Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 14, 1915, Page 2

Bills_Passed by Legislature in Which Woman’s Clubs Interested 5 | To the Florida Club Women: { favorable treatment from so enlight- Now that the legislature has ad- | ened a body of men. This is a sub- journed, you will wish to know just |Jject, however, upon which most men A YOUNG MAN'S SCHEME By M. QUAD BEDELEREPEDE, LOVE AND DYNAMITE Proper Use of the Explosive| Stopped Flood and Won Copyright, 1913. by Associated Lit- erary Press. drenched, Just make up your mind to stay with us overnight.’ Bruce glanced at the trim figure and charming face of his hostess and made no demur. He held an umbrella over Verona while they ran for the larger house. Then the deft little housekeep- " er busied herself preparing supper. | They had just concluded the eve-| ning meal when there came a harsh rapid jangle at the telephone. Mr. | Business T A S S B Financial reports students of busine the near future. The “BUY-A Improvin 8 . et ——— BALE” movement checked the feciiy, are more optimistic each weck () ss conditions see more prosperous time. g of what has been zained and lost in the | require considerable education. Two| “Gaul durn her plcture, but I:love He instant- followed the opening of the war. way of social betterment for the state. Your legislative chairman has not published this information from time to time in the papers during the legislative session because meas- ures were being passed and rejected every day, as well as amended, and a statement made today would prob- ably have had to be modified to- morrow and more or less confusion wonld remain in the minds of the readers as to what really place. had taken | | | we | We will begin with the compul- sory bill. in which were all so interested. There were three bills offered. The first, calling | for state-wide compulsory i‘du('ulinn.i though by all the means the strong- measure offered, failed of serious consideration in either house. bill also called for state-wide compulsory education, ! but it carried no enforcement :md; seemed to create little favor. The! third which called for | county option compulsory education, | although conservative and supported | generally by the county superintend- ents and prof. Sheats, was subjected | amendments lhu; there is fear that it will have little force in the counties that decide to take advantate of it. T have unable so far to secure a copy of the bill as passed, and it is possible that a careful persual of it may discover | unsuspected in it ‘““‘"'i while, we accept its insulfi-‘ ciencies as a spur to urge us on to getting a stronger, more adequate law in 1917, The State Industrial School for Delinquent Girls passed at almost the last minute, when all its friends had given up hope for its appearance | before adjournment. That was passed at such a critical time is due largely to the efforts of Mr, Fagzg. of the Children's Home Society, who arrived on the scene most oppor- tunely. That it passed both houses with only three dissenting votes speaks well for the work dono hy the various club women cvgp th state in influencing the votes of the le a- tors. Telegrams and letters poured in from the women from almost every county to the men at Talla- hassee urging their support for this measure. If the bill had failed of passage it would not have been due to opposition from the legislators, but merely because they had not been given an opportunity to vote on it. The $30,000 appropriation ask- ed for was cut down to $30,000, and the $20,000 maintenance was cut down to $3,000. This is really in- sufficient to do what is necessary, but we are hoping it will permit a fair beginning. If we can secure a hich class, experienced woman su- perintendent to start with, there is every chance for the school to at- tain efficient development in time. This school, as well as the TIndus- trial School for Boys at Marianna, has been put under direct control and supervision of the governor and board of state institutions, so that these officials will now be wholly responsible for the future of these important institutions. The appro- priation of $60,000 that was passed to rebuild and equip the boys' school ought to begin a new era for Florida in the treatment and supervision of our delinquent children. The commission to study the need for widows' pensions passed, but was considerably weakened by cutting off the $1,500 appropriation intended to finance adequate investigation. This necessary investigation will have to be paid for out of private subscrip- tions. education est and best The second measure, to such drastic been merits can is The commission to study the need for a hospital for epileptic and feeble minded children also was created by the legislature with a very small appropriation to cover cost of secur- ing statistics, ete. The bill restricting the marriaze of insane, feeble-minded and epilep- tic people failed of passage. This measure should have received more NEW YORK DAY BY DAY By Charles Henry Adams New York, June 14— The Ameri- can woman is not the most beautiful woman in the world. I have seen thousands, and of them all only three were really beautiful—one of these was a trifle too fat.” The author of this jewel of ori- ganility, this really clorious heresy, is Prince Dhalip Sigh Gill of Patiala, Punjab, India, for the past three or four years a student at Columbia and at eNw York University and writing book about America. If either of the institutions he has at- tended gave an honorary degree for i I'ren in the state. ‘authorizinz county commissioners to now | will in vears ad onal agitation !doubtless change their attitude ‘regard to it. , The Palm Hammock grant, minus | the requested appropriation of $1,- |(nm per annum for maintenance, passed at almost the last moment. ! Senator Drane and Representative | Goldstein pushed it through in the iface of countless other measures clamoring to be considered. The granting of this land to the Florida Federation. who labored so arduous- Iy for its passaze. In addition to the above measures, which were especial pets of the Flor- ida Federation this year, a very ood medical inspection for school dren bill was passed. This law | requires one doctor in each county to be appointed and paid by the State Board of Health to devote his entire time to making the necessary spections for each county. amount of data turned in thes g in- The through e inspections should be inval- uable in promoting better health conditions among the school child- Bills were also passed permitting detention homes in counties having juvenile courts, provinding a separ- ate court to try juvenile delinquents for Duval county, and providing a contributory delinquent ciause to the juvenile court law whereby par- ents are held accountable misdeeds of their children, An act was passed requiring the llection and recording of vital statistics under the direction of the ate Board of Health; also an act for the o] «conduct canning and card club work in the various counties, 3 Our child labor law was also ma- terially strengthened. On the other hand, a free text-book bill met with defeat, as did also the attempt to provide land by the state in the Everglades for the Seminole Indians; an attempt to make women eligible for school offices was also defeated. When all is said and done, how- ever, a pretty creditable showing re- mains for the 1915 legislature, prob- ably a more creditable showing than made by any previous legislature. Undoubtedly the interest and agita- tion done Dby the club women throughout the state helped to crys- talize the good judement of the leg- islators on many subjects which they had previously given little con- sideration. During the next two years we must prepare ourselves to assist in still greater enlightenmen ! for them. It hah been my experinece so far with our legislators that it is not their hearts we need to convert to better methods, but their heads, which are packed so full with com- mercial problems. there is little room left for the more purely moral aspect of theings. The fight made by the prohibition- ists against the sale of whiskey has been too widely discussed and agi- | tated to require comment from me ; here. Before closing my report T wish to | thank most heartily our Florida club women who have so loyally civen their thought, work and inspiration to the legislative department in its work. It has been a privilege and a pleasure to have come in contact, in such short a time. with so many ad- dent, broad-minded, well-informed women. Our president, also, as may readily be suspected, was indefatiga- | ble in her efforts to secure the pas- sage of our bills. She never failed to lend a hand when a hand was needed. The local committee at Tal- lahassee, who worked on the ground ' ‘from the opening till the close of the term in behalf of these cannot be too highly praised for their faithful efforts. Last of all, but by no means least. are our Flor- ida newspapers which, almost with- "out exception, have supported our | causes with enthusiasm. Resnectfully submitted, JESSIE McGRAFF, Chairman lLegislative Department. measures, ! eral nest, and it gave him a thought. | her!” The young man who uttered the words was at work in the field, and he straightened up to rest his weary back and mutter: “And I'll make her love me before I'm through with her! She may think I don’t amount to shucks. but all I want is a chance to prove that I do. Durn farm work! Durn widders! Durn love! Durn everything!” He kicked the fence to show his dis- gust and wearily resumed work. Ebe- ezer Schermerhorn, hired man, was in love with the Widow Tompkins, whose farm adjoined that of his boss on the west. Ebenezer was twenty- four years old, plain of face and un- gainly of form and without a hundred dollars® worth of property. One evening as he dropped in to see the widow about borrowing some farm implement next day he found her read- ing a love story. She read a few chap- ters to him and afterward acknowl- edged that she had always been ro- .mantic and that If she ever married again it would be to a hero. The farmer's hired man didn't rush right off that night and try to be a hero, but sat down and did some thinking. Three or four days after Ebenezer's ! thinking bee a®tramp came along the road and, seeing thé Foung man hoelng corn just over the fence, halted for a word or ‘wo. Ordinarily Ebenezer would have leaped the fence and run the wayfarer half a mile. but on this occasion he invited him over to the corn and sat down with him for a con- fidential conversation. The result of that conversation was that at 8 o'clock that evening the tramp appear- ed before the Widow Tompkins and made threats of what he would do if she didn’t set out victuals, hunt up old clothes and come down with a dollar in cash, Ebenezer was not far away—just far enough to come running up and knock the tramp head over heels and rescue the widow. But as he started to come running he fell down and got tangled up with the bushes, and before he could get away the widow had broom- sticked the tramp into flight. She didn’t say she was glad that the would be hero was so near at hand. What she did say was that she wasn't afraid of any tramp walking the roads. | Ebenezer's first try was ‘a failure, but within a fortnight he was ready for another, Two or three farmhouses in the township had been robbed, and this fact became the basis for his sec- ond plan, One night at midnight he left bis bed, descended to earth by way of a window, and, armed with a club, he became a guard for the wid- ow's house. He circled around it and patrolled the garden and the orchard, and he felt that he would give a year of his life if a robber would appear. He would first fell him and then arouse the house, and when the widow came to know that he had been guarding her for love her heart would melt toward him, But no robber came. Instead of that his footsteps awoke the widow, and, peering out, she saw some one walking about, and she got a shotgun and raised a window and blazed away. The gun was loaded with bird shot to shoot hawks that might, come swooping down on chickens, but in this case they an- swered just as well for a man. Eben- ezer recelved about twenty of them and ran two miles to a doctor to have them picked out. He also had a va- cation from work for a week under the excuse that he had sprained his back turning over in bed. Ninety-nine out of every hundred would be heroes would have given up right here, but Ebenezer was a man to hang on. It was while he was limp- ing around on his vacation and doing a lot of standing up and wandering over the fields that he came upan the widow fishing in the river at a certain point. He did not show himself, but fifty feet from where she sat under a tree he discovered a bumblebees' nest | in the grass. It was a large and lib- The bees wouldn't bother anybody so long as they were let alone. If stirred up they would look for meat. There was a haystack not far away, | and Ebenezer had matches in his pocket. He retired behind the stack | and collected a hatful of stones from ' the plowed land. These he threw one ' by one at the spot where the bees | were pursuing the even tenor of their | ways. The plot thickened. You can thicken a bumblebee plot in a very short time. All you've got to do is to ! trend on thelr coattails. When the in- | sects found the rocks dropping on their | displays; also the blonde’s complex- ion is not usually as smooth as the | brunettes’s, while the hair of the former is coarser. “The beauty does not need to use cosmetics or to wear corsets, and she has a happy. contented expression. “The women of my country wear ,the sari, a single long strip of cloth which is twisted about the entire body and conforms to its lines, There are no corsets to distort the shaps of the natural figure, and in place of boots that cramp the foot Punjab women wear soft slippers. Their diet is almost wholly vegetarian and they (drink no 2lcoholic liguors, no tea or coffee. ’milk. heads they swarmed out of the grass ' to look for the enemy. They shounld have seen the widow and descended | upon her, and at her first shriek Eb- enezer would come charging down with a wisp of lighted hay in elthor‘w hand. But things went wrong. The bees then went for him alone. They | ran him up and down the haystacl they ran him over fences and blck:l they ran him across lots and in circles, | and when they finally left him and he fell down the widow came forward and asked: i “But why were you such a fool?” “Because 1 want you to marry me!” | he groaned in reply. *“And you sald you would marry a hero. I thought the bees would attack you and T could rush ! in and save you." i “Why. vou great idiot! [I've been a Wife. By GEORGE ELMER COBB. Evan Bruce, salesman, turned the | corner of a vacant square with a high | board fence around it on a keen run. | It was to see a lithe form with a satchel in one hand run up a slanting support, grab at the top of the fence | and bolt over it out of view. Bruce proceeded to spot where the man he was pursuing had vanished. He looked through a crack in the fence and his good-natured face wrinkled in- to smiles and he chuckled. Bruce had carelessly left his sat- | chel on the sidewalk outside of a | store. He made his purchase of some cigars, and came to the street again to see a man running away with the satchel. He had put after him to find ! him now in a somewhat sad plight. The thief it seemed had scaled the fence to evade his pursuer. He had not, however, counted on what was before him. Some construction was meditated beyond the fence. Prepara- tory to the same a broad space had been covered with an asphalt cement. The fugitive had dashed across this, which was freshly lald. He had sunk in ankie deep. Mired a8 in a mass of mud, he had floundered about and sponse, i_mlnaged to get back to the edge. Here The young salesman returned to the he had hastily opened the satchel. | house and took up his satchel. He One glance at its contents and he | had studied the contour of the sur- dropped it with a yell. Then he ran | roundings and he knew his business. down the edge of the cemented space and disappeared. It cost Bruce some time and labor to in turn scale the fence and re- cover his stolen property. He did this in perfect good humor. “Wonder what the fellow thought when he read the labels on those samples?” he laughed. “Not that it One Glance and He Dropped It With a Yell. would have mattered much if he got away with them, for it seems that I have come to this dead burg on a fruitless errand. Biddle & Co., quarry- men, have burned out, eh? Won't start up for sixty days. No train out of here for three hours. Suppose I go out to where he Mves, and see if 1 cannot get an order out of him for future delivery?” No sooner said than done. It had been raining for nearly a week and the roads were almost impassable, Bruce had been told that the Biddle home was nearly three miles from town. The picturesque scenery, how- ever, made ap for the hard plodding. Just beyond the edge of a small stream running near a ravine he came upon a pretty country house. No one responded to continuous ringing of the door bell. Bruce was about to re- turn townwards when he noticed the flutter of skirts near a pretty little cottage on the same lot. . It was pleasant to the tired journeyee to meet Miss Verouna Biddle and know that her father would re- turn within an hour. It grew pleas- anter still as she invited Bruce to rest on a comfortable porch seat, which she shared with him. She was bright. and interesting, recognized him as a gentleman and quite en- chanted him with her pretty ways. “I was tidying up the cottage here, which my married brother and his family have occupied until today,” she explained. “Papa has just driven them to the depot. It will be lonely for us, but brother's business called him to a new location.” It began to rain shortly, and they had to go into the house for shelter just as Mr. Biddle arrived and joined them. Bruce handed his business card to the bluff old quarryman. “Dynamite, eh?” observed Mr. Bid- dle, reading the card. “Sorry I can't give you an order. I might have taken some for later use, but this big flood has done worse than the fire. 1 just got a wire in town telling me that the dyke up at the quarries has overflowed. If the dam goes, it's ruin for the whole plant up there.” 1t continued to rain. Bruce lingered another hour. Then he announced his intention of returning to town. Mr. They drink a great deal of caq¢ to say yes any day for the last Biddle went out and studied the heavy | broken and the flood is on. j sors Brehmer and Riffel collected a vast mass of statistics in England and Germany and fully confirmed Rivers’| observation. Brehmer had been teach- sheer, unqualified. audicious verac-| ty, Prince Dhailp Singh Gill would walk off with it. All my interview- The Ontario Department of Edu- ing life I've heen waiting for the for- ! cation recently announced that fu- eig nguest who is sufficiently an in- | ture examinations in English, tellectual pioneer and an honest man ¥f‘nn:\dian, and European History will to perceive that some few of our contain one or more specific ques- women are not livinz Verfuses. |tion dealing with the present Europ- “The beauty should be between goan war. It is announced that “an feet 7 inches and 5 feet 9 inches in i.>r]oquatn knowledge of the topics in height, slender, graceful and perfect- 'question shall be required as one of 1y proportiond th tests of promotion from grad to “She should have classic, regular grade.’” The Minister of Education features, and she should be a bru- for Ontario urges that ‘‘generously nette, h a f2ir skin and dark disposed citizens and school Boards eves, ¢ rows »nd hair. In this ty=~e ~%o~ one or strug- 5 nrizes for asecve on there is an effective contrast of licht more phases of the and shade, such as the blonde never gle.” present ths.” clouds, | e ! “See bere,” he said, “I might drive | you to town, but we would get Do Postmen Get Letters? Do you suppose the post office clerks care to receive letters? 1 have my Beware. doubts. They get into a dreadful habit Beware s0 long as you live of judg- of indifference. A postman, I imagine, ing people by appearances—La Fon- is quite callous. Conceive his deliver 'taine ing one to himself without being | startled by a preliminary double tnock!—Charles Dickens. T Phoebe’s Only Chancs. A Real Reason. Cats at a cat show are not scored A really frank secker of divorce was | On their rat catching records; there- the colored woman who sald: “Sam | fore it would be of no use to enter ain't dun nufin particnlar. but 1 jess | Phoebe. She'll have to he shown in losed ma taste .. "1 oeville | & Kteel and wire trap exhibition.— Courfer-Journsi ) Tolew v rha Biddle answered the call. ly dropped the receiver and ran for| his hat. | “It's come!” he announced in 3, tone of deep concern—“the dam has | Can you help me a bit, Mr. Bruce?” “Why, surely,” acceded Bruce promptly. The young salesman knew little about floods as he assisted his host in getting some cattle from the low- land meadows into the stables. He knew a great deal more at the end af his labors, as Mr. Biddle told him of former inundations the section had experienced, As they passed the little brook he had crossed on his way to the house, Bruce was fairly startled and his com- panion expressed renewed alarm. The formerly placid water was growing in- to torrent force. “We must be ready for a dash to the highlands if this grows worse,” advised his host. “I've been through this before.” “It is a question of the stream ris- ing enough to reach the house?” in- quired Bruce, with a speculative look in his eyes. “Just that,” was the positive re- Mr. Biddle and his daughter were standing on the porch wondering what had become of their guest. Ten minutes went by, then half an hour. The quarryman ever and anon took a lantern and went to the edge of the stream. The last time he did this he came hurrying back with an alarmed face. “Get the house locked up,” he said urgently. “At the rate the water is rising, the next hour will see us sur- rounded, if not floating away.” “Oh! as bad as that, papa?’ ex- claimed Verona. “Yes. I will hitch up at once and | we will go over to your aunt’s at High | Ridge.” Crash!—a terrific explosion rattled | the windows of the house. As father and daughter Stood petrified with amazement, Bruce came into view bearing the empty satchel in one hand, a battery apparatus in the other. “Look at your creek now,” he spoke in something of a tone of triumph. “You are a practical man,” was the superintendency of his plant when he | started up again. i‘ So sensible was Bruce, that he pro- posed to Verona within a month, mar- ried her in two, and the pretty cot- tage had new occupants. (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) FIRST CHILD THE WEAKEST. | Exhaustive Researches Made by Ex. perts Seem to Have Proved | Truth of Assertion. Primogeniture has just received nn-l other hard knock. For social, eco- nomic and pol‘itical reasons it had been abolished everywhere except in Eng- land, where it seems to be on its last | legs; but now the biologists and physi- cians are saying that there is strong natural reason for setting aside the oldest son as the heir to the estates and the head of the family. It is some years since Dr. W. C. Rivers, in studying the statistics of a ' great sanatorium in England, observed that among tuberculous patients the | first born provide a larger number of subjects than any of the other chil- ! dren. Prof. Karl Pearson and Profes- ing that the first-born children were the strongest, but he proved that the opposite was true. The Medical Record remarks that not only tuberculosis but “insanity and criminality show a preponderating in- cidence among the eldest children,” and quotes Professor Pearson’s state- ment that the earlier members of a family are more likely than the younger to inherit constitutional de. fects. It adds that a tendency to cod- dle, pamper and indulge the first child may account for a part of its vulnera- | bility to disease. Made Difference to Manager, Jake Tanmenbaum is an old time showman; who became famous through his having possessed for a long time “The key to the south,” which means that before the theatrical syndicate was formed he controlled the theatrical output south of Mason and Dixon's line. It was his custom to come to New York's Rialto every summer, and he was always the center of a group of showfolk. “How’s business in Mobile, Jack?" asked a ‘riend. 4 “Fine; never better,” he replied. “I see you played both John and Sydney Drew in different plays,” the comment of Mr, Biddle, as he did look | and was told what had caused the water to recede. 1 simply blew out the ravine wall," explained Bruce. “The dyngmite did it. There's a vent now that may fill | up the ravine, but you won't have any [ flood hereabouts.” So praetical a man was Bruce, in- deed, that Mr. Biddle offered him the | friend exclaimed, “Yes,” said Jake. “John Drew, but Sydney didn't."—Buffalo Express, — More Older People Employed. Fewer people under twenty and more people over forty-five are now em- ployed in various industries than was the case ten vears ago. — Daily Thought. Ninetenths of the good that is done in the world is the result not o. laws, bowever wise, or of resolutions how- ever strong, but of the personal infly. ence of individual men and *omen— 3ir Samue! Chisholm. depression which activities. iness conditions. “OP C. W. DEEN, President «puyY IT NOW* is stimulating all lines of | { A BANK ACCOUNT ‘NOW’ ” with u. FIRST NATIONALBANK C. M. CLAYTON, Cashiy; BANK IS A MEMBER OF THE FEDERA il RESERVE SYSTEM. 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