Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 25, 9 December 1912 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PAIIAXIU3I AND SUN-TELEGRAM. MONDAY DECEMBER 9, 1912.

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OF EARLY BRIDGE Mrs. Edith Huddleston, of : Dublin One of the Early Pioneers of Wayne IS STILL VERY ACTIVE Although 89 Years Old She Walks a Mile or Two Every Day for Exercise. (Palladium Special) DUBLIN, Ind., Dec. 9. The oldest person living in Dublin is Mrs. Editha Huddleston, who was born on a farm near Fairfield, Franklin County, Ind., October 14, 1824. Her father, Isaac Brown, brought his five motherless children here that year and he worked at the construction of the abutments of the Dublin bridge. The abutments were built that year and the framework the year following. This bridge has become a noted landmark in as much as it is the only one of the many bridges built by the United States Government that remains standing in Indiana. Mrs. Huddleston and a few other people still living here remember the lettering on each gable end of the bridge which was defaced years ago by re-weatherboarding the bridge, "General John C. Milroy, Superintendent Eastern Division, Cumberland Road" because it extended from Cumberland, Maryland. It was intended to complete It to St. Louis but the work was cut short by President Filmore when he vetoed the appropriation of money to carry the work farther and It was only partially completed through Indiana. Sees President Filmore. Shortly after this veto President Filmore came in a stage over the road and stopped for dinner and to change horses at Schoolfields Tavern in Dublin. The road was so muddy and the ptage so heavy that a roadwagon was fitted with a large queensware crate for a carriage to draw the honored guest farther west. When he was about to leave Dublin a crowd of men congregated about him and demanded to know why he stopped the completion of the road and his only reply was that the appropriation of money for this purpose was class legislation and therefore it was unconstitutional. While the stone masons were work- j ing on the Dublin bridge a few Methodists were trying to get enough of their people together to organize a class here but they lacked one member and were about to abandon their effort when James Bradshaw, a laborer at the bridge, joined them and made good their organization. Bradshaw left soon afterward and was never heard of again. The charter members of the Methodist church in Dublin were Alfted Pierce, Mary Grove, Margaret Faulkner, Abigail Wisner, William Faulkner and James Bradshaw. There first pastor was Robt. Burns. Sad Accident. Mrs. Huddleston relates the sad incident of 1838. Mrs. Susan Vannuxem, by mistake, got hold of a can of arsenic and thinking it saleratus she used it to make biscuits for herself and family! The entire family was poisoned and Mrs. Vannuxem and one young daughter died. Their tombstone in the . cemetery here records their death of November 19, 182S. One descendant came here a few months ago to see their tomb and took photograps of their resting place. In the summer of 1840, Miss Brown was married to Jesse Huddleston, who died in 1855 leaving her with six children living and two infants dead. Her oldest son is the oldest person living in Dublin that was born here. Two sons and one daughter still live here, one son living in Louisville, Ky., and one daughter in Unioir"City. She is now in the 89th ysar of her age and she walks from one or two miles almost every day. FRANCHISE LEAGUE HEARSASPEAKER Mrs. Ida Gray Scott Delivers a Stirring Address in Cambridge City. (Palladium Special) CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., Dec. 9 The Woman's ' Franchise League of Western Wayne, met Saturday after noon in the town hall at which time Mrs. Ida Gray Scott at the Indianapolis Franchise League addressed the ladies. Mrs. Scott propounded two questions, "Shall Right of Suffrage be given to Women? Should she have a voice In governmental affairs?" She cited the states having equal rights, the accomplishment?, in the industrial world through this movement. She stated that three things preeminent in their code is the desire to substitute arbitration for war, the abolishment of saloons, and a safe and sane Fourth of July. She spoke of the initiative and referendum, the content of the terms, and concluded her talk with the statement that suffrage will mean direct legislation. Mrs. Scott, who fs not only a convincing speaker but a singer of state-wide reputation, although suffering with a heavy cold, illustrated her talk, with a number of beautiful songs, embodying the principles for which she argued. At the close of the talk, Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, chairman, announced the next meeting as a parlor meeting, to be held January 4 at the home of the Misses Ovcrbeck. II Ton ar troubled wnn sick bcacacne. cm I ipatioa. Indigestion, offensive breath or tay i.isesae arlsios from utoinacil trouble, sret m S iril bottle of Dr. Caldwell's Syru,. Pepsin. I . positively u.trao;eed to cere vou.

IT'S A PECULIAR PROCEDURE

First We Strain the Eyesight of the School Children Through Inadequate Lighting and Then We Pay Two Doctors to Find Out What's the Matter.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. Should or should not the public school buildings be wired for electricity. Oh, they are, says some one. Well, so some of them are. But others are not. That is, not adequately or thoroughout. It begins to get dark nowadays shortly after three. By four o'clock the light in school-rooms is dim. By five it's dark outside. And black in. This city has a system of medical inspection of schools which includes the examination of the eyes of all school children. It has been found that the eyes of the students in Garfield school are less defective than in the other grades. The examiners attribute this to the fact that the Garfield school building is artificially lighted throughout. When it gets too dark for study, the lights are turned on. This certainly should be the case all over town. What's the use of paying physicians to examine the eyes cf the school children when the latter are constantly being ruined by a system which compels them to study in dim and dark rooms. Oh, -you exaggerate, says some-one. However, by actual observation, children in one of the schools have been kept in after hours, for some slight misdemeanor, and made to write our little sentences as a sort of punishment. This between four and five this time of year when it is too dark in any room in a private or public building to either read or write. And yet these children are kept at it by their zealous teachers and in rooms which this city, presumably, regards itself as too poor to fit out with an adequate artificial lighting system. The town borrows from Peter to pay Paul. They ruin the school children's eyes and then pay two doctors to tell them about it. - The beautiful economy of this is at once manifest. There is nothing that hurts the eyes worse or more surely points the way to the optician and the oculist than this sort of strain. There are all sorts of children wearing spectacles who should be without them. That is, without them if proper care were exercised by the parents and the state. Spectacles are disfiguring. The sight of a little boy or girl marooned behind great goggles is a melancholy one. They are hideous, if, perhaps frequently enough necessary. And it is to be regretted that they must be worn. According to the wisacres a lot of spectacle donning on the part of small children could be done away with if the school room strain were removed. To just what degree this is true it is not possible to say here. But that it is contributory no one can deny. Why doesn't the city wire all of its school buildings throughout and have some sort of rule governing the use of the lights? "With the understanding that at once any child in any room was observed to be straining its sight in study or recitation, the lights should at once be turned on. Children should not, if it can be avoided, be handicapped with spectacles.

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And it has been known to work adversely in that "glasses" have accentuated the. defect rather than to have corrected It. The eyes become so accustomed to the artificial medium that the genuine one becomes atrophied. In other words by putting spectacles on children the latter's vision has been permanently impaired instead of temporarily benefited. This is not, of course, the rule, but a not infrequent exception. The famous ounce of prevention is always far better than the equally notorious pound of cure. The easiest way for the city to conserve the eyesight of its embryonic citizens is to wire its school buildings from attic to basement and to use the lights the moment they are needed. Money is being spent for far less essential things. We have an excellent school system but it has its faults. And this is one of them. The ventilation is another. Ar, rather, the rigid hold to its theory as exploited by the managers of the local schools. Things have been said about this before. But they can be said again. No one will deny that the most perfect theory possible may not be without flaw in practice. In the high school is installed one of the most perfect ventilating plants known to this date.

It is said, however, by those who af-! feet to know, that the plant is too small for the size of the building and therefore the result is not what it would be if the size of the plant and the building were more nearly commensurate. The air in these rooms is sometimes fair, although it is stated, it is never absoultely good. And, often, it's bad. No theory of ventilation can be invented that will ever equal the direct application of fresh air. No system that pumps the air down through the room or up by way of the cellar can equal opening all the doors and windows at certain intervals and getting the "ozone" at first hand. No room that has thirty or forty persons almost constantly in it can be purified by pipes in the wall. Ordinary common sense will tell you this. Enter one of these perfectly ventilated school-rooms fresh from the outside contact, and you will get an aroma of the human animal. Perhaps slight. But it's there. The rule that is objected to, however, is that which prohibits a teacher from opening a window if she thinks it necessary. Whatever teachers may or may not say, this is a rule that does hold. i j The higher school powers point to I the perfect system of ventilation and : say, in effect, that however you may i feel, the system's all right. That if it seems wrong it's you not the system. This is the sort of petty tyranny with which all institutions are rife. This is our system. If it don't suit i you, go some place where there's one jinore to your liking. I Window's don't need to be put up, ! aren't going to be put up. j You have all the fresh air that's ! necessary. We've got a system and we j must live up to it if we all get sick and have to be sent home. No doubt the latter works well enough in the ordinary run of things. "

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But it is not perfect. And should not be stuck to through every kind of air from the near-fresh

jto the undoubtedly fouL I Common-sense needs to be exercised in schools as well as in civic affairs land the courts. That is Mr. Theodore Roosevelt's slogan, even though derided by the self-made elect. The Theaters "Bunty" was delicious. At least Marjorie Murray, the Richmond "Bunty" was. If they're all as charming, this may or may not account for the great vogue of the play on two continents. , For "Bunty Pulls the Strings" with great effect in the little comedy of Scotch provincial life in which she is not the, but one, of the stellar attractions. For here is a drama which in the vernacular is "some play." About every other time you conclude that "the play's the thing" and then the intervals are filled up with a refutation of this interesting Shakespearean pronouncement. But it holds good in this instance. Graham Moffat has achieved that most occult of all artistic successes that is in any art the exploitation of the parochial to the point of universality. It is something that is occasionally done with success, but not often. Jane Austin did it. The Irish Players, Mary E. Wilkins and Stephen B. Foster. You see it in "The Old Homestead," which has had a dramatic life of over a quarter of a century. It's this quality which makes "The Man From Home" such a record breaker. "Bunty" is a canny, little Scotch girl who straightens out the tangled skein of life in her immediate environ and does it so adroitly, so shrewdly and so femininely that people are not entirely aware of how cleverly Hiey are being "worked" by this very pretty and very capable little girl. The story concerns Bunty, her father "Tammas, her brother "Rabb," her sweetheart, "Weelum," a certain designing spinster, Susie Simpson, who machinates to capture "Tammas" by illegitimate matrimonial methods in that she covertly threatens him with Avnnc.iiia rf It lllncral ill cnncl t irm fif certain pounds sterling which she had given him for investment and which he has used to pay the foolish debts of an elder son, who does not appear in the play unless he cares to take advantage of her entire willingness to become Mrs. Tammas. In which event all will be forgiven. . This is frustrated by the appearance of a former sweetheart of this pious Scotch Lothario, who, deserted on their intended wedding day, he finds still fascinating. The action centers around the revenge of Miss Simpson and its nullification by "Bunty." Incidentally the adjustment of the relations of all the principals. . The exquisiteness of the thing lies, j however, in the maintamance or us values. The actual tragedy which is just as much tragedy as if exploited on a larger field is constantly held from rearing its ugly head by the introduction of its comic relation. The balancing of the comic and tragic values, in other words, is so admirably done that you get nothing but the long, sane perspective. It is Life strained through one set of human creatures. But Life just the same. Above all, however, is the art of the playwright. The sure deft touch, the unerring stroke, the juxtaposition of color, the

perfect composition. And all seen through the transparent film of a humour as delicious as it is sardonic. . It is one of those masterpieces in the little you hear about but don't often see. Miss Murray as "Bunty" seemingly fitted the part like a glove. Miss Murray has been in this country just three months, having never been in America before and having been brought over by Brady expressly for this part. And she is the only member of the caste seen here who is not native to Scotland. , She is English. And her Scotch accent is acquired for stage purposes. Therefore she was the least understood of any of the company. Miss, Murray, has never played a character of this sort before, although she has been on the stage since she was seven years old. Her most recent performance is "Peter Pan," and she has played as far at the other end of the theatric pole as "Juliet," and in such varied environs as Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon and Italy. "Bunty Pulls the Strings" was one of the best things theatrically we have had in Richmond since 'The Irish Players." And, as usual, we did not turn out in those large and interesting numbers which make for return engagements. Iiuother words the town, theatrically, deserves just what it gets and about which it complains the loudest. No sympathy need be wasted on the local public. It's the ten cent variety of entertainment that is patronized and which consequently pays. "Nothing good ever comes to Richmond!" Thus the local anvil chorus. The whole thing's a double distilled joke. E. G. W.

GOOD ROADS PLAN ATTRACTS ATTENTION Judge J. M. Lowe, an authority on the good roads' movement, will speak on the topic in the Commercial club rooms Thursday evening. L. B. Bevier, field organizer for the National Old Trail's association, will arrive here Thursday morning and confer with persons interested in the question. D. L. Reid and James Howarth attended the good roads' congress in Indianapolis today. They will also attend the session of the Indiana Trustees association. Charles Potter, Will Porterfleld and George Paulin will attend the two meetings tomorrow. - w OB J For Correct Glasses Go to MISS C. M. SWEITZER OPTOMETRIST Phone 1099 Main St. : $50 Reward ill be paid for information that will lead to the arrest and conviction of the party who stole eight Turkey Hens from the Ashe farm, Center township, three miles west of Richmond, Thursday, December 5. KOBEKT S. ASHE RICHMOND. JENKINS' Splendid Gifts Whatever you may select here, you are assured of its appreciation and worth. Pendants, Bracelets, Rings, Watches, Diamonds. They are made in beautiful patterns Don't Go Cold or let your horse freeze when you can get such a good line of Blankets, Robes, Storm Fronts, at the price we are selling the best. - A Birch's Harness Store 509 Main St

DRINKING WATER DECLARED GOOD That the water used for drinking

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