Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-22

President Wilson may have aided in sowing
dragons teeth, as Berlin has charged, but what
is more important, they have pulled Germans.
After the envelope chemise we may look for
the postage stamp bathing suit.
The latest Chicago murderess continues to
giggIe II she does not exhaust her supply
before the time of her trial she is assured
acquittal.
Another way Of getting in the movies is
falling of 10-story building, because there
will be a photographer there to snap you If
you give advance notice OF your intention.
Ten thousand doughboys are bringing
home French brides. When you consider there
were about two million of our red-blooded
youngsters across the seas in the big fight the
number who succumbed to the charms Of those
darlings who can't make their eyes behave is
certainly encouragingly small. That all ex-
cept the 10000 returned to the girls they left
behind proves that the American boy still
loves his American girl above any of the sex
from anywhere else. So our American girls
must not be down-hearted.
Oswald suggests that the former kaiser may
have quit chopping trees through having been
scared by the bark.
A New Yorker who was taken i'll on Broad
way told the doctor ne naQ become seaSlck
after gazing upon young woman who bFeezed
by him dressed in the latest Partisan STYLE
%
number of Chicago girls have gone to
Wisconsin to shake the cherry. Their more in
duIgent sisters have remained at home to shake
the shimmy.
The city OF New York has rejected Rookie
feller's offer OF 100000 to found a hospital
for the treatment of drug addcts. That reads
II New York wanted to keep up the dream.
1t has been decided that the former kaiser
must take his medicine. The allied peace con-
ference has ruled that the stunt to offer some
thing just as good" won't go. Still, IL VIII
could offer something just as bad there might
be different ruling in the case. But he Is the
worst animal in the menagerie and must stand
the consequences.
number of men mixed in a lynching in
Alabama have been sent to the penitentiary.
tinction to be member Of lynching party.
Two autos collided in Chicago. The fellow
who drove his car into the other machine fin
ished with broken nose Both were arrested,
but the fellow with the damaged proboscis
refused to prosecute. He said he got what he
deserved. When offending auto drivers begin
to quarrel it would seem promise that the
poor pedestrian might get his dues. The foot
passenger these days is respected by the aver
age auto driver more than the chicken that
tries to cress the street in front OF the oncom-
ing machine.
The editor Of a Kansas paper on visiting a
clothing store found that all of the 81 and 81 so
mems neckties had been sold. with only the
so cent brand left only few years ago we
thought of the average Kansan as wearing
red bandana around, his jugular.
The wife of a Chicago attorney was killed
when she fell 10 feet from the rear porch of
her home. There is little harm in falling il
one knows how. This woman simply didn't
understand the art Mothers should train their
children how to light when they see they are
about to do a Brodie. 1t would save much grief
and some funeral expenses.
La Toilette has discovered that Presider1
Wilson has broken some law But if he did
he got another fellow who had done something
worse.
Red Cross Will Use Barber Poles in Fight
on Typhus. Headline This sounds like a
conspiracy on the part of the toupee trust
o.
A girl in Fort Worth killed man who
sneered at her on the street It's a pity the
girls in Rock Island can't emulate their Texas
sister. We don't advocate death for insults
our girls must endure at the hands of street
corner loafers, but we would like to see the
girls nerve up and wallop some of EN-. That
would put a quietus the ofense, we believe
New Yorker has been awarded $4,000
for the loss of his legs in a railroad accident
The moral of this is that if you must lose your
pedals have the operation performed by some
body who can afford to settle. You know when
the doc takes 'em of you don't get any reward.
On the contrary, you pay him for the separa-
ton.
Landru, the Paris bIuebeard, is defended bv
his latest sweetheart. She says he goes to
church regularly and doesn't smoke Or drink
These are the virtues of most criminals
Daughter of the President Is a Sharp Bar
gamer. Headline. Like father like daughter
J.M &c.