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A Qreat=Qreat=Grandmother Her Ideal
Ft. McPherson’s System of Keep
ing Fighting Men in Good
Humor Successful.
LOVE PLAYS BIG PART
Regular Wears His Heart on His
Sleeve and Wants Sweet
heart Badly.
Confronted, as are military officials
everywhere, with tho problem of how
to decrease desertion! and to foster
contentment among the soldiers, the
authorities at Fort McPherson, At
lanta’s suburban army posit, think
they have solved it to some degree.
Dances and moving picture shows
are their most powerful weapons in
the fight against discontent.
Colonel John T. Van Orsdaie and
Chaplain Henry L. Durrant have
worked together in the introduction
of interesting innovations by which
they hope to hold the heart and in
terest of the enlisted men. The plan,
as outlined yesterday by the chap
lain, tells the story of a great trust
put in the efficacy of -wholesome
amusement as the best antidote
against dissatisfaction and restless
ness.
“We encourage these 'things to
overcome the great loneliness and
restlessness that affects the soldier,”
said the chaplain. “He is essential
ly a wanderer, and grows tired of
surroundings without change.”
He told of other phases of the
plan. An enlisted men’s club has
been established. A library of fic
tion is offered, without cost, to the
soldier for his reading. The weekly
dances and the picture shows three
times a week are only part of a big
scheme to hold the men. Boxing,
baseball games, vaudeville shows, all
are encouraged.
The dances, the chaplain explained,
are extremely popular, offering to the
soldiers that companionship with
girls, for which there is a peculiar
yearning in the hearts of all soldiers
Petticoat World.
“Pretty much their whole world
revolves around the ‘petticoats,’ as
they call the girls,” he said. “As
with sailors, so with soldiers. On
the street they are honestly excited
by the sight of a pretty girl. It
may be due to the fact that he is
kept eternally with hundreds of othqr
men, but for some reason the soldier
man is keenly susceptible to feminine
charms.”
The soldier’s girl is as much a type
as the soldier himself,' Mr. Durrant
said. And, according to his analy
sis, here she is, the composite sweet
heart of Fort McPherson:
She is honest and sincere with her
soldier lover, and demands sincerity
in return. The soldier always tells
the truth about himself to her.
She Is ladylike and proper enough,
and yet she has no mock modesty.
This is her sincerity again. She
comes out to see him, and is not
ashamed to admit it.
She is a good fellow. She under
stands. She knows that he has not
all the mohev in the world, with his
$15 a month, and consequently does
not demand anything of him. She
even is ready to lend him money, if
he wants it.
Fond of Simple Things.
She is fond of the simple things—
likes to stroll a-fleld, to pick flowers,
to watch the Sunday afternoon base
ball games, sitting on tho grass like
a good comrade, and candidly yelling
for her favorites. This, with her, Is
preferable to picture shows.
And then, of course, she is pretty,
in varying degrees.
Mr. Durrant explained why the
men sometimes desert. There are
times when to this big-hearted fel
low there comes an acute loneliness
and restlessness. The world of men
is too much with him. He longs for
the streets and the sight and com-
paniorship of grls, even more than
Is afforSed' Jiim by the free discipline
at the fort.
Loneliness and restlessness are the
biggest factors.
The chaplain was hearty in his en
dorsement of the plan of the War
Department whereby a regiment is
kept in a post only a short time.
Old Plan Unbearable.
“Under the old plan, with ten or
twelve years’ stay in one place, prob
ably, army ife became unbearable to
many men," he said. “There were
desertions. Many men did not re-
enlist at the expiration of their
terms. Now, with the change of
scene, it is somewhat different, and
the life more to be desired."
The chaplain’s whole analysis of
the pleasures and the behavior of the
enlisted man tended to an analysis of
the soldier himself. The picture
which he drew of the soldier in the
Atlanta post is that of a type. And
it is:
He is very much of a boy, “crazy’’
about the girls, and in love with
love. His heart is on his sleeve.
He is fond of the simple pleasures
—the stroll afield, the baseball game,
the moving picture, dancing.
He is of the stripe that makes
heroes, full of a buoyant enthusiasm
and patriotism, ready to cry at “taps"
and to cheer at the sight of a waving
flag.
He likes the melodramatic spice of
life, and is always looking for it. He
is a wanderer, and In his wanderings
he looks for romance.
He gambles, and usually he drinks.
Again he is the boy, because the
temptations are very attractive to
him
But with it all, he is very much
of a man. because, you know, “The
bravest are the tenderest, the loving
We the daring.’’
French Actress, However, Abuses
Our Cooking and Says American
Women Ruin Complexions.
The Philosophy of
The Divine Sarah.
My ambition is to be a great-great-grandmother.
The hope will keep me young.
I bolieve in votes for women, but I despise these
militants. They should be starved.
Your American food is abominable. You have
no respect for your stomachs.
The Cubists are stupid.
The American women neglect their complexions,
in a generation their faces will be mottled and
leathery.
A woman's life must have romance to be happy.
Kamil Bernhardt, looking as young as ever,
and full of advice for Americans, as she appears
on the New York streets.
NEW YORK, May 10.—Sarah Bernhardt wants to
vote. But she would rather be a gTcat-great-grand
mother.
With the illusion of youth clinging about her slen
der figure, she is again in Am3rica. 70 years old and
divine, braving the eighth ’’farewell” tour with a ready
laugh and a lightness of speech that she did not affect
in the days of yore. And site will laugh and laugh and
remain young, she declared to her interviewers, in the
hope that she will become a great-great-grandmother.
“The thing that shall keep me young and give me
love and Joy of life is that hope," she sighed. “Ah, it
is too beautiful."
And with that sigh the divine Sarah drifted from the
realms of levity into seriousness, and proceeded to read
to every woman her duty.
Woman Should Be Mother.
“The greatest thing a woman can do for herself and
for her country Is to be a mother,” she said. “And ;
think how much greater Is her happiness to experience
with the same fresh sweetness and hope and expecta
tion the coming of a grandchild and a great-grand
child, as I have done.”
And, at that, they were talking about woman suf- I
frage at the same time. But it is greater to be a moth- J
er, she said.
“Oh, I .believe in the vote for women,” she explained.
“For all men and for ail women. But not at the sacri
fice of the home.”
And not, she declared emphatically, at the cost of
militant methods. With her eyes gleaming fiercely, she
said she would starve the insistent suffragettes who go
to the extremest methods.
"I despise these militants,” she announced. "If I
had my way I would starve them But it is true that
women should have a right to vote. And they will, in
ten 'years. Wait.”
“I have nine men servants. I am their superior in
every imaginable way.”
She is. There was no doubt about it as she stood
there, perfect in array, in complexion, in grace.
Cub Sighs, Too. *
Even a cub reporter, a very young and pink man,
was impelled to sigh his admiration.
“How do you do it. at 70?” he asked.
The divine one was moved to appreciative laughter
at the boy’s unwitting question.
“Ah, you Americans,” she said. “You are too gal
lant, like our young countrymen.
"But, to be serious,” she went on. “I think there is
no secret. If there is, I believe I should call it work.
Work and plenty of sleep. Cheerfulness. Properly
cooked fond, and not tod much fresh air.’’
Then she proceeded to express her very determined
views on American cooking and on American women.
There was a tone of disgust in her silvery voice when
she talked of the great American cuisine.
"What is it you Americans eat that you call food?”
she asked. “It is abominable. No salt, no pepper:
all grease and little dishes that annoy one. You are
a great people, but you have no respect for your
stomachs.’’
"Perhaps,” it was suggested, “madame will honor the
United States by leaving behind the recipe for her fav
orite dish.”
Great Bernhardt Recipe.
"By all means,” she laughed. “I am a great cook.
Listen, I will tell you how to prepare sauvigne. Take
a sauvigne, which is a small sea bird, stuff it with
crushed larks, grapes, currants and juniper berries;
wrap it in grape leaves and roast it before a slow fire
upon a spit mado from a willow wand. Let It be re
moved from the fire while the flesh Is still pink. Use
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plenty of salt and pepper, and you have a dish fit for
the gods.”
The great one concluded her recital of this ethereal
recipe with an upward roll of her eyes, and a gentle
suspiration that was almost a sigh, and the general
attitude of delectable delight.
Then, with almost the same breath, she said that
the Cubists are stupid, and that American women neg
lect their complexions.
“Why are American women so neglectful?” she ask
ed. “Cream and pills are cheap. Not once a day, but
many times a day I cream or oil my face and mas
sage it. You see?” And she held her face to the light
proudly.
“Now I have noticed that American women drink
too much and eat too much. Cocktails, highballs and
beer are bad for the complexion. In a generation the
faces of your women will be mottled and leathery.”
Then she completed her symposium of useful and in
teresting information.
Never Marry Younger Man.
“I want to say, too,” she added, “that no woman
should marry a man younger than herself. I think it
is a fatal blunder to do so, especially if the woman
has passed 40.”
Valuable.
“There must always be romance in a woman’s life
if she would keep young and happy and useful. There
must be an intellectual response and a spiritual com
munity of souls as well as a human interest between
the woman who would live her life fully and finely,
and that response must be masculine.”
And with a wave of her hand and that fascinating
smile which has kept her young at 70, the Divine Sarah
flitted away.
DETAILS 1101 FIXED
There will be Improvement in the
street car service at an early* date,
but just what the improvements will
be not even the Georgia Bailway and
Power Company or the Railroad
Commission knows as yet.
C. M. Candler, chairman of the
Railroad Commission, says;
“The Railroad Commislon, after
studying the trip sheets of the car
system, has made a number of sug
gestions to the Georgia Railway and
Power Company. The suggestions
were not specific, but were of the
most general nature. Some pf them
coincided with Mr. Arkwright's opin
ions, and all of them, I think, were
regarded by him as worth careful
consideration. We expect to hear
from him within a week or so. In
the meantime it is impossible to dis
cuss details because none has been
worked out.”
Milt Saul, publicity agent of the
Georgia Railway and Power Com
pany, says:
"There will be an improvement in
the street car service at an early
date. You may take that as official.
We build 28 cars a year, and we ex
pect to use them. We announced
early last year that we would build
no more small cars.
“So far as figuring out just what
routes will be given additional serv
ice, we have not worked up to that
as yet, and it will take some time
before we get to that point.”
Atlanta Woman to
Edit New Magazine
Mrs. Sarah Dalsheimer Halley Heads
Southern Periodical To Be Pub
lished at Nashville.
Mrs. Sarah Dalsheimer Hailey,
newspaper woman and well-known
magazine writer, of Atlanta, has
been appointed managing editor of
The Southern Woman’s Magazine, a
new monthly periodical which has
made its appearance in Nashville,
Tenn„ under management of Robert
Burch.
Mrs. Halley is one of the best
known figures in the Southern news
paper and magazine field. Until
recently she was a member of the
staff of Uncle Remus’ Magazine. She
has done considerable newspaper
work in Nashville and other cities.
She Is the widow of Thomas G. Hal
ley, who was a prominent Tennes
see Journalist.
Although Mrs. Halley takes imme
diate charge as managing editor of
the new magazine, she will, for the
time being, reside in Atlanta.
EVELYN THAW TO APPEAR
AT LONDON HIPPODROME
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, May 10.—Evelyn Thaw,
wife of Harry Thaw, who is in Paris
with her baby, has contracted to ap
pear in “The Revue” at the Hippo
drome, this city, it was announced
to-day in* The Evening News.
FEAST‘ALIISCOT’
Had "Bobby” -Burns, the famous
Scottish bard and good fellow, ap
peared at the Burns Club Saturday
afternoon, no doubt he would have
received Inspiration, through the con
viviality which pervaded the replica
of his home, to compose another song
to add to the long list for which he
gained immortality.
The occasion was that of the en
tertainment tendered to the Atlanta
Ad Men's Association by Jacobi
Pharmacy. The organization left the
city at noon, traveling to the cottage
in automobiles and on a special car
chartered for the event. Every good
thing imaginable to eat and drink w%s
served. C. A. Smith, manager of the
Jacobs’ stores, and Joe Jacobs, the
most ardent lover of Burns in the
South, were masters of ceremonies.
ORANGE, N. J„ COUNCIL
TO VIEW SEWAGE PLANTS
The twelve members of the City
Council of Orange, N. J„ will reach
Atlanta Monday to inspect Atlanta’s
new sewage disposal system. Or
ange contemplates building a simi
lar system. The Mayor of Orange
was here some months ago.
Chief of Construction R. M. Clay
ton, Council’s Sewer Committee, and
Mayor Woodward will conduct the
party of visitors to the three plants
in automobiles.
TUBERCULOSIS
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Association Asks for $5,000 to
Fight White Plague—Gets
but $675 to Date.
Canvass for funds for the main
tenance of the Atlanta Anti-Tuber
culosis Association during the current
year ha.- resulted so fur in the rais
ing of a comparatively small portion
of the amount needed.
The people of Atlanta have been
asked to give $5,000 for the Hupport
of this association in 1913. The total
amount required is nearly $10,000.
Fulton County, through the com
missioners, already has given' $600.
but this applies on that portion of
the fund which It is expected to rai»e
from other sources than tile public.
The people of Atlanta themselves,
a very few of them, have given so
far a total of $675 of the *5,000 which
they have been asked to contribute.
The entire , amount is absolutely
needed.
The canvass for further funds will
be renewed during the coming week
and will he continued until the entire
amount is raised.
Those who have subscribed to the
fund so far and the amounts given
are as follows:
David Woodward, $100; Hugh M.
Willet, $50; Kelley Bros.. $50; C. J.
Haden, *50; W. 8. Witham, $50;
Shepard Bryan, $25; C. E. Harman.
$25; George W. McCarty, $25; G. R.
Solomon, *25; H. 8. Cole, *25; J. M.
B. Hoxsey, *25; G. W. Brine, $25;
W. T. Ashford, $25; Dr. E. L. Con-
nally, $30; F. J. Cooledge, $25; R. S.
Weasels, $25; Rev. W. W. Memmlnger,
$10; Marlst Fathers, $10; Mrs. Nellie
Peters Black, $10; W. R. B. Whittier,
$10; Mrs. S. W. McCallie, $5; Dr. E.
G. Ballenger, $5; Arthur Heyman, $5;
A. C. Newell, $6; Dr. M. D. Huff. $5;
M. L. Thrower, $5; C. B. Bldwell, *5;
Craig Cofleld, $5; Dr. Allan H. Bunce,
$5; Mrs. H. W. Salmon, $5.
Gray Hairs Caused
by Flourine Loss
French Scientist Says Precious Sub
stance Leaves Body as One
Grows Older.
PARIS, y ly 10.—In a communica
tion to the French'Academy of Sci
ences yesterday, Prof. Arinand Gau
tier explained certain signs of old age
by the disappearance of substances
containing the element fluorines which
is found in the human body.
Fluorine occurs in tho skin, hair,
and nails, and the amount present de
creases with advancing age. Prof.
Gautier is Inclined to believe that
tlie decrease may cause the liuir to
become gray or to fall out, and the
teeth to lose their enamel and to de
cay.
Sylvester Slayer
Given a Life Term
SYLVESTER. GA., May 10.—Alva
F. Short, charged with the death of
J. Douglass Bass, was to-day found
guilty of murder, with the recom-men-
datlon of the Jury for mercy. He
was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Short and Lin wood WV Lundy. h!»
brother-in-law, were jointly indicted,
the trial of Lundy having been con
tinued until June 16. The killing
took place on April 9.
In his statement to the Jury. Short
alleged that Bass, for three years or
more, had been annoying his wife, and
hrtd talked about her. He said he told
Bass to leave the country, and when
he failed to do so he railed him, to tho
place of the killing to warn him to go
at once. Ho claimed that Bass then
attempted to shoot him, but was not
quick enough.
Quarrel Over House
Leads to Slaying
Tifton Man Kills. Tenant Whom
Sought to Eject From
Property.
He
TIFTON, GA.. May 10 -1. B. 51*11
shot and Instantly killed ■ Dennis Hall
this afternoon In an altercation over a
house the former had rented to the la*-
tef. The two men were not related.
Several weeks ago I. B. Hail rentad
tho house in which he was living to Den
nis Hall, and movedi to Florida. In a
short time he returned and tools <rot
ejectment papers again Dennis to regain
possession of the house. As a result,
the men quarreled frequently. Dennis,
had made arrangements Co moyo tt>ft
farm next week, but to-day tbay
another quarrel that led' to the killing*
MACON BANKER BREAKS ARM
DANCING THE TURKEY TROT
MACON, GA., May 10.—The turkey
trot claimed Its first victim here
when Flynn Nisbett, a local bank
cashier and young society man, fell
while dancing at the Log Cabin Club
last night and broke his arm at the
elbow.
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