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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-13
Miss Esther Rowland, Grad
uate of Mt. Holyoke,
Starts Big Industry

CHICAGO. March ia curious col
lection of old valentines which the Arts
club exhibited here recently recalls the
story of woman whom the students
of Mt. Holyoke college toast every year
on February H. She was Miss Esther
Rowland, who made the first American
valentines and the first valentines IN
which printed verse was used. Her work
Is literally represented in the collection,
which is that of Mrs. Emma b. Hodge,
and which was loaned to the Arts club
for the purpose of the exhibit by the
Art Institute of Chicago.
Miss Rowland was graduated from
Mt. Holyoke in IS47, when higher educa
ton for women was an innovation. Val
entines were first made in England, and
England had a monopoly OF their manu-
facture for many years. In tact, val
entine from England, the first which she
had seen. gave Miss Rowland the idea
upon which she based her work 1t was
two years after her graduation when
she was at her home in Worcester, Mass.
The English valentine, which Is in Mrs.
Hodge 5 collection, has an elaborate Dor
der of lace paper with flowers pasted
upon it. A tiny note repOsed in a small
pocket in the center. Miss Rowland 5
father, who was a stationer, imported
a few of these valentines and his daugh-
ter thought she could improve them.
She made some from lace paper, cOlored
paper and paper flowers. and persuaded
her brother, who Travelled for her father,
to take them with him as samples. He
returned to bewilder her with orders
amounting to $4,000.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-13
TOwNsHEND.

The question arising from a recent ar
ticle as to whether the late Mrs. Kate
(Cathan) Dutton was born in Town
shend has been definitely settled by the
memory of Mrs. Julia (Rand) Ware of
Nardsboro. who reached the ripe age of
81 years Feb. u. and who well and
clearly remembers the events of early
days. Mrs. Ware was a daughter of
Lincoln Rand of this town and when a
girl lived with her parents in a house
south of Harmonyville bridge which
was afterward carried away in the big
freshet of December 1878. Mr. and Mrs.
Rand were still living there at the time
and, not realizing their danger, came
near going with the house. They were
warned and almost carried out by a
neighbor. Frank Lawrence. Ct. H. Law
renee s father Just before the building
started with the food lighted lamp
on the table was not upset but burned
steadily until, on reaching a point below
the site of Willard s mill, the whole
house collapsed Mrs Ware remembered
clearly the day of Mrs. Dutton s birth
and that she was born at the old Vince
lock place now owned by Mrs. Gather
inc Plant Mrs. Ware is a relative of
Miss Ellen Ware of Brookline.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-13
yALUABLEs IN CLOTHES.
New York Tailor Finds Many, but His
Brother Has No Such Experience.

A tailor's life is one of great tempta-
ton. according to man who runs a
clothing. pressing and repairing eStab-
lishment in New York city.
Few people realize, he declares,
how many valuables and the quantity
of CURRENCY. come into a tailors possess
sion. A man sending his suit to the
tailor lust does not seem to be able to
remove everything from the pockets. In
the past year | have found everything
from an Endorsed check for $500 to a
bottle of a once common beverage.
Among other things that have come into
this shop in the pockets OF mems clothes
in the past year are currency, ponce
passes. stocks. bonds and other valuable
securities, enough cigarette cases to
start a shop of my own, matches, cou-
pons. handkerchiefs fountain pens, pen
ellis. fraternity pins. lodge buttons, wal
let's, card cases. watches. knives. and
scores of other such articles which men
commonly carry.
/ supposed when read of this tail
or's experiences that Portland men who
earn a living by pressing clothes would
have similar stories to tell. But they
do not Either the men of this city are
more careful in their habits than the cit
liens of New York or else this New
York tailor was drawing on his imagin-
alton a bit and simply trying to furnish
with several local tailors and each one
of them told me he had never found any
of that once common beverage or any
money in the pockets of Portland mems
trousers.
Most of my customers are married
men," remarked one tailor. waxing
facetious, "and so, of course, there
never is any change in their pockets y
One tailor. however, tells of an cpl
sode that once occurred III his shop.
He was pressing pair of trousers for
we'll known Portland man and hap
pened to find a note in the hip pocket.
Having a sense of the propriety of things
he did, not read it, but stuck it in his
desk. When the customer came for the
trousers he handed the note back to
him. remarking that he had found it in
the hip pocket. The man took it,
glanced at it hurriedly and then in turn
gave it back to the tailor to read. 1t
ran as follows:
AS / know your wife is out of the
city 1 am dropping you u line to ask
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-13
First american Valentines
Made in Worcester i'm 1919

Miss Rowland enlisted the aid of her
friends to fill these orders. The follow
ing year she had doubled her working
force Soon she found herself with a
valentine factory on her hands, aud
was Importing materials from Germany.
She made further innovations, including
the use of silk She originated the
idea of enclosing Autograph ornaments
which was utilized by a firm in Ger
many. Meanwhile the American or
Worcester valentine became famous, and
in a few years Miss Rowland was send
ing out goods worth 100000.
The traditions with which Miss How
land 8 work was associated are ancient
as well as sentimental. for observance
of st. Valentine 5 day has been held 10
be a revival of the Roman Lupercalla,
and bears the name of a Christian mar
tyr of the third century. According to
one story, the martyr wrote message
February II, to his TAILOR s daughter,
and signed it our Valentine. The
day was long observed with various
customs before commercial use was
made of the sending on that day of anna
tory messages.
The verses on many of the valentines
in this collection express domestic ideals,
and the wasp WASTED maidens depicted
on them have meekly downcast eyes.
Here and there, however, there Is an
exception. In one case an outstanding
amazon calmly directs Cupid as he aims
at languid youth, who. CHANGING up
from his book, notes the proceeding
with unconcern. In another a young
woman places wreath on the head of
a kneeling swain, and in the verses be
low the sender tfemininel assures the
recipient (masculinel that her hand will
be his whenever he claims it. explaining
that on Valentine : day a maiden may
disclose affect ions concealed at all other
times
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-13
HE FEELS LIKE
DIFFERENT MAN,
STATES BAILEY
Stomach Trouble Gone and
He Eats Anything On the
Table Now, Says Portland
Citizen = Had Suffered
for Many Years.

1T didn't take Tanlac long to get in
its good work with me, for l was feeling
like a different man before | had FIN
ished the first BOTTLE said William 4.
Bailey, JIG Whitney St, Portland, Me.
For a long time l didn't know what
it was to sit down and enjoy a meal
AZ | was sure to have an attack of indi-
gestion after eating. ] got so | didn't
dare touch. pork, steak or cabbage as
they acted like poison on me.
''Tanlac. to all intents and purposes.
has given me new stomach and now
| eat anything | want and never am
bothered afterwards with indigestion.
Tanlac surprised me a good deal. too by
Kidding me of another trouble that had
been bothering me for years and that is
constipation. In fact, it just made a
different man out OF me and | feel fine
all the time
Tanlac is sold in Brattleboro by the
Brattlcboro Drug Co., Albert Schroeder.
Londonderry, Vt, NJ. G.. Williams, Put
ney, Vt. d. NJ. Hale, East Dover. Vt.
and George c. Smith, So. Londonderry.
Nt-AdvcrtisGment
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-13
MORE TENANT FARMERS.
Acreage Has Increased 20 Per Cent il
the Last IL Years.


the Last IL Years.
Tenant farming in the United States
is growing faster than census figures on
the number OF farms would indicate,
according TO a statement issued by the
department of agriculture. 1t is pointed
out that the increase in acres rented
since 1910 has been 20 per cent, compared
with an increase of 1t per cent for the
preceding decade, and that the increase
III value OF land rented has been III per
cent as against TO per cent for the 10
years, 1900 to 1910.
The tenure of American farm real
estate cannot correctly be stated merely
in terms of number of farms, said DR..
{. l.. Stewart, economist, in discussing
these figures. "Iu most sections farms
operated by tenants differ in size and
value from those operated by owners
Moreover, there are large areas of
rented land faTmed by sO-called part
owners men who own farms and rent
additional land. This land Is not ac-
counted for in figures for tenant farms.
In 1920 this part-owner tenancy in
vOlvCd S9OOOOOO acres, which added To
the 265,0U0,0OO acres reported in tenant
farms swells the total of rented land
TO 35i.O0OOO0 acres, and the valuation
from S2t,OO0,000OOO to S2S,o0e,00o,0U0 in
1920.
ION this basis renters operated 81
PEI. cent OF the farm lands OF the United
States in 1920, representing u per cent
Of improved farm acreage and II per
cent Of the total valuatiOn/of the land,
both improved and unimproyed. What
this means can best be realized when It
Is pointed out that tenant farmers rent
land equal to the combined area of Tex
as. Illinois, Iowa, Arkansas. Michigan,
Wisconsin and Florida; that the rented
improved land alone equals six times
the area af Illinois and the unimproved
land rented equals more than the entire
area of France.
"In point of acreage of all land
leased, both Delaware and Illinois have
long since passed the halfway mark
and in improved lands rented the half
way mark has now been passed by Ala
bama, Georgia. Iowa. Kansas, Missis-
sippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South
Dakota, Texas and Washington. I'm
value of farm real estate rented, Illinois
Oklahoma, Mississippi and South Da
kota show percentage above 80. The
highest percentage of tenancy shown by
any state, and the basis of improved
acreage, is 59.8 for Georgia, while the
highest on the basis of valuation is COS
for Illinois,
The vastness of the areas of farm
lands under leases and the seriousness
of the problem of farm tenancy are en-
phasized when it Is pointed out that if
borrowers through the Federal Farm
Loan system during the last five years
had been used to finance tenants in buy
ing farms tinstead of the > per cent act
uallv thus used) it would have covered
with first mortgages less than : fer cent
OF the S2S.000 100000 worth of land now
operated by tenants.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-13
Town Meeting Results
TaMnSllenl.

Moderator. F. l.. Osgood: town clerk
and treasurer, c. w Cutler selectmen,
+. W, Watson. d. II. Sprague. j. II.
Ware: listers. Il. L. Knapp. a. f. Had
lock. r. W. Blood auditors. F. G. Cut
Ter. X. w. Blood, Mrs. Norma |. How
ard; collector of taxes, treasurer; first
constable, Z. Il. Batchelder; second con-
stable. G. III. Grout: road commissions
ers, III. J. Benson, A. L.. Howe; overseer
of poor. ]. I'll. Ware; school director. G.
w. Dunbar; grand jurors, r. w. Sny-
der. II. c. StrattOn town agent, j. II.
Ware; town tax voted, 81; highway tax
voted, 80 cents. including 20 cents by
law; school tax voted. So; other bust
ness. unanimous vote in favor of legis-
latiye economy.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-13
PEANUTS VALUABLE FOOD.
Rich i'm Amino Acids Which Have Spe-
ciaI E,mctions in Nmtrition

Peanuts arc high in food value, says
the United States department of agri-
culture, but there is 10 foundation for
the recently circulated report that pea
nuts promote the growth of hair. In
yostigations carried on in the bureau of
chemistry with regard to the chemical
and nutritive properties of the protcins
of the peanut have demonstrated that,
aside from the oil, which is easily digcs-
ted aud which furnishes large amount
of fuel or energy, the shellcd peanut con
tains about 20 per cent of protein of a
high nutritional quality.
When we eat proteins we consume in
reality IS or 20 substances. known ~
amino acids. each one Of which may
have quite special functions in nutrition.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-13

you if you can't call on me this evening.
L shall be at home
When the tailor had read the note
the customers only comment was
What do you think my wife would
say if she had found this, as you did,
Portland Express
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-13

If the Ladies Aid of your church wants
suggestions for their supper menu suppose
you. write the Baker Extract Company.
and novel cook book folders.-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-13
As a Matter of Fact.

you want to have good judgment
as we'll as industry" said Uncle Eben.
DE minister dat breaches de longest
sermon works de hardest, but he don't
git de probation. "-WashinCt Star.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-13
AS in octbatl.

Life is full of ups and downs and II
takes a wise fellow to make his downs
help him toward his goal-Goston
Transcript.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-13
To Increase Pereentaae.

when it works it works hard.-Boston
Transcript.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-13

EDWARD r. LYNCH, NJ. d. Surgery a spe-
Glalty. Office, Park Building. Phone, $40.
Hours: ] to. 4 2. m, to 9 p. M. Residence,
Putney Road. Phone, III. Sundays by ap-
pointment only.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-13

DIR. GRACE W. BURNETT, Physician and
Surgeon. Market Block, Elliot St. Office
hours; $50 to $50 a. M. $50 to go, and TO
p m. Telephone Jaw.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-13

Ok. n T UkEENE, Physician and surgeon.
Once, Bank block. Hours: 80 to ;, and to
s r. IN: Residence, SO Green St. Telephone
Mornings and Sundays by ap.
no-ntment onlv.- - \
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-13

surgery a speciality. Oihce and residence,
Brooks House. l38 Main St. Hours: After
moons, 80 to ). evenings. J to 8, except Tues
days and Fridays. Sundays by appointment
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-13
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

THOMAS RICE, NJ. D. American Building
Office hours: Is and IS p. m.
DR.. E. I. TRACY, Physician and Surgeon, PA
Main St. Office hours: s to 9 a. m, ! to 3 D. m.
to $50 p. Tel. ESQ.
The New York herald., 1922-09-17
Concerning Lloyd Georges Memoirs.

0NE comes to the conclusion that Sir
~ William Berry has made a shrewd
as well as an enterprising deal in giving
100000 for the world publication of Mr.
Lloyd Georges "Apologia pro Vita Mea,"
though perhaps he is too original a man
TO repeat Cardinal Newman's title. If the
exKaiser's war memories were worth
$4,000 to the Harpers, and that is what
they are paying for them, Mr.. Lloyd
Georges are worth twice as much. He
has a better story to tell. more human
story, story which has touches of nature,
drama and history. far transcending any
whispers that can rise from the ruins of
a throne. 1t will go round the world and
back again, like the roll of the British
drum, if only it be written with the simple
abandon of one of the Premier's Welsh
speeches, a human document" not a
document. 1t must be personal as well as
particular, and Mr.. Lloyd George can
be most personal when he is talking, not
when he is writing, one sees him debating
il while pacing up and down his study at
Downing Street, smoking a cigar-From
the London Graphic
The New York herald., 1922-09-17
Thomson's Pitiable Later Life.

A S the years passed, James Thomson's
a melancholy grew deeper and deeper.
Detected, poverty stricken, unrecognized,
he still tramped the streets. and still from
his bed in his lodging house stared blankly
into an ultimate void. In the beginning
of the year 1882 something seems to have
given way in him at last and, fully cog
infant of what he was doing, he deliber-
ately set about to drink himself to death.
He was thrown out into the streets by his
landlord. Again and again with a strange
dogged determination he tried to force his
way into the miserable abode which, after
all, was the only home he knew. 'T must
have a roof over my head" Four months
passed by and he was still alive. It is
known that he spent some part of the time
in jail for the rest, he drifted about in
the puTlieus of Wapping-Old-Stai and
The Isle of Dogs. Most of his friends lost
sight of him. A few of them saw him at
rare intervals. and always from his finely
nodded head furrowed now with deep lines
his blue eyes looked out with abject def
ance. On one occasion he was seen in
tevern, dressed in mud-stained ragged
clothes He was wearing pair of carpet
slippers through the broken soles of which
his naked feet were clearly visible
From "A Tragedy Of Genius" By LlelUelyn
Poacys in the Freeman
The New York herald., 1922-09-17
Authors Earnings Again.

A WAY back in March. 1856, the Long
mans sent Thomas Darlington Mac
aulay a check for 10000 on account of
the profits of the third and fourth volumes
of his famous History of England" That
was record check in the English pub
fishing world, and a larger one could
scarcely have been drawn elsewhere, until
We came to John Morley's biography of
Gladstone. Some of us know that the
amount paid by the Macmillans to the pro-
prietors of the book. the Gladstone family,
was larger by several thousand pounds
than the Macaulay check. We also know
that John Morley's honorarium for writing
the life was 10000, supplemented by
$4,000 when it won such a successs for
within year or two the people of Eng
land, America and other lands had spent
f1o5,2O0 in buying copies. and it has sold
steadily ever since.-From the London
Graphic.
The New York herald., 1922-09-17

nothing in his style to tickle those absurd
people who read books for their style. You
can read Mr.. Conrad and feel that you are
doing something remarkable, that you are
enjoying what the mob would not under
stand; but anyone can understand Hudson.
There is nothing strange in his choice of
words or in the turn of his sentences
Many of them, taken by themselves, have
no character; they might even seem loose
and vague and commonplace. He had no
literary sense of the associations of words.
and could say that his forest heroine in
Green Mansions had a piquant express
sion. Perhaps because of youth spent
in South America and without literary
intercourse. he wrote always like a provin-
cial without regard for, the fashions of his
own time. You might think, indeed, from
his style, though not from his matter. that
he was one of those Victorians who had
the power of writing badly so well.-From
the London Times
The New York herald., 1922-09-17
The Author of
"The City of Dreadful Night"

JAMES THOMSON was born in 1894, of
= Scots parentage. His father was a
sea captain and a man apparently as
capable of holding his own against the
storms of the Atlantic as was his son
against those other more terrible gales
that beat in upon him from eternity
James Thomson was trained to be an army
schoolmaster. At the age of eighteen,
while quartered at Ballincollig, in Cork
he fell in love with young girl named
Matilda Wella- After he had known her
for two years she died; calamity of which
the full and bitter consciousness remained
with Thomson for a quarter of a century.
There is scarcely one of his poems that
has not some allusion to this child, and in
the end, when the awful history of his
days was at last concluded, lock OF hair
was buried with him-Fron, a Tragedy
of Genius" By Lle,oellyn Potcys in the
Freeman.
The New York herald., 1922-09-17
. The BEST" English Travel Books.

4 The Best English lravel Books. :
DUT, to follow another thought, one has
II on ones desk a letter with the re-
quest, "Wil you recommend me the twelve
best travel books in English literature?'
Might the London book trade not have a
bureau of information for the public good7
Pending its establishment here is ones
own choice, made at hazard, because from
memory. of the dozen most likely travel
books:
"Hakluyt's Voyages"
Captain Cooks Voyages"
'Eothen." by A. W. Kinglake.
THE Bible in Spain.' by George Borrow.
"A Naturalist's Voyage" by Charles
Darwin.
1.-TWO Years Before the Mast" by Rich
ard Fl. Dana
"The oregon Trail" by Francis Park
man.
"The Innocents Abroad by Mark
Twain
How I Found Livingstone" by n NJ.
Stanley.
"Oceana." by ]. A. Froude.
''The Purple Land by w. II. Hudson.
Travels with Donkey" by r. L. Ste
venson.-From the London Graphic
The New York herald., 1922-09-17

and other records which they wished to
make permanent. When a record on hard
ened clay was required to be conveyed
from one place to another the Assyrians
put a cover on ik They took moist clay
and rolled it to the required size and thin
ness usually about 3-16 inch thick and
wrapped it around the baked clay record,
incising label and address on the thin
cover, which, as it dried. effectively
bound" the record. Great numbers of
documents thus protected have been un-
earthed. These are the oldest bindings in
existence. and many of them have pre-
served their contents in perfect condition
from four TO five thousand years.-From
"A Short History Of Bookbinding" in the
Publishers Weekly
The New York herald., 1922-09-17
Justin HuntIy Mccarthy.

THE son of Justin Mccarthy, the famous
L historian. politician and author Of
Dear Lady Disdain," acquired a great deal
more than the learning and experience
necessary to become a successful Htteru-
tetr. He was a full grown poet, bound
like Swinburne, in 1888 He was an NJ P.
in the time Of the "UncroW King Of
the Irish. He learned Persian; he did
homage to Sardou in French prose He
was at an early age, and perhaps not alto
gether comfortably. store house Of our
literary inheritance, and in "A London
The New York herald., 1922-09-17
Chronicle and
Comment

Continued from Preceding Pace.
The newspapers told the startling story of
an insane French physician who was in
the habit of injecting with the baciIli of
disease the food or wine of his dinner
guests; and a year after the appearance
Of Paul Datoff." the Constantinople dis
appearance was played out detail by detail
in real life
THE late F. Hopkinson Smiths TON
u Grogan" told the story Of the
struggle between a woman who wished to
carry on the business of her husband. to
win bread for her children, and the labor
unions. When, in the late 'e0s, the book
was published the English critics fen
upon II savagely. contending not onlyo
that its plot was impossible under existing
conditions but the Vaccinations of the
labor men were totally Incompatible with
human nature. Yet two years later came
the case of Polly McGrail. which attracted
considerable attention at the time, and in
which, with fidelity that was little short
Of amazing, real life unfolded, incident by
Incident, the story which Mr.. Smith had
told in Tom Grogan." The last touch
was when Polly McGrail. after receiving
a visit from a walking delegate, and dis
missing him summarily. was the following
night waylaid and knocked on the head.