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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-19

Bruce rKlingaman, formerly, of this
city but. now of .sClinton. arrived here
Tuesday evening for short stay on
business.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-19
Expert on repairing. Hodges.

Expert on repairing, Hodges.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Mclaughlin
spent the day in Des. MoineK
Miss Mary Wenxel left this afternoon
for Chicago to remain for the summer.
The Marshallt own. Chapter of the D.
A. r. will meet with Mrs. Merritt
Greene Friday afternoon.
Home made whole wheat bread Mon
days. Wednesdays and Saturdays. Nc
Cord & Wing, phones 2s4 and 1884.
Mr.. r. w. Mcbride, Of Newton, is in
the city getting his household goods
packed and ready for shipment to New
ton.
Mrs. John D. Vail has gone to White
water, Wis. for ten days visit with
her aged mother Mrs. Elizabeth Shir-
reff Mrs. Shirreff is 81. years old.
For Sale-Fine 160-acre farm, Mar
shall county. we'll improved. Rents 50
an, acre. Three thousand dollars will dc
for first payment. Balance from one
to eight years if desired. Good chance
to own a farm. Inquire j. L. Carney:
Have your furnace repaired now
when we can get to it. We have nearly
1900 Lennox furnaces at work in Mar
shalltown and 1t is absolutely impossi-
BILE Ito put them all in good repair in
one day. Lennox Furnace Company.
The Marshalltown School of Fine
Arts announces the opening Of their
summer term this week Miss Belle
Classen, who is now at the head of the
arts and crafts department Of the
school. will be glad to have anyone cal
who is interested. So -
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Hahn and som
Harold and Max, 406 North Fourth
street, will leave Thursday morning 70
Constantine, Mich, where Mrs. Hahn
and sons will remain for months Wis
it at the home of Mrs. Hahn's mothe,
!! Mrs. NJ. l.. Ernst. Mr.. Hahn will b
with his family at Constantine for tw
! weeks.
Word received by friends here tell
of the progress being made by f. G
(! Wallace and family, who are motorin,
! to California. From Candy, Mimi
cards were received from the Wallaces
indicating slower progress than. hal
been expected. Mr.. Wallace writes tina
at Candy he had plowed thru 100 mile
of mud
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-19

scottiss coal office, III East Main
street. with SAmeric4n Express Com.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-19

Why not order that Fourth Of July
suit now before the rush to get in on
the special prices we are making? Hop
kins & Son, the popular tailors.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-19

The board of supervisors, which was
in session Tuesday, adjourned last
evening until Thursday. Today the su :
pervisors went to st. Anthony to in
spect the first of the new concrete
bridges that is being built there.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-19

while city electricians were chang
iA9 fire alarm box at about o'clock
Ms morning they accidentally touched
az the alarm, causing the department
tD answer the call.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-19

1T does not matter whether 1t is a
dark or light suit you are going to buy,
you can find 1t in our line in the new
est shades and at special prices. Hop
llns & Son, the popular tailors.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-19

days, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Nc
Cord & Wing, phones 2S4 and 1884.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-19

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mclaughlin
spent the day in Des MoineK
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-19

The Marshallt own, Chapter of the ID.
A. r. will meet with Mrs. Merritt
Greene Friday afternoon.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-19

The Concordla Nahebund will be en-
tertained Thursday afternoon by Mrs.
Gottlieb Schmelz, LOT South Second
avenue.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-19

Mr.. r. w. Mcbride, Of Newton, is in
the city getting his household goods
packed and ready for shipment to New
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-01-27

IL is the duty OF one girl 10
scrub the whole interior of the
public part of the restaurant
twice daily. That in itself is quite
a heavy piece of work. I know.
for did it. Also, l had to assist
in washing the dishes.
The working is hard enough,
but the getting off in the evening
brings very little relief. What is
there for these girls to do? They
are too worn out to go out for
any amusement, and even should
they feel equal to going, out, the
smallness of their wages pre-
cludes the possibility of them go
ing anywhere except to the
cheapest and most uninviting
places.
At the end of the day the girls
are exhausted. Many of them
frequently throw themselves
down on their bed without even
having the energy to undress. But
they all remove their shoes, for
their feet are tortured.
With all the hardshipS these
girls have to undergo, there is
very little heard of the effect of
long hours on their health. There
is a reason for this, and a very
good one, Most of them are nom
English speaking Poles and other
branches of the Slavic race, who
have no means oftelling the pub
lie of these conditions.
In this article have not tried
to do any undertaking. I have
simply told conditions as I have
found them. As to the wages, that
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-01-27

two days, but in that time found
there was urgent need for strict
enforcement of the 10-hour law.
Even 10 hours of such work un--
derrnines ones health.
When engaged l was told that
I could only work ten hours a
day. The reporting time in the
morning was 8 o'clock and we
were through at ! in the evening.
With one hour off for lunch that
brought the day within the legal
limit. But l soon discovered that
the hour for lunch" was a snare
and a delusion. Fifteen minutes
was nearer the resting period.
Meal time was practically entire
ly cut out,
At the noon rush it is irnpoSsi-
bic in many cases for the en-
ployes to take time for lunch, and
even after the rush is over the
restaurant and kitchen must be
cleaned before the evening rush
starts. The only solution is for
more help to be employed. If the
law is to be carried out that is
imperative. ~
Another thing. that saps ones
vitality is the practice of speed
ing up" As-fast as girl fin
ishes one task she is put to anoth-
er and always the cry is for. more
speed.
Owing to the pressure of the
work, due to this speeding up
practice, even when time is
snatched from work to eat the
desire for food is gone, and with
the knowledge that every min
Il 4 4
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
Vastness of Stellar Depths
By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKTN

y o dig hole in the ground and
II set post five or six feet
high. Nail a stick across
the top. Tie fine string to ring
three inches in diameter and sus-
pend it from the end of the stick.
Break up diamond-if you
make the error of wearing one
and centering your mind on the
useless bauble rather than upon ma
ture and her majestic laws: select
minute fragment so small that
if spherical II side by side would
make a row one inch long, and sus-
pend the tiny globe by means of
fine fiber of silk in the center of
the ring.
Then walk away on straight
line 9.S1 miles, turn around and
look back. The ring would be in
visible, and it would require the
keenest eye to see the post, if in
deed any could see it.
Get good telescope and you
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
Always
Gypsy LUCK.

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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03

suit OF that is that you will get on
better in life. for the mind is the
motive power.
Don't believe in influence, in pull,
in better days to come unless you
make them come. Be your own
banker, and account for all that
comes and goes. A man earning
Ten Dollars week. or Five Hun
dred and Twenty Dollars a year,
is an investment representing 5
per cent on Ten Thousand Four
Hundred Dollars. That is, if he
should die his family would need
this sum to keep on as they had
been going
This shows how necessary it is
for a ten dollar a week man to be
a banker, and keep joint accounts
with present and future.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03

might just see the ring against the
sky on a white background; but
the diamond would be invisible.
Come up here, get the 16-inch
telescope, try it and the diamond
sphere could not be seen. Go get
40 or 60-inch telescope, still the
diamond would not come into view
Then get a 5000, 900 candlepower
electric arc searchlight, and by
means of a big lens concentrate
the light on the diamond; then a
much smaller telescope would re-
veal it.
Go to the giant star-sun, Sirius
the dog star; take very large TEL
escope with you, turn around and
look back this way.
Then the orbit of the earth.
ring 1S6, 100000 miles in diameter,
would appear to be as three inches
in diameter viewed from 9.5l
miles. And the sun as the 1-1lst
of an inch in diameter.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
By THOMAS TAPER.
No. 7.---Taxes

fewer of them in the streets"
This is paying taxes on vanity.
Many man at Ten Thousand
Dollars a year Is farther behind in
the game than the economical la
borer who puts a dollar or two a
week aside from his wages An
unwise man, with a love for dis
play, can be awfully foolish on Ten
Thousand Dollars a year, and
man on Fifteen Dollars week can
be very wise. 1t all depends on
whether self government has been
set up and the man knows how he
stands every night.
III.
Don't pay useless taxes, but tax
today for tomorrow. BY following
this rule you can not remain poor.
1t braces up the mind, and the re-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
C1r1uS
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
Copyright, 1912, by American Journal Examiner

Milky Way sixty years have
t P. serviss)
CINCE Sirius crossed the Milky Way
~ Full sixty thousand years have gone
Yet hour by hour and day by day,
This treless star speeds and
Methinks he must be moved to mrth
By that droll tale of Genesis.
Which says creation had its birth
For such puny world this
To hear how One who fashioned all
Those solar systems tiers tiers,
Expressed in little Adams fall
The purpose of million spheres
And witness of the endless plan
To splendid wrath he must be brought
By pgmy creeds presumptuous
Sends forth as God primeval thought
Perchance from half hundred stars
He hears many curious things;
From Venus, Jupiter and Mars,
And Saturn with the beauteous rings,
There may be students of the Cause
Who send their revelations out
And formulate their codes of laws
With heavens for faith and bells for doubt
On planets old ere form or place
Was lent to earth, may dwell-who knows .
A Godike and perfected race
That halls great Sirius he goes.
In zones that circle moon and SUM-
Twixt world and world, he may souls
Whose span OF earthly life is done,
Still journeyng up to higher goals.
And on dead planets gray and cold
Grim spectral souls that harbored hate
Life after life, he may behold
Descending to darker fate
And on his grand, Majestic course
He may have caught glorious sight
OF that vast shining central Source
From which proceeds all life all light
Since Sirius crossed the Milky Way
Full sixty thousand years have gone;
No mortal man may bid him stay
No mortal man may speed him on.
No mortal mind may comprehend
What is beyond, what before;
To God be glory without end
Let man be humble and adore.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
HOW TO BUILD A FORTUNE
No 7---Taxes

~ OMETHING has already been
, said about the value of small
sums of money saved regu-
larly TO cite one instance again:
Five cents day amounts in ten
years, at four per cent compound
interest, to a trihe over Two Hun
dred and Twenty Dollars.
But there is absolutely no way in
the world of making a man prefer
to have Two Hundred and Twenty
Dollars ten years from now, at the
cost of Ave cents day, as against
the remembrance of having swal-
lowed three thousand six hundred
and fifty glasses of beer. The
choice Of this is, you see, entirely
up to the man.
Some savings banks have tried to
encourage thrift by printing tables
that show the growth of money
regularly deposited and left at in
terest. Few of them, however take
the trouble to rub in the principal
fact hard enough.
The principal fact is this:
Whenvyou deposit money at in
terest you must also deposit
Time. For Time is that which per-
mits interest to get moving. to
create a momentum, and finally to
work up a good total for you.
Any one can build a fortune. ac-
cording to his status in life, II he
Will begin early enough in life and
give time a chance. Even men of
40 and so can begin to save small
sums for a pension at 20, for there
. are 80 or 20 years available for in
terest to do it's work,
Difficult at Forty.
But It Is hard for man OF 40 or
80 to accomplish this, and for this
reason:
II is difficult to establish a new
habit, that demands regularity, so
late in life. But IL man of so has
a job, and Is In fair health, and is
scared to death lest he be in want
at 20, he may be able to brace up
and give time a chance to work It's
wonders for him on his nickels and
dimes.
Much old age poverty and want
are due TO waste in early years.
We complain OF taxes But the
willingness with which we pay
taxes of our own assessment is
amazing. We pay willingly for
countless things we do not need.
When want pinches. in later years,
we grumhle at the times at hard
luck, at never having had a chance.
And yet few of us are such fools
as TO believe the lying reasons we
give for our own poverty.
Back OF countless old people who
have nothing stretch years of inn
providence. SO 1t is true. as one
writer says; Society suffers more
from the waste of money than from
the want OF money" To be we'll
to-do is the result OF self-denial
and daily economy. Self denial and
economy are common sense applied
to everybody's money transactions.
A man with a little extra change
in his pocket can buy a lot OF
things he does not need If he does
buy them, he has paid tax on his
habit Of waste. He may be skilled
in earning money. but he is a fiat
failure in governing his own use
of it,
The man spoke truly who said:
IF every man who sports an auto
mobile only by having mortgaged
his furniture and his wife's furs
had to state that fact on his III
cense number plate, there would be
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
Dorothy Dix
Writes on
Doing Things Well
By DOROTHY DIX

learning to spell. and that they can
find the whole art of how TO get
there in the dictionary. 7 know
cocks who have cooked for 40 wears
without ever learning how to mako
bread, or boil a potato properly. and
VIII still wonder why they are al.
ways changing places.
1 know dressmakers who admit
that they are bad filters, yet tbov
go on running peoples cloth vos-
after year, and complaining about
the 1ckleness of customers ubo
never come back.
These women know wber. .h,.
fault lies, but they are too law and
too indolent to correct 1t. And
they are always poor and IN Maid
for there's just one kind of work
that commands a high price IN ~.
market, and that is first class work
II you can do that you can write
your own price tag for it.
Why can one dressmaker gel s75
Tor making gown while another
can only get IS?
Because one woman turned out
sloppy work and the other turns
out perfect job
Why can one cook command !
salary of $4,000 a year while an
other can only get IS a week? Be
cause one has raised the art Of
cookery to a science, and the other
never takes the trouble to learn
even the rudiments of 1t.
Willing To Pay.
Why can one stenographer com
mand a high salary while the town
Is overrun with girls who are al
""SS ouNei using Tor job Be-
cause busy men are willing to pay
for expert work that is ALWAYS
right, and nobody wants to pay for
bungling, laundering work that is
full of illspelt words and erasuros
and that can never be depended
upon for accuracy.
1t pays to learn how to do things
well, little sister. 1t pays to be on
the job, and II you know wherein
you fail to make good you've got a
signboard pointing you to the ways
of success. Just correct your faults
and make of your weakness your
strength.
Don't say you can't write, or you
can't spell, or you can't add up fig
ures, or you can't cook, or you
can't sew, because you can If you
want to. Any girl with ordinary
intelligence and particle of back
bone in her body can make herself
an expert in any of these lines II
she will give 1t half the time and
trouble and serious thought that
she does to the way she combs her
hair.
Of course, girls are like boys,
they succeed best in the occupation
for which they have natural apti-
tude. In selecting ones lifework
it is important to pick out some
thing for which one has a turn and
a liking, and which one enjoys do
ing, but having once made this Sc
lection, stick to 1t and learn to do
that thing supremacy well.
That's the open sesame to sue
cess, little sister It's just doing
things well, and whether it's learn
Ing how to write legible hand, or
singing grand opera, it's up TO the
individual, If you have the deter
mlnation and the energy, and the
courage to work, and work. and
work until you conquer your diff
ficulty, and learn how to do that
particular thing just right, you
will succeed. Otherwise you viii
be failure. It's all up to you
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03

dropped Then though all earth an heaven
a
ashv o
carry tour-l..t clover Gypsy 1uahu lead ys
are an interested when somebody talks Of "luck"
Probably individuals told they
most sailed the Titanic and how luck saved them
LUCK" did nothing the kind They simply
not SAIL
Almost every human being has superstition
Gamblers made up of superstition because gambling
quires effort of intellect
Ignorance is made of superstition because superstition
places knowledge mind place grain
abandoned field.
Nnenine of hundred of those who this newspaper
begin editorial because it talks about
'luck"
If should proceed lucky and what is not
lucky if should describe lucky stones i'll luck
go through end beev
ing perhaps, but still interested
If this article change talk ''How to be
healthy lucky half at least would stop
reading it.
Yet for the be healthy if
she will There is such thing good
eit There is such thing good luck"
What pity talk emotion time are wasted on luck
that does exist little knowledge
easily obtained.
In the old days when the plagueprobaby
cholera-devasaed England thousands
the mystic word "abracadabra
Those that had got the anybody
IT, of tattoong their arms they
carefully only food not exposed
contamination they would have been safe You have sWA
LOW the cholera in order get the cholera.
LUCK has nothing to with it.
Yet in the East today the natives fight
nominations and religious appeals They the Holy
Gange whore puefys spread the disease and the bath
swallow it.
Or they to Mecca pray the Holy Stone
Mohammed stood when he heaven
tact with the disease down there and catch it.
When European scientists among miserable
along the banks of the anges the ignorant Mohamme
dams try to replace magic and heather religious with
actual knowledge the natives fight scientists them
and them Of murder.
You realize however when you
reprint at the top of this column what hold superstition
the "ucky idea have upon the mind.
That is due to the fact that only yesterdaya goes
this world few hundreds of the moseveythng
attributed to luck magic to good evil spirits
Our ancestors about loaded down with
Of different kinds to keep off evil And they hired magcian
take evil away from them and enemies
The thunder in the mountains the lightning n clouds
strange noises in the all attributed evil spirits
And there always cunning individual among
the ignorant ready invent explanation ready
gon ready to the evil spirits and quiet them for fixed
price.
If the postoffce authorities would allow could readily
build up great United today by advertising
lucky other asmans should
distribution of knowledge regard
health that will actually give
luck NEVER gives he might death He would least
arouse little interest.
teaches that still very ancestors
the the holes the hills believed
and COLLINS and gnomes that imagined god many gods will
ing to be bribed a cash basis.
We still from the real civilization knowledge
destiny.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03

T-IAVE received a letter from
l. young woman, who says:
Il am working girl. 1t is
absolutely necessary for me to earn
my own living. have had several
good places since left school, but
l have lost each one because my
handwriting is so bad. What shall
do?"
Learn how to write, little sister.
Get you copy book, and pen and
ink, and sit down at a table and
p never get up until you have mas
tered the art OF chirography.
Spend hours, and days, and weeks,
If necessary, acquiring plain and
legible handwriting. Eat pot
hooks; dream upward slants and
downward slants, and curves, and
curlecues. Give every particle of
intelligence you've got, put every
ounce OF determination in you to
learning to write, and, my word
for it, you will soon have Jim the
Penman looking like a carver of
You're not going to sit down be-
fore an ink pot and pen, and give
up, are you? You're not going to
admit that you have so little in
telligence that you can't learn how
to write decently, are you? You
haven't so little ambition that you
are going to be a gutter the first
time you strike a real difficulty in
life, are you? When we find out
what is our handicap in the race
for success there is just one thing
to be done, and that is to over
come that particular drawback.
There's just one way to get on in
the working world, little sister, and
that is to do good work. and the
sooner you master the fact the bet
ter It will be for you. There are
plenty of good places for the COM
petent. but there's no room for the
clerk whose sales slips look like
chicken tracts, or the bookkeeper
whose ledger won't balance, or the
stenographer who can't spell.
Therefore it's UP to you to decide
whether you are going to be one of
those invaluable employees who
climb up to situations of trust and
honor and profit, or whether you
become one of the shifting army of
incompetents who are always look
~ 20
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
.
Why They Fail.

People who fail in life always lay
the blame on circumstances, or
fate, or the state of politics, or
heredity, or some other convenient
scapegoat. This let's them down
easy, and gives them chance to
sniffle, and cry, and make a bid
for sympathy when they strike us
for a loan. But the truth is that
we make our own luck, little sister,
and we are the architects of our
own misfortunes just as much as
we are of our own fortunes. The
drunkard and the beggar on the
street are self made men, just as
much as are Mr.. Rockefeller and
Mr. Carnegie
1t doesn't make a bit Of differ
ence what we choose as a life work
If we do 1t well. Success or fail
ure in any line depends upon the
kind of handiwork that we turn
out, and this is something that wo-
men have yet to learn.
I know dozens of girls who have
chosen stenography for profess
sion, who blandly say, Il never could
learn to SPELL" and it never seems
to occur to them that their whole