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6 C H KARST'S '!.\ l>A V AM HUH'AX. ATLANTA fJA SIWDAY. DEcEiIBKR 21. 1£ SKIP LADDERS Loeb Overruled—Suffragists Get Permission to Board Liners From Revenue Cutters. When skirt« are »!it, anti winds ufe brisk. And seas grow mad and madder, A perfect lady should not risk Ascending: cutter's ladder. But when the seas are ladylike, Go up. with our protection; We’ll smite the man with marllnspike Who looks in your direction! Ho! pipe the ship news men below! Their lot grows sad and sadder — And douse the naughty searchlight'* glow A lady climbs the ladder! —Musing* of Malone NEW YORK, Dec. 20. — Not more than a dozen year:- ago women, most ly reporters, boarded liners down the bay with impunity, in skirts that were not of the present filmy, narrow and clinging sort. Collector Loeb'* ad ministration put a stop to the nauti cal ambition of the fairer sex which, however, refused to stop its demand to be treated as the unskirted male Collector Mltchel in the brief pe riod of his rule at the custom house turned down the ladles' petition on i he same ground that Collectoi Loeb ha* given It was that there was peril to the ladder climber wearing skirts modern, an< ient or otherwise. A committee of suffragists called on Collector Malone yesterday to try their luck and went away smiling, with the assurance that the Collector had no objection to issuing pfifinl * to women to board steamships off Quarantine from cutter?, provided the steamship companies had no ob- ( lection Steamship Men Assent. There were representatives of .nix lines, the Cunard, Hamburg-Ameri can. Holland-America, American, French and North German Lloyd, at the conference. The committee of suffragists consisted of Mrs. Nora Hatch de Forest. Mrs. Norman de R. Whitehouse, Mrs. Mabel Potter Daggett and Mrs. Frances Maule BJorkman. The steamship men said in effect that the average woman did not know how to climb a ladder. Whereupon the suffragists remarked that the av erage woman was not under consid eration: that* the average woman did not know how to ride n horse, gel off a street car or climb mountains, ns two great women had done to tho confusion of the men mountain t limbers. Also the average man was nt« great shakes at a lot of things in which women excelled. Now. What to Wear? The steamship men seemed Im pressed with the arguments of the woftion and evinced .1 disposition to look upon the boarding permits »»*■ ladies who could climb ladders with just as much favor as upon those of the j hip news reporters. Tin* suffragists asked ihc Collector bow be would advise hoarders under the new dispensaiton to dress to inet f with the approval of the steamship companies. This rather confused Che * 'olleotor. He asked not to be drawn into that part of tlie proposition, as ns did not desire to pose as a fashion expert on the “Modes for Ladies Hoarding Steamships from Revenue < ’utters." He Wears Same Shoes For Thirty-six Years GARY. Dec. HO. The high ooait of •hoes does not trouble Conrad Faby&n, of Kast Gary. Thirty-six years ago he purchased a pair of shoes which he has worn continuously ever since Conrad brought the shoes to a cob bler for the sixth tesoliug lie expects to wear them at bast four years more. T ALliKI !T I5ARNKS Jo.- J. M •Hi'il and Knox 1 >11 rues, u tiers in tin* llflV. flimit lire liuainess) U MINERAL BLUEE GIRLS’ SCHOOL Old Notion That Enlisted Man Can i 1 Not Save Disproved by State ment of Opportunities. A future that glows as brightlv as lan Oliver Optic story of the poor; I boy’s success is painted in an attra< | j live prospectus scattered broadcast • 1 by the local recruiting station of the | | United Slates airm last week. Substantial advantages, far exceed ing those which most careers offer to ; the average citizen, are outlined. Phy sical and mental betterment is prom ised. the opportunity for study under i practical and accomplished Instruc tors, the chance of promotion, the power to save money, and the pros- I pect of retirement on a considerable income at the end of 30 years’ ser- j vice. The local station is the central of fice for recruiting in Georgia and Alabama. In charge of Lieutenant. J. A. Oaloogly, it has been operated un der a vigorous policy of exploitation by which, in two years, the periodical number of recruits has advanced sev eral hundred per cent. Last week's prospectus offered to recruits the opportunity to save $10 a month out of their pay, the money to be cared for by the Government, with *1 pei' cent interest offered. Oth er attractive features are six months' pay to dependents in event of death, opportunity for travel and for study it common ichool and in technical trade subjects, free nursing in sick ness, life pension in event of injury, easy promotion, even to the high est stations, retirement after 30 years on three-fourths pay plus $15.75 a month in the case of a first sergeant nearly $70 a month—or admission after 20 years to an attractive shel tering home. Mountain Children Bright and Apt Pupils—More Funds Needed, Says Mrs. LaZarus. 3 Young Men to Open New Furniture Store J. Albert Barnes. Joe M. Ford and Knox Barnes Will Become Partners. Another new firm enters into At lanta’s business world. This time it ts a furniture store to be known as Barnes Bros. A Ford, and is located at No. 23 Fast Hunter street. The personnel of the new firm is composed of J. Albert Barnes. L. Knox Barnes and Joe M. Ford. All three of these young men have been prom inent In Atlanta’s furniture world for more than ten years, having been conencted with the Oscar Barnes Company for years, until that firm was merged with the Sterehi Bros. & Barnes <’0., something over a year ago, when they entered into the em ploy of that firm. During the years the> have been connected with the furniture busi ness they have marie a great many friends who will be glad t«» hear M their going into business for them selves and who wish them every suc cess in the world. The now store will carry a complete line of household furnishings, furniture, carpets and rugs Florida Oranges in Pittsburg Cent Each PITTSBURG, Dec. 20.—The high cost of living was given something of a jolt here when commission mer- ( hunts in the produce yards complet ed the sale of 25 carloads of Florida (•ranges at 90 cents a '-rate, about 1 cent fur each of the 1.500.000 oranges in the shipment. The yards were fgirly choked with fruit, and it was necessity to dispose of t lie oranges to prevent them from spoiling. In tpe same market and at the same time the first Florida straw berries were selling at; 75 cents a quart. 300 Years of Life Seen for Women Mom \ spent for foreign mission* ■ ouhl b • devoted to greater usefulness hoc it home, says a sincere appeal for recognition of he educational ; of t e Georgia mountain girls that is embodied in the armual re port of Mrs. Edward VV. LaZarus, of Atlanta, president of the Southern Mountain Fducationai Association. Mrs. LaZaivs tells of the* struggles that have attended the association’s efforts t<» establish the Mineral Bluff Industri j I School, of the success that has com*, and of the needs that still exist. 'We hope to make this institution a harbor for worthy, needy, ambi tious mountain girls, struggling in a *ea of inrntal darkness,’’ she says in the report "They are bright, but un- awaken‘d, with the purest Anglo- Saxon blood coursing in their veins, but so long hidden away among the Appalachian spurs that they are too ignorant, because of poverty and non communication, oven to appreciate the the gru ideur of their surroundings." She tel’s of appalling conditions of life, resulting from their lack of training and generations of intellec tual blindness. "Improvidence,” she savs, *'is one of tleir degenerating characteristics. Many of the women do their cooking, whit h '.onsists mainly of half raw <orn bread and inferior pork, under leaking roofs, with dirt floors, often wading in mud and slush. Insanitary surroundings, unwholesome food, lit tle prot .*ction from the elements, these people are acute sufferers and easy* victims to illness.’ •The growth of the Mineral Bluff School frem an experimental institu tion with an attendance of seven to a prosperous establishment with 25 qirls and two buddings, she recounts. One of the needs is $1,300 to pay for a new class building recently erected. Harvard Lecturer In New Haven's Pay Prof. Wyman, of Harvard. Says He Was "Consulting Counsel.” Denies Biased Lectures. BgSToX, Dec. 20. —That Professor Bruce Wyman, <f the Harvard Law School, drew $8^3 a month from th*» New Yolk, New Haven and Hartford Railroad find delivered lectures favor able to the road, without telling his hearers that he was a paid employee, was brought out in an investigation by the public service committee ot large suns paid to legislators and new spapei men by the road. Pr ofessor Wyman said he was "con sulting counsel” lor the loatj in 1912 and 1913 and aided Governor Foss in framing the public utilities bill, de signed to give the State better con trol of 1 fie railroad situation. "My onscience is clear,” said Pro fessor Wyman ”1 challenge^ any body to show any change in my pub lic utterances, before or after my connection with the New Haven load.” To Light Falls at Peace Celebration NIAGARA FALLS, X. V., De,. 20.— The illumination of Niagara Falls will be one of tile features of the pene i “lebratlon. if the bill whlcn will be introduced by Awsemblyman- elert John J. Williams, of the Second Niagara District, in the next Legisla ture is adopted The >>111 will call for an appropria tion of funds for the illumination of the falls as part of the peace celebra tion A mass meeting will be held here next month for perfecting the plans for the celebration and Vice • 'resident Marshall b' expected to be the principal speaker of the evening. KIPLING TELLS Terrence of the ‘‘Black Tyrone” Is Dead. Says Author, Who Proves Genial Host. Son, I’m Proud of You. Rehearsal Follows Ts Mother’s Greeting - Festival Concert New York Central's Newly Elected ; Chorus in Important Meeting Mon President Visits Parent day Night—Free Xmas Concert Aged 85. to Draw Crowds. CLEVELAND, Dec. JO.— "Son, I am proud of you; 1 knew you haJ it in you." This was tHe benediction pro nounced on Alfred H. Smith, of New York, newly-elected president oX the New York Central lines, by his 85- year-old mother, Mr?. Charlotte Smith, when the won paid her a sur prise visit at her honje here to-day. Plea of Clergyman Prevents Lawsuit • s I I RGLOX. M,*.. Drc. 20. One of tlic most tinuK.ial court procedures , ver recorded In this section of Missouri occurred in the Court of Justice Wil liam lluletl. when (lie suit of Roberts Bros & Green vs. Henry Bryson and Henr\ Nevins was taken front a Jury already impaneled ami placed In the hands of arbitrators, following an Im- Pi> sinned plea by Rev. Ezra Herndon, alio said such settlements as lawsuits Mtre tri direct opposition to the word of God. Upon the vote of the jurors and all •'resent to the effect that the. believed the Bliile ar.il lavored arbitrators, tiie court vas dismissed and (he mailer settled by two men chosen from (hose present. Baby First Learns To Walk on Boat DOS ANGELES, Dec. 20 Probably no person ever acquired "sealegs' ear lier than did little Thomas Carter, the young son of Chief Engineer W. W. Farter and Mrs. Carter, of the Atlantic and Pacific Steamship Company's steamer Se.nta Catalina, which docked at Los Angeles harbor yesterday. Young Carter is just 18 months old While the vessel was rolling and pitch ing in storms on both the Atlantic and the Pacific, young Carter was rolling and pitching, too. But he mastered his first lesson in life’s difficulties wonder fully and to the surprise of both his parents and the crew, was able to walk all about the vessel before land was touched. Elopers May Lie About Their Age ST. CLAIRSVILLE. OHIO, Dec. 20 — Elopers may come here and lie with impunity to get marriage licenses from Probat^ .fudge Nichols. This city long has be#i a Gretna Green. "We have decided in the future to leave the prosecutions to tlie contract ing parties." Judge Nichols said, ‘ft has been our experience that whenever a prosecution Is started or suggested the patrons have begged with tears to let the matter drop." NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—Obituary— Terrence Mulvaney, late of Her Ma jesty, Queen Vietorier’s "Black Ty rone," y ‘‘corp'ril wanst” and a "first- class fightin’ man" always, is dead. He said his nearest relative was Dinah Shadd, and his closest friends (though he held them in their places Jo the end) were “Little Ofthris" and "Learoyd and "Mister Rudyard Kipling sor." This is the sad news brought back by Irvin Cobb from England the other day. The death of Mulvaney. deathless hero of “Soldiers Three.” was sol emnly announced to Mr. Cobb by Mr. Kipling himself—at luncheon. “To the best of my knowledge—the best of my memory, would bo bettor - Mulvaney is dead," said the wizard of India's .romance. “Last I saw of him he was superintending a gang of coclies on a cut in India. He was a bit seedy and down-at-heel. If he has not already passed away he soon will, and Dinah Shadd will bury him." Mr. Cobb bald he found Kipling not at all the uppish Britisher that some have pictured him to be. He "winked back the same as us” to Mr. Cobb. The writer drew a striking pen pic ture of Mr. Kipling at home. "We arrived a bit early," he said, "and Mr. and Mrs. Kipling were out, but had left word they would be back directly. We strolled in the garden, awaiting them. We had not gone far from the house when we heard a shout and saw a man jump over the hedge and run toward us. Ife% wel comed us as Mulvaney probably wel comed him—when he brought a pint of beer as the price of a story. He seemed to be in appearance a sort of combination of Theodore Roosevelt, William Travers Jerome and Bob Da vis. He has quick feltnity of move ment, the rapid thrust and parry in conversation and a very definite way of stating a conviction." He talked to Cobb of war and Peter Finley Dunne. "One of the greatest writers In America," he. said of Dunne. "A dull mathematical prob lem," he said of war. SIXTY. HE GOES BAREFOOT. URBANA. OHIO, Dec. 20.—Going j barefooted in December is unusual, but this is done by George Pence. 60. of Concord township. Pence goes bare footed most of the time, unless the | weather is extremely cold, and believes j that it is healthful. ' XMAS RATES Reduced ever N., C. & St. L. Ry. and W. & A. R. R. j Apply any A gent. Boa Constrictor Left In Paris Subway Car Special Cable to The American. BARIS. Dec. 20.—On the arrival of a subway train at the Opera Station the emgloyees found under the seal of a car a large boa constrictor, whicli had been fnrtMtten by a passenger. There was a general stampede until a police man killed tiie snake with a club. The Atlanta Music F«*tival Cho rus, which is planning a big frea Christmas concert for Sunday after noon, December 28. will hold a re hearsal with the pipe organ at the Auditorium-Armory Monday evening at 8 o'clock sharp. Vice President George W. Wilkins, of the Music Fes tival Association, is arging all mem bers of the chorus to be present, since the rehearsal la the most Important one of the year. Herr de Cortez YYolffungen, former ly in charge of the Grand OpeTa Cho rus at Washington. D. C„ is training the Atlanta chorus. The concert will be open to the public. Last year's was attended by over 6,000 people. DAILY MATINEES THIS WEEK MATINEES 2:30 MIGHTS. 8:30 SPECIALLY SELECTED HOLIDAY OFFERING Hal Reid’s Best Play, a Pow erfu. St ov ^ MIDNIGHT MARRIAGE NIGHTS 10c, 20c 30c. MATINEES 10c and 20c 3 jl the Bijou Favor ites. LADIES FREE^ MON. NIGHT SPRINGFIELD. ILL. Dec 13. If liie American woman would just .case her heartbreaking chase after heauiy anti give » little more attention to hu* health, she. together with her progen}', ought to live to lie .".'10 .'ears old. At least, this is the firm belief of j Mine. Charlotte DcGotrere Davenport, of Vie nna. Aurtrla. widely known for JI her lectures on personal hygiene. I Nu Absentees in 7 Months of School KKLSu, WASH . Dev. €0. The lit lie town of Ostrander ha« a public || school winch hiMdK tiie record for the best attendance and punctuality for last year. Five months during last year with out an absentee or tardy mark, and two months so far this year is the high mark set Xmas Gifts of Silk Pajamas Tarts, Blues, Pinks Y'oil'll lie delighted when you see our attractive range <•!' tine Silk Pajamas. Your brother, husband, son or father will In* delighted when he secs that vou've given him one of these Suits. THEY'RE ONLY $5.00 Maybe you'd prefer the Madras, Mercerized < ixford or ( Hit mg Flannel—if so, thex're from $1.00 to $3.00. Night Shirts, too in Outing, from 75c to $1.50— 1 lomestic and M uslin, 50c to $1.50. GIFTS OF FINE SHIRTS Many are buying our fine Man hattan Shirts as Xmas Gifts—lie cause there's nothing men love so much as plenty of nice shirts. Manhattans, colored or white, all styles, from $1.50 to $3.50. See our window display to-da\ of handsome Neckwear, anil manv other gift articles of value. Store open evenings next week. Re- member our service unex celled Stein-Bloch Smart Suits and Overcoats Satisfy Goods Sent by Parcel Post or Express if Wanted Parks-Chamber s-Hardwick 37-39 Peachtree COMPANY Atlanta, Go. NO BAD EFFECTS FROM COFFEE :% : ' j j? .• jr I M nrjr Take Nuxcara-Eat Anything W HY not drink coffee if you enjoy it? There is no ne cessity for you to give up this stimulating beverage because it affects the Stomach. By taking NUXCARA regularly you will never suffer from its effects. The action of NUXCARA on the digestive organs is such that one may eat or drink anything in moderation and feel no bad effects. Of course one may eat or drink to excess and they will have to pay the penalty, but even at that NUXCARA will relieve in a short time, and cure if you observe the laws of nature and don’t overload the Stomach. There has never been a case of Acute Indigestion known where NUXCARA had been taken. EDMONDSON DRUG CO. 11 N. BROAD STREET. 106 N. PRYOR . xJET. Retail Agents for Atlanta. LAMAR & RANKIN DRUG CO. Atlanta, 6a., Wholesale Distributors. NUXCARA COMPANY ATLANTA. GEORGIA ALL THIS WEEK LYRIC Mats. “ FBI., SAT. A Musical Comedy Cartoon Success of Two Generations HAPPY HOOLIGAN A Chorus of Bewitchingly Beautiful and Youthful Girls Who Know How to Sing, Dance and Fascinate. SPECIAL HOLIDj^ MATINEE FRIDAY NORMAN HACKETT—“A Double Deceiver”—Next Week. Xmas at The Atlanta Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Mstinee JOHN P. SLOCUM OFFERS THE'MUSICAL SUCCESS 0F THREE CONTINENTS THE QAINTIC5T ft. MOST DELIGHTFUL OF ALL MUSICAL PLAYS, Wednesday TWO SOU O YEARS IN LONDON ONE SOLID YEA ft It* NEW YORK IMMENSE CAST,CHORUS a ORCHESTRA CHARMIN6 NU5IC, PRETTY GIRLS DAINTY GOWNS. QUAINT SCENES ATTRACTIVE STQRY load4of scenery 3 kaHHffCAL AND TRICAL EFFECTS QoqIq Priroei Nights, 25c to $2.00 OHrilb NUW. rillBbi Matinee, 25c to $1.50 Thursday, Friday, Saturday. MATINEES XMAS DAY AND SATURDAY * fWk: V«m.' : jobj Cnnfft MnnHou a, ? h,s and X mas Matinee, 25c to $1.50 ocaio muiiudy. Saturday Matinee, 25c to S1.00 NEW YEAR’S ATTRACTION Entire Week Starting Monday December 29. THE DELIGHT OF LONDON, NEW YORK. PARIS. BERLIN, MOSCOW AND TOKIO. Messrs. Shubert present THE NEW THEATER $150,000 PRODUCTION AND ORIGINAL COMPANY OF ONE HUNDRED in Maeterlinck's exquisite fantasy THE BLUE BIRD Prices 75c tn S2.G0 ?5up%"?Va A « e MAIL ORDERS NOW