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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-22
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AND BEGGED his help.
AND HE looked very wise.
AND SAID to my wife.
"IT LOOKS to me.
LIKE A marshmallow case"
WHEN HE knew all the tins,
1T WAS just plain cramps.
AND THEN he asked.
IF I'D been eating marshmallows.
AND MY wife said I had.
AND HE felt my pulse.
AND FUSED around so.
THAT MY wife was frightened.
AND WANTED to know.
IF HE thought I'd live.
AND I1E odiu L Woulu.
IF I'D give up the habit.
OF EATING marshmallows.
AND MY wife said I would.
AND I did.
AND LISTEN. BiU.
1T YOUTH get cramps.
AND SEND for me.
I'LL PLAY I'm a doctor,
.
AND COME around.
AND LOOK you over.
AND TELL your wife.
THAT YOU look to me.
LIKE A tapioca case.
AND SCARE her to death.
AND IF that won't stop her.
YOU'D BETTER leave her.
WHILE YOU'RE able to walk,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-22

With country butter selling at Is cents a pound in the sur
rounding towns we are persuaded that we need 4 butter
epidemic.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-22
Twice Told Tales
News Of Memphis
26 Years Ago.
OCTOBER e., 1893.

The Litchfield Car Works company
has decided to build an immense car
works near Memphis on the Bingham,
ton tract, it Is announced. .
e. c. LaHache, Of the Cotton ex-
change, has been appointed on o COM
mittee to aid the sufferers from the
New orleans storm, In which ~ lost
their lives.
The Tennessee Brewery boys defeat
ed the Athletics yesterday In a match
game for 500 by a score Of III TO g..
On Tuesday and Wednesday AL G.
Fields Columbian MINISTRIES VIII occupy
the boards at the Lyceum theater.
About 7,i00 people attended the OPEN
ing Of the new Memphis auditorium
last night and were delightfully."- en-
tertained with the exercises.
Rev. DR.. Max Samfield addressed his
congregation ~eloquently last night on
Associated Charities"
The river gauge here today read only
81 feet.
Rev. w. w. Adams, pastor, will
preach on Harvest Home" at the
First Methodist church Sunday morn
The Memphis Athletic club lost in a
football game yesterday in Nashville
to the Vanderbilt university by the
score of So to 0.
Justice ]. M. Coleman returned Fri
day from Chicago.
Miss Lillian Lewis will be the at
traction at the Grand opera house next
| week.
The Wabash railroad Is offering dur
ing the last month OF the Worlds fair
a round trip to Chicago for $1o.75.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-22
News Of Memphis
10 Years AGO.
OCTOBER ~, 1908.

Hubert F. Fisher and Thomas r.
Caldwell we're named as candidates for
the senate by the nominating commit
tee last night.
Mrs. w. A. Gage, Vance avenue. has
as her guest Mrs. Helen w. Bartlett,
wife of Col. George T. Bartlett, COM
mander Of Fort Slayer.
Committees are perfecting plans for
the mammoth convention OF cotton
growers which will be held in Mem :
phis Nov. 1912. =
Thomas b. collier, OF Memphis, has
been commissioned a member of the
national Democratic finance committee.
The municipality OF Toxic today en-
tertained the men and officers Of the
American fleet, a luncheon being at
tended by Admiral Sperry, Ambassa-
dor O'Brien and others.
A strong bodyguard has been placed
around Gov, Patterson, who is at
threats from night riders who muir
dered Capt. Quinton Rankin and nearly;
killed Judge r. u. Taylor.
Yesterdays contributions to the Bry-
an Democratic campaign fund at Chi
cage was announced as $40, 1874. with
one for $4,000 from Senator r. F. Pet
tigrew, of South Dakota.
Capt. Roane Warning, Of the Mem :
phis national guard, has been ordered
to the .Reelfoot lake district with his
companies.
Option on the present Y. M. c. A.
site, 1T Union avenue, has been closed
by the Lake View Traction company.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-22
Mrs. Wilson WOOdrOW'S Article
BY MRS. WILSON WOODROW,
The world famous writer on vital subjects.

A remarkable woman who has organ
lied and carried on an important work
was telling me the other day of some
Of the difficulties she encountered In
securing just the right kind of assist
ants.
what Is the matter with them?'
/ asked; stupid, scatterbrained or I'M
Interested
ut isn't usually any Of those three"
she answered; II find not so much a
lack Of capability as a lack Of concen-
tration and the failure to recognize the
Importance Of what might be called a
conscientious thoroughness. And yet
they are two of the most important les
sons that any girl who wants to get
anywhere in her work. no matter what
that work may be, can learn.
THE majority OF persons have all the
necessary qualifications for success in
anything they undertake, but she
omon's remark to the effect that It is
the little foxes that spoil the vines To
symbolic a moment, and regard our
selves. as vines, the reason most of US
do not achieve large clusters of purple
grapes Is not because we are perfectly
good grapevines, but because we have
permitted the little foxes Of tritlins
faults and weaknesses and vanities and
habits to retard and stunt our de-
velopment,"
She went on to illustrate this state
ment with q little anecdote,
"A young girl, the daughter OF some
old friends OF mine. and an unusually
bright and clever creature, was anxious
to become one of my secretaries. | was
considering the idea very favorably
when this incident occurred,
Il had an unexpected telegram call.
i,x ma a. nm I'M FnahtatA hngipauq
had to take a train In "A few hours and
there were a number Of things which
must be looked after first. Among
them were some errands which included
Il little necessary shopping. The girl
Of whom ] have spoken was with me
when / received the telegram and i'm
mediately offered her services, She
said that she would go at once to the
shops and make my purchases. so, WITH
my list in her hand, sho started out, ]
did not see her nor hear from her again,
neither did | receive any of the articles
she had so blithely gone out to buy.
and | had to make my train without
them. | was also puzzled and more OF
, less worried, for I feared that some &C
cident might have hefallen her.
However, when saw her upon my
, return, she seemed In the best OF health
and spirits, After waiting a bit for ar
, explanation, which was not forthcom,
ing, | mentioned the matter to her ant
; sho was at first painfully surprised
, then deeply chagrined and profusel!
apologize.
This was her explanation; She hat
started out with the best Intentions II
the world. but presently she encoun.
tered an acquaintance. This acquaint.
, ancc spoke of having a mutual irient
who had mentioned the fact that my er,
rand girl and herself had n luncheon
engagement. My errand girl was hoT
rllied, It had quite slipped her mind
so she Immediately deputed my or
rands to the acquaintance and wen
e. appointment.
ITO add to this comedy Of errors, tn,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-22

tahe Germans are still making protests OF their respect
abby. Everyone wants to be measured by his own stapdard,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-22

ftk3Me@H (Q
II Qou KMoaton:
Rou K.Moulton:
THE OLD BOYS,

THE OLD BOYS.
who S SaSs , 81 aeS t Uncle R1 1s d, w a%h . Te 1ove ,I TnR all for o tRe n pisS{"
have rz up and took a notion that itsNup to US to win, cause they've
got a durn good idee something's wrong out at Berlin. sufrrin' cats!
mean as any pizen, blacker than the BLACKLIST crow. BY heck! Uncle
Sans a partner and they'll back him in THIS row till the varmint over
Nathan have done gone to give EN- fits and their neighbors boys is
with 'em, and they bet them Germans gifts. But they amt too old for
Dfat it, why. they're young again: Young enough to hoe potaters, pillow
the corn and NOV the hay, feed the hogs that make the bacon, and
make the skunks behave, just, by heck, call 81 and Reuben-they amt
nowheres near the grave. HARLAN BABCOCK.
OUR OWN KHAYYAM. e.
Wake! for the Sun who scattered into flight
The glooms Of the war from out the fields Of. Night
Drive Night along with them from heaven and strikes
The Posdam turret with a Shaft Of Light.
And as the cock crew, those who stood before
The palace shouted, "Open, then, the door.
You know %s, how little e. time .s you have h" to stay
Herbert Spencer said the chief difference between the savage and
the civilized man il. the formers lack Of vision.
And some civilized person will doubtless twist this around into
an argument in favor OF those freak bonerimmed spectacles.
B. L. 7. advises us that the ProhfbHionists should select for their
party emblem the wild crow of Arabia (beatrix -oryx), which is said
never to drink.
Begins to look as though Prince Maximilian's peace proposal was
only a "dud.' At any rate, 1t didn't make much noise.
WHY BE A BOSS? hs
THE pay for laborers is s44O a day. Their helpers get $4,95 a day
Another question which we may be excused for asking is what is
going to become Of that barkeep who is famed in song and story, Mr.
Philip Mccain?
July will make the endo I a peri (hic) day.
ANSWER "CoLLECT."
We've received the little peace pronunciamento,
We've digested well the wherefore and tn why.
We're not at all in doubt about the matter,
And Jack Pershing will deliver our reply.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-22
TRUE HERO.

lie was q battling boxer from South
Boston before the wal and somewhere
between Scissors and Rheims the Ger
mans shot him through the chest. He
was being carried from the regimental
aid station to a litter when he spied
pany lying 70 one side waiting his
turn, The boxer raised such an uproar
that they had to let him get off and
try TO walk while his pal was carried
back. The doctors said 1t would be i'm
possible for him to walk. He walked.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-22
WHAT THEY ATE IN 1776.

Among the George Washington rec
| ords at the Congressional library in
Washington, d. c., is the old account
book Of Caleb Gibbs, who bought the
| supplies for Washington's staff all
through the seven wears of the Revolu;
| tionary war. Its pages are yellow and
the ink is faded, but the old hero's
| records are still clear, and it Is inter-
esting to see what the fighters Of those
days ate.
The book began in April, 1916, when
Washington's headquarters were In New
| York city, on Pearl street, opposite &c.
| dar. At this time the war had not yet
affected prices to any extent. The first
purchases. on April 10, were seven
pounds Of beef at siXpence a pound; one
birds at one shilling, and a shilling s
worth Of potatoes. There was no sugar
at all. A shilling in those days was 1874
see that Caleb Gibbs expense account
was not very large, according to our
There was not much variety in the
war diet Of 1875. On page after page
we find beef, cabbage, salt, eggs, milk,
Asparagus, cabbage and potatoes, and
occasionally cucumbers are the only
vegetables mentioned.
There were some OF the same food
problems then as we v now. Trans
portation was Che Of shortages,
lust as 1t often Is today, but then 1t
was the OK teams that broke down as
they dragged along country roads, or
were blocked by military transport.
In the first part of the revolution
the states were taxed to provide money
for feeding the army. but later they
ware reo,ired TO send the food itself In
stead of money. 1t was then that things
were at the lowest ebb for the conti-
mental armies.
But through it all old Caleb Gibbs
carried on,'F as his seven-year account
book shows, with its endless cabbage
potatoes and beef-and beef, potatoes
and cabbage.
The spirit OF 177e is again abroad IN
our land, With the same valor ant
self-denial that they manifested thee
we shall keep our soldiers well fed Will
the simple staples without which they
nan not fight.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-22

Dear K. c. B.-Two weeks ago some
one taught my wife how to make ap-
pie taplOca pudding. She Is so proud
Of her accomplishment that for two
weeks we have had apple tapioca every
night for dessert. She is a perfectly
satisfactory wife in every other way,
and | fear / might offend her if l should
mention my growing dislike for apple
taploca. As she reads your column ev-
cry day, l am appealing to- you to
invent some way of ~dissuading her from
infilctfng this dessert longer upon me.
Yours truly, BILL MNULTY.
No. Ga West Ninth St, New York City.
MY DEAR Bill.
WHEN I read your letter.
I WENT away back.
ssS
PAST TWENTY years.
TO A fatal day.
WHEN A neighbor woman
SHOWED MY wife.
HOW TO make a dessert.
WITH a lot of marshmarlOws.
ALL MESSED up.
WITH GoBs Of whipped cream.
AND LIKE your wife.
MY WIFE was SO glad.
SHE'D FOUND something new.
THAT SHE fed me the stuff.
ALMOST EVERY night.
sAs
FOR TWO or three weeks.
AND FOR the reason.
WE'D ONLY been married.
A COUPLE of months.
AND HADN'T yet auarrslsd.
I HADN'T the heart
TO HoLLER about It.
ss
AND 1 ate that stuff.
TILL used to gag,
AT THE sight of a COW,
OR A candy store.
AND ONE night I grew sick.
|
AND HAD terrible cramps.
AND THE doctor next door.
CAME INTO our house.
AND I whispered to him.
THAT FOR three weeks past,
/ HAD been eating marshmallows.
ALL COVERED with cream.
AND TOLD him why.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-22

acquaintance, who had cheerfully con-
scented to take the shopping off the 9TH
er girls hands, promptly forgot all
about 1t, and m addition lost my list"
What did you say to that girl?' I
asked the admirable 4 lady. =.
really was rather funny, but 1t was
over and done, and no n had SUI
fered anything more than a trifling in
convenience. 1t was n Of those blum
ders which one forgives readily to a
friend, but--not to a business assoc
ciate,'
did YOU give her the position she
was so anxious TO secure?' l asked Gu
ricusly.
Il did not" she said emphatlcally.
Socially she was a very agreeable n
charming girl, but she could never be
my private secretary, not In a thou
sand years. Consider the almost daz-
lzling unfitness she had shown for any
position involving responsibility and
also the muddle- headed way in which
she faced an unexpected situation.
Run over the case: she had offered
her services when she was not asked
TO do so, and yet when her request was
granted she fell down on the job"
II suppose that she felt that she
was between the devil and the deep
sea, | remarked, and it didn't make
much difference which way she
JulllptN'
ut made the difference that she lost
a business position that she was NOV
ing heaven and earth to gain said the
admirable lady, dryly. "Gf you find
yourself In n position to have to choose
between a sin against good manners
and q sin against your bread and but
ter, II is wise to follow the gun metal
rule OF safety first, and let the good
manners slide.
But entirely apart from that, she
had shown herself Enthusiastically, heed
less Of her obligations, and In an emer-
gency lacking Initiative and resource
fulness, A dear girl, but" she waved
her hand expressively. Il must have
about me people that | can rely upon.
And" she smiled, 'she now tells her
friends that she thinks me very un-
kind for not giving her a chance; she
knows she would ge a fine secretary.
All, the little foxes, the small vices OF
the viceless, destroy more promising
vines than any OF use ever dream"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-22
WE GIVE UP.

Good morning, children said the
arithmetic teacher. How many of you
have prepared an original problem in
multiplication, a / requested Only
one hand went up. We'll, William, you
may give your problem and the rest OF
the class may solve it."
III my baby sister is a year old now
and weighs 20 pounds, and keeps on
gaining two ounces a day untn she is
is years old. and II the price OF living
doubles again in the next 10 years, how
much will my sisters graduation out
fit 9FtP Mother says she would like
TO know
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-22
KNEW HOW.

The welfare worker glanced around
apprehensively as she entered the hum
BILE dwelling, Are you not afraid to
live here? | do not see any fire-escape?"
Law, no, miss. | don't need one"
returned the satisfied slum dweller.
Whenever the cops come up after me
| makes my getaway over the roof"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-22

She now rarely lost the sacred oppor-
tunity of giving pleasure.-Sarah w.
stephen, 10y and strength
Dayton, Ohio.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-22
WRONG TACK.

Two political candidates were dis
GUESSING the coming local election.
What did the audience say when
YOU told them you had never paid a
dollar for a vote?' queried one.
"A few cheered, hut the majority
seemed to lose interest returned the
other.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-22
Just a Moment
DAILY STRENGTH AND CHEER.
Compiled by John G. oulnlus, the
SunshIna Mar.
The Violet,

The Violet.
Thou tellest truths unspoken yet by
BY this thy lonely home and modest
For he has not the eyes such truth to
scan,
Nor learns to read from such a lowly
With him It is not life firm-fixed 70
grow
Beneath the outspreading oaks and
rising pines,
Content this humble lot of thine TO
know,
The nearest neighbor of the creeping
vines;
Without fixed root he cannot trust like
thee
The rain win know the appointed hour
But fears lest sun or shower may hurt
And would delay or speed them with
his call:
Nor. trust like thee. when wintry winds
Whose shrinking form the withered
leaves enfold. Jones Very.
Grant, Almighty God, that as we can
not look for temporal or eternal happi-
ness except through Christ alone, and
as Thou settest Him forth to us as the
only true fountain of all b~lessiugs--o
grant that we, being content with the
favor offered to us through Him, may
learn TO renounce the whole world, and
so strive against all %kpnbelief that we
may not doubt that Thou wilt ever be
our kind and gracious Father, and fully.
supply whatever is necessary for our
support; and may we at the same time
live soberly and t~emperately so that
we may not be under the power Of
earthly things, but with our hearts
raised above, aspire after this heavenly
bliss to which Thou ~invitest u.s., and to
which thou also guidest us by such
helps as are earthly, so that being
really united to our Head we may at
length reach that glory which has been
procured for us by His wi blood.
Amen.-C. r. Edwards.
-
She now rarely lost the sacred oppor-
tnnity of giving pleasure.-Sarah w.
stephen, 10y and strength
Dayton, Ohio.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-22

Noting that Paris officially reports the French have reached
the Danube, we can now expect them to walt" right in and
render the Blue Danube" even buer.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-10-25
October rs, 1918.

ing for Camp Cody, N. NJ, were: David
M. Fiterman, 100 Knox north; Isidore
Oleisky, Ills Bryant north; Hymen Ep-
stein, 1128 North Sixth street; Morris M.
Glazer, Ills Emerson north; William
Feldstein, 1927 Humboldt north; Isidore
Lavintman, 1910 Girard north, and Frank
E. Gilman, 915 Aldrich north. The
Jewish Welfare Board provided the boys
with Bibles and lunch boxes.
Word has been received by Mr.. and
Mrs. H. Horwitz, 1901 Humboldt north, of
the safe arrival overseas of their son,
Ralph Horwitz.
Philip Icons left this week for Mineola,
l.. L..
Albert L. Berman is now with Com
pany L., 54th Pioneer Infantry, France.
Max Woolpy has joined the quarter
master section of the S. A. T. G. of the
University.
In letter recently received from Pie.
William Wolfson, now with A. E. F. in
France, he stated that he had fully recov-
cred from the mustard gas wound and
was ready to see the fireworks" and
"face Fritz again.
Emanuel Frankforter, Ill w. 25th
street, has arrived safely overseas.
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LETTERS FROM THE

BOYS "OVER THERE"
That the faith and zeal with which "our
boys" went to help spread Democracy
over the world has not been dimmed by
the crudities of war, may be seen by
the letter received by the Minneapolis
Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffer
ing from the War:
ON ACTIVE SERVICE.
Somewhere in France,
September Fl, 1918.
Dear Friends:
AS we were daily awaiting orders to
move, was not allowed to attend SER
vices on ROsh HashOnah and YOm Kip
pur. Although I observed as much of
these holidays as I was able in camp, I
still may not have done all I should. In
order to make up for any deficiency in
faith, on the evening after Yom Kippur,
I sent ten dollars to the Jewish War
Relief Committee of Minneapolis through
the Y: M. G. A. I sent the money to the
Minneapolis Committee, because I am
from that city:
We are told our religion consists of
three things: (1) to do good to our
fellow men; (2) to pray, and 60 to give
to charity. If have not been able to
observe the first two of these, I am will
ing to do what little can to make up in
the third of these.
AS have an allotment and insurance
to pay for out of my salary, ten dollars
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-10-25
THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD

represents almost a months pay on my
part, but I feel that no sacrifice is too
great for such a cause and my only re-
greet is that I have not more to give.
Hoping your efforts meet with the ut
most success I remain
Yours sincerely,
Hymen A. Priesman,
Co. F., 314th Ammunition T.
Am. Exp. Forces.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-10-25
Meeting POSTPONED.

The October meeting of the Ladies
Auxiliary of the Adath Yeshurun which
was to have been held Tuesday; October
10Th, has been indefinitely postponed ow
ing to the epidemic.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-10-25

PAID ADVERTISEMENT. Pre-.
pared by E. H. Haas, 1915 Goodrich
Ave-, St. Paul. For Fred w. Put
nam, Capitol, st. Paul, for which
$500 is to he paid
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-04
The Serenity Of Labor.

latimcr recalled the wonder that
always possessed him when he stapped
10 peer down into excavations where
men CROPPED about in a crazy network
OF mains ard conduit', or when he
looked up to the steel girders swinging
into place on the new skyscrapers.
Only now and then would he catch
sight Of a heavy sledgc in play, or the
beayc Of muscles As a rule men moved
about in tho tNngle Of cloaca y, II en-.
gagged in an elaborate minuct. lie saw
men poised on the end Of a steel beam
70 through a graceful c%aliNhsnics, with
a measured wave Of the arm, now thi,
way, now that way, thirty stories above
the sidewalk Yet the subways got
themselves dug, and the pavements
were laid,-and torn up again-and the
sky'craper grew a couple Of stories
overnight Atlantic.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-04
Waltiss and Gospel Hymns.

venture to say (pace the shade Of
Lord Byron that the waltz, through
out the nineteenth century, had a strong
religious influence, Every ono knows
that good waltz music, il played slowly
enough, is the saddcst thing in the
world. The emotion aroused by good
waltz music well played Is blood.
brother to the emotion aroused nv God
Re With You 'Till We Meet Again and
For You ! am Praying, I'm Praying
for You WaItlcs aud gospel hymns
reinforce each other which is prob
ably why the mco' guild object to
dancing Katherine +. Gerould in At
lantiC.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-04
One OF Many.

The next day ! began to look Tor
work Day in, day out, | would 20 out
and measure the city from north TO
south from cast to west, In search Of
work ! did not fail to apply at II Of
the advertised places, but In vain. |
could find no job al dresses, because
IN the slack time no learner, were
taken on. In general, learners were
Neldom taken in that trade. tried
straw hats The papers were full Of ad.
v%erii'ementS Tor worker, In that In.
dn'try, but ! would have to pay SIS
and work a month without nav
Flowers, c%orsetS, box.mAking, every
thing was tried A. time passed. my
courage le'seued with each vanish.
ing dollar Elizabeth Hasanoyitl in
The Atlantic.