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The Washington times., 1919-04-22
Here Is a Suggestion For
School Teachers
Bv EARL GOODWIN.
Perhaps Subject Mention win Discussion n
the Schools Which May Lead Trouble.

Two hundred years ago this week Robinson Crusoe''
published for the first time Probably people
know about Robinson CrusOe and his parrot and his goat
than they know about any thing earth.
The man who wrote the story was Daniel Defoe Why
would it not be good idea in hour when you free
to discuss current topics to take up Robinson CusOef he
is always current topic and is his parrot and is his
goat Would it not be good idea to set your pupils to
work finding all about Robinson Crusoe who the original
was what sort Of he was and what other author
wrote twelve hundred word article about the original Of
the great book Robinson Crusoef' Would it not be
good idea to set your pupils to delvng into English he
ture to the extent that they could find all about Daniel
Defoe, and what kind of he was and why he was
not successful in the ordinary affairs of fef
can you that good solid instruction upon
Daniel Defoe and his times and upon Robinson Crusoe
would be of intense value to many pupils do not know
whether this kind of advice is going to get in trouble
with the Board of Education for each member of which
have profound respect Neither do know what the Super
nendent of Schools win have to say about this but do
know that good solid instruction the and women
who have left mark in the world goes amss In
strucon in English literature and the who made it is
intensely valuable The school children know about It
their youth the better their minds and the better pre-
pared are they when they. leave school
One of the greatest of the modern Washington
child that he does not know enough about the things that
were done before he born. Neither does he know
enough about what has gone after he born but there
seems to be grave danger that the teacher and the child will
run into trouble they do not take up censored subject
do not think that there be the slightest criticism of an
hour of study of Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe.
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see him every night on the sly,
and il don't see him. feel as IL
my heart will break. His wife
doesn't treat him as she should,
and he says she has always been
that way. l know, Miss Fairfax,
love him more than my husband, as
I just can't live without him.
PAT.
You do seem to have got your
self into a "mix-up," Pat, and 1
am afraid you are destined to
the same sort Of an awakening as
the young woman whose letter
precedes yours. You have hardly
given your marriage a fair trial,
and sincerely hope that you will
abstain from doing anything rash
until you have seen your husband,
and had a chance to talk things
over.
Considers breach OF Promise.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
am asking your legal advice on
the following case: A young man
and woman fell in love. became
engaged to be married and for
some reason or other separated.
Now the girl has in her possession
a number Of letters in which the
young man has declared his love
and asked her to marry him ac-
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From The Public To The Editor

This act Of Congress. having been
without just and valid authority.
must, therefore, be null and void /:
and ii is not necessary even TO petit
tion Congress to revoke the act.
There can be no doubt but that
the residents Of the District of Co
lumbia are justly entitled to rem
resentation on the floor Of Congress
by full-hedged members. The best
way to secure this result in time to
take their seats in the next Congress
would be to declare that citizenship
is paramount to partisanship, and TO
proceed at once, by means Of three
trial ballots, to practically demon
strate the principles Of proportional
representation, and then have a
fourth ballot, the result of which
will go on an official ballot by peti-
ton, and thereby get a just repre-
sentation OF the whole people of the
District. instead Of the selection Of
some manipulating partisan factions.
Having procured our representa-
tives in this manner, they are en-
powered to apply to Congress for ad-
mission, and IL will be UP to Congress
TO accept them, or answer before the
"bar Of justice" including the courts
and their constituency for their re-
fusal. JAN H. KAN,
s14 South Carolina Gvenue southeast
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There appears to have been com
mitted an unlawful act by Congress
in depriving the residents of the Dis
trict OF Columbia OF the right OF
franchise when adopting the so-called
haIf-and-half plan for providing the
necessary funds for the Districts
needs.
This legislation appears to have
been put through by reason Of the
authority vested in Congress by the
seventeenth and eighteenth para
graphs Of section s Of article Of the
Constitution. Although not specific
ally mentioned in the Constitution,
Congress clearly recognized and ac-
knowledged that the powers granted
BY the aforementioned seventeenth
and eighteenth paragraphs did not
empower Il to monkey" with the
franchise OF United States citizens un-
I'll this half-and- half scheme was
hatched- There never has been any
charge brought against the United
States citizens residing within the
boundaries Of the District OF Colum-
bia, and, consequently, there has
never been any attempt to arraign
them before the bar Of justice" to
answer for any unlawful, criminal or
reasonable conduct that would JUS
tify depriving them, as a whole, OF
the franchise
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About 1853 or later was . clerk
and messenger in the New York Trtb-
une ofTice. Fourteenth street, opposite
WilIard's Hotel Among the many
famous people who visited the office
frequently was Walt Whitman, who
IMPRESSED me as one of the most Iowa
bIs old men I ever knew. At that
time he was having printed q book
of poems called Leaves OF Grass" I
mink. one COPY OF which he gave me
With his autograph. II was an un-
usual appearing book. as I remember
much like an old-time school, book.
I often talked with him, and one time
riding with him on the front OF q
horse car to the Capitol he spoke OF
having lived in Turkey some time.
and, on my making some disparaging
remarks about the Turks, he defended
them warmly; said they were good.
kind-hearted people, just Ike our
selves: which was so contrary to all
nv impressions ! never forgot II, and
wondered n he was all right mentally.
The correspondents ridiculed his
poetry, but everybody loved the old
man. 49,.
nanars. lust across the hall, about
mat time bought his interest in the
star: James r. Young and H. j. Rams
deli were the Tribune's eorrespon-
dents. James d. Cor A. d. Richardson
| and Mr. Calhoun came down 70 Wash
ington occasionally for special work;
| Whitelaw Reid, think, then repre-
| sented the New York Herald bureau,
| and Colonel Boynton, who represented
] the Baltimore Sun, was private seere-
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WYE have had quite q little
NJ discussion In this column
" on the subject Of love
bandits" /. e., women who abb
scond with other women's hus-
bands, and in such cases my SYM
pathy has always been with the
wife. A few correspondents-not
half a dozen-have resented my
attitude as unfair to the "other
woman" and I'll admit there are
times when a burglar may be the
object Of commiseration, but not
always.
The whole question seems to
me like finding fault with stolen
watch. The watch keeps bad time,
it is too fast or too slow, and the
deceived burglar has an aggrieved
feeling, accordingly. Or, maybe,
the watch is only gold filed"
when the burglar regarded 1t as
solid. And he expects the SYM
pathy of the congregation over his
disappointment The watch he
was at such pains to filch was not
worth the trouble, and aren't you
sorry for him?
Well, no, l can't say am par
ticularly sorry, If the burglar had
not taken something that did not
belong to him in the first place he
would be saved the crushing dis
appointment OF discovering a
counterfeit.
And so it is with the girls who
demand sympathy on finding out
that the husband who painted him
self as the victim of a loveless
marriage and an unhappy home is
not that at all. The girl discovers
that his home Is quite as happy
as the average, and that the tale
of incompatibility was nothing
more than: "Will you walk into
my parlor, said the spider to the
fly"
If the young lady had exercised
her better judgment and had not
accepted the spiders invitation.
she would not have been deceived
by the counterfeit quality OF the
mans affection for her. It is a
tremendously good rule to make,
II you happen to be a girl and are
starting out in the morning OF life
to let other peoples belongings
alone, this includes husbands.
He Had a QuRFreISOme Wife.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
am a reader OF your column,
and / am afraid 1 must accuse you
of being unfair to your own SCI.
What about the man who wins a
girls affections under the guise Of
an unhappy home, or what he calls
"a house. not a homer" and an un-
congenial marriage and the pre-
tense that a divorce action will
soon be under way. He claimed that
the few hours he spent with the
girl was the only happiness he
knew until he met her again the
next day. And that a man can't
start TO business with gloom hang
ing over his head and the thought
of coming home to q Quarrelsome
wife was more than he could bear.
He, too. was also what you might
call flair and square" for he told
the girl he was the father OF two
children, but one would never
know 8. from the way they an
severed him back. Do you mean TO
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Today.

Today.
Mass Meeting-Under auspices OF Par
ents' League In the interest Of the pubic
schools. at Mount Zion n. E. Church
Georgetown, p. m.
Address-"League OF Nations" by DR..
Charles W. Needham. at United States
Service Club Of America, $3.50 p. m.
AddreEa-''What the Blue Triangle
Means" subject Of discussion by MIS-.
Francis Boyle and Miss Elizabeth c. Car
ter, before Bethel Literary Socisty' In
Metropolitan N. 2. Church, p m.
Meeting-Commercial Club, In club
rooms, p. m.
MeetinE-Columb bia Historical Society,
Gold Room, ShoreEam Hotel, p. m.
Meeting-Wilson Normal School Com
munity Center, at Wilson Normal School
Eleventh and Harvard streets northwest
Recsption-Astra Club, at I3S r street
northwest, 8 q. m
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What's Doing; Where; When

Third National ConYention-National
Shakespeare Federation, At Colonial School,
Eighteenth and streets northwest.
Meettng-North Capitol and lexington
Citizens Association at Emery School, Lin
coin road and Randolph street northeast,
p. m.
Msetlng-Business women's Council at
Wesley Chapel. Fifth and r streets north
west, 1890 p. m.
Tomorrow.
Bntertainment-"Ys Village SkeWl nf
Long Ago." to be presented by members OF
the Vaughn and Burial classes Of Calvary
Baptist sunday School, In Sunday school
house, Eighth and H streets northwest, 3
p. m.
MeetinE--HsIsn Keller Guild, at home of
MIS- George w. Ross. l7l3 Lamont street
northwest, pm.
nd. 3. SehmIdsa Erotto, 7Ia TWeIfth street
northwest, 8 .. m
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tary, believe. to President johnson.
and had an arrangement with him %
go to the White House every svenfnR
about II o'clock and receive a PACK
age to mail to the Sun. Major gen
erals and foreign attaches were com
mon visitors almost daily. There
were more generals in washington
hotels than with the army, apparently.
A d. Richardson was afterward shot
and killed in New York.
. I learned the printing trade with
John W. Forney, Secretary OF the
United States Senate, in the Chronicle
office, and he was another noble man
and kind friend to me.
There are plenty Of people in
Washington who remember Walt
Whitman. and many living who knew
him. My father was in the same room
at the office with him. and he lived
near us on NJ street. l was a very
small child at that time
He used to walk on NJ street every
summer evening. The children would
see him coming and run to meet him.
We would walk with him as far as
the next corner. He would turn after
crossing the street and wave his hand
He used to wear a white shirt with a
rolling collar. something like the
sport shirts that were worn here q
few years ago-opened at the front.
exposing his thrOat-his hair rather
long. and a large light felt hat. He
loved little children, and we were al
devoted to him. n. +. s
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Once-Overs
Copyright 1919 International Feature Service, Inc.
WHEN EXPERIENCE is NO USE.

Experience good thing you do not forget had it.
A wise s. saith.
do by lanentable experience?
lost previously, investing IN
schemes which have been presented to under different dsgu
time, past
perience figure under the money lure. .
forgotten mad for the of gold at
the end of the shimmeFing rainbow
Now when certain working plan brought attention
take the trouble to others similar
which you found be feasible the everse
Are putting the knowledge gained by experience IN
effort better position!
one Of those bury the unpleasant and
thoroughly forget deploabe lesson that
any time, long money holds out?
Experience has a value; cash in on it
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am afraid, in spite Of your
flattering statement that you read
my column, you only glance at it.
l have never urged that women
keep their "jobs" after marriage
except when it is necessary. If a
husband is able to support his
wife, splendid! congratulate
them both, but this grows increas-
ingly more difficult with the ever
mounting cost of living. And l
have always contended that it is
better for young people who are in
love to marry, even if the wife
must keep her "job," than for both
of them to grow old single and
loveless.
In regard to meeting desirable
young men, that is also a difficult
question. A good many of the
States attempt some sort of social
recreation for their sons and
daughters who happen to be living
in Washington at present. The
wives Of Senator'S and Representa-
tives meet and introduce young
people coming from home, and |
understand that these affairs are
very agreeable. Why not inquire
among your home friends if your
State has a social center in the
District Of Columbia?
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of Problems Workers
Especially for Washington Women

cording to law. Could the man In
question be forced to marry the girl
or be sued for breach Of promise
in case he has money? II he has no
money. isn't he, from a legal stand
point. safe from the law? While
on the other hand, isn't the girl
considered perfectly free as far as
the law is concerned?
A READER.
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Meeting Of the Washington Kan
mel Club tomorrow night IN I'D
SCHMIDT'S Grotto Room, 712 13th
street.
You've been wondering what's IN
hash.
Well, there are all sorts Of GhfRE8
but here's a new ingredient.
I find it on the morning menu q
the Post Cafe:
~NOTE-We pickle the bet q
the premises used In our delici0as
corned-beef hash"
II the premises are missing, look
in the hash.
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cannot imagine a girl with
any delicacy of feeling consider
ing a breach of promise suit. It
would be so unfair to herself, her
future prospects and her better
nature. And / know really moth
ing of the legal aspects of such
cases. If such a step is contem-
plated, advice is given to women
by the George Washington Uni
versity Law School.
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I have 25c given to me by CHARLIE
ASHTON, an eight-year-old lad, who
lives at 1873 North Carolina avenue
northeast. He wants me to spend
II for smokes for soldiers"
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HEARD AND SEEN

Some one wrote me that l had
better get back to telling the folks
about walking to work as those
mathematical problems seemed to
arouse an irate multitude against
me.
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His grandfather was a merchant
here in the old days, with q store
near Pennsylvania avenue and AZ
street.
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For a man to discuss his wife
and home unfavorably with young
women brands him as a cad Of
little or no breeding. And it is
just as well for young girls to
take these tales with the pro-
verbal grain of salt
Used To Know Hin.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
hardly know how to explain
myself as I am in a very bad mix
up. I have been married nearly q
year, but have lived with my hus-
band only a month. as he is serving
in the United States army "Over
There" While he has been away I
have fallen in love with a man who
is married and has two children.
I used to know him before / was
married, and he is so good to me
and says he loves me better than his
wife.
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Now the business world can hslD
BY listing its open places with tie
Business II. s. Alumni Association
Inquiries address to MISS n ]
WATTS, Business High School, OF
telephone calls to her on Main 60Oc,
Branch 312 W, will be welcomed and
will receive attention.
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say the girl was to blame in a case
like this?
II yoL do, I am afraid a don't
agree with you. for the man was
OF high standing. and TO fill q war
workers mind with such ideas and
to mean nothing by them, it would
seem to me no punishment could be
bad enough for him.
A CONSTANT READER.
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Some Of US native sons of the
National Capital might start an
association" said ROBERT E.
PARKER to me the other day. Mr..
Parker is private secretary to
BENEDICT CROWELL, Acting Sec
retary of War, and is q Washington
ian from way back.
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He was going one way and I an
other, so l transferred at 14th and
U streets, and stood there thoroughly
entranced at the sound Of yodeling
coming from RALPH JENKINS, the
traffic officer at that point.
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But I've been III and can't walk
to work, so ride in the cars, and on
the Chevy Chase car / met SIDNEY
SMITH, of the Patent Office, who
was all glowing with enthusiasm
shout the VICTORY LOAN. mas
much as he is one Of the patriots
who viii put it over.
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While going, / haled HEN HAN
FORD, but he was evidently all stuck
I'D at being with JACK BIDDLE,
for he didn't emit q sound.
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Prefers One Pay Envelope to Two.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
For some time I have been read
ing your articles in The Times.
Last week, think IT was, you had
an article concerning women and
matrimony, and you seemed to think
the majority OF women would rather
work than have a home OF their
own. or words to that effect I am
afraid / shall have to differ with
you there. and have met a great
many girls and have yet to hear
one express the desire for office
work in preference to marriage.
The main trouble. I find with
Washington. is a lack OF desirable
men, a ffty-fifty manly man that
you would be proud to introduce to
the folks at home. I suppose there
are such. but how is a girl going to
meet them? Don't think ! am a
prude or Jealous, for I am neither,
just normal young woman that
enjoys her work as a Government
employe. but would rather have a
home and only one pay envelope,
even though I had to wash the
dishes occasionally.
CONSTANT READER
The Washington times., 1919-04-22
Young Women, Don't Judge Men
By Their Love Letters

Nature Mercifuy and Wisely Makes the Smitten Swain
Blind and Ediotic, That YOU Fair Creatures
Nav Do As You Please With Him.
The Washington times., 1919-04-22

Charlie earned il by helping his
mother, who has been sick. Mother
tells me Il Is nice to do for the sick, :
Charlie says, "and mother has been
so sick that she knows"
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But later, JUDGE MCCOY gave
me the high sign. He isn't afraid
to speak to Us common folks.
The Washington times., 1919-04-22

What Is FUnnieF Than TIE
Bronze Whiskers on the Dupont
Statue?
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The association has aseertained
that only approximately 10 per cent
OF the employers OF the returning
soldier alumni have signifed their
intention to reinstate these boys on
their return.
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quarter?
The alumni association Of ths
Business High School Is q live or
ganization - everyone knoWs-and
here's proof 1t is on the Job: FRED
ERIC 8. HAZARD, president Of the
association, tells me IL is the plan
to use the employment bureau oR
the association to get job for ~
turning soldiers.
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A wonderful yodeler, he is.
Thence down town to find the
building still here; and after that
with MILTON AILES In his cute lit
tie Maxwell to see CHARLES
HENRY BUTLER.
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You've been wondering what's IA
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-05-29

Neill 81 Wings
Addition to Wash
burn
I ct Blk Lot Blk
70 / Is j
IA / Is i
4 L. 90 In
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a Sacred Tooth.

There's a sacred tooth in the world;
it's in Handy. And when you come TO
think Of It that is a perfectly natural
place for tooth TO be. 1t is in the
temple of Randy, in Ceylon, where
reposes the sacred tooth of Buddha.
At Buddha's death there were 80 cities
to dispute the possession of his re-
mains. At length they decided on
compromise, so the body was divided
and the isle of Ceylon fell heir to his
tooth and his left collarbone. AT the
time Of the funeral Kalinga, an Indian,
took possession of the sacred tooth
and had it enshrined at Puro, where 1t
reposed for eight years. Then came
an invasion of the country by the Mo-
hammedans. The daughter Of GER
tain king concealed the sacred relic
in her hair and carried it to Ceylon,
where it has remained since A. ID. Oil.
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NOTICE AND STATEMENT OF TAX
SALE
State Of Wisconsin, County of Bay
field-ss
Office Of County Treasurer Of


Washburn, Wis. April %, 1919
NOTICE is hereby given that so
much of each tract or parcel Of land
described in the following statement
as may be necessary therefore. will on
the second Tuesday of June next, and
the next succeeding days, be sold by
the undersigned at public auction at
the Office of the County Treasurer in
the court house in the City of Wash
burn, in the county of Bayfield,. State
Of Wisconsin. for the payment or
sDecial assessment and special as
sassment certificates issued thereon
for the construction of q public sewer,
sidewalk or paving, as the case may
he. in the year 1917 and 1918, with in
terest and charges thereon, unless the
same are previously paid. The sale
to commence on the second Tuesday
of June next, said Tuesday being the
10th day Of June, in the year of our
Lord one thousand nine hundred
nineteen, at nine o'clock in the fore
noon, and to continue each day there
after during the usual business hours,
until all of the said tracts and parcels
Of land, city and village lots are dis
posed of
(SEAI,) ALFRED FR0SETH,
Treasurer of the County of Bayfield,,
State of Wisconsin,.
Z
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nnlu Derby wearers DO This.

A man will give the tight skirts as
an example of the intellectual inferi-
GRITTY of woman and then go out and
look at himself in the mirror trying
on various derby hats without crack
inc q smile.--Chicago Post.
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Village Of C0rnu-
oNNiA
Original Plat Of
Tron Riypy

Iron River
..ot Blk
w SIS Ct of lots II
& IL, e n 10 fl
IF w S. # of lot
10 /
8 2
10 q
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Sprin gbrook adj
ditQn to Wash
burn
Lot IA and Is
Vaughn & Aust
RAMS Addition to
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1919-02-27
HAVE soa IN ARMY
School Registration for Garden Sass
Raisers Heavy.

On registration day for the United
States School Garden Army the mum
bers registering from the different
schools were: Lincoln, 33; Mckinley,
3S; Garfield, 231. Any room regis
tering one hundred per cent was to
get a large service flag. No room
succeeded in registering all its mem
bers but Miss Tull's room, vi grade
at Garfield came so near it that they
are very disappointed in not getting
the flag. All but one in this room
registered.
The pledge signed doesn't specify
any amount Of ground to be planted
but pledges one to raise one food
crop. In some tenement districts
some young gardeners are raising
their food crops in window boxes.