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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03
Mealie PUDDING.

Like the haggis, the mealle pudding
is to the Sassenach a Scotch delicacy
the origin of which is wrapped in deep
est mystery. The other morning two
travel-stained English Tommies drop
ped into the restroom at Aberdeen
station for some much-needed refresh
ment. They were heartily welcomed
by the ladies in charge, and in a few
minutes n succulent mealie pudding,
piping hot, was placed before each.
Both had seen more than n bit of life
since joining the army, but a mealie
pudding was one of the things hither-
to undreamed of in their philosophy.
Determined, however, to brave the I'M
known, one of them boldly cut his pud-
ding in two, scOoped out some of the
contents, and took mOuthful. AS he
slowly masticated the oatmeal look
of contentment came over his features.
"Go ahead, Bill ~ he exclaimed. "It's
only good old porridge in tank"
London Chronicle.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03
TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES

Owing to difficulties In transporta-
tion from India, Great Britain is suf-
fering from shortage Of cottonseed, and
oil cake for dairy cows is steadily
rising in price.
The large sugar estate owned and
managed for some years at CaIamba
by the Dominican friars has been pur-
chased for $1,000O00 for Japanese su-
gar capitalists. This is the largest
project yet undertaken in the island by
Japanese business men.
An English golf enthusiast has pat
ented club in the head of which is a
device to measure the force Of strokes.
John l. Miller. his father-in-law, y.
A. Senner and Mr.. and Mrs. Richards
Of Lincoln, H., We're carried so yards
In an automobile ON the pilot Of an en-
CINE. None was seriously hurt.
The city of New York has spent
about S15OO00,0O0 on its water front.
The water front of Manhattan is 37.35
miles in length; the Bronx, 64.7 miles I;
B,ootlyn, 20O.67 miles; Queens, 106.72
miles. Richmond, 55,75 miles, or to-
rd fo~ Grepter New York Of 555.1
.milcs,
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03
this HURRYING AGE
Has Forced Authors 10 Recognize
Changed Customs.
Stilted Manners That characterized
the Victorian Era Have Passed as
Completely as Has the
Stage Coach.

That the tempora and the mores
have suffered as much In this century
as the lares and penates may be poor
Latin but is sound truth, observes the
Louisville Courier-Journal. The times
and manners are distinctly different,
and in one especial particular of So
cinl intercourse Is there II powerful
variance.
For instance, IN Victorian times, II
took the hero and heroine about TWEEN
ty chapters to get acquainted. BY that
time he was calling her Miss Dora,'
instead of Miss Spenlow," and he
gulped every time he said It. When
his love and passion had boiled and
bubbled until he was a wretched hu-
man caldron, and he had TO repress Il
moan every time he saw her little hand
on the arm of dragoon, it took him
eight pages to ask her falteringly If he
might call her Dora" She consented,
and proposal and marriage We're the
natural sequence. To call her Dora
and not marry her was equivalent to
breach Of promise in the Victorian era.
And nobody but the hero and the mem.
bers of her family ever called her
Dora, except perhaps her girl friends
But in these times what Il difference!
All the young folks call one another
Jack and Jill, and it is curious and
anachronistic youth who finds it hard
TO do so. In fact, he becomes n sort Of
gentle joke in his "set" and the girls
think him rather slow. After he has
met the lady two or three times he
learns to consider it superOgatory to
call upon her in the name Of her fa.
ther. She is Gloria or Penelope in sua
persona, and Miss Wilmerding or Miss
Schulz to her seems pOky. 1t is the
same with the young married ones.
You hear about them for n while from
mutual friends, and then you meet
them. You make bow and say:
"How do you do, Mrs. Kawsup." She
does not resent it the first time. But
the fourth time you meet her Mrs
Kawsup remarks: 1T sounds so silly
for you to call me that. Why don't
you say Lucretia and I'll call you Aga
memnOnY And it's done.
1t is pretty hard on the novelist
Messrs. Dickens and Thackeray used to
fill couple of hundred excellent pages
with working up the hero to the Dora
and Clara point, and in the mild ven
lures Of Anthony TrOllope into the
eternal triangle--his villains were per.
feet gentlemen and always wore stiff
white shirts-he consumed much space
wherein the Tertium Quid was negoti.
ating to call the restless married lady
by her first name. The reading public
is too wise for that now, and the long
winded authors lie unread on the
shelves of the library. One must start
the book briskly; on page l the hero.
inc is Dora to the hero, and on page 16
the home-wrecker is squeezing the mar.
ried lady's hand and calling her Esmer.
aida.
Thus the fifth GeOrgian-Wilsoninn
period of life and literature as con-
trasted with the Victorian. And per-
haps it makes no great amount of diff
ference. Certainly it saves white pa,
per and makes the serial stories short
er-twO results of real value in this
hungry, hurried age.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03
FOODS TASTE BETTER COOKED
TOBACCO TASTES BETTER
TOASTED

Since the day of the caveman, VINO
liked his meat raw, civilization has
learned a lot about the scientific treat.
ment of the things we eat.
Naturally none of us would now
prefer to have our meat raw, our po-
tatoes as they come from the ground,
our coffee unroasted.
And naturally follows the great dis
covery recently made by The Ameri-
can Tobacco Co.-that tobacco tastes
better TOASTED!
This wonderful new idea-simple
like all great inventions-was first
used in producing the famous LUCKY
STRIKE Cigarette-made of toasted
Burley tobacco.
.5urley has a mellow flavor, entirely
different from the tobacco usually
used for cigarettes. 1t is pipe to-
hsczoandLUCKY STRIKE Cigarettes
caste like pipe. Adv.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03

Sun dials, which date back to early
times, were not all like the kind set up
as ornaments in modern gardens. Spe-
clmens of pocket dials of brass and
ivory are in the collection besides
ring with hole in the top. Held in
position to admit ray of the sun
through the hole, the hour is marked
on a scale inside the ring. There is
also model Of pole used by the
Montagnais Indians of Canada. 1t was
set up and parties of hunters passing
by would mark the shadow of the sun
on the snow for the information Of
those who were to follow.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03

mischief watchfu Of chance to
chase by the
unfor tin o the
bowling the The motor
checking his
right
automobile insured fast
front of
overturned and
The changed to
silently the conductor knew he'd
night The
no until the apples gathered
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03
Sense of Fitness.

Having just learned over the phone
that he could not get an ounce Of coal,
Bangs, the terrible tempered, went into
the parlor uttering the most awful I'm
precautions.
"William,' exclaimed his wife, If
you must swear, for mercy don't do
It standing on the prayer rug,"-Bos-
ton Transcript
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03

blouses" for thirteen-year-old young
nan when the young man wanted
'cord'roys," smacks of that fictional
hero's most abandoned crimes.
Tommie is in Jail in Toledo, and
oclied up with him is the queerest col
lection of clothes that Detroit news
BOY ever had the patience to gather
aud the consummate nerve to wear.
He appeared in ravishing gown of
rustling silk, neatly pointed low shoes,
with high French heels, silken hose,
L Nnwnr.nnt hat that nnnnrentlY. hnd
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03

combination equally impossible
although cold
knitting bagu crowning disguise blonde wig.
himself the police station where
d-facadan gnnnng policeman demanded kiss.
somebody? I'll
eershoo highly madye
Ge Those MILDLY bouses
wanted to ike
things little at time and then md
them and started for Ceve
lando
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03
The Three Bosses.

A broker was praising Charles M.
Schwab's conduct Of Bethlehem Steel.
"Schwab runs that plant well be-
cause he's in absolute control Of It,"
the broker said.
He chuckled and went on:
"a big minority stockholder tried to
get gay with Schwab one day-want-
ed to oppose the recent stock dividend
actually tried to boss the shebang.
"Sehwab just looked at the duffer In
that cool way Of his, Then he said;
~ may as well tell you first as last,
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03

cocktails for the party. Il am sOrry'
madam" said the waiter, "but cannot
serve you" "Why not?' Because
you wear the army uniform"
The tall, handsome woman wore the
khaki of the Medical corps, and was
forsooth an officer in the corps, a sur
geon bent on going abroad to serve
with the Pershing forces. Her blouse
was cut English fashion, revealing a
tie that sported the golden serpent
that is the emblem of the corps. The
lady in khaki refused to be turned
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03

demanded who
Brown peep at uniform sustained the waiter.
the responsibilities
e doesn't know the difference between
in
the uniform"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03

England, accepting men of nineteen
to forty-one, inclusive, has 100000
soldiers in the field. Germany, accept
ing men of eighteen and forty-five, in
elusive, has 100000. Germany's per-
manent disablements are said to be
3,50O000, or at the rate of 100000 a
year.
King George rules over more Mo-
hammedans than the sultan of Turkey,
over more Jews than there are in
Palestine and over more negroes than
any other sovereign who is not ma
tive of Africa.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03

like having strapped department and be compelled
wondering whether you were sleigh ride
You imagine how the cats
feel about It, 4.
named by the gathering to surround
demand hearing the
The fact able to h shoes at the protesors
consideration To exhause his leather
barpR viii work relays Needless to say the cats picked
y his especial who have stopped make
shoe their careers and they mean to have the
NIGHTS or peaRh doTlously.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03
Can Be raken Either Way.

Limitation is the sincerest flattery.'
"Not at all" replied Miss Cayenne.
"Flattcry is the insincerest imitation"
Many a mans dyspepsia is due to
the mistaken belief on the part of his
wife that she can cook.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03

NUI0IUVIVU Dy tIIV IVt5IoItl VI 2 NIIH5- F9NF'
sion says the purpose of the bill is to
provide q form of cat insurance. Prop
erly chimed, cat will have chance
to live to nine ripe old ages. Without
the alarm clock attachment cat runs
the risk of being cut down In the mid
die of his first serenade, the bill pro
viding that any ungonged feline may
be kicked, shot stabbed, gassed or
torpedoed from any angle without
warning. How do the cats like it? They
don't like II at all. How would you
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03
The Real Thing.

Cholly-You're a perfect picture Of
your big sister.
Mazle-Sure, but me beauty Is nat
ural, and hers Is artificial.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03
Couldn't Get Cocktail Because of Her Uniform

NEW might be termed the inter
hotels dining
and by Introducing luncheon ordered
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03

IHV UuIIUH5 OF lIIU hIItVI CUTS HIo IN
n joyful mood and the spring sunshine
brings out their good nature. They
are not harassed by heavy clothing.
The green grass peeping through the
earth cheers them up and they murmur
This is the life"
With the coming of the warm days
the street car chauffeur sees a better
world No more wagons on the tracks,
no breakdOwns doors that open easily
and everything so happy and gay. But,
oIoS no has NOT rpcEOned with the
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03

A London cat, officially know as the
"King's cat" is the only one in the
Kingdom to receive an allowance from
the treasury. He inhabits the Record
Office and 13 cents week is spent for
his meat.
For the unit Of woman telephone op-
orators to be sent to France dis
tinctive uniform is being provided.
Salaries range from $50 to $125 a
month, with allowance for rations and
quarters. Successful applicants must
speak both French and English with
ease.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03

A tiny bottle Of freezone costs but
few cents at any drug store, but Is
sufficient to remove every hard corn,
soft corn, or corn between the toes,
and the callouses, without soreness or
Irritation.
Freezone is the sensational discov-
cry of n Cincinnati genius. 1t is won
derful.-Adv.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03

my friend, that there are only three
men who have any say in this concern
only three men,
"'Hump. Who are they? growled
the stockholder.
""rhe first is Charlie Schwab,
Schwab said. "The second is Schwab.
The third is CHARLIE
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03
Detroit TOmmy's Revenge on His DOting Mother

believe that TOmmie McDu Detroit
mother favored ddy
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03
Chanued.

"He used to be u pacifist."
"NowW
"Now he admits that the Huns have
made it indecent for a man not to
fight"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03
Gotham Cats Aroused by Robinson's Bell Bill

RIEw yoRK-Evey with bells on" Provided of
by Senator Theodore Douglas Robinson
the most important to be
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03
Barrel Of Apples Makes One Peck Of Trouble

CHCAGoThe mOtOrons life vexins problems After long
full difficulties cold hands and and
with he looks forward the balmy spring Then
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03

OWN at the Coast Artillery
school at Fort Monroe, Va,
Uncle Sam is turning out
the latest pattern Of mod
ern heavy artillery officers.
The National Guard coast
artillery officers and such
of the regular establish
ment as have not yet been
through this school have
been ordered down in two
sections. the first of which
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03
Court Rules Woman's Toilet Trash" Is Necessary

n ICHFoRD YYoung frr Husbands call them
call them makeup But hereafter and perfume
mad dressing table have legal standing
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03

In court as "a customary part OF a
woman's upkeep." The decision was
handed down by village police judge
here after weighing every side of the
question. And, take it from Louis ].
Whelan, who must pay an additional
dollar each week to his wife because
Of it, the judicial finding is one that is
attracting considerable interest in this
village.
Whean, who is foreman gardener
on an estate near here, was summoned
into court by his wife, who declared
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03

insufficient
in the necessities Of life
trash-ncy face powder and all that
trash" Whean
his throat frowned down him and
brought complaining husband to a sudden stop.
upieep
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-06-21
Total

Section 2. The City Clerk shall is
sue Special Tax Bills in favor of F.
w. Keller, contractor, for improving
that part of the alley between Ellis
and Pacific streets from the South
gutter line of North street to the
back of sidewalk, north side Of Belle
vue street, and against the owners
Of and all the lots, pieces and par
GELS of ground fronting and abutting
on said part of said alley as herein
set out, assessed and taxed as re-
quired by ylaw and ordinances made
and provided. Provided that the spe-
cail tax bills against Mary Alberts
heirs, Z. VI. Carter and Eugenia &.
Leming, and against >the lots owned
by them as herein set out be made
payable in five equal inStallments, in
one, two, three, four and five years,
for said work Of construction, they
having given written notice to the
Clerk to that effect as required by
Ordinance No. 1857 and 1867, provid-
ng for the improvement of said part
of said alley. Provided further that
in the event of failure to pas any
installment special tax bill so issued
against the said Mary Alberts heirs.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-06-21
Germans Grab
AlsaCe Plants
Hutnlessness CONDEMNED.

This attempt to CermaniZe Alsace
by ruthless industrial methods was
condemned by several members of the
city council. Councillor Emmel dc
uCunccd as a subterfuge the statement
Of Undersecretary Won Stein, who had
said the Bleichroeder offer had been
accepted because it was the more
favorable one. The speaker saw in
the governments action a systematic
effort to take Alsatian property away
from Alsatians.
The Bleichroeder group, the success
full bidder, is headed by the banking
house of B!eichroetler in Berlin. The
original Bleichroeder was Prince Bis
marck's financial man and his heirs
are still in control Of the banking
house. Old BIeichrOeder WAS not very
scrupulOus in his financial methods,
but this did not prevent Bismarck
from comforting the title of nobility
upon his moneymaker. This was one
of the greatest jokes perpetrated by
Bismarck.
However, Baron Bleichroeder's heirs
are still barons and their influence in
the highest circles is still formidable.
It seems they had little trouble in OBJ
tanning the Alsatian properties at fav-
cradle terms-favorable TO themselves,
for to them state supervision means
supervision by friends.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-06-21
PROPOSALS WANTED.
Dcpository-City Funds.

Notice is hereby given that in ac-
cordance with and by authority of
resolution of the City Council of the
City of Cape Girardeau, Missouri,
adopted June II, 1918, an ordinance
No. 1000 of said city, approved
March %, 1912, sealed proposals will
be received by the undersigned for
the custody of the city funds of said
CITY from any banking corporation,
association or individual banker do
ing business within said city, that
nav desire to be selected as the de-
posjtorv of the funds of the City OF
Cape Girardcau, for the year from
the first Monday in July, 1918, to
the first Monday in July, 1919.
ANY such banking corporation, as
sociation or individual banker dcSIr-
ing to BID, shall deliver to the under
sirred on or before the date herein
after set out for receiving bids, a
sealed proposal stating the rate p
cent upon daily balances that such
banking corporation, association or
individual banker offers to pay to SAID
CITY for the privilege of being made
the depository of its funds for said
wear. and will agree to execute the
bond IS stipulated under said ordi-
nance 10. 1000, and otherwise comply
witt, and be bound by the provisions
OF SAID ordinance prescribing the du-
ties aud responsibilities Of city de-
po*itories.
Bids will be received at the office OF
the city clerk of said city up to 2
O'Clock y. m. July ], 1918, and pre-
scented to the City Council at a regu-
lar meeting thereof, TO be held on
said date.
The city reserves the right to re-
jcct any and all bids.
A. p. BEHRENS,
City Clerk.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-06-21
300 WOMEN BACK
COUNCIL TO GET
BETTER GAS
Continued from Page ~

r. S. Douglas showed that her gas
bill during the last year had been
doubled, despite the fact that she
used the gas en- less occasions than
she did in previous years.
While her gas bill in 1908 averaged
$1.32 a month, she had to pay on an
average of $500 at the present time,
Notwithstanding the fact that she
used the gas iron in previous years.
She declared it was the air that was
forced through the pipes that caused
the meter 10 run faster.
Mrs. Julian Friant brought into
her remarks the Importance. of the
ch;ld's welfare. The health of the
children as we'll of the adul was en-
dangerad by the bad gas, and from a
sanitary standpoint it would be nee
essary to improve the quality Of the
gas.
Those who had received entirely
satisfactory service during the past
months were invited by Mrs. Martin
to rise, but no one responded. A call
for E. a. Hart, general manager of
the Missouri Public Utilities Com
pany was made by Mrs. Martin to
have him explain the condition, but
ne was apparently not present at the
meeting.
At the conclusion of the meeting
the following resolution was read anC
passed with enthusiasm:
| Whereas, 1t appearing that undue
and unnecessary Inconvenience anC
hardship has been imposed upon the
h.ousekeepers of the City of Cape Gi.
| raIdeau, through indifference and neg
lect on the part of the Missouri Pub
lie Utilities Company in the distribu
ton of its service as provided in Its
franchise agreements with said city
and
Whereas. Conditions show no ten
dency to improve, and in many re-
spects have become intolcrab,e to the
extreme; and
Whereas, said Missouri Public It'll,
tiles Company has agreed by the
| terms Of it's franchise with the City
CT Cape Girardeau to furnish goo'
Gas at all times, and has continuous
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-06-21
PROCLAMATION BY MAYOR.

To the people of the City of Cape
Girardcau.
As Mayor of the City of Cape Cir
ar,lcau, ! desire to direct your at
tcntion 70 the statement of the Pres
idcnt of the United States, designa-
ting June 2Sth 1918 as War Say
ings Day.
On June 2Sth, it is expected that
the people of the nation will assem-
bic at the schools or other designated
meeting places in their respective
districts and at these meetings pledge
themselves to invest Systematically
in War Savings Stamps. In the
words of the President, "The great
results which we seek can be obtain
ed only by the participation of every
member of the nation, young and old,
in a national concerted thrift move
ment. l, therefore, urge that our
people everywhere pledge themselves
as suggested by the Secretary OF the
Treasury, to the practice of thrift;
to serve the government to their ut
most in increasing production in all
fields, necessary to the winning o.
the war; and that the people as evi-
dence of their loyalty invest all that
they can save in War Saving Stamps
s* :" 1t behooves every citizen OF
this community to comply with the
Presidents request as outlined above
and do hereby urge that the peo
pfe of this city set aside June 2Sth
1915. as War Savings Day and OF
that day assemble and consider thell