The La Crosse Tribune from La Crosse, Wisconsin • 13

amid WATCH EM CLOSE, BOYS. STYLES FOR MEN ARE CHANGING He Window Shoppers increase as Beau Brummels for the Seasons Newest LARGE JOB GIVEN WOMAN WITH STATE BOARD OF CONTROL Dr. Maybelle Park to Superintend Placing of, 7,000 Children in New Homes Cottage on the slope ofNigger Nathan hill, seven miles east of La Crosse, given to Boy Scouts for hiking rendezvous by Alfred Foster, Burlington engineer. which Charley Berry, who was humane officer of the city, was charged with abusing and starving his pet horse. The animal, which' persisted in trotting about town at a three-minute clip without any provocation whatever, was usually inspired to move, evidence of The complaining witness 6s a result of much Leating from an old whip, the stub of which was offered in evidence.

One of the exhibits was a picture of the ribs of said horse and the testimony of another witness that no oats could be found in the Berry barn, etc. All of which, of course, was far fetched, and made defendant grin as much ns the audience, for everybody knew that the Berry horse was given the best of attention byTtis owner. Another mock trial which ye old timers will not forget was the case in which Paul Mahoney was charged with exceeding tho speed limit in his well known two-lung Cadillac car, than which there was no bettertor longer-lived car existed, the owner still maintains. Naturally, the juries always found the accused guilty in these mock trials, hut the principals as well as the defendants, had a lot of fun out of it, and there will be many north-siders and south-siders, too, who will welcome the news that the Franklin club is to come back, and eagerly await the first debate. Along about last May' I had occasion to refer in this column to what might aptly be termed the oiled-road menace in La Crosse county the practice of sprinkling a road with a layer of gooey, sticky oil and leaving it that way for hours, without a sand covering, to smear up the tires and fenders of every auto traveling that way." Despite the wails hnd yowls that go up every time one of the road bosses fails to have a sand wagon keep up with the oil sprinkling cart, theyre still doing it.

The other day I saw a Ford runabout hit a piece of freshly oiled road four miles above Holmen, "turn a complete circle and a half in the slippery stuff, and turn right over on its back in the ditch. The goddess of luck must ltfiVe had her arms around the young traveling salesman who occupied the car for he climbed out the side of the overturned flivver without a scratch1, but inclined to be just a little bit peevish over the chap who had converted what is ordinarily a perfectly good road into a skating rink. How far does this stuff gr up the road? he inquired after we had righted liis car. We pointed over the shiny black thoroughfare to two men a quarter mile away' who were heaving sand onto the fresh oil, and hatched "the drummers car as it slowly performed a shimmy up the road toward the sand-covered goal. Then we continued on our own skidding way, hoping somewhere to pass that infernal oil wagon.

No ones complaining about oiled roads around these parts, but for the luvaraike, isnt there some way of getting enough sand shovel ers to keep up with, the oil cart, or something? I understand that Prof. J. O. En-glemnh, formerly an instructor at the La Crosse State Normal school, has resigned as school superintendent at Joliet, 111., to become field secretary of the National Educational association. Mr.

Engleman is remembered here as a capable, popular instructor and a good mixer. Those who Know him well aver he is well qualified for his new post. FIRST CEMETERY IN LA CROSSE ON FRONT STREET INDIAN IS FIRST BURIED Ch ime Kay CometlWalruJ said Co ta I of nrary thirds OfjKces ord ships and se atfngwa Of cabbages and kiry BY C. A. W.

Harry Robinson and Taul Mahoney Bd Otto Sohlabach and several other former numbers of the organization ire talking of reviving the Franklin club, fa mam forensic organization uliirh for nearly three decades settled il! the affairs of state, nation and city, ami furnished newspaper stories galore. Meek trials in which local celebrities were accused of various itffonx's, debates on questions which lind the burgh nil hot up, and annual lanquets which were stellar social event of the winter season, featured tbe Franklin clubs activities. Spon-IT9 of the movement to resurrect the club wouldnt change the rules of the order in any part.cuar; they would like to see it come back with nil the old time features. And they want all the old boys who are still In this neck the woods to be there when the firt V'bnte Is pulled. Proponents of the plan have practically decided, I ntn advised, that the first subject for debate should be Resolved, that the eighteenth amendment be amended to permit the manufacture and sale of leer and light wjnes.

Iont push fellers, line up here! And after that, the orators and debaters who aspire to membership In this organization will settle the tariff question, clean up the league of nations, elect the next mayor, decide whether we shall have on oren or closed town and adjudicate lot of other perplexing quest ons which are calculated to keep us awake nights. But, honestly, the Franklin club of me, two or three decades ago was a great power for good in the community and a wonderful trnlnlng field for young lawyers, school profs and others who desired oratorical training. "It is no secret that Tom Morris, who became district attorney, state senator snd lieutenant governor, and who Is now national counsel for the chiro-prartic organization at a high salary, got his first experience as a public speaker in the Franklin club when he was still a barber on the north side, some thirtv-odd years In fact Tom Morris and Paul Mahoney and two or three other well known citizens were the organizers of thq Franklin club and remained faithful members up to the time that the weekly debates were abandoned in 1015. Ilnr-rr Robinson was toastmaster of the final banquet early In the spring of 1015, and the records of the club show that Iceland Mahoney, Roy Ahl-strom, Russell Webb and William Mc-tiaughren were the principal speakers on this festal occasion. Among the prominent members of the old Franklin club aside from those already mentioned were M.

M. Downey, tharles Perry. W. E. Rarber, now head of the Wisconsin conservation commission.

Sam Johnson, Otto Rosshard, Harry Spence, Father Mur-Thy and others. Termer members of the elub still recall with a chuckle the mock trial in FIFTEEN INSTITUTIONS ARE LICENSED TO FIND HOMES New System of Probationary Adoption Installed MADISON, Wis. -To supervise the placing of 7,000 orphaned or delinquent children in new homes Is the man-size Job that, has been given a woman Maybelle M. Park, director of the newly created Juvenile department of the state board- of control. "There was plenty of work to be said Dr.

Maybelle Park, smiling evasively when asked concerning conditions relative to Wisconsin dependent children at the time when she took up her. work as director of the juvenile department of the state of Wisconsin. You know, she explained, there are 15 institutions in the state which are licensed to find homes for children dependent on charity, formerly these charitable institutions took their charges and placed them in any home where they would be taken and the report which" they sent into the state concerning this home was accepted without any investigation or attempt at inspection. We found a great deal of unhappiness in just this situation. The little kiddies jwere placed very often with people totally unfit to raise children.

New System But we have changed all that now, Dr. Park stated proudly. Every child in placed in a home for adoption first, on a probationary period of six months and during this time our field worker visits the home and inspects conditions thoroughly before the child is permitted to be legally adopted. The child must have the best conditions for both physical and mental growth in the home where he is to be placed. It is Wisconsins unique home-finding law which makes it possible to do this.

Conditions in the majority of other states in regard to delinquent children are deplorable, no attempt is made to look after, the or proper care of delinquent" children. Minnesota, alone of the other states, has a law in regard to home-finding which is similar to that of this state. Raise Standards It is another one of Dr. Parks aims to raise the standards of living and of mental training in the various private charitable organizations which have charge of dependent or delinquent children. When she first came here last March Dr.

Park found conditions in several of these 15 institutions very much too low. Conditions were quite distressing, and no attempt was made at training the child. All classes were thrown together with no attempt made at grading the physically defective child from the mentally defective child. Dr. Park became very earnest once she had started talking on the subject of classifying the children.

That1 is Wisconsins greatest need, she said, intelligent work in the juvenile courts from which courts these children are first sent to various state institutions. I feel that no child should be committed to a state institution. without a thorough physical and mental examination. It is very detrimental for a normal child OUT OUR WAY De Cora had endeavored to make his way out of the woods, but -instead of proceeding in the direction of the Indian camp he marched around in a circle until overcome with exhaustion and the cold, when he laid down and died. His remains were removed to My-rick, and Millers store, where the body was prepared for burial and placed In a pine box.

A squabble ensued among his kindred and friends as tohe form of funeral ceremony approbate to the occasion. The dispute ended in a fight in which mourners, attendants and visitors mingled pell-mell, during which the corpse was sacriligiously cast out of the pine coffin and narrowly escaped being torn to pieces. Finally, after peace had been declared the body was reinclosed in the casket and buried on Front street between State and Main. A paling fence was built about the grave and a cross erected at the head, which remained until 1S51, when the relics of Winnebago (mortality were removed to a cemetery subsequently opened on the present site of tbetLa Crosse now company plant. Later the body was again moved, but early histories do not record the last burial place.

to be thrown among mental defectives and this is very often the case where the juvenile court sends the child out indiscriminately to the most convenient institution without any sort of an examination. Many injustices have been done in previous years by this very thing and many children have become mentally defective through constant contact with defective children. Dr. Park has the physicians. usual impatience with a lawyer They can do nothing without a precedent several thousand years old and they seem to take great pride in the fact that their laws are based on the old Roman code, said the doctor smiling quietly.

They do not take an intelligent attitude toward the work which we are trying to do with the juvenile court. If they might only be as progressive and are farseeing as the physicians and scientists of this country, i 7,000 Dependents There are 7,000 delinquent or dependent children in the -institutions of the state who under Dr. Parks supervision. They are located in a number of homes throughout the state. For the last census the average number of dependent children in Wisconsin per 100,000 was 112.

For New York the average number was 317, California 291, and for Illinois the surprisingly low number of 9 9. A large majority of the cases, especially of blindness, are due to inherited disease or inherited mental deficiency, declared Dr. Park. It is the hope of the department. to some day broaden its scope so that it can help to raise the standards in the home itself, then there will bo by far fewer cases of delinquency dependent on the bounty of tfte state.

The moron is one of the most frequent and dangerous types with which Dr. Park comes In contact and she believes that it is absolutely imperative to isolate this type mental defective from all fiormal children. Previous to cqming here. Dr. Park was engaged in medical work in the schools of Seattle and before that time was county physician for Wau- Discovery that the skeleton dng up by workmen excavating for a new street in Onalaska was the remains of a body buried in the -first cemetery in Onalaska has aroused considerable speculation here as to where the first cemetery was located in La A search of the early historical records of La Crosse leads to the conclusion that the first'burial here was in the'.

winter of 1842-43, when fhe body of an Indian was laid to rest on Front street, between Stale and Main. During a particularly cold spell that winter, a son of Blind De Cora froze to death under the following circumstances lbs was engaged in a nunc for deer, and to disencumber himself and facilitate fftrsuit, threw off his blanket in the chase, which led over Root river. While crossing the river the ice yielded to his weight and he pluuged into the chilling waters. He succeeded in extricating himself and, gained solid ground. It is supposed that he became temporarily insane and died before help could reach him.

After his body was found, and while the question of murder was being considered and investigated, a closer examination of the surroundings was made and it was -discovered that kesha county In this state. She took her pre-medic work in the Letters and Science college of the University of Wisconsin and received her medical work at the Womans Medical college, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is inspiring to say the least to talk to anyone who has such splendid ideals of service to humanity as has Dr. Park. She is not a visionary, however, has a definite conception of, the gradual steps which must be taken for the betterment of that class of our population who are unable to take care of themselves.

BY WILLIAMS CONSERVATIVE AND SPORT MODELS FOR 1923 VIEWED Male Dress Just as Serious as Womens BEAU BRUMMEL Crosse, emerging from the mysterious den in which he concocts What the Well-dressed La Crosse. Man Will Wear. for men who follow fashions, opined that men are taking styles seriously these days. Tall and short, slender and stout, 15 and 45, stand side by side before La Crosse shop windows, to learn from the displays the correct thing for this and that. he soliloquized and reviewed some of the things he had seen In his journey around the downtotm district.

1 am at my best in said a pudgy traveling salesman at least, he looked like one thrusting back his shoulders and inhaling deeply in front of a shop window. You should sec me in a said a young man fresh from the barber shop, with his hair slicked down upon his ears. The of good dressing lies in being correctly garbed for the occasion so Beau La Crosse would write it he it at the wheel of a motor, or on the Country clnh links, at the office or at the more formal events of the winter social season. Return to FormaJcy The return of winter means a return to formalcy, to some extent, after a spring and summer In which Mr. La Crosse has joyously gone about In tweeds and cool things of this sort and that, natheless style or form.

Beau La Crosse of Main street, says high silk hats even the opera hat with its accordion arrangement are right. So is the Chesterfie.d coat, with silkfaced lapels. The new square bottom vest is best form for tnee days, but the white vest may sriil he worn. Tweeds are retaining their popular- ity for business and knockabout wear. But as the rougher cloths, more par-' tieularly cheviot, do not lend them-f spItps easily to the creased and span effect sought In American tailoring, styles will be less conventional, with a looser effect in trousers, with suits plain In detail anl ornamental only by stitching.

Length of cost is t. nice matter of distinction. While it is said here and there on Main street that the coat should be measured to 32 1-2 inches, most La Crosse tailors and clothiers seem to figure on 30 1-2 to 51 inches for the man of average height. Vests are also a nice matter. They are a most important detail of a mans coat, though most men never thiqk of them.

This year, the ventless coat is dernier crL. Waistlines Take a Drop Further, in common with tho feminine, the masculine waistline will be low.er, and belts on sport coats come almost to the hips, with an average measurement df 17 12 inches down on i the coat for the belt. As to the Important detail of collar 0d lapel, men 6eem to be reverting to the rolled collar which rolls clear to the first button. Sleeves are larger, in keeping with the rougher fabrics, and lapels are shorter anl narrower. No man need be cramped when he comes to try on an overcoat.

For whether he prefer raglan. ulster, loose topcoat, singlebreasted or double, he may go forth confident that his choice will be corect. All three are to be good this fall and winter. Bean Lacrosse says. For all around business wear, the easy going raglan slipon will ride the crest of the ulster of heavier material and with large pockets and collar.

Is the thing for driving and knocking around in general, and the silkfaced Chesterfield will be right for both day and evening wear, with the choice of a. frock type coat for the man of dignified proportions. Shirts Conservative, Too Most everything Is to be conservative. says Beau La Crosse. Even shirts are to be conservative, quiet.

with 'the possible exception of checked flannel shirts that the high and normal school students already are wearing. Gone, however, are the candy stripes and the violent reds and mauve. Instead, the colors which find favor on Main street and with the heart of Beau La Crosse are soft and delicate. Light blue leads the with the pale tans, lav- -euders. yellow and green In high favor.

They are especially good when worn with collars of -the same material, either attached or detached, stiff or starched. White shirts with attached collars and straight cuffs will continue their popularity. Men of affairs, as well as young men, seem definitely to hare accepted the soft shirt as correct for any occasion of day wear. Might Have Been Accidental You speak of my poem as an effusion Why not? snarled the editor. I wrote it laboriously.

It was not dashed off. Im willing to admit that It shows some evidence of thought and application on your part. In4twelve stanzas of four lines each you made twenty-four attempts to rhyme. In two instances you succeted. Birmingham Age-Herald.

STORY OF PRAIRIE DU CHIENS FIRST WHITE CHILD AN EPIC ARTIFICIALLY GROWN PEARLS FROM JAPAN DEFY EXPERT TESTS Impossible to Distinguish Between Real and Artificial Pearls is Claim PARIS. Owners in Paris of valuable strings of pearls have been thrown into something like consternation by the published opinion of Dr. Louis Boutan, professor of science at the University of Bordeaux, and an expert in pearls, that he and other pearl experts are unable to distinguish between real pearls and those artificially grown by the Japanese. The statement, of Dr. Boutan.

made at the French Academy of Sciences, remqves the last hope concerning Japanese pearls, which have been grown in quantity since M. Mikimoto, the Japanese scientist, made his discovery. Pearls normally are grown by accident, through a fine grain of sand entering the shell of the oyster. The white substance, called a pearl, grows inside the oyster and is a secretion caused by the effort of the shellfish to get rid of the foreign substance. Mikimoto conceived the idea of opening oysters and inserting the foreign substance, or grain of and, that formerly came there accidentally.

Since Japanese began to grow pearls artificially there has been much dfccussion as to whether these new pearls would affect the value of the accidentally grown pearls. The only difference would appear to be in the pearl seedor grain of sand, and now it is claimed by Dr. Boutan that even this difference cannot be detected. The statement of Boutan Is categoric: If I did not have a cer tificate of origin when sections of pearls were shown me, pearls cut into sections for testing purposes, I would not be able to say which pearl is artificial. Legion Post of City Firemen -A post of the American Legion, composed exclusively of city firemen, has been formed in New Orleans.

The firq fighters plan to enter a team in the Legion athletic meet next October. -Galesville Republican. United States Goods Goods manufactured in the United States during 1920 bad a value of $62.910,202,000. The National Clark, now a captain, being sent there with his company to strengthen the garrison in anticipation of troublg with the' Indians, which resulted a few years later in the Black Hawk war. The Asiatic cholera visited the United States for the first time in 1832 and in Cincinnati, where the family then was, its ravages were dreadful.

In 1833 the Clarks went to Fort Winnebago on the Fox river, Wisconsin. This was at the close of the Black Hawk war. Mrs. Van Cleves account of this Journey has authoritative bearing- on the oft disputed story of the elopement of Jefferson Davis, then a lieutenant stationed at Ft. Crawford, with a daughter of the commandant, Zachary Taylor.

Tells of Elopement Charlotte Clark was then fourteen, and she thus records her impressions: On our way to our new sta tion we stopped several days at Fort Crawford to rest and prepare for our Journey of nearly a week over land to Fort Winnebago, and were entertained by Col. Zachary Taylor, then in command. And when we learned only a short time after our arrival at our journeys end that Lieut. Jefferson Davis had carried off beautiful Miss Knox in spite of the parents watchfulness and her fathers absolute commands, our grief and indignation knew no bounds. "The colonel and his wife never recovered from the shock and they never saw their child again.

The misguided daughter died six months after leaving home. Charlotte Clark was married before her seventeenth birthday to Lieut. H. P. Van Cleve at Fort Winnebago.

the Van Cleves with their Children, moved to Minnesota, and at the breaking out of the Civil war Van Cleve entered the Second regiment, Minnesota volunteer infantry and rose to the rank of general. Especially in the Dark A banana peel on the sidewalk is a standing invitation to bit AMONG the life stories Inscribed upon the early pages of northwestern history few are so fulL of Interest as that of Charlotte Ouiscon-in Clark Van Cleve, first white child norn in the old French village of Prairie du Chien. Charlotte Clark was born in July, 119, at Fort Crawford, Prairie 'du Chien, daughter of an army officer, nd died In Minneapolis in the early nineties. Her first recollections of the upper Mississippi valley were of a vast, untouched wilderness, but she lived to see forests and the Indians swept 1WT. cities and towns built and connected by railroads, and she was buried with military honors from a Utely church not far from the spot Jhere her first religious teachings had been sheltered by a spreading tree.

Daughter of Officer Mrs. Van Cleve was the daughter of kleut. Nathan Clark and his wife, charlotte, members of the old time gltne of the regular frontier army. She was the first white-child born in prairie du Chien, though the place nad been settled by French and half oreeds for a full half century, and named Charlotte for hbr mother, With Oulsconsin, the French spell-Wg of Wisconsin, for a middle name. In September her fathers regiment proceeded up the Mississippi in boats to the mouth of St.

Peters river. Here, where Fort Snelling had neen built, the Fifth regiment re-nnlned some years, their nearest white neighbors 300 miles' away at 'ralrlu du Chien. Supplies came by noat from St. Louis at Irregular in-jervals and mail semi-annually and ater quarterly by Indian pony rid-r from Prairio du Chien. In May, 1823, the first steamboat leached Fort Snelling.

Charlotte Clark, then four, remem-nered the coming of the first steamboat, and 41 years later, in 18 64, she again in St. Paul to see the first lrain of cars leave Fort Snelling. Fled Cholera 1 In 1827 the family came to Fort Crawford and remained a year, Lieut..