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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-09-26
suooeoa and Fanure,

II IA sometimes hard TO end out ;usa
how the mar who = successful has
managed TO succeed. But II IN always
easy to SEQ why failure comes 10 those
who fail-Chicago Record Herald.
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02
The Manicure Lady


Il don't agree with your father
said the Head Barber. Lots of times
l think some people has a right to he
swelled up They have money and
social position and all that Some of
them is even kings. The rest of us.
have got TO grub along and be com
mon people"
Father would be awful pensive if
he, knew you didn't agree with him.
said the Manicure Lady But the old
gent is funny about social position.
You see. George, when father had a
lot OF money he used TO mix In with
the swells, and found out that there
wasn't as much gold in their hearts
and heads as there Is in the hearts
and heads OF his regular pals. kind
of like him for 1t. George, whether
you do or not He never SAYS much
about his friends. but you bet they are
his friends, and he would break a date
with King Alphonso of Spain to go
out to the ball game with Bob Kilev.
But that amt what we started to
talk about I was saying that signs
can't amount TO much, or 1 would be
setting here now making a hollar
about something. Well. for the love
of Paddy. Gee. George, somebody
has took my pocketbookl oh. Gees
It musta been some dip on the sub
way. Gee. now I've gotta be surrep-
titiOus again.
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02
By WILLIAM F. KIRK

didn't bring no bad luck to our house
hold. And Wilfred walked under a
ladder yesterday when he was look
ing up at the clouds to get a inspira-
ton for a poem called a Cloudy Day
In August There wasn't any come
black on that, either. I fused little
last night when I seen a crosseyed
woman In the subway, but nothing
came of that this far. l guess the
poor thing got crosseyed looking two
ways for a seat. / am as happy as q
humming bird. and nothing has hap
pened to ruffie my feelings. I haven't
heard a single guy that came in here
all the forenoon say I should worry
The old gent says that everything
equalizes in this world. He amt like
US young folks, George Every time
that we see three or four happy days
In row we begin to think that we
are going to be like the lilies that
toll not neither do they spin. yet Sui
liyan in all his glory never had no
better clothes than them. The old
gent says that he never pats himself
on the back for having a little run
OF luck, because he has been too long
in the league to think everything in
life is roses and sunshine. He says
that We all ought to consider the
wallops that Is in store for US and
act kind of calm even in the moments
of our easiest going"
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02
Maiden Musings
PERHAPS


IL you could look over the fence
at neighbor CroesuS landscape gar
den you would find him peering just
as eagerly through the knothoie to
discover why your plebeian sweet
peas show more anxiety to Chamber
skyward than do his aristocratic
blooms
PERHAPS
The poor little rich girl who is
having all the cream puff froth and
luxury of life envies you the dough-
nuts that are "sinkers" on the under
side o. things.
PERHAPS
The woman who laughs at your
pleas, scorns your threats and re-
sists your force. would capitulate to
your indifference.
PERHAPS
Your feast Of joy will seem all the
more delicious IL the first course is
of misery.
PERHAPS
The name you call another chan
fits you better than II does him.
PERHAPS
You might find that spending S1o.-
600 a year in world where thou
sands are the units Of measure re-
quires more self-deniaI than existing
on 80 q week on Gosrck street.
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02
'Tis All a Joke

A lady with a wasplike waist
tainted in a city street the other day
and was carried into the nearest
shop. An Irishman. who had OBJ
served the Occurrences. looked into
the shop after few minutes and
inquired:
How is she now?"
On said the shopman. she's com
ing to-"
"Ah," replied Pat come in two.
has she? Poor thing. Bedad. it's
just what was afraid OF"
A veteran. talking to his great
grandson, little lad OF or years.
remarked:
Nearly generation and a half ago
my head was grazed by a bullet at
the battle of Chickamauga."
The little boy looked at the old
mans head thoughtfully and said:
There isn't much grazing there
now, is there. grandad."
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02
Nell BrinkLey Says

slave bearing his pet jewel his We walked
slowly and at last stood still behind little beauty
who twisted and turned mahogany gilt
countless hats that lowered lifted swift
from her head.
honest labor and thought spent ecessy The
lady black chameuse searched and worked desperately
sorbedy The girl the chair brown eyed gold haired sought
out her image the mirror myriad at endless
angesi Old Time trod swiftly by and las-at last the little
lady rose honestly.
/ must she said, Il must think like this little
blue one but go home think over" There was
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02

SlT WONDER If there is anything in
signs this season. said the
Manicure Lady. All the bad
luck signs has failed on me lately,
George. Things is so rosy that am
all the time looking for the Call
building 10 fall right on me and me
alone I never seen the time when
so many things broke right all at
once, and that right in the face of =
lot of hoodoo signs
1T comes that way sometimes" said
the Head Barber. II didn't see any
hoodoo signs at all last week, and
everything broke wrong Two skates
that / bet on got the blind staggers,
and the missus got the quinsy and the
kid caught it from her. don't be-
lieve in signs"
II used to-" said the Manicure Lady,
"but it's getting so I ain't surrepti-
tious. too. Yesterday our biggest
mirror broke up at the house 1t
wouldn't have broke. only Wilfred
was trying to show father how to
box. and the old gent threw science
to the winds and cut loose with a
haymaker that druv my poor brother
through the looking glass In the hall,
the one Ma and Mayme and I always
stands in front of to see how we look
to go out for the evening. That was
a broken looking glass for fair, but It
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02
Daysey Mayne and Her Folks ::

with these long corsets." protested
his wife
Il told the Kennedys," continued
Daysey Mayme. that the last time
We entertained we had seven helping
In the Kitchen
WAS that the truth Prom hel
father.
"Of course. IT was" replied hi,
daughter. Didn't we have all oul
poor kin out there -
Your fathers kin, you mean" cor.
rected her mother. They were ou
there TO get their share"
Lysander John flung down his papel
In a rage, stamped on It, and Ief
the room, closing the door with {
slam. Daysey Mayme turned TO he,
brother.
Look at your handsv she screamed
you haven't washed them today"
Home influences" began Chaunce,
Devere on his writing pad; then. lay
ing aside the dignity Of great offics
as president of the ChiIdren's con,
gress, he yielded to a rare boyish i'm.
pulse and wrote one word:
Nit
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02
By Mutual Consent

Mother (anxiously)--I am told that
your husband plays cards every night
at the club-plays for money. toe.
Married Daughter-That.s ali right.
He gives me all his winntngs
MotheY-What? Do you
Married Daughter--And he always
plays with Mr.. Nextdoor
Mother-What difference can that
make?
Married Daughter-Mrs Nexfdoor
makes her husband give her his win
nings. too. and then she gives the
money to me, and hand her what my
husband wins from hers. and so we
both have about twice as much money
as we could get out Of them other
w1se.
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02
Contributors to This PAGE

INELL BFNKLEY the fascinating artist in back and
whue IN the newspaper field She is whimsical romantic
quaint. and dclneator of girls her pork is irresistible
BEATRICE FAIRFAX knops human nature and can urte
Of u as fen Domen Her contributions to this page mill
be parled from day to day. taxing up at tes aspects of
soctetv and gpng. also adpce to the opelorn
WILLIAM + KIRK famous as the creator Of Lille Bobbie
and ne Manicure Lady In addition to the huuor Of The
RI L B06be series NJ Kirk nil frequently contribute verse
MaDnae and Her FOLKS Any one pih such name .,
DaYseD Mayme" sure to Be comic.
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02

How will it be when she takes mate? He will probably
wisp handkerchief the train between here and
New York. they will look each others eyes and the
day there will be wedding and their pictures in the
She'll he's becoming her style of disposition until
him. She'd thousand years walk with
the that ravhed She goes home think
walks And
it's AFTER that she thinks it
Tell why that is-when the hat chucked
yesterdays lasts
forever?'
So picture cynic's delectaton If
he is right not do not know
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02
Snap Shots
BY Lillian LAUFERTY


\ T the world has lost all meaning.
and there seems to be no cleaning.
while gray clouds your sun are
screening-come out of doors. Wher
my world seems dark and dreary, ane
no roof tree joys viii cheer me- an6
OF life / think I'm weary-out of
doors still can hold and enchant me,
can a little respite grant me, can dis
miss the ghosts that haunt me, so OF
course I am prone to recommending
what | find my blues is ending, and
the skies new blue is lending Out
OF doors is place for deeper breath
ing, is the land of soul unsheathing-
while the sweetest incense wreathing.
out of doors, seems to wing the light
some hours If you'll just seek Ma
ture's bowers-out OF doors
Life is a play in which we do not
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02

smiling and bowg the lady of the startling brown and gold
face coloring gone
The gentle cync turned and smiled wryly.
Look that pray, ademoiselle! That reminds be-
different of the fashion which that careful
little lady will and take herself husband Of
sometimes walks out of temple of millinery with
fright her head she leaves the church door with
fright by her side But the first mistake isn't because
didn't spend time and gray matter on it!
See this little lady She worked like little towead
using patience all her BRAIN her judgment her artistic sens
bie She didn't stop She tried dozen of
gilt head And nowshe has gone home think it over
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02

a look of understanding that was not
complimentary to father.
+ II told those Kennedys who took
Chauncey Devere and me out auto
mobiling today that we had individual
automobiles in our family" spoke
Daysey Mayme. x thought 1 would
impress them"
Yes. and when 1t was time for US
| TO stop. YOU reached up to pull the
bell cord" interrupted her brother.
There was a slap and a scream
Leave your brother alone" com
manded their father. Listen (to his
wife).
Then he read of frightful railroad
accident, going into all the grewsome
details.
He reads that sort OF stuff to you.
Whispered Daysey Mayme to her
mother. Ito scare you, SO yeu wouidnt
take a trip on free pass TO a family
reunion"
Lysander John likes to read out
loud. u see" he resumed, looking up
from tariff report. that stockings
are going to be higher"
But we can't wear them any higher
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02
Advice Given to the Lovelorn

me to go out with him, but I re-
fused, because my mother said she
wanted to see the young man
first He wants me to meet him
on the corner of our street. Do
you think he has any respect for
me IL he will not call for me at
my home JOHANNA
Your mother is right. and his re-
fusal to comply doesn't indicate AM
great amount of self-respect or re
spect for you
Don't meet him anywhere Accep'
your mothers wish as law and re.
spect It
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02

HRoUGH the messy carpeed, temple where hats
lifted tendey and deity and off of fair heads
dark stroled the gentle cynic beside bright
eye open for autumn hat for me, myself.
All about the edges of the temple glass roe
with vFolored chapeaux their slender stands many
bright storks standing leg Out green open
temple tofaeed mirrors stood about each with gilt
hogany chair before it.
Tall slender horses; Ones round and
plump pardge all clad in trailing, ankle binding black
snuated themselves softly about carrying eltngy perfect
hats on three fingers their faces spread with the of
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02

= y
choose our parts. They are chosen
for US by the author of the pIav- R,,.
we do decide whether we win play
them well or ill.-Oyid.
BY land or sea, by night or day.
The friends seek are seeking me
No wind can drive my bark astray
Or change the tide Of destiny"
THOU ART LIKE A FLOWER
eAiter the German of Heinrich Heinel
ALI, Love. you are a flower.
SO fair. so sweet, so pure;
| think in sacred wonder
OF storfns you must endure.
My heart sings benediction.
The while make my prayer
That God in heaven will keep YOU
Forever pure and fair
LILLIAN LAUFERTY.
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02

By FRANCES L. GARsIDE

w with ne man who o''.sos. sos.
:. wroRg,: the women say from
the lecture platform Perhaps" pull
ing ort the tremoIo stop on their
voices. he neSTer. had home Influence .
Cnauncey DeFere Appleton, who is
: always looking for material for ad-
> dresses to The Children's congress, of
which be is. president. slipped a pad of
writing paper in his book the other
night. While ostensibly reading. he
would make notes OF the home in
fuences with which he was sur
founded
Do you remainder, Lysander John, .
began. his wife, THE night you pro-
posed TO me
T newer proposed to you at all"
snapped her husband, with unusual
coldness. The third time 1 called
you pushed me into the parIor. where
1 found myself standing in front of a
preacher"
Mrs. Appleton sighed and looked at
her daughter. Her daughter gave her
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02
PERHAPS SHE FORGOT

A few weeks ago I met a young
girl at sociable and was quite
fond of her / made a date two
weeks ahead. and the day was to
meet her / received a card telling
me that she had an appointment,
and therefore asked me to call
the following Sunday during the
afternoon On my arrival I found
nobody at home. ANXIOUS.
1t is possible the impression you
made on her was so faint that she
forgot about you. At any rate, her
conduct does not show that she is
greatly interested.
Try IT again. Don't be discouraged
with the first rebuff. Write her, and
ask for the privilege of making a call
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02
A SERIOUS QUESTION
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:

Having kept company with a
young man for a long while, my
parents did not like it because he
Is Gentle and I am not, SO
did not speak to him for about a
year. but now I find that I still
love him and would like to win
back his love. l see him every
day. Would our religion interfere
With our love? SARA.
That is a question for your parents
to decide. Such marriages are rarely
happy, for the reason that each Is in
a measure ostracized by the family OF
the other. The price paid for such
love grows heavy with the years
Can not you abide by your parents
wishes2
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02

ERE salad which delicious
- luncheon 1t will cooling
jaded appetite
make record at the 100 degree mark
Pick make
good mayonnaise which in Have
much celery halibut:
chop fine and add large white Add this
together ball Sprinkle with lightly
cupu of
Now line platter crisp this
and garnsh tomatoes
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX

no one knew Of this. Treat him as
coolly as he treats you.
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02
NO APOLOGY DUE
DEA.R MISS FAIRFAX:

OEAsR MISC fAARfAA.
I am 1s and in love with a
I young man two years my senior.
4 Recently he saw me going 10 a
I ba1Fwith another man. and he got
! angry. He did not go. Since that
time he does not speak to me and
! goes with other girls to make me
| Jealous. I don't take any notice
/ of him, but really love him. He
I has told a friend of mine that If
I / apologized he would speak to
me. / am .ssot engaged 20 him
1. and. am too proud to think OF
+. .apologizing for such a foolish
thing. ANXIOUS.
! You have done nothing for which
IAN apology is necessary, and a gir
who begins by being humble has Il
keep it up.
Continue in your present attitude
end il he loves you enough to b.
worth loving he will be the one I,
apologize. II not. then do not spoi
your pretty eyes by worrying. for tn
right man. viii some day come along
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02
CERTAINLY NOT
DEAF MISS FAIRFAx:

am II and In love with a
young man OF 20. He has asked
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02
HE orERDOEs 1T

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
am a girl If II and in love
with a young man three months
:. my senior. He goes TO business
r with nae every morning and seems
J very affectionEte. but when l meet
hip in.the street aud he Is with
other young men. with whom 1
also am acquainted, he barely
notices me. What would you do
: sn a case like this? ! lovo him
; dearly. NJ. A
I. am sure he does not want his
friends TO know of the attachment
and in an effort to conceal his feel
ings he swings to- the sother extreme
You are only II, and viii love other
men IN time Then you Will. be glad
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-02-13

and play are not mutually exclusive.
On the contrary many of US believe
they serve to sustain each other. One
cannot long remain happy who has
not his life solidly grounded in spirit
ual conviction; nor can the man of
faith long keep back the tides of
joyousness which flow spontaneously
from his faith. II one cannot worship
on the self same day that he plays
then religion not an everyday reality
nor adapted 10 this world. Man is
an incurably religious animal" said
Auguste Sabatier. He spoke truth,
and it will be a sorry day for us if
Sunday ever loses it's distinctively
religious character, but il will be a
sorrier day still If We ever suppose
that rest and play are incompatible
with worship.
The Sabbath was made for man. -
1t is ours to use. ours in which TO
recuperate. relax. and to worship; the
onl yway We can desecrate il is TO
use it ignobly or to prostitute il TO
base purposes. If Monday morning
doesn't find us eager for the work OF
the week We may be sure We have
made a poor investment of our day
of rest: We have probably been guilty
of Sabbath dissertation. We have not
rested, We havenot recreated, We have
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-02-13
The SABBATH QUESTION

He made laws for his age, We must
make laws for ours If we make ours
as just and as humane as he made his
We shall indeed be fortunate.
The Christian man will feel freed of
obligation to the Mosaic code for an
other reason; if the New Testament
means anything it means that the
whole Jewish legalism was superced-
ed by Christ and is no longer binding
on Christian people. Those who are
trying to transform our Christian
Sunday into Jewish Sabbath are try
ing to place us once more in bondage
to the law, thing so abhorrent to
st. Paul and against which the prim-
tive church commended so heroically.
All this is to say that we must
cease attempting to seek a sanction
for the Sabbath in Jewish antiquity:
to do SO is TO confuse the whole issue.
There is but one sanction for the
Sabbath and that is written, indelibly
and infallibly, in the very constitu-
ton and nature of man and society:
Thou shalt keep one day apart in
seven for rest and recreation" And
the only principl needed by the insti-
tuition is that given US in the word of
Jesus, THE Sabbath was made for
man, and not man for the Sabbath
The question is not, What did Moses
say We could or must do on the Sab
bath? but, What kind of Sabbath is
we live today?
If We put it in that way it seems
to me there are at least three cardi-
nal demands of human nature which
the Sabbath may be expected to sat
isfy. One of these is for a day of
rest. The human body and mind are
not perpetual motion machines but
self-renewing organisms which need
periodical seasons for reconstruction.
Whatever tends to break down a day
of rest for working men must be
sternly resisted. A horse cannot
stand a seven-day week of work, Meth
er can man. Those who are COM
PEELED through necessity to toll on
Sunday should be given a day off dur
ing the week. And those who volun-
teer to surrender their Sunday in or
; DER 10 serve society IN OtH6T ways
should receive the same well-deserved
boon. In this age Of high tensions we
need Sunday rest more than ever
Our national physique is degenerating
largely because we work too much
and rest too little. If the Sabbath
gave us no more than rest it would
be an institution for which we should
all give thanks.
But it means more than that for
us. Rest is not always matter OF
inactivity; the human animal often
rests best by a change of activity. An
opportunity for such recreation is one
of the services We may justly demand
| from our Sabbath.
Jane Adams has said that one OF
! the grave mistakes of our modern
society is that it has failed to organ
ize play as it has organized work
From our taciturn Puritan ancestors
we have inherited a suspicion of play
and are too prone to frown upon it
This. am afraid, is still too much the
attitude Of our Protestant churches
One will search in vain for a recog
milton Of the rights Of play in oul
creeds and church disciplines; one
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-02-13
! NAPOLEON'S DESTINY.
Summed Up In Four Notices Bona
parte Learned at School.

Summed Up In Four Notices Bona
parts Learned at School.
In 1854 Bonaparte. then fifteen years
old. arrived ut the military school Of
Paris from Brienne, being one of four
under the conduct Of minim priest.
He mounted 173 steps. carrying his
small valise. and reached. in the attic,
the barrack chamber he was to occupy.
This chamber had two beds and a
small window opening on the great
yard Of the school. The young prede.
cessors OF Benaparte had bescrawled
the whitewashed walls with charcoal,
and the newcomer could read in this
little cell these four Inscriptions. which
we ourselves read there years ago:
An epauIct Is very long to win
De Montgivray.
The finest day in life is that of bat
tie Vicomte de Tinteniac.
Life is but prolonged lie.-Le Che
Waller Adolphe Delmas.
The end of all is six feet of earth
lie Comte de Ia Villette.
With the trif1ing substitution Of the
word empire for "epaulet" these fOul
sentences contain the whole destiny oil
Bonaparte and formed kind OF
Meme. Tekei. Upharsin." written If
advance upon that wali.-Victor Hugo