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The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-04-24
ESKIMO LAMPS.

It is believed that the Eskimo
lamp was invented before its pos
SCISSORS cmigrated from their original
home, which was probably farther
south and near the seacoast. But the
form of the lamp becomes more
specialized the higher the latitude is.
The lamps Of southern Alaska haze
wick edge Of two inches, while
those of Point Barrow and northern
Greenland have wick edges Of /, TO
SO inches. The lamp is employed
for melting snow and ice TO obtain
drinking water, for cooking, light
ing, warming, drying skins and in
the arts. 1t is also a social factor
and the sign Of the family unit, each
head Of the family having his lamp.
--Harper's Weekly.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-04-24
RIVAL sEAP0RTs OF WORLD
Cities on the Great Lakes Handle Ton
mage That at First Glance Seems
Almost Unbelievable.

Upon the five great lakes there
throbs a commerce that well might
be the envy of any far-reaching sea.
To put the thing concretely, the
freight portion Of this commerce
alone reached tremendous totals in
1919. In the navigation months Of
this last year exactly 47,435,477 tons
of iron ore and an even greater tom
mage of coal moved upon the lakes,
while the enormous total of 8,000,-
600 bushels Of grain was received at
the port of Buffalo. In 1911 the
shipping of the lakes felt sharply
the poor grain crop" of 1910 and
the slight reaction in both the steel
and the copper markets; whole fleets
of vessels rusted their very hearts
out in the harbors of Buffalo and the
other great ports Of the lower lakes.
But the business of the lakes seems
to increase at the rate of seven per
cent. annually, and in 1912 more
than held its own. Traffic grows fast
upon the great water highway of the
new world. Already the tonnage Of
Cleveland, Ohio, is comparable with
that of Liverpool, and yet there are
tens of thousands of sailormen upon
the salt seas who have never even
heard Of Cleveland. Detroit boasts
that in the season of eight months
Of open navigation tonnage ten
times that which the full year gives
to the Suez canal passes her wharves
on the narrow river that bears her
name.-Harper's Magazine.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-04-24

Arabian honey. which Is frequently
mentioned by historians a. an inn
portant export from Alden in early
llmes, Is no longer on item In the ex-
port trade. Small quantities, how
ever, continue to come from Mokalla,
400 miles east of Alden, and 1t is also
exported from that place to India in
small quantities. The decline in the
honey and wax industry has been
gradual for centuries, and in attributed
to diminution in the rainfall. The
honey that comes to market in Alden
Is packed in gourds and soatskins and
sometimes in hollow pumpkins.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-04-24
ONE WAY OF POOLING PAPA
Now the Wise Maiden Induced Him to
Favor Her Very Nervous
Suitor.

"You know, DEAR" said the young
man neryously to the pretty girl,
'I'm really frightened about speak
ing to your father, he's SO awful sure
OF himself, you know"
"Is that all that's causing the de-
lay" inquired the modern miss, dry
ly. "If that's it, just leave it to me.
Ill manage father"
Accordingly next morning she APP
preached paterfamilias as he potted
plants to the accompaniment of a
choice Havana and carpet slippers.
"Papa," she gurgled with feigned
mirth, as she took his arm, what do
You think. That young fool, Per-
kins, has proposed to me! Just
fancyP And the lady doubled up
in incoherent joy.
But papa shook himself free and
tugged with the fury of a baited bull
as he stormed:
''What! Refused young Perkins
that estimable young man? Why,
/ am ashamed of you! You modern
girls never know when you're lucky!
You'll make it up with him at once
at once, l say-and don't let me
have any nonsensew
And papa never knew the reason
for the peals of laughter which is
sued from the drawing room that
same evening, when Edwin Perkins
ecstatically greeted the dainty Clara.
London Answers.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-04-24
Man Who 10 HALF Sick.

A physician recently remarked that
ut was an awful punishment TO DO
only slightly Ill and have nothing to
do The man who Is only half sick.
II he has nothing to occupy his -atten-
ton, coon grows morbidly introspec-
tive and his mind becomes filled with
exaggerated ideas OF his condition.
Disease grows and fourishes under
such conditions. Regular employment
10 conducive TO health. Work keeps
the blood active and the mind away
from the physical condition.-liealth.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-04-24
BEFORE DAYS OF JOE MILLER
Joke That Presumably Had Its Origin
In Fertile Brains Thousands
Of Centuries Ago.

A statue of King Da-udu, who
lived and reigned about $500 B. G.,
has been discovered by DR.. Edward j.
Banks, an American archeologist,
among the ruins Of the buried city
of Adab, Babylonia. The statue,
cleaned and restored, is now in the
museum at Constantinople, says a
recent newspaper dispatch. The dis
patch also contains an ancient joke
that was found written on one Of
the walls of Adab.
One morning hodja's neighbors
complained of a noise that had dis
turbed them the previous night.
"There was no noise in my house
last night" asserted the hodja.
Don't tell us that" the neigh
bors protested. "There was such a
disturbance that we could not Sleep"
The hodja slowly stroked his long
beard, and then recollected that some
time during the night his wife had
kicked his nightshirt downstairs. at
must have been that" he said.
ooh, no, hodjav cried his neigh
bors. ''There was terrible noise
that could not have been made by
any such thing as nightshirt."
'Well, you see,' said the hodja, ct
was in the shirt !"-Youth's Com
panion.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-04-24
tee Cream Slot Machine.

Dropping q nickel In q slot machine
and getting in return dish OF ice
cream il one of the many things pos
s.ble in new automatic restaurant re-
Gently opened in New York. In the
same row with thu ice cream machine
are other slot machines for melons, or
anges and other fruits that require to
be kept at cool temperature TO be
at their best. This is accomplished By
a system of refrigeration Popllss;
Mechanics Magazine.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-04-24
aeek for ssby..

When baby arrives at a. taste for
books q durable one can be made of
brown holland or linen. Buttonhole
round the leaves with bright silk or
thread, and paste in bright colored
pictures cut froli magazines. A rev
of stitching made with an unthrcsdsd
needle will mark an even border, and
seYve RI marker for the insertion
Of the needle whom doing the button
holinE.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-04-24

didn't say it was the best on the mar
ket you'd give me another"
$50 / did," returned the agent.
swell, it's bunch Of junk at the
end of six months" said Tompkins,
"and I'd like the other car"
"Ah-but the contract was that
you were to say that after using the
old one ten years, sir" said the
agent. "You're just nine years and
six months short of the contract" p
Harper's Weekly.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-04-24
SCOTCH CURIOSITY.

A woman sent her servant over to
the house of a sick neighbor.
"Mrs, Smith, said she, ''sent .me
over tae speir hoo yer husband was
this morning"
'Very bad, indeed. The doctor
says he may die any minute was
the reply.
"Ah, weel," said the woman, "Fll
better wait a wee while; I've nae
other thing tae dae the moo"
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-04-24
Definitions Of Punch.

No beverage can properly be called
punch, which does not consist of five
ingredients, the word belonging to the
Marathi and Guzerati languages OF
India and signifying Ave." 1t was In
trodnced into England By the servants
OF the East India company about tho
emo nj the seventeenth century.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-04-24
The Voice a Pearl.

Elihu Burritt says OF the voice:
"Watch it day by day as a pearl OF
great price. for it will be worth more
to you in the days to come than the
best pearl hid in the sea. A kind
voice in Joy. like lark's Gong. to
hearth at home. Train 1t to sweet.
ones now and it will keep in ture
through life
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-04-24
ALL HER RELATIVES.

Wife-You got family when you
married me.
Husband-Yes, more family than
I can well support.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-04-24
JUST so.

"Icre's doctor claims housework
will cure almost any woman's nu-
merous ailments"
."Sort Of dishpanacea, so to speak,"
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-04-24

Mr.. Slowwit-I-er-er-am going to
tell you something that er-er-will no
doubt surprise you. I-er-think-
Miss Kutting-Well, that is a sur
prise-funny / never noticed it be-
fore. How long have you been think
ing?
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-04-24
NO iNDEEDY.

cit will require eighteen months
to get the new one-dollar treasury
note into circulation Il
"Not after my wife gets it."
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-04-24
SOME HOPE.

J Man (making rescue)-He may
not be dead yet.
Small Girl don't think he is,
MASTER. He was de slowest kid in de
neighborhood. Puck.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-04-24
QUITE THE CONTRARY.

~ understand Blobson is a hard
drinker.'
'Iou are mistaken. He drinks
without the slightest difficulty
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-04-24
CONTRACT NOT FILLED.

''See here" said Tompkins angrily
to the car agent, ''you told me that
if after using that car ten years I
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-04-24
QUITE so.

| '"Fhe small husband OF large
woman is not expected to be assert
AVE."
"Certainly not. And least Of all
by the large woman"
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-04-24
MERcENARY AGE.

"There goes a man worth know
ing \
rs that so? How much is he
worth? ?"
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-04-24
AN EXCEPTION.

"Walls have cars"
How can they have 'em around
the dumb waiter"
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-04-24

Floorwalkcr-Why do you stand
SO long in this one place?
Stranger-I'm watching those
women at the bargain counter get
ting their change. Never realized
what frenzied finance was before.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-07-23
Lemon as Toilet Aid.

The next time any one hands you "A
lemon do not feel offended. but turn
the laugh on your aggressor by accept
ing the lemon graciouSly and using il
TO improve or add beauty TO your
charms.
If you are blond you will find the
lemon very useful when shampooing
time comes around. After you have
cleansed your hair with soap and wa
ter rub the strained lemon juice into
the scalp and hair. II is necessary 10
rinse the hair well after this. The
lemon will keep the hair light and
make 1t fluffy. 1t is we'll to remember
that whenever any hair is shampooed
the work should not be considered
complete until the hair and scalp are
dry. Too many girls grow tired and
let the water get out of the hair as
best it can. This is big mistake, for
the damp condition is apt TO give one a
cold, or 1t may produce rheumatism of
the head and shoulders. If you have
not the strength TO give the shampoo
yourself ask your sister or some kind
friend to help you out and offer to do
as much for her.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-07-23

time in New York theatrical circles
wonder, wonder if girls never think
Of the price they pay for immodesty
and Stiffness
This was to be an unusual inter
view. l sat up, literally as we'll as
mentally alert. Have you brought
your ideals with you into the theatre?"
| asked.
GIRLS HAVE THE POWER.
Yes, and into New York" answered
Miss Jerome with assurance and earn
estness. Girls have it in their power
to make the attitude of the men. Now
look at the results. The men are be-
ginning to think that they must be
worldly and sporty and to boast about
it in order to win favor with girls
Then the girls think that in order to
be popular with men they must cater
TO the worldliness they have helped
create the demand for. So we see
girls painting their faces absurdly and
wearing immodest clothes, and every
body blames everybody else for the
lowering of our Ideals. l blame the
girls. If We are sweet and modest,
and seem to admire and appreciate the
fine qualities in men, they will culti-
vate them-and then We will feel that
our sweet qualities make US attractive.
1t is an endless chain, isn't it? But |
do so admire the old-fashioned modest
feminine girl, and / am sure the girl
of this type will find love and kindness
waiting her wherever she goes
IF men are getting so used to in.
modesty that they like it, why then let
US train them to modesty and see how
much better they will like that, A
good beginning would be to distinguish
carefully between the clothes We wear
on the street and those we wear in the
house Simple dignity for the street,
with the constant remembrance that
the sun-glare reveals everything it can
so we must be careful to conceal
what should be concealed-and though
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-07-23


pretty eighteen-year-old Flor
ence Nugent Jerome, and she
is giving back to the world
smiles and sweetness and sunshine.
But far back in the depths of her
wonderful gray eyes is a question that
makes you think of some of the sad
ness of all the ages.
why should this little girl, who has
leaped into instant favor with the the
atre going public, have this question
in the depths of her eyes and soul?'
asked myself. But after a few min
utes l knew. Little Florence Jerome
is a sensitive idealist, and so she looks
at life sadly now and then for all her
merry nature. She would have all
beauty perfect, and she knows it is
not.
Rosemary Lee" cannot find happi-
ness in the "Follies" of New York. So
the creator of Rosemary cannot find
satisfaction in the follies of her sister
girls in New York. Even in my little
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-07-23

| believe in bit of powder to cool the
skin, don't like to see a girl turned
into a clown by the brazen revealing
of the sun.
NOT A PRIG.
please don't get the idea that l am
a prig," went on dainty Miss Florence,
whose beauty has the sweet simplicity
Of the old-fashioned miniature. Il be-
lieve in youth and pleasure and being
as attractive as you can, so you will
look young and pleasure will come
your way. But l think you should al
ways have your own ideal as a picture
in your mind and not be persuaded to
like strange picture just because it
is popular.
Now, let me illustrate for you. At
the convent where | was educated
got the habit of walking each morning
from $50 to $50. The air is SO cool
and pure then, and nature is so lovely
and healing. Well, il is a tradition of
the theatre to sleep until about IL,
and l, mere beginner, am boldly 60
ing against that tradition, because
think that an early morning walk in
vigorates and braces you up for the
day. | wonder if it would not be worth
the while of all bushes women to get
up a bit earlier and have each day
start of in little stock-taking visit
with themselves and nature. Each of
us should be alone a part of each day.
and the very best time is in the cool
ness of the morning. You can just
plan then to have your day bigger and
finer than it was yesterday.
We all need solitude and we all
need pleasure. Life has to have re-
Taxation and spice as well as ideals.
But l don't know how any one can be
beautiful unless they try TO be sweet
and lovable. And that is not a bit what
you wanted, is it? said Miss Jerome
1T was not exactly what / expect
ed answered. But like your old
fashioned girl and your old-fashioned
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-07-23
Certified Brides And BridegrOOms

The best family in the town where
we both lived had three sons-every
one of them has turned out failure.
Ones an invalid, ones a criminal and
one is a drhnkard Father was sound
as a hickory nut, and mother never
had an i'll day in her life. How about
that family?
How far back have you got to go to
get at the source of infection and
who's going to do the going?
| II can find enough degenerates in
off for murder in the first degree"
said a clever lawyer to me just the
other day. Il don't suppose there's a
family in America without somebody
queer in it."
! Just how queer" have you go to be
and who's going to decide about it
when you try to get a marriage license
and can't?
eliminate the unfit"-well, well,
Mr.. Physician, who are the unfit?
There's Robert Louis Stevenson, for
instance. He never drew a breath of
good health in his life. Would you
nave eliminated MIN
How about Julius Caesar, how about
Napoleon, how about Mohammed, how
about Daniel Webster, how about ST.
Paul?
Unfit-every one of them-from the
doctors point of view, and there are
still more illustrious examples of the
unfit who survived and made the
l. loo
while the eft" stood around and look
ed on and wondered about it.
It's glorious idea you have, doctor,
and one that every civilized nation
should study carefully-but are you
quite sure how you are going to man.
age it?
| got the "sterilized" fad once and
wouldn't let anyone have drop of
water that wasn't boiled; till my old
doctor came along and told me l had
boil-d all the life out of it, and he
said he'd risk a few germs if he were
neon the principle that he'd rather
be an aquarium than a cemetery-and
l got over my fad.
Drink water all you can," shouts
the water-cure fiend.
Don't touch water till you have to-"
insists the new specialist.
when your brain is tired, work
your body" advises the doctor who is
supposed to know"
Don't overwork a tired system"
says his neighbor. Rest is the only
thing to cure fatigue"
And so it goes-we're all so inter
ested-in this eliminate the unfit"
idea, and yet when l look around
among my friends, a pretty decent lot
of people as the world goes, can see
dozens of them who would never have
been born at all if this idea had been
strictly carried out, and somehow 1
can't think the world would have been
much better off for that.
Take the old clock to pieces. doctor,
all you will, but please, good friend, be
quite sure you know how to put it to-
gether again so it will strike twelve
at midnight and not at eight of the
morning.
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way. Sometimes it told the time all
right but struck wrong. Sometimes it
struck all right but told the hour
wrong and then again it was the alarm
that never quite got over the clever
boys handling.
Sometimes l wonder about him
surgeon; always taking people to
pieces. / wonder if they run quite so
well when he is through with them as
they did before he touched them-he
and his science"
see he read paper at a great med
ical convention yesterday-it was all
about eliminating the unfit"
He doesn't want anyone to marry
but people in perfect health. He
thinks physicians should regulate mar
riage-and regulate it legally. No one
should be allowed to marry at all
without the yes, indeed" of the whole
medical profession. Fine idea, pro-
gressive, and all that. l wonder if it
is quite practical?
Now, there's the doctor himself, for
instance. l happen to know that his
mother was an old-fashioned consump-
tive. She took twenty years a-dying,
and one of his brothers died of the old
fashioned illness out in Colorado not
so many weeks ago.
The doctor is alive yet, and very
lively too, thank you. He wouldn't be
here at all if his advice had been taken
thirty years ago-and just think how
we should have missed him and his eX-
periments with the clocks and with
peoples Intervals.
We knew a good many of the same
people, the doctor and l, when he was
taking clocks to pieces.
One of them died of cancer; her
mother died of it, too; and she married
and had three children. One of them
is the cleverest, all-around woman
know, one is mediocre and one has
made himself fortune in a country
town and is spending it helping sick
babies get well. Now if that woman
had not been allowed to marry, what
then?
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Married Life the First Year
The Most Wonderful Time.

ing airs that she had never noticed be-
fore And, too, there seemed a new
pathos in the old and withered Italian
couple who day after day pushed by
their heavy organ, looking up to the
windows for pennies that so rarely
came.
Helen's sympathies were keener and
the demands on them more frequent
than ever before. She could pass no
beggar, no blind or crippled peddler
without needing their appeal. And
Warren. who had always been strongly
opposed to promiscuous almsgiving.
now made no protest when she asked
him to give that poor old man some
thing"
And when he dropped a coin in some
trembling, palsied hand, she would
press closer against his arm.
Nov that we are so happy-it
seems SO hard to see unhappiness in
others. If one could only help them
would give them courage and hope. Oh,
there is so much suffering-I seem to
see it more now than ever before
But you mustn't dear. Now is the
time you mustn't think of such
things"
WARREN is KINDER.
"Oh, know, l know, and yet l can't
help til feel everything so much
more keenly. And the children-the
poor little street children who are
born in ignorance and disease-who
are never given a chance. Oh, War
rem, ii one could only help those chill
dren-help them to help themselves!
Hush, dear. you mustn't dwell on
things like that! If you think Of them
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-07-23
BY MABEL HERBERT URNER.

All that Helen had ever card or
read about a mothers care before the
coming of her child-she now read to
put into practice.
The reading of cheerful books, and
keeping of herself from worry and
anxiety and her thoughts on pleasant
things, the wearing of light. dainty
clothing, and having flowers and pref
ty things about her.
To her diet she gave the most care
full concern-plenty of fruit and nour-
fishing food. She drank no more cot
fee or tea. but plenty of milk, and al
ways a glass of warm milk at night
Faithfully every day after luncheon
she would lie down for a nap. She
was harboring all her strength to meet
the need that was to come.
For diversion, Warren took her to
a number of concerts and light operas
And as she sat beside him, her hand
held close in his, under the program
or a fold of her wrap. she let herself
drift to the strains of the music about
her and to the wonderful song within
herself-and knew that life was giving
her of its best.
She had long neglected her piano,
but now she spent hours playing soft
ly, dreamily, sweet, old-fashioned melo-
dies that she played by ear, while her
mind lowered about the wonder of the
next few months-and all that they
would mean.
HER kEENER SYMPATHIES.
Even the hand-organ man received
an unusual number of pennies. She
seemed to find melody in his grind
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-07-23
To Keep the Hands White and Soft.

Use soap rich in oil and contain
ing no alkali to crack and harden the
skin. After the hands have been
cleansed and thoroughly rinsed lath-
er made from the soap should be rub
bed into the hands and wrists. Con-
tinue the rubbing until all the lather
has been absorbed or there is very lit.
tie to wipe away. The oil feeds the
skin. keeps it soft and prevents the
shriveled appearance and feeling which
come especially to hands that are
kept for long periods in hot water.
Hands thus treated are soft and white
1t is important to remember that the
lather which is rubbed in is not the
lather with which the hands are cleans
ed. but a fresh lather, made after the
cleansing has been completed.