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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-11
HeartSeaSe Dispensed By
Letter Daily
By Eliz eth Jordan

ers I send a personal reply, but
many Of my correspondents give
no clue to their identity. These
friends expect me to answer all
their letters in The Washington
Times, which, as l have explained,
is impossible.
The scope Of the subjects dis
cussed in the letters is almost in
variably wide. / have received and
Observation-Disclosures in these COL
umns, more often by mail-letters
demanding all the secrets Of life
and death.
Wives with a dead husband or
child lying in the next room have
written frantically asking for COM
fort and hope. Men and women
facing death themselves have ask
ed how to meet It. Others facing
failure, despair. or a new life have
sent even harder problems.
Those with sick souls have
written-tragic figures, those, and
hard, indeed, to help. Unhappy
wives have written, and unhappy
husbands, too. Fathers and moth
ers of soldiers have written; and
r'any, many letters have come
from the soldier boys themselves.
One of the most interesting Of
these last / shall answer in these
ooI,,p,pc Il &c fror, a ho,, ,,,La
fears he is a coward. But he is
not, bless his suffering young
heart! He is only a high-strung,
sensitive lad, to whom army life,
thus far, is new and terrible.
Confidence Is Sacred.
The life of one woman, she
writes, has been wrecked by the
gossip of a neighbor-a woman
with a poisoned tongue. She asks
what she shall do-forgetting that
there are only two things she can
do. She can sue the neighbor for
libel, or she can leave the neigh
borhood-just as she would leave
the neighborhood of dangerous
serpent she could not crush.
Another woman, a very brave
woman, tells me that she-like my
correspondent, R. S.-must start
life all over again. ~ will begin
with your advice to r. s. always
before me-" she adds. Every
word of it is engraved on my
mind"
Many wives, facing the same
problem, tell me that their hus-
bands are unfaithful and are not
supporting them. They ask what
to do. What can thew do, il they
cannot win their husbands back.
except to sue for separate main
tenance, or go to work themselves?
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Maple Sugar BreatheS Out
door Aroma
By Winifred Black.

I T costs . cents to get two Jumps
of sugar for your coffee or for
your tea or for your chocolate
II you live in New York and
eat in some of the hotels there,
tits said.
Powdered sugar is 10 cents
portion, and the only sugar, so it
is announced in the newspapers
by special wire, that you can get
free with the meal in New York
today is-guess-maple sugar!
l wish / believed it. I'd take
the first train to New York today
and eat six meals every twenty
four hours.
Maple sugar-the best thing in
the world to eat!
Oh, / don't mean the imitation
stuff that comes in tan-colored
cakes with scalloped edges, and
when you try TO melt it and make
syrup 1t tastes like the mixture
you used to make for the dolls
medicine when your mother was
away and you were playing
hospital-cane syrup, vinegar, two
or three grains OF mustard, an
onion or SO. plenty Of salt, and 4
spoonful Of sugar. No wonder the
dog howled when you tried to make
a patient Of him.
Maple sugar-the best thing in
the world to eat.
II tastes of the woods and the
streams and the green leaves Of
spring and the gold and scarlet
leaves OF fall and the brown leaves
Of winter.
It's favored with. drifted snow
and with driving rain and with
streaming sunshine-it has in It
the bluebird's impudent call and
the chatter OF the black-eyed squir-
rel and the swoop OF the ravens
wings and the creep Of the owls
boot.
It's moonlight in the woods; it's
sunlight In the clearing; it's night
on earth and morning in the world.
Just Melted Away.
1t makes you think Of log cabins
and broad fireplaces with seats
built into them and iron pots hang
ing on a crane and Dutch ovens
filled to bursting with brown and
fragrant loaves.
1t means crisp bacon and brown
pancakes. and clear coffee and rich
cream, and Grandma in the corner
knitting, and Mother in the best
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A GAIN and again these ques-
u tons are asked me:
4 \ isn't it hard TO write
three articles a week-and
to know that whatever happens
you've got to write them? Isn't
it a great nervous strain? And
isn't is difficult to think of sub
jects?"
To each of these 1 reply, "No."
Then / explain.
What / am doing" / tell these
questioners, "is exchanging opin-
ions with many thousands of in
innate friends that know
through The Times. Their letters
to me are infinitely more interest
ing than anything l can say to
them. And they give me more
subjects to write about than l
could discuss in a lifetimeI"
! can only add that in a long,
professional career, which has al
ways brought me an immense
mail, / have never received such
interesting letters as those that
have come to me in the past year
from the readers of The Times.
Variety In Letters.
They hold, to begin with, an i'm
mense variety. They come from
all sorts and conditions of men
and women-from rich and Door,
from old and young, from leaders
of the worlds thought, and from
those who are Just beginning to
think seriously.
Very often the writers tell me
their life stories-stories often
more interesting than any fiction.
Some of the letters are amusing,
some are dramatic, Others are in
finitely pathetic.
The writers ask questions on
every subject under the sun. Then.
very frequently, they themselves
answer the questions better than l
could do 1t for them.
It is. OF course, impossible to
write articles on all the subjects
suggested. My rule, therefore, is
to choose those subjects which
have the strongest appeal for the
greatest number Of readers. Sub
jects which interest only a limited
class ! am forced to ignore.
Many readers send me problems
OF love. These readers l promptly
and invariably refer to Miss Bea-
trIce Fairfax. Love problems are
her speclalty-not mine; and no
problem Is too big for her.
To all letters containing the
names and addresses Of the writ
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room quilting. and Sister in the
garden washing her face in the
dew, and Brother in the barnyard
tanning the new colt, and Uncle
John Harvesting his team to come
and take Aunt Mary down to the
sugar camp to see a cooling OF.
1t brings back the idea OF great
white buckets, Of new pine and
melting snow. and air that's half
winter and half spring as a kiss is
half sweet and half bitter.
1t brings back the old friends
and old ways, and the old ideas
and the old memories, as nothing
else in the world ever does but a
bunch of wild flowers. spring beau
ties anemones, bloodroot, and
wood violet. picked in the April
woods before the March winds
have quite ceased to blow.
1t was in a little New England
town some years ago. and In the
window Of a funny little old shop
that | saw some maple sugar.
1t looked real and It was real
1t had just come in from the sugar
camp that morning. / bought all I
could carry and took It TO New
York and put it on my desk in an
open basket in a crowded, hurried,
feverish New York newspaper Of
fee.
II was there Just about twenty
minutes; 1t melted like the snow,
and every one in the office from
the managing editor to the COPY
boy hung around until the last pos
sible scrap was gone.
Can II Bet
And the next day a DELEGATION
took the train to New England to
find the place-but telegraphed
and cornered the market, and that
winter We had real maple syrup
Tor our buckwheat cakes and our
hot biscuits, and little we cared
whether It showed or sleeted or
hailed on the elevated railroad
tracks or the entrance to the sub
way-Or not.
Maple sugar! Can II be that
there's taste of real, unadulterat-
ed maple sugar to be found any
Wnere on earth-for all the minted
gold OF the mines Of Solomon?
AND free! Who's the man from
missouri who said they'd have to
show him?
obstinate. unpleasant sort OF
chap, wasn't he? And yet, after
all
CopyHEht' 1911. BY Newspaper Feature ssrv.
NV 'N'' Great Britain RiEhis Reserved.
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From Another Genius.
Washington, d. c., Oct. %. 1

Washington, ID. c., Oct. %, 1917.
Editor The Washington Times:
am glad you read q book in
TODAY. Do II again I am glad II
was that book on Genius. You are
a genius yourself. I know you are .
genius, because you are so much like
me. Your tastes and mine are iden-
teal. II you had access to the facts
which ! have examined, you would
doubtless be abreast OF me in your
philosophical and scientific conclu-
sions. for your powers Of analysis
and your genius for comparison and
deduction are possibly equal to mine.
There is one point OF difference be-
tween you and ms-you get many
dollars (of rapidly diminishing pur-
chasing powsr), and I do not. I at
tribute this to . difference in horse
power.
Am glad to see you getting along.
L. B. T.
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HEARD AND SEEN
eeze your radiator today?

Freeze your radiator today?
did. Although I filed 1t up with
anti-freeze, alcohol. and everything
else, the old engine began to steam
about the time / passed the Louise
Home.
I ran cautiously down to c. W,
Semfnes' repair place and left it in
dry dock. Thence I proceeded
against . strong and bitter cold head
wind back to the Munsey Building
afoot. In the most frigid moment !
have ever experienced ] found my
self facing a large sign, which read:
This is the coolest theater south
Of the North Pole"
WILLIAM GIBSON, president Of
the GIBSON CO., Inc, in speaking
Of his desire for local seh-govern-
ment IN Washington, says:
II have always felt that govern
ment Of the people. for the people,
and by the people should, Of all
places, be exercised here"
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The Skeleton Meant Civilization
So Did the Geometrica Drawings Some Day We Shall
Talk to the Other Planets.

We talk of civilization though it necessarily implied
improvement.
also means the prison and the poorhouse
Two short stories illustrate different views of what we
call civilization:
Aristippus was young Greek gentleman of large means
genuine power Of humor and reputation
as philosopher.
he was on his way to Cornth with young lady named
Lais or possibly he coming from Corinth with her
Anyhow, he was wrecked the voyage you know any
thing about the reputation Of Las you know that the phoso
pher badly employed and that the Greek gods doubtless
wrecked his vessel to impress upon his mind the Importance
of morality.
Thrown ashore on barren stretch of sand the phoso
pher very sad at first He observed the sand the
mains of certain geometrical drawings and instantly ex
claimed There is help Here see signs Of thinking
men, of civilization"
Voltare tells of wrecked individuals thrown lonely
coast, and also much distressed and frightened.
They saw no geometrica trac1ngs in the sand But on
bleak moor in the twilight they saw the black beams OF
gbbe and below the piece swinging in the wind they
human skeleton with bony wrists and ankles chained
together.
Prayerfuly the wanderers dropped on their knees and
exclaimed with upturned eyes:
THANK God we have got back to civilization"
Thus you see there varying signs Of civilization
There is great gulf between the signs perceived by Arts
tppussgns of the mental activity which engages in geo.
mercal demonstrations Voltaires sign Of civilization
the brutal execution of brutal criminal.
Those accustomed to waste time in speculations that
cannot bring financial return may be interested in the fol-
lowing application of the sign of civilization which Arstp
pus Immediately recognized pack In the Gays OF TWO tnou
sand years ago.
We know that day the inhabitants on Mars or some
ceT planet will want to talk to They have doubtless
been studying and consider still too barbarous and
pf7nitive to be worth talking to.
But when become semi civilized in the cosmc sense
e. word the older and wiser planets will get ready to
c5e1 communication with
How will they 90 about it? They are perhaps absolutely
different from shape in manner Of thought in every
conceivable way including language, customs, and
BUT GEOMETRICAL MATHEMATICAL FACTS ARE
THE SAME THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE.
Will not the wise Marian who wants to speak and
decides to fash message down here Clouds
the surface of the water utilize the universally OF geo.
etrca truths order make understand that thinking
beings trying to talk to US?
The of the angles of any triangle is equal to two
right angles
That is true Of every triangle matter what its shape
no matter whether be drawn this earth the most
distant
Therefore when the Marian gentleman gets ready to
talk he need only repeatedly place before US two right
angles followed by triangle triangle followed by two
right angles Instantly like Arstippus say there
civilization in Mars wherever that sign from,
Continued in Last Coumn)
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A Friendly Member of An
Ancient Organization.
Warrington, d. c..

Washington. ID. c..
November %, 1917.
Mr.. Arthur Brisbane,
Editor The Times.
Washington, D. c.
Dear Sir: As one OF the masters OF
the District OF Columbia, I wish 70
express to you my appreciation OF
your splendid courtesy in Issuing the
Masonic Rally" edition OF The Times.
The Masons OF this city are enthu-
siAstic in their PRAISES OF the public
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BEN ALLEN (not the Food Ad-
ninistration Allen, but the original
Colossus Of Rhodes correspondent
saws his own hrewood. That is, he
used to. In his home on Macomb
street, opposite the mansion Of COR
PORATf0N COUNSEL SYME, Ben
has several cords of wood and q
bucksaw. However. he says he Is
hard put nowadays because he occa-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-11

JOSEPH sINNoTT notices that
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES has
trimmed his Whiskers shorter than
ever before in the memory Of the
oldest living Capital politician.
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DORSEY FOULTZI

Why speak so Offhanded about
"the American plan Of self-gov-
erntnent7" The town is more or
less European plan, Ell what?
DORSEY.
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Now that JAMES HARTLEY is
captain Of the Ninth Precinct, I
hope he win put q red light on the
bump in front Of COMMISSIONERS
GARDENERS house.
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The Skeleton Meant CivilizatiOn

Continued from First Column
least there organized thought The mind that is fla
ing that sign knows something about geometry.
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sionally wants q little bacon fat to
rub On the bucksaw, and who wants
to be rubbing bacon on q saw when
bacon is so cents q pound?
DR.. EDWARD BEMIS, of the
Public Utilities CORPORATION, makes
. valuation for the telephone COM
pany which seems to indicate that
there will be tight on the higher
rate reqest.
At Fourteenth and U streets
northwest, one Of the most impor-
tant intersections in the District Of
Columbia, the police have placed
iron standards to indicate q So
called safety zone" A few days
ago q man who ran by the first iron
standard was arrested and fined $40.
Legally, the fine was correct. The
trouble lay in the fact that the
safety zone has no legal standing in
this community. / asked the traffic
officer at that point, Ralph Jenkins,
why his crossing was guided by one
rule and crossings down town
guided by another. He did not at
tempt to answer for the downtown
crossings, but informed me that he
had orders strictly to enforce the
law at HIS crossing.
The Police Department assumes,
then, that a safety zone is a safety
zone in the First precinct, but Is
nothing at all in the Second precinct.
In fact, / understand that JUDGE
PUGH ruled that the safety zone
iron standards are unnecessary OBJ
structions.
All this comic opera in the police
regulation Of traffic arises primarily
because we are a voteless eommun-
ity. / presume we win have to go
to Congress to find out just where
people can stand and Just where au-
tomobiles must stop at Fourteenth
and U streets.
Herbert Hoover is not the only
Hoover. For instance, there's WILL
lam D. HOOVER, president Of the
National Savings and Trust Com
pany. l am happy to say that
PRESIDENT HOOVER assures me
he is one of US when It comes TO q
demand for full suffrage here.
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We should also recognize 'signs of civilization if
the Martans should project upon atmosphere ckeIe
ton hanging in chains But it is to be hoped that the
artians have got beyond that particular evidence civil
zation.
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From the Public to the Editor

spiritedness which prompted the &C
ton. You are just the newspaperman
that Washington has needed these
many years, and you are bound to
make your influence felt here and
reach the high plane OF success which
your literary attachments deserve.
am glad, indeed. that our mutual
friend. Mr.. Henry Lansburgh, who
haa spoken to me in the highest
terms OF you. was able to prevail
upon you to be with US last night.
With absolute confidence in your
Washington future. I am.
Cordially yours,
MARX E. KAHN,
Master Washington Centennial
Lodge No. IA: Secretary-Treas-
urer Masters Association, 1917.
The Times Special Number.
Washington, D. C.
Nov. 90, 1911.
Mr.. Arthur Brisbane,
Owner Washington Times.
Sir-These few lines are to convey
to you my sincere appreciation OF your
work in making our Masonic meeting
OF November "a such a splendid sue
cess. In particular do wish to thank
you for the special edition OF The
Washington Times on that occasion.
So many have expressed themselves
in my presence, feeling as / do. that
feel there Is no harm done in letting
you know it again, as / am sure you
have heard it often
Sincerely yours.
W. c. PARRY.
COG Park road.
The Holt County sentinel., 1917-11-02
Making Good.

Clarence, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
VI. Namshcr, Of Mound City, now Of
Los Gatos, California, H. another of
those splendid Holt county products
that has ever made good. ever since
he left the old high school ut Mound
City, where he was born July 4, 1876
IA centennial boy, and graduated
from that school in the class Of 1891.
under the administration Of Prof. W.
W. Gallagher In that class of II
with Clarence were: Nell Jasper. !.
o. Shellcnbcrgcr, ". II. Bennett,
| Alice Houston, Cora Carson. Edith
Ballard, Lester Blcvins, Walden
Frame, Clyde Mckee, Snowdic Rec
son; Bcrtha Smith, now Mrs. Henry
llarman; Samuel Young and W. NJ.
King. or course, these In most cases,
have scattered, married, and are hust-
ling In the every day affairs Of this
splendid old world of ours, and The
Old Sentinel trusts each and every
one has been as successful as Clar-
ence Hamsher.
| On his leaving school. his father
gave him the "initiatory" in his bank
ut Mound City, and Clarence began
to fail In health, and he went TO
| Phoenix, Arizonia, where he passed
the years, l90l-3, and his health hal
so improved that he returned 10 Mound
City, and managed to keep busy in
his fathers bank until 1906. when he
went out to Los Angeles, California,
and married Miss Nell Amin, who
was born in Marsellies, Illinois, and
whom he met at Phoenix.
| Shortly after their marriage they
| returned to Mound City, and STAYED
The Holt County sentinel., 1917-11-02
Refused Appointment.

His father, C.. c. Bell, of this city
has received notice from the Com
missioner Of the General Land Office
at Washington, that C. C. Bell, Jr.,
had declined an appointment in the
land office. Under date of October
8, from Fortress Monroe, Va, young
Bell wired the Land Commissioner as
follows: "Your appointment to posi-
ton In the general land office for
warded to me here. ! have enlisted
In the reserve officers training camp
for artillery, 80 can not accept posi-
tion ut this time.
"CHAS. C. BELL, JR."
The following is taken from. the
Boonville, (Mo.) Advertiser, Of Octo-
Der 10, and while the young man may
not have an extensive acquaintance
here, his dear, good mother has, for
she used TO be one of the liveliest Of
school girls Of Oregon, and In those
days was known as Anna Luckhardt,
and she became Mrs. c. C. Bell, April
80, 1889. II c. c., Jr., makes as good
2 soldier as his papa did during 81
'66, everybody and his relatives will
bs truly proud Of him.
The Holt County sentinel., 1917-11-02
Call and Settle

All parties indebted to the firm OF
Burrier 4 Schultz will please call st
Burrier 4 Markt's, and settle at once,
by cash or note.
The Holt County sentinel., 1917-11-02

The Craig Leader tells US that J
n. Kite. Of that vicinity, sold Il
hrownfeld 4 Teare, the first load o.
1sl7 corn; price, $50 per bushel.
The Holt County sentinel., 1917-11-02

BY reason Of . vacancy In the
s:s f:ss: sS' T. 81 Joseph ss:s; 'f NJ: T.:
Nell Frye, Of this city, has been en-
ployed to all the vacancy.
The Holt County sentinel., 1917-11-02
SOME WEDDINGS.

A very pretty home wedding took
plnce at tbe home nj Mr. and Mrs
Coke W, jackson. Biy lake. Tuesday
afternoon, October ~. at 4:30. when
Miss Leta, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
jackson. became The bride of Mir. ira
Preston Cottier. son of MIR. and Mrs.
James Cotticr, north Of Mound CITY,
Rev. ], NJ. Asbeil. nastor of Tho
Mound CITY Christian church. officiat !.
ed, and a beautiful hui simple core.
mony was used. The young peonle
The Holt County sentinel., 1917-11-02
EatOu.COttier,

Robert Melvin Cottier and Hazel
nellie Eaton were married at Torring
ton. Wyo., Oct. 18th. at the home OF
the brides parents. Rev. Bishop. Of
Henry, Ncb., officiating. Al o o'clock,
Miss Lois Portcriield, Of lndianaola,
Iowa. sang "Thc Greatest Wish in
the World" followed by Mendcls.
sohn's wedding march, played by Miss
Mildred kellan, Of Torrington. who
continued playing softly during the
impressive ring ceremony. Immedi-
atcly after. the minister led the way
to the dining room, where five
course dinner was served. Only the
immediate relatives were present.
They left on the = o'clock train en-
route to Lincoln, Neb., where they
visited the groom's parents.
The bride attended school nj the
Kansas Wesleyan University In
Sa ina. having an extensive course In
piano and voice. She taught two
years and has been n milliner In Tor
rington the past year.
Mr.. Cotticr was born and reared IN
this vicinity. He graduated from the
Mound City high school In 1913, and
taught two years In this county. He
is now manager Of the Foster Lumber
Company, at Saratoga, Wyo., where
they win be ut home after Nov. 18th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cottier. mother and
sister. julia, motorcd from Lincoln to
Missouri to visit relatives and friends
for n few Observation-Disclosures
Oct. 20, 1917.
The Holt County sentinel., 1917-11-02

Tulips Bulbs st the Mound City
Green House.
Money TO Lend On Farms-Bor.
rover has option 70 pay part o. sll q
principal at any time. Most liberal
teYms Svsr afforded. Call, write o.
phone 10 "a Costs yeu nethiAgi savsa
FHE TS %SIsSo %SSiIssSoN LOAN Z TITLE Co,
once over Nodawsy VALLEY Bank,
Nayyville, 1iaeouE.
The Holt County sentinel., 1917-11-02

II. A. Leas. vsssiiaasy.
The Holbrook news., 1917-08-24

Attorney w. B. Ferguson was in Prescott last Mon day and Tuesday, acting as attorney for Ignacio Lopez, indicted by the federal grand jury for bringing li- quor into a dry state. MT. Ferguson entered a plea of guilty for his client and ac- cepted a fine of $4O0. Lopez expects to give bond and en- deaver to raise the money to pay his fine. Lopez has been employed for some time in the Holbrook bakery, south of the river.
 Thenameofthe White Help restaurant has been changed to the Key Cafe. Under the efficient management of Mrs. May Key this popular restaurant is enjoying a nice business. Regular meals are served and short order meals are served at all hours.
 DRESSMAKING- Prices reasonable. Mrs. Henry, first house south Ford gar age. A-17-2w
 A travelling sign painter was in Holbrook several days this week and placed a num- Der of signs on local business houses.