Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 53, 31 December 1909 — Page 5

PAGE FIVE, MYSTERIOUS WAS BHTHOf NOBLE Earl Percy, an Englishman. Dies in Cheap Hotel Near Paris, France. She Plans To Conquer Two Great Capitals EDITED BY ELIZABETH R. THOMAS. PHONE 1121 WAS WOUNDED IN A DUEL?

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AXD SUX-TELEGKA3I, FRIDAY, DECE3IBER 31, 1909.

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IN HONOR OF MISS ARCHER. n elaborate reception was given iai afternoon by Mrs. Samuel Gaar ifl daughter. Miss Miidrea uaar at r home' on North Thirteenth ect, in honor of Miss Archer of icago. The hours were from two jfour, three to five, and four to six ock. About two hundred and sev-y-five invitations were issued. In receiving line were the hostesses the honor euest. The narlor was f)ut'fuHy decorated with flowers and s, the decorative motif being pink green. The living room and liry were attractively decorated in J and green. In the dining room, settias, holly and other Christ(.aA embellishments were effectively fumlPd- In the hall where Froressor r jy j, the harpist, furnished music ie occasion, palms and ferns were in decorating. The assistants Mrs. Howard Campbell, Mrs. Williams,. Mrs. Jonas Gaar, er Gaar, Mrs. Clem Gaar and n Rupe, Miss Opal Husson, e Jones, Miss Rose GenBertha Carver, Miss Marellan and Miss Agnes Twlgg. i. YEARS EVE DANCE.

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wMrs. Charles Kolp will give her jpcw Years dance this evening in the jj'Vdd Fellows hall. After nine o'clock J (the former members of Mrs. Kolp's , i. glasses will be permitted to dance. A Lmmber of guests will be in attend-irnce.

4 . .it st THIMBLE PARTY. A. thimble Darty was given ThursRav afternoon bv Mrs. John C. Bayer At her home on South Eighth street in jhonor of Mrs. Warren Hill of Chica$o, and Mrs. Ollie Elliott of Cincinnati. Ohio. The time was spent at fieedlework. About fifteen guests -vcre uiuutru. uuutu t.d OPEN HOUSE. Miss Helen Jameson will keep "opn house" New years' anernoon ax ber home on South Thirteenth street. number of guests will be received luring the afternoon. fa j8 5 RVE SATURDAY. I Mr! . Mrs. Steven A. Huffman of ne Beach. California, who have nen snendine about five months in irilminetnn. Ohio, will come Saturday norntng for a week's visit with Mr. ad .V Robert W. Randle of East fain street. Mr. and Mrs. Huffman enroute home. jl jl 4 MID-WINTER DANCE. 5 One of the enjoyable social events arklng the close of the holiday sean, was the dance given last evening the Odd Fellow's hall by members the Junior and Senior classes of high school. Holly, Christmas enery, the school and national colwere used in decorating the hall, ressor Wood, Professor Hicks and Lr. Wolf furnished the dance music. Aie programs were given out promptly at eight-thirty o'clock. The affair was in charge of a committee composed of Mr.' Paul Garver, Mr. Charles Buell, Mr. Fred Bollmeyer, Mr. Carl Emerson, Mr. Earl and Mr. Herbert Cotton. The guests were Misses Ethel rown, Esther Garde, Ivy Russell, lannah Hershey, Bertha Garver, lanche Bayer. Ruth Friedgen, Helen eal, Gladys Bailey, Elizabeth Bailey. !tuth Smyth, Arline Shreeve, Marie Jrown, Arva Jackson. Pearl Haner, lelen Jameson, Emerald Hasecoster, Dorothy Vaughan. Nellie Buell, Myral Weeghman, Louise Malsby and Miss Scott.; Messrs. Arthur Curme, Fred DAYS OF DIZZINESS Come to Hundreds of Richmond People. There are days of dizziness; Spells of headache, sideache, backache; Sometimes rheumatic pains; Often urinary disorders. All tell you plainly the kidneys are sick. Doan's Kidney Pills cure all kidney ills. Here Is proof in Richmond. Dallas Cassel, 711 S. Eighth street, Richmond, Ind., says; "About fifteen P years ago I suffered from Kidney trouble which was brought on by heavy lifting. I felt very weak, was subject to dizry headaches and was so miser- ; able," every day that I thought I q wou never be well again. Hearing or Doans Kidney Pills, I procured a suppl at A. G. Luken & Co's drug Uore and soon after beginning their i I felt like a new man. In July. I publicly recommended Doan's Kidney- Pills and I can only add at this time that I have had no need of remedy since." F rale by all dealers. Price 50 H roster-ran uurn uo.. isuTialo. 1 rk, sol agents for the United e.member the name Doan's and no other. .

! Bollmeyer, Paul Garver, Elmer Mc- , Conaha, Robert Land, Robert Crane, ! Kenneth Toler, Carlos Haas, Herbert i Cotton, Frank Schalk, Charles Buell, Harold Taggart, George Bell, Carl Emierson, Irvin Coffin, Taylor Ferrell, iFred Bayer, Paul Hutchinson, Grant ;Fry. Karl Spangler, Abram Strattan,

Walter Davis, Edward Scott, Edward Duke, Ray Jones, Clark Myers, John Longstreth. Howard Ashley and Prof. W. D. Waldrip. The out of town guests were: Mr. Leonard Caten, of Dayton; Mr. Hughes, of Purdue university, and Mr. Russell Polhamer of Ft. Wayne. . v MISS CHAMNESS HOSTESS. In honor' of Miss Leona Dalton of St. Louis, Mo., Miss Myra Chamness entertained last evening at her home on North Fourteenth street. Games and various social diversions made the evening hours most pleasant. A progressive contest was also a feature of the evening. Miss Martha Weyl, Mr. Maurice Ballinger of De Pauw university, Mr. Nye and Miss Esther Hill were given the favors. Supper was served at small tables. Christmas colors were used in appointing the tables. The guests were Mr. Myron Hill, Miss Esther Hill, Miss Clara Holzapfel, Miss Bersie Lamson, Mr. Rudolph Hill, Mr. Nye, Miss Weyl, Miss Frances O'Brien. Mr. Ernest Spencer, Mr. Ralph McGurk and Mr. Maurice Ballinger. A GUEST HERE. Mr. Wilbur Cunningham of the University of Michigan is the guest of Mr. Everett Leighton for a few days, i J .. GUESTS HERE. Mr. Raymond Harrison of Indianapolis and Mr. Merritt Harrison, a student at Cornell university are guests at the home of Rev. Allen Jay. HOST AND HOSTESS FOR DINNER. Mr. Ralph Hasemeier and Miss Ma-

ble Hasemeier entertained a few! Layman, Mrs. Arthur B. Grover, Miss friends to dinner last evening at their Motley, Mrs. Edmund Ball of Muncie, home on South Seventh street. The Ind-: the Misses Marguerite Elvin and house was decorated with the Christ- Helen Rosenthal of Lafayette, Ind.; mas colors, red and green. The table Martha Renner, Margaret McCulloch. was appointed with red candles. A Reba Stutson; Mrs. Payne of Lofernery formed a center piece for the gansport. Ind.; Mrs. Thomas Hibben, table. Places were arranged for j Natalie Smith, Mrs. Fritz Krull, Mary Misses Mable and Mildred Kuhn, Miss Pratt, Mrs. Anna Brownell, Margaret Mable Redrow and Miss Ruth Bartel, , Shipp. Mrs. Claude Tutt, Florence LaMr. Donald Johnston. Mr. Roland I ce' La 34611 Beck, Psyche Sutton,

Nusbaum, Mr. Edward Williams of Dayton, Ohio, Mr. Ralph Field of Kendalville and Mr. Carl Haner. GAVE CARD PARTY. A card party was given Thursday afternoon by Miss Alice Hill at the home of her n ther, Mrs. Gertrude Hill. 33 South Eighteenth street. Cards were played at five tables. Mrs. George Coale was given the favor. The hostess was assisted in entertaining by Miss Marguerite Hill. After the game a luncheon in several courses was served. The guests were Miss Gertrude LeFevre, Miss Hilda Shute, Miss Margaret Sedgwick, Miss Edith Nicholson, Miss Florence McGuire, Miss Hazel Freeman, Miss Nina Harris, Miss Edith Moore, Miss Bessie Jones. Miss Ruth Mashmeyer, Miss Jessie Beeler, Miss Marie Kaufman, Miss Elizabeth Middleton. Miss Blanch Luken. Miss Florence Corwin. Mrs. Fred Gennett, Mrs. George Coale, Mrs. Robert Study and Mrs. Carl Meyers. THEATER PARTY. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Westcott of Hot Springs, Mr. and Mrs. Omar Hollingsworth and Mr. and Mrs. James Carr formed a box party at the Murray theater last evening. .1 FOR VISITING GUEST. Miss Ruth Kinsey will entertain Saturday evening at her home on North Eighth street in honor of a visiting guest. WILL GIVE RECEPTION. The women of the St, Paul's Lutheran church will give a reception on New Year's day from two until five o'clock in the church parlors, for all members and friends of the church, both young and old. This invitation is also extended to the men of the congregation. Jt J J ENTERTAINED AT MEYERS HOME The members of the Fairview Young Men and Women's club formed a bob-sled party and drove to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Meyers, w est of the city. A most delightful time was had by all present. During the evening a luncheon was served. Twenty-five young people made up the party. Miss Ruth Haller. a member of the club will entertain the club members this evening at her home on Linden avenue. j j j ENTERTAINS WITH DINNER. Miss Edna Duniiig will entertain at her home on South Ninth street with a six o'clock dinner Saturday evening, complimentary to Mr. Harry Rhinehardt of Dayton, Ohio. .. . . BOB-SLED PARTY. A jolly bob-sled party was given Wednesday evening by Miss Julia L. Taylor for a number of her young friends. When the ride was ended an oyster supper was enjoyed at the City restaurant The party was chaperoned by Mrs. William E. Wineburg and Mrs. Dr. J. E. Taylor. The guests were as follows: Miss Alice Newman, Miss Mamie Lott, Miss Mary Hyde. Miss Earla Roney, Miss Nettle Paulson, Miss Emmajean Smith, Miss

Mary Likens, Mr. Henry Caldwell. Mr. j Raymond Myricfc, Mr. Fred Haisley, j Mr. Verling Peeling, Mr. Wilbur Hod-j

gin. INDIANA VASSAR CLUB. Miss Reba Stutson was a guest at I he breakfast given yesterday in Indianapolis by the Indiana Vassar club. Miss Marqaret Starr and Miss Edith Tallant graduates of Vassar are members of the club but were unable to attend the function. The Indianapolis Star speaks of the affair as follows: The Indiana Vassar club's annual breakfast was given at the Propyleaum yesterday, there being sixty members in attendance, twenty-eight of whom were from out of the city. There were only two toasts. Miss Martha Doan of Delphi responded to the faculty toast, and Miss Fagie Fenton of Ixgansport for the students. Those seated at the large table, from which three smaller tables radiated, were the officers and directors, Mrs. Meredith Nicholson, Mrs. R. W. Cathcart. Mrs. H. D. Pierce, Miss Carolyn Frenze), Miss Elizabeth Baker, Miss Frances Brownell, Miss Elinor Garber, Miss Mona Taggart, Mrs. Robert H. Tyndall. Mrs. Charles A. Garrard, Miss Ruth McCulloch, Mrs. Frank Ball of Muncie, Miss Eleanor Carey, Miss Bertha Ellis, Miss Claribel Kahn, Miss Harriet Noble and Miss Doan had places at the table. The decorations were unique. Doll figures were used to work out college scenes. Features of college life portrayed were the daisy chain, a basket ball game, a skating scene and the lodge entrance. Each group of figures were encircled with a wreath of smilax and candles. The members sang the Vassar song at the end of the breakfast. Among those present were the Misses Helen Heywood. Sayne Fenton. Portia McConnell, Edith Reynolds, Marie McConnell, Mary Carey, Harriet Dean, Mary Gavin, Dorothy Hazel McKee, Eleanor Smith, Mrs. Gavin, Mrs. Charles Roemler, Mrs. Alexander Taggart, Mrs. Frederick Wiley, Mrs. Harry Fitton, Mrs. Robert Sweeney, Misses Cerene Ohr, Hazel Backus, Susan McWhirter, Mary Allerdice and Gladys Bassett. j PARCEL SHOWER. Mrs. Charles Lankert at her home west of the city entertained Wednes day evening with a parcel shower in honor of a bride-elect. Miss Bessie Sample. The parlors- were decorated with Christmas colors and bells. Dur ing the evening stereopticon views of the future bride and groom from a childhood to the present time were shown, also a collection of views of the future life of the couple which were very interesting. A luncheon was served at nine o'clock. The fa vors were white hearts designed for the occasion. The hostess was assist ed by Mrs. E. W. Hull, Mrs. Bertha Patty and Mrs. EJmma Brown. Among the guests were Mesdames George Quigley. Charles Sample, August Mil ler, Alonzo Kelley, William Sample. Maxwell Quigley, G. W. Douthit. Mrs. Rose Kreimier, Misses Emma Rosie, Anna Ottie, Carrie Sauer, Edna Greenoff, Edna Early, Mable Grace and Etta Eikenberry, Clara Thomas, Alice Steens, Carrie Huber, Ada Miller, Ma ble Kelley and Master Paul Lankert. J J o CLUB NOTES EAST END WHIST CLUB. Members or the East End Whist club with their husbands were enter tained last evening by Mr. and Mrs. Omar Murray at their home on East Main street. Mr. and Mrs. Francis of Cincinnati, were the honor guests. Whist was played at four tables. Supper was served after the game. The table was decorated with the Christmas green and other decorations appropriate to the Yule-tide. TEDDY BEAR EUCHRE CLUB. A meeting of the Teddy Bear euchre club was held yesterday afternoon with Mrs. George Reid at her home on South Fourth street. Mrs. Charles Border. Mrs. John Hewitt and Mrs. John Tillman were given the favors. The hostess was also presented with a gift Mrs. S. K. Harding of Cincinnati was a guest for the afternoon. A luncheon was served. Mrs. Henry P. Miller entertains the club in two weeks. ." " ALL DAY MEETING. An all day meeting of the Alice Carey club was held Thursday at the home of Mrs. Edward Moore on North Sixteenth street. The affair was in the nature of an indoor picnic. The table was decorated with poinsettias. Red candles in brass holders were also used. A miniature Christmas tree ornamented the center of the table. The favors were miniature snowballs tied with red ribbons, enclosed was a cuotation with the sentiment of the season. After dinner a program was presented. A paper was read by Mrs. Mary Price, entitled "Mary Queen of

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Mrs. season. Scots and Elizabeth." Mrs. T2verett Davis read excerpts from the book "Pigs is Pigs." Each member of the club gave short quotations. A New Year's party will be held next week at the home of Mrs. Abram Johnson, South Eleventh street. vJ Jt THURSDAY WHIST CLUB. A meeting of the Thursday Whist club was held yesterday at the home of Mrs. W. L. Thornburg. Mrs. Maud Jones and Mrs. Frank Correll were given the favors. Mrs. Ernest Findlay and Mrs. S. S. Saxton of Chicago were the guests for the afternoon. RECEPTION POSTPONED. On account of the illness of several members in charge of the reception to be given Saturday at the East Main Street Friends church it was decided to postpone the affair. t AMERICAN CARD CLUB. Mrs. Stanley Hall was hostess for a meeting of the American card club yesterday afternoon at her home on South Thirteenth street. Favors were presented to Mrs. Thomas Williams, Mrs. Charles Woodhurst and Mrs. Hall. Mrs. Fred Dougan was a guest for the afternoon. A lunch in several courses was served at the close of the afternoon's festivities. In two weeks, Mrs. Cordell will entertain the club. For an ef ly breakfast, nothing so fine as Mrs. Austin's Buckwheat cakes. Fresh goods now at your grocers. Hymns at $500 a Yard. A musical composer once said to Mr. Sankey with more frankness than courtesy that he could write such tunes as those of the "Gospel nymn Book" by the yard If he were willing to come down to it. Mr. Sankey quietly replied, "WelL sir. all I have to say is that I am willing to pay $500 a yard either to you or to anybody else for all the tunes you can bring me like those in our 'Gospel Hymn Book. " Extremes In Iceland. In Iceland nature seems to haTe deserted all her ordinary operations and to have worked only in combining the most terrific extremes which ber powers can command. Nor is she yet J siienr. Arter tne lapse or ages tne Ere of the volcano still bursts out among ! the regions of eternal snow, and the ! impetuous thundering of the geysers 1 continues to disturb the stillness of tbe ! surrounding solitude. j SCIENTISTS PUZZLED AGAIN. George Washington Hickey. a colored lad of Springfield. O., has turned almost white within a week. Several scientists, as well as doctors have called to investigate the phenomena, but Mrs. Hickey could give no explanation except that George had been wearing clothes washed in rub-a-lac. It is a well known fact that it whitens everything with which it comes in

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SUFFRAGE DISCORDS. Mrs. Belmont's Ascendency Bon of Contention. Unless all signs fail there are going to be serious ructions of some sort in tbe woman suffrage camp. So many are their woes that it would take too much time to enumerate them, but everything goes back to tbe national convention In Seattle last summer, when tbe national association voted to move its headquarters from tbe peaceful little town of Warren, in Illinois, to New York. As soon as this decision was reached the bird of peace spread its wings and took its departure to parts unknown. The western sisters murmured. The metropolis would swallow up tbe headquarters, they thought, and they would be left out in the cold. The New York suffragists also had their misgivings. The headquarters, they prophesied, would swallow New York. From the point of view of tbe two classes of malcontents both these predictions have now happened. Complaints that tbe national office is absorbed with local affairs and oblivious to constitutional amendments and other issues pending in the west reach the east dally, and tbe local organizations on their part complain of encroachments on their preserves by the national office, while tbe state office is declared to be an equal sinner. "There are upward of a score of counties In New York state that haven't even an organization." a local suffragist remarked tartly, "and yet the state officers spend the greater part of their time In New York." The association jf Mrs. Q. II. P. Bel

mont uTi these two organizations makes the situation acute. When the two bodies acceded to her proposition to make their removal to New York financially possible her capacity for leadership was not reckoned with. Now, as her figure has loomed larger and larger in the public eye. the query of Cassius. "Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed that be is grown so great?" bas beeu repeated with suitable modifications, uce of the specific complaints anent the relations of the suffrage organizations with this particular patron Is that her financial contributions are always made for a specific purpose instead of Wing paid into the treasury to be expended as tbe executive sees fit. The next meeting of the National Woman Suffrage association will he held in Washington in April, and all these issues are likely to come to a head there. Tbe association elects Its president every year, and a well known western woman is talked of as tbe probable nominee of tbe insurgent party. The present president, the ReT. Anna Howard Shaw, has held office for eight years. Made the Application. "How are things?" the barber asked pleasantly of the shrinking man in tbe chair. "Dull, very dull!" And the knight of tbe razor looked for a moroeut as if he thought tbe remark was jiersonal. There It bo medicine eo eafe bed at me lame time so pleasant to take ai Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, tbe positive core for all diseases arising from stomach trouble. The price is very reason ble 50c and 51.

We Want to Thank Our Many Friends and Customers FOR MAKING POSSIBLE THE LARGEST YEARS' BUSINESS WE EVER EXPERIENCED AND WISH TO ONE AND ALL A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS YEAR ON WHICH WE ARE NOW ENTERING. OUR STORE WILL BE CLOSED ALL DAY NEW YEARS DAY OPEN UNTIL 9 O'CLOCK THIS EVENING.

REPORTED THAT HE RECEIVED INJURIES FROM A JEALOUS MAN. BUT HrS RELATIVES HAVE DENIED THIS STORY.

Paris. Div. 31. -Henry Algernon George Percy, of London, a member of the British Parliament and formerly British under secretary of state for foreign affairs, died here yesterday from acute pleurisy. Death occurred at a second-class hotel situated opposite the railway station, and the fact that the Earl had occupied these humble lodgings created the impression that there was something mysterious In connection with his illness. It was rumored that he had been shot in a duel outside of Paris a few days ago. These Ftories were denied today by the attending physicians. Always Stopped There. The hotel management explained that it was Earl Percy's custom to stop at this hotel whenever he visited the city. Sir H. Austin Lee, counsellor of the British embassy here, declared that the story of a duel was a preposterous Invention. The physicians state that death was immediately due to heart failure following an acute inflammation of the lungs. Despite assurances of those mho should know, to the contrary, the rumor persists today that the Earl had received mortal wounds in a duel with pistols. His challenger Is reported to have been an Englishman in whose family the Earl had been received as a friend, but that he had alienated the wife's affection for her husband. The story continues that tbe two men became bitter enemies and left England to settle their grievances quietly on the outskirts of Paris. A bullet, it Is said, passed through the Earl's lungs. Death was due to complications following an attack of pneumonia. Earl Percy was the eldest son and heir of the seventh Duke of Northumberland. He had represented South Kensington in parliament since l&tt. In i:xrj-'S he was under secretary of state for India and In the two succeeding years under foreign secretary He was born in 1ST1 and was unmarried. The sudden demise of Earl Percy leaves the British Conservatives without a candidate for South Kensington. His election address was In the hand of the printer. The Earl had planned to open the campaign In his district next week. Man on Dress. Let him aloue. Don't argue with bim. Ills Ideas are warped. You can't please him at all. If extravagant you are a fool. If economical you are surely dowdy. lie will proudly assert that It's the woman, not the clothes. You get yourself up to fit his Ideas, and it will be rase of "sweet bells Jangled." He wi!l point out all the handsomely (tastefully, he calls Iti dressed women and wonder (In a rasping tone) why you look dowdy. Use For Tasting Tubas. A stock of common glass test tubes la a convenience for women who hare table centtrpieces or other low decorations to arrange now and then. An attractive dinner table In a small apartment utilized recently the fern dish with pink carnations mingled with tbe ferns and raoas. The flower stems were immersed lo the test tubes, which bad been sunk Into the earth of the dish. The candle shades of the table were, of course, the same) shade as tbe flowers. A Follower. CaTler The minister's son ls following in the footsteps of that spendthrift young Jinks. Miss Prim Isn't that scandalous? Caller Hardly ss bad as that. You see. he's a tailor and ls Just trying to collect bis bUL