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Milford chronicle., 1921-05-27
WILLIAM WATSON HARRINGTON

William Watson Harrington, of Do
yer, new resident Judge for Kent
county, is 46 years of age and was
porn in Pennington, Kent county. His
father, Charles J. Harrington, now de-
ceased, was at one time Register of
wills for Kent county. His mother.
MRS. Mary e. Harrington, lives in. Do
Ver' he is a brother of Heisler Har-
rlngton, assistant superintendent of
the Carney's Point plant of the du-
Pont Company, and of William F. Har-
rlngton, who is director of the dive
stu1fs department of the same COM
pany. He has one sister, Miss Jessie
harrington, who lives with her mo-
ther IN Dover. He is a nephew of the
late Governor, William T.. Watson.
Mr.. Harrington attended the public
SCHOOLS at Pennington and graduated
from the Milford High School. He also
graduated from Delaware COLLEGE and
Ihen TOOK special law course at Har-
Vard University. After leaving Har-
Vard Mr.. Harrington went to Dover
ana studied law for a time with ed
ward Ridgely, father of Henry Ridge
ly, and was admitted to the Kent
county Bar in 1898.
Although an active Democrat all
ms life Mr.. Harrington never held
'!uce other than to fill out the unex- !
pred term of his father as Register
u wills, the latter having died while
loIdlng the Office. He has been attor-
icy for the Levy Court and also for
ne delaware Railroad in Kent coun-
=. About fifteen years ago Mr.. Har-
lngton married Miss Sarah Goodwin.
near Baltimore. They have three
nlIdren, Sarah, Mary e. and Nancy.
If; harrington is a member of Christ
: Il. Church. He is also a member of
le Masonic order and for some years
rs been a trustee of the University
Delaware.
Milford chronicle., 1921-05-27
JOSIAH O. WOLCOTT

Josiah 0. WolcOtt, who is to be the
new Chancellor, is son of the late
James l.. WOlcOtt, who successfully
was State librarian of Delaware, sec
retary of state of Delaware and chan
cellor of Delaware, and of Mrs. Mary
M. G. Wolcott, of Dover. He was born
at Dover, Del, October 81, 1877. He
was graduated from the public
schools at Dover, the Wilmington Con-
ference Academy, Dover, and Wesley
an University, at Middletown, Conn,
receiving the degree of Phi. B. in 1901.
he read law in the Offices of the late
Edward Ridgely and Henry R. John
son, at Dover, and was admitted to
the Bar in April, 1904, since which
time he practiced his profession at
Wilmington until becoming United
States Senator. He is a member Of the
New Castle County Bar Association
and American Bar Association. He
was appointed deputy attorney gener-
al of Delaware by Attorney General
G. Gray, for the four-year
term commencing January, 1908, and
IN 1912 was elected attorney general.
He was elected United States Senator
In November, 1916, for the full term
OF six years, there being split in the
Republican party at the time.
Mr. Wolcott. is regarded as one of
the foremost lawyers IN Delaware,
and is man of pleasing personality.
1t is a coincidence that he has been
appointed to the Office of Chancellor.
IN Office which his father filled with |
nigh ability. Senator Wolcott was a
member of the law firm of Marvel.
Marvel and WOlcott of Wilmington up
o the time of his election to the Sen
tie. At that time he was a resident of
Since then he has built
splendid home at the southern edge
I Dover, where he and his family
i've. In December, 1906, he married 9
liss Mary R. Fooks, daughter of Dan
el }. Fooks, Of Laurel. They have
our children.
Milford chronicle., 1921-05-27
Sen. WOLCOTT new CHANCELLOR;
JUDGE PENNEWILL REAPPOINTED
Continued from first pagel

years at the academy of Professor
William A Reynolds, Wilmington, he
entered Princeton University, gradu-
ating in 1875. He began reading law
under Nathaniel B. Smithers, and was
admitted to the bar on October %.
1878. He began practice at Dover.
On June IA, 1897, he was made an as
sociate justice of the Supreme Court,
and resident judge of Kent county.
On December 5, 1888, Mr.. Pennewill
was married at Dover to Alice, daugh-
ter of William G. and Temperance A.
Hazel, of that town. In June 1909. he
was appointed chief justice for term
of IL years to succeed Chief Justice
Charles B. Lore by Governor S. S.
Pennewill, his brother.
Chief Justice Pennewill has never
held political office, but has always
been Republican. At one time he
was chairman of the Republican
State Central Committee.
Judge Pennewill was signally hon
ored in 1907 when he was offered the
United States senatOrship by the Re
publican majority of the Legislature. |
Coming right after period when the
Legislatures had been
and hOpelessly split over
the senatorial situation for years, the
offer of the senatOrship to Judge PEN
lewill was an unprecedented compli-
nent especially since he was not a
candidate or an aspirant. He declined
o permit the use of his name, even
hough urged by influential men of
IL parties to accept.
He has issued many volumes of
reports of Delaware cases
hat bear his name. He also is an
rator whose eloquence has won him
ame in many States in which he has
elivered addresses. Possibly one of
is most noteworthy addresses was
lat at the launching of the battle
nip Delaware at Newport News.
hief Justice PennewilI is a man of II
ost pleasing personality, and is re- N
irded as one of the ablest of the n
any able iurists Delaware ever has
I'd, and his reappointment doubt
SIS will be pleasing not only to the
ar as a whole, but to residents of
e State generally.
Milford chronicle., 1921-05-27
MTLLYILLE

The Ladies Aid of the Millville M
E. Church met with Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
ry Cobb on Tuesday night of last
week.
Mrs. Addie Warren and son, How
ard, of Selbyville, were guests of Mrs.
Kate Steele on Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Jones are the
proud parents of another baby girl.
Carl Lekites has purchased the
property, where he now lives, of Ar
chic Evans and Mr.. Evans has bought
the store building of Philip Short and
expect to occupy the same in the near
future.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carey, Mrs. Darby and
two daughters and Mrs. Johnson, all
OF Milton were guests of Mrs. Char
les Williams on Friday.
Philip West and son, Earl, who
works away, spent the weekend at
their home here.
Thomas Daisey of Camden, N. J., is
visiting his nephews, Edward and
Harry Daisey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Dukes enter |
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Steele on
Sunday.
Milford chronicle., 1921-05-27
THE TRUSTEES of the Milford

THE TRUSTEES of the Nlilfor
Emergency Hospital held a meeting
last night after the Chronicle hat
gone to press, to discuss and selec
from the applicants, a Woman Man
ager of the Hospital. This has beer
a difficult selection to make, as the
future largely depends upon the abil-
ity of the woman placed in that po-
sition. The action of the board last
night will probably assure the reop-
ening of the new and remodeled hos
pital within a very short time. The
need is urgent for its opening and the
public will welcome its service.
**l**
AT PRESENT it is impossible to
carry on the public schools on the
same high grade which has been laid
down for the welfare of the children
of Milford and vicinity, who must get |
their education here. The plan to |
maintain the schools with the money
appropriated by the State must great
ly modify the system as carried out
under the old law. This has been con-
sidered by the Board of Education and
it will be necessary to drop the teach
ing of agriculture from the curricu-
lum. The department of Manual
Training" has grown rapidly into pop
ular favor with the boys especially,
and the benefit is prominent in other
departments, by increased interest I
and better attendance in the higher j
grades, where the pupils are interest i,
ed and active in the manual training c
work. 1t would be eminently unfair n
to the girls to drop domestic science a
teaching from the course-and espec- g
tally as the Smith-Hughes Act pays fl
so large a part of the cost of it's main a.
tenance. The Board of Education has r,
been figuring from many points how =
to make the funds cover the needs of 81
the schools. The deficiency will ap- IL
after all reductions and u
Adjustments are made about three 6,
provided by a special tax levied by al
he special district of Milford on the WI
axable property therein, with a small A.,
)oll tax to reach those who hold no te
axable property. This will have to in
vait until after the first of July, when ID
he new school board may call for a Of Of
pecial election of all taxables en- Re
tiled to vote, as to how much of the
efficiency shall be provided for. TN
Milford chronicle., 1921-05-27
MILFORD
Steam Bakery
Milk Bread
EvERYBODY's FOOD

BREAD is the one food we find
on every table, rich and poor
alike. The most elaborate meal
or the simplest includes bread.
What else can take the place of
milk bread in the dinner pail?
Bread always the staff of life.
There is big difference in
bread. The plain water bread.
the potato bread and best of ali
the Milk Bread, which has all
the food values known as Vita
mines. And Vitamines promote
tissue building they repair
waste. They fight off disease.
and furnish energy. Vitamines
are found in milk and when
combined with flour, lard, yeast
and sugar, you get them abun-
dantly in every loaf of PETTY'S
Homade Milk Bread.
Milford chronicle., 1921-05-27

Hear this Big Hit. The most beau
tiful song in years, Victor Record.
1S746-S5c, "I Found a Rose in the
DEVILS Garden" by Sterling Trio,
Evans G Son, jewelers..
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-28
WHY?
Copyright. 1920. by
Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.
Why Do We Use the Ter m
BLACK mail?"

II, today, anyone were TO accuse the
editor of a rural newspaper of accepting
blackmail when he exchanges years
subscription TO his paper for bushe Of
potatoes or to state that a merchant is
guilty of the same practice when he
trades his goods for farm produce, he
would probably be sued for libel But,
as q matter of fact, he would only be
using the word in its primary sense.
In the early days of English history
"blackmail ail'--derived from the word
"black" and the French maille, meaning
"rent" was applied to the rents re-
ceiyed from tenants in the form of work
or grain, in contradistinction to pay
ments made in silver or white money
(maille blanche). Later, when the feudal
barons and freebooters Of many kinds
roamed the highways almost at will,
they collected "blackmail'' in the form
Of forced levies Of goods and provisions
from the inhabitants Of the countryside
or from travellers who fell into their
clutches and the word therefore came
into such disrepute that, under the Eliza
bethan laws, the offense was made a
felony without benefit of clergy" 1t is
doubtless from this law and the practice
which necessitated it, that the modern
meaning Of the word now Synonymous
with hush-money or bribe paid for the
maintenance OF sllence-orlglnated.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-28

depends pretty much upon the favor of
men. As girl she must have beaux and
dancing partners. Asa woman she must
marry. As middle-aged woman she
must be the sort that men like to take
in to dinner and find congenial to talk to.
1t is very dull woman who does not
discover early in the day that she must
adapt herself to men, and not expect
men to adapt themselves to her, unless
she wants to be a wall flower as girl
and to become bachelor maid.
Also she discovers that if her CONVEX
sation is going to interest men it must
be exclusively about them and that she
must put he soft pedal good and hard
on her own ego. After they have handed
her few compliments about her looks
the talk fest must be concentrated on
their own hopes and aspirations, and
experiences. They haven't the faintest
interest in hers, and don't pretend to
have.
And woman s husband is equally in
curious about what is going on in that
never ceasing workshop under her mar
celled hair. It's odd, when you come to
think of IT, that q man never tries to find
out how marriage, and motherhood have
reacted on the woman at his side, or
investigates what spiritual changes are
taking place IN her as the years go by.
| have talked this subject over with
hundreds Of married women and they all
say the same thing, that their husbands
are satisfied as long as their houses are
well managed, and they are pleasant and
amiable. The husbands show no inter
est IN their wives souls.
Practical and sensible women accept
this as one of the disillusions of matri-
mony. Weak and iemperamenta
women make fools of themselves over
their clergymen or doctors, or create
scandals by running off with some rascal
who will talk to them about their emo
tions and in whom they think they have
found soulmate.
! All of which is q pity, and makes one
wonder that men do not think it worth
while TO recognize that woman cannot
live by bread alone. She must have
spiritual sustenance as well as bodily
Certainly husbands would find the
game of phsycoanalizlng their wives
a novel and thrilling one, for it would
surprise many a man to find out what
the woman who sits across the table
from him three hundred and sixty-five
days year really thinks and feels, and
in many case he would be amazed
to find out what her real opinion of
him is.
Once upon time ! interviewed a
bigamist who had had ifty-seven wives,
each of whom he had robbed of her little
fortune and deserted ] asked him what
was the secret Of his ability to win a
woman's heart. "Aw," he said, Its
no trick, just talk to them about
themselves. Every Jane falls for it.
And if you ask her advice you've got her
sewn up in a sack. She's yours whenever
you want her"
So it is. Try phsycoanalysis on the
girl YOU are courtinp And keen il In
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-28
LITTLE BENNY'S
NOTEBOOK
By Lee Pape.

Me and pop was in the setting room,
pop smoaking and thinking and me look
ing at my arifmetick homework and wish
ing that whoever invented homework
had bin ran over or something before
they invented it, and oil of sudden /
had a ideer, saying Hay pop, bet you
use to be good as enything in arifmetick
wen you went to skool, dident you, pop?
Well / believe there was one boy in
the class better than | was, but he was
Exceptional, sed pop.
Did you ever win eny prizes or eny-
thing, pop? / sed.
Not that Lean remember, | may have,
sed pop, and l sed, Well G. pop gosh, |
tell you lets wat, sipposlng YOU do this
Example that we got for homework and
see If your answer is the same as mine,
and il it is Ill know mines rite.
Lets have look at it, sed pop. And |
showed him the Example and he took out
his fountain pen and started TO do it on
peece of paper, saying, Let me see
now, let me see, this looks simple enuff,
let me see, if 4 men can do peece of
werk in 3 and half days working S
hours day, let me see, wat kind of a
foolish Example is this to give a child.
let me see, no that's not right, well if YOU
were able to do it | certeny awt to.
And he kepp on tawking and making
faces and putting down numbers for
about 10 minnitS and then he sed. o
that's simple enuff there's nuthing to that,
I've got the anser alreddy.
G that was quick pop, no wonder YOU
use to win prizes, leeve me see the anser
you got, | sed.
Watts your anser? scd pop, and sed,
Leeve me see yours and Ill tel you if
its the same.
T o no, smell a rat, sed pop, and /
sed, Sir? and pop sed, You haven't done
the Example at all, have you?
Sir? No sir, sed, and pop sed, Then
let the winds of heaven take my anser.
! And he tore up his peece of paper with
the anser on it in little bits OF peeces
and threw them up in the air and they
went all over the floor, and wen ma came
up stairs she made me pick them all up.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-28

4 voice is heard CRYING in the wilder
ness warning against the danger of
psychoanalysis for women because, IL is
alleged, the female patient.almost invar-
iably falls in love with the practitioner.
Naturally. OF Course. Inevitably.
For if there ever was anything that met
a long-felt want with women it is
psychoanalysis because il gives them an
opportunity TO talk endlessly about their
secret thoughts, and to tear their emo
tions 10 tatters to somebody who will
listen to them, because he is paid to
listen.
The one sure road to woman's heart
has always been through taking seriously.
what she thinks she thinks. That Is
why preachers have always made such
hit with the fair sex. Other men have
regarded women as ornaments, as play
things, as servants, and pitched their
conversation on these planes, but clergy
men were bound to regard them as
reasonable and responsible human be-
ings, and to talk to them accordingly,
and this serious discourse has invariably
proved a three-times-winner.
Perhaps the reason that women are so
| keen about their souls is because they
are more or less OF luxury TO them. The
so-called heather still deny women a
soul, and even among Christians women
were only accorded the possession of
souls by few votes after long and
acrimonious debate ON the subject i'll a
church COUNSEL.
Be that as it may the fact remains
/ that womans soul is the most interest
/ ing thing on earth to her. Her favorite
indoor sport Is vivisecting it, and she
will fall in love with practically any man
who will assist her in the operation.
Men think that the thing a woman
likes TO be praised for is her beauty, and
so when one wants to capture a fair
ones fancy he tells her that her eyes are
like violets drenched in dew, that her
hair is like midnight or sunshine, as the
case may be, and that her figure has the
1.-THE grace of a willow wand, all of which
is good as far as il goes because any Saga
that chants our charms is music in o ur
ears
But this kind of praise is mild 275
tipple, pleasant to the taste but with
no kick to il, for every woman knows
that every man says the same thing to
every female he wishes to please. More
over every woman is accustomed to
having her looks praised. It's old stt2,
but the flattery that has the punch to it,
that is strong drink that goes 10 her head
and sweeps her of her feet, is when a
man talks to her about her real sell,
and betrays an interest in knowing what
she really thinks and feels
There are very few men who ever have
intelligence enough to find this out, but
the few who do are lady-killers for fair.
1t doesn't make any difference how old
they are, how fat, and bald-headed, and
bay-windowed they are, or how long
haired, and shabby, and unsuccessful
they are, they have charm to conjure
with that no woman can resist.
A woman's good time In the world
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-28
A MAN TO HIS MATE
BY j. ALLEN DUNN
Copyright Robbs Merrill Co.

veins like quick fire, revivifying him
so that he ran up the ladder and came
on deck ready to take decisive hand
But he found it no easy matter to
risk shot in that swirling mass. They
all seemed to be arm weary. Blows
no longer rose and fell. Lund was
slowly dragging the dead weight of
them all toward the mast. The two
men on the deck still lay there. Rainey's
opponent was trying to get up, wiplpg
clumsily at the blood on his face,
blinded. A man broke loose from the
scrlmmage, on the opposite side from
Rainey, who barely recognized the dis
hcvclcd figure with the bloody, battered
face as Deming. The hunter had man
aged to get hold of Lund's gun. Rainey's
aim was screened by sudden lunge OF
the huddle of men. He saw Lund
heave, saw his red face bob up, mouth
open, roaring once more, saw his leg
come up in tremendous kick that
, caught Deming's outleveling arm close
TO the elbow, saw the CLEAN of the gun
as il streaked up and overheard, and
Demng staggering back, clutching at
his broken limb, cursing with the pain,
/ W bIluS up aRaiiisN tiS iuh "hu Siiou'
| to the scamen:
Get into it, you id towards! Get
into it,, and settle himH
Even in that instant the sarcasm OF
the cry of towards" struck home to
Rainey. The next second the girl had
jumped by him, CLINT of metal in
her hand as she brought it out of her
blouse. This time she saw him. Come
onr' she cried And darted between
the fighters and the storming figure
of Dcming, who tried to grasp her with
his one good arm, but failed.
Rainey sped after her just rs Lund
reached the mast. The girl had
nickled pistol in her hand and was
threatening the sullen line of irreso-
lutte seamen. Rainey with his gun
was not needed. He heard Lund shout
out in triumphant cry and saw him
battering at the heads of three who
still chung to him.
All through the fight Lund had kept
his head, struggling to the purpose he
had finally achieved, to reach the
mast-rac of Delaying pins, seize one
of the hardwood clubs and, with this
weapon, beat his assailants TO. the
deck.
He stood against the mast, his
clothes almost stripped from him, the
white of his flesh cleaning through
the tatters, streaked with blood. Save
forN his eyes, his face was no longer
human, only mass of fiayed flesh
and clotted beard. But his eyes were
alight with battle and then, as Rainey
gazed, they changed Something of
surprise, then of delight, leaped into
them, followed by a burning flare that
was matched in those of the girl who
with Rainey herding back the seamen
had turned at Lund's yell of victory.
ITO be continued)
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-28
THE SANDMAN STORY

BY Abby Phillips Walker
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-28
if l sang loud, enough, 1 could drown

if 1 sang loud, enough, could drown
all the Others"
Mr.. Owl looked very wise as he re-
Piled: 'Um, UNI; / see. Well, let me
think"
And he was thinking very hard, for
Mr.. Owl did not like the singing birds
They disturbed his daytime rest, and
if he could think OF a plan whereby
one could be made to stop singing In
the daytime, he was going to do it.
"Why don't you try singing at night
time?" he asked, after while. You
would have everything still and quiet
then, and your song would be plainly
heard all around You have no idea
how nice it is to rest all day and be
up all night.
YES, should advise one with your
| sweet voice TO sing after nightfall
when those other noisy birds are still
I Why not begin now and sing until
dawn"
Il never thought Of that" said Mr.
Nightingale.
"Of course not: that is why ! am
called a wise bird, replied Mr.. Owl
Il think of things Others do not"
! MI. -NlSiAllBiit > suIiS uOoutu tiis
woods with sweetness. He had at last
the whole place to himself, and Mrs
Owl few away thinking to himself
He will sing all night, and be so tireo
in the morning he will sleep all day
and there will be one less tomorrow
to disturb my slumbers."
But though Mr.. Owl was wise, ht
was mistaken in one thing, and that
was that Mr. Nightingale would b,
tired the next day, for he was singing
as loudly as if he had not sung a not,
the night before.
But since then Mr. Nightingale ha.
always sung at night, and he is known
as the sweet singer of the night. Buf
he sings in the daytime as well, and il
you ask Mr.. Owl he will tell you thai
he was the one who advised Mr.. Night
ingale to sing after all the other birdi
were asleep, but he did not count OF
his singing all day, too, and he won
ders, as do many, how the little Night
ingale gets any rest at all, so inces
sanity does he sing.