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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-08
The Manicure Lady's Dad
Gets Promise OF a Pension and VIII
fred Decides He Would Like
Some Of the Same.
By Wm- r. kirk

IS II He old r--t was nearly uckled
70 death when he came home
last night" said the Manicure
Lady. He kissed mother about 10
times. the same as il they was Just
married. and he said he had the best
news in the world TO tell It seems
that the boss called him in to have
little chat, and father said he felt
little gOoseflesh, because the way times
is now quite few high priced men IS
getting their heads Topped OIL But the
boss didn't want TO fire father should
say not lie told father that If he could
stick IL out another year-and you bet
father can do that-father could retire
on full pay for the rest OF his life II
is a new rule that the boss has Just
made. and II you don't think father
was tckled TO death you can't think at
all, George. Mother was delighted, TOO.
Of course. even though she could tell
with glance and a smell that dear OLD
dad had been celebrating his good news
with few OF his old cronies.
4 am glad 10 hear IT," said the head
Barber. ~Of course, any man who has
worked that hard and that long Tor q
firm kind Of deserves a pension but
how many firms does IL. Not many,
and am glad your fathers firm Is one
yes. and I am glad" said the Mani,
cure LADY. Father has been a hard
worker ever since he was young EEL
low about IS and il viii please ma and
me to see him resting up in his old age
and Eetr1n~ the old envelope JUST the
same Milfred said that he was de-
lighted. and said he was going to get a
job with some concern and work so
hard and faithful that when he got
along in years they would do the same
by him as fathers firm done
4 don't know about that, renark eu
the Head Barber. From what you
have told me about him. 1 don't believe
he could ever stick at anything long
enough 10 get to the pension age.
That's what I told him. said the
Manicure Lady. Il reminded him that
nothing in his past showed none Of
: them steady qualities which usually
/ endears a man to a corporation, but ne
said that now he has q inventive TO toll.
and is going to turn over a new leaf
/ Nothing in the world would please nv
I brother better than TO draw a salary
I every month without working for IT,
/ That would be the height Of his ambi-
ton. He has just had a new ballad
/ published and got a little check from
the publisher, and he feels tickled with
that too. but he says that won't turn
] him away from his purpose to get job
! like the one father has and work up
to a pension"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-08
Little BObbie and His Pa
Pa Gets Twisted on the Word, Oboe
and Loses a Hat When Ma Bets
Ii Doesn't Mean Tramp.
WfIIInur T. KIRK
william r kirk

T ASKED Pa the meaning OF a word
last mite. I was reading a story
in the paper & cain to a word
that I dident know. asked Pa what
is a Oboe.
How is the word used2 sed Pa
& then the ObOes began playing,
I sed-
Wen. sed Pa, I am surprised that a
boy Of yure age doesn't know what a
oboe is a Oboe is a tramp, sed Pa
1 dident know that tramps played, l
sed 10 Pa.
Indeed. sed Pa. & wen did you hear
that tramps worked?
Doant tantalize Bobbie, sed Ma, you
know vary well that a Oboe is a
musical instrument
I doant know nothing OF the kind,
sed Pa, & you doant know il eether-
a Oboe Is a tramp, a ldler, son OF
rest You can see them along any OF
the railroad tracks during these good
old Wilson times. I saw ten yester-
day They was sad Oboes, too Every
one OF them tOald me that ne had voted
for Wilson.
tell you. deer. sed Ma, that you
have the words mixed up. A Oboe IS a
musickal instrument such as is used in
sum orkestrys. The word you are
thinking about that mems the saim
as a tramp is Hobo, sed Ma It begins
with a H.
I viii bet you a new hat aggenst a
box Of cigars, sed Pa
That is the easiest bet in the world,
& 1 viii talk il. sed Ma Get me the
diskshunary, Bobbie-
/ got the dickshunary for Ma & she
found that she was rite & Pa was
rOnE The word Hobo wasent eeyen IN
the diCkshunary, beekaus II Is slang
Pa got kind OF red in the face, but he
sed that il must be the editor Of the
4 fnr a q rrrfcFn
That is the Scotch Of it, sed Ma
never knew a Scotchman TO give IN
eeven after the proof is in black &
white, rite in front Of his noas- I sup
poas you aren't going TO get me the
hat. now that ! have won the bet
You shall have the hat, deer, sed Pa,
but still think 1 am rite 1 am going
TO call Up professor Won Horug q
find out about this wonderful musician
instrument. He knows all the inStru-
ments ever invented, Pa sed- So he
called up the German professor < after
he asked him what is Oboe, he sed
Oh is that se2 I never herd Of such a
instrument.
Pas face was kind of long I guess
I have lost the bet, he sed, but It only
goes to show that one newer gets too
old TO lern. one thing about me. sed
Pa, am always willing to admit that ]
am rOnE.
Oh. yes. deer. sed Ma, you are will
ing to admit YOU are rong wen YOU
have looked up the dickshunary &
called up every member Of the board %
educashun & all the experts that YOU
have a speaking acqualn-tens Win
Then you yeeld reddily enuff- BY the
way. deer, I won't ask you to buy me
a new hat, as / have so many, we will
change that bet & you can buy me a
dinner gown
No wont. sed Pa a bet is bet <
hat is a hat, & a Oboe is a Oboe You
will get a hat. a reasonable priced hat,
& I viii be with you wen you git IL,
sed Pa. & after this Bobbie, sed Pa,
wen you want to know the meaning Of
a word. ask yure Ma or look it up
yourself.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-08

prudish and shocked il the girl Of to
day wants to discuss topics that the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and blushing-at-
the-facts-of-Iif girl Of two genera
tions ago never thought about at all
TO your grandmother frank discussion
between the sexes was taboo.
What She Likes.
The girl Of today thinks about and
talks about eugenics and sociology
and moral uplift. They are world
movements and she is helping them.
Don't try to deny her the interests Of
her generation
Bring to the modern girl the chiv-
airy you show your dear old grand
mother. But let that chivalry point
out to you that the girl is an individ-
uaL Don't try TO make her over. Meet
her on the platform OF 1914 and prog
ress-
Fashions in men and in women de-
velOp, but they clothe the same old
human nature. SO women Will al
ways like devotion and tenderness and
sympathy and interested understand
ing and helpful enthusiasm and
strength in men
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-08

day he has conniptiOn fits over the
price OF decent hat or gown
In those days, too, when we were
| poor and I felt that he had all the bur-
den that he could stand I made no de-
mands on him that 1 could help lie
worked hard and 1 petted him ana
/ cossetted him, and put him TO Ded at
night so that he might feel 1reSh loE
the next days struggle ] never asked
him to take me to the theater, or out
10 restaurant or TO 80 70 pe-Illes
with me, and because money W.
scarce I never intimaeed that j WOulu
like to have little treatS-to 90 on
trips or to have him bring me flowers
and candy, such as other men Drlus
their wives or even to give me pres
ents on anniversaries.
You might think that now, IN the
TAT years, he would try TO make up IgL
those lean ones. but ne QoesA T. y
never enters his head to show me the
attention that other women nave 81
acted of their husbands, ana Bet- NJ
does he ever make me q present lA1
was spoiled by my unseItlShneSs-
Il have an amiable and quiet ulspo-
sition I never make scenes or lose
my temper. or answer back, anu tnat
has spoiled my husband also, because
he feels that he can safely lndulSe ms
own temper and say what ne Hhes 70
me, as he would not dare TO DO 70
woman who would fight back
II I Had My Life to Live Over I'd Get
a1f7b,d nv i1 iffI hf fs live over again
7 would take the best Of everything
for myself I would force my husband
to consider me, and when things went
wrong insEead of trying to smooth
them over. 1 would lay on the ItCoT
and kick and Shrek I'd be the spoiled
one instead of the spOiler. and my
husband would have ten times the ar
lection and respect he has for me, and
treat me a hundred times PETER lot
as I said in the beginning, you can't
treat your husband right without ruin
ing him.
IF was starting out in matrimony
again. with my own experience as q
warning. nv ideal would not be to be
the best wife in the community, but
to make my husband the best hus-
band"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-08

CkET on can't" said the Woman
Philosopher, as she stirred
her tea, do your duty by
your husband or your servants with
out running them
Now I never have a good servant
more than six months at a time. be-
cause I am a humanitarian. and strong
for the brotherhood, and also the sis
terhood, OF mankind, and by the time
I have practiced my beautiful and al
truistfc theories that long upon a maid
she is so spoiled that she Is no &C
count. and l have to let her 90 and
z ct another.
For instance, having a head and q
ba ok that are given TO aching, am
al1 Ways looking out for the dull and
hea Ey eyes and sseEing shoulders in
my maids that indicate that they also
have heads and backs.
81 I will say, Mary, you don't look
well today, so take things easy. Don't
sweep under the beds. Don't scrub out
the b lthtub, just wipe il up Give q
lick al ID promise dCSung-
But does Nary appreciate thlsZ Is
she so 1illed with gratitude for con-
giderate mistress that on the day she
does feel well she poIshes up things
until they shine like the handle Of the
great FROM door in the 'PinaforeT Not
at all Mary considers that my let
ting her Of easily on the cleaning up
blanche TO slight the work all the
time and shes ruined for a house
maid until some martinez Of a house
keeper takes hcr in hand and knocks
nv spoiIing out Of her.
Give an Inch and They Take n Mile.
land it's the same way about holt
DAVIS I realize how msOnotOuous do
nestle service is, and 80 ! give my
maid stbout three times as many days
OF as other people do theirs.
But the way they repay this kind
ness is by staying out l;L-er and later
on their days off until finally they
don't Ome back until midnight, and
after we had to cook a dinner or two
/ find myself in the employment
agency hunting another servant TO
spoil Its the hardest ami most diff
cult mis- ftresses and the ores who treat
their servants most as IF they were
mere machines who ger. the best ser
wants hitch is discour aging to those
o. US who would like to be little sis
tiers to The poor
And precisely the same thing ap-
plies to husbands. The only way TO
make a man treat youE properly is TO
treat him as badly as You can Men
never appreciate what women do for
them. they only appreciate what they
do for women, and the more that a
man does for a woman the more value
she has in his eyes. W nich is e mas
culine peculiarly that we women
never grasp, because we are built on
opposite plans and specifications.
For example. take the matter Of
q woman working to help her husband
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-08
Hair TEn4ing
Made Easy

Many thousands of women have put
M with streaked and gray hair be-
cause they knew Of no absolutely safe
way TO overcome this robber Of youth
snd attractiveness-
After all. one OF the chief pleas
ures in life is that Of appearing in
as attractive a manner as possible
BrOWnatOne" Hair Stain viii help
you in just this EN- Urgency With II
you can touch up L he CRY spots in
stantly-Or you ca in a few mo-
ments time give to your hair that
rich. soft brown, so much to be ad-
mired. Or, YOU can make it a glossy
black If You prefer. All this without
the possibility Of detection, failure or
harm to either hair or scalp
No previous experience whatever IS
necessary when you use ''BrOwna-
tone" Just brush or comb it into
the hair
A sample and a booklet will be sent
you upon receipt of 10 cents.
All Of the leading drug stores sell
'BroWnatOne." Two sizes 25c and
SLO0. Two shades-one for golden or
medium brown, and the other for dark
brown OF black
Insist on @BroVnatone at vour
hairdresse-'s.
Prepared by the Renton Pharmacal
Co., 554 F. Pike St. Covington. XIV.
For sale at all druggists Kelly &
Pollard, ors--Advertisement.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-08
Pleasure That Wears Well
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

DEOPLE are always telling US that
- fashions in women have changed.
L Then have fashions in the stable"
masculine sex changed to match?
, The girl Of today is very different
from her grandmother. Has her ideal
Of manhood departed widely from thaI
Of the girl of 80 years ago.
Roger J. B. writes me: DO please
tell me what nice girls like in men
today. am &c, and ready and VIII
ing to support a wife have hlSh
school education. and II not handsome,
am AT least big and strong and clean
cut / can't understand them and /
try so hard to give up all my own
preferences to please them But they
always pass me up for some other fel-
lows Now 1 get on splendidly with
the dear old grandmother who raised
me. and all her friends say I'm a
fine boy" But the girls are so diff
ferent-they don't seem to appre-
ciate the same consideration. How
can change to please them
Don't change, Roger Feminine
taste has altered, but feminine nature
old-fashioned courtesy and respect and
Difference to women may seem to be
out Of fashion Not that a nice girl
of today doesn't want respect and
Difference, but that girl has discovered
beyond a shadow Of a doubt that man
ners do not make the man.
Brilliant plumage has ceased to al
lure. The woman Of today is learn
ing to distrust the peacock's tail!
She has begun to realize that how
ever much the briIliancy Of the pea
cocks plumage dazzles her eyes. the
peacock has no soul TO satisfy her
heart.
How to Attract.
So you cannot win a nice girl Of the
sort you would be proud to marry by
fine clothes or elaborate manners, or
even the "clean-cut" look that be-
speaks health and clean living.
But you can attract her attention
by all Of them.
However much fashions in men and
women have changed since your grand
mothers day the things that seem so
all-impOrtant 10 your grandmother
Will prove at least interesting and
noteworthy to the girl Of 1914
After your manners and looks and
grooming (Which I trust is as good
and careful as you can make it, have
acted as your press agents and OBJ
tanned you notice, you can win grow
ing interest and admiration by cul-
tivating certain of your qualities
Be too proud to permit yourself to
cater TO girls who smilingly pass
you up for other fellows" Don't give
IN as regards your principles and
theories Of what is right
Have ideas and ideals Of your own
but interest yourself in her ideas
and visions too Probably they are a
bit broader than those Of the girls Of
your grandmOther's day. Don't be
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-08

HAVE YOUR PIANO TUNED, repaired
or polished this month Special summer
rates; work guaranteed. Phone l67.
BILLINGS PIANO co.
102 y. stanton
advertisement
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-08

II He old set was nearly tckled
20 death when he came home
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-08

ASKED Pa the meaning Of a wor
last mite VS. raadirg z sfor-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-08

Twenty-Five dollars reward for ar
rest and conviction OF any party or
parties giving false calls for Alamo
Tire ambulance.
Alamo Tire Co.,
419 Myrtle Avenue.
(Advertisement)
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-08

PasO Del NOrte nogei Business
Mems Lunch
In grill at 1870 a. m 10 ,. m.-5Oc
ADVERTISEMENT
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-08

Best OF cleaning. Dn- 4091 Tor wagon.
Crescent Cleaning Wks.-Advertisemen
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-08

CLEARANCE SALE Of rental pianos
and players this month. Bargain prices;
easy terms. See them at
BILLTNGS'S PIANO STORE
ADVERTISEMENT
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-05-08

newspapers of Arkansas possibly $50
900 year, and save the taxpayers
several million. The newspapers are
required to print the proceedings stat
ed in the bill, at rates which takes
most of the profit out of the publica-
ton, so the public is the real gamer.
The greatest benefit of the bill is
that, if adopted by the voters at the
next general election, it will entirely
do away with tax lodging. No long
er will the man with the forty acres
and a mule bear the burden of tax
alton. He will be taxed on everything
just the same, but the big fellow. who
secures the services of the best at
torneys in the state to show him
how to dodge taxes, must now stem
up and bear his portion, thus reducing.
the rate of the little fellow. This is
accomplished by the county Judge be-
ing required to publish reductions in
taxes, and the county boards of equal
ization must do the same. This will
force the county boards and Judge to
explain to the people why big corpo-
rations are favored, in case of reduc-
ton, or large property owners, and
no member of such board. or county
judge, will submit to such criticism.
He will not make reductions. and
thousands of acres of land will be
taxed at the same ratio as that of the
poor man. This law should put $780,
900 annually into the state treasury.
and many times that amount into the
treasures of the various counties.
There are many other good fea-
lures to the bill, such as a public ac-
counting by special improvement dis
trict boards, semi-annual published
statements of the financial condition
of cities and towns, but the thing of
real interest to the property owner is
the death knell to tax lodging which
will be sounded by this bill if the
voters adopt it,
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-05-08
WHERE is THE WASTE?

In placing the blame for the high
cost of living entirely upon the pro
Queer certain financier shows hat
if he is sincere he is ignorant of or
wasteful system of marketing fooi
products. Ii is difficult to conceive
that at any one we'll posted on finance
and one who has prospered because
the farms of this country produce so
abundantly could be ignorant of the
waste the people of this country sus-
tain every year on account of uneco-
nomic distribution of food products.
That many farms are not managed
economically can not be disputed.
Many farmers are wasteful in produc-
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-05-08

tlon Just as many other business men
are wasteful in their business. espe-
ciaily In handling perishable pro-
ducts. But society's loss on account of
uneconomic production is not compar-
able to its loss in distribution. Only
Az or 90 cents of the dollar this dis
tmguished gentleman pays for farm
products goes to the producer, a great
portion of the remainder being wasted
because of uneconomic handling. No
other business on earth would stand
such expense in distribution. This he
should know and be mindful enough of
his own welfare to join other bust
ness men to reduce this disgraceful
loss.
The waste in distribution of food
products affects legitimate dealers and
transportation vitality and it falls
heaviest upon the consumer whose in
terest influences all kinds of legiti-
mate business. A dollar saved is one
more dollar for business, and who is
not affected by saving the country's
resources?
Farmers and their families have far
too low standards of living. because
they do not get sufficient profit to
maintain homes with modern conven-
fences. Not much progress can be
made by reducing the cost of produc-
ton until more capital is secured for
investment in implements, livestock,
fertilizers and home conveniences that
increase human efficiency. When we
save the useless millions we now
waste in marketing there will be more
capital in the country and farmers
will be less dependent upon other
classes for finance to operate their
farms upon a more economical basis.
Let us eliminate waste wherever
it exists, but let us be fair and just.
1t may be that the campaign for edu-
cation and "uplift" should be trans
ferred from the rural districts in
which such men as the gentleman re-
ferred to are so badly informed, to
the centers of finance and industry
where there seems yet to be some ig-
norance as to this country's source of
wealth. What we need in this coun-
try is more cooperation and less of
the uplift propaganda.-Farm and
Ranch.
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-05-08
.rcrrrATION OF INSURANCE
W RATES.

!, unfolding the validity OF the
~, y law regulating the rates OF
a. s'''i Insurance, the United States su-
..sme Court, in an opinion OF three
p,' =. Members, supplies a wedge for
y ~ assertion of the right to fix by
:Iat;yo action the price of all COM
's sEtios including labor. The major
nlv ;n;on Of the Court upholds the
IVY on the ground that insurance is
h,,;ness used in effecting that the
.uSrc interest is to Justify legis-
Is,ivp regulation of its rates, but in
A. dissenting opinion of Justice la
~, White and Van Devanter, the
allowing very significant expression
/ is given:
assurance is not production, nor
manufacture, nor transportation, nor
merchandise. The fact that insurance
/ strictly a private and personal con-
traet of indemnity puts it on the ex-
irsme outside rim and removes it as
.far as any business can be from those
that are in their nature public. SO
that if the price of private and per
sonal contract of indemnity can be
regulated. if the price of a choice in
acton can be fixed, then the price of
everything within the circle of its
transactions can be regulated,
Considering, therefore, the nature
Of the subject treated and the reason
on which the courts opinion is based
Id is evident that the decision is not
4 mere entering wedge, but reaches
the end from the beginning and an
'lrunces the principle which points in
Ieyitaby to the conclusion that the
price Of every article sold and the
price of every service offered can be
.N.ulated by statute"
There are a great many things i'll
scg court rulings and DEGREES now
|adays that suggest the possibility of
going too far with legislative authori-
IN.
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-05-08
THE SENATORIAL CONTEST

War clouds, mine warfare and ath-
letics have Swallowed the Senatorial
contest during the past week, but the
forces are silently yet diligently go
ing ahead with their work Senator
Clarke is in Washington, but he has
lieutenants on the ground who are
daily checking over the list of dele
gates to the State Democratic Conven-
ton. Judge William F. Kirby, who
makes the contest, declines to discuss
the matter, but the fact that he has
not yet returned to his duties on the
bench of the Supreme Court, is taken
for ample evidence that he is very
busy preparing for the state conven-
ton.
There are 500 delegates to the con-
vention, and Clarke supporters claim
there are fully 43O of these in favor
of the candidate declared the nominee
by the state committee. A Kirby ad-
wiser made the statement recently
that Judge Kirby had a slight major
ity in the convention.
SO keen is the interest that it is
probable that few proxies will be pre-
scented at the Pine Bluff convention
June 3, for all the delegates will be
on hand.
Senator Clarke is expected to re-
turn to Little Rock about May % and
begin his preparations for the conven-
ton. 1t is unauthoratively stated that
Congressman J. C. Floyd of Yellville
will be the choice of the Clarke men
for permanent chairman of the con-
vention. No one has been mentioned
for the place of temporary chairman
by anyone connected with either head
quarters, but several delegates have
suggested the name of Vincent Nj.
Miles, young attorney of Fort
Smith and a strong supporter of Sen
ator Clarke. The Kirby forces have
remained silent as to their favorites
for convention officers. but they will
prepare a slate, and the first test of
strength will be in the selection of a
presiding officer. The temporary
chairman is selected by the State
Democratic Central committee, and
Mr.. Miles is a member of that body.
Because of the great interest in the
state convention, Pine Bluff will he
crowded during that week, and many
are now reserving their hotel accom-
modations in order to escape a night
under a tree. due to the overcrowded
condition of the hotels at that time.