Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 229, 4 August 1913 — Page 8

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PASTOR OPENS SPOONING PARLOR IN CHURCH AS FIRST AID TO MATRIMONY

BY LILLIAN! LAUFERTY. Press a button at No. 232 West Eleventh street, step across the threshold of the vestry, and you are transported form the August glare of city Streets to the cool and peace of a real J home. Little Jack Gunn let me in and went-to call' mamma, while Nell and Leonard, the 3-year-old baby, went on playing "train" with four chairs , ; for cars, and with the shy, sweet ! friendliness of unspoiled, happy childhood told the stranger within their i gates all about the game they were so happily playing. Soon . Mrs. Gunn appeared, a tall, sweet-faced brunnette, with all the fascination of her native South in her manner. "Why, of course," thought the girl who had come to interview "of course the husband of this 'gracious gentlewoman' and the father of these adorable kiddies would want to promote marriages. Take one component part of minister ministry to man, mind you and add thereto Southern chivalry. Southern spirit of JACK GUNN.

Children of Pastor Gunn, who has inaugurated "Spooning Night" at his church. While he does not favor the term, he irankly admits the object for which he has set aside the vestry of the church one night a week is to bring young people together with a view of promoting matrimony under the watchful eye of the church.

feospitality, and happy experience of Ideal home life, and why should not Rev. John Gunn try o help his world to the joy he himself knows? - "Things are so different down South," said Mrs. Gunn. "Why, even In Atlanta, which is not a village, by ny means, about every one knows very one else. And up in this big Korthern , city ecerythlng seem tp whirl so fast, people don't seem to have time to stop and touch socially, and I think it must be very pathetic for the nice young boys and girls "who would like to meet one another, and make friends, and just can't. The church can give, parts of its service by becoming a social center, and I heartily agree with Mr. Gunn's tiesire to help it do so. South Differs From North. "Things are different here. Just think Coney Island is new to me mnd coming back the other night with a party of friends who had taken us lor our first trip to the island, I was Shocked and grieved by a sight that very one else seemed to take almost as a matter of course. In several seats of the train were young Slrls fairly lying in the arms of the young fellows who were with them. It was not brazen it was just calmly accepted as all right and not to be apologized for.

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NELLIE GUNN. "Two things occurred to me at once that girls need a 'big sister' to explain to them that the man who makes love is not always in love, and that if girls must express affection, how much better it is for them to have a sanctioned place to grow into their love stories under proper chaperonage. So my husband's theory ah, but here he is now you shall hear it practically put not just as a woman feels it." "About you 'spooning parlor,', Mr. Gunn," I began. "Oh, but you won't call it that I don't," said the minister. It gives it such a false value puts it just one step in advance of that Coney Island train love-making I overheard Mrs. Gunn tell you about. The fine young men and women to whom I want to cater would never come to a 'spooning parlor. An Aid to Matrimony. "I mean to introduce young men of good moral character and absolute honesty of purpose to the young women who, like them, are lonely for the companionship that youth craves. Each Wednesday evening down in our vestry I want the young people to lay the happy foundations for the deep and joyous friendship between man and woman from which the best marriage springs naturally. "Love, courtship and marriage are

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LEONARD GUNN. not passing sentiments or accidents. Romance and science must become fast friends. Sentiment and reality must meet. I want the young men and women to come to know each other and to know each other sanely and well under the finest influence I know of the church. "The church should concern itself primarily with the spirt, and next with everything that affects human life. And happy marriage is the solution of our great sex problem. But what I am thinking of new is to in troduce the young people to give them a desirable list of acquaintances from whom they may choose friends who may bring the spirit of comradeship into their lives and banish lonej liness. Then I want to give them a place to meet a place where, in refined surroundings, the best in the friendship between boy and girl and man and woman may be brought out. And the chances are that many happy marriages will result. "The social center idea is growing, you know. The school houses are being used for that purpose, too. Now, I do not believe in destructive criticism, and, as I see in each social center something of which I do not quite approve, I prefer to construct a 'social center' of my own. "There will be no dancing. Think

MARRIED LIFE THE FIRST YEAR

DISCIPLINING THE BABY By MABEL HERBERT URNER. T HERE'S no use in that child crying like that," Warreia threw down his paper and strode Into the nursery. neien was roc King me baby in a vain endeavor to quiet it. It was the nurse's afternoon off and the baby had been more fretful than usual. For almost an hour it had been crying incessantly. "Lay it down and leave it there!" demanded Warren. "Give it to understand when it cries like that you'll not nurse it. Put it down and come out!" "Oh,, it will cry itself sick!" "Well, what is it doing now?" "Hush s s! Baby, Baby! There, there, don't cry any more!" DIFFERENCES OF OPINION. But the baby only screamed the louder. "Don't stand so ne-ir, Warren. I think you make it more nervous. It's not used to anyone standing over it like that." "Well, it will have to get used to it. It's high time it was learning a few things you're spoiling it to death. Lay it down as I say. Come out and leave it alone. It will soon stop crying then!" "Oh, no, no, it's too little! It's too young to try to train it like that. Wait till it's older." "If it is not too young to scream for an hour through sheer temper, it is not too young to learn to stop. Now lay it down and come out!" "No, I can't. It would cry itseif into a spasm!" HUBBY'S WAY. "Look here, Helen, you have humored that child long enough. You have tried your way ever since it was born and it cries incessantly. Now you are going to try mine. Do as I tell you. Lay it down and come out." "Oh, don't don't Warren, please go away. Don't you see your standing here is just exciting it?" But Warren had stepped forward, and in spite of her protesting cry had taken the baby from her and laid it in the crib. Then very firmly he led her from the nursery and closed the doer. Helen was excitedly trying to free her arm from his clasp to fly back to the nursery. "Warren, Warren, you can't leave it alone like that! It's too' little, it's too little! Oh, you are cruel, ycu are". "No, it is you who are cruel nursing it and rocking it every time it cries, spoiling it so it will be harder and harder to break. No, this time let me manage it." PERSISTENCE. "But I can't. Oh, I can't let it cry like that alone!" "You must. Go into the front room where you can't hear it. Lie down on the couch in there. You look tired to death. I will stay here. If it cries too long I will come and tell you. Now, do as I say, Helen. It will be much better for the baby in the end." He almost pushed her into the front room and closed the door. Then he began walking firmly up and down the sitting room, which adjoined the nursery. The baby was still screaming. Five ten minutes passed. Helen came to the door. "Warren, of that no dancing in these days of dancing. I do not believe in the dance, because of all it brings in its wake." "What is that, father?" spoke up little Jack, who had been listening with childish absorption. Father tousled the brown head. "No questions, lad, I am busy." As the little lad went to join the other children, Mrs. Gunn added a word: "That is .the wa vto rule bie and little children, don't you think so? Quiet control not that your word is law but that they love you and want to mind you that they feel in their childish way that you know best. "I don't think juniors should be made self-effacing just merry little beings who have their own play-concerns, and know that you have your work-concerns, and that grown-up affairs are more important and have to be deferred to. Our children even play in the study now and then and why can't Mr. Gunn help the larger children of his church to go on about their youth and growth in the same happy way?" "That js what I want to do," said Mr. Gunn, with earnestness of spirit shining from great brown eyes in a face hewn for strength and understanding kindness. "I want to further meeting, friendship, love and marriage and to have the church encourage and aid the one great business of life happy, sane, successful marriage."

BY C. D. ISAACSON. OFTENTIMES a medium loses her own personality and becomes for the time being another individual so

many are led to believe. That is to say. her spirit goes out of her body, floats temporarily in the atmosphere, goodness knows where, while some long deceased person occupies her material frame and discourses through her lips. Mrs. Piper, a famous clairvoyant of the last century, often permitted a mythical "Dr. Phinuif this prvilege. and Mrs. Pepper was very kindly to an Indian maid. "BrightEyes, as . many will well remember through, , the reports of a recent lawsuit. At&uch times their voices would completely change, and to all intents and purposes, they were different people. I have no opinions to offer on the truth or falsity of such experiments. I only know what I have done along the very same lines.. And I have been told that some of thes things that I have accomplished have far outdone any recorded of them, and were decidedly more convincing. (I am informing you that every so-called manifestation to my credit was founded on nothing outside of my own imagination and trickery.) He Would Tcy. I had often been asked by my followers if I had ever permitted by body to be occupied, in clairvoyancy. I had not, but I would try it was my purpose to leave no field of mystery untouched. "One night I was seated .with my circle, -, talking quietly and slowly. It was winter and the faint moonlight streaks on the snow outside looked like vagrant ghosts of other days. A low light glimmered from one end of our room and reflected a ghastly yellow glare on my face. I had been asked a question, which J was about to answer, when I pressed my hand suddenly to my heart with a quick, short gasp. Instantly all were close about me. "What's the matter?" "Aren't you well?" "Speak out, please." I answered not a word. My body began to twitch and shake, my eyes closed, and I lay back on the sofa where they had taken me, motionless, as if dead. Some one sprinkled my forehead with water, others rubbed my hands, until finally my eyes I can't stand it. You must let me go to it." She was crying herself now. She tried, to force her way past him Into the ,nurst,y. But resolutely, almost roughly, he i took her back into I the front room. A DIAGNOSIS. "You must stay there, Helen, if I have to lock you in. I've began this and I am going to see it through." "You are going to kill my baby!" excitedly. Once more he walked up and down the room. Still Boreams came from the nursery angry, convulsive screams. The baby. needed spanking. Nothing; else-: could stop it, he told himself, grimly. That crying was just temper! And the sooner It was conquered the better. He threw open the nursery door and strode determinedly to the crib. He was fully resolved to slap It, his mind

Tracking Lions In Vast Nubian v Desert Ticklish aud Dangerous

Few who see wild animals in cages realize the vast amount of trouble, luu" " them here. The greatest danger lies In capturing wild animals In their native country. With the HagenbackWallace shows, which will give two performances in Richmond, Saturday, August 9, there are several hundred wild animals, most of which were captured in the forests and jungles of their native country. There is no more ticklish or dangerous task than tracking lions in the vast Nubian deserts. The scorching sun pours' ddwtr with such force that few men can stand 1L Tbe effect on the eyes is blinding. There is little or no ahajde. nThe wariest and most careful ' hunters may be tracking an animal, and at the same time be tracked by the very animal he is seeking, who may spring on him at any moment For capturing full-grown lions large traps of various forms are used. One trap is square, one of the sides lifting upon a spring like the old-fashioned mousetrap. This trap is bated with a piece of fresh meat, and as

CONFESSIONS- OF A MEDIUM

opened. Slowly I sat up, looked querly about me, walked with shambling gait and bent shoulders like an old man to the mantel piece, examining with curious manner the familiar objects in the room. The members of the circle drew shrinkingly away as if afraid, until some one asked. "What is the matter? Is this Charles D. Isaacson, or js it some other, come in clairvoyant possession?" Then I besan to speak. Slowly and slightly rasping, and as if with great difficulty, I said: "This is Forester David Forrester. Do you not know me? Lawyer. Once of Manchester, England. Fine family. Friends of the nobility. Handsomest man of my time in my younger days, and popular with the ladies. Ah. I had the ladies. I passed out at ninety years respected and loved. Have you never heard of me?" Got Him at Last. And I advanced to one of the women, tickled her under the chin as I chuckled: "Ah, you're a fine set here, you are. Fine women, fine women. Smart men. Clever medium, that Isaacson I caught him this time, thought, didn't I? He's been keeping me out for the damdest time. I got 'im this time, all right." So I went on, conversing with my friends, talking about Forester, his past life, his friends, his present existence; about myself, how I had been fighting him and how be had finally succeeded in beating me; about the members of the circle and intimate points about the private life of each, which he claimed to have witnessed himself. Then I was taken again with a spasm coming to as my self. "What did you think of that experiment?" I was asked. "Don't know anything about it," I replied, to the growing astonishment of all. ' Since that time David Forester has returned many times in fact, he has been what might be called the counterpart of "Dr. Phinuif and "BrightEyes. He has come at every call and told us marvelous stories of the past, of the present beyond the grave, and of the future. Nor has he been the only one who, they thought, ousted me from my body in clairvoyant trance. On Washing held no other thought. And then as he bent over it he hesitated. He felt, curiously baffled. THE SPANKING. Where was he going to strike it? There didn't seem to be any place. It's little red clinched fists were held up rigidly and it's convulsed . little face were all that were visible. His determination to spank it was plainly weakening. How could he, when there was no place? And yet the baby was still screaming. And that was temper, only temper, he repeated to himself to strengthen his purpose. Gathering his courage, he tapped sharply at one of the fists with his forefinger. The baby stared at him In surprise. For the moment it was too astonished to cry. And then, with a gurgle, it caught at the finger with a weak little clutch from which, Bomehow he could soon as the lion has entered the trap the door shuts down and he Is a prisoner. More than a score of lions with the Hagenback-Wallace circus were captured In this manner. Elephants are generally caught in nooses. A number of men surround the elephant after they have previously formed a circle of fire about the beast. The fire gets closer and closer ! to the elephant, and finally a noose is thrown over his head. He is then securely tied to a tree and allowed to remain there until quiet. Tame ele phants are then brought into use, and appear to be a sort of persuasive in making the huge animals tractable. In catching snakes various devices ,are used. Ona is to set the grass on fire in a circle, where it is known that snakes have hiding places.- As they rush out they are caught in large nets mounted on wooden hoops to which is attached a large bag. Equality of strength In both arms occurs almost twice as frequently with women as with men, more men than women being stronger in the right arm than in the left.

ton's birthday, the father of his country, delivered a long speech. Charles Dickens gave us the synopsis of a novel. A craiy Indian frightened every one with his native war whoops and dance. Dr. Johnson gavo a very masterly discussion on decadent literature. One gentleman gave a long leason in French, and still another amused us with a curious English description mingled with a conglomeration of Italian and Spanish. PaganinL tha great violinist of ghoulish melody, came in and asked for a violin. H played what he called a new melody, but if any one listening had been a student of music be would have recognized it as the famous "Devil's Trill" which I had carefully studied for several weeks previous to making the experiment. Several women had "taken possession" and my voice had been very carefully changed to suit each ease. But perhaps the greatest sensation of all was when there came Sir Henry Irving, the English actor, most artistic of all In his time, who recalled his favorite number. "The Dream of Eugene Aram." bringing tears to the eyes of many of my listeners. Very Impressive. At another time I described In detail a place far distant, giving names and dates, providing a very Impressive example of clairvoyancy: "I am in a cemetery, I began la the person of an old Dutch settler of New Ansterdam. There are many tombstones and many beautiful trees, come with me and I will show yon where my body lies. We go In the main entrance by a church. We tore to the left for several minutes. Here is my grave and one It the name. Von Glohn. Farther on. within a plot where many lie, we look over the railing, on which appears the name Washington Irving." The message extended over a full evening, telling everything about the old Dutch cemetery of Tarrytowu the estates near by the bridge the streets and stores. Several members of the circle traveled up there to corroborate or disprove what the had heard. Oh, it's a shame that people win be such ninnies. Hadnt I been there a week before to make sure that nothing was said that wasnt right to the finest detail!

not draw away. He aat down on chair by the crib. The baby still held to his finger. It bad stopped crying and was gurgling softly. It'a face was all wet with tears. With the other hand he got oat his handkerchief and awkardly wiped them off. That soft little clutch on his finger somehow it thrilled him aa nothing ever had before. ! A half-hour later the nursery door was opened nolslessly and Helen stood on the threshold. But.. as the door was behind him, he did not see her. What she saw was a sleeping baby with its little hands holding tight on to Waren's finger while he sat there patiently by the crib fearing to more, lest he awaken 1L For a moment she watched them. And then, very gently, she closed the door and stole softly away. Jwlry Fee Summer Glri. The girl who possesses one of the new lucky winkle bracelets should consider herself fortunate, for they are truly pretty. They are made of little gold winkle shells held together Tsy slender chains, and Inside each shell there is an opal, pearl, turquoise or some other gem. The opal looks specially pretty, because .t has the semblance of an Iridescent dewdrop. The shells are beautifully modeled, and even the "grain" shows.V . Coral is very fashionable nowand Is used for all kinds of jewelry, from polished pear shaped eardrops to carved pieces set In brooches and bangles. A pretty bracelet seen the other day was made of gold set with three carved pink coral roses, two small and one large one. Another new form of jewelry which should not be forgotten is the butterfly kind. It Is made of real butterflies' wings of the brilliant Brazilian varieties set behind rock crystal. A very pretty necklet Is made of narrow bars about three-quarters of aa inch In length of bright blue batterfiles' wings attached by silver chain. Whole butterflies are treated in this way and are used as brooches. A cording to a prominent flnanlcial journal of Paris, the consumption of coffee in the different countries of the world varies in Inverse ratio to the Import duty. BvC. M. Payne

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