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WEDNESDAY EVENING. OAKLAND TRIBUNE APRIL 7. '1909. Berlin Pays High Honor THE AMERICAN GIRL -b! Dry Points-Bv the IRamoMS' Heimlich Roth To Mme.Schumann-;Hqink ii jjfsr Mme. Sjhumann-lieink is th" rei ipient of distinguished social as well as musica.1 honors.

This week she was the puest of honor at teeeption jriven'by Mrs. PiavW Jayne Hill, the wife, of the to Tlie Fo'reisn I'pn-ss Association also stnsle Si luimar.n-lieink out for espefial distinction, in inviting- her to be' chief artist on the prosram -to be'feiven at the annual reception this; week. These affairs of the Foreign Fness easily take rank as, tlie most brilliant social functions of thf si.i- son. and prrat regret. Is felt tiiat.Aime.

What Organized Effort Is Doing to Save the Babies Parts That Flowers Take In Life's Pleasure The indispensable annual are only three or four that Is, to begin would take In to a certainty sweet Irs. nasturtiums, asters, nnd then dd a a class that' can take care of ltelf mreaopis. Prummond phlox, forget-me-not, mlgrtnnctte. and then possibly add one or two private favorites. There Is not any other flower for everybody equal to the nastur- tlum, or.

our mothers called It. the sturtlum. It was grown the old pioneer gardens for pickles, and my associations with picking the green eeeds to stuff mangoes are with the hottest hours of the hottest days. This Tower has been greatly Improved, and there Is nothing to equal It for fragrance and prolific flowering. The.

plant likes the most barren spi'it In your garden, and there it sots to work to cover the gravel with the oddest of all Oriental leaves much like a Japanese umbrella. Then from May till November ibere Is a tiro- fusion of most deliriously scented flowers, that you can carry off by handfuln and The odor doer not disturb the and a bunch Is welcome In every room of the house. Woman's Idea to Create Industrial School in Louisiana Mlf." Kate (Jordon of New Orleans, as of the Juvenile Court Is leading a movement establish a Mat Industr school providing manual training for boys and girls. Fhe proposes a tax of cents nn every Jl.ooi) to pay the expanses. The Women tax ia vers of Louisiana, who have right to vote on all elections relating to taxation, have pretty generally let It be known that they are willlnT to pay their share to establish the school.

MARCEL -5 WAVE is- 1 Cities a rifilit see to it that Put no ieityv infant life is preserv however a -id 'autocratic the pojvers granted to its Board of Health, can: enforce its rijrht to the lives of infants without the hearty ajd of ail its women, mothers ami non-mothers ai.ike. How shall women give that Flrft of ail thei must know the facts. They ruust make their particular business 'to learn why the infant death rate ifalls so anr why so larpre a porcentase of Fchool children are physically handicapped. At the jcall of the Commissioner of Health early last summer, representatives of over fifty educational and charitable agencies, including the departments of health and education, hospitals, dispensaries, phil anthropic institutions, milk and jrce depots, and the press, met in New York and organized a conference on summer care of babies. Experts interested in the care of mothers and babies were drawn together and brought faco to face with the fact that a large numjlr of babies would surely die during the; Summer unless prompt, vigor ous and organized effort prevented it.

All Inters' i Bmm ROMANCE Mr. Roth is frankly a follower of the' great. Helleu, and that he is successful shown bv these jxwxlels, but Mr. Roth -American''' wqrn en, which in his judgment are" the handsomest in the pize lot Society Org WARMTH NEEDED Queries for a BrideEleet By an Eligible Bachelor Me Says, In Ethical Caltmire ways used French women as hs WOrld. to the very best of my ability.

"Second Whether she wojdd be. illing for mo to devote all my space time, and a good deal of the time whiah I could not spare, to tlie congenial taskt of trying to make her perfectly happy and thoroughly contented. "Third Whether she iwould favor me so far as to permit me tq worship her NEW YORK. Imperial Daughters" of represent tlie British crown the) Empire State, whp the feminine subjects! of I'nited States 5-2- in the held their first meeting yesterday at the Woman's Club, street. They will 9 East start orations -rivitii a large reception Apifl 27.

Jimes Bryce, wife of the. British Ambassador, is the honorary president. and LadjH PurdoA Clarke and Mrs. Courte nayiWJ'Bennett wife'of the British consul general here, honorary vice presidents. Miefeter Runes Town Rattoer of her heins mie.Tt of the.

association. week the second sotiR recitaU of this artist will take place in' the I'illiai-mifniv. Ksnccial attaches to the anii'iiincement that April 4 slip hcar.il in the le Orpheus in the Cluck opera at the Royal Opera In. Ilerlin. Ort.

April 10 Mme. Whumann'-Heink will place her art at the servie-e of the American 'Church in a eoiwert whleh lias been arraneeii to take place In the music wms of the Hotel KsplanadV. i members of tlie conferenee -doctors, so-, cial -workers and -wre set discussing whit mothers ought to know In order to their 'babies, and the con-' elusions thus reai-hed w-'ie summed up on a beautifully colored card. MiO of which were distributed to mothers. ()ver a hundred mirss, trained hospital 'and social work, wi re sent out visit the mother ofevT- iiew-botrii hai and give her private lessons on "How Keep Her Baby Well." The city was districted, and in the districts rot otherwise' covered the health detvirl au nt nurses.

Doctors were senti to sick) baliie.i and twelve medical inspectors ployed by tlie health department to at a notice Uo ever vj case re.porte.r. Sumntor schools for mothers werel held on -in, the; parks, at the vacati-in schools, and at 'the ''Infants' mill: Stations. In these schools (-consult, with doctors, lectures were given. and nurses -showed by actual demonstra tion how to hythe, dress and feed baby. Here a spirit of emulation gre .9 up.

Each mother became eager -to Wave her "baby the most beautiful. of EesrMh'd Tlie president is MYs' J. Elliott I.angstaff; vice presidents, B. Eaphflm, Mrs. William Pr Hamilton and Mrs.

von Putsau; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Valentine Schuyler; recording secretary. Miss Carola Brown; treasurer, Mrs. Robert Hep ton, and the standard-bearer. Miss Ruth Fuller.

As the parent society acknowledges Canada as its birthplace, the New York offshoot will be known us the King Edward VII chapter. There 800,000 British subjects, half- of whom are women, In the Llnited States. Away Promnu. Thiaini. Fa.ce! to a rwoman, ijvho drove it into the' gaping At the conclusion of the service her announced that during his farewell sermon in the evening he would 0 the full story his domestic woeT The evening sermon never preached.

Just before he left town Mr. Dane, said: 7 i. "JJuchjpaid about me Is untrue. They say I rove my wife fro'm, the house" and looked' the door on hor Thursdavr night, It is untrue. I have mail women! friends in my congregtioru but hare always loved my wife and been ldnd to the children and to her, although we were not mated and never should have 1 He sil.so' said he would not contest the divorce, but would fight for tha custody of his two little 'children.

'r- 7-' A MAIDEN IN CALICO i -Over the fence where the sweet fern grew, Just to be dried for an aeorn pipe; Only a step from the Mulberry tree, Burdened, with terries luscious and ripe, I buried my treasure two coppers new Stealthily, fearing the world might know, And she was my sentjnel tried and true, Sweet little maiden in calico. i. Laughing, she begged in my treasure h.i Room that her trinkets she might hide, Under the cover 'of fresh-cut sod, Yhere my two coppers lay side by And' when I deninded a kiss as pay side. For tlie use offmy secret vault below, She paid me my with a rosy cheek Sweet little mafen in calico. Many a treasure I've seen since then.

Many a maiden with laughing eye's. But not one out my treasure box i 1 '( Where the secrets, of. love ij its keying lie. And at night when I sit in my cozy-chair, Watching the sprites in the ire's glow, The prettiest fancy the flames give forth IS a swept little maiden in calico. Innis G.

Osborn in March Bohemian. OF A BACHELOR 'GIRL fee ion and to become absolutely voted to her, Woman Named 1 2 Cats After Apostles; Contest Will es le Divorce Comrt 4 NEW. YORK. There Is a movement In the Ethical;" Culture Society, of which Dr. Felix Adler Is the head, to return In some sense tq the ritual, the ceremony, the poetic appeal to the senses thfough the warmih and.

color of symbols. In ah address before the Women's Conference yesterday afternoon -at -the. society's." building. Central Park West and Sixty-third street, made a stron'g; protest against letting the many slide out of the movement which, he said, has not been progressing fpc several years. He.

cited the suffragette agitation in London, a one of the causes of the defection in 'the cult on that side of the "Women; who throw themselves enthusiastically lAto the cause -ofj the suffragettes askj themselves whythey should give any of! Jheir time to the ethical movement; Why they should scatter their energy?" said 3dr. Chubb. "People find they don't enough from us. Our whole doctrine resolves itself into the simple command: 'Be Good." But they say In effect 'Don't- tell me to be good, but tell me to be good for While- we cannot give them any more dogma, we can build up a religious life full of color and richness and ceremony for them. Many can't understand what things friean until you give them expres-; slon In symbols.

"Young women, especially, find we are too colorless. They go off to other churches and are lost to us. Their emotional cravings, their desire for something At least one bachelor is Ineonsed by the ufcgestion that a woman, before lieeomlnjr a bride, shall submit to her uitor for heart-to-heat replies a list of questions covering his probable conduct after marriage. Ho thinks women should not have a. monopoly of pre-marital examination, for he ays, I marry 1 should like to aik my Intended wife: "First Whether she would permit me to obey her Implicitly and to carry out her every wish to the minutest detail and THE CALL I)ve comes laughing up the valU-ys, Hand In hand with hoyden spring; All the Flower Teople nodding.

Alt the Feathered Folk a-wlrifr. Higher!" ca'l the thrushes; "Wilder! Freer!" breathe the tires; And the purple mountains beckon t'pward to their Always farther leagues to wander. Peak to peak and to slope; Tlps to sing and feet to follow, -Eyes to dream and heart to hope. Tarry? Nay, but who can tarry? All the world Is on the wing; Loe comes laughing t.p the valleys. Hand In hand with hoyden spring.

Reginald Wright Kauffman in April Hampton's. "pictures. The- famous Ilelleu al that has 'warmth and color is the cause, "The question is, do we want to make i a beautiful ceremony of marriage? Do we want a beautiful graduation for our young people? Do we desire a beautiful rite of initiation into the society? Should we keep; the naming of the baby as a private affair? I think the' devoting of a cftil.d to this' work should be a great)ub-lic function." The socletV's new building, which is' to include stained glass windows and frescoes in its scheme of decoration, will be a departure from the plain design of present structure. Of the necessary ail but J40.000 is in hand, and work is to be commenced at once. There will, be no d-bt on it.

The Sunday school children are to raise a fund by blacking boots, saving their soda-water money and making other sacrifices. CHRISTINE The beauty of the Northern dawns, Their pure, pale light is thine; Yet all the dreams of tropic, nights Within thy blue eyes- shine. Not statelief in their prisoning seas The icebergs grandly move, But in thy smile is youth and joy, And in thy voice is love. i i JOHN HAY. LI vie weekly salary to play poker in a gambling house on tlie upper West Side, of which, he was tlie proprietor.

I worked there every night until my husband became so annoying that I lost my place." Mrs. Rumbold harged her husband infidelity, declared that he had squandered her savings, and asked for alimony. In opposing the application denied these accusations and made counter charges, asserting that his wife was too friendly -with Arthur M. Evart of 5 West Sixty-fifth street. In view of the conflict of testimony Judge Hendricks refused the petition for alimony pending the trial rf the suit.

Mrs. Rumbold gave her present as 102 West; Eighty- fifth street. il ous pranks had thrown the school into a state of disorganization: In distress the teacher wrote to the President, and next mornin-g Quentin turned up at school with the note fVom his father to the effect that the President had attended to his case in the good- old-fashioned way. A short time later Mrs. Roosevelt had aQronsultation with the teacher, and explained that Roosevelt's methods were a little too strenuous.

"Hereafter I would rather have you inform me w-hen Quentin does not behave, and I will correct him," she the teacher Woman Played Poker Woialdn'f Fight, a Duel TO KEEP'' HIS OWN-WIFE jl "Fourth Whether. she would be willing ta see-alj--the latest plays and condescend to wear expensive furs and to ride in motor cars. "Fifth Whether I might be permitted to buy her a dozen new dresses every week and twelve new hats. "If my intended wife could answer these questions In the affirmative, I should. Indeed, be happy; and I should not wish to ask anythitig further of her, unless, perhaps, it might be to beg of her to accept additional checks for considerable amounts, say, every two days, so that she might make an attempt, however feeble, to keep pace with the latest fash- in bats." She ordered that I should have engraved on each collaij the name of one of the twelve Apostles, with the prefix of 'Saint' on each.

I told her that her whim was not only uncaniny but'sacrilegious, but she was notUo be dissuaded. I delivered ten of the collars and at the timapf her death had still in my possession tvvo collars. One was engraved 'St. Judas" and the (Other 'St. These collars, with the names engraved on silver plates, were offered In evidence.

"How did Miss Burnet transact her business?" the witness was asked. "She told me, In December, 1907, that she did all her business through the medium of prayer. She said that -whenever she prayed "for guidance In business! matters she got an answer from an unseen IN LENT In Lenten season Mabel wears, A sor.bre gown of gray, I wonder how such beauty dares Ta hide itself aw ay From all the world's frivolity And seem to feel content; But here's an to jollity While Mabel's keeping Lent. If Mabel knew When Lent be rins Comes Cupid with his dart, That penance seeking for my' sins I'd cloister in her heart, Perhaps beneath her sobex mien. Her look, of jmeek content.

There might the light of love be seen, While Mabel's keeping Lent. Ti. II. WHAT SHE SAID Yes, once: she said she'd never w-ed A man Jvho was not noted The common kind most women find No matter ly devoted. She wanted mind.

Boeotian blind 'And earthly, dull and grubby Could win her hand, you understand, But, have you noticed hubby? A handsome face, a form whose grace Suggested an Apollo She wouldj require, and In attire To bettjBeau Brummell hollow. You couldn't hire her to admire A sloven small and scrubby. She wanted what she never got. For have you "noticed hubby? At seventeen a gfrl may mean To get the best that's going. At twenty-eight any mate.

Brings Joy quite overtl jwir.g. at this date she doesn't hate The commonplace and tubby. She's satisfied to be a bride. Say have vou noticed hubby? Chicago Daily News. To Earn W'ATERBUR April Dreading the propped of facing sen- sational charges in a divorce suit to be brought against him the Rev.

Charles hired a Walter Dane of Woodbury team' and hurried out of town while a large congrega- tion sat patiently in the Methodist church waiiting for him to make plain his position as he had promised. The clergyman's wife left town Saturday The troubles of the Danes had been known to fe'w persons, although they now furnistu the principal subject of discussion In Woodbury. It is known that Mrs. Dane, accuses her husband not onli' of improper conduct with several jwomen members of his flock but of physical, cruelty to herself and her children. The minister denies; all ttffe charges, Woodbury, twelve 'miles from nearest railroad station, has-been brought into.

communication with' the outside world by means of a trolley line recently. Mr. Dane is regarded as a man of superior intellect; Indeed, the continuance in so small a charge of such a brilliant preacher has bmg caused speculation. Mrs. Dane says ironically her husband remained in Woodbury because "he' liked the at-muspherei" Recently he announced he wou' another not i remain in the pastorate tenm.

Bv order- of the Meth odist conference his duties came, to an end yesterday. Mrs. Dane When left to'wn she said she yas-going to the home of her parents irj Stonpha'm, and th4t papers in her divorce action would be filed ai' once. Sunday 'morning Mr. Dane Vent to the church, assuring all he met' he would explain the matter from the pulpit.

Preaching on "The Crown pf Life," he said: "One riian I have in mjinuVwho had all in his power to aid others about "jiim, found that at their, first opportunity these same triends tok the'sword and tried to. pierce his Not content with they passed the sword around and each pressed it into bis side, and at length pasked it After liMS-teed NEWARK. Because cats and named each she kept twelve aftur one of the twelve Apostles was one rtjason why the helrs-at-law of Miss Anna a. Tlurnet, an aged spinster of Hilton, seek in the Orphans" Court to upset her wjll. Miss Burnet died late last year.

Sh was a-n octogenarian and left about $300-000. Bequests to a "score 'Of charitable anfl religious Institutions disposed of about 1100,000. Some of the other bequests are jhonsWered eccentric by the kin of Miss teurnet. A witness, Franklin I i Burnet of 72 Whitney street, Newark, a' cousin of the tes'tatiiix, testified: "In July, 1008, Miss Burnet told me she wanted twelve collars made for heixrats lice. During his absence from the store it was closed and a sign "Cone out of business" was placed In the window.

He says he saw Ie Hardy crouching behind a counter when he returned. Ise Hardy denied trying to win the affections of Mrs. Techman. "I am only 23 and Mrs. Techman Is 42 years he- said.

"It is the out-I would try to steal this rage to think mRh's 1 "Hah! exclaimed Techman. I.e Hardy said lio did not challenge Techman, but did remark that if he had pretty wife, about 23 years old, and nnylKMly tried to win her away, he would tight with pistols. Magistrate Fitch found him guilty of disorderly conduct, but consented to sus pend sentence if I.e Hardy would leave 1 town which condition was accepted. He said he wished to return to Astoria for his belongings, but Magistrate Fitch told him he would have to obtain Techtnan's 1 consent. "No!" screamed Techman, in horror, "let leave at once." stones.

it vou sav tnev mav 1 NEW YORK. Instead' pt accepting cbllen to a' duel to decide the; Vowncrship of hi sown 'lf. Aurlel Tech- man. who keeps a confectionery store In Fulton avenue, Astoria, tind I-outg Le Jlardy, 23 years old, summoned before Magistrate Fitch In the Ing Island City Police Court' on a'Clwrge of disorderly conduct. His voice rbokeii with) emotion.

And with -Tcrjiman declared I Hardy bad challenged him to a dive 1 with pistols to settle who should have Mrs. Terhman. "I told him." said Terhman. "that she was tnjr legal, my rightful, my beloved wife, and I didn't have to fight a duel to keep her." "A-h-h-h-h! A-h-b-h-h-!" drawled Le lUrdy. Techman testified he give employment to Ia Hardy, but that lust Saturday even-v inir bis domestic affairs renclied a crisis and he discharged Ic Hardy and ordered Mm to leave the house.

I.e Hardy declined to (co. and was backed up by Mrs. Techman. Techman appealed to tlie po NEW YORK. "Professional" poker playing is a new occupation for women, according to disclosures made by Mrs.

Cora Rumbold." in a suit for diyorce brought against her husband, William Rumbold, 6n automobile, salesman. Five years ago, when She was Cora Marshall, $he was a manicurist in the Hptel Neth-f rland, and there she. met Rumbold. They clasped hands over the water bowl and another romance of.the scissors was under way. j- When they had been married two years, Mr3.

Tiumbold says, her. husband" deserted her, obtain position as a manicurist, she declares, she fell into the of the carets. "One of my 'former patrons," says the affidavit, "offered me a Mrs0: Roosevelt, the i- 1 ReM DlscIpposirSaini efketions Sing a Song of Laughter rr r- Sing a son of Laughter. pocket, full of Sniilcs, It's what the World is after. beats' all other Wiles.

too short for your little while Lookiiip; for the Deautiful, wearing of a Smile. Sec the many Roses, blooming by the Way By Helen Rowland i KALAMAZOO. Mich Although former President Roosevelt, 'after calling his young son, Quentin, into the White House woodshed on complaint of Quentin's teacher in Washington, did not exactly apply big stick," still what happened was no "nature fake." News of this episode is related by Charles W. Townsend, now a special pension examiner at Washington, but formerly of Kalamazoo, in a letter written to John W. Rose of this city.

Mr. Townsend' sister Is a teacher' in a public school in Washington, and Quen-tin was, her pupil. Quentin's mischiev i nev ii cover up tnc morns The reason a girj is anxious for the baseball season to open is the. less she understands the game the more she wants you to take her. If a man buys a horse and finds It'sQ all right it makes him so he wants to run right off and trade a stupid to wonder many people are, There's hardly 'anything a woman likes to talk about more than tne charity doesn't Just a man she does, especially if she do any.

because a girl Is in? love with is no siem she isn't sure to make some other Wl" the better chance. has It takes how You've no timo for Anger, Life's too short for Guile; Look out for the smile, smile. L- James S. Carter it for one whose defects he can certain about..