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with n common yellow cur on the way
back from his and your constitu-
tional. For a moment he seems To he
getting the worst Of II. With true
sporting instinct you emit mild.
Go TO it! chow him up" Then the
fight gets a bit more serious and you
separate both comhatants, bestow .ng
sundry roprovinE rams with your stick
rather ind.7crimina'C.y
A New York Judge to whom this
hypothetical dog fight has been de-
scribed, says that during it you would
commit four crimes. They are classi-
fed under the general head Of cruelty
TO animals first, encouraging a dos
fight; second, witness nE dog fight.
third, beating a dog, and fourth, al
lowing a dangerous animal 10 run a
large. Aggregate prison terms fo
you would amount TO four years, anC
you might be fined $4,000
Throwing on the floor Of the stree
car taking you downtown the papo
with which you have finished gh
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situation will probably work out To
the great advantage OF women ana
girls in many different lines OF work.
THE women who arc making the
big money on the road are selling
corsets and womcn's underwear" she
said in reply to my questions, "and
they will not work on anything but
commission basis either, for they
are SO sure OF their business capacity
that they do not want to be ham
pcred by a regular salary. They pre-
fer to share IN the profits OF their
work Ten per cent. is generally con-
! sidcrcd a fair basis to work on. There
are women who always insist on hdv-
! ing a salary. because they are tho
dependent type who like to feel an
Insurance Of a steady income, even
| { they don't make so much out ~ u,
Those are the ones who never make
lanythng Of themselves. They have
no strength Of their own to depend
lupon. They often fall short ot the
fmal tos, Of good salcsmanship-thc
ability to go over the Top "n'n '"eS
get to a certain po'ht-ahd C''"0" INC
sales.
'on the o'H'r manu. '"' US
| likes to fe'l h'r S"'isO'' anu
would scorn the imput''loh Oh "'"N-
ness salary suggested You see
! both types have to earn thr'r money
no matter no" 1t is handed 20 'H''''
30 II is logical to suppose that d woman
capable OF earning a big salary "ou'"
make more ON a commission Oasis ina
she would If given stated sum- Nno
as matter Of fact there IS a psycho'
logical significance IN woman a.,
mand for a salary no matter no" sn'"'
it is. 1t is sure sign OF her !aoK o.
confidence in her ability 20 max
good "
Speaking Of her experience as
teacher in the evening school, Mrs
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strato and nt the corse.s she had sold.
In this way she would make friends
for the firm. which Increased her value
to her employer very considerably and
made her. special line OF goods pep
ular.
"To succeed along the lines we are
discussing, a girl must have Il good
knowledge of salesmanship-some ex-
perlcnce in selling over counter
and good idea of general merchan-
disc. There is a fearful waste in
many stores because the buyers and
heads Of departments have not a good
working knowledge Of merchandise.
But that is in the past" added
Mrs. NcwComb. "ln the future there
will be a great change in the right
direction. Travelling snleswomen arc
going to become one OF the accepted
Institutions and very quickly too. So
far it has been a somewhat tentative
experiment. II woman made good
on the road, she was given fun credit
II she failed, her failure was taken
philosophically 10 mean that women
collcctivcly-wcre not success in
that line. But | think in the future
It is going to be matter OF selection
and training, and there will soon be
developed as good line ~ travelling
saicswumcn as there are men. I'll
have the qualities necessary, only
they have never been properly
brought out.
This next year, for instance. will
sec many moro demonstrators and 1T
tcrs being sent out on the roli. be
cause the buyers all got scared at the
war conditions and oycrstochcd their
departments, and now they will have
20 make great efforts TO get rid Of
tho stock before II becomes stale, so
there viii probably be a hurry call
sent out for good demonstrators and
| filters. And the work pays well, toe.
The salaries range from twenty-five
to thirty dollars a week and travelling
expenses.
"And / don't mind giving you a
| piece OF real news" she said with a
smile. "Thc originators OF a certain
| stylish corset for stout women are
| planning TO send out on the road as
demonstrators for thoir different lines
many women and girls of a pdrtcu-
/ larly large huild-you notice ! don't
say FAT--that they may demonstrate
the practicability OF their lines Cor
the women of large proportions"
Now | call that good news indeed.
Cheer up, girls! Even II the scales
do show an alarming tendency to
scoot up the line, il may be an asset
in the future, instead ot a dctrment.
And the time may come when the
animated string bean, of whom We
have all been so green with envy
these many years, will have to take
to working IN candy store or a
pastry shop where she can eat her
M OF sweets and struggle and strug-
gle to finally get in OUR class!
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wonderful United states sergeant who
single handed captured thirty-l!vc
Germans. | guess the only way he
could have done such a brave act vas
to surround them. | can hardly wait
until get a picture OF you, little hero,
In your uniform. | know you must
look ever so handsome. What kind OF
a uniform are you going 10 choose?
| hope 1t Is one OF those that has blue
trousers with the red stripes.
am working In the Navy Yard and
am called yeomanetto. Can you tut
agne IT, Isn't that just the cu'rst
name ever? One OF the yeomon who
works near me, whose name is Mr..
Rose, and who was a poet before he
became yeoman second class, 'old ne
| that the navy chose the name because
| it sounds 30 sweet and lovely Ike,
| and that II reminded him OF Poes nac,
Lush hmcbolls in the spring are
| springinG" | thought this was per
fectly adorable, and copied it IN my
| album 50 that | won't forget IT, Nco-
| men are the smartcst things and seem
TO know most everything. We have
regular sailor uniforms but We don't
wear them an the time because they
don't look a bit stylish and haven't
any rufrcs and rourishcs on them
You know girl can't dress hero Ike
she can down home Tho girls in my
section look awfully sweet, ana on,
Jealous old thing IN the correspond
cnce section told one Of the officer,
that We didn't do anything but wlll
around in a superior dont-envy-a
good -complc Nion- -hut-havc- -onc man
ncr Wasn't that just horrd? I d,
love my work, hut some mornings
JUS, can't hclp being late. ana thrr
are times when Just ST al my tylr
writer and dream ~ my soldier hog
forgetting all about rcqu,sltons 10
cheese and chronomotcrs and sue
other absurd things,
, am So sleepy, Carissima a-bu;
must tell you about little romano
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California S Gold.

THE first gold in California was
discovered soventy-onc years
ago on Jan. "a, lS4S, by James
Wilson Marshall He was native OF
New Jersey who had gone West and
settled on the site Of Sacramento,
Blasting away some rocks to make a
foundation for a building, he OBJ
served grains OF what seemed to be
gold scattered about in the cXcayatei
earth. A test revealed that it really
was the precious metal wild excite
ment followed the discovery, and the
immortal rush of the "forty-nlncrs"
brought thousands o. minors ana ad-
vcnturcrs to the Golden state Mar
shall, the discOYcrcr, did not profit
from his find and would have spent
his last days in poverty except for a
small pension granted him by the
State Of California
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and how ! learned that word from
sailor. II wasn't my fault that met
him and | hope you won't care. was
riding down TO work the other morn
ing IN ono Of those Ford jitncy auto
mobiles and never even noticed the
sailor who was next to me. When we
got down town he turncd'to me, tipped
his hat, and said: "rarion mo, but
got off at IA" next corner. Would
you mind moving your parasol from
my starboard fuo,?" How mortified
was! Can you imagine 1t, | had b2cn
leaning on my parasol, thinking it was
proppcd on the noor, but II was on
MS foot must have blushcd tor
ribly, ard WAS so Inundated that
got right Off the automobile after him.
! know II wasn't right, dearest boy,
but he came up and started talking 10
me, and soon found out that he was
that he had played on the basketball
team when you were there.
His name is Dave Williams and he
is a yooman first class on the same
floor with me. lie has the most in
triguinE eyes you over saw, and all
the girls are crazy about him, but he
doesn't seem to care for any OF them.
lie told me that Carissima was the
Spanish or Indian name for dearest,
and that he had learned it on one
, Of his first cruises. Can you imagine
1t, he was in ships company-what-
ever that is--and he told me that he
had been in a terrible wreck at St
Helena That's where Napoleon was
cNilcd and | felt so sorry could have
| cried
\ cargo o, kisses (xxx xx),
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Y. w. c. A., Norfolk, Virgn
June I, 1918.
Dearest Charlie Boy:


ARRIVED yesterday
already bought the darngest little hat with lavender trim
The
office thing uniform like the
Vile braid
"A
boarding certainly be polite lady who
from her S c.
automobiles
about all the time But I'm remember
usdida abo uncertain.
the oveest running
have been all
gondoas there
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cargo o. kisses OK xxx),
HELEN.
Y. w. c. A., Norfolk. Virg.,
June 26, 1918.
Dearest Little Hero:

You silly little goose, how on earth
could | ever forget you? Yes, | re-
member what | promised at the sta
tton, ana can never ever forget il. !
haven't received the picture yet, and
run downstairs for the mail so often
that Mrs, Nu2zy. the mntron, asked
me II | were trying to reduce. When
the picture comes | am going To- put
It on my desk, where all tho Girh
can see II, and then they viii be Jelly
| " your little yoomanCttc.
Carrie Belle CauCT-shc's my
roomy, YOU know, a perfectly udor
able girl and just as stylish as can
Oc-well she and were out yos'r,-
day with an Ensign Wheeler and IN,
Mr. Williams | wrote You about ",
went 10 place called Ocean View
a wonderful and exclusive place og
! the beach. Can you imurinc ~, me
learning TO swim, MI Williams, who
was teaching mc, said ! was ever ST
graceful and as light as bollud
whatever that is, Ensign Wheeler
has been In the navy only eigh
months and is already an eusigr
junior grade. Carrie Belle likes him
awrul'N and is SO afraid that he Wi
bo hurt tar ne is on a suhmaru,
chaser and Of course, in chasin.
submarines they have to so undc
water.
Oh, Charlie, you just ought 4
know the officer under whom | work
MIR. Ga.on is his name, and, can yo'
imagine it, when / told him Ia,
3 studied history in the Sunset Cit
High he Immediately said that h
would be glad to point out TO me a
the places Of historical interest in IA.
} vicinity any night chose, and that
ough, positively to see the intorcstin
= ,rclics at a place called the Chamber
- lin, and / ann just ever so crazy TO 2
, over there,
. I'm getting terribly scJgoing dca
! for go to work every day on a shi
named Navy Yard" can YOU imap
! inc It, me on ship every day an
e never ever once seasick just ev'
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Suppose IL is Sunday and you do
not have to get 10 the Office. You
take your pet bulldog which makes
friends with every one IN a positively
embarrassing fashion-for a bit OF
exercise. Unless nc is on a leash you
may be arrested and punished with a
fine Of 50 and ten days imprisonment
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Y. w. c. A., Norfolk, Virg"
June L.. 1915.
Dear Charlie Love;

Your letter came yesterday and my
heart Is so full OF pride FOR my dear
dear soldier boy. You know that !
want you to do your duty, and | am
sure you will. but please won't YOU
promise me not to do anything reck-
less? / read IN the paper about tnat
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cost you a fine Of = and shut you up
for ten days. Splitting on the floor Of
the car may be punished by one year
imprisonment and a line of $500.
Suppose a friend gives you a valu-
able and interesting souven.r-a Ger
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SO love TO stand on the upper deck
fades away, and see the beautiful
foaminE white hats that the ship
makes as it speeds through the water.
Please write mo every day about the
army, little soldier mine.
Your little mermaid. HELEN.
Y. W. c. A., Norfolk, Virg.,
July 8, 1918.
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Y. w. c. A., Norfolk, VIrg"
August 27, 1918.
Dear Charles:

guess you are in France now, for
| haven't heard from you s.ncc your
last letter. But it's better to be
somewhere in France than anywhere
in Dutch. Dave told me that.
oh, Charles. can you imagine It.
| mean what | am about to tell you.
or course | am so happy | can hardly
write, but | just must tell you, for
you always were so close and brother
like to me. Wei, here 1t is. but |
just don't know how to tell you and
! hope you won, mink unknd things
Of me. for | st.il r',e you, Charles,
and think you are one OF the incest
boys | know. Rut | am SO excited
that | am forgetting again.
You remember me writing of Dave
Williams, don't you? Well, last nigh,
he proposed to me and accepted him
lie asked II | wouldn't shove of on
q life voyage next Thursday night
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in the routine OF the most strailaced citizen?
You get up in the morning, for example. No mat.
ter how secluded and lofty your apartment If dress
by the window with the blinds up any passerby may
have you arrested and fined s. and sent to jail for
six months.
You have q pot Of ferns in the centre OF your din
ing table. You set 1t out your broad windowledgc
to get an hour OF morning sunshine Unless there is
a railing around tho sill you thereby render yourself
1 a n....IL L.n.,rLn ,nt,L q .Lr 1anr,LlAa
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and a constant change OF scene, nave not WUHueTVu
il you might not better give up the work you know
and have mastered for the more fascinating appar-
emily, job Of being "the queen Of travelling women
and eventually marrying the son of your rich en-
ployer?
This is what a roal-not fiction-character says
OF the opportunities along those lines.
Alice Newcomb, formerly Mrs Hosbach, has been
travelling woman corsetier, and has taught cor
setry and craftsmanship for two winters in the New
York Evening High School. She is now the New
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Love from HELEN.
Y. w. c. A., Norfolk, Virg.
August 4, 1918.
Dear Charles;

Dear Charles;
Let me tell you a secret, but you
must promise not to breathe word
Of II to a soul because Carrie Belle
doesn't want it known yet, and l
haven't told any one else except Mrs.
Nu2zy and two OF the girls in our
section can yen imagine it! En-
sign Wheeler proposed TO Carrie
Rcuo by wireless and she accepted,
The message came this afternoon and
read like this: would like to con-
voy you through the submarine zones
Of life. Promise faithfully that you
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won't have 70 stand any galley
watches. A kiss by wireless" Carrie
Belle sent an answer right away.
She wanted to show how scagoIng
she was, so she sent: Accepted this
date Know we will be happy from
rcveille TO pipe down" Can YOU i'm
agine it!
| have been so sorry for Dave. His
Uncle Adolph, who was a hundred
and fourteen years old, and was Il
commodore in tho Honduras navy,
died. Dave doesn't think that it is
right for him to so to dances and
shows, so we just stay at the house
when he comes around. ono OF the
girls at the house said when she got
home Thursday night she saw us sit
ting back in the porch swing ana
asked IL Dave wasn't a regular mas
ter at arms. Some girls do so love
to show their isrorancc-how can a
sailor be a yeoman and a master at
arms at the same time?
can't write any more because the
doorbeil is ringing ana it sounds like
Dave.
From HELEN.
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manager
great future in this particular
Ink Irs.en chaotic condition Of he .mpoymenL
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SO love TO stand on the upper deck
and watch the Norfolk sky line as it
fades away. and see the beautiful
foaminE white hats that the ship
makes as II speeds through the water.
Please write me every day about the
army. little soldier mine.
Your little mermaid. HELEN.
Y. W. c. A., Norfolk Virg.,
July 8, 1918.
Dear Hero:
The picture Is just adorable, and
keep it on my desk where everybody
can see It, It must be terribly hard
on you. Carissma, to have to carry
that gun and pistol both and IL they
make you do it you should report it
TO the admiral. hope you will be
ever so careful with those guns and
keep them uuloadcd. l had no sooner
put the picture on my desk than Pay
master Bert came along and compli-
mcntcd it. lie asked If it wasn't a
portrait OF tho Booshevky crown
prince, and said that there was some
thing strong about the expression OF
the cheekboncs, just like Charlie
Name.
l think l ought to be getting a FUR
lough soon, for I've been in the navy
now nearly six weeks. Just think
Nearly six weeks since | saw my lit
tie soldier boy. Can you imagine it!
When | get my furlough YOU must be
sure and come home too--iust tell
your skipper that YOU want to see
| your little ycomancttc and he will
| have to let YOU go. One of the yeo-
men in tho office married last week
and he asked for two days furlough
and twelve days travelling time so
that he could spend his honeymoon
in his home in oregon. Can you
imagine il!
Dave Williams told me that he
might go across soon on one OF those
dcstructives, or whatever you call
them. lie said that IL wasn't true
about a sailor having a sweetheart in
every port and that he had never been
in Hampton. You don't mind II he
4,
( YOU, Charlie dear? The only reason
| that ever 20 out with him is because
/ he looks so lonesome and his eyes
are so soulful and sad. Now, dearie,
YOU mustn't be Jelly.
Some OF the girls are coming in now
10 study the Bluejacket's Manual
with me, so | must close this letter
now, You see, dear, study hard
because ono mustn't remain a yeo-
manette forever.
Lovily yours. l;ELEN.
Y. w. c. A., Norfolk, virg.
July 18, 1918.
Dear Charlie:
Yesterday that ycoman who used
To be a poet was reading Bryan's
Thanatopsis and when he came tc
tho line, "Go not like a galley slave,
ne read it aloud and asked Dave If
he knew what it meant. Dave saiC
ho guessed it meant a mess attendant
Wasn't that clever? Dave says suct
clever things. or course it didn'
mean mess attendant.
Carrie Belle got letter from Fin
" IN Wheeler and he said that he h1,
soon a submarine lie wasn't allowc,
TO say just whore he saw II. but sal,
',at q was somewhere on the biEFes
.coln on tho Atlantic Coast, Carri
ID Belle is worrying again about Ensig
wheeler hccaus! she read in tn
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By Marguerite Mooers Marshall

w considering Prohibition affect personal
M nberoyng New York. New Workers know how
w Inc avs RI o n OF
thousand dollars in
a simply by
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MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1919
A Dozen Roads to Success
For the Girl Who Works
By Charlotte Wharton Ayers
Copyrsh Wobi)
TR1HELIJNE SAIECWON NEN-NO. 10

Nv TIIO incomparabc
NJ her charming Interpretation character of Emma NC
Chesney made famous by Edna Ferber and who love ave
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MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1919
Why Worry Over aDryLaw?
Jail Yawns for You Daily
Under These Dusty BlueLaws

You CGn'i Dress By the Hindow Win the Shades Up;
You Can't Send Dunnng Postal Card; lou
Can't Gire ANY One a Transfer; lou Can't ThroW
Newspaper the Floor in Street Car-Just a
Fep Laus You Are Liable to Break Any Day.
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fleet his claims on Morocco have
disappeared; the world has CON
firmed the French protectorate, as
it has recognized similar status
for Britain in Egypt At Paris
agreement was also reached between
France and Britain, the other ma
tons consenting, which will permit
the French to acquire for the Span
ish in the future the little strip of
territory remaining in Spanish hands
at the northwest corner Of the A fri
can continent, while Tangier will
unquestionably remain in French
hands henceforth, although it was
something of no mans land, an
impossible neutral district, before
the war. The advantage taken of
this anomalous situation by the Ger
man has resulted in temporary
changes, which are certain to be-
come permanent, now that France
and Great Britain have laid aside
all African rlvalres and British
acquiescence in French aspirations
in Morocco has brought similar
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famous volume, "Morocco Is a bell
we can always strike when we wish
to call France Moreover, when
Sir Edward Grey asked the German
government for promise to respect
the integrity Of France in case of
British neutrality in the critical
days Of 1914 the pledge was offered
for Europe, but not for French
colonies.
In 1905, in 1908 and In 1911
Germany used French activity IN
Morocco as basis for precipitating
a crisis. German journals published
maps showing western Morocco as
German and Agadir was rendered
notorious for long period by the
appearance in it's roadstead of the
German Panther, sent to serve
notice that Germany desired a share
in Moroccan estates. This venture
cost France 100000 square miles
in her Congo colony and momen-
tarily cut the colony in half, leaving
it mournful fragment.
Now that the German has lost his
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diaries conversations and memoirs Of
their own, inaccurate or deliberately
misleading in large part. Now this
activity would be called propaganda ia.
1t was highly effective propagand a,
too. Though Napoleon's escape was
prevented by vigilance to an absurd
degree, and though tho effect Of ais
winning personality was guarded
against by forbidding visitors to zee
him, his writings and those of Montho-
lon and LES Cases resulted in the
royalistc bareback that put his
nephew on the throne Of France. 1t
was to Napoleon III that queen Vic
terra presented Longwood. where
Napoleon lived and died while at St.
Helena.
Geographically st. Helena is pecul-
Sarly fitted for an island prison. Its
volcanic formation accounts for hnlf
circle Of mountains which permit onlv
one landing place-that at the island's
single port and city jamestown. I'm
inhabited when discovered ten wears
after Columbus sailed for America. he
island was settled by British. Du CHI
and Portuguese. In the days Of snl-
ing vessels and before the Suez Canal
was opened, the islands thrived by
providing supplies for passing vessala
with the passing OF this market for
their meats and vegetables The ST.
end's principal industries waned and
the Inhabitants dwirdled until there
are now only about $500 persons, as
compared with twice that many resi-
dents thirty years ago. The island
belongs 10 Great Britain and IL ad-
ministsred directly by the gown"
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French recognition Of Britat
supremacy in Egypt.
Tunis, Algeria. Morocco
Almost at Frances Door
Britain's

Tunis, Algeria. Morocco-these
three states constitute an empire
which lies almost at the door of
France. Algiers is now but twenty
hours from Marseilles. In them
Rome wrought miracles and France
has gone far TO restore the Roman
prosperity and establish a French
world. Of the three Morocco is
potentially the richest, but all have
a wonderful future. In Morocco there
IS a wide field for the young men
who find a return to the restraints of
civilization irksome, while French
industry. finding a market and a
field for development inside the
French customs system are bound
to find ample opportunity for de-
velopment.
While France was exposed to q