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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-04
4 Most Amusing Series
Little Bobbie S Pa
He Takes BObbIe and BObbfe's
Ma to the Theater But Ma IL
Not Enthusiastic.
ny WILLIAM f. KIRK.
nA took Ma & me to a play last mite.
- it was a musickal comedy. The
naim Of it was Zip Zip.

IA TOOK Ma a me TO play last mite
- it was a musickal comedy. The
naim of it was Zip Zip.
It is a vary soulful naim, sed Ma on
the way to the theeter 7 am sure that
it will broaden my views OF life & teech
little Bobbie the CRATE lessons of life.
Who rote II? sed Ma, Shakespeer?
Oh no. sed Pa. Zip Zip is new COM
edy which is just out
I dident like il vary good. There
was a lot OF pritty girls on the stage
& thay danced nice, but l cuddent un-
derstand any of the words thay was
singing. I suppose thay was too cold
TO sing plain, thay dident have on vary
many wraps.
Ma, tho the ladies at witch you are look
ing so hard take me back to the old
Biblickal days of Missus Eve. sed Ma
Tomorrow mite l want TO go &see me
Curse of Pearls, witch tells a butiful
stOary about the tem-tashuns OF city
life for a yung CURL
Maybe we will go. sed Pa, If I doant
have to IVORY at the offs. That red
headed CURL, the second from the end
is a vi-vashus littel creetur lsent she!
I wonder if thare is any red-hedded ang-
els. sed Pa. If thare is, I am going to
live a better lite.
Thay Are DeseetfuI.
Since wen did you git 10 aumlrlhB
gurls with red hair? sed Ma Thay are
deseetful.
/ know it. deer. sed Pa. one OF them
fooled me onst back in Wisconsin L
went to call on her one mite. L was
going to propose to her that mite, Pa
sed. but she had boOkkeeper calling on
her. so sed a few polite nothings wien
1 can say so swell. g. faded away
She married the bookkeeper after
wards, & now he is doing twenty yeers
for Citing the firms mummy mixed up
with his carfare, sed Pa. But this little
CURL looks different. Sch has face
like tiger lily. sed Pa, wud have you
ask her, up to the house sum time
Thank goodness, I doant know her
sed Ma. ] can't say I care much for
tbs play. Amy time you & Bobble are
ready to go, sed Ma, am reddy.
But I dident want 70 go & I knew
The red hedded girl sang Talk Me
Back to Babylon & Pa clapped his
hands so hard everybody looked hard
at him. That is a butiful song, butt
full. tender song, sed Pa. was in
Babylon onst he sed.
The Happy Days.
Thare was several red hedded gurls
hanging out there in the hanging gar
dens. made quite a hit and l hung
around them hanging gardens so long
1 had to hang up the waiter those
was the happy days, sed Pa III bet
that red hedded CURL is a regular divil.
sed Pa.
I doant believe care TO stay for the
last act, sed Ma. Thare isent anything
to this play. Thare isent eeven much
OF anything to thare wardrobe.
Oh, we mite as well stick. sed Pa
Freddie Grasmuck was telling me that /
in the last act that red hedded CURL =
does a Wonderful dance.
No, we woant stay, sed Ma. 1 doant |
care for Wunderful dances.
n & rif @
US in the Subway was a red hedded .
grul that must have been the sister 1
Of the one in the play. Pa watched her /
too, wen Ma wasent looking.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-04
Their Married Life
Helen and Warren Spend Somewhat Eventful Afternoon
Skating.
Skating.

a fine looking object in public place"
There are plenty OF other kinds Of
clothes" said Helen in her most dig
nified manner. Il had no idea Of pur-
chasing any OF the kind you men
toned"
Well don't get cross and spoil the
fun. Where are the skates?"
out in the hall closet You get
them; I'll be out in a a minute"
Helen fastened on the plainest hat
she possessed, and wished again for
sport costume. She could hear War
rem rummaging around in the box
where they kept the rubbers and such
things.
Not there. dear" she called out;
"on the shelf overhead"
Warren evidently found the place,
for he emerged a few minutes later
and stood in the doorway somewhat the
worse for the accumulation OF dust, but
still in a good humor.
At the Rink.
They met Bob and Louise at the
rink.
why, Louise" said Helen, in sur
prise, what a stunning costume. When
did you get it?"
why. about a month ago" an
nounced Louise: Since we learned to
skate, and the craze has kept us busy
Bob thought I might as well look de-
cent when 1 skated. and I had nothing
else to wear but my good street suit"
Helen stole a look at Warren, who
was sublimely unconscious. Louise had
leather sport costume beautifully
made and Of a purplish blue color, a
Norfolk jacket and a little leather hat
She wore a soft white muffler thrown
around her neck and looked the very
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-04
Bedtime Story For the Little Ones
wiggiy and Jack Be Nimble"
HOWARD r.
bLT Uncle wIGGILYl uncle wig

AT Uncle WTGGILY! Uncle Wig
gily" called Sammie Little
tail, the little rabbit boy, one
saturday morning as he hoped up to
the hollow stump bungalow, where the
nice old bunny uncle lived. Come on
out and play. Uncle wigsily. Please
do"
"Oh, hop away. sammie!" called Nurse
Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat LADY
housekee2er, looking out Of the Kitchen
window. Here, take this cabbage jam
tart and run away. Uncle Wiggily can't
bother to play with you today IN. ,,
Il haven't any one else TO play Win.
said Sammie. Johnnie ana Billie
Bushytail. the squirrels, are taking
their nut-gnawtng lesson, and Peeue
and Jackie Bow Wow, the puppies are
taking their bone-gnawing lessons;
Haven't you any lessons? asked
Nurse Jane.
NO. I've done mine. I had to prac-
ftice jumping a little. But there's no
school as it's Saturday, and I do want
some one to play with. Ny sister Susie
has gone off with Lulu and Alice Wib-
blewobble, the ducks and anyhow
don't want to play with girl animals.
Won't Uncle Wiggily come out?'
NO Sammie. Here take this carrot
cookie and hop along said Nurse
Jane.
"Wait a minute" spoke another voice.
and Uncle Wiggily himself went out on
the back stoop. What is It you want,
Sammie?'
with him. cried Nurse Jane. The
idea"
"Oh, III come" said Uncle Wigglly
kindly. Il haven't much to do and per-
haps we may have an adventure to-
gether. Come on, Sammie, wen go off
in the woods and Wen play"
So the old gentleman rabbit and his
little bunny nephew hoped off in the
woods together and soon were having
a fine time, scurrying in among the
dried leaves and hiding behind old logs
7 wonder If there is any new cab
bage growing around here?' said Sam
mic. after a bit I'm hungry"
1T is too soon for cabbage yet" an
swer-d Uncle Wiggily. 1T will not be
spring for several weeks. Nor are
there any new carrots to be had. But
pretty soon we'n pass a lollypop store
and you may have a lettuce favored
one"
THAT will be niee-thank you" said
Did you do your jumping lesson to-
, oay?' asked the old getleman rabbit
after a bit
Yes" said sammie 'I practiced
half an hour"
Let me see how well you can jump"
spoke the bunny uncle. Il used to be
a pretty good jumper when I was
young"
So Sammie jumped from one stump
FAR over a log to another.
Finer cried Uncle Wiggiiy. That's
better than I can do. but I'll try"
He did try and though he could not
leap as far as Sammie had done, Mr..
Longears did very we'll II it had not
been for his rheumatism he could have
done better
He and Sammie jumped about for
some time and all at once they were
surprised to hear a voice saying:
oh dearl I wish ! could jump as
far as that But I don't believe I shall
ever be able to- Oh, dear Oh, dearl"
'Hai That sounds like trouble"
said Uncle Wiggily. Who are you and
where are your
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-04

- a RENT the things happening
~ in the papers these days aw-
FUR said Helen, whirling the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-04

80 KEN the Things happening
~ in the papers these days aw-
ful?'' said Helen, whirling the
/ sheet that she had taken from Warren
when he came in and CHANGING hurriedly
down its columns
OH jeered Warren, ''the way you
women read a paper is certainly d eau
ton. Why, you don't read anything
but the headlines"
Wei, that's all that's fit to read.
! never in my life heard Of such hor-
rible things happening"
Don't read anything. then"
That's no argument, dear. want
TO know what's going on in the world
We'll, are you game 10 go skating?"
said Warren changing the subject.
why yes-yOu did say something
about going skating, didn't your Surely
] can 60 Let's call up Bob and Louise
and see il they can't meet us there:
then we can all go somewhere for din
ner."
For once Warren approved Of the
plans and even offered to call up Bob
and Louise while Helen went to dress.
IT'S all right" he said a little later,
coming into the room where Helen was
getting into appropriate clothes.
They'll meet us in half an hour. Are
you nearly ready2"
Unexpectedly Ready.
"All ready" Helen announced unex-
pectedly. do you know I wish I had
some really stunning clothes TO skate
in"
That's an idea for you" scoffed War
rem Il suppose you'd like to wear
some OF these white flubdubs that some
OF the feature skaters affect You'd be
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-04

where: it would be better for all hands
around"
Suppose they can't find another
place" said the more ienient Helen.
Remember, We learned in this very
rink"
Warren Approves.
You did" said Warren. II have
SLATED ever since I was a kid. Pts fine
exercise for anyone. Most sensible fad
New York has introduced for some
time"
"Oh, look" said Helen eagerly, turn
ing half around. Aren't those peopIe
the skaters at the Tip Top? Every
body''s watching them; I'm sure they
arer
Warren turned to see better, and as
he did girl who was learning to skate
came too near him and fell in a little
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-04
Austria Cuts Flour off
Bachelors Buying List

Vienna. Austria. March According to
a ministerial order, the amount Of flour
allotted to each person in country districts
has been reduced from 400 to 800 grams
weekly.
The same order provides that persons who
do not possess a home-for Instance bache-
lors who live In hotels or pensions-and
who therefore have no need OF flour are
only entitled to bread and not to Hour.
No family may draw more than one kilo-
gram e. 3o47 pounds) OF flour plus bread
per person IN the space OF two weak.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-04

heap right in Warren's way. He tried
TO save himself, but he was too late,
and, tripping over the girl he fell head
long. Not a great many people saw
the fall, but Warren was furious. He
picked himself up slowly and skated
over to the edge of the rink, followed
by Helen. Bob and Louise were on the
other side and had not noticed.
That was a shame, dear" said Helen,
coming up to him.
1T was all your fault" said Warren.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-04

turning to her suddenly. For one
thing, the skates are too dull for any
decent curves. 1 told you to have them
sharpened. And then your exclaiming
that way at a couple Of professionals
was enough to make any one fall"
Helen knew that Warren had STUN
bled through his own carelssness, but
she said nothing. Silence was better
than an argument of any kind. particuI-
larry in public place.-COpyright 1916
International News Service.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-04
Astronomy Is Newed Field
OF Endeduor For Women

London. Eng, March Astronomy IL the
latest field OF human endeavor to be in
vaded by women. As career for women
It recently received impetus when the
Royal Astronomical society obtained a sup-
Elementary charter from the crown IN or
der TO admit women members as fellows
OF the sOcisty- Five women were admitted
to membership and that many more VIII
meeting.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-02-02

in filthy tenement, which is all the
home thousands of workers ever
have. In a contest with the brothel,
what chance has such a home where
there is never enough to eat, never
enough fuel, never enough clothing
and the ever-present fear of not hav-
ing work and not being able to keep
even that abominable makeshift of a
home?
Were you a working man earning
$40 or $12 a week would you take
unto yourself a wife," and make the
only home possible for you, dirty
tenement? Would you bring children
into the world when you knew you
could not even feed and clothe them
decently, and that they would have
to become wage slaves as soon as the
law would permit them to; that if
your children were girls the chance
would be big that poverty would
force them to become prostitutes?
Don't think to throw dust in our
eyes with your sanctimonious bunk.
When your self-appointed regulators
of the peoples morals try to remove
the cause of prostitution instead of
harrassing the prostitute we may
have little confidence in you. When
your bunch posing as twentieth CEN
tury saints show us that you do not
exploit women economically your
selves, that you do not exploit the
poor by exacting the last possible
penny for rent of tenements in which
the humane officers would not allow
a farmer to keep hogs, then we of
the common herd may feel something
besides contempt for you.-A. S. Cra-
mer.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-02-02
THE PUBLIC FORUM
ECONOMIC VICTIMS.-You plead

ECONOMIC VICTlMS.-You plead
guilty, do you, Mr.. Arthur Burrage
Farwen, to standing against the Eek
pitation of women?" Do you mean
their economic exploitation by the
employers of your class that drives
them to prostitution? If so, what
have you done to stop it? If you
have done anything, the public does
not know it.
Have you endeavored to make your
millionaire friends who employ wo-
men pay them a decent living wage?
You say you know of no crime worse
than destroying girl and leaving
her to fight her own battles alone?"
The report of the vice commission
gives low wages as the principal
cause of prostitution. The employer
of women who pays a wage so low
that a woman cannot live on it, but
is forced into prostitution to get
enough money to live on, is the man
who is guilty of her destruction, so
what fine lot of criminals you have
in your class.
And you stand for the enforcement
of law? Have you made any effort
to enforce the law that requires san
itary conditions where women are
employed? Are you trying to en-
force the law that limits the hours
woman may work? Have you de-
manded the enforcement of the Mann
act against all violaters of it? Not
so any one has noticed it.
But laws are only made for the
poor to obey, and it would be sacri-
lige to enforce them against our sa-
cred swine Of the money bags. If the
gambling you stand against the pen
ny gambling of the common herd or
the gambling of the Board of Trade
in the food and necessities of life
which still farther exploits the pro-
ducers of wealth and therefore con-
tributes to prostitution? You say
this is a contest of the home against
brOfho1D To Won 1oooon
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-02-02
BRANDEIS..

BRANDEIS.-The foes of Wilson
have again taken out their hammers
to knock the appointment of Louis
D. Brandeis to the U. S. Supreme
bench.
If there has ever been any doubt
in the minds of the people that Will
son has been working in their inter-
ests that doubt should now be dis
PEELED.
Brandeis is the peoples choice, for
he is the champion of good govern
New Britain herald., 1916-12-22
Railroad Presidents "Up From the
 Ranks

An interesting and profitable half hour can be spent by taking a rail- road guide book and Who's Who in America and looking up the names and biographies of the heads of the railroads These biographies are, necessarily, of the sketchiest sort; yet one does not have to overtax his imagination to read between these prosaic lines the unpenned struggles and the unsung victories that were en- tailed in rising from the crowded slough of mediocrity: ,r=r >,.-
 Charles H. Markham, president of the Illinois Central railroad, began his railroad service as a section ~1aborer on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe.
 George B. Harris, chairman of the board of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, started his life career as an office boy with the Hannibal & St. Joseph railroad, now one of the subsidiaries of the c. B. 6s Q.
 Edward T. Stotesbury. chairman of the board of the Philadelphia & Read ing Railway, head of Drexel Morgan & Co., of Philadelphia, member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co.,, of New York, and president or director of forty-odd corporations and railroads
New Britain herald., 1916-12-22

in other cases the job can be accom- plished in half that time. General Leonard Wood holds to the belief that six months of hard military training Is enough to make a well balanced soldier of the American boy. His compatriot, General Hugh L. Scott, clings to the earlier belief that one year is necessary to make a good SOL dier out of the raw material offered by the American boy
 There are four ways in which the education of raw recruits may be con- pleted to the end that they are good soldiers.-through a course at a m1l1- tary college. in the militia, business mems camps such as Plattsburgh, or in the regular army. The latter, Of course, is recommended as the best of all training Soldiers who have been through the regular period of enlist
 m e11t insist that @ good soldier is not produced until two full years have been served in the regular service. Thus there is a wide divergence of opinion all around. The highest men in the army have ideas totally differ ent from those who serve in the ranks.
 Whatever length of time it takes can army, whether 1t be six months or six years. the fact remains that in the days to come we must, as a nation, have more men in training than there are today. Either our boys at col lege should be put through g course of military training, or the vast ma tority of them should be sent away to training camps in the summer. The problem, of course, Is intricate inas- much as there are so many who can not afford to devote two or three months every summer away from their work. Those who can do so should consider we'll the benefits to be de- rived from a session in the open air, and from the military discipline i'm posed. Either the youth of the coun- try will volunteer to undergo mili- tary training or the national congress will force compulsory enlistment upon them That seems to be in the air. To forestall such a radical step the young men of the country must evince 8 greater interest in the national de- fence and offer themselves as ready defenders of the country. If they are to be worthy defenders they must undergo regulation military training.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-22
). MCMILLAN 199-2o1-2O3 MAIN STREET.

do the insurance men find the ori- g1nal? It is to be feared that their typical American, their per capita person, 1ss an insurance type only an actuarial and not an actual man.
 There are of course. men of whom this is correct diagnosis. They ex- ist in New York and other large cities and they are paying the penalty of life of self-indulgence, a life of equal excess in the pursuit of money and of pleasure. Even they are find ing in golf and in motoring a partial antdote for the processes of decay But how negligible Is their number by comparison with the tens of mil lions of workers in industry and agri- culture the vast armies of toilers who make up the population of the United States and who more truly de- serve to be considered average Amer icans They at least are manifesting cadence. There is 8 general impress sion, indeed, that their relatively good health and length of life is what en- ables the insurance companies to show such marked prosperity
 But an insurance company which did not hold the mirror up to physical decay would be untrue to it's trad1- tions. Yet 1t Is hardly necessary to set up a bOgy-man of disease and de- crepitude as "type'' of American citizen.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-22
A Eife-Insurance Bogy-Man.
(New York Wor1d.)

Life-insurance officials are accus toned to view with alarm the physi cal condition of Americans; it is their trade, and they are exceeding apt at, it. But not often do they paint so doleful a portrait of phy- sical decrepitude as Is contained in F. E. Rittenhouse's diagnosis of the average citizen. or "per capita per- son." This typical American, it seems, is bald at forty-three from trying to crowd tire experiences of two life times into one; mltscularly weak and stiff -iointed because he never walks when he can ride; the health of his teeth and gums is impaired from eat. ing too much soft food; his digestive organs are showing signs ot rebel lion and The is seriously oVerstra1n- ing his heart, arteries kidneys, nerves and digestion.'
 A doddering and prematurely old young man, sans teeth, sans taste, sans everything at the very tune ot life when he should be in ms prlme. It is q. p.khatAa nicture. But Where
New Britain herald., 1916-12-22
A FORE1HANDED POLICY.

New Britain's policy of providing plenty of parks for the enjoyment of its citizens and it's own Identification is in keeping with the idea of the state park commission which proposes in it's annual report that Connecticut in the next ten years or 30 should spend some four or five millions of dollars for park reservations. The idea advanced by the board of economy IS that the land 1t recommends for purchase may be bought cheaper within the next few years than it can fifty years from date. During the past two years the sum of 32e,O0O was spent for land in the upstate region and these parkg are among the most wonderful spots in the state. When private individuals make the surrounding country more beautiful to behold, by castles and residences studded here and there, the relative value of the state reserva- tons will be infinitely higher than now.
 There may be some question as to just how these reservations of noun tain. lake, and seashore property should come about, whether through an issue of bonds or in some other way: there is no question that the l state should exercise a policy of l foresight and purchase or secure op- 1 tions on the land 1t desires to set
 aside for the benefit of the people.
 The city of New Britain can also act
 in the same fashion as it has in the l past and render a great service to l generations to come. Property that
 can be secured today at a nominal
 cost may not be purchased for six
 times its present value in fifty years 1 from now. Past experience points to l the truth of this There are sections
 of this city today in the midst of resi-
 dential plots that could have been l purchased by the acre twenty years ago. This land now sells by the square 1 foot We must look to the future al- 1 ways.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-22
THE TRUTH OF IT.

Lansing was probably bnewhat nasty in giving voice to h assertion that more and more |r own rights are becoming involved the belligerents on both sides, v |d because of this i've are drawing hrer the verge of war ourselves ' lis not the language that a diplomat brld use in explaining any action a government; but it has the sav- grace of truth, inasmuch as the Iited States has ever been on the Igea of the prectpice. We might I've fallen into the pit at any mo- l nt. Had 1t not been for the pa :nce exercised by the executive head this government our people would
 all probability be fighting today
 one side or the other. Every pos- Ie means were employed to drag ] United States into the war. If 1t to continue, as there seems no Il 3t IL WILL, Cnotl L1tS ohtCOo S'o0
 st know what is coming. The esident's note does not profess to
 peace overture. It does not
 n offer mediation. But it does
 for a definite assertion by all con-
 ned as to what are the purposes
 will keep the war alive. If there eoing to be anymore ruthless war e, the United States simply wants
 fighters to understand that the
 rts of this governm ent must not
 trsnpied on. The Secretary of |se's supplemental statement took
 sting out of his first utterances;
 the truth of those first words will
 on down the months or years un-
 the war iS over.