Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 33, 13 December 1911 — Page 8
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUX-TELEG RAM, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1011.
CIVIC ASSOC. MET AT CAPITAL TODAY Opening Session Was Devoted to Subject of National Parks.
(National .Vwn Association) WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. A strenuous campaign to fuither interest in the national parkH of the country was inaugurated here today by the American Civic association at the opening session of it h seventh annual convention. Ucfore the convention adjourns Friday evening, it is expected that much sentiment will have been created in favor of these distinctly American institutions. A comprehensive handling of the entire subject will be undertaken by the association's president, J. Horace McKarlaml, at tonight's session. His Biibject is "Are National 1'arks Worth While." Secretary or the Interior, Walter J-. Fisher will preside at this session, which will be attended by President Taft. It Is the announced intention of the association to seek enactment by conKieHH of legislation creating a federal bureau of natiotinl parks to be attached to the Interior Department. Sen. Smoot to Speak. Senator Heed Smoot. of Utah, will make an address on the topic "What National Parks Mean to the West;" Mr. Knos A. Mills, of Estes Park, Colorado, will tell "A Story of the National Parks," and Mr. Herbert W. Oleason, of Hoston, Massachusetts, will deliver an Illustrated lecture on "Some Picturesque Features of Our National ParkB." At the opening session this morning. Hon. Cuno H. Kudolph, president of the Hoard of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, extended a "Washington Welcome," and on the general topic "Related Civic Advances," greetings were expressed by various national organizations. Mrs. Philip North Moore, of St. Louis, president of the General Federation of Women's clubs, spoke on "What Organized Women Are Doing" Earnest Thompson Seton, chief scout of the Boy Scouts of America discused "The Relation of Hoy Scouts to Civic Improvements." The address of Irving K. Pond, president of the American Institute of Architects, Chicago, 111., was "The Architect and the Community." Hon. William Dudley Foulke, president of the National Municipal League, Richmond, Indiana, spoke on "The Daily Life of Frankfort." Other speakers at the session were J. Lockie Wilson. Secretary of the Horticultural association. Toronto, Canada, on "Civic Improvement in Canada," and Samuel S. Thorpe, presi
dent of the National Association of Real Estate Exchanges, of Minneapolis, on "The Relation of Real Estate, Men to City Planning." ) Discussion of national and state parks occupied the afternoon session, and there was presented the draft of a bill, the passage of which will be urged at the coming session of congress creating the much desired Federal Bureau of National Parks. The Thursday Session. Introduced by a report on "The Year's Work," by Richard B. Watrus, secretary of the American Chic association, the session of tomorrow morning will bo devoted to the transaction of the business of the association together with an election of officers and of the executive board. "The Communities We Live In." will be the topic for discussion. It will be opened by an address on "Washington. A Model City," by Major William V. Judson, Corp of Engineers, U. S. A., Engineer Commissioner, District of Columbia. Arnold W. Brenner, of New York City, will present "The Business Side of City Planning." The topics for Thursday afternoon
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ple testify to permanent cures. Martin Bulach. tailor, 433 S. Eleventh St., Richmond, Ind., says: "In the spring of 1902, I suffered from a weak and lame back and other symptoms of kidney trouble. Learning of
UIIHAPPIIJESS AND CRIME FOLLOW "TEASING"
Human Beings Torment and Ridicule Each Other into Insanity. The "Goat" at School, College or in the Factory.
Ily of those endowed with . "good looks" above the average. Unprepossessing in appearance, with the daily contrast before her, and
dren over matters that seem of no moment to the grownup. At college there is always to be
"teasing." which is one of the most refined forms of torment, has, per
I haps, caused more crimes to follow in
found some chap the center for the i its wake than have been committed.
In his last statement this unhappy young man said that he was forced into a comparatively loveless marriage
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. A girl in a millinery shop is reported, in the public prints, to have
thrown a pair of scissors at another j through the wishes of his father. An
eminent example of the pronouncement of Shaw to the effect that "The confusion of marriage with
girl because the latter teased her un
til the former became infuriated. The teasor is threatened with the
loss of an eye and is going to enter : morality has done more to destroy the
Dean's Kidney Pills, I procured a sup- sun against tne scissors m rower. wU,v..cul.c a.
Dlv at A. G. Luken and Co.'s Drug innuman as u may souna. me gin j
Store and their use brought me doing the teasing deserves little sym prompt relief. Since then I have had.patby. no further need of a kidney remedy, She baited this girl, in all probabil
This marriage was, to all intent, as
hideous a union of two human beings as could be imagined, although not so
as my cure has been permanent. I ; it y. very much after the manner of gave a statement, recommending j the gentle humanitarian with a bear;
Doan's Kidney Pills, after I had used ; harried her like a dog a rat; sported
in its seeming. The latter was the uniting of two old families, long friends and neigh-
possessed of certain peculiarities of I more or less refined jokes of his stu- j through any other one agency.
dent confreres. You'll see him, a sen
sitive, fellow, slinking round to avoid Jenkins & Co. Read to
day's ad. The Diamond Shop.
them with such good results and I still i with her as the toreador with the jbors. The young man, tired of his wild
hold a high opinion of this remedy." i trapped and maddened bull; the cat,
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include: "Digging Deeper Into City Planning," by George Burdett Ford, New York City; "Building Cities for People in Germany," Hon Frederick C.
Howe. New York: "Modern Street i
Lighting," C. L. Eshleman. Cleveland, Ohio; "The Smoke Problem," Thomas E. Donnelley, president of the Chicago Smoke Commission; "Report of the Fly Fighting Committee for 1911," by
Edward Hatch, Jr., chairman. New
When the other couldn't "stand" it any longer she picked up the first object in sight and threw it in the direction of her tormentor with no precise aim or calculated reason. It was merely the spontaneous expression of exasperation. Many murders are committed on this basis. People shudder with horror at a
murderer!
Forgetting that all of us are incipient ones.
Few murders are committed in cold ' blood. Calculated murders are an indi-1 cation of mental abnormality. Statis-!
oat sowing and ready to settle down.
In reality it was an arrangement by which a woman was offered up as a sacrifice to social law as Inexorable as that which knelt beneath the trampling feet of the Juggernaut. Certain lines of Kipling's go this way In the daytime, when she moved about me, In the night, when she was sleeping at ray side, I was wearied, I was wearied of her presence. Day by day and night by night I grew to hate her Would to God that she or I had died!
temperament, this mild and inoffensive lady had been driven to madness
through the constant "guying" and observation, retiring into obscure corbaiting of her lovely kindred. ners, constantly effacing himself for
Her physical defects, her mental de-1 fear of being dragged into the spot-
flciencies, her idiosyncrasies of man- j light of college ridicule, ner had been made the butt of long j !n storeSi office8, factories, vou will continued jokes, sneers, ridicule and i find the -goat" the wretched human jibery. : wno centrs Upon himself, through no She had cooked, sewed, darned, men- conscious fault of his own. all that ded, scrubbed, washed, ironed, toiled ( lnnate barbaric ruelty reculiar to the and moiled, weary year in weary year j human animal. You will see him on out. Nobody ever thought she wanted i. . , . . ... t . . . , .-'the defensive, shield-.nc himself as
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sarcasm, innocuous wit, pointless hu-
! mour, banal jests. I His soul is raw, quivering, shrinking. ! He hardens himself against his kind. He doubts God.
And he hates his fellows. Many persons say "oh, you must
to her family or environ, she pounded j stand teasing. You can't afford to pay
any attention to it. iou cant get along in the world if you feel that
or have pretty things to wear.
Nobody ever considered that she
was a woman with all a woman s m-j stincts and longings. That behind the! calm, plain, undemonstrative exterior rioted a thousand emotions and resentments. And then one day, goaded to insani-
ty and madness although unknown!
them to jelly in their beds. "Horrible and unnatural
crime,
said the papers. But the horrible
and unnatural 1
way.
And they might appropriately pre-
York City, followed by addresses on tics show that a large proportion of, a a Tale Tame up t TT.-ii.i rrmrriora aro rnmm ttsd hv nenn o un. A Iew years ago a taie Came Up
tne nouse ny Dy ur. woous nuicam . - . 1 . " n-m-A n, a 9MntinrH- irvnii. n.i M.tv will he the tareet for
I iioou uumoureu raillery is one
crime lay not in its finale of death but " . . .,,, j .,., . ii But the thing mildly denominated in the long life of torment endured by
an innocent and normal human being through the cruel treatment of her kin. Had they any comprehension of its cruelty? Possibly not. There is no other form of human intercourse, probably, that is more provocative of unhappiness and misery than this tendency to the baiting of one person or set of persons by another. At school a child with a trick of manner, peculiarity of physique, or
How th Scotch Liko Golf. The A me rl can is apt to seek ta playing golf chiefly excitement, struggle, the winning of a purse, the "licklng" of an opponent The European, ou the other hand, views it in a larger, soberer way. The spirit of the answer given by a Scotch golfer to an invitation to visit America and its links illustrates what I mean by a "larger way." "Laddie." said he, "1 could na' leave the links here. The smell o' tbe sea. the sheep bleatin. tbe wee ba running in and oot o bunkers fashioned hundreds of years syne; na. ua. I'm goln to gowf in Scotland till a' dee." Walter M. Cabot in Forum.
Improving tho Occasion. He I dreamt I proposed to a pretty pirl last night. She Well, go on! What did I say? Sydney Bulletin.
son, New York; Prof. C. V. Hodge, Ider the influence of drugs or liquors
Clark college. Worcester, Mass; Dr. ,r aunng tne progress or violent aiter-
ble murder of several brothers and sis
ters by an elderly sister who was pic-
tomology, Washington, D. C. At this session the wonderful motion pictures descriptive of the house fly will be dis-
' Tin Z. 1 JZ 72 nZl I commit bo rash a deed. You know tormenting on the part of those mur
J. Boughner, Minneapolis, Minn.; yourself what utterly incomprehensi-, "Progress in Municipal Shade Tree ble things you will do when you're ! Control," William Solotoroff, East Or- "mad" or angry or irritated, ange, N. J.; "Bill Board Nuisance," L,. The impossible letters you will, L. Leonard, St. Louis. The Friday af-1 write and regret 'em the moment j ternoon session will be opened with an . they're posted. ; "Experienced Meeting." presided over The indiscretions you will utter unby Mrs. Edward W. Biddle, president I for stress of violent and acrimonious of the Federation of Pennsylvania Wo-! e motion. It is merely this intensified men, at which there will be five j which occasions murder. j minute reports of new civic activity There are, of course, irresponsible in various parts of the U. S. and Cana-; beings like the famous "boy murderda. followed by an address entitled i r." Jesse Pomeroy who from a pre-
the "teasing" of his small fellows.
Children, in this phase, are cruel with the cold cruelty of fiends. They have no mercy because the animal in
the child dominates. Because they are
t -I ii -,i iii f n. , .,., nf wr.-' cations, auarrels or dents
No person in a passion is normal. " A murderer is apt to be very much UPn investigation it was found it to Q r mAm that these murders were the climax
what" ever "possessed" him or her tof y4!ar8 and yeara of "teslS" and j incapable of measuring personal val-;
ues. i!.veryiuiiiK m iuhuuuuu id m
dered
The elderly sister, the household
drudge, was physically plain in a fam-
torted and out of angle. There is no
sense of proportion. Hence the intense suffering of chil-
'Children's Gardens in Harrisburg,"
natal impulse cut and sliced and muti-
by Mrs. John W. Reily, Fort Hunter, I 'ated other children and who was
Pa., and the reading of a story in ad
vance of its publication by Miss Zona Gale, of Wisconsin, entitled "The Election," one of a series of the "Friendship Village Stories."
See Nicholson's Display page 5.
shut up for life because he could not be allowed to roam at large. These beings should be subjects of study for physiologists and psychologists rather than criminologists. The Beattie murder was the result of false social values, of stupid social customs, of distorted ideas of morality.
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Xmas List For Early Shoppers. Beautiful Fern Dishes of all kinds. Vases which are just right for holding flower. Baskets beautiful kraft affects and French stylet; Ideal for ta ble decorations with flowers and fruit. Jardenleres exclusive styles, simple and refined, at reasonable prices. Charming candle outfits, for table use. Hanging wall pockets. Tiny baskets with Japanese air plant. Come in NOW to see these things. Bring the children to tee Santa Claus' own fire place. Special Inducements for Early Orders for Cut flowers. CARNATIONS Our own fancy, large, long stemmed blooms. In pink, white or assorted colors. $1.00 per dozen. ROSES Our own fancy Killarney, White Killarney, Richmond, and Mrs. Ward (yellow) at $1.50 per dozen. Beautiful single and double Violets, tied with violet cord at $1.50 per bunch. We can only guarantee above prices and qualities on orders received before December 20th, because we will be compelled to buy from wholesalers to fill orders, and they charge us more than the price named for stock. During the week before Xmas The Flower Shop will be filled with blooming Acaleas, Cyclamen, Primrose, Scarlet Poinsettas, Ferns, Araucarias, Baby Xmas Trees, etc. Order Early you will get better stock and save money. The Flower Shop, 1015 Main Street.
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The 0!d and the New Yeara ago shoes were repaired by hand. Now the majority are repaired by machinery. The result is the slipping of ten minutes into one. Now when we say quick repairing it means quick, and very quick.
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Special Mo. 3 One lot of ladies' waists, worth from $1 to $3, olir special price for the next three days. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Dec. 14, 15 and 16, to be sold at 48c each. Special Mo. 4 One lot of laces and embroidery, values up to 15c a yard, our special price on this lot for the next three days, at 4c a yard.
This Bankrupt Sale is still In full force, our stock is complete with a full line of Dry Goods, Ladles' and Gents' Furnishings. Our Cloaks and Ladies' Suits, Skirts, Furs and Children's Ready' to-lVoar Goods still as good an assortment as you can get any place within lOO miles of here.
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