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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-05

ing family-See Blanche Sweet in
Fighting Cressy', q parts) sorry
of the true, big hearted, roaring west
IA Christie Comedy, Hearst News
Library Theatre today. Regular adj
mission. ADV.
Nelson L'Ecuyer of st. Adams,
State Chief Ranger of the Catholic
Order of Foresters, died Wednesday
at Tampa, Fla. from heart trouble.
Mr.. LEcuyer was IS years Old and the
business manager of the ST. Adams
Messenger. He is survived by wife
and eleven children.
Bennington gets Immediately into
the lime-light OF progress by voting
SS5 900 for a cement road rom the
village to North Bennington. Man
chester village has also voted $4,000
for Main street highway construction
Our neighbors to the South are get
ting in some great strokes for better
traffic thoroughfares.
Special services will be said az the
Sacred Heart church Saturday morn
ing at s o'clock for the repose of the
couls Of Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Lamarre
being one year anniversary mind
mass for Mrs Lamarre and one month
for Mr.. Lamarre. The members of
the Sacred Heart Society and ST
Anne society who can possibly attend
are asked to be present also all
friends.
In order TO insure the success of the
Bennington High school baseball team
for the coming season some place for
indoor practice during the next four
to six weeks must be had. Any pro
perty owner who has a vacant base
ment shed or barn which he thinks
may possibly be suitable will be help
ing them greatly if he win telephone
or call at the high school. The Stu
dents association is willing to pay
reasonable rent for the right place
If you have suitable place here is
your opportunity to help in making the
1920 B. Fl. s. baseball team the best
eyer.-Adv. 40t6
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-05
Like Being Hit
By Rattle Snake
Says that every time you cu9
or pick at a corn you
invite lockjaw

You reckless men and women who
are pestered with corns and who have
at least once week invited an awful
death from lockiaw or blood poison
are now told by Cincinnati authority
to use drug called freezone, which
the moment few drops are applied to
any corn, the soreness is relieved and
soon the entire corn, root and all, lifts
right out with the fingers, without one
particle of pain.
This freezone is a sticky substance
which dries the moment it is applied
and just loosens the corn without in
flaming or even irritating the surround
ing tissue or skin. He says a quarter
Of an ounce will cost very little at any
of the drug stores, but this is sufficient
to I'd ones feet of every hard or soft
corn or callus.
You are positively warned that cut
ting or picking at corn is suicidal
habit.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-05
BENNING RON BRIEFS
News Of the Towr ard Village Toll
Briefly for Eusy READER

Ansel Buss was in Troy Thursday.
William Shindler and Walter Stew
art went to Schenectady Thursday to
spend the week end.
Mrs. George Bronson of South
SALISBURY spent Thursday with rel
atiyes and friends in town.
Guaranteed rubber boots for the
whole family, prices the lowest, at
the New York store. Adv.
The infant daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Morris Moon of Pleasant street
who has been sick for some time is
on the gain.
Miss Myrtle O'Connor was operated
on Thursday at the Putnam Memorial
hospital. Her condition today is re-
ported as comfortable.
Miss Agnes Houran of North street
left this morning for Boston where
she will visit for few days with
her sister, Miss Elizabeth Houran
Lyman d. Bardin of Pittsfield
Mass, and Flora B. Phillips of Peru,
Mass, weer married at the Second
Congregational parsonage by Rev. G..
S. Mills, March A.
Martin Hewitt Cook of Benning .on
and Celia Mae Leibcnow of Hancock
Mass, were married Feb. 81, 1920, by
Rev. G. S. Mills at the Second Con
Igregational parsonage.
Mrs. Frank Norcross of North
street, who has been confined to the
house for the past IA months by the
result of a fal in which she sus-
tanned an injury to her spine, was
able Thursday to be out for the first
! time.
There will be a special meeting of
the Bennington Post No. 10 of The
American Legion Friday, March at
1880 p m. in the G. A. r. hall. All
members are urged to attend.
( Blanche Sweet in Fighting Cressy'
q parts) a Observation-Disclosures of the
golden ives "a Christie Comedy
Hearst News at Library Theatre to-
day only. Regular admission. Adv.
Big special program a. Library The
atre today b anche Sweet in Fight
ling Cressy" q parts), drama of the
rugged west-a Christie, Comedy and
Hearst News. Regular admission.
ADJ.
st. Francis de Sales choir will re-
hearse Easter music the church
Friday evening Immediately after
Benediction. All who are to sing with
the Choir at Easter time are requested
to be present at this rehearsal
Sam Levin of River street returned
Thursday from a several days ay in
New York. He was accompanied
home by a younger brother, Robert
Levin, who has been employed for a
number of weeks by d clothing con
Germ in that city
Miss Mary Petersen, who is in
training at the, North Adams hospi-
tai. is at the home OF her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs d. w. Peterson on Gage
street recovering from a broken arm.
Miss Petersen fell in North Adams
Saturday and sustained Two breaks
in the right arm.
A miscellaneous shower was given
by Miss Elizabeth Stewart at her home
on Lyons street Thursday evening for
Miss Agnes Houran whose marriage
to Sanford Barber is to take place in
the near futu G. There were about
fifteen guests present and Miss Hour.
an was the recipient OF many beauti-
ful gifts including linen, money and
! Rfehen utensiles Instrumental
music and music from the yictrola
was enjoyed and de Ugh full evening
was spent. Light refreshments were
served.
She was g fighting maid of a fight
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-05
YOUR FREQ LEs

Need Attention IN March or Face
May Stay Covered.
Now Is the time to take special care
of the complexion if you wish to look
well the rest of the year. The March
winds have a strong tendency to
bring out frecklcs that may stay al
summer unless removed Now is the
time to use Othine--double strength.
This preparation for the removal of
freckles was written by a prominent
physician and is usually so successful
tina it is sold by druggists under
guarantee. to refund fhe money ii It
fails. Get an ounce of Othine--
double strength and even few ap-
plications should show a wonderful i'm
some of the smaller freck
les even vanishing entirely.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-05
BOY OF 10 KILLS SELF
Parents Find Body Behind the Barn
Shot Through Heart.

Montpelier, March 5.-Ar hur Law
les, Is, was found dead behind his
fathers barn in Calais about 8 o'clock
Tuesday evening. The district hea tn
officer gives the cause of death as
suicide.
The attending physicians certifi-
cate stated that death was acciden al.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Lawles, par
ents of the boy, had been away for
the day They returned at supper
time and, while the son was not pre-
sent, they did not think it strange, be
lieving he had gone hunting and
would return later.
About s o'clock they began to in
vestigate and little later found his
body behind the barn He was shot
through the heart with % revolver
rifle. He leaves his parents and, sew
eral brothers and sisters.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-05
rerhann Thls Is worth rrxinn.

Should child grow up bad in China
the parents are said to have forgotten
TO bind its wrlsts-alludlng thereby to
superstition that if a red cord is
tied around an infants wrists it can.
not fail TO grow up quiet and OF edi.
ent.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-05

In few moments you can trans
form your plain, dull, fat hair. You
can have it abundant, soft, glossy and
full of life. Just get at any drug or
toilet counter small bottle of Dan
derlne" for a few cents. Then moisten
a soft cloth with the Danderine and
draw this through your hair taking
one small strand at a time Instant
ly, yes, Immediately, you have doubled
the beauty of your hair. 1t yill be a
mass, SO soft, lustrous, fluffy and so
easy to do up. All dust, dirt and ex-
cessive oil is removed.
Let Danderine put more life, color
vigor and brightness in your hair. This
stimulating tonic Will freshen your
scalp. check dandruff and falling hair,
and help your hair to grow long,
thick strong and beautiful.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-05

For Colds, Grip or Influenza
and as Preventative, take LAXATIVE
BROMO QUININE Tablets. Look for IL.
w GROVES signature on the box. soc
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-05
DRIVE AWAY HEADACHE
Rub Musterole on Forehead
and Temples

a headache remedy without the dam
gers of s.headache medicine" Relieves
headache and that miserable feeling
from colds or congestion. And 1t acts at
oncei Musteroleis clean, white ONT
ment, made with oil Of mustard. Better
than mustard plaster and does not
blister. Used only externally, and IN
nc way can il cftectetornach and heart
IS some internal medicines do.
Excellent Tor sore throat bronchitis,
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congestion, pleu-isy, Rheumatism, lurl-
bago, all pains cd aches OF the 'hzcl-
on Joints, spraina, sore rl-:ccies, bruises,
chilbla;ns, f,csted feet, colds Of the
chest lit often prevents pnaumonia).
3Oc and soc lars. hospital size $3.50.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-31
Y. M. C. 4. Experiences

Harold Morton Kramer's account OF
the experiences of Y. NJ. G. A. sec
retary during the last year of the great
war has peculiar interest, for it is the
story OF an onlooker, not of partici-
pant. It begins with a sketch of some
of the incidents of his voyage from
New York to Bordeaux and the journey
to Paris. Here he chances to be dur
ing an air raid and the most famous
bomberdment in history-that of the
German long range cannon, known as
the "Big Bertha" seventy five miles
distant. He gives a very impressive
account of his experiences during this
time of terror to the city. When at the
front his days "were filed with the
same strenuous work of serving at the
canteen counter from early in the morn
Ing until late at night, except on the
evenings when I left the canteen to
drive to other camps to lecture" Re-
ferring TO the fact that on Sundays
at the religious services, though not n
singer. he was song leader, he says :
HEver since the lady who bears my
name learned that acted as song
leader in that hut she says she has a
fuller conception of wars horrors.
While at the front he always carried a
gas mask, and a chapter is devoted to a
description of them. The closing Incl
dent Of the interesting narrative is i'm
pressive.
WITH SEEING EYES, The unusual story
Of an obserysut thinker at the front. BY
Harold Morton kraner. Illustrated. Bos-
ton LothroR. Lee & shepard Co $3.50
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-31
MOVIE STARS CAREER
Pearl White WriteS Her 4utO-
biography in "Just Me"

If Pearl White is the idol of the
movie fans for her bravery in serial
movies. then she should soon be the
idol of the reading public who demand
unvarnished truth and frankness in an
swer to their query. ''Tell me about
YOURSELF" Now in "Just Me-" which
is the title of the autobiography Of Miss
White, there is found the sort of ma =
terial which the public likes to know
about film favorites and up to now has
never been able to find.
There is no attempt to color the plain
life of this actress with passages OF
poetic beauty. From the beginning OF
her life until the past summer, she
describes with faithful detail each step
in her career to present success. Those
who would seek career in the movies
or on the speaking stage will gain
from q reading of this book an insight
into what may be expected by new
comers without benefit of relatives
friends or pull.
Simplicity Of narrative in this life
of q popular movie actress makes IL
easy reading. There is no attempt tc
embellish the facts, because names anc
dates are used. and they are correct
There is touch of pathos in the stor!
of the early career of this star and {
wealth of humor marks the narrative.
JUST ME-. By Pearl White. New York
George H. Doran Co. S1.25
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-31
STANDING BY
KeabIe Writes a Great Spirit
ual Boot of the Var

Standing By is one of the great
spiritual books of the war. 1t is by
Robert Keable. an Anglican chaplain
with the British forces on the battle
fronts. Mr.. Keable left his missionary
parish in South Africa to be with the
Basuto and other native troops in
France. His book is not confined to
consideration of his own particular
'.bit," but ranges through a wide scope
and deep. of interests and reactions
brought and wrought by the war, main :
" religious. it is true. but sometimes
military. esthetic or social.
Mr.. Keable is a deep and fine thinker.
He is warm hearted, but cool headed
in his observations and deductions. His
sympathy is embracive. He has the
spirituality Of another great Anglican
whose name is nearly the same he has
the muscular Christianity of Kingsley.
but one that does not delight in the
exhibit of its biceps: he has the force
full and authentic righteousness of q
Newman and something of the Oxford
Cardinals beauty of prose style.
Father Keable discerns spiritual love
illness in dark places, he is always i'm
pressed with the immanence of theothel
world he is liberal to Jew and Gentle
papist and churchman and the members
of the bethel band and other noncom
9ormists. This is one of the fines
traits of this fine book, which, by thu
way. has been commended by Catholic
bishop as one of the great books of tht
war, and by nonconformist minister
also for it's many merits of spirit anC
substance.
STANDING BY WARTIME REFLECTIONS
BY Robert Keable. New York: Il. p. Dut
ton & Co. 50.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-31
NEW STORIES BY
IRWIN S. COBB
''FrOm Place to Place. Rich in
Typical Americanism,
Well Drawn

A wider canvas and broader brush
strokes characterize the new sheaf of
stories which Irwin Shrewsbury Cobb
has bound in From Place to Place. y
The stuff of these stories is American
ism. broad scaled. generously visioned.
and embracive. To be sure most of
them are localized and some of them
are dated, but the addition Of the traits
of north and south. of war and peace,
Of humor and seriousness. makes sum
of real Americanism. The racial COM
plexitics. the local variations and the
diversity of controlling moods that
mark American life at its normal make
impossible the summing up in any one
creative effort all that American means
the variety is too infinite and intricate
to permit anything-be it picture, novel
or play. to say nothing Of Mr.. Cobb
medium of the short story--to be rated
as universally American; the best a
creative artist can do with the materia
is to make it typical, and hope that
it will reflect generic qualities.
Mr.. Cobb's stories in this COLLECTION
are always typical of his beloved and ma
tive south, of New York, of wherever il
the land he lays his scenes, and beyont
that they possess the generic under
standing and feeling. His politica
story "The Thunders of Silence" il
one of the entries in the volume, ant
another is the very keenly done wal
story, "John J. Coincidence. ''Boy'
| Will Be Boys'' is one of the represen'
tativcs of comedy. And there are hal
dozen others. all good.
FROM PLACE TO PLACE. BY Irwin $, Cobb
| New York: George II. Doran Co.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-31
Bolsheuism NoueIized

Robert W. Chambers. always with
his finger on the trigger of public in
terest, and pretty good marksman in
hitting the ull'seye, has novelized the
present Bolshevist movement in ''Thc
Crimson Tide" His exciting story
opens in Russia and brings the hero and
heroine, an American officer and an
American girl; to New York.
Palla Dumont, the heroine, has suf-
fered much at the hands of the Slav
Reds, but, in despite she is not affected
in her essential liberalism. She is dis g..
llusioned of many things through her
experience, and one of them is love.
Even though she is not BolsheviSt in
political philosophy she is perilously
near being one in love. But the OK =
cesses of terrorism. the infiltration of il
nto American community. economic and
political life are the bitter medicaments
which heal her disturbed and wounded
soul. The hero is just good average
100 per cent American, and there is no
discounting the percentage of his Amer
icanism, which is what makes him such
substantial and engaging figure and
man worthy of Palla's love. Their
romance moves apace with systematic
endeavors to combat and conquer boil =
shevism.
The book is written in Mr.. Cham
bers's best style--there is no evidence
of potboiling about it. though it must
have been written speedily in order to
capitalize the timeliness of the theme,
The character drawing is firm and the
personages not merely plausible. but
convincing. The plot is much more in
tricate than is usual in current novels,
and its parts are well articuated. The
action, as in all Chambers novels. is
quick and forward moving TO the eli
max. Page after page of glowing and
moving description and narration hold
the reader spellbound.
THE CRIMSON TIDE. BY Robert w. Cham
bers. New York: d. Appleton & Co, s155
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-31
DR.. KelIy's Road to Health

Many readers will enjoy and profit
by their journey along the highroad to
health with the genial and learned COM
panionship of Doctor Kelly. His book
is largely record of his own life ex-
perience, for, when forty years old, he
came to this country in a low physical
condition and was condemned to sana-
torium. But he adopted the principles
laid down in his book, and "despite
many obstacles, retrieved that inesti-
mable joy of living" His teaching of
health culture begins with a statement
of the six essentials for health-per-
severance, air, water, exercise, diet
and sleep. Then follows advice in re-
gard to appearance, the "ever increas-
ing and occult mysteries" of the toilet
and habits and then restraint in regard
to the useless popular or social poisons,
mainly alcohol and tobacco. The most
stress is put upon self massage, which
promotes nutrition and expels poisons," 1"
and, from his own experience and those
of his patients is ever agreeable. re-
freshing and curative. The concluding
chapter is on the value Of training,
which "may be regarded as the highest
development of the care of the body"
The book is not wholly scientific
treatise on health, but it is like the
plain talk of a family doctor to his
patient in which statements are made
in the simplest language and sometimes
with a vein of humor. For instance,
dwelling upon the essential part exer-
else has upon health, he says, ''The
president and the preacher, the lawyer
and the merchant, the banker and the
burglar, even the pickpocket, by meth :
odized and suitable exercise would add
to their vocational proficiency" There
are twenty-six illustrations, showing
the bodS,,in various positions in exer-
else and massage.
THE HIGH ROAD TO HEALTH. BY DR..
James E Kelly. 20 illustrations. New
York: Dodd. Mead Co. $1.50.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-31
Labor Problems

Edith Elmer Wood has made COM
prehensive and intensive research into
the many angles and facets of the
housing problem and the result of her
Investigations is embodied in THE
Housing of the Unskilled Wage
Garner. - This work has much peril
nency at the present time when both
skilled and unskilled wage earners. to
say nothing of the professional and
business classes, the salaried or in
coined person in short. are beset with
the domiciliary shortage. Mrs. Wood
subtitles her book Americas Next
Problem" and vindicates her choice
of epithet by pointing out the impor-
tance Of the subject. Her text is really
a consideration of the housing situa-
ton as whole with. of course, spe-
cialized attention to the more restricted
phase of the title. Endeavors made by
various municipalities to cope with
congestion and colonies are analysed
and the legislation OF the several states
and cities on the subject is digested.
Mrs. Wood argues that the solution
of the problem is urgently up to the
community as civic unit and that 1t
is a social duty for all citizens to see
tary, attractive and inspiring-which,
of course, does not argue for opulence
of environment or foolish luxury.
''Industrial Nursing is convenient
handbook for those interested in the
physical welfare of employees, and, of
course. for persons who may wish yo-
cational instruction in the subject. 1t
is designed for industrial, public health
and pupil nurses and for employers OF
labor. The author is Florence Swift
Wright. r. N, Of the Bureau of Hy,-
giene, New Jersey, who has had wide
Experience in public service and with
private corporations.
Ttyr HOUSING OF THE uNsKILLED
WAGE-EAHNSER: ;,,isd BY Edith II Eime5 r, Wood
INDITsTRiAI, NURSING. BY Florence
swift Wright, New York; The Macmillan
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-31
ADAMS PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
DEMOCRACYTENDS TO CHAOS,
ACCORDING TO HENRI ADAMS
Disturbing Point of Tieto Disclosed Three Essays Apply
ing the Latus of Physics to Processes Of Thought

the course of matter. and that as the
streams flow downward from the noun
tain tops to the dead level of the ocean
the democratic idea is doomed to descend
from its original high estate until it
loses itself in dead level of impotent
mediocrity.
The course of the argument is in
tensely interesting. Thought, according
to Henry Adams, is material substance
subject to the laws that govern matter.
just as the laws that govern gases do
not differ radically from the laws that
govern solids. The theory is explained
in detail in the essay on "The Rule of
Phase Applied to History Phase,
used in its technical sense, here means
merely state Of equilibrium. AS mat
ter passes through the phases or equi-
libriums of solid. liquid and gaseous,
| thought, considered as a single sub
stance passing through series of his
| torical phases, is assumed to follow the
analogy of matter and to pass from one
phase to another through series OF
critical points which are determined by
three factors. attraction, acceleration
and volume, for each change of equilib-
rum" Mr.. Adams declares then that
the future consideration of history must
be in the hands of physicists, who can
apply the laws of matter to thought and
discover the law which governs its pas
sage from one phase to another. Sc
far as he can see and judge from the
short period of the history of thought
of which we have any knowledge it is
tending toward chaos. A disturbing
conclusion. but one from which Mr.
Adams does not finch. Every one who
has read ''The Education of Henry
Adams should read this book, both foi
the three essays it contains and for the
admirably illuminating introduction.
THE DEGRADATION OF THE DEMO
CRATIC DOGMA BY Henry Henry ADAMS Adams VIII VII
York: The Macmillan Co. $3.50