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ircfljRSDAY, AffRIL 5, 191T
Call Black BIB
for Society Editor.
MOTHER'S ALMANAC.
(»ii
you when it comes to dates,
«v mother's lust the boss I
Vtells me all I want to know
Thout ever gettin* cross.
ou'd think she'd get mixed up some
times—
it school
I know I do—
ut Washington and Plymouth Rock,
And 1492—
mother says: '"The war with
Spaii
Was fought in 98,
year you ail had chicken pox,
jsxceptin'
Sister Kate.
-he Boer war in Africa—
That was a dreadful thing—
.Began in know,
For Jack was bom that spring.
'98 the Spanish ships
Were sunk in Cuba channels,
ros summer, for you children had
just changed your winter flannels.
~jn 1904, my dear,
Tie Russians fought the Japs,
year was very cold, and you
Had chilblains and the chaps."
Here's six of us, and we'er mixed up
With hist'ry just that way,
Sometimes its measles, croup or
mumps,
there's no date that ever stumps
Hy mother, night or day.
—Lippincott'e Magazine.
B. U. Meeting Today.
Tie Benevolent Union met this
•orning at ten o'clock at the home
the president Mrs. D. A. Collier,
presided. Mrs. J. N. D. Dtckin
served as secretary and the
clal report was made by Mrs. B.
Jones. Mrs. J. B. Well reported
the executive committee that sev
j] application for admission to the
ime bad been made and that on
inday one new member would be
Ided to the household. Mrs.. C. F.
jcFarland of the bouse committee,
iported that the walls of some of
rooms had been redecorated and
it some painting bad been done in
jnnection with spring houseclean-
Mrs. J. J. Chapman of the
icial committee reported that the
lurch social afternoon at the home
li been one of unusual pleasure to
ie old ladies of the home and that
fe hostesses were Mesdames Mandt,
bGowan and Kraft.
The religious work committee re
orted that an Easter service will be
pld next Sunday afternoon at the
jjme, with the Rev. J. C. Hughes as
liter.
The copy for the new year book
presented by tbe printing com
and approved. The constitu
tor put ir.to a more parliamen
form, some of the sections re
^timbered, but no radical changes
•ere made in the laws governing the
jciety or in the management of the
Ime.
fit Is planned to plant a large gar
in this year In an effort to combat
Me soaring prices of food stuffs.
Irs. Charles Pond was made chair
inn of a committee having this in
dirge.
A number ol new members were
added to the roll. The president
umed the following standing com
mittees for the year:
Executive committee—Mrs. J. B.
Weil, Mrs. D. A, Collier, Mrs. John
W, Collier, Mrs. L. A. Hamill, Mrs.
John H. Cole, Mrs. C." S. Pond, Afrs.
Alois Weber, Miss Doia. Younker.
House committee—Mrs. C. F. Mc
ftriand, Miss Anne |J. Davis, Mrs.
f-L. S. Scadding, Mrs N.T. Wilcox,
*fs. W. G. Blood, Miss Cora Par
Mas, Mrs. J. C. Hayner, Mrs. Eugene
S. Baker, Mrs. J. J. Ayres.
Religious work committee—Mrs.
Bury J. Reeves, Miss Julia Drake,
Km. R. L. Reid.
Social committee—Mrs. J. J. Chap
n*n, Mrs. Earl Y. Wills, Mrs. C. J.
Kirch.
Membership committee—Mrs. A. C.
Decker, Miss Elizabeth Collier, Mrs.
H. M. Phillips, Mrs. O. S. Stanbro,
Mrs. John E. Craig, Mrs. William
Wilson, Mrs. O. G. Mandt, Mrs. C. R.
Aimentrout.
Soliciting committee—Mrs. John H.
Cole, Mrs. E. S. Baker, Mrs. J. J.
Chapman, Mrs. D. A. Collier, Mrs. C.
r. McFariand, Mrs. C. S. Pond, Mrs.
J- B. Weil, Mrs. J. N. D. Dickinson.
Printing committee—Mrs. B. F.
'ones, Mrs. H. J. Reeves.
The directors are very appreciative
the aid given by J. N. D. Dickin
son who audited the books and ac
counts this year as he has done for
jjj# past three or four years. He is
ne one man holding office in the
management ot the kffairs of the
Benevolent Union home.
Volunteers to Meet.
Scoville Volunteers will meet
evening at 7 o'clock in the Y. W.
A. building.
ROUNDING UP
ALL ENEMIES
E"tr?u-Ti0rce Fwl*n,l
ian
•r»ii^a"y
Government
Employe, Can Assist
in This Big
Problem.
tfle
entire force of the fed-
civI1,an
employes, *p-
1 men and women
h»* every branch of service,
ol ir^en.,s"mmone(i aid the bureau
n,J iIe^igatlon ^e secret ser
mSL?
detecti«n
Wots i^SJi°n
dT spies and tbe
of
person®
JA.*51168
and
engaged in
or
other activities
g^st the interests of tbe United
Arr°n »«the «Pvernnient has
'snt the active co-operation of tie
detective forces of ev--*
and city of consequence throagn
timn.M
country-
Hundreds of letters-
inK
auch co-operation have
been mailed broadcast by the depart
ment of justice and replies pledging
unstinted aid are coming back in great
numbers by telegraph and mail.
The largest single force which the
government has enrolled in its na
tion wide spy bunt, with the possible
exception of the municipal police and
detective forces is the army of post
masters, all of whom have been in
structed to permit no clew as to the
identity of suspected individuals and
their activities to go unreported. Un
der the postmasters are working the
letter carriers in the, cities and the ru
ral free delivery carriers in the coun
try, a force, all told, of about 300,000
men.
Instructions to the federal em
ployes call for the prompt reporting
of designated authorities of all infor
mation, no matter how minor it ap
pears, which might seem to furnish
clews in ferreting out agents of for
eign governments.
SPRING FEVER
Perennial Outbreak is Now at
Hand—Kansas City Time* In
dulges In Some Reflections on
Cause.
(Little impends nowadays that does
not find us, to some extent fore
warned if not prepared. Just now,
numerous periodicals and newspapers
proclaim that the perennial outbreak
of spring fever is about to overtake
us. It is suggested that it is well
for ns to be on our guard against it.
Unfortunately, though, there is little
we can do, against its seizure most
of us are helpless. Medical science
with all its vaccines and serums, can
afford us w* -immunity. There is no
definition of spring fever in the pages
of the dictionary, says the Kansas
City Times, but this oversight on the
part of the lexicographers is of Bmall
importance. iJrlost'Of us know what
spring fever is, for most of us have
had it, and most of us, moreover, ex
pect to have it again. It is, says the
Times, "a of restless feeling, a
dissatisfaction with the monotonous,
dull-gray, Sumdrum round of life do
ing the same things over and over,
Vlay after day like a squirrel in a
cage, working until the wheel hums,
but getting noWhere."
This is fairly explanatory. But these
symptoms are only general. Each in
dividual responds to the attack in a
manner peculiar to himself. Some tin
gle with new life some droop into a
listless laziness. It is probably true,
though, as the Times observes, that
the victim of spring fever dreams
dreams—the old as well as the young.
There are "strange yearnings to go
somewhere, anywhere. Just to be trav
eling and loafing," and there lies the
danger. Some of us find the feeling
irresistible we yield to it and we go.
So, advises the Times, look out for the
He is very lifcely to run away, to
leave with the circus, to go away to
the big city, or out of the big city,
into the bigger country. And some,
says the Times solemnly, never come
back. "Spring fever recruits the
ranks of the army of tramps in this
country and is responsible for many
failures." Perhaps so. It may be
that the warning is timely and pert
inent. But we fancy it is a trifle
overdrawn. Mosit boys, at some time
during their boyhood, have run
away." Usually they get no further
than the place where twilight dis
covers them and usually they are back
home, a little late, maybe, and a lit
tle bedraggled and road-dusty, before
the evening is far spent. They are
none the worse for the little adven
ture, as a good many of us can testify.
A father might profitably remember
some remote runaway of his own, and,
if he feels impelled to guard his son
against its terrible dangers, he could,
if he chose—and it would be good
for father and son alike—rim away
with him.
AMUSEMENTS.
"Hit-the-Trall-Holliday" at the Grand.
The following is a review from to
day's Burlington Hawk eye:
Considering the weather and a few
other things, there was a very good
house at the Grand last evening to
enjoy the new Cohan farce "Hit-the
Trail-Holltday.'* The play is cleverly
constructed »ndBOW! rapidly. It if
a "take off" o# Billy Sunday, but the
5
Mr. Dee says buy Easter hats now. Don't de
lay. $1 to $5 saved on every hat. Miss Woods
(our Chicago trimlmer) has prepared 300 Eas
ter specials—wonderfully clever hats
at...$1.98,
$2.98, $3.98, $4.98, $5.98, $6.98
Your Easter Hat
If you have definite ideate as
to just the shape and color you
want, you can't "stump" us
we'll show it to you.
All the season's correct
shapes and colors, $2, $3, $3.50
and $4.
Ewers-McCarthy
KEOKUK'S BEST
tO. HAT STORE
Reserve your seats now. Curtain
will be held until 8:30 tonight.—Adver
tisement.
'At tfie Grand Tomorrow*.
Return engagement of Paramount
pictures have been very successful at
the Grand. The return engagement
yesterday of Marguerite Clark in
"Still Waters" played to packed
houses both afternoon and evening.
Tomorrow will -be a return engage
ment of a famous Paramount comedy
"The Man From Mexico," with tbe In
imitable John Barrymore.
"The Man From Mexico" has been
recorded in theatrical history one
of the greatest comedies of the past
two decades. The humorous incidents
occur BO rapidly that there is scarcely
/-i.
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THE DAILY iQiATE-UITT
Every item of unnecessary expense
must be saved in my store. Every dollar
Millinery Dept.
2nd Floor
ttat
Pleasing Easter Gifts!
We carry a full line of ...
EASTER NOVELTIES
EASTER CARDS
Choice line of EASTER CANDIES, EASTER EGCr
DYES.
Perfumery is always appropriate and acceptable for
Easter.
1ENGELH ARDT & Co. I
DRUGOISTS.
900 Main St. Phone 1571
authors and the management have
Tery wisely avoided anything and
everything that would give even the
slightest offense to the admirers of the
famous revivalist. There are four acts
of it, and every act, every scene brings
a few laughs and keeps the audience
in the best of humor. No doubt, if the
play were to be repeated at the Grand,
this evening there would be a packed
house and many turned away.
But the play was after all merely
the means of introducing a number of
very clever people to Burlington and
among them Mr. Frank Otto. The
young man will bear watching. He
s^ems a "comer" and his name mav be
familiar to playgoers from ocean to
ocean in a few years. He has that in
describable something, that gift or
talent that enables him to get across
the footlights and get next to his
audience. He Is surrounded by cap
able people and does not shine by con
trast, but through his own merit. The
play is called a farce, but Mr. Otto
played good, high comedy, avoided all
that exaggeration which seems to be
essential in a farce, and seemed con
stantly to be restraining himself and
striving to avoid everything that sa
vors of straining after effect. He is
eeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
a pause of laughter throughout the en
tire production. The situations adopt
themselves peculiarly to John Barry
more's mannerisms, and the person
ality of the star coincides almost ex
actly with the character he is called
upon to portray. Mr. Barrymore is
abiy supported by a carefully chosen
cast, including Pauline Xeff, Winona
Winters, Herald I.ockwood and others.
Hlon't miss this great comedy tomor
row night.—Advertisement.
Bessie Love Tonight.
Bessie Love will be seen at tbe Hip
podrome theatre tonight, in her new
play, Nina, the Flower Girl. In this
drama, written especially for her by
Mary H. O'Connor, editor of the Tri
angle-Fine Arts scenario department,
Miss Love has the part of a blind
girl, who makes artificial flowers to
eke out the scanty income of her
grandmother, who cares for her. As
a chum and protector she has Jimmie,
a crippled ngwsboy. The grandmoth
er's deatB. leaves Jimmie the girl's
sole protector until people of wealth
take her under their care and succeed
in having her sight restored.
first desire Is to see Jimmie. Through
one of the few actors who seems peH sented to her straight and strong and
fectly at ease when making a curtain she never knows that he was other-. ,,
fectly at ease when making a curtain she never knows that he was other-1
speech, and that speech was by no
means the least interesting and least
effective part of the evening's enter- of her screen career.
tainment. In addition to Nina, the Flower
to Girl, will be shown the latest Triangle
Hit-the-Trall-Holliday ought
have good business everywhere
company appears, and there is reason latest Pathe News, depicting ma.iy In-
to believe that the play ought to be
good for several seasons—which is a
very, very long time for an AmeVican
farce.
the comedy, A Noble Fraud, and the
"The Scarlet Letter" Tomorrow.
Stuart Holmes, the well liked Fox
star, is to be presented at this theatre
tomorrow afternoon and evening in
The Scarlet Letter, an accurate picturi
zation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's
greatest novel and play. Don't miss
seeing it.—Advertisement.
we save means. 20% saved to you. While
the cost of living and merchandise higher than at
any time in my ,20 years of ready-to-wear experience—yet I am
determined to sell for less by shrewd purchasing and rigid
economy of store methods.
One item9 for instance: WE SAVED $3000 BY NOT
installing an electric elevator and other originally in
tended expense. This means another 20% saving to you
Utility and art are making a fresh
start in Chicago. Having made Mich
igan avenue and the lake front take
the beaaty treatment, art boosters
are working to install ornamental
municipal clocks on city bridges.!
The idea is distinctly decorative and Dubuque were the
makes for safety. Everybody in
town, they say, looks a clock in the
face. By installing them on bridges.
the rushing crowd sets the habit of (educational
ANNIVERSARY
5,000 new Easter Suits, Coats, Skirts, Dresses and
Waists on special sale at lower prices than ever
quoted in 20 years, as anniversary favor.
Mission Living Room
"Unusual" is a
Mild Word Here
looking up and is less liable to walk
into the river when the draw Is open,
GRADE SCHOOL
WAS NEW ONCE.
Just
as
i'le skill of other doctors he is pre- faVor with educators who could see
teresting current events. This makes
up a splendid program of variety and
Is well worthy of your patronage.
Consolidated System
Sweeping Slate Now, So This
Agitation Had Its Incep
tion in 1854.
Just as today the consolidated
rural school k'ea is sweeping Iowa,
Herj jjaj.it jn the days of 1854 the grade
gchool
plan was beginning to find
mtle ln mixing glrls and bovs
h.r rZrnr I'™ primary to graduation.
The "new system," as the graded
.... .. school was then called, was being
one room under Qne
tjd of the
toWM with happy results The Btafe
was asked to encourage the general
introduction of union or graded
schools by liberal appropriations.
Now, the complicated and contradic
tory status of the school laws of that
day resulted in a revision by a com
mission whose report in 1856 marks
an epoch in the legislative history of
education in lewa.
This commission was headed by
the famous Horace Mann, then presi
dent of Antioch college, Ohio later
promoter of the common schools in
Massachusetts and to whose memory
the Horace M.inn higb school in New
York City was dedicated. Amos
Dean, president of the State univer
sity of Iowa, but residing at Albany,
N. Y., and Judge F. E. Bissell of
other two njpm
bers.
The commission laid down four
fundamental principles for Iowa's
system—first, every
Souvenirs at every purchase. Buy this week. MONEY SAVED
Suite, any Oak Finish,
Terms
And it doesn't require a furni
ture exjteri to recognize the
wonderful value t! be had in
this suite. You will realize, as
soon as you see it, that it is a
difficult matter to prepare such
a special as this with market
conditions as they are. All this,
of course, doesn't concern you
so much as how this suite will
appear in your home, a com
plete description of this suite,
its construction, etc.
Duncan-Schell Furniture Co.
From the Cheapest That is Good to the Best That is Made
$3.00 Cash, $3.00 Monthly
c€L
Rigidly Built, Spring
Seat Construction
This is a suite that will last for
years—and that you will like
more each day. As a den suite
it is ideal, for its design is not
a garrishly elaborate one. The
seats are of a quality of imita
tion leather which, by its appear
ances and wearing qualities, is
difficult to distinguish from the
genuine leather which would
necessitate an exhorbitant price,
youth in the state was entitled to
an education in the elements of
knowledge and, if desired, in the
higher branches. Second, education
is a distinct and separate pursuit
and business third, property must
bear the burden of taxation for sup
port of public instruction and
fourth, to perfect a system of edu
cation. organizing financial and edr
catlonal elements were essential.
The commission was the first in
Iowa to create the office of county
superintendent of schools, to substi
tute the civil township for the dis-'
trict system and to corelate these
units with the state system of educa
tion. Instituves and teachers asso
ciations and conventions were first
suggested in Iowa by the commis
sion's report.
Dogs.
Aberdeen News: A great man once
asid, "The more I know of men, the
more 1 think of dogs." Dogs, taken
by and large, are .good fellows, good
companions. A small boy who has
never had a dog for a companion and
chum has missed one of the very
best things life has to offer. Dogs
are prized for various attributes.
Some are good hunting dogs some
are good watch dogs some are bet
ter than men for guarding and herd
ing cattle some are trick dogs—
there's one dog. even, known to the
News which is guilty of the pernici
ous habit of chewing gum. Some
dogs are worthless to all apparent
purposes, save that they are the play
fellow of some boy, and help him
while away his idle hours, and share
liis sorrow and his joys as none
other but a do.g can do. For none
other is so patient, so sympathetic
and so kindly disposed toward the
things that interest a small boy as
a dog.
$27.50
Pay For It
Gradually
EYE STRAIN
IS DANGEROUS
Eye strain may work havoc
with your health before you
know it. It may continue long
enough to produce effects that
are permanent.
If you suspect eye strain
consult our expert. He will
tell you what you want to
know. You do not incur any
obligation to buy.
AYRES & CHAPMAN
SCIENTIFIC OPTICIANS
1 Ineffective Investigations.
Carroll Herald: The price of print
paper has not yet been reduced. Will
(somebody point out a single reduc
tion coming throuph congressional
"investigation?" The most effective
way to prolong abuse of trade or BO
cial privileges is to get it into the
hands of a congressional investigation
committee.
"Why enlist? You have nothing to
gain and your life to lose." A public
school teacher in Jackson county.
Missouri, chalked these words on
the school board, at the same time
admonishing hr pupils to weigh tho
1
words carefully. School authorities
followed her admonition with such
I exactness that the teacher handed In
her resign talon.
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A small amount each month.
We'll deliver all three pieces on
a small deposit. If you are on®
who so far has thought that
"credit" means poor furniture,
it will be a pleasant revelation
to you to see this living room,
suite. For here there is but one
standard—the highest. This
assures the best and most for
the price, to each customer.
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