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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-12-22

Daily Optimistic Thought.
The greatest truths are commonly
the simplest.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-12-22

President Austin of the o. c. w.
will arrange GLASSES in home nursing
at the college commencing the sec
ond semester, Feb. End. Mrs. Cor
Genes will be in charge.
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Miss Clara White of Friend auxil-
iary and Mrs. Geo. Petty of Middle
burg, called at headquarters Satur-
day.
Mrs Win Mollett of Union Center
called at headquarters and reported
the class in home nursing almost
completed
Mrs. George Norton has been ap-
poill-ed city chairman in home nurs-
Jig. Miss Smith having resigned
Mrs. Cortenes, the Red Cross nurse,
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has just returned from Rush Springs,
where she has completed a class In
home nursing. h
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-12-22
HEMSTITCHING, rICoTING,
Hens itching

Hemstitching, accurately done, best
operator in the state. If in a hurry
we do the work while you wait. Spe
cial attention given to mail orders.
SINGER SEWING MACHINE CO.
chickasha, Okla.
The sun., 1919-01-19
BY w. B. MCCORMICK.

IN the four critical biographies that 60
L to make up Lytton Strachey's En-
aent Iictoriaus the writer reveals him
self as mirror to his conception subjects
except when he touches on religion, and
then he resembles cowar1y and ignor-
ant small boy with his thumb at his nose
twiddling his fingers at something dis
liked, dislike born of lack of knowledge
and a queasy desire to be brave. And
like such a small boy Mr. Lvtton Strachey
has no apparent conception of what a
piteous figure be cuts in the mOmentary
posture he has adopted.
1t is impossible TO cscap" touching on
religion in any comment on these essays,
since the subjects Of them were men and
a woman who were pasSionately devoted
to things of the spirit and to varying re-
Egious beliefs. They include Cardinal
Manning, Florence Nightingale, Doctor
Arnold of Rugby and Gen. Gordon, the
most pathetic and heroic figure in all
Britain's conquest of the Nile country.
1t is recalled that when this book appeared
in England it shocked many people. We
should think it would shock not many but
most readers, for it is nippant in tone and
faithless to truth in its presentation of
the characters studied.
In the essay on Cardinal Manning this
writer presents that English prclate as a
scheming politician bent on carrying out
his own personal ends and brutally thrust
ing aside from his path every one whom
he thought stood in his way, not except
ing Cardinal Newman. Strachey became
The sun., 1919-01-19

so imbued with this idea of plottings and
counter plottings that his very language
takes on the tinge of melodrama, as for
example, HE Cardinal Manning) would
snip with scissors the pages of ancient
Journals and with delicate ecclesiastical
fingers drop unknown mysteries into the
flames" The verify of this melodramatic
nonsense may be tested by a moments
study of the portrait Of Manning in the
book. His ''delicate ecclesiastical fingers
are gnarled and thick digits, worthy men,
bers of some ancient farmers hands
twisted and thickened by rheumatism and
labor. There is not little of Newman's
life in this study, and here again Strachey
INDUCES in exaggeration, making that
prelate weak and almost ignoble figure
and always a victim of Manning's
jealousy.
The very vigor of Florence Nightin-
gales younger years had its effect on
Strachey's pen, which fairly races across
the pages in an attempt to keep up with
WIN ID inc WIN VI
the Crimea. This is capital biographical
narrative, bat when he begins to trace
the really more important phases Of her
wonderful life, her hospital and army re-
forms in England and India, her essays
into philosophy and religion, then the
shocking Strachey grins inadvertently from
above the top of the pOrtrait-as we see
in the phrase, AS one turns over these
singular pages Lof Miss Nightingale's one
religious book one has the impression
that Miss Nightingale has got the Al
mighty, too, into her clutches, and that if
He is not careful she will kill Him with
overwork.'
We find in the study of DR.. Arnold the
same desire TO bclittle the fame of a man
The sun., 1919-01-19

who is believed in by every one who ever
read Tom BROWNS School Dogs even if he
came 10 nearer to English public school
life than that. Without proving his case
in the slightest degree, Strachey affirms
that Arnold really instituted no reforms
in the educational system of the English
public school and deprecates the whole
high reputation of the man.
The sketch of Gen. Gordon is marred
by these same defects and makes him lit
The sun., 1919-01-19
Gilbert K. CheStertOn'S London Letter
Ireland and the Domestic Drama

geties. 1t is solely by insight into what his
French teachers would call the vrae verite that he
sees the way the world ought to go, and pauses
upon the phrase ''the return to the home.
Irish education, he declares, must always depend
on the fact that the child mind is full of the
drama of the hOme.' 1t marks his judicial eman-
cipaton that he contrasts this domestic drama
favourably with two other types Of teaching, one
of which would be called conventional and cOnserv
alive while the other would be called uncOnven-
tional and advanced.
He criticises the old English public schOol-bOy;
he also criticiscs Il yrieve to state) the Amer
lean The two things called in England
the public school, and the high school" are
counted almost contraries, merely because one is
old and the other new. But the critic them
to be essentially the same; because in both cases
the school oyershadows the home.
Here IS profound practical instance of the root
realities of the Irish national claim. Here is
a case in which Home Rule literally means the rule
of the home 1t will never be possible to establish
the English fashion in Ireland; and 1 for one
should not pretend to be sorry if it possible
to spread the Irish fashion to England.
The Drama of the Home.
For the drama of the home is really very dra-
matte. 1t is one of those facts that are confused
and hidden by the modern fuss about social
chinery which is the mere seeneshifting and stage
carpentering Of the domestic drama. The house
hold is the lighted stage which the actors appeal
literally to the gods
1t is in private life that things happen. A human
being is born at home; he generally dies at home;
and the social philosophy that can deal with moth
ing but his coffin carried out of the house is merely
a philosophy of boxes and parcels, philosophy Of
luggage and labels.
Half our human effort is now wasted on mere
transit, transport, and exchange; the common
wealth is clearing house of never open
and presents we never enjoy. Rulers and reform
ers are a race of rather pedantic porters, always
carrying an unknown present to unknown per-
son, not unfrequently II fancy the wrong present
to the wrong person
Some of our strenuous social organizers may be
content to spend Christmas at Charing Cross sta
ton for the pride of controlling the traffic and the
luggage But confess find it more exciting to
be at the end of the journey where the Christmas
gifts can be seen.
G. X. CHEsTERToN.
The sun., 1919-01-19

The isolation l mean is far removed from such i'm
pudence.
The defence of this detachment is that it is not
really detached; it was not Indifference but indig-
nation 1t was not without foundation; it was only
without proportion Indeed the real ease against
it was that while its expression was largely cynical
its motive was largely sentimental
Such was the irritation of Mr.. Bernard Shaw :;
such was the irritation Of many Irishmen much
more national than Mr.. Bernard Shaw. Their
irritation can be analysed in a simple phrase; it
annoyed them that the men who were wrong should
be right. 1t annoyed them that all the snObs and
sneaks of our corrupt paramentarism should free
the world by accident. In the quarrel with Prussia
they could not really doubt, they did not really
doubt, that England was right. But they did doubt
whether England had any right to be right.
Why They Were Wrong.
1t is view l think self-stultifying and even
suicidal. For the great work will be remembered
and the meaner workers forgotten; and it is mad
ness to praise the Persians the eve of Marathon
because one has quarrelled with some silly archon
at Athens whose very name will be lost in few
years. But it is not a reasonable, far less q
treacherous view; and its anger is the same as the
popular anger it arouses.
This is the Irish mood which common sense and
common sympathy must deal with; and this is the
peculiar value of real Irish intellectual detachment
like that of Mr. Yeats.
The Vantage Ground.
First of all, man like Mr. Yeats is so genuinely
detached that he can be definite and clear In his
sympathy with the Allies. He would be capable
of the supreme impartiaty Of seeing that England
could be right although she had been wrong; and
even that Ireland could be wrong although she had
been wrOnged
But all the time he would play with perennial
fount of satire and insight the fundamental
spiritual facts that fasify the English position in
Ireland. He would make us feel that We were only
right in one thing because We were so wrong in
many things.
There are many examples of this in his little book
of essays; but the one | would emphasize here.
especially is his very vital point about the domestic
nature of the whole sociology of Ireland. Here
again he is all the more impressive for being In .
sense impartial, or even what some would call in
different He is not what is called orthodox; he
might well be called sceptical He has cultivated
rather Continental aesthetics than Catholic apollo
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Those Who Stood Aloof.

There was type of detachment during the late
war not to be confused with what can only call
the view Of the vulgar peaccmonger 1t was not
the patronisng pacifism of the gentleman who took
a holiday in the Alps and said he was Adore The
Struggle; as if there were any Alp from which the
soul can look down on Calvary. There is indeed
one mountain among them that might be very ap-
propriate TO detached an observer; the mountain
named after PLATE, the man who washed his hands.
The sun., 1919-01-19
Copyright, 1919. Al rights reserved.

n so gigantic that it would have
l. staggered the statesman who used the
phrase, we have called in the New World to redress
the balance of the Old. The New World has found
new worlds to conquer; it has new tasks not only
drastic but delicate not only political but psyche
logical.
Among the things which America may yet help
us to achieve is one about which feel strongly and
painfully the reconciliation, thousand times
thwarted but now a thousand times more necessary,
between the English and the Irish
The triangular table of such peace conference
need not, and perhaps had better not, be found in
any public building. Rather it should be found III
every public house and even in every private house
The change should come through something which
IS far nober and more eternal than diplomacy or
politics: talk. 1t should come through the only
real public opinion which is always uttered in pri
vate; the public opinion that is mass of private
opinions.
An Eloquent Irishr1an.
y famous Irishman said of the Irish that they
We're too poctlcal to be poets, but that they
the greatest takers since the Greeks. Ny personal
memory does not stretch back the greatest period
of Greece; and perhaps the best talker ever knew
lrishman, who is now living in America
and q will confidently affirm talking in America
1t may be true that he is too pOetical to be poet
anyhow, he is not too poetcal to be the father of
poet.
He is Mr. j. B. Yeats, the father of Mr. W. B.
Yeats; and he has lately been persuaded to write
and print Of the good things he has said all
his life; first in the form Of book of letters and
later of book of essays: Essays, Irish and An,cr-
can, published by Mr.. Fisher Irwin. But my real
satisfaction in the social and political sense is to
know not that he has written little, but he has
spoken much; for out Of such seemingly lost and
wasted words come the real international under
standings.
The sun., 1919-01-19
Lytton Strachey's "Eminent Victorians"

tie better than a creature obsessed with 10
ligious beliefs coming to an inglorious
rather than a gallant end. We do not
think that the very limited school of Brit
ish writers whom We have already elassi-
fed here can sink to a much lower level
than Mr.. Lytton Strachey docs in these
essays
EMINENT vICTORIANS. BY LYTTos
STRACHEY. G. P. Putnam s Sons. $3.50.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-11-19
NORTH.LOWELL

Sarah Engle and Leonor holloway
attended he poultry meeting at Grand
Rapids, Friday.
Mrs. Fred West held a community
party Thursday. All enjoyed a nne
time.
Mrs. John Aussieker Is the pround
poissessor of Ford Sedan.
Ed. Pottruff, of Grand Rapids was
in Lowell, Sunday.
Lowell High played Greenville High
Friday. The score being TO in favor
of Greenville.
The Junior Girls club was held at
Marion McMahan's for the election of
officers. The ballot showed Marion
Mcmahon elected president and Myrl
Jackson, Sec. and Treas.
A large number from Lowell attend
ed the Grange roundup" at Grand
Rapids, Friday and Saturday.
r. M. Wilcox held an auction sale
Friday.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-11-19
ORLEANS

The A. o. O. G., of Orleans, met at
their hall, Tuesday evening and elect
ed the following officers for the ensu-
ing year:
Chief Cleaner, John Lambertson;
Vice Chief Cleaner, Gus Flanagan.
Sec. and Treas, Aurora Easterbrook;
Chaplain, Mrs. Rilla Warner;
Lecturer, Mrs. Ollie Kennedy;
Conductor, Earl Emery;
Conructress, Mrs. Minnie Lambertson;
Inner Guard, Irma Face;
Outer Guard, Frank Trainer.
Raymond Noddin, of M. A. c. at
Lansing, visited his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Sherwood Noddin, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. Kennedy visited
friends in Grand Ledge, Friday.
Mrs. Charles Holmes, of South Or
leans, called on friends Monday.
The Orleans Ladies Aid proved a
success both socially and financially.
There were over ninety who partook
of the dinner. twenty-three ladies
from Belding came to help enjoy the
same. After the business meeting a
reception was given the Bedding la
dies. The social hour was very much
enjoyed. Mrs. H. Friedly gave a song
she responded with an encore. We
hope the ladies will visit Orleans
again.
Chester Stout was Sunday guest
of Hattybell Gleason.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-11-19
CHADWICK

Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Banhagel and
children, spent Saturday night and
Sunday with her parents, Mr.. aad
Mrs. Forest Chadwick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Moore We're IN
Grand Rapids last Wednesday on bus
mess.
Mrs. Beckwith spent Tuesday after
noon with Mrs. II. M. Bolster.
Miss Leola Haviland, of Bedding,
spent over Sunday with her friend,
Vera Bolster.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Sprague and
family have moved to Bedding for the
winter, and Mr.. and Mrs. Millard
Jewell are staying on the farm.
Miss Veva Vaudeville, of Bedding,
spent Saturday afternoon with her
grand parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred
Parker.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-11-19

Saxons have run 1850 miles, Fords
$40 mines on November 16. Miles are
gained as follows: Attendance, so
miles; collection, 20 miles; new schol-
ar, s miles; Bible work, 60 miles; sub
divided like this: 20 miles each for
work complete, neatness and bring
II ing books to class. Those who gained
gold star for perfect attendance
during October, are Raymond Smith
and Frank Stevens. The s. s. voted
to hold Xmas tree and exercises on
Xmas eve. this year, so plan for this.
The children are to give cantata this
year entitled "Down the Chimney with
Santa Claus"
Cooperation was the subject of the
B. Y. p. u. meeting, Sunday evening.
Fannie Macarthur leader. The young
people have taken the responsibility
of each coming to church Sunday
morning and bringing one other with
them for their part. This is our mot
to:
"A long pull, strong pull, and a
pull all together"
Coming soon:-"Christian Enlist
ment week."
Services next Sunday at 1920,
standard time; B. Y. p. u. at 1880,
leader, Miss Kittie Lawrence. Cot
tage prayer meetings each Wednes-
day evening. Covenant meeting the
last Saturday afternoon in Novem-
Der.
Ten years ago Rev. Arlander be-
came pastor of a church in the open
country in S. Dakota, at salary of
$500 and parsonage. Now they are
paying him $500 a year, have built
a fine modern parsonage, the church
has had improvements to the amount
of 5000 and on the tenth anniver-
sary of his passionate they presented
him with $500 in money and expressed
the hope that he would serve them 10
years more. Shows the spirit of CO.
operation and what people with vi
sion can do.
Did you ever try tithing and see
how fast the Lords money counts up J?
Try it for a week or a month or until
Thanksgiving and see how you have
been prospecting and didn't realize it.
Peace is our proper relation to all
people There is no reason why, as
far as we know, we should not be at
peace with everybody. If even they
are not at peace with US we may be at
peace with them. Let them look to
their own hearts, we have only to DO
with our own. B. Mosely. K u A
Booster? Every goal demands your
loyalty. Can we count on you?
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-11-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Art Brown, Of Bedding
were Sunday guests of the latter's
mother, Mrs. Mary WILDER and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Pitt called on
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Hill. Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Kennedy were
in Ionia, Thursday.
Mrs. Della Spaulding and Miss Jen-
ME Crippen will spend the winter with
the formers son. Jerry Spaulding and
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. AL. Hotchkiss, Of
Crystal, called on Mr.. and Mrs. Win
Rowley and family, Monday.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-11-19

Miss Blanche Newland, of Fox Sta
ton spent Saturday and Sunday with
Helen Andrews.
Gordon Frost and family were in
Lowell, Saturday.
j. ID. Frost and wife leave next week
for Long Beach, Florida.
Burr Davis shingled his house last
week. Alvin Davis, Dell Ford and
Will Engle assisted him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dell Condor spent q
part of last week at their farm.
The Ladies Aid met at the Cleaner
hall on Thursday, only fifteen being
present.
The Larkin club met with Mrs. Ar
chic Condor, Tuesday of this week.
Mrs. Will Engle and son, Clayton,
spent Tuesday at her uncle's, Burr
Davis.
Martin Davis and Clare Keech are
attending business college in Grand
Rapids.
John Andrews and daughter, Helen
were in Bedding on business, Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. d. Frost and Mrs.
H. Black, spent Thursday evening at
Gordon Frost's.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-11-19
perverse Critters.

II can't help thinking sometimes
said the discouraged farmer. that the
worse you treat your hens the more
eggs you will get from them. re-
member an old joke where one man
asked another: How do you get so
many eggsr Why said the other, i
treat my hens so unscientifically
they're all laying for me-"
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-11-19

Mrs. F. Hoppough, and family return
ed home Friday.
Mr.. Hunsicker, Of Stanton, moved
his family here last week.
Julia Hill was in Bedding on Satur-
day.
Lester Hubert who is attending M.
A. G. spent Sunday with friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Phelps, of Ionia,
spent Sunday with their aunt, Mrs.
M. l.. Stout and family.
George Hill and Ernie Giddings, of
lonia, spent Sunday with the formers
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George Hill.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-11-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Currie and son,
Carlton, Of Grand Ledge, spent the
past week end with Mr.. and Mrs. Will
Hubert and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Hill spent
from Wednesday until Friday, with
their brother. Steve Hill and wife Of
Ionia.
Miss Elva Hubbard, of Belding was
Tuesday guest Of Mrs. Spaulding.
Ransom Moore. of Bedding was in
town on business. Saturday evening.
Mrs. Lylia Lockwood, of Spencer,
who spent few days with her cousin
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-11-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Bolster spent
Tuesday evening with Mr.. and Mrs.
H. M. Bolster.
Floyd Bailey, Of Palo, called at For
est Chadwick's, Saturday.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-11-19

This will be an afternoon meeting
that is we are requested to be at the
hall at IL o'clock sharp, Saturday, No
vember %. Basket dinner. Let US
try to be on time as there Will be
work in the first degree. Program;
Song.
Roll Call-Simple home remedies
and antidotes for poisons.
General discussion of following top
ics-Food and drink for sick folks.
Flu-Latest theories as to it's rise
and spread; it's treatment.
Typroid-Where it originates; care
of the sick.
Last chppter of story-Theodore
Blasen.
Discussion-Should we as q club,
urge greater precaution and closes
quarantine over contagious diseases
and keep closer watch over local in
sanitary conditions? Led by Mrs.
Ella Lambertson.
The Grange would prove the far
mers friend.
If they would only just attend,
Twould brighten up their tagging
brain,
And make them long to come again;
'Awould help them solve their prob
lens many,
And help them to get and save a
penny.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-11-19
Card of Thanks

/ wish to thank my Smyrna friends
for their great kindness to me while
l was in the hospital, for their very
generous cash donation, the letters
cards and beautiful flowers. / also
thank my friends of Bedding who sent
me cards, letters and flowers, all of
which were grealy appreciated.
Eva E. Bignell.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-11-19

Did it ever occur to you that send
ing money to the big mail order house
is one way to approve of their meth
cd of paying $40 week to thousands
of women and girls? Why not cut
such scamps and buy at home, even
if it does cost bit more?
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-11-19

If we eat what we want our appen-
dix goes on a strike and the doctor
swipes the pay check. If we do not
eat t, we starve and thu undertaken
gets the wad.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-11-19

squarlng II.
Some people do odd things for the
purpose of getting even.