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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-10-14

t~hirty-fve years old. l want to send
1t back to your fat ier. l think it's
time. You give ii to him from me and
tell him l say l believe | can trust
him with it now. | took 1t away from
him t~hirty-tive years ago. one day aft
er he'd killed my best hen with it ac-
cidentally and broker a glass pitcher
on the back porch with it-accidental-
ly. He doesn't look like a person
who's ever done things OF that sort.
and l suppose he's forgotten it so
well that he believes he never did. but
If you give it to him from me | think
he'll remember. You look like him,
Penrod. He was anything but a hand
some boy"
After this final bit OF "Reminiscences
probably designed to he repeated to
Mr.. SChotield-she disappeared In the
direction OF the kitchen and returned
with Il pitcher OF lemonade and "A blue
china dish sweetly freighted with fiat
ginger cookies OF n composition that
was her own secret. Then. having set
this collation. before her guests. she
presented Penrod with n superb, in.
tricate and very modern machine of
destructive capacities almost limitleSs.
She called it II p~ocketknife.
Il suppose you'll do something hor-
rible with It," she said composedly.
II hear you do that with everything,
anyhow, so you might rs well do 1t
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with this and have more fun out Of It.
They tell me you're the worst boy in
town"
"Oh, Aunt SARAH" Mrs. Schofield
lifted a protesting hand.
NONSENSE said Mrs. Grim.
But on his birthday"
That's the time to say It. Penrod,
aren't you the worst boy in town.
Penrod, gazing fondly upon his knife
and eating cookies rapidly, answered
as a matter Of curse and absently,
"Yes'm."
"~Certainlyv' said Mrs. Grim. "Once
you accept a thing about yourself as
established and settled it's all right.
Nobody minds. Boys are just like
people really"
mo, nor Mrs. Schofeld cried invol-
unfairly.
Yes. they are" returned Aunt
Sarah. "Only they're not quite sc aw-
full, because they haven't learned to
cover themselves all ove with little
p%retences. When Penrod grows up
he'll be just the same as he Is now,
except that whenever he does what he
wants to do he'll tell himself and 9th
er people a little story about 1t to
make his reason for doing It seem
nice and pretty and noble"
"No, | WON'T" said Penrod suddenly.
There's one cookie left" observed
Aunt Sarah. Are you going to eat
It'll"
"Well," said her great = nephew
thoughtfully, 81 guess l better"
"Why?' asked the old lady. why
do you guess you'd 'better?'"
well" said PenrOd, with a full
mouth, 1T might get all dried up If
nobody took it and get thrown out and
wasted"
You're beginning finely" Mrs. Grim
remarked. "A year ago you'd have
taken the cookie without the same
sense Of thrift"
"Ma'am?"
Nothing. see that you're twelve
years old, that's all. There are more
cookies, Penrod." She went away, re-
turning with a fresh supply and the
observation: "Of curse you'll be sick
before the days over. You might as
we'll get a good start"
Mrs. Schofield looked thoughtful.
Aunt Sarah" she ventured, don't
you really think we improve as we get
older?"
Meaning" said the old lady, that
Penrod hasn't much chance to escape
the ~penitentiary If he doesn't? Well,
we do learn to restrain ourselves in
some things. and there are people who
really want some one else to take the
last cookie. though they aren't very
common. But it's all right The
world seems to be getting on" She
gazed whimsically upon her great
nephew and added, "Of course when
you watch a boy and think about him
1t doesn't seem to be getting on very
fast"
TO BE CONTINUED
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CHAPTER XXI.
Twelve.

TNHIS busy globe which spawns
us is as incapable OF fiattery
and as intent upon its own af.
foIr wbotayar thut 10 no a py-
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BIRDS EYE VIEW
OF BROOKINGs
No Saloons
Two Bands
Two Hotels
Music Store
Six Physicians
Three Dentists
Candy Kitchen
Good Creamery
Steam Laundry
Eight Churches
Two Osteopaths
One State Bank
City News Stand
chinese Laundry
Five Restaurants
$25, 900 City Hall
One Machine Shop
Three Drug Stores
Three Tailor Shops
Two Livery Stables
Seven Auto Garages
Four Barber Shops
Growing Every Day
Four Weekly Papers
Three Meat Markets
Two Cigar Factories
Four General Stores
Three Lumber Yards
Five Grain Elevators
Fine Lake Near City
Three Jewelry Stores
Two Furniture Stores
$125, 900 Court House
Two National Banks
Four Blacksmith Shops
Two Department Stores
Carnegie Public Library
Two Exclusive Groceries
City OF Beautiful Homes
Best Schools in the State
Two Photograph Galleries
Good Water Near Surface
Marble and Granite Works
Dakota Deaconess Hospital
One Gents Furnishing Store
$50, 900 High School Building
SIS, 900 Government Building
State Circuit Court held here
Two Cement Block Factories
Two Moving Picture Theatres
Culhane Adjustment Company
1850 Students in State College
$40, 900 Brick School Building
Two Exclusive Clothing Stores
Wholesale Photo Supply House
Forty-fve Hundred Inhabitants
Educational Center OF the State
Three Exclusive Millinery Stores
Good Volunteer Fire Department
County Seat OF Bookings County
High School on the Accredited List
United States Experimental Station
Three Plumbing and Heating Firms
over $500, 900 Invested in Education
Finest Church Buildings In the State
Best Bakery in Eastern South Dakota
800, 900 Invested in Beautiful Churches
Finest County Fair Grounds in the STATE
One Thousand Students in Grade Schools
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TO BE CONTINUED

Don't fail to read the CLASSIFIED col.
umns Of the Register.
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A silk ribbon lasts longer and gives
better results than any other. Try
one on your typewriter. Get It at the
Register ONCE.
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WHAT WE NEED
A Gas Plant
Canning Factory
More Business Enterprises
More Manufacturing Enterprises
More Young People Who Want an Educa-
ton.
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considers as q pastime. While it has |
brought her fame and financial success, |
she has not ceased to regard it as di-
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their knees and squabbling over their
soapsuds. are wildly realistic. So are
her lame duck and hesitation waltz
dancers. One meets in them the girl
who would rather dance than eat and
the young man who spends his time
growing a mustache and winning anna
teur cups for dancing. The rich young
trifer is there, too, the young man
spending his fathers money at roof
garden dancing place, and his little
mariner, whose name he never knows.
The Man Who Hasn't Danced for
Years is among the immortals OF her
Dance Hall Of Fame. and so is the
young girl who brings youth and cheer
to lonely old hearts by teaching the
make at the cabarets. Mrs. Smith
DAYTON strikes a sombre note. however.
in her two women "vags," who sit in
abject hopelessness on park bench.
The old one is asking, whats young
gal like you got TO be discouraged
about?" But to Offset this there is the
merry little flower pedler, with his
broad grin and his pots Of blooming
flowers.
Bookcases That Are Really OF Use.
The studio where this large family
Of almost-living little beings have
been brought into the world is at the
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4 YOUNG WOMAN WHO COULD GIVE
ARNOLD BENNETT POINTERS ON QUICK LIVING

value 70 jewelry lies in the fact that it
does not tarnish, that it sets off dis-
monds better than gold, makes much
finer chains and cobwebby designs than
gold or silver and is much stronger.
But it is also two or three times more
expensive than gold, and its increased
use has set its price soaring still fur
Their, to the great detriment Of science.
Discovers New Alloy to Replace PIsti-
mum.
THE thing was TO find an alloy that
would be just as good as platinum and
far less expensive. The professional
jewellers knew nothing about il, but
chemical literature furnished examples
of alloys with which father and I ex-
perimented. / found them in some old
German and French books. The result
was an alloy known as a white gold,'
which is three-fourths gold, is very lit
tie more expensive than gold, has all
the valuable qualities Of platinum, and
looks so much like platinum that even
an expert can distinguish ic only BY
chemical test. found other useful al
lows in these old books, and made Up a
few new ones that are now being used"
Miss Hoke's work consists in visiting
factories and giving lessons to the en-
ployes in platinum melting and rein
ing, in casting, welding and electro-plat-
ing gold, platinum and all other pre-
cious metals, in making metal alloys
and producing different colors and fr
ishes. She also corresponds with firms
throughout the country, sending them
pages of technical advice when they
write her of their difficulties.
my work is most interesting and
am learning more all the time" she de-
clared 81 shall never stop going TO
school. One summer | worked in one
Of the largest jewelry factories in
Newark as an apprentice In order TO
learn certain things did not know, and
lust now ] am studying industrial
chemistry and electro-chemical engi-
neering at Columbia. ! am the first
woman to take these courses. expect
TO take my Pm. d. in engineering chem
istry.
"After that don't know just what
shall do-perhaps teach at some uni
,versity, and some day" added Miss
Hoke enthusiastically. 81 mean TO study
medicine. Not TO practice. you know.
but just because it is so enthrsliingIy
fascinating"
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art store. I have never been able to
use anything to work with except
toothpick. and the reverse end of
watercolor brush All my figures are
done absolutely on impulse, just as it
was impulse that sent me into the art
store a year ago to buy the clay
These art-children from Mrs. Smith
Dayton's delft fingers are for the most
part humorous, even satirical delinea-
tions of the foibles Of men and women.
But in spite Of the grotesque air they
present there is always human quail
ity, as if real feeling animated their
clay bodies. Their creator has lived
much, and the result Of her experience
is a kindly, sympathetic, yet keen un-
Outstanding of her fellow men. One
feels that she loves people, even those
she pokes fun at by modelling them in
queer little statuettes.
From "MOOcher" to Broadway Fop.
Her types range from the forlorr
"moocher" to the fop Of Broadway
from tho millionaire champagne-openeI
TO the sailor and his lass spooning OF
Battery bench. Yet whether the!
deal with rich or poor, foolish or wise
she has an eye FOR the kindness o
these peoples lives.
Her Irish scrubwomen, down OF
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top of Mrs. Dayton's home. They are
housed in bookcases which line the
studio walls-a delightful deviation. it
must be admitted, from the rows and
rows of unused books behind glass
covers which arc the feature of many.
modern homes. The home Of this I'M
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version. Her work, however, has an
acknowledged, and perhaps lasting,
value. One would imagine that she
was entirely unconscious OF this, so
we'll does she conceal her undoubted
sense Of achievement. She has much
to be proud of, this unusual young
woman, yet, like all sincere workers
who have penetrated to the core Of the
subject humanity she has less ego
tism than the most commonplace Of
human creatures. II is this quality
which gives to Mrs. mith-Dayton's in
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man being. is welcomed here ana Is
free to discuss any topic he chooses
whether it is a new exhibit, a new
novel or n new dance step. The mis-
tress of the salon is particularly inter
ested in this last subject. She IS an
enthusiastic dancer, and masters each
modern variation as quickly as it APP
pears. Her knowledge Of the fox trot'
the one-step and the maxixe is dis
played in her droll little figures as well
as in her own dancing.
And her art like her dancing, she
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-28
Nv MARGUERITE BAIRD JOHNS.

By MARGUERITE BAIRD JOHNS
THosE who believe that fame as
an artist can come only
through long years Of arduOu'
work finishing charcoal drawings Oh
the already finished antique will be
,stonish.d, ineredulous or benefited
...o-d;ng 20 their various experiences
~, thew are told Of the career Of the
,,,,v seulp,ress, Helena Smith Day
.,n vho bs, never had lesson in her
rfs. Her name is already sounoeo IN
N.v York art circles, yet her art
career (. Of but one years Duration
And in that year Mrs. Smith Dayton
Ia, accomplished one Of the most eN-
,raordinary illustrating feats OF the
-..r She Is the winner Of "Pucks
,oso nrize for the best cover submitted
:, that magazines recent competition
The nrize winning cover represents
..,co marty. in which her delightfully."-
vrotesque colored clay figures are the
mast, MANY illustrators Of the first
rank. with years Of achievement oen'no
them. submitted cover designs to TINS
contest. The judges, however we're
unanimous in their choice Of this
Young artists contribution.
At her studio at als East Eighteenth
Street Mrs. Smith Dayton told no"
.b. magazine writer, accidentally
stumbled on this unique art that made
her famous in a year.
Reporter. Magazine Writer Sculptor
"You know, originally, was re-
,o-,., for The Hartford Post" she
smiled, caressing one Of her tiny fan
,.s;.s Of clay. "In one day l did every
thing there from writing up the latest
society scandal 20 the death Of whole
family bv gas, with eight hours OF
ordinary work thrown in. From re-
Dort;,o went 20 writing for maya
zines. and a year ago ! was sitting a
nv typewriter, when my fingers bega'
20 itch for something to mould, though
Admit even know what artists ella
WAS. and had never seen an artist 0
sculptor at work.
"The next day | happened TO pass
small art store, and in the windo'
there was an advertisement Of art ella!
immediately went in and bought som
and also few tools 20 work will
You see, my first impulse. which
still so vivid with me, could not be a,
\ layed.
! A Toothpick Her Most Valuable Too
From then on | worked and trie
20 fashion people as ! saw them. tn
humorous always being uppermost
my thoughts. The tools I bought ,
work with are still as new as they wei
the day brought them home from n
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and the precious metals separated.
The jewellers did not know how to do
this, and sold their filings to profess
sional refners, who gave them back
the pure metal at a considerable loss.
Most jewellers even to-day don't know
how 10 refine platinum. or course, for
a chemist it is easy. can separate
any metals. So began demonstrating
in various factories, and soon found
that the chemical side of metal work
tiles.
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"For instance, the use of platinum IN
jewelry, so much in vogue Of late, con-
stitutes a serious problem for the SCI
entists and the industrial chemist. The
supply OF platinum is limited. 1t Is
one of the few metals that will resist
acids, alkalies, oxidation, high tenn
peratures and strain, and the other
metals which possess these qualities
are even less available. 1t is indis-
pensable for dentistry because it resists
the acids in the mouth, though tough
and stiff enough for bridge work. Its
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oratory and doing some private tutor
ing earned from S11 to S13 a week.
a have supported myself wholly or
largely since | was eighteen. 1t wasn't
necessary for me to do this, but |
wanted to, and my parents have always
let me do exactly as ] pleased. They
are very unusual in that respect. Why,
twenty years ago my mother believed
in many of the ideas that are just
gaining currency as feminism to-day.
And my father has always treated me
just like a SON"
"Did you find it easy to live on s12
week." | asked reminiscent of re-
cent minimum wage discussions.
ooh, very hard, indeed. At the end
of the second year l was so worn out
had to take a complete rest, so |
went TO Springfield, Ohio, and entered
Wittenberg College as sophomore.
No one knew I wasn't real one, ex-
cept the president, and he kindly kept
my secret for me. advise any one in
need OF rest and recreation to spend
term or two at some small co-educa-
tional Middle Western college. 1t is
the most perfect rest cure ever in
vented.
Analyzed Food and Pathological Speci-
mems.
after that returned 10 New York
and obtained position as junior chem
ist at the Hartman Research Labor
atory, where analysed food and patho-
logical specimens. The following year
/ | assisted III lHe lcdCHtTs OOlleSc
laboratory and took my VI. A. in chem
istry.
AT just about this time my father
was making and selling platinum melt
ers. Platinum had only recently come
into use for jewelry, and he found
that most jewellers did not know how
70 refine and work it, and that they
were surprisingly ignorant Of the chem
zeal treatment Of other metals as we'll.
In making jewelry you always have
great mass Of filings Of the various
metals used. They are all mixed up
and sometimes they are as fine as
J talcum powder. In order TO use them
again they must be dissolved in acid
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BY CLARA GRUENING sTILLMAN.

by LLAMA uht ENlNU SllLLMAN.
"ALM is her name, but energetic is
her nature. She could give Ar
mold Bennett points on how to
live on twenty-four hours day. If
you should see her dancing her favor
lite recreation-you nigh, think her en-
crgy lodged mainly in her feet, but
after you had spoken to her a little
while you would discover large por-
tons Of it in her gray matter.
As consulting chemist to the Jewel
lers Technical Advice Company, of New
York, Of which her father is president,
Miss Calm NJ. Hoke, Of Palisade, n. j.,
occupies a unique position in the in
dustrial world and one which she has
practically created herself. Some of the
biggest and most famous jewellers in
North America make use Of her ser
vices. To them she is known only as
c. NJ. Hoke, A. b., B. S. A. NJ, and
great would be their CONSERVATION did
they know that the much respected ex-
pert whose words OF wisdom they value
so highly is slender, girlish young
woman who loves a good time almost as
much as she loves hard work, and
whose varied interests include femin-
ism, socialism, for she is secretary OF
the Bergen County Socialist orgsniza-
ton, and "contribbing." She is creator
Of the "athaletic" young man "orlan-
do" who figures in "F ?. AS" column
Read Boys Books as a Child.
81 just naturally gravitated TO sci
ence," said Miss Hoke, when | asked
her to tell me how she had happened
TO choose so unusual career. when
was quite little | began taking boys
books from the library. and while the
other girls were reading 'Dotty Dim
pie or whatever it is they do read,
was porting over The Boys Own Tele.
graph Book and The Boys Own Book
of Magic don't remember ever being
told about such things. ! just found
them and decided they were what
liked. / specialized in natural scienc,
as much as could all through my
school days, and when ! graduated from
Hunter COllege-it was thel called
Normal College, went right on.
spent two years at the University o.
Chicago studying chemistry. biology
ard botany. By assisting in the lab
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usual young woman Is, by the way
reflection of her own personality. Inc
house itself is of past generation OF
red brick with tiny-paned windows and
Colonial doors. One can tell It from
its ncighbors by the Immediately Kept
front porch, which bespeaks the alert
ness and the optimism of the occupant.
Sunday Evening salons"
II is here, too, that Mrs. Smlth-Day-
ton holds her "salon" on Sunday even
incs of each week. Artist and littera-
teur. and even the ordinarily clever hui
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WHAT'S A NOuNC GAL LIKE TOU GOT TO 5e
DISCOURAGED ABOuI2

dividual masterpieces, smiling and gay,
sad and grotesque, alike, soaring in
spiration and an air of truth.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-06-17
BOARD PROCEEDINGS
Minutes of the Meeting of the Board
of Supervisors at the June
Session 1915.
Monday, June Z, 1915.

Board met in regular session.
Members present, H. L. Northrup,
chairman, ]. H. Hill and w. M.
Frost.
Board proceeded to regular bust
ness, first taking up the matter of
overcharge on road tax in Long
Greek township for 1914, as present
ed by township Clerk, Alvice Ram
Ssey. On motion Clerk was ordered
to make correction in township and
refund overcharge.
Petition of Grant Jones ct al, for
cement culvert at south west corner
of section II, twp. 81, range ~, was
read and considered. No action was
taken at this time.
In the matter of bridges as asked
for by F. w. Rauch and Trustees of
Burrell township across creeks in
section SO, Twp. 6S, range SO, the
following resolution was adopted.
Resolved that two permanent bridges
or a bridge and culvert be con-
structed on road, across creeks de-
scribed above as soon as practicable.
On motion Board adjourned to
meet at eight o'clock, Tuesday, June
. H. L. NORTHRUP,
Attest: Chairman.
WALTER OSBORN, Auditor.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-06-17
Hurt in Runaway.

Last Sunday afternoon about 4
o'clock L. H. Shoemaker and wife
were out for drive, Mrs. Shoemaker
raising her parasol, which frightened
the horse, with the result that the
buggy was tipped over, injuring both
occupants. Mrs. Shoemaker was bad
~ hurt, suffering an injury to her
hip, and has been confined to her
bed, and Mr.. Shoemaker, though able
to be around, was laid up for day
or two by an injured instep. 1t is
hoped that both parties will suffer
no serious consequences as the result
Of the accident.-Davis City News.