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Shooting Our Albatross
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W. A. Candler
CotmcrzD melton.
THE MUMMY SLEEVES.
The latest news' from Washington is
a skin-tight' sleeve, cut in a way to
hold arms tight down to the sides, so
that the arms cannot be raised but a
trifle, and they call it a mummy
sleeve.
It is said that Miss Helen Taft has
adopted it, and as she is coming to
Georgia this week, the fashionables in
Augusta, may be soon frantic to get
the pattern.' The most of us have seen
pictures which represented mummies,
dead and gone Egyptians who embalm
ed their distinguished dead and then
wrapped them around in cloths which
they fastened by scores of Wrapping
scrips or bandages. If they had ever
come to life in their tombs they would
have been bound irrevocably, and to
tally unable to move a finger or a
joint. Why should our women desire
tk> wear mummy sleeves? They can
not be graceful and must be awkward
beyond compare if necessity demanded
the raising of the woman's arms.
* In the days of skin-tight ’sleeves,
some thirty years ago, the ultra fasn-
ionables could not place on their bon
nets unless they did so while the skin
tight body of the dress was left open.
The last performance consisted of
hooking up the frock, everything so
. tight-fitting that arm-raising was
; well-nigh impossible. The body was
perfectly tight, without a wrinkle, the
sleeves were perfectly tight.', no mat-
1 tier if the arm was only a bone with
the skin left on it, while the bustle
was huge and the panniers on the
skirt voluminous.
* Tl\e ultra-dressed would sail into a
great reception room with a* little bon
net on her head and her frock laced
to the limit, the sleeves tight enough
tp pop if they were pinched or punch
ed. while the skirts had trails and the
wearer could hardly find room to sit
on a chair because there was such a
Heap on the hips. What a sight it
was! *
*; Nowadays there is no cloth worth
mentioning in the skirt, and the fit so
tight that the wearer looks like the
frock would pop around her low T er
limbs, if it was pinched or punched,
with a bosom swelled out like a pout
er pigeon's, and then to pin the tight
arms down to the sides until she
, must act and walk like a mummy!
“What fools these mortals be!”
A GREETING FROM FLORIDA.
| Jacksonville, Fla.. March 12, 1913.
Dear Semi-Weekly: l ha\|e been need-
' ing.a rest for some time and concluded
i to come to Florida and tour the state
| before it was too warm in this wonder-
) l’ul Land of ’Flowers.
! So far it has been a delightful change
1 for me.
I have taken a berth to Tampa; leave
tonight at 9:30.
But I will soon be at home again and
j promise t tell you a good deal more
about it. Yours,
MRS. W. H. FELTON.
WHAT ABOUT IT?
If the newspapers did not fabricate
a fake tale, the story in today’s paper
which told of a woman who had six
children in one year is a wonder. Three
at a time! 1 really do think somebody
should propose that she should be here
after retired from further duty. She
has earned her freedom—to put it
mildly.
I saw a set of triplets a good many
years ago at a county fair. There were
three little girls and they seemed to be
a thriving set. The mother told me that
they hoped to receive a money contri
bution. as all hands were engaged in
nursing them. The father and an eldest
son had about lost a ^rop trying to wait
on them. Said she: “One of them is
always wanting something, and the
feeding is no little job.”
But six in one yeap fatigues our un
derstanding! Two of them would al
ways be wanting something, and that
poor woman should draw a pension for
the rest of her life, and never do more
than play with lier sextuple supply
when they were good.
1 am/ of the opinion that a child
should have the individual interest of
both parents until it can make its wants
known by speech, and one baby, at a
time is a whole handful, in an average
family. Three at a time, and twice in a
year, should' certainly get a congres
sional appropriation, or the mothers of
the country should clamor for a relief
fund, as the people do when a city is
devastated by fire or the Mississippi
river gets on a rampage.
Such an overflow reminds ohe of a
litter of pigs, and—well. I can't find
words to express the idea!
WOMEN THE WORLD OVER
Tlie Englishwoman's Case Against the Government.
BY VIDA SUTTON.
In the English system of govern
ment the party having majority in par
liament forms the ministry and all bills
brought in by this ministry are known
as government measures. When a gov
ernment measure fails that * is
taken as a rejection of government pol
icy. The ministry resigns and another
election takes place. At present the
Liberal party forms the ministry. •
This ministry promised fourteen
months ago to give the quetsion of
woman suffrage a chance this session,
but the franchise bill brought in by the
government recently was for adult male
suffrage, and made no reference what
ever to women. This proposal giving
the vote to every youth of twenty-one,
-'and taking no cognizance of even the
most capable women are felt by even
some of those opposed to woman suf
frage* to be an insult to English woman
hood. Protests and petitions poured in
from all suffrage societies, and the mili
tant wing began its pillar box attacks.
The government said that woman suf
frage amendments to the bill were in
order, and promised to give to such
their support and to use no party influ
ence to prevent their pasage.-^. In other
words, the suffrage question would
stand on its own merits in the house of
parliament. Accordingly Sir Edward
Grey drew up an amendment deleting
the word “male" from the phrase “male
persons” in the bill. This, however, was
not enough’, because in the English law
‘-‘person” means ‘male,’’ unless other
wise defined. Another amendment defin
ing “person" was necessary.
The. second amendment, known as the
Henderson amendment, put forward by
the labor and Socialist members, pro
vided for full adult suffrage and would
have added 13,000,000 women to the’
electorate. However, as even the suf
fragists in the house do not favor un
qualified suffrage, a third amendment
was offered by C. M. Dickinson, of the
Liberal party giving the vote to women
householders over twenty-five, or mar
ried women whose husbands were house
holders, thus adding about 6,000,000
women to the electorate. The Conserva
tive suffragists felt this too great a con
cession, and they proposed a fourth
amendment giving the vote to women
Who were already municipal voters.
As the suffragists have a majority
in the house of commons though they are
divided among the Liberals, Conserva
tives, Labor party, and Socialists, .there
was a very good chance that the Grey
amendment and either jthe Dickinson, or
Conservative amendment would be pass
ed. F6b the first time the quetsion of
woman suffrage would dome up as a
definite measure, though', since 1897 a
majority of suffragists, that is, mem
bers pledged to vote for the questiom,
have been returned to the house of com
mons. \
The bill was scheduled for. debate
the 24th of January. The militants de
clared a truce, and the various suffrage
organizations reminded the members of
parliament of their pledges. The anti
suffragists held a meeting and warned
the public that the life of the state was
in danger. When United Britain was
waiting the result of a test vote, the
speaker ruled that if any of the amend
ments to the government bill were
passed? the face of the bill would be so
altered that it would be necessary to
bring in a new bill. Thereupon, the
government withdrew the franchise
bill, and the best chance the question
of woman suffrage has ever had of be
ing put to a vote collapsed, and the
•matter was ended for this session.
The women considered they/had been
tricked by the ministry which had tak
en this method of shelving the ques-
ti n. The feeling on the part of all suf
frage workers was intense. The prime
minister having refused to bring in a
government bill sugested that a suf
frage committee draft a bill and pre
sent it at the next session as a private
jnembers’ bill when he would promise,
it all the facilities of a government
measure. A private members’ bill un
der the best conditions has little chance
of passing and the constitutional suf
fragists who have labored so valiantly
and complied so nobly with the meth
ods of English politics were aroused to
the greatest pitch of indignation at his
proposal. They have however accepted
the situation and will support the com
mittee consisting of Lloyd George Mr.
Dickinson and Sir Edward Grey who
have been \appointed to draw up the
bill.
The Women’s Freedom league how
ever having for fourteen months pinned
faith on the promise of the ministry
and awaited their acting have now re
pudiated the government and the law
which they say has’ so deceived them.
Their members have decided to refuse
to pay taxes especially the insurance
tax as that applies particuiarly to
women. Their venerable leader Mrs.
Despard was sentenced to fourteen
days’ imprisonment for holding a meet
ing on the steps of St. Martin’s church
and obstructing traffic. The other mil
itant body, W. S. P. U., of which Mrs.
Pankhurst is the leader, have refused
all compromise. They demand a gov
ernment measure as the only bill that
would have a chance, and they have de
clared guerrilla warfare until it is
granted.
There is a weird poem by Coleridge
in which is told the story of the 'man
j who shot the albatross, and how the
bird was hung around his neck, and
lie was pursued by a phantom ship,
and led through the uttermost misery,
i L't is a parable of what must come
to us if we wound that pure white
bird of social and political peace—the
| holy Sabbath.
! The observance of the Sabbath has
had much to do with the safety' in which
our ship of state has come thus far
on its voyage. At the beginning of
the War of Independence, in August
1776, General Washington in a general
order to the army said: “That the troops
may have an opportunity of attending
publje worship, as well as to take some
rest after the great fatigue they have
gone through, the General, in future,
excuses them from fatigue duty on Sun
days. except at the ship-yards, or on
special, occasions, until further orders.
We can have little hope of the blessing
of heaven upon our arms, if we insult
it by our impiety and folly’’.
In 1862, when the country was torn
by civil war. President Lincoln issued
a general order in which he said, “The
President, the Commander-in-Chief of
the Army arid. Navy, desires and enjoins
the orderly observance of the Sabbath
by the officers and men in the military
and naval service. The importance for
man and beast of the prescribed weekly
rest, the sacred rights of Christian sol
diers and sailors, a becoming deference
to the best sentiment of a Christian
people, and a due regard for the divine
will, demand that Sunday labour in
.the army and navy be reduced to the
measure of strict necessity. The disci
pline and character of the national
forces should not suffer, nor the cause
they defend be imperilled, by the pro
fanation of the day or name of the
Most High. At this time of public
-distress, adopting the words of Wash
ington, in 1776. ‘men may find enough
to do in the service of God and their
country without abandoning themselves
to vice and immorality’ ”.
These two historic orders embody the
best sentiment of our people concerning
the Sabbath from the beginning of the
Republic through all its life until the
present.- In the South especially, the
holy day has been scrupulously respect
ed by all classes and all races.
But* a different spirit is beginning to
show itself among some people in our
midst. A concerted effort is being made
to open moving-picture shows and other
places of amusement on Sunday. The
agitation is systematically undertaken
in Atlanta, and at the same time it
shows up in Birmingham and other
cities pear-by.
Defenses of these evil^ things are
put forth • in the name of the floor,
a kind of plea which demagogues have
used to disguise their wickedness ever
since Judas Iscariot objected to the
breaking of the alabaster box of oint
ment on the head of Jesus in adoring
love, saying it “ought to have been
sold and given to the poor". Greed
was at the bottom of the base words
of Judas, and the present agitation for
the introduction of the “Continental
Sabbath’’ in the South springs from
the same evil motive. The mongers
of amusement wish to make money,
and their apologists wish to win the
political rewards which they believe
will come from pandering to such
things. Neither the show-men nor
their apologists care a snap for the
poor; they neither fear God nor regard
man, but seek only the wages of sin.
But they will accomplish their evil
designs against the Sabbath day unless
good people awake and resist them
most promptly and vigorously. And
when they have succeeded in their
•purpose, they will h r .ve given religion
in the community a most deadly
wound.
Voltaire was no fool, whatever else
he may have been, and* he said, “There
is no hope of dstroying the Christian
religion so long as the Christian Sab
bath is acknowledged and kept by
men as a sacred day.” Again he said,
“I despair of destroying religion while
millions meet together for worship on
the first day of the week”. Perhaps
some of the anti-Sabbath agitators de
sire to do what Voltaire despaired of
doing, and taking counsel of his utter
ance they begin their work of pulling
down religion by seeking to overthrow
the Sabbath. There are men in both
Atlanta and Birmingham whose hope
for political success depends upon
making religion weak and making im
morality strong/in these cities.
They depend mainly r i immoral and
irreligious fnen to back them in their
political movements. They fight re
ligion because they fear its general
prevalence would undo them politically
and otherwise. \
But people of all churches and of
no churches* who care for the welfare
of the country, ought not to be misled
by them. Intelligent men, who have
read any modern history, ought to
know that our country is ruined with
out religion, and that it will have re
ligion no longer than it preserves the
sanctity of the Sabbath. That acute
French writer, De Tocqueville, saw
-his, and said during his visit to the
United States, many years ago when
the Sabbath was more strictly ob
served than now, “France must have
your Sabbath or she is ruined”; and
the tempestuous history of France
s'ince he uttered these words has ver
ified his statement. ^ Sabbathless
Mexico, reeking with blood and rioting
with murder, ought to warn us, if we
will not attend to the example of
France.
Our own great historian, Bancroft,
wrote a few years ago, these profound
words: “Certainly our great united
commonwealth is v tlie child of Chris
tianity; it may. with equal truth be
asserted tl?at modern civilization sprung
into life With our religion; and faith
in its principles is the life-boat on
which humanity has at divers times
escaped the most threatening perils".
Shall we allow any men, or set of
men, to destroy this life-boat by cut
ting away its undergirding, which is the
Sabbath? Shall we do so now, when
an increasing tide of foreign immigra
tion threatens us as never before? Shall
we risk the solution of our race prob
lem, (an ever present perplexity) to a
Sabbathless and godless generation? Do
we desire to thrust our children and
children’s children into a future, which
is already dark enough, without the
light of the Sabbath to guide them and
without God’s pillar of fire to guard
them? Is the issue between capital and
j labour so full of the promise of peace
i that we can afford to adopt a policy
I which will carry both capitalists and la-
j bourers beyond the reach of the sober-
} ing influence of the Christian religion
. with its weekly day of rest and wor-
■ ship? Shall we shoot the albatross, the
bird of. good omen, and with its dead
body hung upon our neck be driven into
£he greatest disorders and the worst
disasters?
But we are told that these things are
done in other great cities, and that At
lanta and Birmingham are no longer
“back-woods towns”. All of which is
quite true. But observe the results that
have followed these things in other
cities. New York has tried the lax Sab
bath, and what city ever showed such a
horrible police record as that city has
disclosed during the past year? Its po
lice department has been exposed as the
hot-bed of graft and murder. Do we
wish that sort of result in Atlanta?
Chicago tried the same evil ways, and
Chicago has produced the “Hay-Market
Riot” and deeds of corruption and vio
lence only second to the scandals of
New York.
The case of Cincinnati is one strik
ingly in point. The fearful riot in
w r hich the court-house was burnt some
years ago was traced directly to things
of this kind. There lies before me now
a newspaper account of the cause of the
riot, written at the time, after full in
vestigation of the outbreak upon the
ground. It says, “The city laws which
forbade the sale of liquor on Sundays,
and prohibited various amusements,
were repealed, though they had not been
much enforced of late. Now, saloons
which had opened their side doors on the
Lord’s day, threw their main entrances
wide open. Theatrical performances,
base-ball matches, balloon ascensions
and other Sunday sports multiplied. The
better classes—or rather their repre
sentatives, for the majority seemed
strangely apathetic—secured the passage
by the Legislature of an act closing
theatres on Sunday. It was enforced a
few months. This was followed by a
law shutting saloons on Sunday, under
penalty of fine and imprisonment. One
Or two prominent offenders were con
victed. Some .of the papers fairly raved
over the alleged outrage, the narrow
bigotry, the ridiculous Puritanism. They
had previously laughed at the law and
suggested many impracticable ways for
evading it. These proved of no effect
and the Council was invoked by the at
torney of the saloon men to interfere,
and the lawyer who had fended a no
torious murderer successfully was em
ployed as the attorney of these saloon
men before the Council. It was slow
in doing so. But at last an ordinance
was passed empowering each council
man to select the names of jurors from
ie residents of his ward, and give them
to the clerks of the police courts to draw
from. The councilmen picked out the
worst possible ‘men. and there were no
more convictions”. The account goes on
theji to show .how. the very fountains
■of justice being then corrupted, condi
tions became intolerable to the bad ele
ments of the community even. Explo
sive forces being thus brought together,
only a spark was necessary to make a
fear-ful conflagration; pretty soon the
spark was dropped, and all the world
knows what followed.
Do we wish riots like that in At
lanta? Have we not seen enough of
w r hat riot means?
It is time for all good people to rise
up and put an end to' these wretched
evils that some men are trying to bring
into our community unawares while
they pretend great Interest in the poor.
Let nobody be afraid of their puerile'
stuff about “narrowness”. “Puritanism”,
etc. Narrowness indeed! Washington,
Bancroft, Lincoln and De Tocqueville
narrow', while these ward-heelers pose,
as paragons of broad-mindedness! Their
vision does not extend beydnd the limits
of a ward-polling place, let alone com
passing a great question of wisdom and
virtue.
YOU AND YOUR WIFE
By Graham Hood
WHEN SHOULD YOU MARRY?
At what age should you marry? Is
marriage between a boy and a girl
likely to lead -to greater happiness than
that of a mature man and woman? Or,
does age play little if any part in de
termining the matter?
Such questions have been asked
countless-, millions of times in . the past.
In all likelihood, they will be asked as
fiequently in the future. Yet the
problem which they present }s no near
er a solution today than it was a
thousand or more years ago. The rea
son we find no answer to the ques
tion is that so much depends upon
general principles that it is impossible
to formulate a rule that will fit even
a small majority of cases.
The man and the maid who are. in
love are different from other individ
uals. They live in a different world—
a world of their own creation—a world
in which the experiences and customs
sanctioned by other people have no
practical application. If they make
strangely enough, there are no statistics
to show us that happiness may not be
reached by either road.
One fact which we often forget is
that true love is one of the greatest
of all adjusters of differences. The
girl who feels the awakening touch of
love ceases to be a child, and no
elixir of youth which has yet been
discovered has so rejuvenating an effect
upon the heart as the thrust of Cupid’s
tiny arrow. Even tlie fact that a fleet
ing fancy is frequently mistaken for
positive symptoms of love throws no
new light upon the problem, for such
mishaps occur in the most carefully
arranged marriages quite as often as
they do in those at which the world
protests most emphatically.
So far as we have any information to
guide us, there is evidence to support the
opinion that comparatively early mar
riage is best for the lad at least. When
a man is single he is apt to get into the
up their minds to marry, they will habit of considering nobody but himself,
carry their determination into effect As a result, it is the selfish side of his
in spite of all the obstacles which may nature which is developed, usually at the
be put in their-*\vay. Boys and girls expense of the generous and manly traits
who have scarcely passed the bounds of which must assert themselves if matri-
childhood, arrange their future with- mony is to bring real happiness. Nor is
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or May weds December, though the | in the case of many a young man. With
world lifts its h'Jmds in horror. And. I nobody to question his goings and com
ings—with fancy free to wander in any
direction in which the wind may chance
to blow—it is not surprising that his ex
cursions should often lead him into fool
ish extravagances and injurious dissipa
tions.
Man is a social animal. Indeed, there
are few of us who can find satisfaction
in our* own -company for many hours at
a time. If this desire for companionship
takes the right direction our social traits
become to us an important source of men
tal and moral development, but let them
lead us into bad* company and there are
few depths of evil to which we may de
scend.
It is in this respect that love assumes
the role of a moral factor. Affection, for
a good woman seldom fails to act as an
inspiration to purify. Breeding the de
sire to be more worthy of the affection
which £he soul craves, love acts as a
magnet to draw the lover back into the
path of virtue and honor.
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female ills are invited to communicate
promptly with the
woman’s private
correspondence de
partment of the Ly
dia E. Pinkham Med
icine Co., Lynn,
Mass. Your letter
will be opened, read
and answered by a
woman and held in
A woman can freely
talk of her private illness to a woman ;
thus has been established a confidential
correspondence which has extended over
many years and which has never been
broken. Never have they published a
testimonial or used a letter without the
written consent of the writer, and never
has the Company allowed these confi
dential letters to get out of their pos
session, as the hundreds of thousands
of them in their files will attest.
Out of the vast volume of experience
•which they have to draw from, it is more
than possible that they possess the very
knowledge needed in your case. Noth
ing is asked in return except your good
will, and their advice has helped thou
sands. Surely any woman, rich or poor,
should be glad to take advantage of this
generous offer of assistance. Address
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., (con
fidential) Lynn, Mass.
Every woman ought to have
Lydia E. Pinkham’s 80-page
Text Book./ It is not a book for
general distribution, as it is too
expensive. It is free and only
obtainable by mail. Write for
it today.
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Allen’s Princess
contains exclusive and patented
features found in no other range.
They are the result of 20 years
of careful range building and
mate for comfort, economy, du
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Princess Prices,Like
Princess Quality,
The Same Everywhere
Here are some Princess features;
Pipe behind the warming closet
not through it; handy dish warm
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walls; triple bottom. And you
pay only the price of an average
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Inquire of your dealer, or write to
Allen Mf’g. Company
NASHVILLE, TENN.
I Can Make Your Fat
Vanish by the Gallon!
I CONQUERED OBESITY PAST MIDDLE-AGE
I Ate Everything I Liked—Went
Through No Exercise—Wore
No Special Clothing—Took
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I, Lucile Kimball, a married woman past middle-age,
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elastic clothing, tried electricity, massage, osteopathy,
Vibration, hot and vapor baths, swallowed pellets, cap
sules and teas—gained as rapidly as I lost—and
so would you with those so-called treatments.
For years, my friends have asked me to tell them how I
got rid of fat and kept rid of it. They know that I eat what
.1 want—go through no exercise other than I get around the
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I was afraid that my Home Treatment might prove tem
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Eat any kind of meat, vegetables, salads, pastry, fish, fowl, nuts,
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only three or four minutes each twenty-four hours to its use.
, You Must Not Send Any Money!
^ Above all else, if you want this Home Obesity Treatment
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Treatment Is, how it works. I want you to be able to
use it In your own home or boarding house—on the train
—visiting—anywhere. Nobody knows you use It. You
never are asked to write a testimonial. I am a home-body,
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Don’t wait. Get rid of FAT now and for all time. If you are
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you have double-chin or localized obesity in any part of your body.
Don’t let fat get a stronger grip on yon. Stop being the butt of
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Lucile Kimball,
Suite 6, 13.7 Michigan Blvd.
Chicago, Illinois.
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