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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1919-06-10

Every married man believes that
if he don't wear his shoes down town
his wife would lend them to one of
the neighbors. The neighbors Dor
row almost everything else in the
hnusa
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1919-06-10

One reason why the first row of
movie theatre is never filed with men
is because you can't make a date
with fllum photo of chicken.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1919-06-10

Get your size in this seasons
styles in new Brown Pumps and Ok
fords at $3.50 and $6.00.-R. e.
PUNCH & co.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1919-06-10

New tomatoes, potatoes and Gu.
cumbers at Vanarsdell's.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1919-06-10
Dutch Boy
ANCHOR
Whitehead

mixed with pure l,::rseed oil.
Such paint is e,.st.c and ex-
pands and contracts with the
wood. 1t will not crack and
scale when subjected to the
most trying weather changes.
Our stock Of paint and paint ma
terials is large. We recommend
Dutch Boy whitehead be-
cause it is used and endorsed
by people who know paint.
We can serve you as satisfac-
torily as we are serving your
neighbors.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-12
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1919. by Frank Cranel

The other day / picked up the Sunday
Newspaper and Just for greens counted the
Want AID columns. There we're SO columns
of Help Wanted advertisements in this par
ticuar sheet, and only eight Situations
Wanted.
Parenthesis: Where is that Army Of the
Unemployed? What has become Of those
professions of people marching the streets,
sleeping in the churches, and reminding us
that every Human Being has a right to
a job? Haven't the Laboring Men now got
this country about where they want it? No
Lockouts nowadays. Only Strikes. Why
aren't the Proletariat hymning praises
Isn't this the Millennium?
Note: A man got job as a carpenter in
a shipyard during the war. He knew moth
ing about carpentry, but the friend who
got him the place said: That's all right.
You don't have to know anything. Just
pick up board from one pile of lumber,
take it over to another, rest a while, and
then take it back" He followed instruc-
TONS At the end of the week he drew his
pay, SO a day. The next week he noticed
a man following him about as he toted his
board This alarmed him. He suspected he
was being watched and would be discharged.
At last in desperation he accosted the man.
"Say, what are you following me around
for?" he asked "Why, don't you know
who am?" returned the man. mo. Who
are you?" 'Why, I'm your Assistant"
But, to return to our mutton. In these
eight columns of Situations Wanted there
were only four applications for place as
Cook!
Pause. Lay down this paper and think!
Among all the millions of the metropolis
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-12
On the ISSUE Of
4mericonism There Can
Be NO Compromise

only four human creatures that wanted to
cook!
The consumption of food is an absolute-
necessity. 1t is even more important, for
it is a luxury.
One would suppose that cooking would
attract the supremest skill. But one would
be wrong. 1t does not.
1t is about the poorest, punkest business
in the known world. 1t is badly done. And
by people mostly that hate it.
1t seems, from my acquaintance, that
an average of nine women out of eight,
detest the kitchen.
A cook is looked down upon She oughy
to be on a-pedesta and looked up to.
She ought to get high enough wages so
that the swarm of girls who now go in
for tending shop, typewriting, and school
teaching, would turn to Housekeeping, which
is the Noblest, Grandest, and Most Needed
Business on earth.
In New York City / have eaten at scores
of hotels and restaurants. They are uni
formly bad The food is i'll cooked and
high priced. The service is irritating. And
it makes little difference whether it is a
cheap lunch counter or fashionable rob
ber's nest. All bad. With two or three
exceptions.
Why, Oh, why, doesn't anybody want to
cook any more?
] am not ashamed to say that look upon
eating as a serious and important function.
and have little patience with them that
affect to despise it.
i agree with DR.. Johnson, who said: Il
look upon it that he who does not mind
his belly will hardly mind anything else.*
Where is the cook? e
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-12

an the 18th of July. in 1868. Queen Elizabeth i'm
" prisoncd Mary Queen OF Scots In the castle OF
Bolton.
On tho 18th Of July. In 1887. battle with the
Pequot Indians took place near Fairfield Conn., In
which that formidable tribe externinated.
In 1877 the 18th Of July. William Berkeley. gov
OF Virginia, died In England after having ad
mlnistered the office for 40 years He had been a
bgoted and revengeful executive caring little for the
welfare OF the colony.
ON the 1ath OF july in l7ss Jean Paul Marat a
notorious leader OF the French Revolution was as
sassnated In his bath by Charlotte Corday. At the
outbreak OF the revolution Marat veterinary
OF education In few months he became one of
tho most important leaders In the Reign OF Terror.
In 1868. the 13th Of July, the civil war draft
riots commenced In New York City. The riotng
continued for four days and nights One thousand
persons killed and millions of dollars worth Of
property destroyed The conscription acts Of the
civil compelled all men chosen by lot from the
list OF eligible citizens soldiers unless
ularly excused Any chosen might, however. hire
substitute for $500 and thus exempt himself from
service This regulation the main cause for the
riots It unjusty Disseminated against the poor.
The riots suppressed and the Union armies were
almost wholly recruited by CONSUMPTION.
In 1887. the 18th OF July congress passed the
first act providing for the government OF territory
outside the original 10 colonies This act vas called
IAN ordinance for the government of the western
rory," and under 1t the northwestern territory
organized.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-12

THE STARS AND STRIPES really had three birth
days. The l4th OF June Is merely Of them 1t Is
however the first OF the three. and therefore. the
most important.
Congress took three guesscs arranging the flag.
First June IA. 1877. dear old congress said Let
there be a star and stripe for each OF the states
And II was--13 stars and 10 stripes Dear old con-
gress didn't even dream Of there coming day when
there'd be states. Now isn't that just like
congress?
CONGRESS CANNOT SEE farther than its
and when forgets its spectaces the range OF
congressional vision is sti less.
So May l. 1894. the American flag had another
birthday Congress counted the states and found TO-
Vermont and Kentucky having been admitted Con-
gress said "Oh, very well. we'll stick in couple
more stars and couple more stripes and let II 80
at that"
The starspangled banner waved Is stars and as
many stripes the breeze until April 4. 1918, when
IL got another birthday.
sLEEPY-EYED CONGRESS WOKE UP and again
counted the states-by heck! there were 20 Of 'em
And Congress fused around trying to get that
many stripes flag and sim have 1t sizable for
waving purposes
Cant be done- congress bewailed. mot enough
room for 20 stripes
After getting considerable expert opinion, listening
to thousand speeches, and reading the latest alma,
congress put thru law showing back the mum.
Der OF stripes the original 10 and passing star
around to every state.
Vermont and Kentucky are the only states in the
union that had stripes the flag and haven't
got EN- there now.
Hawaii ana Alaska want Stars
Porto Rico wants star flag Of her own.
Aside from those ambitious souls the flag she is
suits every American excepting OF course the Reds
and they're Americans.
with Hawaii and Alaska there'd be 50 stars.
PLANTATION INFORMS US that there are 100.
56o.1s0 stars in the heavens.
once-in 17S5-the state of Franklin get
ting both star and stripe in the nag Ask your
little boy TO bound the state OF Franklin. and name
the capital" Thatll hold him for quite while
well-and you'll know when he admits he
doesnt-the state of Franklin organized by what
were then western North Carolnans. They tried
break away from the parent state. called the
state Franklin elected John Sevior governor, and
made Jonesboro the capital
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-12
The Merry-GO-Round

BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE
Have you ever seen tots a merry-goround
And some rode 1t merriy. very.
And some were as sober IL they had found
That merry-goround isn't merry
Looking at life, / willing to say
That people go riding II much the same way
Observation-Disclosures upper-andbed
Is the merry goround OF the day,
And ride in the round in spirit of dread
And some in a spirit OF play
Some rise with a shout and go singing to rest
And some say the merry goround is pest
The music grnds out Of the merry-goround
As dance a dirge. a Groom
For It's more of n feeling and less of a sound
AS the rider interprets the tune.
Some say II reminds them OF primitive Joys
And some think II merely a hideous noise.
Birth, breath and burying. so runs the wheel
And II wobby or we'll
And whether a treadmIll or automobile.
Or whether a gay carousel.
Depends not much on the wheel as II glidcs
As 1t does on the soul of the rider who rides.
Copyright. 1919. N. e. Al
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-12

mooches along the sldenes, aiming a timber eye for
a space to horn in ahead OF the rest he'll be that
much closer for the thumb On the hop he
follows the procession Always has his hoof the
other chuggers Too bad all the leftover hand
AIDES are to be made into kid banks!
1t has been suggested that start the Anti.
Raisn League.
Until 1919 July chiefly noted for its Fourth
JOHN ADAMS HAD HIS OWN IDEA ABOUT JULY
The second day OF July. 1776 will be the most
memorable epoch In the history OF America" John
wrote to his wife, That happened to be the days
the IL colonies decided to independ OF CT. Britain,
signing the declaration two days later
And II 1t hadn't been for the Fifth OF July the
every minute" for 1t that day (s1o) Phineas T.
Barnum came to make crcuses what they are.
Bill Bryan chose the Tenth OF July 1890 to make
the cross of god'i "16 to /" shot.
And the American Marines picked July 49, 1918 to
stop the Huns at Chateau.Thierry
On July 10 Os4s) first woman suffrage convention
was held at Seneca Falls, N. Y.
A Harvard professor has written an article for the
Journal of the American Medical Association explain.
ing why a gets thirsty Most of those we've
bumped into have been thirsty principally because
they couldn't get It,
New York hotel owners have decided to make every
effort to keep adventures out OF their hotels. We
take it that their dining rooms are to be operated
on the servesef plan.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-12
THE OLD GARDENER SAYS:

Inat Enelish vegetable marrows being warmly
recommended by amateurs who grew them on the
Old Gardeners advice last year. Most people seem
willing to admit that they far superior to the
to the common summer squash. They are less vaterv
are equally easy to and when they get too old.
10 De served In the ordinary way may be made into
pres which VIII readily pass as pumpkin pies with
ANYBODY but Yankee farmer. II you have only 1
limited amount of ground plant bush or cluster
marrows' II you nave plenty OF room. grow the
running kind You will need only a few hin. 90
the plants produce enormously If they have rich
ground. 800
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-12
O. B. Joyful Discusses History, League of Indignation
and the Doughnut Couture That Has Attracted Women
BY O. b. JOYFUL

But the state OF North Carolina took statehood
been Franklin the United States and in 1890 what
had been Franklin became Tennessee. That's how
near Tennesseeans came to being Franklners.
BUT AS OLD BEN FRANKLIN didn't say to
King Louie II should worry; the state of intoxica
ton will get out Of the union July r."
Hank Lodge. Bill Borah and the Chi Tribune have
organized the League OF Indignation.
Which hasn't anything at all to do with the fact
that while progress progresses the ladies' are going
to the doughnut couture" like iron filings to
magnet
The dougnut twist however. in Al RIGHTS estimar
ton Is still some distance back of the Hopi Indian
lady's way of doing up her hair.
And. II your husband kicks because II takes Won
bit Of time acquiring the doughnut twist let him
Know That frequently the Bauba ladies' of Congo
VIII take up smuch Is days arranging their
hair for some important social function--and then
take week getting II to where it was before the
arranging started
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-12
Credit for the Flag

In American schools for century more the youth
the maker Of "oid Glory" In Philadelphia the Betsy
home shrine Now out that Betsy played only
part small part in the creation of the Star Spangled
Edward Hopkinson great grandson of Francis Hopkn-
son. points out that the acts of the Continental Congress
and the records in Washington establish the fact that
Francis Hopnson at the request of designed the
flag and Betsy merely acted the part of seamstress
The statement of Mr.. Hopinson is confirmed by Dean
Arthur Hobson Quinn of the University of Pennsylvania
Francis Hopkinson was one of the foremost poets,
always has been a puzzle how Betsy Ross who not
noted for originality designed such beautiful thing
as the American flag undoubtedly the most beautiful OF
The Hopknson explanation is clear and convincing but
it is doubtful whether the American people ever will be
weaned away from attrbuting to the renowned Betsy
practically all the credit for the flag.
The reason the dope of peace can't find place for
her foot in Merco is because the oil interests make 1T
& slippery.
AT that the 4vay the graduates settled aoord prob
lens uas about rational of the solutions Of
tered by statesmen.
Congressman Fordney informs us that the lurury
tar in paid by the Does he knotO of a tar
that smt?
gorious democracy is q country in achich each
citizen thinks he could the government better than
the bome-heads uho are on the 900.
Since his crushing defeat, the Hun has experienced
great change IN all things except IN spirit IN heart
and in fact.
Uncle Sam has third of the a0orlds gold, half of
the lUorlds COAL and greater proportion of its
honesty.
At this rate shall be keeping our cash in
s. the kitchen safe and our eats IN the office safe.
IN international politics. unfriendly act is
thing done By nation ick
When the meek inherit fortune they soon learn to
speak of the boer class and the inpudence OF SERVANTS
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-12
WAR ON DISEASE
A WAR ON SIN
by THE REV. CHARLES STELZLE
(Stan Writer on Religious Topics for The Star

Posters announcing that "the government has de-
clared vice diseases" displayed in conspic.
uous places turnout the country.
And it's wholesome thing that these horrible dis.
eases to be attacked by a reliable. unselfish
agency rather than by fake commercial enterprise.
There's doubt that Uncle Sam will greatly reduce
the suffering due to the immortality of both and
But there's limit TO what the government may do
II may establish ever so fine clinic dispensary
and furnish the most competent physicians available
but vice disease will never be conquered until and
women have learned to conquer themselves.
In the final analysis, the vice disease Is
sin-and sin cannot be conquered by whole.
sae-it is individual matter.
There's point where science halts-it's the place
where the will Of man is arrayed against the of
God-and here even God is helpless unless man is
ready to surrender to Him
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-12
1NGlEIAE0f
BY Mckee.

The only dog which doesn't furnish roosting
place for flea in the neighborhood is the dog
fish. 4...... 80
Charles Mason. Washington c. has been SEN
fenced to spend year in prison for stealing sl2>
And the department also Washington. ID. c.
sold 100000 worth OF airplanes back TO their
makers for 100000.
The labor world is all het up the One Big
Union idea But any bridegroom tell you the
One Big Union of which he is the lesser half. isn't
anything to worry over.
THE JULY VERSION
He had climbed the outside Of 1 chocolate
frappc nut sundae, cherry sodas. banana split.
2 strawberry sodas matted milk. pineapple
When In rushes his little daughter. wearing her last
weeks silk dress and hat she had already had on
twice (think of the poverty In that homeD.
The fountain flies hung their heads In shame.
Some OF EN- snked out the back door.
They, too. had homes neglected. wives who had
nothing but last years Limousine to ride around
Susie spoke!
Anxously she gazed up into the face Of her father:
Father. dear father come home with now"
THE HORNINGIN AUTOPEST
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-12

When the influenza epidemic at its worst in this
country considerable effort put forth in ghtng the
flu But one, not the most learned OF our phys
cians got intimately acquainted with the flu germ More
less guessing done along preventive lines and IN
the treatment of patients.
The result: 100000 deaths!
Influenza RACES in autumn, winter and early spring
Another epidemic may with cooler weather. An
other WILL some time-if have not learned how
to prevent its coming. To prevent its coming we must
study the subject horoly than able to do
while stricken with the dread disease And the best time
to do this studying is NOW.
A years delay may harvest another 100000 deaths
or MORE.
The American Medical association has asked congress
to contribute 900 investigation of the influenza
epidemic attempt to determine its cause and to isolate
the influenza germ
This is but cent and half from each person in the
country Is there ANY person not willing to give that
much toward ending the influenza danger for all timeY
Congress Immediately should appropriate the million
and half and direct the United States public health SER
vice to begin it's investigation in conjunction with the
American Medical association and to continue this highly
Important work until the has been found and Its
methods of attack analysed Preventive and curative cam
paigns then may be inelgenty planned and will be
more successful than efforts during the course
Of the last epidemic. 49,
To do this and to do it quickly, is matter of public
concern and therefore, is matter of public financing
Gen. McHate says that Private Gaffney is the sec
ond brarest IN the army because he captured 80
Haas. The brdrest the army those tpho
the worst scared and cent forward IN spite Of It,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-12

--LATEST OF the
flat is the auto
pest with the
I W o c y Under
I n In X engine
that hits on one,
the zap that
works the horn
ing.in gag with
his gas gondoIa.
Never stays in
line with the
other buzz bug.
giles on the ave
nue.. When the
traffic general
hoists the stop
palm, this bird
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-12
A GOOD CHANCE FOR A THOUsANnDorJ
WEEK BOY

Wanted-A young man of pleasing personality more
than ls years of age. physically strong clean and
healthy, and capable of dschargng responsibility ue
must be honest intelligent persevering alert capabls
OF concentration and OF pleasing personality His
aesthetic sensbilities be somewhat deve,onea
ana MS imagination sufficient enable him 10 nake
oisuhc"ons' GOOD pay TO the right boy and oppor.
tunities for advancement Apply at once 70 Ko.nah,
Mohrenstecher Co.-Quncy QllD Herald
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-12
Climate and Divorce

North Carolina has the best record Of state in
the Union in the matter of divorce In out of its 102
counties there divorces in In only one
county Pennsylvania did the total exceed the for
the United States, which is 112 per 100000 of popula
dom The for the whole of North Carolina is 81
only IS per cent of the nations average.
A captious person might insist that South Cardinals
record is better there divorces there but the
answer is that divorce is impossible there owing to the
I1nct that there divorce laws
The northern states show far divorces than those
Of the South There two explanations One that in
ne South divorce not considered so lightly by the whites
- Il IS in the North the social lines being tightly
drawn there against offender guilty of violating the
martial and the other being that among the blacks
Who form large part of the population, divorce is too
eosan6 the easier way is to call the marriage off and
IT II 60 at that.
Whether there is merit in the statement that there is
more of chastity in climates than in cold Is open to
question: but SO far as the official records CO. there
cre divorces per capita northern Europe than southern
Europe in the northern states of the United States
HAN in the southern.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-12

The Pacific fleet scM sail merit month, but we are
not Informed whether it aCiu occupy Brtains part of
ne ocean, yapan's part.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-12
THE HORNING.IN AUTOPEST

Not all the flat tires the auto wheels. Some
of EN- sit I'm back OF the steering wheel And the
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-12

At this rate shall be keeping our cash
the kitchen safe and our eats IN the office safe.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-12
The JCeanie Star.

-. mail out of city. soc per month; . mouths.
$ibo: months ssfs; year. $500. In the
State of WASHINGTON. Outside the state.
15o per MONTH $3.50 fer months. or $500
per year. BY carrier. city. 12c per week
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-12

Uncle San. has third of the Uorlds gold
the avorld's coal, and an even greater propo7ti
common honesty.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-12

Since his crushing defeat, the Hun has er
a great change IN, all things except IN spirit,
and in fact.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-12

When the meek inherit fortune, they learn to
speak of the Jo0er class and the inpudence Of SERVANTS
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-12

A glorious democracy is country IN UI
,itizen thinks he could run the government be
the bome-hedds aUhO are on the Job.