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The Washington times., 1918-01-22
Elizabeth Jordan Writes of Lingering Farewell Luxury
Sleep and Dreams of Eve
of Eve
BY Eugenia Blair.

ND woman ever willingly
M burned her bridges behind
l her. Plain "Yes" or mo"
does not belong to the feminine
vocabulary. They are, to her,
little hard. round bullets fit for
nothing but masculine firearms.
She revels in cloud effects, in
tulle with all its hay indefinite
ness, in wells, suggestive of wings
and webs and the things dreams
are made of. If a woman uses
short, crisp Eyes" or mo" it al
most unsexes her isn't she mas
culine?" we say when one of our
sex ships off her decisions be-
tween two sharp, thin lips In scis-
sors fashion.
A woman never swallows her tea
at one gulp. She toys with her
teacup and sips her tea in the
same indirect fashion that a cat
makes away with a mouse.
Tailor Effect Lies
The trains on women's dresses
probably owe their existence
to the long, last, lingering fare
we'll which woman bestows upon
her skirt. She does so hate
to end things abruptly-rather lets
them trail off into indefiniteness
and end, if end they must. gradu-
ally and imperceptibly. Tailored
effects never have been the true
expression of a woman's soul.
They have been forced upon her
by a unitarian age.
All those little tendrils of her
makeup which want to Irvine
about every color and every line
and every effect have been bruised
and torn by being forced into the
straight, black-and-white finality
of tailored suit.
1t would never have been a
woman's idea to divide the sheep
from the goats. She would be
haunted by a vague fear that the
sheep might miss the goats, or
that the goats might miss the
sheep.
Imagine the turmoil stirred up
in a woman's mind by a male voice
asking brusquely over the tele =
phone: ado you want to go to the
theater tonight? Say Yes or
NO." 1t opens all the floodgates
of her imagination.
'Of course she wants to go-but
why tonight? Perhaps some other
ni?ht would do better. And, oh!
isn't there some one with whom
she can discuss what she is going
to wear? No. There sits that OBJ
durate male at the other end of
. the wire and gives her only the I'M
lovely alternative of a ayes" or
mo"
The Witch Dance.
All the latest garrulity in her
nature is aroused. She feels she
The Washington times., 1918-01-22
By EIizabe eth Jordan

won't keep in single file. They're
all jumping together.
But there's a rather nice little
country road Just behind them with
a house at the end OF Il and
light in the window. All the rest
is dark and quiet. Perhaps you
are going to sleep. Are you? You
are so pleased with the idea that.
all in an instant. You are wide
awake!
Well, Of all the idiots! The idea
Of letting your imagination run
away with you like that. It's too
silly for words. Perhaps II you got
up and drank glass OF hot milk.
There are two objections to this
plan The first is that you dislike
hot milk. The second is that there
isn't any hot milk around, anyway.
Where are those sheep? Where's
that nice, quiet country road
What's that William James wrote
about-hebride-the little lanes of
consciousness with pictures on
them that stretch between the
waking and sleeping world?
You have seen them-lots OF
them. The country road was one
of them-the dark country road
with the lighted cottage at the end
OF it.
Was that three the clock struck?
Can you have been awake two
hours? Yes, you have. II seems
like two years. It's dangerous, too,
this insomnia.
What can have caused It? Over
work? OF course, Well, that set
ties it. Health is more precious
than all else. What can you drop?
Not your job. You must live. Not
the social things. One does so
love ones friends. Not the war
work. One must do something to
justify ones existence. What can
you drop to escape insomnia?
Here comes another hebrid. This
time II is a frozen country pond,
lit by the moon, with solitary
skater moving slowly across it.
Such peaceful scene-and such a
perfect hebrid. You ought to make
a note OF II. But perhaps it's best
to keep perfectly quiet and not
think
The end of the world has arrived
and the last trump is sounding.
II is a terrible noise-more awful
than anything you have imagined.
You sit up, startled
Great heavens, my dear" comes
a voice, do you realize that it's
nine o'clock in the morning."
You blink, drowsily.
I've had an awful night" You
explain. I'm afraid I'm in for in
somnia."
The disturber Of your slumbers
utters a heartless laugh.
insomnia" she jeers. Il guess
not. l thought l should have TO
call out the FIRE department this
morning to wake you up"
The Washington times., 1918-01-22
Have You Income Tax to Pay?
Pay 1t Quickly Good Suggestion From the Literary
..- Digest
Everybody asks: How can help?" Sometimes the

Everybody asks: How can help?" Sometimes there
is more asking than doing.
s. Suppose YOU needed money, and many people, owing
you, went around asking: How I help?"
- You would reply "You help very much by paying
me as quickly as possibly what you owe me-
That the Literary Digest truly suggests is what the
United States saying now to the people Of the United
States.
Five hundred thousand Americans last year paid tax
upon their income This year SIX MILLION Americans,
says the Literary Digest will be called upon find out for
the first time how it feels to pay this new tax
The money has got to be paid the who wants to be
good citizen will pay promptly not wait until the last
CALL until he is compelled to pay.
The Literary Digest says:
p "Some may call this burden but there are
\ those and they legion, who will accept this new
Il tax opportunity for sacrifice and for service
rare occasion for showing the Government that
its citizens recognize the great purposes of the
and that they will back the Government in this su-
preme enterprise TO their last dollar
This campaign for prompt payment Of income tax I'M
tated and carried by the Literary Digest will the
gratitude of the Treasury and the Administration.
- You know what the law is. bachelor with than
One Thousand Dollars married with more than Two
Thousand Dollars yearly income, must make payment
and statement to the Government.
Make your statements QUICKLY. Make your payment
PROMPTLY
The money this country has, the promptly it
gets ii, the better it can fight.
And the better the country fights the quicker the vic
tory will be won.
And the quickly the victory is won, the more
quickly the tax will be cut down big incomes and cut off
entirely on small incomes.
=. Prompt payment of income tax this year saw
ING OF INCOME TAX IN FUTURE YEARS
The Washington times., 1918-01-22

could debate either side Of the
question with equal fuency, but is
given to understand that the de-
bate is closed, and decision must
be rendered. It is positive tortured
What woman wants to shop il
all hope Of strategic retreat has
been cut of? She chooses the
rose-colored gown with her eyes
open, but no sooner does she }
this than the blue gown and the
cream gown and the wistaria gown
and all the other gowns Join hands
and perform a witches dance
about her, alluring her with their
beauty, pointing at her rose-color-
ed gown in derision. until she be-
gins to doubt the wisdom Of her
choice and wants to exchange It.
Exchange 1t. OF course you can
exchange It." says the shopping
world; for when, before this war
started. has this world Of barter
refused to bow before the catho-
ncity OF a woman's mind?
Having lived SO long In the tenn
perate zone Of If" But About"
Perhaps" iii see." II gives a
woman an awful chill to be struck
by a mans frigid blast Of Yes"
or No" It's like playing see-saw
and having one jump on OF one
end and let you flop to the ground.
The Deadly Effect
Sometimes Yes" has almost as
deadly an effect as mo" on a wo-
man who has carefully mapped out
a long campaign to bring the male
mind to terms She had intended
to open up with his favorite dish
for dinner. Advancing under this
barrage. she had been prepared to
coax. catole, make concessions and
promises and finally resort to tears
TO gain her point. but this unac-
countable man upsets her whole
campaign by a short, decisive, ir-
REPUTABLE Yes as soon as she
proffers her request.
Perhaps she ought to feel pleas
ed. She has her reQuest. but what
is she to do with all this stored
up ammunition, with ali TINS &C
quired momentum? The forest has
surrendered without firing a gun.
and she had laid in provisions for
a long siege. 1t was the one move
for which her feminine tactics had
not prepared her. and It has al
most succeeded In turning her VIC
tory into defeat
II is this dislike Of ciear-cut is
sues that makes a woman's fare
well seem like a graduation. You
thought You had finished some
thing when you were graduated.
but instead, the speaker Of the &C.
casion assured you that you had
Just started something.
The Washington times., 1918-01-22
Walter E. Edge, Common Sense
Business Governor
Governors and Voters in Other States Will Be Interested in
Methods of the Governor of New Jersey.


that business men, and hpkepers of his State
must save at the spg because there has been all
Of waste at the bung Of neglected opportunity"
We recommend this statement to other governors and
especially to the National Government which has been plan
ming give away thousands and millions of property belong
ing to the public.
Governor Edge, of New jersey is a new kind of gov
ernor and should be studied study Burbank
plant.
he has suggested that the States property instead of
being given away sold for nothing should be leased and
made to pay big income to the State
He has appointed port and harbor development COM
mission to make New Jersey what it ought to bea great
ship building, ship docking ship-oading State.
He knows that the State of New Jersey has in Newark
what ought be combination of Manchester Liverpool
on bigger scale than both combined and he is working
produce that kind of combination-more power to him
he is working problem of water front develop
msnt as PEOPLES PROPERTY which will give the peo
pie income twice the size of the States entire income
1t is interesting to observe that New Jersey, great
thicky populated State has outside income PER YEAR
less than the monthly income Of citizen of the United
States.
Boys guilty of petty crimes Governor Edge puts to work
on farms instead of putting them in prison.
He is planning to have all adult prisoners working on
FARMS developing the States barren lands and at the
time developing the minds and characters of the prisoners
ninety per of them he truly says victims of poverty
IN youth defective education unfortunate surroundings
developed minds
Governor Edge is doing one thing that will interest
Senator Kenyon of the United States Congress- and all
sane business thinkers
The is putting into effect in the State of New
Jersey budget system which the National Government still
lacks.
Instead of spending the States income young spend
thrift Broadway spends the money in his pocket the
calls upon the State legislature prepare budget
Tor the various needs of the State decide where the money
should CO. how much each unit should haven other words
what the wise does with his income the governor
ends that the State do with its money-so much for roads
education, public buildings, State improvements
Governors of the other forty States should read
Governor Edges first annual the legislature of
New Jersey and also his message on the budget.
CONTINUED in LastC Column
The Washington times., 1918-01-22

q oMEwHERE, the clock
strikes one. You hear IL
- At first the fact means little
Then your mind clutches at It.
One o'clock. One o'clock In the
morning! And you are awake
You realize that You have been
awake, or half awake. for some
tme-perhaps for fifteen or twenty
minutes. That's very unusual for
you. But no doubt you will go of
to sleep in a few moments more.
You close your eyes.
A sudden memory strikes you.
There's that appointment You have
with B. at three o'clock In the
afternoon.N You made II lightly
enough, but now you wonder what
B. really wants.
Probably nothing important
Surely nothing can be going wrong
in the matter OF BIS contract. No,
Of course mott But can It? 3. is
such a care-free chap. He doesn't
take things half as seriously as he
should.
There was that offaIr of three
years ago, in which B. figured. He
was to blame then-no doubt about
II. Perhaps he has done some fool
thing again. Perhaps 1t will be
too late for you TO stop 1t. But
hold on. The thing to do now is
to go to sleep.
This Is no time to be making
fool mistakes, anyway. Business
Is all right II one Is careful, but
one has got TO keep on the job
every minute. The Brown case is
a proof Of that Why, II you hadn't
caught It Just as you did-at the
critical moment
But did you catch II, after all?
II sounded SO this morning and
Brown promised TO settle the
whole thing tomorrow. But sup
pose Brown changed his mind.
Suppose he
Great Scott, but this is idiotic.
To lie here worrying over nothing
when you might be sleeping! Bad
for you, too, when your nerves are
a bit on edge and you need all
the sleep you can get.
You aren't feeling up to the
mark these days. anyway There's
an odd depression that you can't
quite explain. Nothing definite.
Just nerves. Yet nerves are some
thing to worry about!
Look at Smith-just about all
in, poor chap. Began with Insom-
MIA, too. And Jones-off in a san
itarium. And--why. yes, Jones did
say, that last time you lunched
with him, that he hadn't slept for
weeks.
Insomnia ia an awful thing. But
in the first stages one can cure
II. What's that about he sheep?
Oh, yes. One imagines EN- Jump
ing over a fence and one counts
EN- as they jump. One. two, seven,
eIeven--the COMPOUNDED things
The Washington times., 1918-01-22
Walter E. Edge, Common Sc
Governor
CONTINUED from First COlumn.)

The end of this will find nations struggling for r.
construction for business and for prosperity AS NATIONS
The end of the will find the State of New Jersey
Edge still governor working AS STATE for the States
State.
Every State like every great enterprise, needs buS
manager getting from the State for the people all that
can be got
Too States have had and have governors who
make it their business how much Of what people
can be distributed among favorites
The Washington times., 1918-01-22
Those Salaries.
By BLK.


mink
Champssh
WIN pc t1Ooo $1,000, ho-,..
In railroad presiN
Don't you. q.
When Mc
Gets thrOus
l guess
They'll seH
Their priNA
The Washington times., 1918-01-22
James N. Huston, of 733 Shep-
herd St. N. W., Has . Practi-
cal Plan for Fuel Economy

"An praise to the Fuel Administra-
ton in its earnest and sincere effort
TO supply the people with coal, but
they should 60 to the extent OF aid
ing consumers to get the most good
out Of the meager amount available,
The Washington times., 1918-01-22

I saw DOC BEELER in the office
Of WALTER ALLEN, executive Off
Ger Of the Public Utilities Commits
sion
%Doc." 1 asked, "is the patient do
ing well7" s.-s
The Washington times., 1918-01-22

The man who tends furnaces for
SAM HERRICK and me made IL q
coaIless day yesterday by failing TO
show up.
The Washington times., 1918-01-22

Three cheers for HARRY RAP
LEY. A man was cleaning OF the
snow in front Of his theater this
morning; and that reminds me, !
was going to ask ALL Washington
not to forget their snow shovels to-
day as soon as the snow stops fall
ing.
The Washington times., 1918-01-22

Iwish to apologies to Mr.. Morris
for not being able to spread this
example of American patri0tiEn q
the front page In q four-eolanA
spread.
The Washington times., 1918-01-22

One Of the coolest sights in q
snowstorm is q man ehopping ice
from an American Ice Company
wagon.
The Washington times., 1918-01-22

You got q taste Of a staggered
street railway system this morning,
III wager. intact, the W. R and
E. was groggy.
The Washington times., 1918-01-22

As i plowed my way past CARL
DROOP'S store noticed q W. R.
and z. car that seemed to have IS
many people clinging to the outside
as there were mashed to q jelly on
the inside. 100 s.
The Washington times., 1918-01-22

In view of the enormous protsSt
against the Garfield coal order. doe
not the example Of R d.. M0RRlS,
a barber, on Fourtesnth street.
carry q lesson7
Millionaires rushed to the White
House to tell how business. would
be ruined" by the eoalless day pro
gram. On the door Of R. u. NOR
RIS barber shop Is the quiet sign:
"To aid in the winning Of
the war and in cheerful eomplf-
anee with the direction Of the
Federal Fuel Administration,
this shop will remain closed
Mondays" - 80 .siF-s
The Washington times., 1918-01-22
Coal Cards For 1918

This Is An Important Subject for Immediate Discussion Among u
Members Of Citizens Associations and Trade Bodies
The Washington times., 1918-01-22

he did not make direct reply,
but fntimased he was doing his levi
best to devise . way by which IL
people in this city can get downtown
in the morning and back home at
night without being jannned and
ranmed TO Jelly in the existing stteet
car facilities.
The Washington times., 1918-01-22
HEARD AND.SEEN

The patient, you understand, /
the Washington street railway -.
tenn. - - So $40 -. -
The Washington times., 1918-01-22

q OMEWHERE, the clock
- strikes one. You hear IL
- At first the factmeans little.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1918-04-18
KAISER'S SUBSIDIZED PULPITS
SHOW ALTERATION OF HUN MIND
With the Germans Destruction of the Ideals Civilization
Has Striven For Has Become Religion Wilhelm Be-
slows Iron Crosses for Utterances of Pastors That
Sicken the Mind of Right Thinking Men.

German sermons are sound argu-
ments for Americans to invest in the
third Liberty Loan bonds.
Those who wade through the
preachments of the kaiserized pulpits
Of Berlin, of Liegnitz, Of Hamberge
in Holstein, and of other spots in the
Prussianized country, will awake to
this realization.
The quotations that will follow in
this article have been taken from
"Hurrah and Hallelujah," written by
the Rev. J. p. Bang, D. d., who is
a professor Of theology at the Uni
versity of Copenhagen, in neutral Den
mark
Extracts from the sermons of four
German preachers will suffice. There
are scores of others that could be
used. Their sermons in two instances
have brought for their deliverers the
decoration of the Iron Cross from the
hand of the kaiser, the same kaiser
that bestowed a medal to the man who
sank the -Lusitania. We stress the
fact that the Iron Cross has gone to
these clergymen, because in that
case it is logical to suppose that their
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1918-04-18

United States government what do
l get in returni
A. You get promissory note given
by the United States government and
bearing interest. This note Is called
q "bond"
O. What, then, Is q United States
government bondf
A. 1t is the direct and uncondition-
al promise Of the United States Of
America to pay upon certain date q
specified sum Of money in gold, to-
gether with interest at a specific rate,
payable at specific dates until tho
bond natures, or is called for re-
demption.
@. In what form Is this promises
A. It is engraved upon a sheet Of
distinctive paper used only for the
money and securities of the United
States, and Is executed by the secre-
tary Of the treasury and by the regis
trar of the treasury and sealed with
the treasury department seal, by acts
Of congress.
Q. Do I have to hold my bond until
the date it is due before l get my
money backf
A. No; you can sell your bond
any time you desire. There is always
ready market for United States gov
eminent bonds.
@. How can such sale be madef
A. Any bank, trust company, re-
liable bond dealer, or broker win be
glad to sell your bond for you at any
time.
Q. If necessary, could I borrow
money on these bondsf
A. Yes; United States government
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1918-04-18

Q. What is the Third Liberty Loanf
A. 1t is a loan of money by the
people of the United States to their
government.
@. Why does the United States gov
eminent borrow money!
A. Becausee we are forced to de-
fend ourselves against the attacks on
American honor and American rights
by the German government, and there
fore must have money to equip and
maintain our army and navy. We
need money also in order to lend to
those nations with whom we are max
ing common cause in this war.
@. Are not the ordinary receipts OF
our government from taxes, ETC., suf-
fcient to do thisf
A. No; the ordinary receipts of the
government are about one and quar-
ter billion dollars year, while our
expenses Of the war are estimated
at one billion dollars per month.
@. How is the government going to
raise this large amount of money!
A. By borrowing from the people
and by taxes.
What Is a Government Bond?
@. When lend my money to the
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1918-04-18
BOYS OF UNCLE SAM
WILL OPERATE ON
HUNS MADNESS
Every Vestige Of War Disease
Will Be Removed and
Germ Isolated.

Every once in awhile you bump into
some fellow who declares with a con-
siderable show of impatience that this
war isn't popular. He seldom goes
farther than that, for he knows it isn't
fashionable just now to throw stones
at Uncle Sam. But he leaves wide
margin for inference. And he tells
you that it could have been avoided.
1t could have been avoided, posi-
bly,, but one cannot help but wonder
how we would have stood in our own
estimation, when the big fight finally
ended, if we had stayed out, and how
long it would have been before some
one would have kicked US on the shins,
Just to show his contempt for us, and
forced us into fight anyway.
And in such a fight how many others
would have piled upon US if we had
begun to give the other fellow the
licking he meritedf
All Wars Nre Unpopular.
Of course the war is unpopular.
There was never a war that wasn't
unpopular if sane mortals were waging
it. Only fanatical wars ever are popu-
lar, and there the popularity is usually
all corralled by the fanatics.
This war is about as unpopular as
broken log, but even SO it will not
let us go along and forget about it
or neglect it any more than the broken
log will. We must give each of them
attention. Before we can walk hand
ily, either individually or nationally,
we must remove the trouble.
We have called in the doctor for this
war. We are sending him, two mil
lion strong, to Potsdam Palace, Ber-
lin, to minister to mind diseased,
We are hoping he will be successtui
in a little operation on this war mad
ness, that he will be able to remove
every vestige of it, and further 10
isolate it's germ. He has a big 9oo
ahead Of him.
And just now our chief duty is to
see that he has all the necessary IN
struments, that nothing is lacking that
might cause slip-up.
Your individual part in c1rbing the
war opidomic isn't over hard.
Just buy bond.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1918-04-18
ANSWERS Giuen to All Questions That
Can Be Asked Concerning The Loan

which are called "registered" bonds
Q. To whom is coupon bond pay
ables
A. A coupon bonds is payable to
bearer.
@. To whom is a registered bond
payablef
A Registered Bond.
A. A registered bond Is payable to
the person whose name is written ON
its face and no other person A regis
tered bond can be transferred from
one owner to another by the owner
writing his name on the back Of the
bond in the presence Of witness au-
thorized by the United States treasury
department.
Q. Shall married woman use her
own name or her husband'ss
A. Her own-Mrs. Mary Brown, not
Mrs. John Brown.
@. II I should sell my bond, how
shall I transfer 1t to the next ownerf
A. re it is coupon bond, merely by
delivery. Just hand IL to the new
owner.
@. Surprising It is registered bondf
A. You must execute the blank form
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