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CANTON. - • " - TEXAS
M8tArr« tto# fly" la much the better
slogan.
No man dn<1 b* devoid of prido
whoa ho can preM his own U-oubots
■folly.
Uvea a person without much other
eoltvre mar point proudly to hit ap-
pendicitis sear.
A California man Is breeding striped
rata, bat what kind of liquor be Is
■sing la not stated.
There are no new names to call the
umpire, of course, but then there are
always new umpires.
No wonder the man who gave his
wife thirty hats failed to win her love,
considering the styles.
The simplified spelling board Is go-
ing right on simplifying words that
refuse to be simplified.
There Is reason to think that those
Eeppelln airships are dangerous eon*
trlvances—to those on board.
Our respect for China Is consider-
ably enhanced by the Information that
the Chinese do not eat chop suey.
Archaeologists announce that Egypt
fought a money trust 4.000 years ago.
And look at what happened to Egypt!
There be those who maintain that It
Is cheaper to treat yourself to grape-
fruit every day than to pay doctor
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Egypt had graft scandals, a Bertil-
lon system and lots of other things,
Including gestures that cannot be imi-
tated.
The suggestion has been made to
have the man given away, too, at
weddings. If coyly done, it will be a
triumph. «•
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It may be true that musle makes
hair grow on bald heads, despite the
fact that Richard, Wagner wore a
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As for rabbits, turtles, guinea pigs,
•te., Inoculation with some form of
germ seems to be the badge of all
the tribe.
A dispatch says "lobsters are to
have .state protection." Tls well to
protect some lobsters for proper an-
nihilation.
An actress advises girls to wear hat-
plnleaa hats to make a hit with men.
The ad rise is so shrewd as to be fair-
ly diabolical.
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Wife of a millionaire eloped with a
butcher. Probably had extravagant
tastes and wanted meat three or four
tlmea a day.
An eaatern woman claims she would
rather be very thin than otherwise.
At least she takes a broad
the situation.
outlook of
According to a Chicago professor,
clothes are worn primarily for orna-
ment. Then how does he account for
the derby hat*
It is announced that a new
Velasques portrait has been discov-
ered In London. But It Is not announc-
ed who painted it
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In China the breaking of a cup
means an oath of brotherhood. In
an American restaurant it means one
tram the proprietor.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned man who used to write to the
newspapers to say that "woman's
sphere ia at home"?
Boston college girls propose organ-
ising a chain of don't wed clubs, but
aay the membership will be limited.
Limited to girls over sixty.
New York, it is reported, has an
overabundance of apartment houees
and confidence game workers. Sort
ot too many flats and sharps, as it
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There must be a lot of poor shots
In the old world. Dispatch says that
eight out of every tea noblemen who
oome to America to. inveigle heiresses
IB marriages, fail as fortune hunters.
A funeral cortege was arrested for
•seeeding the speed limit in Spokane
recently. How hard it Is to loee the
western habit ot "hustling!"
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Insomnia is contagious, says a lata
medical report Quite so, especially
fwhen the Whir of the house begins te
•how even the slightest symptoma.
An Btigliih -woman, on separation
tram her husband, to to hwe-ffO.OOO
a rear, a town house sad a country
house. Talk about the land ot thr
free!
GERMAN WAR BALLOON CAPTURED BY FRENCH TROOPS
Every baseball team is a pennant
winner Just now.
Women will wear smaller hats, but
hats are not sold by the square foot.
New York's spring cleaning will
«2ft.OOO. It will be dirt cheap at
Announcement of the centenary of
the silk hat reminds us that the good
dieyoung.
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Top left—Zeppelin IV., at Lunevllle, France. French soldiers who captured the balloon when it strayed Into
French territory are holding the ropes and guarding the dirigible. Top right—French soldiers looking at the
Seppelin. Eottom left—French soldiers on guard. Bottom right—Balloon descending at Lunevllle.
TO HIDE GUILLOTINE
Bill Is Before French Parliament
to Abolish Publicity.
8p«ctacle of "Red Widow" and Her
Victims in Streets of Paris Being
Opposed By Many ss Conduc-
ive to Crime.
He guarantees that If this rule be fol-
lowed everybody would be so sickened
at the sight there would be little op-
position to private beheadings.
GENEVIEVE CLARK TO EUROPE
"These people have adhered so
closely to the customs of their ances-
tors that some of their children, i am
told, carry names that are entire bibli-
cal verses."
"But marriage—that is something
that is indefinite as yet in your life?"
"Oh, yes, I suppose, as a girl of
nineteen. I should be thinking of mar-
Paris.—The death of criminals
upon a guillotine set up in the street
In full view of the public may soon be
(abolished in France. A bill for the
repeal of the law providing for public
! executions of the death sentence Is
> now pending in the chamber of depu-
ties.
It Is therefore probable that when
the three—and possibly four—heads
of the notorious bandits of the Bonaot
band of outlaws are chopped off by
the "Red Widow," as the French call
the guillotine, the gory spectacle may,
be given In private. Should that be
the case the motor bandits would be
the first to "benefit" by the new law.
Public beheadings are intended to
Inspire awe. The would-be assassin
ia aupposed to see the, terrible end
of fellows such as he and refrain from
committing the deed.
The reverse of the picture Is said
by many to be true. The hardened
criminal usually meets his'doom in a
way that inspires other of his stamp
with the notion that he Is a real hero,
for public beheadings furnish occasion
for the exhibition of a certain kind of
bravado which has a strong appeal to
the desperado type. Senator de Chau-
mle, one of the leaders of the public
beheading abolition movement so
says, adding that not only are such
scenes disgusting beyond expression,
but demoralising in the extreme.
Beheadings now take place at sun-
rise. The condemned man is kept in
ignorance of the date of hiB death
until he is awakened to have his final
toilet made for the knife. Until that
moment he has hopes of executive
clemency, it being the invariable rule
to ask the president as a iatv resort to
use his prerogative and show mercy.
The scene usually Is in some street
near the prison in which the man is
confined. The narrower and more
crooked that street, the better, since
the authorities desire as few of the
rabble as possible to see the blade
fall. Scores of police and a large
number of troops, on foot and a-horse,
keep the crowds back and only the
officials, newspaper men and prison
chaplain are grouped about the base
of the guillotine.
When several persons are beheaded
they are brought out of the prison one
at a time, the last to die not seeing
the others meet their fate. The crim-
inal is tied to a sort of block which
pivots in the middle; he Is given a
push, be falls horlsontal and the tri-
angular blade descends. The head
rolls into a basket on one side, the
body Is dumped Into a similar but
longer receptacle on the other. Then
the carcass is carted away at a gallop
while the headman's assistants wash
the guillotine with huge sponges,
which they wring out in pails of
water.
They call this "making the widow'a
toilet for her next husband."
Much of this sickening sight as pos-
sible Is hidden from the public, which
remains passive, or becomes demon-
strative according as to whether the
man is an ordinary criminal, or "pop-
ular" or much disliked. If hated cries
of "A mort!" and "Death to the mur-
derer!" are heard as the knife falls.
Senator Chanmle is against hiding
the guillotine up a narrow street or
blind alley. In a speech before the
senate he said be favored abolition of
the guillotine as a public exhibition,
but until the government should make
the necessary laws, beheading should
take place in the broad open day and
in the moat crowded aquarea to be
found. It. the death la to be made
public, said, than let it be really pub-
lic. Have Ik where ail may see It
Daughter of Speaker Saye She Will
Not Lose Time In Learning How
Governments Are Run.
New York.—Miss Genevieve Clark,
daughter of Speaker Champ Clark of
the house of representatives, arrived
here from Washington with her moth-
er recently to meer Mrs. George B. M.
Harvey, wife of the publisher, with
whom she Is going to Europe.
"I have seen In the papers that I
am going to study the governments
of Europe," said Miss Clark. "I am
going for a pleasure trip, for I have
just finished school and I want recrea-
tion, and I want to see Italy. But I
don't intend to lose time in gaining
new knowledge. I have ne definite
itinerary. Mrs. Harvey's daughter,
who is nearly my own age. Is in
school in Rome and will join us on
my 'Alice in Wonderland' trip. That's
what I want it to be."
"What are your plans for the future
—is It a specific work or is It marri-
age?"
The<pretty dimples about the mouth
came and the pretty face broke into a
smile. "Msybe both; who knows?
But one thing Is sure; I have yet to
meet a man like papa—my Ideal. My
present plan is to return after this
trip and- go to my mother's alma
mater—the University of Missouri. I
intend to specialise later on educa-
tional work to aid the mountain folk
of Tennessee and Kentucky.
I
Miss Genevieve Clark.
riage, but I do not You see co-edu-
cation makes girls and boys remain
longer in the family relation, so to
speak. We are all like a lot of chil-
dren, In a way. We chum with boys
just as we do with our brothers, and
romance Is not lost but deferred, 1
should say."
HADLEY IS SUED BY AN ARTIST
Former Governor of Missouri Says
Likenees for Capitol Wall la Too
Hard About Mouth.
St. Louis, Mo.—While Governor
Hadley was the chief executive of
Missouri he had his portrait painted.
It was to take its place in the gallery
at the state capital building. Though
"Governor" Hadley Ib now "Mr." Had-
ley and though the portrait has long
Ex-Governor Hadley.
since been finished from' a technical
standpoint, the "sittings" are not yet
over.
A deposition filed In the Superior
court recently made clear this fact
It also showad that the former state
executive didn't like tho expression
ot his own face.
The deposition la that ot Misa Anita
Moore ot St. Louis and was filed op
behalf of Miss Samantha L. Huntley,
an artist who has brought Mit tor
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{1,185 against Colonel A. Houts and
three other members of the state leg-
islature, who. It is charged, have re-
fus*d to order the payment of the
sum because the portrait was changed
after its completion.
AccoMing to Miss Huntley, who Is
now In Italy, the former governor be-
fore vacating his office ordered her' to
modify the hard expression in the
mouth of the likeness.
FILM RECORD OF WEDDING
Relatives of Couple Unable to Attend,
8o Ceremony la Conducted Be-
fore Moviea Maohlne.
Denver, Colo.—Harry L Rand of
this city and Helen Stanford of Salt
Lake City wanted to repeat the mar-
riage ceremony in the presence of
their families. CircumBtances pre-
vented the appearance of any rela-
tives, so It was decided that the entire
ceremony would be taken on motion
picture films.
Therefore, every action of the young
couple, from the time Rand kiased the
bride-to-be at the station until the con-
clusion of the ceremony, was recorded
on motion-picture films.
Rev. A. A. Tanner of the First Con-
gregational church of this city pei*
formed the ceremony.
LIFE INSURANCE BY WIRELESS
Banker Applies For and Receives
|S,000 Policy on Steamship
While at Sea.
London.—Tho first instance of lift
Insurance being contracted at sea by
wireless was reported from an ocean
liner. Among the passengers was
Arthur P. Williams, a New York
banker, who met a London insuranoe
broker on board. They talked inaar-
ance, with the result that the broker
wirelessed his company, proposing
Will lama as a $6,000 life risk. He also
wirelessed the report of tho ship's
doctor approving Williams. Thacom
pany flashed its acceptance.
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Physical Life Must be
Healthy and Pure
By Rot. Clarence A. Vincent. Bottoe. Mm.
The purpoas «f marriage
ia to perpetuate the race at
its best. The family ia tha
only .social institution whose
foundations rest primarily
in sex, except as the exist-
ence of all institutions de-
pends upon the existence of the race. The fir6t hint of the purpose of
Providence in founding the family is seen in the command, "Be ye fruit-
ful and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it." The purpose
of the family is not to perpetuate the race, but to perpetuate the race
at its host.
At its best. The physical life of the race must be healthy and pure.
Much of a person's effectiveness is dependent upon the body. A weak-
ened race physically will be an aimless and ineffective racei Persons in
whom tendencies are strong toward disease, or who have corrupted them-
selves, commit a crime in marrying. The blood should be pure, the nerv-
ous system normal—neither deadened nor excited by stimulants or nar-
cotics; the passions strong but controlled and the whole energy of the
body pure through the temperate living of generations.
At its best. The tendencies toward insanity forbid marriage. To
perpetuate the race at its best a person's mind must be not only healthy,
as he receives it from heredity, but under control, thoughtful and well
furnished. Persons who read only the weakest current literature of the
day, who feed only upon the most sensational newspapers, are intellectu-
ally disenfranchised for marriage. Never in the history of the world
has the race had more fundamental problems to solve than now. To per-
petuate a race that is unable to grapple with its problems is reprehensible.
But character is essential to marriage. Without it the preceding
elements are usually impossible. Criminals, drunkards and debauchees
should not for social reasons be permitted to perpetuate their kind. Sin-
cerity and reverence are the basis of all character, right living and true
affection. Without these there cannot be that reverence for personality
which is so essential in the home.
Yet two persons might possess all these elements and still should not
be married. There should be that strong attraction which we call con-
jugal affection. When two healthy, thoughtful, pure and reverent persons,
after thorough acquaintanceship, feel that the world of life has its center
and meaning for them in this relationship and that they are willing to
leave all others and leave to each other, then in founding a new homo
they are carrying out the purpose
of marriage.
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Spacious Pronoun Is
Urged by Reformer
By JAMES CASEY, Cincinnati, Ohio
The genius of the Eng-
lish language provides that
in certain constructions a
particular association of
words (or ideas) may be
implied as well as if ex-
pressed. Overlooking this
fact, sundry would-be purists persist in outraging our ears with such
sentences as the following: "An intelligent being (man, woman or ani-
mal) keeps his, her or its wits about him, her or it, lest he, she or it
give himself, herself or itself away."
In order to get around this sort of thing we are advised to coin into
ourselves sundry antic words, among otherB "he'er," "his'er" and "him'er."
This will never dol These words not only offend sight and ear, but, if
the analogies of our*language are worth anything they(gre fjill of double
meaning, than which'nothing could be more" odious, particularly in words
of daily use. If wc must have a term to fill the hiatus, let it be a term
of non-sex and not of bisex; a term that will cover not only man and
woman but also tender baby and animals and even the mysterious spirit
beings beyond—ghost, angel, demon, fairy, goblin, up to godhead itself
(not "himself" or "herself," please).
Such a word we have, I submit, right under our hand. Returning
to our awful simple sentence, one cannot fail to note the frequent occur-
rence of the word "or." This is the pivotal word, so to speak. Let ub
emphasize it by attaching the aspirate. Dropping all "lie-ings" and "she-
ing8," the result is as follows: "An intelligent being keeps hor wits about
hor, lest hor give horself away."
'"Hor" iB a resonant word, and its spacious inclusiveness adds to its
claims to recognition. "He" and "she" are merely terms of sex, and,
as such, they offend against the higher idealities. When we call a baby
"it" we do so not from negligence, but as a tribute to its' sweet inno-
cence. Sex can be o^r-emphaaized.
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Girls Who Live at
. Home Preferred
By A. K. WHEELOCK, Chicago
I should like to ask a few
questions regarding the
white slave traffic.
Merchants say many of
their girl employes lire at
home. In fact, prospective
girl employes are asked now-
adays: "Do you live at home? Is anyone dependent upon you for sup-
port?" It is the girl who lives at home who gets the position, as she
can afford to make a good appearence. She has little or no board to
pay. Iler mother takes care of her clothing.
I say, and hundreds will agree with me, let the girl who does not need
to work outside stay at home and help her mother, learning to sew, bake
and do housework thoroughly, so that when she does marry she can care
for her home and make it the dearest spot on earth.
In the old countries the rich as well as the poor are thoroughly domes-
ticated. It would be a disgrace there not to know how. Let men who are
thinking of marriage find out if their future wives understand how to
care for their earnings and help save for the future.
Again, there is the woman who has been widowed and left with little
children. If the girls who live at home did not take these positions the
woman would have a chance to make enough to care for her loved ones.
It is the woman who must earn her livelihood who ia the most interested
in her work.
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Men Write Much
Poetry AboutWomen
By C. P. STEWART, London, Eng.
"It is people who write
poetry about ua who pre-
vent us women getting the
vote." The sentence ar-
rested me in reading Violet
Hunt's story of the "Celeb-
rity's Daughter" at a week-
end, with the smashing of windows, the cutting up of golf greena the
spoiling of letters and the threats of other horrors in my ears and eyes.
For men persist in writing poetry about women to their amazement, and
no women are writing poetry about men.
Man is the poetic sex. He goes about—I may tell yon—with snippets
from the papeta in his pocketbook, and takes them now and again as a
sort of stimulant. Moreover, the man writes hi: poetry secretly, sends it
to the newspapers and they publish it. I could give yon the address of
bald-headed stockholders and bearded business men who write venm. And
most who cat the poetry from their newspapers and take it aa fe stimulant.
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Foster, A. M. Canton Herald (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 48, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 28, 1913, newspaper, May 28, 1913; Canton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth232410/m1/2/: accessed June 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.