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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-07-23

suitable quality she can stay at ever
a large hotel for two weeks and ap
Z pear always smartly dressed. Youns
women this summer are wearing the
| skirt and blouse combination even in
] the evening but such skirts and
! blouses are vers handsome: he skirt
! Of shimmering beautiful silk or OF
7 satin meteor in some exquisite shade
| and the blouse of Georgette crepe or
/ of chiffon and lace. An organdy froek
woald cost very much less than suer
skirt and blouse and would be n
much better choice for the business
girl. for evening wear.
The skirt aud blouse combination
pictured are for d@y, not evening wear
The skirt is OF printed pussy willow
SILK with pleats at the back Of the belt
and turks across the front. The but
tons give smart tailored finish. The
blouse Is Of Georsette crepe with the
new pIcatcd friIIs that fashion adores
The little bows Of black ribbon ON the
cuffs and the necstie 10 match are a.
smart detail. The sport hat of braid
ed and pIeated ribbon. and the low
heeled sport shoes mark this cost ume
as one for he morning or early after
noon at Fashionable summer resort.
AT q qulGl Didfe IN EEG country Illt |
costume would be correct even for
supper and evening wear: but at a |
large hotel one must dress for din
ner"-that IS one must appear at the |
evening meal in a delectable frock OF
very stunning skirt and blouse, ninus
ones hat and with high-beeled foot
wear.
Travelling Togs And Sport Toys
Interchangeable
The business girl who takes sult-
case vacation will do well 10 travel mi
one Of those practical Norfolk suits
Df tweed or mixed cheviot which VIII
10 duty AT the summer resort as
sport suit. accompanied by a spori
'silor and iow-heeled boots. the smart
raveling hat and dainty bu.toned
@alkn2 boots being put away tyr the
lomeward trip during vacatioe days
She who takes a trunk. however. can
laEe bona fde sport costume and
rsvol IN hlae serge. 4 very swagger
port cost um- T. pictured: the skirt
II white. linen wifh tiny tucks and big
'Tt nns. he jarniy coat of dark green
'elyetecn. The hat is white pongee
mel .wih green pongee and rs (
mpnd with Two shades of grecu
ros2Tlin rihhor.- The white silk stock
igs haze dark green clocks.
very happy choice for the business
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-07-23

with three narrow ruffles at Intervals
up the short skirt. and still narrower
rutiies around he short. wide sleeve
The neck Is cut out in a shallow
rounded line and Is finished with a fiai
facing. rhe frock fastens at the back
and has sash OF the material tied IN
a crisp bow at The back. Sashes on
bathing drotses are quite the fad and
Ike the rlfiies. sasslbows IL made of
good silk. emerge from the water ~
quite prcsentaDle condition hut II Is
well 10 mIke ones sashbo and sew
i firmly in place. fastening the helt
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-01-23

Clay and Daphne have dis
tressing experience when the
formers attempt to keep up the
pace that he had set gets him
into an embarrassing situation.
Daphne's eyes are opened to
some things to which she had
given little thought. The next
instalIment tells how these
things came about.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-01-23

less her mother had also some new
clothes to tide her mother over till
her mother could get to New York and
buy some clothes to stay married liz.
Wesley Kip went forth to peddle
that second mortgage. This was a
commodity not easy to dispose of, and
II took him week or two to find a
purchaser, and then he paid an ingen-
iously disguised usury for it. But
he got the cash.
When he came home he proudly an
nounced that Daphne and her mother
could start for New York as soon as
they'd mind to. They had a mind
to as soon as their clothes were ready.
He accompanied them to the train.
He was not even to have the doleful
luxury of seeing them spend his
money. But he put brave front on
his folly and his last words to Daphne
were:
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-01-23

sOmely again. Mrs. Kip managed Il
catch a glimpse OF the bill for the
meal II made her heart ache till she
noted that Clay gave the waiter q
dollar bill for the tip. without visible
excitement on either side. She re
solved that Mr.. Wimburn must be
very rich or very rash.
Next morning the attack on the
shops began in earnest. Clay did not
lunch with them. and so Daphne and
her mother ate in the restaurant of a
department store and paid for their
Even the bargain prices for food to-
tailed up unpleasantly, and Mrs. Kip
missed Clay's shining presence.
The chaos of the styles was so COM
plete that the two women decided TO
retire and study out their campaign
on the war maps. They began TO
make out lists and tally up prices. The
afternoon went by, and they had ac-
complished little except an itemized
despair.
Its awful, that's what 1t is; it's
simply awful" Mrs. Kip walled. at
costs fortune to get nothing at ALL"
81 guess I'll go home and be an old
maid" said Daphne. Dads money
wouldn't buy me enough to get mar
ried in Sandusky."
But when Clay arrived to take them
out to dinner he brought romance with
him. He had had a good day at the
office. There had been a furry of hope
in Wall street, and everybody said
that the business world had reached
the rock bottom of depression and
started up again.
He celebrated the new era with
twelve-dollar dinner at the Plaza and
another theater, and after that he
made Mrs. Kip accompany them to a
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-01-23
CHILLS, COLDS,
FEVERISHNESS
Black Draught Is Used by Virginia
Lady for Colds, Fever and
Other Troubles With
Fine Results.

Rocky Mount, va.-Miss Mae Chit
wood. Of this place. recently stated: II
have used Black-Draught for colds and
stomach trouble and certainly have
found ii very satisfactory.
When I would feel bad and fever
ish. as though l was taking a fresh
cold, / would make a good cup of
Black Draught tea and it would soon
set me all right.
can recommend it as a splendid
laxative and gladly do so. You may
publish my statement"
When you feel chilly, tired, fever
ish, headachy and fear that you are
taking cold, take good dose of the
old, reliable, liver medicine you have
heard so much about-Thedford
Black-Draught. 1t is made from
purely vegetable ingredients, acts in
a gentle, natural way, and by helping
to drive out poisonous waste matter
from your system, it will often, if
taken in time, prevent a chill from de-
velOping into a cold.
Thousands of people, during the past
20 years, have found Black Draught of
benefit in such cases.
Try it, the next time you chill or
sneeze.-Adv.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-01-23
He Celebrated the New Era With a
Twelve Dollar Dinner at the Plaza.

roof garden, where Daphne and HI
danced with other laity in the inter
walls between professional dances or
the floor and vaudeville turns on the
stage.
The next day there was another
foray on the shops and the dressmak-
ers, with battling result. The list of
necessaries with their minimum prices
| began to grow so long and ominouS
| that they decided to give up keeping a
list. They would buy what just had
to be got, as cheaply as they could,
and if they overran their appropria-
ton papa would simply have to help
them out.
The wedding date had yet to be
fixed and the invitations ordered, with
their royal phraseology in the latest
formula.
They placed the day late enough for
Bayard and his wife to get back from
Europe. Bayard had not written, of
course, since his marriage, except
brief note from the steamer the day
he landed. But he had set six weeks
as the limit of his absence.
One evening Clay announced that he
had reserved three seats for a new
comedy that had opened with success
a few nights before. Mrs. Kip begged
to be excused from going.
Clay urged her to reconsider her re-
fusal. "Sure you won't go? You ought
at least to see the star, Sheila Kemble.
Some people say she looks little like
Daphne. OF course she doesn't; she's
not tenth as beautiful or young or
but there is a kind of
And they say she gets
thousand dollars week. Daphne
could give her cards and spades and
beat her. Sure you won't gO?"
II wouldn't put my poor feet into
those tight slippers tonight to see
Daphne herself play Lady Macbeth"
So Clay and Daphne went alone.
After the last act he proposed Clare
mont for supper. Daphne accepted
With zest. They entered an open taxi
,ab and scudded up the long bias seam
If Broadway to Seventy-second street
md whisked across to Riverside drive
md up its meandering splendor.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-01-23
CHAPTER w.

The two old Kips sat brooding over
their mystery. The fruit of their al
most forgotten romance, the little,
squalling, helpless baby that had come
TO them and strangely evolved into n
great, grown man, was now in the tolls
of romance In his turn. He had found,
In far city, somebody there that
he loved better than his family or his
friends or his freedom.
Daphne was delighted at first. Then
she realized that the news of his mar
riage would throw her own plans into
disarray. She sighed:
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-01-23
DAPHNE DISCOVERS THAT HER MONEY WILL NOT GO FAR
IN BUYING A TR0USSEAU IN NEW YORK.

Synopss-Clay Wmburn, a young Yorker visit to
Daphne whose brother is the
Wall After whrlwnd cOushp they be-
engaged.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-01-23
GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER

Has been used for all ailments that
are caused by disordered stomach
and inactive liver, such as sick head
ache, constipation, sour stomach,
nervous indigestion, fermentation of
food, palpitation of the heart caused by
gases in the stomach. August Flower
is gentle laxative, regulates digestion
both in stomach and intestines, cleans
and sweetens the stomach and alimen-
tary canal, stimulates the liver to Sc
crete the bile and impurities from the
blood. Sold in all civilized countries.
Give 1t a trial.-Adv. 49,
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-01-23
CHAPTER v.

He taxicabbed them down to the
Knickerbocker and lunched them so
lavlshly that Daphne and her mother
felt thoroughly treasured as to his
means. Then he left them and de-
scended to the subway.
Clay had insisted on their dining
and theatering with him. They ate
ut the Astor and he fed them hand
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-01-23
KEEP 1T HANDY

If you paid a specialist $500 for a
prescription, you would not get any
thing that would give quicker relief
for Group, Catarrh, Colds, or Sore
Throat, than VACHER BALM, which
only costs 25c in Jars, or tubes.
Write for Samples and Agents
Prices. Beware of limitations. e. w.
Vacher, Inc, New Orleans, La. ADV.
The tightwad usually has money at
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-01-23
Not a Complete Success.

Il told her that she and her daugh-
ter might well be taken for sisters"
THAT stuff goes good"
"Yes, it went good with mother, but
/ lost out with the girl.
Courier-JOurnal.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-01-23

/ II suppose I'd better postpone m,
wedding till we get Bayard or on
hands,"
That's a fine idea 7" her father ex
claimed. 1t was always a joy to hin
TO defer an expense. Mrs. Kip flunl
him a glare and Daphne rolled hel
eyes in distress, but he redeemed him
self with an unexpectedly graceful
turn. at lets us keep Daphne with
us a little longer"
Daphne wrote this new decision t.
Clay. He sent back letter that fairly
howled with protest.
When Daphne told her parents OF
Clays anguish they made light of it.
1t was long, long while since they
had been young. They had learned
that marriages contain surprises that
may sometimes be postponed without
misfortune.
Bayard did not write again for sew
eral days. This time he wrote to
Daphne:
Dear Sis-Yours of no date (as usual
received and beautiful contents. noted l
can hardly believe that my little sis is an
nouncing intention to join the procession
and get married too. You're more SEN
sible than l used to think. This is sub
ject to revision when / know who the
lucky man is. Who is he? Some Cleve-
land Appolo Cor however you spell it, l
suppose.
Before could write you a bombshell ex-
ploded in the office. Heads of firm decided
that since we can't sell any goods in Amer
lea, might try England. They want me to
go over at once and see what can be done
about establishing a selling agency in
dear old Lunnon, doncher know. And so
now intend TO combine business trip, va
cation, and honeymoon in same voyage.
So we get married Thursday and sail
Saturday. Just time to get settled in our
dove-cote before leaving
Was worrying ever not being able to &C
cept your kind offer to pay me visit
Then the blessed wifelet darlingly sug-
gested that her sweet sister-in-law-to-be
should come to New York and make cur
apartment her home while she shops.
We won't get back from honeymoon
hike for six weeks at least. You and
mother Just settle down there until you
have finished shopping. Will leave key
and instructions with superintendent.
The letter ended with the usual
oceans of love and kisses and the
usual haste. 1t set the family to pom
dering. Old Wesley was the,jsirst to
speak and his train Of though startled
the women:
$50 he's going to get married tomor-
row. That's awful sudden Saves us
buying wedding present, thought
When he had recovered from the i'm
pact of his wife's look he saved him
self again with quick, pleading sug-
gestion: "What 1 was thinking was |
It leaves more money for Daphne's |
rousseau"
The poor wretch had grown used to
seeing unexpected gifts of fortune
loaf into view like soap bubbles, drift
lose in iridescent loneliness, and then
wink out, leaving hardly damp spot.
AS soon as he had bravely added
What he had saved from his sons we'd
ling to what he had already voted
% his daughters trousseau he was
loomed to learn that Daphne could
lot start East to buy clothes to get
married in until she had bought some
lothes to start East in. And, besides
hat, she could not go East alone, and
Ter mother could not go with her I'M
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-01-23

Silence followed the document. And
there are few documents that mean
so much to every family as that bear
ing the news that one of the children
has gone into the world and found a
mate and given up the ancient loyalty
for the new.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-01-23
Gro BE coNTINUED.)
rouse Blessing.

The beauty of the house is order
the blessing of the house Is content
ment; the glory Of the house is hospi
tally; the crown of the house is gof
illness.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-01-23
Juduinu Materials.

When buying wooden materials hold
them up to the light and look through
them; the best qualities are free from
uneven and broken threads.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-08-18
PATCH OF BEANS

In the spring OF 1918 two local families Joined
forces in q little garden work. Among other things they
planted a patch of beans. 1t wasn't a big patch. 1t
measured so by so feet. The crop was well tended and
It grew apace. Its yield was not phenomenal, but abund-
ant, and the product was of excellent quality. The Gull
ture of the crop took some time and labor, but the time
was what would otherwise have been leisure time. and
the labor offorded variety from other work. Those
two families are not worrying about the price Of beans.
Probably they do not know what the price is. and it is
certain that, SO far as they are personally concerned.
they do not care. They have stored away in safe places
beans enough to last them for two or three years. beans
which really cost them nothing.
There have been many thousands Of just such
patches of beans grown in the United States during the
past two years, and, side by side with the beans have
been grown other garden crops whose products have aid
ed materially in providing food for many people. While
this is true there are in the aggregate vast quantities of
fertile soil producing nothing better than weeds, and,
right within reach Of that soil, thousands Of people with
time hanging heavy on their hands. If all the idle hands
and all the unproductive soil could be brought together
In a productive way a good deal would have been done
to solve the problem of living.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-08-18
SOME EXAMPLES NEEDED

Two officers of a Chicago firm have been arrested,
or are to be arrested, on the charge >, f prodteering fin
sugar. The specific accusation is that their firm bought
five carloads of sugar at 1886 per hundred, including
freight, and sold the same sugar to retailers at s3 per
hundred.
Before the war such an act would have been per-
fectly legal. Whatever the moral qualities of the act, it
was permissible for one to buy goods as cheaply as he
could, and to sell for whatever he could get. He was not
required to sell at any price. He could accumulate what
ever quantities he was able to pay for, and hold the goods
as long as he desired. There was no law of any kind on
the subject. Under the necessities of the war new leg,s-
ton was enacted. Provisions were made regulating the
purchase, sale and storage of foods and other commodi-
ties. That war legislation is still in force, and it will re-
main in force until it expires by limitation with the clos
ing of the war. Unless new legislation is enacted we will
revert, automatically to the former conditions when
peace is proclaimed.
1t is possible under the laws as it stands now to SUBJ
ject hoarders of foods and manipulators of markets to
some severe penalties, although in a good many cases
the penalty feature is lacking, which makes the law a
dead letter. 1t is reasonable to suppose that the number
of cases of actual and deliberate profteering is very small.
1t is equally probable that they are numerous enough to
require attention. Such a case as that reported in Chi
cago is scandalous. If the facts are as stated somebody
should go to the penitentiary, and it should not be a ship
ing clerk or a bookkeeper. And, wherever such cases
occur, the severest penalties possible under the law
should be imposed.
More legislation is needed. Presently the war will
be officially over, and all the laws framed to meet les
needs will become null. We must have legislation that
meets the conditions of peace, and it should be legisla-
ton with teeth and claws in it. Competition does not
now prevent speculation in the necessaries of life, the
creation Of artificial shortages, and the charging of ex.
horhitant profits, and 1t need not be expected that these
things will be prevented by competition after peace has
been proclaimed. There will remain greedy conscience.
less individuals. and these, must be permanently re-
strained.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-08-18

Tony Adrianee, = younE millionaire.
meets on a bench in . park a young girl.
evidently in poor clrcumstances, WHO
Q attracts him. He harl1SnA TO be
already entangled with Lucille Master
to obtain a divorce. from her husband
IN order to marry him. His better ma
ture revolts~ from the situation but he
through.
Adriance ffakes q determined effort to
break with Mrs. Masterson. Aftsr q
Painfgl interview with her he enters the
Mesterson nursery by mistake. He inda
s sra the girl who . 80 attracted. him.
Mastersons' little son.
Iony decides that the only a OF
getting out of the intolerable situation
In In which h he has placed himself Is e get
put OF tow for q year or SO. in which
time he hopes to recover his balance.
he meets Elsie again, and learns that
sne understands the truth concerning
his break with Mrs. Masterson.
Tony asks Elsie to marry him feeling
that it is his best chance of happiness.
AFTER some thought she consents, and
the two are married,
The couple take a house in the Paii-
discovers that, he loves his wife.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-08-18
PUBLIC DISCUSSION

The public discussion of a public question is an ex-
cellent and necessary thing. A great many scandals
would have been avoided by a greater degree of publicity
in connection with the proceedings. But however fully
we may recognize the importance Of the public discussion
and the public conference, the private conference has
is place. We cannot suppress it or crowd it out of ex-
tstence. We cannot compel men to do all their negotfat-
ing In public any more than we can compel them to do
their thinking in public. r.
Thinking and negotiating have certain aspects in
common. When a man is confronted by a new prob
lem he neither thinks about it aloud nor puts his thoughts
on paper. He seeks out a quiet spot and mulls the
thins over. He feels it out. He makes a good many
wild guesses and false starts. He starts out on many
pnths to find that they end in blind alleys. Finally. If
no Is lucky, he gets on the right track and follows the
thing through to the end. II he has that faculty he NAV
be able, at length, to present in reasoned and ORDERLY
form a logical analysis of the whole problem. But those
who follow him along the clear path which he is at
c1rsions which he has made into the impossible Jungle
on either side.
In a similar way men who Of divergent views who
seek Q basis Of common action find the feeling out proc-
essN Unnecessary. They understand that some compromise
" necessary. And in nine cases out Of ten these com
promises are reached through a series Of private. ner.
scnal conferences rather than through the formal ex.
chanse Of views in a public gathering.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-08-18
CHAPTER VIII,

EN- WILL
ANDY OF THE MoToR-TRUCKs.
The man behind the wicket leaned
forward to survey the man outside.
The gate-keeper at the main entrance
to Adriance's was tho prey of a dou-
BILE vanity that kept his attention
alert: he was vain of his wi posi-
positions of other men. This was his
seventeenth year in the cage of orna-
mental iron-work, and he had brought
his hobby into it with his first day
there. He delighted in difficult sub
jects, now, who bahled a casual in
%spection.
1t was, therefore, with an air Of
bored certainty that he classified this
morning visitor at a glance. and set
tied back on his high stool.
"Of1ce door to the right, SIR" he
directed, briefly, but respectfully.
Boy there will take in your card
II understand chauffeurs are want
ed here" said the visitor, his COM
posed gaze dwelling on a poster to
that effect affixed to the nearest wall.
The gate-keeper stared.
st guess SOP"
"Is the office the place where I
should apply for such work?"
Trucking department.; turn left.
down basement. Mr.. Ransome,"
vouchsafed the chagrined concierge,
severely wounded in his self-esteem.
ed his pride in years. He turned N
his seat and craned his thin neck to
watch the stranger swing blithely
away in the direction indicated.
Chauffeur" he muttered. Walks
as if Advances was his private gar
age an he was~buildin' himself a bet
ter one around the corner! Hope
Ransome throws him OUT"
But Ransome Of the motor-trucka
was in urgent need Of men and dis
posed to be more tolerant. Moreover,
that morning. But he looked rather
closely at the applicant, nevertheless
Used to chauffing private cars
aren't you?" he shrewdly questioned.
YES" admitted Adriance.
II thought so! Where vas your
last placer"
st drove for Mr. Adriance, junior"
was the grave response.
The man whistled.
"You did, Ell? Why did he fire
your
HE left New York for the winter
without taking his machines along"
did he give you a reference"
II can bring one tomorrow, or ]
can go get it now, if you van me to
start work at once.> I haven't it with
me.n
why not?"
"I forgot 1t would be needed"
This was unusual, and produced q
pause. Ransome studied his man
and liked what he saw.
Married." he shot the next rou.
tine question.
yes"
Anything against you on the police
records? Accidents? Overspeed.
ing?"
Nothing
II "a see you don't drink. You
know Jersey?"