Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 176, 9 August 1908 — Page 6

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T1TE ItICH3IOJO PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 1003.

AMERICANS ARE ALLWASTEFUL Poor People Not as Saving of Food Supply as the Best People of Europe.

CLEANLINESS DEMANDED.

NOT TOO MUCH CAN BE DONE TO ENCOURAGE THIS IN AMERICAN PEOPLE, SAYS MRS. JOHN A. LOGAN.

Care for Poor Children, Not Cats, Judge Tells Society Women

Chicago, August 8. The cream of Chicago's society many rich and prominent women have received rebuke from Municipal Judge Gemmill who has appealed to their sense of duty to humanity by telling them to leave cajts and dogs alone and help the poor and needy children instead. These society women have been spend ing money and time In ministering to stray cats and dogs, and the wails and howls of the patients so distracted the neighborhood around the "hospital" that the residents resolved to air this fad of Chicago's "four hund

red" In the courts, in an effort to secure peace and quiet throughout the hot days and long nights.' Then the law took its course and 14 dogs and cats were given the death penalty, though later given a stay of execution of one week. Mrs. Margaret Carter, manager of the refuge for crippled cats and homeless dog3. conducted the defense and received the scoring of the court on behalf of the aristrocratic backers of the organization. "Care for the hungry, sick and maimed children of Chicago's poor first, and there will be little time left to waste on cats and dogs," said Judge Gemmill.

By Mnr John A. Logan. Washington, D. C, Aug. 8. Equally Important with the system Washington has put Into operation for a thorough Inspection of hotels, restaurants, lunch counter3, bakeries, markets, alleys, cellars, and every place where food Is kept or served, or where garbage Is deposited, with a view to improving the sanitary conditions of the city, Is a movement which has for its object the instilling into minds of the

people the importance of cultivating

habits of economy and cleanliness with regard to food products. As an instance of the absolute failure on the part of some people of average intelligence to appreciate the value of clean living I shall recite an incident that cameunder my observation. I once had a colored man in my employe who had a wife and two children. The man had been employed by the garbage contractor at Atlantic City. During the winter he lost his place and came to me to work on the farm. I retained him as one of the farm hands as they express it. One day he came to me and said he wae going to leave. Supposing he had had soma trouble with the foreman, I said: "I am very sorry to have you go away and by the way, where are you going?" He said: "Atlantic City." "You are very foolish," I said."I give you a house and you have your vegetables off of the farm. If you go there you will have to pay rent and buy everything you eat, and even if you should get more wages, you

would not bo any better off than you are now." "It doesn't cost me a cent to support my family," was the astonishing reply, " 'cause the garbage is the finest you ever saw." He said his wife sorted the garbage and they found mighty fine things the quality folks threw away. In European cities they practice such strict economy that they have nothing like the waste that we have in this country. For ages their population has been so great and their resources so limited that the people have been permitted to indulge In extravagance lest famine should ensue. The abundance of everything in the United States has made us the moot wasteful nation on the globe. Our poor people waste more than well-to-do people In Europe require to live on comfortably. Americans, as " a rule, have so much contempt for economy that they are wont to call economy meanness and allude to thrifty, prudent persons as niggardly and stingy. It is to be hoped that through unrelenting inspections and execution of the law under which they are made.

healthful conditions t111 follow and

that our people will be taught right

principles of economy and that the future will show lees wastefulness greater cleanliness and economy in the

preparation of food and much less ac

cumulation or spoiled food every

where.

It is a matter of education In the line of economies that with our false

notions of eating and drinking to ex

cess, everyone contributes more or less to the spirit of destructiveness of

good things. Almost every one eats and drinks too much. In this country

many more persons die from eating too much than from starvation. If we would think more of quality and less of the quantity we consume, we would

be a wiser and longer lived people.

It may be a long time before the

masses are converted to habits of strict cleanliness and wisdom in their

manner of living, but it is a good sign to see moves made in that direction.

and I say "God speed the good work

When the commissioners have

caused a general cleaning tp of in

torlors, they will do well to attack the unsightly and not infrequently dis

gusting advertisements that ere plas

tered over every exterior available in

the city.

Persons owning unimproved lots but lacking in civic pride have " erected board fences about their property and have sold every inch of space on these fences for advertisements that

are emblazoned in all the colors of the , rainbow, offending good taste and de

cency.

If the commissioners havo not the

power to remove the billboard nui

sance and to prohibit oisfigurlng adTertisements they should ask congress

to pass a law giving them such au

thority's that Washington, the most beautiful city in the United States, may keep pace with smaller cities of the union, who have by pers'stent effort, eliminated offensive billboards and other advertising mediums. L,3t renders of all wares confine themselves to legitimate channels, such as newspapers, magazines and circulars.

ATTEMPTS TO FOLLOW MOTHER'S FOOTSTEPS

Clara Bloodgood's Daughter Tries to Suicide.

Yonkers, N. Y., Aug. 8. Standing in the street before her home. Mrs. Anna McCarthy, eighteen years old, of No. 24 Glover avenue, who says she is a daughter of the late Clara Bloodgood, attempted to commit suicide by swallowing poison. Some men knocked the bottle from her hand and she recovered in St. Joseph's hospital. The young woman was married to John McCarthy, a year ago. She says she eloped with him from a convent In New York, where she had been placed by friends of Clara Bloodgood. Recently she tried to induce District Attorney Jerome to take some action to obtain her share in the actresses estate. Clara Bloodgood killed herself on December 5 of last year in a Baltimore hotel by shooting herself. She was the wife of William Laimbeer, a member of the New York stock exchange. No reason could be assigned for her rash act and the mystery has never been cleared up.

POPLAR TREE ROOTS BLOCK TILE SEWERS

Example of Nuisance Found Yesterday.

Was

Browninj i v..:hen. This really happened t a meeting of clubwomen at Topeka, Kan.: This club had a new member who was said to be so literary that she knew under Just what head to Cnd anything in the encyclopedia, but she had so far never been on the club programme. Recently a member who was to have

had a paper on Browning was absent,

and the chairman got up and said.

As Mrs. Blank is absent, I will ask

our new member to talk on the sub

ject." There was a flutter. Now the

members would really hear an intel

lectual treat. The new member arose and began, "While I did not expect

to speak on the subject this afternoon

and must confess to being a little rusty on It, not having done my own cooking for a number of years, I will say that

for pies and cakes I like a hot, brisk fire and for beans a slow, steady one."

Topeka Journal.

The passionate rhythms of "The Mer

ry Widow Waltz" floated through the office, and the boss looked up from his desk impatiently. "Frederic," he said,

I wish you wouldn't wjbistle at your

work." "I ain't workin. sir." the office

boy replied calmly; "I'm only Just whistlin." New York. ps

It was only a very few months ago speaking comparatively, that a tiny root from a Carolina poplar tree at Tenth and South C street penetrated the tile sewer leading from the water fountain at that corner. Yesterday workmen dug up the sewer and found that the single root had increased a thousand fold and so matted and interwoven had become the mass that it had attained a diameter of five inches and blocked the sewer entirely. A section of the matted roots twelve feet in length was removed in a single piece. This is but a solitary example of the effect of planting this species of trees within the city. Not only do the roots fill sewers, but they grow so rapidly and large that they elevate cement sidewalks, and breaX block from block. Ordinances have been passed in a number of cities requiring the destruction of these trees and prohibiting planting of others of the kind.

PRETTY RECEPTION TENDERED TAFTS

White Sulphur Springs Wakes Up That Notables Were In Town. ATTEND THE HORSE SHOW.

How Rats Move Eggs. Strange as the story may appear of rats removing hens' eggs from the bottom to the top of a house by one fellow lying on his back and grasping tightly his ovoid burden with his fore paws, while his comrades drag him away by the tail, I have no reason to disbelieve It. I have seen two brown rats accomplish the feat from stair to stair in a farmhouse in Banffshire, the first anxious rodent pushing the egg up on its hind leg and the second assistant lifting it up with its fore leg It was the best athletic feat I ever witnessed, but It is not out of the common. The rat will extract the cotton from a flask of Florence oil. dipping in his long tail and repeating the maneuver until he has consumed all that can be reached. I have found lumps of sugar in a deep drawer at a distance of thirty feet from the place where the petty larceny was committed, and a friend once saw a rat mount a table on whlcb a drum of figs was fixed and straightway tip it over, scattering its contents on the floor below, where a score of his expectant brethren sat watching for the windfall. Scotsman.

WERE LOUDLY APPLAUDED AS THEY ENTERED ONE UNIQUE

INCIDENT MARKS THE RECEP

TION.

White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.,

Aug. 8. This place woke up to the

fact that there was a presidential can

didate here this morning and for an

hour thereafter Judge and Mrs. Taft

at the White Sulphur Springs hotel

stood up and shook hands with the men and women of the Virginias. More than 1,500 passed by the Tafts during the reception. The occasion was more of a social than a political function. Mr. Taft received numerous assurances of support from men who told him that they had always voted the democratic ticket, however. The reception followed a breakfast at which the members of the Taft party was entertained by Congressman and Mrs. Gaines of West Virginia. In the party were Mr. and Mrs. Taft, Congressman and Mrs. Gaines, General Edwards, chief of the insular bureau of the war department, Cameron Forbes, vice governor of the Philippines and the party from Hot Springs. On the receiving line at the reception were Mr. and Mrs. Taft, Mr. and Mrs. Gaines, Gov. Forbes. Senator Scott and Bishop Bashford of China. There was a charming Incident in connection with the reception. Among the guests were Sallie Darlington, daughter of the inspector general of the army. She is a pretty girl with a demurr manner and a roguish eye. Miss Sallie was sitting on the veranda rail when General Edwards passed out of the reception room. "Sally Darlington," he said, "Secretary and Mrs. Taft are holding a reception in the parlor and will be glad to shake hands with their friends." Miss Darlington eyed the handsome soldier gravely until he had concluded. Then her dainty bootheels clicked together, her hand went to her forehead In military salute and faoing about sharp she marched into the reception room. Secretary and Mrs. Taft went to the horse show this afternoon. Both stand and field loudly applauded them this afternoon.

"TOWN GHOST CATCHER" IS TITLE SOUGHT.

South Bend. Ind., Aug. 8. "Got any haunted houses in town?" asked John Schutt, a sprightly old man, as he stepped into the police station. He addressed his question to patrolman Essex, who was on duty at the desk. "If you have. I'd like to spend a night in them," continued the old man. 'Champion ghost chaser" is the title the old man claims for himself. In the conversation which followed with the officer, he said: "I heard there was a haunted house over on the East Side, and I thought I'd volunteer to stay there all night, if every one else was afraid." Mr. Schutt wanted to enter Into an agreement with the city government to act as "ghost chaser." The old man is not regarded as being abnormal in any respect, except that he has long been interested in ghosts.

THE GYPSIES.

TRUE PHILOSOPHY. With weather like this we should be content And be Thankful for what we can get; For If it doesn't suit you, it suits someone else. And if you'll wait you'll be satisfied yet. Chicago Journal.

CHEERFUL. Being cheerful is having a genius for fooling yourself into the belief that you are contented. New York Press.

They Are a Separate People, a TrI1e Quite by Themselves. "Such as wake on the night and sleep on the day and haunt taverns and ale houses and no man wot from whence they come nor whither they go." So quaintly describes an old English statute against the gypsies. Ever since the year 1530, says a writer in the London Standard, Great Britain has tried to get rid of this strange people without appreciable success. Every year or so some county is up in arms against them, yet they persist in returning and apparently thrive under persecution. The gypsies are popularly supposed to-come originally from Egypt, as their name indicates, but their origin is traced farther east than the land of the Nile. Wherever they come from, they are a separate people, a tribe quite by themselves. They appeared in England about 1505, and twenty-six years later Henry VIII. ordered them to leave the country in sixteen days, taking all their goods with them. "An outlandish people," he called them. The act was ineffectual, and in 1502 Elisabeth framed a still more stringent law, and many were hanged. "But what numbers were executed," says one old writer, "yet notwithstanding, all would not prevaile, but they wandered as before, uppe and downe." They got into Scotland and became an intolerable nuisance. Both in that country and in England legislation proved quite ineffectual. The acts gradually fell into desuetude, tinder George IV. all that was left of the ban against the gypsies was the mild law that any person "telling fortunes shall be deemed a rogue and a vagabond." "Gypsies are no longer a proscribed class," says a recent writer. "Probably the modern gypsy does little evil beyond begging and petty theft, but his determination not to work Is as strong as ever, and it seems curious that an industrial people like ours continues to tolerate a horde of professional idlers." How numerous the horde is may be gathered from the fact that the number who wintered In Surrey one year was estimated at 10,000. The language as well as the life of the gypsy tribe has a tenacity of Its own. Many of their words have taken firm hold in a half slang, half permis stbly way. Shaver is the gypsy word for child. Pal is pure gypsy. Codger means a man. Cutting up is gypsy for quarreling, and cove stands for "that fellow.

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A Cruel Petition. The little g!rl was very fond of pleasant days and at the close of a fc?avy ,-ainstorm petitioned in her prayer for line weather. When, the next mornJag, the sun shone bright and clear she became jubilant and told her prayer to her grandmother, who said, "Well, dear, why can't you pray tonight that it may be warmer tomorrow, so grandma's rheumatism will be better?" "All right; I will," was the quick response, and that night as she knelt she ssiJ. "Oh. Lord, please make it hot for grandma."

Not a She Hern. After a dip in the ocean at a fashionable resort a lndy accompanied by her little dog entered a bath house to dress. After a Mt the dog came rur. ning out of the bath house with a bunch of curly golden hair in its mouth. It tore up and down the long aisle worrying that glittering bunch of curls, shaking it and growling at it ns If It had been a cat a funny sight to see.

There was naturally a good deal of laughter. Then the lady was heard calling the attendant in a distressed voice. "Oh," she said, "would you please fetcH my little dog back to me? He has run off with something of mine, and I can't get my shoes on without it." The attendant was one of those smart chaps. He yelled back at the lady very loud: "Yes'm, yer little dog's out here, all right, havln' a spree with somethln or other, but from the look of It I wouldn't say it was a shoe horn."

Mary" Cartln. beciTU Mary ma Am so."

The Sacrifice Balked. A young man who bad been converted at a camp meeting declared that all pride and self conceit had been taken out of his heart. To prove It be sakl he would go down among the audience and kiss an old colored woman. As he went down the aisle the old colored woman rose to her feet and said: "Look a-hyer. bruddah. you may hab no pride, but I has. Too can't Hobsonize me fo all dese white folks."

A Friendly Suggestion. A destitute author went to Dumas per and threatened to suffocate himself and his three children unless Pumas could let him have SOO franca at once. Dumas searched bis coffers thoroughly, but cocld find only SOO franca. "But I must have three, or I and the little ones are lost. "Suppose you suffocate yourself and save the little ones, said Dumas.

Etiquette and Ethics. At a banquet given at the bouse of the prime minister of one of the Balkan states, where commercial morality is still in its infancy, a distinguished diplomat complained to bis host that the minister of justice, next to whom he was sitting, bad taken his watch. The prime minister said: "Ah, he shouldn't have done that. 1 will get it bnck for you." Sure enough, toward the end of the evening the watch was returned to its owner. "And what did he say?" asked the guest. "Sh-h! lie does not know I hnve got it back," said the prime minister.

The Soft Answer. It was a wise young man who paused before he answered the widow who asked him to guess her age. "Too must have some idea of it." she Mid. with what was Intended for an arch sldewlse glance. "I have several ideas," he admitted, with a smile. "The only trouble is that I hesitate whether to make you ten years younger on account of your looks or ten years older on account of your brains, Then, while the widow smiled and blushed, he took a graceful bat speedy leave.

Haabaada. The woman who said that she knew ber husband didn't drink because he drank so much water in the morning Isn't in it with the woman who says that the reason her husband doesn't 40 to church is because be is already as good as he can be. Detroit Free Press.

MIsmaderatematsiaT. "Hannah." said the mistress to her new girl, "you can take that brown, serge dress of mine and put It in soak.! "Yes'm,' said Hannah. "Who's your, f ST'rlte pawnbroker?" London Answers.

Perservercnce Is Fearless. But little Is accomplished because but little is vigorously attempted, and but little is attempted because difficulties are magnified. A timorously cautious spirit, so far from acting with resolution, will never think Itself in possession of the preliminaries for acting at all. Perhaps perseverance has been the radical principle of every truly great character. John Foster.

Then Charlie Knew. They were walking under a very little umbrella. He seemed to be nervous, and she finally remarked very softly and with a note of interrogation: "Charlie. I'll carry the umbrella, if you will let me?" "Oh. no! I can carry it." "Yes, Charlie; but, you see. your arm takes up so much room that one side of me is out in the wet" "I know. Fanny, but what will I do with my arm? Won't It be in the way all the same?" "I don't know, Charlie. Tom Clark always knows what to do with his arm rben, h. is uaVr .an. umbrella with

Slipped a Weed. From a recent examination paper oni religious instruction at a boys school:; "Holy matrimony is a divine Instltu-t tlon for the provocation of mankind. Punch. '

Coanfarttna; Hiss. "And now," whispered the lover at he caught her in his arms, "what shall we do about the rope lsoder? We shouldn't leave it banging there." "Don't worry about it." replied the eloping damsel. "Papa said he'd pull It up again so I couldn't get back."

Hot Reliable. Daughter Jack promised that If I accepted him he would mend his ways, ner Mother Humph! I haven't much faith in this repairing done while 700 wait

The cloudier the day, the sunnier should be your smile.

The ftm-l&a Of Life, Infants and children are constantly need tag; ' .axative. It i important to know what to sire them. Their stomach and bowels are sot etrocz enough for salts, portative waters or catharno pills, powders or tablets. Oive them a tHM, pleasant, gentle, la -.alive tonic like Or. Ca well's Syrup Pepuln. whlcb sells at tire sci-l sum of SO cents or ti at dm stores. It is tho one great remedy for you to have la the bouse to Vt chiiarsa wber (her eead it-

btrapes -Five pounds for a bonnet! Kadam, It Is a crime! Mrs. S. Well, the crime will be on my own bead. London Globe.

DISCRIMINATION IS SHOWN. Washington, August 8. The practice of feeding cattle from western Nebraska on through rates in transit so as to have them fat when they reach the stock markets has been declared by the Interstate commission a discrimination against Iowa points by the Burlington and other carriers. The commission orders a revision of groupings. . y

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