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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-13
AVOID IRRESPONSIBILITY, COUNSEIS CYNTHIA.


Young women like to consider themselves delight
fully irresponsible For so, they fancy, likes
them best. Heplessness makes great part Of the
Juvenile charm which it is the fashion for men
to regard as the choicest of feminine assets
The butterfly ideal of female perfection doubtless
works its prenuptial spell we'll as any other. But
after marriage if the husband has ordinary business
ability, he begins to count the comforts which
the extra dividends of matrimony.
And too often he can't find any. The butterfly
aimlessness which hypnotized him completely is
suddenly revealed to him as plain lazness
Such Incidence douby conspicuous the speedd
all the industrious persons of both sexes
At present, there is a warscarciy of housemaids.
Those be had demand extraordinary Consequently
wives who brought
the burden keeping the cooking
and washing up those dreadful dishes after each meal
They haven't the will acquire the skill Of the
hired maid
Chaos prevails in many which planned
gether perfect.
a
hold considerably disappointed
the fall their jobs
They continue bring unopened pay envelope.
They for the groceries, hats and gasoline their
o DO.
The tragedy staged by no
Often they ruled college graduates
all
who can tell the difference between hygiene
ton"
But they have ORDER besides being
heavens first law. is the basis of all art
Uttered living dining a
make poor background for a beautiful woman
they of
the wife who remains compaceny
that her husband be above par good provider"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-13
Time Waits For Nobody

Washington the federal authorities responsible
the industries about to adopt methods
dealing with industrial unrest The policy strikes against
w W. agtator be there recognition the
underlying wages
keep with the rising living.
As this nmated weeks especially regard the
of the Southwest Northwest
federal authorities have pull the tooth Ran in
W. w leaders hasn't relieved the industrial ache jusab tho
authorities
right policy they readust
cost
The plan under consideration fix standard of given
equations than which standard the shall
under permission This the basis of Great Bans of
dealing with industrial but it's efficacy wholly
control of profits To control undertaking.
especially valuable
government is time We the and install
plan to quiet industrial unrest in respect labor generally but ITALY Rus
entirety immediate all
industries directly engaged material especially ships
Our should itself with
problem but only time by dealing with
in heroic fashion The federal authorities having decided that
Communicating institution producing essentials Particularly
this their allied
Ships finally problem In April when declared the kaiser
said Too late! He betting his Uboat insignificant
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-13

an outside says:
81 have not written you this,
Mrs. Margie, because / am looking
either for your criticism or your
sympathy. l think / have written
it most of all because | wanted to
clear up certain points In my own
mind. OF course, the thing was
all wrong from the first. | should
never have become interested in
the man, but you must remember
that great interest is not born in
day, and l was not aware that
l loved him until it was too late.
who is to blame for the de-
plorable affair?
Il confess l think the blame
lies equally on the man, his wife
and myself. Dear Mrs. Margie, IL
you should ever write another
Paula story will you please bring
in the fact that wife owes more
to her husband than merely i'm
peccable virtue; that a husband
owes more to his wife than mere
ly her keep, extravagant as 1t may
be; that society owes more to the
woman outside than the COM
mand that she shall not come be-
tween husband and wife no matter
how much their bonds chafe?"
Ito Be Oontinued,)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-13
WHO Is TO BLAME?

"That woman is all right" said
Dick in commenting on the WON
an outside's" determination to
forget. There is no whimpering
regret in her. like her.
$50 do 1, Dick. And she made
good her threat. Here is what
she says:
Presently, man of-mine-no-
longer she says to him, i am go
ing to walk thru this crowded
dining room to that door, where !
shall leave you with smile. the
same smile with which l babe you
&C 7dbye many times, expecting to
see you in a few hours again. But
there will be this difference, in
convenientest, l hope that as |
leave you at that door today will
never look upon your face again
or at least that will never again
clasp your hand until l can do 1t
with the same impersonal contact
that l give to the most casual
acquaintance
You cannot do 1t. Even you
cannot call upon your will power.
strong as 1t Is, to that extent!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-13
CONffSXlONSoEaWIf6
" I shall try

shall try
MRS. Margie, l put my coffee
cup softly down without tremor,
and rose. The man who was mine
no longer followed me to the
door. l turned with a smile and
clasped his hand: Goodbye, In
convenientest, l said.
For the first time in all our
acquaintance my smile was not
answered by the most beautiful
smile l have ever seen on human
face. He grew pale, looked at me
curiously, almost with the ques-
tioning glance of child who does
not know il it is being leased or
not, and then seeing that it was
grim reality, he murmured,'
Goodbye and God bless you and
keep you safe ever and left me.
II have not seen him since,
Mrs. Margie."
well, 1t is a great story" said
Dick as he rose to call the porter
to make up our beds. "But just
the same, Margie, l do not believe
that any of those people are aver
age types"
why not?" I asked.
"In the first place, they are all
too analytical. The woman out
side might discuss the matter in
the way she does. l think, under
the same circumstances, you might
do that, Margie, but | don't be-
iieve the man would ever set him
self down In black and white for
anyone. even II he expected the
person written to would never be
able to pick him olt of the
crowd. Men, my dear, are not so
ready to chronicle and label their
mistakes"
But. Dick, don't you see that
this man does not think he has
made any mistakes? He has SIM
ply been the sport Of Fate, or at
least he thinks he has been
given blindly a little happiness and
then had 1t jerked away from him
for no reason whatever.
There Is little more to read,"
said to Dick after the porter
had left. "In her letter the 'wom-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-13

A friend of mine is separated
from his wife, but not divorced.
His daughter also has left her
husband. His daughter re-
Gently is receiving attention
from another man, and her IA
Their is very angry about it. He
has called her the lowest and
vilest names and speaks terri
bly, about her mother. At the
same time this father is receiv-
ing daily letters from an unmar-
ried woman, carries her picture
about with him and wears her
gifts. He is much offended at
the stand l take, that they are
both doing wrong, and that the
woman receiving his attention
should receive the same censure
he gives his young daughter. l
wish your opinion. JUSTICE.
You are absolutely right and IL
Is hard to understand the reason
SO many men condemn their own
women folk for acts which the,
cOndOne i'm themselves. He should
In a much gentler manner, how.
ever, urge his daughter to refuse
attention from any other man as
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-13

She can knit a sock in two
hours, beginning Just after the
dinner dishes are washed, and
ending half an hour before the
stroke of 8.
The reason she knits so fast
she says, is because she learned to
knit when she was but a wee bit
of a lass. They taught her to
knit in Scotland when she was a
child, and not until the knitting
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-13

lesson was mastered each day
could she race across the fields OF
purple heather with her play
mates.
"Wi tn thots of play before us
we wad knit and knit" says she.
At present she is knitting
socks for Sammies, and holds the
record for the largest number of
socks knitted by an individual
sock knitter in the west.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-13
Will Introduce Bill
For New Army Post Road

The Commercial club commit
tee on the army post road is plan
ming to have bill introduced
when congress meets next month
providing an appropriation for
new military road from Tacoma
to Camp Lewis. 1t is expected
the bill will have the recon-
mendation of Maj. Gen Greene
and the war department,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-13
tSOCi6N

Women of Troop Ii to meet ut
2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at
home of Mrs. r. w. Jones, 1901
9th av.
Mrs. H. Il. Snyder will enter
tain Vida cadets, o. e. s., Thurs
day afternoon.
The Women's Legislative Coun-
Gil of Washington has issued a
call for second conference to
be held at the Women's clubhouse,
Tacoma, at 1920 next Monday.
Mrs. Paul Savidge will enter
tain at luncheon at II o'clock Sa.-
urday at her home, 2124 North
Steele ST., for all Delta Gamma
members of Tacoma and Camp
Lewis.
Women's league of G. p. 8. to
hold rummage sale Friday and
Saturday at 1911 Center st.
Central w. G. T. U. will meet
at 1 o'clock Thursday at the home
OF Mrs. Sarah e. Shorthill, GOT
South X ST., to sew for the SOL
diers at Camp Lewis.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-13
Especial to The Timos.l
Mrs. Gilbert and her

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Nov.
13.-When Mrs. Isabella Gilbert, a
jolly Scotch matron not long since
from the bonnis highlands of auld
country, knits she knits.
In fact, Mrs. Gilbert, now of
Salt Lake City. Utah, is consider
ed quite the fastest little knitter
in the west.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-13

Should one give presents at
an engagement reception or at
the wedding? DOUBTFUL.
Engagement gifts are usually
confined to flowers or simple or
symbolic articles for the personal
use of the young woman. Wedding
gifts are Of greater value and are
adapted to use by both the bride
and groom.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-13
long as she is bound by the mar
riage ties. And to be consistent
he must follow his own advice.

l have kept steady company
with a young man who has now
Joined the army. I have prom
Used to wait for him. Is it
right to go out with other young
men when l have promised him
/ will wait for him? ANXIOUS.
1t would not be right to accept
attention from others, but
you may go out occasionally with
other friends without being dis
loyal to the man i'm the army.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-13
ASTHMA SUFFERER

WRITE TODAY and I will tell you
of the simple home treatment for
asthma and bronchitis which has
cured many after physicians and
change of climate failed. I want
you to try 1t at my expense. Drop
me card and I'll mail you a Csc
sample bottle FREE. Geo. J.
Thomassen, Box A-220, Des
Moines. Iowa.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-13
New York Gives Women Vote

The empire state OF the union has reversed its
overwhelming decision against woman suffrage
of two years ago and has given the women the
vote by comfortable majority. The overtum
was not confined to any one locality. The cause
of the women not only heavily supported in
New York city, but in many of the counties of the
state.
All of the old elements of opposition were busy
the reactionaries, the red-light and gambling
contingents, the crooked politicians. But there
was powerful support on the other side. Presi-
dent Wilson and many of his cabinet officers de-
clared for suffrage. Many Of the prominent re-
publicans of the state favored it. Every candi-
date for the mayoralty of New York city voted
for it.
The result was splendid response on the
part of the electorate to intelligent, earnest
never-ceasing campaign on the part of the
women. They never knew when they were beaten
The day after their last defeat they started right
in on fresh campaign. Nightly on street car
ners on crowded Broadway, they set forth their
case to New Workers. They canvassed the state
from end to end 1t was Sheer honest persist
ence in great cause that won.
The results will not bring about millennium in
the state, but they are likely to bring about eff
fects that are far-reaching.
Woman, more interested in the home, in the
safeguarding of childhood and young woman
hood, in everything that makes the humane APP
peal, will be sure to make her influence and her
vote felt. she VIII make light against white
slavery, against poor factory regulations,
against the exploiters of human beings. She will
make it harder for Tammany to come back in the
future-unless Tammany reforms. She will have
small patience with officials who protect vice,
who wink their eye at all the violations of laws
whose object is to protect workers.
The cause of human progress thruout the ma
ton will be gamer because of the woman's vic
tory in New York
The New York woman who scorns alimony in he
|vorce petition ought to have no trouble in re
arryng.
The story we Americans like best in our evening,
Iper contains but three words Haig hammers Huns
with turkey at 40 cents no,1nd ifs Yafrotc eliro
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-13

The story we Americans like best in our ev,
loper contains but three words Haig hammers
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-13

Mrs. H. Il. Snyder will enter
tain Vida cadets, o. e. s., Thurs
day afternoon.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-13

Begins to look as if the kaiser considered
nitable 'spot in the sun.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-13

Washington D. g., will be "dry'' hereafter un
n congress gets back, next month"; with its good old
fIIosk in its inside pocket.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-13

The New York woman who scorns alimony in her
dfvorce petition ought to have no trouble in re-
lnnrrying
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-13

With turkey at 40 cents pound it's patriotic elm
lnation from the festal board is duty unusually
61oasant
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1917-01-19

NOT in a frenzy Of glory and sud.
den death, but in the long, long
agony of waiting.
A woman shall not vote because
she has no part in war! Say that
she shall not vote because she has
not sense enough, because she has
not character enough, because she
has not integrity enough, because
she has not virtue enough. But
let no man say that she who drains
the dregs OF the cup of dread
where be has merely blown the
foam shall not have the right
equally with him Of saying wheth.
er, another time, the cup shall
pass them by.-Tennessean and
American.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1917-01-19
ADVERTISING RATES, EFFECTIVE DEC. /, 1916

to have gone before the legislature
and thrown the force of his opposi-
ton against the $50 per member
stamp appropriation. But that's
past now. He can, however, if be
wants to do noble part toward
the taxpayers, wage a relentless
war against the useless expendi-
ture OF large sums for finely en-
boseed stationary, for useless port
ers, for sinecure office holders and
assistants to office holders, which
places in many instances have
been created simply to pay cam
paign obligations.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1917-01-19

The last issue OF the Covington
Leader carried a statement OF the
financial report Of the Civington
Supply Company, Upton county's
largest mercantile establishment,
known to every man, woman and
child in that county. The state
ment was made by the treasurer
that the company had sold a grand
total of $180,000 worth OF dry
goods, clothing, shoes, etc., during
the year 1916. This firm is the
largest advertiser in West Tennes-
see. 1t carries from half q page to
a full page in each issue Of both
the Covington newspapers. These
newspapers get bigger price for
their advertising than any of the
other West Tennessee papers
they also get more advertising. If
a firm doing a $18O,000 yearly
business needs to advertise, what
about those not so we'll known? Ifit
pays this well-known, popular
firm to advertise, what about the
merchants OF all the other towns?
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1917-01-19

Col. VIM. F. Cody, known to
thousands throughout the United
States and Europe simply as
Buffalo Bill" died last week at
the home of his sister in Denver,
Colo, and in his passing the ma
ton has lost one Of her most pic
turesque characters. Buffalo
Bill" grew up on the western
frontier with the Indians. He
engaged in many a battle to SUBJ
due the Indians in the early days
Of his life, thus proving his cour-
age and his skill with the rifle.
He was we'll known, familiar
character, and there is hardly a
child in the nation that does not
know of Buffalo Bill"
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1917-01-19
We've had the Town Beauti.

We've had the Town Beauti
full" alright this week-beautifu
to a depth Of eight or ten inches
all on the side walks and pave.
ments, and allowed to remain I'm.
molested. Even with our mgni-
dcient systems Of water works and
electric lights we're forced to wade
snow knee deep for days and days.
Suppose we had two systems OF
waterWorks and lights, what on
earth would become of US? Bust
ness has been paralized, the school
was paralized-everything para
LIKED because people could not get
through the deep snow on the
pavements.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1917-01-19
LET'S CUT EXPENSES.

Gov. Rye is really and truly sim
cere in his plea for an economic
administration, only in his recon-
mendations he does not 60 far
enough. He ought to 60 before the
legislature and make personal
fight for a reduction of expenses
all the way down the line, This
would mean the cutting off Of
half a dozen useless porters at the
capitol, each drawing 81 per day;
it would mean cutting out several
dozen useless offices and numbers
of assistants to office holders about
the state house; it would mean an
exconomic expenditure upon the
part OF all state officials and insti-
tutions. For instance: Every lit
tie two-by.iour office holder IN the
state, even to the superintendent
of the state institutions, uses the
most expensive embossed and en-
graved office stationery, which
costs from $14 to $18 the one
thousand, whereas, neatly printed
stationey costs but $3.50 per one
thousand, Yet, every office holder
buys the most expensiye-Which
the taxpayers have to pay for,
when back home" most ct 'em
used either paper sacks or other
peoples printed stationery. There
are half a dozen big printing estab-
lishments in Nashville getting rich
off the state for this very expen.
sive brand Of printing. thought to
be cut out, if we are going to econ
omize.
Then, there are number otuse-
less Offices and many assistants to
Office holders that the knife ought
to be applied to. Every office in the
state capitol has from one to half
a dozen assistants that ought to
be removed from the state pay roll
and these "hangers-on" about the
state capitol forced to go to work.
0, there are so many ways that
the state could be saved hundreds
yea, thousands-of dollars annual
ly If the governor would only see
it that way. The governor ought
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1917-01-19
Insolvency Notice.

The insolvency of the estate of I. G
Speights, deceased, having been sug-
gested to W. ]. Jeter, clerk OF the
county court of Weakley county,
Tenn, by Mrs. Edna speights, adj
ministratrix of said estate, this is,
therefore, to notify all parties holding
claims against the said estate to file
the same, authenticated in the man
ner prescribed by law, with the said
W. D. Jeter, at his office in the court
house in Dresden, on or before April
l5, 1917, or the same will be forever
barred in law and equity.
This, Jan. 10, 1917.
4l'4t MRS. EDNA sPEIGHTs,
Administrative.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1917-01-19

We don't want our friends
among woman suffrage leaders to
think that we hold anything
against them or their principles,
but we do think it was awfullY sill
ly in those misguided cats who
way.laid President Wilson in
Washington a few days ago with
large banners demanding to know
what he was going to do for the
cause. The organization isn't
strong enough yet, it seems, to
have learned conservatism.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1917-01-19
WAR. WOMEN AND THE BAL.

LOT.
Only those who can bear arms
should have voice in deciding
questions which may lead to war,
or in enacting laws which may re-
| quire soldiers, sheriffs, posses and
policemen for their enforcement.
That sentence is taken from
somewhere near the middle OF a
twenty-three.page pamphlet en-
titled, An Address to the Men Of
Tennessee on Female Suffrage"
Yet that is the entire address.
The rest is mere wrappings, be-
foulded in spots. Had the gentle
man who wrote it been trained in
newspaper office to the use OF as
few words as will express an idea,
instead Of in a law court to the
making Of every idea pack horse
for all the words it will carry, he
would have written just that SEN
tence and then "Finis." Unless,
perhaps, his microscopic idea
stripped Of its thick swathings Of
cotton wool, he had realized that
the thing was not worth writing
at all.
Yet, that little idea will carry a
terrific appeal to some men-those
men who never see in feminity
anything save the physical wo.
man, the comforter OF mans
couch, the bearer Of his sons, the
keeper Of his cave. High callings,
to be sacred, holy, divine,
but those things because OF what
the woman is, over and above the
physical.
Is there any man who thinks
that the physical force Of war is all
there is, or even the determining
part, OF winning a war or Of losing
it, that the men who stand in the
trenches fight the war alone? Or,
if it is considered that the man
who stands in the trenches fights
the war alone, there comes the
question OF why be stands there
instead of running away like a
white-livered coward. And the
why of that traces back to a fire.
side, and a mothers admonition
that her boy must never flee a
duty.
The contention that women
should have no right in govern
ment because they cannot go to
war comes SO ungratefully from
the lips OF any southerner. The
South did not send its women to
war, yet all the high.souled chiv.
airy Of its men could not keep the
war from coming to its women
They bore of the physical suffer
ing Of that war not one whit less
than the men.
That sort Of thing is occurring
now in every warning nation in
Europe. From the cliffs Of Calais
to the Russian steppes, from the
Kiel canal to the olive groves Of
Sicily, there are Spartan mothers
sending their soldiers to the front.
They are paying the price of war
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1917-01-19

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