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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-06
Make The Dining Room Cheerful

rooms where fluffy cushions, or glow.
ing table lamps may brighten the darA
corners. The formal furniture and
the necessary placement of it, in the
center of the room, makes every din
ing room stiff and severe at the out
set, and the clever home maker does
everything in her power to counterfeit
this feeling by gay color on the walls,
and orefI choice of materials for
draperies.
In the little house illustrated, the
dining room depends entirely on its
floral wallpaper for interest and dec
Grafton. 1t is big flowing design
m soft orange, blue, and green on
a yellow ground, and though this may
sound daring the rest of the furnish
ings are so simple that the the bril-.
liant color on the walls seems al,
most necessity. Green painted furrli
ture and very soft orange in the
curtains brought the rest of the room
into harmony, and the effect of space
and the decorative value that the wall
paper gives to the four small walls
makes the foom a charming place in
which to gather at meal time.
Do not allow the dining room to be
without color. 1t needs sparkle and
cheer, and should radiate happiness
and comfort as proper setting for
dainty dinners.
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Behold the "Harpoon Hat" the

Behold the "Harpoon Hat" the
new chapeau for springl
An original, this smart little mod
el, comes not from Paris, but from
one of the youngest motion picture
stars, Dolores Costello, who de-
signed the hat she IS wearing dur
ing the filming of the Warner pics
iture, THE Sea Beast" in which sks
plays the feminine lead opposite
John Barrymore.
A chic thing of soft rose-beigs
felt, the "Harpoon Hat" gets its
name and distinction from the dar-
ling pair of miniature black harpoo1
sticks that are set on at rakisn
angie.
The harpoon idea that Miss Cos
tello introduces in her creation,
comes from "The Sea Beast" the
whaling epic in which she enacts q
major role. Miss Costello noticed,
while the whaling scenes were being
taken, that the harpooners stuck q
couple of short carved sticks, repre-
senting harpoons in miniature, in
their wooden caps.
The little harpoon sticks looked 50
launty and dashing that Miss Cos.
tello, the Warner screen star, de.
signed the "Harpoon Hat" which
quickly became a fad in Hollywood
and is gradually being adopted by
Miladr throughout the country.
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Winthrop Rebekahs
Celebrate Their 25th
Anniversary Tuesday

Arthur Lovejoy Rebekah Lodge
observed RECONSIDERATION night
celebrated its 25th anniversary and
rendered a reception to Miss Effie
French, district deputy president OF
District No. IL, at Odd Fellows hall
Tuesday evening. The hall, which
has been recently renovated, was az
tractively decorated with baskets OF
flowers. About IS Rebekahs were
present. all lodges in the district be-
ing well represented. Among the
guests were Mrs. Marie L. Lowering
of. Waterville. who instituted the
lodge % years ago. OF the Sc char
ter members only 16 remain and only
eight were present. The evenings
program was carried out as follows:
ception to Mrs. Franch, the district
deputy president. In the receiving
line with Mrs. French were her in
stalling staff. the noble and vice
grands. past deputies and DR.. Thurs
ton Gilman of Waterville, charter
member. The ushers were Miss
Marian Carver, Mrs. Thelma God
frey, Mrs. Alice SBates, and MIS-.
Mabel Norris
Following the reception Mrs.
French was presented with a beauti :
full bracelet. the presentation being
made in behalf of the lodge by Mrs.
Evelyn Godfrey. The anniversary
address was given by Rev. G. 7. Grif-
fin, pastor of the Baptist church at
East Winthrop The next number
was mandolin duet by Mrs. Thelma
Godfrey and Miss Elnor Bishop. ac-
companied by Mrs, Evelyn Godfrey
at the piano.
A reception was given to the
charter members. Each one was pre-
sented with pink and a spray Of
green. by Mrs. Lowering. In behalf
of the charter members. Mrs. Edith
Mitchell, the noble grand. presented
Mrs. Lowering with a very beautiful
basket of roses. A vocal solo, with
original words was given by Mrs,
Alice Bates, with Mrs. Leah Bell at
| the piano. A fine history of the local
lodge was given by Mrs. Carrie
French and the Recommendation
address was given by Mr. Griffin
Communications were read from the
president and vice president and the
warden of the Assembly of Maine. A
vocal solo was given by George Eel
lows, with Mrs. Fellows at the piano
and remarks were made by DR.. Gill
man.
Refreshments of ice cream and
cake were served in the banquet hall
after which social hour was en-
joyed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-06

and his many friends are glad to
greet him again.
w. d. Hutchins of Augusta, was
calling on friends in town Tuesday
lie and his wife have just returned
from Florida.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. MacDougal
left Tuesday morning for a short
business trip to Boston.
Among those who attended the
regular ID. A. r. meeting at Bath
tuesday, from here We're Jane Brown
Marguerite Purinton, Clara Fogg, AL
ma Kendall, Stella Given, and
MarJoiy Henderson. Mrs. Emma
Ferguson and Emily Rideout were
guests.
Kenneth MacDougal was an over
night guest at the home of Mr., and
Mrs. Edwin Denham, Tuesday.
George Cutler was unable to go to
his work the first of the week or
account of an attack of la grippe.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. D. Purinton and
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Henderson were
Brunswick visitors, Tuesday. They
attended the musical in the evening
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BOWDOINHAM

Clarence Blackman. of Waterville
was a week end visitor at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. +. A. Dickinson
His daughter, Helen, who has been
passing a few days here, returned
home with him Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs Herbert Given and
family of Lewiston, passed Sunday, at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
Given.
Mr.. and Mrs Elson Hartford, OF
Bath, were visitors at the home OF
Mrs. Harford's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fletcher White.
Mrs. Julia A. Senter of Manches-
ter, n. H. came Saturday to pass the
summer at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
f. p. Huntley.
Mrs. Miriam Ingalls, and Sumner
Dane were Brunswick visitors, Sat
urday.
Mrs. Will Given was a Richmond
visitor, Monday.
Fletcher Hartford returned to his
home in Bath. after passing a week
with his grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs
Fletcher White.
Morrison James, of Portland, pass
ed the weekend at the home of his
sister, Mrs Miriam ingalls,.
/. Mrs. F. NJ. White and Mrs. CilffoT
GRAY were dinner guests of Mrs.
Horace Manwaring the last of the
week.
Rev. l. T. Johnson. who has been
nassing the winter in Florida is
visiting for few days at the home
of Rev. wentworth. Rev. Johnson
is former Methodist minister here
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old lanouaoe Revived

Creditable and hopeful though II
may be for a revival of Hebrew Gull
ture, the establishment of a Hebrew
university in Jerusalem does not be-
gin to compare in Importance with
the fact that little children are
again talking, playing their games
and calling each other names in tina.
language of the prophets. which had
once been classed as one. OF the
worlds dead tongues. Zangwiu said
that the index of life is speech.
This is true. A people that speaks >
not dead. And in order that world
Jewry might share in this renais-
sance, which Sophie Irene Loeb
called 1.-THE greatest experiment OF
the century, there must be some
where in this world a place where
the Jew will have at least cultural
predominance. And that place is
Palestine.-Pierre Van Paassen. in
the Atlanta Constitution.
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First Personalities

II Thomas Cooper. half breed
Indian, in 1892. described the first
people at Martha's Vineyard, Massa-
chusetts. to Benjamin Bassett of
Chilmark. Cooper received the in
formation from his grandmother,
who, he says. was stout girl
when the English first came to the
island. This would seem to estab-
fish Thomas story as fact.
The first Indian to arrive at the
island floated in on a cake Of ice
with his dog. He found a very large
man there whose name was Moshup.
This probably is a corruption of
Glooscap. Algonquin for great
spirit" or mystery" and more
commonly called mantle. Anyway.
Moshup had a wife and five children
and they all lived in a den. He
caught whales with his hands and
pulled up trees aud roasted his
game. AS positive proof of Cooper's
sincerity is his offer to Bassett to
show him the whalebones and the
charred remains of the trees. Grow
ing tired of the island, Moshup told
his children to play ball on the
beach joining Normans Land to
Cay Head. Then he made a mark
with his toe at each end of the
beach and the water followed and
cut away the beach Four of the
children were boys. They lifted
their sister above the water so she
would not drown. Moshup told
them to act as if they were killing
whales. They instantly were turned
into "killers"-species of whale. His
wife made such a nuisance of her
self at losing the children that Mo
shup tossed her away. She fell on
the rocks near Seconet and exacted
tribute from all who passed and
finally changed into stone. The
figure remained lifelike until the
English came and broke off the
arms and head. Moshup sent whales
to the Indians to eat, but fades out
of the picture without Cooper tell
ing what he started to explain: 1. e..
where did Moshup go? The yarn is
given in full in the collections of
the Massachusetts Historical So
ciety" for the year 1892. and IL
illustrates the lack of continuity of
many Indian legends. - Faunce
Rochester in Adventure Magazine.
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Health Plan Spread
To Filipino Women

Manila, May 5.-(P)-Mrs. Sofa
Reyes de veyra, wife Of the former
resident commissioner at Washington,
takes much pride in being the pioneer
in the work of teaching Filipino wom-
en- to be of service in improving health
and sanitation conditions in the Phil
ippine Islands.
In 1907, in conjunction with an
American woman. Miss Mary E. Cole
man, Mrs. De Veyra organized the
first training school for nurses. Today
there are nearly 1000 Filipino trained
nurses in the islands who are distribu-
ted throughout virtually every pro-
vince of the archipelago. She also has
taken great interest in the organiza-
tion of some 400 women's clubs in the
Philippines, all of which seek to uplift
the native women.
While still a young teacher she was
instrumental in starting the first domi-
tory for girls at Bacolad, Occidental
Negro province.
Mrs. de Veyra was educated in a
private school in Iloilo,. which for more
than 40 years has been conducted by
the five sisters of the chief justice of
the Philippine supreme court, Ramon
Avencena. Her instruction at the
school was entirely in Spanish, but in
order to learn English she exchanged
her Spanish for English instruction
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Lightning Little
Danger In Radio

New York, May --(P)-Radio
owners who become uneasy during
thunder storms have little reason to
fear. because lightning has not ex-
hibited any special fondness for
antennae.
So advise engineers of the Under
writer's Laboratories, where daily
war is waged against hazard through
the testing of hundreds of devices
to determine whether they are safe
to use.
Lightning is liable to strike almost
anything" one of them said "but
there is no unusual attraction in
radios and their equipment. If
lightning should strike an antennae,
the lightning arrestor, with which
most antennae are equipped. might
prove safeguard and again it might
not. Lightning is hard, to check.
Our Interpretation of the provise
ion for arrestors on antennae is that
they are placed here more for the
drainage of static than for protection
from lightning"
In the testing Of radios, the labora
tory experts are concerned chiefly
with power operated or so-called
socket receiving sets. Especially rig
id are the safety requirements for
battery eliminators and chargers.
with the increasing popularity of
battery eliminators in recent months -
the engineer said, I'VE have received
and tested a large number of these
devices. Most of them we had to
return with recommendations for
changes to relieve fire and accident
hazards.
"One of the tests is to see what
happens when we deliberately short
the current within the device If it
becomes so hot that fire results,
then changes are recommended to re-
lieve this danger. All the tests. many
of which appear ridiculous. are made
with the knowledge that when anna
teurs experiment anything may hap
pen"
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Annual Meeting
Current Events Club

The annual meeting Of Hallowell
current Events club was held YES
terday afternoon at the home of Miss
Annie Chase, Middle street. Reports
Tor the club year showed the organ
lzatlon in fiourishing condition,
with splendid record of accomplish
ment. officers were reelected to
serve for another year as follows:
president, Miss Adele R. Gilpatrick;
ce-president, Mrs. Annie Wingate:
secetary, Mrs. Helen Robinson:
treasurer, Mrs. Stella Currier: execu-
tive committee. Mrs. Georgiana Lii
ly; Mrs. Edith Nutting and Mrs. Amy
Bucknam.
The chief business of importance
to come before the meeting after the
election of officers was the question
of the entertainment of the Kenne-
bee Union of Women's clubs, which
meets with the Hallowell Club in
all-day session May 90 This union
includes the various clubs of Win
throp, Augusta, Hallowell. and Gard
liner among others. 1t is expected
that there will be SO delegates at the
meeting. The sessions will be held
in the auditorium of the Old South
church and luncheon viii be served
in the vestry to the visitors by the
iOSetl tAuDs lC plOSI all WILL DS LUZ -
nished by the various clubs, each
contributing one number. Because of
the illness of the. president of the
union, Mrs. Herbert Hall, the ar
engagements for the program are in
the hands of the vice-pesident. Miss
fitzpatrick, who is also president of
the hostess club. 1t is expected that
among other guests of honor Miss
Anna c. Witherle, president of the
state federation, will attend.
After plans were made for this
meeting, the regular program of the
afternoon was taken up. 1t was do
nestle, science afternoon as well as
annual meeting, and this afternoon
is always looked forward to with
special interest. Each member had
her share in presenting the program,
each bringing some special contribu-
ton in the way of recipe, or house
hold help. These were presented in
formally and discussed in their prac-
teal application to the needs of the
members, so that the afternoon prov
ed really helpful.
The usual social hour followed,
during which Miss Chase served
sandwiches. cake and chocolate. This
was the last regular meeting for the
season. Except for the meeting of
the Kennebec Union and the annual
field day, the club year is closed and
most pleasantly after a record year.
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Protest Radio Tax

Berlin. -(P)-Protests of thousands
of Berlin radio fans have induced the
administrative council to postpone
consideration of bill taxing radio
receiving set owners rs cents a
month.
The council had hoped to add
s3,30O,000 a year to the city's income
with the radio tax as there are 1,1OO,-
600 sets in operation in Berlin. Radio
owners contended that they were
paying SO cents a month, or total
of $550,000, for the privilege of taking
programs out of the air and that
this sum was 20 times more than 1t
cost the government and city for
salaries of radio artists and broad
casting expenses.
The broadcasting stations, controll-
ed by the government, are not rented
out for advertising purposes. There
are no private stations except those
owned by amateurs and news
agencies.
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ionable residences. The glass IS
treated So it will not be too slippery,
lights are placed under the glass and
the whole floor is laid on a thick
white rubber cushion to give the de-
sired resiliency. Mrs. Arthur ]. STAN
ton of New York is oneNof the Amer
lean hostesses to install such a floor.
Anther new effect is provided by
installations outside private ballroom
windows from which lights of many
colors may be used to flood the dane
ing space. Miss Mary Borden, the nov
elist, has a steel floor In her ballroom
which reflects light with the brilliance
Of a mirror. A pneumatic dance
floor Is being laid at the Savoy Hotel
to give guests the experience of
dancing on air"
Floors laid on springs are passing
cut. What is sought now is a smooth.
firmly laid floor suitable to the slow
movements of the waltz and tango
and eliminating the "shimmy" effect
which has been in vogue.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-06
COMING EVENTS

May 7-Arbor day.
May Bird day.
May 7-Lyford prize speaking contest
at Colby College.
May 7-S-Annual preparatory school
weekend at Bowdoin College.
May 9-Mothers day.
May 10-29th annual meeting of
Christian Civic League of Maine in
First Baptist church. Waterviile, 2
May 11--Annual convention of Kenne-
bee County Sunday School Associa-
ton at Congregational church, Win
slow.
May 12-1s-Annual session Grand
Biddeford.
May 21-2S-State convention Y P. c.
T.. Bangor.
May 25-Kennebec Superior Court,
civil term, Waterville,
May 25-26-Librarians Round Table
session at Belfast.
May 2S-29-State convention of Bust
ness and Professional Women's
Clubs at Houlton
May 30-Twenty-first annual conven-
ton Maine postoffice clerks at Pitts
June l-4-Annual meeting of Maine
State Federation of Labor at Py-
THAN Temple, Portland.
June 3-4-Annual meeting of Maine
Library Assoc at auburn ,,a,,s.
convention at the Progressive Spirit
ualist Temple. Augusta.
June 9-10-11-Maine Medical Associa-
ton State Convention. Poland Spring.
June 9-11-United Baptist convention
Of Maine, Rockland.
June 14-15-New England District
Convention of Lions Club. Portland
June 12-State Encanpment of Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars, National
Soldiers Home, Togus, 10 A NJ,
June 19-RawSon-MacM expedi-
ton leaves Wiscasset for the sub
Arctic.
June 19--NIaine State Bankers Asso-
citation holds annual meeting and
outing at Poland Spring.
June 21-Maine primaries.
July 14-1S-Flerida Good viii Tour
lists visit Maine.
July \24-Aug. Annual encampment
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A LADY, Skinner

: Mrs. Blanche feathers of New
Orleans believes quite literally in
padding your own canoe. She has
been doing it for nearly twenty two
years as river captain on the Mis-
sissippi. So far as the Board of
Supervising Inspectors knows. she is
the only woman in the Southern
territory to hold captains license
orsS as she expresses it more tech
nieally, master pilots license. I'm
doubtedly she is the first and original
woman captain in the United States,
if not in the world. But Individually
she does not look it.
A strenuous out of-door career,
full of danger, responsibility and adj
venture has left few traces on Mrs.
feathers.
Mrs. feathers has been kept busy
by one of the busiest rivers in the
world. She knows the Mississippi as
you know the back of your hand,
every nook and Granny of it, every
inlet, every island. every shoal. And
this. in the valley of the Father of
Waters, is no small distinction.
From New Orleans to Vicksburg
is Mrs. feathers regular run. She
knows the @river from the stilted
houses of Pilot Town. where the
Mississippi empties into the Gulf
and where it is said that every child
is born with an oar in his mouth. to
the bluffs above Vicksburg, where
sixteen thousand Confederate and
Union dead lie asleep in the National
Cemetery.
Today Mrs. feathers is practically
retired. That is she still holds her
captain $ license and is ready to re-
sumo her old job of commanding q.
ship whenever a sufficiently good
opportunity offers. But after all.
enough is enough. and more than
twenty years on the river entities
one to end ones days on land. at
From Everybody's Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-06

Inc way I was, l will gladly recon.
mend the Vegetable Compound to
them and | will answer any letters
IN regard to the same. Mrs
BERTHA Meachan, $40 Center ST.,
lansing, Mich.
"I had been sickly every since I
vas fifteen years old. After TAX
ing Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
compound | got so l could do all
INV housework and l am in good
health.'-Mrs. Marie K. Williams.
Ketchikal. Alaska.
From Michigan to Alaska, from
Maine to Oregon and from Connectf-
cut to California letters are con-
tinually being written by grateful
women recommending Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
The Compound is made from
roots and herbs and has been in use
for over fifty years.
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HEARINGS AND MEETINGS AT
STATE HOUSE

May 7-S-Annual meeting of princi-
pals of high schools and academies
of State, hall of Representatives,
State House.
May 11-State Board of Embalming
Examiners holds exams at State
House.
May 12-Directors Of Kennebec Bridge
open bids at State Highway Depart
ment for building the sub-strueture
super-structure and approaches fo:
the Kennebec bridge at Bath.
May 13-Hearing before the Stat
Highway Commission at department
on petition for designation of a
State highway between Lewiston
and Rockland via Gardiner, 1.30
i. NJ.
May 22-Maine Home Economics As
ISOLATION holds spring meeting in
\ Senate Chamber.
June 4-5-Annual meeting of Maine
Parent-Teacher Association in Sen
ate Chamber.
June 24-26-State board of dental ex-
aminers holds exams in hall of
Representatives,.
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Relative to the reappointment of
Rev. Arthur F. Leigh, pastor OF the
Randolph NJ. E. church "by the ear
nest request of the members of this
parish member of the church
writes: This is his fourth year in
Randolph, the past three being most
successful. 1t was through his efforts
that the church has been renovated
and made one of the prettiest in
Kennebec county. Mr.. Leigh is well
known throughout the county for his
splendid character and his efforts to
improve the community in which he
lives.
He is also very prominent in a
number Of fraternal organizations,
also appointed by the Governor as
one Of the trustees of the Juvenile
Board the Industrial Institutions of
the State.
It is with great pleasure that the
members of his parish welcome him
and family again into their midst"
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with an American teacher shortly aft
er American occupation.
Six years residence in Washington
while her husband was resident COM
missioner, gave her an opportunity to
acquire much information which she
Is now employing for the benefit Of
her own people. She became the head
OF the domestic science department
OF centric Escolar de Senoritas. a
school OF girls. in which an American
cooking outfit is used in demonstra-
ton.
She Is strong believer in woman
Suffrage and hopes that the recommen-
cations of Governor General Wood to
the legislature for the passage of a
suffrage bill will be acted upon fav-
orably.
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Where is Here?

A crew of French Canadians were
rafting logs on Lake Champlain.
Darkness overlook them and they
had to tie the raft up for the night.
While they were asleep a big wind
came up. The raft broke loose and
was drifting. when Pete, one of the
crew, awoke and saw what had
happened
Hey, Joe. Joe Lego" he called to
the boss.
Joe rolled over and grumbIed
What you wake me for?"
Pete-We are not here, no more.
Joe.
Joe-Where are we?
Pete-Ten mile below.
Joe-Then tie 'er up.-From
Everybody's Magazine.