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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1920-05-17
BY JAMES MORGAN

~ EFORE Van Buren had been in
n the Cabinet year, Jackson pub
licly pointed him out as his
successor in the Presidency and he
remained through the eight years OF
the administration the first, last and
only choice of his imperious old chief.
In the idle gossip of history, he is said
to have won that high favor by his
courtesies toward Peggy O'Neal Eaton
when other officials We're snubbing
her.
1t was easy and natural for Van
Buren, to be polite to Peggy since he
could make up his calling list without
having to consider any feminine sensi-
bilities in his own family For his wife
had died 10 years before, leaving him
four sons and a memory, to which he
remained loyal through 43 years of
widowerhood and until the close of a
life free from the breath of social
scandal.
There were more serious factors
than Peggy 'ONeal in the advance
ment of Van Buren. The choice lay
naturally between him and John c. Cal
| houn, and the latter had given Jackson
| personal reasons enough for disliking
him before his adoption of notification
added political reasons for that dis
like.
To promote the candidacy OF Van
! Buren,, the President deprived himself
of his counsels in the Cabinet after
two years and sent him off as Minister
to England, where he would be remov-
ed to safe distance from the enmities
| of domestic politics in a bitter period.
But those enmities pursued him be
yond the waters edge, the Senate re-
fusirg to confirm his appointment, pro
fessedly because of its objection to his
policy toward Great Britain while he
was in the State Department. The
underlying motive was expressed in
Calhoun's eXultant words, 1t will kill
him, sir: kill him dead. He will never
kick. sir; never kick"
This victim of Senatorial hostility
already was in London and frankly en-
| joying the life there, not the least OF
its delights being a coaching trip with
Washington Irving, who was Secretary
of the Legation. Learning of his re
| lection on the eve of a ball at Talley-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1920-05-17
Today's Talk
BY George Matthew Adams
A LETTER,

About twenty years ago, when l was
a junior in college, arrived at a
point where l didn't know what to
door where to go. Things looked
dark. l was discouraged. l needed
something and somebody to bolster
me up.
Then l remembered a man whom I
had heard speak and who had inspired
me. / wrote and asked him what
ought to do. The man was DR.. Stephen
A. Northrop, a minister in Kansas
City. His reply was the means of
turning the whole course of my life,
and his fine influence has inspired me
through all these years. And so /
believe that if | reproduce that letter
exactly as he sent it to me, it will
help thousands of others as it did me.
MY dear Adams: Your letter is
mine. VIII take a moment before the
rush of the day is at hand, to reply,
l do not know just what to say to you.
l will write you, however, as if you
were my own boy, or my own brother
"The city is crowded with eager
men, facing the fearful odds of life,
and many of them are not well
equipped for its responsibilities. The
great need in commercial business
anu professional lie To-Day Is 1Or all
around, symmetrical men! There are
too many in the market places with
fringes and ragged edges; in other
words, an incomplete life.
You can guess what I am aiming
at. 1t will be the bane of your life
the regret cf all time with you, be
cause you did not finish SOMETHING
You will be sorry you did not have
the nerve and the force to complete
your college course. Brother, BATTLE
IT OUT TO THE FINISH! STANT
BY THE GUNS TILL YOU CAN
LOAD AND RELOAD FOR THE
GREATEST CONFLICT OF ALI
THE CENTURIES! GO THROUGH
your course! Be patient! Do not ge
uneasy for the strife! You will hav,
to work hard enough and long enough
as it is. You have the qualification
natural-fOr winner; plus culture
YOU will be more than winner;
cOnqueror! But count on me in what
ever you do!
''Faithfully yours,
"STEPHEN A. NORTHROP."
Ten times more do these times cal
for well-rounded men. Now read Dl
Northrop's letter over again.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1920-05-17

was an intimate friend of Horace
Greeley, suggested the name of Re
publican to the famous editor, but
neither Greeley nor the east were
ready for such radical step.
Michigan claims the honor of being
the birthplace of the Republican party
by reason of an Anti-Nebraskan state
convention, held at Jackson July 6,
1854. Horace Greeley advised Jacob
Howard, prominent leader that Wis
consln planned to adopt the name of
Republican at the state convention to
be held a week later. and suggested
that Michigan foreStall Wisconsin.
This was done. Vermont few weeks
later followed the same action as
Michigan and Wisconsin.
The national organization of the Re
publican party really dates from the
convention of Feb. %, 1856, held at
Pittsburgh, and which was held pursu-
ant to a call issued by the chairmen
of the Republican state committees of
Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan,
Indiana and Wisconsin. A Republican
national committee was selected
which met on March % to select June
II as the date, and Philadelphia as
the place for holding the national
convention, which nominated Fremont
and Dayton.
Historians. not animated by par
| tisianship and disposed to take an un
lmpassloned view of the various
claims in relation to the distinction
/ of being the birthplace of the Republ
can party, are inclined to believe that
the Illinois state convention, held in
Bloomington on May 30, 1856, wher
Lincoln delivered his famous lost
speech" should be given the credit foI
| the real awakening of the nation.
lincoIn's Wonderful Speech.
1t is noteworthy that the early
speakers at this convention failed tC
| arouse any real enthusiasm. Their
Lincoln mounted the platform. "Upor
! his face there was an expression O.
| intense emotion" Judge NJ. Scott o
! Bloomington, one of the delegates
afterWard deClared.- 1T was the emo
! ton OF great soul. Even in stature
he seemed greater. He appeared tC
! realize that it was the crisis of hi.
life"
The speech was the greatest of the
convention. 1t fairly electrified al
| who had heard it. 1t was great in the
| language, the burning eloquence ant
in the effective manner in which i
was delivered. If ever a speech Wa
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1920-05-17
Good Evening
BY Roy X. MouIton

Western dentists are making an or
ganized protest against the wholesale
extraction of teeth. They say this
frenzy is sweeping the country.
But there is one happy old lady of
cur acquaintance. Il have two teeth
left" she says. "One upper and one
lower, and, thank heaven, they meet"
A Detroit doctor is accused Of sup
porting two wives. He must be not
only doctor but millionaire.
What we need TO do in this country
is to laugh. Prof. Jordan.
I'll dare anybody to try to make me
laugh.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1920-05-17
BON.OPTO
Sharpens Vision

Its a system of treating the eyes at
home; is practised daily by hundreds
of thousands of people with great
satisfaction. The Bon-Opto system
quickly relieves inflammation of the
eyes and lids. 1t cleanses, soothes,
and rests tired, dusty, work-strained
eyes and is a help to better eye
sight. Ask your druggist. He
knows. He will refund your money
without question, if you are dis
satisfied. There is no other home
eve treatment like BoN-OPTo.
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WHERE WAS
Continued from Page One)

formed on the sole issue Of opposi-
tion to slavery extension.
The senate passed the Objectionable
bill on March 5, and on March 20 the
second meeting was held at Ripon at
which Bovay was again the leading
spirit Resolutions We're adopted fav-
oring a new party, the name to be
selected later, and a committee ap-
pointed to take steps to launch the
new organization. Major Bovay, who
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1920-05-17
Answers toQuestions

F. W.-How did expression stand
patters" originate?-It is traced back
to the tariff fight in 1902, when Mark
Hanna used it to indicate the attitude
of the leaders of the Republican party
on the tariff question. 1t was taken
from poker, in which the expression
stand pat means that player intends
to use the hand originally dealt him
without asking the dealer for more
cards.
l. S.-When was Premier Nitt ap.
pointed He was appointed in June,
1919. succeeding Premier Orlando.
Soldier-How many West Point of.
ficers were killed in the World war;
Thirty-five, the class of 1918 suffering
the largest number Of casualties
Most of the officers of this class were
first lieutenants.
Reader-What did it cost to build
the Brooklyn bridge in New York;
The total cost was $25,094,577. The
cost of construction, exclusive Of the
cost of land, was $17,909,412.
c. K.-Has the name of the island OF
Hayti any significance?-It means
High Island, and is significant oi
the character of the topography of the
island.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1920-05-17
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Question md Answer Department.
Questions should be written plainly
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briefly.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1920-05-17
DOES A COLLEGE EDUCATION
PAW

(From the Colorado College TigerO
The play was that entertaining me-
dieval study by Anabele France, The
Nan Who Married a Dumb Wife,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-12
) FOR WELL DRESSED WOMEN

would wear quite willingly . suit
trimmed with Australian cposaum, or
the less choice At fox peltry. and
would perhaps not inaist on the pedi-
[ gree OF the mole or seal that adorned
collars and cuffs. other women with
er wear no furs at all. or else sable.
real seal or black fox. And the wom-
an who has exquisite furs of the
choicest sort does not certainly want
to leave them home in favor Of the
less choice furs on her suit. That is
why one dressmaker Of distinction
win shake her head skeptically when
you suggest far trimming on your
nav suit and then you win go down
to the smart shopping district and
see fur-trimmed suits in half the
shop windows.
As for fabrics there Is an unmis-
taxable vogue for velvets and various
rich pile fabrics, but in line with
EPaquin and some of the other French
houses. though not actually taking
the suggestion from them, there are
one or two Of the more exclusive pro-
ducers here who are using checks and
fancy and novelty weaves in wooden
fabrics, sometimes in rather daring
'coforing Sometimes with these wool
sen mixtures a brightly colored man
French dressmakers and this is some-
thing that will undoubtedly find ac-
ceptRnce by the women here who can
afford to keep OF the beaten track
For the rest, for the woman who
must limit herself to one or two new
suits for the season, there is perhaps
M better selection now than velvet
|or duvetyn or some other pile fab
rio.
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No Radical Change IN Sill
houette Shown In New
: Designs-Brown Under
Many Names Dominant
Color.
BY ANNE RrTrENEoUsE.

After all is said and done. it is what
= certain class of American women
Want to wear, and can wear, that will
determine the mode for the autumn
and winter. Call them fashionable.
SNARE, well dressed or what you will,
these women whose selection counts
for so much are the women who have
taste enough to appear well dressed
and money enough to buy what they
really want.
Just at present we do wen to bear
that in mind. 1t is a consideration
that serves as a compass to steer a
more or less steady course through
the currents and cross currents, winds
and waves of fashion that are bound
to come in these formative weeks of
autumn fashions. Every mail and
boatload of clothes from Paris comes
to bear out what we have already
learned by cable Of the diversity of
tendencies and influences in the Paris
openings. and our own designers add
somewhat to the general confusion
by introducing still other tendencies
and influences.
Callot has retained the extremely
short skirt, and Cheruit has spon-
sored the longer skirt Paul Poiret
shows skirts that are very long and
inclined to fullness.
From several sources comes a re-
vival of the Directoire styles-others
are gaining inspiration from the early
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-12

well placed use Of black and white
lace drapery. For afternoon gowns
they have made use of the toreador
fashion which adapts itself 50 well
to black velvet, undoubtedly to be
one of the most important fabrics of
the autumn and winter the bodice, in
the form of short straight jacket.
has the high rolling collar Of the
toreador. The bodice meets in q v
in front. The skirt, fairly short,
shows black silk tasse1s on the side
and below the little jacket at a low
placed waist line is draped a sash of
black satin and Spanish red that
icrOsses at the right hip, the tasseled
ENDS hanging several inches below
the end of the skirt. 1t is bound to
Il be an influence in our American
modes worth watching for
Interesting 1T is that many of the
French establishments showed more
suits this season than previously,
though Americans certainly did not
| have to wait for this to assure them
of the large place that the suit is to
play in the American woman's ward
robe. For we have always had to act
with considerable independence in the
designing and making of suits. A
good many Of the suits that are
offered now were in the making
in many instances the American de-
signer has come to much the same
conclusion as the French. But there
are always essential differences in the
way a woman here wears her suit
from the way of the Frenchwoman-
hence there must be a difference in
the design. With US much more i'm
portance is attached to the suit as a
street costume than is the case with
the Frenchwomen. In the judgment
Of a very great many well dressed
women here it is the only really ade-
quate street costume for autumn and
early winter days. There is trim
ness and compactness about 1t that
cannot be eQualeA In tbs separate
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be built down before many American
women would wear them. Now, as
Ifrocks come over from the collections
of the houses featuring the extremely
long skirts. 1t 10 quite obvious that
they will have to be shortened slight
ly before we will like them. So for
the most part skirts remain about
where they were, with the exception
Of some Of the evening gowns.
Another thing the dressmakers
sleeve Is coming. but at this time
they know that the shorter sleeve
looks smarter. So a gown that four
or five months hence they might make
with a long sleeve they now present
with a sleeve terminating at or above
the elbow.
To be sure. the greater part of au-
tumn purchases have yet to be made,
but the clever dressmakers and de-
signers needs must be something of
psychologists. 1t is their business to
know which way the woman who has
much money to spend on clothes jumps
before she jumps, and they have all
agreed. apparently, that she isn't
going to jump very far. She likes the
line. the silhouette, the general tone
of her clothes well enough as they
are They are comfortable and be-
coming. She will seek novelty more
in detail. The new things will be
distnguishable from the old by the
mode of adornment-lavish embroid-
cries for one thing-rather than be-
cause of any radical change in line.
X \ X
Keenly as we watch the incoming
of French fashions there are many of
the best houses here that would lead
you to believe in their complete in
dependence of French inspiration.
One of the foremost of these New
York establishments is work along
lines of Spanish suggestion I seem
to be especially well adapted 10 the
demands of American taste. The
Spanish note is coming out persist
emily in the evening clothes by this
fuller skirts and a
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Renaissance-the italian Renaissance,
he Roman Renaissance. the French
Rem aissance-and side by side with
his comes a boosting of the Moyen-
kge mode. Persian suggestions are
3trong. and so are Egyptian. The
fxponents of purely classic mode of
trapery. Very long waists seem to
prevail. but there are whisperings OF
revived empire waist line with a
nodified princess effect so strong that
8oron can disregard IT.
All of which might quite easily lead
he American dressmaker and the
Woman interested in clothes from q
nore personal point of view to brain
torn were it not for the stabilizing
meet of American taste and se1ec-
ion.
What it all amounts to is this: At
east for the present the well dressed
hange in silhouette. We have re-
used stubborniy to give mp our
'traight, slender figures We will
ave none of the bouffant hips and we
re not at all interested In bustles. 1t
this desire to be slender. with the
hvarting any tendency in the new
ashions for nipped-in- waist line.
We know we cannot have a twenty
nch belt without making our hips
pok wider. and we know that the
lender hip gives the youthful impress
ion.
Skirt lengths have been much dis
used. But after all it is a simple
hatter. We were slow in taking up
ne short French skirt and now that
Re have adopted il we like il, like 1t
po, well 10 give it up Immediately
his the dressmakers here know. SO,
lthough they realize that the longer
kirt is bound to come as part of the
frightened line. they also know that
pc American woman will not accept
sudden lengthening. The short
kirted frocks that came over from
AEis two % three years ago had t.
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OF. There is a certain tall. straight.
athletic, wide-shouldered type of
American girl that should religiously
avoid this long-coated, straight up
and-down suit Jacket and the chances
are that she viii know enough to
do so.
The suit jacket with the shoulder
cape gives somewhat the same effect
as that Of the bloused back suit. It is
dr2ped, or rather hung, from the
shoulders In the back and tends in
the same way to minimize the breadth
below the waist by widening the sill
houette above. It Is doubtful. how
ever, whether these capped suit models
gain any considerable foothold. They
are one of the picturesque productions
suggestive Of period costumfng-a
sort of thing that does not seem to
can woman for her daytime clothes.
The three-piece suit that appears
and reappears in the new things of
Madeleine ct Madeleine and several
other French houses is more to the
French state than ours It really
amounts to nothing more nor less than
q frock with jacket to wear with it.
One Of the things that the American
woman especially wants and one that
she does not get when she buys a
three-piece frock is the variety in
possible blouse selections. It is part
of the extreme daintiness Of the Amer
lean woman that always recommends
the separate blouse that can be nut
J on fresh every few wearings. It is
this that recommends the suit to her
over the heads of the suit frock in
which there is no such possibility as
there is with the suit that may be
worn with the separate blouse.
| To say that the suits were not fur
trimmed would be far from true-for
there are many such shown by the
l q
priced suits. But the tendency to the
furless suit is growing among the
dressmaking establishments whose
| customers are recruited from women
of wealth and much discrimination.
While ninety women out Of a hundred
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Pile fabrics are in the lead-vel-
vets. duyetyns, pushes and . oo8en
other fabrics Of like texture, various
ly named by their manufacturers.
And brown. after not reaiay ae nt -,
ter, already has the undisputeo nrst
rank among colors. They go by
dozen names-these broWns-couture'
peasant, cocoa, Bedouin. LOT eAa,npie
but always they derive mucn VI
warmth and richness from the 49,.
texture of the velvet or pile iaorlc
in which they are made. Gray ID not
without place, but it is a coio Tons
that finds better use IN 2uLun N
trimmings and furs than IN tue DooS
of the suit or wrap. aaoa
The general tendency 10 %
length manifests itself in sufts-not
so much in skirts, for the s t
woman will wear her suit skIrt snCI.
even though she does lengtnen Hs
afternoon and evening frocRs, oue -.
the Jackets, which SHOW . low
waist line as we'll as a longer pepA
~ ~
There is something quite conVinc.
ing about the bloused back enect 'aA'
lis seen on some of the new suits as
we'll as on coats Of fur and various
pile fabrics 1t is a loose, stralsns
blouse that is held under at rairly
low waist line, and has the enecL O
minimizing breadth at the BACK 0sCw
the waist line, by this blouse Ina-
Genes lust above it, And anything
that produces the effect Of youtnfui-
ness. slenderness below the waist. Is
sure to find reception in the Amer
can woman's wardrobe. Sometimes
with this bloused back the front
hangs loose. sometimes it crosses over
ia wide shawl collar, and again
there is a belted-fn front. But the
suit beIted all around seems to have
seen its day.
| Another back treatment that you
will have to select from IS the ioose'
straight back in the Jacket that ex-
tends to the knees, a mode that needs
more than average grace to carry It
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HEADS THE HOO HOO ORDER.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-. September Ill
NJ. Tulley. st. Louis. was elected
shark Of the universe" (president
of the Concatenated Order of Hoo
Hoo. a fraternal organization of lum-
bermen). at the closing session Of the
twenty-niath annual convention Of
the order. M. NJ. Elledge, Corinth.
Miss. was elected "scrivenoter" (sec-
rctary). Next years convention will
be held in Fresno, Calf.
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THIRTY DIE IN BLAST.

LIMA. Peru, September 1o.-Thirty
men were killed, scores wounded and
damage amountins to &25Aooo was done
by an explosion Of dynamite In Callae
baysthis morning. Negligence in han
ding the explosive II declared to have
caused the accident. The work OF lead
ing ships there has noe been materially
affected
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Eighty different workmen have a
part in perfecting 10000 pieces in a
grand piano before it is put together.
Douglas Island news., 1920-10-22
SOUR DOUGH NOTES
Happenings on Douglas Island Twenty Years Ago This Week
 From News Files

Tho nmt snow Of Che season fou 0n October 2O.
 Mrs. LaughlInH litue girl was quite 10 thc 0mt Of Che week.
 Tho now Gro hydrauts were all in place and paid for.
 Milo Kelly lcft for Summit Creek. thc scene of new strike on Che Die Salmon
 Tho Douglas Opera House was formally opened as a show house vlth a big family chow. Among the attractions wore Tim staru and Miss Dcbby Ricklug In spccIaluoa also Miss Eva Lester tho queen oi aoug iu songs and dances
 New vessel being built for tho Pa
Douglas Island news., 1920-10-22

c'dc Coast Steamship Company by One Union Works Works of Sam Fran cisco thnt is to Doc named tho spo- kane.
 Mr. George C. Burford and Miss LmIo D. Clark were married at the Franklin Hotel in Juneau. The groom waa employed at tho B. M. Bchrond8 store.
 William Carbis. a native Of Re- public. Mich. died at tho age Of 22 years
 A moral wave hit skagway and no more women win Doc allowed to frc- qucnt oloons or to gamble in pub- l--.
Douglas Island news., 1920-10-22

B.ur-uaiv. Louis IT. McFaddcm author %. what is known a> tine McfaddU HH ura bonus ou gold that is to bc used m t.ca arts auI manufactures seems to hc a strong champion O. fae cause of the gold miners Ilewceu.v defended his bin very gh.r before .uc meeting of the American Bms.r- \,-0ciatiop Everyone realizes that Mr. Ariadlw is advocating some thing ..a- '~ iu.- hut many fear tha. the departure win overthrow thc established orlcro. things and wreck the gold staud- mi
Douglas Island news., 1920-10-22

The Taku winds and the cold weather seemed more real and apparent to people o. Douglas Island late last week when they saw an taat good bonded whiskcy being rutcd to Juneau There were mo more pros ucctS for a 'hot ouc' before going Go bed uor momms morning before facing thc winter winds.