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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1914
Page
3
A reform minded column argues beauty is not essential in marriage and favors brunettes over blondes. It urges domestic virtues and measures that uplift family life, calling for modesty, thrift, and calculated partnerships. It frames these as public virtue supported by society and institutions.
A 19th century survey outlines the ideal wife as healthy and strong, of medium height, erect carriage, prioritizing beauty of character over looks. Preferences note Brevettes over blondes, housework aptitude, domestic training, and cordial relations with father and brothers, avoiding Eugene marriages, with emphasis on home and family discipline.
Pomona young men ranked the ideal wife after a sermon by Harbor Park church pastor on the Ideal Husband. A questionnaire among over ten local girls guided a list of desirable traits including health, strength, practicality, modesty, domestic sense, helpfulness to family, and a sense of humor. Most favored women with athletic interests, a sunny disposition, and steadfast character, while suffrage was broadly supported.
A funeral commemoration gathered at Union Station for the late Minister Felix Rojas of Venezuela. State Department officials and Pan American leaders accompanied the body from Atlantic City to his home and St Matthews Church, with a requiem high mass. The escort proceeded to Norfolk bound for Caracas via naval transport.
The explosion aboard the steamship Jefferson near Norfolk killed eleven men. A government inquiry found a fusible plug failure caused the blowout, prompting a rule requiring two fusible plugs in marine boilers, renewed monthly and tested by the Steamboat Inspection Service. The vessel, operated by Old Dominion Steamship Co, was en route to New York when the accident occurred.
In a May 1914 letter Capt Hopkins urged Carranza to act on the national railroad situation amid plans for a separate northern system. The memorandum to Mr Zubaran explains bondholder pressure from English French and Dutch financiers seeking to control or operate the lines after hostilities end. Pierce favors vacating the current board and forming a trusted new one to prevent foreign control.
Senator Jones of Washington urged action on a bill to grant Thomas Harrison a $100 monthly pension. Harrison, 87, has served 66 years as a clerk at the naval observatory. A petition cited that if the government can pension old horses it should support a faithful government worker.
Miss Jane Addams of Hull House spoke at a Raleigh meeting under the new Woman Suffrage council noting the recent National Federation of Women's Clubs convention accepted a suffrage resolution after a stormy two year lapse. She said Chicago benefits from a modicum of suffrage as tables are turned and politicians now seek women advisers.
The Buenos Aires daily La Prensa lauds the Niagara Falls mediation conference as a triumph for peaceful Pan American policy. It asserts US sincerity in Pan Americanism and proclaims blessed Pan Americanism amid ongoing regional diplomacy.
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