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The Washington times., 1919-09-22
GETTING RID OF A JOB BY
BAD TRAITS
By Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

WYE are always told that our
w success in life depends
on devotion to our chosen
work and that faithful application
which leads TO the mastery Of it.
and that is all true, especially for
those whose work does not bring
them in contact with others.
I have a letter from a girl who
is peFplexed and discouraged be-
cause she is failing to succeed in
her work. She says she is a good
stenOgrapher and typist, but con-
tinues:
please tell me how I can better
myself. I work hard from $3.50 to
$50. / do want to succeed in the
business world, and / wish you
would give me a few suggestions.
For every position I get ] am fired
within a week. What is the matter
with me?"
Then she adds in very femi-
nine postscript: 81 look simply
horrid in waists and skirts. So
what kind of dresses would you
advise me to wear? l can spend
my full salary for my clothes if /
want TO-"
Why don't you wear the one
piece frocks, with the sheer col
lars and cuffs that are so much in
evidence just now? Of course, you
want to look very nice, with your
hair and skin and teeth and hands
well cared for, and your feet we'll
shod. But don't mix correct office
clothes with afternoon tea things.
And you are foolish to spend
your entire salary on your clothes.
Save a bit, and have. the fun Of
making your own investments.
And now to go back to the
mournful fact of your perpetual
and persistent "firing." If your
work is as good as you say it is,
/ am sure that the reason you fail
to keep a job is some fault Of dis
position, or some personal pecu-
iiaritv or habit which is annoying
to an employer, and which you
could easily overcome if your eyes
were once opened to it.
Just BY way of illustration, was
in the West at one time and work
ing very hard on the last chapters
of a book. It wasn't going easily.
In fact, it was doing just as badly
as it possibly could. And it simply
had to be finished by a certain
time. My difficulties were fur
ther complicated by having to
work with an unknown stenog-
rapher who was not used to m
methods any more than was
used to hers.
The first one I had impressed
me most favoTably. She was very
quick and highly intelligent But
we had not been working ten min
utes before / discovered that she
had a maddening peculiarly. She
shifted as regularly and as steadily
as a clock ticks, and she seemed
quite unconscious Of It At first,
The Washington times., 1919-09-22

THE professor had been talk
ing for a long time, and all
at once he stopped preach
ing and began to practice, And,
dear me, what a difference it does
make
Ireally do not quite approve Of
what the professor has done, but
cannot help being rather sorry
for him just the same-he must be
so puzzled to see what a difference
it makes to practice instead Of
preach.
The professor had been respec-
table and highly respected for
years. he has had classes in
sociology, psychology, and other
subjects in several universities.
Some of the old fOgies Of the
faculties among'the different uni
versities didn't quite approve Of
everything the professor said, but
he was modern" and radical"
and they were afraid that if they
said much he would call them ''re-
dictionary" and conservative"
and no human being can stand the
stain of these accusations in these
days and live.
So they let him go on preach
ing in defiance Of the law and in
contempt of the sacraments, and
the young man and young woman
who attended his classes had glor-
ious times telling each other what
old-fashioned people their mothers
and fathers we're and how glad
they were that they themselves
had been born old enough to be-
long to the new order Of Free and
Independent souls.
Preaching and PraCticing.
Some of them took the Professor
very seriously and wanted to live
the New Freedom" but general
ly, when one of the boys wanted
The Washington times., 1919-09-22
MISGUIDED GIRLS PAY THE
BILLS ALWAYS
By Winifred Black

to be free, he fell in love with
a girl who did not want to be
free" at all, and so he was saved
much trouble and a lot of disgrace.
And when one Of the girls made
up her mind that she was not 90
ing to be tied down by the con-
ventions any longer, the boy she
said it to said ayes ?" and went
right out and got a marriage Ii
cense and a preacher. and that
was the end of the 'New Free
dom" for that particular girl.
So the professors preaching
didn't do quite as much harm as
it might have, but all at once,
when the professor was over fifty
years Of age, he suddenly thought
he would practice what he
preached.
And he did! He ran away with
a charming young woman and
never even said "Au revoir" to his
perfectly good and perfectly de-
voted wife, who had brought up
his family and mended his socks
and kept his bills paid and sorted
his laundry and listened to his
long dissertations on Freedom"
without a smile for years.
Paying the Bill.
The girls parents had the pro-
fessOr arrested and the profes-
sOr's wife went and brought the
girl home and took care of her,
for she was very much upset by
the publicity of the whole affair.
And now the professor is look
ing for a job and the girl is going
to 90 away with her parents and
begin life over again somewhere
where there are no professors to
talk about Larger Freedom"
The Professor seems to be very
much puzzled by the whole affair.
Why shouldn't he be ? Why should
the people who have allowed him
to preach these doctrines these
many years be shocked when he
has boldness enough to practise
them? g.? On the whole, l think
am rather sorry for the Profess
sor. He has been brought down
out of a world of theory into a
world Of plain common sense.
What a terrible shock that must
be to one of his sensitive ma
ture!
The girl? Oh, well, the poor
thing, she will have to pay the
price, just as the girl always has
to do.
When will girls begin really to
understand that the bill is al
ways presented to them-in the
end-nO matter who promised to
settle it in the beginning?
1918. by Newspaper Hpature
Service, Inc. Great Britain Rights Reserved
The Washington times., 1919-09-22
WHAT'S Doing; Where; When

1850 until p. m; after p. m, moving
pictures, entitled The Little Scout"
Concert-Third Cavalry Band. Post
Hospital, Fort Myer, Va, 4 until p. m.
Grand Ball-kallipOliB GTotto Band and
Drill Corps, New Willard Hotel.
Dance-Trinity Parish Hail. Third and
c streets northwest, s .. m.
Dance-Under the auspices OF the
Knights Of Columbia, gymnasium, Fort
Myer, Va, p. m.
Dance-EasteTn High School, Seventh
and Pennsylvania avenue southeast,
p. m.
Open-air Dance - Thomson School
Twelfth and l. streets northwest, S:l5
until II p. m.
Dance-Red Cross House, Walter Reed
Hospital, 8 until IL D. m
Dance-kntghtB OF Columbus Hut,
walter Reed Hospital, 9 until II p. m
The Washington times., 1919-09-22
CnMMTssIONER GARDINER

COMMISSIONER GARDINER
declares that it would be against
the law to leave out Of the pres
ent day street railway yalua-
tions the water that the original
hydraulic engineers pumped into
the W. R. and E.; but be fails to
show that THE SANE Law
which he invokes provides for q
six-for-a-quarter fare. There
was no dissent when the Public
Utilities Commission raised the
fare.
Perhaps that act Of COn0ress
is only half sacred. The part
that protects the public is q most
profane and destruCtible part,
whilst that which shelters the
street car company is as sancti-
fed as-the Sacred Bull Of Egypt.
The Washington times., 1919-09-22

Today.
Carnival and dancing-B ouIe ard.
Hyattsville, Nd.
Monthly meetinR-Midcity Citizens ABsO-
clauon, zoos Seventh street northwest,
p. m.
Band cOnceFt-U. s. Marine Band, at
$3.50 D. m.
panes-Camp Humphreys, Va. auspices
Q. m.
Informal entertainmont-W. c, G. s.
Club, 1900 PennsylvanIa avenue northwest
y. m.
Dance-Blus TFianU'P Recreation Cen
tsF' IFenaeth and streets northwest
The Washington times., 1919-09-22

Well, the boys sent for Major
Pullman and he too nearly exploded.
They would have sent the owner 20
Jail for life if they could have lO-
Gated him, Policemen got 3 small
truck and began 20 haul the jitney1
when 10 and behold the owner ap-
peared.
He was going to have a fne view
Of the parade from that iitney, but
the police we're on 10 him. And the
funniest part Of It all was that the
owner Of the chained hiVveF Is q
policeman himself,
The Washington times., 1919-09-22
HEARD AND SEEN

A new post 10 the American
Legion. STUART WALCOTT POST,
No. 1, with offices IN the Munsey
Building. Is carrying forward . Big
drive for membership. Iney are
going at the drive In the right way,
with booths in the hotels where
Yeomen CD from BETSY ROSS
POST are in charge.
The Washington times., 1919-09-22

II you we're serving your country
in uniform during the war JUN
THE LEGION-StuaFt Waicott Post
may be the very organisation you are
looking for.
The Washington times., 1919-09-22
Fron c. n. B. to Z. :. 9,

To a. j, c. Of the Eastern shore Of
Marylan:
where did you ever get nerve
enough to "OHer Help TO educate
Washingtonians? You had better
come here to washington and be edu-
Gated yourself and be taught the
proper use OF English hrst, then in
a humble way oIer your services to
your own small town" paper hrst,
before you make an attempt on a
Highly Educated News Paper like The
Times. And as for your statement
in Fridays paper that nobody (as
YOU word it) with any brains at all
notices" let me inform you that mo
body hasn't any brains" but any
body has brains" and Furthermore II
YOU had any gray matter in that
solid ivory object resting upon your
shoulders you, as we do, would md
plenty OF interesting matter in this
section OF the Notable Washington
Times Paper.
Now then Ia. j. c. what is your
answer 10 this? c. n 3.
p 5: have at least enough self
respect to sign my initials in capital
letters.
This column MADE a grave error
some time back in ascribing Louis
Brownlow's plug hat to Tennessee.
In a statement issued BY Louis on
the subject the information IS gath
cred that the hat came from London.
MRS. HAMLET suggests that
Columbus, Ohio, sells eight tickets
for a quarter (speaking Of street
cars) and that we might trade our
csr lines for those in the Ohio city.
Oh, you New Workers. The parade
Of the First Division in Washington
took one and one-half hours less
than the same number Of men and
the same quantity Of equipment took
in parading in New York.
Seems to me that small committee
and the general excellence Of the
arrangements ought to teach as
The Washington times., 1919-09-22
Assisted by Chris GoeokIer

TIE day Of the parade about $50
.. N. police Of the First Precinct
discovered a stranded flivver at eth
and the avenue. It was locked and
chained on ali three Whsels-Ono
wheel missing 1t was chained so
tightly that no one could move &c.
Ohicer MCGOWAN sent out an S. o. s.
call to Carl Father, captain Of the
precinct, and when Carl saw g he
nearly exploded. The whole avenue
was clear except for that chained
diver.
The Washington times., 1919-09-22
What Drug Clerk & the
HandsOfnesl?

We wish to announce that We think
DOC. DEMENT,, Of the Nealy PhaF-
macy, is q regular Apollo, and IL
left to the fair sex to judge, Doc.
Dement, would walk away with the
hOnOrs. Us GIRLS.
Can I, without being a parasite,
recommend, on the merits Of his own
handsome features, DIR. BOYD, phar-
maceutist, Hygeian Pharmacy. Hon
Orable mention, DR.. JOHN j. EICH-
HORN, associate Of DR.. BOYD.
EDWARD BROOKS,
732 3rd st. n. W.
Speaking Of handsome drug clerks
what about DOC. ALBERT FINK.
Ligget's Drug Store at 18th and r
streets n. W? E. A. S.
Would suggest that you don't for
get GeOrgetOWn's MOST handsome
and attractive drug clerk. His
name Is DOCTOR WILLIAM ]. BIG
GINS and works at ODOnnelI's
Pharmacy, on the corner Of WiscOn-
sin avenue and P streets.
We, the undersigned, are his pre-
moters IN this contest and have not
the least idea that Doctor Biggins
viii lose. J. II. H., L. P. H., J. Z.
NJ, F. W. c.
Speaking Of handsome drug
clerks. Well! You ought to see
Bernie. Handsome's no word FOR
it, and Mice. III say he's nice.
Bernie works at Rosters Drug
Store. 33rd & III Sfs., GeorgetoVn.
And believe me, he fixes the loveliess-
SOdas, and smiles al the time
Good-natured, that's him all over.
III. W.
The Washington times., 1919-09-22

NOT to have one Of those TOP heary
Inaugural committees when next We
meet 70 arrange for a March Jam
bOree
Just let Col. Robert n. Harper
have a hammer and nails and some
pine boards and HE win 90 the en-
tire Jos.
The Washington times., 1919-09-22

Seems to me that small committee
and the general excellence Of the
arrangements ought to teach as
The Washington times., 1919-09-22

Speaking Of handsome drug clerks
what about DOC. ALBERT FINK.
Ligget's Drug Store at 18th and z
streets n. W? r. A. S.
The Washington times., 1919-09-22

MRS. HAMLET suggests that
Columbus, Ohio, sells eight tickets
for a quarter (speaking Of street
cars) and that we might trade our
cer lines for those in the Ohio city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-11
Does Woman Really Mean "Yes" When She Says No Of Always Choosing His Own Time for Doing Things
By DOLLY TALRYMPLE

N REN appear to believe that the fem MI ,nias as'ss' sex is contrary by a.tsss AVA from time immemorial a woman's NO" has been construed to mean Yes, although just why this should be so has never yet been definitely explained.
 Women themselves, so far as I know, have not volunteered any information that might help to clear up the mys- tery, hence men have come to accept the idea offered by Lowell, that
 "To say why gals act so and so,
 Or don't, 'ould be presumin;
 Mebby to mean yes, and say mo-
 Comes nateral. to women."
 As I am not 8 psychologist, but just and ordinary, plain, everyday, observer of human nature, now and then l am not going in for explaining this peculiar ity of my sex; I am not even going to deny that it exists, for so often have been persuaded to say "Yes," when l wished to say "No,' and No" when I've been dying to say "Yes,'' that I realize how utterly incapable I am of doing any thing but just passing the subject by.
 What I really started out to say was that a group of women were discussing recently a characteristic which is purely masculine in it's makeup and which is in direct contrast to the feminine char aoteristic. just mentioned, and that is, quiet but firm determination to do what needs to be done q the time man chooses, but never before, which SHOWS that {. mans "No'' means No when he says it, and his -Yes'' mean5 "Ycs." He may consent to perform the act after his own time for doing it is passed, provided he is approached in diplo- niatic manner, but never can he be in. duced to do it before his own time.
 This characteristic is highly developed iii men even when they are small boys, 50 the little group of women decided. For example, have you ever struggled with a young.eter to have his hair cut? The time when his mother thinks that hair cut is necessary is never the exact mo- ment when His Highness" thinks so; the mother often tries to shame the small boy into having his hair cut, by call ing his attention to his appearance and telling him that she'll soon have ito tie up his hair in ribbons like the little girls" if he doesn't hurry quick to the barber and have his curls cut off.
 In discussing the subject a few days ago one of the interested mothers in the little coterie ventilated her views on the subject by saying:
 "The only time l ever saw small boy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-11
MOBILE FLYER
 GETS ID. s. CROSS

Washinton, January 50.-The com mander in chief, in the name of the President, has awarded the distin- guished service cross to the following named officers for the acts of extra ordinary. heroism described after his name:
 First Lieut.. Murray K. Guthrie, air service, Thirteenth aero squadron. For extraordinary heroism in action near Andsvanne, France October 1, 1913 Lieutenant Guthrie was member of an offensive patrol of four planes. which was attacked far behind the enemys lines by six German machines. One of our pilots was forced to withdraw by the failure of his machine guns, and two others were surrounded and over powered. Lieutenant Guthrie fought the six enemy planes alone for 10 min 'utes and destroyed one of them For the following act of extraordinary heroism in action ear Montetaucon, France. October 4, 1918. Lieut. Guthrie is awarded one bar: When the leader of his patrol was blown to pieces by shell Lieutenant Guthrie took command and attacked the formation Of SIX enemy planes. Althouh he became separated from his~companions, he suc- ceeded in destroying one of his oppo- nents.
 For. the following act of extraordi- nary heroism in action near Fontaine, France, November 4, 1918. Lieutenant Guthrie is awarded one bar; as flight commander, Lieutenant Guthrie led his formation of six planes to the at tack of seven enemy planes type, Fokker), six of the enemy were de- stroyed, one of which was sent down by this officer. Immediately following this combat he attacked and drove off four hostile machines (type, Fokker). which were about to attack one Of our balloons Home address, K. R. Guthrie, father, care of A. T. x N. railway, Mobile, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-11
The Whisper That
 Comes in the Nigllt
Tho Glorious Knowledge Women Gain When Wonderful Thought
 Steals Over Them.

Happiness in it's most thrilling degree comes to woman with thc lhouSnl or possessing baby.
 Every woman in the joy of coming motherhood should prepare her system for the unusual strain. Three genera tions have found the tried and reliable preparation. Mothers Friend, of the greatest help at such time. By it's daily use throughout the period, the skin of the abdomen is made soft and elastic. expanding muscles relay easily when baby arrives, and pain at the crisis is in this way avoided.
 The inflammation of breast glands is soothed.
 obtain from your druggist by all means this great preparation which science has offered for so many years to eXpectant mothers.
 Write the Bradfield Regulator Com pany, Dept D. Lamar Building. Atlanta, Georgia. for their helpful~and interest," ing Motherhood Book, and begin the use of Mothers Friend. It is for external use, is absolutely safe and wonderfully effective.
 And member, there is nothing to take the place of MOTHER'S FRIEND.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-11
Weekly Cotton Review

New York. January 10.-After sell
 ing off to 26c for March at the be-
 ginning of the week. the cotton narIlo.
 turned firmer on reports that south.
 ern spot holders were not follow ing
 the decline and further indica tions Of
 improving exports. 6
 It seemed considerable shortage
 had accumulated during the decline ot the previous week and there was re-
 covery of about 14O points from the
 lowest. with March selling at 2742c
 right after the holiday on Wednesday,
 This advance seemed to leave the mar
 ket in an easier technical position
 however. and there was a sharp break during today's trading under a 10. uewai of more or less general pressure although there was nothing in the news to indicate any material change in the spot situation. March contracts 'onieht closed at 261fc compared w1ti
 37.25c at the close of the previous Fri day.
 The late week decline was accompa- nied by talk of unsettled condition {, as reflected in the ruling of the stock
 market and also in various metals. It is believed buyers of late last 1 month had been disappointed by the failure of the demand for goods in primary markets to show any improve
 ment right after the turn of the year, and that this has been responsible for considerable liquidation. Further rains in the south and reports that arrange menta are being made to secure a sup- ply of potash for fertilizers have also created an optimistic view of prelimi- nary new crop prospects. The census report, showing 10.761.27S bales gin red to January l. compared with 10,- .3t.S32 last year. was about in lin } with expectations and was not consid- cred market factor.
 It fs anticipated by local brokers tha: the census report on supply and Gistri- button for December will show com paratively small dometstic mill con sumption as increasing curtailment 0f
 mill activity has been reported as gov ernment contracts have run out. Private cables report that the Brit ish freight allotment for February ts equivalent to about 275.000 bales. The introduction of a bill to amend
 the cotton futures law by Senator
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-11
NEWS OF SOCIETY AND
 ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN

House in flattering numbers. but by resi- dents and official society as well.
 For the Bankhead girls are so well known at the~ national capital as to beiong in any circle. The younger or the sisters is Tallulah. who, after a long and original argument with herself and her family, decided that she cared more for career than for society. and no sooner made her decision than she had greatness thrust upon her-all of which has been told before in the story or how Tallulah Bankhead became an act ress for the films.
 "Shc is only Y years old, and her fu- turc is promising. But her sister, Eu- Genia (she calls herself Jeanne, when ever she feels like it. decided that art Gid not appeal so much IS society, and why not have a coming-out party: Especially when Mrs. Bankhead, the wife of the senator. is particularly de- voted to her grandchildren and has all ways given them whatever they wanted.
 'The Bankhead girls were left mother less when the were little CTalluah was only three weeks old, and they became the charge of their grandmother. Rep resentative Bankhead did not marry the second time until bauot three years ago, and although the new mother is in timately interested and happy in her husbands s daughters, both girls still call their grandmother, mother.
 That is how it constantly happens that the two girls are announced as the daughters of Senator Bankhead. They are the daughters of the representative from the tenth district of Alabanis. William B. Bankhead, who defeated Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson of Mer- rimac fame for the nomination for the Sixty fifth Congress.
 But they are the granddaughters Of the venerable senator, who has been identified with Washington life for so many years as to belong quite as much to the national capital as to Jasper, Alabama.
 Besides having the distinction of serv- ing in the upper house of Congress, while his son is in the lower, Senator Bank head is the last of the Confederate vet erans in the United States Senate. He was for years in the Confederate army and was wounded four times.
 There are two other sons besides Rep resentative Bankhead. One is promi- nent lawyer in Alabama, and the other Is Colonel Bankhead who has been oh ac- tive duty somewhere in France, and about whose possible return his mother tries to speak calmly