Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 55, 9 January 1912 — Page 12

AGE TWELVE km s coins 2 CEirPROiiOWIIS "'He'er" and "Him'er" May Soon Be in Usage Will Fill Want.

CHICAGO, January 9. A common personal pronoun for both sexes that problem which for generations has worried professors of English Into nervous prostration and has turned many peaceful classroom into a battleground of strife was Invented in an Instant by Ella Flags Young and caused a roomful of school principals to gasp with astonishment. Mrs. Young sprung ner lllttle surprise at a meeting of school principals. The preliminaries were over rose to address the assemblage on "A Simplified Course of Study." "A principal should so conduct hls'er school that all pupils ar engaged In something that Is profitable to him'er and where the pupil is required to use knowledge In school in accomplishing his'er task," began Mrs. Young. AH gasped In unison. Mrs. Young paused to survey the effect her words had made upon the group. 1 "Wh-what was that?" came the query from several parts of the room. "We don't quite understand what that was you said." Mrs. Young smiled and continued: "I don't see how any one can map out the work for the fifth or sixth grade when he'er has always done the work In the grades above or below. "I don't see what can be nstoniHhing you unless It is my use or misuse of the personal pronoun." said the superintendent. 1 "I have simply solved a need that jha been long Impending. The English language Is In need of a Krsonal pronoun of the third person, singular 'number, that will Indicate both sexes land will thus eliminate our present 'awkwardness of speech. "Some years ago at the university iwhich I attendod this subject came up jffor discussion, and after two and onejbalf hours we came to no decision and jwc al bore a rather drained attitude 'toward one another. ; "The problem has bothered me frequently, and the solution of It occurred ;1o me as I was on my way to this ; meeting. Most of th pronouns of the feminine gender end tn er, and so all you have to do to make the common pronoun Is to take the masculine form and add er." Mrs. Young used ihe simplified form throughout her address. Some of the forms she used were her'er for he or he, hla'er for his or hers, and him'er for him or her. . The principals expressed themselves enthusiastically over the Innovation, and each resolved as he'er left the meeting that he'er would Introduce the form In hls'er classroom. MAKE ROADSIDE TREES PAY. Germans Far Ahead ef Us In Utilisation af Waste Space. The auction sales of native fruit grown on tba trees bordering the country roads In the township of Linden, adjoining tba city of Ilanover. yielded last autumn 20.012 marks ($4,000). Along certain stretches of these ronda the yield has amounted to 1,300 mark l323?t per kilometer, or at the rata of ."U5 per talt. The province vf Hanover has some 7.000 mile of country highway bordered with fruit trees, the proflt of which Is appropriated toward tba upkeep of the roads. These ronds, which are commonplace to the native resident are the delight of the American tourist, who often wonders why roadsides In the United States are not thus planted to fruit. This application of the beautiful, practical and economic possibilities embraced In the control of such public property as ronds Is a floe Illustration of the community thrift of the Gericau. During the three or four weeks' period of ripening sharp eyed, old watchmen on blcyclea patrol the roads. Loins particularly active on Sundays, when the people are out In large numbers. It la forbidden to pick up fruit from the ground, and to knock It from the trees Is subject to a fine of 100 mark ($23.80) or more for each offense. Laws and regulations for the general good, however, excite aucb respect on the part of the German that cases of theft of fruit from the highway fruit trees rarely occur. From Consul Robert J. Thompson, Ilanover, Germany. Try This Famous Po "Pint of Cough Spp" A Family Supply far 50c Saving $2. The Surest. Quickest Remedy You Ever Used ar Money Refunded. A cough remedy that saves you and I guaranteed to give quarter, better results than anything ele. is surely worth living. And oae trial will show you why 1'inex Is used in more homes in the I'. S. ami Canada than any ether cough remedy. You will be pleanantly surprised by the way it takes right hold of a cough, airing almost instant relief. It will usually stop the most obstinate, deep-seated cough in "4 hours, and is unequalled for prompt results in whooping cough. A .V-cent bottle of l'inex, when mixed with home-mad sugar syrup, makes a full t'nt of the best cough remedy ever used. Easily prepared in tive minutes direi thns in package. The taste is pleasant children take it willingly. Stimulates the appetite ami is slightly laxative both excellent features. Splendid for croup, hosrxeness, asthma, bronchitis and other throat troubles, snd a highly successful remedy for incipient lung troubles. Pin! Is a special and highly concentrated coat pound of Norway White Pine 1 extract, rich la guaiaeol and other natural healing pine elements. Simply mix with sugar syrup or strained hooey, in a pint bottle, and It is ready for use. Pines has often been imitated, bat never suceasfully. for nothing else will produce the same results. The genuine is gnarantesd to give absolute satisfaction or wor refunded. Cert I flea te of guarantee-is wrapped in each package. Your "druggist ha Pine er will gladly get It for you. If wot, sead to Tbe.Piacx G 11. Wayne, lad. ;

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Clothes Suggestions. The fancy for frocks of two fabrics Is one that the little bouse mother who has to nurse carefully a minute Income finds quite invaluable. Small girls grow out of their garment, and, no matter how delighted one may be to see the children growing big and healthy, there is another aspect not to be neglected, which is almost equally appalling. The sleeves run up the little arms, the skirt stops short at a point which mammas strougly disapprove, and the waist becomes tight enough to suit a fashionable young lady instead of an energetic schoolgirl. Happily at present two small frocks may be made into one large, if needs be, or a piece of new material may be ingeniously Incorporated with the dress that has become too little for Its wearer. In the former case take one of the frocks to use as the under robe and, having unpicked and ironed it, use the lower part of the skirt mounted either plain or tucked upon a foundation. The upper part of this same skirt will make the top of the corsage and sleeves. From the second frock cut owny the lxnllce pnrt and lift up the skirt so that it forms a corselet and tunic; cut round foot and hem in wide son Hops. If there is not enough material the upper part above the waist line may be cut from the sleeves. If fresh material Is used either the new part may make the tunic and bodice, while the old Is utinzea ror me hem, the collar, the belt and sleeves, or vice versa, a vest or plastron being Introduced to relieve the tightness of the corsage. A striped or spotted material should bo used to go with the old fabric, and with this novel trimming the little girl will feel as If she had quite n new frock. Teach Children Care of Nails. If the little girl's finger nails are filed for her once a week she may easily be taught to otherwise care for her hands and nails.' Children should be taught that the care of the hands is a necessity. Many persons think that the bauds of a child do not become soiled as much us those of nn older person. But'they do; indeed, more so. The hands, although washed frequently, are not cleansed any too often. The school books, jiens. pencils, papers or toys they handle are frequently covered with tiny germs, and no mother makes a mistake who Impresses upon her children the importance of bodily cleanliness. After a few mouths' practice with young children habits of cleanliness should be so well established that the mother's care can be lessened by having each child do as much as she can herself, the mother thereafter making an Inspection. Every two weeks a young child should have her balr and scalp thoroughly shampooed. And if at any time the Uttle one should be so unfortunate aa to have ber head Infected as the result of too close contact with a child whose head and hair are not clean keep the little one home from school for a week. Purchase tincture of larkspur from any druggist, saturate the head end hair the first evening and wrap up -the head with an old towel to protect the bedclothlng. The next day champoo the head well with castlle soap and warm water. The third day. to make sure all destruction has taken place, saturate the head once again, and on the following day give the bead another general shampoo. Amusement For the Littls Folk. There are more children made happy In the vacation days and holidays by paper dolls than by any other means. Paper dolls can be manufactured out of the pictures in a fashion paper, and there are picture books that show not only children, but even grown folks. These can be pasted in scrap books and arranged by the children under the direction of their elders and are fascinating. Sometimes the magazines, too, show lovely pictures of bouse decorations, pictures of porch furnishings and drawing room sofas aud chairs, and a big blank book, a pair of scissors and some paste will help the little ones to have their paper bouses arranged according to the best method in which they are planned In dainty homes. This type of paper cutting is not only useful in keeping little ones employed, but serves to help them, too. In their first observation of order In a home. How to Clean Hair Ribbons. Ribbons the children's hair ribbons especially are excellently cleaned in a bath of soapsuds and gasoline and then stretched tight on a marble or glass sheet and left to dry. To remove the little wrinkles brush the ribbon crosswise with a soft brush after it Is on the marble or glass. The ribbon needs to be very. we? or it will not stick tightly to the surface of the marble or glass, and this drying in a glued down way is what takes the place of ironing. A hot Iron should never be set on silk of any kind. There shonld always be a soft cloth or tissue paper between the iron and the silk. Children j Parties. Women noted for being successful hostesses say that they believe In giving children's parties, that nothing brings out the boys and girls so well and that nothing makes them so self possessed and so well able to tinderstand each other. A Queer Animal "That Is the only animal I ever aaw that would eat and drink and sleep upside down." said a visitor to the 100. Indicating a fruit bat or flying squirrel from Borneo. It hung head downward tn its cage. Three curved claws on what appeared to be Us tall embraced s roof tar. In Its pendulous position It ranched oat far the disks of banana the keeper paased through the ban. Finishing lta meal. It swung over to a cup of water and took a drink. Then, folding lta membranous wings, it closed lta eyea and waa soon asleep. Now York Son.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AXD SUN-TELEGKA3I. TUESDAY, JANUARY 9,

WAR Oil THE TIPPING GRAFT BEGUN

Traveling Men's Organizations Start Crusade to Make Hotels Pay Living Wages to Employees. Slogan "Belong to the Union."

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. The anti-tipping crusade. Everybody wishes it well and hopes it will succeed. But they doubt it. Since, however, it is originating with the traveling men's organizations it may make headway. The truth is that, as everyone knows, if you want to get things done you have to resort to this popular and convenient, as well as abominable system. To point an illustration, the writer' of this column was recently in a hotel in the state capital for one day and a half and during that time-rmost of it spent outside the hotel, at that paid out the following tips: Five cents to a bell boy. fifteen cents to a maid, ten cents to another bell boy. a quarter to another and ;

another quarter to still a third, with Then you go home send for the autwenty cents to a waiter. A dollar in j tomobile to come round and go out tips in a day and a half's stay. for a spin. Perhaps this is not excessive hut I in tne meantime Mr. Employer pulls it is far too much. You have to do it, j out the cash drawer, counts the conhowever, if you expect to get service tents $11.95 decides he can't afford

the next time. And naturally there are j things you want and must have If your dress happens to have a complicated set of ingresses, for example, somebody has to be called to the rescue hence a maid. There are trifling services for which a woman traveling alone is obliged to call on some one, and which the attaches of the house should perform, since that is the reason the traveling public goes to a hotel. When they pay for their domiciling that should be in cluded. Everybody knows, of course, that the reason for this is the inadequate payment . made by hotel proprietors, and other employers of labor, as railway companies, to those in their service And also the system levied by these people on the latter. Waiters are held responsible for disappearance of linens and silver in dining-rooms, are docked for breakage of dishes, no matter how unavoidable, and for a thousand and one other causes, more or less petty, which make them so insistent on the tip. Tn Hnme rnfen thr waiter) are tiaid

nothing at all but rely entirely on i , A" those getting 8 will now be cut tips, a percentage of which goes to 644- 7hose on 7 win be marked the owner. The whole thing is an out-jdown to 5-50 while th cubs ill rerage and will be kept up Just so long j m tne same $1.79. th. nnhii will rniintnano it. Tn reporters caucus and organize a

The trouble about instituting a reform of this sort is that it will not be encouraged by that certain class with plenty of money which likes to pose in the limelight and throw it round. They will always tip. Because it looks magnificent and because they are fools. They can afford it. But it is these very ones who have grafted this alien system on to the democratic social regime established by this republic and which reacts on . 1 1 1 . H 1 1 a. - A - t- . inose unauie to auoru 11 uui w ho uiusi 1 perforce fall In with it because, if they don't, they are shoved to one side and suffer discomfort and inconvenience. It is. in short, a sort of inverted "special privilege." And the special privilege is at the extremes at the opposite ends of the pole. The people which it does not benefit, but who are, in the end, the ones who pay for it are squeezed between and mashed flat. Take the unions. There's a tremendous lot talked about the poor laboring man and the down trodden employee. But you'll find a surprising number of these martyrs drawing four or five j times the amount paid over to some 1 college graduate who has specialized j in several "departments of knowlrie" Th writor could herself tell a tale of a newspaper upon which she was once a brilliant and shining ornament. She slaved anywhere from twelve to fifteen hours a day corraling "news" 1 for the perusal of the paper's constitu ency. Yet the boy who ran the press known in fiction and on the stage as "the printer's devil" got three dollars more a week and at the tick of the eighth hour stopped all operations. If you belong to the Union you have all sorts of special privileges. If you happen to be a poor devil of a reporter you haven't any excepting getting" in places free and then have to fight your way down stage. Unions are the greatest things out. Here, Bays the council in dark chamber session, its time to raise wages. Look at the high price of living, look at the trusts, look at the wool sched ule, look at Taft and Rockefeller and Pierpont Morgan. Wages must be raised one hundred per cent, or we'll call 'em all out. I Spread the news. You don't have a thing to do with it. Somebody comes along and says next week you'll get one thousand dollars a week instead of a beggarly eight hundred. Oh, all right, you say. The young motherand many an old one, too is often puazled to know the 1 . . 11 nature i ne loudness of lta crying does not necea- , eerily Indicate the seriousness of Its i trouble. It may havs nothing more the matter with It than a headache or a feel- . Ing of General dullness. It cannot, of coarse, describe Its feelinxs. but aa a pmimmrT oMuur) you are saxe trying a mild laxative. in Nine times out of ten. von will ted It Is all the child needs, for its restlessness and peevishness are perhaps due te obstruction of the bowels, and once that haa been remedied the headache, the alupnylshnese and the many other evidence of constipation and indigestion wlU quickly disappear. Don't si the little one salts, catharrle pills or nasty water, for these will aet ae pom tire, and they ar too

Next week Mr. Employer makes a mild protest. He says he can't afford to raise his own wages. Why I only get $7.50 myself he says and here you're kicking because you only get $800. You say nothing but walk out. He runs after you and says where are you going. You glance at him contemptuously. Home where'd you 'spose. But I er who's going to get out

jthe paper or or the laundry or "whatever the case may be." You say you don't know and don't care. That you can't work any longer for only $800. Its starvation. You are tired being robbed by the corporations and the middlemen. to run an open shop and sends for the foreman Next morning he timidly telephones you to come back that he has conceded your very just demand and that he hopes your heart has given you no trouble during the night. You haughtily return. In the fhterini Mr. Employer calls ; in his editorial writer a university man with five degrees and several Carnegie medals awarded for heroism in writing editorials on the water-works, the traction situation and the wool schedule, with a framed certificate for defining the true difference between a progressive and a stand-patter and mumbled that on account of the high price of living he found he would have to cut the editorial writer's salary from $14.50 a week to $11.99. The reporters were then called in. They stood in a row and salaamed. j On account of the stringency in the : money market, says Mr. Employer, we 1 find it impossible to maintain the high standard of wages which has made working on our journal a sine- ! cure. 1 union. ! You smile at them pityingly. Knowing that they are unskilled labor and cannot organize. That there are ten million college graduates yearly hiking for the buildings housing the molders of public opinion. They want to be Journalists. They end on the re-hash machine. Brains count nothing in the money marts. All you have to do is to join a union or a corporation and watch the clock. In the meantime the people between j work on hundred hours a day at a raie 01 a nait a miu an nourAna most ot tnem are run through the wringer and mashed to a pulp. These are the victims of special privilege. And yet both extremes point the finger at them and say "you're it." Jack dot Even. A judge, presiding one day in court, asked a sailor whether he saw the plaintiff strike the defendant. "Who Is the plaintiff?" asked the sailor. "Pretty man you are." said his honor, "that you don't know the plaintiff from the defendant! Well, where did you see the man strike him?" "Abaft the binnacle." said Jack tar. "Where is abaft the binnacle?" inQuired his honor. "Pretty judge you are," responded Jack, "that you don't know abaft the binnacle!" Sulzsr's New Story. Congressman Sulzer of New York has stopped telling after dinner stories. The New York congressman and J. Adam Bede. the Minnesota wit. were speakers at a banquet in Washington not long ago. Bede held the floor for au hour and told some amusing yarns. When Mr. rmlzer arose he shook his Henry Clays at the guests and started out to win the humor Marathon himself. "I will flrvt tell yon a story that Adam never henrd." he began and then launched into the recital of an anecdote so aged that everybody i9 the audience could call it by Its front , n!ime. Mr. Sulzer hadn't progressed very far when Representative Stanley of rtentucky reared up and in a hoarse whisper, heard all over the room, said; "Why, Bill. Adam invented that Itory." In keeping others alive, physicians appear to lose their own lives. Of all professional men their lives are the shortest. Between the ages of fortyfive and sixty-five five doctors die on an average to one clergyman. Mrs. A. Oreely. 80S 10th St., Indianapolis. Ind., and Mrs. Edyth Faith Corey. Alton. Ind.. the only laxative given U Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. It has been found to answer most perfectly all the purposes of a laxative, and its very mildness and freedom from griping recommend It especially for the use of children, women, and old folk generally people who need a gentle bowel stimulant. Thousands of American families have been enthusiastic about it for more than a quarter of a century. Anyone wishing- to make a trial of this remedy before buying- it in the regular way of a druggist at fifty cent or one dollar a large bottle family slaa can have a sample bottle sent to the heme free of charge by simply addressing Or. w b. caMweli. at wasatngton st.

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DISCUSS TAXATION BUFFALO. N. Y, Jan. The State Conference on Taxation, which was organized in Utica last year, began its second annual meeting in this city today. The session, which will last several days, is attended by numerous representatives of public organizations interested in taxation and officials of municipalities throughout the State. The conference will give Its attention to the existing methods of assessment and taxation in the State of New York the details of the tax laws and suggestions for improvements. It will not, however, concern itself with the details of local or state expenditure or any theoretical matters.

The Smiles Faded. A pretty American girl traveling in England was sorely tried by the annoyances and stares to which she was subjected on account of her American "peculiarities." She went into a sho shop in London to buy a pair of shoes, and the clerk tried on innumerable pairs of veritable "boats." as she called them, much to the amusement of two Englishwomen customers seated neat by, who regarded her through theii "starers" as if she were some strange animal in a menagerie. Finally the clerk said apologetically: "We 'aven't anything narrow enough for you, miss. You see. miss, our ladies have wider feet because they walk sc much, miss." The two Englishwomen smiled with the air of superiority that she had met for so long, and she felt she could stand it no longer. "Do they walk on their hands, too?" she flashed out. The forest area of Canada, which approximates 1.657,000,000 acres, is more than double that of the whole of Europe. A

An Oppressive Trust. Before the Coif ae Roasters' Aaaociation, in aeaskm at Chicago on Thursday, Thomas J. Webb, of Chicago, charged that there is in existence ft coffee combine which is "the most monstrous impoaition in the history of human commerce." There ia very alight exaggeration about this statement. It comes very close to being literally true. There is s coffee combine in Brazil, from which country comes the bulk of the coffee used in the United States, which is backed by the government of Brazil and financed by it, which com-, pels American eonawners, as Mr. Webb said, "to pay famine prices for coffee when no famine exiata." . The worst thing about this ia that the consumers of the United States have been compelled to put up the money through which this combine, to further cinch them, has been made effective. There were formerly revenue duties imposed upon all coffee entering the United States. Those taxes were denounced aa an. imposition upon the people; aa taxing the poor man's breakfast table, and the like. The taxes were removed. Immediately

thereafter Brazil imnosed an

eoffee up to the full amount oz tne xormer customs taxes in this country. The revenue which formerly went into the treasury of the United States was diverted to the treasury of Brazil. The poor man's breakfast coffee continued to cost him the same old price. But this was only the eoinmencement. The "valorization" plan waa evolved in Brazil. Through this plan the government, using the revenues derived from the export duties for the purposes, takes all of the surplus crop in s season of large yields and holds it off the market, thus keeping the supply down to the demands of the market snd permitting the planters to receive s much higher price than they would otherwise have done. The United States consumes mors Brazilian coffee than does the rest of the world. We are the beat customers of Brazil, and Brazil buys little

from us. Mow Brazil la promoting, financing and rnamtaming s trust designed, snd working effect-

ivery for the purpose, to compel American concomers to psy an exorbitant price for the coffee they use. What is the reaaedy? Pert-J-UUigmemVf. 19, 1911.

is a pure food-drink made of the field grains, with a pleasing flavor not unlike high grade Java. A Big Package About PA lbs. Costs 23 cfls. At Grocers Economy to ones purse is not the main reason1 for using Postunx It is absolutely free from any harmful substance, such as "caffeine" (the drug in coffee), to which so much of the nervousness, biliousness and indigestion of today are due. Thousands of former coffee drinkers now use Postum because they know from experience the harm that coffee drinking causes. Boil it according to directions (that's easy) and it will become clear to you why 06 1TIhis2?s9s si Kesioopini 99 Postum Cereal Company, Limited, Battle Creek, Michigan.

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FRUIT GEQWERS . (National News Association) MADISON. Wis., Jan. 9. What promises to be one of the best annual conventions in the history of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society assembled in the capitol today and will . continue in session over Wednesday ; and Thursday. The feature of the opening session was an address by W. H. j Hanchett of Sparta on "The New Era in Horticulture in Wisconsin." The! program provides for addresses by well known fruit growers and horticultural experts from several states. A Curious Oath. The following curious oath was until recently administered in the courts of the Isle of Man: "By this book and by the holy contents thereof and by the wonderful works that God has miraculously wrought in beaveu above and in the earth beneath iu six days and seven nights I do swear that I will, without respect of favor or friendship, love or gain, cousauguinity or affinity, envy or malice, execute the laws of this isle justly between our sovereign lord the king and his subjects within this isle and between party and party as indifferently as the herring's backbone doth lie in the middle of the fish." London Standard. -Evident, Smith and Jones were speaking about the fine points of their respec tive sons. "That boy of mine," remarked Smith extravagantly, "is the genuine article. He's all wool, yqu can bet." "Shouldn't wonder," commented Jones. "I notice that he shrinks from washing." Housekeeper.

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Constipation, if Neglected, Causes Serious Illness Constipation, if neglected, leads to almost innumerable compliesaftWtintr the creneral health. Many cases oi typhoid fever, appendicitis and other severe diseases are traceable to prolonged clogging of the bowels. RegarJthe effects of constipation. C. E. Aycrs, 6 Sabin St., Montpelier, Vt, says: "I was a filleted with tvtnatinatinn Bnl HilinnanMM for years, and at times became so bad I would become, unconscious. I havs bsca found tn that condition many times. Physicians did not seem to be able to do me any good. I would becoms weak and for das at a lin.e could do no work. Not Ions ago 1 sot a box of Dr. Miles' Laxative Tablets, ana after using: them found I had never tried anything that acted in such mild and effective manner. I believe I have at last found the remedy that euijts my case." Thousands of people are sufferers from habitual constipation and while possibly realizing something of the danger of this condition, yet neglect too long to employ proper curative measures until serious illness often results. The advice of all physicians is, "keep your bowels clean," and it's good advice. Dr. Miles' Laxative Tablets are sold by all druggists, at 25 cents a box containing 25 doses. If not found satisfactory, your money is returned. a MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, In.

Standard statistics of the eoffee trade show a falling off in sales during the last two years of over two hansrad atCSIos Kads. Authenticated reports from the turn factotjM in this city show a tremendous increase in the sale of Pestsss in a like period of time. While the sales of Postum invariably how marked increase year over year, the extraordinary demand for that weO-Q known breakfast beverage during 1011 is very likely due to a public awakening to the oppression of the coffee trust.

an awakening naturallv multitude who suffer from ia of coffee drinking to be

cepttve to knowledge of harm which so often comes aa a result of the use of the drug-beveimge, eoffee. BrntU Crmt Evi NmMDic 19.1911.

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