain very eventful day he Drought MT. Pickwick, who was to have Imet his friends there, but as they had not
 arrived when he and MT. Pete Magnus
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-19
Successful Press Day

q attended the lunch of the Civitans given to the press" said P A. Feni- more, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, "and it was one of the pleasantest luncheons l have yet at tended in Birmingham.
 "The attendance went way beyond expectation. l do not know how the afternoon papers came out on time as it seemed to me as if the entire edi- torial staff of both of the evening papers were present President Shropshire did not show any partiality in the guests he invited, for he an nounced that c. M. Stanley, Richard F. Johnston and Frank P. Glass were his special guests. He was a diplomat and just cornered the daily press. Each of them made a stirring and worth while talk"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-19
THE PRESIDE SONG

By Frank L. Stanton. '.The fire is a-singing Of the old man of the snow, Who sends the flakes a-flying And makes the north wind blow ! The wind that makes the hills white And shakes the windows so,' That's what the story children
 Say, when the shadows creep And the stars stare at the still world
 That's lost away in sleep--'>' The little children, whose bright eyes Forget the tears they weep. But the fire is a-singing Another song, you know; And one whose eyes see other skies, s While tides of memory flow, Says: "The song the fires singing . Is-Long-Long Ago"" And guests are at the fireside-
 Guests of the loved, lost years; Springtime is there, with rose-wreathe
 hair
 And life loves garland wears. (Thank God that in the strife of life i There is place for tearsD