The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 7, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 15 June 1911 — Page 6

SHE GOT WHAT SHE WANTED This Woman Had to Insist Strongly, but it Paid Chicago, Ill.—“I suffered from a famale weakness and stomach trouble,

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glad I did, for it has cured me. “I know of so many cases where women have been cured oy Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound that I can say’to every suffering woman if that medicine does not help her, there is ■nothing that will.”—Airs. Janetzki, 2963 Arch St., Chicago, 111. This is the age of substitution, and women who want q cure should insist upon Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound just as this woman did, and not,accept somethingelse on which the druggist can make a little more profit. Women who are passing through this critical period or who are suffering from any of those distressing ills po- ( culiar to'their sex should not lose sight of the fact that for thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, which is made from roots and herbs, has been tb.9 standard remedy for female ills. In almost every community ! you will find women who have, been restored to health by Lydia) E. Pink, ham’s Vegetable Compound. -. . 41 i .. .—l-{_ : IT DOES ON HOUSES. ' ’ i" ■ - I wws Om. -fe*Wise —Do you see that striking looking woman with the veil. Howe—Yes. Wise —Do you know why she wears the veil? Howe —No. Homely? Wise —No; she’s afraid the sun might blister the paint Very Select. The landlady was trying to impress the prospective lodger with an Idea of how extremely eligible the neighborhood was. Pointing over the way at a fine mansion, she said in a hushed whisper: 1 “Young man, over there across the street there’s seven million dollars!" BUSINESS WOMEN j A Lunch Fit for a King. An active and successful’ young lady tells her food experience: '“Some years ago I suffered from j nervous prostration, induced by con- ! tlnuous brain . strain and improper | food, added to a great grief. “I was ordered to give up my work, i as there was great djanger of my mind ! failing me altogether. My stomach I was in bad condition (nervous dyspepsia, I think now); and when GrapeNuts food was Recommended to me, I had no faith in it. However, I tried it and soon there was a marked improvement in my condition. "I had been troubled with faint spells, and had used a stimulant to [ revive me. I found that by eating Grape-Nuts at such times I was relieved and suffered no bad effects, which was a great gain. As to my [, other troubles—nervous prostration, dyspepsia, etc.—on the Grape-Nuts diet they soon disappeared. “I wish especially to call the attention of office girls to the great benefit I derived from the use of Grape-Nuts as a noon luncheon. I was thoroughly tired of cheap restaurants and ordin ary lunches, and so made the experiment of taking a package of GrapeNuts food with me, and then slipping out at noon and getting a nickel’s worth of sweet cream to add to it. “I found that this simplte dish, finished off with an apple, peach, orange, or a bunch of grapes made a lunch fit for a king, and one that agreed with ma perfectly. "I throve so on my Grape-Nuts diet that I did not have to give up my work at all, and in the two years have had only four lost days charged up against ! " me. “Let me add that your suggestions in the little book, ‘Road to Wellville,’ are, in my opinion, Invaluable, especially to women.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Wellville” to pkgs. “There’s a Reason.” Ever read the above letter T A lev ene appears from time to time. The? are ffeanlne, true, aad full of hum tatereat.

NEW YORK’S GREAT PALACE OF BOOKS COMPLETED a 7“ i WWIMSIBIWW • n^i wn n<w iin ' 2>'", > ■ .1 NEW YORK. —The superb and impressive building of the New York public library is completed and formally thrown open to the public. The building, which fronts on Fifth a venuS extends from Fortieth to Forty-second street, contains the accumulated collections of the Astor, Lenox and Tiiden libraries. The appointments of the structure throughout a.re of a lavish and up-to-date kind. The library is a noble addition to the architectural beauty of the metropolis.

and I went to the store to get a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, but the clerk did not want to let me have it—he said it was no good and wanted me to try something else, but knowing all about it I insisted and finally got it, and I am so

HAREM SKIRT DEAD

Paris Misses New Style of Dress From Streets. Does Not Go in Occident and Was Merely Intended as House Gown —Latest Fashion Freak is “Hoop Sleeve.” Paris.—What has become of the famous harem skirt? Is it living or is It dead? This question seems to be running through the minds of women throughout the world. The innovation was hooted whenever it appeared publicly in the European capitals, and Paris, which ordinarily becomes accustomed quickly to the most fantastic apparel refused to accept it. The failure of the garment to appear at the fashionable race courses on Sunday aroused wide comment. A few women, seeking to attract attention, occasionally dare to wear it at a roller rink or in a box at the theater, but the mass of femininity avoid it, with the possible exception of a few of the milder models, which it is impossible to distinguish from the conventional skirt. The harem skirt is not seen on the streets. With a view to solving the mystery as to what has become of the garment, a newspaper correspondent visited several leading costumers and even firms which tried to launch the skirt on the market. All admitted that things had not gone well! » “The harem skirt,” said M. Drecoll, “was intended merely as a house gown. It was killed by enemies who

Moral Side of Padrone System Compels Small Boy to Work Long Hours to Meet Debts. St. Louis. —The moral side of the padrone system is, according to James R. Dunn, United States immigration inspector, the worst feature of the practice which condemns small boys to work long hours shining shoes in America to pay the debts of their fathers in Greece. “The boys are taught to lie from the moment they set foot on American soil,” said Mr. Dunn the other day. “They a lie from then on while at work for the padrone. They will not FAMOUS ENVOY OF PEACE Ira CONS7Jm/\ Baron d’estournelle de constant, who is now in America in the interests of universal peace, is one of the distinguished members of the French senate. He is delivering many addresses in cities of the United States in promotion of the movement to abolish warfare, and is being entertained by numerous societies and prominent citizeM.

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put out hideous yodels, and it was doubly killed by the department stores, which sold cheap imitations at 30 francs ($6) each. The worst class of women tried to wear it, and consequently the better sort ignored it. Occasionally we sell one for house wear, but I really believe it is dead beyond hope of resurrection.” “My grandfather made and tried to launch the harem skirt forty years ago,” said John Worth, “but was unsuccessful. Then, as now, the women did not want it. It may be acceptable to the inmates of Turkish harems, who recline on Cushions all day long and do not go out save when veiled and cloaked, but it does not go in the occi-

In Defense of Eyeglasses

American Lenses Are Best in World, Declare Opticians—Cause or Cure Many Ills. New York. —Wholesale opticians in Maiden lane are strongly denying reports which have been circulated against the good name of the spectacles and eyeglasses worn by the public. The critics, including several oculists, have said that most of the glasses are wrongly ground and injurious to the sight. As about one-fifth of all the men, women and children in the United States wear glasses, the effect on the public eyesight, according to the reports, is most alarming. Professor Algernon Tassin, of Columbia university, started the agita-

tell the tnfej about their work, their own ages or their parentage. On that account it is hard to make a clear case against them, such as the federal law requires before we can deport them. Despite this, fifteen to twenty Greek boys are annually deported from my district, Missouri, lowa, Kansas and Oklahoma. “My experience after handling many of these cases teaches me that many of these boys are sent over under circumstances which would warrant their deportation, could we get at the facts. Some are sent in violation of the contract labor laws, others come in under false affidavits as to their age, parentcage or relationship to some one who is standing sponsor for them. The boys, I believe, are taught to evade all questions that might seek to uncover the true state of affairs in regard to their work. “The result is seen in the after life of the boys, most of whom becomehangers on around pool halls, or drop even low'er in the social scale. A few, it is true, become hucksters, or waiters, and earn an honeet living, but they are the exceptions.’* Sells His Body and Soul. Chicago.—Charles Kittrick, who sold his “body and soul” to seven nurses at the National Maternity hospital, died the other night at the hospital, where he was being cared for. Kittrick was suffering from a peculiar form of locomotor ataxia, and by the terms of the bill’of sale his body will be used for clinical study. Kittrick sold himself for seven dollars, and he used the money to pay the last bill he owed —his room rent. Record of the sale was filed with the county recorder. Would Kill regenerates. Boston.—That all degenerates in Massachusetts institutions should be killed with an anesthetic is the suggestion of Rev. George W. Cutter, made before the Unitarian ministers of the city at their monthly conference.

dent. I consider it lifeless for the present, but I believe it to be probable that it will be revived, say in two years, when it may be successful. Certainly it is practical, if nothing else.” “It was not intended for street wear,” explained a member of the firm of Bechoff, David & Co. “A few fashionable women are still wearing it indoors and at receptions. My wife recently wore it at a royal reception in St. Petersburg and was much complimented. The mass of women probably will never adopt it, but I believe that really autocratic women will continue to use it for ball gowns and house gowns..” The latest fashion freak is the “hoop sleeve.” The hoep is placed at the middle of the forearm and its diameter is seven inches. The sleeve is drawn in at wrist and elbow.

tion. He contended that in seven months he had received from an oculist twenty-three different pairs of glasses, all of which were given to him in an effort to make him see comfortably. All of these glasses were incorrectly ground, he said, and caused him much pain. Afterward it was found, said the professor, that the trial case containing sets of lenses which the oculist used in making the successive examinations, was unreliable. The professor further charged that on investigation, made with the assistance of oculists, it was found that this incorrect trial case was a fair sample of those used all over the country. The professor charged that the examinations were usually a farce because most of the oculists and opticians were not competent. Opticians and the officers of the optical societies are denying all the charges in statements sent to the trade of the entire country. These denials maintain that American manufacturers make the world’s most perfect lenses and that American trial cases of lenses are now being sold to the best class of European trade. The physical laboratory at Kew, England, which is the world’s recognized authority, recently examined American trial cases and gave them a most complimentary indorsement. Counter charges are made that the oculists who have joined in the criticism are unfairly trying to set themselves up as superior to their fellows. The critics are said to be a small minority of the oculists who hold extreme views that eyeglasses can cause or cure nearly all kinds of human Ills, from headaches to epilepsy and oven drunkenness. SILK MAKES A RECORD TRIP Shipment of Goods Valued at $600,000 Carried From Yokohama in Seventeen Full Days. New York.—Gix car loads of raw silk and silk goods arriving here made a record-breaking trip of 17 days from Yokohama. The silk left Yokohama on board the Empress •of China of the Canadian Pacific fleet on the afternoon of April 16. It was 11 days on the Pacific, arrived in Vancouver late at night April 27, and left next morning. The trip across the continent was made in less than six days. The total time from Yokohama to New York, 17 days, breaks the records for silk shipment The shipment is valued at approximately $600,000. 305,000 in Seal Catch. St. John’s, N. F.A-Three hundred and five thousand seals,- valued at $493,000, were obtained by the eighteen vessels of the Newfoundland sealing fleet during the season just closed. Last year the fleet reported a catch of 333,000, with a value of $612,000.

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Origin of a “Best Seller”

Charles Dudley Warner’s Explanation of How He Came to Write His Famous Book, “My Summer - In a Garden.” After a brilliant career as an ofllcer to the Civil war, Gen. Joseph R. Hawley returned to his home at Hartford, Conn., at the close of the hostilities. He proposed beginning over again as an editor, for he was the editor of a Republican paper at the time he laid down the pen to open the first recruiting office in the state of Connecticut to response to Lincoln’s call for volunteers on April 15, 1861. And 24 hours after the call had been issued, he had raised his state’s first company of volunteers. General Hawley, however, was obliged to defer that purpose, for, in 1866, he was elected governor of Connecticut. A year later, when he returned to private lifo, he brought about him an ably body of associates, five in all, who bought the Hartford Courant and consolidated with it the Hartford Press, of which General Hawley had been the editor before the outbreak of the war. One of these associates was Charles Dudley Warner, who was known to a circle of cultivated literary men and women as a master of English style, but whose name was not then familiar to the public. General Hawley’s election to the lower house of congress in IS 68 and his long service in that body (followed by four terms in the senate) made it necessary for Mr. Warner to assume the duties of editorial chief of the Courant. It was while he was serving in that capacity that Mr. Warner began tho publication of a daily series of articles without the slightest thought that upon this trifling work, as he galled it, was to be based his masterly reputation, and that by reason of it he would join the ranks of those who in that day published what nowadays we would call a “best seller.” While Mr. Warner occupied with conducting the department entitled “The Editor’s Drawer,” in Harper’s Magazine, a task which he assumed to 1884, I asked him if he would tell me how he was led to write the little

Refused Chief Justiceship

When Speaker, Carlisle Was Offered Position by President Cleveland and Afterwards Thought He Made Mistake in Declining. With Mr. George F. Parker, the biographer and intimate friend of Grover Cleveland as my authority, I told recently that John G. Carlisle, lieutenant governor of Kentucky, member of congress for six and speaker of the house for throe terms, United States senator for three years, and secretary of the treasury throughout President Cleveland’s second administration, refused" to become chief justice of the United States when President Cleveland, toward the dose of his first term, offered him the exalted post. Today, in Mr. Carlisle’s own words, I tell how that offer was made and how it was refused —a hitherto uhchronicled bit of national history, and one of dramatic simplicity while it was happening. Mr. Carlisle himself was the first to let it be known privately that he had been offered the place of chief justice of the United States by Mr. Cleveland. A few days after Mr. Cleveland’s funeral, in 1908, when Mr. Carlisle had been practicing law not too successfully in New York for a number of years, he said to a friend: “I owe much of the success of my career to Grover Cleveland. I also owe to him an expression of confidence which I have never before made any reference, except to my immediate family. I called one morning in 1888 upon the president; as speaker of the house of representatives I had some official business to transact with him. He received me cordially in his private office. Suddenly, while we were chatting about the business in hand, he arose from his chair, went to the window which gives upon the south lawn, or White House lot, thrust his hands in his pockets, and stood for a long time looking out of the window in the direction of the Potomac. I knew from his manner that he had something on his mind. Then, as suddenly as he had left his chair he wheeled around, looked at me Intently for a moment, and said: ‘Mr. Carlisle, 1 want to nominate you for chief justice of the Supreme court of the United States; will you accept?’ “That was the first suspicion 1 had that the president had borne me in mind in connection with the vacant chief justiceship. For myself, I had never even connected myself with the position. Therefore, his words came to me with the suddenness of a wholly jnexrected blow. 1 v.as startled —yet ’ knew instantly from his manner thM e wantt <1 an immediate reply.

series of dally essays which became nationally famous under the book title, “My Summer in a Garden.” “I have been asked that question many times,” said Mr. Warner, “and I have always said that I did not know exactly how I came to write those daily articles. I suppose it was a sort of literary lark. I lived in the center of a colony of well-known literary people. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe was my neighbor, and so was Mark Twain, and there was the charming literary circle which met at the house of Francis Gillette, who had been United States senator and was the father of William Gillette, the actor. We all had little plots of ground attached to our homes, and some of us undertook to have kitchen gardens. We used to have great sport in describing our experience with pusley weed. “One day I though I would turn my attention from the heavier sort of editorial work to a sort of recreation, to writing a little sketch each day that would hint at the experi-

Too Versatile as a Writer

Edward Eggleston’s Failure to Equal His First Success Was Due to Fact That He Scattered His Abilities. At one period in his career Donald G. Mitchell, better known to the world of readers as Ik Marvel, creator of “Reveries of a Bachelor,” was tempted from his retirement at “Edgewood,” his farm, then upon the outskirts of New Haven, Conn., to assume the editorial management of a weekly publication called “Hearth and Home.” Mr. Mit&ell, however, found the post somewhat irksome, and furthermore it interfered with the literary work he was doing at home. “The editing of this periodical is of Itself not irksome,” he explained, “but it entails two or three trips a week back and forth between New Haven and New York, and for that reason I have given it up.” Mr. Mitchell’s successor as editor

“At that time all my aspirations were directly in lipe with a political career. The whole situation confronting me, in view of the president’s revelation, passed through my mind instantly, and I made intuitive judgment. I told the president that as great as was the compliment, and distinguished as was the honor, nevertheless my judgment was that I must decline the chief justiceship. He looked at me regretfully for a moment, and then took up again the business we had in hand. “I have often wondered,” concluded Mr. Carlisle, “whether or not I made a mistake in declining that unexpected offer of the chief justiceship.” It may be set down as a practical certainty that had not Mr. Carlisle declined that offer the closing years of his life would have been happier than they were to him as a great lawyer with few clients in the city of New York. (Copyright, 1911, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) On the Stage to Marry. In Austria something like a crisis has occurred in the theatrical-profes-sion owing to so many actresses finding themselves in straitened circumstances. The women's committee of the Stage Society has taken the matter in hand. It has been found that many girls of good families go on the stage in order to advertise their beauty and to enable them to make good matches. They are willing to work for small salaries, and this affects the pay of other actresses. As a remedy for this evil managers are asked to place girls of great beauty but of no artistic gifts among the supers instead of as at present, intrusting them with small speaking parts. In order to warn girls of the fact that a stage career is not a certain road to fortune the committee has circulated the facts as to the actual salaries paid. Only 2 per cent, of Austrian actresses earn over S2OO a month. 8 per cent, earn over SIOO, 14 per cent over S6O. Fifty-five per cent, earn less than S6O, and 21 per cent, less than $24 a month. A Man of Mystery. The death has taken place in Dunfermline. Scotland-, of a man whose identity has been a mystery for ten years, says a dispatch. Ten years ago he was seized in the streets of the town with a stroke of apoplexy. He was picked up by a policeman. but it was found that he had been struck deaf and dumb A strapger to the locality, be could neither read nor write, and his identity has never been established.

ences of the amateur gardener, especially with pusley weed. I and my fellow colonists had had proof of the truth that was in the saying of Horace Bushnell, our great fellowtownsman, who in one of his lectures spoke of the moral perversity of inanimate objects. If there could be anything more perverse than pusley weed nene of us knew what it was. “Well, there was something in tue humor, possibly something in the light of philosophy, that wopted its way into those little sketches which happened to catch the public fancy; and before I realized it I discovered that the sketches were gaining in popularity far beyond the boundaries of Hartford. Then many persons urged me to have them republished in book form, and they were. Sometimes my friends tell me that, after all, ‘My Summer In a Garden’ is the best tning 1 ever did. Measured by popularity, I am inclined to think it is.” a Mr. Warner might have gone rurther and said that the phenomenal success of this work, and the” type of humor that was in it, caused him to be ranked among the foremost of American humorists. (Copyright, 1911. by E. J. Edwards. AU Rights Reserved.)

of this periodical was Edward Eggleston. Like Charles Dudley Warner, Mr. Eggleston suddenly emerged from comparative literary obscurity with * such suddenness and with such dazzling illumination that he was regarded for a time as sure to become recognized as a great American writer of fiction. His venture, however, was accidental and due to an emergency. ( The story has often been told, but I will repeat enough of it to illustrate the new anecdote I am about to tell. Mr. Eggleston was disappointed about receiving a serial contribution which he expected for “Hearth and Home.” Not knowing what to do or where to go for a substitute, he determined to make use of some of his experiences as a Methodist circuit rider in Indiana. He, therefore, on the spur of the moment almost, wrote the first installment of a story entitled “The Hoosier Schoolmaster.” It appeared in 1871 and no one was more astonished at the instant success of this, his first venture into fiction, than was Mr. Eggleston himself. It determined his career, for he decided to take up literature as a vocation. The question has often been asked: Why did Eggleston never quite repeat his first success? He had other successes, but none so pronounced as his first. Why? Probably the best answer to that question was the one once given by Donald G. Mitchell. “Eggleston’s ‘Hoosier Schoolmaster,’ ” said Mr. Mitchell, “was so racy of the soil, was so evidently a true picture of Indiana life, and moreover, had just the touch of illusion that is necessary for success in fiction, that it is no wonder it gained widespread and well deserved popularity, and that many persons looked for subsequent works of fiction that would be Its equal in all respects. But Eggleston never quite reached that high mark, and he knew it as well as any one. He explained it to me by saying that if it were not for a versatility which he possessed he undoubtedly would have made a great career as a writer of American fiction. His versatility, however, haunted hin\. He could write good fiction, be could write .good history, he could write good biography. If he had been able to concentrate himself upon any one of these departments of literature, he was sure that he would have gained a high measure of success. ‘My versatility is the bane of my literary life,’ he told me. and it is my impression that in saying that he was an accurate critic of himself. And after he had said o that he added —and I could see that it came from the heart: “ 'lf I were ever called upon to give any counsel to a young man ambitious to gain literary success, I would most surely and earnestly say to him: "Study my career, and be warned by it Don’t scatter your abilities. Concentrate them upon one department of literature. Then, if you do not succeed, you may be sure that literature is not your vocation! ’ ” (Copyright, 1911, by E. J. Edwards. AU Rights Reserved.) Made Very Sure of D*ath. Deciding to end his life the other day, Thomas McManus of Philadelphia made elaborate preparations to ensure his death by inhaling gas. He took a bed sheet, and making a hole in it he tied it with a piece of string to the gas jet in the room. Then he gathered the four ends of the sheet, and with another piece of twine he tied it around his neck. He then turned on the gas and threw himself on his bed. The gas flowed ihfo McManus’ improvised balloon and he was probably suffocated in a few seconds. A Celebrity. “Who is the chesty individual posing in front of Piller’s drug store?” “Oh, that’s Colonel Todd, one of our most prominent citizens. He claims to be an intimate friend of Christy