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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1907
Page
4
Dr Edward Everett Hale, famed author of The Man Without a Country, reaches 85 at his Washington home. Hundreds of friends, gifts, and letters pour in from across the country as he reflects on a life of writing, lecturing, and public service with health and happiness.
A meeting of the prevention of consumption committee was held at 2% H Street NW on Tuesday April 3 with Gen William H Forwood acting chairman and members including William H Baldwin George Wilson Dr William C Rives and Emile Berliner. They favored plans on car ventilation clean milk supply to the District disease prevention in schools a government TB publication broader information on tuberculosis and more advertising. By unanimous vote Dexter Schroeder Rosenau Trall and Cohen were added as members.
At a Tuesday evening Texas Society session Miss Edna Snyder played a violin solo with Miss Eugenie de Guerin. Mrs CH Difford read a history on adopting the Texas seal. Jerome Deslo sang Love Me and the World is Mine with Miss Marsuoris Fines, and Bana Snyder contributed another violin solo.
Old paintings by Mrs. F. Fisher widow of the artist were displayed at the Alabama apartment house. Works include scenes from Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Virginia, France, Italy and Switzerland. A notable piece titled Autumn of Life depicts an old man in a graveyard and another shows the James River.
Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease powder eases painful feet and bunions, relieves stinging toes, and makes new shoes feel comfortable. Sold by druggists and shoe stores with mail order available. address in Le Roy New York.
Masonic lodge members organize for the upcoming fair opening at Convention Hall ten days away. Bethlehem Chapter No 7 leads duties with Katherine Glenn chairing. a large list of lodge members supports the Dancing Palace booth while Charles Sudworth to print a nightly Palace Scandal paper. Lafay ette Lodge hosts a lunch room effort with 100 attendees and a musical close by Philharmonic and Judge choirs.
Charlemagne Tower, U S ambassador to Germany, arrived from Bremen and will spend a month in the United States. He rejected a cable claim that Harry Lehr offended the Kaiser and blamed the American ambassador. Tower says the Kaiser was not angered and doubts a U S visit by Prince Oscar. He also says Germany opposes disarmament talk at The Hague as impractical and potentially harmful to the conference program.
Theodore von Moller and Dr. R. Koser, German government representatives, travel from Washington to Pittsburg for the opening of the enlarged Carnegie Institute. von Moller expects no difficulty in a tariff settlement with the United States, noting Germany’s simple non ad valorem system and predicting a satisfactory arrangement for both nations.
Lynchburg Va April 1 letter cites R L Dabneys Life and Campaigns of Lieut Gen Thomas J Jackson page 192 claiming Jackson declared that no prisoners should be taken in the war arguing it would shorten the conflict save bloodshed and serve the Souths cause with justice.
Cincinnati April 3 The American Christian Educational Society of the Disciples of Christ rejected merging its educational and missionary societies and urged 2,000 young preachers to fill unoccupied pulpits. The meeting, prelimary to a congress conference, discussed unification of the three societies but yielded a negative decision.
A Chicago event features a young woman unveiling a painting of an island encircled by foam. The crowd, including a corpulent red-cheeked man, jokes that the foam evokes Milwaukee during the block beer season, ending with repeated foam references.
A fragmented Chicago item shows a merchant seeking a janitor and asks about prior employment. The applicant recalls work at a bank but denies cleaning it out, noting the cashier did a portion of the work.
Police Court heard two Belmont chauffeurs guilty of speeding. Granville Hearn for Perry Belmont was fined 30 dollars after being stopped en route to Benning race track. William Crowe, employed by T. T. Graff, was fined 20 dollars for speeding while attempting to catch a train.
Social and personal column notes tonight's Easter program in the Mansion's historic walls from 6 to 7 with a musical and literary program by Washington's best local talent. The house will be open to visitors after the event.
Ethel Rockefeller and Marcellus Hartley Dodge plan a spring wedding amid vast fortunes and horse show gossip. The piece highlights their outdoor lives, grooming and stables at Rockwood Hall, Dodge’s reach in Hartley Arms, and their public courtship at the Waldorf. It also notes the Durland riding academy strike and the looming social season from London to New York.
In Atlantic City a parade of fashion and decor drew crowds as rain drove many indoors. Prof E A Ross contrasted human female display with animal gowns, noting women dress to attract men while men toil. Couture details and social figures highlighted the city’s glittering boardwalk and theater culture.
Special Cable reports Calthrop's claim that women understand neither beauty nor dress. He argues men know more about dress because they view women in perspective. Women are described as parts, not individuals, resulting in no true female dressers, only sticks in fashion.
A writer argues that modern women imitate a uniform ideal, squeezing diverse figures into a single image. He asserts most women are beautiful and can enhance individuality through dress, contrasting them with Du Maurier era standards and praising early Victorian dress sense.
Brussels report says Ghent plans a new women police unit led by Chief Wessemael. Twelve officers, aged forty to fifty, unmarried or childless widows, will work without uniforms but carry credentials. They join administrative and preventive sections to monitor the population and deter crime.
Special to The Washington Post from New York Apr 3 reports the marriage abroad of Arthur Tryon Kemp of this city to Miss Siby Kaye at Gosmore House Hitchin Hertfordshire England. Kemp, abroad since September, is son of the late George Kemp. His mother Mary Isa belle Neilson was daughter of Mrs Fredere Neilson and sister of Reginald C Vanderbilt.
Mrs W H Inman denies reports of engagement to James B Duke head of the tobacco trust in a Washington Post special from Atlanta Georgia. She and her mother and son plan to travel to Europe in May for the summer and likely winter. Sewing Class to Meet at Audenreid Home on Vermont Avenue scheduled for tomorrow morning at 11 o clock.
A Long Island romance rumor centers on Leander Cos and his partner as neighbors report harmony returning to Grove after years of dispute. No official records confirm the reconciliation but town chatter highlights renewed neighborly ties and celebrations.
A brief Chicago News item reports a playful exchange during the couple's honeymoon three days after their marriage. The bride teases about freedom while the groom responds with lighthearted certainty about continuing married life.
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