Show the women of the home economic association of cincinnati have started et a nation wide movement intended d 16 W discourage the practice among high school girls of painting and powdering and dressing as it if they were going to td a party these practical ladies instead of merely mere criticizing and giving good advice actually propose to adopt th their 1 1 r i reform themselves they passed this resolution resolved that as far as possible we standardize our dress along lines of appropriateness comfort health and simplicity in order to set the proper example in the matter secretary of the treasury macveagh has asked congress for an additional appropriation p I 1 of to canyon the work of righting fighting the bubonic plague on the pacific coast as ai well as for preparing against yellow fever an and dother other ep epidemics I 1 elsewhere in the country about a month is being spent nt in stamping out the plague no cases are reported in the cities but they occur from time to time in the country districts it is found that the ground squirrels are afflicted with the plague and it is believed that the infection is b spread by them the disease will become a real menace Is rigorous measures are not taken against it increasing protests have been heard against the way sunday Is s being secularized at the national capital and this criticism took definite form in the pres py terian general gendral assembly at louisville J J W foster who was president mat hiiri sonis sons secretary of state stale condemned the ifie continued and increased laxity of sabbath observance at washington alawa or Y t 11 1 ViS S eriq Vr iq va adula tl TAiA ati tt i i bawa whom A who M make ike the law kw bothe e 0 of columbia Colum Dia it was vms asserted that 0 small boys are employed as caddies on golf links in this country on sunday and that this and all other sunday sports act as a blight on character nine tenths of those who enter prison started by sabbath breaking said baid mr foster the assembly took action con condensing deming sunday sorts and recreations of all sports including excursions and unnecessary sunday traveling as well as sunday newspapers and everything else requiring sunday work it was recommended that committees be formed in every church to combat all forms of sabbath desecration some of the people at washington have resented this criticism of the way they spend their sundays declaring that if they wanted to be equally critical they could cast a few stones at the way the church people do things A resolution is being pushed in the house calling for a complete list of a all 11 federal judges from the supreme court down together with full data as to what posts they held prior to being appointed the idea is to let I 1 the he people see how many of these thesa officials have been ean in the employ of 0 corporations corporation etc and are therefore presumably favorable to big business the senate is receiving numerous protests from people who are opposed to the bill authorizing the coinage of three cent and half cent pieces nickels and cents are now put in tie the con box says one protester and it will be still worse if smaller colas coins are issued A short time ago a child belonging to a family named schmied Sch ried living in the N new iw york slum district dis trici was was run over and killed by an auto next another child was killed by a bricia falling from a roof and th the other oilier day the third thir done one was killed by abduct ja from frera a cartridge thrown into the fire FOX FOR RENT 2 furnished rooms on alst street inquire of E J baker A leading berlin specia specialist listis is curing nerves in women by making them knit tor for several hours a day he finds that attending to their knitting knit knitt tinz iniz keeps tham acm from worrying about things in and makes their tempers serene our grandmothers were placid d he says sam and ana that ta was because they knitted so enuch A cli some surgeons make a practice of 0 knitting daily so as to keek their 1 nerves in good tune for delic delicate ate operations you night might try the knitting cure yourself if you find your nerves ate are wearing through new york hotel walter waiters are on strike in this western country people have teamed learned to do their own cooking and walt wait upon themselves |