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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-13
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Dear Mrs. Thompson: "a I would
like to know what age a girl should
be before she can go with boy. l
am only 13 and have a friend OF II.
| know he likes me. We have been
going together for over a year. l
think myself it is quite foolish, but
we have fun when we are together.
My parents are friends Of his and they
do not object. Do you think that We
are too young?
(2) My hair gets oily about two
days after / wash it and is very
troublesome. What can l do?
GO How late should boys and girls
stay to a party? c. H.
% A girl should be II or Is be-
fore she goes" with boy. Friend
ship between a boy and girl is very
wholesome as long as it remains
friendship, but as soon as love enters
the relationship both the boy and girl
become silly and light-headed and do
things that at least the girl regrets in
later years. l see no reason why your
friendship should be harmful if you
are sensible about it.
(2) A simple scalp cleaning jelly
is made by scraping a cake of CASTLE
soap and putting it into a clean sauce
pan with a pint of boiling water.
Then let the kettle stand where it
will keep warm until the soap is dis
solved, when the liquid is poured into
a widemouthed jar. 1t is jelly when
cold.
To use, it is diluted with one raw
white Of egg to each teaspoonful of
the jelly and a tablespoonful of
water. Onehalf teaspoonful of BIZ
carbonate of soda for each table
spoon of soap may be added. The BIZ
carbonate of soda is drying to the
| hair
60 Not later than II o'clock
Dear Mrs. thompson: I AM a
peroxide blonde. You said that my
hair would change color from the
roots first, and it has. 1t has grown
about an inch now l have to 60 tc
work soon and would like to know il
ought to dye my hair its own
color? l am much worried.
WORRIED GIRL.
If you dye your hair it's natura
color, or as near that shade as Dos.
sible, it will have a greenish rec
look in a short time and will be as
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-13
EUGENE FIELD ASSOCIATION
MFFTS

The January session of the Eugene
Field Parent Teacher association was
held yesterday after school hours in
the school house. Despite the cold s
mothers attended the meeting and
they were entertained with a program
given as follows:
Recitation-"Lochnivar," Dorothy
McLane.
Observation-Disclosures of Miss Flick
enscher's room.
Piano-violir duet-Bessie Baker and
Aline Martin.
Piano solo-Bessie Baker
Four new names were added TO the
membership roll at the business ses-
sion and a vice chairman was Sc
lected, Mrs. NJ. Taxman to fill this po-
sition. The association decided to pur-
chase certain supplies for use in con-
nection with the meetings. At the
close of the business session the So
cial committee served a nice lunch and
the ladies enjoyed a time of sociabil-
ity. The regular time OF meeting of
the association is on the second We'd
nesday of the month.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-13
GLASS Of SALTS
CLEANS KIDNEYS
If Your Back Hurts or Blad-
der Bothers You, Drink
Lots of Water.

When your kidneys hurt and your
back feels sore, don't get scared and
proceed to load your stomach with
lot Of drugs that excite the kidneys
and irritate the entire urinary tract,
Keep your kidneys clean like you keep
your bowels clean, by flushing them
with a mild, harmless salts which re-
moves the body's urinous waste and
stimulates them to their normal &C.
dvity. The function of the kidneys is
to filter the blood In "a hours they
strain from It 500 grains of acid and
waste, so we can readily understand
the vital importance of keeping the
kidneys active.
Drink lots Of water-you can't
drink too much; also get from any
pharmacist about four ounces of Jad
Salts; take tablespoonful in a glass
Of water before breakfast each morn
ing for few days and your kidneys
will act fine. This famous salts is
made from the acid of grapes and
lemon juice, combined with lithia and
has been used for generations to clean
and stimulate clogged kidneys; also
to neutralize the acids In urine so il
no longer Is source of irritation,
thus ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in.
1ure; makes a delightful effervescent
Whitewater drink which everyone
should take now and then to keep
their kidneys clean and active. Try
this, also keep up the water drinking
and no doubt you will wonder what
became Of your kidney trouble and
backache.
Harper House pharmacy-(Adv.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-13
LOrenz Awarded Contract.

P. H. Lorenz, Moline contractor, has
been awarded the contract to make
improvements in the annex building
at Watertown hospital, the work to
include the laying of new floors in the
corridors and in the toilet rooms, re-
modelling the plumbing system and
building new marble bath rooms in
the basement. The work will repre-
sent an expenditure Of approximately
$4,000. The Moline Heating & Con-
struction company will do the plumb
ing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-13
COE

Arthur Geming took a shipment of
hogs to Chicago last Thursday
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Palmer are
very i'll with the grippe.
Little Paul Durbin, who has been
very i'll with lung fever following an
attack of the grippe, is slowly i'm
proving.
Revival meetings are now in pro-
gress at Bethel Baptist church. Rev.
Mr.. Walls of Bradford, H., is assist
ing Rev. Mr., Carnell with the meet
ings
Mesdames Louis and Dave Geming
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-13
AVERAGE OF $4,000
PER DAY COLLECTED

For the month of December nearly
$4,000 per day was collected on spe-
cial assessments in the city clerks Of
flee, according to figures compiled to-
day. The sum of 1,S43.17 was turn
ed into the special fund in the q days
that the office was open. The rush
during the holidays and during the
first week this year has ceased and
the books will be turned over to the
county treasurer soon, so that the de-
linquent list may be prepared.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-13
HOSTESS TO 500 CLI-R.

Mrs. S. G. Abbott was hostess to the
members of her 500 club yesterday aft
ernoon entertaining at her home. 2316
Ninth avenue. The game was played
at three tables with the favors going to
Mrs. Faye Mccarthy, Mrs Clarence
Creitz and Mrs ". A. Burnett of Dav-
export and Mrs. Lucy Morris of this
city. The ladies were served with a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-13
SOCIAL EVENTS

members and three visitors braved the
storm and enjoyed the afternoon with
their fancy work and visiting. Work
for the year was distributed and a
brief business session was held. Mrs.
Dart served lunch before the after
moons close. The guild will meet next
week with Mrs. Charles Mckinley, S39
Twenty-fourth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-13
MAYOR Is ASKED TO
APPOINT DELEGATES

Communication received by Mayor
McConochie today from the National
Security league asks that he appoint
two delegates to represent Rock Is
land at the national convention of the
organization in Washington, Jan. 20,
q and %. Subjects relating to ma
tional defense will be discussed The
mayor announced that he would be
willing to authorize any persons here,
who would care to attend, to represent
this city.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-13
SOCIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.

The series of special meetings that
have been in session at the First Bap-
fist church for the last two weeks,
will be discontinued for the present.
The Young Peoples branch of the
w. c. T. U. will meet Monday evening
with Miss Sophia Hermann, 1409 Thir-
ty-frst street. Miss Hazel Kolls will
be the leader.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-13
WEDNESDAY 500 CLIR.

Mrs. NJ. L. Sutherland at her home,
1921 Seventh avenue, yesterday after
noon entertained the Wednesday 500
club at the fortnightly meeting. The
card games were played at the usual
three tables and the favors went to
Mrs. Martha Hanson. Mrs. E. E. Lamp
and Mrs. Frank Larson. Lunch was
served after the games and the ladies
were invited TO meet in two weeks
with Mrs. Amelia Deisenroth, 500 Fiji
teenth street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-13
COURT SOCIAL MEETING.

Court of Honor No. 81 held a meet
ing last evening at Maths hall. In a
contest quilt was disposed of and fell
to Miss Emma Glotzbach, 1918 Eighth
avenue. Dancing was enjoyed and re-
freshments were served
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-13
LOCAL OPTION VOTE
PLANNED IN MOLINE

1t is stated that petitions are soon
to be circulated for resubmission of
the wet and dry question in the town.
ship of Moline next spring. Blanks
have been sent for, and it is believed
they will have arrived in time for cir
culation in the churches the coming
Sunday.
No move toward securing a vote on
the proposition in Rock Island has been
made, so far as known.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-13
Henry Bulien a Bankrupt.

Henry w Bullen, former Moliner,
now living in Oakland, Cal, has been
adjudged bankrupt. Notice received
here to the effect that the first meet
ing Of creditors will be held Monday,
Jan. II, before the referee in bank
ruptcy in San Francisco Schedule of
assets and liabilities is not given.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-13
POSTPONE ASSOCIATED CHAIR.
TIES SESSION,

The monthly meeting of the Asso-
ciated Charities announced for this
evening at 1870, has been postponed
one week and will be held Jan. 20 at
the Association house.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-13

TRINITY Guild WITH MRS. DART.
Trinity guild of Trinity Episcopal
church in weekly session yesterday was
entertained by Mrs r. II. Dart, TAI
Twenty-secOnd street. Seventeen
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-13

lunch after the games and they were
invited to meet in two weeks with Mrs.
Harry Slater, 9141s Nineteenth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-13
LICENSED TO WE'D

John D. Kane Cambridge
Miss Esther Engquist. 800. Cambridge
Mrs. George H. Guyon. Cedar Rapids
William Johnson. .............Mo Moline
Miss Augusta Carlson. ........ Moline
John D. Massen. .........D Davenport
Mrs. Myrtle L. Wilcox. 80. Davenport
William F. Erps. ........... Davenport
Mrs. Gertrude Gotten. $500. Davenport
New Britain herald., 1916-07-25
BedeyiIling hc National Guard.
(NeW Y Ork WOrld)

To what extent are the alleged grievances of the National Guard on the border being engineered at home for republican party purposes?
 Not a word of complaint is heard from the men of the regular army nor is a word of sympathy for them anywhere printed. But in many places there is an attempt to make it appear that the state troops are seri- ously discontented at being held for duty along the Rio Grande and to ex- cite sentim ent among the families nd friends of the men in favor of their immediate return home.
 Only a few days ago these regl- ments were clamoring for the priv ilege of being the first to be sent south. Today the national guardsmen are represented by persons and news papers professing to be the sole guardians of the truth as being al ready sick of soldering and harboring a bitter grievance because they can not quit at their own pleasure
 No one who gave a mome ent's seri- ous thought to the matter anticipated that the guardsmen were out for 8 frOlic in Texas. No one believed that they were seasoned troops ready for hard campajgnine, and no one had any reason to think when they en- tered the national service that they were to enjoy all the comforts and conVenienCes of home. After few days of excitement during mobilization and entraining they have had to set tie down to steady work and strict military routine, as most of them no doubt expected
 Tn the scircum stances, any effort to stir up dissatisfac action among the men of the slate regiments amounts to 1 tampering with the discipline of the United States army. It is a form of sedition that politicians and their newspaper agents may think it safe to practise, but 1T the United States army, so far as it is made up of the organ ized militia of the states, Is to be utilized by republican campaign man. agers fr~ the purpose of making votes for < g>ir candidate the sooner it is disbanded the better it will be for the country. < #
New Britain herald., 1916-07-25
Some Sharks Ha1mless as
 D0pes Oilers, ~-:W0WfeL q

m aH- eater of the present day; judg-J ing. from the comparative size of these
 teeth. Professor Goode thought thatS sharks seventy or eighty feet long
 must have been common.
 Many years ago q Norwegian bisfl1 -op in learned paper brought to the4
 attention Of the scientific and thsolog3
 ical worlds a shark which ne aJ-s1
 tempted to prove must lnavesbecnFtll4
 great fish that swallowed Jonah. This
 was the basking shark (CatorhinIs
 maHimus) known also as the elephantx
 or bone shark, which is an .nhabitant .
 of the polar seas, but occaS iOnalIy-s
 strays as far south a3 Virginia ana
 California, and in former yers was 1lots
 rare in the United States and British*
 coasts. The species has the habi*
 at tfmesTof collecting in schools at thS
 surface and basking in the sun witF'.
 its back partly out of water It.
 reaches. a maximum length of f1ftgA
 feet and is exceeded in size by only three or four animals extant. Provid-S
 ed with small teeth, it feeds on fishesi and floating crustaceans, and is noti
 of ferocious disposition. It is dan-s
 gerous only hx. virtue of it's great bulk
 and when attacked it's powerful taila demOlishes boats. In former yearst
 the basking shark was hunted for 1tss oil on the coast of Norway and Ire-< land; it was also harpooned on thes shore of Massac chusetts5 in the early part of the last century, and as many as twelve barrels of oil were sometimes obtained from the liver of one shark. There are many records of basking sharks twenty-five to thirty eight feet long from the coast of New York@
 Massac chusetts and Maine, but, the. I-specieS has not been comT1onain our' waters in recent years. @h ''"The largest of all fishes the Iargf est of all cold-bloOded animals and the largest of all existing animals, withs the exception of a few species a6of whales, is the whale shark (Rhasesss don typicus), originally described fro1p
 Good Hope, but now known from Ing dia, Japan, South America,~ Panana { California, and various other places,
 , small specimen having been obtain9d on the Florida coast a flew wears ago. This shark has a very Sbroad and obs. tuse snout sand. an exceedingly wida mouth armed-With nuHserous minntas ! teeth; the dark colored body Is marked with many small whitishs spots. The species is stated to attain a length of seventy feet and is known ! to exceed fifty feet. NotWithstanding tits Immense size however, It is harnss 1 less to man unless attacked, and feedss on the small creatures for which it's teeth are adapted. It's huge bplks makes it danRaTous in the same waya9 1 that a whale is dangerous Years ago8 I it was sEap orteJd stl7ats inc sperm whales fisi1errnen at fhe-island of5Saint Denis,a Iine+he- Indian oeean,1 dresded to har-s poon a whale shark by rnfstake,s sands stories are told of a 11ar15ooned fish. '
 having by a lightning-like dive ex-f
 hausted the supply of rope which had been accidentally fastened to the l boat, dived deeper still, and so pulled , pirogue and crew to the bottom'."
New Britain herald., 1916-07-25

ness for his employer, he usually does things we'll. If not he is made feel the stern rebuke of the master. For even though now the negro in the. South works for wages there are many instances where his status has not changed materially since slave days But this is not the condition the writer of the article in The New Re- sees better times ahead. He sees the negro shaktngfthe ~dust of the. .south from his feefsand coming up to New England to work in the factories and to take thes place>in the industrial world filled by the man from Italy or Austria or some foreign country With the stoppage of immtga1tsp from Europe the negro must come infd~his own, according to- this way of locking at the situation. It will be interesting to see the manner in which the whole affair works out. There can be little doubt that an opportunity is presented to the negro to leave the South and come to the North. Some of them have already made the move. This question:, however, remains to be answered, Wifi the negro like the North as well as he does the South ?, Also, Will the same racial feelings that, have existed in the South for fifty
 
 years be@engsndered in the North with the coming of the Scolored man? The next fifty years may see great changes.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-25

ment, and was captured after being landed from a German submarine on the Irish coast. Legally speaking, there never was clearer case of treason in time of war.
 We have admired the course of the British government in not executing Gen. Christian De Wet, after his un- successful rebellion in South Africa, rather than the course of the same government in putting so many Irish rebels to death after the revolt in Dublin; but neither in the one case nor the other was there good reason for any official action by. the Wash ingtofl administration. Sir Roger Casenent is not an American citizen and he has no claim whatever upon the United States for protection. The state department has already forward- ed through Ambassador Page the pri- vate petition of Sir Rogers sister for clemency, and it cannot do more, as Senator Stone plainly said with hout inviting a febuke from the British for eign office. ,
 Possibly the senate is disposed to play politics with this grave matter. It is unworthy of it's great responsible ities in our foreign relations, if it is influenced by such motive. The United States government has enough difficulties to encounter in it's rela- tions with the belligerents of Europe in defending g@American rights and in- terests, without attempting to exer- else official influence in a matter which the British government, like any other government in similar case, must. necessarily. regard as pure ly a. natter of domestic concern.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-25
CLEAN UP.

H1Announcement that the Health De- Rrtrnent has started a crusade against lose spropertyT owners who have |lied to keep their premises in sani- Try condition should be hailed with |eesby the vast majority of New Brit
 I1ss 5populatiOn. At tiEac when Nari-
 ls cities throughout the country are |slatisfg epide1nics of various kinds |ap disease germs are lurking in every |nYenient corner extreme precaution |nst be~taken to guard the health of De community. New Britain, blessed far with good health, cannot. at lis late sday leave itself open to at lcks because of careless tenants or Rnd owners.
 |There are some people with whom Ie slogan "Out of Sight. Out of Mind" Institutes the first law of life. Be- |use the back yard is out of sight to lose who pass the front of the house must necessarily be out of mind, ac- |rding to this way 6f thinking. This |uch must be remembered: Back |rds of uncleanly nature are not out sight to those numerous germ car ling flies and other insects that aside |pnd their flying ability have eyes Hd ears which sense every germ with an unlimited sphere. The distance Ion the front yard to the back yard measured in the metric system Of y oE these pestiferous creatures is greater than the amount of wing wer4that will carry them there. And aost fof these germ bearers have 1fncfent strength to make several zuhd -tripssa day.
 Those folk who do not wish the un- saasant experience. of appearing in lice court to answer charges. of un- Aanliness had better follow the ad-
 Ee given 'by Dr. Reeks, superin- zadent of health, who warns of the Spending penalty. Already formid- He list of offenders has been pre- Hsed and in a day or so warrants be issued. There will be no &mency. This is the time to clean
New Britain herald., 1916-07-25

Washington, D. C., July 25.-The tragic depredations of man-eating sharks along the Atlantic scaboard lend an especially timely interest to communication from pr. Hugh NJ. Smith, the foremost American author ity on fishes, addressed to the Natien- al Geographic society and released to day as a bulletin.
 When giant fishes aFe mentioned
 most people, will at once think of the shark, among which, indeed are found
 the largest fish now existing," writes
 Mr.. Smith. "Of the many spssies of sharks noteworthy on account & their size thers are about a half dozen which are eminent. These differ much in their disp osition, some being as harmless as doves and &others the incarnation Of ferocity. /
 The sleeper shark (Sommiosus Inf
 crocepllalus), whose scientific name fits it SO admirably, appears to have
 developed its body at the expense of it's brain, for it is 8 sluggish, $stupid
 glutton, about six. times as long as an average man. At home iI the Arctic regions, it som metimes makes visits as
 far south as Cape Cod, the British
 Isles, and Oregon. It is most often
 observed lying quietly on the surface,
 apparently dozing and easily ap-
 preached, but at times, when hungry,
 it rouses itself and fiercely attacks
 whales biting huge pieces put of their sides and tails and when feeding on the carcass of a whale which has been llilleds by hunters it is so voracious
 that 1t permits spears and knives to De thrust into it without seeming to take any notice. 'E.r.
 One of the most prodigious and perhaps the most formidable of sharks is the man eater (Cafcharodon car l charias). It roenhs through all tenn perate and tropical seas and every where is an object of dread. Its max i mum length is forty feet and it's teeth are three inches long, While there are few authentic instances of sharks attacking human teings (prior tC the recent tragedies), there have undoubtedly been many cases
 where sharks simply swallowed peo- pie who mad fallen overheard, just as 1 they would swallow any other food i How easy it would be for a man -eat-
 CT to devour a person whole may be | judged from the finding of an entire 1 hundredpound sea-Hon in the stom-
 ach of a thirty7foot shark on the Call 1 ifornia coast. A certain man. eater
 thirty-six and one-half feet long had 1 jaws twenty inches wide, inside | measure, and teeth two and one-half l inches long. This may have been the ! great fish of the scripture narrative, 1 and it is possible that at that, time much larger man. eaters existed than ] are now known, as shark teeth with cutting edges five inches long have been found on the sea- bottom, and
 these are believed ,by naturalists. to
 have belonged to sharks not long
 dead. The phosphate beds of South
 Carolina yield very large fossil teeth
 of a shark which was related to the