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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-09-11

REPRESENTATIVE HOG SALES.

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PIG SALES
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-09-11

I'm tho fell clutch ~ circumstance.
win not vince nor loudly whine,
with Hullfori | viii take my chance,
n | can only hold the line. r. l.. r.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-09-11

or, MS Mr. Kmrslcy almost wrote.
when all the game is young. lad,
And all your dreams are pink,
Before your songs are sung, lad,
Upon the twiiphts brink.
Then let sport have It's bid, lad.
Across the mornings spin,
No man can beat a KID, TAD,
Who thinks that he can win"
We have had some remarkable Young
touus golf and baseball PLAYERS h,for,
hut mo- one who ever reached the height,
at Il that Jones has reached AZ II Al
his nge IA, game I'm this country hr'
never developed anyone with such com
hiuoiion OF physical strength. lul|do,
determination. Wr,h1ui.N a.N nud cool
ness against the test llo is the mos
remarkable kid urul.r, ~, have ever
secu-aud here and there iu sport ",
have looked upon on" or two
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19

A woman writer in "The Unpopular
Review" has some harsh things to say
about periodical literature for ladies.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19

pitiabe elderly woman or some per-
suasive young widow has stung Mrs.
McNab for a six months trial subscrip-
ton to another woman's magazine.
"She was so hard up, poor thing eX-
plains Mrs. McNab, as she glances
through the fashion pages and perhaps
cuts out a recipe for fruit salad or
new kind of tumble, after which she
turns to the current number of the cat
lantic" or cleverly filches my copy of
"Mr. Drifting"
knew a sprightly young lady who
bought extensively of the periodical
bonbons devoted to her sex, but she was
interested only in the advice for Girls"
columns, to which she took great de-
light in sending imaginary heart-cries.
Il have been engaged to young man
for one month";" she would write, land
last Saturday night at party ne
dropped hot penny down my back.
Should give him up?' When her let
ter would appear, accompanied by So
Der advisory paragraph intimating that
her frivolous admirer was not the Right
Sort of Man, she would be overjoyed
for week.
eve are presented" says the writer
in the "Unpop," with the composite
photograph of a shadowy male and the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19

information: Eight matinee idols posed
for this picture, types of men girls like
to marry. Is your husband there? Or,
worse yet, in Haunting type How does
a widow feel-heart hunger, aching
loneliness; where can she find forget
fitness? Read "A Widows Story IN
our August ISSUE
Perhaps the average woman is at
tracted by this sort of banality. But
more probably she isn't. More prob
ably she subscribes for the sake of the
fashion notes, the recipes and the
housekeeping advice, which | am in
formed the women's magazines do eX-
ceedingly we'll And the cleverly run
subscription getting system helps. 1t
counts enormously for any magazine.
"The Saturday Evening Post" for in
stance, prints much interesting matter,
but its circulation might be compare
lively obscure if it were not for Won
derful selling system that evokes at
every railroad way station chorus Of
insistent small boys chanting the slo-
gan: "Saturday-Evening- Post-Five-a-
Copy" That cheerful cry, by the way,
is the dinner bell of many deserving
author.
The average reader, as neighbor F.
p. A. has remarked. is great deal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19

Here is stall another story 'chich deals '0iH
i-ar from the ROMANS point Of Vielc. It's theme
- the spiritual adjustment tchich foltows deep
personal sufering-the minds reaction tron"
the ordeal Of sacrifice. The first shock Of grief
may bring confusion and deporalizdtion. Hith
many it may estrange and embitter the spirit
n man becloud life and destroy the ViH to hre.
BIZ, nth the normal a0omdn this phase IS
passing one. Suffering acts on her eventually
as a tonic-Gs regenerotor Of the spirit. She
c,nerges stronger and nobler from her trial,
reader than eUer to face the tasks aChich hfe
has IN store for her.
1T rnoy be q comfort for as aoomen to eS-
cape soryol0 and mourning; but it IS not a
heip TO as and TO or spiritual Development"
says one of the characters Of "Whither Thou
Goest," preaching to another sufferer The Cos
pei Of noble and helpful resignation. 1t IS a
true gospel illustrated by the oge-long ca
oerience of both men and toomen.
The author Of the sketch, Frau or Frde'letn
Else Kraft lCiU be remembered as the author
Of the grophic story zone Touch Of Nature
which appeared in The Tribune Sunday Maya
sine OF october s last.
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ognizes as Feminine only the qualities
that inhere in the female of his own
creation"
This solution sounds plausible, but,
unfortunately, it is based on false as
sumption, for the majority of the ed
itors of our women's magazines are
women.
The business managers, however, are
men. They are business men, thinking
in terms of circulation, and perhaps
their circulation reports indicate why
women's magazines are-what they are.
According to statistics of fourteen rep
resentative womens magazines taken
from the American Newspaper Direc-
tory, only three have a circulation Of
less than half million, while one runs
to over two million and four others are
well over the million mark.
Yet even this explanation is super
fetal 1t may be that the mental d.
gestive powers of most women are so
primitive that they insist on a diet of
Cruel and slops, but it is fair to doubt
it, Occasionally | come home after
day Of hard toll to find on our sitting
room magazine table a beautifully
printed, tastefully illustrated hand
somely covered newcomer, containing
nothing to read, and l know that some
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19

A woman writer in "The Unpopular
Review" has some harsh things to say
about periodical literature for ladies.
In the women's maya
LITERATURE zines, she believes.
FOR there are entirely too
LADIES many solemn sym
posiums on such top
les as "How Ny Husband Told His
Love" and "Why viii Not Spank My
Little Ones" To this sort of thing she
prefers the Rollo books. Moreover, she
is wearied of crusades conducted III
these periodicals against flies and hat
pins and in favor of toothbrusheS and
the adoption of babies.
After reading a dozen magazines Tor
ladies. she concludes she must be IN
bad way mentally, morally and socially
Mentally" she says, 81 am evidently
fit only to be led through neat little nc
ton bypaths, carefully cleared OF all
natural growth, terminating in marsh
mallow grottoes, where lady and
gentleman wax doll beam, surrounded
by waxen infants. Morally, | am APP
parently almost an imbecie; for | re-
quire elementary instruction in bodily
hygiene, am urged to unfold sorrows or
symptoms for editorial comfort or up
lift. and am supposed especially to de-
light in admonitory chats upon sex and
marriage relations. Socially, | seem
compelled to classify myself as one OF
three types: either am a Wife and
Mother (of amazing limitations), or l
am an Expectant Bride (fuffy and fool
ish). or | am a Business Girl, needing
to be gently but firmly restrained from
overindulgence in chewing gum and
gentleman friends.
"Why is it, wonder, that the wom-
ems periodicals, always shrilly asseve-
rating their noble ideals of Woman, are
nearly all carefully adapted in their text
to infantile or arrested Development"
In considering this question the writ
er finds comfort in the belief that most
of the women's periodicals are edited
by men. "a man makes his Author
lied Version of feminine creation and
assumes the existence of no other YER
sion; no matter how many women OF
how many minds he may encounter
during this earthly pilgrimage, he rec
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19

4 FTER long, racking days Of waiting, in
"a which she struggled against the fear
n that was in her heart, against the
thoughts which in lonely hours bore down on
her like ravenng wolves, the message came.
II was hard and brutal one.
4 small remittance in currency, calculated
20 the last penny by the battalion paymaster;
TWO letters which she had written to Alfred re
turned with the inscription on the cover,
Fallen on the field of honor" and then the
communication from the battalion commander,
which the children brought joyously into her
room, crying; Mother, mother, a letter from
he 'front.' Something at last from papa
She could not answer YES" nor could she
answer mo" SO she said nothing.
A streak of sunshine fell across the sewing
table by the window-the sunshine of autumn,
very pale and thin. Only an hour ago she had
laid her head on the table and gazed at the
sacred notices and religious pictures which
she had put there as a sort of safeguard
against worry and suffering when the war
began.
The sunshine played over this text: "And
all things whatsoever We shall ask in prayer,
believing, we shall receive"
She had believed. Oh yes, SO strongly,
90 unshakably lie would come back out of
the slaughter. God good and just. He
would not take away from her what she held
dearest, the husband whom she needed 10 com
plete her own life, just as the earth needs the
sunlight in order TO Bloom and fructify. She
had never been rebellious and sinful. She had
always done her duty, had been charitable to
the poor and constant in prayer.
People had often come TO her and tried to
shake her confident faith TO darken her soul
with doubts.
Faith alone they said, "can accomplish
nothing. In a time Of slaughter like this you
must always reckon with the possibility that
he will not come back
But she had tossed her head and smiled.
He will come back. lie will live through
it. know he will. Ny faith in our good
luck will save him, will protect him from every
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By ELSE Kraft

danger in the field. Don't talk so, you trouble
borrowers, you pessimists!"
She would not give in; she would not allow
herself to be dsillusioned by the people who
so rudely challenged her conference.-the trust
fitness with which she faced the trials of war,
its loneliness and its heart-sickness.
And now?
Invountarily her fingers opened the envelope
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off it the accum-
ulated dust of
wears. But the
volume bore evil
dence of having
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19

and in a sort of mental stupor she read what
the colonel had written:
"Honored and Gracious Madam: With
heavy heart must convey to you the sad an
nouncement that your husband"-
Now she cried aloud. She read no further,
giving herself up to her grief. And the chill
dren, who were still standing dumbly beside
her, suspecting nothing, cried with her. And
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19
WHITTIER THOU GOEST

with the children the nursemaid, who had
middle of the room.
Startled, the mother raised her hands.
"Be still Why do you make so much noise?
You must all be very quiet now. Please
Please"
They obeyed at once. And the little arms
were stretched out toward her, seeking pro-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19

lection from something incomprehensbe,
something that did not belong at all in their
sheltered, care-free life.
But she did not see the children's arms
only the texts on which the sunlight played,
those texts in which she had had implicit
faith.
The next instant they and the colored pict-
ures lay scattered on the floor One was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19

swept off the sewing table after the other
that with the flowers in bloom, that with the
little church in summer dress, that with the
storm-tossed sea- on whose waves the Saviour
walked.
And in a loud, harsh, strange voice the young
wife cried out:
1T is all untrue, children All Of it is IN.
true!"
Yet, strangely enough the little ones did rot
hear at all what their mother said. They only
saw the pictures, the poor, mishandled pict-
ures. These they reached after SyInpatheti-
cally, lifted them from the floor and carefully
smoothed them out: and Margot, the three
year-old girl, said
"All broken, mamma; the pretty cards"
And the siX-year-old boy arranged them
again in the places where they had stood, to
the right and left of the sewing basket, with
fathers photograph in the middle.
That was what happened the first day.
On the second and on following days her
mother came, and many relatives and friends.
She did not want to see anybody. In the
bright bedroom facing the south, she lay
stretched out on her bed, the white canopy
over which was supported by gilded Loves OF
whom Alfred had always said that they dis
turbed his fresh soldiers dreams, and that
Edith would better decorate the walls with
gayly colored horse blankets than with null
and sparrows and laughing Cupids. She lay
now within those walls and stared straight
ahead of her and desired neither sympathy nor
consolation.
She wanted only Alfred. His words, his
brave, tender letters, his playful admonition;
BE cheerful, little wife We shall come
through You'll see it. When / come back
will bring with me the captured Cossack steecs
on which we make our triunpha homeward
march. And Llttchen shall have the widest
of them"
And then Alfred had laughed-his clear
toned, cordial laugh, which always captured
those who heard it,
Now he laughed no more. He lay some
where in the distant east, in Russian soil.
Many letters also came. Each one 'oi'
what splendid man Alfred was, hero On
immortal, who would never be forgotten. Ano
flowers came to decorate his portrait. since MS
grave was far away-wonderful, costly flowers
which her mother brought her, entreatlng ne'
again and again:
Don't take II 30 hard, my child! Weep your
self out. Save yourself for your children, VINO
have need Of you. Rise above your grIef pons
let it master you and break you down, en'''
She did not listen. She wanted to treasure
up her grief. She wanted TO have 1t masu'
her and break her down. She had fought lo't
enough against the frightful anguish, again''
the mental distraction, against the heart-sieA'
ness which women feel in war time, when tne'
know that those whom they hold dearest ."
every hour in danger. She could endure ..
more. To die and to be rid Of 1t ali-'ns,
would be the best thing for her. Death w0s'
be benefaction. There could be no cons0'"'
ton for her. She did not wish any eonso''-
ton. What were men and women TO her. ~.
that Alfred was dead. when ALFRED wouio
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books have been so widely read +, a,
philosophical pages the author deras
strated that the nations of the VEL,
had emerged, through long aye. -
strife, from ideals based on warIjks a.
quest and the enslavement of veal.
peoples and that the reign of altr;s,
and democracy was beginning.
Kidd lived to see the smash-up Of Ii.
theories. They lie with mjII;o,. :.
mangled human bodies on the h..a.
fields Of Europe. They have been v;a.,
out in a food of hatred and blood 49,
tears. Not long ago a modest ~ -
paper paragraph announced RMS.
death. The world had moved On 49,
forgotten him. Or perhaps il had =.
moved on.
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above the average. Some years ago
the editors of "Scribner's Monthly
(now "The Century, started to con-
duct their periodical on this assump-
ton. and for a time at least they revolu-
tionized the magazine field in the
United States Some day daring ed
itor is going to apply this dictum to
magazine for women, and thereafter a
lot of his more timid rivals are sched-
uled to lose their jobs.
The girl at the library was a long
time finding the book for ME, and when
she finally appeared she was blowing
off it the accum-
A BEST ulated dust OF
SELLER THAT years. But the
GUESSED WRONG volume bore evil
dence of having
been much read in its time. The pages
were thumb-marked and long passages
were underlined, and several pests had
INDUCED in pencilled notations on the
margins.
Social Evolution" was its title, and
the author Benjamin Kidd, an English
man. A score of years ago it ran
through many editions in England and
America. and was translated into Ger
man, Swedish, French, Russian, Italian,
Chinese, Czech, Danish and Arabic. Few
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19

A forward-iooking publisher has b.,
lamenting the passing of the book So
He declares that in towns of lO.0n,.
sons or less the boo.
THE store has vanisAed a
PASSING together. and in az
BOOK STORE of up to 250O0 nm,
lation it is becoming
rarity. There are more candy storss
in the State of Pennsylvania than hooL
stores in the whole United States
According to his figures, in the on
tire country we spend less than q cent.
per capita in year for books. W.
spend fourth of this sum per can't,
for a single popular weekly magazine
We spend more on chewing gum or but.
tons. And, according to the stats.
ticians, we each get away with twenty
gallons of alcoholic beverages in the
year. Unquestionably, books would h
much better for our health. There's
not headache in the bar'l of them.
"The Publishers Weekly" commeu.
ing with great frankness on the com.
paratively bookless state of the ul6.
mate consumer, says: when a dollars
worth of book costs-as it does in some
cases-S1.25 or $1.35, and dollars
worth of Ford car, moving pictures or
Saturday Evening Post costs certainly
not over a dollar, it is obvious that
many books do not have even scratch
start in the competition for the con-
sumer's money"
THE Publishers Weekly" does not
publish fiction.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19

The girl at the library was a long
time finding the book for me, and when
she finally appeared she was blowing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19

A forward-looking publisher has ~.
Iamenting the passing of the book a..
He declares that in towns of lO0on,s
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-04-18
PERSONALS
4 4 4 4 X 4 X 4 < 4 4 X 4 4 /

Attorney S. NJ. Endicott is in Port
land.
Louis Lachmund went to Portland
tnic morning
George Thompson, of Albany, was in
the city yesterday.
Miss Evaline Young, Of Benr, Ore,
was in the city yesterday.
w. W. Reed, of Seattle, is in the city
attending to business affairs.
o. Wanburg, and family, win leave
for Detroit, Mich, tomorrow
Mrs Il. II. Barnes is visiting her
sister, Mrs Frank Powers, at Orenco.
Mrs. Frank Rosenquest returned yes
terday from month 5 visit in Port
land.
Mrs. Eva Brady, of Chelsea, Mass,
is in the city, the guest Of her sister,
Mrs. Frank $. Ward
Orville Baldwin, of the Frank s.
Ward drug store is in Portland attend.
ing to business Affairs.
Miss Pauline Lux, who is training
for a nurse in a Salem hospital, arrived
here Saturday for a visit with her par.
ents, Rev. and Mrs. Paul j. Lux. She
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-04-18
improvements Added to
Methodist Pipe Organ

The pipe organ in the First Methodist
church is undergoing several improve
ments and additions that will add ma
terially to its power and brilli1ncy.
Two new eouplers have been added to
the swell organ and also soft pedal
base stop, the Lieblich Gedlckt,
The swell organ, formerly with 81
notes, will now nave 70, and an extra
octave has been added to four stops,
the open diapason, harmonic flute, stop
ped diapason and salicional.
The volume of the organ as well as
the opportunities for brilliant combi-
nations have been greatly increased by
the addition of the swell unison stop,
the swell super octave coupler and the
swell sub octave coupler.
The motor has also been removed
from the underneath lower floor to an
upper floor. These additions to the or.
gan viii not be noticeable in any way
in the appearance of the organ as the
front pipes will remain as heretofore.
The work is being done by L. NJ. Clark
of Seattle, who has been in the organ
business for the past 20 years on the
coast, having repaired an organ that
was in the church 20 years ago. The
present organ was installed about II
years ago. Everything will be in readi-
ness for the special music at the Easter
services.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-04-18
Won DGLE ARRESTED
WHEN ABOUT TO FLEE
One Of Men Indicted with Won
Papen for Plotting to Blow
Up Canal

New York, April 1s.-Wolff Won lyle
secretary to Captain Franz Won Papen,
former attache of the German embassy
in Washington, was arrested today in a
Wall Street office after lively fight
with secret service agents. He is eharg-
ed with implication in plot to dyna-
mite the Welland canal in Canada. Won
Papen was also indicted, but as he re-
turned to Germany after being declared
person non grata to the United States
he rs beyond jurisdiction Of the Ameri-
can people.
When four agents of the department
of justice reached the office where Won
lyle had been located they surprised
him on the point of taking flight but
he was overpowered.
Taken before Federal Judge Howe
Won lyle refused to plead. He declared
he was not represented by legal council
and asserted that the government had
no right to arrest him as he was cor
neeted with the German embassy, claim.
ing that ambassadorial territory was
inviOlnte.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-04-18
SALEM WOMEN'S CLUB
PROVIDES RARE TREAT
"A Midsummer Nights Dream
To Be Presented On Play
writer's Birthday

All the highbrows in town will be at
the Grand next Saturday evening to
hear the interpretive presentation of
"a Midsummer Night S Dream" in
honor of the Booth anniversary of
Shakespeare. However this doesn t
prejudice you against the entertain
ment. The highbrows have no monopo-
ly on Shakespeare, and "a Midsum-
mer Night s Dream ism I a highbrow
play.
Everyone these days is presumed to
know Shakespeare. Outside the Bible,
his plays are the most important and
useful literature we have. But listen,
You don It have to be a literary shark,
or anything like that in order thorough
ly to enjoy a Shakespeare play. As a
matter of fact the ordinary theatre
gOer will get more amusement out of a
Shakespeare comedy than a college
English professor will; because the Eng
lish professor Chat is, the general run
of HIM looks at Shakespeare from an
academic angle, and forgets entirely
the fact that Shakespeare was flesh
and blood playwright who made n SER
iOus business of making flesn-and- blood
audiences laugh. English professors
don Z laugh. They smile sometimes, but
they don't really laugh-and "a Mid
summer Nights Dream" was written
to be laughed with.
Shakespeare was an actor himself,
and he understood exactly how to con-
struct play to make it ego over" to
any ordinary, everyday audience. In
other words, he wrote his plays for the
stage; not for the literary dissecting
room. the fact that Shakespeare was
a literary genius, and taAt he clothed
his dramatic ideas in the greatest liter
atme of all time, does not detract A
whit from the activity of his plays.
Outside their literary merit, and after
300 years Of performances, the plays
of Shakespeare stand alone on their
ability to entertain, and on that score
alone they will stack up high above
any and all the modern plays.
Don't be afraid of Shakespeare. If
you have hitherto entertained the idea
that he was ponderous, or obsolete, or
hard to understand, come around to the
Grand next Saturday afternoon or even
ing and hear GA Midsummer Night s
Dream" and you will discover that
George Cohan or George AIDE has moth
ing on Bill Shakespeare in the matter
of making you laugh.