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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-05-10
nWe Write Cur Own Price
Tags" Woman Writer De-
cIareS, Who Thinks That
Personal Vanity Keeps One
Struggling to Reach Top
By DOROTHY DIX.
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman
Writer

ttI DON'T know whether to foster my
childrcn's self conceit or Try to
curb it," said a mother TO me the
other day, because I've never been
able to decide whether egotsm IS a
help or a hindrance to us m lie.
"Of course we are all taught that
vanity is one OF the seven deadly sins
and meekness is one OF the cardinal
virtues, but all the same, observation
shows us that vanity is the iirst ard
to getting there, and meekness IN
~riably gets left at the post. Most OF
our great men, from Napoleon to
Colonel Roosevelt, up and down, have
bren an incarnate ].
Source of Contentment.
Also we are forced to observe mat
there is no other such uniailng source
oi contcntment and happlnes, as self
conceit If you admire yourself enough
it doesn't make a particle of difference
whether other people admire you or
not Their criticism rolls oil of you
like water oii OF a ducks back II
they don't think You the handSomc>t
creature IN the world YOU simply set It
down to their merely lacking in taste.
If they don't let YOU lay down the
law to them or to kow-tow before your
opinions. they are a generation o'
iool. and asses, no less.
"Nou go undi,turbed on your way,
serene in the unshakable faith that any
one who has any intelligence, artistic
sense OF judgment sees you as you see
yourself
When II Doesn't Work.
"Thcre are times when | sec old wom-
en- adorned IN the raiment OF ilapperS,
ard ugly fat. ungainly women rolling
their ewes at men. and trying to look
cute and coquct5h and when | wrlthe
under the torture of being bored TO
extinction by platitudinous gentlemen
who tell me Jokes that heard in the
cradle. and monologuc along by the
hour about thcmsclyc, and their own
affairs. under the conviction that |
must find them thrillinGly interesting
because they are so interested them
selves. when ] am led 10 the conviction
that self couccit is Gods consolation
prize TO his stcp-children.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-05-10

OTOR IL YOU will notice, as a general
L thing. the less reason people have
10 be ,u.rHcd, the more concerted
thcy are. The vaincst women have
ever met i'm my lie have not been
living pictures. but chromos, and the
men who talk most about themselves
are the men who have never done any
thing worth mentioning.
Vanity Is Camouflage.
$50 wien YOU look at vanity in 'hlS
light tla- something that merc'tulIy
camouiagcs ouc's own detects and
shortc1mir., from ones own sight and
leaves one pulriug with seli-sausiactlon
instead Of railing at fatc--it seems the
cruelest thing in the world to deprive
a child Of it.
"You feel like saying to your young
ones. Got to it. my child. Think well
of yourself, because precious few other
people Will cultivate a good opinion
Of Yourself. then it won't make any DIT
ference whether YOU get the glad hand
from the world or not Wrap yourself
IN m a. MANY of the chiiions OF pink
Illusion, about your own looks, and
talent, a. lnu can manufacture out OBJ
your yau.,,. for they are more impcr
gu, {, tnr slings and arrows Of out
a.r1u. ..rtwc than a coat OF ma.
would hc
Speaking From Experience.
az speak with feeling ON the subject
because | had a mother who bclongec
to the old school that held il was :
parents first duty to raise up chill,
tn he hnmhle. and 70 min in the hul
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"Cheero," a Happy Illness

adjoining room. Then came this passage:
"One day he felt better, and smiling
weakly said he would get well if he could
go home and lie on the grass with his head
on spring violets and his feet in the jon
pulls"
"Oof. Ow, WuT," We groaned.
giggled and gasped. and hurled the book
aside
keep WELL but If YOU get sick, keep
happy" admonishcs Jane After being
cut and scrapcd, bathed and baked and
incidentally accommodating complete line
Of hospital supplies, her opinion of doc
tors summed up this way:
"The profession of medicine is not
science; ii is an art-a lost art"
But doctors, she admits, are good
sports.
Chcero is a handy sized little book. lust
right 10 slip into a pocket or knitting bag
when going TO call upon sick friend. 1t
Is not only for the ailing, however, for it
contains much genuine humor that will
certainly appeal to the robust.
CHEERO. By ANNlE MARION M,cLE,g.
The WOmans Press.
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PALMER cox AVN0e OF THE BROWNIES floRMEL"

The book is called The Brownies aud
Prince Fiorimel, and though it is written
in prose instead of poetry and differs in
some other respects from the rest of the
series, we still have the Brownie police
man, the dude, the Chinaman, the sailor
and all the old favorites. They have stood
the test of the years well; even the war
has failed to sadden them
This is real story, fairy, Brownie
and demon story combined. about nice
people like Prince FlOrimel and bad ones
like Dragonfel, who was not an agreeable
man. IF You had known INN YOU would
not have liked him. He cheated when he
PLAYED croquet, and he was always claim
ing wickets that he never made. He did
not go TO Sunday school, either. If he
had gone, he would not have put a penny
in the plate for the heather. That was
the kind Of man he was"
Every child should have a Brownie
Book. If there is one who hasn't we can
say very truly of him:
ale is a naughty boy. I'm sure.
Or else his dear papa is poor"
THE BROWNIES AND PRINCE FLORI.
MEL. BY PALMER Cox. The Century
Company. $50.
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What Dealers Are Doing.
NJ. L. -

wilberforee Eames has returned from
his vacation in the Adirondacks and is
again at his desk in the Public Library.
Henry l.. Smith, for many years in
charge of the rare book business of Charles
Scribner's Sons, died recently.
Frank =. Harper will spend the coming
season in New York, having closed his house
in New Jersey.
George J. Boyer, the print dealer, is now
at 1912 Gates avenue, Brooklyn.
l.athrop {. Harper has returned from an
extended Western trip. He reports bust
ness active and he found some desirable
books.
Major William Gordon McCabr of Rich
mond, Va, equally well known as collector
and soldier of the Confederacy, has been
: in the city for some days in the interest
of the Virginia Historical Society, of which
he is president.
Albert y. Bcher. the bookseller. is now
with the Ordnance Department of the Army,
but may be found AT his store on SATURDAYS
and Sundays.
a London art dealer who was well known
to collectors on this side of the ocean.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-29
By GORDON B. MOSS.

ANE had rheumatism of the kind
y known as arthritis. Half hundred
doctors attached almost as many different
adjectives TO the disease, but ali seemed
10 agree that it was arthritis of some sort.
\ long round of watering places, special
lists. hospitals and sanatoria left Jane a
professional invalid-cured but subject 10
rclapses-but with her keen sense Of
humOr intact and her love of the ridicu-
lous undimmed.
In Chcer0 Annie Marion MacLcan ac-
complisheS the seemingly impossible in
writing 4 humorous story of James rheu-
matte adventures, for the help or at least
the entertainment of others who have been
o. may be caught in the clutches of dis
case and the nsliral profession"
Sick-a-bcd folk particularly will enjoy
Cbecro. for:
There Is no sport known 10 man-not
tn mention wonan-aS cXciling rs getting
= disease cured. The chances for recovery
arc -luH-cycn though ones purse be TAT;
Il l. III uneven contest, with the patient
Oh one side and the hospitals and doctors
on the otter. Still, if the patient has
good nerve h. may win"
cicero i no! for iavalidS 10 whom mus
cular tension induced by laughter is dan
gcr"us or painful. The reviewer knows,
because he attempted 10 read the book
while nursing an aiiiDg knee in which
spasms of pain were induced by sudden
laughter or coughing. He stuck it out
gamely until Jane related SOM hospital
adventures and told of young i-an from
the country who lay desperately IL in ~
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-29

Asher Wertheimer, died on August
his home in Eastbourne, England.
w. K Dart of New Orleans has been in
town for some days visiting dealers.
Catalogues Received.
From 2. F. Madigan, Bulletin No. 50,
containing l02 items. 4 letter of Gen.
Washington addressed to a commissioner
for enlistments, in which he advocates the
calling into service of all men above Il
and under SO years of age, is the most
interesting letter in the lot, and would
seem to be of value to those who are now
opposed to the ages at which we are calling
soldiers for the present war. There is also
on literary matters.
From Robert Cecil MacMahon, 7s West
Fifty-ffth street, New York, catalogue
comprising 1863 titles of very unusual books.
From Francis Edwards, s3 High street,
Marylebone, London, W. l., No. 3S2, con-
tanning 54s titles. Americana, early print
ed books, books of hours, books from ia
nous presses, bindings, &c. There are listed
forty-four lots of Americana, all very rare,
the prices of which are considerably higher
than the same items can be had for over
here; fine copy of the Botticello Dante
1881; Breydenbaeh s ItiHeTdriun, 1856, and
many other choice and desirable books
At Auction.
c. F. Libbie & Co., Boston announce to be
sold October 2 and a collection of Ameri-
cana from Rhode Island, including New
England town histories, genealogies, mate
rial about Indians and the South Sea Isl.
ands, newspapers, periodicals, Western his
tory, &c.-l, 657 lots.
Replies to Questions.
W. F. H., BRooKLYN-Your set of the
Irving Life Of Washington, in parts as is
sued, is worth about S..
Mrs. J. F. NJ, RIDGEwooD, n. J.-Single
volumes from sets are seldom of much value.
J. V. W., HUDSON, n. Y.-If you are
quite sure the Hilbert book is annotated by
Dickens, il should be worth about SIS. You
do not state if it bears his signature in ad-
dition to the book plate, in which event it
would be worth quite a little more.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-29
The War and
Psychical Phenomena
DRIVATE DOWDING was Killed bv

l/hlN ALE DON DlNU was Killed DN
L a shell splinter in battle and later
was reported to have said through a
medium: Something struck, hard, hard,
hard against my neck Shall | ever lose
the memory of that hardness! 1t is the
only unpleasant incident that I can re-
member" When he came to himself in
the world into which be had been silellel
and found himself standing outside his
body he inquired amazingly: where is
my body? Surely l am not dead
In spite of many similar humorous in
cidents PsychicdI Phenomena and the
Var, by Hereward Darlington. is a seri-
Gus examination of the psychical Inani-
festations that have been revealed by the
present war
The first part of the book, entitled
The Psychology Of the Soldier, and deal
ing with the fighter in the trenches, under
artillery fire, during an attack, in pain,
shell shock and dreams, shows a profound
insight into the curious power that
changes a man into mere fighting unit
After soldier has been for while in the
trenches, the author tells us that 'the lack
of all truly intellectual stimulation or
companionship tends to reduce the mental
activities TO their lowest possible level and
induce n state of simple childishness."
Even thoughts and memories of home and
loved ones become vague, and the one
dominant idea in the mind of the soldier
is to overcome the enemy. We read also
that one of the allied armies was obliged
TO make forced marches for nine DAYS.
and that the men were So weakened by
fatigue through loss Of sleep that they
actually slept while on the march THIS
part of tie volume is rcplcte with inter
esting incidents which will appeal as rca-
sonable even 10 the most matcrialistic
scientist.
But the last part Of the work is con
ccrncd with spiritual;sm, mediums. plan
chrttcs, telcpathy. automatic writing and
photography, appariiions. prophecies and
premouirions and will be found difficult
for the average person to believe even
with tie abundance of apparently iucon-
tc,tablc evidence il offers.
The author state as his thesis that at
death the spjrit merely leaves the body
and departs to tie spirit world, but that
through mediums AID other channels We
can communicate with the spirit.
p-,-,rr,,T rrrr>-,Mf-\-, ,N-D TrIr
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-29

OXFORD BOOK SrDP FIR
Scare and oar e i'~iu' E.rA- n
~ fp- Eva i'iIl~. ru-lu- Goo
az IcNiu-r ~. A.. ~ rh, ~;rn
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Inspired Verse.

A book dealer of New York has recently
had contact with buyer who evidently did
not please him. He sends to Books and the
Book World the following lines:
"Your books are rare
And fair in price;
He calls them cheap
He says they re nice
Your prints are scarce,
$50 you are told;
And some of them
Are very old.
He talks about
Original boards
But carefully
His money boards.
In what condition
viii he b.,
When he is old
1927 NJ LIZ
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-29
y CONSTANCE MURRAY GREENE

A FTER silence of five years, Palmer
L n Cox has written another Brownie
Book, though it would be better, perhaps,
10 say that he has drawn another; for it is
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-29
Rare Book
War Relief Work in the COS
Personal News Notes
Catalogues, a Sale, Queries

a CITY bookseller has handed Books and
~ the Book World little book entitled
= The Phiianthropic Results Of the
Far in America, printed in this city in
1864, which gives a complete history of the
lines of work similar to the activities of the
Red Cross, Knights of Columbus, Y. NJ. c. A.
and kindred organizations at the present
time.
The principal agencies of the civil war
period were the United States Sanitary Com
mission and the United States Christian
Commission, although there were other
bodies, mostly local in character, whose col
lections were large.
1t is pleasant to note that the great SAM
tary Fair in Brooklyn yielded a gross re-
turn of $4,000 and net of 100000. To
all agencies at work from the beginning OF
the war TO February, 1864, there was con-
tributed s2l2, 274 ,259.45.
The little book is filed with interesting
details and might well be studied by those
who are now working in the same field.
News of the Trade.
Harold Davis of this city, an enthusiastic
collector of first editions, has enlisted in
tho navy.
Books and the Book IT orld is in receipt
of letter from Samuel J. Skoyles of the
Museum Art Shop, 1886 Madison avenue,
New York, in relation to paper preserva-
tion, in which Mr.. Skoyles states that as he
specializes in that work he has had oc-
easion to make an exhaustive study of it,
and has discovered a process to save writ
ten or printed matter even when the paper
has begun to powder.
Collectors of Americana have long been
familiar with the extensive library of the
late W. II. Darlington of Pittsburg, who
was the editor of Christopher Gist s Journal,
printed few years ago from the manu-
script in Mr.. Darlington s possession. The
library, it has just been announced, has
bsm given to the University of Pittsburg.
As there are many items that duplicate
those now in the library of the university,
no doubt there will be opportunity for deal
ers to procure a lot of fine material.
w. J. Campbell of Philadelphia, book
seller known to nearly every bookish per-
son, has just published a fine photography
of the work of Benjamin Franklin. Mr.
Campbell has for a number of years been
collecting the material for this work and
there is perhaps no one as well posted on
the subject, or better qualified to compile it.
The book covers many items that have es-
capped former lists.
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the queer, lovable, jolly little pictures
that make his books so well beloved. They
have become tradition and a very dear
one that we are happy in handing down 10
our children.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-07-05
NO DAMAGE IS DONE
BY HIGH WATER WESTWARD

ANCHORAGE, July 5.-While the
flood waters this season in the Tai
keetna and Susitna rivers were UNI
usually high, no material damage was
occasioned to the grade of the gov
eminent railroad
The Talkeetna river flows into the
Susitna river at point about 116 miles
north of Anchorage, Near the june
ton of the two streams and for
stretches of considerable length south
of here. the Sustna river parallels the
railroad. Flood waters at times reach
the grade but this year they did not
injure IT,
The movement of ice this year at
the break up in the Susitna river
manifested especially terrific force.
The ice badly eroded the banks of
the river.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-07-05
ITALIAN PAPERS NO LONGER
SENT TO FOREIGN LANDS

ROME. July 80 prevent the cen
trail empire spies from conveying in
formation. the personal columns of
Italian newspapers circulating in
Switzerland and other countries have
been suppressed in foreign editions.
1t was shown during the trial of an
Italian engineer. one Cesare Sanford,
convicted of conveying Information to
the enemy. that he had inserted his in
formation in the newspapers in the
form of love letter advertisements.
The foreign editions of the news
papers now leave the country with
the advertisement space blank The
Austrians. to show that they can not
be altogether circumyented, it has
been found fill this blank with news
matter injurious to Italy. and then
have the editions scattered over the
Italian front by airplanes, in the hope
that Italian soldiers will read the
newspapers and accept as legitimate
Italian news the matter inserted in
the blank spaces by the Austrians.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-07-05
FORMER PURSER KEHOE
NOW IN U. S. SERVICE

Tom kehoe, formerly purscr on the
steamship Admiral Evans, is now in
the service of the government, plying
between New York and France on the
steamship Seattle, the big S,000-ton
steel steamship built at the Seattle
Construction Company's plant in
ninety days and taken through the
canal and used for transportation of
supplies to the American army in
France. Kehoe shipped as purser on
the big freighter. He recently was
in New York, visiting with c. G.
Wulff and family, and is noow on bis
return trip. the Seattle having been
loaded with munitions and supplies
for her second trip.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-07-05
SPECIAL H0N0RS
CONFERRED ON
AN AMERICAN

VENICE. May % Thy maiD The
silken standard of the proud old re,
public of Venice, known as the Con
Talon of San Marco. now has a place
in Venice. and upon American Consul
b. Harvey Carroll, Jr., has been con
ferred the distinction of being a Con
falonier of San Marco or standard
bearer of the Venetian flag.
7 is the first time in the history
of Venice that such a distinction has
been given to any foreigner, and 1t
reflects the feeling of the city toward
the American representative for the
attention he has given their interests
during the trials of the last six
months with the enemy on the Piave
only fifteen miles east of Venice.
Throughout the political changes Of
Venice the city has preserved the en-
blem which marked its greatest glory.
when as the Venetian republic she.
was mistress of the Adriatic and the
eastern Mediterranean and was
strong enough to defeat the Turks
| and conquer Constantinople. The
winged lions of ST. Mark are the most
familiar emblem, and they are not
only seen in Venice and all the sur
! nj nf hn tipp
ince. but in Corfu and all along the
coast of Dalmatia and Croatia.
Another OF these emblems is a
doge's ring. conferred in the old days
on Venice as a symbol OF the suzer-
ainty OF the oceans Queen" over
the sea. But the proudest relic of
the past Is the Gonfalon of San Marco
or standard of the famous old repub-
lie 1t is one of the possessions of
the city. and the municipal council
guards its use and designates the few
who are privileged to carry It, the des-
| ignation carrying with 1t the title of
Gonfalonier of San Marco
1t was a notable ceremony at the
city council chamber when the rank
of standard bearer of the Venetian
flag was conferred on Consul Carroll
more as an evidence of personal
esteem than in his official capacity
With the mayor and councillors of
Venice were the admiral of the port
and the high officers of the army and
navy, Addresses were exchanged and
toasts drunk, expressing the feeling
toward the council and the cordial re-
lations existing between Italy and the
United States.
Following this delegation of the
city fathers proceeded to the Ameri-
can consulate. bearing one of the
silken gonfalons of San Marco. and
gave it into the hands OF the new
standard-bcarer The standard Is OF
heavy silk, richly edged with gold
fringe, with glded staff topped by
the lions of San Marco.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-07-05
PROF. DAVIS ADVANCED

Professor f. G. Davis, formerly head
of the Valdez schools, and an educator
of note, recently received the tender
of principalship in the schools OF
Cleveland, Ohio, and has resigned his
superintendency of the Auburn, Wash,
schools and removed to Cleveland.
Mr.. Davis has gone far in his profes
sion since leaving Valdez
The Cordova daily times., 1918-07-05

Your eyes fitted. Compound and
asdgnatIc LENSES rspAesA Sss o.
botaA
New-York tribune., 1918-09-22
Piping Rock Horse Show
To Increase War Fund

Society, especially the Long Island
set, always takes great interest in the
annual horse show at Piping Rock, and
this year a large attendance is looked
for, as it is for war charity. 1t will be
held next Saturday on the old show
grounds of the club at Locust
Valley, and the proceeds will go
to the American Red Cross, to
be used at its discretion for the
relief of French children made
destitute by the war. Plenty of park
ing space will be provided and mem bers
of the Piping Rock Club and their
guests have been requested to make
arrangements to pass the day at the
show and to provide their own
luncheons.
Women of society are forming a COM
mittee Of thirty to represent the Ameri-
can Red Cross in connection with the
National Horse Show at Madison
Square Garden, which will be held from
November II to Is. The entire receipts
Will be donated to the war relief fund
the directors paying all the expenses
Among those who have been invited to
serve on the .women's committee arc
Mrs Arthur Iselin, Mrs. Charles Cary
Rumsey, Mrs. w. Goadby Loew. Mrs
Arthur Scott Burden, Mrs. Edward II
; Carle and Miss Marion HolIins, all o
whom are members of the Ladies
Four-ln- Hand Driving Club.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-22
Society
Liberty Loan Drive Holds
Attention of Social Leaders
of New York

Many women prominent in New York
society are taking an active part in
the coming Liberty Loan drive, which
opens Saturday. The Second Federal
Reserve District is divided into nine
subdivisions, including the counties Of
New York State with the metropolitan
division. twelve counties of northern
New Jersey, and Fairfield. Conn.
Mrs: John T. Pratt, as chairman Of
the Women's Liberty Loan Committee,
Is directing the work Of the women
DIN the entire district. She is at Lib
erty Loan headquarters, 100 Broadway,
and working in the same o bce are the
chalrmen of the nine sub districts Of
the Second Federal Reserve District.
They are Mrs. Linzee Blagden, Mrs.
orris X. Parker, Mrs. George F. Baker,
j}r, Miss Florence Wardwell, Mrs.
George Whitney, Mrs. Harry w. Sage,
Mrs Harold |. Pratt, Mrs. II. Otto
Wlttpen, Mrs. Courtlandt Dixon Barnes
and Mrs. Leland S. Stillman.
Each county has a woman chairman
and hundreds of women are sending
their names into the Liberty Loan
headquarters, asking that they be al
lowed to serve. Many of them will be
used in selling bonds for house-to-
house canvassing, for sending in re-
ports of sales, for clerical, stenographic
and typing work.