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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1908)
TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1908. THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGO N. WILL MEET IN JUNE Boston the Mecca of Women's Club Delegates. SIGHTSEEING BY TROLLEY Mor Thin 20,000 RepreicnUtivtt of thi General Federation Will Gather There 8omt of Boiton'i Attrac tion! For Them aa Convention City. BOSTON, Mar 21, ,1908,-Three months from today there will gather here one of the moot interesting con vention! that Botton, famous at convention city, has ever greeted the tenth biennial convention of the Gen eral Federation of Womcn'i Clubi. At least 20,000 delegate!, and possibly twice that number, will attend, repre senting half a million club women all tnougm HKeiy wa mere rosy aiso come from abroad aome of the dUtln guihsed honorary metuberi of the or ganization, who include the Counteit of Aberdeen; the Baroness Bertha von Suttner of Vienna, who vinited America at the time of the Japanese Rusian treaty conference two yean ago and hat ince been honored with one of the Noble peace prlxei; the Countess of Meath; the Baroness von Buclow-Wenhausen of Dreiden; the Countess de Denterchem of Belgium, and Princes Nagli of Tunis. To a convention of women Boston hat tome peculiar atractiom, Espec ially is this true of such gathering at that of the General Federation of Women't Clubs, engaged in ethical, Common, and from the Common there lt, of course, r road ;tvery where, The Common'ffiJrc'-comei from it being the oldett$uGllc park In the United States, having been pur chased by Government Winthrop and other worthies to be set aside as a common grating place for the cow of the Puritan village. Back of it lies Beacon Hill, crowned with the State Uoute where hangs the tiered codfish to the west, with only street be tween, Is the Tublic Carden, equally famous with the Common, if in a different way. And on the east and south are two of the most atriking thoroughfare in any ietropo!is business streets with the charm of an old continental city added to their wholesome Americanism. Tremont and Boylston streets, beneath which run .the first street car subway built on this continent, have no counter parts anywhere, visitors from all parts of the world allow. Within a square mile here are all the theaters and all but one or two of the hotels. It is probably the most diversified metropolitan square mile on the green earth, for Boston has curiously brought within It all of its most serious business and its gaiety and much of Its social life. A block through from Trement Street it Washington Street, and on these thoroughfares and between them for the space of half a mile is the retail shopping district, where, it is natural to expect, the women's clubites will spend part of their time "observing." When errands are done and souvenirs are bought, and the State House with its historical, eoltertions and paint ings has been visited, and there is at last time for sight teeing, it is but a moment's walk to the subway, where, at Park Street, the whole transporta tion system of greater Boston centres. The Park Street subway station it the second largest railroad station of any kind in the world, measured by the number of passengers who use it a1 or mm IBS & u ,yr "u "j - 1 LAFAYETTE MALL, BOSTON COMMON Entrances to the Subway, with Park Street Church Behind Them This is the Heart of the Pulitan Capital Tremont Street .at this Point is Considered one of the Finest Thoroughfares in the World. educational and sociological work which draws its inspiration from the "fundamentals of American Institu tions," as one speaker has put it. Here where, since the days of the Pilgrims, ao many national movements have started, there are more "shrines," his torical and literary, to draw either we casual visitor or the delegate witn aTpecinl mission to fulfill than in any other place on this side of the Atlan tic, frcrhaps. Hardly a street in the old town which has not its ancient landmark; hardly one in the circlet of (suburbs that has not its Individual distinction and attraction for the sightseer. And the accessibility of all the "points of interest," even those some distance, away from the con vention centers, is the special advan tage Boston offers to visitors who must combine with their sightseeing more serious duties. The headquarters of the General Federal of Women's Chilis are to he in the Hotel Vendome on Common wealth Avenue, one of the famous streets of the world. The principal meetings are to be held in Symphony Hall, with overflow gatherings in the neighboring smaller halls which form a remarkable group of public gather ing places. Thus, delegates while they are attending business sessions will find themselves in the newer part of the city, the Back Bay region that part of Boston that represents the city's modern development, where are its finer residences and most of its semi-public institutions, such as the Institute of Technology, Simmons College, where housewifery h taught as a scientific profession and business courses are made matters of "higher education"; the New England Con servatory of Music, unique in Ameri ca in many ways; the big medical schools, the Public Library, first of its kind in the country; the Museum of Fine Arts, and Mrs. Gardner's "Ital- . n-i... ttiotallu ifift fh Tun. an taiaix, - - r xl bella Stuart Gardner museum in ine Fenway, Limited. But in Boston all roads lead to the in a day. A' one side of its platforms pass the rapid transit trains which, running underground in the heart of the city, emerge to an elevated struc ture with terminals in the northern and southern suburbs. At the other side may be taken the trolley cars of the surface lines which run to the westward. And connections may be made for the tunnel under the harbor the first under harbor -street car tunnel in the world through which the suburbs to the east are reached. It used to be thought and it used to be true that Boston was the hard est city in the United States for a stranger to go about in without get ting lost. Nowadays, however, one can take a street car anywhere within a radius of 18 or 20 miles of the gilded dome of the State House with the comforting knowledge that one, way or another it will land at Park Street, whence t is easy to find the way home wherever home may be. This is particularly an advantage to women, of course, opening to them innumer able trips and excursions, and, with direct car lines to every part of the metropolitan district, interconnecting its twenty-odd towns and cities into one big community, with a universal Good News Mr. Whyte of the Chamber of live-cents fare and the freest kind of a free transfer system, Boston has be come the great trolley riding city of Christendom. If the women's clubites stay in town a week or two after their con vention labors are ended, as most convention delegates do, they will find more than enough to fill their time in a month when New England has little to yield to any place in at tractiveness. Out in Cambridge there is ' Radcliffe College-the women's "annex" of Harvard and a day in Cambridge is a part of every sight seer's programme. The convention of the fceneral Federation comes in the graduation season, too, June 21 being Class Day at Harvard, and the 26th being Commencement Day at the old university) while the student fes tivities of moit of the schools and college hereabout fall within the fortnight before and after. Cam bridge abounds in historical and liter ary landmarks and industrial activity at well a educational interest. The elm under which Washington took command of the Continental Army in 177S Hands at the doors of Radcliffe; Longfellow's house, and Elmwood, where James Russel Lowell lived for many years, are nearby; Emerson and Holmes once had their share in the life of this typically American com munity which yet differs from any other American community. Stu dents of civic and sociologicol sub jects will find many things to attract them In the university town, with its great print shops, direct descendant, of the first printing office in America, its charity organizations, and its mun icipal Institutions. Wellesley College is less than an hour's trolley ride from Park Street, out through the broad avenues and boulevards of tome of Botton's-finest suburbs, among them fashionable Brookline, "the richest town In the world," which resitting all temptation to assume the distinction of a city government still clings to the old town meeting method of running its affairs. In Auburndale, next to Wel lesley, is Lascll Seminary; and Tufts, which is a co-educational college, is in Medford, one of the northern group of suburbs. Out in the district known as West Roxbury is the Brook Farm, where Margaret Fuller, Thoreau, and Nath aniel Hawthorne, Charles A. Dana, and their associates lived their social istic experiment for a while. Haw thorne's delightful Wayside Inn still stands in Sudbury and still entertains wayfayers. The ride to Ponkapoag Pond, among the Blue Hills, of Mil ton, where Thomas Bailey Aldrich lived, with a climb up Great Blue Hill the highest eminence on the Atlantic Coast, is an ideal trip for a New Eng land June day. A longer jaunt, which still may be made by trolley, passing the beach resorts of the North Shore where thousands come from all over the United Stales to spend their sum mers, takes sojourners to Salem and to Marblchead, quaintest of New England towns, and still further along to Gloucester, the home of fishermen. The beaches nearby Boston are world faniout not merely at fashion able watering places, through some of them, like Magnolia and Swamp- scott, have been chosen by the dip lomatic corpse in Washington as the most charming of American resting spots; not because of their amuse ment parks or their camp meeting grounds; but because nowwhere else docs the sand seem so white or so line, and nowhere else are there such long, broad stretches of it, giving an outlook on the blue ocean for miles. Some of the nearer beaches, like Re vere and Nantaicct, have been taken into the metropolitan park system; and Marine Park in South Boston, at one corner of the harbor, half an hour's ride by trolley from "down town," is resorted to by thousands of people every warm evening. The other parks include every sort of pub- One of the Important Duties of Physicians and 4 108 vv cu-uuurmwi 01 mu , ? uriu , is to learn at to the relative standing ' and reliability of the leading: manufactur ers of medicinal agent, as the most eminent physicians are the most careful as to the uniform quality and perfect purity of remedies prescribed by them, and it Is well known to physicians and the. Well-informed generally that the California Fig Syrup Co., by reason of its correct methods and perfect equipment and the ethical character of its product has attained to the high standing in scientific and commercial circles which is accorded to successful and reliable houses only, and, therefore, that tle name of the Company has become a guarantee of the excellence of its remedy. 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With proper knowledge of what is best each hour of recreation, of enjoyment, of contemplation and of effort may be made to contribute to that end and the use of medicines dispensed with generally to great advantage, but as in many instances a simple, wholesome remedy may be invaluable if taken at the proper time, the California Fig Syrup Co. feels that it is alike important to present truthfully the subject and to supply the one perfect laxative remedy which has won theappoval of physicians and the world-wide acceptance of the Well-Informed because of the excellence of the combination, known to all, and the original method of manufac ture, which is known to thealifornia Fig Syrup Co. only. This valuable remedy has been long and favorably known under the name of Syrup of Figs and has attained to world-wide acceptance as the most excellent of family laxatives, and es its pure laxative principles, obtained from Senna, are well known to physicians and the Well-informed of the world to be the best of natural laxatives, we have adopted the more elaborate name of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as more fully descriptive of the remedy, but doubtless it will always be called for by the shorter name of Syrup of Figs and to get its beneficial effects always note, when purchasing, the full name of the Company California Fig Syrup Co. plainly printed on the front of every package, whether you simply call for Syrup of Figs or by the full name Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is the one laxative remedy manufactured by the California Fig Syrup , Co. and the same heretofore known by the name Syrup of Figs which has given satisfaction to millions. The genuine is for sale by all leading druggists throughout , the United States in original packages of one size only, the regular price of which is fifty cents per bottle. Every bottle is sold under the general guarantee of the Company, filed with the Secretary of Agriculture, at Washington, D. C, that the remedy is not adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of the Food and Drugs Act, June 30th, 1906. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. Louisville, Ky. San Francisco, Cal. U S. A. i London, England. New York, N. Y. Q j lie pleasure ground, from Franklin Field with its tennis courts and Frank lin Park with its golf links, to their Middlesex Fells, preserved in their rugged natural state. The Arnold Arboretum, which is at once a public park and a department of Harvard University, contains the largest and finest collection of trees in the world, constituting a tree museum, as it has been called, for conducting experi ments and for the instruction of students of arboriculture and horti culture. It is to the street car system which makes its manifold attractions easy of access that Boston owes much of its reputation as a convention city. Ex perts frequently have described Bos ton's street car service as the most efficient they have seen, and its street ;ar men as the finest body of public service employes they have met. It is the completeness and sufficiency of this local transportation service that is likely to make the coming conven tion of Women's Clubs in Boston more of a sightseeing expedition than such conventions usually are. HEALTH OF ANIMALS BECAUSE OF GOOD DIGHSTI0N An interesting interview was re cently obtained with L. T. Cooper, the young man whose theory and medicines have created such a sensa tion during the past year. Mr. Cooper, in speaking of the re markable success of his medicine, had this to sav on the subject: "My medi cine regulates the stomach. That is why it is successful. The human stom ach today has become degenerate, and is the cause for most ill health. In the horse, the dog, and the wild animals eenerally.' you see no nerve exhaustion, no chronic debility. They are not Shut up day after day with nracticallv no exercise, and they are not able to stuff themselves with food when their bodies have not had enough work to justify it. The human race has been doing this for years, and look at the result half the people are complaining of poor health, not real illness-just a half-sick, tired, droopy feeling. They don't really know what is the matter with them. "I know that all the trouble is caused by weak, overworked stom achs. I have proved this with my medicine to many thousands of peo ple in most of the leading cities of this country. I expect to do the same thing in Europe next year. This is the real reason for the demand for my preparation." Among those who have recently been converted to Cooper's theory is Mr. Monroe Brown of 8 Hancock street, Winchester, Mass. Mr. Brown has this to say of his experience with the new medicine: "For over seven years I suffered with catarrh of the stomach, and for the past year I was lame with rheumatism. I attributed this to my stomach trouble, as my cir culation was very poor. What food I ate would turn to gas almost at once. I would have a sensation of bloating, and would have to belch frequently to relieve this. My heart also became affected, and I would suddenly be come dizzy and have palpitations. I was tired and dull and despondent at all times. I lost a great deal of flesh, and was nervous and depressed. This went on for over seven years, al though I spent hundreds of dollars trying to get relief. ,7When Cooper was in Boston I heard a good deal about his ideas on stomach trouble. Next, one or two friends told me that his medicines had greatly helped them. I purchased some of the New Discovery medicine. Today I am perfectly well; I sleep like a boy, can eat anything and have no rheumatism or heart trouble. I no longer have any gas on my stom ach, and feel as I did years ago. No one could be more astonished by these facts than myself. .They are remarkable, but true. This is indeed a wonderful medicine." The Cooper preparations have been more widely sold and discussed since being introduced than anything of the kind ever before sold by druggists. We sell them and explain their nature. Chas. Rogers & Son. Have You Seen The Wash? In Our Hardware Window The Foard & Stokes Hardware Go incorporated Successors to Fo-.rd & Stokes Co. 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