Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 21, 1912, Page 7

WIDOWS IN A COLONY SILLION DOLLARS REPRESENTED IN THIS SEGREGATION OF BE- REAVED ONES. Capitol No Longer Simply an Unoffh clal Social Center, But the Rendez- vous of Wealth From All Quar ters of the Country. A billion dollars is represented in anhlngton’s big widow colony, which » is being daily aug- mented by new arrivals and which already outnum- bers that of any other city in the country. The capi- tal is no longer simply an unoffi- cial social center, but the rendez vous of wealth from all quarters of the country. Never before have 80 many wealthy widows estab- flished thelr winter residence here. Mrs. Marshall Field of Chicago, probably the wealthiest, has her sumptuous Italian mansion on Six- teenth street almost ready for occu- pancy. Closely following her will be another Chicago woman, Mrs, Fred- erick Dent Grant, widow of the late General Grant and sister of Mrs. Pot- ter Palmer of Chicago, who will oc- cupy the house on New Hampshire avenue that she recently bought. Two other Chicago widows are numbered in this attractive coterie, Mrs. Robert | Patterson and her beautiful daughter, Countess Joseph Gizycki. | under Cleveland. | Sheridan, Mrs. Frederick R. Coudert, Mrs. Henry F. Dimogk of New York is one of the most recent acqui- sitions and with her daughter, Mrs. Dimock-Hutchinson, will preside in the same house on I street that her brother, the late Mr. Whitney, occu- pled when secretary of the navy If rumor is cor rect, Mrs. Dimock will have as guests during the coming season Mrs. Gro- ver Cleveland and her debutante daughter, Miss Esther Cleveland. Mrs. Taft’s sister, Mrs. Thomas K. Laughlin of Pittsburg, who will epend the winter in Washington, 1s one of the most attractlve women ot the Heron family and has presided at the White House on many occasions during the illness of Mrs. Taft. Mrs. Helen Morton of New York will also be’ one of the distinguished widows, as she will make her win- ter home here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Levi P. Morton, who are azain occupying the house they made famous during the time Mr. Morton was vice-president. The countess of Yarmouth of Pitts- burg, now Mrs. Copley Thaw, bought the home of the late Chief Justice Fuller last winter and will again be in Washington society. In the colony of wealthy widows are also Mrs. Levi P. Leiter, Mrs. Mary Scott Townsend, Mrs. Hope Slater, Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins, Mrs. Robert Hitt, Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh, Mrs. Mark Hanna, Mrs. Henry C. Corbin (formerly Miss Edyth E. Pat- ten), Mme. Christian Hauge (whose late husband was minister from Nor way), Mrs. James W. Hinchot, Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood, Mrs. Philip Mrs. Nicholas Anderson, Mrs. Clar- ence Moore, Mrs. Charles A. Munn, Mrs. Thomas A. Bayard, Mrs. Har- riet Blaine Beale, Mrs. James Me- Gillan and Mrs. B. F. Warder, near- ly all of whom have fortunes reach- ing or exceeding the milllon-dollar A $125 to the Bemidji Daily Pioneer. Other Churches are making " Church you wish to help, turn in your subscription to any of the ladies whose names appear below. il Gl;ristmas Gift|i Will be given to this Church for 100 Yearly Subscriptions the same effort. If this is the Cleiich Minn. ST. PHILLIP’S CATHOLIC CHURCH Members of Catholic Women’s Bands Band No. 1—Mesdames T. J. Burke, president; J. C. Parker, P. J. O’Leary, Ed Ebert, J. O. Harris, M. LaFontisee, W. N. Bowser, J. E. Black, A. H. Jester, Thos. McCann, L. C. Dempsey, Gougle. Band No. 3. — Mesdames James Fullerton, president; Joe Moritz, Chas. Nangle, Fred Rhoda, John Ziegler, White, J. W. Murray, H. E. Stevens, E. H. Dea, John Gibbons, John Graham, Dan O’Connor, John MecCormick, Joe Hughes, Ed Kaelble, Mrs. Frank McManus, Wm. Clish, Conrad La Jambe. ! Band No. 2.—Mesdames J. Bisiar, |president; M. Thome, Burgess, E. | Taylor, A. B. Wells, M. A. Downs, U. Reide, Chamberlain, J. Sullivan, Cameron, J. Funk, Ripple. Band No. 4—Mesdames John New- man, president, Helin, L. F. Johnson, Ganey, Thos. Stewart, Kittelson, Joe Blondo, Bowser, Albert Halvorson, J. A. McDonald, Eures, Winkleski, Sherwood, Fenton, DeRushia, Jas. Cahill, Len Jewett, Auger, Poulette, Miss Irene Lappin. What Subscriptions Count One dollar cash will be paid to each Ladies’ Society for every yearly subscription, old or new, secured for the Daily Pioneer. When a set of one hundred has of $25 will be given. ten are secured a cash gift of months subscription to the Daily Pioneer, fifty cents will be paid, and for each additional six months subscriptions secured the rate will be paid the sam these six mouths subscriptions have been turned in an addi- tional gift of $25 will be giv counts just half of a yearly subsecription for the Daily Pioneer. One yearly subscription to the Weekly Pioneer counts same as six months to the Daily, the only difference being the subscrip- tion price which is $1.50 a year. $2 and the Daily for one year is $4. Free Premiums will be give information may be had by telephoning Number 31, or calling in person at the Pioneer Office. Thus for one hundred subscriptions the society securing them will have received a cash gift og $125. If a club secures but seventy-five yearly subscriptions, it will receive $75; if but fifty yearly subscriptions, $50; and if only been reached a special premium $10 will be made. For one six e. Thus, when two hundred of en. A six months subseription The Daily for six months is n to every subscriber. Detailed * \ mark. Mrs. William F. Draper, who, by the will of her late husband, is one of the wealthiest of the widow colony, will share honors with her daughter, Miss Marguerite Draper. Mrs. Frank Ellis, who recently was divorced, will now be a member of the same circle. g But after all, it is not so much the large number of widows and their so- cial prominence which astonishes so- ciety as it is the enormous wealth they represent, a figure which will probably reach near the billion-dollar mark. The widow colony is already plan- ning innumerable “dove parties” In the way of dinners, breakfasts, lunch- cons and tea parties, at which not a single man will represent the op- posite sex. Weight ice WIIl Bear. BExperiments have shown that ice an inch and threefifths thick will bear the weight of a man, four and three-quarter-inch ice light artillery, and eleven and one-half-inch ice the heaviest weights the transportation of an army requires. Concerning Apple Pies. If you ask a man what sort of pte he will take, and he hesitates & mo- ment, he is pretty sure to blurt out spple. That-is always a sure thing. Custard, lemon, peach, blackberry, mince, all depend; there is always some doubt as to their manufacture gnd the quality of the concomitants; but with apple pie it is not so. Apple pie is itself; it reigns in its own right; Jt suggests no doubts; it is always pafe. Therefore it will be gratifying pews that the apple crop this year is & bumper. There will be a yield of 105,000,000 bushels. That will make pbout sixty pies to every man, woman and child in the country; and this will give an ordinary piece of pie to every jnhabitant every day in the year. Was there ever a nation so highly tavored that it could have apple pie for every person every day? Thus pature and enterprise kindly and bountifully minister to the taste of all the people—Ohio State Journal .__ The Going of Ulysses. A Kansas City man said he always preferred red-headed office boys to any lfi‘therhnd,uhefihnn‘d’nmtobi unusually sagacious and alert; but he discovered recently that some of them are too much so. One day, returning from a short out of town trip, he went to his office and mentioned interroga- tively that Ulysses, his promising as- sistant, was nowhere in sight, and the stenographer replied that he had not shown up. Lifting up the last mail on his desk he found & note addressed to him in a very familiar, broad, vertical hand- writing. “Dear Mr. Cross,” he said, “please accept my resignation to take effect yesterday. I got a better place with \ess work and more pay. Respectively “ULYSSES 8. G. PARKER.” Dickens in Australia. It is said that when a Scotsman jeaves old Scotia to make his home in some other land he solaces his exile with the book of Robert Burns’ poems, and that the Scot abroad comes to be even better versed in the rhymes of the peasant poet than the Scot who has remained at home. It has been remarked that the same is true as regards the Englishman and Charles Dickens. W. M. Hughes, acting prime minister of Australia, goes further than this and asserts that Dickens had an important influence on Austra- lan democracy, and through men who read him and loved him, men imbibed his hatred of shams and humbugs, who wanted freer and better conditions, to have some other place to look to than the workhouse, had made Austra- la what it is today. Two Systems Compared. . A government, says a writer in the Twentieth Century Magazine, which tells you how to carry your umbrella, which forbids ladies who wear long hatpins to enter railway-trains, which fines you if you throw cigar stubs or papers on the street, which does mnot permit your children to make a noise po that others are disturbed—such a government does restrict individual liberty, but just as certainly it en- jarges the common liberties and pleas- pre of everybody. The government fhus eulogized is that of Germany, pvhlch the writer quoted prefers to our Fgo-as-you-please” system. 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