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~"T"r PAGE SIX WOMEN WORKERS FROM 34 NATIONS j< ASKED TO CONGRESS "First International Conference , In History of World Opens at Washington, D. C., October 23. I NEW RESPONSIBILITIES TO BE DISCUSSED | Natl onal Women's Trade Union League of America to Act as Hostess? Belgium and Great Britain Send Distinguished Women as Advisors. I Working women from all parts of the globe will gather in Washington on October 2.1 at the Invitation of the National Women's Trade Union league of America to take part in the tlrst International Congress of Working Women ever held in the history of the world. An oflioial call to the conference has been sent to labor organizations in thirty-four countries asking thnt they aend delegates to the conference. Each country Is entitled to ten delegates and to ten votes on the floor of the congress; also to one member on the executive committee. So far Finland. Czecho-Slovnkia. Poland, France, .Tauan. Rplctlim JCnirlonH thn iroonflno and Canada have announced delegates for the congress, Belgium being the < first to announce that Mme. Victolre j Cappe, who had been chosen to serve j as an advisor at the international la- j 1 bor conference called for October '-P. ! would arrive In the United States in 1 til?*# to serve as one of the two Belgian delegates at the women's con- i gress. Margaret Bond Held, secret a ry of the National Federation of Women j > Workers In Great Britain, who will also serve as an advisor to the British I delegation at the labor conference, is I coming to take her place on the floor j of the Congress of Working Women. ? It was Miss Bondfleld who, during her visit to the United States In the spring and early summer, presented , to the Women's Trade Union league. | assembled In the seventh biennial | convention of that organization in , Philadelphia in June, the resolution of the standing committee of the Wont- , en's Industrial Organizations of Eng land that the American league be ( asked to cull an International Oongrss of Working Women to meet In the United States in the autumn. Such a conference had been previously ilia- , cussed by women's labor organizations of various countries and would have been held In a European city probably had not the league of Nations society decided upon Washington as the meet- ( Ing place for an international labor , conference. The committee on international relations of the Women's Trade Union league, which Is in charge of the eongress, has as its chairman Mrs. Raymond Robins, president of tin- league; Miss Mary Anderson, chief of the women's bureau of the United StHtes department of labor; Miss Agnes Nestor, Ice president of the International Glove Workers' nnlon Miuu Iiillu i O'Connor, president of the Telephone Operators' union, and Miss Hose Rchneldermann, president of the New Tork Women's Trade Union league. In discussing the congress, Mr?. Robins says: "Women must come for United States Railro * annou: Very Low Exc ACCOl York Coii Rock Hi October 22-2 Tickets will be sold at Lanca tober 21, 22, 2d, 24, with fina 26. SOUTHERN RA1 For information and exact i Ticket A] ? A r i to CHINESE GIRL STl HAVE ICE CRE; On* of the Chinese girl* who ha* tab Patriotic Association dishing up Ic* cream At the** meetings women students from i discuss problems affecting them and the ward now and accept their responsi- Mlltlos. They can no longer have their t affairs attended to by proxy. Men 4 annot hear the entire responsibility t for the world. They must he assisted by women, and the women should I come forth willingly, prepared to take t l up their share of the burden of see- I ing that things go right with the world, j At the Congress of Working Women : I i we will discuss problems ufTeotltig women which wo, as women workers, j | i ire pnrtlculnrly nble to consider, that j t ' we may recommend how conditions of 1 the labor of women and children can ( f t?e Improved." I ? ] j t I Lort Arms Without Pain. j 1 Onr story of a man being blown I away, unhtirt, hy th# expAoshm mt a T t>omb which he did not hear mast soetn i Incredible to many people. Heee h? I something like nn analogy. J ' King Edward once brought together <gs~? at his dinner table Eastern l'ashn, who ? Inid had half Ids right hand and part of his awn torn oft by a bear, and Sir Edward Bradford, who hail hod hla left arm up to the elbow rannched p away by n tiger. The two men compared notes. Neither hrnl felt the least twinge of pain at the time. They imagined that ^ Ihelr Intense desire to save their Uvea dulled all other senses. ? London ('n" Chronicle. her Bismarck's Wine Thirst. In his choice of drinks Bismarck st|l1 displayed a somewhat unpatriotic j.^( anlpll To 11- I .>? ?*> \f? I?.... ?. I? .........B ... ..... .......I ......III III VV(1, 1S70. Bismarck confessed that when j?.(. stationed at St. Petersburg, he used to j,ar ifrink two bottles of champagne a day. stm He estimated that altogether he had drunk 5.000 bottles of champagne and K(at smoked 100.0U0 cigars. tud On another occasion Bismarck de- ral clared that beer "makes men stupid, 240 lazy and useless. It Is responsible for nun the democratic nonsense spouted over peg the tavern fables. A good rye whisky met Is very much better." Co* this " wot ??????? el i ii ren ad Administration I mm NCES Mn. aloi __ ure ursinn Faroe - V?1 A MA VU mo, Islf INT Fir inty Fair.. w E dee 11, S. C. |? hon 53-24,1919 7 rlet xne isterand other points Oc1 limit tor return October i are I Smi ! r,"p ! In* LROAD LINES 5 wnr 'ound trip fares applv to a<,J' xi. orr gpnts. T,TI K ? "W. J.. % THE LANCASTER NI IDENTS 1 \M AT MEETING " : ' ' ;on an active part In the Students' ' at a Y. W. C. A. atudant conference. r ill parte of China come together te a! rUlaa I ? .... INTERESTING FACTS j , , a Telegraph girls employed by the London general post ofllee now number more than 6,500. The height of St, Paul's cathedral. London, Is as many feet us there are duys In the year. In Sweden the public houses are closed on Saturday, pay day, < while the savings banks are kept open until midnight. Before the war the number of l>eople in Great Britain holding government securities was 340,- !! IKK); today It is more thun 20,DOO.OOO. The palace of the former Ger- ; ? man emperor in Berlin at one time kept 500 houseinulds and 1,800 liveried footmen in employment. > BE NEW WORLD'S WONDER ?nese at Work on Statue of St. Nichiren, Cutting It From the Solid Rock. n the Isle of Cow's Head, In thnt utifuI Inland sen, which has been ed the Mediterranean of Japan, n ze of rock overlooks the water, and e a small army of Japanese worki art- busy at the first cuttings that I eventually carve out the largest rue in the world. The Colossus of ales, at one time one of the seven nlers ?>f the world, Is Raid to have n 1'JO feet high- -n small thing com- 1 ed with the figure of Liberty that uls lfil fee< above Its pedestal in v Tork harbor?hut the Japanese fue will he of even greater magnte. Following the line of the natu- i rock It will b? a reclining figure feet long, and therefore that much *c Inipresslv? than the Huddhn at ;u. Burma, which from head to foot isures 1^2 feet. The Isle of the r's heixl Is [)rlvnte property, and i Rrohdlngnagian adornment Is n k of private enterprise. The reiing figure will he that of St. Nlehl. who founded the secj of Buddhism t hears his niiine. In the wooden led the saint lies asleep, facing whor sees him. his head pillowed on a r-k. and his left arm extended ng his side; a somewhat arehaie fig . yet with considerable renllsin. the enormous statue that Is to be out of the solid rock from the lei the troos and greenery of the of the Cow's head will provide an ellent setting. st to Originate and Use Forks and Napkins on j | Table of Family Home Fingers were mnde before forks," | that Is why we have napkins. Ixlstence today would be bad In- ! d without that most essential of table appointments, the napkin, i can one conceive of Its Impor- j ce to our ancestors, who only a few dred years ago ate without forks? | or, as we know, It was not until I seventeenth century that forks i ie their bow to the most elite soy of England, as a substitute for j time nonored fingers. In Ho- ! th's picture of a "Guildhall Bnn- j t" the whole Illustrious company aeen eating with their hands. ' ill wonder at the necessity for the kin, which was used not only dur- ! the meal Itself, hut nfterwnrd ' red the purpose of a towel, nd t Iw/n It was Italy, the home of 1 wakened fastidiousness, as well as rennlssance of art, that cume ford with the Inspiration for the new iinct of the table, the fork, which lewhat modified uses of the napkin, ut as long Indispensable, the naphad become second nature and sur- % 's to our daj. i ) ; ' SWS, LANCASTER, S. C. 3arrot and Raven Live to Be 90 and 100 Years Old Some birds live to n great age. The lge of 90 Is known to hnve been eached by a gray parrot, und there ire uiuny statements of birds of the inrrot family having lived for over a rentury. The raven also Is credited >vlth hnvlng reached 100 years. The lomestlc goose Is another long-living >lrd. Many Instances are known of jeese attaining 40 years. The ordinary lomestlc fowl is seldom allowed to die >f old age, but In some country places >ld hens that have been made pets of iro ti? oimn .....1 ..? ?? II........1 "V vv? II Uii\? Ml V Uiivuvu IV I Miialn until they are 10 or 12 years j >1(1. having long previously ceased o lay. Rock Dust to Save Miners' Lives. Perhaps the oddest, yet one of the nost effective, means fur preventing ?or. at nil events, minimizing?dlsasers In coal mines Is the use of rock lust. A lot of It Is placed on hoards hung >y chains from the roofs of mine tunlels. Obviously In ease of an explosion the hoards will awing and the dust vill be thrown off. Following an explosion a roaring lame, let us say, is coining through he tunnel. The nlr is filled with coal lust (or poaslbly with Inflammable fas) to feed It. But It meets n curaln of non-lnflumnmhle roek dust (dls :hnrged from the board shelves) and s thereby stopped. Rock dust will tot burn under any provocation. Subleiuled thickly in the nlrt It acta like id asbestos curtain. Tha flame caslot get Vhrough It. - : ftfiltns proven It will cure Mularln, bills and Fever, Milieus Fever, Folds ml !,ii<ir!p)ie. It kills the cerins that nu.se the fever. Fino Tonic. j W.E.PLYLER || Public J a . u Auctioneer j A* a"! lim a tie artistic dwelling is in demand, whether large or small, cxp US'\e or inexpensive. An attractive, inexpensive house, nowever, i . an exception. QUICKEII/T Bungalows combine beauty and economy. I thorni:~h'y rorerlnR tlio nwls of the aver t ui" t. r r.-nt i . |'iir|i .srs It Is wi ll bull I; . i :i wilt ...ti attracti >v loth In: i I i Iiu-tt msi.. In roiistrin i i ,-i v in it<- t. re is s miie'i i . a Ti s is . isi thr rutin sl/r l: - 'til (tUICKCILT KiiiilmU w No Ills t, l* s sj" t inII; ili siciivil to make t a. r a'.ir.i1:' -irtl In erecting thi$ bungaloi J SAVE > \XrAC\'r]? " '',c t> r I Is alnailv l ' il-- ' c," i ,s',. pil, * if serin IiiiiiIi I 1 iii limit" r Is usimI Vmi buy ' if 7 Kvit) niece of n it* rial b.is It* (i * (s ||i|||,ik-i i'll mil s.sti'lli.itl/ri ( i :, rtitiT are complete ami (lit* orile No vi i- ' I U ill looking for material. i lit t in tin limit rv i'lilllni' not trunnilli E i rtii t llo in. so is I nill In panel*. J S i is < iinii itfii m roust ruction. 9 I A I)AO Willi the entire process ? LflOWrt* ptfir til groat In l i i"|i r 'tioo eliminated tic U). OUICKBILT llligalow is minced to a m I i \ . r enter t arer n mi i erect th house In Iiioum' wii! lake uluest as many weeks. AfH/V/r V A sating In waste of mat /TJUiYLL I- ? s tint: In money. With I. v> tin t\|i se of erection Is rut III half, nir.l ii< t |m> a contractor's fir Tin it s *ii '|r in ,t ally carpenter of average v Mli Mailt owner* hulld thru til li: i?i!rr'' I r The complete |iluns wltl Ii struct! i s re tiirnisliril KltKK Ami j alter rar ml stM'ly by the best and moil torts. Willi a view to eliminating wane a |m uli le convenience, economy and stret materl. I Is furl ler reduced hy the fact t) mill, manufacturer and forest In one. <M the I'M ire |i<ccS*. from the tree to the cor n mlddle-inan a profit. You Imy direct fro Tie price Is therefore rock l.ottom In tth>< i hundreds of hotiaen are luillt slm < t to jHTfectlon Is used and every waste ere made in great quantities, you gain l< tt st of quantity, production. QUICKBILT Bungalc A. C. 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