The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-09

butter, the kind made in the dairy or
at the creamery, has become a lux
ury, and is entirely cut of reach as an
article of food. Butter at so and so
cents a pound should be classed with
hot house strawberries when SHOWS
are drifting, and they never taste
good, and are not so wholesome as
California prunes at pounds for a
quarter.
Efforts have been insistently made
to tax butterine out of the market
the claim being that its sale would
hurt the farmer. AS matter of fact
there is not enough butter made to
supply the demand, and we do not
know of a farmer so heartless that
he would drive butterine from the
market in order that he might force
people with moderate incomes to eat
60 cent butter, or get along without
any butter at all. Farmers them
selves have lost their appetite for
butter at 60 cents, and even 40
cents, and are selling all they can
produce at those figures-not eating
much of it.
With eggs at 60, 70, 80 cents
dozen, bacon at 20 cents, and higher,
pound, how can the average man
who lives in town pay rent, buy coal,
clothing for his family, and pay such
prices for butter? He simply cannot
do it, and to all such butterine is a
sort of rift in the clouds of darkness
and dispair.
1t is Whispered that "the world is
always eager to give man boost
when he gets near the top" To all
such we would suggest that it is wise
to brace yourself and hang on lit
tie harder when you feel the "boost"
coming, for there is danger of being
thrown clear over the top and coming
down with dull thud" on the 9th
er side.
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"The Woman" was what Adam
said when he was questioned on a
delicate subject, and ever since then
the world has been hearing the same
expression. The fact is "the wom-
an" is the dominant factor in about
all the problems of life, and after
all, it's a pretty good factor. Right
| here might be inserted thought or
two on the line of Suffrage" as one
of the problems, and word in COM
parison of the men of England and
of the United States on that subject,
but we turn down" the temptation,
as we also pass over the inclination
to refer to President Wilson's neg
| lect of the Suffragette question in
his last message. We reject all such
| temptations because we want to
make room for the following special
cable despatch to the New York
Sun from Dresden, under date of
| Dec. 2: a.
The Nachrichten reports the discovery
| of a powder which will, it is said, send
| the enemy to sleep when the shells con-
| tanning it are exploded in the ranks or
the hostile army
emits a gas which produces stupefying
effects on the men within reach of the
| fumes and they fall asleep and are hors
| de combat for several hours
| The inventor is a woman, Frau Boehm.
| It is stated that the Prussian Ministry of
| War is making tests of its applicability
| to actual warfare.
Now, isn't that fine? That's the
kind of warfare that lot of folks
have been longing for, that is, if war
is at all necessary. It's the un-
pleasantness of getting killed ''for
keeps" that keeps thsoe who bring on
war from taking any part in it; and
if hereafter it is going to be sleep
ing match, why pass the enlistment
paper right along to everybody who
! doesn't believe in advertising, and
give them a chance to get>a real
"nappy" job
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There Is Another wise guy who
has discovered that "the one place
where duty always comes before
pleasure is in the dictionary" That's
good to think of by people who are
prone to give duty the 'cold
shoulder" By the way: Was it the
same guy who placed the "eat" in
meat" before the present high cost
of living?
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"Murderous Speeding" is what the
New York Sun calls certain automo-
bile running, and advocates States
Prison for all such offenders. The
SUMS points are so we'll taken that