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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-12-15

You'll have to ask Dick Mckay or
some Of the other weather authorities
If you want to know whether It will be
a white Christmas"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-12-15

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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-12-15
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

A lot Of people with nerve get BY,
while lot Of others with ability don't.
There is such a thing as being too
close to nature. There are times when.
some Of it should be washed of.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-12-15

About the only valid excuse for wear-
ing long, flowing whiskers, is that IT
does away with the necessity Of buy
Ing neckties.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-12-15
Daily Thought:

spotlessness may 40 for angels--re-
pentance unto life is the highest that
belongs to men.-F. w. Robertson.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-12-15

However. it is doubtful whether the
kaiser will be any more successful
than Henry Ford was in getting the
boys out of the trenches by Christ
mas.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-12-15

Now don't make the sales folks in
the stores work themselves to a fraz-
zle by putting off your shopping till
the last minute.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-16
SIGHT TO BE REMEMBERED
Dances of the Turning and HowIing
-Dervishes Hypnotize Spectator
From the West.

The dervisheS of ConStantinople are
one of those sights of the Orient which
the western visitor sees, as a rule,
with the all-embracing and apathetic
tourist curiosity that will regard any
thing from an execution in China to
famine in India in the light of curl
Gus entertainment. There is no more
horribly fascinating spectacle in the
East than these derviSheS, and he
must be thick-skinned indeed who can
come away without feeling that he has
brushed the edge of mystery-crude
and savage mystery, perhaps, but mys-
terry none the less.
There are two kinds of derviSheS,
the dancing or turning dervish, and
the bowling derviSh. Both are relig
ious orders, and their orgies are mys-
tic and devotional in principle and in
tention, but they have about them
more of the character of black magic.
The turning dervishes dance on a
raised, waxed platform, anonymously
reminiscent of a dance floor at Coney
island. A little gallery is provided
where tact and backsheesh may pro-
cure a seat for the European visitor.
A primitive orchestra of drums and
flutes provides music whose quality is
almost solely rhythmic, embroidered
by the ghost of a thin tune from the
eerie flutes.
With elaborate ceremonial the derv-
ishes step one by one upon the floor,
bowling deeply each to his companions
and to the master of ceremonies. Slow
ly, one by one, they begin to turn,
around and around, with 1.-the, snake
like movements. The drums beat out
mufhed tempo, the floor is maze of
sfnuOus circling forms that turn, each
on his own heel, while circling in
smooth patterns singly and in groups
about each other-a maze, a tangle,
of blending that draws and tires and
hypnOtizeS the eye as it lifts the per-
formers into a mechanical ecstasy.
The bowling dervishes are of anoth-
er and more violent order. Their
dance is one of mad, convulsive con-
tortions that seem to rack their tor
tured bodies in time to the beat of the
drums Low groans tear from their
threats in the same memorable tempo.
1t is a physical pain to watch them.
Before the ceremony is half over they
are in a semicataleptic state, dead to
the world, but still jerking and twist
ing in rhythm. The spectacle is not
pretty, but it leaves an impression
that cannot be lightly tossed off
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-16

BUT Paikes really and truly paid
twelve thousand for the house." Bir-
sky declared
ssThen how could he expect to get
rid of it for $11 .5OO?n Zapp demand
ed. .'If you would read the Sunday
papers, Birsky, you would know that
the standard amount below cost which
they advertise country houses to sell
for is $1,000. In fact, / often figured
it out, Birsky, that as everybody is
willing to sell his Broom house with
3 baths, sun parlor and every mod
ern improvement for $1,000 below
cost, If such a house originally cost
$4,000 and changes hands six times,
understand, the last owner gets it
for nothing with a bonus of $1,000
thrown in. And even then he is well
come to the house for all of me-"
That's because you don't know
what it is like to live in the country,
Zapp," Birsky said
81 think I've got a pretty good idee,"
Zapp retorted. Its something like
being southern salesman for a line of
goods where you've got to make
different town each day. The dis
lance you travel is the same, the rail-
road Accommodations amt no better,
but instead of getting every night
rotten dinner and a good game of
pinochle afterwards at dollar-and-a-
half day hotels, American plan, you
go home and get a good dinner and
no game of pinochle at all from one
years end to the other. Yes, BirSky,
it's very unjust the way the world
looks at things. For instance, once
in five wears Mr. Roosevelt makes
trip of about 10000 miles, y'under-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-16
The Child at Table.

The table is the ideal place for fam
lily interchange of thought, and the
children who are old enough to come
to the table should be encouraged to
take part in the conversation. One
good result of this is that it helps to
keep the child from eating too fast.
However, the children'S chatter, in
many homes, is most annoying when
guests are present In one home it
was made the rule that the children
might take part in the conversation
when guests were present, provided
the children could contribute some
thing of interest concerning the SUBJ
ject under discussion This taught the
children to listen carefully to what was
being said This, in itself. is of I'M
told advantage to the child, for, in
a home where people with bright ideas
concerning all the questions of the
day gather around the table, the gen.
eral conversation is of great educa-
tional value to the child. The child
cannot fail to become n good con-
versationalist with this early traip-
ing.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-16
Red-PolIed Cow.

practically maintained herself and pro-
duced milk upon succulent feed; she
will soon be returned to the barn where
she will spend the greater part of each
day. 1t should be the aim of every
keeper to see to it that his COWS are
housed as comfortably as possible and
provided with a goodly quantity and
variety of palatable feed that will nour-
ish her abundantly and help her pro-
duce an even flow of milk.
The right kind of a COW will repay
with interest every cent invested for
her comfort-for warmth, light, venti-
lation, and feed. If she is not COM
fortably housed her returns will be
cut down in proportion to her discom-
fort.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-16
Their Holidays Oft DemoraIize the
Household.
PREPARATION is NECESSARY
Mental as Well as Material Readjust-
ments Must Be Made in Order to
Cope With Situation With
Success.
BY sIDoNIE M. eRuENRERe.

WITH a sigh of relief certain moth
w err sank into a rocker and ex-
claimed: "Thank goodness this vaca-
ton is over and the children will be
back in school tomorrow ~
And her expression of relief was
echoed-unconsciousl of course-in
thousands of homes all over the land.
Every year, several times a year,
whatever routine may have been for
tunate enough to establish in our vari-
Gus households is rudely broken up by
the advent of holidays and vacations.
No matter how experienced we are, no
matter how carefully we plan our cal
endar and figure our budget, the holt
days always seem to catch us una
wares. OF course we know they are
coming. We make preparations, some
times weeks in advance, for a hundred
little details. But we never seem to
anticipate the fact that the vacations
and holidays do break up the routine
for sleeping and eating and playing.
Indeed, our weekly Saturdays and Sun
days ought to teach US a lesson, but
some of us simply will not learn
Have you never noticed that children
will sleep later on Saturdays and on
holidays than they do on ordinary
weekdays?' And by the same token
they will sleep later during holiday
week than during ordinary weeks.
And then we are annoyed anew that
breakfast is late and that the whole
house is upset. annoyed and some
what perplexed, too, for we do not seem
able to make out just what the trouble
is until it is all over.
But that is not the worst of it. There
Is always something extra to do during
these trying days-all the more reason
why we should be undisturbed-but
then the disturbance is at its worst.
1t is all very exasperating as well as
perplexing, and it only shows how pa
tent we are that there isn't more fric-
ton than there is.
But when we come to think of it, the
children are not SO much to blame. If
there are boys or girls home from col
Iege or boarding school, don't they
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-16

would arrive in his Office at eight fif-
teen only often enough, Birsky, soon
er or later on his account the conduc-
tor would got. to go from car to car
asking is there a doctor on the train"
"Well, if everybody felt the way you
do about living in the country, Zapp,"
Birsky said, ''who would buy suburban
real estate?"
Nobody" Zapp replied.
"But you admit that there's a whole
lot of people living in the suburbs,
Zapp," Birsky said, and Zapp nodded.
'"Then there must be some advan-
tage in it," Birsky insisted.
WELL" Zapp admitted, there's one
thing that fellers which lives in the
suburbs has got more than fellers
which lives in the city,
whats that?' Birsky asked.
Mileage" Zapp concluded.
Copyright, New York Tribune)
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-16
CUTTING HAIRS FROM UDDER
From Sanitary Standpoint and Com
fort to Cow While Being MIXED,
FiIaments Are Detrimental.

1t is not at all uncommon among
dairy COWS to find the udder covered
with thick growth of long hair, which
may be of some protection to the udder
in some respects, but from a sanitary
standpoint and comfort to the COW
while she is being MIXED, these hairs
are detrimental. Under the usual farm
conditions this growth of hair is COM
monty covered with filth, and even in
well-kept dairies this hair, unless kept
well clipped, will collect more or less
dirt and trash. 9,
In many cases, too, these hairs will
persist in falling into the milk pail.
To prevent occurrences such as these
the udder should be clipped closely at
least twice each year, and in this way
prevent the accumulation of filth
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-16

~ RUN across Max Paikes yester-
day afternoon" Louis Birsky
the real estater said one morn
ing "He was telling me that you
spent Sunday with him at his place
In Sand Palms.
"He amt lying to you," Barnett
Zapp the waist manufacturer admit
ted
"What kind of a property has he got
I'D there?' Birsky asked.
seHe's got all the conveniences of a
Teller living in a $50 a month cold
water fiat, without janitor service, be-
fore steam heat was invented, except
that he amt so handy to a delicates-
sen store. The bread run out at lunch
time, Birsky, and for supper we had
to eat Fig Newtons with dried her
ring and luncheon bolony, as Mrs.
Pafkes didn't know the neighbors
good enough to borrow a loaf from
them on account of only living up
there three years."
"But amt the air elegant up in
Westchester County?" Birsky insisted.
''Sayr" Zapp exclaimed, "after
Teller escapes with his life from the
subway at 42nd Street, understand,
night in a combination baggage and
smoker along with five or six dozen
decent. respectable, Woodworking Ital-
fener ash cart drivers, understand me,
when he arrives in the country,
Birsky, the air must got to be elegant,
otherwise it wouldn't be too much to
expect there is waiting for him
couple of soda water tanks full of
civ TO mis-
patients with a rating of A to G, credit
high"
"What are you talking nonsense,
Zapp?' Birsky said. 81 bet you wasn't
on the train half an hour. Sand
Plains is one of the most convenient
suburbs to get to-
''Sure 1 know" Zapp said, ''but
Paikes don't live in the suburbs, Bir-
sky. He lives in the suburbs of the
suburbs, and he says to me on the
train that from the station to his
house is only twenty minutes by troll
ley. put he practically never takes it
as his oitermobile is waiting for him
at the station practically every night,
and gets him to his home in ten min
uteS. Well, after we got out of the
trolley, BirSky, we walked another ten
blocks, and at last we reached the
house. If ever you go up to Sand
Plains to see Paikes and the oitermO-
bile should practically not be at the
station, Birsky, you couldn't miss
Paikes's house. Keep to the right
after you cross the tracks and it's
the 356th white colonial house with
green blinds and a For Sale sign on
it,"
''Is Paikes's house Tor sale?' Birsky
asked.
''Sure it is" Zapp replied. "What
do you think-Paikes is such q close
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-16

seen my first months gas bill out In
Brunswick Beach, and after that all
had to do when jumped into cold
bath was to think how many cubic
feet was saving, and if 1T was six
below zero even got a pleasant glow
all over. Later on 1T got to be such
a habit with me to take cold plunges,
Birsky, that the second summer we
was there when they had that bad
water famine on Long Island, 1 used
bottled water as long as 1 could get
the spring water companies to send
me trial samples. For over a month
there we done the weeks washing
with artificial vichy and my wife had
to get rid of the wash lady because
for every siphon she put in the tubs
she drank one herself"
"You were lucky it was only vichy,
Zapp," Bfrsky said at might have
been ginger ale or root beer, in which
case she would of took it home to the
children"
Joke if you want to, Birsky," Zapp
retorted. '.But what I am telling you
now is facts from living in the coun-
try"
rats, Zappip Birsky said. you
could have shortage of water in the
city just so much as in the country.
Just because you didn't like Bruins
wick Beach amt nothing against it.
Simon Kuhney has been living now in
Brunswick Beach for six, years, yum
derstand, and he says if he leaves his
house at seven O'Clock he is in his Of
fee at eight fifteen"
''Sure I know" Zapp said, "but if a
Teller which leaves his home in
Brunswick Beach at seven O'Clock
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-16

want to spend much time with their
friends? You wouldn't have it other
wise; yet that means visiting and en-
tertaining7and you have to take your
share. And it means getting ready and
keeping appointments or missing
them-and coming home late, and then
perhaps little more conversation with
the door half open; and all of these
things do so break up the even tenor
of older peoples ways.
Then there is the excitement that
goes through the air; you simply can
not escape it. And the noise itself is
distracting enough. Nor are the young
er children any more restful. Every
body seems to feel inspired by the
anarchy of interrupted routine of
work and play.
And it always takes US by surprise.
But why can we not be prepared?
Well, we can if we know just what it
is that we are to prepare for. We are
prepared with the additional apples or
cookies, and we usually have our dec
orationS and housekeeping off our
hands in time. But the Irregularities
of the children's free time find US
mentally unprepared. The fact is that,
although we have again and again ex-
perienced the distraction that comes
at these times, we persist in keeping
our thoughts in their familiar ruts,
with the result that the demands upon
our attention made by the children
come as disturbances, and we resent
! them.
| The kind of preparedness needed by
the parent for meeting the trying Or
deals of the children's days at home is
entirely a mental one. 1t is, in fact,
nothing but assuming the appropriate
state of mind. And the problem is one
| that every woman can understand from
her own experience. Just imagine, for
| example, that you made an afternoon
/ call on a friend, or attended recep-
| ton, with your mind fixed on the de
| tails of your domestic establishment.
| You know just exactly what would
happen Mrs. Gushley will make a re-
mark about the lovely fur trimmings
on your cobweb-netting dress, and you
4 will answer, absent-mindedly, that you
intend to get the trimmings for the FIR
i tree after putting the last batch of pre-
| serves away. Or someone will ask you
| to pass the sandwiches. and you viii
catch yourself thinking aloud. Don't
| you know when you have enough?"
OF course, il You did anything like
that In company you would soon cut
on the supply OF Invitations But that
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-16
Sensible Idea in Japan.

In Japan the nursery is still protect.
ed from the inroads of measles and
other infections by means of an in
scription over the nursery door saying
with exquisite urbanity 'this child is
not at home" In the Welcome His
torical Medical museum, says the Lon
don Lancet, a most fascinating exhibit
ton is on view, illustrative of Jap
anese charms, amulets, votive offerings
and objects of medical interest"
among which these nursery notices &C.
cupy an important place. Akin to these
notices are the charms embodied as
toys. A yellow tiger with a wagging
head is now said to be a toy, but an
GENTLY it was form of exorcism
against palsy and numbness of the
limbs.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-16
The Penalty.

Senator Fall was talking in New
York about the Mexican situation
This imbroglio," he said, disgust
edly, alluding to an earlier phase,
was due to Observation-Disclosures Well,
Observation-Disclosures in affairs of state
gets punished as sharply as in affairs
of love.
Il once knew an absent-minded dry
goods clerk who was in love with a
spirited girl. He took her hand one
night and droned:
.Dear. dear little handI wonder
Il wonderland then his absent
mindedness got its work in. and he
said:
81 wonder if IT will washY
s'The girl gave sudden start
No, George she Missed, it won't
wash, and 1 may as well tell you, too.
that it won't cook, or sweep, or darn
socks, either. Good evening = -
Washington Star.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-16

is exactly the sort OF thing we do COLI
stantly with our own children We
give them only half or less of the at
tention that is required for plain, de-
cent conversation ON the ordinary re-
marks and comments of everyday inter
course. And when they ply us with
more than the usual number of ques-
tons, or relate to US more than the
usual number of exciting adventures
(exciting to them, not to us), We either
repulse them as fntruders upon our
mental Seclusion or we meet their ao-
vances with half-hearted HstlessneSs
and languid smiles. This may look po-
lite and friendly enough externally.
but does not altogether conceal the lack
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-16

of interest. And when it is all over
we still feel that we have experienced
a real hardship.
When the holiday season next APP
proaches-and, so far as the children
are concerned, there is respite from
routine every week-let us be prepared
by clearing the decks, as far as possf-
BILE, of all thoughts and concerns that
are not Immediately related to the chill
dren's own interests. Let us then give
the children, while we are with them,
our undivided attention, confident that
our neglected cares will receive their
due share when the children are about
their business.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-16
INA IHnAXT
I'LL THE ny
HOUSEKEEPING is NEEDED
Thoroughly and systematically Clean.
Barn Before Dairy Cow is
Taken From Pasture.

Before the dairy COW is taken from
the pasture, the barn should be thor
oughly and Systematically cleaned. All
cobwebs should be brushed down and
the walls and ceiling should be white
washed or painted some light color.
Either whitewash or paint will give
clean surface and make the whole sta
BILE look lighter. and brighter. 1t might
be well. too, to put in a few extra
windows.
The dairy COW has had the freedom
of the pasture and the fresh air of the
fields for the last five months; she has
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-16

stand, and when he comes back, yum
derstand, a dozen magazines is fall
ing over themselves that Mr.. RooSe-
welt should accept five thousand dol
lars apiece for an article telling about
these here ten thousand miles he trav-
eIed; he writes a book about it, Biz
sky, and gets paid at the rate of
dollar a mile, or $4,000, for it; he
gives a lecture about it in Carnegie
hall and six people sends letters to the
papers and complains of the man in
the box Office because he says all right
he's a liar then, when he told them
two hours after the advance sale
opened that the entire house was
sold out and they said he was liar.
The Explorers Union Local No. /
gives a dinner to him-not, the box
office man but Mr.. Roosevelt, and he
makes an after dinner speech Copy
right t. Roosevelt, 1879 about lit and
realizes another $500 or so, and
that's the way it goes. But you take
Max Paikes which in five years trav-
els 5000 miles to Mr.. Roosevelt's TO-
600, BirSky, and what is it? Nobody
asks him to write about it; nobody
wants him to talk about it, and if
somebody blows him on account of it
to rye bread tongue sandwich and a
package of all-tobacco cigarettes it
would be big already"
Evidently you seem to think that
it's a hardship that a Teller should
live in the country" Birsky, said.
did you ever think what it means to
business man that he should be able
| to raise his own vegetables"
'Sure I did," Zapp replied. SIT
means that he is going to eat princi-
pally radishes for the whole summer
| because that's the only vegetable
which a business man who raises his
own vegetables could really rely upon
Furthermore you think 1 am a green
horn in the country, Birsky, but al
ready done my twenty odd thousand
| miles in round trip instruments OF
\ A miles a day on the Long island
Railroad, and know the whole game
of living in the country right the wa,
through, from getting stuck with ths
lots downwardS- / used to own
house at Brunswick Beach and wheI
let it go to the second mortgage 1
year and a half after it was built
understand, it had cracks in tn
walls ION the second floor which
; you'd put couple of windows and
door in 'em could of been considers
as extra masters bedrooms"
"Steam heat will do that to a ney
house, Zapp,' Birsky said. 'sMayb
. you kept the place too warm"
s'Too warmI" Zapp exclaimed
. listen, Birsky. the heating plant O
that house wasn't designed for moth
: ing bigger than a five dollar a yea
/ safe deposit box With the furnac
} going full on. Birsky, whenever m
: wife opened the refrigerator door, BIZ
} sky, it raised the temperature of tn
r kitchen ten degrees. The plumbin
t was nothing extra neither. We ha
= a gas heater for the hot water. BIZ
: sky. which. figuring at the rate {
: $1.S0 per thousand cubic feet, If 20
t took six hot baths it was the equivs
e lent OF suit OF clothes For years 1
e New York tried to bring myself I
b take a cold plunge In the morning
but I couldn't stand the shock till
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-16
PRICES FOR DAIRY PRODUCTS
Prospects Good That We Will See
Highest Mark for Butterfat Dur
ing Coming Winter.

The shortage in dairy products
which began last winter has not at
this date been made up and there is
every evidence that we will this win
ter see the highest prices for butter
fat we have witnessed for many years.
The man who stuck to the dairy
business through good and i'll repute
is the man who Is going to profit by
this condition.