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LINEN 



queen would have showered valuable gifts upon 

 her, but she accepted nothing but a bracelet, 

 which she always treasured. 



In 1850 she visited the United States under 

 the management of P. T. Barnum, and toured 

 the country for nearly two years. She sang in 

 a hundred concerts, and created unprecedented 

 enthusiasm wherever she went. She was paid 

 $1,000 a night for 150 nights; friends of Bar- 

 num predicted his ruin because of such a con- 

 tract, but his receipts were $700,000, and people 

 fought for opportunity to secure choice seats 

 sometimes at auction prices. In February, 1852, 

 in Boston, she was married to her accompanist, 

 Mr. Otto Goldschmidt. When her husband 

 became leader of the Bach choir in London 

 Madame Goldschmidt sang frequently in ora- 

 torios and concerts. She made her last appear- 

 ance at a concert for charity at Malvern in 

 1883. 



LIN 'DEN, the name given in Europe to & 

 large, handsome forest tree more popularly 

 known in America as basswood. It is described 

 under that title in these books. 



LINDSAY, lin' zi, the county town of Vic- 

 toria County, Ontario, on the Grand Trunk and 

 Canadian Pacific railways, sixty-nine miles 

 northeast of Toronto. Lindsay is also on the 

 Scugog River, which is navigable and provides 

 steamer connection with the Trent Canal. The 

 town has a large trade in lumber, grain and 

 flour, and among other things manufactures 

 doors, sashes and other lumber products, boots 

 and shoes, agricultural implements and car- 

 riages. The county buildings are conspicuous, 

 as are also the collegiate institute and a Roman 

 Catholic convent. Population in 1911, 6,964; 

 in 1916, about 7,500. 



LINDSEY, BENJAMIN BARR (1869- ), an 

 American judge who has attracted widespread 

 attention through his work intended to improve 

 the relations between the law and youthful 

 offenders. He is the originator of the leading 

 features of juvenile courts (which see), and is 

 an authority on methods of dealing with the 

 delinquency of boys. 



Judge Lindsey was born in Jackson, Tenn., 

 where he attended the public schools. In Den- 

 ver, Colo., while working in a real-estate office, 

 he read law in his spare hours, and after mak- 

 ing a name for himself in this profession, he 

 was elected judge of the Denver juvenile court 

 (1901). In that capacity he introduced the fea- 

 ture of putting boys on their honor, and also 

 originated many other improvements in the 

 handling of youthful transgressors. 



BENJAMIN B. LINDSEY 



For several two-year terms he was returned 

 to the office, but his reelection in 1913 was 

 marked by a most bitter campaign. This was 

 due to his de- 

 nunciation of the 

 system which ex- 

 tends privileges 

 and monopolies 

 to a few and de- 

 nies common 

 rights to the 

 many (which he 

 says is the cause 

 of involuntary 

 poverty). His 

 courageous stand 

 made him the ob- 

 ject of violent at- 

 tacks, but he suc- 

 ceeded in holding 

 the confidence and respect of the public. 



Judge Lindsey has conclusively proved the 

 value of the probation system, and especially 

 that of private hearings by a wise and sympa- 

 thetic judge. He is the author of Colorado 

 Juvenile Court Law, Problems of the Children, 

 The Beast and the Jungle, The Rule of Plu- 

 tocracy in Colorado and other writings. 



In 1915 he was a member of the party which 

 embarked on a futile mission, under the direc- 

 tion of Henry Ford (which see), to bring peace 

 to the warring nations of Europe. Judge Lind- 

 sey's reputation is so firmly established in 

 Europe that he was a conspicuous figure in 

 every European city he visited. 



Consult Steffins's Upbuilders. 



LINE, a continuous extension, purely imag- 

 inary, of length without breadth or thickness. 

 It may be described as the track of a moving 

 point. Lines may be parallel, oblique, perpen- 

 dicular, or tangential; they may be straight, 

 curved, broken or mixed. A broken line is a 

 number of straight lines, a mixed line is a num- 

 ber of straight and curved lines. See GEOME- 

 TRY. 



LIN 'EN, a superior kind of cloth woven 

 from the fibers of flax, which provides mankind 

 with a wonderful variety of strong and useful 

 fabrics. In daily use in the home are linen 

 towels, bedding, tablecloths and napkins; linen 

 dresses, shirts, collars, cuffs and handkerchiefs 

 are familiar articles of apparel ; and there are 

 so many other ways in which the cloth is used 

 we may say with truth that we have it with us 

 all day long and throughout our lives. 



