Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-14
Girls Will Be Girls.


dates as a slate So that IL can be
broken, we imagine, Jess.
Why Editors Go to the Front.
| This newspaper business is a great
game Just in the midst of an obitu-
airy of a dear friend and when hot
tears threaten to flow down and blot
out the words you write, there breaks
through the office door the radiant
! face of the daddy of a new boy!
Tears and joy mingle in the same
| breath, and the giving and taking
away of life are recorded on the same
page. Before you have finished the
obituary the breezy advance man for
comedy show pops in and asks you
to write a scream for his Forty Fat,
Frolicsome Fairies and how joyous
they are. Before you have done with
the kind words about your departed
friend, the JOY over the new baby and
finished the showman's ad a fellow
sneaks in to ask you to suppress the
story of the fight that he was mixed
up in. Then, after putting all the
lace and trimmings on the brides
wedding gown, dressing the groom in
the conventional black and starting
them off with congratulations and
best wishes, you turn again to the
the stately ship moves on, to the
haven under the hill; and. oh! for
the touch Of a vanished hand, and
the sound of a voice that is still"
Then comes a lull and the old type
writer is content to record the COM
monplace facts, knowing that just
around the corner and each awaiting
his turn stands Joy, Grief, Sorrow,
Mirth, Sarcasm, Wit and Laughter
Oakley (kan.) Graphic.
CORNELIUS y. Bliss has been ap-
pointed treasurer of the republican ma
tiOnal committee. Where ignorance ig
bliss it is customary to come across.
Remember what Maize said?
NO, Gwendolyn, every man you see
wearing whiskers is not a republican.
Some are populists. Others may be
second story workers.
PRESIDENT Harrington of the Mo-
ton Picture Exhibitors League of
America refers to the movie business
as the fairy industry of the world"
And nearly every doting mother thinks
she has fairy in her home the equal, |
if not superior, of those who are per
mitted TO fit before the camera at so J
much per fit.
WASHINGTON, through the bureau /
of labor, announces that the cost of
living is on the downward tread. Have I
you felt it!. Neither have we.
JOSEPHINE COhan Niblo is dead in |
New York. She was sister of George /
Conan. Many Rock Islanders will re
call graceful little Josephine when she /
was one of the Four Cohans, the great
est dancing combination that graced /
the stage generation ago. The
Cohans were on view several seasons
in Harper's theatre, building now oc-
Cupied by the C1emann & Salzmann
furniture house. Josie was nimble of
feet and winsOme of personality She
was one of the enthusiasts of her pro-
fession. 1t is said that she actually
danced herself to death. Josephine
Cohans are few and far between on
the stage of the present day. Three of
the COhans survive. They are the par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jerry Cohan-and
who can forget the delightful Jerry and
his sweet faced wife?-and the brother
George, who has risen to the front rank
If American theatrical producers, being
-oday rated as worth more than a
million.
NEW Yorker claims he was robbed
Of $4,000 by man with a machine,
Must have been a vacuum cleaner.
WOMEN wept at the trial of young
Orpet the other day. But not for the
little girl who was. She is dead and
Orgotten. ,
CHICAGO observation-disclosures will per- !
nit no display of green flags or the
shamrock when they hold their an {
luaI picnic this month Only the I
American flag will be in evidence. t
There is no half way business about !
no Irish. !
LILLIAN Russell has leased "A resi- {
lence on Squirrel Hill, near Atlantic {
,ity. for the summer. Our celebrities Z
re always making nutty moves.
LET'S see. what was the tempera- t
ure the last day OF December? t
MEMORIES of last winters descend {
Nc coal pile might help you TO forget 4
he torrid weather of the present. h
WHEN an old man dies NOWADAYS b
nd leaves portion of his wealth ont o
ide the family circle his relatives i'm
ledlately come to the conclusion, for
Pgal reasons, that ne was OF unsOund
hind when he executed his last tesla.
lent When he bequeaths the whole 5
state to his family, of course that's v
iferent. He was i'm full possession of O
is normal senses to the end.
IN Michigan an autOiSt ran down n k
Idge and escaped arrest This il one n
ay 70 even up for being fined for n
peeding. il,