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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13
A COMING ROCKEFELLER.

Willie was small, but he had
learned that big things are achieved
by dealing with matters in the mass
instead of in detail.
"Now," he said to his mother,
shortly before Christmas, "I've writ
ten a letter asking for what 1 want,
and l think it covers everything"
"Thats good" said his mother
"what did you ask forP"
1.-TWO toy shops and a candy store
Ladies' Home Journal.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13
Feel Miserable?

Out of sorts, depressed, pain in
the back-Electric Bitters re-
r,ews your health and strength. A
guaranteed Liver and Kidney
remedy. Money back if not sat
isfied. 1t completely cured
Robert Madsen of West Burling-
ton, Iowa, who suffered from vir.
ulent liver trouble for eight
months. After four doctors CAV
HIM up, he took Electric Bitters
and is now a well man. Get a
bottle today it will do the same
for you. Keep in the house
for all liver and kidney com
plants. Perfectly safe and
dependable. It's results will
surprise you. so cents and
$1.O0. H. E, Bucklen & Co.,
Philadelphia or st. Louis.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13
Wanted.

To negotiate with local man
having had industrial insurance
experience purpose of establish
ing agency. Cannot employ par.
ties having worked for compet-
tive industrial accident compan-
les within last six months. Pre-
fer married man between ages of
IS and 40 who owns property. Re
ferences are necessary. The
National Life and Acc. ms. Co.
GEO. DYE, Supt.
Democrat Bldg, Sedalia, Mo.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13
A Winter Cough.

A stubborn, annoying, depress-
ing cough hangs on, racks the
tody, weakens the lungs, and Of
ten leads to serious results.
The first dose of DR.. King s
New Discovery gives relief. Hen
ry d. Sanders, of Cavendish, Vt,
Vas threatened with consumption
after having pneumonia. He
writes: "Dr. Kings New Dis
covery ought to be in every fam
lily; it is certainly the best of
all medicines for coughs, colds or
lung trouble" Good for chill
dren's coughs. Money back if
not satisfied. Price so cents
and $1.0O. AT all druggists. II.
L. Bucklen & Co., Philadelphia Of
st. Louis.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13
PERSONALS

Miss Maria Lyman returned to
her home in Kansas City Sunday
evening after a visit here with
Mrs. B. B. Frazer. Miss Helen
Frazer accompanied her home
for a few days visit.
Mrs. Leroy Gray returned Sun
day evening from a visit in Kan
sas City.
Misses Georgia Gilkeson and
J )ekie Arnold went to Kansas
I ity Monday morning for a few
!, visit.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13
FLooREo.

A grabbed old misogynist said to
Ethel Barrymore at a dinner in Bar
Harbor:
woman Feminisml Suffrage!
BAH Why, there isn't a woman alive
who wouldn't rather be beautiful
than intelligent"
"'That's because" said Miss Barry
more, calmly, $50 many men are stu
pid while so few are blind. New
York Tribune.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CA T . RIA

w. H. Chiles went to Kansas
City Saturday to spend the
day on legal business.
Mrs. Lewis Bell of St. Louis
arrived Friday evening for a
few days visit here at the home
of DR.. j. j. Fulkerson.
Oscar Andreen, who has been
visiting in Kansas City, returned
home Friday evening.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13
STRONG TEMPTATION.

'Then you won't have a commu-
nifty Christmas tree in DogvilleY"
"Naw, too many cowboys in town"
"What of that"
'The minute they see them glass
balls some galoot will have to start
target practice"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13
New Garage.

The Lafayette Auto Co., has
OF ened for business. They have
plenty of room and there will be
no danger of your car being dam
aged while there. Plenty Of
head and fine mechanic for all
repairs. We invite inspection.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13
VICTIMS.

First Highwayman-Hully smoke,
Pikey, didjer see de fat wad dat de
old guy was iashin'?
Second Highwayman-Sure. You
can have him, Gully. Pm trailin'
de chap wit de basket of eggs,
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13
HOW TO BE SAFE.

TOmmy-Pop, is the Welsh rabbit
a domestic ANIMAL
TOmmy's Pop-Yes, my son.
TOmmy-Then it won't hurt you,
will it?
Tommy's Pop-Not if you don't
eat it,-Philadelphia Record.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13
SOCIAL

"There seems to be a contest for
your position !"
"Yes," answered the Mexican jail
warden. at is very much priced be-
cause of its social opportunities.
Sooner or later you get a chance to
meet all the country's very best
people"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13

Karl Hammar of Jefferson
City arrived Sunday morning
for a visit here with homefolks.
James R. Moorehead was a
guest at q banquet Wednesday
/ ght at the Battle Greek, Michi-
gan, sanitarium.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13

George Cohrs of Kansas City
spent Sunday here with home
folks.
Mrs. Z. E. Tandill returned to
Ter home in Parson, Kansas, Sun.
day evening after a visit here
N,ith Mrs. w. Harder.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13
HIS WAY.

'HOw did that pushing family
ever manage to get in the swimY
81 think the old man took q
plunge in Wall street"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13

Miss Tarlton Bellies returned to
her home in Kansas City Monday
morning after a visit here with
Mrs. E. M. Davis.
Hugo Nord of independence
spent Sunday here with home
folks.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13
WHERE 1T STOPPED.

Debtor-I want to pay that little
bill of yours.
Creditor-Very well, sir.
Debtor-But | can't.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13
SAVED HIS LIFE.

"When your erring son came home
did you kill the fatted calf?"
mo, his mother wouldn't let me,
90 l forgave him"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13
As If RENO DIDN'T EXIST.

He (ardently)-Be mine, dear, be
mine forever.
She-0h, Tom, how dreadfully
old-fashiOned you arel
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13
NATURAL.

"Flannigan is always wrathy over
something or other"
"Thats natural. He comes from
Ireland, you know"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13
ITS KIND.

"Does your father take any stock
in your young man, SusyP"
eyes, Will, but Pm afraid it's not
preferred stock"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13

Mr.. and Mrs. E. M. Holton
,"ent to Kansas City Sunday ev-
ming for a few days visit.
Miss Theodocia Morris went
0 Kansas City Saturday for
. few days visit.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13
PAW KNOWS EVERYTHING.

Willie-Paw, what is a careerP
Paw-A career is a grocery store
that has been secured by a high
graduate.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13
The King of All Laxatives.

For constipation, use DR..
Kings New Life Pills. Paul Mat
lulka, of Buffalo, N. Y, says
they are the liking of all laxa-
tives. They are a blessing to all
my family and l always keep a
box at home" Get a box and
get well again. Price 25 cents.
At druggists or by mail. H. E.
Buchlen & Co., Philadelphia or
st. Louis.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13
We Certainly Do Love Work.

We are prepared to do better
work and more of it than ever.
Why half mix your concrete the
Old wayH Let us mix your con.
CT etc the up-to-date way. We
have the best mixer on the mar
ket. Your concrete does not
cost you as much as it did the
cid way. Yet it is a hundred
per cent better, because, when
Vt mix it, IT'S MIXED. That's
bii.
fnrTAt CUTTTDCm
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13

Miss Carrie Field returned
Friday evening from a visit
il Kansas City.
Misses May and Alice Peak
went to Kansas City this morn
ing for a few days visit.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13
Native Lumber for Sale.

All kinds of native lumber for
sale at saw mill one mile south
Of Lexington, Mo.
F. M. FISHER.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-13
JOHN |. AsHURsT.

S'n spent Sunday in
tv
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
Married Women Have Place in Business
Ridiculous for ubande Females Complain the Competition Offered
by Sisters Who Happen to Wear Wedding Rings.

TT Is. perhaps, because women
are still 80 new in the com
mercial world that they have
not learned the rules OF the road
and that certain OF them seem 10
think that they should have a
privileged way and everybody
should get out OF their path,
The sight of married woman,
for instance, doing work for
which she gets paid is as mad
dening to many workingwomen
as is waving a red flag before the
eyes of bull, There is never a
day that ] don't get half dozen
frste letters asking me to write
an article telling the woman
who has got a husband and
homo TO stay in II and leave the
pay envelope to the spinster.
These writers invariably say they
have been forced out of their Jobs
by married women, and that & Is
a shame and an outrage for
-omen with husbands to compete
In the labor market with women
who are husbandless Also they
charge that employers prefer
married women to single woman
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
Push the Alaska Railway Bill

No part of the Administrator program was hailed with
approval by the people than the determination
to make the great national wealth of Alaska available for human
The first step in this endeavor of course the
ton Of Government railroad the Territory by which the grip
which the roads owned either by Morgan Guggenhems
by English syndicate hold upon all the
the territory may be loosened
The United States Senate has passed bill providing
appropriation Of for this purpose and leaving the
President full TO the selection of the the
methods of construction There opposition the Senate
but the obvious necessity for the railroad it,
In the House the opposition apparently vigorous
Although the Presidents influence viii probably carry the bill
all opposition, the hght at the moment a serious
It is quite unbelievable that nation which is Just
peng nsroceanc canal at cost of nearly $4oOOoo0
should be staggered at the thought Of expanding
opening to settlement and territory which
in all useful minerals and needs only outlet the
When the Panama Canal project in its earlier stages
there members of Congress enough in
sectional rather than great national benefit Their arguments
and their alike forgotten.
The natural Of Alaska impossible to over
estimate but Of value whatsoever while the
transportation to them In the monopostc hands
As the Alaska Delegate in Congress apty it the choice lay
between Guggenhem and Government and in the Senate
eminent has The House will do well to follow its lead
President Wilson entitled the very highest
the persistence with which he has urged this necessary egs
ton The two administrations preceding his locked up Alaska
with double lock- conservation policy
monopoly The fixed this Administration is to un
lock it.
With all the talk of short session of Congress this
should be enacted before adjournment 1t would be notable
triumph Alaska could be taken from the corporations and
restored to the people in Wilson's first year.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
The Revival Dancing
Caused Extremes;
No Wonder!
Dancing

The woman who had passed
thirty apologized If she was seen
dancing; and married people were
afraid to express a love for the
diversion lest they be rtdiculed.
A beautiful and healthful and
enjoyable art seemed on the de-
cline.
Then suddenly a change; an
awakening of dull minds; linn
bering of stiff joints, new life In
bored faces; new interest in the
oldest of all arts.
The dance was reborn. And
youth was reborn in the hearts
and bodies and minds of men and
women of all ages.
Grotesque, abnormal, unbeau-
tiful and even vicious were the
early contortious of this reborn
art. 1t seemed like some strange
creature which had been shut in
the dark so long that it became
half insane when let forth once
more into the full light of day.
So cramped had 1t been with
Its Incarceration that 1t flung it.
self about in curious contortions
to make certain OF it's freedom.
But those contortions are now
becoming graceful movements;
and the insane expressions OF
liberty are resolving themselves
once more into the primal mean
ing of the dance-the joy of life.
Nothing more absurd, nothing
more unreasonable, could be than
the ban placed by various indi-
viduals on dances bearing GER
tain names
One sees flaming headlines an,
nouncing that somebody in pow
er, socially or otherwise. has sent
forth an edict against the tan
go" or some other new dance.
AS reasonable would it be to
decry walking because it is posi-
Bile to walk indecently.
As reasonable would 1t be to
brand music as an agent of the
devil because music has been put
TO evil purposes by the vicious
minded. There were certain curl
Gus dances, which sprung forth
like fungus growths, and lasted
for a night and a day. bearing
unwholesome names.
The turkey trots" deserved TO
be tabooed; more particularly be-
cause Of the suxxAstion Of the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10

and the other one rowing around
In search of a possible husband.
The cry of the unmarried wom-
an that the married woman should
be debarred from the gainful oc-
equations is unjust, and she had
better waste no more strength
and voice in uttering It. For I
warn her that the married wom-
an is not only in business for
keeps, but that she is going to be
in it in greater and greater num-
bers every year.
Whether we like It or not, we
had Just as well face the truth.
and that is that under present
economic conditions very few men
can support a family in decent
comfort by their own unaided eff
fort. This is going 10 force the
wives out of the home to work
just as 1t has already forced the
daughters, and in another ten
years it will be just as much a
matter of course for the wife of a
poor man to continue after mar
riage at her trade or profession
as it is for the daughters Of a
poor man to earn their own liv-
ing now
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
The Dance Has Made the
World More Whole
some.

For many years there has been
a tendency, especially in Ameri-
ca, toward separate pleasures for
men and women. Men herded in
clubs; women In clubs or their
own manless drawing rooms.
where the eternal and BRAIN
dwarfing and body-stiffening
bridge game was pursued. Cards
are excellent friends to the hui
man race when INDUCED In oc-
casionally. But nothing is moro
arresting to mental development
nothing is more unhealthy and
unsocial than a card mania such
as the bridge fobia. which has
given place now to the dance
ritis.
Women who spent entire days
over the bridge table, beginning
in the forenoon and ending at
midnight, now meet their men
friends at musical dances In the
afternoon, or balls in the evening.
Men who were always in their
clubs, when not in their offices,
drop in at musical teas and enjoy
dancing at their own homes or
the homes of their friends in the
evening. On with the dance. II
will make the world more wAssS-
some.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10

that way in reality. Many a
woman finds that everything that
marriage has brought her is a
husband to support and children
to feed and clothe, and her, need
of earning money is more des-
perate than that of the single
woman who has nobody but her
self TO take care of. Practically
every married woman who works
outside of her home does so be-
cause she has to, and not be-
cause she wants TO, and SO she
Is entitled to her Job on that con-
sideration also.
But business Is not conducted
along eleemosynary lines It is
done for profit. Nor do employ
ers choose their employees by
means of philanthropic tests and
on account of their necessity.
They pick out those who can do
the work best and who give the
most satisfactory service.
Therefore, when an employer
turns off a single woman and
hires q married woman in her
place or advances a married
woman over a single woman, 1t
is simply because the married
woman has moro ability or more
industry, or is attending more
closely to business. The mat
ter of wedding rings cuts no figure
in the affair. AS matter of fact,
every man who hires women is a
little inclined to give the prefer
ence to the single one, on the
ground that If a woman's hus-
band doesn't support her he ought
to.
And II married women are ad-
vanced more quickly than sin
gle women in the places in which
they work. as many of my corre-
spondents assert, il is simply be-
cause the married woman has
settled down to business as life
occupation and is bending all Of
her energies TO make good in 1t,
WHILE the single woman is still
working with one eye 90 her Job
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Writes on @====z=======sN
Revival Of Dancing
1t Is Absurd to Condemn the
Tango and Other Modern
Dances Just Because the
Name Sounds Risque. 60
Bv Ella Wheeler Wilcox

HANGING is an expression of
JOY in life.
When love for his Maker
awoke in man the dance began.
AS far back as history reaches
we find dancing associated with
religious rites.
Dancing comprises all the other
arts.
A beautiful dancer expresses
poetry, music, sculpture, paint
ing, all in the dance.
Besides being the most beauti-
full of all arts, 1t is the most
healthful of all exercises, when
enjoyed under right conditions.
Besides being the most health
full, it is the most moral OF exer-
cises.
Young people who are given
training in dancing and allowed
to dance frequently in clean,
wholesome environments and I'M
der wise chaperons utilize surplus
vitality, which, when suppressed
by rigid rules or bigoted ideas,
ofttimes results in mischief and
disaster.
Take the old-fashioned religi-
GUS communities where dancing
is regarded as sin and there are
always to be found numerous
cases of hysteria among the
young girls and various nervous
maladies among the youths. No
proper outlet for their super
abundant young vital forces has
been provided, no escape valve.
Little children dance before
they have ever seen dancing; lit
tie kittens, and little puppies, and
all small animals dance with the
Joy of existence.
The waves of the sea, the leaves
of the trees, the grasses of the
meadow-all dance. The gun
beams dance; and light itself is
ever in notion
The man and woman who have
never learned the joy to be ex-
perienced in dancing have missed
a great happiness.
And they have missed a means
of physical grace.
The present renaissance of the
art of dancing is remarkable.
For a decade, at least, before
the tidal wave rose, young men
fled from bathrooms and left girls
to find partners among them
selves
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
By DOROTHY DIX

We go TO the butcher shop
where we get the best meat for
our money, without reference 10
the matrimonial status OF the
men who run them. 1t would be
Just as logical for all married
men to cry out that bachelors
shouldn't be allowed to go into
business as It Is for women to
oppose married women working
outside of their homes. They've
got a perfect right to do 1t If they
want to, and It's childish and
ridiculous for other women to
object 10 IT.
Aside from her inherent right
to labor how and where she
pleases. the married woman who
continues at her old job has either
the necessity to earn money or
else she has some peculiar fitness
and talent for her chosen work
that would make her loss to the
world did she retire TO strict do
mesticity. II no saleswoman, no
woman buyer. no milliner, no
dressmaker. no stenographer
should continue at her work after
she gets married, then no woman
writer. no actress. no musician.
no painter should continue at
hers, That would be rather
squelcher of genius, wouldn't il?
Because women ordinarily marry
while they are young and before
they come 10 the full maturity OF
their power.
Yet the girl stenographer or
the girl behind the counter
doesn't compete any more with
the married stenographer or the
married woman buyer than
the girl writer does with Mrs.
Humphry Ward or the girl ac-
tress does with Mrs, Sothern or
Mrs F1ske.
The theory that every married
woman has somebody to support
her ana provide for her and stand
between her and the cruel world
is a beautiful one, but, unhappi-
ly, II does not always pan out
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
Learn ALI New Dance
h''+ Be Modest and
Graceful.

1t AS innocent of anything
injurious to the moFals of the
young as skipping the rope.
Instead of selecting some one or
two new dances to decry,A our
well-meaning moralists should
decry indecent attitudes or sug-
gestive movements in all dancing.
The same moralists make no
protests against the waltz and
two-step.
Is Yet both of those dances can
be made quite as objectionable
as any of the most modern iIlven-
tons, If the participants SO wish
When the waltz was first tn-
troduced in the ballroom it Great
ed as great excitement and as vto-
lent protests as the modern
dances are creating. Lord Byron.
who was debarred from the plea
sure by lameness, exhausted his
vocabulary of invectives against
the immoral waltz.
Let us be sensible and reason
able. The dance is reborn; and
it must live its life. 1t must do
its work. It must be met as
factor in social life. Instead Of
attempting to crush 1t, or abolish
It.: instead of saying to our young
people, You can dance and two
step, but you must not learn any
of the new dances; they are in
decent" let us say, Learn all the
new dances, but be modest, de-
cent, graceful and well behaved
on the dancing floor.
Dance only with your friends.
and in the environment which La
respectable and safe from intru-
sion of the undesirable. Show
all observers how beautiful a
thing dancing may be-
And to our older people let us
offer hearty congratulations that
they no longer need apologize or
explain when owning to a love of
the art of all arts.
For, to- day, the man or woman
who does not dance is the excep-
ton.
He or she needs to explain why.
Not the dancer.
A healthier world, a happier
world and a more normal world
will result from the welcoming
of this art than from its sup
DreSSiOn