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MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1917.
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“His head is heavy,’’ the young wife
said,
As she straightened up when her babe
was fed.
The old wife spoke: "When babes be
men, . j
It’s their mothers’ hearts be heavy
then.”
liisxnte
“My arms ache so,” the young wife
said.
Ase she moved and shifted the tousled
head.
The old wife x said: “There’s pain
that's more
When arms be empty
and hearts be sore!”
“It’s tired I be,” the young wife said,
As she crept to the side of the trundle
bed.
The old wife spoke: “There’s weari
ness new
That’s different from this, in store
for you!”
“1 never get done,” the young wife
said,
As she patted and smoothed the
said,
As she patted an smoothed the
siowy spread.
The old wife spoke: “At set of sun
For me ’tis lonely with my work
done.”
“I’m glad he sleeps,” the young wife
said,
As she left the side of the trundle
bed.
The old wife spoke: “Ah, yet, but
then,
What if he never woke up again?”
“But life is different,” the young wife
’ From the life I dreamed—or the life
I led.”
And the old wife spoke, “Acushla
achree,
I wish—dear God—you might change
with me!”
—Mary W. Shippy.
Pinkston s
Pinkston’s $25 Suits Are
Superior to Any $25
Suit in Americus
Next week we will spec
ialize on $25.00 suits and
will show on the front
rack a lot of fifty suits,
right new, from fourteens
to forty fours. They are
from the be& manufactur
ers in America and com
pare with $35.00 values
easily.
Ask to see the suits that
are being specialized at
$25.00 at
Pinkston s
► HISS CHAPMAN’S PUPIL
! WINS Ml SIC HONORS.
► The preliminary contest in music
was held at the High school auditor-;
’ ium Friday. Those contesting were
Miss Pauline Bell, Miss Alice McNeill I
! and Miss Hazel Horne.
The judges were Mrs. T. B. Hooks,
' Mrs. H. O. Jones and Mrs. C. D. Ter-!
rell. When their votes were handed'
' in Miss Horne had won the coveted'
place.
, Her artistic interpretation of “Polka
s de la Reine,” by Raff, gave evidence of
the careful training she has received,
I from Miss Louise Chapman. The same
composition having won a piano in a
, contest at Brenau several years ago.
Americus is justly proud of her jun-
, ior representative in the High school
meet to be held in this city.
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GORDON BROOKS, JR.,
. ( ELEHRATES BIRTHDAY.
» Gordon Brooks, Jr., the six-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Brooks,
■ celebrated his birthday this afternoon
with a delightful party, which was at-
► tended by about a dozen of his young
friends. The color scheme of pink
and white was Observed for the event,
( and after the delicious ice course, the
young wolks enjoyed an egg hunt. The
* guests were Nona Claire and Etta
Ruth Brooks, Raymond Morris, Doro-
} thy Morris, Charles Smith. Melvin
Jones, Floyd Braswell, Wade St. John,
Coleman Speer, Florence Speer, Ma
bel and Bertha Sawyer, Charles Bost
wick, Frances Franberry, Ardel|e
Stanley.
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3 I D. (’. WILL MEET
AT CARNEGIE LIBRARY
The Americus chapter of the U. D.
C. will meet Tuesday afternoon at
t 3:30 o'clock at the Carnegie Library.
The winners of the two U. D. C. med
als for the best essays by Miss Macey
Gray and Miss Loulie Howard will be
ready by these interesting young la
-3 dies. The members are urged to at
tend.
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JEANNETTE RANKIN,FIRST
1 WOMAN MEMBER OF HOUSE
SATED IN CONGRESS TODAY
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WASHINGTON, D. C., April 2.
Representative Jeannette Rankin, of
ft LCAZAD |
fl I HEATREI\ |
Monday 5 & 10c 0
Paramount Picture
Blanche Sweet, in
“THE EVIL EYE”
Five acts
Tuesday 5 & 10c I
Metro Pictures
Viola Dana, in
“THE MORTAL SIN”
Five acts
Wednesday
Matinee 5 & 10c Nlgbt 10& 15c I
Triangle Pictures
Louise Glaum, Dorothy ■
Dalton and Chas. Ray ■
—IN—
“THE WEAKER SEX”
Five acts
and a 2 reel comedy
Montana, when she walked into the
house today, marked the formal change
from the old to the new order of
things. She invaded a floor that has
tetr, kept sacred to man ever since its
inception.
Naturally her etrance was regard
ed with trepidation as well as with
interest, mostly by the republican
ones, with whom she must fraternize
more or less, by reason of her party
affiliations.
There was some speculation as to
whether she would venture into the re
publican cloakroom. It was generally
decided she would not, unless she har
dened herself to the accessories—
swear words and mingled grades of
tobacco smoke from the 5-cent weed
or briar pipe to the perfectos and cig
arettes.
Miss Rankin’s entrance, incidental
ly, was expected somewhat to cleanse
the debate in the house, which on oc
casion, in the case of backwoods ora
tors, has been sometimes indecent.
NlftflKETT 4 KENT
IS NEW AUTO SHOP
Markett & Kent is the new' firm to
do garage work and general repairing
of automobiles. They are now next
door to the Times-Recorder in con
nection with the rooms of the Hooks
Motor Co. Both Messrs. Markett and
Kent are well known in the automo
bile life of the city, and many friends
predict much success for them iin
their new business.
SOUTHERN CATTLEMEN’S
ASSOCIATION BEGINS MEET
ATLANTA, Ga., April 2.—Drawing
live stock men and farmers from Vir
ginia to Texas, including osme of the
foremost breeders and authorities on
cattle raising in the country, the fifth
annual convention of the Southern
Cattlemen’s association will convene
i; Atlanta on next Wednesday, April
4. for a three-day session.
In addition to a very interesting and
helpful program of addresses, the
convention will take steps to make a
systematic investigation of the South’s
resources in beef cattle to determine
the extent to which this section can
provision itself when the United States
goes into the war, this problem being
one of the gravest concern to the na
tional authorities in Washington.
PROPERTY OWNERS ARE
URGED TO TAKE NOTE
The tax books of the city of Ameri
cus will be opened at the office of the
undersigned on April Ist to July Ist,
and all property owners are requested
to make their returns. The matter is
important. E. J. ELDRIDGE,
2-ts Clerk and Treasurer.
OPEN MEETING OF A. S. CUTTS
CAMP, SONS OF VETERANS
You are invited to attend a meeting
of the A. S. Cutts Camp, Sons of Con
federate Veterans, No. 681, at the
courthouse, Tuesday, April 3rd. at 10
o’clock a. m. Election of officers, the
Washington reunion and other import
ant business to come before the meet
ing. We shall expect every member to
be present. E. A. NISBET,
FRANK J. PAYNE, Commander.
Adjutantt.
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
Female Trousers Has Become
A Stern Reality for This Year
BY MARGARET MASON.
The busy housewife pants these days
As she does up the chores,
You see she’s cast her skirts aside
For trouserettes indoors.
NEW YORK, April 2.—ln a class
with the hoary and decrepit mother
in-law joke the one about the ad
vanced female donning the trousers
has done equally long and faithful
service. But lo and behold the latter
wheeze has now ceased to be a joke
and in these days of 1917 become a
stern reality.
Dr. Mary Walker blazed the trail
for the wearing of masculine neither
garments, I believe, but it took a
heap of red tape to keep them on.
Mme. Curie more recently gained the
permission of her government to
wear ’em after a great deal of trou
ble and time, but now everybody’s do
ing it with the greatest ease and non
chalance.
Along with the high cost of living
and other evils', of course, this fem
inine penchant for trousers must he
blamed on the po6r old war. Only
this time it is no evil, but a blessing
in disguise of pants.
With the women forced to take over
the tasks of males in all the fighting
countries, naturally it was meet that
they should take over the cut of their
clothes as well. One can’t very ad
equately oil engines, plow, drive mot
ors and run elevators all done up in
skirts and petticoats.
Sitting on the sidelines, Maiden
America and Matron America as well,
have calmly appropriated, as they do
all imported fashions and fads, those
bifurcated garments ofr their own and
pant no longer merely with emotion
or exertion bht with gingham, denim,
chambray, silk and satin.
By a quaint whimsey of fate it
isn’t the advanced female of the joke
who is now wearing the trouser ef
fects however, but the dear, domestic
little wives and mothers, the “Queens
of the home” and “the housewives of
the hearth.”
As a first aid to baking, brewing,
sweeping and chores of the home in
general, nothing could be neater,
sweeter or fleeter than one of the
new pantalette housedresses.
They are made with a blouse waist,
American Automobiles Have
Made Fortunes Among Spanish
.MADRID. April 2. There are
some curious features of the increase
in trade between Spain and America
which has resulted from the submar
ine war and the cutting of Germany’s
trade with Spain. While American au
tomobiles are having a great boom in
Spain, they have one curious draw
back in not being able to bring along
the American tires, as these are rub
ber and contraband of war, subject to
all kinds of restrictions and regula
tions.
The American auto-trucks are caus
ing a revolution in Madrid along three
distinct lines: first, doing away with
the huge antique carts which labor
along the streets; second, supplanting
the long tandem teams of oxen and
donkeys, covered with jingling bells;
and finally, changing Madrid from one
of the worst paved capitals of Europe
to one of the best. The Spaniards
look with awe at the disappearance of
their ancient methods before the
march of progress.
A complication has arisen over the
shipment of American meat to Spain.
I Tbs Spanish ships were glad to get
this class of freight, but the ships
were not provided with the necessary
refrigerating plant. As this is essen
i tial for shipping meat long distances,
I many Spanish ships are being over
' hauled to put in the modern cold-stor
age equipment so as to handle this
new class of American product. Once
equipped this way, fresh Spanish fruit
will be going to America, and fresh
American meat coming to Spain.
American flat-irons and other elec
trical novelties are now being used for
the first time, and the Spaniards say
these articles are so much better fin
ished than the German goods that
used to come here that they will hold
the market permanently even if Ger
man trade gets a footing again after
the war. Even American drugstores
with American medicines have made
their appearance along the streets of
Madrid.
Besides stepping into the place of
France and Italy In supplying Amer
ica with antiques, curios, etc., the war
is also having the effect of giving Spain
a good deal of the American trade in
perfumes, to’let articles and soaps,
which used to go from France in large
quantities. Some of these articles,
such as castile soap, have their origin
here in Castile.
> with sailor collar and loose, three
quarter sleeves. They have a neat
little belt, button down the front and'
there are two dandy, handy big patch
pockets, one on each hip. Thus fhr
they are no different than the little
old last year’s model house dress.
But below the pockets comes the great
divide into cunning little trousettes
that clasp the ankles with an elastic
headed frill or else hang straight
with a stitched band of the materiall
bounding them, like an honest to
goodness regular male trouser cuff.
On some of the prettiest models this
band around the bottom of the pantel
ettes like the belt, collar, pocket and
sleevecuffs, is of contrasting shade of
material. These sensible and saucy
suits come in chambray, gingham,
denim, and khaki in pink or blue or
white or tan.
Then there are the regulation over
alls, the female of the species re
sembling much the male. These are
of course for the more strenuous
walks of workaday feminine life.
Skating overalls are cutting some
ice th'ese days too, let me tell you.
Fair skaters find they can cut a much
better figure eight or any old figure
at all in the smart new tailored trous
ers of novelty suiting and tweed cut
generously wide with the big flap
pockets on each hip and cunning sus
penders of the same material holding
them securely in place.
I Milady of elegant leisure is panting
to be in in a trousered class with her
sisters the sporting girl and the busy
housewife. So she affects the straight,
black silk trousers of the Chinese wo
man, topped with a gaily embroidered
Chinese coat for her “robe intimate,”
or the full trousers of a Turkish tro
phy under a flowing coat of silk.
Wearing trousers has indeed become
such a fascinating habit that the 1917
female cannot even doff them at night
and so she dons; when the shades of
night have fallen down and the win
dow shades are down as well, cutay
, little suits of pajamas with feminine
V cut decollete and short sleeved up
pers and masculine, straight cut ankle
length lowers.
So you see it keeps lovely woman
panting twenty-four hours a day to
keep up with these strenuous times.
It is in the American demand for
their art treasures that the Spanish
are taking their chief interest. Buyers
for the big American department
stores are now coming here for the
first time instead of to Florence, Mil
an, Paris and other art centers from
which it would be risky to ship art
treasures now..
America w r ould have received a num
ber of the paintings of the great Span
ish master Goya if it had not been for
a recent complication at the New
York custom house. The pictures ac
tually went to New York, were held on
the pier for some time because of ir
regularities in making out papers, and
were finally sent ack here unopened.
The owner had meantime made two
trips to New York, but at last gave up
the shipment as hopeless. One of the
pictures was Goya’s study of Madame
Haro, another his Virgin painted on a
panel of wood, and a third a peasant
dance, on wood.
Another artist is now taking to
America a Titian, called Salidad (sol
itude). The value recorded is 500,000
pesetas.
THE ALCAZAR
Blanche Sweet. the ever popular-
Lasky star, who will be seen at the
Alcazar Theatre Monday in her latest
success, "The Evil Eye,” a thrilling
drama written especially for her by
the noted author, Hector Turnbull, and
prepared for the screen by George D.
Proctor, has had a promotion.
Miss Sweet has played servant girls,
nurses, crooks, etc., but now rises in
the social scale and is seen as a phy
sician, practicing her profession
among a lot'of superstitution and sus
picious Mexicans.
The story of "The Evil Eye” has to
do with the adventures of Katherine
Torrance, a young woman doctor who
is called in to help suppress a dipth
eria outbreak among the workers in
Leonard Sheldon’s vineyard in the
famous wine growing districts of Cal
ifornia. When she arrives at the vine
yard, Sheldon wants her to return im
mediately to the city as he prefers a
man doctor, but Katherine convinces
him that she can handle the work. She
visits the Mexican hovels, prescribes
for the children and cleans up the in
teriors.
Tom Forman, the clever young Las
by leading man, is seen. Others prom
inent in the cast are Walter Long,
Ruth King. Webster Campbell, J.
Parks Jones, William Dale, and other
members of the Lasky all star organ
ization.
PRO-GEHMANS ARE
URGING MEXICO NOW
LAREDO, Tex., April 2.—Travelers
arriving today from Mexico City say
the so-called “civil group,” which is
now urging Gen. Carranza to maintain
strict neutrality toward the United
States, is merely a strongly pro-Ger
man faction that secretly has been
urging Mexico to make war on the
United States.
‘•FAGfiED-IHJT” WOMEN
Will Find a Helpful Suggestion in
This Letter-
Overworked, run-down, “fagged out”
women who feel as though they could
hardly drag about, should profit by
Mrs. Carter’s experience. She says: “I
am the mother of six children and I
got so weak and run-down that I
couldn’t eat anything and it seemed
almost impossible for me to get around
and do my work. I tried different doc
tore’s remedies without benefit. I saw
Vinol advertised so much benefit to
take it. and it has built up my strength
and made me strong and well. I con
sider Vinol the best medicine I have
ever taken, and advise all weak, run
down women and try it.” Mrs. Bessie
Carter, State Road, N. C.
If all the tired, overworked, run
down women in Americus could only
realize how our delicious Vinol, which
contains beef and cod liver peptones,
glycerophosphates, supplies the vital
elements necessary to build up blood
and strength, we wouldn’t be able to
supply the demand.
Hooks’ Parmacy. Also at the lead
ing drug stores n all Georgia towns.
SxMcotS.atve>
REMOVES SKIN AFFECTIONS
On* package prove* it. Sold and
guaranteed by above Vinol druggist.
AMEKILPS FISH H IIVSTFH M.IHMI
’ ————
216 FORSYTH ST., WEST
Phone 778 N. BOLDE & CO., Prop.
iVe wish to announce the opening of our up-to date
Sanitary Fish Market
Come and look over our stock.
REFRIGERATORS
REFRIGERATORS
We now have on display one of the nicest and
most complete assortment of Baldwin and Leanord
Cleanable Refrigerators.
We have them in the Porcelain and White Enam
el Linings, also with the separate Water Cooler at
tachment.
Call and let us show our line while the stock is
complete in all of the different sizes.
s.sum TiTrnjture iunpini
MAFTETTS
NEW
PRINCESS
SKIRTS
$1.50
-T054.98
$4.98
New shipment
fresh from the
market, in plain
stripes,poeker dots
and in the latest
patterns.
J. D. NIAFFETT
Hamilton’s Store
Americus, - Georgia
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