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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-06

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward T. Stet,i-
MUS have announced the engagement,
OF their daughter, Miss Isabel Ste,,i-
Mus, to Maj John b. Marsh, son ot
Mr.. and Mrs. Ar,hur b Marsh
Miss Ste,tinius was introduced to
society three year, ago and has been
actively identified with the Junior
league. Her father is member OF the
firm OF J. p Morgan & company, and
served as assistant secretary OF war.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1919-12-26
POSTWAR HELPS
MAKE XMAS HAPPY
City and Rural Carriers To Make
Usual Rounds on Christ
mas Day.

Greet the postman on Christmas
morning with smile. No more OBJ
Lying, no buster man has helped to
make your Christmas happy than the
man who brings the mail to your
door, twice every day, if you are on
a city route, once every day on the
rural routes. Notwithstanding that
it is Christmas, he will make one de-
livery on Christmas day. Even all
rural carriers will make their routes
on the tweny-ffth, and the city car
riers after making one delivery will
spend the rest of the day delivering
parcels.
The postoffice, this week has been
buster than a bee hive, and although
there is an extra crew of clerks on
hand to assist in handling the unu-
sually large amount of incoming and
outgoing mail, still one has to ''get
in line," or be on hand earlys to re-
ceive speedy service. Such bust
ness as Uncle Sam is doing this
Christmas has already outstripped all
previous records.
There are two extra carriers on the
city routes, so it may not be your
familiar postman who brings your
mail on Christmas. An automobile
is also being used to deliver parcels.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1919-12-26
HOLIDAY SEASON
AT CITY SCHOOLS
Three Schools Closed For Christmas
Friday.--Resume Decem-
her goth.

Grove School and both city schools
closed for the holidays on Friday,
and will resume work again the goth.
All boarding students and out-of-town
teachers went home for Christmas.
The work of the schools this fall has
been very satisfactory. No disturb
ing element, like the influenza of last
year, has broken into the routine of
the school work, and there have been
the largest enrollments this year in
all the schools than in their history.
The following teachers went home
for Christmas:
Grove School-Miss Melba DeFord,
Knoxville; Miss Martha Campbell,
Chattanooga; Miss Made Caperton,
Hattiesburg, Miss.
Atkins Porter-Miss Littleton, Pur-
year; Miss Edith Dougherty, Cumber-
land City; Miss Lula Hansel, Stew
art, Miss Essie Walters, Springville;
Miss Doran, Whitlock.
Lee School-Miss Irene Blake,
Cottage Grove.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1919-12-26
Santa s Private
Secretary Busy
Man These Days

Still they come! These precious
little letters to dear Santa! How the
dear old gentleman will have to hur-
ry to get them all read before he gives
the final pat to that huge pack pre-
paratory to starting! Maybe at the
eleventh second, this little maiden,
with true feminine prerogative has
changed her curly headed wee mind
and decided that she wants yellow
haired doll instead of the former
loved black haired beauty. And
sweet Santa with loves desire to
please has to unite his packages and
make the exchange Or boisterous
small Billy, who is forever forgetting
where his cap is, or what mother sent
him to town to purchase, who has
the biggest forgotten" of anybody,
actually forgot to sell Santa that he
wanted pair of skates, as well as
a bicycle, and a sled, and about a
dozen other different things! So
here's some more complications for
the obliging old spirit Of Christmas
eve. Some Of these little missives
were only delayed because of the big
rush at the post Office.
Dear Santa Claus, want beauti-
full story book if you will bring it to
me. ar want a nife and I want
one of those dolls that will wake.
Paris, TENSE, IS of december; Mar
garet McSwain to Santa Claus.
paris, tenn dear Santa Claus are
you eomeing Christmas / want some
apples, oranges and Bananas. Billy
Holman.
/ Dear santa Claus. | have visit that
! | hav bichel bat if yu cant get a
bichel send me lots things else. Oil.
yer Hastings.
Dear Santa Claus, / want you ia
bring me doll and doll bugay and
doll bed doll chear that will rock
stove and some candy and some
apples and oranges and bananas and
some grapes and cakes and nuts.
want muff and. pair of scates
1
Goodbye Santa Claus. Ollie B. Wat
kins.
Paris, Tenn.
Dec. 16, 1919.
Dear Santa Claus,
Santa Claus / want you to bring
me some bicycle and some candy.
Yours truly,
James N. Pulley, Jr.
Paris, Tenn.
Dec. Is, 1919.
Dear Santa Claus.
don't want a thing but bring
brother and sister and loving daddi'
and mother something and bring
them lots of things and brin.t Grand
mother and grandfather something.
/ Yours truly,
Jane Adams Erwin
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1919-12-26
Cupid Should
Tender Thanks
To Deuotees

Dan Cupid emerged from the fray
this week with more than a thousand
scalps hanging at his belt-to be
more exact, he had sos iof each sex,
meaning an equal number of marria-
ges consumated within the bounds of
Henry county within the past twelve
months.
One hundred and one of these cou-
pies will have the marital knot united
in the divorce court, according to the
pessimistic statement of Judge Thos.
E. Harwood at the last term of the
circuit court here, who declared that
one out of every five marriages
wound up in the courts.
Be that as it may, Henry county
still maintains the reputation of be-
ing the best spot in the world in
which to dump the bonds of single
blessedness and put on the yoke Of
double cussedness, and just as long
as the western section of the Blue
Grass state continues to rear mar,
riageable young people the office OF
the county clerk at Paris will likely
do thriving business.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1919-12-26
KISS ME AGAIN"
ISCLEVER COMEDY
Broadway Musical Comedy Company
To Be Seen At Dixie Theatre
Monday.

Aided and abetted by cast of
clever principals, phalanx of spright-
ly cuties, show chuck full of gay
and dulcet MELODIES, hearty outlaws,
and lively dances, Frederick Bowers
scored a tremendous hit with a large
audience at the Majestic last night
when he appeared in his new musical
comedy, kiss Me Again"
The play is of the revue order, the
characters coming out singly to an
nounce themselves and their purpose
in fragments of song before the plot
itself is given an opportunity to
start. Mr.. Bowers himself gives it
the official kickoff by the familiar
vaudeville stunt of making his APP
pearance down the center aisle in
stead of from the wings.
Even plumper and more pleasing
than of yore, Mr. Bowers sings en-
gagingly in his sweet tenor and leads
with all his old-time bonhomie in the
casual and somewhat inconsequentia,
fun-making which follows. His years
of vaudeville have left traces not only
on his own methods which include the
genial vode habit of taking encores
from under the edge of the descend
ing curtain and other unexpected pla.
ces but also on the show which i:
agreeably haphazard and casual.
There is a jealous comedy wife de-
lightfully done by Rose Kesner, who
is the best lady comique VIZ has Wis.
tied US in musical comedy for years
There are likewise a comedy maid
and comedy butler done with snappy
songs and dances by Frank and Rae
{ Warner, beloved in vaudeville.
Mr.. DeWin acts the husband al
most as we'll as Miss Kesner acts his
wife and sings so exceptionally wei
as to cause one to wonder how he
! happened to stray into revue from
the concert halls where he obviously
alongs
Alma Moulan, star-eyed and stat
ueque, likewise> contributes to the
agreeable musical effect. And there
| is an unnamed youth who does dane
es extraordinary.
Manager Lawrence of the Dixie
has booked Frederick Bowers in tbs
big $40 Musical Comedy sensation
Kiss Me Again." for Monday, De
cember goth. This is one of the rea
New York shows and company Of
real artists, with a beauty chorus
such as only can be seen in the bis
cities. Both Manager Lawrence ant
Frederick Bowers offer a positiy,
guarantee of your money refunded il
you do not consider you have beer
i more than pleased with this high class
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1919-12-26
WEEKLY TOBACCO
MARKET REPORT

Offerings during the early part of
the week We're rather light, but for
the past day or two they have been
heavy in all three of the Western
District markets. Tobacco of extra
length, also tobacco of good quality
suitable for wrappers, has sold at
some higher prices than heretofore,
and there seems to be a strong de-
mand for the better grades at high
prices, and the highest prices of the
season were paid Quite a sprinkle
of tobacco has sold at over 80 cents
for the leaf, but the bulk of the Of
ferings were of the common and me-
dunn grades and at times the mar
ket showed some weakness on these
grades, but considering the heavy of
ferings the market has held up re-
markedly well. I can't say Just what
the average Of the weeks sales have
been, but it ranges somewhere from
20 to 81 cents around for leaf and
Jugs. So prices are not as high on
general average as the majority OF
people would suppose,
There have been some sales made
at barn doors over the country, but
so far they have been few and only
the better crops have been purchased
/ Prices for these crops range from 2E
to 30 cents for the leaf with Tugs al
8 to 10 cents. Farmers generally
are excited and expecting still high.
er prices for their crops, and are not
disposed to sell even at the present
high values for the better grades.
| would say that the little stir a
mong farmers was created by the high
prices that have been paid in some
instances on the loose markets as wei
as in the country, and many of then
that would gladly have accepted ths
/ prices ten days ago are now refusing
to sell, and it is impossible to do any
great amount of business in tn,
country until farmers have seen fur
Their what the market will be. 1t II
hard to say what the future market
viii be, but the fact that the great
err part Of the large buying interests
are remaining out of the market
would indicate that they are expect
ing to buy tobacco at lower prices la
ter on. Sales have been larger this
week than any previous week, but i
is impossible to say what they were
but no doubt several Hillion pounds
has changed hands during the pas
week.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1919-12-26
TUBERCULOSIS
DRIVE NEARING
COIJNTY'S GOAL
With Several Towns Yet I'm
reported, Treasurer Has
Near Thousand.
HOLIDAY SEASON
ACTS AS DAMPER
Campaign To Continue I'M
til January Quota
Is 100000.

If you have not yet had an oppor-
tunity to contribute to the Anti-Tu-
tuberculosis drive, or have promised
a donation and have not been called
upon for it, you may get in the big
push" and mail the amount to Mr..
Chas. Hastings, Treasurer.
Although the 5000 now in the
Hands of the treasurer is far from
the goal it was hoped to reach, yet
the towns of the county and several
individual workers have yet to re-
port, and considering the weather
conditions, the near approach to the
holidays, and the constant demand on
every mans pocket book in these
days when drives of all kinds are so
fashionable, the raising of 5000,
which will probably total one thou.
sand when all reports are in, is con-
vincing of the worthiness of the
cause and also shows how near it is
to the hearts of our people.
The campaign will continue until
January /. And another thing, on
an occasion like this, when there is
so much personal benefit and COM
fort derived from abetting the stamp
ing out of this horrible disease,
which by sheer negligence is allowed
to run rampant through the homes
Of rich and poor alike, person should
not wait to be asked for donation
that will be used right here at home
to down this monster. The funds
will be wisely spent under the per-
sonal direction of trained persons
who make a constant study of the
local conditions.
The tag day on Saturday didn't go
as well as was expected Some of
the workers failed to put in an APP
pearance. The major success of the
drive is due to the coterie Of young
ladies who so faithfully solicited per-
sonal contributions for the past
week. The history of their accom-
pEishment is not new one to any
person who has attempted the like
before, "Why this man, whom we
expected to give $50 gave us $3.50,
and that one whom we doubted
would give anything sent in to us a
check for $25." But so the world
wags young ladies. Editoss, and ad
men ct cetera, can tell you all about
il.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1919-12-26
MISS MARGUERITE
CLARK AT DIXIE
Here Tuesday in "The Seven Swans"
Her Greatest Pho
toplay.

The Princess Tweedledee was to
marry the wicked queens son. All
was feasting and rejoicing, and thru
the palace could be heard sounds Of
laughter and revelry, The little
Princess alone was sad and silent.
She was no other than dainty Mar
guerite Clark at work on her very lat
est Paramount photoplay. "T'he Sew
en- Swans" which was being made
under the expert direction of ]. s.
Dawley, who also made the adoption
from one of Hans Anderson's most
famous fairly stories, dear to the
hearts of childhood
Not one detail is left out. "The
Seven Swans" are there and are duly
transferred again to the form Of the
brave Princess. After Miss Clark
as Princess Tweedledee, has worn
out her patience and fingers knitting
garments of sharpest nettles, the
Prince charming, as played by the
handsome Richard Barthelmess, APP
pears and carries her off to his pal.
ace in triumph,
Here they lived amidst the greatest
splendor and were entertained by mu.
sic and dancing the livelong day. All
would have been well had not the
spell of the wicked queen prevented
the Little Princess Tweedledee from
ever speaking to the Prince Charm.
ing. Also, she was obliged to con
tnue her long task Of weaving SHARP
nettles into shirts for her brothers
until sometimes her white fingers
we're spotted with blood,
At last the Princess could see that
Prince Charming was getting tirec
Of his silent and Industrious guest ant
sadly returned to her home in the
far-away kingdom of the Seven Dials
Here what was her dismay to find tn,
wicked queen ruling in place Of he
mother
When the Wicked Queen saw tn,
beautiful Little Princess she imme
diately became very jealous and ac
eused her of witchcraft. At first tn,
people would not listen to these
words of the Wicked Queen but al
the Little Princess continued silen'
and would never say word for her
self, they-but we will leave the res
Of the story for yourself at the Dixi,
Theatre on Tuesday, where Mis-,
Clark will be seen in "The Sever
Swans" This is the most beautiful
and artistic photoplay Of her entir,
career,
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1919-12-26
HOME FOR CHRISTMAS.

Home they come for Christmas,
from all points of the compass, from
far away New York, from New Or
leans, and from places nearer The
cheer Of the paternal hearth, the mer-
ry greetings of friends and neighbors
and the joyous home-feeling cannot
be equalled in any other place in the
world. There is no place like home
surely, at the glad Christmas time,
and It does our hearts good to well
come these boys and girls home for
the holidays. Their happy smiles Of
greeting are one of the incest things
about Christmas Among those, whom
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1919-12-26
PUT A CANDLE IN YOUR
WINDOW CHRISTMAS EVE

The age-old custom of singing car
OILS will be observed on Christmas Eve
by the young peoples societies of the
local churchs, who have spracticed
some beautiful song for this occa-
sion. They will sing lat any home
where there is a lighted candle in
the window, and they are particularly
anxious of carrying this bit of Christ
mas cheer where there is sick per-
son, or shut in, in the home, SO if
you desire to hear them carol, do not
omit to put the lighted candle in the
window after dark on Christmas eve.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1919-12-26

big city show Frederick V. Bowers
is song writer of na,;onal repute
and has written the entire musical
score of kiss Me Again" This is
Mr.. Bowers first visit to Paris and
the management of the Dixie feels
assured that this show will be long
remembered as the best musical COM
edy that has ever. appeared on the
local stage.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1919-12-26
LITTLE MADGE HANCOCK DEAD

Madge Hancock, the 2 year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Han
cock, died Sunday night at their
home in West Paris, after short
illness Of diptheria. Funeral seryi-
ces were conducted Monday by Rev.
Sanders, with burial at Maplewood
cemetery.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1919-12-26

Mr.. and Mrs. Timmons Of Danville
are holiday guests Of their daughter
Ms. Ratterree, on South Market
street.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1919-12-26

Master Preston Steiger is spend
ing Christmas with his grandparents
in Hickman, KY. Mrs. E. d. Steiger
will leave for Hickman on Monday.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1919-12-26

our locals report home for the holt
days are: Mary Atkins, Corinne Han
cock, Sylvia Weinbaum, Katherine
Porter, Angelyn Freeman, Caldwell
Dumas. Steele Ezell, Jasper Holland,
Fisher Crutchfeld, Margaret Porter,
Elsa Ezell, Angelyn Upchurch, Lo-
rene Lansdeli, Yancey Caldwell, Car
sey Gatlin, Harold and James Frank
Porter, Martha and Kate Hickman, j.
P. Haynes, Jr.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-14
Those Red Gasoline Stations
By EARL GOODWIN.
They Are Not Beautiful, to Say the Lea
,tations do not HAVE to be ugl

Gasolene stations do not HAVE to be ugly
1t is not necessary to pick out the drearest spot in the
neghborhood drive fang red gas pump into the ground
scatter ashes all the place. and make the place even
looking than it in the begnningin order to
sell gasoene
People MUST buy gas, and they not attracted by
the garsh red signs at the gas tanks They buy because
they MUST it. On the other hand, and who
have the beauty of the city in mind buy less gas than they
would if there attractive less hdeous place to
get it. For instance tre work could be erected
to hide the which to collect around gas tanks
and oil stations Shrubbery and evergreens might be
ployed for similar purpose
The numerous gas stations convenences of course
but the way they erected without thought of the
sensbilities of neghbors, is Objectionable.
1t might improve conditions considerably if citizens
associations offered prizes to the best kept and neaes gas
stations.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-14
Beatrice Fairfax Writes Problems and Pitfalls War Workers
Especially for Washington Women

at the bottom Of women's under
paid work and have made women's
work one of the most difficult
elements Of adjustment in the
labor market, in the past.
It is curious to think Of this
exploitation of an entire sex,
going on generation after genera
ton, and the exploiters being the
women OF their own families. One
does not have to be very old to
recall the faithful spinster aunt
who did everything about house
that everyone else left undone.
She nursed the sick, she sewed,
she darned the stockings and she
did all the picking and preserv-
ing and sometimes she was re-
warded with a cast-off garment or
a pair Of shoes.
A sort Of humorous pity hung
about her, because she had missed
the only successful career open to
women In those days-marriage.
All the coarse fun Of the play
wrights centers about her at
tempts to get married and ex-
change her unpaid slavery for a
''home of her own"
Work AS a Matter of Course.
How much better girls have
things today! They take up work
or q profession as a matter of
course, and they marry if they finn
u man who is worth giving up
work for, or they keep right on
with the job, if that seems pes.
The effect of the new order of
things, makes the average young
man of today less certain of his
wife than his father was, and con-
siderably less certain than was
bis grandfather.
She is economically independ-
ent," or, in other words, she is
able to paddle her own canoe, and
If he treats her badly she is apt
not ITO go home to mother" but
but to go back to the shop or Of
fee; and the element of uncer-
tainty is a wholesome thing for a
certain type of husband, the
Grand Turk type that regarded his
wife as his chattel.
Personally should have enjoyed
being present in Mr.. Wegner's of
fee when the modern Paris" with
his nine children filed in to decide
which of the three waiting ladies
was best qualified to take over the
family. 1t must have been a curl
Gus scene, and one that didn't
"hitch up" with that momentous
decision passed by the Senate a
week or so ago, that women are
the political equals of mon.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-14

A FEW days ago, John C.
~ Wegner, head of the Munich
pal Employment Bureau Of
Paterson, N. J., announced that
he had been commissioned by a
lonesome widower with nine
children" to find a wife for him.
This bit of news was very wide
ly copied in the daily papers, and
at last accounts, three women
were sitting in Mr.. Wegner's Of
fee an1dously awaiting the ad-
vent Of the ready-made family
that was expected to call en- ntdsse.
The picture of the three ladies
sitting in the Municipal Employ
ment Bureau, awaiting the choice
of the Lonesome widower;" is
more suggestive Of the pre-his-
toric days Of 1.-THE Judgment of
Paris" and the ensuing Trojan
war, than Twentieth Century
America, where the United States
Senate decided, a week or 30 ago,
that all women should be given
equal political rights.
A school teacher once told me
that girl children could be de-
pended upon to remember the
origin of the Trojan war better
than boy pupils. Girls always
seem to feel that a war fought
over the good looks of three
women and the destinations Of a
fourth was essentially a girls
war. The amazing part Of it is,
that human nature goes on, re-
producing itself apparently on the
same old models. In the earliest
dawn of creation, so long ago that
it is impossible to disentangle the
real from the legendary, we have
three women squabbling over
which shall take a beauty prize
a golden apple inscribed: "For
the Fairest"
The Same Mystical Number.
Eons and cons Of time pass, and
we still have the same mystical
number of women sitting in Mr..
Wegner's Municipal office, await
ing the arrival of a widower to
make a choice.
Shall we always have a few
women of this type, women who
are willing to accept the hazards
of matrimony with an unknown
man-not to mention the nine
children-rather than face the
more modern method of taking
chances with a job?
No, in spite of the apparent
parallel between the beautiful
shepherd Paris, passing judgment
on the respective good looks of the
snddAseAs, Iuno, Minerva and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-14

a few ideas into the members heads
France unfortunately is the verge Of great labor
revolution There most dangerous conditions there
and when the thing starts say where viii end
Conditions in England dangerous that men of in
tegence INCLUDING manufacturers associations think
of little else except the labor problem and the possibility
of continuing peaceful sane constructive basis the
work of reconstruction after the
1t is all very well for nearsighted manufacturers
this country to construct fools paradise and live In
for little while if they want to- But they not inter
fere with clear seeing and plain speaking by others like
Manly who know that sparks flying in Europe that
powder mine here and that does not do to rey
three thousand miles of to keep the sparks
from the powder.
This country CAN and SHOULD develop peacefully
with workmen well paid and contented with INTELLIGENT
business and other managers well rewarded and
prosperous.
But to bring that about is necessary avoid initial
ing the ostrich with its head in the sand Some American
business men who understand THEIR PARTICULAR
BUSINESS and nothing ese believe that they are fitted
to solve all problems because they have little money in
the bank, They danger to the country.