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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-07
GIRLS LETTERS.
BY poRoT'Y DIX.
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman
Writer.

IT is good news to hear that the gen
eral government is going to put
j stop TO the maudlin and perniclous
correspondence between women and
men convicts in ?enitentiaries and
jails.
Strange as il may seem to the aver
49, age healthy minded individual, a so
ciety for promoting letter writing be-
tween respectable women and the
male inmates OF penal institutions
exists. II is called the Oriental ESQ
teric Literary League Of Washington,
and il sends out circulars to women
drawing a pathetic picture Of the sad
and lonely life OF the men behind the
bars, telling how greatly they would
be cheered and upliftcd by receiving
letters from some pure young girl or
some woman with a warm, tender,
sympathetic heart and asking such
women to adopt" a convict and write
to him regularly.
And all over the country thousands
of silly geese of females who think
only with their emotions have res
pended to this appeal and carried on
a heart-to-heart correspondents with
gentlemen whose permanent address
es are Sing Sing, or Joliet. or Leaven-
worth, or Atlanta, or Trenton, or
some other place which is a winter
and summer resort for murderers,
burglars and white slavers. .-
IL seemed to these women that 1t
was such a little thing to write a let
ter and, of course, they reasoned that
il must be terribly dull, being shut up
in prison, not being able to go to pink
teas and bridge parties and matinees
and so on, and il must be perfectly
lovely to get letters, especially from
strangers. So they picked out their
pet convict and proceeded to cheer
him up with libations of ink, without
ever stopping to think that the mere
fact that the men to whom they we're
writing were convicted criminals was,
of itself. an all sufficient reason why
no decent woman should correspond
with them.
Neither did they pause to. reflect
on the trouble and danger they were
LAYING up for themselves. For natu-
rally the very first thing that the bur-
pIar or the white SLAYER would think
Of doing after he served out his term,
would be of repairing at once to the
home of the gentle correspondent who
had manifested so warm an interest
in him while he was in prison and
Who SHOULD stand ready, by all rules
Of logic, to extend him q warm well
come and a helping hand.
What such woman would really
do when her ex-conyict appeared on
the scene with HIS prison pallor and
his furtive look would be to scream
for help. But it would not make her
sleep the sweeter to recall that the
man possessed a thick packet Of more
or less sentimental letters that she
had written him, which would prove
exceedingly interesting reading to her
dear five hundred friends.
That the law has to stop with its
heavy hand the correspondence be-
tween mice" women and criminals is
commentary on feminine intelli.
gence that makes every sensible wo-
man blush with shame for her sex.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-07

! Also II calls attention anew to a fem
mime weakness against which every
woman should guard herself, and ev-
cry mother, in especial, should guard
| her d.:ugEter.
And that is letter writing. Ink goes
to a woman's head Ike a strong drink
and steals away her reason, her judg-
ment and her good tas :. Let woman
! set herself down at a desk with a
ream of fair paper spread before her,
al inexhaustible ink PIT and smooth
glowing pen, and the things she writes
she wouldn't believe of herself the
next day. even when she sees it down
in black and white over her own sig.
nature.
Size has tossed discretion to the
winds. She has kissed reserve and
feminine coyneEJ and reluctance good
by. She has confided secrets she new
er meant to tell md written things
that she would have bitten her tongue
off before she would have said. Worse
still she has put the loud pedal on all
of her emotions and sentiments and
exaggerated them to the highest de-
gree. $3.50
Why women do this only God who
contrived the puzzle Of feminine psy-
chology knows. Perhaps the best
guess at the riddle is that every wo-
man is at heart a poet and novelist
and that it is only In her letters that
she finds a vent for the bubbling and
seething sentimentality and romance
that is bottled up within her.
She hasn't the nerve to express
herself in high fallutin' phrases in
face to face talk with anyone. Nor
in ordinary convers ton could she
rhapsodize over nature or paint lurid
pictures of her own soul hunger and
yearnings after tho whatness Of the
what She knows people would laugh
at her. l.. <
But when she sits down to write a
letter all restraints are off. It's the
open season for a woman making as
big fool of herself as she can and
going as far as she likes. Thus 1t
happens mat a woman will write a
man letters breathing the most pas
sionate vows of devotion when she
really isn't in love with him at all, or
she will pen discriminating things that
she has to buy back with good
money, not because she was swept off
of her feet by the destinations of the
man, but by the fascination Of writ.
ing. ".........
In neither case did she mean what
she wrote, but it Just looked so good
on paper she didn't have the strength
Of mind not to send Il.
Hence these tears, and much of the
thriving trade in blackmail. Nor is the
fatal folly Of letter writing confined
to women, as witness the missives
that form Exhibit A and Exhibit B in
breach of promise cases in which cid
erly millionaires have signed them.
selves "your itty bity title Boy Blue"
and have been guilty Of other epis-
tolary rashness that the Jury assesses
in hard dollars and cents.
In one of Rosa Broughton's novels
there is depicted charming heroine
who was a great fIirt, with whole bat.
talions of lovers signing at her feet
and 1t was this delightful damsers
wont to say:
mo matter what may have said to
a man, thank God there il not scrap
of my handwriting In the whole length
and breadth of England" .. tr...
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-07
GENERAL PETAIN RAISES
BIG VEGETABLE GARDEN

PARIS. France, July s.-The gems
eral in chief Of the French army 10
becoming the first gardener of France.
He is raising, under his own super
vision, enough vegetables to supply
the entire general staff.
When General Petain arrived az
the simple villa now serving as gem
eral headquarters he found spacious
lawns and flower gardens. He OBJ
tanned permission from the broprie.
tor to dig them up. Roses and ether
climbing plants have been replaced
by beams, peas, cabbage, tomatoes
and potatoes.
The general is out at daylight every
morning inspecting his crops and III.
recting the work of soldiers VINO oe.
cupy their leisure off duty wedding
and eultivating the garden.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-07

on word from home"
-. July Fl. 1917.
Dear Mother:
Il had my first blowout today and
it took me just three quarters of an
hour to fix it. That is not bad for
this style Of rim. We had an inspec-
ton this afternoon which just missed
by coming here. l stopped a little
way back to lend cyclist my pump.
discovered the regiment coopera-
tive this afternoon so l am now
munching mediocre French choco-
lates Strangely enough l feel almost
satisfied tonight.
81 had to stop last night because
it became so dark At $50 this morn
ing had call and did not get back
until $3.50. Then l had a piece of
bread and a cup of coffee.
"A few minutes ago a Boche avion
few over. He was nearer than any
of the others I have ever seen. He
dove and twisted so that in spite of
all the shells, he got away with it.
Some shells certainly did explode
close to him.
"You might send me some nice
strong flea powder if you find it con-
venient. l do not know what bit me
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-07
MOLDS
PRISONERS into
CHOIRAT Church

Trained by Father valentin for the
prison choir, certain inmates Of the
territorial penitentiary who are serv.
ing various sentences for several
years, are paroled every Sunday In o.
der that they can go out to the
Catholic chapel at Waikiki and sing
In the choir.
Two or three times each week
Father yalentin goes down to the
penitentiary to lead the prison choir
In practice. And then he goes down
there on Sunday morning to conduct
the service at which they sing.
Two or three OF the men are Poi
rolled to sing at his chapel In WAIKIKI,
and formerly, when there were many
good voices among the men In Jail,
the entire choir would go to the
church on Sunday to sing in the choir
for the priest who had devoted hts
time to them.
From s to II o'clock each Sunday
morning services are held by SIX dit.
ferent organizations IN the prison forl
the inmates Services are conducted
in Filipino, Of whom there are more
than Of any other nationality; In
Korean, In Japanese. and In English
by the Y. NJ. C. A., Salvation Army
and Father Valentin. Sometimes SER
vices are conducted In Hawaiian.
When asked how well attended they;
were, Sheriff William P. Jarrett stated
that often there we're large groups at
tending. while at other times very few
went. There are always enough there's
however, to conduct the service.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-07

/ commend this young woman as a
model to all girls. Say what you
please to men, but don't write it. Talk
| sentiment if you must, but for Heaven
sake, don: put gooey stuff down on
paper. Your own love letters may
read to you like poetry that has got
Tennyson backed off Of the library
shelf, but did you ever read anything
that was such silly twaddle as the
love letters that other girls write to
men and that men show to prove
what heart smashers they are?
Dear girls, that's the way your let
tiers look to the cold dispassionate
eye Of the strangers who are permit.
ted to peruse them. And don't de-
Jude yourself with the idea that only
the man that they are written to sees
them. He may not be cad enough to
deliberately show them, but all men
are careless and all men leave letters
around in old coat pockets and bureau
drawers and on the top Of desks for
any prying office boy or chambermaid
to read who so desires.
When you correspond with a man,
even when you are engaged TO MIN,
let your letter be as brief and terse
as a military despatch So shall you
save yourself from many regrets. And
never write a man but one letter to
his two. So shall you keep him inter
ested in the correspondence.
And when the temptation to slop all
over many sheets of papers with
hectic sentiments is upon you too
strong to be resisted, write it all out,
seal your letter and put it in the ice
box for twenty-four hours. So shall
you be prevented from making a fool
Of yourself, for you will meyer send
1t after you re-read it in the cold
gray light of the morning after.
And never, never write letters to
strangers, or criminals, or anyone with
whom you have not some close per-
sonal tie, and whose whole history you
do not know.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-07

helped thouSanus, YOUNG anu Ofds
They are the most widely used rem
edy for bad backs and weak kidneys
in the whole world.
"When Your Back 10 lame-Re.
member the Name" DoAN's BACK.
ACHE KIDNEY PILLS. Sold by ali
druggists at Soc box (six boxes
s2.5o), or mailed on receipt Of price
by the HoIIister Drug Co, or Benson,
Smith q Co, agents for the Hawaiian
IsIanda
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-07
Ladies Read This

You are cordially invited to attend
the Grand Military Ball to be given
by Frederick Funston Post, Veterans
Of Foreign Wars, at the Armory, Sat.
urday Eve, Sept. s, 1917. Good music
an! perfect order assured. Admission
80 cents. Ladies free.-Adv. 5
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-07
Keep Young

Just as well be
young at seventy
as old at fifty.
NJ any people
past middle age
suffer lame, bentf
aching backs.
and distressing
urinary dpsor-
ders, when a lit
tie help for the
kid n eys would
fix 1t all up.
Don't wait for
gravel, dropsy or
Bright's disease
to get a start.
Use Doan's Back.
q c b e Kidn Q y
Pills. They have
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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-07
July %, 1917.

Dear Mother: -. .
Yesterday they moved all the in.
habitants out of the village north of
here and today the White truck is
working carrying supplies. We hope
for some doings soon. All indications
seem to show that sometime the
French are going to return the gas.
The medicine division says we are
going to have much to do soon.
Last night a Boche aviator made
a very daring raid on an aviation field
near here and got away with 1t. He
flew overhead very close as we could
tell by the sound, though we couldn't
see him. +. p. H.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-07

on my wrist but it swelled so that I
had to let out my wrist watch band
two notches. - 49," ..
Il am getting so that French gram
mar doesn't worry me in the least.
l just string along row of nouns
and verbs. A Frenchman has par
ticular gesture for every thought and
emotion. When he talks about money
he rubs his fingers together. When
he talks about atrocities he shakes
his hands as we would if we touched
something hot"
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-07
HonoluIan Gets Letter From
Cousin Who is Doing Her
Bit in Helping Allies

France is full of Americans, accord.
ing to a letter received this week
by OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ]. B.
Clarke of Honolulu from his cousin,
Lauriet La1e, a member of the Unit
ed States sanitary section now in
France. The letter is one of series
sent by the young ambulance driver
to his parents and then forwarded
here. ... s.... 49,. -:
All of the letters are full Of inter-
esting facts concerning the life there,
with bits occasionally deleted by the
censor. They show a remarkable
talent for observation on the part or
the writer as well as the power of
narrative and description. Bits from
them follow: ....:..#.
July IA, 1917.
Dear Mother: ..-... ~ 81
"Yeu remember the letter I wrote
describing the similarity Of my sit
uation to Bouldercroft. / am now in
the same place and it Is more similar
for it is very hot and there are many
flies. / have just come back from
two and a half days in Paris. In Par
is had wonderful time, but strange
ly enough | found myself glad to get
back. While Ve were there the Ger
mans launched an attack near here.
The official communique of July IL
said north Of here. .... ....
They took some prisoners. The at
tack was for that purpose. They
wanted to find out if fighting divi-
sion was opposite them. The attack
did not amount to much for us, merely
q days work for three cars. "
81 stopped here to buy a briquet, a
cigar or cigarette lighter that l shall
never use. Many of them are made
by the poilus in their spare time.
paid five days for IA days work. 1t
is miniature helmet. / shall give, it
away to some gentleman friend in the
states. ..... 49,.
Il could tell you lots of interesting
things about Americans in France.
The most can say is that France is
full of them. Across from me some
Frenchmen are making some portable
barb wire -entanglements. -.~.' -...-. X
I'VE had a banquet this noon to
celebrate the 14th. The added at.
fractions we're lamb instead of beef,
white wine and individual American
flags ....
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-07

Copyright, 1917, by The Wheeler Syn
dictate, Inc.)
Dorothy Dix's articles appear regu,
larly in this paper every Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-07

The Right Medicine in Many Cases
Does Better than the Surgeons
Knife. Tribute to Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.


Des Moines, Iowa.--aMy husband says would
have been In my grave today had it not been fol
Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound. / sui.
fered from serious female trouble and the doctors
said could not live one year without an operation
My husband objected to the operation and had me
try Lydia 4. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound.
soon commenced to get better and am now well
and able to do my own Homework. can recon,
mend Lydia E. Pinkhamis Vegetable Compound to
any woman as wonderful health restorer.n-Mrs.
BLANCHE JEFFERSON, 7O3 Lyon st, Des Moines, Iowa.
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Another Operation Avoided.

Richmond Ind-aFor years sick and weak from
female troubles that when going stairs had to slowly
doctor said he thought should have operation and friends
thought would not live to into house. My daughter
asked try Lydia Pkhams Vegetable Compound
taken it with good results did weakness dsppeared
gained In strength moved into home do all kinds garden
and raised hundreds of chickens and ducks cannot
enough praise of Lydia RnkhamS Vegetable Compound
NJ o. JOHNSTON, Route d. Box 100, Richmond Ind.
OF course there many serious that only
surgical operation will relieve. We freely acknowledge
this but the above letters, and many others like Them
amply prove that many operations recommended when
medicine In many cases is all that is needed.
you want special write to Lydia e.
cine (confdentaD Lynn, Mass Your letter opened
read and answered and held In confidence
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July Is, 1917.

Dear Mother: 49,. 3
THE day before yesterday, the
18th, l drove steadily from IL noon
to 1880 p. m, but l haven't moved
since. It is a fact that l haven't seen
a shell exploded since I've been here,
except anti-aircraft Shells"
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of attacks that never come off, and
on word from home"
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July 20, 1917.
Dear Father: .:
The place / went to was near
Meaux. had charge Of the squad in
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Misfortune is the bosom friend Of the man
who didn't think ANONYMOUS.
Morris tribune., 1917-08-03
NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION
FOR THE FORMATION OF
DRAINAGE AND FLOOD CON-
TROL DTSTRTCI

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
there has been filed in my office petit
ton for the formation of a drainage
and flood control district comprising
territory located within the following
counties in the State Of Minnesota.
namely, the counties of Big Stone, Lac
qui Parle, Traverse, Stevens, Swift and
Chippewa; and said petitions having
and 18th Judicial Districts, an order has
been made thereon and filled in my Office
fixing the time and place for hearing
upon said petition of which the follow
ing is a copy
State of Minnesota,
Gn11rnt1r Of Gtnrnn
Morris tribune., 1917-08-03
Kissed the Flag

According to the Boyd Bulletin,
Ferdinand Teigen of MontevideO
aroused considerable indignation at
a meeting held there recently under
the auspices of the Non-Partisan
League, by his TRADE against the
government in general and against
Senator Kellogg, Congressman Vol
stead, Governor Burnquist and At
torney General Lyndon A. Smith in
particular.
In concluding his attack he is re-
ported to have said, mot an honest
one among them-rOtten, rotten to
the core" In speaking of the Lib
erty Bonds he characterized them
as in favor of the rich and against
the poor and in mentioning the acts
of the president he said decisively
And they call this a war for dem
ocracy's sake. l am 27 years old and
for me it is either to go to France
and get shot to pieces or go to Jail,
and CONSUMPTION reminds me of rop-
ing cattle and dragging them in"
After the meeting groups of in
dignant citizens gathered on the
street and is was suggested that the
hpeaker be invited to apologize for
his anti-government unpatriotic and
un-American remarks. 1t was argued
that in these trying times such utter
ances at a public meeting should not
go unprotected and as the speakers
had said nothing in favor of the flag,
it was decided that an apology was
necessary and that he be invited to
kiss the flag.
Thereupon a procession was formed
and with the constable carrying the
flag, they marched back to the hall
where Teigen was told of their con-
illusions and he thereupon kissed the
flag and the party left with cheers
for our country and the flag.
Morris tribune., 1917-08-03
sHERIPF's SALE OF REAL ESTATE
UNDER JUDGMENT OF FORE
CTOSuRE

State of Minnesota, County of Stew
ems, SIS. f. .-.
In District Court, Sixteenth Judicial
District. s-"
William r. Baysinger, Plaintiff,
Mrs c.. A. Green and John A. Witte,
Defendants.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That
under and by virtue of a judgment and
decree entered in the above entitled ac-
ton on the goth day of June A. D., 1917,
a certified transcript of which has been
delivered to me, I, the undersigned,
Sheriff of said Stevens County, in the
State of Minnesota, will sell at public
auction, 20 the highest bidder for cash,
on Saturday, the 18th day of September
A. d.. 1917, at 10 o'clock in the fore
noon of said day, at the front door of
the Court House in the City of Morris,
in said Stevens County, in one parcel
the premises and real estate described
as follows. viz
The Northeast quarter (NEA) of
section Twenty-one (2D, in Township
One hunderd twenty-five (125) North, of
Range FOrty-three (43) West of the
Fifth Principal Meridian, in the County
of Stevens, and State of Minnesota.
Dated July 21st, 1917.
FRANK A. ZAHL,
Sheriff of Stevens County, Minnesota.
GEO. w. BEISE
Attorney for Plaintiff
Morris tribune., 1917-08-03
RICHARD T. DAILY,
Dist. Judge, 18th Judicial Dist

NOTICE rs THEREFORE, HEREBY
GIVEN, that a hearing will be had upon
said petition before the judges of the
District Court of the 18th and 18th
Judicial District, in said State, at the
time and place specified in said order
and all parties in any manner interested
in and affected by the formation of the
proposed district are hereby notified
to appear at the time and place
specified in said order and show cause
if any they have why the relief prayed
for in said petition should not be grant
ed and said District organized.
Dated July 10th, 1917.
HAYDEN FRENCH,
Clerk of District Court,
Big Stone County, Minnesota.
(SeaD
Morris tribune., 1917-08-03
CITATION FOR HEARING ON PETIT
TON FOE ADMINISTRATION

Estate of G. W. Mau CHAN.
State of Minnesota, County of Stevens,
in Probate Court.
+ In the matter of the estate of G. W.
Mau CHAN, Decedent.
THE STATE OF MINNESOTA, To
Emma p. Vaughan, Ernest G.
Vaughan, and all persons inter-
ested in the granting of adninistra-
ton of the estate of said decedent: The
petition of Ernest G. Vaughan having
been filed in this Court, representing
that G. w. Maug CHAN, then a resident
of the County of Stevens, State of Min
nesota, died intestate on the 18th day
of October, 1916, and praying that letters
of administration of his estate be granted
to Ernest G. Vaughan, and the court,
having fixed the time and place for
hearing said petition: THEREFORE,,
YOU. AND EACH OF YOU, are hereby
cited and required to show cause, if
any you have, before this court at the
Probate Court Rooms in the Court House
in the City of Morris, in the County. of
Stevens, State of Minnesota, on the 10th
day Of August, 1917, at 10 o'clock A. NJ,
why said petition should not be granted.
Witness, the Judge of said Court, and
the seal of said Court, this 23rd day of
July, 1917.
A. L. STENGER,
Probate Judge.
GEO. w. BEISE, s|s
Attorney for Petitioner
Court SeaD