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it ASirainDYWAW ^\!fM3E[SQ(nAC3 FAIi^OQ EElLDSAElltniO ;> ^ KtHEtSDXAfBTTDi ^4 ^ (BDOJOSDS tm&GOUlO'AM MfSS GLORIA 1 LEARN from the scientists of the census bureau and others who have made a study of that interesting but erratic bird, the stork, that ________ its favorite habitat is in the cottages of the poor rather than In the ^palaces of the rich, and that in no Before they were born I took every care of my own health and lived as much as pos­ sible in the open air. Before Edith born I spent months on our yacht cruising->• around, as it was summer, in fact, she born at sea. Then I have nursed my ba myself, except twice when illness rendered it impossible for me to do so. I do not be­ lieve in sterilized milk nor patent baby- foods. A baby'is like a little puppy. If you want it to grow fine and strong and fat, you must give it the right start, and nothing has yet been discovered that takes the place of the food that nature Intended for a child. "In raising my children my plan has been- to bring them up to be simple and hardy. Not one of my children has I-:1' J gj- : & &•&- •• < * :;V VSOXGr <J- GOULD* *7R. other place in the world is it more sel- •doffl seen than along Fifth avenue. The home of Mr. George J. Gould, however, is an exception to this rule. Seven times the domestic bird has vis­ ited and blessed that abode, each time leaving a baby so strong and lusty, so trig and beautiful, th&t it fully justified the fond parents' declaration that it was the finest child eyer born. Bet­ ter still, the Gould children have grown up to be almost perfect speci­ mens of physical health, and they are ®o intelligent and so natural and unaf­ fected in character that it seems worth while to tell how this result lias been accomplished, and how. a wise father and mother have enabled •their children to lead the simple life In the midst of millions and a luxury that makes that of the fabled Sybar­ ites look like a makeshift with which •one could get along if one had to. When you want to dive to the heart of a mys­ tery the French shrug their Shoulders and spread -out their hands, and say: "Cherchez la femme." If yon desire to find the k«fy,to any family situa­ tion. and know why the children of the household are what they are--virile or weakly, sturdy lit­ tle men and women or flabby jellyfish, potential citizens of worth or mere cutoberers of the ground--you must act as if the old French adage jread: "Cherchez la mere." It is the mother that counts where children are -cufccerned. and so I sought^ out Mrs. George J. *Gould, and asked fier for her recipe for bringing mp a family. I found .her in their magnificent oNulte of apartments at the Plaza hotel, surround­ ed, like Cornelia, by her jewels. There was her daughter Marjorie, a lovely, slim slip Of a girl, •one of the debutantes and belles of the season, •come in to tell of the delights of the ball of the eight before. There was Edith, a sturdy little miss of seven, hanging upon her mother's .ghoul- : -dar. There was George, a shy lad of 12, poking Ills head, in between the portieres from time to tliie. ' The other children were absent, and a mo- tof was being sent t?o her school for Vivian, and artather to Columbia university for Kingdon and for the day was bitter cold and. snpwy. Baby (Gloria, who is only two and a half years old, was £pendUM|ttb* winter at Georgian Court with her gran||M||fher -and trinkets were being got ready itself was a very temple of mother- -hood, for its empire tone had been ruthlessly sac- ?i3f)$ed before family affection and love of things Thome like, and everywhere on walls and mantles -.and tables there were photographs of the chil­ dren--Jay in tennis flannels when he won the championship of the world, Kingdon with his first mustache, marvelously like _ a young edition of tiie kaiser, Marjorie in her debutante gown, and baby pictures innumerable. Ill the midst of all this evidence of a mother's brooding love sat Mrs. Gould, a radiant figure in trailing pale-blue silk, as young looking almost as her own daughter, and I thought that if I were an .artist I should like to paint her aa a triumphant modern Madonna, a woman to whom motherhood j»?»n brought nothing but joy, and whose children aura her crown of happiness. She has had all tiiat •women crave, has this woman who is a darling of the gods. FirBt she had success and fame, which she won by her own genius; then she was given love and marriage and enormous wealth and high social position. She has beauty that is still undimmed, but the best that life has given Her is her children, and lttis good to hear her flay so. '• "My acquaintances have Sometimes pitied me," •she said with a smile, "because I have had so tpany babies, but I have not one child too many. /ass yjy/A/i Gould X//fG0O/t GOJJJ.0 diversion for oui children to en­ courage them in athletic sports We have a polo-ground, and a riding-ring, anrt tennis and squash-courts, sfo-l the children have their ponies fend ride and drive fa great deal. The boys were particularly interested in polo, and Kingdon, my oldest son, at 15 was considered one of the best polo-players in the country. Jay was also a fine W3& MAMOBIE GOULD THl mtSZS ZDUHMD GLORtA ever had on a stitch of flannel, not even a flannel petticoat. They have warm wraps when they go out of doors, but in the house they wear little socks and low-necked and short-sleeved cotton or woolen clothes.' They live also on the simplest and plainest food--cereals and eggs, tender steaks and good roast meat, with plenty of vegetables and fruit, and the simplest sort of dessert when they have any at all. No pies and pastry, and no nibbling at candy all day foif them. I also put great stress on absolute regularity in eating, and no matter who else waits, the children have their meals exactly on the stroke of the clock. "We are a very domestic family, and tKe children h$ve their breakfast' and lunch, which is really their dinner, with Mr. Gonld and- myself, but until they are lft years old they have their supper at a little after Six o'clock, and only have something very light to eat. They never come. to pinner, unless upon their birthdays it is permitted as a great treat. Why, Marjorie never came to dinner regularly until last year, and she is stiU so attached to the nursery tea that when we are down at Georgian Court she often eatswith the children by preference. "Of course I have so many other duties that tt is not possible for me to be always with my ba­ bies, and so I kept a trained nurse for each one until he or she was two and a half years old, and paat the teething-time; but there'is never a night, even to this day, that I db not go into each room the last thing before going to bed, and tuck the covers down with my own hands, good and tight around each child. And I have nursed every one of my children with my own hands when they , were sick. - I had trained nurses, of course, but I sat up with the sick child, too. When Marjorie had that fearful spell of scarlet fever in France the summer before last, and when it seemed ut­ terly impossible for her to recover, her father and I never left hes day or night for weekB. The doctors said that it was the most malignant case they ever saw, and that nothing but her marvel­ ous strength pulled her through. They said that ,if she had been a French girl she certainly would Uave died,- : : "I believe that the chief thing about raising children up to be well and strong is to Wing them up in the country where they can have plenty of fresh air and room for exercise, and freedom, it was for the benefit of our children that we went down to Lakewood and built Georgian Court. The second floor of the house is devised especially for the children, and the sunniest room in it is for the baby and the next sunniest for the ex-baby; and we's always had great times and ceremonies when the reigning monarch had to give way for a new king or queen of the nursery and have his I have never had a child that I did not want, or * or her little belongings packed up and moved on. • that has not found a warm welcome waiting for tL I think that is one. reason why my children l$ve all been bo strong and have had such se- dispositions. { "I have felt the responsibilities of motherhood. -$90, and have tried to give my children as good a Start. as possible by giving them sound bodies. 'Everything has been sacrificed for the good of the children. For ten yearB we lived at Georgian Court only in the winter, and took the babies every summer up to the quietest and dullest little place in the world, in the Catskllls, ten miles from anywhere. "At Georgian Court we provided every 1 %0 U\ I I r»n VI » J4R& GOULD AflQ TSf£ W3SE3 EDJTti AND GLO/UA player, but after Kingdon w£nt to Columbia the game wan somewhat broken up; so as there was a fine professional tennis-player at Lakewood he took up court tennis instead. It is a game that re­ quires unusual strength and quickness of motion, but he soon became so expert at it that when he was 17 h« won the American championship, and when he was 18 he carried off the English cham­ pionship, which is, of course, the championship of the world. "Neither Mr. Gould nor myself is an advocate of boarding-schools. We believe that the tfery best association* that children can have during the formative jears pf their lives are home associa­ tions, and that no guardianship is equal to the loving watchfulness of a father and mother. There­ fore we have kept our children right in the home nest, have had them educated by tutors and governesses. ' In educating; the children we h^aye tried to de­ velop each one along the line of his or her own hatural bent. For instance, Marjorie adores read­ ing, particular poetry and romance. She is a good musician ant?, as I said, speaks four languages; but she does not care for what you might call the drudgery of ctudy, and I have not afflicted her with it. Hut Vivian has a profound mind. She loves to study and to delve into deep subjects. "I nm very proud of my two big boys. They are elevee, and they are strong, manly boys, and best of ali, in a nother'a eyes, they are good boys. Neither of them has ever caused me a moment's uneas:ness or a single heart-pang. Kingdon is 21 and J*y is 20, ind neither of them smokes or has ever tested liquor. Not that i am a prohibitionist at all, or have ever tried especially to keep such things away from them, but they just have no de­ sire for stimulants. And that, I take it, is about the best Indication of their health and strength, as well as vlndic ation of my method of raising chil­ dren, for after uil, it's the, healthy body that gives a healthy mind And healthy impulses, isn't It?" I SPECIAL SESSION Assembly to Consider Primary SJt& Intends to Restrict Law­ makers Exclusively to the Two important Subjects Mentioned. • • r Issued After Fair. MW --- , Springfield.--Gov. Deneen has de­ cided to call an exjtraordlnary session of the Illinois general assembly. The date selected is Tuesday, November 1$. Nothing till be included In the governor's call except prttaary elec­ tion legislation and the deep water­ way proposition. The date is subject to change,, de- indent upon conditions which arise between 4iow and the time the ofllclal notice is sent 01 executive. . ., \ : Gov. Deneen had a long conference with his intimate political advisers determined then that It is neces­ sary to call the senators and repre- ntatives to Springfield. That only the two "big" features will be included in the special ses­ sion call causes distinct surprise to the legislative leaders and to poli­ ticians generally. It has been the supposition that the governor might open the gates and let the legislature consider anything in the lawmaking line which might be Suggested. He has been flooded with requests from many different sources asking him to include certain projects in the call, but he feels that he cannot include one without including all. In the' interest of harmony, therefore, he has decided to name nothing beyond primaries and waterway. Such action on the part of the executive binds the legislature to a short and simple plan of action and presents the prospect of a brilliant and bitter battle between the conflicting forces on either side of the primary and waterway issues. The governor has not announced the policy which he will outline in his message to the general assembly at its special session. It is understood, however, that it is his purpose to ad­ vocate flatly a direct primary election law, modeled, closely after the late Oglesby law--the last to be killed by the supreme court--with such changes as may be recommended by the jus­ tices of the supreme court, which would tend to remove the constitu­ tional objections which the justices found in the last statute. As to the deep waterway, there is little doubt but that Gov. Deneen will stand firmly by the policy laid down in the Schmitt bill of the last session of the legislature, which was backed by the administration senators to the limit. The governor demanded that the Lockport-Utica stretch of the deep waterway be constructed immediately through the $20,000,000 bond issue which has been authorized by the peo­ ple and that the water power rights te conserved for tie interest of the state. The official call will be lsBued im-! mediately after the state fair, which begins next week at Springfield. While he was in Chicagp the gov­ ernor took up the matter of the spe­ cial election in the Sixth congres­ sional district to succeed Senator Lorimer. It had been the original plan to call the election for the first week in November. It is now the ex­ pectation to call it in the last week ofthe same month. - Raps Poctors on Pellagra. Ignorance of physicians in Illinois state institutions is blamed by govern­ ment medical experts for the foothold gained in those places by the dread disease, pellagra. In their opinion the disease threatens to become a serious menace to health in this country. In the latest report issued by public health and marine service, Dr. C. H. Lavinder, surgeon for the department, who visited the Illinois institutions, "This inspection ever confirmed me in a belief often expressed, viz., that pellagra is likely to become 4n this country a public I health problem of greater proportion* than can at the present time be realized." Forty cases of pellagrin were found in the Peoria^}tate Hospital for the Tnaana ™ "There is one phase of the situa­ tion ih this institution," declares the report, "which has been common in my experience. Here, as elsewhere, when the case was finally recognized the medical staff can recall that the disease has been in the institution for many years and the superintend­ ent tells me that he now realizes that he has had cases ever since the institution was opened eight years ago." The investigation was made in com­ pany with Dr. Zeller, superintendent of the asylum, and Dr. Egan, secre­ tary of the state board of health. No satisfactory reason was discovered to explain the extent of the disease in the asylum. On the theory that the use of corn and corn products might have contributed to the spread of the Italian scourge, their ^49*, ^ or­ dered discontinued. " " • 3'^ ̂ '%*•. i' Get No Salary Increase. ..y '»• ; Election commissioners now Is of­ fice are not entitled to receive the In­ creased salary voted by the general assembly in the 1909 amendment to the election law, according to an opin­ ion given out by Attorney General Stead yesterday. Chief clerks of com­ missions are entitled to the increased salary, as they are held to be appoin­ tive officers and not named for any definite length of service. For this reason the attorney general holds they are not prohibited from receiv­ ing the additional salary. Commis­ sioners are declared to be municipal (Officers and named for a stated period, and while holding office the general assembly Is held to lack the power to increase their compensation, the same as other municipal oificials. The opin­ ion was given at the request of States Attorney Boutell of Knox county. The ^mended act of the last legislature in­ creased the salaries of election com­ missioners in second-class counties from $700 to $1,000, and chief clerks from $1,200 to $2,400 annually. In Cook county commissioners' salaries were Increased from $2,500 to $4,000 annually and chief clerks from $4,000 to $5,000. Cities in Illinois having election commissions outside of Chica­ go are Springfield, East St. Louis, Gaiesburg and Danville. / Saloon Fight in Chicago. Chicago is at the threshold of a vig­ orous and straightaway fight upon the fiat proposition: "Shall this city of Chicago become anti-saloon territory?" Test for Oxford Near. An examination of candidates for the Rhodes scholarship at the University of Oxford will be held in the North­ western university building, 87 L&ke street, Chicago, October 19 and 20. Persons desiring to enter this examin­ ation should make formal application to Edmund J. James, president of Illi­ nois university, and send notice of their intention to be present to Presi­ dent A. W. Harris, Northwestern uni­ versity, 87 Lake street, Chicago. Ap­ plicants should register at Northwest­ ern university on the evening preced­ ing the examination. The annual valne of the scholarship is $1,500. It is tenable for three years. One per­ son is selected by the committee from those who have successfully passed the examination. Candidates must be young men at least 19 years old, who have completed the freshman year in a standard Illinois college. •ffasr •_ ',, - Rock Island Free from Fataiities. The Rock Island road added Its name to the "roll of honor" of those who have completed a year without' killing a passenger. Statistics show-: lng the total nuqaber of passengers carried during the fiscal year which ended June 30, 1909, have'just been compiled and show that of the 18,743,- 022 persons handled on the trains of the Rock Island system, not one was killed. As in the case of the four other roads who have thus far announced a clear record, the Rock Island officials attribute the increasing safety of travel to additional bloek signal instal­ lations, the watchfulness of their em-, ployes, and improvement in track and appliances. 'I'he Rock Island has in­ stalled 300 miles of block signaling during the last year and has spent larger sums than' usual for improve­ ments. Orders have recently been placed for a large number of all-steel pas­ senger cars, which will serjve as addi­ tional safeguards against accidents, as they are, practically indestructible and totally fireproof. It is declared by railroad men that statistics show the majority of accidents nowa trespassers on their tracks. . • J -- • Probe Alleged Land Theft. Members of the Chiperfleld commit­ tee on submerged lands had their at- - tention directed to an encroachment on the lake shore just north of the end of Buena avenue in Lake View, Chicago. Letters frotn residents of the neighborhood asked the commit­ tee to examine a concrete breakwater that has been built at that point and to investigate the rights of the build­ ers. The breakwater was built a year ago, and since then the stretch of beach it encloses has been filled In until it is almost on a level with the street. "Some of the letters say that the land ^ was reclaimed by the Lincoln Park board," said David E. Shanahan, "and others assert that it was con­ structed by a private owner of , ripa­ rian rights. The committee will make a full investigation." The Chiperfleld committee M await­ ing a decision from the supreme court in a case now pending which is sup­ posed to have a bearing on the title of the Illinois Central road to some of its reclaimed lands. The finding is not due until the October term. The members think the case will de­ cide whether a railroad company feat the right to own riparian right^' j Blames Liquor Men. ( . 1 Requested to express Mb opinion as to the causes which led to his defeat for justice of the supreme court, Mil­ ton McClure gave out the following sortvof COUNTY OF A THOUSAND KEYS V. .. Monroe County, Florida, la All Islands am| Everglades, and Very in- * < terestl"8- -f Monroe county is the most unique 2V ' <'bounty In the state, if not in the r t'. ' Waited States. The larger portion of the county is made up of a group of islands, or, as they are called, keys, •iioth on the east and west coasts. The «mly part of Monroe county on the mainland is the Cape Sable country, the extreme southwest of the United States on the mainland, The larger portion of this land is what is known as the Everglades, and but a limited number of acres are now under cultivation. In the vicinity of Cape Sable there are large bodies of rich alluvial lan<t ak/i quantity has been under e several years past. cultivation for All kinds of tropical and seml-trop-! ical fruit trees grow luxuriantly on the keys and bear full crops of fruit each year. Every key is surrounded with water and the great portion of them have clean white sand beaches with bluffs varying in height above high water mark. -- Jacksonville Time* Union. 8ugar a Valuable Tonic. A medical journal gives particulars of experimental cases In which sugar was employed as a tonic and invigora- tor. One patient, subject to the most violent headaches from hunger or lack oi food, discovered that the pressure in the head was considerably relieved when a few lumps of sugar dipped In water wetfe eaten very slowly. Fur­ ther experiments are being made with a view to demonstrating ihe value of lump sugar as a luncheon where other food i& not to be had. It would be a simple and easy matter (the writer points out) to carry half a dozen pieces of sugar-in one's pocket, to be indulged in with no other accompani­ ment but a glass of water. Enemies of liquor begin a pix j statement: months' campaign next Friday, Octo­ ber 1. The election is Tuesday, April jjf. The issue is plain and untrammeled. The liquor Interests are declared to be ready for the onslaught. If the anti- saloon forces make a winning fight, the 7,000 saloons ^n the city of Chi­ cago, under the Illinois local option law mnst go out of business. , ^ Milk Testers Coming 8oon, ^ The legislative committee df senators and tlx representatives which IB to investigate Into the ef­ ficiency and the necessity of adopting the tuberculin test for milk in Illinois Will meet in Chicago during the first week hi October. Speaker Shurtleff, who fathered the resolution in the house of representa­ tives at Springfield, said that prepara­ tions have been made to push the In­ vestigation to a speedy conclusion. The investigation will be directed "I ascribe my defeat to the orga­ nized whisky power. The State Li­ quor Dealers' association learned that I always had favored the principle of Joliet. -- Merritt Chism, cleanly shaven, hair cropped close and with the pallor of six years of con­ finement on his face, appeared in court as defendant in a suit brought by Wil­ liam Slack and John C. Wilson, Chica­ go attorneys, for counsel fees, the plaintiffs alleging the $5,000 is due them for services in attempting to se­ cure the defendant's release. Chism, once a well-known Wilmington farm­ er, was convicted of the murder of his wife «botit six years ago and sen­ tenced for 17 years. The defendant alleges that he entered into an agree­ ment with Slack and Wilson whereby he agreed to pay them $5,000 if they secured his release either by pardon or parole by June 1, 1906. Their ef­ forts proved fruitless. Chism says the payment of the money was purely ditional upon his release. Springfield.---Velma Webb ton, convicted by a general eourt-mar- tial of deserting from Company E, J Fifth infantry, must serve the jail sen- |" tsnce of IE days and pay the $10 fins fl assessed against him by the military % court, according to the decision of ^ Judge Philbrick Of Champaign, who dismissed the petition for release of Webb on a writ of-habeas corpus. In ^ declining to release Webb, the cburt ?j held that the military court is An arm of tl»e exeeutlve department of | the state and not of the judiciary. ^ Webb left his command during the an- nual encampment at Springfield last ^ July. Springfield.--The following Chicago ^ Corporations were licensed by the sec­ retary of state: David Pfaelzer, $10,- 000; conduct meat markets and grocery stores and deal in general merchandise; Edward Sonnenschein, M. Beerkson, P. Sonnenschein. Mc­ Gregor Bumper Company, $5,000; gen­ eral manufacturing and jobbing busi­ ness; A. L, McGregor, B. J. Cook, H. W. Lewis. Chicago Tea Company, $^0,000; ' deal in groceries, tea', coffee, butter, cheese and other merchandise; C. V. Nieman, C. W. Johnson, N. J. Johnson., Chicago,The body of a well- dressed man, about 35 years old and s& feet tail, was found in the drain­ age canal near the Great Lakes Dredg­ ing & Dock Company's dock in Le- mont. A rosary, a black leather purse containing $1.16 and a brown leather tobacco pouch were found in hi8 cloth­ ing. The authorities think he m®^ have been William Fitzgerald, as that name was written on the lining of an inside pocket of his vest. The polifeo say he committed suicide or was drowned accidentally. Mount Vernon.--The bank at Blu- < ford, seven miles east of here, wa* wrecked by bandits, four explosions ^ of dynamite virtually demolishing the safe and building. The entire depos­ its of the Institution are thought to have been taken, although no attempt to examine the institution has been made pending the arrival of blood­ hounds, which will be used to track the four men suspected of having committed the robbery. The bank i» owned by Mount Vernon business men. Springfield.--The sentence of John W. Neil was commuted by Go*. De­ neen on recommendation of the state board of pardons. Neil had been sen­ tenced from Saline-county in Septem­ ber, 1899, to 27 years in Chester peni­ tentiary for the murder of Cecil Willi- ford. Williford was a striking miner and Neil had gone to work in the mine. An altercation ensued in which Williford was killed. Many influential citizens of Saline county asked for Neil's pardon. Chicago.--A dozen persons were seriously injured in a street car col­ lision at Madison and Halsted streets. The cars were an east-bouud Madison street car and one north-bound in Halsted street. Neither motorman, It* is said by witnesses, appeared to no­ tice the approach of the other car, and both were going fast. The in­ jured were carried to the sidewalk, where they lay unconscious until an ambulance arrived. Chicago. -- Georjge Moench, 4311 Lake avenue, and Everett Brown, 3414 Greenwood avenue, were arraigned be­ fore Judge Crowe charged with a seri­ ous offense, preferred by Fred G. Luet- ly, 3922 Lincoln place, in behalf of his daughter, Emma, 16 years old. They are accused of luring the girl from a Michigan town to apartments In Calumet avenue. Rockford. --Charles W. Blodgett, 2207 Stewart avenue, Chicago, is dead as a result of an automobile, in which he was returning from Belvldere be­ ing ditched four mile* east of Rock- ford. Albert Westberg of the Rock- ford fire department, was fatally in­ jured, While Fred B«ngston, Oscar Johnson and Ernest Christianson were badly bruised. Quincy.--While in the act of board­ ing a train Rev. Godfried Bonn of ^ Guernsey, la., aged 60. dropped dead from overexertion in r.alking to the depot. Dr. Bonn came here to tlsit his uncle. Rev. Christian Bonn. He leaves a wife and son. Chicago.--Mrs. Mary Jones, 46 years old, 331 North Avers avenue, attempted to commjt suicide by jump­ ing into the lagoon at Douglas park. Mrs. Jones was rescued by John Dunne, a west park poUceman, who, hearing her screams, jumped into the water and, after a struggle, pulled her ashore. Harrisburg. -- George Smith was found guilty of murder in the circuit local option. Immediately great 1I-J court here and sentenced Jo SO years quor Interests were arrayed against " -- me and the hundreds of saloons in this district became rallying points in the campaign for my defeat, v , v « r - Protest Tax Raise. T ./ Reports that the «* equalization Is preparing to give the Illinois railroads a jolt in the matte? of property assessment, a large dele gatlon of tax agents and representa tives of varlouB systems descended upon Springfield when the board met. A preliminary meeting of the rail­ roads' committee was called by Chair­ man Marsh for the purpose of outlin­ ing the work of the session. It wan decided to allow representatives »f the railroads hearings before the com- fixed later. in the penitentiary. Smith was charged with the murder of Mrs. Cole­ man, an aged woman, while on a pro­ tracted spree. Harrisburg.--W. H. Danvers, a well- to-do merchant of this city, committed suicide in the basement of his store by shooting himself in the throat with a ,38-caliber revolver, the bullet pene­ trating the brain. Domestic troubles are assigned as the cause of the deed. Until five months ago, Danvers was a merchant at Centralia. Harrisburg. -- Mrs. James Griffith, aged 30 years, was badly mangled while attempting to crawl beneath a train on her way to vteit her husband* who is employed at the Ogara mine. Though badly crushed she may r* "4 'iSJsSji