Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 43, 20 December 1909 — Page 5

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, DECE3IBER 20, 1909.

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GIVEN A SURPRISE. Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Mlather were given a pleasant surprise yesterday at their home on North Twelfth street. The affair had been arranged to celebrate Mr. and Mrs. Mather's thirty-first wedding anniversary. The company was composed of relatives of the host and hostess. At raid-day dinner was served. Those enjoying the affair were: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mather, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Mather, Mr. and Mrs. A. IL Kelsey and Mrs. Jennie Jay. JS CHRISTMAS PROGRAM. The children of the Whitewater school will present a program Tuesday evening, December twenty-first, at the Whitewater Friends' church. The affair is under the direction of Miss Hulda Kenley. The children will be assisted by Mr. Leroy Lacey, Miss Alma Getz and Master Carl Gates. The program is as follows Good Cheer Old English 7B, 6AB Father Christmas Bohemian Carol 5AB Old German Folksong 4AB Come, Let Us be Joyous Andre' . .3AB Violin Solo Selected Master Carl Gates O Christmas Time Frederick Sllcher 5AB A- Group of Rounds: Scotland's Burning: The Fruit Vender 4AB Christmas Bells: Cuckoo 5AB The Christmas Story: Luke 2:S-20.. Concert The Christmas Pilgrims Arthur H. Ryder Miss Kenley Sleep Song Jessie L. Gaynor . ...2AB Thro' The Midnight Carl Wllhelm 4AB Christmas Hymn Gottschalk Miss Alma Getz Christmas Bells Folksong ...7B, 6AB Solo Selected Mr. Leroy Lacey Stille Nacht. Hellge Nacht Old German. Concert j& jfc j$ XMA8 PARTY. A Christmas party will be given Wednesday evening at the First Christian church for the members of the primary department of which Mrs. W. A. Ellis Is superintendent Games, story-telling, and a number of other amusements will be features of the evening. AH the little people are most cordially invited to attend. The hours will be from seven until -nine o'clock. Refreshments will be served. & FOR THE BRIDE. not every bride knows that the copper plate on which, is incribed the lettering for her engraved wedding invitations or announcements may be preserved all through, her married life in the shape of a. card tray. The edges of the plate are skillfully shaped to form the edge of the tray, the inscription remaining on the copper in the center. A fair divorcee, who too truly has discovered that marriage is a failure in the first attempt, has had her engraved plate turned into a receptacle for cigar ashes for the use of her second matrimonial experiment. JS Jl Jl WILL GO NORTH. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer McConaha, who have been in Sanford, Florida, for some time, will leave for the north, Saturday. J v o OF LOCAL INTEREST. Miss Laura Arnold has issued invi tations for a dance at the Maennercber Dec. 27, for about fifty of her friends, many of whom will be home from school for the holidays. Indianapolis Star. aS IS AT MARTINSVILLE. Mrs. Gurney Maple of Whittier, California, and who is well known here, is in Martinsville visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sumner Huff. Mrs. Maple is a sister to Mrs. Ben Bartcl. J$ A GUEST AT INDIANAPOLIS. Miss Ina Clawson of South Eighth street spent Saturday and Sunday in Indianapolis the guest of friends. WILL SPEND CHRISTMAS HERE. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Harris and daughter Miss Dorothy Ross of Akron, Ohio, will spend Christmas in this city the guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Harris of North Fourteenth street. 1& jt IS HOME FOR HOLIDAYS. Mr. Fred Bayer who attends Miami Military Academy is in the city to spend the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Bayer of South Eighth street. J jl HAS RETURNED. Mr. Wiley Glass, a student at Kenyon college. Gambler, Ohio, is home for a fortnight's visit, the guest of his parents Mr. and Mrs. Frank Glass of East Main street. J 0 J CHRISTMAS DINNERS. A large number of family dinner parties will be given Christmas day. The latter part of the week will be busy days for numerous hostesses. Jt ABOUT XMAS GIFTS. There is not one bit of harm in making several Christmas gifts after the same model, not scores of them to that the doing of it comes back upon the maker with a realization of having turned machine, but repetition

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would be practically the same as a been married ana returned 10 inai within reason can not hurt the giver or recepient. There are times when a width of silk will be exactly twice as wide as the article requires, as in the case of an opera bag, and when the other half width of rich silk would be wasted. By the exercise of a little ingenuity new decorations may be applied or the first idea expanded so that the gifts may still be personal and acceptable, thus saving the feeling of the maker, while satisfactory use is made of all materials left over. & J IS HOME. Mr. Dean Seidel who attends school at Ohio Military Academy is in the city the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Seidel, North Thirteenth street. LAMB-DOZIER. The wedding of Miss Jessie Dozier, daughter of Mrs. Martha Dozier and Mr. J. II. Lamb of Ohio, will be celebrated Wednesday, December twenty-ninth. Several social affairs have been given in honor of the brideelect WILL GO TO DAYTON. Mr. Daniel Surface and daughter, Mrs. Allee will go to Dayton, Ohio, to spend Ch'ristmas with friends and relatives. IS EXPECTED HOME. Mr. Bonner Warn pier of Elgin, Illis expected in the city the latter part of the week to spend Christmas with his parents Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Sampler of North Seventh street. J J WILL SPEND XMAS AT DAYTON. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Carr. Mr. Willard Carr, Mr. and Mrs. James Carr, Mr. Burton Carr, Miss Caolyn Hollingsworth and Mr. and Mrs. Omar Hollingsworth with Mr. and Mrs. Burton Westcott of Springfield, Ohio, will be entertained Christmas day by Mr. and Mrs. Roland De Wreese at their pretty home in Dayton. C CLUB NOTES CLUB MEETINGS FOR TODAY. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Strattan will entertain the Ivy club this evening at their home in West Richmond. Criterion club is meeting with Mrs. Charles H. Grose at her home, 222 North Nineteenth street. Monday evening dancing class meets this evening in the Odd Fellow's hall. Members are invited to attend. Mary F. Thomas W. C. T. U. is meeting this afternoon in the dome room at the Morrisson-Reeves library. J J s APRON SALE. The St. Agnes Guild of St. Paul's Episcopal church will hold a market and apron sale, Tuesday in the Murray building. jt PENNY CLUB MEETS TUESDAY. The Penny club will meet Tuesday afternoon instead of Wednesday with Mrs. Douglas Kuth at her home. 204

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Queen is Over queen in Nicaragua when they had country, one was given si.ouu. North Eleventh street. All members are urged to be present as arrange ments for the Christmas dinner, to be held at the Pythian temple, Decexuber twenty-eigth, will be completed at this time. DAUGHTERS OF REBECCA. The Daughters of Rebecca will meet Tuesday evening In the Odd Fellow's hall Instead of meeting Saturday as Is the usual custom. A number of business matters will be attended to at this time. Members are urged to be present. 8 MEETINGS POSTPONED. The Ticknor and Magazine clubs did not meet this afternoon. Meetings have been deferred until after the holidays. SHOE SIZES. Hew the Standard of Measurement Wae Established. It is most difficult for many persona to remember the sizes of their different articles of wearing apparel. Collars, shirts and gloves are easy enough, because in the case of these it is a matter of actual inches. But the hat and shoe numbers are what puzzle most people, to say nothing of the mystery why a No. 11 stocking goes with a No. 8 shoe. This last puzzle is. however, easily explained. Stockings have always been measured by the inch from heel to toe, but the numbering of shoes was fixed a long time ago by a Frenchman. The Frenchman permanently fixed the numbers of shoes for all Europe and America. He arbitrarily decided that no human foot could possibly be smaller than three and seven-eighth Inches. So, calling this point zero, he allowed one-third of an inch to a size and accordingly built up bis scale. It follows therefrom that a man cannot find out the number of his own shoe unless he be an expert arithmetician. Even then he is likely to go wrong, because all the shoe experts allow for the weight of the individual and the build of his foot before they try to determine what size shoe be ought to wear. As far as women's shoes are concerned the problem is still more difficult, because many of the manufacturers instead of keeping to the regular scale have marked down their numbers one or two sizes in order to capture easily flattered customers. For this reason most dealers ask out of town customers to send an old shoe with their orders. The system of measuring hats is much simpler. Any man can tell what size he wears simply by adding the width and length of the inner brim and then dividing by two. Orders can also be sent to the shopkeeper by stating the circumference of the head. Boston Globe. HUNT, PRINTER, 13 South Eleventh street Phone 100U. 20-lt There Is no medietas so safe asd at the iuu time o pleasant to take aa Dr. CaldveU's Syrup Pepsin, the positive cure for an diseases arisingfrom stomach trouble. The price is very reasonable SBe and ft

CHRISTMAS Hi NEW YORK FOR JACKIES Great North Atlantc Fleet Will Arrive in Gotham on Tuesday. GOOD TIME FOR SAILORS

PURPOSE OF THE VISIT IS TO PROVIDE RECREATION FOR THE CREWS THE PAYMASTER WILL HELP THINGS. New York, Dec. 20. The Atlantic fleet of battleships and two armored cruisers and, several naval auxiliaries left Hampton Roads for New York Sunday morning, and is expected to anchor in the Hudson River early Tuesday afternoon to remain during the Christmas holidays. It will be the first time that the Navy Department has sent the fleet to New York in the Christmas season. The coming this year is for the purpose, pure and simple, of giving "Uncle Sam's" hard-worked blue-jackets a good time. In the fleet that will anchor in the Hudson will be approximately 16,000 officers and men, every one of whom will have some shopping to do in New York, for one of the reasons for sending the great fleet here is to give the men a chance to buy holiday presents for sweethearts and wives. The Paymaster will be around soon after the arrival of the fleet, and it is estimated that the men will have in the neighborhood of $500,000 to spend if they want to. Are a Different Set. A naval officer pointed out that the jackies who will be seen about town this Christmas are a different set in every respect from the jack es of twenty years ago. They are all American citizens, the great majority American born, and as a body they compare favorably, Rear Admiral Sperry, the 'round-the-world commander in chief, has said, with any body of college men in the world. A large percentage of the men that make up the enlisted force of the present service come from the Middle West and the Southwest. It is this great inland country that gives so many fine seamen to the service afloat. "If anybody has an idea that the blue-jackets that Schroeder is bringing to New York are going to throw their money away on the Bowery and chap shows," an officer said yesterday, "that person has something to learn, for it is certain that nothing of the sort will happen. The bluejackets of the Atlantic Fleet are a clean-cut body of men, and if everybody in civil life behaved as well as they do, police forces of formidable numbers would not be so necessary as they are in some of our big cities." The battleships and cruisers are expected to anchor between Seventyninth street and some point north of West 129th street, the flagship Connecticut probably anchoring in the center of the column. Here is the fleet that will lie at anchor, ..ith the commander of each vessel: First Division. Connecticut Capt. Albert W. Grant, (flagship of Rear Admiral Schroder, the Commander in Chief.) Kansas Capt. Charles J. Badger. Vermont Capt. Frank F. Fletcher. Louisiana Capt. Albert G. Winterhalter. Second Division. Minnesota Commander William S.

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Sims, (flagship of Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaus, division commander.) Idaho Capt. Herbert O. Dunn. Mississippi Capt. John C. Fremont. New Hampshire Capt. Thomas S. Rodgers. Third Division. Georgia Commander Archibald H. Davis, (flagship of Rear Admiral Samuel P. Comly, division commander.) Nebraska Capt. John T. Newton. New Jersey Capt. De Witt Coffman. Rhode Island CapL Thomas D. Griffin. Fourth Division. Virginia Capt. Alexander Sharp, (flagship of Capt. Charles E. Vrceland, division commander.) Missouri Capt. Robert M. Doyle. Wisconsin Capt. Frank E. Realty. Armored Cruiser Division. North Carolina Capt. Clifford J. Boush. Montana Capt. John G. Quinby. The battleship Ohio will not be in

the fleet this time, that vessel having been placed in reserve to make way for one of the all-bier-sun battleships that are soon to become a part of the fleet. Two of these dreadnaughts, the Michigan and South Carolina, are ready to be commissioned, and one other vessel besides the Ohio, probably the Missouri, will be detached to make room for them. In addition to the ships named the scout cruiser squadron of three ves sels, the Salem, Chester and Birmingham, may show up in the Hudson within the next three days. It is just possible th't the great fleet may illuminate Christmas night, although no official announcement to this effect has as yet been made. BURNED PAPER MONEY. Source of Great Profit to the Government and Banks. At the redemption windows of the treasury and of the subtreasuries of the country any silver coin that has not been mutilated willfully aDd which still is recognizable as from the mints of the United States will be redeemed at face value, this In spite of the fact that the silver in the worn coin may not be worth half its face value. As to gold coin, the government stands only a small portion of the loss from abrasion; but. according to weight, these worn gold coins always are redeemable. In the case of the paper currency two-fifths of a note must be presented if it shairte redeemed or a new note issued, and. no matter what the evidence may be as to total destruction of this paper currency, the government regards it as the holder's Individual loss with which it is no further concerned. Fire may melt $1,000 worth of silver coins and it is worth its metal value. It may melt $1,000 in gold coins and the mint will pay $1,000 in new twenty dollar gold pieces for the mass. But the ashes of $1,000 in paper currency is without value. In the thousands of fires over the country every year involving office buildings, factories, business bouses and family residences an untold total of legal tender notes of all kinds are destroyed. Every piece of such paper lost is loss to the holder and gain to the government or to a national bank. It is a promissory note hopelessly lost to the bolder. It is even more, for in many cases an individual man might redeem bis debt obligation if be were assured by the bolder of It that the piece of paper to which be bad signed hut name had been destroyed by accident and by no chance could turn up again against him. Chicago Tribune. A Useful Mother-in-law. "After all, a mother-in-law is a pretty good thing to have sometimes." "What wonderful experience have you been having lately';" "My wife was afraid to discbarge our cook, and she wouldn't go for me. so we sent for Birdie's mother and turned her loose in the kitchen. They smashed some of the furniture, but the cook's gone."

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Taft in Sack Coat and Sweater President Takes His "Constitutional" in Byways of Capital, Returning to White House Up Pennsylvania Avenue.

Washington, D. C, Dec. 20. Presi-j dent Taft, wearing a sack coat and a gray sweate-, took a walk through Washington Sunday. He covered about seven miles before returning to the White House and the last lap ot his stroll took him through the busiest blocks in Pennsylvania avenue. Fewer than a dozen persons recognized him. "That looks like the president." remarked one man as President Taft passed the 5-cent theaters on the avenue. Brigadier General Clarence Edwards, who was with the president, giggled, and the president smiled. Mr. Taft did not look much like himself in his sack coat with sweater underneath. The walk began when the president and the general eluded the secret service men at the White House. They walked briskly down to the Potomac flats, along the Southern railroad right of way and back through South Washington, around the capitol building and library. The return trip was down Pennsylvania avenue at dusk. A president who walks the streets of Washington is too much for Washington. Mr. Taft's predecessors rode in carriages or took their "constitutionals" across country. President Taft, accompanied by his son, Charlie, returned from WaterEver Try a Waet Ad Sim the Palladium? It Pays

town. Conn., in the morning, where, yesterday, he attended the funeral of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Horace D. Taft, The train to which the president's car was attached was more than an hour behind its schedule, getting him to Washington too late to go to church.

Good Things TO EAT PLAIN ICE CREAM, 25c per QL BRICK Ice Cream in any combination of colors or flavors, 35c to 50c per Quart. ICES Orange, lemon, pineapple, cranberry, green gage, cherry, etc., 30c to 50c per QL WHIPPING CREAM 40c per Qt. WHIPPED CREAM, delivered, packed in ice. ready to serve, 50c per Qt INDIVIDUAL MOULDS Fruits, flowers, Xmas bells, teddy bears, Santa Claus, etc., 10c to 25c. FRESH CREAMERY BUTTER, made the day you buy it; and plenty of pure sweet pasteurized milk and cream. ANYTHING in the dairy products line. Get your Xmas and New Year's order in early and avoid disappointments. Commons Dairy Co. Phose 1188 9 S. Fid St a 920 Klain