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The Tomahawk., 1919-07-31
Too Advanced.

I Too Advanced.
Tony Spagom was having his throat
examined at the infirmary. "Say
'ch-h-h,'" said the doctor.
Me NO spik Englees," said Tony.
The Tomahawk., 1919-07-31
Mothers Cook Book

The straight thing pays always in
the end, in friendship, in business, in
politics. in every conceivable avenue
and phase Of life.--Ralph Waldo Trtne.
The Tomahawk., 1919-07-31

Mailed Down.
"Got a dollar, Jones?"
'Yeah, got One."
"Wil you lend it t. muh?"
"Nope; that's tn reason I got One."
Wanted Too Much.
CustOmer-That doesn't seem very
good fit.
Dealer-Vot you exspect for 1even
tollars-an ATTACK Of epilepsy?
The Tomahawk., 1919-07-31
Daily Optimistic Thought.

There IS no SKIN or cleverness to
b compared to that which avoids
temptAtion.
The Tomahawk., 1919-07-31
HAVE A LAUGH
lIIllllllllIIIIIIlIIllIlIIIIIIlIIllllIll
The Tie That Bound.

80 The Tie That Bound.
Lawyer-On what grounds, madam,
do you wish divorce from your hus-
band?
. Cllent-Why, I married him for his
money, and he has lost everything.
The Tomahawk., 1919-07-31
Iced Tea.

Prepare the tea, using teaspoonful
to a quart Of water; when cold chill
with ice and serve with slices of
lemon; add sugar to sweeten.
The Tomahawk., 1919-07-31
Tomato Salad.

Cut thick slices of uniform sized to-
matoes, after removing the peeltng,
cover each. slice with finely chopped
celery, cucumber and bit of onion.
Serve on lettuce with spoonful OF
mayonnaise on top Of each slice. The
chopped vegetable may be marlnated
for a half hour in French dressing
which will improve the flavor.
The Tomahawk., 1919-07-31


Major General
Read eonvsne with the prince Wales
Of the
The Tomahawk., 1919-07-31
Plain leo Cream.

The simplest and easiest ice cream
to make as we'll as the least expensive
is one with a custard foundation. Use
three eggs, one cupful of sugar, four
cupfuls Of milk, tablespoonful OF va
nilla and one-fourth teaspoonful OF
salt. Cook as for custard, adding the
vanilla when cold; freeze as usual. A
pint Of cream added just before freez-
ing is q great Improvement.
The Tomahawk., 1919-07-31
Oranaeade.

Boil two cupfuls Of sugar and two
of water until a rich sirup Is made.
then add two-thirds of cupful of or
ange juice and one-third of a cupful
of lemon juice, with iced or chilled wa
ter to dilute. Serve a slice Of orange
in each glass.
The Tomahawk., 1919-07-31
Lemonade.

Boil two cupfuls of sugar and four
cupfuls of water until a rich sirup Is
formed. Add one cupful Of lemon juice
and put in the ice chest. Dilute with
iced water for lemonade. A little
grated lemon rind boiled with the sirup
adds an attractive flavor.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-22

to get a nucleus Of an idea, a phrase
that the members of the troupe had
used so often on their tour through
the North that winter popped into his
head, Il wish l was in Dixie" With
these words as an inspiration he
wrote the famous song. In 1851 a
chorus Of girls sang it in a theater IN
New Orleansl The Washington Artill-
cry heard II. made 1t a part Of their
r%epertory, and It has been sung ever
since.
John Browns Body was an old
negro spiritual. a camp-meeting song.
The old words were used until Julia
Ward Howe wrote her famous Battle
Hymn" for it
The tavorite song OF the Spanish war
was "A Hot Time in the Old Town To-
night" II was a popular street sons
when the war started and the soldiers
simply took it for their own. They
sang It so much that some of the for
eign correspondents wrote home 70
their papers that America entered Gu
ba singing their two national anthems.
The Star Spangled Banner" and "A
Hot Time in the Old Town
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-22

invited them TO make a visit 10 camp.
One evening while they were there the
famous Washington Artillery serenad-
cd them They asked if there wasn't
something they could do for them in
return, and some soldier shouted, Let
us hear a woman's voice!" The Cary
girl who sans Immediately stepped
out beneath the stars and sang Mary
land. My Maryland" This was the
birth OF the song as a war song. The
soldiers went wild owe il. They sang
it far into the night, and in a few
weeks it was known by every regi-
ment in the South
Dixie" strange TO say, was written
by q northerner. a famous old min
strel man, Dan Emmett. In those days.
every minstrel show ended with what
was called a "walk-around." a repre-
sentation OF plantation life, and old
Dan vas very successful in writing
these "walk-arounds" for his COM
pGny. One night. three or four years
before the Civil War, Dan was told
that he would have TO have a new one
ready for the next rehearsal. II was
a cold and dreary day. and as he was
standing IN front of q window trying
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-22
OUT WITH NE

shoes, layouts Of cosmetics and a lit
tie money in the new meshbag.
They don't want TO give UP the nice
SIS a month job to any soldier, not
even II he is humpbacked from pack
ing around Distinguished Service
Crosses. Croix de Guerre and citations.
Sister has held down the job for two
years, enjoyed the big boost in sal
aries that came after April, 1917, got
herself a few closets full Of fine
clothes. cultivated an expensive taste
In candy and likes the life generally.
She does not want TO go back to
school, to beg for lunch money. 10
veal whatever clothes she can fake.
frame or borrow and to hang around
Pop" who is growing hollow-eyed
with the high cost of living. for what
ever is left By the butcher, baker and
coal man Fathers wages have not
been increased in fifteen years. He
got set In a peace industry in the
days when we had no idea we ever
would be in a war again. The indus
try was hit hard by the war. Pop
is lucky TO be working. not to speak
Of making a living. So daughter wants
to hang on to the job.
What Is she 10 do7 Her brother, her
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-22

AT that time there lived In Balti-
more the famous Cary girls. relatives
OF General Lee. They, too, were ar
dent -southerners. One evening they
were giving a party. and wishing 10
spring a new ong on their guests
they discovered that the words of this
poem, Maryland, My Maryland"
which every one was reading and re-
citing at that time. could be perfectly
adapted to the old college song. "Lau-
riser Horatius." SO one Of them sang
IT ar the party and It made a tremend-
Gus hit
Some time later she and her sisters
asked permission TO make a visit 10
relatives in Virginia II was granted
and they made the journey IN an old
wagon. which was loaded 70 the top
with trunks and boxes. supposedly
containing their wardrobe. AS soon
as they had crossed the line II was
discovered that they were all filed
with cloehIng. bandages and other
comforts for the Confederate soldiers,
and they were not permitted 70 return
10 Baltimore. as a punishment. While
they were living there in Virginia. IN
exile. as it were, General Beauregard
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-22

Sunday after Sunday, evening after
evening. rocking till her heels hurt.
and thinking until her soul aches that
she could get away from IT all. Girls
don't think so any longer.
How" said a pert and p~ertinacious
young miss of IS who has been in the
polite ~phraseology Of a soldier brother
dragging down her ninety bucks a
month in an office during the war,
would some OF the boys like II they
had 10 stick around home seven days
a week and wait, without a nickel 10
their name, for the great day when
some beau managed 10 hold out
enough from his mother, his tailor. his
barber, the poolroom. the cigarette
store and the baseball game TO take
her as far as the corner and buy her
a glass Of soda?
How would the boys like to rock
on the porch until it seemed that the
whole world was rocking, too, until
their souls rocked within them, IN
Til chaos seemed present, evening aft
er evening, week after week, year aft
er year?
81 have two brothers older than me.
They made anywhere from s35 to $50
a month before the a They paid
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES mother felt
strong enough to drag the money
away from them, which was not often.
They never gave anyone in the family
a dime. Once in a blue moor mother'd
make one Of them take me out. Be
lieve me, it would be some battle. I
often begged mother not TO kill herself
battling with the boys 10 take me
out, though, the world can bet I'd
have given an eye to get TO a picture
show or TO a dance. But there always
was a battle and the last word could
be, Well, she pays her own car fare
if she goes with me- They'd sit like
a bear with a sore head all the time
they had to be with me. After one or
two trials l gave it up. Never again
with one of my brothers for me.
We'll, when Jack and Jim. u hall
room boys. went to the war I got Z
job. l got $65 a month first and $50
a few months later. That was more
money than both my brothers had been
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-22

o@NNN-C
Il paid my board regularly. $40
each month, to mother. No fight TO
get the board out of me.
L was glad to pay il knew what
battles mother had to get it out Of
Jack and jim ~irregularly. And ! paid
more board than both of them put to-
gether were supposed 10 pay. I say
supposed They really never paid
half the time. Always a stall instead
of the cash. A suit of clothes, shoes,
dentist. a party. club dues; a Teller
gotta spend something once in a while,
amt hep and all that sort Of stuff. If
they ever paid mother the full amount
of their board on one pay day she'd
have dropped dead with surprise. She
got part of II when she felt 6t enough
TO go to war for it, which was not
often.
After l paid mother $40 a month
had $50 for myself. Just think Of it,
Little Lucy, the Cinderella of the fam
lily, who never had a dime she could
call her own, having fifty big round
dollars a month TO throw to the birds
the birds that make clothes and hats
and shoes and stockings.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-22

~HE origin OF some of those old
time war songs OF our grand
fathers day that the Yanks
carried over here" with them. and
sang with as much fervor as those that
were written for them. are most in
teresting.
There was Maryland. My Mary
land" for example. which was called
tha Marseillaise OF the Co~nfederscy.
II was written by q young man named
lanes Ryder Randall. he was a Bal
tmorean. but when the war broke out
Ia was on a paper IN New Orleans.
Es was not strong enough to enlist
hut being an ardent southerner he felt
a. very keenly when his native state
huns back and refused 10 join the
c-onfederacy. When be heard that the
Baltimore people had al last fred on
northern troops be was overjoyed. and
that night he got up out OF his bed at
midnight and wrote the poem, Mary
land. Ny Maryland" The entire
poem." be said later. was dashed OF
IN a very few minutes" 1t was pub
ushed IN his own paper drst. and was
later copied in every paper In the
South
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-22
Good Clothes Make
Them Feel Different.

"Oh. the JOY Of that first pair Of silk
socks. They informed me for the first
time in my eighteen years that 1 had
limbs. Prior 10 April. 1917, I felt that
what are called limbs are merely
props on which TO peg around. When
I pulled on and soothed the silk socks
we'll. 1 hate 10 talk about myself. but
Anna Pennington had nothing on Lit
tie Lucy.
a decent pair of well-made shoes.
too. A fine frock. And a regular coat
A fur about my neck. rubbing my
cheeks. A little stuff to touch up the
eyebrows and the cheeks. Not much.
Just a touch. A little red stuff for
the lips now and then under the cleo
trio light. A real hat A snin of
Mary Garden. S. an ounce. but an
ounce OF it goes a million miles.
Il had been a little home body. in
calico and Bingham. When I wanted
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-22

10 sObo e " NC IL Auto
ton Of the hour. Jobs have
- been a question In many mil
lions OF homes.
It does not matter whether jobs are
really beneficial for men and women,
boys and girls. Some men say that
they never have had a Job and that
they never want to have a Job. They
believe in working for themselves.
They are the exceptions. The mass
OF man and woman kind seem to be
job wanters. Job hunters. A job is the
beginning and end of all things. So
"iobs."
High-up officers who come back from
the war TO tell us who had to stay al
home. work eighteen hours a day. pay
the taxes. subscribe TO the Liberty
bonds. war work. charities. etc. wor-
~ about our sons who were having the
time Of their lives being heroes. that
the main thing TO be done for the re-
turning soldier is to see that he gets
a good Job.
Jobs! Jobsl Jobs must be pulled out
OF the air as conjuTers pull rabbits and
other geological specimens out Of a silk
hat Any man who was a slider must
have a good job at good wages. Now.
a man may be a great soldier and a
poor Job seeker. a poor job getter and
a dern sight poorer job holder. In
fact. II might be argued that the better
soldier a fellow is the poorer job hold
ct he may very we'll be. It's all in
the point OF view. Anyhow. the born
soldier must naturally be a Soldier"
Remember the old ante bellum Quip.
Soldier. will you work." Most great
soldiers have always despised work
Did not Bill Anthony. the hero of the
Maine. 90 bad after be quit the serv-
ice and went to work.
Bill Anthony was a model soldier,
but a poor job holder. He had no time
for that.
Doubtless there are coolies Of good
Job holders coming out Of the army.
They mayhap have been poorer sol
diers than the fellows who never
worked.
Anyhow, il is a case OF Jobs" The
soldiers are coming back by the ship
load 10 a grateful country and de-
handing Jobs. Most OF them had some
sort Of jobs before the var Where
are the Jobs gone?
In some instances the girls have got
them. And the girls don't want to
give them up TO the soldiers.
II the girls did want to give up the
Jobs II is by no means sure hat the
soldiers would want 10 take them.
The argument is this:
Girls have Jobs. Soldiers need Jobs
How about the Jobs the girls have fol-
toldiers7
The girls say that the jobs they have
are girls Jobs. not mems jobs. anC
that no sel~f-respecting hero would
take such Jobs. that a hero shoulC
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-22
Don't Think Returned
BOYS Really Want Jobs.

You see what a few clothes on III
back and a few dollars in the mesh
bag will do? Everything vas going
fine; life was one long, sweet song.
when the war ends, and Jack and Jim
came home.
"Jobs! Those boys never got them
selves a Job in their lives, Dad al
ways had to go out and hustle them
their jobs.
ANY old Jobs at all Anything 70
keen them out OF the house so thai
mother and I could make up the beds.
Boys are great to sleep, you know. Up
all night, and in bed to noon It's .
great life. But ! weaken on It
Now our heroes are home from
Pike. That was as far as they got
with the work OF making the country
safe for democracy. And father, moth
er and me want them to have Jobs.
Not real jobs, but any jobs that will
take them out of the house In day
time,
ITO tell the truth. the boys are not
~bothering much about Jobs. They new
er did They talk about wanting Jobs
But will they go out and hustle Jobs?
Not while pop and nom and 1 are
alive.
Pops run pop-eyed taking are OF
his own job, but he'll have TO take
half an ho1r on some day and force
these heroes Of ours upon the pay rolls
OF some OF his friends.
Jim had the gall the other night b
say. Lucy. can't o quit7 Mother
needs you around the shack. Can't
you tx It so that I can get your Dobr
I almost died. Why that hero
couldn't hold my Job an hour. Mothe;
does not need me around the house.
She needs the $40 l pay her. on the
spot, every month. She's got = few
clothes and a chaise Tongue she want
ed all her life and has Joined a club
and has quit looking at the four walls
OF the kitchen sixteen hours a day. as
she did when the boys worked and
was az home
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-22
An Interesting Problem
Is Now Before the Country.

It all combines to make a new and
interesting situation, one which is la
BILE to bring about a tremendous eco
nomic and social change in the Unit
ed States and turn the old stand-bys
topsy turvy. Here 1t is:
What shall we do with our urplus
women? Or have we surplus women
Or surplus men? During the war the
girls had lots Of work to do. Every
employer wanted them. The bovs
were all gone. Who but the girls
could take the places left vacant by
the draft and volunteering?
The girls o the places vacated by
the boys. Mostly the girls needed the
money. Few people who do not need
money care about Jobs. Say what you
will it is not the job that attracts. 1t
is the money that is said to 90. or sup
posed to go. with the Job tina fetches
them out Of bed at 7 a IL, jams then
in a street car and losses them In fac
tory, shop, store or office.
The Job don't matter so much The
money is everything.
Well. the girls quit high school in
their sophomore years. quit the kitch-
en-. the parlor and the upstairs" and
went TO work in the shop. factory.
store and office.
Now we tell them You must give
up your job TO returning soldiers"
The girls don't seem to relish that
a bit. They have been doing pretty
we'll during the war. While brother,
sweetheart and husband has been he
roing his women folk have been work
ing, in many instances getting more
money than he ever got In his life.
The girls have got swell clothes. a
perfumery that they had never heard
OF before the war, silk stockings, s1S
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-22

have, IL not a hero's Job. a mans Job.
Too many men say the girls, were
holding down girls jobs before the
war. Instead of setting the Job mar
ket awry, the girls say. the war set
the market right. 1t put men in mems
jobs and women in women's Jobs. So.
the girls cry. let II go at that. The
girls hold the girls jobs, the boys will
And mems jobs.
Most former soldiers agree with the
girls. They do not want the soft and
white-collared jobs back They want
pick and shovel. drill and ak jobs.
mems jobs.
But. meanwhile, many soldiers. good
boys who have served their country
and made the world safe, etc, feel
that they need to eat. They don't care
so much about sleeping. They can
sleep anywhere. but they got the habit
OF an appetite and food to satisfy ii III
the army and they can't get over the
idea that they need TO a TO be happy.
So. in a pinch. some soldiers said.
they might marry the girl. but not lake
her Job.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-22

sweetheart is out Of a Job. But then.
S 10 far as she is concerned, they'd
much better be out of a job than that
she should be out Of 1t. When they
had Jobs they gave her mighty little
consideration. They wore good clothe
smoked cigars or cigarettes. played
pool, drank a little beer, ate at good
restaurants-when there were good
restaurants-played ball, had a good
time while she stalled" through on
cheap calicos and cheaper ginghams,
a few ounces OF talcum powder. sat on
the porch without a dime in her bag,
rocked and waited for some one to
come along and take her to the drug
store for a soda or to thu picture show
for a look.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-22

to put on style 1 had 10 30 to a young
married woman next door and borrow
her coat and furs. I never had a reg
ular beau. Mother said I was too
young. But younger girls had beaus-
At least something in pants to take
them out
When l got the clothes and the furs
and began TO sit UP and take notice
the beaus came around all right. II
men were scarce 1 did not notice It.
They did not come around and sit on
our porch, either. They'd nev give
me time to rock. I had such good
clothes that they thought II added to
their commercial rating to be seen out
with me. They came IN troops. Old.
staid married men who had grunted
xhen 1 bowed TO them, took OF their
hats and gazed admiringly at me. One
old crouch who lives in our block &C
tually stopped and said, Why. Lucy.
Grown up, amt you? Some cute kid
Wish 1 was young again
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-22
Boys Think 1t Is Right
For Sister TO Stay at Home.

For Sister TO Stay at Home.
"Awh," say the boys. mats all right
for a gu-rul. Say, what do women ex-
pect?'
What do women expect? The earth.
kid, the earth. you hear some one say.
Boys may think that it is all right
for a girl TO plant" on the porch
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-22

T0BSl Jobs seem 10 be the ques-
ton OF the hour. Jobs have
. been a question In many mil
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-22

~HE origin OF some Of those old
time war songs OF our grand
fathers day that the Yanks
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-02
Germans Ordered
To Restore Arms

BERLIN, Saturday, May 31.--Ac-
cording to the German armistice COM
mission at Spa, the entente presented
yesterday a new note regarding Ger
man troops in Lettland and Lithuania.
The note is said to have directed that
German forces in the Baltic provinces
be withdrawn within a line to be
marked out for them.
Field Marshal Won Der Goltz will
be permitted to retain command pro-
vided he received orders from Ger
many for the establishment of a
Lettish coalition government. The
note is said to decree tnat arms must
be restored to Lettish troops whose
mobilization must be unhampered
while complete freedom must be as
sured the new Lettsh government
Fifteen days from June is granted
for acceptance of the terms,
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-02
Sketch of the Austrian Peace Treaty
Handed Them by Allies Today

ST. GERMAIN June 2-(By United Press THE Austrian
peace treaty include the following provisions:
Austria accept the covenant of the league of nations
and labor charter she must all her extra European
rights she must demobze her naval and aerial forces Aus
ta must recognize the complete independence of Hungary
Austrian nationals guilty of violating international laws
be tried by the Allies Austria accept
conditions and freedom of transit similar those of Germany
The treaty sections dealing with prisoners and graves
of the treaty corresponds those in the German pact The
boundaries of Bohemia and Morava form boundary
between Austria and CzechoSovaka with minor rectcaton
by the allies later to fix the southern boundary The eastern
boundary leaves Marbug and Radkersburg to JugoSava
The western and northwestern frontiers unchanged Aus
JugoSovakia Austria is to be recognized ndependAn
republic Austria must recognize the frontiers of Bulgaria
Greece Hungary Poland Roumania, CzechoSovakia Ju
Sovaka later determined The BresLitovsk tr y
annuled Austria must recognize the independence of TIC
territory formerly belonging to Russia All treaties with Rus
sian elements since the revolution annued Austria must
accept the allied disposition any Austrian rights in Turkey
and Bulgaria
The entire Austria Hungarian navy be surrendered to the
allies wenyone specified auxiliary cruisers be disarmed and
treated merchantmen All warshps including submarines
under construction shall be broken and may only be used for
industrial purposes All naval and materials must be
rendered The future Of submarines prohibited The mil
itary clauses reserved Austria may have military
naval air forces