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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-01-22

Did you ever get so lonesome TIA
you wanted to howl like a dog?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-01-22
Watch the Tag.

Watch the tag on your paper, If
it is marked Jan. 10" 1t means that
your subscription expires this month,
and should be renewed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-01-22

gen home today.
A few from here attended the
funeral of Eddie Schultz inwOssian
today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-07
chance that his eyesight was return

chance that his eyesight was return
ing.
a more definite interest in life aud
his recovery, Hillary questioned his
nurses and doctors, but could get no
satisfaction.
at was young lady who wanted
to feel that she had done Ter bit in
the great war they told him; ''she
had led a selfish and useless life, and
she pleaded so desperately to be al
lowed to do one good turn n her life
She called it a great privilege"
And that was all Hillary could
learn even to the day when. weak and
little like the big Hillary of pre-war
days, he travelled from theN hospital
to pick up the threads of New York
life again.
1t was with no mild surprise that
society watched the return of Helen
Travis into evening clothes. At all the
great functions given for heroes and
to celebrate peace, Helen appeared in
variably in gowns that even a prude
might term overmodest. Those glor-
ious arms that the feminine world en-
Wed and the masculine adored were
concealed beyond the hopes of men.
Whereas all womankind was reveI-
ing in creations that the breaking of a
bead strap might bring disaster upon,
Helen graced it'll bathrooms in her
nunlike garb, distinctive in its rarity.
which convent are you entering ?''
and when do you get your seventh
veil?" were some of the questions
flung at her, and Helen clasped her
secret close to her heart and laughed
with them. The scars beneath her
chiffons were far more precious than
all the lovely gowns IN the world.
And somehow from out the chaos
of his life. Hillary came back to a full
realization of his love for Helen. An
inward something told him that she
was his-that nothing could rob him
of love such as theirs had once been.
She had not realized his mans duty
at the time of his leaving her. He
would seek her and win her again.
Hillary had brought down five boche
planes on the battlefield. He had at
tackled always without fear, for after
all the worst would be physical death.
But now, if he failed with Helen, it
would be death to the soul-at least
that is the way Hillary felt about it.
But when Helen looked up and saw
Hillary standing before her, she just
crumpled into his arms and cried
cried SO that her body shook Hill
lary's arms held her fiercely. He had
no words and he was none too steady
as he soothed her.
In a gesture quite beyond her con-
troll Helen's hand went up and soft as
rose petals her fingers caressed the
cheeks and neck of the man she loved
Something in the way her fingers
fingered on the faint scars-or per-
haps it was the tremendous inner
radiance of love--told him. Whatever
the flash, Hillary knew: knew that
Helen had bound herself to him by
ties greater than any he had forged
He knew, too, the agony she must
have endured while the skin was being
removed from her wonderful armsA
Il couldn't let any one else. be so
dear a part of you," when later Hill
larry tried to find words to express his
feelings, she spoke thru the glow of
happiness that suffused them both,
now could II"
Copyright. 1870 by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicnte.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-07
THE PROMOTERS WIFE
TWO CODES-ONE FOR A MAN,
ANOTHER FOR A WOMAN.
CHAPTER XXI.

CHAPTER AAAl.
The next morning at breakfast
required to the subject:
You and I are partners, dear. 1
would do anything in the world to
help you. But you must tell me
things, let me understand what you
are doing, if 1 am to be of use. At
tempting to do something blindly, 1
might make an irreparable mistake"
Don't moralize, Bah. really have
nothing to tell you. Do as you did last
night. Be charming when 1 ask you
to, even to a bore like Scott. Be sure
1 shall not inflict his like upon you
without a good reason"
Clearly, he did not wish to con-
tinue the subject, for he began at
once to talk of something else. He
she was looking particularly we'll
anything but the one thing about
which 1 was curious.
Neil never had taken me into his
confidence upon subjects that were of
interest to him. / beloved that the
lightest, as well as the heaviest ankle
ties, the smallest as well as the great
est pleasures, should be equally shared
by husband and wife. Yet, after three
years of married life, L had accom-
plished nothing. Practically, 1 knew
no more of his affairs than 1 did the
day the dear old minister at home had
married us. l recalled with dissatis-
faction that never had he talked to me
of the many little details which surely
would have been of interest to me.
His attitude always had been: i've
made the money, / shall make more
as we need II. Your wants are antici-
pated, what more can you possibly de-
mand of me?"
Many women are fated to spinster-
hood. and properly. But L had been
constituted by nature to be some mans
wife; the repository of his secrets,
his helpmate. 1t was. therefore, with
a shock that 1 discovered how little
meant in Neil's life; how little really
knew of him. I was unusually in love
with Neil, and I was correspondingfy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-07
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
werit's Highest Paid woman writer.

The Kissed and the Unkisscd--2.
Also the girl who permits familiar
tiles from hsen shows that she does not
know how to play the game. She
ignores the basic fact that man is born
a huntsman, and that the harder his
quarry is to catch. the more ardentiy
does he pursue it. There isn't man
living who wouldn't rather risk his
neck climbing a tree to get the peach
that hangs highest on it than to eat
the one that falls into ms mouth.
Nor is there man who wants to
kiss the girl whose mouth is always
pursed up into kissing shape. and who
cuddles into his arms IL he 50 much as
crooks his elbow. The girl he dreams
about kissing and folding to his beat
ing heart is the aloof. cold maiden
who is holding herself sacred for the
one man. and whose first kiss will be a
sacrament to love.
1t is a pity that women have never
realized that things are valuable sem
timentally just as they are practically,
! according to their scarcity. II dia-
monds were as plentiful as pebbles on
of them instead of wearing them as
necklaces and rings.
II girls could only get wise to the
fact that the fewer endearments they
lavished on men, the more valuable
they became in mems eyes, and that
the more that they made men pay
| for them, the more eager men would
be to raise the price. we should have
fewer sad tales of young women
mourning faithless lovers who have
kissed and ridden away, and fewer
Tilted ladies would be calling on the
courts to collect debt from Cupid
that they had not wit enough to col
lect themselves.
| For it is. unhappily, only too true
that men have not the Unsuitable APP
petite for sweets that women have.
A woman can eat candy all day long
and ntill ask for more. and she can
thrill at the ten-thousandth kiss just
as much as she did at the first. But
1 after a very few chocolate creams a
mans stomach cries out for pickles
or sauerkraut, something to break the
everlasting monotpny of the sweet.
Likewise kisses send no warm and
cold chills down his spine after the
| third or fourth.
It follows naturally, therefore. that
the man who has been fed UP on love,
and satiated with kisses before mar
riage, looks forward with no keen rel
| ish to his wedding day and continue
ance of the saccharine diet that has al
ready palled upon him, and for which
he has no further appetite. Rather
he wants to break over the fence into
| fresher fields and pastures of new ro-
/ nance.
! This is why the long engagement is
| invariably a disaster for the woman.
The man becomes tired of a girls
kisses and weary of her love even be-
fore marriage. Just knowing that she
is waiting for him and that he can
have her any old day he chooses to
| name, and that in the end he is
doomed to marry her, takes all the
| thrill and allurement out of matrt-
mony and makes it a dreaded fate in
stead of the end of great adven-
ture.
Therefore, girls, be chary OF your
kisses Remember the fewer they are
| the more valuable and never, never
enter into a long engagement. Make
the man who wants you feel that he
must hustle to get you. and be quick
about it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-07
THE PRICE OUTLOOK.

According to Prof Irving Fisher we
are likely to see an upward swing in
prices in some lines, for instance, in
many of the industries making build
ing materials, in which the war meant
a great slackening in demand, and in
dividual price readjustments will and
are dependent upon the conditions pc
culiar to the industry affected. But
as to the general level of prices, it is
his opinion that we are on a perma-
nently higher price level and the soon
er the business men of the country
take this view and adjust themselves
to it the sooner will they save them
selves and the nation from the mis-
fortune which will come if we persist
in refusing to do business because we
look for drop in prices.
Then he goes on to give his reasons.
If the number of dollars circulated by
cash and by check double while the
number of goods and services ex-
changed thereby remain constant,
prices will about double. In other
words, prices cannot fall much, If any.
with our circulating medium doubled
and with a potential further expan-
sion of at least SO per cent in the
banking credit of the country. The
lower the value of the dollar the
higher the level of prices. Besides, the
condition is worldwide. altho the
price rise has been less the farther
from the seat of hostiIities.
But prices in Europe have risen
more than they have in the United
States and prices are no more likely
to fall there than here. The continu-
ance of vast loan issues both here and
abroad is factor that will maintain
the high price level for many months.
The flotation of stocks and bonds of
commercial concerns will increase
greatly.
Then there is the hostile attitude of
labor toward the lowering of wages.
while, should the federal reserve
banks attempt. by raising. their dis
count rate or otherwise to reduce the
volume OF bank credit outstanding.
they will meet with the same sort of
opposition as the treasury met when it
started to reduce the quantity of
greenbacks after the Civil war. There
will also be a vast increase in deposit
banking abroad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-07
MY HUSBAND AND I
BY JANE PHELPS

anxious that he love me unsti1tedly.
That he was eternally busy, his mind
and thoughts occupied with these
deals" as he called them, seemed to
me a matter for complaint. Yet. !
rarely complained. 7 had learned that
was not the way to hold his love. 1
adored him, 1 adored living with him
in our beautiful home. I fancied there
was here an atmosphere which l
found nowhere else. I couldn't explain
the difference; I could only feel it.
Neil at times was voluble and witty
Under the spell of his animated con-
versation, worries and anxieties
seemed to vanish. I had begun TO
understand that he might have a
wonderful attraction for other wo-
men, as well as for me. The thought
was far from being either 1easant
or comforting.
1 knew Neil well enough to know
that he would brook no divided afie-
glance on my part. 1 thought he
should realize that 1 held the same
ideas, was swayed by the same emo
tions: yet I knew he did not. could
not appreciate that this was SO. He
was Neil. was some one else
Two codes-one for a man, the
other for the woman who bore his
name.
That this was unfair. did not alter
the facts. Women have kicked
against the pricks from time imme-
morial-and they will go on kicking
as long as the world shall last and
there are men and women to love and
to be loved.
Neil had one attribute that con-
WINGED me he still loved me, even
when 1 had dared doubt it: that was
he still took delight in the merest
trivialities of affection. An unex-
pected gift, a little surprise of the
table, something of which he was
fond, and which it was difficult to
procure. would always call forth the
most extravagant praise and express
sions of pleasure. Once / said to him:
81 don't think, Neil darling, that
you realize what an exquisite joy it is
for a woman to be told that she is
loved. 1 like to be told SO over and
over"
And in saying this. I was not only
speaking for myself. but for all women
who love and who long to he loved in
return.
(Tomorrow-Bab encounters Neil and
Blanche lunching together.)
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THE HILLS OF TOMORROW.


The hills of tomorrow are waiting for US.
Ia little bit farther to go
And now as we stand ON the peaks Of to-
day hint of their beauty we know:
We catch but CLINT of the spiendors to
be with the birth of another new day
And the Joys We shall claim and the goals
we shall reach If only we keep on the
way.
The hills of tomorrow are calling to us
ias higher and higher we climb:
We pause in our tents on the perks OF
tonight and sweetly we rest for u
But the morning shall wake MS to struggle
anew. and never we'll turn to go
back,
that We hold, however we tighten
our pack.
Behind US are strewn like the wreckage
of ships the things that we thought
we should need,
There are customs and manners and habits
thrown out and many nold fashion
ed decreed.
For the higher we climb the more clearly
we see and we change as we broaden
our view,
And the cumbersome burdens we carried
of old We drop for the things that
are new.
Were not what we were when our journey
be began AIM I'VE have CROPPED thru the ages
We have lightened our packs of the errors
they held as slowly we've climbed to
We have changed in our value of silver
and gold, to our children new lessons
For ever We turn from the false to the true
as the hills of tomorrow we reach.
Copyright 1919 by Edgar A. Guest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-07

One thing seems assured. says the
monthly bulletin issued by the Amer
lean Exchange National bank of New
York, and that is the American farm
er is going to spend a lot of money
this year. Much of 1T win represent
last years toll. funds laid aside against
the fixing of the price of 1919 wheat.
and the outlook for this years pro-
duetion. With steel prices determined
with copper and some other metals
selling at half their wartime high
prices. with the lumber interests fol-
lowing steel makers in seeking to agree
on lower and uniform price sched-
ule. the farmer will find an outlet for
his money in farm improvements
new barns, houses. additions. fencing,
agricultural implements. tractors and
other accessories. These expenditures
by the farmers mean a stimulus to the
building trade and to many manufac-
turing lines. The American farmer is
"a shrewd buyer in the main. He has
lorS known the value of dollar, and
as a result of grange meetings. rural
post delivery, the telephone. the auto
mobile and the other improvements
that have made the once isolated farm
a mere suburb. he is in touch with the
world he supplies and which supplies
4 him. He watches commodity price
fluctuations, studies the future care
fully. and-often without realizing II
lis q genuine student OF economics.
He no longer sells his crops at low
prices nor buys his supplies at the
top. lie is today an item on both
sides OF the American industrial bal
ance sheet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-07

patrol Broadway. relieving regular
policemen who had been on the job
twenty-five hours. Suddenly the cry
of "FireI" was passed along the curb.
enth street. Reserve Policeman.
Lieut.. A. L. Barney. manager of the
Selwyn theater, Immediately took
charge. He turned in the alarm,
gathered his men together and estab-
lished fire lines about the restaurant
keeping the excited crowd back and
permitting the equally excited patrons
of the restaurant to escape only in an
orderly procession, which prevented a
panic. Captain McKimmon of the
regular police force, praised their
work and gave them all the credit in
the morning papers-more than which
no member of the theatrical profess
sion could ask.
Not long after this, a young theater
booking agent by the name of Shan
non, who is a captain IN the reserve
police force. was walking along a
street in Harlan, unfortunately not in
uniform, when he noticed a large
cloud of black smoke arising from a
small building He had learned to
judge smoke by this time, and he knew
that particular kind of smoke meant a
particular kind of fire-the kind that
needed fire engines. He rushed to the
corner and turned in an alarm, rushed
back placing his shield upon his plain
coat, and on the strength of this shield
and his authoritative voice alone ne
kept the crowd back until the fire was
put out. Another theatrical police re-
serve captain, who doesn't want his
name mentioned, rendered the same
service the other day in a downtown
district when an old man committed
suicide by stepping in front of an ex-
press train.
One of the most famous of the re-
serve policemen is Isavore Osterlitz, a
professional tailor and costumer, who
has not been content with sending in
fire alarms and checking crowds. Not
long ago he was passing the Riverside
theater when the crowd was coming
out and he saw man grab a woman's
pocketbook. He gave chase to the
thug, captured him and brought him
for a policemani" shouted some one
in the crowd. but Osterlitz shook his
head excitedly. I'm a policeman" he
declared proudly. 81 can't let go. this
thief, but If you turn back my coat
you will see my badge" Nevertheless
OsterlitZ being a small man and the
thief twice his size, several bystand-
ers thought it would be wiser to call
in the services of husky bluecoats.
When the little tailor appeared against
the prisoner at the court the next
morning he found the police in state
of great excitement. The man whom
he had arrested was a notorious GRIM
inal who had served twenty years for
murder in Harlem.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-07
DINNER STORIES


They are telling a good joke on
VIII Upshaw. He was up the other
day, and was the interesting center
of several groups of members who
had heard of the prohibition Cy-
clone" of Georgia.
While talking in the lobby to one
of these groups of Forthcoming asso-
ciates, Congressman Garrett of Hous-
ton, Tex, passed, after salutations.
Did you ever hear Garrett speak ~
asked Upshaw Of the members of his
group.
Yes" they all chimed in.
THE most mastery address. the
most beautiful, soul stirring address
ever heard in all my life of asso-
citation with great orators, fell from
the lips of that great Texan and
statesman one night at Dallas" said
Upshaw.
ION what subject was Garrett
speakinS?" queried one of the party,
rather interested.
He was introducing me-" replied
Upshaw solemnly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-07

There are eighteen cities in the
United States in which "Own Your
Own Home" campaigns are under way
or about to start. but the Indiana
State Chamber of Commerce is spon-
sor for the first movement for a cam
paign to take in every hamlet, village,
and city in a state. 1t is understood
that this campaign may be extended
over a period of five years and it is
not improbable that the Indiana State
Chamber of Commerce finally may
decide to maintain as a permanent de-
partrnent OF its organization an own
Your own Home" bureau which wilt
be On the job every day OF every year.
1t Is planned to use $4,000 paid
space in the newspapers and operate
q ger eral publicity department for
news stories, preparations of posters,
window dressing, speakers bureau.
travelling exhibits, etc. The entire
country can learn a lesson from Los
Angeles, Calf, a city which has
grown from $4,000 to 100000 popuIa-
ton in thirty years entirely thru adj
VeTtising.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-07

why has not the price of meat de-
creased since the signing of the ar
mistice?" asks the consumer. Be
cause livestock costs more" replies
Armour. Cattle for the month of Feb
rurary, it is declared, cost the. meat
packing company S12.4O a hundred.
This was 1898 per cent higher than
for the same month a year ago and
1910 per cent higher than in Febru-
ary 1914. Hogs during February av-
eraged S17.1s, an increase of Ala per
cent over the corresponding month a
year ago and an advance of 1926 per
cent over the figures for 1914 Sheep
were only rs per cent higher than in
February, 1918. but the percentage of
increase for the five-year period was
1909.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-07

The greatest things that men do
start with their mistakes.
Fulhllment is very precious-out
the fight for it is still finer in its mod
ulating and refining discipline Moth
ing is built from the top down. And
we grow only as we fall and pick our
selves up and go forward-teeth-grit
ted to win.
Your splendid teachers are your
mistakes-for they tell you what to
do
The man of decision is always the
man of mu1titudinous akes-but
do not forget this-he is also the man
who pays less attention to his mis-
takes than anyone else. Because, you
see. his mistakes tell him what to do
and he goes ahead and DOES it.
To eiongate a mistake, t. pet ii. to
humor it, to lead it around as you