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llKAKSl » OUiNUAI iViVUliXVl^AiN, AlDAiNlA, UA., ftUiNDAI, iVJAI 11, l»ia. Sarah Bernhardt Would Have a Vote v*v +•+ •>•+ *!•••> +•+ + • + +•+ 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 i Vt » 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 T 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. LISTEN TO THIS- A residence lot we will put up against anything in Atlanta for beauty; only 350 feet from Peachtree and facing east; large, roomy and magnificently shaded; all essential improvements and conven iences; prices and terms most attractive. SOUNDS WELL, DOESN’T IT? LOOKS BETTER WE HAVE 12 BEAUTIFUL HOME LOTS JUST LIKE IT LET US SHOW THEM TO YOU IN AN AUTOMOBILE E. RIVERS REALTY Cff 8 WEST ALABAMA STREET .. ■ •< - How Man’s Efficiency Has Been Increased By the “ J. B. L.” Cascade Over 200,000 people have found that this new method of in ternal bathing keeps them always up to “Concert Pitch.” That by using it once a week their Lower Intestine is kept thoroughly clean, pure and sweet, as Nature intended it to be. That biliousness, with its attendant nervousness, “blueness” and depression, no longer pulls down their efficiency, but they constantly feel bright, confident and capable; also tnat the more serious ills of constipation (appendicitis, for instance) cannot progress where the “J. B. L.” Cascade is used. It is aptly termed “Nature’s Own Cure for Constipation,” for its operation is just as safe and natural as washing your hands. Until recently the “J. B. L.” Cascade has been obtainable only by sending to its inventor, Charles A. Tyrrell, M. D., of New York City. The demand for it, however, has become univer sal and we now have tho “ J. B. L.” Cascade, and we will be glad to show and explain it to you in detail. We are also distributing a very interesting Booklet on In ternal Bathing, called, “Why Man of To-day Is Only 50 Per Cent Efficient,” which can tie obtained on request, without cost. Ask us for it to-day and inform yourself about this safe and sane method of curing Constipation without drugs. At our Main Store. Jacobs’ Pharmacy Main Store and Laboratory, 6-8 MARIETTA ST. * ORDERS DELIVERED IN 8 HOURS. MY LAB. IS ONE BUSY PLACE. FOR EFFICIENT, QUICK AND QUALITY SERVICE. USE MY “CO-OP” COUPONS. BRING OR MAIL YOUR FILM ROLLS AND PACKS TO ME AND GET THE BEST RESULTS YOU EVER HAD. ORDERS FINISHED AND DELIVERED IN 8 HOURS, ■ '