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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22
Funny Man of Japan.

The "Tads," Bud Fishers, and Gold
bergs are not all confined to the realm
of American journalism, for Japan,
too, says a writer in Cartoons Maya
zine, has her comedy sketch artists.
The endeavors of these men, he says,
"show a striking similarity to much
of the work done by our popular con.
temporaries. Clean, wholesome fun,
quite of. the order that one finds in
such series as the 'Katzenjammer Kids
and The Adventures Of Willie West
inghouse Edison Smith, predomi-
mates in the Japanese pictures. There
is only slight evidence Of that ele-
ment which to the American mind
makes large proportion Of European
work risque and vulgar. The humor
is childlike, possibly even more so
than our own, but it has the browning
virtue of having cleanliness without
being sterile or insipid.
1.-THE Japanese have not created a
new style Of comic cartoon. On the
contrary, they have remained thor
eughly true to their proclivity for
initiating the ideas of others. They
have copied the American strip close
ly. and since we are prone to know
them for this trait more than almost
any other, few persons will wonder
at the fact"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22
BE MODERATE IN ALL THINGS
II Is Good to Think, Act and Talk on
All Occasions Carefully and
Sanely.

The best of things, the best qualities
Of character, may be turned to evil by
excess, remarks a writer in the Mil
waukee Journal The deepest sorrow
is not expressed by the loudest wall.
ing, nor the fullest Joy found in Inn.
moderate laughter. Lack of modera-
ton in eating and drinking carries its
own punishment. Let your desires be
moderate and your disappointments
will be few.
Be moderate in your praise of an
other even if you think him a hero.
Perfection is not of this world. Should
you too loudly sing his praises, others
will be the more ready to pick flaws
in him. If he is found to exceed your
commentator rather than fall below
1t the effect is better. Ones Partially
leads to magnifying the good and over
locking the evil, even to making plaus-
ible excuses. Still more desirable Is
1t that you should beware of excess In
condemnation. You may have con-
ceived false impression of him. You
may not know all the extenuating cir
cumstances. BY voicing your dislike
or disapprobation, you may be doing
an injustice.
At the best, you are not helping to
right the wrong. Let the world know
by your conversation and conduct that
you believe in truth, justice and kind
ness, but be careful, how you put 9TH
ers under a ban as failing in these
things. Excess in love is likely to
carry jealousy, suspicion and selfish
ness in its train. Even religion may
be carried to an excess that makes one
intolerant and fanatical. Such excess
makes the cause upheld unlovely to
many. Learn moderation and you will
make fewer mistakes.
Think your own thoughts and ex'
press them, but do not endeavor to
force them on others by too strenuous
insistence.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22
. American Efficiency.

We hear so much about German eff
cheney that we are apt to forget Amer
lean efficiency. Let it not be forgot
ten that the first essential Of eff
cheney is the conception and initiation
Of practical and constructive ideas.
In this regard the United States has
led and still leads the world. Indeed,
not a few Of the inventions which
have made warfare so efficient" have
sprung from American minds, just as
inventions which have done most in
stimulating agricultural and manufac-
turing progress have come from this
side of the Atlantic. The Germans
have excelled in applying important
ideas and important inventions to the
various departments of economic &C.
tivity. The American bent is to ini-
tiate;. it. does not always excel
in the >painstaking work which must
follow the launching of great idea.
Yet there are scores of examples
ready to hand in this country of a
surprising efficiency not only of con-
ception and initiation, but of sytem-
attic achievement as well.-Financial
America.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22
THINGS Are Not as They Seem.


The unpronounceable names OF the
Mexican and European war zones have
nothing on the nams6f City Engineer
Jeup. His mail has come addressed
to every name from Mr.. B. Gee UP to
MIR. B. Jesus, but 1t remained for an
indianapolis teacher to spend a year
In digging out his identity.
For months she had heard fellow
leacher speak of her brother-in-law.
Mr.. Yorp. During the recent via
duct trouble his opinions on the mat
ter were quoted frequently. For
months this teacher had also read OF
Mr.. Jeup, the city engineer.
Finally, when the viaduct troubles
had reached their climax. she scanned
the papers eagerly every evening to
see how much longer she would have
to walk across. Engineer Jeup held
exactly the opinions of Mr.. Yorp.
Suddenly light burst on her befud-
died brain. Rushing up to her teach
err friend, she asked eagerly, How
does your brother-in-law, Mr.. Yorp,
spell his name?"
"Jeup" came the answer with a
mild look of surprise.
Eureka! Mr.. Yorp, the brother-in-
law, was Mr.. Jeup, the city engineer.
But the name wos Yoip. Oh as in oil.
Can you pronounce it?-Indianapolis
News.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22
Bird Acts as AnoIer's Guide.

Every day is fish day. with the
kingfisher. He has renowned diet OF
meat and vegetable forever. He has
several cousins in the tropics who en-.
Joy a meal of insects now and then.
"But what's the use," says this bird,
"of wasting time on bugs when a good
sized minnow is so much more films
and satisfying?"
You'll never confuse him with an.
other bird, because there is no otheI
that resembles him. His gray color.
with a white band across the breast
the crest on top of his head, make him
look like a bushy-haired music
teacher.
Then you'll never forget his cry-s
coarse trill like a policeman's rattle
uttered Just as he's making dive fol
q fish or when he's disturbed. Mrs
Kingfsher digs hole in the side or
river bank to lay her eggs in.
Fishermen say that wherever the
kingfsher is there are fish, so he act
as a guido for anglers
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22


does not earn enough to more than
keep himself decently, but for all that,
fl she consent, they rush for mar
rage license and are speedily made
one.
The youthful bride, fully as foolish
as the youth she has welded, has not
even asked where the bread and butter
are to come from, and they face the
world, a most pitiable example of a
reckless marriage. How they manage
to exist for ever so short while upon
his earnings can better be imagined
than described It's a case of living
from hand to mouth. Meanwhile they
grow poorer and poorer. The girl has
been brought up Sinking work, find
ing her chief amusement in flirting and
attending movies. That she is expect
ed to work after marriag e-cook, wash,
iron, sew and scrub-appalls her. II
a little one comes into their home
she is more upset than ever. She
knows nothing whatever of how it
should be cared for. She could not
cut out garment for it or herself and
put it together if her life depended
on it.
Both wake up to the conclusion that
welded life is not the rosy dream they
thought it was going to be. With hard
ships, romance and admiration take
flight. If in the close bond which
holds them love develops, they can and
will face the future bravely. Baby
gives an added stimulus to their ambi-
ton If fascination has worn itself out
they cling together only for the sake
of the child who has tied the heart
strings of both together in an I'M
breakable knot.
Years alone can bring wisdom. II
the wife Is brought to the realization
that she, after all, is the homemaker,
total wreck can be avoided by her
turning over new leaf, studying
economy and practicing it.
Every girl who aspires to the re-
sponsibility of becoming wife should
be trained from girlhood up to be fit
ted for it. She should know the great
value of doing her own marketing,
buying nutritious foods wisely, and the
all-important science of cooking and
utilizing the left-overs. She should
know how to make her own clothes.
She who has bent over them, patient
ly putting in every stitch, will be apt
10 take care of them.
Many young married couple that
have entered the welded state with
scarcely a thimbleful of sense in Ell
Their brain have developed into a
thrifty pair, exemplifying the old saw
that "A poor beginning often turns out
the best in the long rum"
Youths and maidens in their early
days will tread the path they are en-
couraged to enter. Young men should
be warned of the gravity of taking a
wife before they are able to support
one comfortably. Young girls should
not be allowed to wed until they are
competent to take full charge of a
home of their own. But what's the
use of advising? Young men and won.
en- lose their heads completely when
they fall in love. So there you are.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22
No Full Moon for Columbus.

Anybody who says there was a full
moon the night before Columbus dis
covered America isn't automatically or
historically accurate. And anybody
who prints picture of the scene with
full moon in it is open to the criti-
cism of folk who are finicky about
details.
So it is that one of the pictures in
the Ferris exhibition of historical
American paintings at Philadelphia
finds itself being talked about. The
painting represents Columbus cara
vel the night before the big find. There
is a full moon just above the horizon,
while the reflection of the setting sun
is seen on the ships sails.
A critic opened a controversy, and
DR.. Eric Doolittle, professor Of astron-
omy at the University of Philadelphia,
settled it,, The critic said he didn't
think there was full moon that night.
Doctor Doolittle, consulting his
charts, proved there wasn't.-Philadel-
phia North American.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22

False pride has crusted DER with Ice
The heart where youth still burns
And tho the world deems all forgot
Still to the past returns r
The young man who stoutly main
tains that it is quite ridiculous for
his father to insist upon going to the
same dance that he does and trip the
light fantastic toe as merrily as he
does has something to learn about old
heads and young hearts.
How is a youth to realize that the
average daddy feels quite as young at
heart as his son does? 1t may not
look very dignified for the white
haired man to hop about a glazed
floor like bewildered fly upon win
dow pane, but he knows why he is
doing it. Not so much that he hopes
TO cut good figure with young wom-
en- as that it is nightly important to
his health not only to keep his avoir-
dupois down, but to keep the rheu-
matte twinges out of his Joints and
lumbago from his back.
A man is never so old that his
heart will not beat the faster when
the band starts up good old IA
miliar waltz. The present seems to
slip from him and in imagination he
is one of the boys again, valiantly
suing for the favor of the prettiest
girl at the ball. Daddy is as nimble
of foot now as he was then, he as
sures himself. He was the idol OF
all the lassies when he used to tread
the measures of the stately minuet
or If he was in a gayer mood. cavort
through the merry Highland fling, OF
the money musk.
The new-fangled dances bother him
= little but he does not intend that
they shall down him. The pleasantest
recoIlections of his life are connected
with the joys of the dance. 1t was al
a ball he first beheld the gil he was
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22
The DISCHARGE.

Under the blazing sun of an Oriental
July day the Workmen were building
the now famous tower of Cable.
Leapold Boroo, the eminent master
builder, hurrying thither and yon mop
ping his forehead with large planta
ton leaf came on two workmen seated
on a pile of masonry matching
shekels.
whats this?" yelled Boroo. Don't
you know we're three days behind in
the work as it is? You're f1red, beth
of you! Here, take your pay and go!"
And he gave them each a weeks
wages and kicked them on the ma
sonry and the premises. Then he
hunted up Maxim Cork, the foreman.
to give him piece of his mind.
But" said Cork, these men were
only looking for job"
Mr.. Boroo's further remarks have
been judiciously de.eted by the con-
sor, who has thus demonstrated that
a censor occasionally has some sense
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22
neutrality-suspicious.

recommend 1t to any woman suffering
from female weakness. You may pub.
lish my letter if you wish. Mrs. JAMES
CoNLEY, GIG st. Clair ST.. Frankfort, KY!
No woman suffering from any form Of
female troubles should lose hope until
she has given Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound fair trial.
This famous remedy, the medicinal
ingredients of which are derived from
native roots and herbs, has for forty
years proved to be most valuable tonic
and invigorator Of the female organism.
All women are invited to write
to the Lydia e. Pinkham Medi-
cine Co., Lynn, Mass, for special
advice,-it will be confidential.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22
CONVERSATIONS

Before the war there were 6,OOO,OOU
more women than men in Europe.
Japan's production of aniline dye is
rapidly increasing. The dye merchants
have formed a trust with the object OF
regulating the market.
To raise an endowment fund OF
ST, 5000, 900 and to bring alumni every
where into closer touch with the uni
versity, is the object Of nationwide
campaign which Cornell men recently
have instituted.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22
Effects of Baking Powders on Bread.

Effects of Baking Powders on Bread.
That modern methods Of milling re-
move from wheat and corn flour the
vitamines that are now believed to
be an essential to health Is made GER
tain by Drs. Carl voegtlin, M. x. Sui
Ivan and C. V. Myers in recently is
sued public health report.
Another point of Importance IN
their report is that the peculiarities
Of dough made from these highly
milied flours make necessary the use
of much baking powder. Plain BIZ
carbonate of soda is often used as
such, but the experiments conducted
by the authors prove that in baking
this separates, discharging carbon
dioxide gas and remaining as carbo-
nate in the bread Now carbo-
nate of soda is highly alkaline, and
the alkali destroys the vitamines. II,
however, buttermilk or tartaric acid
be combined with the bicarbonate of
soda. it neutralizes the alkali and pro-
tects the vitamines.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22

the stakes high Competitors because hit mde
the is
$90O0000 cnky of Uncle
by the United
follows that
well substanated against
mad pending number than 10000.
$9S0O0O00 paid
attorneys
Nominal attorney
with greater matters
He has routine"
in
Thompson Of
President Wilson Thompson
of the many zig government service
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22
IF EVERYONE KNOWS YOU.

To thine own self be true, =
And it must follow as the night the day,
Thou canst rot be false to anyone.
TO be well and favorably known in
a community is the greatest passport
to favor young man can possess.
The average person thinks 1t Is the
easiest thing IN the world for a young
man of good looks and good manners
to select sweetheart and WOO and
win her. Nothing is further from the
truth The falling in love part is
easy enough-it is custom that goes
on exactly the same in all ages and all
time-but to become the lover of the
girl who~has- caught his --fancy Is
often most difficult feat to accom-
plish. @ Id
The day of the foolish virgin is we'll
nigh past, Girls of today have hearts
just as tender, but they do not wear
them on their sleeves. They have
brains and weigh man carefully in
the scale of judgment before they ad-
NIT him to their friendship, such as
exchanging bows or pleasant word
or two if they are brought into con-
tact. fla young man asks permission
to call, that is quite different matter.
If he bears a good name, Is well
spoken of by his employer and asso-
ciates, he may be accorded the privi-
lege of spending an evening now and
then with the young lady he admires.
If, on the other hand, he bears a
reputation discreditable-such as as
sociating with undesirable young men
and girls far advanced on the down.
war paths seen drinking, betting,
heard to make insulting remarks
about women, the average father
would sooner see a scorpion enter his
door than have such social leper
call on his innocent daughter.
1t is not true that this is mans
world" that he can go ever so far
along the road of folly and turn over
a new leaf when the occasion suits
him, wed a pure, fair maiden and live
happily ever after. A man thoroughly
Ddu CdIluOL treat tu0 DSOI WOACA IL
the world with deep and sincere re-
spect from the first to last during
courtship No matter how carefully he
may be on his guard neither to do nor
say aught that might cause her dis
may, there is more than apt to be
some word carelessly spoken which
will give a thoughtful girl an insight
into his true character. If everyone
speaks ill of man, it should be de-
manded of him that he clear up such
imputations ere aspiring to the friend
ship, let alone the love, Of a girl
worthy of noble mate in marriage.
Let a man give himself a bad name
and it will cling to him tenaciously,
refusing to be shaken off or purged
away. It is the most difficult thing
in the world to make youths believe
this or cause them to value an excel
lent reputation. When a girl weds
an acknowledged scapegrace, whom
everyone knows to have all the faults
in the calendar, with the avowed pur-
pose of reforming him, she has given
herself a gigantic, l may say impos-
sible task to accomplish. Where one
woman succeeds, million fail. There
is no process by which a bad egg can
be made good again.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22
Cat Lived Nineteen Years.

Halloween, a cat belonging to Mrs.
G. M Sehorn, died at the extraor'
binary age of nineteen years.
The Sehorns owned the animal for
fifteen years and knew it from a kit
ten. so there is no doubt concerning
its age.
The cat became too feeble to walk
II was virtually toothless and claw
less. But 1t knew every member OF
the family until its very last hours
and seemed never content unless
some of them were in its sight.-Sac-
ramento (Cal) Bee.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22

OF which this department
equipped
this respect the
ia much oeveryoh of the government
that has not part OF its
nsures
rather high rates it did seek
of the public
departmental work done the United states
alarming chances of its regular routine
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22
Next to sheep raising, agriculture

Next to sheep raising, agriculture Il
the largest industry Of Australia.
Canada's financial embarrassment
is apparently not very grave, Mime
apolis bankers having been able to Cd
tain only s250,0O0 Of the sl'ooV,oOc
they subscribed for from the latest
Dominion loan of s75.O0O,OOO.
As an addition to the Bertliion sys.
tenn of Identification, an Omaha dentls'
has perfected a way to register the
ridges of upper gums, which, ne says
never change and are different In eV'
cry individual.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22

the rag laundry, where the cloths
which are employed in wiping the
printing plates are washed. Though
Of brick walls it is far from being fire.
proof, and the fire department was
fortunate in combining the flames. Only
the detached situation of the structure
enabled it to check the blaze.
The fire did Immediate damage OF
about $4,000. The actual loss to the
government, however, was heavier by
the delay of the work in printing
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22

those people who
were never in
tended to be mat
ed rushing into
the holy bonds Of
matfimony only to
live miserably I'M
happy ever after.
A youth meets a
pretty miss IN her
early teens, ad-
mires her and, i'm
a nj n 6 h o
strange futtering
at his heart to be
love, which he has
heard SO much
a b 70 u t, proposes
marriage a t e r
scarce half a doz-
en- meetings. He
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22

firing line-in former art gallery. In
other words, the old abode of the Cor
coran gallery, Seventeenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue, now houses the
United States court Of claims; and
there nearly every day of the courts
sessions eminent counsel endeavor to
score bulls-eye and thereby win for
themselves and their clients coin of
the nation lin sums all the way from
g. few thousands to many millions Of
dollars. 1t is a mighty absorbing and
always alluring game because, as a
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22
help FOR !
WORKING WOMEN
Some Have to Keep on Until
They Almost Drop. How
Mrs. Conley Got Help.

Here is letter from woman who
had to work, but was too weak and suf-
fered too much to continue. How she
regained health -
Frankfort, Ky.-"I suffered so much
with female weakness that could not
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22
Cat Trying to Raise Family of Foxes.

Daniel Virgins, who lives near
Grainer, N. c., felled a tree on his
place a day or two ago. and discovered
that a mother fox and family had been
deprived of their home in the midst of
the roots. The old fox was killed.
Virgins carried the infants to his
home and delivered them to cat, who
had Just lost her little ones by drown.
ing. The mourning cat accepted the
substitute babies with seemingly per.
feet satisfaction.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22

do my own work,
had to hire it done.
! b card SO much
about Lydia E. Pink
hams We G eta Bile
Compound tn at /
tried it. I took three
bottles and l found
it to be all you
claim. Now / feel as
well as everI did and
am able to do all my
<,xxv,, xx,1~ly oooin
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22
Well Supplied.

"Do you ever borrow trouble"
asked the originator of fool questions.
"Not me-" replied the easy-going
man. 81 always have more of my own
than I can use to advantage"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22

getting
able foreign the lack Oh trained men LOT
called the attention
capable or sizing
selling goods
VINO speak
understand their particular well enough TO
men al
language essential
examination for knowledge of French
o Spanish.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22
Where the Government Takes Tremendous Chances

the detached buildings of the bureau
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22
Playing for High Stakes in the Court OF Claims

where firing almost constantly going
No shooting
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22

Poverty Is not crime-but that
isn't the reason so many people are
poor.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22

to investigate and report intelligently
on foreign trade conditions. The most
extensive campaign ever undertaken
at one time will be under way soon
after the beginning Of the new fiscal
year in July.
These Investigations will be aimed
at the newer and more undeyeloped
markets lying well outside the fight
ing zone, especially those in South
America, China, India, Africa and
Australia. Twelve different lines are
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22
Insists United States Pay Him Thirty Cents

cutter entertain
among those
his One not
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22

RECKLESS MARRIAGES.

I blame thee not! This heart l know
To be long loved was never framed
For something in it's depths doth glow
Too strange, too restless, too unframed. :
often wonder how it can help
stretching the Lords patience to see
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-06-22


ne
When
secretary treasury he sent the
man his would end the long
promptly sent back the cheek saying
justice that the 80 cents must come
10 itself
And so the correspondence letting