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The Washington herald., 1921-02-06
MRS. LONGwORTH WEARS
RED AND GOLD town.

y UTE the center of general
interest -a as always was
Mrs. Nicholas LOngwOrth
who looked better than I ever saw
her. in a striking gown Of tomato
red and gold brOcade. The material
was very handsome. The bodice
was sleeveless and made over a
square cut vest Of cloth of gold
veiIed under one thickness Of red
tulle. The vest also showed under
the arms where the bodice was cut
away to the waist line. In back the
bodice was V-shaped and was open
to the belt. The gold vest was edg-
ed with one thickness Of white net
which seePed to form the lining to
the bodice.
The skirt was short and tight in
back and almost seemed to be
wrapped about her. Certainly it was
held with an elastic. The skirt dis
appeared in front under a broad
panel of the material which reached
from hip to hip ending in a group
OF full gathers. The ends Of this
panel, flying loose, showed a lining
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half a dozen breakfast parties and
the usual number of small, smart
and interesting dinner companies
with a dozen informal at homes.
Gen. Pershing's second at home, for
which no cards are issued-he is at
home again today-brought to his
suburban home in Chevy Chase some
200 visitors with ambassadors and
Cabinet officers prominent in the
company. The host was assisted
in receiving by Mrs. Baker, wife of
the Secretary of War; Mrs. Francis
f. Warren. wife of Gen. Pershing's
father-in-law, the Senator from
Wyoming. The Peruvian Ambassa-
dor and Nine. Pezet entertained at
a tea the same afternoon.
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Mrs. I. T. Mann is going to be at
home today and again next Sunday
for the last time until next season.
She is going to France soon; sails
on February 16 to join her daughter
Alice-generally called Peggy-and
Miss Bessie Hickey, and after
Alice's school there closes they are
going off gallavanting some place,
most likely Egypt-and a score
more places, 1 suppose. have
heard that Mr.. Mann is being seri-
ously considered for an ambassa-
dorial post under the new admins
tration. 1 hope so, for he would be
just splendid at it; is a very fine
man and fine looking; and, Mrs.
Mann would fill the position as the
wife of an ambassador with great
success, / am sure. I do hope he
gets the position. I'm pretty sure
he will if he really wants it, but I'm
not sure he wants it.
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The unofficial people are quite as
busy as the official ones; they are
flying from one party to another as
fast and hard as they can go. One
woman told me yesterday her cal
endar is filled with invitations every
day up until March 4. And possibly
the fun will only begin then-there
are many indications that the
spring season will be even gayer Uf
that is possible) than the winter
season is. Some have already drop
ped by the wayside, quite worn out
with so much gayety and have gone
either North for the winter sports
or South to bask in the Southern
exodus will probably increase with
the beginning of Lent, the wander
ers returning in time for inaugura-
ton. The charity ball being
planned for the Inauguration Is
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GEN. PERsIfISG
RECEIVES ar HOME.

Nevertheless sunday Is full day
now. Last Sunday, for example,
there were Hpo large receptions,
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going to be some party" il y
will excuse the slang.
KEEN INTEREST IN
CHILD WELFARE BAII.

| CHILD WELFARE BALL
Keen interest in the Child We'll
! fare ball. as it is called, to be given
by the Child Welfare Society at
| the New Willard is evinced in the
fact that so great has been the de-
mand for boxes that twenty-five
more have been added and every
member of the committee in charge
has been besieged for ball tickets,
the sale of which is in the hands OF
Mrs. Livingston Farrand, 1912
Sixteenth street northwest They
can also be bought at the hotel.
They are so apiece: SIS for two
and are limited in number and will
soon give out, 1 fear, for the de-
mand is already great.
1t has been learned that Mrs.
Thomas F. Walsh, honorary chair
man, has given $4,000 to the ball
committee to pay for special di-
| etetic nurse for five years. This
splendid gift was most needed be
cause one of the features OF the
work of the society is the study OF
nutrition and the training OF moth
ers how to properly prepare fooo
| for their little ones. The alarming
statistics that more than 100000
American children are undernour-
ished have focused attention upon
the problem of child feeding and
it is one of the essential things OF
the hour.
In the ChiIdren's House clinic is
maintained for the thorough physi-
cal examination of children and
to survey their mental attsinments
as well. Rear Admiral hcCully,
whose adoption of seven Russian
orphans has aroused such nation
wide interest, brought the seven
children for a physical survey 10
the Children's House one day last
week. The children were greatly
| interested in their surroundings
and the specialists attached to the
house made special reports OF thelr
condition for their kind benetactor'
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-HE ball will be particularly in
teresting because the ofhcials
i of both administrations Will
probably be there-the incoming
and the outgoing. President-he
will be by the time the ball comes
off-and Mrs. Harding won't attend
| but it is thought that the Vice Tres
! ident and Mrs. Coolidge will Cnd
probably all of, or most all of, the
| new Cabinet and many Of tse Gov
ernors of the various States Ger
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MISS VOTA VESNITCH,

h an lover a Nm Gh is M dh he ~
~ her here h il left for New Yk
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Brig. Gen. James Parker, L. s.
A, retired, and Mrs. Parker are at
the Hotel Richmond, corner Seven
tsenth and II streetA WasSngtoz-
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of red velvet. A sash of narrow
red velvet ribbon encircled the
waist, and tied into a small bow,
fell in long ends down the right
front side OF the skirt. In the back
just little to the right was an eight
inch panel of red velvet that looped
under the hem of the skirt. Around
her neck, Mrs. LOngworth wore a
diamond chain ending in a Maltese
cross of large emeralds and dia-
monds. She wore emerald and dia-
mond ear rings and on her right
arm was an old-fashioned black
enamel bracelet. On the left arm
she wore a watch on a black silk
ribbon.
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-uE ball will be particularly in
teresting because the ofhcials
i of both administrations Will
= thara-tha iucOmin z
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UTE the center of general
interest as always was
Mrs. Nicholas LOngwOrth
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CONTINUED on PAGE TWO.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-02
Samuel Gompers Says

am very glad to express my own
personal interest in and endorsement
of the fourteenth annual Christmas
Seal Sale to be held in December OF
this year. I sincerely hope that this
annual event will result not only in
much wider extension OF the educa-
tional message of the National Tuber-
GHOSTS Association and it's affiliated
agencies than has been possible here
tOfore, but that 1t will bring to your
organization a sufficient revenue with
which to carry on their life-saving
work during the year 1922.
I am mindful of the tremendous toll
chat tuberculosis takes among work
ing men and working women. So long
as this disease takes at least one out
Of every six deaths from the ranks OF
workers in this country, so long will
the American Federation OF Labor
stand shoulder to shoulder with the
national, state and local tuberculosis
associations of the country in their
efforts to suppress this deadly plague.
With sincere appreciation OF the
work that you are doing, l am
Very truly yours,
(Signed) SAML GOMPERS,
President. American Federation
Of Labor.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-02
HouU the Christmas Seal Originated

The Christmas Seal is now almost
as familiar as Christmas itself, and
it Is hard to imagine a time when the
seal was not in existence. But the
seal Is only celebrating its fourteenth
birthday this year. Miss Emily P.
Bissell Of Delaware was the origina-
tor Of the idea in this country and it
was due to her energy that it took
such strong hold from the first. She
obtained her idea from article by
Jacob Riis in which he described the
use OF little seal in Denmark to Sc
cure funds for hospital there.
Miss Bissell, in October, 1907, pro-
posed to the Delaware Red Cross to
put similar seal on sale, but it was
not until after she had secured a
pledge of $40 from friends to back up
the project, that the now familiar
Christmas stickers were placed on
sale.
Miss Bissell secured the support of
Philadelphia stores, the managers of
which were very skeptical at first.
But the idea caught on from the first.
Let Miss Bissell tell the story in her
own words:
"Our utmost hope had been to sell
$4,000 seals, and this was all we had
ordered. In consequence of having
placed such "a small order, we were
not able to get successive printings
quickly enough to fill the demand: but
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-02
Be a "Fresh-Air Crank"

To avoid tuberculosis keep strong
and healthy. Be fresh air crank
Insist on pure air day and night, sum
mer and winter, in your homes, work
shops, Office, school rooms, street cars
theaters, and every other enclosure in
which you must spend part Of your
time. Avoid unventilated, over-heated
crowded enclosures. These are incu
bators for tuberculosis germs. Avoid
dusty places. Dry sweeping and dry
busting are dangerous practices. Be
fore moving into a new house have il
thoroughly aired, cleaned and washed
the former occupant may have~been a
consumptive. Never put pencils, coins
or other things commonly handled by
other persons in your mouth. Sun
shine and fresh air are the greatest
enemies of tuberculosis. - Public
Health"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-02
THE WHITE DEATH

When, along with war, the world
has rid itself Of tuberculosis, we will
near the millennium. We will then
have eliminated more than half of all
the suffering that exists. 1t Is safe to
say that when we stamp out tubercu-
losis we will free mans mind of many
Of the abnormalities that make for
war, for poverty, for social and eco
nomic depression.
shall not go into figures. They are
too staggering. Let it suffice that only
a few, a very few, go through life
without SCARED lungs. Only few es-
cape at least touch Of the germ that
heralds the white death. So uni
versal is this disorder that within two
generations of nearly every family 1t
Claims one or a number. Tuberculosis
is mans bitterest opponent, his most
incorporating antagonist, his dead
lest foe.
tuberculosis is distinctly product
of civilization. 1t does not inhere in
the natural organic life. It's a coward
ly disease that attacks the oppressed,
the depressed. the weak, the unsus-
pecting. 1t follows usually in the path
of other disorders brought about by
exposure or carelessness. The carrion
waits for it's prey to die. Other carni'
verous animals, in proportion to their
strength and bravery, or as they may
be pressed by hunger, meet their prey
in struggle. Not so with tuberculosis.
It seeks it's victim after the struggle
from which the sufferer may have
survived.
Nothing yields with greater readi'
ness to any form Of opposition than
cowardice. That is enc reason why
tuberculosis can be exterminated. 1t
is the great human disorder that we
know. can be stopped Tuberculosis
fears the air, the sunlight 1t shuns
kindness, care and attention. Like the
creeping, crawling things that dwell
under stones and scrubs and revel in
dark, dank places, it scurries off and
burrows itself elsewhere when the
stone is turned and the suns bright
rays penetrate the gloom. To be cured
of tuberculosis requires less medicine
than is necessary to Danish the sim
plest stomach ache. What is required
is air, sunlight and rest. Knowing
this. what would you not do to provide
Iubb6 BIlIo thVll ulliOot
dance for those upon whose cheek is
stamped the shadow OF the white
death?
And suppose that effort consisted
mostly of buying stamp such as you
place upon letter. Suppose you we're
assured that the letters you send out
around Christmas time carrying good
will to men could also for the. price of
stamp, be the means OF carrying life
to those who are threatened by. or
afflicted with this plague how long
would 1t take you to provide yourself
with a sufficient number of such
stamps to-eoxer.iyour correspondence ?
Be <assired Of the truth of this. II
you can afford to pay only for a day
Of ,sunlight, care and rest, for tuber-
ctilous ex-service man, you are not
only q patriot and humanitarian but
you are living up to the fullest exem-
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-02
Why ] Buy Christmas > /,
Seals And Why You
Should Buy Them
BY
WILL ROSS

When see Christmas Seals on sale
in the drug stores and department
stores and sold by smiling young wo-
men in the postoffice Hobbies, or when
little school children importune me to
buy them, do not think OF these
brightly colored little seals as simply
strips OF gaudy paper. To me they
are smiling. bright, active little in
diyiduals, each one Of them filled with
one cents worth of ability to help
drive out this scourge of tuberculosis.
Perhaps tuberculosis means more to
me than 1t does to you. Perhaps 1t
does, for l have had it, and l know
what it means to be shut up for weeks
and months, into the years, fighting
this disease that only time, rest, good
food, fresh air, and persistence can
hope to beat.
And buy Christmas Seals gladly
up to the limit of my ability. Perhaps
even stretch this ability a bit. For
to me each one of these seals brings
up visions Of well equipped tubercu-
losis sanatoria where those with
tuberculosis are given a fighting
chance to get well; of visiting nurses
going into homes to relieve those al
ready afflicted and to protect the well
against the dangers Of contracting the
disease; OF open air schools where lit
tie children are building up a resist
ance against disease before disease
has had it's chance to fasten upon
them; OF day camps, of free dispen-
saries, OF books teaching the lessons
or right living, of free clinics-of
hundred and one things that are being
done to free the world from tuber-
culosis.
And IL l were you l would buy
Christmas seals, whether or not I or
any OF my family have had tubercu-
losis. For would want to do my
share in stopping the onward drive
OF tuberculosis. l would be willing to
pay every cent that l could afford, to
safeguard the future of those | love,
for | know, as you know, that no one
OF us can forsee when he or she must
face this disease which is all about us.
So you and | this Christmas should
buy Christmas Seals for every letter
and package that we send out. And
as we send them on their mission of
Christmas cheer, think of them as
having larger, finer mission-that
OF making the world a safer, cheer
fuller world to live in.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-02

altogether we had printed and sold
about 100000 In Wanamaker's alone,
where the advertising expert had as
sured me none could be sold. 10000
seals were taken up by the buyers. Of
whom many were from other points
than Delaware. We also sold many
seals in the corridor of the Philadel-
phia post-office.
with $1,000 of the money raised
by the first Red Cross seal sale the
Delaware Red Cross paid the first in
stallment on thee site of the first
tuberculosis sanatorium in Delaware,
Hope Farm.
by this time, the interest of the
whole state was aroused. and in the
next legislature the Red Cross backed
bill for State tuberculosis Com
mission, with an appropriation of
$4,000 year, and put it through both
houses unanimously, this being the
start OF the permanent tuberculosis
work in our state"
From such small beginning has
grown the tremendous volume of seals
sold each year in every state in the
Union, so that they are printed in lots
of hundreds Of millions each fall by
the National tuberculosis association.
1t is the little seal, which had such a
humble origin only fourteen years ago
that today practically finances the
whole tuberculosis campaign in Am
erica.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-02

plification of the service rendered by
the gentle Nazarene.
Look for the Christmas seals Don't
wait for any one to ask you to buy
them. The soldiers and sailors, sick
and dying, who will, among others,
benefit by the sale of these seals, did
not wait to go into action when you
were in danger. Yes, you did yours,
we all did ours, when the romance
and fever Of war stirred our blood and
melted our hearts. But there yet re-
main among us many Of those who
bear the scars Of war. And they are
not all scars. They are Open. bleed
ing wounds, gasfilled lungs that make
fertile field for tuberculosis. If
Christmas has ever meant anything to
you, let it be the means Of remember
ing these men-all men and women
fighting the white death.
Come quick and come clean for the
Christmas seals.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-02

1.-THE organized women OF the state
are back of the Christmas seal sale
to the last man-if / may be allowed
that expression" said Mrs. VIM. X.
Alvord, president of the State Fedora
ton Of Women's Clubs. I'm very
many of the cities in the state the
Woman's Club is in charge of the seal
sale each year, and wherever there Is
womans club it is invariably in
sympathy with the efforts chat are be-
ing made through the annual seal
sale to stamp out tuberculosis in Mich
igan.
1.-The women OF Michigan have al
ways taken an active part in all
health work in the state, and | am
certain that they will do all in their
power to make the seal sale of 1921
thesmost successful in the states his
tory. The State Federation is hearth
ly with the Michigan tuberculosis as
sociation in its work"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-02
Don't Worry

Do not forget the mental condition
Of the tuberculous patient Worry no
matter what the cause may be, and
inconsistencies are retarding factors.
They simply must not be. Keep away
all mental disturbances IL possible,
and it is usually possible. Too much
company, too many relatives someone
on the premises nagging, the worry
over money and many other annoy
ances can and should be obliterated.
No homesick patient ever RECEIVERS.
Sending patients away is often unjust
ifiable. Only those should be sent
away who can go and remain long
enough to be cured, IL durable, with
out any worries regarding finance. He
should not be sent away alone to a
new community where no one cares
for him except to get his money, and
where there is every inducement to
become lonesome and homesick. Peace
OF mind is as necessary as quiet
body.-"Public Health"
Christmas Seal Your Christmas
Mail
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-02
"ReJected"
BY Leo p. Cook

BY Leo p. Cook.
On an early summer day OF 1913 the
Michigan College of Mines was receiv-
ing recruits for its special training
course for soldiers. They had been
sent in by draft boards from various
parts of the upper peninsula. AS a
reporter I was on hand to size UP the
new men and to pick up such human
Interest news as might serve to dress
up the routine stuff of the day.
Out from the medical examiners
office came big young fellow. He
was better than six feet tall and he
urobably stripped at $50. He picked
his suitcase out from among a collec-
stion in the hall and started away from
the building, headed out of the camp
us, In palpable detection. He looked
like human interest stuff and, with the
genial effrontery that reporter
knows how to get away with after a
few years of practice, l accosted him.
To put 1t bluntly the youth had been
declined by his country in need be-
cause he had TB. He was tuberculous,
d consumptive.
Up to that moment | had rather en-
tertained the idea, at least for some
years, that 1t was nothing short Of
criminal for a man to permit himself
TO become a tuberculosis victim, and
especially in Houghton county. Had
we not been educating the people?
Had I not written literally hundreds
on columns OF educational matter on
the Great White Plague? We had
preached the open window. and clean
living, and outdoor air and good food,
and here was a great, husky chap,
splendid material for soldier, who
was going home, maybe to die.
He typifed to me the necessity for
eternal vigilance, for persistent, UNI
firing perseverance in the = work
against the plague. And that is why
the state and country associations
must be maintained at their fullest
capacity and their highest efficiency,
not for time but forever more.
And he lis but one Of legion, and
want to do my little share in prevent
ing such tragedies by making the or
ganized fight against tuberculosis a
vigorous one in every county in the
state Some Of us cannot engage in
that work actively, but all of us can
help 1t by pushing the Christmas seal
sale at Christmas time. The seals are
the ammunition in the battle against
this disease and we can all help to
provide more ammunition by buying
seals ourselves and encouraging 9TH
ers to buy.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-02
How One Minister Feels
About Il

am little red seal. I am stamped
on letters and packages at Christmas
time 1 carry the Christmas spirit OF
goodwill. I go as a gift to the cause
OF Mankind. Just as the Christ Child
came as gift to a world in trouble,
so go as a gift for folk who are suf-
fering And have the satisfaction OF
knowing 1 am helping people. Tuber-
GHOSTS is preventable and generally
durable. In 1910 the death rate in
Michigan was 97.6. Thus far this
year 1t is only 1913. So you see / am
helping and winning. l am only a
little red seal, but l am in big business.
like to have old folk as my partners
and am nightly tickled to have chill
dren. So buy me-everybody! Use
met Send me! And here's to the
happiest Christmas you ever have
known!
"Inasmuch'
EDWIN w. BISHOP,
Faster Plymouth Church.
Lansing. Mich.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-02

The Modern Health Crusade has
found it's way into twenty-five of the
eighty-three counties at this date, be-
fore the year is over it is hoped that
every county will be represented. In
many Of these counties the nurse or
some member of the tuberculosis or
ganization is carrying on the work
while in others the teachers are do
ing 1t themselves.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-02
Michigan's Seal Sale Committee for 1921

Like SO many other tuberculosis
workers, the members of the seal COM
mittee are doing their work without
remuneration. For months past, be-
ginning long before the seal sale OPP
ened, they have been giving time and
attention to. shaping the plans for the
big annual sale. Mr.. Wooden, the chair
man, is a business man in Battle
Creek, but in addition to his private
business he is one of the most active
tuberculosis workers in Michigan.
Mrs. Mautner,s home is in Saginaw,
and she not only takes a deep in
terest in the tuberculosis fight in that
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-02
Until Then

Science has quite definitely estab-
lished the fact that practically all
adult persons in civilized countries
are infected with tuberculosis. B.. Only
correct life habits taught from in
fancy can bring about any very ma
terial decrease in the deaths. When
everybody in all civilized countries
knows all the important facts about
tuberculosis and when everybody has
the influence Of several generations Of
correct living behind him-then, per-
haps, there will be no more need to
buy Christmas seals.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-02
WHO'S WHO IN THE MICH.
ASSOCIATION

President-Wm. DeKleine, M. d.
Flint.
First Vice Pres-J. II. Kellogg
M. D., Battle Creek.
Second Vice Pres.-C. G.. Parnall
M. D., Ann Arbor.
Treasurer-H. J. Hartz, M. D.. De
troit.
Executive Secretary-Elizabeth L
Parker, r. NJ, Lansing
Field Representative-Mrs. Heller
Moore, r. NJ, Lansing.
Publicity Director-Arnold Mulder
Holland.
]. Werle.