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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-01-30

Ottawa, Ont. Jan. -Headquar-
tiers of the northwest mounted police
will he moved from Regina. Sask., to
Ottawa when the proposed alamgama-
tion with the dominion police is con
summated. II was announced here.
The united force will be known as the
royal Canadian mounted police, with
Commissioner Perry as its head.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-01-30
Constipation. and Bad Blood

= Adrian, Mica.:-"I have used DR..
Piene's Goldea Medical Discovery and DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. / used the Pei
let's for very bad case of constipation,
which had troubled me for long time.
any more. used the Golden Medical
Discovery for my blood, and found it
splendid medicine as well. ! can highly
recommend DIR. Pierce's medicines. -
MRS. JULIA BECKS, 6l0 Chestnut st. =
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-01-30
10 Have a clear sweet skin.

Touch pimples. redness, roughness
or itching. If any, with Cuticura Oint-
ment, then battle with Cuticura Soap
and hot water. Rinse, dry gently and
dust on little Cuticura Talcum to
leave a fascinating fragrance on skin.
Everywhere 25c each.--Adv.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-01-30
Up-to- Date Economy.

Charity Collector-Haye you any
particular use for your old clothes
Surly Citizen-Sure. I'm Wearih7
them
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-01-30
Very Much.

as there anything in that cipher
messageg" II am sure it was not sent
for naught."
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-01-30

A company is known by the man
who dominates it.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-01-30

Do not Ter your keeness overshad-
ow your Kindness.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-01-30

Frozen Bayfish dressed. Sc; Piclxesel sac.
Headless, dressed lie; Pike t5c. dressed Ice;
Whiting (Sca Pike) Sc; Wbiteash l5cf SAT-
mon Ice; Halihut fsc; Herring, l0ose winter
G.. c~ht sI-c, dressed 6thc. smoked Fish In
40 10. 1ssssketss BluetinS Toe; Tulibees goes
salmon ard sNhitefish Chunks gee. Holland
Herring no Ib. keg slice. send remittance
with order. Special prizes tG-uished on
straight box lots.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-21
THE REV. DIR. WILLIAM T. MANNING.
Rector of Trinity Church.

Il would not be interested in contradicting
any persons pessimistic ideas of our prog
ress, but j gladly seize the opportunity to
declare myself an optimist and to say good
word for the army.
that l had daily meetings with the men of
the expeditionary force, gives me a right to
speak. That great, fine body of young men,
the noblest army, I believe, in morals and
ideals that was ever assembled could not
be absorbed in the body polite without
leavening the lump even if the rest of us
were so hopeessly bad as some persons say
we are. whether they actually think so or
not.
THE results of war that are frightening
these timid moralists were inevitable.
Everything is rolled like the water over a
soft surface when stone has been cast into
it; some time must elapse before the mud
will sink to the bottom again where it be-
longs IT may take two years before the
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-21
Society Needs a Calming
Influence for It's Neurasthenia

we are now in a state of nervous tepsion
Quieting influences what we should
search for, not exciting ones. The soldier
who was shell shocked used to SILVER and
shake and jibbcr He needed medicines TO
quiet his shattered nerves and at the hands
CT a good physician he got them.
Society at large Is nervous. IL reveals
neurasthenic tendencies. Physicians of the
soul should administer things that are rest
full. Books. plays whatever is meant TO
keep up and increase this nervous state
should be frowned down. The Church is
doing this kind OF work and has already
succeeded in bringing many to state OF
sanity"
In conclusion DR.. Shipman said that while
men like Frederic Harrison might be per-
fectly honest in affirming their inability TO
find anything they could commend in the
world. yet from this very inclusiveness
writer's and speakers who felt like the British
lecturer defeated their own words. 1T Il
contrary 10 sense" said he ito affirm tnat
all things and all men are bad. Common
serre tells us that the balance lies the other
way"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-21
DR.. Shipman Gives
Optimistic Views

q EE1NG that he was senior chaplain OF
the First Army, a. f. r. at the close
Of the world war Il was very much
III this character that the Rev. DR.. Herbert
Shipman, rector Of the Church OF tho
Heavenly Rest, approached the topic of mod
ern moral conditions. topic Of sempiternai
interest rendered little moro vital at this
moment by the severe eye Frederic Har.
rison, octogcnarian critic, writer and human
list, turns upon them. and the harsh juds-
ment this celebrated British lecturer has
delivered about them.
The Rev. Or. Shipman. In common with
most reading persons, had seen the interview
given to the London Times by Harrison on
his S9th birthday AS the criticism ne offered
on society. art and literature and almost
everything else that makes up our modern
life is pretty well known by this time IL
was only necessary to generalize his long
and drastic statement into two or three
counts In order 10 bring IL wildly 10 mind
These counts are that the world by the
world war suffered incalculable mischief !:
that the latter destroyed much of good and
Of promise and that the church has failed.
II II has made the effort, to rid the world
" an aftermath of evils.
This is the talk OF tired old man." said
Dr. Shpman. "the world moves in another
han the astronomical sense and it is not
to be judged by the standards of fifty years
ago.
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mud stirred up by the late contest will set
tie.
"Or changing the smile l may look upon
the peoples as having taken a medicine
WARRIOR some blood disorder and the effect
Of this medicine is to throw the signs Of
the diseases outward, where they are now
to be seen.
II do not speak of what the upheaval has
left in Europe nor do / think that what is
happening in Russia has a moral to be taken
by ourselves. The revolution in Russia and
the present Bolshevik control of that I'M
happy country-worse than the French
Revolution-are the results Of centuries of
oppression and misrule such as we cannot
even understand. 1 speak of our own land
and am glad to say that to my mind its
progress along the road of liberality in
thought and action in private and govern
mental life, goes sanely forward.
When I came back with the army from
France I said that our American soldiers
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-21
o ~<esrezr ~rpeseN~eSs 0m3,

youths, the hope of our land will not defeat
this hope.
Let me add another word of commenda-
ton of our boys, a somewhat more concrete
word 1t was my belief, fostered by talks
with numerous officers high in the medical
service, that our American troops were the
cleanest body of men ever gathered under
Gods heaven. Drunkenness among them
was comparatively unknown, and for their
freedom from other evils so common among
soldiers to be generally surveyed as a
necessity by their officers, 1 can quote from
the highest authority in the army. He said
to me:
"'The prophylactic was not the first bar
rier put up for the protection Of the Amer
lean soldiers health, il was the last. The
influence of religion, the influence of home
saved them. If a few climbed over or
sneaked under these barriers, they were
very few
"Now let us talk about what the Church
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physically. mentally and morally were bet
ter men than they were when they went
into the army. / have seen nothing that
should cause me to change my opinion.
1.-THE pessimists are guilty of a snap judg
ment. They don't wait till the facts are
all in
DR.. Shipman admitted that there had been
falling of in idealism, which he said was
to be expected. After great enthusiasm there
is commonly a spring back. The after effects
of great effort were generally attributed
to lasstude and this was true mentally as
we'll as physically But" he added, "if we
turn searchlight on the tendencies Of this
age we find the evil in them as well as the
good existed long before the war.
Were they more apparent than they are,
were they worse than they are contend
that as our sterling. stable, sensible million
and more of young men, as they return to
civil life and take their natural places,
couldn't fail to improve things. These fine
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-21

That twinkle brought me to my senses.
While I had listened that rocking chair In
which / was seated had moved of its own
volition nearer and nearer across the rug 20
the speaker, as if approaching the praise be-
ing bestowed upon it. The rocking chair can
travel as we'll as rock.
A young man with a manner not readily
catalogued, and a research soul. threw up
both hands when I approached him in that
department of the New York Public Library
which is devoted to literature on furniture.
its uses, origin, history and Legendary. and
asked him to direct me to a volume concern
ing the origin Of the rocking chair.
"Ah, IL could tell You that 1t Is not
known. We have searched for others. But
think the East Indians had the chair to rock.
1t is warm in India, and 1t is to keep cool.
For that they have such a chair. That is all
1 know"
There was nothing to do but to look into
large volumes illustrated with portraits of
chairs. fascinating diversion, for the
history of chairs as well as their symbolism
of authority is interesting.
Colonial cataloguers and restoration ex-
perts have deved into the history and tradi-
ton of furniture in vain for the origin of
"the chair to rock" common item in Amer
lean household furniture.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-21
Much of Church's Weakness
Due to Disunity of Christians

one reason for the Church's lack of
power is the present lamentable disunity
among Christians. The Church's witness is
discredted and her influence is weakened by
ner dissensions and divisions. With 200
rival religious denominations in our land is it
any wonder if the faith of men Is confused ;
or if they conclude that all questions OF belief
are unimportant? The Church must heal its
own divisions IL il is to speak with power
in the name of Christ.
Another reason for the Churchs weakness
is the decline Of religion, so far as any out
ward expression of it is concerned. in our
homes The custom of family prayers has
practically disappeared, and even grace be-
fore meals is becoming only curious sur
vival. The younger generation are grow
ing up without definite religious teaching;
they know little of their Bibles: the boys are
not giving themselves to the work of the
ministry. The strength of the Church is
sapped if religion runs low in the home.
Still another reason for the present low
tide of religion is that the Church has given
toe much of her time and strength to social
and civic work: TO drives for money; to
methods of organization and administration:
all OF them excellent things but apart from
Ter central and supreme mission. The
Church exists to bring men into the presence
of God. The one thing needed of the clergy
is not that they shall be great organizers. or
financiers. or political economists. or great
orators; but that they shall be men Of God
with a message Enthusiastically from Him.
We must make our churches places OF
prayer and worship. places Of quiet spiritual
ministry. centres of the power and presence
OF Jesus Christ. II Is this for which many
arc huurerins and thirsting. They will flock
20 our. churches II we will make them places
where they win feel that they are in the
presence Of the Living God.
The message OF Frederic Harrison has
much truth IN Il. The forces working
against religion to-day are powerful and
their effect is evident. But nothing can dis
courage believing Christian. Men cannot
live without God. and they will never let GO
the truth Of God revealed TO them in Jesus
Christ The message for the Church and all
who belong to Il is: Now II is high time
10 awake out OF sleep"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-21
inent Clerics Differ About the Aftermath of War

DH~ngu o. modn md the o
of Tn Chh the O
kd by d pd
coen DR. from han
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-21

MAT the rocking chair is a tested aid
in the practice OF therapeutics is as
serted, by an iustrious French sci
enlist physician He told the world recently
that the much to be envied women who
spend their vacation months at hotels hjther
and you do not waste what time they
spend rocking, talking, sitting and knitting
on wide and airy verandas. 1t is to be as
sumed that they go to summer Cor winter)
resorts. by mountain, lake or sea for the pur-
pose OF wooing tranquility and health.
But exercise-that is the key to health
Not the only key, 1t appears The porch rock
ers have chosen the better part he says.
They relax and rest and enter into harmony
via the fluctuations of the rocker.
Porch rocking being an American diver
sion and nerves" being largely an American
problem, physician having to do with
American nerves would seem to be the obvi-
Gus source of instruction on this matter
Therefore, went to see DR.. Flavius Packer
who conducts n sanatorum for people
afflicted with nervous ailments. He lives a
mile of autumn splendor beyond the subway
limits Of Van Cortlandt Park. Winding way
and gracious high road bring the traveller to
his little princpality. The last thing 1 saw
before we stopped in front of his galleried
gray stone mansion was a practice game of
football on spacious field of action. Not
much like the rest cure, IL this has anything
to do with the institution" thought.
Seven Rockers on the Porch
Indicate a Sympathetic Doctor
Or. Packer received me-this was subse-
quent 10 n telephone conversation during
which neither of us seemed 10 get anywhere
In particular. He was cordial and hospitable
aud gracious and asked me TO lunch, but he
haa a look of mental reservation and an air
OF courteous inquiry. I quoted his French
frater He looked dubious, but I followed
his glance and saw that II dweit successfully
upon four rocking chairs, cushioned and
tidied. And I had noticed that there were
chairs both sides of the double doors on the
wide porch, and four Of the seven were rock
ersl They did look inviting
The doctor smiled: would you prefer a
rocker?" Did he think might be patient.
He is used TO dealing with people who have
odd ideas. I could see that. And / could
see, too. that he did not entirely dismiss the
proffered theme as one not worthy of atten-
ton. He said he had no professional opinions
In the matter or any other matter for publi-
cation. He was assured that no one was
seeking professional opinions. His sense of
humor or human understanding was lin
trigued," to quote the ultras And I was
soon TO see that had hit upon hobby. He
was OF on a disquisition on chairs.
They were the seats of the mighty among
the ancients." he sad "and very rich and
wonderful among the early Egyptians. They
have some seats Of remote antiquity in the
museum at Cairo and some interesting chairs
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-21
By MARY D. MaeFADDEN

MAT the rocking chair is n tested al,
in the practice of therapeutics is as
serted by an illustrious French sci
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-21
The Rev. DR.. Manning
Accepts Frederic
Harrison's Criticism
That the Church Is
Not Doing a Great
Work of Uplift
By the Rev. Dr.. WILLIAM T. MANNING
Rector of Trinity Church.

NY statement by Frederic Harrison
u commands respectful consideration:
4 and although his recent utteranes
nevertheless presents facts which confront
us, and which it is we'll for us to recognize.
It is fact that "the boom in education has
not brought any nobler literature, any great
err art any purer drama any finer manners
IT is fact that marriage is being degraded
into "a temporary partnership entered into
as a frivolous mode of getting good time
and to be cast off as easily as lodging
which is not convenient" In our country
one marriage in every eight now ends in
divorce: and in some of our States the ratio
is said to be one divorce to~very two mar
rages.
1t is a fact, and one which we must
honestly confess. that the churches have not
shown themselves able ito restore religion
to it's true place as the guide of human life"
There is to-day widespread spirit of re-
volt against all existing institutions, the
Christian Church among them. This spirit
is reflected in some of the prevailing and I'M
lovely styles of women's dress, in the pres
ent lack of standards in much of our social
life, in the thoroughgoing paganism of our
art and literature which pour their special
contempt on the Christian idea Of morality,
and the sacredness and permanence Of
marriage.
These are facts which cannot be gainsaid
and il is the Church's business not to gloss
them over but to face them and strive to
remedy them. II does no good to cry Gods
in His heaven, alls right with the world:
Or Peace peace" when there is no peace.
The simple fact is that large numbers Of
people are turning away from Christ. Many
OF those who were brought up in the Church
and whose parents were earnest Christians
are among the openly Indifferent. Every
church record could furnish numbers Of such
names.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-21
Striking Object Lesson Goes With Doctors
Discourse on How to Woo Health
and Tranquility.

edge of life from living it normally, rocked
her restless infant to sleep in cradle.
Some people have scrapped the cradle-but
IL will come back. The babe of the future
will be rocked to sleep again while mother
sits in her low rocker and busies her hands
with something equivalent to the knitting
of other days. 1t may be with holding
book on science, a brush or with the oper-
alton of soundless typewriter"
Then the doctor talked as familiar of
old Atlantic seaboard homes still in ex-
istence.
THE kitchen is sunny" he said land
the Manhattan kitchenette and alcohol
stove for cooking have not invaded the pre-
cincts OF the surviving homes. I know
kitchens in which the odors sacred to the
last generation, used to preserving and fruit
drying are something more than ghostly'
They still have their big fireplaces and the
old black rocking chair with picture of
roses down It's wide back panel. And the
rocking chair is still the throne of white
aproned mother. why. when l was a boy
there was a big rocking chair in every
kitchen. And there were no bungalow
aprons, Just the wide apron tied around the
waist.
Sympathy and Comfort From
That Gracious Seat of Authority
From that gracious seat of authority
were dispensed understanding and forgive
ness and sympathy and comfort. Father
sat and smoked and oracled from his stiff
armchair near the other window, and mother
healed and soothed and blessed from her
rocker Mother understood father and in
terpreted him. And all went well. do
think the rocking chair is entitled to its
share of credit only wish that porch
rockers could under existing general con-
ditions. have the privilege this passing
type OF women had. OF swaying by kindness
and serenity superinduced by the rhythmic
motion of that blessed old chair.
IF one may use the term now, would say
that the rocking chair is 100 per cent. Amer
lean. II has moved from sunny kitchen TO
shady porch. but IL Is still with us. do not
think you will find 1t in use in other coun-
tries except as a novelty. II did not re-
member having read OF II in tales Of older
times would call II another Yankee inven-
ton. am sure in it's perfected form IL Is es-
sentially American, and II you find yourself
worried (the Doctors eyes twinkled) take a
rocking chair 10 a sunny window and think
IL over The solution is likely to come. At
any rate all have to say about the rocker
Is that I think It has made case for itself
in practically every American home
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-21
Merits of the Rocking Chair
As Described by the Bsrds

Standard and popular literature offer
much testimony in support of the rocker as
an influence for peace and domestic tran
quillity. Herewith is offered in evidence four
lines of a popular poem, dear to the days
gone by:
Mother, come back from the echoless shore
Take me again to your arms. as of yore;
over my slumbers your loving watch keep:
Rock me to sleep, mother. rock me to sleep"
Chaucer says:
THE cradel at hir beddes feet is set to
rolSken."
Dryden offers this testimony in his trans
lation of Ovid's epistles. XII.
High in his hail. rocked in chair of state,
The king with his tempestuous council sate.'
Shakespeare:
sleep rock thy brain"
Dryden:
Ills fellow, who the narrow bed had kept.
Was weary and without n rocker slept"
w. NJ. Baker. in New Timothy:
"He has extracted particularly inn
portant one, and leaning back in HIS
rocking chair. that cradle for grownup
babies-he is obeying my Lord Bacon .
and inwardly digesting the same"
In the times of Charles I. the Court Rocker
was distinguished offcial
"Rockabye Baby Upon the Tree Top" has
soothed most of us in the beginning, time
tried lullaby. and anybody who has ever had
a good chance TO Judge knows that rocking
In a chair In the old home kitchen Is the
poetry Of motion.
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and benches are to be found in the British
Museum. l haven't heard of any rockers
older than our own country's furniture his
tory. But they appear in literature, and old
letters at that"
But how about their effect on the nerves.
Doctor?"
well, I'll tell you an incident. was
visiting friend i'm New Hampshire. lit
tie girl was in disgrace and her mother
sentenced her to a certain corner of the
room to sit and be silent. She pumped down
into a little rocking chair, which was the
gift of an uncle. She rocked furiously for
a time. defiant and rebellious but obliged to
be speechless. We were amused and inter-
ested and soon noticed that the motion Of
the chair became less violent and more regu-
lar Presently she called her mother and
asked whether she might come to her. Her
mother assented and the child said she was
sorry. She had acquired understanding and
calm by rocking.
"A student OF human nature may learn a
grea. deal of a mortal under stress by seat
ing that individual in a rocker and observing
the manifestation of nervous or muscular
disturbance. Under conversation a listless
one may hold the rocker motionless. More
often the interest or grievance is piqued
the individual rocks furiously. gradually re-
ducing the motion to calm as serenity de-
velops. Now, in that case, would you call
rocking symptom or an influence?"
OF course. didn't say. I didn't want the
Doctor to derail his train of thought-on
diagnosis, II appeared.
The sailor has his hammock-on the
principle of the rocker-and the cavalryman
his saddle The seasoned mariner and the
seasoned rider find these seats restful."
My memory went back to some unsea-
soned sailors and their remarks upon the
regulation hammocks Of the navy. But
perhaps they might have become soothed in
time
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-21
Predicts Return of Serenity
Our Grsudrofhers Knew

THE straight scat Is more fashionable
than the rocker. / think" the doctor con-
tnued. THE straight front corset does
not permit the form to relax into the COM
fort Of the rocking chair. And think our
modern young women are less serene than
their grsndmothers were. Compare the
fdgety disposition OF the young woman con-
demned by fashion to seek one dimension in
her figure. with the girls of gracious curves
and tranquil dispositions who charmed our
male ancestors. The even tempered old
fashioned woman. who had a wise Snow-