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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-26

The Evanston police arrested % boys yes
terday for shaking dice on the bank of the
drainage canal. If there had been fish in the
canal, or if it had been fit to swim in it is not
likely that the boys would have thought about
dice.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-26

King + .rt of Belgium, who is expected to
pay visit to this country next fall used to
be a reporter for an American newspaper
Doubtless he'll find his old job open if he cares
to return to it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-26
CLOTHES ECONOMY.

Careful pressing not only adds 10
the appearance, but helps keep
clothing in good condition. Press
ing OF clothes can be satisfactorily
done at home IL the characteristics
of the fiber are known. The first
thing to consider is the telling
property OF the wool fiber and the
Importance OF avoiding any method
OF pressing which will cause the
garment to shrink and lose its soft
and fluffy nature. Use a moder-
ately hot iron and a pressing cloth
wrung as dry as possible. Place
the cloth on the right side of the
garment and press until cloth is
dry. Remove the cloth, and the
surface of the material will look
soft and fluffy. The wool material
will not be entirely dry. Turn the
garment and press on the wrong
side till dry. II pressed on the
right side the nap or fuzzy surface
is pressed down so tightly that the
garment is shiny.
Darning is practically the only
method that will fulfill all these
requirements. II the material Is
cotton in one direction and. wool
in another, make the darn cores
pond to the fibers in the original
Identify the weave AMI duplicate IL
as nearly as possible. Use cologs
which match or neutral tones wi,i
specks of color as near the sha 2
as possible Use net, tape ur
mending tissue whenever possib'
for reinforcement. Press q
mended place and it VIII be le
conspicuous.
Systematic brushing OF 70 r
clothes every day will lessen c.
penditures for cleaning. BrushiE &
done with a circular motion s-
moves loose dirt, restores the tp
and will help remove shine"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-26

LATTER DAY SENSE.
Once it was the proper thing,
In the shaping of their lives,
For the men to have string
OF assorted kinds OF wives.
Now, until his days are done,
So jealous law DEGREES,
Every male must do with one
And few afhnitiesi C. M.
SPEAKING candidly, just what IS your
opinion of the fashionable Back Bay women
of Boston who have not touched water to
their bodies for 10 years?
= We quite agree with you
MOST EXCEPTIONAL FELLOW.
Sir: 1 have met a most unusual fellow. I
say unusual because he is pleasing in the sense
that he does something occasionally, or rather
doesn't do it, that is different from the beaten
road the multitude is won't to follow. For in
stance when / offered him cigaret and there
was only one left in the case he took it\wfthout
a word, instead of pulling that old one about
"Oh, is that your last one? I wouldn't mink
of taking your last o-n-e! N. B.
Through the courtesy and quick work OF
Eye Gee ELL we are able to reproduce, ex-
clusively- you understand, the picture of Old
Sol, which was taken in one OF his unsuspect-
ing moments last week.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-26

The Republican majority in congress will
now have opportunity to spend six months
enacting bills which they killed in their fill
buster in three days.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-26
Household Hints

across, having each slice from one
fourth to one-half Of an inch in
thickness.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-26

Where are the scientists who said each
spring during the last three or four years that
it was the war in Europe that was responsible
for our springs and summers being so rainy
and cool?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-26
MENU HINTS.
Breakfast

Coffee.
Luncheon.
Baked Beans. Tomato Salad.
Strawberries. Tea.
Dinner.
Radishes. Picked Onions.
Egg Outlets. Mushroom Sauce.
Baked Potatoes. Asparagus.
Head Lettuce Salad.
Sliced Pineapple. Coffee.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-26

SOME shopping newspaper correspondent
has reported the discovery that the one tim,
kaiser seen sitting a chair that cos
only $1.87. Don't you love that!
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-26
HEALTH TAI X&
-sY WILz!u!AM An. Il BRADY no.

sometimes for several weeks. there
may occur a period in the course
OF which the individual is immune
to the food and may eat it with i'm
punity; and In this phase the indi-
vidual does not react to the skin
inoculation test either. This i'm
mune phase is similar to the i'm
munity to certain bacteria land
their protein body substance)
which follows various infectious
diseases.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-26

Shakespeare had a vocabulary rf
some $4,000 words. The average
man has about $500, and some
have but 1000.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-26
YES, NOW.

YES, NOW.
Sir: To my way of thinking sentimental
SWANS and lassies will not be the only ones
after the nation goes dry, who will be addicted
to that habit of looking fondly at the moon
Just think how enViously the average man will
gaze at a full moon. Has anybody pulled that
one? ANNA G.
AFTER waiting this long we may as well
record the fact that the explosion apparently
knocked the starch out of the Douglas plant a:
Cedar Rapids.
One Can Almost Guess How Long He Has Been
Married.
(From Cleveland Plain Dealer
FOR SALE-Two den chairs, rocker and
straight leather seat, $40; built for use; wife
wanted guest room; goodby den; nuf sed. Call
(etc)
Rain water" says scientist, "is soft be-
cause it contains mineral matter"
The same. we believe, may be said of people
by the substitution Of the word grey" for
mineral"
EYES THAT DO NOT SEE.
There was young lady of Tenby.
Who wrote to a nice old friend IN. B."
Now don't be misled,
l don't want to wed,
But where can the eyes OF the men be-"
While refreshing your memory on the in
teresting fact that the United States actually
produces Is per cent of the worlds supply
Of wheat we shall also take the opportunity OF
asking if you had heard that B. Arley Korn
lives at Bourbon, Kan.
WELL, that makes it ifty-fifty, then.
We haven't either!
o. D. K.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-26

Thy I1I1S On JO11 P1I0OO'
Tapuah Ehnav, dagim meluyim, ugath, salad
sheltapahei, Adamh, hazereth, zeitim, kishuyim.
bashar himotz, laschen gleidah tuinim, nam
takim.
That's the layout for a banquet in honor OF
Jacob De Haas at Louisville KY
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-26
You Said It. Brother!

(From Lamar Mo-, Democra9.
Very rarely does a man want to get married
unless he is crazy about some woman But
many woman is quite crazy to get married
when she doesn't know a man she would give
a damn for.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-01
THIS THE GARDEN OF EDEN?
Many Believe That Territory in Which
Famous Spot Was Situated Has
Been Located.

"And the Lord God planted garden
to the eastward. in Eden. And river
went out of Eden to water the garden ;
and it was parted into four heads. y
Genesis.
Sir William Willcocks, who, in be-
half of the British government, has
had charge of the wonderful irrigation
works in Egypt, was assigned not long
ago to the duty of planning similar
large-scale enterprise for the restOra-
ton of ancient Babylonia to its former
agricultural productiveness.
Thus it happened that he located, to
the reasonable satisfaction of archie
ologists, the veritable site of the Gar
den of Eden. For reasons wholly prac-
teal he thought that the best way to
begin.
Starting from the spot where Jewish
tradition placed the gates of paradise
the word paradise" meaning gar
den-he followed the traces of the
four streams mentioned in Genesis,
which, as therein named, were the Pr
son, the Gihon, the Hiddekel and the
Euphrates.
The Euphrates (known by that name
today) flowed through the great city
of Babylon. The Gihon is now called
the Hindia The Hiddekel is the mod
ern Sakhlawia, which flows into the
Tigris at Bagdad. The Pison has gone
dry, but is represented by many
armed channels accomplishing the
whole land of Havilath" (see Genesis),
which lay between Egypt and Assyria.
The Euphrates enters its delta a
few miles below Hit. there leaving the
desert and debouching into vast al
luvial plain. In this departure it has
q considerable fall, with number Of
cataracts, and along a narrow valley
giant water wheels lift water TO irri-
gate of the land on both sides of the
stream.
The entrance to this valley accord
ing TO Jewish tradition) was the gate
of the Paradise in which Adam and
Eve dwelt, and from which they were
expelled for disobeying divine COM
mand There the traveller first meets
the date palm, which is tree Of life"
fsee Genesis) to the whole Arab world
Along the valley garden succeeds
garden. 1t is today q veritable para
disc orchards and date groves check
cred with fields of cotton. The climate
is everlasting summer so that three or
l.
Anciently the cataracts were much
higher, and water wheels were unnec-
essary, the water being led off by
bitches.
The Garden of Eden. indeed, gains
interest from the fact that it seems to
have been the first irrigated area in
the world.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-01

come along. Somehow Leah always felt
that she would know when her right
one appeared, and now she was sure
that Grover Gary was he. So she
merely waited for him to get down TO
business and make himself acquainted
and ask her to be his wife.
But Grover didn't get down to bust
ness. He found himself tongue-tied
whenever he tried TO talk anything that
bordered on the personal. He could not
even bring himself to the point of in
Producing himself. Loyemaking, in its
initial stages and in all others, is so
different from selling insurance, par
ticularly when one has to fight back
bashfulness in the presence of the
other sex.
One morning Grover got out of bed
with the determination to do two
things. First, he had made up his mind
to write up very wealthy but OBJ
stinate prospect" Next he was going
down to the Onion station, introduce
himself and propose to the girl that
was rightfully his.
He did neither. When he got TO the
office he found telegram summoning
him to the head office in Chicago on the
first train that went. The train left be-
fore Leah went on duty at the stand,
and it took Grover away for three
years.
Leah watched in vain for the man
n u
dragged into months and the months
into years she was forced to the con-
clusion that he had deserted her.
"WeH, let him co. she sighed. "Just
because he defies Destiny is no reason
why l should. l shall remain true to
him."
1t was early in the evening when he
returned from his three-year absence.
Leah was thumbing the first number of
new periodical, when familiar voice
inquired:
"Haye you the Magnet MagaZine'g'
She jumped back and her eyes
opened wide Then she smiled her first
real smile in three years.
"Why, yes, / was just reading it,.
But it contains an announcement that
it is the first number of the magazine.
There's good article in the front
about Every One Was Meant for Some
One"
Il know it, he said. "You see, when
l used to ask you about the Magnet
Magazine l knew very well there was
no such publication. 1t simply gave me
an excuse to come in here and talk
with you now and then. Three years
ago went to Chicago and got interest
ed in the publishing business. | made
some money, and finally launched the
Magnet / know that article is good,
because / wrote it myself. In fact, it's
a proposal from me to you, and there
fore it has to be good, doesn't it?o
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-01
Freak Riddles.

The story of freak fiddles would
fill book. They have been made of
tin, copper, iron, leather, glass and
paper. They have assumed many
wonderful shapes. Last year, in Los
Angeles, blind fiddler used to play
on the corner with fiddle that had
no body A tin horn did the work OF
the ordinary sound box of the violin
This was the invention of a local
man. A certfin corporation making
photograph records in the east uses
an aluminium violin. This instrument
is scientifically constructed and used
by one of the greatest artists in max
ing records of is solos for reprOduc-
ton on talking machines. Even fIhs
highest priced old violins do not
sound as one expects violin to sound
when it is reproduced on a record
This aluminium violin corrects that
and the listeners sit entranced at the
sweet tones of the record. The violin,
itself, has a most disagreeable Tone
Los Angeles Times.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-01

to sacrifice, and the dealer knows ex-
actly where lives the rich Indian who
pays, without much haggling, the top
most price.
The glory of the bazaar, like that
of practically all that was picturesque
had given way to the vitality needed
sanitary measures. But the bazaar
still exists, although rather in what
we would call open or general mar
kets. Undoubtedly they continue to
offer many temptations spread before
the covetous eyes of the foreign Wis
itOr in such alluring ways that the end
of purchasing Is not reached even
when the bottom of the purse is, be-
cause the dealers are only too glad
to send their wares to the hotel to be
paid for at masters or madam's CON-
venience, and lots of other 'rare bar
gains which cannot be duplicated"
Most Fascinating of Streets.
Mr.. Curtis "Modern India" says of
Delhi's Chandni Chauk, "SiIyer
Street." that it is fairly called ''the
most picturesque and fascinating
street in the world" Between the two
rows of trees that grow along the cegI-
ter of it's width of 70 feet there was
formerly an aqueduct of clear, run
ming water, that is now filed, and its
banks are the great promenade for
the city's gentry, both foreign resi-
dents and natives.
But the street is marvellous for the
adeptness of the shopkeepers in spot
ting" the stranger. Let visitor from
abroad appear, no matter how perfect
ly Che, at least, thinkS) he has dis
guised himself in proper Indian garb.
he is pounced upon by swarm OF
shopkeepers, and besought to avail
himself of the bargains that were new
err before Offered, and never will again
fall to his good fortune, until he
either yields and secures, sometimes
a true bargain, but often lot of rub
bish, or calls to his relief a friendly
policeman, usually a swarthy Sikh
Sometimes it is most amusing when
rival merchants grapple each other i'm
their frantic efforts to secure the mo-
nopoly of seemingly profitable Gus
toner, and the policeman's services
are required to separate the belliger'
ents.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-01
Steaminq Paper.

Stripping wallpaper from the walls
of room is a tedious and unpleasant
task. The following method has been
found TO do this work satisfactorily:
Remove all furniture from the room
and take up the floor covering; place
in the middle of the room some kind
of a portable stove with big pan of
water on top. Light the stove and
close all the windows and doors; when
the room becomes full of steam tt
viii soften the paste which has been
used for sticking the paper ON the
wall. After an hour or more Of the
steaming it will be easy to remove <ls
paper.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-01

of District of Columbia Other
AS
wipng
evil
of the alleys originally July 1918
congestion this war
gressf ound
building 5000 small houses
in of concerned and
be left to private
England
similar
alley buildings be
stables Shops
houses sheds
improve the health
morals capital, but greatly
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-01


the leagues up n
to do the
menced inhibited
United States under the being direct of provisions
of the
If the
the
been
a
Several
Hanns Taylor minister Mckinley.
The
3 of the Constitut ton
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-01

ent homes a year after the signing of
peace with Germany, when an act of
congress abolishingo the alleys as
places of residence becomes effective.
Washington now faces the big
problem of how to provide housing
accommodations for these people in
an already overcrowded city. Congress
will be asked to help solve the prob
lem by appropriating 100000 to
erect 5000 sanitary homes.
About ten years ago the Alley I'M
nroyement association began q fight
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-01

and the apparent
the RUSSIAN
but the bureau board for vocational education
indifference Surveys
establishing evening and day
shipping take the place OF the nat
umbrella grandfather
that old cun-
t where are mineral that have
tapped
especially for
hon
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-01


hundreds, if thousands
The
OF o
interesting that
N.
and
germs
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-01

SCUC1ttibfA " stuI= RtAiCIiIdtiN' iNoo
sia is in chaos now, hut it cent afford
to stay in chaos much longer. And
whether it energies a socialist state. a
social democracy or republic, its
IS0.000000 people must be supplied
with the necessities of life: it must be
equipped with railroads and factories !;
its forests and mines must be utilized.
And all or most of this must be done
BY traders and engineers and capital
ISIS from the West, for Russia has
neither trained men. money nor tools.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-01
Good intentions.

do you think Bacon wrote Shake
speare's workS2"
"Why start that old controversy
"Scrry! Thought it might be re-
lief to get up a little argument about
something besides the League of Ma
tions."
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-01

Some peoples idea of efficiency LIS 10
pin notice on the front door that the
bell is out of order, instead of having
it fxed.-Ohio State Journal.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-01

elslon may be rendered. This third
party is the Supreme court of the
United States.
If the senate fails to ratify, the
treaty becomes void by that action.
and no appeal to the Supreme court
would be necessary.
If the League of Nations covenant
shall be ratified by the senate it will
be incumbent on congress immediate
ly to make an appropriation to cover
the United States portion of the eX-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-01
Washington to Drive $4,000 People Out of Alleys

VIZ ASH1NGToN world cleanliness
dwes
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-01

looked dusty" and had acquired a
reddish brown color. Similar effects
were noticed elsewhere as far east
as Vermont and New Hampshire.
This strange phenomenon was ex-
amined by several scientists. They
found that a very fine dust had fallen,
apparently all over the eastern United
States.
The strangest thing about this fall
of dust was that it occurred in a
region the greater part of which lay
ho1
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-01
Go to Russia, Young Man, to Make Fortune

commercial and industrial develop
This the advice of the bureau
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-01
When Old Dame Nature Gets Ready to Scatter Seed

WAS noticed Madison Wis,
a
people of Florence
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-01
UNATIONAIE1
A4\pIIAL AFFAIpS
Supreme Court May Have Last Word on the Treaty

the heat president
the League Nations
nave overlooked the fact that
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-12-20
CINCINNATI HAD MANY
MANAGERS SINCE 1891

Charles Comiskey, president OF the
Chicago White Sox, was at one time
manager Of the Cincinnati Reds. he
acted in that capacity from 1891 to
1894. He was originally first base
man on the famous st. Louis Browns
four times pennant winner. The man
ager Of the White Sox Is William
(Kid) Gleason.
Noted players who have managed
the Reds since 1891 are:
1891-1S94 - Charles Comiskey, first
base.
18o5-1e99-Wm. (Buck) Ewing. catch
er.
19OO-Bob Allen shortstop.
19O1-John (Bid) McPhee, second base.
l9O2-19OcJoe Kelley. outf1elder.
l9O6-19O7-Ned Hanlcn, outfielder.
10oe-John CAMEL. first base.
19O9-1911-Clark Griffith. pitcher.
1e121Hank O'Day. pitrher-umpire.
1913-Joe Tinker. shortstop.
Charles >Herzog, shortstop.
1918-1918- Christy Mathewson. pitcher.
l919-Pat Moran, catcher.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-12-20
NEW GERMAN CAPITAL SEEN
Berlin Worried Lest Seat Of Govern
ment BE Shifted to the ~ -
Rhine:

Berlin, Germany.-The Boersen Eel
tung, one of the ablest German news
papers, says the fate Of the city Is
In the balance and that 1t Is. perhaps.
too late to save 1t from becoming
city of the second class. with the re-
moval of the capital and the activity
in q business and political sense to
some Rhinelands city. 1t Is a theory
thet has been gaining ground lately
and Is causing Berlin to lose sleep.
Strikes have followed one another
in an endless succession. The uncer-
tainty of the economic situation al
most led to a boycotting Of Berlin as
the chief work center of Germany. De
spite the huge expense. one industry
after another left Berlin for quleter,
steadier fields.
Merchants, politicians and industrial
leaders have predicted that the trans
fer of the assembly or reichstag would
infiict a severe blow on Berlin, espe.
cially IL it should lead to the choice
Of another capital.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-12-20
CASEY RANKED HIGH ON GRID
harvard Football Star Has Yet to
Prove His Equality With mahan'
Declares Critic.

Football scribes Of Boston and else
where are putting Eddie Casey OF
Harvard In the same class with Edole
Nahan. Well. Casey is good. there Is
no doubt about that, but it would be
as well to bide the passing OF Novem-
Der before placing him in the nicne
alongside one Of the greatest, II NOT
the greatest, backs Of all time. says
writer in an exchange.
Casey, by the way. has already mao
his blooding, unexpectedly and liter
ally. He participated in the Harvard
Yale 1918 game and in the first nalr
got loose and ran through pretty much
all the Yale team over distance OF
some so yards for a touchdown. A
Harvard man, however, was detected
In the commission Of a foul and the
brilliant run went for naught. The
pathetic part of it was that the run
was not affected one way or the other
nv the fouf. Then Immediately after
this hair-raising dash Casey was called
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-12-20
CHESS CHAMPION IS COMING
Akiba Rubinstein, Russian Chess
Wizard, Hopes to Meet American
N.
Players This Winter.

According to recent letter re.
ceived from Warsaw, Akiba Rubin.
stein, chess champion of Russia, de.
sires to visit America and viii come
over If the clubs of this country ex.
press their readiness to put sufficient
engagements his way to make it pos
sible for him to arrange an extended
American tour. He is also prepared
to take part in any international
tournaments that may be arranged on
the lines Of the one conducted by the
Manhattan Chess club last October
and November.
The Russian champion, who is one
OF tne few greatest players in the
world who has never been in this
country. y ranked by many in the
same ciass with Doctor Lasker. Capa.
hlanca. al the late Carl Schlechter.