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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-09
ONE GIRL HE COULDN'T FOOL
And "Turn Down" Made Reporter Feel
He Had Lost the Confidence of
the Others Also.

She was one Of those twentieth CEN
eury young women who knows how she
gets what she has, and who keeps
sharp eye out for laggards, especially
of the opposite sex.
A newspaper reporter, on his daily
round in search of the small news of
the county seat town, entered the de-
partment store where she had begun
work that morning. She watched him
enter several notes in a scratch pad
as a number of the girls gathered
around and spoke in rather excited
tones. When he had finished he made
his way, toward her, and by way of
Introduction said in his most pleasan:
manner:
'rDo you have any news for the pa
per?"
s'Not much I'' she answered, after
casting a withering look at the inquir-
er. "There's nothing doing. You fell
lows on the newspapers go around to
the stores every day and have the girls
give you items, and then you go back
to the office and write them up and get
paid for it. But you can't work me-"
And he wondered how it happened
every girl on the floor was looking at
him when he turned around for an
avenue of escape.-indianapo News.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-09
CHAPTER Xxx.
Black Out.


The auditorium was in almost totit
darkness. A single voice was audible
from the stage that confronted it like
some tremendous, moonlight canvas in
huge frame of furnished gold. The!
stole silently round the orchestra seats
to the stage-box-the same box thai
Whitaker had on the former occasion
occupied in company with Max.
They succeeded in taking possession
without attracting attention. either
from the owners of that scanty scat.
tering of shirt bosoms in the orchestra
the critical fraternity and those in.
timates hidden by the manager to the
first glimpse of his new revelation in
stagecraft-or from those occupying
the stage.
The latter were but two. Evidently
though the curtain had been up for
some minutes, the action of the piece
had not yet been permitted to begin
to unfold. Whitaker inferred that Max
had been dissatisfied with something
about the lighting of the scene. The
| manager was standing in mid-stage
staring up at the borders-a stout and
pompOus figure, tenacious to every de.
tail of that public self which he had
| striven so successfully to make unfor.
gettably individual; a figure quantity
incongruous in his impeccable morn
ing coat and striped trousers and fiat
| brimmed silk hat, perched well back
on his head, with his malaeca sticE
and lernon-cOlored gloves and small
and excessively glossy patent-leathel
shoes, posed against the counterfeit
Of a moOnlit formal garden.
CTO BE CONTINUEDO
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-09
Insurance Agent With Keen Eye to
Business Came Near "Puttino
His Foot in It,"

Slipping on an untenanted banana
skin, the homely young woman sat
on the pavement with an unmusical
splash. With efficient presence of
mind, Eustace Smooth, agent for the
General and Particular Insurance COM
pany, slipped n\another peel and sat
down beside her, with two muttered
curses.
Accidents will happen on the best
regulated pavements, won't they?" he
observed with a snarl. "Oh, we'll
luckily l happen to be an insurance
agent, and 1 can insure you against
slipping on banana peelings or even on
a cake of ice for the small sum of $14
week, and the first time you slip af.
ter being insured, one of our automo
biles, with absolutely no advertising
matter on the outside, will take you
home for S729, or, if you prefer, tC
any old hospital"
'"The idea !" scoffed the enrageC
woman, "it's too much!"
"But think of the risk we rum" pur
sued Smooth. "Now, other kinds ot
insurance, such as insurance agains
being bitten by wild beasts, come al
low as $40 a MONTH"
'I'll take one of them," she saiC
promptly. Il always was great on,
| for bargains" And she handed hin
her card, which read: "Mlle. Kutie
Wild Animal Trainer, Lions, Tiger
and Leopards q Speciality"
Excuse me a moment, 1 gotta se
a man." stammered Eustace Smooth
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-09
The DESTROYING ANGEL
90 % BY Louis Joseph Vance o 0 %

tanned a serene faith in his star,
spirited temper that refused to recog-
nize obstacles in the way of his de.
sire.
In the taxicab, en- route to the Thea
ter Max, he contrived even to distil q
good omen from the driving autumnal
downpour itself.
'On such day as this" he told his
doubling friend, 81 won her first; on
such a day l shall win her anew, final
ly and for all time"
From Broadway to Sixth avenue
Forty-sixth street was bright with the
yellow glare of the huge sign in front
of the Theater Max. But this night.
unlike that other night when he hat
approached the stage of his Wife's tri'
| umphs, there was no crawling rank Of
cabs, no eager and curious press Of
people in the street; but few vehicles
disputed their way otherwise the ralo
and the hurrying. rain-cOated wayfar'
ers had the thoroughfare to them
themselves. And even this he
chose to consider a favorable omen
there was not now a public to come
between him and his lOve-only Max
and her frightened fancicS.
The man at the door recognized EN-
ber with a cheerful nod; Whitaker be
did not know.
"Just in time, Mr.. Ember; curtains
been up about ten minutes"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-09
Listen to the unIifter-

We think rural people are pretty
good-natured, especially when the
chautauqua comes to town. There's al.
ways a man there who comes on the
platform and scolds the audience He
usually calls himself a community ex-
pert, or q 'town DOCTOR" or something
of the kind. He is almost as bad as an
editor about giving advice, and isn't
half as polite about it. If we scolded
you as frankly as a recent town doctor,
that we happened to hear, scolded
his audience, you would probably say,
"StOp my paper" Yet the audience
was paying the town doctor for telling
them what misguided NUTS they were.
Probably he told them the truth, in the
main-or what seemed to be the truth
and maybe it was good for their
souls, as he declared. 1t seems almost
pathetic to us, sometimes, this eager
ness with which we benighted country
folk will sit at the feet of the uplifter,
who comes from afar to point out our
faults and tell us how to remedy them.
Yet we could probably get the uplifter
on bench and stand up ON the plat
form and roast him just as delightedly
and truthfully as he has been roasting
us. Only we never do it. The game
isn't played that way.-Farm Life.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-09
BY Louis Joseph Vance

Il suspected you would be. That's
why / went walking-to be lonesome
and thoughtful for once in way"
Ember stroked his chin with thought
full fingers.
you've heard the news, them"
'In three ways" Whitaker re-
turned, with calm.
Flows that-three waysP
Through the newspapers, the bill
boards, and from the lips of my
wife"
Ember opened his eyes wide.
you've been to see her?"
"She called this morning"
But Ember interrupted, thrusting a
ready and generous hand across the
table:
'My dear man, am gladl"
Whitaker took the proffered hand
readily and firmly. THANK you.
was saying: she called this morning
to inform me that, though welded
once, we must be strangers now-and
evermore! !"
But you-of course-you argued
that nonsense out of her head"
ITO the contrary-again."
"But-my dear man you said you
were celebrating; you permitted me
to congratulate you just now"
"The point is,' said Whitaker, with
bland and confident grin; i've sue
ceeded in arguing that nonsense out
of my head-not bers-mine."
Ember gave a helpless gesture. I'm
afraid this is one of my stupid
nights
II mean that, though Mary ran away
from me, wouldn't listen to reason,
have, in the course of an afternoons
hard tramping, come to the conclu-
sion that there is nothing under the
sun which binds me to sit back and
accept whatever treatment she pur-
poses according me by courtesy OF
Jules Max"
Whitaker bent forward, his coun
tenance discovering a phase of seri-
BUSINESS hitherto masked by his twist
ed smile.
'I mean I'm tired of all this poppy
cock. Unless I'm an infatuated ass
Mary loves me with all her heart. She
has made up her mind to renounce ms
partly because Max has worked upon
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-09

her feelings by painting some lurid
picture Of his imminent artistic and
financial damnation if she leaves him,
partly because she believes, or has
been led to believe, In this destroy
ing angel moonshine. Now she's got
to listen to reason. So, likewise, Max"
you're becoming more human word
by word" commented Ember with
open approval. Continue; elucidate;
| can understand how a fairly resolute
lover with the gift of CAB can talk
weak-minded, fond female into deny
ing her pet superstition; but how
you're going to get around Max passes
my comprehension. The man unques-
tionably has her under contract"
"But you forgot his god is Nam
mon," Whitaker put in. "Max will do
anything in the world for money
Therein resides the kernel of my plan.
It's simplicity itself: I'm going to buy
him."
Buy MaxI''
'Body-artistic soul-and breeches," !"
Whitaker affirmed confidently.
Impossible V
"You forget how we'll fixed / am.
What's the use of my owning half the
gold in New Guinea If it won't buy
me what already own by every moral
and legal right?"
HE won't listen to you; you don't
know Max"
SIN willing to lay you a small bet
that there will be no first performance
at the Theater Max tomorrow night"
you'll never persuade him"
I'll buy the show outright and my
wife's freedom to boOt-or else Max
will begin to accumulate the local
color Of a hospital ward"
| Ember smiled grimly. You're be.
ginning to convince even me. When
may l ask. do you propose to pull of
this sporting propositionT'
'Do you know where Max can bt
found tonightT"
"At the theater-"
"Then the matter will be arranged
at the theater between this hour anC
midnight"
'1 doubt if you succeed In gettin;
the ear of the great man before mid
night; however, I'm not disposed t,
quibble about few hours"
"But why shouldn't II"
Because Max is going to be tn,
busiest young person in town tonight
And that is why I've been looking fo
you. Conforming to his Gus
tom, he's been giving an advanc
! glimpse of the production to the crit
les and few friends in the form O
n final grand dress rehearsal tonight
Again, in conformance with his Gus
: tom, he has honored me with biz
I've been chasing you all day to lin
, out if you cared to go"
Eight o'clock and bit after,
] Whitaker interrupted briskly, consu
/. ting his watch. "Here, boy" he halle
a passage page; "call a taxicab fC
: me-" And then, rising alertly: "Com
along; I've got to hustle home; an
< make myself look respectable enoug
for the occasion; but at that, viii
= luck, fancy we1l be there before tt
( first curtain"
+ This mood of faith, of self-reliant
K and assured optimism held unrufflt
- throughout the dash homeward, h
e hurried change of clothing and Il
I, ride to the theater. Nothing that Ell
Der, purposely pessimistic, could s,
p or do availed to diminish the hil
buoyancy of his humor. He mai
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-09
CUPID AIMED HIGH
Valentine Written by French
Duke Earliest Specimen of
That Kind.

The earliest specimen of Il written
valentine was by Charles, duke of Or
leans, who was taken prisoner at Agin-
court and detained in England %
years.
During the greater part of the eight
eenth century valentines in the form
of sheet of note paper, in which
were inscribed some sentimental verse
or contained a courteous expression of
attachment, were popular.
This age was succeeded by a period
of decadence. The day became much
degraded festival, chiefly enjoyed by
those who could delight in sending of
jocular anonymous letters, intended to
quiz and annoy the parties to whom
they were addressed.
At the same time ugly pictures be-
gan to appear-ri colored carl
catures of the male or female figure,
with q few bdrlesque verses below;
some of more sentimental kind gave
views of Hymen's altar, of fluttering
Cupids or of hearts transfXed with
darts. Such low wit as this could cir
culate freely among only the lower
class, and to them it became chiefly
confined.
The children of the more refined
class were not willing to lose their
merry-making, and for their sake few
prettier pictures and verses were pro-
duced; but the old custom having fall
len into disrepute was sinking lower
and lower, when it was arrested by
powerful upward movement.
| This improvement began in the thir-
ties and was due to a number of ladies
who, aided by the highest in the land,
opened for a large number a new field
of labor Hundreds of refined women
became engaged in the manufacture of
valentines, the work being done in
their homes.
Nor were these little love tokens
the only articles to benefit by this up
lift, but art in all its branches rapidly
progressed, as was shown at the open
ing of the first international exhibition
by Queen Victoria and the Prince
Consort in May. 1851.
At this period, in order to give a
standing to the humble valentine, was
issued a series of six valentines in
honor of the marriage Of Queen Vic
toria to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha, February 10, 1910. These val
entines depict various royal residences,
some of them the abodes of the queen
and her royal consort.
The pictures are made from sheets
of cork stamped in bas relief, the foil
age being represented by granular
pieces of cork. Some of them were
painted with oil colorS.
The cards bearing the cork pictures
are glued to perforated sheets of vari-
Gus designs with gilt decorations, three
by four and one-half inches in dimen-
sions.
The making of these lace cards was
done by men who devoted their entire
|; time to this branch of the business.
, These men after receiving the en-
bossed sheets laid them one sheet at a
time on steel die and adjusted exact
ly by means of regulating pins at the
corners, and then with fiat iron tools
| covered with fine sandpaper, they
rubbed off the projecting bosses in the
paper.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-09

nv you MUST be sure not to
. W have any tiresome busi-
ness for the 18th, Ned"
the pretty Miss Havens
spoke gravely. Il am counting upon
you to make my party a success"
''I'll do my very best" replied Field
ing, ''but you know, Dolly, socially Pm
not bright and shining light"
You're entirely satisfying to the
eye in your evening clothes, and you
have the knack of making everybody
feel that it is their party. This time
we sha'n't have to entertain; each
guest is to bring at least one original
valentine and they will be fun
enough"
You know l couldn't write q poem
If my life depended on it."
Il know you say you can't"
Nov, Dolly, please don't insist! l
can make money! and Pm learning to
make love, but l can't make verses"
You might try, just to please me
if you think as much of me as you say
you dol" Dolly pouted.
well, l can't rhyme and you won't
reason, SO l guess I'd better stay
away"
Ned Fieldingl The party depends
on you"
"Since you are so determined, will
you make bargain? If l send you
one or more original valentines will
you marry me at Eastern
Perhaps"
"Yes or no?"
"Oh, if you insist on it, yes"
The first ring of the postman came
rather tardily on st. Valentines day
for his usual pack was augmented by
1 heavy sack of the "sweet nothings
hat are peculiar to this occasion.
Dolly opened the door herself and
| mpatiently ran through the heap OF
Embossed envelopes and picture post
ards till she came to large box ad
lressed in Fieldings script. The fam
lily gathered about her as she tore of
| the wrappings and disclosed a mon
strosity of celluloid and ribbon. She
dropped it with gesture of disgust
and out fell a document of a lega
aspect. Dolly's little brother seized
it and ran, reading it aloud as he went
"a marriage license.
Dolly crimsoned. eff that's his idet
of originality" she exclaimed.
! Later in the day there came a spe
cial delivery letter from famous trav
! ell and tourist agency, inclosing al
| itinerary for a six weeks tour enc
asking her approval or suggestions
"as requested by Mr.. Edward Field
ing"
Dolly sat down at her desk in thu
afternoon to dash off few more jim
giles, but the only rhymes she, coult
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-09

used. 1t is Of oyster-white, with disks
scattered over it's surface, each disk
showing stripes of black, white and
colors in irregular widths.
: The logical choice in sweater coats
to be worn with this skirt will be in
oyster-white. either in silk jersey or
In the same material as the skirt. In
nearly all the new suits, sweater-coats
in plain colors accompany skirts in the
same color, but striped or figured, like
that in the picture.
The blouse shown is of fine white
hatiste, covered with narrow tucks. A
frill about the wrists and at the edges
Of the fchu make the right kind of fin
tsh for it. The skirt has very narrow
frill at the top. In lieu of girdle, a
heavy silk cord in black and white is a
happy thought.
1t is whispered that cretonne will
figure among the fabrics chosen for
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-09

smart sports clothes, and there is
every reason to predict success for it.
In the three-pieee matched sets-para-
sol, hat and bag-it ought to be par
ticularly effective.
There are those who insist that the
greatest and most Interesting of all
fashion parades is that which comes
to pass annually at Palm Beach. Their
basis of comparison may not include
all the worlds fashion centers, but no
one will dispute the supremacy of
Palm Beach in America-unless some
loyal New Yorker makes so bold. This
display of the best of everything in ap-
parel is interesting to everyone who
wants to know what the coming spring
has in store for us. There are many
visitors who go there expressly to see
which way the wind blows-in fash
Ions.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-09

plain. Chinese colorings and motifs
are popular, and many hats are trim
med with Indian beads of wood in
many bright colors-so far apart are
our sources of inspiration.
The hat at the center of the group
has noticeable crown, wider at the
top and bottom than at the center. In
passing, it is worth mentioning that
crowns tend to height. This shape is
covered with cornfower blue silk hav-
ing stripes or gay colors. There is a
fitted collar of black satin about the
crown and a cockade of narrow black
ribbon at the front.
The hat at the right is a similar
model made of grass-green braid and
70 San silk. which it almost goes with
out saying is gayly colored. There is
bow of narrow green ribbon at the
front.
A youthful hat of white peanut
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-09
ANY CORN LIFTS OUT,
DOESN'T HURT A BIT!
No fooIishness! Lift your eorns
and caIIuses off with fingers
It's like magic!


Sore corns, hard corns, soft corns or
any kind Of corn. can harmlessly be
lifted right out with the fingers if you
apply upon the corn few drops Of
freezone, says a Cincinnati authority.
For little cost one can get a small
bottle of freezone at any drug store,
which will positively rid ones feet of
every corn or callus without pain.
This simple drug dries the moment
1t is applied and does not even irri-
tate the surrounding skin while ap-
plying it or afterwards.
This announcement will interest
many Of our readers. IF your druggsz
hasn't any freezone tell him to surely
get a small bottle for you from his
wholesale drug house.-adv.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-09
STYLES PRESENT AND TO COME
Sports Clothes for Summer Already Have Been Designed and the
Materials Chosen-Gay Millinery to Be Worn at
Palm Beach This Season.

Now is. the time to consider sports
clothes for next summer, even if sum
mer seems long way off from the
lands of SHOWS. For those who follow
the sun southwark, or go to meet him
when he turns northward, the hand
soonest of sports clothes have already
been made. Tourists are the people
who demand the best that genius can
produce, and money pay for, in this
particular field of women's apparel, SO
styles are established.
In the skirt, parasoi, hat and bag,
all made to match, as shown in the pic
ture, a new. heavy weave in silk is
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-09
CHAPTER XIX.
One Way Out.

way wi.
Toward eight in the evening, after
a day-long search through all his ac-
customed haunts, Ember ran whita-
ker to earth In the dining room of the
Primordial. The young man. alone
nt table, was In the act of topping
Off en- excellent dinner with a still
more excellent cordial and a SUPER
excellent cigar.
He wore rough tweeds and they
we're damp and baggy; his boots were
muddy; his hair was n trifle disorder
ly. The ensemble made a figure wildly
incongruous to the soberly splendid
and stately dining hall Of the Primor-
dial club, with its sparse patronage
of members in evening dress.
Ember, himself as severely beauti.
full In black and white as the ceremo.
NOUS livery of today permits n man
90 be, was wonder-struck at sight of
Whitaker in such unconventional
gulso, at such time, in such place
With neither invitation nor salutation
he slipped into a chair on the Other
sfe OF the table, and stirred.
Whitaker smiled benignantly upor
him, and called a waiter.
Ember, always abstemious, lifted
his hand and smiled a negative smile
Whitaker dismissed the waiter.
"Well 2" he inquired cheer
fully.
what right have you got to loo4
like that7" Ember demanded.
"'rhe right Of every free-born Amer
lean citizen to make an ass of himsel
according to the dictates of his con
science. I've been exploring the dnrl
backwards and abysm of the Bronx
nfo1t. Got caught in the rain on tn
way home. Was late getting bach
and dropped In here to celebrated
"I've been looking for you every
where, since morning"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-09

The all-absorbing item in millinery
interest for the past month has been
the hats worn at Palm Beach. These
include wide variety in straw or fab
rlcs, or both combined. In the fabric
mats there are many plain and figured
silks, including jersey, natural pom.
gees, plain and figured crepe, and nov
city weaves. Cotton crepes and wool
jerseys appear also among sports mod
els, and satin holds first place for tail
ored hats.
In the three hats for sports wear
pictured here the trend of taste toward
brilliant color combinations is very
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-09

upon it. More recently still yet an
other novel method of road-mending
mas been invented. This consists Of
treating the surface with specially pre-
pared rubber waste. One of the prin-
cipal London thoroughfares south of
the Thames has been relaid with this
new composition, and so far it has
shown itself both wear-resisting and
resilient.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-09
Tough Luck.

ivan Cush is an extremely unluck3
chap"
''He isn't usually considered So"
81 know, but you ought to hear hir;
talk about his misfOrtunes. Six months
ago ne decided that he had made al]
the money he could possibly use, sc
he bought a farm and retired. He
started to sink an artesian well in or.
der to insure Il supply of pure water
And what did he do but strike oil
Now he's got to get back in harness
again and make a whole lot of none,
that he doesn't need at all out of thai
oil well. Don't you pity him from tn,
bottom of your hearth"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-09
Roads From Old Boots.

The first man to hit upon the idea of
utilizing old boots for mending roads
made a fortune out of it. He tore the
leather to pieces by mechanical means,
and treated it with asphalt and tar.
The first main road to be laid with the
new mixture was one near Birming-
ham, and the results have until now, it
is claimed, been eminently satisfac-
tory, The surface is almost entirely
dustless, very elastic and silent, and
neither horse traffic nor the heaviest
motor cars have had any bad effect