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The Washington times., 1929-09-12
MEDTTATTONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland.

Slaves to Trousers
SEMY DEAR MISS ROWLAND:
n Can you work out any
logical clue I'd the significance Of
and reason for a garment like the
waistcoat?'--And THAT from a
lady who il natural born
philosopher, psychologist and ex-
pert on behaviorlsm!
"Foolish woman! To hide his
suspenders, OF course! Suspenders
are unsightly and suggest corned
beef and cabbage. They are
suspension six buttons. Some
of US wear belt, these days, and
are immune to that thrill one
used to get when one of the back
suspender buttons gave way and
all the responsibility rested on
the other button.
Others, unfortunately, could
reach for q cigarette all their
Wives and still be rotund enough to
require suspenders for the sake
of dignity. "W. C. L."
This illuminating letter from
a gentleman from New Jersey has
relieved my mind immensely in
regard to the psychology OF the
waistcoat-Or common or garden
VEST.
The waistcoat was an "after-
thought" to the suspenders. And
the suspenders were an "after-
thought" to TROUSERS! Neces.
sity is the mother of invention
and its father is trousers!
Just AZ I have always con-
tended. most of mans clothes
are "after.thoughts." But, there
is central idea around which his
whole sartorial makeup is con-
structed. That strange, modern
neither garment, or, in polite
parlance, trousers!
Starting with trousars, you can
work out the reason for all the
other little odds and ends and
mechanical contrivances that make
UP HIS W0AuLObS 1LOH SpdIS 10
collar buttons and tie clasps.
But, WHY trousers? Why
slave to any garment so un-
wieldly, uncomfortable and unre-
liable as trousers? A garment
that has caused him more em.
barrassment, more anxiety and
more Inconvenience than all the
rest of his clothes? A garment
that is hot and clinging in sum.
mer, yet leaves him prey to all
the four winds in winter?
Yet, with all the recent revolt
against stiff collars, hard shirts.
coats and collar buttons, not q
whisper of rebellion has been
heard against trousers. Both the
radicals and the conservatives still
cling desperately to PANTS!
Why not knickerbockers. or plus
fours, or riding breeches, all light
and graceful and comfortable and
so built that the wind can't whistle
up them? What tremors and
qualms men must have suffered
when they placed their faith in
suspenders, and their very dignity
and reputation often hung upon
one button by single thread
Women may be vain, extrava.
CANT and erratic in matters OF
dress. but NO woman would let
any ONE garment dominate her
whole life. happiness and nervous
system as trousers dominate q
mans!
Trousers ara the white mans
hzrdsnE l-l-
The Washington times., 1929-09-12
$4,000 Of Sing Sing Money
A Good Deal Of It Could Have Been Saved.

CNG SING PRISON spends $4,000 to build long concrete
tunnel because prisoners have been able to climb the
teenoot steel fence that along railroad track Two
three did that deying the guards their rifles
However than $4,000 Of the $4,000 paid might have
been saved by sngng wire entangments along the top
the iron fence perhaps electric current turned on auto.
matcally II any touched those wires.
sign along the fence High Tension Wires Keep off,
should be erected Sing Sing dislkes anything to do with
high tension current 80 near il the Death House.
The Washington times., 1929-09-12
TWO frantic women wrote TO me

INNuO ITduIlC women WI0Ie 20 mo
i today.
One woman lost her only daugh-
ter two years ago. She says she
has never been able to get over
it." She stopped living the day
her daughter died, and the months
since have been filled with mean
ingless motions. One by one she
has let her old friends and her
old interests drop. She Is conscious
only OF one thing-the awful
wound in her heart. That wound
is as open today as it was two
years ago.
My sister says that is wrong"
she writes. She SAYS ought to
try and get over Ellen's death.
But she has never lost anyone and
she doesn't know. would feel like
q traitor If could get over my
sorrow. miss her Just as much
now as did the first day"
The other woman is also tor.
tured by memory, but hers is not
grief over a lost child. She grieves
for a sin she once did. 1t hap
pened many years ago. when she
was q SOhib 81 AB y Wv hhC" III
1t at the time; no one, save the
woman herself, remembers 1t now.
She has been married II years.
She Is the wife OF fine man, the
mother OF four lovely children.
"But ! can't honestly say have
ever been happy. Elsie, - she walls.
'"The thought of what I did has
hung over me like a shadow all
these years. / feel as IL / was
cheating, taking all this love and
respect. Lots of times / decide to
tell my family all about It.. It
seems as il 1t would relieve me.
Maybe then could think of some
thing else"
Two women with open wounds
in their hearts--two lives that
aren't going on
I'm thinking of that old oak we
cut down last week. We're clean.
ing ground for an apple orchard,
half mile from camp. Fine soil,
but covered with manzanita, cha
The Washington times., 1929-09-12
High Art Shopping,
It Can Pay.

NoU can make money you know how 60 shopping in
the world Of art
Sir Locker LampsOn tells the London Times he got only
$4,000 for Houdon bust Of Washington said have been
sold recently by art dealer for than $2500OO
The buyer whoever he vast that it was not
John D. Rockefeller Jrneed worry The price that he
paid for the Houdon bust less than It's value Sir Joseph
Duveen who knows values would probably give him more
for IT,
The Washington times., 1929-09-12

This canoniza-
tiOn would honor
and reward q
lifetime devoted
to charity, good
works and self
denial.
It would, In
addition, con-
firm the actual
performance Of
some miracle by
Mother M ary
Magdalene.
Proof Of mir
acIe work ing,
satisfactory to
the Oath olic
Church authori-
ties, must pre-
Cede canoniza-
ticn in Rll' cases.
The Washington times., 1929-09-12
MOTHER MARY MAGDALENE


ts list Of saints including rich and poor great and small
men and women mcudes only ONE lawyer,
He was native Of Brittany In France and the song sung
on his feast day includes the lines
#=s s AdO0catus ct I0trO
Res miranda popuIo.
Ask your lawyer TO translate that.
The Washington times., 1929-09-12
The First American Saint
Founder Of the Poor Glare Convent.

HoUskNDs Of saints are In the calendar Of the Roman
Catholic Church, but none American born.
Mother Mary Magdalsns founder Of the Poor Glare Con-
The Washington times., 1929-09-12

WV a. N1sa7'7NlID
Nebraska, viii
pro b ably be
canonized by the
Pope, and thus
become the first
American saint.
The Washington times., 1929-09-12

Trousers ara the white mans
hzrasnE l--i-
The Washington times., 1929-09-12

Mother Mary ]
The Washington times., 1929-09-12

Women may be vain, extrava.
CANT and erratic in matters OF
dress. but NO woman would let
any ONE garment dominate her
whole life, happiness and nervous
system as trousers dominate q
mans!
Milford chronicle., 1929-01-04
TREATMENT OF SEED
CORN IS SATISFACTORY
Kent County Farmers Convinced
That Good Results Follow

The fact that many of the farmers
in Kent county are becoming con-
vinced of the Importance and eco
homie value of treating seed corn
with dust disinfectants to control
the root rot and other diseases
which are carried on the kernels,
and to produce more mature corn
with an increase in yield per acre,
was shown last fall when a survey
was made by County Agent Russell
E. Wilson to determine the amount
of dust materials which had been
used and the acreage of treated
corn planted last spring in this
county.
This is the third year in which
this seed corn treatment project has
been conducted in Kent county by
the county agent i'll cooperation with
DR. ]. F. Adams, plant pathologist
of the University of Delaware and
the State Board of Agriculture, and
during this period demonstrations
have been carried on with different
farmers to show the value of fol-
lowing this practice in the program
of more economic production of
corn in this section of the country.
Arrangements were made in the
spring of 1928 to conduct these seed
treatment demonstrations on the
farms of A. G. Darrah, P. c. Kirby,
J. A. Sylvester, John G. Tarburton,
TCOntinued on page S
Milford chronicle., 1929-01-04
STATE ELECTORS CAST
VOTE FOR HOOVER
Mail Certified Copy OF Vote BY Reg.
iStered Mail To Washington

The three Republican Presiden-
tial electors elected by Delaware
voters at the November general
election met in the State House at
Dover on Wednesday to cast their
votes for President of the United
States.
The electors are Charles Warner.
of Wilmington; William T. Chip
man, of Harrington, and Frank L..
Grier, of Milford. They were elect
ed by majority of 32,217 votes
over the Presidential electors nam
ed by the Democratic party. The
Republican or Hoover electors re-
ceived 6S,S60 votes and the Demo-
cratic or Smith electors received
36,643 votes.
After a brief session the electors
at some length set forth i'll writing
that their choice for President, is
Herbert c. Hoover and their choice
for VicePresident is U. S. Senator
Charles Curtis.
Electors chosen by the electorate
of other States also met in their
State capitols on Wednesday.
Instead of selecting a messenger
to carry their vote to Washington
as has been the custom in past
years. the electors mailed a certi-
fed copy of the vote by registered
mail to the Secretary of State, to-
gether with two other copies for
filing. An official copy was also
filed at Dover and another copy sent
to Judge Morris of the U. S. District
Court.
Milford chronicle., 1929-01-04
PHONE COMP ANY MAKES
RATE REDUCTION
Long Distance Tolls VIII Be Chang
ed February 1St

Further reductions in telephone
rates to points between 130 and APP
proXimately 1,500 miles distant will
be instituted by the Diamond State
Telephone Company February l, it
is announced by Clarence H. Syph-
erd, manager for the company.
Institution of the new rate sched-
ule for Out-of-town calls will mark
the third time within little m1re
than two years that the Diamond
State Company will have curtailed
the cost of this form of service.
The impending reductions viii mean
an aggregate saving of approx
mately $4,000 to telephone users in
Delaware during 1929. Throughout
the nationwide Bell System, with
which the Diamond State Company
is associated. the public will lie
saved more than $5,O00,000 during
the new year.
To the telephone user the rcduc-
tions will mean a cut of from to
25 cents on day toll and long dis
tance station-to -to-station calls within
the distances designated. A pro-
portionate reduction is to be made
on person-to-person calls, Mr.. Syph-
erd said In addition, appointment
and messenger calls are to be pro-
vided after February l at regular
person-to-person rates.
Milford chronicle., 1929-01-04
DELAWARE PUBLIC
SCHOOL 100 YEARS OLD
Passage OF First Act VIII Be OBJ
served With Luncheon At Dover

COmmemOration of the Tooth an
niversary since the passage in 1929
of an act by the Legislature Great
ing free public schools in Delaware
will be marked in Dover tomorrow
by a luncheon meeting in the PeO-
pies Church of a group of the
States leading citizens.
The committee in charge includes
Judge Hugh M. Morris, chairman;
William H. Boyce, Mrs. ]. Thomp-
son Brown, Harry L. Cannon, J. Ed
ward Goslee, Daniel J. Layton. An
drew ]. Lynch, Josiah Marvel, Dav-
id J. Reinhardt, Robert H. Richards,
Henry p. Scott, |. D. Short, James
NJ Tunnel, Mrs. A. d. Warner, Sr.
The luncheon is the OutgrOwth of
series of meetings which have re-
suited from the appointment last
October, by the Delaware Citizens
Association, of an advisory board
composed of the leading educators
in the State. "Will the one hun
dredth anniversary of the passage
of the statute creating free schools
in Delaware find schools in this
State on a par with the schools Ill
other States?" was the first question
put to the newly-appOinted board by
the executive committee.
The advisory board which includes
Judge Morris, chairman; DR.. H. V.
Holloway, state superintendent of
public instruction; DR.. David A.
IConfinned on page 8
Milford chronicle., 1929-01-04
PLAN FOR DELAWARE
STATE POULTRY SHOW
Entries For Affair At Milford VIII
Not Be Received After January 10

The Delaware State Poultry Asso-
cations Show Committee distribu-
ted this week by mail fifteen hun
dred copies of fifty-six page prem
ium list, announcing the poultry
show to be held at the Community
building, Milford, on January 18th,
18th and 18th. This show will be
of interest to everyone interested
in one of the largest industries of
the Delmarva Peninsula. Those
who are not on the regular mailing
list of the Poultry Association and
the Del-Mar-Va Hatchery Associa-
ton should communicate with M. c..
Vaughn, Lewes, who will be glad to
mail catalogs to them.
In order that the committee may
make proper arrangements for the
show, January 10th has been set as
the last date upon which entries for
the various classes will be accepted.
In addition to the production and
exhibition classes, broilers will be
exhibited, as well as day-old chicks
and eggs. An educational display
will be put on by Wilson Hatfield,
oCSi CldAS y VI Tie INCCOIu Ol 16ElOEnl-
ance Association (R. o. P.) of Della
ware. Numerous commercial dis
plays of feeds, poultry supplies and
equipment have already been ar
ranged for and the visitors to the
show will find these very interest
ing.
A special prize will be given by
o. A. Newton & Son, of Bridgeville,
to the person visiting the show
from the greatest distance.
The judges for the show are as
follows: Production classes, Roy
f. Jones, extension pOultryman,
Storrs, Conn; Exhibition classes,
Newton Gosh, Vineland, ~ j.; Broil-
er classes, Clarence Handy of the o.
V. Handy Co., Philadelphia; Day
old chick and egg classes, w. H.
Rice, extension poultryman, Col
lege Park, Md
Milford chronicle., 1929-01-04
MILFORD BOYS BAND
BROADCASTS WDEL
Local Organization Invited To Go
On Air Again February 10

The Milford Boys Band broad
casted from Station WDEL in Will
mington last Sunday afternoon, at
which time an hours program was
given. The program was well re-
ceived by the public who listened
in and by the officials of the station,
who invited them to again go on
the air from WDEL on Sunday, Feb
ruary 10th. The invitation was ac-
cepted Sickness prevented many
of the boys from going to VIII
mington last Sunday, but 29 were
present to aid in giving the pro-
gram. The band is under the direc-
tion of H. M. Barridge. The pro-
gram was the same that was given
from Station WSMD, at Salisbury,
recently. A new program is now
being prepared for broadcasting
from Salisbury January goth. The
same program will be given in the
Plaza Theatre the latter part of
January or early in February. The
program broadcast last Sunday was
so well received that all the phone
calls received from Milford and else
where could not be announced.
Milford chronicle., 1929-01-04
FEDERAL DRY OFFICE
BEEN MOVED TO DOVER
Delaware District To Combine
Eastern Shore Section In Re.
organization.

George A. Hill, prohibition direc
tor for Delaware, has confirmed re-
ports that he will move his office
from Wilmington to Dover.
The reports were published sew.
eral months ago. At that time Mi
Hill would neither deny nor confirm
them.
The public library at Dover was
given notice by the U. S. Postoffice
Department at Washington to vacate
the entire second floor of the Dover
postofIice building on or before Jan
uary l. Last July the library va
Gated two of the rooms of the sec
ond floor of the building.
Mr.. Hill said that a vault has
been constructed in the postoffice
building in which seized liquor and
stills will be stored pending de-
struction by court order
Architects of the prohibition de-
partment are making plans for re-
modelling of the second floor of the
building. 1t may be a month or be-
fore before the work is finished.
The present headquarters of the
Delaware prohibition Office are on
the main floor of the old postoffice
building, in Wilmington, and COM
rrises two rooms. Mr.. Hill has
three agents on his force.
Removal to Dover is necessitated
because of the assignment of en-
forcement of the prohibition law on
the Eastern Shore of Maryland to
Mr.. Hills Office
Milford chronicle., 1929-01-04
DELAWARE CUNNING
SEASON CLOSED MON.
SpOrtSmen Had Poor Hunting Be-
cause OF Unreasonable Weather

The open season for shooting rab-
came to a close on Monday. The
season, from the sportsman's stand
point, was not as successful this
year as in some former years, be-
cause of weather conditions. Most
of the time weather was too warm
for them to hunt.
Owing to the fact that disease
has spread among rabbits thruOut
Sussex county, causing large num-
bers of them to die, many sports
men, upon advice of the State health
officials, did not attempt to bag any
of them, fearing that by coming in
contact with them the disease might
be transmitted. Very few rabbits
w ere killed that did not show
themselves to be very active when
found in the wood and fields. All
rabbits found to be rather slow in
moving and appearing to be stiff
in their legs were marked as dis
eaSed.
If the disease among the rabbits
can in any way be checked, the
stock next season will be the larg
est in lower Delaware for many
years. Gunners state that the
supply of birds next season should
be large if weather conditions are
favorable to them during the COM
ing spring. There were less quail
killed this season than for several
years
Milford chronicle., 1929-01-04
OPEN BIDS MARYLAND
BAY SPAN NEXT WEEK
New Outlet From Eastern Shore To
Baltimore Will Be Provided

More than twenty bids for the
construction of the bridge across
Chesapeake Bay will be opened Jan
uary 8 by the Chesapeake Bay Bridge
Company for the beginning of actual
construction of the span. The span
would connect Baltimore with the
Eastern Shore.
This announcement was made last
week by an official of the bridge
company, who asserted the plans,
specifications and tentative charges
for crossing the bridge would be fill
ed with the Public Service Commits
sion of Maryland before the end of
this week.
1t is expected that construction of
the bridge will begin before the end
of January, it was added.
1t was said the basic rate for pas
senger automobiles, including the
driver, had been agreed upon and
that tentative rates for trucks and
heavier vehicles would be left to the
discretion of the commission. The
basic rate for ordinary automobiles
it was said, would be $125.
The Public Service Commission
will be asked to approve the fran
chise granted by the last legislature
for the bridge and will also be re-
quested to approve the immediate
start of construction work.
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Milford chronicle., 1929-01-04
NO NEED FOR ALARM
ABOUT FLU, SAYS DAVIS
Board OF Health Official Believes
Epidemic Will Spend Itself

There is no need for any excite
ment over influenza, is the opinion
of DR.. Arthur T. Davis, executive
secretary of the State Board of
Health. DR.. Davis pointed out, in a
statement at Dover last Saturday,
that there are many deaths every
winter from influenza. Last winter,
he said, the mortality in Delaware
from influenza was one point higher
than the entire country, and two
years ago the mortality from the
disease in Delaware was twice as
heavy as for the entire country.
DR.. Davis says this epidemic of
influenza starting in California and
spreading eastward, would natural
" expend itself to a large degree on
the way across the country. While
this may not hold good everywhere,
it is only what could be reasonably
expected.
Because of cOngested living con-
ditions, those living in towns and
cities might expect there would be
more cases because of the close
contact. The rural sections are not
so apt to be affected because of the
isolated living conditions Of the peo-
pie.
Milford chronicle., 1929-01-04
TOMORROW IS OLD
CHRISTMAS DAY
Georgetown Correspondent Says Ru-
raj Folk Still Observe Day

From Georgetown comes the fol-
lowing story:
"Those who still abide by the
Julian calendar will observe Janu-
airy 6 as the real Christmas day. In
the church calendar it is known as
Epiphany of Twelfth Night, but in
lower Delaware it is known as "Old
Christmas Day"
Many people in lower Delaware
and throughout the Delmarva PEN
insula, who don't claim to belong to
any special sect, believe January s
is the real Christmas day. They
have been taught from childhood
that while December 25 is the gen
eral observance, January is the
genuine Christmas day.
More people in lower Delaware
believe in observance of the day
than in any other section of the
country. They assert that on the
night of January 5 or early the
morning of January 6, daffodils, ell
der and hop vines will shoot forth
sprouts and remain visible until
sunrise, even if the ground is froz-
ell several luCHeS anu ln6l6 is a
blanket of snow covering the earth.
They ask anyone who doubts, to
place boards over spots where they
know hop vines and daffodilS come
forth in the spring, and on "Old
Christmas Day" morning go and
look under the boards. The sprouts,
it is claimed, disappear at sunrise
as mysteriously as they appeared
and will not be seen any more until
spring comes.
Even the sheep, oxen and cows,
they say, will fall down on their
knees in the stables and low and
bleat about midnight
This custom probably has prevail
ed in lower Delaware for a century
or more. Those who believe in the
old tradition also observe December
25 with their families, as they do
not wish to mar the pleasure of
those in their household who cling
to the accepted Christmas season.
For many years it has been the
custom of many to have big dinners
on both dates.
Aged people respect this ancient
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Milford chronicle., 1929-01-04
KENT co. OFFICERS
SWORN In TUESDAY
Republicans Gain Control OF Levy
Court, Have Sheriff And COrO-
ner For Next Two Years.

Republicans gained control of the
Kent County Levy Court on Tues
day when the newly-elected mem.
bers were sworn in. The new
court consists of:
First district, Thomas Jackson
Snow, of near Smyrna; second
George H. Brown; third. w. H. Con-
ard. Messrs. Snow and Conard are
Republicans and Mr.. Brown, a
member of the present Levy Court
a Democrat.
The other new county officers who
took office the first of the year were
as follows:
Sheriff-Carroll B. Massey, Re-
publican, of Dover, with Norris
Harrison as his deputy.
COroner-JOhn H. Hinsley, Re-
publican, of Camden.
Prothonotary-W. S. Slaughter,
Democrat, of Frederick.
Register of Wills ]. Frank
Graham, Democrat, of Harrington.
County Comptroller-W. C. Para
dee, Democrat, of Magnolia.
County Treasurer and Receiver of
Taxes-George P. Scotten, Demo-
crat.
The hold-over members of the
county government are as follows:
Clerk of the Peace-Henry Will
liams, Democrat, of near Dover.
Recorder of Deeds-John W. Tar
burton, Democrat, of Leipsic.
Register in Chancery - Harry
Clark, Democrat, of Kenton.
The new Levy Court will have the
appointment of constables, road
and other officers dur
ing the next year.
The old Levy Court met last Fri
day to close up it's affairs. At that
time a petition was presented from
residents near Cedar Grove School
asking for the closing of a
road passing the school
The Court extended the time on
the bridge contracts at the State
College north of Dover and at Jack
sons Branch bridge until February
18TH
The Court announced the appoint
ment of James Craig, of West Do
yer, as a member of the Board of
Trustees of the County AlmshOuse,
succeeding Walter U. Arts, resign
ed
The Court ordered cars of Stag
for dirt roads in the sixth, seventh,
eighth, ninth and tenth districts.
Milford chronicle., 1929-01-04
DELAWAREANS GET
HALF MILLION REFUND
Federal Income Levy Collected Thru
Error, Returned During Year

Approximately $449,OOO was re-
funded to Delaware taxpayers dur
ing the last fiscal year for Federal
income taxes enormously collected,
according to a report filed with Con-
gress by Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon. The report shows that the
following refunds were made to
Delawareans
William P. Bancroft estate 1.-TWO
payments), $11,577; George P. Bis
sci, S2O21; Caulk Dental Co., Mil
ford, $1671; Charles Copeland,
$2S21; Delaware Electric and Sup
ply Company, 1888; Delaware Hard
Fibre Company, $32SO; Delaware
Olmstead Company, $1OS7; Delaware
Registration Trust Company, $1OSS;
Mrs. Alice dupont, $1563; Felix a.
dupont, $1641; Lammot DUPONT,
$3249; dupont Trust, Therns Cole
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