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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28
Norway and sweden Union.

". ~ j., Newport NewS.-Thc
union between Norway and sweden
was dissolved by the expressed VIII
OF the people of Norway In 1905. On
November is Of that year, the Nor
wcgian Parliament elected Prince
Charles OF Denmark. King OF Nor
way. He assumed the title of Haakon
VII. and took the oath OF Office No
vcmber 81. Much was written on
this subject In the newspapers and
magazines of the time. The various
articles may be traced through the
medium of the Cumulative Index. to
be seen at the Public Library.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28
RICHMOND TIMES DISPATCH: THURSDAY, APRIL Is, 1921

eaten an item here and there the news
mes ABOUT. On the same day this week. the
town OF Lehofr voted S1so.op0 for better SCHOOLS
ana the little town OF Granite Falls not SO
iar away. voted $4,000. In view Of what Is
gong on In local, educational circles all over
the State, who could doubt the arrival OF the
new era in North Carolina educat ion?-Char-
lotte Observer.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28
KILLED When Jumns from a.ra.D.

Martin Pryor. aged about 65. 1907
North First Street, died yesterdoy
morning shortly after he was forceS
to jump from. Seaboard Air Line
in the vicinity of Washington Strrnf
in order to avoid being struck by
train. Coroner Whitfield expressed
himself as being satisfied that tho
train did not strike him. The leap.
feet. - - -. -.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28
Crying Needs.

l. a folding bed that will close UP on sleep
ing troubles
2 rouge that will cover the paint
3. y short skirt that will make bowleEs
look straight
of soup
s. y parking law that will provide space
for more automobile
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28
Referendum.

Subscriber, South Boston.-.The
term referendum in political economy
refers to n plan of legislation where
by Il law when passed by the body
duly elected. for the purpose of leg
islating shall. before placed on the
statute books, be sanctioned by vote
of the people.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28
boys, Club opcn..

The Boys Club of Richmond has
again opened its doors TO the boys OF
this city. after being closed for sew
eral. weeks.
The club is now located at 4os North
Twelfth Street, and all boys are well
come!
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28
Charcoal Eph's Daily Thought.

'Dcy ain no use catn sour grapes" said
Charcoal Eph in mood. II ain ncvah yft
seen no fun In losin timo worryin' bout'n
what So'all ain got, when dcys plenty { git.
Eat prunc. Mistah Jackson
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28

or course. it's West virgnias business, but
Just what n community would be doing to
give space to statue OF Devil Anse" Hat
heid ID teyond us--uness perchRncc It was to
advertise hrearms.-Ralcigh Times
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28

"pussyfoot" Johnson announces bonstfuii
in Liverpool II am Il democrat" rut he should
he warned In time that England has not yet
been made safe for his kind of democracy
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28

Local observations nj & =. VI. Yesterday.
Mihu direction. northeast: wind velocity
- hiSnesi wind yesterday. ~. weather al
j.. NJ. cloudy.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28

II MI. Volstead succeeds in making enforce
ment of his wcl-known net any tighter, he
VIII have TO impose fines and jail sentences
for merely rcminiscng over tho old damp day s.
Failing on In the marriage rate since New
York advanced the fee from 81 to So seems to
answer the ancient query. "How much money
does Il youth need before he asks her to name
q. the day.
With his own budget out of the way Mayor
Ansle now has time to feel properly sym
pathetic for MIR. Harding. who is just beginning
his budget troubles.
One consolation about THIS tobacco grow
crs' union is that 1t can't make the contents
OF nickel cigar any than they are
already.
his home bu, in this case the jury believed
OF $50
President Harding will spend the summer in
Washington. and score or more OF aspiring
resorts are cudgcling their brains for a new
form of advertising.
Professor Of English discusses the present
arid realism" Perhaps he didn't moan #
tina, way. but IL he did. well agree with him
that the present ardity is cruelty real
When Bate Ruth slams out n circuit cIout
off the redoubtabe Walt johnson. who cares
hang about the few billions deficiency in tho
latest German note?
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28

Political platforms are made to get in on
but mans ability and Willingness To carry
them out should always be taken into consd-
Grafton by the voter.-winston-S Salem JournaI
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28
Echoes From Down Home

Court at Newport News. Va. has before II
Tor decision the question Of whether flask
carried on the hip Is baggage. II not its
contents q trihe later becomes impedimenta
in tho vocal regions of the common carrier
RIA leigh News and Observer
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28
Up With the Times
ny II. o. Is.

Many Rotarians are called. but only one Call
was chosen.
Various liquids arc being steriized by ultra
violet rays. lut 1t Will require more than the
modest violet to have any effect on the home
Erewed kind,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28

Weather officials explain that the unusually
warm weather in March due in part TO
succession OF bright, clear days We can't
quite decide whether the Weather Department
is writing President Ilarding's messages or
whether the latter is putting out the weather
forecasts and aks.--Wiimington Star
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28

Richmond pleads that it cannot mark its
streets because of the cost, but here is poverty
stricken italy which changes the names OF its
administration
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28
L0cmI Tcmnrrnturc Yc.lcrhnr.

,, Local Temperatures Yesterday.
MhSi'num temperature To J.. M..... 3
!nhlihum temperature to l.. M.... 6
;n"ah temperature yesterday ........ G
;Ssormai temperature for this Latc. q
ISSccAs yesterday .....
Ehc"ss since March .............. 50
EXCESS since January .......... 60
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28

Those farmer oliticans who hung around
the plum tree in Washington while the applo
trees back the farm were nippcd nv an
other sort of frost. are in for a lean year
hshevillc Citizen.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28
,Otiil IlIilnfnll.

itninfnll IL hours ending s IT, M
rainfall 70 hours ending y i. NJ.
Dcciehcy since March l,....
EXCESS since january .......
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28

The business OF voting bonds for school i'm
provement has struck such rapid pace in
North Carolina towns that II Is ,diflcult to
keep up with II. The best we can do is "a
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28

IL is by-product. OF course. but IL North
Carolina goes about taking advantage of il in
the right way the advertising she can get out
of the s5o.ooo.ooo bond issue for good roads
will alone be worth heavy percentage of
the money.-Greensboro News.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28

Speaking of the good old times. how long
has II been since YOU saw a shirt that was
open in the back and had n little flap In front
with button hole that never connected WITH
q button ?-Honey Grove Signal.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28

'uttipg Ont tic Dead Timber
J f is some indication that the Hard
admintstration is in real earnest
stitqting reforms in the public serv-
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28
The Weather
Furnished Ry u. 8. Weather Dur.ou.,
Forernst, yirxInka

Forecast: yirg MIA
|and North Cnroiin,.-
Fair In west and cloudy
In cast portion Thurs
iny; Frliny fn,r. not
much change In temper
uture.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28

& rInLd:aED every dny in the year a. 10 1 south
psoatca publishing Co.. Inc.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28

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all departments.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28

ADDRESS ALL COMMUS-
ICATlOSS To Tie Times
Dispatch and not 10 IN
diSiuuRlS.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-28

President Harding will spend the summer in
Washington. and score or more OF aspiring
resorts are cudgcling their brains for new
form of advertising.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Spirit Voices
Messages From the Dead
Conveyed by Book Tests

! THE EARTHEN VESSEL. BY Pamela
| Glenoonner. Published by John Lane
/ Company.
T HE latest method of spirit com
munication is outlined by Lady
Glenconner in The Earthen Yes
sci, which contains a series of mes
sages from her son, BIN, and her
nephew, George, who were killed in
the war. The communications were by
way Of book tests; that is, the spirit
| specified the number of page in a
certain book, unnamed but indicated
by its position on a certain shelf in
a house which the medium had never
visited. The idea is that sentence
OF paragraph will be found on that
page which will convey a message.
Usually the sentence has some par
ticular meaning for the person who
gets the message or has some connec-
tion with the eommunicator's past life
tc identify it with him.
| One of the most remarkable tests
given is one made with The London
Times. 1T was a test planned, Lady
/ Glenconner says, to obviate still
further the possibility of telepathy or
subconscious memory. One evening,
late enough for The Times to have
been set up but not to be out on the
street, Lady Glenconner had sitting
with the medium in which BIN said
| that a friends name would be found
! half way down the second column. two
| family names in the first column, the
name of a place he used to like on
earth in the second column and a mes
sage from him in the third column,
message which he would have liked
his mother to have received the day
ne died. The next morning the family
! copy of The Times proved to contain
all the words BIN had said would be
there and each was in its specified
tplace in the column. The message was
part of q sentence Gas he had said it
would be) "My love always"
In an introduction, Sir Oliver Lodge
says that it is premature to form any
theory about book tests, but that they
evidently represent an effort at proof
of the existence of unexpected powers
in human beings. Further expert
ments, he believes, will reveal how
these powers are exerted His own
view of the matter is that 1--WE shall
have to admit access to set of
mental phenomena hitherto ignored by
science" In the mean time he has no
doubt of the source of the communi-
cations.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
A Fantastic Tale

SESTRINA BY A safroni- Midd,oto,
Published by the George II. Doran Com
pany.
THIS is a weird fantastic tale in q
setting of tropical scenery-Hav-
tlan orgies and South Sea paganism
and ocean storms, centering around
Sestrina, the beautiful daughter of the
President of Hayti, who is loved by a
Joung Englishman named Royal Clensv
he has been living a somewhat yaga-
Lond life between remittances from
home, and, tempted by the reward of.
Tered, joins in raid on voodoo orgy
where the President is one of the wor-
shippers. revolution breaks out. and
Sestrina fees. Clensy cannot go with
her, but promises to wait for her in
Honolulu, where he is left waiting.
Sestrina reaches the west coast of
Mexico, and is induced to sail for
Hawaii on a small schooner carving
lepers to Molokai. 1t is wrecked, and
the crew drowned, but Sestrina and
the lepers keep it afoat, landing on an
uninhabited island. Here the lepers
gradually die off, except their leader,
Hawahee, a religious, we'll educated
man, whose leprosy has only just be-
gun and seems durable. Meanwhile he
restrains his passion for Sestrina un-
II, apparently cured, he constructs
raft to escape but it is use
less, the disease breaks out once more
md he browns himself, while Sestrina
embarks on the raft to drift out and
perish at sea. The vision of her death
comes to Clensy,. living the life of a
respectable Englishman.
The story is vividly written, some
What ghastly at times, but with many
beautiful and poetic passages, especial
y when Mr.. Safroni- Middleton de-
scribes the southern Pacific scenery
with which he is familiar. The de-
scription of the voodoo orgies in Hayti
is remarkably like what we have read
IN recent Investigations, and should Je
read only in the daytime
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
ROOTH HARRINGTON,
a0ho has aUrittem another
brilliant story of Middle
Western life IN Alice Adams
doubleday Page)
Mind and Soul
Novel Philosophy in the
Trinity of Life
THE TRINITY OF LIFE. BY Jean Barry

THE TRINITY OF LIFE. BY Jean Barry
and j. Mackenzie. published by the
Kniekerbocker Press.
IgSHE main criticism of this book Is
that it Is too short. Yet within
L. the limits of it's ten brief chap
ters the authors have managed to crowd
a philosophy that challenges attention.
It's distinction lies especially in their
definition of the soul as body of feel
ing, responsive alike to material and
spiritual impressions.
1t is, as the authors admit, a novel
to the soul. Such, however, is the basis
Of their philosophy. Feeling, they
point out clearly, is not an attribute of
the brain, as psychologists have insist
ed in the past. Sensation, which is
feeling, takes place in the SOUL while
the brain is merely the instrument
through which it comes into articulate
expression. When consciousness is de-
tached, feeling is inhibited. Conscious
ness, therefore, is the link between
soul and body, the knowledge produced
by interchange of activity between the
two
What psychologists call the subcon-
seious mind the authors identify with
the soul. The phenomena attributed
TO the subconscious mind largely con-
Germ feeling, significant point which
the authors do not fail to note, for that
mind is the positive energy of the brain
in thinking is a we'll accepted fact.
Sympathy they show to be the sense
pertaining to the soul. Through the in
strumentality of this sixth sense psy-
chic powers such as clairvoyance, clair
audience and the like can be developed.
These "clair" senses are simply the
functions of the five physical senses
without the agencies of the bodily or
gans through the medium of sympathy.
And as such, the authors declare, they
are available for the use of every nor
NAL being and should be included in
ordinary daily life.
Short as it is, the book throws
great light on man in his triple aspect
of body, soul and spirit. The relations
among the three are clearly defined
and the possibilities of mans greater
development through a keener under
standing of those relations are outlined
in way to arouse interest in the sub
ject and prompt further study of it.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
In Memory of Barrett Wendell

AS tribute to the memory of Bar
rett Wendell, the distinguished New
England scholar, educator and author,
who died recently, the University of
Paris, by unanimous vote of it's faculty,
has decided to name one of it's lecture
rooms in the English language sectio
Of the university after this brilliant
man of letters, the room to be known
as "Salle Barrett Wendell" This sig
nal mark of recognition and apprecia-
tlon was prompted both by the high
regard in which Professor WendeI's
literary achievements are held by the
French and by a profound esteem for
the author personally, inspired in per-
sonal contact with him years ago, when
he delivered the earliest of his famous
lectures in the University of Paris.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

Novelist at His Best IN
Story Of Young Heroine
Author OF Alice Adams Holds Pace of Sustained
Interest in Novel of Middle West
Family Life

OF the company, a chemist, in discover
ing glue formula. This they managed
to work out satisfactorily, but the
! lead of the firm never followed up
the chance to make something of the
formula, and at length Adams under-
takes to manufacture the product on
! his own account, disregarding the fact
that the formula really belongs to his
employer. J. A. Lamb fights, him and
everything goes to pieces. During the
deoacle, and because of it, the break
comes between Alice Adams and the
young man at whom she has set her can
and to whom she has lost her heart in
the process. Then, as we have said,
| she meets the crisis, not by committing
suicide, going mad, pining away or do
Ing any of the other traditional things
set down in the formula of romantic
fiction. Instead, she goes to work.
Mr. Harrington has not quite been
able to avoid formula himself. For
instance, the son of Virgil Adams is
short IN his accounts with the house
OF j, a. Lamb 1t is true that young
men in business houses do sometimes
steal money, but the device has been
so over-used by dramatsts and novel
lists that it is hard now to make II
persuasively true. But in the parting
OF Alice Adams and Arthur Russell
Harrington has succeeded splendidly in
creating and maintsining an emotional
scene without once departing from
pitch, This is work of the finest. Again
ne has made truth sing for him in
the final touch which he gives to the
tragedy of the life of Virgil Adams.
Mr., Harrington has had the insight
to realize that the most poignant sort
OF tragedy is not in death or destruc-
tion, but in muddling through. He has
written the tragedy of a man who has
to go on with it.
"Well, I've seen it happen in other
peoples lives time and time again"
Virgil Adams says to his daughter. "and
now it's happened in ours. You think
you're going to be pushed right up
s'''Se lag "aA' you cant see any
way out, or any hope at all; you think
you're gone-and then something
you never counted on turns up; and,
while maybe you never do get back to
where you used to be, yet somehow
you kind of squirm out of being right
spang against the wall. You keep on
going-maybe you can't go much, but
you do go little. See what l mean q"
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

corresponding dominant position of
the women in the family, to be replaced
by male leadership in the more warlik
days of the Bronze Age,
Progress was slow but sure, and de-
veloped peaceful agricultural civil
ization which received new impetus
from the more primitive, active and
warlike culture of the Indo- Europeans
who seem to have appeared, probably
from Central Africa, about 1900 r. G..
Man had been sufficiently tanned in the
school of Neolithic discipline; it was
time for new training to develop free
and vigorous personality, according to
Professor Tyler. The new races and
culture were affected and absorbed hv
the old, and the combination brought
about the civilization of Greece and
Rome.
The author closes by remarking the
persistence of the old Neolithic ideas
and religion, especially in folklore.
The essentials of the old culture, in
the authors opinion, survived the
lndo-European conquest with slight
modification, and the effects of the sue
ceedlng invasions, conquests and other
features of modern history must be
equally slight. The current Of evolu-
tion depends on the common people, a
race that the present elite of wealth,
learning and culture would do we'll to
remember.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Renaissance Furniture

ITALIAN RENAISSANCE FURNITURE.
BY Wilhelm Won Bode. Translated by
Mary E. Herrick Published by William
Helburn, New York.
THIS is a desirable addition to the
meager literature dealing with the
subject. The making Of furniture
shared in the general artistic awaken
ing of the Renaissance. The chairs
and desks and tables and cabinets of
the period show distinct individuality
combined with careful craftsmanship
Herr Won Bode explains the different
styles which developed in different
parts of Italy, and the book is enriched
with a hundred and thirty-four illus.
trations, revealing some of the finest
specimens of Renaissance furniture.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22


RoFEssoR TYLER pr, presents an
- interesting and little known
subject in an absorbing way,
with the primary intention Of
introducing the layman and young stu
dent to this topic and giving them a
chance to learn more about it. This
has only recently been developed to
any extent, for, in several respects, the
New Stone Age, or Neolithic period, is
harder to interpret than the Old or
Paleolithic. Neolithic remains are
nearer the surface, and more subject
to loss and disturbance.
The book opens with a summary of
the development of man, his migra-
tions and the early European races, the
Neanderthal cave dwellers, the highly
developed Gro -Magnon, followed by a
transition period marked by the Dan
ish shell-heaps This time, about 1000
B. c. is considered the beginning of
the Neolithic period, which ends with
the beginning of the Bronze Age, about
$500 B. C.
Cave dwellers still exist in this
period, along with primitive pit dwell
ings, while a village of high type OF
rectangular houses, built of posts with
a waiting of twigs plastered with clay,
has been found in Western Germany
Fortitications occur at times, especially
near the flint mines, the great indus
trial centers of the periods Southern
Europe seems, as a rule, to have been
more advanced than the north. The
megaliths, or large stone structures
seem to have been constructed during
this period, composed of dolmens, stone
tombs of various sizes and cromlechs,
groups of standing stones such as
those at Stonehenge, which possessed
some religious significance. The grad
ual substitution of incineration for
stone tombs shows the changing idea
of life after death.
special chapter is devoted to the
Swiss lake dwellings, good-sized build
lngs, averaging in one settlement 27x22
feet, built on piles reinforced with
stones. Agriculture was the principal
industry, but highly developed examples
of weaving and basket work are found.
Wheat and barley were the earliest
grains cultivated, while cattle, sheep,
swine and dogs have been dome sticated.
This culture seems to have had an
earlier development in Western Asia.
Among industries of Neolithic Northern
Europe we find polished stone imple-
ments of different minerals, pottery,
and, especially in Scandinavia, amber
ornaments, which were exchanged for
the copper and bronze which had begun
to appear in the south
A fascinating field for speculation is
opened in the chapters on Neolithlc re-
ligion and progress. Religion, which
was we'll developed in Neolithic times,
seems to have developed from mans
attempt to explain and adapt himself to
the phenomena of nature. The con-
spicuous features were the amount of
invisible powers, or damons, and the
law of taboo, the forbidden thing, for
which the tribe as whole was respon-
sible-a feature universal during this
period. From the development of tribal
responsibility the individual conscience
gradually was evolved. The cult of
female divinities was another impor-
tant feature of Neolithic religion, with
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
By Otis Swift
LONDON Mnv

LONDON, Nay
"% HE war and the changes that it
brought are dealt with in three
u important new books published
here this week. Despite the
protests of the publishers that war
books are a drug in the market, such
books continue TO appear in England
and continue to be widely read. Eng
land felt the war too deeply and is
still too close to war days and war re-
strictions blanaly to wipe, out the past
in the sudden wild burst Of enthusiasm
and celebration tfst followed the ar
mistice both here and in America. The
after -the-war carnival has passed, Eng
land is back to the sober facts of post
war unemployment, unrest and agita-
ton, and now that the war leaders
have begun to tell their stories in print
England eagerly reads the books, see-
ing often for the first time the true
and inside story Of the great war
machine.