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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-09
NEW YORK CURB
COTTON EASIER

NEW YORK, March 9.-Heayy selling Of
July on the call created an easier tone in the
cotton market at the opening today. First
prices were points higher to points lower.
The sales OF July by one operator exceeded
10 600 bales, and this supposed TO be
hedges for German interests against cotton
held in the South. Most OF the contracts, We're
taken by large local traders Al the call the
market was quiet with prices ? 10 points
Inder last niEht,s closIng.
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RAILROAD EARNINGS
Receiver for Rubber Company

TRENTON, n, j., March O-The Century
Rubber Company, OF Plainaeld. y. o. mas
hed bankruptcy papers IN the United states
Court here. ana Frank Il, McDermOtt. OF Ier-
sey city. has been named receiver by judge
Haight. The papers set forth that the author
tzed capital OF the company Is -, 500. coo. ass
sets of about S20o 600 and liabilities S3I 600
but that the cash OF the concern has been
reduced 10 $500
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RGE DEMAND FOR TONOPAH
PHILADELPHIA MARKETS
cRAIN Ann EIoIrR

wHEAT.--Receipts 45. s2t bushels The
market further advanced &C. with good specula-
tive buying In all home grain centres. Quota
tons; car lots, in export elevator-No. 2 rcd,
SPOT and March, S15td1.5G; No. 2 red West.
gn,. 81. 06al.0i; No, 1 Northern Duluth NLoo
CORN.--Recelpts. 26,o7s bushels. The
market ruled steady under moderate oncrlnBs
but trade was quiet. QuoRtions' Car lots
In export elevator-No 2, spot and March
itHIsc.; steamer. 75H10c.; no. e. 1ini1c; cor
lots for local trade, as to locatlon-No. vel
low, ISaTgc steamer yellow, 7Bi9M isc.; NO
sample, yellow, 6s}4@72hc.i now cob. per 20
lbs. I6i5d71jsc. -
OATs,-Recelpts a. 4t2 bushels. Offerings
were light and the market ruled hrn though
quiet. Quotations: No. white, B2lfaB5i2c:i I
standard white, 6lbg62iac.' No. white COY
RYE quiet but firm. We quote at si.t6
@llS per bushcl. as TO quality, N export
elevator, and at Si12d1.i5 for small lots "
nearby grain I'm bags
FLOUR.-Receipts 11G5 bbls and t3sa.-
1873 lbs. In sacks. NH limits higher IN
sympathy with wheat but demand light. quo
tatlons, per 100 lbs. in wood, Winter, clear.
SGiOqG ~ DO. straight iog5@a9o; Do.
spring, first clear. SG5Nd6.15; do straight
SGI0pT do patent, SiuI3b; do. fayorlte
brands, SIE0Hs: city mills, choice aud fancy
patent $i5OmS; city mills. regular grades
winter clear. SN.tOHdG5; do. straight, SO,O'W
$50 do patent, ST@725
RYE FLOJR.-Tn small supply and firm,
but quiet Quotations: Nearby and Western,
In wood. at $O5OG1 as to quality.
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FIRM TONE IN LONDON
Traders Realized on Governments
War Loan.

LONDON, March "a firm undertone pre-
vailed in securities TO-DAY but the list was
strengthened oil and mine shares. South
Africa bought Kaffirs, hut the report on the
output OF gold in the Trnnsvaal last month is
exT ected be Indifferent.
There was realizing of the war loan I'm
ucipntion of the payments OF the instalment
OF 10 per cent. on Thursday Canadian Pacific
was in sympathy with advices from New York
und trading was SLIGHTLY brisker.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-09

One hundred and fifty-four OF the prin-
cipal steam railroads of the United States
earned during January, 1915, net operating
revenues OF $4,000 2S4, the Interstate Com
merce Commission today reported. Total
operating revenues amounted TO S200.6T7, -
ll3 and total operating expenses to Sl52, -
776, 500 Net revenue per mile for these
roads during January amounted TO S22i
with s229 IN January, 1914
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VEGETABLES

Offerings fairly liberal and the general mar
ktt dull and barely steady Quotations.;
white potatoes. per ush.-Pennsylvanla. bg8
bnc, Maine, 40G5Oc New York. as to quality.
4Od4jc. sweet potatoes, Delaware. per hamper
large, 81 .25dt50; medium. GQ67hc.. sweet
potatoes. Eastern Shore, pCr bbl-No. l. S21
h;I5; No. 2. 81 .5oa1.75; sweets, Jersey per
bbl.-No. 1. 50 2Af1. 70: No 2. S2f2. h0: sweets.
Jersey. per basket 75c. dS1 onions. per bush,
5od55c; do: Gh9IGS, per 1oo-lb. bag, 81; DO,
per 190-lb. bag 60c. cabbage, Danish, per ton,
Norfolk, per bbl4- St91.25; LETTUCE. Texas.
per bush. ,h1slyet, I0c.GN.oo; do. Florida, per
basket. S9.5OI4 so; do. Florida green, per
S2 5G6f5; eggplant. Fiorida, per box. sSSfs 20;
cuoumbers; Florida, per basket "a M $1,000
Florida, per carrier. S2d3T5 hcots. Florida.
per 100 lunches. S3dG: tomatoes, Florida. per
cnrrier-FnnCy, 80. 256t3: choice, S1d2. celery,
Florida. per crate 81 25d2; do. New York
per bunch, 35d5Oc.; mushrooms per Alb
basket, COc. aSl. 20.
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RATES FOR MONEY
FOREIGN EXCHANGED

NEW YORK March eIn early dealing the
foreign exchange market Nas quiet II the
having been quoted low ~ s. sola. advanced
sleflink Ffanes. Aarss LIS.
Cables ..t..., f.si s-l8 9z9a e=
Demand zss.- 81 tt-ta 4-4-
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NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET

NEW YORK, March 0.-Tnding was mod
erately active on the coffee exchange after
the opening. Futures were In demand at an
advance of TO points above the final yes
Prices follow:
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NOTES OF THE RAIL

The Interstate Commerce Commission
today held the Norfolk and Western Rail-
way legally entitled to charge, in ad-
dition 10 the transportation rate to ports,
extra for dumping coal into boats. A
complaint by the New England Coal and
Coke Company was dismissed.
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REFINED SUGARS

The market qulet and without important
change. Eefnefs list prices; standard granu-
lated, 5.S0c; fine granulated, hI5c.; powdered,
5S5c.: ConfeCtioners a, j.B1c. soft grades,
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100000 GOLD FROM JAPAN
Additional s1,s5O,OO on Way to New
York

NEW YORK. March o.-rhe International
Banking corporatlon has received Sao0 GO IN
sol9 f5m japan and san tIaneiseo ans has
81 $50 ll0 more en route here from fnlt country.
ro cltc the corporation has ilupQflad helwean
leooqo oQa end "a ooq,QQs lrQm tho sams
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lsGs g. 80, current make. i'Isaioe.i do part
POULTRY


POULTRY
LIvE.-supplles. small and the market
Quotations: Fowls. 19alsc.; exceptional lots
higheri old roosters, ltiaai2c, chickens. eoft
meatted, i6PiIc; Do, staggy. i4aiDc.i turkeys,
I5ql5e.j ducks. lb@10c. geese, l2419c.:
pigeons old. per pair, 22n25c.; do, young.
DREssED-There was little trading. but
offerings Of fine desrable-sised stock were light
description. Quotations: Fresh-kiiled fowls,
II to box dry picked and dry-aacked,
SELECTED selected iheovy 1861 TeiFhins tM9O t7 ies
3 lbs apiece. l4dt5c Fowls, hbis., dry.pIeked
ana dry-packed, western, tpS lbs. apiece,
57Hc.; DO. do. BY l5s.. i031l8tko. DO, 90,
pIRsd 'iH iic. RfoiinF eBickeDs. nearby. iSa
lbs, apiece, 22q23c.; DO, fair 70 good. ls420c.i
Western, 1&12 lbs apiece 20q22c.i do, far
70 good, i4nisc. Chickens. dry-pleked and
ddHPs' dGy ss n g9Sfs % 70 R RsSef S- 20 a ol to Is es =
Is 20 a. lbs, 10 doz isc; do, 4s lbs 70 doz,
2Ou. do co lbs. and over. 2tc,; corn-fed II
70 90 lbs t9 do5s lee. DO 40 t9 a. lss o t9
lbs. and over, 2Qc. Chickens. dry-picked and
dry-packed, in bbls., selected. heavy i9e;
Western corn-fed, lbs and over tSc.; do,
do. lbs, iIGiIisc do, do, 80 lbs. i53c.;
picked and y-packed-Fancy. nearby. 2fo
do, Western, 2ic: fair to good 1s620c.; old
toms. 10000, Ducks, fancy, In boxes, 1tp
lSc do ordinary to. good. i2gi9c. Geese.
per doz., white, weighing II 10 - lbs per doz.,
Si25ni 50; white, weighing TO 10 lbs per
dqZ.. Sh60u4 -; do, do lbs. per doz., $40
so; do, do. Z lbs. per doz., S2d2 60 do. do.
Ga6,g lbs Ier doz,, SL6oql.s5; dark and No. 2,
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SECURITIES AT AUCTIoN

Al aucflon to-day tbs following aecurltias
Wero sold by samuel p. freeman & Cu
% loung. smyih. FIELD 8 60. pFef .Ioo
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FRESH FRUITS

The market quiet and without important
Sh3nGe Quotations: Apples. New York. per
12hO; Ben Davis. Si5Od2; other good eating
varieties, 81 5Oa2.yo medium, SiTf.5o; apples.
and Pcnnsylvnnia. per hamper, 5oa6oc;; lent
ous per box. S26i2 az: oranges, Florida, Dor
box Si.l0N2 30: tanEerines Florida per strap
Sl5oV2.A0 grapefruit Florida. per box. s
LOO pincapples rcr Crate-porto Rico. $40
G5' Florida. S3TI; eranborries. fancy late
varieties. per bbl., S3.506i 20: crnnberries
Jersey, per crate, 25SiT5 pears. New York
Kleffer rer bbl, s162: strawberries, Florida
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BANK CLEARINGs

Bank elearlngs today compared with CORE.
spending day last two years:
phuadelphia S24 e42 OO2 S23 47O.OI4 S2T. 600. 100
Boston - 20 3BS 420 81 All t04 ....,....
New York 2s4 02s 336.451 ,489 S2l. 69s, $50
Baltimore B16532f 5.576.Ss1 T,ls5, 12s
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s g - sss1 9ssl.a 'ss' s s.a ss7s'ss. q 81 r
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~ YORK METAL MARKET

ltftk Aaffh a-The metal luarzst
1snsea iada4 sl4iIar alIss.E III ff'szs
4H. z44alr
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Local Haf-hOurLy Sales
10 to 1O:3O A. M.
BONDS.

81 Phia Co scrip OlS................ so
1000 Leh Val gen cons As. ...,.,....... SIS
1000 Leh Val gen cons reg is.......... STA
1000 L Steel IS Observation-Disclosures, 1OOSs
1000 Penna Is 1913. Observation-Disclosures. GTA
1000 Reading gen As reg...,........... 929
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BONDS.
12 NJ. to 1890 p. NJ.
1880 to 1 p. NJ.

10 Ton Bel....4 1915 10 Phla Trac. 7sls
100 U 5 Steel. -. 45T 90 L S Steel.... 45H
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1880 to IL A. NJ.
II to 80 A. NJ.
11:3O A. NJ. to II NJ.

1000 United Rwys I 4s....,...........
100 Amer Gas & EleC as.....,.....,.. S5A
iOO Amer Gas & Elsc 5s...,........., 1854
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-10-22

Teacher in Ancient History class.
where are the Ganges and the In
dus rivers?
f.. M: In Austria-H Hungary.
Teacher; No, that is not right.
F. M; Well, that's where they
were last year.
Laura Spear was absent from the
school room Monday and Tuesday
mornings.
There were several pupils tardy
this morning. We hope there will
be fewer tardy marks this year,
even if certain persons have to get
up a little earlier.
Whooping cough has taken a
number of pupils out of school. We
hope it will take out no others, as
we do not care for 80 msny absent
marks this year as we had last.
Please take noticed Our assembly
room is not a dressing room, altho
you might think SO if you happened
in at the right moment.
Those that are absent on account
of whooping cough are; Verna and
Lewis Rasmussen, Mary and Willie
Buck. Name and Dame Narduci,
Fern Hyatt, Eva and Margaret
Chase, Edwin Rasmussen, Clarence,
Theodore and Lillian Mathison.
Otta Bauman has returned after q
month of illness.
Ruth Hail, Emily Haglund, Myria
Bailey, James Dunbar and Annie
Allison are recent arrivals in the
7th and 9Th grade room.
The following pupils In Mrs.
Bowman's room were neither alb.
sent nor tardy during the first
month ending October 1sti LaFern
n
Brady, Mildred Freed, Bernice
Bowman, Gertrude Rasmussen,
Fern Stroll, Esther. VanOrmer,
Ruth Hall, Harvey Halvorson, Ed.
ward Hail. Walter Freed, Frederick
Wilkins and Edison Strayer.
Alice Hilla has been absent from
the school room for several days on
account of illness.
We have gotten into the habit of
chewing gum this summer and we
fear a number of pupils get 20 per
cent off on department rather often.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-10-22
SCHOOL NOTES
By Fern Ohlinger

Mrs. Unruh, the state lecturer for
the W. G. T. o., will give a lecture
to the students of the High School.
Oct 26, at 3 p. m.
oh you wind! Stop blowing UNI
til some one fixes the windows so
they don't rattle so badly.
The number of pupils enrolled
is as follows: High School. %; 7th
aud Sth grades, "a; 5th and 9Th
grades, 80; Bird and 4th grades. 40;
LIST and End grades, 81; primary 81.
Total liza.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-10-22
THE
PIONEER PRESS
The Pioneer Paper of Northern
Teton County
Daniel MILESTONE, Publisher
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Local List Gree postage) a year $1.50
Postage List (outside county, $500

Last week the editor of
the Pioneer Press had occa-
sion to visit a great many
homes in the Cut Bank COM
munity and during the noon
hour conversations with the
farmers and their wives was
enabled to get the viewpoint
as we'll as the intellectual
tastes of the people who
form the senew and sub
stance of this community.
In several homes we dis
cussed the efficacy and need
of farmers organizations and
the part they should play in
the big problems of markt-
ing and purchasing commodi-
ties for their use. We found
a number who had given the
subject deep and c i a |
study and we got some new
angles on the questions that
all intelligent farmers are at
present considering.
We found a number of
farmers with cosmopolitan
tastes in reading. One bache-
lor homesteader, while fry
ing the spuds and bacon, dis
cussed the Single Tax ques-
ton with the editor and was
on familiar terms with Hen
ry George and his logical
theories of taxation. This
man was a Bible student, a
voracious reader of the best
literature and radiated high
erudition so rapidly
that we felt humble and a.
Dashed; and when he steamed
up on the Bible we threw up
both hands.
The farmers of the Cut
Bank section are not to be
classed with the self-sufici-
emit home-guard people who
inhabit the rural sections
east, who live all
their lives in a c~ircumscribed
atmosphere. They are the
kind you see in the Uncle
osh and Deacon Smiley
that run the gamut
Of the kerosene and tallow
candle circuits.
Your western farmer and
is one who early in
life became possessed of the
wanderlust, who was not
with the humdrum
of the jitney neighbor-
hood down east. Caught by
the spirit of newness and
adventure and with a passion
for power and knowledge,
he forsook the sleepy haunts
of his birth-left them to
the sluggish youths and grey
boards and came out west.
And here he is, not only
able to hold his own in a
material sense, but well
equipped mentally to tackle
any of the social and eco
problems that are
confronting the farmers
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-10-22
Savings Department

On and after October LIST, 1915,
this bank will conduct a savings
department under the control of the
u. s. Government. 4 per cent
interest, compounded semi annually,
will be paid on amounts Of $500 or
over, and sums of $1.0O or less will
be received for deposit. A special
book will be given each patron in
which he can deposit from time to
time. Interest will be computed
July 1st and January LIST.
Deposits of children given es-
pecial attention. We will be pleased
to serve you.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Cut Bank, Montana.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-10-22

If you want 10 sleep ''the sleep that
knits up the raveled sieve of care''
buy n of those Wool Blankets at the
Harness Shop.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-10-22

LIGHT Spring wagon for sale cheap
or will trade for oats. d. A. MacRae.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-10-22

For Sale or Trade-One first class
steel granary; ], 1000 bushel size. Bruce
r. McNamer.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-10-22

Four-horse whips at the Har-
ness Shop.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-10-22
Here 1T Is!
Pioneer Press Ad-Readers
Bring the Business

FOB SALE-Poland China sows, to
farrow about first of next month.
j. A. Runner, 6 miles east of Cut Bank
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-10-22

Thresher wool sleeping blankets at
the Harness Shop.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-10-22
JAMES MILLER

FOR SALE-House and two lots.
For price and terms write to G.. c..
Putt, 243 Lyell Ave-, Rochester, N. Y.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-10-22

Pioneer Press Want ads ''have a pull. -
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-09-24
AGENTS TO STOP AT BILOXI.

Biloxi, Miss, Sept. 24.-The Nation
al Ticket Agents Association will be
IN Biloxi ON November 16. en- route
for New Orleans. whei they will hold
their convention. The ticket agents,
occupying special train of the L. &
~, will spend an hour or two in Mo
bile on November 16, three or four
hours at Biloxi that afternoon and
will eat supper at Pass Christian ai-
loxi and Pass Christian will be the
only stops between Mobile and New
Orleans. The association consists OF
about 150 members, the majority Of
whom are expected to visit Biloxi.
The railroad ticket agents will be en-
tertained here by the Biloxi CONNER,
cial Club.
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-09-24
Dinner.
THE STYLISH WOMAN.

A stylish woman has a good poise.
She stands well and she walks well,
and she carries her head well. and
her clothes take on the right swing.
Put the same clothes on the woman
who stands on her heels instead of on
the balls of her feet. the woman who
sinks down in her corset, and by so
doing throws her abdomen outward,
her hips forward, lets her chest sink
in and her shoulders round forward,
while her back hollows below the
waistline. Any amount of style in the
costume worn by this woman is swal-
lowed up by the lack of style in the
woman herself.
The lines Of a woman's gown or
cloak are altered to their ruin when
by incorrect carriage of her body they
are turned and twisted out of place.
The woman who is admired for her
style in dressing looks-no matter
what the time or the occasion-as if
what she wears at that time, upon
that occasion, had been planned with
reference TO that time, that place and
to her.-Bele Armstrong Whitney, in
Good Health"
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-09-24
LANDS MONSTER SNAPPER.

Ocean Springs, Miss, Sept. a.
That there are just as good fish in the
sea as ever were caught, was proved
Sunday by d. Ross Metzger, of New
Orleans, when he landed a twenty.
two pound reddish on his first cas-.
fishing at the railroad bridge in front
of Ocean Springs.
This is one of the largest reds ever
caught in these waters. Local anglers
remember sixteen. eighteen and TWEEN
ty pound redfish. but the Sunday
catch is the king of them all.
In length it measured thirty-nine
and three-quarters inches. The fish
was landed with No. hook on a No
Is line, a light rod and landing net
Metzger's partner had to hold him tc
keep him from being dragged over
board.
enormous striking power of the
shown when he sheared off
tail with one blow against q
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-09-24
rAH'sH,RRoDHEAD WEDDING

~ ~ LOUIS Mo-, Sept. 24.-Miss Doro.
ot ,h,, lsn "a prominent society girl
~ 'n's CITY, will be married tomorrow
w,.' NJ 'Onn Brodhead of Detroit, Mich.
MSS MIS- farish is the daughter of Mr.. and
WIS Jonn H. Parish, and is accounted
a,., .eau,y. w. She will have her younger
SISTER Miss Frances Parish, as maid Of
s nOn0r' The ceremony will be per.
,O'nped at high noon in the St. Louis
-seS cathedral. Following the church
wedding reception will be held in
the Parish home
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-09-24
CLEANUP CAMPAIGN.

Gulfport, Miss, Sept. 24.-Dr. d. j.
Williams, county health officer. an.
nounces a campaign to rid the coun-
ty of everything insanitary. The coast
towns will be visited first Speaking
of typhoid prevalent at Virgins, DR..
Williams said: 'If we would rid Har-
rison county of typhoid fever we must
observe the laws Of hygiene and sani-
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-09-24

beings. And stupidity can be culti-
waited more easily than intelligence
where there's will, there's a way. YOU
know.
The girls are quite right in thinking
that the pretty, fluffy girl gets atten-
ton. She does. But it is in spite of
her lack Of brains, not because of that
lack. She is admired for her pretti.
ness. She would be doubly admired if
she had brains to go with that pretti-
ness. No sensible man likes a mere
doll. And although the fluffy, feather.
Drained girl may have lots of admir-
ers, she seldom has very many worth
while offers of marriage. The term
worth while" does not necessarily
mean financially worth while!' 1t
implies that the man who offers him.
self as a partner for life of double
blessedness has qualities worthy of re-
spect ,and some degree of mentality
himself
The virtue of standing alone is the
best preparation for marriage. For
the woman who can stand alone does
not need to accept the first man who
comes along, nor does she give her
affection lightly. There is nothing of
the clinging vine about her. She is
strong and self-reliant And strength
and self-reliance are the most valua-
bic assets which a woman can possess
in this exceedingly hard, work-a-day
world.
If women would come to realize the
fact that a constant craving for amuse-
ment and for the society of other peo.
pie is public confession of weakness.
and only serves to turn them into rest
less, dissatisfied beings, they would
cultivate their own resources-and
learn certain measure of quiet in.
dependence.
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-09-24
The Virtue Of independence
BY HORENCE E. IODER

81 have no invitation or engagement
for this evening, and | don't know
what to do with myself" damself all
forlorn murmured dejectedly. And
one could not help wondering at the
strange lack of self-reliance shown in
the speech. For the speaker quite OBJ
viously had no power of entertaining
herself, but was weakly and foolishly
dependent on the whims Of other peo-
Pile.
To a certain extent, unfortunately,
we are dependent on the whims of 9TH
er people. There is no getting away
from that fact. But we can reduce
the influence of others on ourselves
to minimum. And the man or wo-
man who has learned to be indcpen-
dent of his fellow beings has to
large extent solved one of life's great
est problems.
The perpetual race after the COM
pany of others is an open confession
of mental shallowness. How can it be
anything else? For the men or women
who constantly crave the society of
others can have no real resources
within themselves. They cannot toll
crate their own society, for their own
society implies boredom-and their
minds are craving the support of 9TH
ers to the destruction of their own.
For anything that is not used will
inevitably go to ruin. The brain is
like the hand, and grows with using.
If the human hand were tied up for
certain period, at the end of that
period it would be found perfectly use
less. The mind, too, follows like
process.
Women in particular show a curious
averseness to using the intelligence
with which they have been endowed.
Not all women, but large proportion
Of them. And these very women are
born with a good mentality, and with
capabilities which can carry them far
only the pity of it is that they have
not the least desire to be carried far
There Is certain fallace current
among many mistaken maidens, and
| that is that the average man dislikes
brains in woman. The pretty, fluffy
| type of woman is responsible for this
idea. She gets attention from men
and the other girl, noticing this fact,
and at the same time noticing that
| the maiden under observation is quite
devoid of understanding, deduces the
strange idea that the attraction lies
in the lack of brains, and that they,
too. had better go hence and do like
wise.
It isn't hard for them to hide the
metaphoricai light Of their intelli-
gence under bushel Upon the con-
Itrary, 1t is exceedingly easy. For any
play Of brain power demands some
little effort, even in the most gifted Of
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