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
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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-
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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
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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.
TRUTH AND QUALITY
appeal to the Well-informed in every walk of life and are essential to permanent suc
cess and creditable standing, therefore we wish to call the attention of all who would
enjoy good health, with its blessings, to the fact that it involves the question of right
living with all the term implies. 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.
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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.
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