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IIEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA, GA.. SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1013
Sim SLIGHTED
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SHIS BRITTAIN
State Superintendent of Educa
tion Feels Southern Literary
Men Have Been Hurt.
MANY DESERVE A PLACE
Only Poe and Harris Placed in
Book Written by Columbia
University Man.
Modern Society Too Sheeplike, Thinks Martin
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Americans Do Not Think Independently Enough
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STILL MENACE
*amu
Hiccnrdo Martin, the not*‘d t<*noi\ who discusses the effect of
ht-s on independent thought.
fads
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art*
seem
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The voice of M. L. Brittain. Geor
gia State Superintendent of Schools,
is added to the charge* of partialit>
and discrimination against the South
that is being made by Southern edu
cators generally regarding Brander
Mathews’ text book "An Introduc
tion of the Study of American Litera
ture."
The South, thinks Mr Brittain, has
not been given its Just due in the
book.
"Dr. Matthews has not treated the
subject of Southern literature fair
ly,” he said yesterday. "It seem® that
he Is Incapable of doing so, as any
other Northerner 1s.
"But then.” he qualified, and smiled,
"that may be only the way we feel
about It."
Dr. Matthews, the Columbia Uni
versity professor, who Is considered
generally the leading figure In Amer
ican belles lettres, recently published
hl» book. It was balled as the last
word In Its subject, and was adopted
in many public schools everywhere.
Then the South. In many parts cf
which the book was accepted, began
to be sorry, and protest against the
tone of the volume has come from
many quarters. The voice of the
Georgia State Superintendent is only
one of a number.
Not Adopted in Georgia.
The book has not been adopted in
any of the schools of Georgia of
which he Is aware. Mr. Brittain said.
Although not necessarily looking to
ward adoption, it has been examined
by a number of teachers in the course
of their effort to keep up with the
latest publications along educational
lines.
The criticism by Mr. Brittain Is
that the author has made but an In
significant presentation of Souther.)
literature, with the result that chil
dren in the schools where the book
is used will go out without a fair
knowledge of the true place of South
ern writers.
The charge by Mr. Brittain came
yesterday at the same time ns a
widely published attack on the book
by Mrs. Thomas Randolph Leigh,
state historian of the Alabama Divis
ion of the pnlted Daughters of the
Confederacy. Mrs. Leigh's atta <\
was bitter.
"It is a misnomer." she declared,
according to dispatches from N# v
York that bore the story of her un
sparing criticism. "It bears the title
of a book concerning 'American* lit
erature. i consider that the mental
food for our children should receive
as rigid inspection as their physical
\ food. For that reason I call a ha.t
Ion the use of Professor Mathews'
Vext book, in that It Is not what its
title purports it to be."
Mrs. Leigh resents the exclusion of
Poe's poems, when Ha Heck’s and
Drake's are quoted. She condemns
Dr. Matthews for mentioning Bet on
Thompson, and forgettIn'- Audubon,
and for the neglect accorded Joel
Chandler Harris. Sidney Lanier, Hen
ry Timrod Simms, and others who n
she terms "Southern sclntlllants."
Only Two Southerner*.
"Professor Mathews’ book,' she
charged, "contains 28 portraits of lit
erary men. and of this number only
two Southerners are represented—
Edgar Allen Poe and Joel Chandler
Harris. The picture of the latter id
#•» small it may be covered with the
thumb. Though the book contains 269
pages only two short sentences are
devoted to that inimitable Georgian,
whose unforgettable figure of Uncle
Remus will sit by the fireside on w in
ter nights and entertain countless
children and grownups years after
moths have devoured the 269 pages
written by the partisan professor,
who gives a list of 2R8 literary con
tributions by Americans, among
which are found only 24 from the
pens of Southerners.
"Nowhere in Professor Matthews
textbook appears the patrician coun
tenance of Sidney Lanitr. although
Lanier’s and Poe’s writings form the
highest course given in the Engli i
departments of some of America’s
and England’s greatest universities.
Not a single poem of that gifted Lt-
nier is called by name.
Whittier Ha* Big Place.
"On the other hand," she continue#,
"seventeen pages are devoted to the
plebeian, Whittier, whose clumsy p»n
ao often stumbled and fell as he
mixed indifferent verse with aboli
tion ribble with such rancor that his
own fellow citizens rose up as an in
dignant mob and sacked and burned
his printing office. Professor Mat
thews, after using 17 pages of writ
ten notes, says: ‘It is the hard fat •
of nearly all writing done to aid a
c.ause that it is killed by its own suc
cess—so interest in these polenoj
writings is now mainly historical.’ "
While agreeing with Mrs.Leigh In
the general charge aganst the tex
book. Mr. Brttain stops at her attack
on Whittier, and takes up an argu
ment in defense of the New Englan i
poet.
“Whittier has too high a stand
among our people to be dismissed in
tanner.’’ he said.
1s no doubt." he con
front our viewpoint tit•
if Modem Fads on the
Whole Country.
Rlccardo Martin, most distinguish
ed tenors, who was heard in At
lanta during the season Just ended,
consented before leaving to give the
Sunday American his views on
prevalent In America, which he
aiders have a powerful effect
modern civilization.
"The eajse with which fad»
created in this country would
to a casual observer to indicate that
superficiality controls sound thought,"
said Martin. "For instance, our new
styles of dress are ridiculed at first.
Only the extremists adopt them and
through their persistency the public
at large, in the course of a few
months, generally succumb to the* dic
tates of Dame Fashion and every
one dresses approximately alike if
purs© permits.
"In a similar way half fledged en
terprises and novel ideas spread and
grow, needing only the advertisement
of popularity. That which is new or
up to date is most desired by the
fashionables in every city and old
Ideas are discarded over night. Fads
seem immune from Judgment as to
their merits. Novelty is their pass
port and there seems to be no strong
er recommendation."
Cigarette* Hurt Voice.
The tenor lounged In a low. broad
chair and puffed now and then at a
dark hued panatella, which he de
clared was habitually his single smoke
of the day. Moderate cigar smok
ing, he replied to a question. did
not impair his voice, but cigarettes,
he said, were decidedly harmful.
“While I would scarcely go so far
as to say that whatever is popular
is right in the public view,” contin
ued Martin, "I do believe that too
many people are blind adherents to
the unfortunate maxim. 'When in
Rome do as the Romans do.’ It is
surprising how many persons appear
to take these words literally and fol
low the advice with implicit faith
that such Is the safe cour t'. Thin
is a very dangerous policy, for giv
en an uge of unrestraint and degen
eracy. or a tendency in this direc
tion, it would mean that every indi
vidual would join the march to ex
tinction and oblivion. No matter
how dangerous the fad, it would be
embraced by young and old of all
classes, because all follow the exam-*
pie of the well to do, who exert a
prime influence over popular fancy.
“Nothing illustrates the indulgent
attitude of modern society quite so
forcibly as the success of the turkey
trot and similar dances. Despite the
attacks of the clergy and many well-
known society women and thinkers
of various classes, the offensive dan
at the outset attracted young people
of both sexes. Because it was the
latest thing it seemed smart, and. In
the exercise of choice between two
evils, namely, being regarded as con
servative and out of date or frowned
upon by their elders, they brooked
the latter, clinched madly and start
ed the whole world scolding, watch
ing and grinning. And now staid
couples of 60 years are teaching it
to their friends, and dancing has be
come more popular than ever before.
Fickle Fashion Saving Grace.
"Where are we coming to?" Mar
tin knocked the ashes from^hls eigar
into a tray, “Why, don’t suppose for
one minute that the fickleness of
Dame Fashion hasn’t Its saving
grace. Would it not be most un
natural if an utter extreme In danc
ing were to follow in a season or
two? The ballroom contingent will
be back at round dances and holding
each other at arm's length again be
fore they know it. Let some neatly
dressed couples, say two or three,
start in arm’s length dance at New
port this summer and the whole
country will all be doing it by De
cember. To put it colloquially, our
young swells cannot stand having any
one ’put one over.’"
The singer was asked what he con
sidered the cause of Atlanta's sus
ceptibility to fad.
“The atmosphere of enterprise—
progress, so fast thfit we do not have
time to weigh and reflect. If time
is money the world over, it must be
ten times as valuable here aa it is
anywhere else The tendency to live
beyond means, the common effort to
appear prosperous, the atmosphere of
freedom and equality and the conges
tion .of the popal&tioiA together mili
tate against conservatism.
"We will learn probably by our
own bitter experience. The youth
who is prodigal and spends bis earn
ings on trivial things, living too fast
and Drinking of material possessions
and excitement rather than nobit
achievement, some day learns his fol
ly. Fortunately better judgment
comes with years and he finds out
that he can wander back on the safe
road. When it comes to a consider
ation of some of our cheap amuse
ments. silly fashions and wild ex
travagances, America seems like the
wayward youth.
Powerful Tradition*.
"There are great and powerful tra
ditions In this country which despite
the rapidly changing population stir
our citizens to patriotic and sacrific
ing endeavor wheii the occasion calls.
It is to be hoped that great calami
ties will not be needed in order to
put us face to face with realities.
We have had awful disasters |n the
last few months sufficient to stir the
consciences of every one.
The greatest thing to be feared is
pessimism It gives reign to reckless
waste and viciousness and is opposed
to self respect. There is so much good
being done throughout ‘ the country
and all over, the world that only ig
norance can be responsible for a dis
belief in the constant betterment jf
civilization. Of course there are oc
casional setbacks in a locality, but the
tide of opinion is strong. The press
is mighty.
“There is comfort in the reflection
that our population is huge, and when
w e see one class getting rampant over
a new fad another class i? devoted
to an entirely different custom. There
are man> ''inflicting sentiments and
theories in cosmopolitan Atlanta. In-
C OUNTESS G I Z Y C K A,
former Chicago girl,
who made Washington society
gasp when she placed crest on
her hosiery.
Drug Condemned by Civilized
World Finds Its Way Into
Every Country.
Special Exhibit Palace to Be
Devoted to This World
Absorbing Subject.
they will think alike and the less they
dress alike the less they will think
alike.
Too Little Thinking.
“The trouble with our voters, our
leaders of fashion, our physicians and
others is that there is not enough In
dependent thinking, and if we were to
help the individuality of each person
in a community by allowing him to
dress as most becomes him, despite
the efforts of cloak and suit makers
to economize in styles, we would open
the gates to much valuable new
thought. Every one should have his
own, peculiar kind of clothing. He
should be permitted to wear anything
decent that he chooses for hlmseif.
instead of being subjected to rude
stares, mean criticisms and open de
rision. Our conventionalism in dress
in the last analysis is villainous nar
row minded ness
"I*do not believe one should be al
lowed to wear apparel that would ob
struct progress In the streets or take
up too much room generally, but I
am heartily in favor of such leniency
as will permit men and women to
dress in a more hygenic and comfort
able way. Our manner of dressing is
ludicrous. I’m nut referring merely
to tight skirts, which prevent proper
walking; men and women alike have
been wearing pinching shoes for gen
erations, which do more harm to the
body than tight skirts. Tight corsets
do the human race a great deal of
harm, but high cut. tight fitting vests
and too many clothes, added to over
heated rooms, produce results almost
as deplorable.
“Modern civilization needs scien
tific, sanitary, psychological dressers,
men and women to preach the gospel
of proper clothing—clothing fit for
each and all of us, guaranteed to
match the complexion, fit the form,
and protect the body; enable us to
walk, ride or jump, if need be. and be
properly distinctive in deference to
individuality. These clothes mission
aries should go Into every nook and
corner at the four historical corners
of the earth and spread the glad tid
ings of sensible suits.
Choose Own Styles.
"Every now and then some writer
comes out for a readoption of knick
erbockers, silk stockings and ruffles
for men. What is the use of it? Some
of the wearers of this picturesque
garb would look superb, but quite as
many would want to hide in hallways
and cellars as soon as an attractive
girl approached alone the street. We
should all dress exactly as we choose
and as best becomes us, rather than
submit to the styles dealt out by self-
imposed, money making censors, who
are none other than the manufactur
ers themselves. They should cater
to us rather than we to them.
"I might add that I think a ceitain
uniformity in full dress is desirable,
especially on the part of one sox at
least. As it is now the black suits
and white expanse of shirt of the men
afford a good background for the vari
colored dresses of the women. For
informal dressing, however. I consider
that individuality should have full
reign. The idea of people dressing
according to their vocation, so far as
applied to practical ends and the bod
ily convenience and comfort of indi
viduals. is well founded. Those whose
occupations entail largely politeness
and attention to the majority should
be'clad uniformly, but the majority
should not be thus restricted.
“What man does not feel a sense
of weakness and guilt when he buys
a hat with a funny little bow at the
rear like the propeller of an aero
plane simply because a lot of other
men are wearing such? What after
all is the value of appearing up to
date when you pass among crowds of
strangers—-or among intimate friends?
Always Look Well.
If nobody looked fashionable nobody
would toe puffed up about his appear
ance or be slighted by the superior
appointments of his neighbor. If ev
ery one dressed as best suited him.
regardless of prevailing fad. he would
always look well and there would be
no vain, unceasing effort to keep pace
with some one else who has more of
the material possessions of life. The
question resolves itself ultimately to
one of mere imitation—the enemy to
individuality. To the weak imita
tion may be necessary, to be sure, but
what is the use of openly admitting
weakness? Most of us will have to
plead guilty."
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t in
Woman Beats Flirt
With His Own Cane
Mrs. John Matthews, of Garrison.
Routs Annoyer in Short Order
With Severe Drubbing.
NEW YORK May 10. -Attacked by
a flirt In Croton yesterday Mrs. John
Matthews put him to rout by whack
ing him over the head with his own
^ane.
Mrs Matthews, who lives In Garri
son, was visiting in Peekskltl. While
on her way with her young niece.
Elsie Mllliot. to view the waterfall at
Croton Dam a man with a gray eult
otTered himself as an escort.
She reproved him. nut he followed
her. occasionally prodding her with
his cane. She turned, and seizing it.
struck hi.n over the head. He tie 1,
leaving his cane and crushed hat be
hind.
DYE ON DOLL’S RED SHOES
CAUSES YOUNG BABY'S END
ST. PAUL. May 10.—A tiny red shoe
on the foot of a baby’s find doll to
day caused the death of Robert, the
six-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs
S. \Y Wicks. Poisonous dye which
faded from the little shoe was swal
lowed be the infart, causing death.
Mr. Wicks took the doll home to
the baby Saturday afternoon. The
child gurgled with delight and. baby
like. put its tongue to the brilliantly
Janitors Fighting
for Waste Paper
Custodian Wants to Take Special
Privilege Away in Illinois
State House.
SPRINGFIELD. ILL.. May 10.—
Franklin McCombs, of Chicago, new
custodian of the State House, has
come into collision with the State’#
janitors in the Capitol.
In consequence the Legislature may
be asked to specify who shall receive
the money accruing through tlie sale
of waste paper that accumulates in
the State House. Hitherto the jani
tors have collected and sold it. re
taining the $20 or $30 i month that ii
brought. Mr. McCombs instituted a
now practice. He has the janitors
collect the paper ard put it in a base
ment room, where it is baled on a
newly installed machine, for sale.
The now custodian, whose salary is
$3,600 a year, claims the right to the
proceeds. The janitors have appealed
to several legislate rs for a bill giving
them th rt waste
Mr.
and Mrs Wicks r.<
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
COEDS RUN A LUNCHROOM
CHAMPAIGN. ILL.. May 10.—Uni-
wrsity of Illinois coeds*, instead of
studying French and music, are rur.-
| nlng a lunch room. They have opened
I a cafeteria in the
Air
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itta
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While
of Dr.
woman’s building
xperience in lunch
■t is not comm* r-
bc declared. S.u-
» seats at noon.
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By JONATHAN WINFIELD.
WASHINGTON, May 10.—When ali
ihe civilized nations in the world con
demn, and by process of law provide
for, the exclusion of a certain article
of any sort from commerce and that
article still finds its way about the
world, seemingly with ease, and cer
tainly in large quantities, the situa
tion becomes interesting.
This is the state of affairs with re
gard to opium. In spite of the fact
that Uhina, the country of greatest
production, has decreed against the
production of the drug and against
its domestic commerce and exporta
tion and that all other civilized na-,
tlons have forbidden importation and
commerce In it and on top of thes*e
provisions have prohibited the use by
any person for any purpose whatso
ever of the forbidden article, opium
is grown, exported, transported, sold
and consumed almost everywhere. The
Secretary of the Treasury in his last
annual report said of opium:
"It is of great importance that Con
gress should give its attention to the
opium situation in this country; and
do at least all that has been proposed
by the concert of the State and Treas
ury Departments. The situation is
horrible The smuggling is very great
and is carried on by methods and
under circumstances that make the
administration of the law most dif
ficult, inadequate and unpleasant. The
situation is even worse than? the oleo
margarine one. It is extremely de
moralizing; and is largely defeating
the enlightened policy of the Gov
ernment with respect to the opium
traffic and to the opium habit—and
preventing America from doing its
full share of a great international
duty.
Results Reported to Congress.
"Much consideration has been
given to the practical problems by
our Department and the State De
partment, and the results to date have
been reported to Congress. With all
we can do—and much, of course, is
being done in the way of repressing
and punishing the illegal traffic—the
policy of the Government and the
wishes of the people cannot be car
ried out with any degree of thorough
ness with the laws as they are now.
I hope that Congress will become ac
tively interested in this opium prob
lem, at any rate to the extent of giv
ing to the executive departments the
laws which have been asked."
The Secretary was extremely well
qualified to report on this matter as
he is the head of the customs organ
ization of the nation and receives all
reports of smuggling discovered. The
Secret Service als<o comes under the
Secretary of the Treasury, and, there
fore, he receives direct and full re
ports on smuggling cases detected.
From this vantage point, he says,
that the situation is horrible and
therefore it may safely be conceded
to be so. Congress, however, has 1
been dormant as far as opium is con
cerned. No new legislation has been
put Into effect for some time and the
smuggling goes on just the same. It
is extremely doubtful whether the
smuggling of opium ever can be en
tirely stopped. It is* an article of
commerce which is too precious hoth
to the dealer and to the consumer,
for the traffic in it to be utterly fore
gone simply because of man-made
rules and regulation against it.
Cupidity Excites Dealers.
As for the dealers in the drug, cu
pidity chiefly excites them. Most
of them are users of opium, but also,
have enough to sell and the rich re
wards which such trafficking brings
are strong inducements to risk much.
A small package of opium will bring
hundreds of dollars, a man may con
ceal a small fortune in the drug upon
his person. In the old days when
smuggling was rife on the West Coast
of this country, opium was made up
into little packages which easily could
be carried by a man without attract
ing too much attention. These pack
ages were valued at $300 each.
Practically all of the opium used is
raised in China, in the poppy fields,
for opium Is extracted from the poppy.
Many years ago this opium raising
was one of the first industries of the
land. Great fields of poppies covered
the landscapes in every province and
the output of the drug was tremen
dous Immense quantities were used
by the Chines but its use even in
China has now become illegal. The
new Chinese republic is taking dras
tic means to suppress the practice.
* English Influence First.
English influence in China first put
a check to the raising of the opium
poppy. So much of the stuff was
being shipped to England that the
latter nation represented to the Chi
nese that the exportation of opium
to great Britain would have to be
stopped. Although the first to take
this step, it Is said that more opium
is used in England to-day than in any
other country of the Occident. Lon
don has many opium dens where the
pipe may be procured at a price which
makes the Chinese barber or laun-
dryman, or whatever he professes to
be, willing to risk the law.
A favorite way of getting opium
out of China is for the Chinese junk
men to smuggle it aboard their little
lateen-sailed. flitting craft and sail
down to the Philippines. There it !?
secreted, through the co-operation cf
the proper parties, sufficiently bribed,
in the huge bales of Manila hemp,
exported from that port to all parts
of the world. The bales are given
distinguishing marks and are kept
track of carefully throughout their
journeys. ,
The diff< rent means employed in
the smuggling of opium are so many
that even the Government secret serv
ice agents have been unable to dis
cover ail of them. The Chinese are
extremely ingenius, and naturally the
tradesmen, dealing ir such valuable {
wares, and the opium smokers who!
crave the drug, are capable of devis-!
ing brilliant scheme fir the evasion*
of the officers of the law.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 10—The
practical application of the princi
ples of social economy which have
been put to such significant usage
in the building of the Panama Canal,
will be made a special exhibit of the
Panama- Pacific International exposi
tion which is to be held at San Fran
cisco in 1916.
W hen the United States undertooa
to build the canal it was recognized
that the Canal Zone must be habita
ble before the real work of construc
tion could be begun. The first step
was to rid the two terminal cities.
Colon and Panama, of the yellow
fever which had meant death to 30
per cent of those attacked by rhe
scourge. The work that has been
done in the Canal Zone exemplifies
the principles of hygiene, the branch
of Social Economy which has now
become such an important part in
the curriculum of all schools and col
leges throughout the country. The
following figures show very clearly
and definitely the results of the ef
forts of the expert medical staff that
worked under the direction of Colonel
George Goethals, chief engineer of
the Canal.
From July 1st, 1904, to June 1st
1906, 77 cases of yellow’ fever origi
nated on the Isthmus; June 1906,
62 cases; in July 42; in August 27;
in September 6; October 3; in No
vember 2 and in December only 1.
During 1906 there w’as only one case
of jthe fever on the Isthmus at Colon,
and since that time there has not
been a single case.
Campaign Against Malaria.
The campaign against malaria was
conducted on equally successful lines.
The work resulted in reducing the
number of malaria cases treated in
hospitals from 6.83 per cent of the
working force in per month in 1906
to 1.53 per cent of the working force
per month in 1911 and the death from
malaria among employees from 233
in 1906 to 47 in 1911. The Isthmus
now is practically free from the
disease. The maintenance of health
among the employees at work on the
Canal has been secured through the
measures taken to provide the em
ployees with •comfortaible quarters
and wholesome food and recrea
tion.
To carry out the prevention meas
ures against the terrible scourges
which retarded the great work, a
force of about 1,400 is employed.
More than 700 are employed in the
two terminal hospitals at Colon and
Arcon, where 30,000 were treated
and cured during 1911. The total
appropriations for the Department
of Sanitation for the eight years of
its existence has been $12,900;000. Of
this amount $380,000 has been spent
on the sanitation of about a hundred
square milts of territory with a
population of 90,000; that is to say,
about one cent a day per person.
It is the application of these prac
tically recently formulated principles
that has enabled the work to pro
ceed at such a rapid pace and with
such remarkable success.
Consequently, the Social Economy
department at the Panama-Paciflc
Exposition, will be one of the most
interesting of all. for Will it not dis
play to the world, among othe:
things, the means by which the canal
has been constructed? Without
health and proper social equipment
the great work could never have been
completed. Social efforts are being
made by the Exposition authorities
to give to the world the most com
prehensive exhibit of matters per
taining to the new study that has
been presented.
Comprehensive Display.
As a matter of fact, no exposition
has* had such an opportunity for so
comprehensive a display as has the
Panama-Pacific International expo
sition, of which the object is the
celebration of the completion of the
canal—a work which could have been
effected only under the conditions
which the Department of Sanitation
created.
Tlie presentation of exhibits rela
tive to the study of Social Economy,
will be made in one of the fourteen
main palaces now' being erected by
the exposition company at Harbor
View where on the . holes of the bay
of San FTaneisco, the world's fair will
be held in 1916.
The Department of Social Economy
has been divided into 15 groups, in
cluding 52 classes. One group is de
voted to agencies for the study, in
vestigation and betterment of so
cial and economic conditions. This
group will deal with public bureaus,
offices, commissions, etc., with full
detailed examples of the work of
societies, museums, commercial or
ganizations. social reform associa
tions, churches, educational con
gresses and literature, surveys and
special community investigations.
Other groups will present the re
sults of work in economic resources
and organizations, demography, eu
genics. hygiene, alcohol, drugs and
tobacco, labor, co-operative institu
tions. banks and provident institu
tions. charities and correction, pre
paration. enactment and enforcement
of legislation, nomination and elec
tion systems, public utilities and
their regulation, municipal advance
ment. recreation and town and city
planning.
The hygiene group will be given
the greatest amount of space in the
exhibit. It will deal with vital
statistics: grow th and nutrition, food,
hygiene of infancy ami childhood,
communicable diseases, state and
municipal hygiene, public health
work and health laboratories, car;?
of the sick, nursing, care of defec
tives. life sav’ing. industrial hygiene,
occupational diseases, special
hygiene. traffic and transporta
tion. military, naval, tropic, mental,
sex and dental hygiene, educational
publicity.
THIEF RETURNS LOOT;
TOO CHEAP. HE DECLARES
MINNEAPOLIS. May 10.—Because
a camera he had stolen from E. P.
Beehler was worth less than $6. a
thief to-day returned the property
with an apologetic note stating that
he was in the grand larceny business
and did not want to be guilty of
petit larceny.
Countess Gizycka
Puts Crest on Hose
Washington Belles Also Rush to Her
aldry for Stocking Ornaments.
Crests Inset in Lace.
WASHINGTON, May 10— Countess
Gizycka, the chief faddist of Wash
ington society, has a “new one"—
nothing more or less than to wear
your family crest inset in real lace
on your dainty silk stocking.
This is an expensive fad and will
add a pretty penny to the cost of
milady’s wardrobe, as each w’ill have
to have separate lace made to order
and inset in the hose by an expert.
The Countess, who was Miss Elinor
Patterson, of Chicago, had hers done
in Paris, and she sprung the inno
vation on society at the Horse Show
yesterday. She wore a simple gown
of white cross-barred muslin, slightly
slashed at the ankles to display a
dainty white suede shoe and white
silk hose with the crest inset of
filet lace.
Society gasped and then rushed off
to books of heraldry to got the de
sign to be worked in their stockings.
Given Champagne
Instead of Dress
Chicago Woman Sues Husband That
Tried to Tantalize Her
For Divorce.
CHICAGO, May 10.—“When I asked
for an new’ dress he offered me
a bottle of champagne.
“He came home with the choicest
delicacies and wines. He would then
force me to leave the house. When
I returned I found the food and wine
untouched. He simply wished to tor
ment me."
The above was charged by Mrs.
Nellie Newcomb Burton in a bill for
separate maintenance filed yesterday
in Superior Court against Robert C.
Burton. Mr. Burton is a member of
the pioneer Burton family. He is a
grandson of the late Stiles Burton
and one of the heirs of his estate.
He is said to be worth $500,000.
He is a cousin of Burton Holmes,
the lecturer. Mrs. Stiles Burton, who
is 92 years of age. resides at the
Congress Hotel with her daughter,
Mrs. Ira Holmes.
“We were married in Waukegan
on December 28, 1908," states Mrs.
Burton. “Mr. Burton has been ad
dicted to the use of opiates for many
years, and while under the influence
of drugs would often beat me. 0?i
October 1, 1912, ho came home and
without provocation knocked me
down and beat me. A week later he
threatened to kill me and brandished
a knife at me. I was forced to flee
from our home at 3236 Calumet Av
enue and seek refuge with relatives
On October 15 he beat .ne so severely
that I was bruised about the body
and was ill for several day9.
"Mr. Burton desires the company
of chorus girls more than he does
mine. I have had no new clothes f:>r
several years. When I asked for a
new dress he offered me champagne
“At times when he is under the
influence of drugs he imagines that
he is J. Pierpont Morgan and berate#
those who contradict him.”
MISSOURI MAN JILTS
GIRL; MARRIES SISTER
SPRINGFIELD. MO.. May 10.—Out-
witting an angry father and a Sheriff.
Jamgs Johnson was married at West
Plains to Bertha Malone. 15, a sis
ter of the giri to whom Johnson, it
is said, was to have been married
w ithin a week. The couple were mar
ried just as Sheriff Davis appeared
on the scene.
GIVEN MUCH HELP
Crocker Party Will Sail on Diana
in July From Sidney, Nova
Scotia.
NEW YORK, May 10.—Prepara
tions for the Crocker land expedition,
which is to start from New York
early In July under the auspices of
the American Museum of Natural
History, are rapidly progressing and
several contributions have been re
ceived from scientific societies and
individuals for the exploration fund,
which now’ has reached a total of
about $46,000.
The navy has detailed an electrL*
clan and a wireless operator in addi
tion to its previous assignment of
Ensign Fitzhugh Green to the car
tographic and magnetic work of the
expedition and the hydrographic of
fice and naval observatiory are loan
ing a number of surveying and other
instruments.
The University of Illinois has mads
an appropriation which provides for
the addition of a trained zoologist to
the party and Dr. M. C. Tanquary,
a graduate of the university, has
been appointed. Georgetown Univer
sity is loaning a Wiechert seismo
graph for the establishment of a sta*
tion on Flagler Bay, 700 miles furth
er north than an/ other seismograph
station in the world. The Weather
Bureau is providing a full equipment
for a meteorological station on Bache
Peninsula and the Carnegie Institu
tion is to supply the instruments re
quired for magnetic observations. The
expedition will carry an up-to-date
wireless outfit.
Donald B. Ma Millan, who accom
panied Peary on his dash to the north
pole and who was a co-leader with
the late George Borup in the origi
nal proposed Crocker land expedition,
is to head the exploration party,
w’hich will sail from Sidney. Nova
Scotia, in July cn the Diana.
Arctic Race to Find
John Franklin's Body
Captain Peter Bayne Says He Will
Beat Discoverer of Blonde Eski
mos in Reaching Goal.
SEATTLE, May 10.—Captain Peter
Bayne, the explorer, announced to
day that he will head an Arctic expe
dition in an effort to recover the body
of Sir John Franklin.
Captain Bayne claims to know the
location of the explorer’s body r.g
well as the point at which a number
of records were cached.
He declares that he will beat Ste-
fanson, discoverer of the tribe of
blonde Eskimos in his race to Vie
nna.
torialand
GIRL REMAINS CONSTANT
AND WEDS MAN SHE LOVES
GLADSTONE, MICH.. May 10.—In
his young manhood, Michael Babich,
now of this city, wooed and won Miss
Mary Toniac, a comely young girl, in
his native country of Austria. It was
agreed that Babich should come to
America and make a “stake,” and
should then send for the girl, and
they would wed.
Babrleh settled at Gladstone and se
cured a position, but it was not so
easy to make a “stake,” as he had ex
pected. He kept up a correspondence
with his fiancee for a time, but when
he came to the conclusion that he
could not earn enough to wed. he let
the correspondence drop.
Fifteen years passed and people at
Gladstone generally 'thought Babich
had never had a love affair. But they
know now that he did. Babich now
has money, and it occurred to him a
few weeks ago to learn whether the
gir! remained faithful to him. He
wrote and found she was still single
and still loved him
They were married at Gladstone
last week.
To Cure Corns, Callouses
Bunions and Aching Feet'•
The following is said to be the si
ost and quickest cure known
science for an foot ailments: "D
solve two tablespoonfuls of Caloci
compound in a basin of warm v
ter. Soak the feet in this for fu
fifteen minutes, gently rubbing t
sore parts.” The effect is rea
wonderful. All soren<
goes instantly; the f<
feel delightful. Cor
and callouses can
peeled right off. It gh
immediate relief for s<
bunions, sweaty, sme
and aching feet. A
cent box of Calocide
said to be sufficient
cure the worst feet,
works through the poi
and removes the cause of the trouh
Don t waste time on uncertain rerr
dies. Any druggist has Calocide col
pound in stock or he can get it in
few hours from his wholesale hous.
FRECKLES
Don't Hide Them With a Veil;
Remove Them With the Othine
Prescription.
This prescription for the removal
of freckles was written by a prom
inent physician and i9 usually so
successful in removing freckles
and giving a clear, beautiful com
plexion that it is sold bv Jacobs’
Pharmacy under an absolute guar
antee to refund the money if it
fails.
Don’t hide your freckles under a
veil, get an ounce of othine and
remove them. Even the first few
applications should show a won
derful improvement, some of the
lighter freckles vanishing entirely.
Be sure to ask the druggist for
the double strength othine: it is
this that is sold on the money-
back guarantee.