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PAGE SIX
Back in the Days When Skirts Were Skirts \
And Milady Wore Her Crinolines and Hoops
A dress popular in the time of Genera) Lafayette Bustle and hooos of a taffeta dress.
MORE CONSERVATIVE individu
als who regard backless evening
dresses. - stocKingless legs, rubber
bathing^' suits and other modern
styles as too scanty for the women
of today, probably would have found
the days of the crinolines and hoops
more to their liking In those days,
the complaint of the conservatives
|who probably had the 3am* ideals
When Christy Mathewson Reigned
As Baseball’s Greatest Pitcher
Christy in uniform of Now York
Giants A.* Captain Mathewson in World wac*.
AN ERa immortal in baseball hts
lory is that *n which Christy Ma
thewson, the 'Big Six’ of the great
national pastime, reigned as the
greatest pitcher of them all Going
to tht New York Giants as a rookie
from Buckneli university where he
had a spectacular athletic career. Ma*
thewson developed under the coach*
FINAL CHAPTER IN RECENT JAPANESE NAVAL DISASTER
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This exclusive photo shows a Jap
anese destroyer towing the hulk
pZ~th» destroyer tor»edo - boat
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as the liberals of today) was too
much dress, instead of not enough
The first device for producing an
expansion of the dress, the fardin
gale. was introduced by Queen Eliza
beth The upper part of the body
was incased in a cuirass of whale
bone, which was united at the waist
with the equally stiff farthingale of
the same material, extending to the
Ire Os Manager John He
led the National league in pitching in
1909 and 1910 and continued to daa
•ile on the mound until 1916. when
he became coach of the Cincinnati
Reds During the World war. he
went to Fiance as an athletic direc
tor and while there contracted tuber,
culoslf He died on Oct "> 1926
Tomotsmu to the Sasebo naval
base where rescuers found 13
. Japanese naval men alive and one
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HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILTI DISPATCH, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1934 '
feet in the form of a great'bell. The
fad gradually died out, but early io
the eighteenth century it was re
vived. With the turn of the nine
teenth century it again lost favor and
remained out of the styles until about
1850, when the crinoline, in its orig
inal and proper sense, came Into be
ing. By 1866 it again bad faded fro®
the fashions.
Carry Nation, Who Threw Stories
Arid Hatchets in Fighting Liquor
muRT
Carry A. Nation, with her famous hatchet.
The fight for prohibition began
many years before the eighteenth
amendment went into effect, in 1020.
One of the early prohibitionists was
Carry Nation, an ardent crusader
who ,used brawn and force as well as
her linguistic ability in promoting
the cause of temperance. She made
known her stand in a forcible man
ner in Kiov a* Xans.> in 1888, when,
as president of a county order of the
W C. T U., she wrecked:three sa
loons with rocks
refused to close them. Later, she
raided saloon* at Wichita with clubs
and hatchets. She will arrested at
least twice as a result of her raids.
Often she referred to the significance
hundred dead. The Tomotsuru
turned turtle a short - time after
she was launched.
Movie Memories
Aileen Pringle
Ten years ago: *. Lo> Jy Aileera
Pringle is shown in a scene from
**A Thief of Paradise”. After
studying abroad, Miss Pringle
made her stage debut in London
before she entered motion pic
tures in 1919.
of her name as “Carry A Nation to
Prohibition”. ,
BIOGRAPHY.—Carry Nation was
born Carry Amelia Moore, daughter
of George Moore, in Garrard county,
Kentucky, Nov 25. IS4O. V Her first
husband was Charles Gluyd, a Civil
war soldier, who died two years
after their marriage, of alcoholism.
She taught school tor six years and
then married David Nation in Mis
souri. In 1888 she was elected pres
ident of the W. C. T. U. in Kiowa,
Kans., and then began her active
prohibition campaign. She died ia
Leavenworth. Kans-, in 1911,.
On Killer’s Trail
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Luke S. May
Luke S. May, nationally known
criminologist of Seattle, Wash., ii
on trail of killiera who murdered
four men and two women in house
pear Bremerton, Wash.
When Socialist Debs Ran for President of V. X
PRISON WALLS did not prevent
Eugene V Debs ardent social agi
tator from running for president of
the United States on the Socialist
ticket »n 1920 Under sentence for
violation of the espionage act during
the World war Debs was forced to
remain in his cell at the federal pen
When Steve Brodie ; Daredevil Bowery Figure,
Made His Amazing Leap From Brooklyn Bridgt
The front of Brodie’s famous Saloon on the Bowery. Steve? Brodie, at the height of his
• . - r popularity. ~
A MAN whose name became a na
tional by-word because of his daring
was Steve Brodie, a product of the
Bowery and one-time New York
newsboy. Always ready and willing
to gamble and take a chance. Steve
Girl, 11, Expectant, Not Youngest Mother
Francesca Anileo, 11-year-old Oakland, Calif., girl who is an expectant _. . * , .
mg children from (left) Juanita McClish, 11, of Stpulpa, Okla decent mottf*’ #° qiP 1 adv J C6 i. ra l?,i
Mrs. Ellen Marie Walsh, 12, of Rochester. N. Y., shown it right wfth
Age boundaries of motherhood are indicated by cases of Magdelaine Renand 5* p 8 d an ,? 7 "P ound babe
through Caesarian operation, and of La Belle Paula Fieschi. flso of Paris, who
■ ' ' '** a&mtmifywi
itentiary in Atlanta, Ga„ while his
party leaders carried on his cam
paign Despite this handicap the So
cialist party polled 919 799 votes, as
compared with about 750.000 in the
presidential election of 1916 Hta
sentence was commuted by President
Harding in 1921 Deb* born in Terre
proved his'caliber on July 28, 1886,
when he accepted a challenge and
leaped from the Brooklyn bridge into
the East river, a drop of 133 feet.
Hundreds of spectatofs-witnessed the
dariiw venture and expected If tO
Haute, lnd., Nov 5. 1855. once serve*
a term in the Indiana legislature
Later, he became an official of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and formed the American Railway
union in 1893. He ran for president
ofi the Socialist ticket in 1904- iß<v<
1912 and 1920. and died in iOs®
prove-;fatal, but Brodie lived to tell
of 'his - experience. Because of this
amazing feat, the phrase, “to do a
Brodie’’. meaning to take a chance*
came into existence, and .st ill is heard 1
frequently.