South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-11-10


a more sensible looking hat for his I.
wife or daughter and fabricate it I
for ha,f tho money.
In announcing that congressman I
were not wanted in the army. Sec'y
Ba ker probably wanted it under
stood that democratic congressman
were wanted in congress.
An inquisitive subscriber asks:
What started girls to covering their
ears with their hair the way they
do?" The style was started as
caTnoUhage by a girl who had no
ears AID the other girls thought it
was swell fashion" and followed
suit.
fall before tobacco. That's so, but
the ladies who are fighting nicotine
will not be leading the charge
against tea.
We don't doubt that the German
government is expecting to be
treated like a guest Of honor by the
allies The wolf that is caught in
the sheepfold cannot expect to be
regarded as household pet.
1t is hard TO tell just how much
fat you can put on that turkey be
tween now and Thanksgiving, but
feed the turkey. boys. feed the tur-
key, and let the kitty go.
Hanged, if we don't believe that
I if Adam and Eve had lived in this
time and Eve had offered Adam the
lapple he would have said: mo.
thank you, Eve. it's too expensive
land / can't afford it,"
Each Of the John d. Rockefellers
contributed $1,000 to the republican
congressional campaign fund. If
they have money to spend for that
purpose why not hist their income
tax to 80 per cent?
One of our Sim Fein admirers
| (?) asks us What security has the
/ United States for the billions of dol
lars lent to Great Britain ?" The
security of as sublime a courage, as
invincible a spirit, as unwavering a
faith and as knightly an example
Of self-sacrifice as the annals Of the
human race disclose. Next.
You can't expect the world to es-
cape troubles in times like these.
But it is hard luck that so many
people who really know how TO
make country sausage haven't the
hogs.
These Mishawa girls who in
sist on disregarding the fashion
mandate for long skirts evidently
live in homes in which abundant
quantities Of cOrned beef and Gag
bage. hog jowl and turnips. liver and
onions, and roast pork and sweet
potatoes are popular.
One of our republican friends
asked us Tuesday night what we
would say if the republicans won.
Say? Why, we were so furious we
couldn't articulate until we cooled
down long enough to reflect that
such a light affiiction would be but
momentary and would work for us
"a far more exceeding and eternal
weight of glory"
The day is passing in the world
when one hands over a five dollar
bill for a ham sandwich and tells
the servitor to keep the change.
If the skirts are as narrow at the
bottom as the fashion pictures In
the ads make them appear. then our
wimmin folks will have to be put
on rollers or toted.
AT what stage Of a mans life
does love level the wire entangle-
ments about his heart and bust his
trenches worst?" asks a subscriber.
We believe at the second lieutenant
stage.
Matrimony becomes invested with
difficulty when the road TO the altar
passes by a grocery store display
ling a sign reading, Bacon, So cents
a pound.
In other words democracy is the
lsouTs strong impulse TO save the
emolumental branches Of the public
service from the predatory and ra-
pacious clutches Of the republican
party and consecrate them to the
comfort and peace Of the saints
who love both the service and the
lsalary.
OF course, if Germany has re-
formed. as DR.. Solf says il has, ne
will have no objection to bringine
forth fruits meet for repentance
There are Missouians in this coun'
try.
If your attitude toward the wal
has been such that hereafter people
will say that you are right we'll off
Except that you are "bond-poor,
then probably you have done YOU
duty toward financing the war.
a New Yorker writes 70 th'
newspapers advocating a law abol