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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23
WIDOWS AS sWEETHEARTs.

Without our hopes. without our fears,
Without the home that plighted love en-
dears,
without the smile from plighted beauty
won,
oh. what were man? A world without a
sun.
Who is it that can lure the most
cynical woman-hating bachelor into
the matrimonial moose whether he will
or no? The fair young widow. Who
can make the most determined widow
er change his mind about never mar
rying again? The sympathetic widow.
Who can make the aged man who has
lodged wedlock in all it's forms take
on a new lease of life and yearning
Tor a home and a heart mate? The
determined widow. Spinsters, even
younger and prettier women than her.
self, look upon the widow and her
achievements with awe and wonder
why she proves such magnet to men.
landing them with little or no difficulty
at the altar.
The solution of the whole situation
is that widows as sweethearts are a
pronounced success. Why? Well,
they understand all the delicate phases
and limitations of lovemaking. The
single woman imagines fervent ca
resses lead to an avowal of love and
a marriage proposal. The widow
knows that there is no way of losing
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23

q lover more quickly than to permit
familiarity from the man who has not
offered her his heart and hand. That
the average man believes the peach
ready to drop into his hand is not
worth considering. Manlike, he Graves
the peach on the topmost bough just
tantalizingly out of his reach--so de-
liciously near, yet so far.
First of all, the widow knows she
must Undue her wouId-be lover with
respect which rings true; so much so
that he would fear that he might Of
fend her If he were even to hint that
he would not be averse to exchanging
goodnight kiss. Her secret of pow
er, then, begins with respect. If
man has a single woman for a sweet
heart and he is to take her to ball
or some other gala function and ter
rible storm comes up, that girl is
dressed and waiting for him to take
her. A young widow might be gowned
for just such an affair, but she would
be more apt to say Il am SO sorry you
braved this terrible storm to take me.
wouldn't mind spending the evening
here at home If you would be more
comfortable" He gladly accepts, hav-
ing visions of a happy counting eve
ming perhaps.
She knows she never looked more
charming than in her ball gown. She
is wearing 1t solely for him, content
to have an audience of just one to
admire it. She does not talk about
the ball or anything that might give
him one regretful thought. She is
witty and sympathetic by turns. She
gives him no learned discourse, but
encourages him to do the talking on
the subject he knows about and en-
joys the best. II he shows DISPOSE.
ton to be too loverlike, her tact and
diplomacy can be depended upon.
She invites him to partake of a cas-
serole luncheon which he may help her
to prepare-creamed oysters, and po-
tato salad, sandwiches and coffee that
would tempt the appetite of an cpl
cure. A man cannot make violent love
and dine at one and the same time,
and no matter how desperately in love
he may be he is more than apt to give
his stomach preference.
The result is that he passes de-
lightful evening and cannot forget the
luncheon and the fair vision of wom-
snhood who poured the coffee. 1t is
home picture that clings to him.
Over the next little luncheon he is
more apt to ask her to pour coffee for
him the rest of her life.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23
NOT THE OLD MONTE CARLO
Great Gambling Resort of
Europe.

The MONDAY train draws slowly into
the station. A food of passengers
pours forth, writes Monte Carlo cer-
respondent of the London Times.
Leaving the station, the crowd surges
up into the marble steps and skirts the
vast edifice which crowns the abrupt
hilltop; it is soon swallowed up within
the portals of the great building. It
is shabby. dowdy crowd, mostly
women.
Can this be Monte Carlo? Can this
crowd be hurrying SO feverishly to
the gaming tables?
The sunshine is benignly warm the
soft breezes fragrant with the mingled
scent of q thousand flowers. Yet the
terrace is deserted. Now and then q
black figure passes hurriedly and dis
appears into the casino. without lin
gering for an instant to enjoy the
magic beauty of the scene.
make my way slowly to the casino.
The doors of the gaming rooms are
thrown open by the familiar frock.
coated attendants. In the gloom-filled
halls somberly dressed crowd is clus.
tered about the gaming tables. / 60
up to the first roulette table. The play.
ers seem to be chiefly housewives and
shopkeepers of the lower middle class,
recruited apparently from among the
natives of the neighboring towns. or
ficers and men of no matter what rank
Of all the allied armies, whether in
uniform or not are vigorously exclud-
ed. Today 80 per cent OF the players
are women. unlike the old clientele;
plain bourgeois and peasant types of
faces abound.
The glitter and brilliance of the null
titude who gathered here in former
days has disappeared. The gold coin
! that shone SO lustrously against the
green baize of the gambling tables has
vanished. The atmosphere of bacchic
beauty of this enchanted landscape.
of these hanging gardens which rise
tier upon tier above the sea, of this
environment of sensuous splendor
which made Of Monte Carlo pagan
sanctuary unique in the world. has
aided away. Can it be otherwise wheE
the temple OF Janus stands opsn7
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23
RUTTY SPOTS IN A RoADBED
Bad Roads-Drainage Is Recon-
mended as Remedy.

We have been quite interested lately
In travelling over roads in central Iowa
at a time when we did not expect
them to be at all good, to find that
where they were dragged the going
was quite good; and where not
dragged, quite rough. But even where
good, there were spots in the roadbed
that were rutty. Now, what is the
cause of these ruts every mile or two
Of good, fairly well dragged roads?
Nothing but water uncontrolled. These
are seepy places. Filling up the ruts
by dragging does not prevent the trou-
BILE. The drag does not reach the root
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23

for its Irish" potatoes, as it was he
who brought them from what is now
North Carolina and planted them on
his estate near Cork in 1885.
Mountains, Boys and Lakes.
Ireland lies on the western rim OF
what was once a part Of Continental
Europe. 1t has numerous mountains
the highest being the McGillicuddy
Reeks (3.414 feet}, in the Killarney
region, but there is no mountain chain
or elevated backbone" There is a
more or less well-defined central
plain, however, the distinguishing fea.
ture of which is its bogs-the black
bog producing the famous peat fuel
differentiated from the brown bogs
of the mountains. If the whole island
were brought to a mean level it
would rise 400 feet above the sea.
The lakes, or loughs, of Ireland are
among its most widely appreciated
physical characteristics, their scenic
beauty being the inspiration of poets
painters and musicians. Nor have the
Irish rivers been overlooked in ap
praisals of the islands beauties. The
Shannon, which flows for $50 miles
from tho county of Cavan in the
northwest to the Atlantic in the
southwest, is the longest water course
In the United Kingdom. 1t is navi
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23

ubstance
the time distance
The
gaons needles
different
ated well
pecfcaton results
is improbable that the needles will become
acknowledged
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23

and becoming in dress and what is
really ridiculous. l can vouch for the
following tales:
A pretty young thing entered re-
tail shoe store In New York the other
day, and, stepping up to a clerk, whom
she evidently knew, lisped timidly:
I'VE will keep the pair of white kid
shoes you sent on approval for me.
found them a trifle too high in the
heels, but the dear old lady across the
street, who was calling when they
came, fell in love with them at once,
declaring they would just fit her and
were what she had spent lots of time
shopping for but couldn't find"
A New York woman, fair, fat and
forty, was making the rounds of the
shops in search of street costume for
her twenty-year-old daughter, whose
betrothal had just been announced in
the papers. At last she came upon a
stunning creation that took her eye
on sight. THAT would hardly suit
my daughter" she said. ut doesn't
come far enough below the knees, and
she's so old-fashioned and finicky about
the length of her dresses. But could
wear it nicely. I'll buy it for my
self"
The third incident also occurred in
the gay metropolis, where the costum-
ing of our American girls and women
makes foreigners and people from the
far-away towns and villages stare and
OF rt1s linz for ut 10
wink Father Time occurred recently
at the Grand Central station, New
York city: A spinster and well-known
neighborhood gossip who went to the
depot to see woman friend off espied
her neighbor, supposedly staid. re-
spectacle married man, rushing hur-
riedly up to fair-haired. beautiful
creature who had just alighted from
an incoming train. After a sharp, hur-
ried glance about to see that nobody
was noticing, he planted hearty kiss
on the rouged cheek she turned up to
him. The tale-bearer carried the story
straight TO his wife. "She looked about
twenty" she added, "but of course
couldn't tell exactly, she was so dolled
up, and you could have scraped the
paint off Ter with knife" THAT lady
is my mother" replied the embar-
raised wife. "My husband went to the
train to meet her."
A Columbia day scholar was walking
down the avenue when he noticed,
across the street, a slim, dainty little
creature with fluffy yellow curls, short,
natty dress, ankle length, white kid
boots, gloves, and sporting a white
veil and fur, trying to attract his at
tention. Excusing himself for mo-
ment from his companions, he joined
her, returning soon after to his
friends. do tell us who the little
beauty isl" they all clamored in one
breath. The young student drew him
self up to his fullest height, assuming
a dignity he was far from feeling, as
he answered huskily, but firmly
The lady you saw me run over to
speak to grandmother"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23

way to judge ages
that we should
rest content in the
belief that "a wom-
an is as old as she
looks and a man
as old as he feels"
Father Time is a
wary ola fellow,
but he is surely
fooled to the top
of his bent by the
dear women of to-
day.
Some jolly sto-
ries, too good to
keep, are told, pre-
sumably with the
hope to spur wom-
en- on to a sense
of what ia prettv
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23
NO HOME OF THEIR OWN.

The battle Ger. a victory crowned with
honors.
BY patient toll each difficulty past,
You then may see those days OF bitter
failure,
But spurred you on to greater deeds at
last.
1t is not every man who is blessed
with the opportunity to earn little
more than he needs to keep a roof
over the heads of his family, and not
every wife who can forego the lure of
the bargain counter and the longing to
look well and have comforts to lay by
every penny possible Of her husband
earnings that they may some day own
home of their own, be it ever so
humble.
Few wives remember that the reali-
zation of this grand hope lies in their
own hands, providing they have good
husbands who are glad to place their
weekly wages in their keeping. The
man who has a wife who is incapable
of stretching a dollar to its utmost
limit is greatly to be pitied. He is
misfortune's catspaw. He no sooner
gets settled in locality than he hears
the neighbors in the tenement or fiat
do not like his wife, or she doesn't
like them; that the baby carriage
which they have no room for in their
three tiny rooms cannot stay in the
hall, or that their children cannot
play in the patch of ground in the rear
of the house, or they have too much
washing on the line, too much cook
ing of corned beef, cabbage and on
ions, which the husband is so fond of,
too much company, too much canned
music, and so on, to suit the neigh
bors above, below, to the right and to
the left of them.
No wonder the man who comes home
tired from his days work only to face
some new tribulation, longs for home
of his own, where he can have breath.
ing space, place where he can live In
peace. They never can know that
pleasure until husband and wife make
break from fiat life and get into a
tiny cottage bought on small sum
down and monthly payments that OK.
tend over a long term of years. How
the children enjoy that tiny strip OF
yard! They can whoop their lungs
out, pull up every flower that Is there,
ride the little banisters of the stoop,
or track mud on the steps, and there
is no one to say them nay. Mother
might be tempted to scold, but father
shakes his head and says: They're
celebrating having a home of their
own. They'll get down to being nat.
ural when the newness wears off,
Such a surprising amount of vege.
tables-all the wanted ones-as they
can plant in the tiny back yard. The
high cost Of living is cut in half. II
the cottag6is isolated from the popu-
lated streets a few chickens can be
added, and perhaps their own cow.
Oh, life is worth living il you own
your own home. but is 1t happy life
IL you don't? Every husband and wife
should talk about it and wish for a
home all their own, even though they
have begun married life on the lowest
rung of the ladder. To be without
their own home roof when old age
overtakes them is sad and pitiable
calamity.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23
cAPPER DISCOVERS MUD TAX
Farmer Loses on Wheat Crop Because
Roads Are Soft and He Can
not Get to Market.

While taxation problems are so gen,
orally in the air comes Governor Cap.
per of Kansas and deposes that he
has discovered new tax, mud tax"
There is an average mud tax of six
cents on every bushel of wheat grown
in Kansas" says the governor, "and
the farmer has to stand that loss. 1t
costs him about 5000 year because
the roads are soft and because he can
not get to market when the price is
highest" Motorists will be among
those who indorse the governors
words.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23

her day, the president said the let
rs seemed to run in cycles, the sub
cts calling forth the correspondence
hrying almost with the months. Just
pw, one of the undersecretaries said,
Lonely requests are multiplying with
le approach of the campaign. One
an wrote the other day asking for
10 to take long-delayed trip to a
puthern town. promising to return
70 loan in two years. He prefaced
Q request with glowing tribute to
9 presidents statesmanship. He re-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23


pbject
Chesapeake Ohio the
abandoned
unchanged There nothing authorizing bridge
beyond provision bridge
bridge
call it the Aqueduct bridge"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23
Too Late.

Before we were married you said
you would die for me-" sobbed WHEY
after the quarrel.
Il sometimes wish / had" said
hubby brutally. "Then wouldn't have
to live with YOU"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23
Network Of Good Roads.

This whole country will some of
these days be network Of good roads,
which will have a place on the maps
along with the railroads. The Lincoln
highway linking the East and the
West, the Jefferson highway. connect
ing the lakes and the gulf, and tho
Dixie overland highway, are begin
ming.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23
Thres-Ineh Tired Wagon Best.

Buy the wagon with the three-inch
tire. is the advice that the highway
commissioners at Ames give the farm
ers. This width tire is not only the
least wearing on the road of any
width. but, according to test, it re-
quires less draft to pull it. The mar.
row-tired wagon cuts the road too
much. while the wider tire requires
too much of draft to pull.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23

Drldge. Lieut.. Col. =. A. +. F1agler,
the engineer officer in charge of river
and harbor improvements in this vi
entity, who will have charge of the
construction of the new bridge, sug-
els Scott Key, author of The Star
Spangled Banner who for a number
of years lived at the corner of Thirty
fourth and M streets, Georgetown"
which is expected to be selected as the
site of the Washington approach to
hi h.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23

gere produced. 1t happens, to replace
rdinary No. 2 sewing needles. The
my points are used to test the con-
istency Of asphalts and other pitch
Ike road materials.
When bituminous substances were
lrst introduced engineers tested them
y the primitive method of chewing
small sample, estimating the consist
ncy by the resistance to the teeth.
generation ago the idea was con-
eived of thrusting needle into the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23
NORTH CAROLINA IN THE LEAD.


Appalachian states 1915 The total production of gold in 1915
S32055
unity, largest yield of
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23

kitchen The
act she couldn't stay in
windows that
The
sleeping porch
dining
he ~
The kitchen o
ue poured into from the back yardt right
another kitchen.
second
t chimney
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23
asst Number Of Letters Received by Mr.. Wilson


all
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23
Nashington's New Bridge Will Be Named for Key

Unless legisae
the official
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23
MAKE LIVING FROM PHILANTHROPY.

In
distribution
others $4,000
of $4,000
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23
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POOLING TIME.
GERMAN L2/5. 6y mr. 7eTz1eE MsJsJese

Friendship is constant in all other things
Save IN the office and affairs Of love,
And he has never loved who can conceal
his ardor.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23
Government Makes Needles for Asphalt Testing


he should needless but
desirable highway the Office public
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23

Clean Brooder Lamps Daily.
Brooder lamps should be cleaned
every day.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23

Someone who was more or less of
philosopher has told us regarding the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23


d bankrupt" of the executive staff confded.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23

culture. his mOuel mousse 10 80 III
geniously arranged that 1t will save
the housekeeper 1S2,500 steps year.
There are, besides the wonderful pat
ent kitchen, dining room. living
room and two bedrooms, front porch
and large sleeping porch.
The Kitchens principal feature is
the cooking room, just large enough
to accommodate stove. When the
door of the room is closed the cab
bage may boil or the ham burn up
and no odoi will penetrate to the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-23
Uncle Sam Aids Cupid With Model Cottage Plan

WAsfIINGToNUnce
perfect love of vinecd made
hat prospective builder writing
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-06-07

Ever since Warren G. Harding. a
cub reporter. was fired by his boss
for delivering an GRAFTON in a plug
hat. he has been IN fine voice.
And that was 80 years ago.
Harding's' colorful voice and HIS
mastery OF the English tongue are
the. reasons he was picked TO speak
the keynote speech at this year s
republican convention.
Ills political record is mostly
that OF an alsoran
But always he has bobbed up
again. oratorical as ever singing
the praises OF the grand old party
or the grand old faction. and whang-
banging the opposition.
In Marion. O., he runs the Even
Ing Star
II WAS from the ,office Of another
Marion newspa per-the Warrior
that he vas ousted for wearing a
plug hat and making n speech,
when he was 10. in 1854.
The plug hat was the emblem
Of his allegiance to James G.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-06-07

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street Price 400 each terms
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-06-07

Blaine. republican presidential
candidate.
The speech was a denuncia-
tion Of Grover Cleveland.
II was delivered in the War
rior office. The audience was
the Warriors editor.
The Warrior was a demo-
cratic newspaper.
Hence Harcins's separation
from the payroll.
Harding took republicanism ser
iously He never strayed from
Marion. And Il wasn't long before
Harding ives editing newspaper
TO suit himself. and the G. 0. p.
aud could wear a REGULAR plag
hat.
Soon he was owner as well a.
editor Of the Evening Star. and
proceeded 20 build up a model LITTLE
country daily. using metropolitan
methods but keeping a space pald
correspondent at every crossrs-0
In Marion county.
In 1SS9.-he became a state sen.
atQr and stayed two terms. He was
cautious independent--that is. he
was not TOO independent.
lie dent, go out cunning for any
body he thought he couldn't get.
Harding was elected Lieutenant
governor in 1902. as Herrick's run
ming mate.
Two years later he had a hunch
tlArrsffI- anHanAFfH hr "a
again. and asked permission TO run
himself.
Permission was not Forthcoming.
And as Harding couldn't very
well run fo- lieutenant governor
again after trying to connect with
the gubernatorial nomination, be
didn't run for anything for several
years.
Mark Hanna and George r. Coz
are the GENTRY generally suspected
Of smothering Harding hopes.
A few years later Harding also
ran" for United States senator.
But his race was backward
And In 1910 the editor from
Marion finally copied the
gubernatorisl nomination and
ran against Gov. Judson Har-
mon.
In extenuation Of Hsrmon's
victory Thy 100000 votes) Il is-<
said that. Harding didn't really
expect to be elected.
In 1912 he placed Taft's name
before the republican national con-
vention in Chicago
And in 1914, such is the irony
Of fate 'of politics, this staunch
protectionist, anti-progressive. and
enemy Of direct voting, was chosen
by the sovereign electorate OF Ohio
to be United States senatorial
first membe' OF the nations upper
house elected by popular vote.
In the spring Of 1916. when Hard
ing was first mentioned as q dark
horse candidate for president. he
announced:
Il am not a candidate for either
the presidential or vice presidential
nomination. | would rather be
senator for the next four years.
than VICE president. My sole con
necuon with the republican ma
tional convention will be to act 40
temporary chairman"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-06-07

rHE rrusoSAL tRorERrY 'oF THE
late WHif a. Ifif East columbia
uiii 10 said'ta rhe'hifh~si uidnsr The
purchaser has the privilege sof renting
She house af moving the furniture out
The sale ufi take place "wednesday.
rans :. az o. oslack q. IN The house
viii 10 open Monday from 90 O'Clock
for inspection
- dorTErEfN INVESTMENT go.
go Goldman HidE seattle Wash