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lace. and the fasteninEs were often, in
the forms of crowns, dragons. mer-
maids and other alleEorical figures.
Al the beginning Of the nineteenth
century. and evon before notices and
Inscriptions were often placed on gar
ters and great ingenuity was used in
the selection and evolution OF suit
able and appropriate words and sem
fences for this purpose. Often these
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-02-24

The second II. or rather was, the
practice In the German imperial FAM
iiy Of giving the bride IL pairs. one
pair OF which was kept ~ likely to
bring her good luck. This pair II al
ways made Of pale blue silk (the maid
ems color. and has diamond clnsps,
Another pair was sent TO the museum
OF Beriin--whers there are something
like 90 most interesting specimens--
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-02-24

Sheppard and Myers. Inc. have
bought from Harper ID. 6hsppara, q
al, properly on Market Strest north
Of Sixth for l3S.7s4.
Julius Maruusss 4 6on. lno, have
bought from 6esnk = Hoffman, prUp-
crty on Orange street. south of FIFTH
for s21, 900.
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notices wcre accompanied by en-
blematic designs. A Duchess of Or
leans. when widowed. had her gartera
Of satin adorned by strips Of black
enamel on which wcre representations
Of tears in silver. and the words, "Jc
pleure tou1ours" engraved. married
shortly afterwards and had others de-
signed. on the ribbon portion OF
which was worked the following mot
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to: "riAmour est tout"

to: "LAmour est tout"
There are several quaint customs In
connection With gartsrS. A descrip-
tion Of two. however, must suffice.
Tho one II that prevalent In several
mid European countries, OF taking on
tho brids's garter by the best man at
the breakfast. and cutting It up. and
distributing the pieces among the
groomRmen and guenta.
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material and 2,l yards OF band trim
ming
Pictorial Review Dress No. 9o03.
Sizes. - to Is inches bust Price, IS
cents
crvsby 4 IAN Company are agents
Tor Pictorial Review Patterns. Will
mington's leading store for silk. wash
FOODS and woolen dress goods. 600
ve-0a Market street.--Adv.
We are local distributors and carry
~ all timca . full and complete line
~ Pictorial Review patterns--Ken-
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-29
THE CAUSE OF WAR
By DR.. Frank Crane

Philip Kerr, former right-hand man of
Premier Lloyd George, gave his views on the
cause of the war the other day in a lecture
at Williams College.
He claimed to speak with rather thorough
knowledge of the situation because from the
end of 1916 to a year ago he was almost
as close to the center of world affairs as IL
was possible for man to be.
There was no secret of the British gov
eminent that did nc know" he said; mo
paper that 1 did not or could not read, no
conference hardly that could not attend. l
have witnessed from the inside the gigantic
efforts made to win the war and the hardly
less titantic efforts made to save the peace
What I have ito say, therefore, is based upon
some real knowledge of the way in which the
affairs of the nations are conducted"
1t is Mr.. Kerr's opinion that the interna-
tional world has no bond Of union at all and
that the highest condition which any state
has reached is Indifference to it's neighbor
states.
He believes that all the time the forces are
piling up which years hence will drag new
armadas and fresh armies across the waters
of the world in order to save by human
slaughter what can be secured by other
means.
eve shall not abolish wars by passing
pious resolutions having professions
against war or saving ourselves from the
torture of hard thinking by subscribing llber-
ally for the relief of the distressed, or even in
Washington or The Hague
Lord Balfour declared that such demon
STATIONS do not deal with the real causes Of
war. They just put up paper screen paint
ed to delude the people into thinking that
something is really being done to prevent
war while in reality behind the paper screen
the forces of mlitarism are sharpening their
knives all the time.
Coming to his conclusions M. Kerr said
that the most active and constant cause OF
war was the "dvision of humanity into sepa-
rate states, each owing loyalty only to itself,
each recognizing no law higher than it's own
will, each looking at every other problem
from it's own point Of view. This cause may
be and is aggravated by national and relig-
ious and linguistic and color difference, but
the division itself is none the less funda-
mentl cause"
This is sound sense and it brings home to
us the fact that right here in America we
are as busy preparing for the next war as
others are anywhere else in the world.
We are emphasizing isolation. We are
| boasting of having nothing to do with Eu-
| ellis. We are emphasizing passports and
| tariff barriers.
And in ali this we are patting ourselves on
| the back and strutting around calling our
selves 100 per cent Americans Add to which
| the fact that we are talking about imbuing
! the rest of the world with American ideals.
| The fact is that the biggest American ideal
| of all is the idea of federation which means
unified and cooperative world.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-29
DOROTHY DIX TALKS

It Is announced that there is a movement
on foot to introduce the teaching OF good
manners in the public schools.
Heaven grant that this is true! It would
mean the greatest move forward in civiliza-
tion that has taken place in hundred years,
for the only way to tame the barbarian is to
do it when he is young. Also l. would give
the world the greatest moral upllftt 1t has
ever known for, after all, in the last analysis
good manners are merely unselfishness and
consideration for others. They compose the
Golden Rule of treating other people as you
would like to be treated.
Every school should include the teaching
of god manners in it's curriculum because
not even a knowledge of how to read and
write is mere important than (. knowledge
of how to meet people, of what to do and say
under certain circums tances, and how to eat
properly. Indeed good manners will carry
man or woman much farther i'll life han
any amount Of book learning will, and bad
amnenrs will be greater handicap than 1g-
naonrce. Between the courteous dullard and
the boorish scholar, We will take the dUllard
every time.
The one thing that the old-fashioned
female seminaries," and academies" and
girls finishing schools had to recommend
them was that, however superficial their in
struction in the 3ienceS and mathematics
may have been, hey religiously drilled their
pupils in good manners. No girl went out
Of them with her blue ribboled diploma
without numbering around like a cow in q
Gina shop, without Anowing how to sit lown
without spraWling all over the place, or
without being as thoroughly grounded in ia
BILE etiquette as she was in her catechism.
In these important respects girls had the
advantage OF their brothers in education, for
nobody has seemed think it worth while to
include specific instruction in the nicettes
of good manners in boys school course.
The general attitude towards the subject
seems to be either that he will not need to
know which fork is which, and when to- rise
up and sit down, and whether to take hold
of lady's hand as if he were afraid c. it,
or to heft it as if it vas a barrel of sugar, or,
if he does need to know these things, that
lie will be divinely inspired with knowledge
at the moment he needs it.
All of which is a fatal mistake. A mans
manners so just as far in making or marring
is career as a(womah's do. He can no more
afford to be sword-swallower, or gargle his
soup than a woman can.
Not long ago a big business concern need
ed a new superintendent. It was a ten
thousand dollar job to start with, with in
finite possibilities for the future, and they
wrote and asked certain young man who
Lad made exceedingly good in their line to
come to see them in regard to the place. He
came. He was a handsome young chap,
clever, bright, energetic, thoroughly capable.
They were about to employ him when unch
time came, and the young man gave an IL
lustration of feeding that would have done
credit to prize pig.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-29
Mr.. Hughes Abostasy
.HILIP drunk and Philip sober presented

~ HILIP drunk and Philip sober presented
no more astounding contrast than does
Mr.. Hughes, the one-time liberal
statesman and Mr. Hughes, the present
apologist for Newberryism.
Twelve years age, as Governor of New
York, honored by a record of fruitful reform,
he declared in yet memorable speech:
political corruption is not partisan. 1t is
the common enemy. The essential operations
of government inevitably furnish opportuni-
ties of scoundrelism, and against this curse
all parties and the PEOPLE as whole should
wage an unrelenting war; How hollow,
after those sword-ringing words, comes now
the defense of what he then denounced! The
Secretary of State would do well to COM
mune a while with the Governor.
If political corrupt-OL- is no. partisan but
is the foe which all true citizens should fight,
it i'll becomes the premier of the Cabinet even
seemingly to condone it. That Senator New
berry is Republican should palliate in no
wise the offense that his office was procured
by methods destructive of good government;
and that he was a client of Mr.. Hughes in
the litigation over the contested seat should
in no wise sway Mr.. Hughes present judg-
ment. Indeed, he of all men, having served
as Mr.. Newberry's counsel and having been
feed therefor, should have kept silent on the
issue in the current political campaign, press
ing though the exigencies of his party have
grown.
1t is pertinently recalled by the New York
World that former Senator Kenyon, now a
federal judge by President Harding's appoint
ment, declared on the floor of the Senate in
discussing the evidence presented in the New
berry case: 81 assert that under the record
the following conclusions can reasonably,
safely and legitimately be drawn. That the
committee expended approximately 100000.
That the committee violated the Federal
statute and the statutes of Michigan, and that
such action entered into the election through
the primary. Tha. the committee was not a
voluntary committee. It was picked by Mr..
Newberry. That Mr.. Newberry was respon-
sible for the acts Of the committee, and that
the agency of Cody and King (Newberry cam
paign managers) is established beyond ques-
ton, and he would be responsible in civil
action for debts contracted By them in the
campaign. That Mr.. Newberry knew about
the campaign, financially and otherwise, and
knew of most of the expenditur Of the cam
paign. THAI part OF the money spent in the
campaign was actually the money Of Mr.. New
berry" Senator Kenyon, stancI Republican
as he was, would not shut his eyes to truth;
and the majority Of his party colleagues, al
though they voted that Mr.. Newberry should
demned in formal resolution the methods and
expenditures in his election. Yet, in the face
of this record and of the fact that it was upon
technical grounds and by divided judicial
decision that Mr.. Newberry was finally &C
quilted, Secretary Hughes now reappears as
his advocate not in courts of law but in the
arena of politics. "How are the mighty
fallen!'
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-29
OPEN AIR CLASSES
Bv II. Addington Bruce

NF TIMELY interest to school authori-
ties-and to parents-is report by
~ DR.. William H. Devine, director of
medical inspection, detailing recent results
obtained through open-air classes in the
Boston public schools. The growing belief
that open-air classes, properly conducted
serve many useful ends, gains strong con-
frmation from DR.. Devine's findings.
The classes in the Boston school system
twenty-four in number - are special
ly intended to meet the needs of physically
debilitated children, not i'll enough to re-
quire hospital or home treatment, but I'M
equal to the strain of ordinary schoolrOom
work Anemic children, malnourished chill
dren, pretubercular children, understood
children, and children afflicted with glandu-
lar troubles comprise their membership.
Not more than thirty children are placed
in one class. Teachers are selected on the
basis of sympathetic interest in the special
work they have to do. And care is taken to
keep the daily teaching program well with
in the fatigue limits of the weakened chill
dren.
Primarily it is sought not so much to de-
velop their minds as to improve the state of
their health. School physicians visit the
classes weekly, and school nurses daily.
Nourishing luncheons are served, at a nomt-
nal cost to those who can pay, without ex-
pense to the poorer pupils as near SIS degrees
F., as possible.
In addition, DR.. Devine reports:
"The school nurse visits the home of each
child to acquaint the parent guardian
with the aims of the class and to give in
struction relative to the home care of the
child, especially on questions of proper food,
hours of sleep, fresh air in the home, and
sufficient amount of rest"
In other words, the Boston open-air class
es are not solely teacher-dependent, but are
cooperative enterprises enlisting workers of
various kinds. without exception they have
demonstrated their great worth.
In the period covered by the report (Sep-
TENDER, 1921, to February, 1929 gains in
weight are recorded for nearly all the chill
dren, the average attendance has been from
95 to 100 per cent, and the academic work
done compares very favorably with that of
the regular grades Again quoting DR..
Devine's report:
"The outward physical condition Of these
pupils shows to the observer great improve
ments which figures can hardly demonstrate.
The general demeanor indicates contentment
and alertness''
Best of all. perhaps:
"These children learn the lessons Of right
living, the value of fresh air and sunshine,
and are agents for disseminating this knowl-
edge in their homes and to their playmtes."
OF course, such report raises anew the
question, eff open-air classes are so good for
sick children, why not give all children the
benefits they confer?''
Some day it may be found feasible to do
this Certainly it would seem to be a meas
ure school authorities everywhere should en-
deavor to adopt.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-29
Boarding the Unsbeakab1e

IMAGINE yourself waiting by the castle
gate to see@Blue Beard led forth. The
hubbub increases, the portcullis jangles
u.s. and out comes mild-mannered little man,
with wisp of goatee, clad in trinity tai
lored palm beach suit and serenely Indifferent
to SEQ . IS and jeers.
Something akin to this must be the sur
prise of the Occidental traveller upon first
meeting with that@far-famed chieftain of the
Terrible Turk, Mustapha Kemaf Pasha, OF
Angora. A tall, fair man in brown knick-
erbocker suit, with military collar" who,
when he lays aside his cap, appears dis
tinctly European, with his close-cropped fair
hafe and mustache, and his steady blue-gray
eyes set wide apart" AS an ogre Mustapha
Renal is sorey disappointing.
The pen-picture quoted is from sketch in
Asia magazine by Mr.. Laurence Shaw, an
American whose luck it was to procure per-
sonal interview with the leader of the Turk
ish Nationalist, whose government and eager
following in Asia Minor present one of the
peculiarly troublous problems cast up from
the World War. Turkey and America said
the Pasha, 'are both democracies," by which
remark, no doubt, he implied tribute to our
republic. But his own government he
fastened to add, sis at present the most
democratic in the world" (Whether he was
abiding to the freedom with which it mas
sacres defenseless Armenians to it's OPP
preston of the Greeks in Anatolia, is con-
jectural) He was emphatic, moreover, IN
protesting that of all who have suffered in
Justice the Turks are most sinned against and
most deserving Of sympathy.
The curiously interesting fact is that Musta-
pha Kemal Pasha probably believes what he
avows. Bluebeard, no doubt, considered him
self most henpecked and forbearing nus
band Certainly, the Turks do not regard
themselves as unspeakable-and in all ear
nestness sojourners in their land report many
kind, chivalric hearts amongst them. 1t
must be admitted, however, that those of them
who lately drove a company of Christian
men women and children into :. conventicle
of worship and burned them there were
rather inconsidera+e.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-29
The Value of Good Cooking

He ate with his knife. He threatened to
gouge his eye out by keeping his spoon
standing in his coffee cup. He falrly lalo
down in his plate. He made bib of his
napkin, and crowned the performance by art
lessly picking his teeth.
eve simply couldn't associate with man
with such manners" laid the big business
man, $50 some excuse was made and the
young man sent back home. He doesn't
know, and will never know, that he lost ms
big chance in life by not having been taught
god table manners"
This sort of thing happens continually
We are repulsed by people or attracted to
them we deny them their rights, or throw
favors to them, simply because they nave
bad manners or good manners. A man once
wrote and asked Henry Ward Beecher II IL
swa proper to eat peas with his Knlle
Beecher replied that very great genius
might venture to do so but it wasn't safe for
anybody who wasn't sure he was genius
to risk it if he wished to be well thought OF
by his felow-creatures.
That view of good manners still holos
true. A man who is a wizard OF adoctor,
or profoundly versed in the law, or who mas
the superlative stock of goods in town, may
flout the conventions and defy the rules OF
etiquette, and get away with it, possibly, out
unless ono is very sure that he or she IS a
world wonder it is worth while to cultivate
good manners as the pest known meLnou OIL
achieving success.
We may find that the man who keeps his
hat on while he talks to a woman, and who
lets her stand whiel he sits, has really
noble nature. We may find that the man
who eats with his knife has heart OF gold,
and the one who merely grunts when you
speak to him, is graduate OF half dozen
universities but most of us have been so dis
gusted at the surface manners Of these peo-
lpe that we never tax the trouble to get
any better acquainted With them. we urn
instinctively to the suave, agreeable 1ndlvld-
ual who does not grasp our sensibilitles NO
body makes a pet of porcupine. 1t Is the
nice, soft, silky cat that we stroke the
right way, and feed upon cream.
OF course the superstition is that the
teaching of god manners is something that
should be done in the home, and that parents
should instruct their children while they are
still in the nursery in all the arts OF gracious
conduct We ignore the fact that there are
thousands upon thousands Of children In our
public schools who come fror' homes where
the struggle to get something to eat pre-
cludes any thought o. how it should be eaten,
and where the fathers and the mothers
know nothing of the amenities of life-only
it's struggle.
If these children are to learn any good
manners they must be taught them In the
public schools, and what better can be the
public schools teach children than how to
act like ladies and gentlemen, how to be
courteous and considerable, and gentle OF
psech and manner?
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-29
Moron and Matto;d

v waving become so we'll accustomed to
q the term and meaning of moron"
that we (perhaps too smugly) are
prone to characterize a great proportion OF
our fellows as such--adults with the child
mind-we now have new word to roll upon
our tongue: mattoid.
1t is pronounced with the accent on the
first syllable: 'matt-oid." 1t means person
of abnormal mind from birth, bordering on
insanity or degeneracy.
In all probability it accounts, or will even
tually be held to account, for the so-called
incorrigibles of our juvenile courts; for chill
dren who appear, and possibly are, Inherent
ly bad; for the majority Of criminal offenders
against society
Also, and Interestingly, it may turn out to
embrace at least a division or department of
our geniuses; for the mattoid's mind is alb
normal-not stunted atrophied or inca
pable Of development beyond a certain stage
The word itself very likely.is derived from
the Italian "matto," meaning mad" and
as evidently is related to the Latin ''mattus,
matus,' meaning drunk" with the termina-
ton odd" from the Greek, meaning like"
or resembling"
Now if we find a persona non grata with
too much sense to be called moron, we can
call him mattoid-
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-29
PRESS TALK IN GEORGIA
BY JACK L. PATTERSON.
Giving the Fish a Chance

A bill has passed the House preventing
persons from catching fish during the next
five years out of Georgia stream except by
hook and line. This is good bill and should
be rigidly enforced. We trust it will be in
Whit, county.-Cleveland Courier.
Killing fish in the streams is crime. Sem
ing for them is hogging them. The hook
and line method is all right. Ruthless de-
struction of fish will not be gone into by any
real Observation-Disclosures Chronicle.
Fishing after the manner appointed by
Isaak Walton, the famous angled, is th4 most
enjoyable sport in the world. 1t gives the
fish chance and forces the fisherman to
pit his wits against those Of the finny tribe.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-29
She Didn't Read the Pabers

"A EWSPAPER reading is an inexpensive
nj diversion or occupation that is likely
to yield dividends-in hard cash, at
times.
In New York there is a woman who recent
ly lost a roll of hard-saved money in stupid
and time-worn type of swindle. The district
attorney advised that she read the papers as
the best protection against such tricks. The
woman replied that she hadn't time to read
the papers.
The assumption follows that she is occu-
pied by boarding up another little bank-roll
to invest with some other tin-horn swindler.
By the time she has saved another three hum
dred dollars there will be another true be-
lever in the doctrine that one is born every
minute to take it away from her.
Daily the newspapers publish exposes OF
the methods employed by the willy crooks
who prey upon the innocent and unwary
These latter almost invariably are persons
who don't read the papers" Hence their
wisdom, if they get it, is dearly bought-and
applies to only one fraud-scheme. The next
one will be of different kind, and they
probably will flop again.
A good newspaper costs little, contains
much information besides the news, and ap-
prises the prospective lambs of what the
wolves are doing, and trying to do.
Crooks always are bitter enemies of good
newspapers, which mot only decline to aid
in exploiting their schemes, but constantly
investigate and publish the findings to the
world.