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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-10
GIRL SLAYER'S
GIGGLES CONE;
FEAR ARRIVES
RemOrse Follows In Wake of NerV-
Ous Laughter of Murderer
Of Chicago Lawyer.

Chicago, July 10.-Anxiety and
remorse were hand-maidens at the
side OF 17-year-old Margaret Seth
amier in the county Jail yesterday.
Afterthought had laid a heavy
hand on the pretty girl, charged
with the murder Monday OF Attor-
ney Benjamin Burr. Sobs and
tears supplanted the silly giggles
with which she first confessed the
deed.
BY bedtime last night the girl
was a mental wreck, verging on
collapse.
". W. O'Brien. who will defend
her, declined to intimate the plea
he will make against the inevitable
death sentence which the state will
demand. But persons associated
with him said the defense will be
based upon Burr's relations with
Miss Seithamier, as well as with
other women.
Stories Are Contradictory.
The girl contradicted herself in
statements as to whether she was
to become a mother. To the police,
Immediately after the Staying, she
announced defantly that she was
about to bear a child to Burr; that
she shot him because he was pre-
pairing to desert her and marry
Miss Tillie Sauter.
But when she saw these state
ments in print yesterday she ex-
claimed My heavens, that's not
true Gee, whiz, no. There's to be
no child-now imagine."
Yet an hour later she was sob
bling: God help me-and God help
my baby. What will become of me
and my baby? When I knew he
wouldn't marry me, had only one
idea-revenge for myself and the
baby that is coming"
COnfides in Mother.
Mrs. Mandel Larson, mother of
the girl, called at the Jail during
the day. After a brief interview,
thickly interspersed with fits of
hysterical sobbing, she left, but said
in departing that her daughter had
confded in her the fact that she
was to become a mother.
The girl seemed confident she
would be acquitted.
I'm young" she said to news
paper men; and I'm not such
bad locker, either, am I?''
But her surroundings frightened
her. She was frantic to be free. 1t
appeared she had studied closely
the possibility of obtaining freedom
on bonds She was we'll versed in
the experiences of other slayers.
How much bond will they re-
quire of me?" she asked. y. Nor
man Cook got out for $4,000. Mrs.
Trepagnier's bonds were only 800
900. I'll go mad if they keep me
in this place.
"Oh, if l only could undo what
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-10
.FIREMEN WORK
AS RAIN POURS
Force Battles Public Dump Blaze
I'm Midst of the Heaviest Of
Yesterdays DoWnpOur.

The Rock Island fire department
battled fire in the heaviest torrent
OF rain yesterday afternoon. They
were drenched to the skin before
extinguishing the blaze.
The frernen were called out at
$40 in answer to an alarm at
Thirteenth avenue and First street.
A public dump had been set afire
by some small boys and the flames
were reaching such a height when
famed by a swift wind that the
residences in the vicinity were i'm
periIed.
Despite the downpour of rain, 1t
took some time TO completely in
sure safety in the neighborhood.
Chief August Schmidt OF the FIRE
department had warned against
the dump only a few days ago and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-10
HORST rs $4,000
LOW ON ROAD BIDS
Especial TO The Argus

Springfield. Ill, July 10.-The
Henry W. Horst & Co. of Rock Is
land were found to be the lowest
bidders by $4,000 for the construc-
ton of two state aid roads out of
Springfield. when the bids were
opened. The combination bid was
S190.991 for the two roads of ce-
ment while the bids OF John E.
Bretz of Springfield aggregated
S231,045. The contracts will be
awarded by the department of su-
pervisors next Saturday afternoon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-10

Another fire alarm yesterday
afternoon came from the Standard
Table Oil Cloth manufacturing
company on Mill street yesterday.
The alarm was caused by oil burn
ing over in a container. No dam
age was done to the establishment
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-10

Commissioner Frank WITCH had
promised to remove il.
Chief Schmidt also warned
against the heaping of straw and
other like material in yards and
porches where sparks might easily
start - confagration.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-10

is done. would even give my life
to bring Benny back. I'm afraid
to go to bed tonight. l didn't sleep
a wink last night I just lay on
that cot and saw his face and the
face of his mother. l am sorry for
her"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-10

The az i'd growth Of vestation in
Polar res ions Is attributed to the
strength OF the Electric currents j.
the atmosphere.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-30
Just a Moment
DAILY STRENGTH AND CHEER
Complied by john c. oulnius. the
Sunshine Man.

The sunshine OF good temper pene-
trates the gloomiest shades. Beneath
its cheering rays the miserable may
bask and forget all their misery.-A.
Behn.
A great estate may. and often viii,
make a man only more miserable, espe-
cially II he be a very highly organized
and sensitive being. A great intellect
Is almost as sure to make him mel
ancholv and often cynical. The wisest
Of men are never the happiest; they
ave a keener sense Of what should be
and a greater pain in knowing what
is; they feel like a neat housewife
placed in a thoroughly untidy house
full of a painful sense of disorder.
Good -natured wise men often take ref
uge in cynicism and sarcasm, like the
melancholy Jacques in the play, and
avenge themselves by biting sentences
intended to purge the world. Great
extraordinarily the most enyiabie OF
gifts, the most popular and courted,
and in its natural sphere, that of upper
life and easy fortune, the most power
ful-very frequently stupefies and hard
ems; but armed with real good humor.
and %cultivating good nature and good
temper. a man can pass through hte
with the lightest purse and the nm
nest OF cloaks. Life's thorns will pot
scratch him; its troubles and pitfalls
will be mere exercises to call torth this
fine quality; its sorrows, when in his
own breast, will be softened BY TINS
anodyne, and. when In the hreasts'o OF
others, will draw forth its sweetest es-
sence; life's little rubs and everyday
will be but the flints which
make the sparks ny out OF this true
steel,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-30
WHO'S TO BLAME

ETHEL LLOYD PATTERSON.

he came presently and sat at the neat
little breakfast table that the maid had
arranged for him and allowed her to
minister to him. And:
Didn't you sort Of tidy up the plce
Mason had left? | knew it would be
disorderly like, after her packing and
all that, so | hurried down early my
self this morning to get it a little ship
shape before you'd be waking"
Jolly nice of you, too, Sarah said
as it had looked when first he had
come in the night before flashed across
his mind. He remembered the soiled
underwear in the little sitting room
Estrelda's shabby old slipper on the
mantel. He was glad he had not let
the maid see these evidences Of his
wife's incurable untidiness. Yes" he
said again, II did straighten the place
a little; not much, of course. But one
can't pack without upsetting things
more or less"
yes, sir said Sarah, discreetly. She
knew-what she knew, but she wasn't
going to hurt this nice young mans
feelings. And:
1--WE a very good little steak for
your dinner. Mr.. Fred she informed
him, II won't put 1t on till you come
in. so it will be done TO a turn. I'd
like you to know | can cook, sir. Mrs.
Mason was that fond of the delicates-
sen. / don't hold with those places my.
self. So it's a nice little steak and
| fried potatoes and a salad"
Heavens" said Freddie, boyishly, "a
banquet! I'll be there with bells;
III will be all right, sir" Sarah as
| sured him again. Maybe you'd be lik-
ing TO bring some young gentleman
| home with YOU for company? There'd
be no risk. sir. You may depend on
that steak" 49,,
"No." said Freddie. very slowly. No
u guess n~ot-Sarah. | guess I'm DIM
Unconscious well-being in his tones,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-30
DOROTHY X TALK
COME INTO THE KITCHEN.
BY DOROTHY DIX,
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

ing to ones pocket book, Is a work
Of art that it takes hours to accom-
plish.
IRE woman who cooks her family
a proper dinner, instead of feeding 1t
out Of tin cans and paper bags, will
have no time Il indulge in afternoon
clubs, bridge and matinees as has been
ter pleasing custom
Nor will the woman who has held
large public interest be able to devote
herself to uplift work when she has
her hands filled with her own house
work, for ones husband and children
must be fed, their beds must be made,
their floors kept clean, though all the
world go to the bow-wows.
It's a queer and humorous paradox
that just as all Of the doors Of oppor-
tunity open wide to woman, her W
kitchen door shuts her in, and how she
is going to get out of 1t is not the least
interesting problem precipitated by the
war.
1t has long been a matter Of COM
ment that Housekeeping has been the
one profession in which there has been
the least progress made, n that there
were fewer labor saving devices in the
kitchen than anywhere else: Perhaps
the reason that women have kept house
just as their grandmothers did, and
have been satisfied to use the same
domestic utensils, Is because somebody
else had to do the work.
Doubtless with the advent Of highly
intelligent women into their own kitch-
ems we shall have a new era of scientific
housekeeping In which electricity will
be called on to do the heavy manuel
labor. Doubtless, aso, we will have a
new era of pain living In which u
homes will be stripped of their dust.
catching gewgaws, and our tables viii
know few of the elaborate dishes in
which we have been won't to indulge.
Also hospitality is likely to become
a lost practice, for there Is small
pleasure in either being company, or
having company. when It imposes an
added burden on the already over
worked mistress Of the house.
The most reasonable solution OF the
problem SENS, however, to be some sys-
tenn of cooperative cooking In which
from a central plant food can be sup
piled to a number of families not only
at less cost than the individual family
could purchase 1t, but without claiming
every wife and mother perpetually to
her cooking stove. ST,
OF course, there are those VINO WIN
say that this IA never be done, but
the same croakers said that apartment
houses would never be successful be-
cause YOU could not put numbers of
families under one roof without be-
ing in a perpetual quarrel.
But the apartment house has come
TO stay to meet a modern need, n
the cooperative cook shop will also
come to stay. For somehow, we al
ways manage to adjust ourselves to the
situation.
Copyright, 1919, by the Wheeler Syn
dictate, lnc.)
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-30
CHAPTER NO, las.
Dawn Breaks Serenely.

Copyright, 1919, by the Mcclure News
paper Synndicate.)
Freddie awoke on the morning alter
Estrelda had left to an amazing sense
in his bedroom were drawn to exclude
the light. but the windows. We're open
ton and bottom for fresh air. rms ar,
rangement Freddie's wife never, haa
allowed, He almost had quarreled win
Estrelda before he nae persuaded n SeII
to open one window a niue az .nnee
bottom. She had complained that she
was not accustomed to sleeping IN an
dee box," And poor Freddie. used as
he was to proper ventilation, AT nlsnt,
had groaned inwardly and had stoou
the stuffy feeling that was ms III ine
morning as best he could. NOW, WIN
his bedroom as he liked H. lol one
first time since his marriage. ne aWoke
and stretched himself a little, comlort-
ably in his bed. From the kitchehetle
came the reassuring sound OF eaian,
who had arrived in plenty o. tihe W
get his breakfast. orod
"Has-has everything, been dehVered'
Sarah?" Freddie called to Wsiu
His questions were prompted 6y re-
cent and vivid memories OF breaSlasts
with Estrelda that never seemed en-
tirely TO materialize. With her, some
bodv always 'stole the milk from me
dumbwaiter," or else the Hao.s IL III
bread man hadn't delivered me ToHs
arain But this morning. with his wife
away on a visit to her father: -, :,
Everything will be reaay iui nv
from sarah, and-"Oh, yes. MI. FRED
I've shut the window in the bathroom,
So II will be nice and warm IN there
'.Angell' called Freddie to her y p
with YOU in two shakes OF a lamo .
INA he was. More bright-eNed ana
cheerful than he had been for WEEKS
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-30

IIOpyriRht, 1913, by the MCVIure NeWS-
paper SyndicateD
During the busy hours Of this DAY
unfTiendly planets rule, according Ia
astrology' saturn and Uranus are in
evil Mace Mars IN in benefIC aspect
in Inc early morning
M. ..a,,taa - g.. ,,o u,r
ne position OF saturn slves Wanm,
Ius Una uullng thIs sway w r'"uv'
encourages crafty Hnu cdlcuISti"E ,ni-
pulses' II ls a lllne "neu loltE 'uea'S
snDutu NC PaesTn'eu W. u pu"p''' ,u,b
Uranus again toreShado"s mucn
crlllcism ana iaultlihdlne on u var
OF the pubic PERSONS IN lne U ma
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-30
THE NEWS NCIM/TAR DAILY COMIC PA
MAGAZINE FEATURES
H8VNci6NlGGTYX
6BEDIIME' STORY


oh, Uncle Butter. the goat gentle
man has a lovely cherry tree on his
farm" spoke the little rabbit girl,
Wen get Johnnie and Billy Bushytail.
foT us. They are good climbers"
That will be finel" laughed Uncle
Wiggily, Then he and Baby Bunty
rode in their auto through the woods
to get the Bushytail squirrels, and
when Johnnie and Billie were in the
auto, a quick trip was made to Uncle
Buffers farm.
Take all the cherries you want"
SAID the goat gentleman to Uncle Wig
Up the trees scampered Johnnie and
Billie, and they had soon picked MI.
Longears a pail full of cherries.
Baby Bunty was given a few Of the
cherries TO eat, Johnnie and Billie, also,
mad all they wanted. and the rest, in
the pail, were put On the back seat OF
the auto to be taken to Nurse Jane.
She would make them into a pie.
Uncle Wiggily and Baby Bunty were
riding back toward the hollow stump
bungalow. with the cherries, when, all
of a sudden, out from behind a bush
popped the bad old Pipsisewah.
oh, 10 Now l have you for sure,
Uncle Wlggily!" cried the bad chap.
You can't get away from me, and you
A@'S ApNAiAilS " lIlIuW at III " uIlNV
me away. Surely I'll get your souse
this time!"
oh, dear!' cried Uncle Wiggily.
This is too bad! l have some cherries
| can throw at your he said to the
Pipsisewah.
Pooh! I'm not afraid Of soft, squashy,
mushy cherries!" boosted the Pip. I'm
not afraid of anything soft"
mo, but you're afraid Of hard
stones," suddenly cried brave Baby
Bunty. And Uncle Wiggily's cherries
have hard stones in them"
Then she quickly took ONE Of the
stones, or pits, she had saved from
the cherries she had eaten, and she
threw the stones right In the face Of
the Pipsisewah. They hit him in the
eyes and on the nose.
"Oh, wow" he cried. "Oh, | didn't
know cherries had such hard stones in
them! I'll be good! I'll be good" and
away he ran, not taking a single smitch
of Uncle Wiggily's souse.
Soon the rabbit gentleman and Baby
Bunty were safe with Nurse Jane, who
made a lovely cherry pie. So, all was
well, And II the bicycle doesn't jump
over the lamp post when the roller
skate is trying to dance on one wheel
with the Skipping rope, I'll tell you
next about Uncle Wiggily and the egg
plant.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-30

One of the curious effects of the war
has been to almost annihilate the do
nestle servant. Cooks and housemaidS
have become almost as scarce as hens
teeth, and as costly as pink pearls,
while the general houseworker has gone
to join the dodo in the limbo of ex-
tinct species.
Thousands Of women who have never
done their own homework in their
lives, and thousands who have no
wrestled with the pots and pans for
many a long year, now have to arise
with the alarm clock and get he family
breakfast, and as they toll with the
temperamental gas range they sing Il
Hymn of Hate against the authors or
the great world catasthrope and put
their whole souls in 1t. You don't have
to argue with them that Sherman was
right, and war was all that he said 1t
was.
Nor Is this %servantless state a tenn
porary epoch. 1t has come to stay.
There will probably never again be the
steady flow of immigration that sup
piled us with Noras, Thelras, Marias
and Roses. Nor is 1t likely that our
own native Maude Gladyses, who used
to condescend occasionally to help out
in the housework, provided they were
treated as members of the family. Will
ever again so demean themselves TO
any large extent.
The war has taught women every
where that there Is no such thlng as
any special sphere of woman's work,
and that a bright husky girl can OPP
crate a machine that has almost hu-
man intelligence Itself, just as well as
a man can. Therefore, women from
now on, are certain to go more n
more into factory work where there
are shorter hours, more freedom ana
better pay than in domestic service.
And nobody can blame them for 1t.
And even If a servant could be OBJ
tanned, their own new standard OF
wages, and the general high cost OF
living have put them in the luxury
class that only the wealthy can afford;
With prewar prices of rent, food ana
servants wages the well-to-do woman
could indulge herself in a maid. But
with a cook asking as much salary as
a good officeman, and with rents SKY
high, and meat and groceries equally
altitudinous, the servant passes into me
legend, in the ordinary family, OF the
things we used to have in the good
old days that are M more.
1t is back to the kitchen, then, Tor
practically all but the most fortunate
women, and one wonders what they
are going to do about it, n what
scheme Of living is going to be evolved
out of these new conditions.
The thing that women object TO ABOUT
doing their own work Is not labor, Dut
the fact that homework is a never emu
inr lob. No sooner Is one done wash
ing the dishes from one meal than one
must begin on the next. Moreover,
any cookery that is worth while' ana
that isn't a mere makeshitt mat Is an
insult to ones stomach and bankrupt
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-30
Copyright, 1919, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
BY HOWARD r. GARlS.

br HOWARD r. GARlS.
The %jolliest time of all the year is
when the cherry pies get herei'
That's what Uncle Wiggily Longears,
the punny RABBIT gentleman, sang one
morning.
wei, 1t may be a Jolly time, all
right" spoke Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy
the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she
stood in the doorway of the hollow
stump bungalow. but how are YOU
are no cherries, Uncle Wiggily? An
swer me that"
mo cherries p cried the rabbit gem
tleman, his pink nose twiakling like a
picked beet. Are you sure? No
cherries?"
firmly, unless you want to go to the
store for some"
"TI. go right away. in my auto"
said Uncle Wiggily, and I'll AXE Baby
Bunty with me. Dear me! | would
be too bad not to have cherry pie to
"TIl make you one as soon as you
get me the cherries" promised Nurse
Jane.
SO the rabbit gentleman quickly put
some gasoline in his auto, sprinkled a
little pepper on the bologna sausage
tires of the wheels, and then he called
to Baby Bunty, the funny little rabbit
girl.
do you want to chase me or play
tag7" laughed Bunty, as she came skip
ping around the edge of the rain water
barrel.
Neither one," said Uncle Wiggily.
But would you like to ride with me in
the auto, while 1 go for some pie
cherries?"
Indeed l would" answered Baby
Bunty. Il like cherry pie almost as
much as you, Uncle Wiggily."
Pretty soon the rabbit gentleman and
the little bunny girl who had been
found in a hollow stump were riding
over the fields and through the woods
on their way to get the cherries.
What store are you going to buy
them at?' asked Bunty.
"Oh, the five and ten, l guess" an
swered Uncle Wiggily.
"Oh. mo-" laughed Baby Bunty. THE
only kind of cherries they nave at the
five and ten cent store are make-be-
lieve ones, for trimming hats. And
those cherries wouldn't be good in pie"
Il should say not!' cried Uncle Wig
gily, making his pink nose twinkle
fsster than ever. But where may we
get cherries, Baby Bunty, if not at the
five and ten cent store?"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-30

DEAR h. c. B.
| THINK you're mean
ro pt ou tho+ e,ro
~ pLcN tii"' S'"i''
ABOUT THE wren,
THAT RUNS about.
$3.50
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A-n n,anI a. tnn
THAT YOU may not know.
.
BUT YOU'LL have to promise.
BUT WILL never tell it.
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MOST 1Ay.
RIFT here
80
TIVE HAD that bath
AND t"TIfRFI1 them
RIFT vet
HAVE aver gcen
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PAPER SUPPRESSED.

BERLIN, June 30-The Pan-German
Deutsche 2eitung has been suppressed
for printing a headline, Revenge for
the Dishonor Of 1919" on an article
relative to the peace treaty which was
morning,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-30

Ecol Normale. He
has all the efficiency
which can be derived
from French logic.
when very young he
entered diplomacy.
but he felt that this
field did not provide
sufficient scope. He
then turned his mind
to journalism and
there seemed to find
himself. He became
foreign editor Of the
r G m ps, W h o 9 .
bulletins du Jour-.
dealing with foreign
affairs are read
tn 4 no the
world.
II was In the gen-
eral election preced-
.sASA,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-30

the wal that Nj. Tardieu entered polf-
tics, In the late summer OF 1915 he.
became chief censor, but he soon lett
bis post for active service In the fieie.
He became III due TO exposure in the
trenches and was unfit for further ser
vice at the front. II was then that hes
was appointed to represent France IN
the United States, and empowered TO
deal there with the many Franco-Arner-
lean questions connected with the war
After the formation OF the Clemenceau
ministry he returned to his own U
try, and, except for a brief diplomatic
visit to this country, he has since re-
manned in Paris as high commissioning
Tor all matters concerning France and
the United States.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-30
HOROSCOPE
TUESDAY, JULY I, 1919,

Copyright, 1919, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-30
A Line On Men
You Read bout

Andre Tardieu, formerly representa-
tive to the United States from France,
has been called the Benjamin OF the
peace conference" AS a young man he
showed a wonderful mind and was first
in his class when a student at the
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Read News Scimitsr Wants.