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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-21

essary to pick out a magazine
which prints stories of the nature
of yours. Send it to the publisher
of the magazine, enclosing suffi-
cient stamps to have it returned in
case it is not wanted. Do not be-
come discouraged at one attempt
If one publisher does not like it,
try another, and keep trying until
you are convinced that no one
wants it.
You hate your work because you
do not do it with the right spirit.
There is romance in everything. If
you apply yourself and use your
imagination to increase your
speed and efficiency, you will take
an interest in it and the time will
pass quickly. Be thankful that
you have something hard to do,
because it is only hard tasks which
bring worth while results.
Japan is not impossible if you
really want to go there. A few
years hard work and careful saw
ing would put you in position to
take the trip.
So If you can get work in an ad-
vertising Office l think you would
like it there OF course the work
would be difficult.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I have
known a young man for some time
and like him very much. / know he
cares for me, but he has an idea /
do not like him. What can / do
to prove my love for him?
| also know a married man. He
often wants to take me out AS |
do not care for him, what shall l
do to avoid him?
WORRIED.
1t is useless to insist that you
man tells you that you do not, do
not argue with him 1t simply
tickles his vanity when you insist
that you do love him.
Do not try to avoid the married
man. When he asks you to go
somewhere with him tell him de-
cidedly and finally that you will
not. To be friendly with such a
man puts you in his class.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a
young lady 20 years old. Invent
with fellow about two years be-
fore he entered the service. He is
now in France and is expecting to
return home soon. He wants me
to meet him at his home on his re-
turn. Should meet him or wait
for him to come to see me?
TINY.
Wait until he comes to see you,
unless his mother invites you to be
present at his home coming.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-21

and got to-"
And. then. posing the miscreant
Drake as he would a dishrag. John
swung him face down over the
steps. He played his nose over the
il-natured chronicle in chalk. A
smear showed where the word had
been. John righted his prey and
bounced him down upon the lower
step, with the words:
You sit there or III sit down
upon you!"
brakes face was a sight. His
nasal organ was flattened and
spIintery. His cheeks and chin
suggested a baker disfigured by the
floury substance he handled. He
acted scared; he looked sheepish.
81 only thought" he began tim
orously.
You only thought you'd stick
another pin in the only woman in
town who isn't a gadder and scan
dal-monger, and minds her own bus
ineSs!" Numbered John. "Squirm.
flatten out like the grease spot that
you are. Blow up and bust for all
care, but don't you get up or try
20 sneak away, or I'll lug you to
the pond and give you the ducking
Of your 1ifeI'
I'm sorry. Rolfe; honest I am.
What you want of meT' stammered
the crestfallen Drake.
ct want to give you an object
lesson want to send you back to
your gossiping brood with q new
point OF view. Because my wife
keeps to herself and talks out her
mind on her own premises, which
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-21

| she has a right to do, you fancy it's
quite the thing to humiliate her by
acts that just about fit a digger In
dian. 'Scold?' Thank goodness
I'm around to help her relieve her
poor tired mind when the strain
gets too heavyi I'd be fine speci-
men, wouldn't I, to sneak of leav-
ing her with no chance to do it.
What with dragging mud into the
house and dropping tobacco over
the place. and keeping it like dis
orderly rag bag, it's a wonder she
don't fire the rolling pin after me
and sue for divorced"
"Of course! OF coursei" bobbed
and cringed Drake, fearing his
aroused, eloquent captor might
work himself up to point where
lie would deliver new castigation.
Now, then, I'D with you, and in
with you'll" and seizing the shrink
ing Drake by the collar, John fore
ed him into the house. Look at
those rooms. Neat as a pin, al
ways. Just rest your eyes on that
layout" and he dragged Drake into
the kitchen, orderly and shining,
and showing q table full of appe-
tite-arousing pies, tarts and bis
cults. Duplicate it If you can in
this town. Out again! Sit down."
and he landed his mussed-up Wis
itor on the step with a force that
made Drake groan. TIL relate to
you q little history. Five years
ago, the time my wife rescued
little child from In front Of an au-
tomohfle, she gotta knock that has
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-21
OBJECTIONS TO WORLD LEAGUE
ARE NOT FOUNDED ON FACTS

today than to see chimeras and
utopias speedily transformed into
facts. A hundred examples could
be cited in Illustration.
The proposed league of nations,
like many other great proposals of
the past will be an experiment: in
fact democracy was an expert
ment; woman suffrage was an ex-
pertinent; every great political
exonomic, or social reform began
as an experiment. The results of
no great undertaking can be de-
termined in advance; it must first
be tried out in practice before the
results can be known. If the
league is organized and results in
saving the world from the horrors
OF single great war its value will
have been abundantly demon
strated;. if it is the means of
bringing about recourse generally
to judicial methods for the settle
ment of disputes among nations it
will constitute the greatest single
achievement in the history of civ
ilization that has yet been made.
Even if we are not all convinced
as yet that 1t Will produce such re-
suits would we not be justified on
the doctrine of chances In giving
1t a trial? The world has definite
ly made up its mind that some
thing must be done to remove the
danger to which our common civil
lization will always be exposed so
long as every nation is a Judge in
its own disputes. is bound by no
will except its own and is free to
make war upon its neighbors for
any cause which may seem to it
sufficient or for no cause at all.
The league of nations is as yet
the only remedy proposed; man
kind the world over is reday to
give it a trial, why reject it be-
cause some of us are not yet con-
WINGED that 1t is practicable?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-21
Brad's Bit O. Verse
SHIFTTNG VALUES.

The wise and thrifty husbandmau
goes forth to seek the cheapest plan
to build his modest house; 1t must
be stylish, new and neat, and face
a fashionable street, and suit his
loving spouse. The husbandman
records a kick on every timber.
stone and brick, and swears some
goodly chunks, and when at last
the house is built il makes his little
savings wilt; it costs three thou
sand plunks. But when the neigh
bOrs come to view that modern
mansion, nice and new, he chortles
like a lord: Its built of nothing
but the best; beams, panels. floors,
and all the rest that riches can
afford; my friends, I spent a
princely pile TO make this nest OF
class and style from base to cor
nice stones; II is hummer, l con-
fess, and cost me not one penny
less than twenty thousand bones"
But when the grim assessor came,
the husbandman was meek and
tame; this house amt fit TO tax:
1t only cost Ave hundred
wheels. It's old and run down e..
the heels, and full of holes and
cracks"
GLEN BRADSHAW.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-21
AN ORJECT LESSON.
Rv Alyah Jordan Garth,

Idler, busybody and mischief
maker, Abel Drake, the pest and
gossip OF Brookville. paused at the
gate of the little home occupied by
John RoIfe and his wife. He FUN
hfed in his pocket, drew forth a
piece OF chalk and Chuckled.
s'Now's my chancei" grinned the
big, loutish fellow. III stir up
someti1ing!"
John Rolfe, behind a clump OF
Eheltering lilac bushes, stared
vaguely. then suspiCiously, and
then with lowering brow viewed
the intruder, who passed up the
walk in a stealthy way. He stared
harder as Drake placed one knee
lrpon the lowermost step of the
porch. Slowly the fists of John
h0lfe closed and Enclosed He
hunched back as il actuated to a
sudden spring. Drake reached up
TO the top step.
eScoId, he scraw1ed-
John R07fe, furious of face, a
hurricane of Indignation and re-
sentiment, made a dash and then a
grab He had the writing despoil-
err of those imma cuIately clean
steps in his grasp He poised him
aIoft. Drake uttered a gasp and
half a yell
Hold on! Ho1d=on! Twasso only
playing joke"
~t viii cost you something"
growled John. Now, then, you
haeddIing, maIeEoient scum. lick It
Eps rub~it UP, just asyou ought to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-21
The Only Hope.

There is some hope" says Major General
Maurice, Englishman, "of making war i'm
possible through league of nations, but no
hope of doing it any other way" And he
added that the British people have been at>war
for inc first time and they don't like it Very
well put. indeed.
II used to be that wars were made by and
sor soldiers and men in the prime of life. espe-
eially trained and equipped, bore the brunt of
II. For them, and especially for their leaders.
it game which appealed to the instinct
of the male animal for combat The men who
did the fighting were held to it by discipline
supposed from above.
The last war has been waged by, and upon
the women and children, as well as men, and
the weak and the helpless have often suffered
moro than combatants, because they were less
able to look out for themselves and there was
no enc left to look out for them. Aerial bonn
bardments carried the horrors of warfare to
the English people and they have seen all they
wart of that sort of thing. Not only that, but
war forced them to organize all their re-
sources, to work to the limit of their endur-
ance and Withstand pFivations and to take
part all the way through almost arduous as
that performed by the men who did the fight
ing Being self-governing they were compelled
to hold themselves to the task mainly by their
own wills.
The American people were not so intimately
involved as the English were. but they were
made to know they, too were in a war, and
like the English. they did not fancy it, When
the time comes for them to express themselves
in regard to league of nations they will vote
Gaping future wars, while without it there Is
none
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-21
CRIME IN A COFFEE POT.

An unsophisticated person read
ing the letters from many of our
readers might assume that coffee is
something wicked and harmful. A
very frequent statement in these
letters is something like this. Il
gave up the use of coffee several
months ago, but can see no differ
ence."
There are conditions in which it
is unwise to drink coffee. Children
under sixteen should never be given
tea or coffee. Coffee should not he
taken within four hours of bedtime.
Individuals with exophthalmic
goitre, hyperthyrodism, palpitation,
cesSive metabolism are often mot
always) better without coffee.
Coffee, when properly prepared,
is mild stimulant to the cerebrum,
increasing the breadth and depth
and speed of thought. 1t is also a
stimulant to the kidneys, increasing
for a few hours the elimination of
both solids and water. On the heart,
coffee acts as a mild stimulant, and
also raises the blood pressure slight
ly. Coffee is a powerful stimulant of
respiration. Coffee depresses tissue
waste and therefore tends to con-
serve the body tissues.
All of these effects are unique in
that, so far as observation shows.
they are followed by no subsequent
negative phase of depression, as
happens after the use of stimulants
as a rule. We speak now of the
moderate and proper use of coffee
as beverage in the daily ration.
By properly prepared coffee we
mean coffee which is prepared by
slowly heating the cold infusion up
to, but not past boiling point. If
coffee boils even for a few seconds
it becofes a solution of tannic acid
and is unfit for human consump-
ton. Lumber-camp, boarding house,
quick-lunch coffee is too often boiled
coffee and utterly bad to drink. Tan
mic acid (tannin) is all right for
curing leather, but not for the ali
mentary tract. Leave the tannin in
the coffee grounds, and derive all
the delightful aroma and flavor
from the coffee, by extraction with
heat short of boiling.
Far from causing constipation "a
condition likely enough to result
from drinking tannin) properly pre-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-21
The Old Clothes Drive.

Food and clothes! Just the bare neceesi-
ties for keeping the fame of life burning in
the human body. That is the appeal of more
than one million people il northern France,
Belgium, Serbia Roumania, Montenegro. Pal
egtine, Czeeho-Slovakia, Poland, Albania, Italy
and Greece.
OF food they have little, but by their own
efforts and the help of various relief agencies
they have SO far been able to obtain sufficient
nourishment to sustain life. But of clothes
they have practically none. The head of the
family wears a CASTOR soldiers tunic pair
of trousers patched N half a dozen places
with plain burlap; the mothers costume con-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-21
PTNS PULLED At THE ILLINOIS.

Mr. Hili-"Would you get mad if threw
you kiss?'
awfully lazy for not bringing it"
Bert Lennon-"This is a two-bit cigar I'm
smoking. 1 bit off one end and another fellow
bit off the other end
saying something about women. You make me-
sick"
He-"we1l, you don't give me any appetite
What Is Beerg" queries headliner We'll
bite; what is it?
Some fellows we know are so opposed to
tackling soft drinks that they are going to lay
in supply of hard water.
All, THAT'S A SECRET, TOO, o.
Sir: So there is secret session of the S. I.
t. s. d. O. m m being held? Well, would you De
kind enough to tell me when it is expected 20
adjourn? I'd like awfully well to know when
to expect my husband to be home for an even
ing. MRS. x. Y.
Filling this column out under ordinary con-
ditions is bad enough, but when the lights go
out, it makes it almost impossible to write any,
as one might say, bright stuff.
ADD POSTWAR HORRORS.
Sir: 1t used to be that when
A girls shoestring
Came united
1t was quite the proper thing
For her escort to tie it up again,
BUT
With shoetops where they are
They say it isn't being done!
NV.
Just to show him how much royalty means
in their lives anymore, bunch Of German sail
ors took the yacht of former King William of
wurttemburg away from him to use for fish
ing boat-and nearly drowned MIN doing it.
Bright Sayings.
Tottie (aged u wonder why babies is
always born in the nighttime.
Lottie tagged S)-Don't you know? It's
cause they wants to make sure of hndin' their
mammas at home.
While the ice grabbing hither and
thither for excuses for the latest boost in the
price of ice-we offer them the suggestion free
of charge-why not say something about the
stage of the river. When the water is so high,
naturally ice must be-
Well Spring is here.
o. D. K
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-21
Household Hints

stir until the cheese has melted,
then add breedcrumbs. Beat until
smooth, thick and hot. Serve
on thin slices of bread.
Egg and Potato Pie-Four hard
| boiled eggs.
One quart hot mashed potatoes.
One tablespoon butter substitute.
One teaspoon grated onion.
One tablespoon finely chopped
parsley.
One-half teaspoon nutmeg.
One-half teaspoon pepper.
Two teaspoons salt.
Two cups white sauce.
Brush bake dish with melted
butter substitute; cover the bottom
with the mashed potato, to which
you have added on teaspoon salt.
the pepper, onion juice, parsley and
nutmeg; the potatoes must be one
inch thick. Put a layer of hard boil
ed eggs which have been cut in slices
the long way; cover with half the
white sauce, then half-inch layer on
potatoes, another layer of eggs and
white sauce; dust with salt and
pepper, cover the top with the re-
mainder of mashed potatoes.
Brush top with well beaten raw
egg and rough with fork or pointed
knife; make a design on top, put in
moderate oven thirty minutes, or
until Drowned nicely. Garnish with
finely chopped parsley and a dust
of paprika. There must be three lay
ers OF potatoes and two OF eggs.
Vegetable Cream SOup-Celery,
pea, carrot, potato, onion, tomato,
lima bean, cauliflower, spinach,
Brussels sprouts-in fact two
tablespoonfuls of any of the above
cooked vegetables rubbed through
strainer and added to a scant cup
of boiling milk. with one teaspoon
full of flour and one teaspoonful of
butter (the butter is melted and
mixed with the flour until smoothly
and boiled five minutes will make q
good soup. Season with salt and
pepper and flavor to taste. Serve
with croutons. The saucepan must
be placed over hot water or II can
be prepared in top of small
double boiler
Rusty knitting NeedIes-If your
knitting needles become rusty Just
stick them into some soft mud and
they will be as smooth and bright
as new ones.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-21

We hear of state legislatures, dominated by
Republican majorities. condemning the league
of nations in resolutions put through by a
party vote In Colorado a demand Is made for
freedom for Ireland and the president is ad-
vised to use his extraordinary power to Sc
cure 1t. From many quarters where politicians
foregather come expressions that sound more
like the witleSs taunts and bumptious defiance
of school boys than the considered words of
mature and responsible men. We wonder if
they will have the courage. when the president
comes back, to say it to his face.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-21
|!H;FPdE5o ) K m3Gl1
~ Il MRC. ELIZABETH THOMPSONH

Dear Mrs. Thompson. 1 hate my
work. 1t is very hard and feel as
though shall never be able to con-
tinue doing it. Get another job
you will advise. But it is the same
with them all. After about six
months 1 must drag myself to
work. That sounds as if 1 were
lazy, doesn't it? But l don't think
1 am. 1t is not the thought of work
1 hate, but the monotony of it after
while.
! like writing stories and draw
ing pictures. Also, love to see
new places-not cities, people OF
such things, but even if l walk out
in the hills l feel like a different
person. I once lived where there
were mountains and plains and
sunshine. That was when / was
a child. The memory of it haunts
me and 1 always have a strange
longing to go there once again.
l never can sit and think or close
my eyes but what strange adven-
lures and happenings that l never
have read or heard of pass constant
ly through my mind. My one desire
seems to be to record them in
story form. I do not care the least
for boys, and so I am not a silly,
romantic girl picturing love stor-
les for myself.
My mother is dead, and SO I can
not go to her for advice. l am
past 20.
Am I shiftless and lazy, do you
think?
If there should be such a thing
as the happenings of my magma
ton merging into a story, how
could / get it published? haven't
the slightest idea about it.
l have always had a strange de-
sire to see the beautiful land of
Japan-to live among the simple
people and know and love them for
what they really are. This is an
other strange feeling 1 cannot ex-
plain. What do you think of it?
ONE IN NEEA OF A FRIEND.
You lack ambition or the ability
TO apply yourself If you continue
to drift as you are doing now, you
will never succeed in any way. As
writer, you would have to be
very we'll read. Instead of sitting
idly with your thoughts running
riot, study and read. Besides this,
put in writing the wonderful
thoughts you think you have. Your
first stories will not be good. Only
practice and great study will en-
able you to write a story which
the magazines would consider ac-
cepting.
To get a story accepted it is nee
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-21
BY JAMES W. GARDNER.
Professor of Political Science at
the University of Illinois.

Professor of Political Science at
the University of Illinois.
All are agreed that the purposes
sought to be accomplished by the
proposed league of nations are not
only desirable but necessary If the
world is TO have a lasting peace
instead of truce. But there are
some who are skeptical as to the
practicability of the scheme; there
are others who fear that the obli-
cations and responsibilities which
it will impose on the countries
which join it viii prove intolerable
if not inconsistent with their free
dom and independence. Let us
address ourselves briefly to some
of these objections and see II they
are really serious.
A final objection to the proposed
league of nations is that the
scheme is impracticable, that It Is
q chimera, a utopia and the like.
1t will readily be admitted that
difficulties will be encountered in
devising an organization that will
at the same time be effective, and
yet which will not involve a linz
itation. on the freedom of indie
pendent states such as they will
not consent to suffer. But these
difficulties are mainly matters of
detail which it may be safely as
sumed can be surmounted If the
nations are sincerely DESTROYS of
giving the scheme a fair trial.
Surely there Is wisdom enough
in the assembly of statesmen now
gathered around the peace table to
settle the details of an organiza-
ton the general principle of which
they have already approved, Most
ofthe great reforms in the history
of the great reforms In the history
when they were first proposed. as
impracticabie. chimerical or utop-
ian, but nothing is more common
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-21
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Cream for Peaches.

Cream Tor BeacneSs
I recently had the FLU" and write
to know whether it would be advis-
able to take half a pint OF cream
every day as a tonic, or do you
think that is too rich or take? Can
ether be given for an operation on
the turbinate bones of the nose?
Or. Il. c.
Answer-If you are underweight
and can take the cream without up
setting digestion, it would come as
near being a tonic" as anything
yet discovered. Usually a local an
esthetic is sufficient for removal Of
turbinates, but ether may be given
IL necessary.
FIapdOOdle and the Fla.
All my friends claim that whisky
is absolutely necessary in the
treatment of the FLU" Please give
your opinion on this subject. IN.
Al
Answer-At one time or another
whisky, has been deemed (by those
who like a nip indispensable in
the treatment of about every i'll of
civilized man. Idle to argue with
your friends about it. II they like
whisky they will never admit that
it isn't a panacea- However, the
medical profession some time since
went on record against the notion
that whisky is essential as a rem
edy in any disease.
Education for Nurses.
l am 10 years old, but left school
when l finished the fourth grace.
Is it possible for me to become a
doctors nurse? What hospital would
you recommend for me to study
nursing in? Miss p. r. NJ
Answer-You may study practical
nursing with a doctor. A complete
common school education is requir-S
ed for admission to a hospital train
ing class