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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22

TO be sparkling with life and fun and
merriment.
"Oh, look - said the first toy. "a
child is coming TO look at usi Oh,
there are ever so many children COM
ing into the shop, and there are grown
ups too. and their voiees-oh, aren't
their voices nice! They sound so
merry and so happy and as If they
loved each other and the whole world.
I'm being bought, / do believe" the
| first toy continued.
"Oh, so am l." said the second toy.
| I'm going to be wrapped up.
1--WE must be going TO be presents
from the mothers and daddies of the
children as Santa will come 10 get
most of these toys just before Christ
mas. They told US that up in the
shop"
"Goodby," said. the second toy;
merry Christmas"
MERRY Christmas" said the first
toy. "Oh see How the children are
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22
CARE OF DETECTIVES.
Present State Policy Will Never Rem
edy Evil.

Editor Reformer:
l have read with a great deal of in
terest your recent editorials in regard
to Vermont s defective and feeble
minded population. All reasonable men
must agree that our present policy
viii never remedy the evil. We must
in some way get at the root of the
thing and stop its growing, and it
would seem that one of two courses
must be followed, either segregate OF
disqualify the subject to propagate.
/ wonder if you have in mind the
bill that was passed by the Legislature
of 1912 and vetoed by Governor Ora.
ham. This bin originated in the senate
was passed by both houses, and after
it was vetoed by the governor it was
passed by the. required majority but
failed in the house
The matter of taking care of our de
fectives is certainly one of the big
and important questions before thu
Legislature, and ! hope you viii contin
ne your agitation and if possible force
some action.
Yours very truly,
ELMER JOHNSON.
st. Adams, Jan.2l.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22


us? And what did she tell usi' asked
the second toy.
'She said that we were going TO be
taken on a journey to a shop in a
faraway place." said the first toy.
"She said this when we We're up in
Santa Claus shop. She told US we
would be unpacked in a little while
after we came to the shop we We're
being sent to, and that then we would
be taken OUT
''Yes, and then?" whispered the sec
ond toy.
THAT is what is going to happen
now" the first toy answered. Were
going TO be taken out"
And what next!" asked the second
toy.
We're going to be put all around in
the shop. Some of us will hang on a
little tree which they will fix up in
the window. Ii will be very gay
little tree with tinsel and gold and
candy canes and toys"
oh" whispered the other toys.
what glorious future awaits us"
Yes" said the first toy, the fairy
also told us (and she said she was
telling us what was certainly going 10
happen) that children would gaze In
at the window-oh so many children
| would gaze 'in-at us
And in fact she said grown-ups
| would look at us too. for she remarked
| that 4 grown-up who didn't care for
| toys and children and Christmas and
all that sort of thing wasn't a grown
| up TO be admired or liked.
"Ah. were going TO be unpacked
now! oh Joy, oh joy oh. how ex
citing this is,'' And the first toy was
pulled out of the big packing case.
why. here we are again. said the
first toy to the second toy as they
| looked at each other on a counter in
the shop
/ Some Of the toys were on the tree
In the window and they We're laughing
and smiling and somehow they seemed
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22
Little Benny's
Note Book
By LEE PAPE

Me and Pubs Smkins and Leroy Shoes
ter was wawking home frum the park on
account of having spent our car fare for
pie without hardly eny insides, Inc saying,
G, if Id of known it was this long of
wawk | wouldn't of bawt that pie IL I'd
of known it wasent going to have eny in
sides
O well, the more you wawb the bigger
of a appetite you'll have for suppir. sed
Pubs Simkins.
You must think you're a oktimist, don't
you2 | sed, and Pnds sed, Watts that! and
sed, Its a persin that's always cheerful
weather they awt to be or not
And we kepp on wawking and Leroy
Shooster kicked a loose brick fearse
crack with his toe on account Of getting
too tired to lift his feet high enuff, say
ing owteh, G., owtch, heck, and Puds sei
That's nuthing, think of how mulch it
would bert if locomotive and the hole
train ran over it.
G., you're a what you call 1t, all rite,
sed Leroy Shooster. Meening a oktimist.
and we kepp on wawking and all OF a
suddin a man in a little automobile with
| one sect called out, I've got room for two
| boys if enybody wunts lift And me
and Leroy Shooster ran out vile Pubs WAS
still wondering weather the man meant
us, and the little awtomObeel stopped,
and me and Leroy Shooster got In and ii
I started agcn. Puds Still standing on the
pavemint with a sad Expression looking
as if he thawt he didn't know wat t.
think, me yelling back at him, Cheer up
| Pubs, think wat fcarse appetite you'll
have for suppir, and Leroy Shooster yell
ing back, That's all rite. Pubs, you awi
to be glad steem boat amt running over
You. be one of those things. Pubs.
Meening a oktimist
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22
LadYbirds for France.

Southern California has, during re-
cent years, been credited with leading
all other sections of the United States
IN developing natural methods of COM
batting insect pests. Among these is
the ladybird, the tiny red bug which
feeds on plant insects. Millions of
these bugs, propagated in the Califor-
MIA nurseries, are now being shipped
overseas to France, where they will be
incuhated until Spring and released to
do their nart in destroying noxious in
sects. Great stretches of land in
Southern France have been untitled
during the war, and it is expected that
various pests win be greatly in evi
Chronicle.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22

1t will be very unusual to see the
governor of Vermont before a legisla-
tive committee as Governor Clement
plans TO be at the public hearing on
the Sheppard Amendment this evening
Few people win see the necessity of
such an appearance at this time. 1t will
hardly increase a governors influence
ask it to do something he knows in adj
VANCE it will not do.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22
HEAD AND NOSTRILS
STUFFED FROM COLD
"Pape's Cold Compound" ends a cold
or grippe in a few
hours

Your cold will break and all grippe
misery end after taking dose of
Pape's Cold Compound every two
hours until three doses are taken.
1t promptly opens clogged-up nostrils
and air passages in the head, stops
nasty discharge or nose running, re-
lieves sick headache, dullness, feverish-
ness, sore throat, sneezing, soreness and
stiffness.
Don't stay stuffed-upl Quit blowing
and snuffling Ease your throbbing
head-nothing else in the world gives
such prompt relief as "Pape's Cold
Compound" which costs only few cents
at any drug store. 1t acts without
assistance, tastes nice, and causes no
Inconvenience. Accept no substitute
Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY, %, 1919.
MEANS MORE STATE TAX.

The first bills introduced in the leeis-
lature indicate there will be no reduc-
tlon in state expenses for the next BIZ
ennial period. Already there has APP
peared bin greatly increasing the fees
of town clerks, a bill raising the paw
of the assistant judges from So a dav
ia 50 a day and expenses while away
from home on official business, a bill to
increase the salary of the county clerk
in Chittenden county and bill appro-
priating $250000 for a barge terminal
IN Burlington. That is pretty good
starter when it is remembered that less
than one-tenth of the bills have been
introduced
1t IS known that the department of
agriculture viii call for larger ap-
preparation to pay for tuberculous cat
tie and better compensation of veteri-
narians employed by the state, that
there viii be money asked for special
highway projects and that a move will
be made to have much larger amount
of money expended by the highway de
partment.
We would not say these bills are I'M
just or undesirable No one wants 10
retard beneficial growth of the govern
ment or economic progress but these in
creased expenses cannot be incurred
without increasing the revenues of the
state TO pay them With the sources
of indirect taxation practically ex-
hausted the only means of increasing
revenues viii be by direct state tax
The report of the budget committee
which did not include any of the in.
ereases mentioned above or enough
money for legislative expenses or any
thing for contingent expenses, showed
that a state tax of ten per cent a yeai
would leave q deficit in state finances
With all these increases a state tax oil
fifteen cents per year would be nee
essary; and every careful business mar
will thoroughly consider the merits oil
these proposals before increasing the
tax burden of himself and his neigh
bors
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22
Waiting Times.

So much of our life is spen. in wait
ing that it is pity that we should
not learn TO do it well, and that means
waiting without fretting, learning to
fiji in the time with something else,
if we cannot do the thing we wish to
do. and refusing to work ourselves
into II fever because something desir-
able is deferred. The girl who has
not learned the art of making the wait
Ing times cheerful and useful times
should set herself to master the lesson
without delay-Girrs Companion.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22

The New York Sun remarks that the
Daughters of the American Revolution
sometimes ireverently called Daueh-
ters of the Annual Rumpus,' are ar
ranging for one of their squabbles over
presidential candidate in the New York
state branch Mrs Whitman, wife of
Elk Governor Whitman, is being OPP
posed by one faction on the grounds
that she is too young The D. A. r. s
evidently have their age limits.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22

The Reformer Is on sale every evening by
the following news dealers:
Brattleboro, Brattleboro News Co., c. w
Cleveland, S. L. Purinton Esteyville), Brooks
House Pharmacy, Aliens Depot Newsstand
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Drummer district.
West Bratt1eboro, ]. L. Stockwell.
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22

Memorials of many sorts are being
suggested for those who have given their
lives in the war; buildings, bridges,
tablets, statues and monuments, and
the planting of trees. A writer in the
Saturday Evening Post suggests roads
permanent roads-and their necessa-
ny bridges to be named for our war he
roes. Such a prospect if carried ont
would surely be great memorial as
we'll as of inestimable value to the
country.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22

The Hampden County Improvement
League has started rabbit club for
the purpose of furthering the use of
cheap meat While in some sections
rabbits are common article of food,
in others they are almost never used. If
the experiment proves a success, a rab-
bit club win appeal to the average girl
or boy. The high price of meat has
caused the appearance in the city
markets of the flesh of birds, beasts
and fishes which have never before
been used for food to any extent. A car
load of whale meat consisting of 80
600 pounds arrived in New York city
last week. Just what degree of popu-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22

SO the first and secoRd toys were
wrapped up and they waited for
Christmas morning just as other toys
were waiting in the city shops, the
village shops. and in Santa Claus
shop-from where they all came in the
very first place of ALL
And as Santa Claus heard the re-
ports of the pleasure of the children
over this years toys he smiled to him
self and said
nv work -
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22
TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Run of paper, so cents
an inch for first insertion, rs cents an inch
for each subsequent insertion. Limited space
on first page at double rates.
Space rates on application.
Classified advertisements-Five cents a line
first insertion with so per cent discount for
each subsequent insertion without change Of
copy.
Reading Notices-Ten cents per line first
insertion with SO per cent discount for each
subsequent insertion without change Of copy.
Position 10 per cent extra.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22

The feminine page of the first issue
of Henry Ford s International weekly
tells us what may be done with "Dew
Kist" silk and speaks of prunes for
breakfast This seems like a start in
the right direction.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22

StanulnS OUTSIDE
that window look
ing at the tree
w | I h. a III our
friends upon it,
Wouldn't you
think the window
would break? See
their faces right
against the win
dow pane. Oh,
isn't Christmas
| too wonderful and
and glorious for
| words"
! ut most GER
tainly is" Said the
first toy. Good.
| by. I'm goin .
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22

va y0St AAtA AAeN- -
ly speak for Joy,
creaked a toy in a
great and enor-
nous packing box.
what is it?
What is all the
e K cit e m e n t."
asked another toy.
"They are go
ing to unpack us
and put us in the
w in d o W q n d
around the shop.
Oh, it's going TO
be wonderful. It's
just as the fairy
told us.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22

larity whale meat has attained is not
stated; horse meat also has been in
many city markets for the past year,
both of these having been introduced
as substitutes for beef. The cheap meat
problem is yet to be solved
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22

Now that National prohibition is an
assured fact, Billy Sunday says that
Hell will be for rent. A few select
apartments should be reserved, how
ever, for Mr.. HohenzolIern and those
who were directed to their ultimate
destination by Whittlesey and Hoover.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22

Thirty-five copies of the ratification
resolution passed by the New Hamp-
shire legislature have been sent to
Vice President Marshall, Secretary
Glass and Speaker Champ Clark. 1t
seems as though couple each would
have been dry enough.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22

No one ses lower prices ahead for
anything except postage stamps. We
shall return to two cent postage next
June which will enable some Of our
non-letter writing friends to save as
much as five or ten cents year.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22

Everybody knows that profteering is
the one thing that now threatens the
country's social and political stability, but
everybody seems to be waiting on every
body else to stop it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22

According to the Hartford Courant
an astrological reporter predicts a pc
Rod of low temperature between Febru-
airy IA and IS, also during the third
week of August. We expect to enjoy
the cold wave of August more than
that of next month.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22

Not to be outdone in the revolution
airy game a Royalist revolution has
broken out in Portugal.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22

As the North Adams Herald OBJ
serves: GA sneeze may be but the
forerunner of long snooze.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22
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to conserve the paper supply, has ruled that
newspapers must stop ali subscriptions
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This means that subscribers must keep
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not neglect 1t and then blame the publisher
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22

Morrisville has new outbreak Of in
fiuenza and as the nurse situation has
become serious, the parlors, vestry and
kitchen of the Congregational church are
to he used as hospital and such church
services as are held during that time
viii be in the town hall
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22

\ child is often happy about nothiifq
and an adult is unhappy about the same
thing.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22

The Vermont Poultry association opened
it's doors at the Barre opera house Tues
day morning for the 18th annual poultry
exhibition, which will continue for tire,
days. Approximately 700 picked birds 0
bird fancers of this and other munici
palities are displayed
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22
N ADYSV[N|N('
k,l FAIRY TALE
Za 81 fAfN GnAIIAN BONNER
THE TOY SHOP.

They're going to get US ready,
they're going TO get us ready, oh joy.
nh inv can In rfi-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22

For the ADD time George D. sherman
veteran band leader, was elected director
of Sherman's Military band of Burlington
at the annual meeting this week
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22

Abort go persons spent Sunday in
searching for Charles Colby, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Colby of Corinth
the young man being found Sunday night
in the highway leading from Waits River
to Barre in mentally unbalanced condi
ton as a result of influenza. Although
without stockings, shoes or mittens, and
clad only in his trousers and shirt, neither
his hands nor feet were frozen and he
seemed to have received no harm from
the exposure to the cold
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22

Miss Eleanor Lowe of. Montpelier ha
gone to New York city where she wal
soon sail for Europe She is one of tw'
young women selected from the Federated
woman's clubs of the state to 60 into rec
reation work in France for the Unite,
States government.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-22
VERMONT NEWS.

It. Adams, Jan.2l.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1919-05-03

of Tom Hardin. "She's probabl,
fused herself to death over this din
ner."
A few minutes later Rickard ar
rived In a sack suit of tweeds. Gerty'i
greeting was little abstracted. How
could she make Inness understand tt
tell Tom to change his Coat? The
duty Of host, she suddenly remem
bered, was to dress down rather thar
up to the chances Of his guest. She
regretted bitterly her insIstence. Was
ever anyone so obtuse as Innes? Mr.
Richard would zee that they thought
1t big event. She was watching the
curtain where Tom would emerge
And his coat was style of several
seasons ago and absurdly tight! She
made an unlntellgible excuse and
dnrted behind the portiere.
Toms face was apoplectlc. He was
wrestling with DlCssed tie; the col
lar showed desperate struggle.
Gerty made wild signals for him TO
change his clothes. She waved n
hand Indicating Rlckard; she pointed
to Toms sack suit lying on the floor
where he had walked out of 1t.
what is 1t all about?"
SSH" whispered his wife. Again
the wild gestures.
"Well, aren't you satisfied? Don't
l look like guy?"
He could be heard distinctly In the
next room. Gerty gave II up In de-
spalr. She dabbel some more powder
on her nose and went out looking like
martyr--a very pretty martyrl
Rlckard praised the miracles OF the
tent. Gerty's soft flush reminded In
mes of their old relation. s"Exit Innes,"
she was thinking. when Tom. red and
perspiring. brought another element
Of discomfort into the room.
Gerty ushered them Immediately to
the table. She covered the first min
utes which might be awkward with
her small chatter. Somewhere she
had read that 1t was not well to make
apologies for lack of maid or fare.
Besides Mr.. Rickard remembered
Lawrence That dreadful dining
room. the eyer-set tablet How she
had hated It, though she had not
known how fearful 1t was until she
had escaped.
I'VE are simple folk here, Mr.. Rick
ard" she announced, as they took
their places around the pretty table.
That was her only alluslon to dcflclen-
ales, but II covered her noseless move
nents around the board between
courses, filed up the gaps when she
made necessary dives into kitchen or
primitive Ice chest, and set the key
Tor the LONELINESS of the meal itself.
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@ Dxreoee5~zoeezL coMst1.v

suspect II of handmade dupllclty.
Her glass declared the hand-whIpped
medallions casual and elegant. And
a long time ago, lifetime ago. Rick
ard had told her that she always
should wear blue, because Of her eyes.
Innes from the next room could hear
Gerty teasing Tom to wear his Tux
edo.
isn't one dude enough for your"
growled her surly lord. Innes recog-
nized the mood and shrank from the
ordeal ahead. II was the mood Of
the Hardin in the rough, the son Of
his frontier mother, the fruit of old
Jasper Gingg, whose smithy had been
the rendezvous for the widest roughs,
the tiercest cattlemen In Missouri.
"Td let him see you knew what's
what. even IL we do live like gipsies."
The answer to that was another
growl. Innes could hear him dragging
out the process, grumbling over each
detail. That confounded laundry had
torn his shirt. He hadn't a decent
collar to his name. Where was his
black string tie1 II Cert would keep
his things In the lowest drawerl Hang
that buttonl Gerty emerged from the
encounter, her face very red. Innes
could see her biting her lips to keep
the tears back as she put the last
touches to the table.
"She's tired out" thought the sister
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1919-05-03

sour stomach, bloating. coated toni
gue,-ail are banished by Folej
Cathartic Tablets, b. b. HawardI
Unadilla, Ca. writes: "Foley Catharj
tic Tablets give quick relief" sol1
by Reed Bros.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1919-05-03
spring Fever" ANA Common Sense

Instead OF giving up and saying
you have "spring fever" It is more
sensible to take good wholesome
physic, Biliousifess, sick headache,
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1919-05-03

meet his; she would not meet that
laughing scrutiny.
"Good night. Mr.. Richard"