WOMEN OF MIDDLE LIFE
A Dangerous Period Through Which Every Woman Must Pass
Practical Suggestions Given by the Women Whose
Letters Follow
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other suffering women to
know what Lydia E. Pink
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me good. I wish all women
would try it during the
Change of Life for I know it
will do them good. If you
think itwill induce some one
to try the Vegetable Com
pound you may publish this
letter/’—Mrs. A. Keller,
Afton, Tenn.
Mrs. Mary Lister of
Adrian, Mich.,adds her
testimony to the value
of Lydia E. Pinkham’s
- vegetable tunipuuuu
to carry women safely through the Change of Life. She says:
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It cured me and I am now doing my housework. Your medicine is certainly
woman’s friend andyou may use this testimonial as you choose.”—Mrs. Mary
Lister, 608 Frank Street, Adrian, Mich.
i It is said that middle age is the most trying period in a woman’s life, and
•owing to modern methods of living not one woman in a thousand passes through
this perfectly natural change without experiencing very annoying symptoms.
Those smothering spells, the dreadful hot flashes that send the blood rushing
to the head u '.til it seems as though it would burst, and the faint feeling that
follows, as if the heart were going to stop, those sinking or dizzy spells are all
symptoms of a nervous condition, and indicate the need for a special medicine.
. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is a root and herb medicine espe
cially adapted to act upon the feminine system. It acts in such a manner
as to build up Idle weakened nervous system and enables a woman to pass
this trying period with the least possible annoying symptoms.
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of women are not the surgical ones—they are not caused by serious displace
ments or growths, although the symptoms may be the same, and that is why
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Vegetable Compound, as it acts as a natural restorative and often prevents
serious troubles.
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liar to Women” will be sent to you free upon request. Write
to The Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Massachusetts,
This book contains valuable information.
No Other Way.
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“That’s the only way there Is to go
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Nothing else so enhances the value
of a thing as difficulty In obtaining It.
It’s often a man’s strong right arm
that favorably Impresses a woman.
Only a beautiful girl can afford to
keep her domestic virtues under cover.
Even if the wind does whistle occa
sionally It never tackles popular airs.
Tlie man in the treadmill doesn’t
enjoy seeing the wheels go round.
Let's not waste time trying to figure
out how much of a snake is body and
how much Is tail.
When a man gets bent at any kind
of game he says that he Is out at
practice.
There is a limit to everything, but
lots of men never realize it until it iJ
too late.
A wise man never tells a woman
with a baby how pretty some othe#
woman’s baby is.
Other Ways.
“Some people have all the luck.”
“Then we'll take other ways td
succeed. We’ll hustle and we’ll ad<
vert iso.”
LEAGUE DOWN IN
That He’ll Do This in Message
He’ll Read Before Senate and
House Is Prediction Made in
Nation's Capital.
Washington. April 12.—President
Harding spent most of Monday alone
In his study writing his momentous
first message to congress. which he
will read personally to a joint session
of both houses at 1 o'clock Tues
day afternoon.
In the afternoon he was waited up
on by a congressional committee com
posed of Senators. Lodge and Hitch
cock and Representatives Fordney.
Mondell and Kltchln. which present
ed him -with a Joint resolution in
forming the executive that congress
had convened and awaited any com
munication from the president.
Up to a late hour Monday the mes
sage so eagerly awaited by the world
had not been completed by the presi
dent. While it will he devoted large
ly to a discussion of domestic prob
lems, it also is expected o enunciate
the principles of the foreign policy
of the new administration. There no
longer exists any doubt that the pres
ident in his message definitely will
turn his back on the League of Na
tions and that from now on the
league issue is to be regarded as
dead.
As Hs’d Writs Editorial.
The president, who never dictated
a lengthy communication In his life,
is following tile practice learned in
the office of the Marlon Star of writ
ing his message in longhand, Unlike
his predecessor. President Wilson,
who could operate a typewriter and
write shorthand, President Harding is
writing his first message as he would
write an editorial for his paper. He
does not make notes and then dic
tate the communication to one of the
White House stenographers, but ac
tually performs all the work of writ
ing the message himself.
It is expected that the complete
text will go to the government print
ing office early Tuesday morning,
where special arrangements have
been made to rush it through the big
plant so that copies will be ready for
distribution to members of congress
and the press by. the time the execu
tive goes to the capitol.
STORY OF OPENiNQ
OF 67TH SE83ION
Washington. April 11.—The sixty
seventh congress, called Into special
session by President Harding for leg
islative combat with the after war
domestic and international problems
with which the nations Is burdened
convened at noon Monday, the real
return of the republican party to pow
er like that enjoyed before the Wil
sonian days.
Boasting a majority of 22 in the
Senate and 168 in the House, the
republicans were able to make the
reorganizations mere formalities.
Democrats' Efforts In Vain.
One faint gasp from the 132 demo
crats in the lower house In an ef
fort to get a change of rules that
would give the minority some stand
ing served only to emphasize the re
publican control.
“We simply want to establish the
fact of whether or not the majority
considers it a sound public policy to
vest itself with the power to enact
all legislation under a suspension of
the rules If It so desires,” said Rep
resentative Pou of North Carolina.
“We submit that under the condi
tions a three-fourths vote should be
required to suspend the rules.”
“The country at large seemed to
be willing to take this chance when
It determined the membership of the
House in last fall's election," rejoined
Representative Campbell, of Kansas,
and the two-thirds rule was ap
proved.
Show Up Bird.
One other attempt by the demo
crats to assert themselves came In
connection with the seating of Rep.
Richard E. Bird, of Kansas, who for
some reason had filed a sworn state
ment of campaign expenses amount
ing to $10,300. That amount is more
than $3,000 above the limit fixed in
the corrupt policies act.
Representative Flood, of Virginia,
acting for the minority, presented a
resolution providing for an investiga
tion to determine the Kansan’s right
to question the credentials of a rep
resentative and Representative Bird
was seated pending a decision on his
supposed violation of the law.
‘‘There is precedent for the pro
posed action,” protested Represent
ative Flood. “We have this man’s
own sworn statement to the effect
that he is a violator of the law. I
understand that the claim is made
that he entered expenses that he
was not called upon to list but these
amount to no more than $1,000 and
still he is thousands over the legal
limit."
Some “Show” for Crowds.
The organizing of the two houses
provided some “show" for the crowds
that sfirged into the galleries for the
opening of the history making special
session. In the House, Speaker Gll
lett, was re-established in that post
by a vote of 298 to 122 and given the
oath of office by that distinguished
former speaker, Uncle Joe Cannon,
of Illinois, who delivered a speech.
"We are entering upon what will
inevitably be a long and Important
session of congress," he said.
ALASKAN LANDSLIDE
BLOCKS RAIL TRAFFIC
Seattle, April 12.—A large landslide
or. the Alaska government railroad
between Seward and Anchorage has
completely blocked traffic on the
coast branch of the Upe. according
to cable advices recei- Monday by
the Seattle office of the Alaska Engi
neering commission
D'ANNUNZIO ENTERS
POLITICAL FIGHT
■tome. April 12.—Gabriel d’ Annun
zlo, the tiery poet who held the city of
Flume as long as he could and then
decided that Italy "wasn’t worth dy
ing for," has hurled himself with his
usual abandon into national politics
and promises to produce the most
spectacular three-cornered tight the
country has ever witnessed before
the general elections take place on
May 15.
I*'ormer Premier Nlttl and the
present prime minister, GloUttl, are
the principal opponents. IXAnnunzlo
Is against both and will do his ut
most to stir the voters against re
turning either to power. Personali
ties, therefore, far overshadow the
main issues In the coming campaign,
although the fundamental question
to be fought out will be one of na
tionalism or socialism.
FRANCE OFFERS
HER 1ST INDIES
ISLANDS TQ U.S.
Willing to Give Sugar, Coffee
And Cocoa Producing Lands
In Payment of Debt—Great
Britain Objects to Plan.
BY KARL H. VON W1EGAND.
Berlin, April 12.—France has of
fered to give the United States her
West Indies islands In payment of
the French debt and In order to raise
money, according to Information re
ceived hcrf from high American
llnanclal sources.
In allied diplomatic circles, It Is said
that the entente powers have knowl
edge of the ofTer.
Negotiations are said to have been
going on for some time between
France and America, with a view of
selling French possessions to the
United States, a part of the price to
apply on the debt of France.
It Is furthr said that France is de
sirous of placing a large loan.
There Is reported to be consider
able opposition In British quarters
to Prance selling her islands to
America on the ground that It would
establish a precedent In surrender
ing territory to America for allied
debts, which America might expect
Great Britain to follow', A large New
York banking concern is said to be
greatly Interested in the negotiations.
French possessions In the West In
dies Include the islands of Guada
loupe, Martinique, St. Bartholomew'.
Deslrade, Marie Galante, St. aMrtln
and the lies Des Salntes.
Chief of these are the Guadaloupes,
consisting of two Islands separated
by a narrow channel. The two have
an area of 528 square miles. St. Bar
tholomew, Marie Galante, Isles Dee
Salntes, Deslrade and St. Martin are
dependencies of Guadeloupe, adding
088 square miles of territory. The
islands export sugar, coffee and co
coa.
Martinique, with an area of 885
square miles, was colonized by Francs
in 1635. It Is famous as the birth
place of the Empress Josephine. It
has a population of more than 200,
000 and exports sugar, cocoa, tobacco
and some cofTee. It has 87 rum dls.
tllleries.
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TWO S. C. MEN,
Broken Oar Leads to Arrest of
Pair and Seizure of $3,000
Booze Near Council
Bluffs.
Council Bluffs, la., April 12 (Spe
\cial).—A broken down roadster, $3,000
worth of Canadian and Scotch whisky
and two men arrested formed a chap
ter of events in which Sheriff Grone
weg and deputies figured Monday.
The auto was stuck in the mud north
of Connell Bluffs, and when two men
giving the names of Ben Haacker and
R. U. Morgan, said to be from Sioux
City, appeared to get the car out of
the mud they were arrested. They
are said to have been driving the ear
and liquor from Sioux City to Omaha.
A Justice bound both men over. The
car bore a Nebraska number. The
car and liquor are held by the sheriff,
RIOT AT TORONTO HALL
AS “PUSSYFOOT” TALKS
Toronto, April 12.—Angered be
cause they were shut out of the pro
hibition meeting In Massey hall Mon
day afternoon when ''Pussyfoot’’
Johnson was the chief speaker, a
number of men. In a crowd of more
than 2,000 outside of the big hall be
gan to bombard the from doors with
stones, bricks and bottles at the same
time shouting loudly In un attempt to
drown the voices of the speakers.
A squad of mounted police dashed
In and scattered the mob, erhlch was
rapidly becoming dangerous.
Kdward Bootman, Sydney Lewis
and Richard Potts were arrested on
a charge of Inciting to riot. They
were followed to the police station by
a large number of sympathizers, but
no further disturbance occurred.
MOVIE CENSORSHIP
LOSES IN MINNESOTA
St. Paul, Minn.. April 12 (Special).
—The Minnesota house Monday re
turned motion picture censorship
measures to their author, thereby de
feating the plans.
The story of "Pigs Is Pigs Is being
re-enacted In the iteno of flee of the
American Express, only with rabbits; an
energetic effort to locate the owner of
the shipment la being made.
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;bryn mawr president;
; 28 YEARS TO RETIRE ♦
Dr. M. Carey Thomas.
Dr. M. Carey Thomas, president of
Bryn Mawr college, one of the lead
ing girls' Institutions In the coun
try, will retire as head of the school
in June, according to reports. She
will have reached then the age limit
of 65. which automatically dictates
retirement. She has been president
since 1893 and has made many im
provements in the college and has
been a leader In educational fields.
WOMEN VOTERS
Convention Demands Run from
Uniform Divorce Laws to
Electing Solons by Pro
portioned Voting.
Cleveland, April 12—And now wom
j an with the ballot is going to tell her
representatives In congress. In the
White House, in state executive man
sions and In legislative halls what she
wants. For that purpose the League
of Women Voters, millions strong, and
reaching Into every congressional
district and nearly every county In
the United States, is holding its sec
ond annual convention here this
week. Preliminary work was gotten
out of the way Monday and Tuesday
morning when Mrs. Maud Wood Park,
of Washington, calls the convenllon
to order, the various committees will
clearly outline the demands of or
ganised women.
It's an ambitious program that has
been laid out by these women, rep
resentative of the great body of wom
anhood throughout the nation. Their
demands run all the way from a re
quirement for the enactment of uni
form divorce laws to a plan for the
election of members of congress by
proportioned voting.
Mrs, Carrie Chapman Catt, long a
leader of the suffrage cause, Is a
strong advocate of the latter reform.
She told the committee having elec
tion laws In charge that with propor
tional representation the enactment
of all just laws would be made much
easier of attainment because the rule
of the special interests would he end
ed forever.
The committee accepted the view of
their great leader and indorsed the
program.
BEER-WINE RULES
SOON TO BE ISSUED
Mellon Says They’re Held Up
Pending Appointment of
Revenue Head.
Washington, April 12 Regulations
governing the sale of heer and wines
fov medicinal purposes will be Issued
"within a very short time,” Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon said Monday.
The regulations have been held up
pending the appointment of a suc
cessor to William M. Williams as
commissioner of Internal revenue.
Secretary Mellon said a new com
missioner will be appointed within h
few days and that the regulations
will be issued as soon as the new
commissioner, who will have charge
of their enforcement, has approved of
them.
Mr. Williams on Monday retired as
commissioner.
Millard F. West, assistant eommls
sioner, in charge of acts, was Mon
day appointed acting commissioner.
The tentative regulations prescrib
ing a limit of two bottles of beer a day
and three gallons of wine a month, re
cently drafted by Prohibition Com
missioner John F. Kramer, could be
Issued today "If the necessity was
that urgent,” Mr. Mellon said. Be
fore Issuing the regulations, however,
Secretary Mellon said he was desir
ous of having the new commissioner
of Internal revenue approve them as
the new commissioner might want to
change the tentative regulations that
are now before the treasury officials.
BLAME IRISH IN U. S.
Dublin, April 12.—A prominent
American here declared Sunday that
influential Irishmen in America were
preventing a settlement of the Irish
question on the basis of dominion
home rule, insisting on Ireland being
a republic, failing which I tie warfare
in Ireland shall be continued. He
claimed to be privy to attempts afoot
to Induce Sinn Fein leaders to an
nounce their willingness to aecent full
home rule, coupled vith fiscal au
tonomy.
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IT Tfl ATTENO
WIFE’S FUNERAL
Present for Preliminary Serv
ice in Doom But He and
Crown Prince Must Not Slip
to Potsdam.
London. April 12.—The entente will
not place any bbstarte*In the way ot
the burial of the former empress of
Germany In Potsdam, but If the for
mer kaiser or ex-crown prince Indi
cate the slightest intention of return
ing to Berlin for the ceremonies, a
vigorous protest will be dispatched ut
once. The foreign office declared on
Monday that the return of Wilhelm
to~German soli would under no cir
cumstances be permitted. Such an
event, It was declared, would be
viewed as a direct menace.
It is believed that the ex-kaiaer may
precipitate an unfortunate situation
by requesting formal permission of
the Dutch government to accompany
the bod* of his wife to Potsdam. In
that event Holland undouotedly would
pass the question on to the allies for
their consideration.
Do'orn. April 12.—Ir. the presence of
only the ex-kaiser and other members
of the German imperial family and
their intimate friends, preliminary
funeral services for ex-Kalserin
Auguste Victoria, who died here Mon
day morning, will be h«M In the chap
el here Tuesday, after which It Is ex
pected that the body will be sent to
Potsdam for the more elaborate pub
lic memorial service end burial.
Berlin, April 12.—The pan-Germans
are attempting to organize memorial
service to take place throughout the
country Saturday for the ex-kaiserin
who died Monday in Doom Just one
year to a day after her illness first set
in.
These demonstrations of continued
loyalty to the house or Hohenzollern
and of devotion to the former katser
ln herself are not expected to take
the form of violent monarchistlc out
bursts but Just the same the socialist
press expresses apprehension that the
pan-Germans will try to make a mar
tyr of the woman who, unlike her Im
perial husband, showed tenderness for
the wounded soldiers and sympathy
for their families during the four year
struggle.
Born in exile, Princess Victoria of
Schleswig-Holstein. died an ex
patriate at the age of 63.
She was born October 22, 1858. be
fore the German empire had become
solidified and while her home country
was still at war. Its union with the
German empire became complete
when on February 27. 1881, she mar
ried Wilhelm, the crown prince.
Wilhelm II succeeded to the throne
March 9, 1888.
During the time the emperor was
building up the empire, preparing for
the great campaign to extend Its ter
ritories, the kntserln devoted herself
to the home. Her chief claim to fame
was her ability as a hatisfrau.
“Such a Frump."
She never aspired to shine In court
festivities. Her husband calmly said
of her “the poor dear Is such a
frump.”
She delighted in supervising the
household affairs of the kaiser's mag
nificent establishments.
Another delight was her seven
children.
These were the crown prince. Fried
erlch Wilhelm, Eitei-Frlederich. Adal
bert. August Wilhelm, Oscar, Joachim
and Victoria-Louise.
GERMANY TO OFFER
NEW PLAN APRIL 25
Won’t Be-Acceptable to France
But May Forestall Advance
In Ruhr.
BY C. F. BERTELLI,
Paris, April 12.—Following the re
fusal of President Schulthess, of
Switzerland, Monday night to act as
mediator between eGrmany and the
allies, It Is learned on high authority
that Germany will submit new propo
sitions to the allies about April 25.
The new proposals will be based al
ternatively on an^lnternatlonal loan
or reconstruction of the devastated
reg ons.
While these proposals are certain to
be unacceptable to France, they will
have the desired effect of forestalling
France’s anticipated advance Into
Germany on May 1. It Is considered
that Premier Lloyd George, of Eng
land, will refuse to agree to warlike
measures On the part of rFance until
Germany's offer is equitably discussed
by the conference of the allies, which
probably will be held In London the
first fortnight of May,
LEARN REASON WILSON
REVOKED CABLE PERMIT
Washington. April 12.—Permit for
the operation and maintenance of the
Western Union cable between Key
West, Fla., and Cojimer, Cuba, was
revoked by President Wilson after re
ports that the Western Union would
use this line to connect the Buradoes
South American cable to American
shores, It was disclosed today by a
government brief filed In the supreme
court.
A. F. 07l7t0FIGHT THE
“OPEN SHOP” MOVEMENT
Denver, April 12.—A plan to com
bat what he termed "a nation wide
move for the open shop", which he
alleged is being carried on by em
ployers throughout the country is be
ing formulated by leaders of the
American Federation o/ Labor, ac
cording to an announcement here yes
terday by John W. Hays, secretary -
treasurer of the International Typo
graphical union.
