1917-01-02 Greenville Piedmont

[across all columns] 2 THE PIEDMONT, GREENILLE, S. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1917.

[photo spread & article regarding Ford Motor Co., spans cols. 1-3, top section] $5 WAGE NO LONGER BOON; AIM BLOW AT SPECULATORS [photo of immigrant class] IMMIGRANT CLASS IN ENGLISH [photo of Bishop Williams] BISHOP WILLIAMS [photo of Henry Ford] HENRY FORD [photo of Detroit worker's house] TYPICAL DETROIT WORKER`S HOUSE

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Widely hailed as the city of industrial miracles and the $5 wage, the metropolitan aspirations of Detroit have encountered a snag in the form of enormousy increased land values and resultant rents.

Two years ago the Ford Motor company annouced a $5 minimum wage for employes. Boyd Fisher, secretary of the Executives Club of Detroit, states in an official report that the benefit largely accrued to allotment companies.

"One man speedily cleared a million dollars in Ford subdivisions," states the report. "Another man recently made $700,000 in the sale of a tract near the Ford Tractor plant at Dearborn. The gentleman will pardon me, I hope, but that $700,000 belongs to the public."

An initated bill to tax industry

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less and sites more heavily is now being launched. One of the active spirits in the support of this proposition is Rt. Rev. Charles D. Williams, bishop of Michigan. "Speculative land values and resulting high rents," he says, "keep many a family poor that enjoys a wage which looks high to outsiders.

"Two years ago the $5 wage of the Ford company looked big," continued Bishop Williams. "Today many other concerns are forced to pay higher prices than this for skilled men. The president of a large foundry company tells me that he paid $6.25 a day to induce molders to come from Illinois. After experience with Detroit most of them returned to former jobs at a $4.50 scale."

Ford himself has not hesitated to

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warn his employes away from land schemes which, in some instances, had borrowed his name and prestige. "I believe the speculation in real estate has gone too far," he announced in a paid advertisement, "and will result in many people losing their savings who cannot afford it. The platting of the land miles from the city and long distances from water and sewers and street cars has gone beyond all reason."

To Bishop Williams and other friends Ford has been free in expressing his sympathy with the principle of single tax, but officers of the site tax league are not counting upon his support, because they say, Mr. Ford is more given to following his own projects in his own way than to render help to existing movements.

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Perhaps two-thirds of the mistakes of doctors is in the matter of diagnosis—they don't examine the patient thoroughly—they simply look at the tongue, feel the pulse, ask a few questions, guess at the rest. Not So With Drs. Register & O`Neill. They always determine the real cause of disease before they attempt to treat it. Their vast experience in diagnosis, coupled with scientific use of the Wonderful Ex-Rays and Other Valuable Means. enables them to ascertain the cause of the disease. The never treat symtoms, but by treating the cause they stamp out the disease at its fountain head.

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FIRST CASE BEFORE NEW MAGISTRATE -------------------- The first case to come up before John M. Daniel, the new magistrate who has taken the place of the late Capt. Samuel Stradley, was tried before him yesterday. The case was against Romie Williams, a young white man of this city who was arrested near the American Spinning company by Deputy J. P. Barton on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. He plead guilty before Magistrate Daniels and was given a fine of $5 or 10 days. Williams paid the fine.

Mr. Daniels is now in the office formerly occupied by Capt. Stradley, having moved from his old office in the Masonic Temple. ---------------------------------------- [advertisement for Greenville Grocery]

For the convenience of our patrons, we sell Coupon Books they are redeemable in cash or merchandise any time you bring them to Cashier. Greenville Grocery Co.

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WARMLY FAVORS [SCHOOLL] BONDS -------------------- "I am in favor of the proposed bond issue for the city schools, and will do everything in my power to assist in making it a reality," was the comment today of Dr. J. L. Mann superintendent of the city schools in talking of plans now before the school trustees for improving the city school facilities.

Dr. Mann expressed the hope that the proposed issue would be warmly endorsed by the citizens of Greenville, and that it would be approved by the voters by a hearty majority.

The trustees have not yet decided whether they will ask for an issue of $100,000 or $150,000," said P. T. Hayne, chairman of the board of trustees today. The county delegation has agreed to pass an act authorizing the calling of a special election on the question in this district. ---------------------------------------- MASS MEETING OF EAST DUNKLIN -------------------- That the voters of the territory it is proposed to include in the Williamsburg county project are interested is shown by the fact that a mass meeting has been called for January 3rd to discuss the matter. The meeting will be a J. E. Knight's voting precinct and will convene at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. According to information from that section, the people generally are determined to discuss the question of uniting with the new county, both pro and con, and a lively time is assured. This is in the East Dunklin part of the county and is one of the richest portions of fertile Greenville. Quite a bit of Greenville is included in the survey at the proposed new county the line going between Fork Shoals and Fountain Inn.

The question is to be submitted to the voters one week from today. ---------------------------------------- AID GOT NATURALISTS

Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 2—If you kill a wild duck on your next hunting trip and find bracelets around its legs, don't imagine that you're drunk and seeing things, or that the duck has tried to doll itself up like a chicken on the front row in the chorus.

The bracelets are aluminum bands which have been placed around the legs of a large number of wild ducks by the United States authorities to aid in biological research.

Just take off the band and send it to the Bureau of Biological Survey at Washington, together with information as to the date, place and circumstances under which you killed the duck, and thereby you will be aiding the government to find out more concerning the longevity of the species and their general migratory habits.

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ARTILLERY DRILL ATTENDANCE GOOD -------------------- Average Attendance Good, Says Captain Slattery—Artillery Training Started in Earnest—Pay Roll Being Made Out. -------------------- Commencing Tuesday, the Coast Artillery company will start their regular drill for the first week sixmonths period of 1917. Orders from Major Robinson have been issued, specifying the new instructions for the men, the greater part of the time calling for instruction and drill in that work, pertaining to coast artillery drill, gunners instructions, powders, projectiles, fuses, etc.

The average attendance for the six months just ended, has been exceedingly good, despite the fact that the war department has, for some reason delayed placing instructors with the various companies of the corps, as has been expected for the last six months. The men enlisting to this particular branch of service, are commended for their good record of attendance, despite the fact that most of their time has been devoted almost entirely to militia instructions.

Now that the artillery training will start in earnest, every member of the company is expected to be present at the various drills, and make the next drill period the best yet.

The pay roll of the company for each month, showing the record of attendance, is now being made out and will be forwarded to the war department this week, for the members' pay, as prescribed under the military law. ---------------------------------------- [advertisement for Greenville Grocery]

Our wagons leave the store promptly at 9.30 and 3.30 for West Greenville. Please phone orders in early Phones 647—648 and 649 Greenville Grocery Co. ---------------------------------------- NEW LABOR LAW NOW EFFECTIVE -------------------- The new child labor law increasing the age of children permitted to work in the cotton mills from 12 to 14 years took effect yesterday. It has been estimated that the change would affect about 2,400 children. It is understood, however, that most of the mills have been preparing for the law since late August, and the number of operatives who had to leave the mills yesterday are comparatively small.

That section of the old law relating to the minimum age read 12 instead of 14, and further provided that employers file with the state commissioner of agriculture a sworn statement as to the age of every child they employed, and that the commissioner of agriculture in turn issue a permit to all child employes.

When the new law was passed a change in section 426 of the criminal code, which provided for these candidates of age, was not made; therefore, beginning yesterday so statements as to the age of child employed will be required and no permits will be issued. This places the responsibility for the employment of children squarely upon the employer and not upon the state. ---------------------------------------- GENERAL JOINS AS A PRIVATE -------------------- Herpignan, France, Jan. 2—General Gerard Amanrich, commander of the Leigon of Honor, who had retired from service has joined the army as a private in an artillary regiment. He is sixty-five years old. ---------------------------------------- COWPENS BATTLE GROUND -------------------- Plan on Foot for Improving Some of Revolutionary War Battle.

Spartanburg, Jan. 1.—On the Cowpens battle ground 11 miles east of Spartanburg, just over the border in Cherokee county, there stands a small stone monument the sole witness marking one of the historic spots of the war of the revolution. It was erected in 1856 by the Washington Light Infantry of Charleston. Today this monument is unprotected and stands surrounded by undergrowth and sage grass.

With the idea of improving conditions at the battle ground the Daughters of the American Revolution of Spartanburg and Cherokee counties are soon to combine their efforts toward acquiring the land surrounding the monument, forming an association for its care and launching a definite plan to interest the federal government in recognizing this field as one of the spots to be converted into a national park. There are three chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Spartanburg and Cherokee counties, the Kate Berry and the Cowpens chapters of this city and the Daniel Morgan chapter at Gaffney. These will be the agencies through which the improevment of conditions at the battle ground will be brought about. ---------------------------------------- REALTY DEEDS.

Five realty deeds were filed with the Register, as follows:

Mary A. Atkins, et al, to D. B. Odam, for $2,250, 79 1-2 acres in Highland township.

H. L. Shaw to W. M. Knight for $5,000, 53 1-2 acres near Raburn creek.

H. K. Townes to Susan C. Watson, for $900, 23 acres in Butler township.

W. A. Bates to W. W. Burgess, for $10 and other valuable considerations, 15 acres in Chick Springs township.

David B. Taxler to A. N. Strall and Bessie Strall, for $1 and other considerations, a lot on Rowley street.

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SHEDULE FOR 'GYM' CLASSES -------------------- All gymnastic classes at the Central W. M. C. A. will be resumed today for the second half of the season according to schedule in effect before the holidays. At 10 o'clock this morning the ladies of the Tuesday and Friday class, will meet and at 3.45 this afternoon the junior members will resume work. Wednesday afternoon at 3.45 the high school class will be held and at 8.15 the business men will meet while the young men will meet at 8 p. m. At ten thirty Thursday morning the ladies of the Monday and Thursday class will meet and the junior members will meet at 3.45 p. m.

Tonight the squad which will furnish the gymnastics exhibition on Thursday night will meet for the final rehearsal of the group parts. These young men are all good gymnasts who have shown exceptional ability in the various parts each will take, and some really high class work will be shown in the more advanced grades. There will be a program of twelve numbers and a fast game of basketball, all of which will furnish entertainment for about two hours or more and it will give those present a splendid opportunity of learning just what is being done in this department of the Association. The program will be as follows:

1. Grand march. 2. High Jumping. 3. Races. 4. German Horse—sideways. 5. Boxing. 6. High diving. 7. Wrestling. 8. German Horse—lengthwise. 9. Acrobatics. 10. Parallel bars. 11. Pyramids. 12. Maze running.

Only two hundred people can be admitted and every act will probably be filled long before the exhibition begins as these affairs have become exceedingly popular in Greenville. The starting hour will be 8 o'clock sharp. ---------------------------------------- ESTABLISH RECORD FOR PAYING TAXES -------------------- With the passing of the last business day of [116] a new record was established in Greenville county in tax collections for a single day, when $136,518.16 of taxes paid were entered on the books of County Treasurer Foster. This amount states Mr. Foster, is the largest collections for a single day in the history of the county. The collections for taxes since the books opened, October 16, totals $305,130.79 and there is still about $6500, to be added to these figures, checks aggregating that amount having been mailed to the Treasurer Saturday but which had not been entered on his books yesterday.

The tax assessments of Greenville county for the year 1916 amounted to approximately $425,000.00 and the figures above, which total about $312,- 000 of taxes paid are an excellent indication of the prosperity of this city and county, a much greater percentage of tax assessments having been paid during the regular tax paying period of 1916 that for any previous year for which the figures were available yesterday.

In this county, there are six different assessments that go to make up the local tax that is paid, these being divided as follows: County and Sate tax; Special School tax; Local County tax; Poll; Dogs; and Road Tax. The total assessment for the county of Greenville for last year was 28 1-4 mills. The taxes paid during 1916 for the various purposes, according to the books of the county treasurer were as follows: County and State $234,256.73; Special School, $63,228.82; Local County, $1580.24; Polls, $3434. 00; Dogs, $1273.00; Roads, $1158.00. ---------------------------------------- TRAVELERS REST

Travelers Rest, Jan. 1st.—Miss Blanche Newly has returned to her home in Greenville after spending a while with her friends here.

Mrs. Paul F. Black of Charlotte is visiting his parents, Dr. and Mrs. B. F. Goodlette.

Miss Harlee Cooper has returned to North Greenville Academy after spending the holidays with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. S. R. Bass spent last Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Watson.

Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Granger of Gantt spent last week with relatives here.

Mr. Ford Cox spent last week end with his mother, Mrs. Callie E. Cox.

Miss Lois Strand is visiting her sister in Florence, S. C.

Mr. A. W. Watson has returned to his home in Mobile, Ala., after spending the holidays with relatives here.

The many friends of Miss Lola Watson regret to learn that she is ill at here home here.

Mr. Frank Thackston and sister, Miss Mellie of Greenville spent Wednesday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Watson.

Miss Melrose Duckworth is spending a few days with relatives in Greenville.

Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Edwards spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Williams.

Miss Jessie May Watson spent Friday and Saturday with Misses Juanita ad Mellie Thackston near Greenville.

A good many people from here attended the funeral of Mr. T. L. Williams at Enoree Sunday afternoon.

Mr. John H. Gilreath of Campobello spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Watson.

Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Williams had as their guest for dinner Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Gregory, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Sphan, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Williams, Mrs. R. W. Toler and Misses Jessie May and Beatrice Watson.

Homer Hudson of Greenville spent Monday night with Will Watson.

Rev. and Mrs. L. R. Bass left Monday for their new home at Roebuck, Spartanburg county. Mr. Bass has been pastor here four years and his many friends were gone to see him home, but wish him much success in his new work.

Miss Georgia Thackston spent the week end with Miss Beatrice Watson.

Miss Bertie Coleman of Marietta is visiting relatives here. ---------------------------------------- TICKET FRAUDS.

London, Dec. 16—(Correspondence of the Associated Press.)—In reporting an increase of more than one hundred per cent in ticket frauds by passengers since the war began, the Great Western Railway Magazine says the chief offenders are women and girl munition workers. This year one railway company alone has prosecuted five hundred and thirty persons for fraud.

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THE PIEDMONT, GREENVILLE, S. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1917

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TIMOTHY`S PARK [article spans cols. 1-5, top section]

RIGHT in the heart of the big City where the heavy drays and trolleys passed all day, was a little triangular patch with a low iron fence all around it. It was called a Square, although it was no bigger than the library rug and really wasn't a Square in shape, or any other way. At one end of it grew a little Maple Tree, not an extraordinarily beautiful tree, but good and faithful just the same, and under its shade on the sidewalk all day stood Augustus Giacornano selling peanuts from his cart and keeping a way eye out for newsboys.

Each spring the Park Commission undertook to set out pansies and crocuses and in the summer scarlet sage, dusty millers, elephant ears and cannas were set out, forming a kind of round patch in the middle of the Square—very tasty indeed, so opined the man who tended it.

This was also the opinion of Timothy Timanus, who lived in the Fire Engine House across the street, and who believed that the Sqaure was kept and tended especially for him. He was so sure of this that he named it "Timanus Park," after himself, and if nobody knew it by that name, he thought so much the better. He was a large, black cat belonging to the Firemen and named for one of the City's favorite Fire chiefs. Such a fine, big cat he was, with a most

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knowing expression! But he was rather spoilt and had rather insolent manners for a cat. He used to go every day into his Park and creep under the big, shady leaves of the cannas, which completely hid him from view, as if he were in a little tent, and there he would doze and watch the people and carts and cars pass.

One day Mr. and Mrs. Chippensby, a very estimable couple, sparrows by birth, came down the street and stopped at the little Square. They looked over the place carefully and liked it well.

"That beautiful tree is just the thing!" cried Mrs. Chippensby. "And see the lovely Peanut Man standing there! With his cart all heaped up he is sure to drop a few morsals— perhaps a peanut a day, maybe more!"

"I like the location," said Mr. Chippensby, who never gushed.

So the Chippensbys moved in then and there and selected a twig on one of the little branches of the Maple Tree and the site for their home.

But Timothy Timanus under the Cannas had seen all this, and did not approve. He said nothing, though, until that evening when the City had settled down and the street became quieter. Then he came out of his retreat and strolled over to the tree and looked up at the Chippensbys, who were preparing to retire after

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their hard day's work.

"What are you doing up there, sir?" asked Timothy Timanus, sternly.

"We're moving in," said Mr. Chip. "We're going to live here. We like it very much. I see that is quite a fine Park down there which seems to belong to this Tree. May we ask what you are doing there, as you certainly don't live here."

"This is MY PARK," said Timothy angrily. "It's my own Park, Timanus Park—that's the name of it! That's my tree too. I want you to move out as I don't want any Sparrows about the premises!"

"O dear!" exclaimed Mrs. Chippensby. "What shall we do?"

"We'll stay right here," said Mr. Chip. "I don't believe that Cat has any right to order us off."

Then Timothy Timanus grew very much annoyed and fluffed up his back and went under his Canna leaves to think it over.

Mr. Chip was a rather foolish bird, and when he saw the Cat retire, he thought that meant he had given up, so he hopped down upon the soft grass.

"Look out, Mr. Chip!" cried his wife, and Mr. Chip flew up just in time, for out pounced Timothy Timanus, his eyes flashing and all his claws spread out! Such a scare the sparrows never had and they sat twittering and shivering for some time.

At last Mr. Chippensby got over his fright and began to be ashamed of having shown it, so he leaned over and said very patronizingly to Timothy Timanus:

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"Well, if you keep off this tree we might let you use the lawn, Mr. Cat."

Now, Timothy Timanus did not like this at all, as he considered that the Park and everything belonbed to him. So he put back his ears and growled and began to climb up the tree. But the Sparrows flew of laughing, and as soon as Timothy Timanus climbed down again, they flew back on their perch.

This annoyed Timothy and he went under his Canna leaves to think out a good way to punish the birds and soon he thought of a rather cruel and wicked plan. He said no more after that only waited and waited and waited, and soon the Chippensbys got used to him and built their nest.

Later if one could have seen—five little eggs lay in the nest, and still Timothy Timanus waited, his mouth watering. One day—if you had ears as sharp as old Timothy's—you might have heard a little chirping in the nest and you would have known that the

[image of Timothy, the two sparrows and the Fireman] I DON`T WANT ANY SPARROWS ABOUT THE PREMISES

little Sparrows were out of their shells.

That evening it happend that the Firemen came and got their cat and shut him up in the Fire Engine House, but the next morning early, before the people were about, they let him out. and he sped to the Park.

There he lost no time about carrying out his plan. Up the tree he climbed with gleaming eyes. The Chippensbys saw him coming and guessed what he was about.

"O plese," Mrs. Chip called. "Please don't come up here!"

"I told you not to move in here," answered Timothy Timanus.

"We'll move right out as soon as we

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can," said Mr. Chip. "Please don't disturb our little ones."

"I won't disturb them," said Timothy grimly. "I'll swallow them whole!"

Up the tree he went while the Chippensbys screamed with fright and fluttered their wings. Now, the nest was built on a very slender twig, and Timothy Timanus was a very large, heavy cat, overfed on milk and liver and not used to much activity. So it was that when he was only a few feet away from his prey, the branch on which he stood bent down.

Timothy grabbed and struggled right and left, but the little twigs were too thin to hold him and down he fell with a thud on the grass.

He was not much hurt, except his dignity which was rudely jarred—for he was a very dignified cat. The Chippensbys did not jeer at him. They were afraid he might try again and be successful so they sat quietly and watched. Pretty soon Timothy Timanus got up off the ground and walked around, pretending nothing was the matter at all. Then he went up to the tree and, in an offhand way, sharpened his claws. Then he looked up and acted as if he had only just spied the two Sparrows sitting there.

"I think I will let you stay there as you are out of the way," he said in an important voice. "But don't come down on the lawn and disturb me."

Then he walked sedately away and disappeared under his Canna leaves, and I don't know whether he had a sense of humor or whether he was just making the best of things. Whichever way it was, he showed that he was a very reasonable cat, don't you think so? Anyhow he left Mr. and Mrs. Chip soon after that, and they soon had a fine lot of little Chips flying around.

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[image of an owl] OUR PUZZLE CORNER REVERSALS.

No. 1—Reverse a girl's name of six letters and find the same; No. 2— Reverse a word of five letters, meaning to allude to, and find the same; No. 3—Reverse a word of five letters, meaning principle and find the same; No. 4—Reverse a word of four letters, meaning beholds, and find the same; No. 5—Reverse a word of three letters, meanng silent, and find the same; No. 6—Reverse a word of three letters, meaning pulp of fruit, and find the same.

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REVERSALS: No. 1— Hannah; No. 2—Refer 3.—Tenet; No. 4—Sees; No. 5—Mum; No. 6—Pop

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John and May are on their way to school. Their lunch basket contains a pear and a banana. See if you can find a pear and banana by cutting out the black spots and fitting them together.

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[image of woman wearing hat] DRESS By Anne Rittenhouse

France will Send Over Silk Jersey Gowns and Suits for the American [illegible] in the South and They will be Ornately Treated

New York, Jan. 2.,—We have not seen the last of jersey cloth. Even though it spread itself with mushroom growth over the continent and last summer and autumn, the insistance of the Paris designers and the approval of American dressmakers have not only kept it on the market, but substantiates the prophesy that it will lead fabrics when spring comes.

Ornate Sporting Suits.

Last September, the two supreme creators of sports clothes—Royant and Chanel in Paris—got very fanciful ideas in their heads concerning American sports and the treatment of jersey cloth. And so we had costumes that ran into hundreds of dollars because of the bullion embroidery lavished over their surfaces.

Heretofore, the mind of the woman had not encompassed the thought of gold and silver embroidery used in gowns, for tennis, polo and the beaches, but the mind is not slow to take up any new idea that is advanced in feminine costumery. The woman of large income was quite pleased over the idea of being elaburate when she should be severely simple, and, in a way, this was not as absurd a view as it sounds.

It has come about that from May until November, the larger part of the American public takes its recreation in looking on at violent exercise done by experts on the field, in some kind of game. These women strictly and severely attired, and yet, they are not quite in the mood for muslins and satins and gay adornment. The silk jersey with its ornamental touches, suggests to them an excellent compromise, and it was through this channel that Royant and Chanel made their success.

The placing of fur on silk jersey caused little comment. In any other epoch, it might have met with disapproval, but the women of the moment consider fur a necessary appendage to every garment, except stockings. It has already appeared as a top to high shoes, and it looks uncommonly well, too, when used in this way.

Jersey in the Theaters.

The costume which is sketched today was worn in Paris by Mlle. Bertha Bady at the theatre des Arts. It has been copied by importers and sent to this country.

It has a long, medieval chemise over a narrow skirt that clings

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[sketch of woman dressed in ornate suit] Gown of pink silk jersey, trimmed with gray fox and silver cord, worn by Mlle. Bertha Bady of theatre DresArts.

to the figure. It is of silk jersey, in a rose leaf pink and it is trimmed with gray fox and silver cords. The neck is cut in the straight across fashion which we have borrowed from the twelfth century and which is increasing in popularity as the season advances. Across the back of the neck there is a [blurry] collar of the fur, finished at each shoulder with long tassels of silver cord. The fur girdle is placed slightly below the waistline and is fastened in front with long silver cords that

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hang to the knees.

The colors in silk jersey that have been offered for Palm Beach are vivid, although there are two shades of gray among them, which embroidered in silver and trimmed with black fur, make a strong appeal to the fastidious woman.

The very newest thing in jersey costumes has just arrived from the house of Callot. It has a short, side-pleated skirt of white silk jersey, and a short, smart-fitted coat of white kid, which is lined with geranium red silk jersey that comes on the outside as a wide facing to the [colar] and [revers] that reach nearly to the waist.

Caroline Reboux has made a hat to go with the jersey suit. It is a Pinafore sailor, with a wide, round crown and a bowl shaped brim, turning up and out from the line of the head. It is of white straw, faced with red silk jerseys.

TATTING REVIVED.

Forty years ago when tatting was revived the last time it was hailed because of its extreme "elegance." It was a mere nothing in the way of handiwork. The fairest and daintiest and the least muscular of hands could wield the thread and shuttle. Well, these helpless, strengthless hands have gone out of style, more or less, with the years. Hands that turn the golf club and manage the reins are stronger and larger than the hands of 40 years ago. But in spit of that tatting has been revived.

The stores are showing all sorts of accessories to tatting. There are white ivory shuttles printed with forget-me-nots. Although the timehonored method is to use a pin to pull the thread through the loop when you join the ring with another these new shuttles are equipped with a small hook at one end which is used instead of a pin. The hook in no way interferes with the process of tatting.

Then there is a new book on the subject of tatting that shows at least that the publisher who got it out realizes that tatting is one of the handicrafts of the hour.

It is said that the vogue for tatting was introduced into England from France and from England it came to this country. However, at the present time the vogue has started in this country without any overseas influence. Fair hands are still too busy knitting socks and making handbags in England and France to have time for this thread work.

In England when it was revived

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ed up and laid down without the slightest injury in the work. The reason why it went out of favor for a time was more because of a choice of taste rather than because the work was earisome. Tatting as trimming of undermuslins rather went out of fashion and with the increase in favor of lace, tatting edge also ceased to be fashionable. But our taste has changed again, and now as much as 10 years ago this simple edge is looked upon with great favor as trimming for cuffs and collars, all sorts of underclothes and household items. ____________________________________ [column 4, bottom section, 2nd article]

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A September Child

HAVE you rever read any of J. Fenimore Cooper's stories? If you have not, then a rare treat awaits you, for he is one of the most interesting of American writers.

Cooper was not only born in this month, but he died in September,

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within one day of his birthday. He was born on the 15th, 1789, and he died September 14th, 1851.

Cooper was one of the most popular of all our authors, and his stories have been translated into nearly all the languages of Europe, and into some of those in Asia. He was termed "the American Scott," and he was much admired by the great French novelists Victor Hugo, and Balzac.

J. Fenimore Cooper had a varied childhood from the time he was a boy.

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He entered Yale College at the age of 17. Three years afterwards, he joined the United States Navy but marrying at the tender age of 22, he settled down at Westchester where he began to write. At first he gave his books to the world without his name attached, but soon he signed his stories. In 1826 he went to Europe and wrote there until 1833, when he returned to America. His best book is according to a popular taste, "The Last of the Mohicans." He wrote in all over [30?] long books. _______________________________________ [return to column 5, middle section]

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[headline and article span cols. 6-7, top section] [image of girl reading book] By GARRETT NEWKIRK

AESOP`S RETOLD Copyright, 1916, Garrett Newkirk, Pasadena, Ca. THE GARDENER AND THE BEAR.

[illustration of bear dropping rock onto sleeping man]

ONCE on a time a gardener unhappily had grown To be a discontented man, because he lived alone. Not far away within the wood there lived a lonely bear, And having met it was arranged that they should make a pair. The man agreed to buy the meat, the bread and applie pies, The bear to watch him while he slept and keep away the flies. One day a very naughty fly lit on the gardener's face, And seemed to think that for a meal it was the only place; Insisting that the gardener's blood his hunger should assauge, Until he made the ally pear beside himself with rage. With all his might a heavy stone upon the fly he threw, And killed the insect, but alas he killed the gardener too. 'Twas written large in capitals upon the gardener's pail, "TO HAVE A FOOLISH FRIEND IS WORSE THAN HAVING NONE AT ALL."

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Dr. Chas. F. Aked the brilliant Anglo-American pulpit orator in the New York American calls attention to some very astonishing things said by Lloyd George in July 1906 when he was the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Following are some of the things which he said then.

"From fear of each other, we (Germany and England) arm and rush to the very quarrel we are afraid of."

"If you go thru the great Cobden's speech of 1854 there is not a single mere suggestion, not a single plan which it is supposed Germany is making now which was not imputed to France in 1853. * * Not a single new scare has been invented for sixty years."

"The fact of the matter is we are just afraid of each other * *. The only thing that is real is the expenditure."

"Every misunderstanding and quarrel is largely a matter of lack of imagination. Men have not got the imagination to protect themselves into the position of either party."

"You say, 'Why should Germany be frightened of us? * * We started it. It is not they who have started * * . We were not satisfied. We said Let there be Dreadnoughts."

"Would not we be frightened, would not we build, should not we arm? Of course we should. I want our friends who think that because Germany is a little frightened she [really?] means mischief to us, to remember that she is frightened of us under the same circumstances."

Then the little cobbler of Wales goes on to say that what is wanted is a clearing up of misconception; that it is deplorable that two great, progressive communities like Germany and Britain should not be able to establish a good understanding, adding that they had done it with France, Russia and the United States, all of which countries they had their troubles with. He then spoke of the enormous expenditures for fighting purposes and rises to eloquent heights to ask: Are the Dominions of [illegible] not wide enough that nations should spend four hundred million pounds per year enlarging them?"

The character of the little Welsh shoeman is one that we cannot help but admire, and yet we think in view of the present moves toward peace he ought to get off somewhere under a tree in Hyde Park or somewhere else, where he can think things out all by himself and read his speech of July 1908 over. Is it not possible that he himself has lost the imagination to project himself into the other mans shoes? ---------------------------------------- RUMANIAN AFTERTHOUGHT.

The following sad commentary on Rumania's blasted hopes is from the Rumanian premier Bratianu:

"I had not figured on a war lasting this long or on the probability of a winter campaign. Russia gave us positive assurances that Germany and Austria-Hungary were no longer capable of undertaking the offensive campaign.

"We were told that we could carry the war into an undefended country with comparative ease. The time of our entrance into the war, the end of August, was selected upon the urgent recommendation of England and France.

"We were told that the vigorous prosecution of the Somme offensive would hold the Germans on the west front while the Austro-Hun-

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garians would be able to beat off our invasion.

"In these promises and assurances we have been disappointed and deceived. The whole world is overawed by the demonstration of strength on the part of the Central Powers.

"It is a pity that the world powers such as England, France, Russia and Italy have not been able a single time to save their friends and followers from misfortune."

German sympathizers apparently believe that if Rumania had entered the war on the side of the Teuton forces Bessarabia would now be one one of the provinces of Rumania. At any rate it could hardly have been one half as bad as it is now with the little Balkan power. ---------------------------------------- An Anderson newspaper man visited a friend of the profession in Greenville the other day and was entertained by being escorted around to the Y. M. C. A. and given a bath. Greenville folks were always bad about want to push their new fangled things upon visitors.—Anderson Mail.

What is new fangled to the Andersonians? the bath or the Y. M. C. A.? ---------------------------------------- Two returning Greenvillians who had been out of the city stepped off a late car New Year's night and hearing the New Years bell felicitated each other on the welcome the city was giving them on their return. ---------------------------------------- Speaking of goat-getters here's one to add to your list, viz. a grown up who sits behind you in the movies and discovers that he can make an annoying tune with his feet against the seat you occupy. ---------------------------------------- How many bill collectors called upon you yesterday? If the New Year carries any significance that will be a bad year for them if they get the same treatment as we know some received. ---------------------------------------- She was bread in old Kentucky. She was pie in New Orleans, She was cake up in Chicago. In Boston she was beans. ---------------------------------------- Where is the man who said the war would end in 1916. ---------------------------------------- Are your resolutions still holding good? _____________________________ Palmetto Press Coal for South America

There have been an increasing number of late that the authorities in charge of the promotion of this country's commerce are doing some practical things in addition to talking about them. One of these is found in a news item sent out a day or two ago saying that the Department of Commerce officials have decided on a comprehensive investigation of the coal demand throughout the South American continent because they are convinced that a profitable market may be more particularly because the development of such a trade would add materially in building up an American merchant marine by providing a return cargo for vessels which may bring to the United States the things which South America can furnish. The department says that the availability of Welsh coal for return cargoes has been a small factor in the success of British merchant shipping. American coal ought to prove of similar benefit in this country's trade with the continent to the South, and it is pointed out that Chile, Peru and Bolivia, which have an abundance of minerals wanted in this country, are in need of coal in return. Nitrates and iron, copper and tin ore can be brought in this country more cheaply if coal is taken back in return.

Full investigation of the field will doubtless show that the demand for coal is greater than known now and demonstrate more fully about the value of the idea outlined above. Putting the plan into operation should mean a great deal in Charleston, which is connected with some of the largest coal fields in this country besides being close to both coasts of South America because of its geographical position and the Panama Canal. The Edgar F. Lukenbach has just demonstrated that that is the premier port on the South Atlantic coast for the largest freighters, and for coal fields here can provide the return cargo necessary. Such monster ships as the Lukenbach can discharge all their cargoes here and put back to South America, thus contributing greatly to the importance of this port by making it a center from which nitrates, minerals and other products may be distributed over the country and to which the products of the Middle West and Southeast may be brought for export. The business of the port will grow with the developmet of the rich countries of the sister continent in which the increased commercial intercourse will prove a great factor— Charleston Post. -------------------- An Enjoyable Christmas

We are not going to betray any confidences, folks, but if the subject of this little story had had the remotest idea that we would have ever told if it would never have found the way into your print, and at that, it is worthy of limitation—because if it brought such hapiness into so many lives one time it would do so again. But you may be your own judge about that. Here's the story "I never enjoyed Christmas—that is to say, really enjoyed it—until this year, and strange as it may seem outside of a few post cards and such like from relatives and distant friends. I didn't receive a darned thing in the way of presents—not even a necktie. Yes, I sent more presents than ever before, and that is the secret of the whole business. Instead of sending presents to those whom I know would try to send me presents in return I made up an entirely different list this time, and to make double sure that the recipients would not even try to remember me not a single one of them bore my card—or anything else—that would identify the sender."

Well, what did you send, this good Old Santa Claus was asked, that afforded you such great pressure?

"That would be hard to tell, not that I care at all, but I sent a little

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of everything. To some I sent a sack of flour, to others a ham, and to others a load of coal or wood, and to there wearing apparel—shoes, stockings, and such like. Oh, yes, you have to be careful and you can't make up a list of this kind in a day, but I don't believe that I made a single mistake. You see I commenced thinking up my lis just after Thanksgiving and what I have learned has made me feel more thankful—and more anxious—about this giving business than ever before.

"You just ought to try it," he concluded. "It brings about a brand of happiness that is altogether different from that which comes with the exchange of presents, and it's absolutely free from disappointment."

And we believe him.—Anderson Mail. _____________________________ What Others Say The Immoral Hotel.

Christmas eve a young woman who had gone to a room in a Greenville hotel to meet two young men, who shortly afterward discovered a corpse by parties who had been attracted to the room by the report of a pistol shot. She had been heartlessly murdered, the muzzle of a pistol having been thrust into one of her nostrils and bullet went through and out of her head. Immediately there was a hue and cry against the existence of questionable places that are run under the name of hotels. The license of the hotel-keeper was cancelled, but he secured restraining order which may protect hhim until his preset license expires. The Spartanburg Journal points to recent events in Charlotte as evidence that a city can [clear?] itself of the suspicious hotel if it so desired. The Journal thinks Charlotte "has made more headway in the solution of the problem than any other city has made." The municipal crusade for the eradication of the immoral hotel in this city produced unsatisfactory results and the reproach the city had been living under in public estimation has been removed. The Charlotte hotel reputation in which the good were made to suffer for the sins of the bad, has been restored to its former standard for morality, cleanliness and safety, and what has been done in Charlotte can be done in any city that has an administration with the back bone to tackle the situation with energy and determination. In some cases imposition upon the hotel-keeper can be successfully practiced for a day or so, but not for long. The hotel man who is determined on keeping suspicious persons from his house can find ways and means of doing it. The man who says he cannot may learn how it can be done and is done by interviewing some of the Charlotte hotel proprietors. The imoral hotel is an institution that is marked for weeding out. It is a menace that public welfare cannot countenance and that no community that has regard for self-respect will tolerate.—Charlotte Observer. -------------------- Every Year`s Leap Year.

Nineteen-sixteen was leap year.

There won't be another leap year, this calendar says untill nineteen twenty.

But the calendar lies.

Every year's leap year these days. Every year sees woman's power and prestige and privilege grow.

The mere frivolous pretense that in leap years only can a woman ask a man to be her mate, is dead—defunct—decedent.

We reckon as many will continue asking in 1917 as in 1916, if they happen to feel the urge.

The leap year just past saw a woman elected to congress—but she'll take her seat this year, and then will her greater service commence.

The leap year just past saw a woman fly nearly from Chicago to New York. But in the year coming, which is not a leap year, she says she'll cross the continent through the air.

The calendar still observes—leap year.

But the sex doesn't—Durham Sun. -------------------- The Week of Prayer.

On another page today we print that a list of the meeting places and speakers for the week of prayer service is to be held next week in this this city.

It will be noted with pleasure that the churches of the city are cooperating cordially and earnestly to make the period one of great and lasting spiritual value to the people of the ciy.

At this time when the world looks with longing eyes for the return of peace among mean, the people of America may well show their faith in God by very earnestly imploring His guidance in and blessing on His movement for peace recently inaugurated by the president.

Let the whole nation as one man take Heaven by storm that our suffering brethren in Europe may again enjoy the pleasure and serenity of peacful pursuits.—Richmond Virginian. ---------------------------------------- "DRYNESS"IN THE HOME OF THE JULIP -------------------- (By Rollin Lynde Hartt in Boston Transcript.)

They have "buried" Joe Barleycorn," here in Virginia, and are still dancing on his grave. Gentlemen in whose creed "mint julep" was writ large salute the "new era" with joy. Prohibitionists cheer. The Richmond Virginian a paper founded six years ago to turn the State dry, is beside itself with exultation. A few old topers of the colored persuassion mope around defunct saloons with somewhat the air of pious children of Israel mourning at the temple; a few cynics and pessimists foretell awful consequences to follow in passing of J. B.; a few few theorists prate of "class distinction"—rum for the rich, none for the poor—but what are such whimpers amid general enthusiasm?

It was at midnight, you remember that State Wide Prohibition was to go into effect in this city of 200,000 people. So Richmond turned itself loose. But not tight. I was there, and watched. Let me tell you what I saw.

Last of the Spirits.

Throughout the evening Broad street was thronged with masqueraders. There were men dressed as girls. There were girls dressed as men. There were children with flowing beards. There were white folks blacked up. There were Pierrots, Columbuses, Indians, Charley Chaplins and inmeasurable "ha'nts"—meaning spooks. Soft voices, jolly laughter, general amusement, but a universal absence of the coarse, hoodlumish "guying" that would have been the most conspicuous feature of such an affair anywhere in the North. And, mind you, this was Richmond's last night of open saloons. A hundred bars sang, with a southern accent, "Morituri salutamus." They had only a few hours to live. Crowds poured

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in and out. Yet, although I strolled up and down both sides of Broad street—the "wrong" side as well as the "right" side—I saw only one man the worse for liquor. Where, I wonder, would Northerners have managed such a festival under such circumstances with such amazing decorum?

At the armory of the Richmand Light Infantry Blues there was a masked ball. At a Baptist church, not far away, there was a highly unusual service—worshippers sitting up till twelve to welcome in the "new era" with hymns and prayers. At midnight the Richmond steam whistles let loose a chorus in which every church bell joined, "ringing out the old, ringing in the new," and waking light sleepers for many a square mile around the city.

Viewed From Afar.

Viewed from a distance—from Baltimore, to be specific—Virginia's plight struck the Sun's cartoonist as downright pitiful. In the tenderness of his heart he pictured the typical Virginia of legend, bawling woefully, "Goodbye, booze!"—whereas the typical Virginia of fact was in no such funk. Quite the contrary. He congradulated himself. He congratulated the Anti-Saloon League. He congratulated Virginia. Judging by the poems in the papers, he burst into song multitudiously, vociferously and molto con fucco.

Not without reason, either. During the first twenty-four hours of enforcement the police began taking on flesh. "All dressed up and nowhere to go," they tilted back in their chairs and snoozed. It was the most lawabiding, virtuous, uneventful twentyfour hours in Richmond's entire history. Every saloon had gone quietly out of business. Every liquor shop had. Hotel bars were stripped and deserted. Clubs had quit tippling. "Blind tigers" had not started up. In a whole day there was just one arrest for drunkenness. Actually it would appear that Virginia's "new era" promises to repeat the felicities of Georgia as recited by Governor Harris in his letter to Virginians. Reviewing Georgia's six months' experience of prohibition, he writes," Merchants report larger sales of commodities that go for the comfort and welfare of the people. Banks report increase in savings deposits, both in number and amounts. Prosecuting officers to circuit courts report decrease of crime and prosecutions amounting to fifty percent. All these things are traceable to our prohibition statutes.

Temperate Virginians.

As a rule, the most wonderful phenomena superficially, are at bottom the least, so and when a roving Northerner has got over his first bewilderment and pried into the [sitution underlying this abrupt making off of John Barlycorn in the Mint Julep State, the whole thing grows comprehensable. The explanation is a once racial, political and statutory, that is to say, it runs back to the make-up of the white population, to the disfranchisement of the black population, and so the drafting of a law which poublic sentiment among the Virginian would only increase that means to enforce.

Here in the old Dominion, there exists no appreciable class of winebibers or beer guzzlers from Europe. Practically all the white Virginians are Americans They have regarded alcohol as a luxury, not as a necessity. They could curtail the luxury at the behest of conscience. As for the negroes, barely 700 [haev] qualified as voters in Richmond. If [if] the rest want whiskey, what of it? The can go North. Matters are so ordered that they cannot control Virginia. And finally the state wide Prohibition Law is a remarkable one, which instead of aiming at the extirpation of the use of alcohol, aims at the extirpation of the abuse of alcohol.

On the surface, to be sure, it seems as "drastic" as the rare restaurant asserts. While in Virginia I must not sell liquor to anybody as a beverage; I must not [blurry] liquor in a cart, hotel, boarding house, car, boat or airship; I must not give liquor away; unless a common carrier, which I am not; I must not convey liquor from one place to another; I must not uncork it in a hotel; I must not advertise liqour; I must not advertise the failure of prohibition elsewhere and pay for the advertisement unless it is marked "ads"; I must not store liquor in a warehouse, wagon, car or boat for you or your negroes, and by liquor I am to understand "anything containing more than half of one per cent alcohol by bulk."

How to Drink Through Dry.

A pretty stiff law, so far; a law apparently got up by cranks of the first water, but read on. Under statewide prohibition is one permitted to order one-fourth of a gallon of whiskey per month, of one gallon of wine, or three gallons of beer provided that I take oath that for thirty days I have received none whatever. I can buy pure fruit or grain alcohol or ethyl from licensed druggists "for (1) mechanical purposes such as cleansing watches; (2) pharmaceutical purposes, such as preserving drugs; (3) scientific purposes such as experimentation in medical colleges; (4) manufacturing purposes, such as making flavoring extracts; (5) sacrimonial purposes—the observance of the Lord's Supper; and (6) medicinal purposes. Hotels "may have intoxicants for culinary and messaging purposes." I myself may drink in my own home.

Pretty liberal this looks, does it not? By no means an outrageous invasion of "personal liberty." But how is it to be enforced? Much depends on this: All Virginia [demans] "strict enforcement," but in all Virginia is opposed to "harsh measures that will result in "reaction," and the law contains provisions that seem to invite extreme measues. This, for instance, "Every wife, child, parents, guardian or employer, or other person who shall be injured in person or property or measure of support by any intoxicating person, in consequence of his intoxication, shall have a right of action against any person who, by selling, bartering, or giving away intoxicating liquors, cause the intoxication of such person, for damages socially sustained, as well as for exemplary damages." Hence the inference, "If a man drinks to intoxication in the home of another, and then gets in an automobile and injures you, the person injured has a right to recover damages from the one who gave away the liquor in his home." ---------------------------------------- Civics Teacher: "What is the relation between the government and the party?"

Pupil: "The government and the party is like a man and his wife. The government is the stronger, but the wife usually gets what she wants." ---------------------------------------- "Officer, what is the charge against these two men?" asked the court.

"Disturing the peace by scuffling."

"Your Honor," piped one of the accused. "We wasn't scrappin'. I was tellin' him about a fight day da Rooshan won, an' he ses dat I didn't pronounce de name right. Den I called him a liar, an' den he hit me and I hit him back. Dat was all, your honor."

"Discharged. But hereafter when you fellows have a dispute about a foreign name, delete it. That's the way the censors do, and they never get hit."

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HEALTH TALKS By WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. Weeping Sinew

A bunch of swelling usually on the back of the wrist, tense, round, having a feeling to touch like a little sack full of thick fluid, is known as a ganglion or "weeping sinew." It is probably the result of some strain or injury, often so slight that the patient has no recollection of injury; sometimes overuse of the wrist in certain kins of work or play seems to be the only cause. The swelling consists of a protrusion or ballooning of the tendon sheath containing a quantity of gelatinous synovial fluid such as that which lubricates the tendon in the sheath. The sac ultimately becomes entirely shut off from connection with the tendon sheath itself and reamins as a permanent deformity whic gives mere physical inconvenience, unless perchance the ganglion becomes inflamed.

There are three possible remedies, which may be tried in the order described.

First, flex the wrist to make the swelling tense, then rupture the sac by firm pressure with the thumb, or by striking it a sudden blow with the back of a book. An excellent book for this purpose, if the editors will pardon the ad in "Personal Health," by William Brady, M. D., the w. k. conductor of this column. It is just heavy enough to do good without doing harm—in fact, that is the motif of the book all through. Having ruptured the sac, it is advisable to maintain moderate pressure over the spot for a few days by means of a bandage, or better, adhesive plaster strapping, and a splint.

If this treatment or your courage fails, the next resort is subcutaneous incision and scarification of the sac

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lining—a nice little painless job for the doctor.

If this fails, then the thing is getting tiresome and it is best to have the sac completely excised, a minor operation which may be safely and painlessly done by the doctor under a local anesthetic.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Where to Draw the Line.

Some of these days please work in a paragraph on incontinence that will be enlightening to aged men like myself as well as others. In my own case the intervals are every two hours.

ANSWER—We should like to reply here but public opinion of proprietry differs. Hence we shall have to ask you to send stamped, addressed envelope for personal reply.

Entangled in the Meshes.

Linen is more absorbent than silk, cotton or woll. Wool is an aimal fibre and hence has oil in it which prevents it from absorbing moisture. The warmth of underwear is purely a question of conductivity. While linen fibre is a better conductor of heat than wool fibre and would therefore seem to permit too rapid cooling of the body, if the air itself, being a poor conductor, retains the warmth next to the skin and keeps it from getting away. Does it no follow that linen is the ideal underwear? (K. L. M.)

ANSWER—Underwear should be the purest absorbent you can find. If air is such an ideal material hy wear linen at all? Wool of the knitted sort permits free evaporation and does not retain moisture as linen does, hence is preferable.

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Dr. Brady will answer all questions pertaining to health. If your question is of general interest it will be answered through these columns. If not it will be answered personally if stamped, addressed envelope is enclosed. Dr. Brady will not prescribe for individual diagnoses or make diagnoses. Address all letters to Dr. William Brady care of The Daily Piedmont, Greenville, S. C. _________________________________________________________________________ [article spans cols. 5-6, middle section]

BEDTIME STORIES By HOWARD R. GARIS'. (Copyrighted, 1916 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

UNCLE WIGGELY THE [blurry]

"Going for a walk again?" asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper for Uncle Wiggily Longears as she saw the rabbit gentleman standing in the front hall of his hollow stump bungalow one morning.

"Yes, just a little walk," he answered. "This is a new year, you know, and I may have some new adventures."

"It looks as though it might snow," went on Nurse Jane, "so when you come back, you had better bring a snow shovel from the store."

"I will," promised the bunny rabbit.

"I remember now, we do need a new one, as Sammie Little Tail, the rabbit boy, broke the old one playing boat with it."

"He did," said Nurse Jane, "because you let him take it. I wouldn't."

"Oh, Sammie is a nice boy," said Uncle Wiggily sort of excusing like.

So the old rabbit gentleman started off over the fields and woods to look for an adventure. But, though he looked and looked again, he could not find one.

"I guess adventures are going to be scarce this year, he thought. "But, never mind, it's going to snow hard pretty soon, I think, and maybe an adventure will snow down from the sky. I guess I'd better go get that snow shovel Nurse Jane spoke about."

So Uncle Wiggily went to the snow shovel store and pretty soon he came out carrying a big wooden scoop over his shoulder.

"With this," he said himself, "I can shovel paths through the snow so Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy can hang up the clothes. And then I can let Sammie Littletail, the rabbit, or Jackie and Peetie Bow Wow, the puppy dog boys, take it to make snow men and snow forts. Oh, winter is a lovely time."

Uncle Wiggily was thinking about this and what fun the animal children would have when the white flakes came sifting down, when, all of a sudden the rabbit gentleman heard voices calling to him:

"Uncle Wiggily! Oh, Uncle Wiggily!"

"Yes. What is it?" asked the bunny, turning around.

"May we take your snow shovel to have some fun?" asked a voice, and then Mr. Longears saw Toodle and Noodle Flat-Tail, the two beaver boys, running toward him. The beavers were like muskrats, except that they were larger and their tails were blond and flat.

"You want my new snow shovel?" asked the bunny.

"Yes," answered Toodle. "It isn't snowing yet, and you don't need it. We'll bring it back to you as soon as it snows."

"What do you want to do with it?" asked Uncle Wiggily.

"Slide down the hill on it," answered Noodle. There a smooth, grassy hill over there," and he pointed to it with his paw. "We can sit on the broad part of the snow shovel, Toodle and I, and slide down steering by the handle. Please let us take it."

"Well, all right," said Uncle Wiggily, slowly. "But be sure and bring it back to my bungalow, for I'll need it when the snow flies."

The beaver boys promised, and Uncle Wiggily let them take the shovel. When the bunny gentleman got back to his bungalow, Nurse Jane asked:

"Where's the new snow shovel?"

"I let Toodle and Noodle Flat-tail, the beaver boys, take it," he answered. "It isn't going to snow for a long while, I guess."

"Oh, you are such a funny rabbit man?" exclaimed the muskrat lady housekeeper. "I don't know what to make of you."

Night came, and the beaver boys had not yet brought back the snow shovel. Nurse Jane went out on the porch and anxiously looked at the clouds.

"It will surely snow before morning," she said. "We may be snowed up in our bungalow, and you can't shovel your way out if Toodle and Noodle don't bring back your snow shovel, Mr. Longears."

"Oh, I guess they'll bring it back," said Uncle Wiggily, easy like and casual. Anyhow, I don't be-

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lieve it is going to snow."

But it did. In the night all around Uncle Wiggily's bungalow, the [the] ground was soon covered white with flakes. They were piled up high on the porch and against the doors so they could not be opened.

"What did I tell you?" cried Nurse Jane. "We are snowed up, and the beaver boys didn't bring back your shovel. Oh, how could you do it?" and she felt sad.

"Well, I'll find a way to get out," Uncle Wiggily said, and just then, out in front of the house, he saw the snow flakes flying and blowing all about, though they had stopped falling from the sky. Uncle Wiggily could not understand it.

And something seemed to be making a path through the snow right up to the front door. It was like a plow, pushing the white flakes to either side.

"What's that?" cried Nurse Jane. "Who is shoveling us out of the snow?"

"Toodle and Noodle, the beaver boys!" cried Uncle Wiggily. In another minute the beavers had made a path through the snow from the sidewalk to the porch.

"We shoveled the snow to one side with our big, broad, flat tails, which are just like spades," said Toodle. "You see, we wore out your wooden shovel sliding down hill on it and couldn't bring it back. But we'll get you a new one, Uncle Wiggily."

"And our Grandpa Whacker said we must come and shovel you out before we brought the new shovel, and so we did!" cried Noodle.

"Bless your hearts," laughed Uncle Wiggily. "I knew something good would happen."

So it all comes out right, you see and if the bob-tailed goldfish doesn't jump out of its case and bark at the green parrot, I'll tell you next about Uncle Wiggily and the clothes poles. ---------------------------------------- Little Willie`s Compositions New Year.

New Years is the day that witnesses the making of numberless resolutions while the next day witnesses the breaking of 99 per cent of the said resolutions. When a new year follows a leap year the same person observe the day rather as a day of Thanksgiving than just because of the fact that it is the first day of the year. Much ink and paper is wasted on this day for it is something else to write the day correctly, force of habit, you know. This day is a legal holiday, but newspapermen and hack drivers work right on as if nothing out of the ordinary had come to pass. It is customary at new years to pull off a nice funeral to celebrate the death of the old year and this is done with the aid of tin can rattlers, fire crackers, cannons, and five peace orchestras that make more noise about peace than does our friend and fellow-sufferer, William Jennings Bryan. Father Time sings a solo and the new year being ushered in takes off the honors of the occasion. This day causes many to gasp and awake to the realization that such day they grow older and each January the first brings them one year closer to the grave. The last sentence is only there to fill a little space—pretty good, ain't it? A genleman who has traveled extensively swears that he knows where a remote little village is located that makes no more noise on New Years day than does a five thousand dollar limousine on a paved street but in the humble opinion of the average man, there ain't no such animal. ---------------------------------------- The class is drawing was directed to draw a picture of a horse and a wagon. When walking up and down the aisles, noting the various stages of progress, I saw that Charles had drawn a picture of the horse only. I asked," Why have you not completed your picture?" To which the boy gave the somewhat pert, but nevertheless witty reply: "Oh, the horse can draw the wagon."

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ROBERT M. VARNON CO. 304 North Main Street, Corner Main and North Streets. __________________________________ D. A. HENNING, JR. DIES AT HOSPITAL -------------------- David Arnold Henning, Jr., a prominent young business man of this city died yesterday afternoon at Tiler's hospital at 12:40 o'clock as the result of complications following an operation for appendicitis. Death came quite suddenly although his condiion had been considered quite serious by the attending physician since he was stricken with an aggravated attack of appendicitis, December 20 and for which he was operated upon last Friday. The deceased was 23 years of age

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and had lived in this city since childhood, except for a few years spent at Columbia.

Mr. Henning was born in San Francisco, November 18, 1888, and lived there with his parents until he was about 8 years old when upon the death of his mother which followed shortly that of his father, he and his younger sister were brought to this city by his uncle, Mr. D. A. Henning, who raised them. He attended the city schools of Greenville and also the schools of Columbia, then took up the course of electrical engineering at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute from which he was graduated.

Shortly after his graduation, he entered the employ of J. E. Sirrine and later established a business of his own as electrical engineer. At the time of his death, he was connected with the Monroe Calculating Machine Company as Southern sales manager, having charge of the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama with offices at Greenville.

He was married to Miss Rose Gregory Wadell September 15, 1907, who survives him. He also leaves a sister, Mrs. E. H. Gray who lives with an aunt, Miss Elizabeth Decons, in San Francisco, an uncle, D. A. Henning of Greenville, an aunt Miss Mary J. Henning of this city, an aunt, Mrs. E. J. Hellams of Laurens and two aunts who live in Charlotte, Mrs. R. G. Shannonhouse and Mrs. T. L. Lance.

The funeral services will be comported at the residence of Mrs. John M. Waddell, No. 731 East Washington Street this afternoon at four o'clock. Rev. F. H. Juhan and Dr. Geo. W. Quick will officiate and the interment will be in Springwood cemetery.

The following gentlemen have been asked to act as pallbearers: Messrs. William Lucas, A. D. Kennedy, Jas. H. Morgan Jr. Marshal Beattie, David Jennings, L. A. Mills, Hudson Williams, Fountain Beattie and Claybourne Watkins. ---------------------------------------- No Attempt is Made to Capture Neuvo Laredo

LAREDO, Texas, Jan. 1.—New Year's day passed without any attempt by Mexican revolutionists to capture Neuvo Laredo. Persistant rumors last night had it that a command had been presented for the surrender of the town today.

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Dexter and Crex Rugs, 9x12, $8.00 CRAIG-RUSH FURNITURE CO., Buncombe and North Streets. __________________________________ GREENVILLE BOY JOIN AMBULANCE CORPS IN FRANCE. -------------------- Francis Beatty, Jr., Who Served With the National Guard on the Border, in Washington Arranging for Trip to Paris for Service There. -------------------- Francis Beatty, Jr., a son of F. J. Beatty of 259 Butler Avenue, who recently returned from a four-months service on the Mexican border with the First Regiment National Guard of South Carolina is in Washington, it was learned today, making arrangements to go to Paris, where he expects to become a member of the American Ambulance Corps, now doing service with the French and English troops in caring for wounded soldiers.

Mr. Beatty is about 25 years of age, and is well known throughout this section. His decision to join the American Ambulance corps in France will come as a distinct surprise to many of his acquaintances here, but his intimate friends say that he has had the plan in mind for a number of months.

Mr. Beatty was a member of the Butler Guards, of this city, holding the office of sergeant in this company. He left Greenville with the local company when the National Guard was called out to the border. During the stay there, he stood the examination for Lieutenancy, and was appointed second lieutenant in Company K of Anderson, which position he held until the troops were mustered out of service.

Mr. Beatty has been reading up considerably upon the work of the American Ambulance Corps in France, and has become intensly interested in the work. With the view of going to Paris to become a member of his corps, he left Greenville last week, it is understood, and is now in Washington endeavoring to perfect the arrangements necessary to get to France. Members of Mr. Beatty's family today admitted that he was in Washington for this purpose, but thought it not quite certain as yet that he would be able to go to France, in view of the various formalities that must be gone through with before he can start on his trip. His intention, however, is to go on to New York as soon as the arrangements are made, and then sail from that place for France.

Magazines of the past few months have had much to say about the corps at the French front, and have recited some of the deeds of daring and fortitude experienced by the American ambulance drivers and attendants in their efforts to carry wounded soldiers to the zone of safety where their wounds could be properly cared for. The work of course, is not so dangerous as that of the actual fighting, but often carries the ambulance men into fields covered by enemy guns. ---------------------------------------- [advertisement for Farmers and Merchants Bank]

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NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 1.—The sixtieth general assembly of Tennessee began its session here today, organization being completed with the election of W. R. Crabtree, of Chattanooga, as speaker of the senate and Clyde Shropshire of Nashville, as speaker of the house.

A message will be received from Gov. Rye tomorrow. Business to come before the assembly will be measures advocating a stricter enforcement of prohibition laws, abolishment of fees for county officials, restoration of capital punishment and some form of increased taxation. ---------------------------------------- No Lights in the Small Home on Night of Murder

OSSIPEE, N. H., Jan. 1.—There were no lights in the Small cottage on the night Mrs. Florence A. Small was murdered and the house burned down according to the testimony of two campers at the trial today of Frederick T. Small, charged with the murder of his wife. [eGo] Glover and Arthur H. Boynton of Melrose, Mass. testified today that they had seen lights in the home every night up to the evening she was slain.

Their testimony was brought by the State in its efforts to prove that Small had killed his wife before he left for Boston late that afternoon.

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HOTEL PROBLEM ONE FOR COUNCIL TO WORRY OVER -------------------- No Further Court Proceeding to be Taken Relative to Central Hotel, as License Expired on the Last Day of New Year. -------------------- Whether or not the Central hotel, where nineteen-year old Lois Howard was shot and killed in the room of J. R. Cox on Christmas eve night, will be allowed to continue in operation or not, will probably have to be decided by the city counsel.

On the morning after the crime, Mayor Webb revoked the license of the hotel, and it was closed, but a temporary restraining order was secured from Judge Prince at Anderson, and the hotel was reopened. The order was returnable today before Judge smith in the sessions court but it did not come up and it was learned that the lawyers representing the city and the plaintiff had agreed to let the matter rest in its present status, inasmuch as the license which was revoked expired on the night of December 31.

The hotel now has no license, just as all other businesses of the city. The license tax is payable during the next thirty days, for the coming year. When the hotel proprietors apply for a license, the matter of issuing it will probably be a question to be decided by the city counsel. ---------------------------------------- COTTON TAKES ANOTHER RISE -------------------- Staple Goes up to Seventeen Cents per Pound—Farmers Very Optimistic—Cotton Seed at Same Price. -------------------- Cotton took a rise today—going up to 17 cents, one quarter of a cent higher than Monday's quotations, which was 16 3-4 cents. Greenville county farmers are very optimistic over the rise, and still cling to their prediction—that before the end of the month of January cotton will be so high as 20 cents. Only a few bales were sold today, though, as reported from the local markets.

Cotton seed remained the same price as paid Monday, selling at $54 a ton. ---------------------------------------- ENTENTE REPLY TO BE AGAINST PEACE -------------------- WASHINGTON, Jan. 1—President Wilson late today went to the capitol and spent an hour discussing the country's foreign affairs with Senator Stone, chairman of the foreign relations committee. Their talk covered a wide range, but, it is understood that much of the time was devoted to the situation growing out of the unfavorable Entente reply to the peace proposals of the Central Powers, which the President has been studying during the day.

Aside from transmitting the Entente note to Germany and her Allies, the United States will take no further formal action in the peace movement at least until the Entente governments have replied to the communication of President Wilson addressed to them. If the note to the Teutonic nations had been forwarded tonight the state department did not disclose the fact, although it had been officially stated that it would be dispatched as soon as checking for errors in cable transmission could be completed.

Cable reports from Paris announcing that the Entente answer to President Wilson had been prepared and would be the same in effect as that to the belligerents did not increase hope here for a favorable outcome of the negotiations. It is known that the German embassy believes that unless the note to President Wilson opens the door for a further advance by its government, the war will go on another year at least.

So far as could be learned, the President during his visit today to Senator Stone sought an action from congress relating to the peace movement. Afterward however, it was learned that administration leaders in the senate were preparing to sound sentiment on resolutions introduced just before the holiday adjournment which would declare it to be the sense of the senate that the action of the President in addressing his note to the belligerent powers represented "the overwhelming public sentiment and earnest desire of the people of the United States."

Senator Hitchcock submitted two resolutions on the subject of successive days, one of which as referred to the committee on foreign relations and the other permitted to lie on the senate table where it is in order to be called up for action tomorrow. ---------------------------------------- Texans Defeat the New Yorkers, Score 102 to 0 -------------------- CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, Jan. 1— The Second Texas Infantry football team today defeated the 74th New York infantry eleven by a score of 102 to 0. It was the fifth consecutive victory for the Texans, teams of Missouri, Wisconsin, Virginia and Nebraska Gaurdsmen having previously gone down before them. Next Saturday the Texas Infrantrymen will meet an all-star team from the military camps of Fort Sam Houston.

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HIGH INTEREST APPLICANTS SAY, PAID TO LENDERS -------------------- Interesting Revelations Brought to Light at Opening of Local Morris Plan Bank This Morning. -------------------- Some interesting revelations of various interest rates charged on small loans by private money lenders in Greenvville came to light this morning when the Greenville Morris Plan bank opened for business at its office in the Southeastern Life Building, on South Main street.

The system upon which the Morris plan banks throughout the country operate makes these institutions a boon to persons who desire to borrow money, particularly in small amounts, at the local rate of interest, and to pay the loan back in small weekly installments. The bank offers opportunity for investment of money, also, but its facility for making loans to people who have formally dealt with the so-called "loan sharks" has given the system a national reputation as a remedial institution.

One applicant for a loan at the local bank this morning wanted to borrow $25. Among other things, he wanted to pay off a loan of $7.50 which he had secured from a local money lender, the loan secured by a chattel mortgage on a horse. The party was paying 21 cents per month per dollar interest on the loan, or $1.87 a month, ($22.50 per year) or 300 per cent interest for the use of this money.

Another instance developed in an application for a $50 loan. He wanted to repay a loan of $5 to a money lender on which he had been paying $1 a month interest, or $12 a year—240 per cent interest.

James A. Hoyt, vice president of the Homestead Bank of Columbia, a Morris plan institution, arrived in Greenville last night to assist A. G. Furman and A. G. Furman, Jr., in the opening of the Morris bank here today. Mr. Hoyt is a director in the local institution. Robert M. Beach, of the Industrial Finance Corporation, of New York, owners of the Morris plan, is expected here this afternoon and will spend several days here assisting in the opening of the bank.

In making loans, the Morris bank does not require a chattel mortgage as security, nor as a rule, mortgage on realty, but requires the endorsement of an associate of the applicant. The applicant is required to give certain facts regarding himself, including the amount of his income, what use he expects to make of the money borrowed, etc. In making the loan, the bank discounts the note, just as other banks do, taking out interest at 8 percent for the term of the loan, in advance. At the same time he makes the note for the loan, the borrower purchases an investment certificate, which he pays for so much a week, depending upon the amount of the loan. The amount is fixed to make the certificate of the value of the loan fully paid for about two weeks before the loan falls due.

Besides making loans, the bank offers certificates in denominations of $50, paying five per cent interest. A supply of booklets on "How to Borrow Money and How to Invest Money in Small Amounts" has been received by the local bank for distribution. ---------------------------------------- [advertisement for Greenville Grocery]

The first orders received are the first to go out. Phone your orders in early—Greenville Grocery Co. ---------------------------------------- BAR GOVERNOR FROM EXECUTIVE OFFICE -------------------- PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 1.—Interest in the efforts of G. W. P. Hunt, Democratic claimant to the office of governor of Arizona, to prevent occupancy of the office by Thomas W. Campbell, Republican who was formally inaugurated today centered tonight in the probable legal steps expected to follow.

An armed deputy sheriff, acting, he said, on the authority of [ReRoy?] Ladd, Hunt's private secretary, prevented Campbell adherents from occupying the governor's office. A suggestion by the Campbell man that the doors be broken down provoked cheers from the crowd which witnessed the inauguration, but Campbell counselled the employment of orderly means and the crews quietly dispersed.

A formal demand is to be made upon Hunt tomorrow to surrender the office and turn over the official papers, it was announced tonight. In the event this is refused counsel for Campbell stated that Hunt then will be served with a notice of application for a writ of mandamus, adding that arrangements had been made for the issuance of an altercation writ in supreme court.

It was explained that Campbell in this manner will be identified as the de facto governor of the state before the legislature convenes January 8. Final determination of the controversy is expected to rest with the result of the contest instituted by Hunt.

Attorneys for Campbell tonight served notice on Hunt of application for a writ of Mandamus. The matter has been set for hearing on Thursday morning. Another development of the night was a proffer from friends of Gov. Hunt of a surrender of the office tomorrow on the condition that the inspection of the ballots be stopped at once and the contest proper be begun on the discoveries that have been made so far in the inspection of a little more than half the ballots. The proffer was rejected by Campbell, who replied: "You have put yourselves beyond the pale of the law. I will not stipulate with bandies." __________________________________ Classified Adds. (Too Late to Clasify)

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