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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-27

stopped and after awhile he did, too.
was foolish to drop him, because ]
know now that | love him. | can't
get him out of my mind By his let
tiers l know he cared for me. Would
it be all right to write him letter?
And what should l say?
(2) l roller skate good deal. Do
you think that would cause sharp
pains in my ankles. At time l have
pains so sharp that | cannot walk.
X. A. J.
a | am afraid that you do not
love the boy any more now than you
used to. You have built an ideal
around him that would disappear were
you to be with him again. Write a
letter telling what you are doing. If
he is still interested in you he will an
swer the letter, and if he does not voc
better stop thinking about him.
GU The trouble with your ankles
must be serious and aggravated by
roller skating. Consult a doctor.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: | have been
married for nearly seventeen years
and have been perfectly happy until
a few months ago. when an incident
happened that has changed my whole
life. My wife and l in company with
friend of ours were walking along
the street when we met a blond lady
who addressed me in very familiar
terms Now | had never met the lady.
who evidently mistook me for some
acquaintance, but it has been impos-
sible to convince my wife of the fact.
Now will you please give me little
advice about the matter?
A DISTRACTED HUSBAND.
The less said about the matter the
better. Now that you have told your
wife you are innocent, refuse to dis
cuss the subject. Time will make her
forget and again your life will run as
smoothly as before.
In reply to A Club of Girls:
Telephone an undertaken and he will
give you exactly the information you
want.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-27

home of Mrs. c. 0. Woodruff, SIS TWEEN
ty-third street
Trinity Episcopal-The church guilds
will meet at the usual places and time
this week
The womans auxiliary will meet
with Mrs. c. H. Castetter, 713 Twenty
third street, Wednesday afternoon at
2::30.
Confirmation instruction will begin
Wednesday: children at 4:30 and
adults at 73O at the evening service
First Baptist Wednesday evening
prayer services will be followed by
meeting of the study class.
Thursday evening the Glee club will
meet with Miss Florence Ullemeyer,
1907 Nineteenth street.
Friday evening a Sunday school
party will be held at the church par
lors to which members of the school
and church and friends are invited.
There will be program and the al
fair will take the form of an April fool
party.
Saturday afternoon the Worth While
Girls will meet with Miss Pauline
Lindley, 1910 Tenth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-27
CHURCHES

, class will meet in the home of n G.
Willhite, PIG Thirteenth street.
Wednesday evening midweek prayer
services will be held at the church.
Friday evening the Ladies Aid soci-
ETY. will serve an Under the Flag"
supper in the church dining room.
Saturday afternoon at the Junior
Christian Endeavor society will meet
at the church.
Spencer Memorial Methodist
men of the community are invited to
the home of Roy Hoffman, S24 Forty
second street, Tuesday evening to COM
plete the organization Of the Edgewood
Mems club.
Prayer services will be held Thurs
day evening in the home Of Godfrey
Larson, 61S Thirty-sixth street.
German Eyangelical-Tuesd after
noon the confirmation class will meet
at the church.
Tuesday evening the choir will meet
for rehearsal at the church.
Thursday afternoon the Ladies' Sew
ing society will meet at the church.
Sunday evening English Lenten
services will be held at the church.
German lmmanuerS Lutheran-The
Young Ladies' society will meet with
Miss Margaret Hoffman,, S14 Seven
teenth street, Wednesday evening.
The school board will meet Wednes-
day evening.
Lenten services will be held Thurs
day evening
The church board will meet Friday
evening.
Zion Lutheran-The Young Peoples
society will be entertained in the
chapel tonight by Misses Swanhild
Blomgren and Amy Anderson
Prayer services Wednesday evening
at 7:45 will be in the home of C. G..
Norman, 1909 Eighth avenue
Grace ran-Confirmation class
will meet Wednesday evening at Z,
lenten services will be held at S
o'clock
Thursday evening the Reliance club
will be entertained in the church par
lors by David Beckstrom and Law
renee Johnson.
Broadway Presbyterian-This even
ing at the mems class will have get
together supper and business session
at the Y. NJ. c. A.
Wednesday evening at 7:30 mid-week
social worship will be held at the
church
Thursday afternoon at 4 the Junior
association will meet. Topic. Broad
way Juniors Go Visiting in Porto Rico"
Adelaide Bowes, leader.
Friday afternoon at 8 the regular
monthly meeting of the Woman's Mis-
sionary society will be held al the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-27
CIRCLE STUDIES WHITTIER.

a meeting Of St, Joseph's Reading
circle was held Saturday at the home
OF the vice president, Miss Dorothy
Sersig, 1905 Twelfth street, from 3 to
o'clock A splendid program taken
from Whittier's poems was given.
Piano numbers were given by Miss
Marie Glynn and Miss Evelyn Erhart.
The members finished the life ana
poems of John Greenleaf Whittier and
will take up the study of Henry ".
Longfellow at the next meeting TO be
held al the home of the secretary, Miss
Cecilia Kluger, Seventh avenue and
Eleventh street, on April I. After the
meeting adjourned. games arranged
by the social committee were played.
Miss Evelyn Erhart and Miss Mary
Doering received the prizes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-27
NEIGHB0UR.HUBBiRD ENGAGE.
MfNT.

Mr.. and Mrs H. B. Hubbard, 1914
Twenty-first street, announce the en-
gagement and approaching marriage
Of their daughter. Miss Lois Hubbard
to Leonard B. Neighbour of East Mo-
line, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Neigh
bour of Dixon, III. The wedding is
set for early June. Mr.. Neighbour is
employed in the experimental depart
ment of the Marseilles company plant
in East Moline. Miss Hubbard is
prominent in tri-city musical circles,
being a pianist of much ability and
she has delighted on frequent occa-
sions with piano selections. She at
tended the local public and high
schools and is young woman OF
much charm and popular among many
friends.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-27

Thursday evening at the school rooms
Readings will be given by Miss Marie
Oberlander, music by the Plow City
quartet and a seyen-piece orchestra
and by two members of the school,
and a 45-minute play, Fun In Pho
tograph Gallery" will he presented.
Refreshments and social time will
follow the program
The regular business meeting CT the
Christian Endeavor society of the Me-
mortal Christian church will be held
tomorrow evening. After the business
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-27

"Go-to-school" week started this
morning in all the schools Of the city.
AS expected, the start is somewhat
show and large number OF visitors is
not altogether anticipated for the first
day, but in spite of this the number
seems slightly larger than those for
the first day last year and it is thought
that the total response for the day will
be gratifying. The two biggest DAYS
at the high school will undoubtedly be
Tuesday and Thursday, for one these
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-27

days the Manual Arts building will be
open in the evenings and the public
viii have a chance to see the students
at work at a more convenient time
The aim of the week this year is TO
secure 10000 visitors for the Rock Is
land schools during the present week.
This will mean an average of 2 900 dur
ing each school day For the purpose
OF creating enthusiasm for this aim.
all the schools are having ushers from
each class to escort the visitors and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-27
SALE AND CONTEST SUCCESSFUL.

The bakery contest held at the Lin
coin school Saturday afternoon under
the auspices of the athletic committee
Of the Parent-Teacher association was
a decided success This was held in
connection with the bakery sale, pro-
ceeds from which will be given to pur-
chase playground equipment. The
sum Of s36 was realized from the sale
of the goods. Girls Of the depart
mental school only entered goods in
this contest The judges were unani-
nous in their praise OF the quality of
the goods entered and those who saw
the articles on display were aston
ished at the work done by the girls
Prize winners were as follows: Cake
Blanche krell pie, Katherine Schroe-
der; white bread, Anna Greve; brown
bread, Anna Cleveland; cup cakes
Anna Marie VanDuzer; cookies, Will
ma belong. The prizes were 81 in
cash and were awarded in assembly
this morning. Misses Gene WEIGH.
Edna Woodham and McMaster acted
as the judges. This was the third of
the series of bakery sales, the first and
second bringing in $26 each. the last
s36 making a nice sum with which to
begin the equipment OF the school play
grounds. Apparatus will be purchased
at once and installed that the children
may have the use of it during the sum
mer as public playground. The COM
mittee in charge of the contest were:
Mrs. NJ. A. HollingsWorth, chairman:
Mrs. W H. Bennett and Miss Viola
Murbach. mothers of the pupils
assisting in the contest and gen.
erously giving bakery goods and also
purchasing it. The committee is very
grateful for the assistance given it in
all the sales.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-27
CLEAR $50 At SALE.

The sum of $50 was cleared from
the sale of home bakery goods at the
Rowe pharmacy Saturday afternoon,
the proceeds to apply to the purchase
of piano for the Horace Mann school.
Other entertainments are being ar
ranged for the spring to help raise
the money necessary for the purchase
of the instrument
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-27
SOCIAL EVENTS

church was held yesterday evening al
the church and although the weather
was inclement large number of the
members of classes was present Miss
Lille Cervin opened the program with
an organ number. the address of the
evening being given by l. NJ. Ander-
son on the subject You and Your
Church The vocal selection by Miss
Amelia Jacobson closed the program
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-27
POST ENTERTAINS ". r. c.

Members of the Woman's Relief
corps No. 66, were guests of John Blu
ford post, 243 Grand Army of the Re-
public Saturday evening in Memorial
hall at an informal social session. Miss
Georgia First entertained the guests
with an illustrated lecture in which
she told of Glacier, Yosemite and Mt.
Rainier parks, the pictures having
been taken by her last summer on
tour Of the parks She also showed a
number OF views OF Mexico and ex-
planned the difficulties that would con-
front the American soldier in that
country. A reading The Serenade."
was given by Miss Violet Pasco and
then followed q social hour when the
men served refreshments to the la
dies. The entertainment was a very
successful one and much enjoyed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-27
SUNBEAM SOCIETY ENTERTAINED

Signe and Mildred Nelson in their
home, 965 Thirty-eighth street, Sat
urday afternoon entertained the Sun
beam society of the Zion Lutheran
church, the girls spending the time
sewing and later with games and con-
tests and they were served with a
lunch.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-27

these ushers will endeavor to secure
as many signatures for their class as
possible. Every visitor will be asked
to register and state their class prefer
ence. In this manner, the competition
between the classes TO get people to
Visit the school and register for them,
is expected TO increase the enthusiasm
greatly. This system was inaugurated
last year at the high school and proved
so successful that it was decided to re
tain it this year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-27
WADTa no
HOME
pQeBLINS|
NGS ELI z AgETn TLoHp2SQN|

Dear Mrs Thompson: I have been
going with a young man for several
weeks and he has asked me to meet
his mother l would like to meet
her. but l don't know just what to do.
% What time in the evening
would be suitable to go?
Should | wear my best or some
thing neat and becoming?
go What should l say when he in
PRODUCES me?
a. He also has a brother older
than himself and the brother is going
to have his girl friend there. What
should | say to the brother and his
girl friend when we are introduced?
90 Should | mention something
about going home when l think it is
time?
60 What should l say and what
time should l say it?
@ When | leave should l ask his
mother over to see my parents? He
has no father.
IGNORANT NIRG1E.
q The boy will probably tell you
what time he wants you to come and
will call for you. 1t will be about S
O'Clock, should think.
81 Wear something neat and be-
coming
so Say, How do you do, Mrs. So
and So?" or simply say, Mrs. So
and So and nod your head slightly
a. Repeat the name of each and
nod your head slightly. Do just as
you do when you meet anyone.
90 Yes.
90 About 10 o'clock tell the boy
you are with that you think it is
time to go.
ca DO not ask his mother to come
to see your parents. Simply tell her
that you have had a delightful even
ing or something like that.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: d ] am d
girl nearly twenty-one. About two
years ago | went with splendid fell
low for a few months, but as | was
silly then and wanted to go with
others | told him to keep away en-
tirely. Since then we have moved to
another town, but before that he had
seen me and asked me to write to
him once in awhile. l promised and
at first answered some of his letters,
but as l became acquainted here i
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-27

| FIRST Observation-Disclosures evening at
1870 the Sunday school board meeting
will be held in the home of DR.. and
Mrs. O. T. Dwinell, 1914 Fifth avenue.
| Tuesday evening at 1880 the Queen
! Esther circle meets with Miss Athel
Lindorff, 943 Seventeenth street.
Wednesday evening at 1880 will be
held a business and work meeting at
the church preparatory to the special
meetings to be held in April.
! Thursday afternoon the Ladies' Aid
society will hold work meeting in
the home of Mrs. W. E. Martin, 11O5
| Fourteenth street
Saturday afternoon at 2:30 the
Kings Heralds will meet with Mar
jorie Sala, No 9, Sala flats.
Central Preshyterian-The gymna-
SUM classes for girls and ladies will
be held at the church as usual this
evening.
The gymnasium classes for boys will
be held at the church Tuesday evening
The usual mid-week PRAYER service
and conference will be held Wednes-
day evening.
Thursday evening the Monmouth
Glee club will give a concert at the
First NJ. z. church annex under the
auspices of the Ministerial alliance of
the city.
Friday evening the married men will
play the single men game of basket
ball at the church.
A series of illustrated sermons will
begin next Sunday evening Tissots
Life of Christ" will be used as a basis
for the sermons
First LUtheran-The Mems society
will hold a banquet at the church din
ing room Wednesday evening W b.
Mcintyre will be the speaker.
Wednesday afternoon at and Sat
urday afternoon at 4 the confirmation
classes will meet at the church.
Oak Grove Presbyterian-Eva ngelis-
tic services will be held During the
week beginning tonight at 7:45, con-
Quoted by Rev Matthew Neill. pastor
of the United Presbyterian church at
Dewitt, Iowa. Rev. Mr. Neill will also
preach Sunday morning and evening.
United Presbyterian - The Boy
Scouts will meet Tuesday evening from
s to 9 at the church
Wednesday afternoon at 4:S0 the
Junior association will meet at the
church.
Wednesday evening at will be held
conference of elders and trustees,
followed by prayer services at 7:SO
o'clock.
Friday afternoon the Ladies' Aid So
ciety will meet in the home of Mrs.
j. R. Brooks. 4O02 Seventh avenue.
A concert for the benefit of the Min
isterial alliance will be held Thursday
evening in the First Methodist annex,
given by the Monmouth Glee club.
Second Christian-No meeting Of the
Ladies Aid society will be held this
week because of go-to-school week.
The society will meet April with Mrs.
George Ague on Seventh street
The young mems gymnasium class
will meet Wednesday evening for a
! business session at the church.
Memorial Christian 49, The ladies'
gymnasium class will meet tonight at
| the church.
Tuesday evening the Christian En-
deavor society will hold business and
social session at the church.
Tuesday evening the Loyal Bereans
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-27

session an April fool sociable will be
held and members are asked to bring
a present for foolish Christmas tree,
the cost to be not over 10 cents. A
fine program has been arranged and
refreshments will be served by four
boys. Members and their friends are
invited to attend.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-27
CELEBRATE 18th BIRTHDAY.

TO celebrate her 18th birthday Miss
Emma Hoist invited company of "a
young people to her home. 450l Z
Fifth avenue, Saturday evening. A
feature Of the evening was mock we'd
ding that caused much merriment
There were also games. music and
dancing and birthday supper at II
o'clock. The hostess was left with
gifts from the girls and from the young
men purse of money with which to
buy gift of her own choosing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-27
SOCIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS,

The Child Conservation league will
meet at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon in
the Y. N. c. A Members are asked
to make a special effort to be present.
Browns Business college pupils
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-27
D. A. r. MARCH SESSION,

Fort Armstrong chapter, Daughters
OF the American Revolution in March
ernoon in the home of Mrs. c. J. Long,
2124 Eighteenth avenue. The paper
Of the afternoon was given by Mrs. f.
G. Frazer on Cuba and Porto Rico"
the usual time of sociability following
when a lunch was served.
REUNION CONFIRMATION CLASSES
The quarterly reunion of the con-
frmation classes OF Zion Lutheran
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-27
Exactly.

Have you dyed your hair blac ?"
THAT isn't a fair question '-Balti-
more American.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-27

Memorial Christian - The ladies'
gymnasium class will meet tonight at
the church
Tuesday evening the Christian En-
deavor society will hold a business and
social session at the church.
Tuesday evening the Loyal Bereans
The Green Forest tribune., 1916-02-18
LONG A PLAGUE TO YOUTH
SchooIboys of Many Centuries Ago Had to Wrestle With Problems
 of Arithmetic.

The modern schoolboy may find comfort in the fact that for 3,600 years schoolboys have been worried by just such desperate problems in arithmetic as annoy him most
 Among the archaeological discoveries in Egypt is papyrus roll, in excellent condition, dating from a period about 1700 B. c. This roll, which has a long i heading beginning Directions how to attain the knowledge of all dark things proves beyond doubt that the Egyptian of that time had a thor ough knowledge of the elements of arithmetic.
 Numerous examples show that their principal operations with units and fractions were made by means of addi- tion and multiplication. Subtraction and division were not known in their present form, but correct results were obtained, nevertheless.
 Equations are also found in the papyrus. Here is one which brings the Egyptian schoolboy home to us:
 Ten measures of barley are to be di- vided among ten persons in such manner that each subsequent person shall receive one-eighth of measure less than the one before him. Another example given is: There are seven men. each one has seven cats, each cat has eaten seven mice, each mouse has eaten seven grains of barley. Each grain of barley would have yielded seven measures of barley How much barley has been lost?
 The papyrus also contains calcula- tions of area, the calculation of the area of circle, attempts at squaring the circle, and finally calculation of the cubic measurements of pyramids,
The Green Forest tribune., 1916-02-18
CHAPTER XIX.
The Maker of Maps.

There began to be strange new stirrings in the world. Money! From the land which was it's home and place of abode it leaned over across the wide seas, and made potent whisper ings in the ears of the countries where money is despised and held vulgar They all listened. The particular po- tency lay in the fact that the money was so big, which took away tremen- dously from its despicableness and it's vulgarity.
 A black bearded grand duke, from the wide land of the frozen seas hum- bled himself to plain Ivan Strolesky at the sound of that whisper, and hur- ried westward. A high dignitary of an empire upon which the sun never sets hid his title under plebeian nom de plume, and stalked stolidly away west. ward to that whispeg of despised American money. From the land of fashion, from the land of toys, from the land of art and music, from the land of cherry blossoms, from the land of the drowsing drug, from the land of the flashing jewels, from the lands of the burning sands and the lands of the midnight sun, there came the highest of power; and they all, light and swarth, and bearded and smooth. and
The Green Forest tribune., 1916-02-18

large and small, and robed and trou- sered, centered toward the city of strong men, and, one by one, presented themselves, in turn, to grave and silent, kinky-haired old darky by the name of Ephraim.
 One motive alone had dragged them over sterile plains and snowy noun tains and bounding seas; the magic whisper of Money!
 Through Ephraim they came to the stocky, square-standing, square-faced chess player who was called Allison. They found him pleasant, agreeable, but hardly of their class. He was so forceful as to be necessarily more or less crude, and he had an unpleasant fashion of waving aside all the decent little pretenses about money. That was the fault of this whole rude coun- try, where luxury had been brought to the greatest refinement ever known in the history of the world; it was so devoted to money, and the cultured gentlemen did their best to get all they could.
 To Ivan Strolesky Allison was frank and friendly for there was something in the big Russian which was different from these others, so he hastened to have business out of the way
 Here are your lines," he said, spreading down map which had been brought up to date by hand The ones I want are checked in blue. The others l do not care for"
 The grand duke looked them over with a keen eye.
 q am rather disappointed" he con- fessed in excellent English. q had understood that you wished to control our entire railway system"
 "I do," assented Allison; but don't wish to pay out money for them all. If can acquire the lines l have marked, the others will be controlled quite easily from the fact that shall have the only outlet"