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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20

our idea OF an inconsistent man IS
he who asks a blessing before eating
then complains Of indigestion when
the meal Is finished
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20

We are not surprised that Dallas
went dry. After visiting Texas a
time or two we are surprised that the
state ever went wet
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20

However, we imagine the soldiers
are happy to know that military
leaders are not as ferocious as moving
picture generals.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20
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Sy.15 CY LOGSDON VIZ

we now nave win us the season OF
tho year whore the women cast a
furtive eye toward the tar paper bag
rcposing In the closet.
When they jot down moth balls"
in their diaries.
Farlng forth toward the shopping
district Of the city.
For It's just about now that they
are beginning to discard the furs that
they have worn thruout the months
that have been featured with 100
proof heat.
Making ready. you understand to
start the exposure of their necks and
their shoulders to the chilled blasts
of terrible winter
lczzal
Peculiar as it may seem, it is never
theless a fact.
OH. GOSH!
You have heard of absent minded
people?
or course you have.
You have heard of college profess
sors who are noted far and wide for
their forgetfulness.
Yus, Yus!
Some of those parties have beer
pretty absent-minded, too.
But. we think we have an entry
that will take all prizes and gold med
ais in the abseItminded class.
Our exhibit is the Muskogee brother
who ankled off down the street leav-
ing his crutch behind.
You wouldn't believe a man would
walk away from his crutch, would
you?
We wouldn't either, under ordinary
circumstances.
Unless proof was supplied that the
wearer was in "A hurry and couldn't
wait for the crutch to keep up.
We haven't the slightest idea why
the brother left the accoutrement be-
hind.
But he did.
AS evidenced by his want ad from
the Musko ogee Phoenix.
LOST-My crutch on East Okmul
gee avenue. Finder please call 2l04.
SHUCKS!
A Muskogee firm advertses for
bright young man typist, 20 to 20
years.
a male typist?
Good night
This old world is certainly humping
herself.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20

II is beginning to look as tho
Gustav viii have to take his proof to
Stockholm.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20

sports as usual" Is the slogan OF
most schools An, yes, indeed. All
work and no play-you know.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20

Then, too, 1t has been something
of a discouraging season for graft
ng exemption board members.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20

Eldorado, Kan. is stirred mp about
something or another. They are not
only boiling the water, but are using
typhoid serum as we'll
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20
A Sliding Scale.

"And what's your idea as to salary ?"
"Why-er-s10,0 1000 IL l give salts
faction and. say $4,000. If DON'T
Magazine.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20

Argentina believes Germany will
apologize. Sure. Apologize. then do
the same thing over again.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20

Well, well, We haven't had n
championship fight for two weeks
now.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20

Congress VIII Adjourn Soon
Another headline. Nope, not a
chance.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20
In Dire Need.

Hubby ] need clothes.'
DO you really
"Yes, sir, do. I'm getting no
take it as personal every time the rag
man comes down our street"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20

A Muskogee firm advertises for {
bright young man typist, 20 to 2,
years.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20

WILLIE WADE pleaded guilty to .
charge OF disturbing the peace and was
fined S25 yesterday afternoon in police
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20

j. s. FLUKER pleaded guilty TO the charge
OF beating Lucy Nabors aud was fined S25
by Lee Daniel, justice of the peace, yes
terday.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20
ABSOLUTELY!

This old world is certainly humping
herself.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20

DECLARING that he almost believed .
man guilty OF murder, who was yiolator
Of the speeding law, Judge Duncan yester'
day afternoon fined II. L. Boswell sl5.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20

f W. SINCLAIR OF local bank is at
tending a convention Of the American Bank
ers association at Atlantic City, n. y.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20

LOST-My crutch on East Okmul
gee avenue. Finder please call 2lO4
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20

AS evidenced by his want ad from
the Muskoge Phoenix.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20

JOHN J. McMURRAY will leave today
for Camp Travis, san Antonio, Texas, to be.
gin military training.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20

8 d. MAYS, who was arrested two days
ago by the police and is being held or aa
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20

DIR s. G. KENNEDY returned yesterday
from 81. Louis, where he has been the last
few days on business.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20

We haven't the slightest idea why
the brother left the accoutrement be-
hind.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-20

ADDITIONAL names of drafted men. who
were called for service by the local eNemp-
tion board hut failed 70 appear, are In the
hands Of federal authorities, who have been
instructed to arrest these men as slaekers
from military service.
Middletown transcript., 1917-02-24
EXCESS WATER HURTS ROADS
No Matter Whether Road Is
Earth, Gravel of Macadam.

Water, not cold, is the cause of the
deterioration of roads in winter. Cold
weather does not in itself injure roads
no matter whether they are earth,
gravel or macadam. In fact an earth
road will stand more traffic when it is
solidly frozen than at any other time.
Excess water, however, is always de-
trimental to a highway. When cold
weather turns this water into ice, the
damage that it does is greatly in
creased. Ice occupies considerably
more space than the water from which
it is formed, and every person who
has lived in a cold climate is familiar
with the powerful bursting effect of
water when left to freeze in con-
fined vessel. The same action takes
place when a wet road freezes to any
considerable depth. 1t simply bursts
or, as we generally term it in road
parlance, the road heaves. Later, when
the frost leaves, the road is disinter-
grated and ruts badly. If this process
is repeated a number of times during
the winter, gravel or macadam road
may be practically destroyed while an
earth road may become entirely i'm
passable.
A dry road will not heave. Rock,
gravel, sand and even clay when per-
fectly dry contract slightly on freez-
Middletown transcript., 1917-02-24
GOOD
ROADS
DOUBLE LOAD ON GOOD ROAD
Farmers Haul Two Wagons Hitched
Together to End of improved High
way-SinaIe on Poor Road.

(From the United States Department or
Agricuture.)
To see what really happens at the
end of the good road, q public road
specialist of the department recently
had observations made in different Sec
tions of the country. The observers
noted many country-bound teamsters
who drove two loaded wagons, hitched
one behind the other, to the end of
the good road, and then found it nee
essary to leave one wagon by the road
side to be returned for later, while all
the power of their teams was devoted
to hauling a single wagon over the un-
improved road.
Farmers bound for the market fire.
quently were seen to haul wood and
similar products to the beginning OF
the good road, there dumping them,
and returning for second load. When
this arrived, the two loads were con-
solidated and easily hauled by single
team the remaining distance to market
over the improved highway.
In one section of the country where
oxen are still used teamsters were OBJ
served to bring their loads over the
dirt roads with two or three yokes of
oxen. When the beginning of the good
roads was reached, the teamsters
would unhitch the extra animals and
finish their journey with single yoke.
Middletown transcript., 1917-02-24
We!I-Drained Road.

ing. In order to expand on freezing,
these materials must contain or be
mixed with water, and the more water
they contain the greater the expan-
sion which takes place. But so long
as the road remains frozen, the DAM
age does not become apparent. Hence
the frequent and erroneous idea that 1t
is the thaw which Injuries the road.
The injury was done when the water
in the road froze and the particles of
the road surface-broken stone, sand,
still fine particles of earth or clay
were pushed apart by the expanding
power of the freezing water. The
thaw merely allows the ice to melt and
assume it's original volume as water.
The remedy is self-evident. Keep
the water out of the road. The time
to begin preventive measures is before
the rains begin. If the road goes into
the winter thoroughly dry with the sur
face and drainage in good condition,
the chances are extremely favorable
that it will come out all right the fol-
lowing spring.
Middletown transcript., 1917-02-24
SETS ARE FAVORED

patience rather than great skill Is re-
quired to make the parasOl. The
frame can be purchased any shape or
size desired, and an old parasol cover
can be used as a guide in shaping the
new. Or the fabric may be taken to
an umbrella dealer, who will ut the
cover at q comparatively small cost.
The hat tells its own story. Crown
and upper brim may be covered with
the polka-dotted fabric, or the crown
alone may be in plain color, and that
may be stitched or corded If desired.
A tremendous vogue for the separate
skirt is predicted for spring, with
sports models leading.
Some talk of the barrel skirt Is
heard from Paris, but American fash
ion designers did not think very well
of this rather odd, and, to most fig
ures, unbecoming and ungraceful skirt
when it was introduced year ago.
It may be safe to predict that the bar
rel skirt will not be seen in great num-
bers. A generally straight hanging
skirt is preferred, whether the model
be plated, gathered or entirely plain.
Middletown transcript., 1917-02-24
MATERIALS FOR THE CORSET
Soft and Supple Goods Are Most in
Favor for This Most Important
of Undergarments.

One wonders If the straight, low
WASTED dresses will cause return to
the sheathlike, tight-fitting corset of a
few seasons back. The new materials
used for corsets are all soft and sup
pie. Women like them and will con-
tinue to wear them. The prettiest ma
terials for corsets are the batistes and
broche silk canvas, charming glossy
material. The corset is cut low at the
top, with the bust slightly higher. A
much approved method Of lacing Is
with an elastic on either side Of the
lower part Of the bust. 1t makes the
corset far more comfortable, besides
obliterating the line of demarcation.
The new corset requires bust sup
port, and is generally made in some
soft, lacy material, fastened at the
back, as rule.
There are fanciful little brassieres
in net. One model was in pink, and
had a wreath of tiny rocco ribbon
flowers forming medallion in the cen
ter of the front. The shoulder strap
was made with triple row of satin
ribbon, fastened with similar flowers.
Middletown transcript., 1917-02-24
"CASCARETS' ACT
ON LIVER; BOWELS
No sick headache, biIiousness,
bad taste or constipation
by morning.
Get a 10-cent box.


Are you keeping your bowels, liver,
and stomach clean, pure and 1resn
with Cascarets, or merely forcing a
passageway every few days WIN
Salts, Cathartic Pills. Castor Oil or
Purgative Waters?
Stop having bowel wash-day. Let
Cascarets thoroughly cleanse and reg
ulate the stomach, remove the sour
and fermenting food and foul gases.
take the excess bile from the liver
and carry out of the system all the
eonstipated waste matter and poisors
in the bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will make you
feel great by morning. They work
while you sleep-never grippe, sicken
or cause any inconvenience, and cost
only 10 cents a box from your store.
Millions Of men and women take a
Cascaret now and then and never
have Headache, Biliousness, Coated
Tongue, Indigestion, Sour Stomach OF
Constipation. Adv. - .
Middletown transcript., 1917-02-24
MAKING BEST OF MATERIALS
Modistes Have to Get What Effect
They Can With Goods They Have
to Work With.

There had been some attempt at
drapery, but 1t is doubtful If the
draped frock will endure through the
season. There is also half chemise,
half moyen-age frock, vaguely suggest
ing the princesse, which is exceeding
ly graceful and exceedingly pretty.
And at the moment we are promised
simple one-piece frocks with wraps OF
some sort, probably the cape-manteau.
Picture the despair Of the hOpelessly
tailored" woman. However, the
couturiers are amiable people, and
without doubt there will be tailored
suits a-plenty shown in the spring col
lections.
The lack of colors-of certain dyes
also has an important effect on the
fashion. The couturiers must do what
they can with the material at hand.
If fine woolen stuffs are lacking, they
must use harsh fabrics. If wooden It's
sues are not to be had, they must use
silk and cotton. Lacking bright dyes,
they must use dull-tOned stuffs.
It may be the lack of dyes which
has pushed checked stuffs to the fore,
achieving by contrast the color which
Is actually lacking. This is one of
the "tricks of the trade" and it has
proved, just now, most successful
one. Checked stuffs will be widely
used this season, not only as trimming
for cloaks and frocks Of white or neu
trail tints, but for hats as well. Many
smart sports hats are covered with
checked stuff of a more or less strik
Ing pattern.-FrOm Vogue.
Middletown transcript., 1917-02-24
HAND TOUCHES ON millinery
Trimmings That Require SkilIful
Workmanship Have by No Means
Altogether Disappeared.

For all of the talk that millinery is
more or less untrimmed for the last
few season, that the milliners no long
er pile up confusions of blossoms and
feathers and ribbons on one hat as
formerly, there still remains, espe-
cially on the sports-type hat, great
deal of handwork. much originality
and ingenuity is brought into play for
these same trimmings.
For instance, crown of woven rib
bons of all colors and widths requires
skill to give the proper effect. This
hat has a straw brim and is trimmed
with single tassel caught partly in
the windings of the ribbon.
Again a crown Of white linen is
treated to cut-out blossoms of Gre
tonne all held closely down with
green embroidery floss until the crown
looks as if covered with q costly fig
cred fabric.
4 small high-crowned model is COM
Middletown transcript., 1917-02-24
HAM THAT M'TAVISH LIKED
One Popularity About 1t Was That
It Evidently Was Sold in
Bottle.

Mrs. McTavish met Mrs. Brown on
a country road near Scottish town.
The former was carrying q Queer-lOOk-
ing parcel and Mrs. Brown inquired
as to its nature.
"Oh, ay, it's jist some ham fur Nc
lavish. I always buy my ham frae
Sandy, in the toon. McTavsh likes
his hame better than any other"
Indeed, so? Weel, my mon is vera
fond O. ham. I'm thinkin' I'll be get
ting some for him at Sandy's."
Arriving in the town she called at
Sandy's provision establishment and
demanded a pound Of ham.
"Whit kind O. ham?"
'Oh, the same kind O ham that ye
serve Mrs. McTavish WI"
"Ah reet!" said the grocer, adding
In whisper: "Whaur's yeh bottle?'
Middletown transcript., 1917-02-24

pletely covered with a sports silk,
showing large figured circles Of color.
One Of these circles comes right in the
front Of the hat and is surrounded
with sunburst Of blue velvet baby
ribbon.
Gingham hats Of fine checks and
blocks are treated to some interesting
trimming. On one mushroom shape,
covered with pink and white checked
gingham, ruche Of the material was
pinked on the edges and laid around
the crown. Another gingham was Of
blue and white blocks, the white blocks
filled in with cross stitches of red silk
twist. On still a third gingham,
white cotton soutache braid is twist
ed into an intricate scroll work.
Middletown transcript., 1917-02-24

bag and parasol, employing big coin
dotted pongee in natural color and
blue. The skirt is one Of the popular
plated models, the plaits arranged to
hang in panels, the skirt topped by a
modish sash girdle. The hat is q
simple little sailor, faced underneath
the brim with plain-color silk, which
may be in the natural shade or in color
matching the dots. The latter arrange
ment would be effective. A band Of
black velvet ribbon circles the crown.
The bag is very simple to make, and
Middletown transcript., 1917-02-24
New Niuht Dresses,

Many of the new night dresses have
collars. Some very attractive little
models, for instance, are in sailor
fashion and fastened with a scarf of
surah silk tied in sailor knot.
Broche batiste Is newer and would
make a prettier scarf. Another model
recently designed is in Greek style, cut
down at the shoulders and showing
ribbon passed through puffings Of voile
crossed at the shoulders and continued
around the armholes. Both plain and
dotted nets are much used to trim
night dresses.
Middletown transcript., 1917-02-24

$1,000; without the wallis" about 81
300; in 1901 (census) the population
of the Getty" was 128,129; the outer
ring, 155,334; Greater London, ill.,
644; in 1841, "city," 123,563; outer
ring, 2S6,O67; Greater London, 2,253,-
PA. The extraordinary growth Of Lon
don did not begin until the middle Of
the nineteenth century.
Middletown transcript., 1917-02-24
Just to Show Them.

$50 you have been on visit to your
boyhood home?"
"Yes," replied the prosperous-loolling
citizen.
allow dear to my heart are the
scenes Of my childhood when fond rec
objection presents them to view"
II know that's what the poet wrOre,
but my principal object in going back
was to show the people there that that
dirty-faced, goodfor-nothing Johnson
boy has amounted to something in the
world"
Middletown transcript., 1917-02-24
FASHIONGRAMS

A great deal Of velvet is used, COM
bined with chiffon, on new blouses.
Most attractive hats are being fash
ioned of cotton crepes and other print
ed fabrics in silks and cottons.
Irish crochet lace, which has been re-
vived, is used in white or dyed to match
the material with which it is used.
Middletown transcript., 1917-02-24
Thrift and Parsimony.

Many people mistake thrift for par
simony, but they are as far apart as
the poles. No one admires miser; no
one should initiate him. Food, raiment
and shelter are the first necessities Of
civilization. When they are sufficient,
then all other things will come to the
normal man or woman. Their minds
will find proper food for thought and
both their minds and bodies will find
relaxation in proper and healthful
amusement. But the pleasures that
are most satisfying are those that
come from successful work. All 9TH
ers are transitory and fleeting. And if
a mans SOUL or woman's either, will
not grow and develop on the farm, it
will shrivel and sink anywhere else
and be forever lost.-Myron Fl. Bent,
In Syracuse Post-Standard.
Middletown transcript., 1917-02-24

the patient OF dL the nome OIL TIE Mu-
tang, or at some shrine or temple,
called tang. dedicated to some spirits,
which are seen on the hillsides in KO-
rea. If, as is occasionally the case, the
Mutang belongs to a noble family, she
is allowed by her family to ply her
trade only in her own house. Those
who require her services send the re-
quired fee and necessary offerings, and
the ceremony is performed by the Mu-
tang in her own house or at the tang.
Her equipment consists Of a num-
ber of dresses some of them very cost
ly; drum shaped like an hOurglass,
about four feet high; copper cymbals;
copper gong; a copper rod with small
bells or tinklers suspended from it by
copper chains; pair of telescoping
baskets; strips Of silk and paper ban
ners which float around her as she
dances; fans, umbrellas; wands and
images of men and animals"
The paraphernalia of the sorceress
or exorcist was acquired for the Unit
the agency Of the late w. w. Rockhill,
formerly envoy extraordinary and min
lister plenipotentiary of the United
States to China, and is now exhibited
in the section of historic religions in
the older building of the museum.
Healing the Sick.
'The service of the Mutang most in
demand is the healing of the SICK" con-
tinued Doctor Casanowicz. '1f a sick
man believes that his distemper has
been caused by spirit, he sends to
the Mutang to describe the symptoms
and learn what spirit is doing mischief.
The Mutang may declare the name of
the. spirit without going to the pa
tents house, or may say that she
must see the patient first. On retain
ing her fee she names a fortunate
day for the ceremony, which will be
performed either at her house or shrine
or at the patients house.
'The performance of a certain Sor-
ceress reported took place before the
open door of the sick mans house, in
an inclOsed space within which were
tables laden with food and delicacies.
Three old women accompanied the Mu-
tang, two of them beating large hour
glass-shaped drums, while the third
clashed symbols. The sorceress faced
them, dressed in rose-pink silk and a
gauze robe of buff, it's sleeves trailing
on the ground. Her hair was decOrat-
ed with strips of white paper and a
curious cap of buff gauze with red
patches. Over her left shoulder she
carried brightly painted stick sup
porting a gong upon which she beat
with another stick, executing at the
same time q slow, rhythmic movement
accompanied by a chant. Every now
and then one of the ancient drummers
gathered pieces Of food and, scatter
ing them to the four winds for the
spirits to eat, invoked them by saying:
DO net trouble this house any more.
and we will again appease you by Of
ferings.' The exOrcism lasted from
two in the afternoon until four the
next morning, when after fourteen
hours Of treatment the patient began
to recover 1t is believed by another
writer, however, that all the gestures
and whirling, and the noise cf the
drums and cymbals, must in some
cases actually kill instead of cure {"
Middletown transcript., 1917-02-24

The three and four-piece set. con-
sisting of skirt, hat, bag and some
times matching parasol, promises to
be a great favorite during the coming
spring and summer. 1t Is developed in
a variety of fabrics, and one of half a
dozen popular silks being accorded
first choice, and certainly some of the
sets shown are very fetching indeed.
The sketch illustrates a skirt, hat,
Middletown transcript., 1917-02-24

have an eight pound baby girl. know
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound saved me from an operation
which every woman breads. " Mrs.
NELLIE F1sHBACK, 1921 Christy Ave-,
Louisville, KY.
Everyone naturally breads the sur
geon's knife. Sometimes nothing else
will do, but many times Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound has saved
the patient and made an operation un-
necessary.
Ifyou have any symptom about which
you would like to know, write to the
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn,
Mass, for helpful advice given free.