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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13

you do not want him to make any
excuses or eXplain-that the fact Ui
his hardness is annoying and you
do not want the annoyance intensi-
fed by talking about it. l believe
that when he knows how you feel
he will make a greater effort not TO
displease you.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: Should
go car riding with a young man Il
l am y. He is very nice looking
and kind He takes me to dances
and socials and says he loves me,
and love him.
My parents let me go and never
object l would hate TO quit him.
He gives me presents for my birth
day l hope l won't have to quit
him. What shall l do?
WORRIED.
If you were my child I would NOT
insist upon your giving up the boy
entirely, but | would want you TO
entertain him at home and not go
away with him unless accom- - -
led by older people. You are very
much too young TO go to dances and
TluluB Win MIN.
Dear Mrs. Thompson; I am going
to a basket social. My boy friend
wants me to tell him which is my
box so that he can buy it, Should
do SO? DIMPLES.
Yes, tell him. As long as you like
each other, it will be pleasant if you
can eat together.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: Should a
boy take a girl by the arm when
they go anywhere? My boy friend
always does and sits close to me.
B. X.
Your boy friend would show bet
ter taste if he took. your arm only
when crossing streets or in rough
places and did not sit noticeabiy
close to you. 1t is not considered
proper for young man to take a
girls arm all the time when they
are walking together.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13
Today's Birthdays

Marquis of Londonderry, AN
Irish peer who is an aggressive OPT
ponent of home rule for Ireland,
born Al years ago today.
Ri Rev William Hickey, the new
Roman Catholic bishop of Provi-
dence, born at Worcester, Mass, 80
years ago today.
Bishop Joseph F. Berry. of the
Methodist, Episcopal church, born
at Aylmer, Canada, 63 years ago TO-
day
Effie Shannon. long a prominent
actress of the American stage, born
at Cambridge, Mass, so years ago
today.
DR.. William S. Currell, president
of the University of South Carolina.
born at Charleston, S. c., 81 years
ago today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13
GINGER PRINTS" FOR WHEAT.

Il
Specialists of the United States
department of agriculture have
been busy for several years in the
classification and Identification of
varieties of wheat, grown in this
country. They have identified -ap-
proximately $50 definite varieties.
but these are better known by at
least 500 different names. This
work OF wheat classification in
wolves investigation of the> early
history of each variety from its in
PRODUCTION >into the United States
up to the present stage of its pro-
gress. Wheat was sown as early
as 1902 by Gosewold, the explorer.
one one of the Elizabeth islands in
BuZzards' Bay. II was not until
nine years later that the first wheat
was sown in Virginia, while not
previous to 164S did the total crop
of the old dominion exceed several
hundred acres. The ''finger-print"
work which the United States de-
partment of agriculture is con-
Quoting in Identifying and classify
ing all varieties of this grain is ex-
pected to be of great economic
value to the wheat-growing world
in general and agronomic workers
in particular.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13
House CIeaninp Hinfs-

Homemade Paint and Varnish
remover Make one quart of thick
starch and stir into it two table
spoons concentrated I've. Apply
with a small paint brush and let
stand over night. Wash thorough
ly with warm water and let article
become perfectly dry before apply
ing new finish.
A Good Floor Polish-Melt not
quite half a pound of beeswax and
pour into it one quart OF turpen-
tine; add FIVE cents worth OF am
monia. Mix well and use while
warm. Apply with a piece Of old
soft flannel and polish with a piece
of carpet
Grease Spots-To remove grease
spots from wallpaper. sprinkle a
piece/of blotting paper with bak-
ing soda and hold it over the spot
while you press the paper with a
moderately hot iron The blottiug
paper will absorb the grease and
the soda prevents injury to the wall
paper.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13
NIEsAITTI NH&g
BY MILAN !!l e BRADY nd.

of value in diagnosis only insofar
as it may confirm the opinion of
the patients physician. When the
X-ray evidence fails to confirm the
physicians opinion or seems to
contradict it, the wise plan, as a
rule, is to ignore the X-ray evil
dence. Deplorable and> sometimes
tragic results ensue when patients
fall into the error of thinking that
X-ray evidence is in itself suffi-
cieQt
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13
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KID SAMSON.

Kid Samson was a fighter bold
According to the legends ed,
e He had a mass of wavy hair
Through which the spring breeze used
to tear.
Oh, he could hit to beat the band
And he could hit with either hand&
His name was noted far and wide
And up and down the countryside
But Samson had a manager
Who saw that nothing could occur
Until this managerial gent
Could grab his eighty-five per cent.
This manager was not aware
That Samson's strength was in his hair,
And, wishing it to stuff chair,
He dug a barber up somewhere
And got the Kid to shed his thatch,
And he never won another match,
A lot of managers since then
Have trimmed a lot of fighting men!
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13

German professor protests against the
crushing of Germanys SOUP by severe peace
terms. Well, what did Germany deliberately
do to the people of Belgium, northern France,
and of every other bit of territory it got its
hands on? The Huns make no objection
to the terms of the treaty that cannot be an
swered in terms of their own coming.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13

men hired who can put in all their time at
the work.
Five trucks working all the time. would
do wonders with Rock Island county's dirt
roads. Five hundred Of them, used solely upon
Illinois roads built with federal aid, would be
idle most of the time if used all at one time
they would be in-Aach others way.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13

WHILE Germany is whining at the pros
pect of having to take her medicine and Offering
all sorts of substitutes cher faVorite occupation)
which, she thinks, will make the dose less
distasteful we have the troubled ally Austria
coming forward to learn what the prescription
may be for her case. Doctor, let the good work
go on. Don't weaken.
HOWEVER when the time comes for
Turkey to come forward, recommend that
instead of a physician a surgeon be used
There is considerable carving that needs to be
done on that bird
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13

Senior Albuquerque, the Brazilian journal
list who INDUCES in such vicious attack upon
this country, must have lost some money dur
ing his recent visit here. It's more dangerous
to give one of these Latin-Americans unrestrict-
ed use of the public prints than to supply him
with firearms
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13

MISS Marie WlXted ana refer connecticut
and A. F. McNeal of this city were married at
Waterbury. Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. McNeal were
in attendance at the wedding.
Pelham Grenville wodehouse in the satur-
day Evening Post says: THE grocer was in
the act of bidding a silent farewell to a tomato,
which even he, though a dauntless optimist,
was compelled to admit had outlived its
Pretty neat way of saying rotten tomato
Ell, what?
QUICK WATSON! THERE'S NO TINE TO
BE LOST.
Sir: seek enlightenment. I found a
lady's pocketbook (I mean 1 presume it was)
lying on the sidewalk down town Saturday. I
picked it up and later when 1 opened it 1
found that it contained a One-cent postage
stamp that had never been used and a safety
pin that might have been What do you
deduce? BP
The Youngstown Telegram carries an ad-
verisement which says:
TRY A DIVORCE.
7 You'll Never
Know The Joy
Until You've
Tried 1t!
That's all there is to it, and while we are
waiting further notices to what it really
is, are in doubt as to whether the ad is
the work of a lawyer or a manufacturer of a
new breakfast food.
BUT MY DEAR LADY
Sir: Whether you have been receiving nv
contributions and casting them in the waste
basket or friend husband has failed to mail
them do not know. Neither would surprise
me- had been wondering why none of my
stuff had appeared lately, when the other even
ing while perusing the column after FIJI. had
finished with it l noticed that it had been
censored. Naturally my curiosity was aroused
and 1 hot-foOted it to the neighbors where 1
secured a paper, and what do you suppose
found in the place which had been cut out
of our paper? Well it was that nice little
bouquet f. b. handed to himself about get
ting by for such a length of time without
having a comeback from f. W" Maybe this
will take some of the wind out of his sails
I'm mailing it myself. MRS. x Y.
LET THOSE, who found the task of digest
ing the text of the peace treaty given to
Germany difficult, reconcile themselves
PERHAPS Turkeys will prove more palat-
able. o. D. X
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13

OF value to you. miss" he said
and Ada uttered a glad cry as she
found the paper to be a documen,
bearing the signature of her fath.
er, turning over to Richard Mark
ham their little property. Mark
ham had evidently been himse;;
dazed with drink and had dropped
the paper in his hurried fight
Pm going to look into the claim
Of that rascal when | get on nv
feet" declared Bruce, and that afr
ernoon he came in with a beaming
face.
i've heard from home" he ex-
ulted, and everything is all right
They've sent me money, and Il
seems an aunt of mine has left me
more. But I'm going to come bach
soon. ShallI? Toto tell Won
how I've got along, don't Won
see?"
Father says I've got to settle
down, he said. He's going to give
me house and lot. and1I wonder
ed if you'd come and help me out
We could make yoGr father so
comfortable, and II love Won
Ada, and l know you would make
the very best wife in the world "
All bushes and professional wom-
ems clubs in the United States are
to be federated under one national
head ia meeting to be held in ST
Louis next July. The organization
is to be strictly non-sectarian and
non-partisan. and is not to inter-
fere in any way with the already
established general federation of
women's clubs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13

More than sixty officers of the Chilean
army are under arrest and a plot has been
nipped to establish a dictatorship and call
elections for new president. Another case,
evidently, of too much army and too little for
it to do
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13
The War a Year Ago

German emperor proclaimed
Lithuania as an independent state.
Italian aviators destroyed Aus
trian battleship in Pola harbor.
German and Austrian emberors
met and renewed their military
alliance
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13

The fact that the kaiser once held a gun
at it's head for four very long years may have
something to do with the readiness with which
Holland agrees to surrender William Hohen-
zolIern to the allies demand.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13

German correspondents complain that the
Versailles hotel attendants where the Teuton
delegation is quartered is full of spies working
attendants Wonder what put such idea
in their heads?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13

The intuition, or whatever it is that enables
thief to catch thief no doubt plays part
in helping burglar find bootlegging joint
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13

Villa freed $50 prisoners at Parral and teld
them to go to work. If nobody in the country
works how can bandit make a decent living?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13
MENU HINT.

MENU HINT.
Breakfast.
Rhubar0 Stewed With Raisins
Crisp Bacon French Toast
Coffee.
Luncheon.
Plain Omelet Dreamed Asparagus
Brown Bread Butter
Grape Jelly Dried Peach Tarts
Tea
Dinner.
Tomato Soup Croutons
Potato Pie Spinach
Onion Salad
Bread Butter
Canned Sweet Cherries in Gelatin
Sponge Cake, Coffee
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13
Questions and Answers.


Some Wart Psychology wish
you would print a good formula for
the removal of warts. am op-
posed to the surgical removal of
Warts, as | once knew a woman
who suffered the loss of two fingers
from blood poisoning following the
removal of warts. n. o. S.
Answer once knew a man who
was elected to the legislature the
very day after he had presented his
own wife two pounds of chocolates.
The best formula know, the clean
est, safest, least painful, most eff
iicient, is the knife and local anes-
thesia. The only reason why ] do
not suggest caustics for the pur-
pose is because of the danger of
blood poisoning and, in the second
place, because they commonly dis
appoint.
Cheese Easy to Digest-Is cheese
easy to digest? MRS. R. E. L.
Answer-As easy as bread. toast,
meat, broth or rice, calory for cal
DRY. The prejudice against cheese
is attributable to the abuse of
cheese, a food of very high fuel
value, with, such substantial things
as pie, and after a hearty meal at
that.
Where 70 Go for Your Health
l would like to know where you
would advise me to go for my
health. Do you think, California
or Florida would be a good~ place?
had a nervous breakdown last
winter. The doctor examined me
last week and he said as far as he
could see there was nothing wrong
with me. G. r.
,Answer-The best place | can
suggest for a man to go who has
nothing the matter with him yet
suffers some kind of breakdown, is
to a doctor. California and Florida
both have rather lower health rates
than most of the northern state.
Certainly a man never breaks down
from "overwork" or strain" I'M
less there is something wrong with
his health.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13
RECIPES FOR A DAY

Potato Pie-Line deep CREASED
pan with mashed seasoned potatoes
an inch thick. Fill in with chopped
meat, pits of left over ham. beef
from a soup bone or any scraps oil
meat on hand. Add a minced onion,
salt and pepper to taste, and enough
brown gravy or sauce to moiSten
well. Cover with potato, smooth
and mark as any pie. Bake till
brown in moderate oven. Serve in
same pan. Use old potatoes in these
made dishes because at this season
they have lost their freshness and
taste better when used in combina-
ton with meat or some other vege
table of more pronounced flavor.
= Lettuce and Onion Salad Wash
and dry the lettuce, moisten with
mayonnaise (arrange on salad
plates.D Cut medium sized onions IN
thin slices and soak in very cold
water half an hour. Pull the rings
apart and arrange on the lettuce
leaves. This salad makes use OF thu
old onions and the lettuce adds the
fresh green which makes it at
tractive to both eye and taste. Any
bits of left over canned vegetables,
such as cauliflower or string beans,
may be moistened with the mayon-
naise and added with the onions.
Dried Peach Tarts Stew dried
peaches till tender and force
through a sieve. Sweeten to taste
and add a little grated orange and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13
Household Hints

a speck of ground cinnamon. Fill
tart shells, which have been pre-
Vicusly baked. Top with a spoonful
OF whipped cream. This is a varia-
ton from the ordinary pie and is
also, change from plain stewed
dried fruit.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13
THNGS WORTH KNOMING.

Wall Paper Cleancr-The follow
ing recipe will remove all smoke
and other signs of ordinary wear
and is superior TO many ready
made cleaners: Two cups sifted
flour, one cup warm water, two
tablespoons salt. two tablespoons
coal oil, four tablespoons ammonia.
Blend till smooth and boil until il
forms a dough, stirring constantly.
knead into ball, break off a small
piece. and use till soiled.
When POachiRg Eggs, if you Will
add half teaspeonful of vinegar To
the water before dropping in The
eees You will find they will
hold their shape better and YOU
won't waste so much of the white
which would otherwise fall TO
OipppS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13
A PEN PICTURE OF MoDEsTY.

Sir: You ask in your discussion of auto
poker, what would they do with a fellow
caught with hand that read It'll, Well,
not being an authority on poker and the penal
ties for violation of it's sacred rules | do not
know, but what 1 really writing about is
to ask who this clever, not to say cleverest
of the clever, contrib. is who signs himself
II. G. G. My wife really thinks his stuff is
GREAT, and to put it mildly. 1 quite agree
with her Let's have more of it. .
~
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13

WHO is the woman who lives on Twelfth
street, while bathing her feet the other
day saw woman going down the alley and
in order to get a better look, hurried in
her bare feet into another room and in doing
SO caught toe in mouse trap?
GLIB
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-13
Two Should Make a Fair Starter,

From Marion, Ohio, Starr
Miss Marie Wixted and Peter Connection
and A. F. McNeal of this city were married a
Waterbury. Mr.. and Mrs j. F. McNeal were
in attendance at the wedding
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-20
Nz1erS ct Wo~k

IF we are going to produce 5oo0o0,0o0 tons
of bituminous coal this year,, he replied I'VE have
got to go along at practically the top speed we hit
in 1918, on the average. In the period from about
the middle of July until the middle of November.
1918, when everything possible was done to favor
the production of bituminous coal, we averaged
less than 100000 tons week. To do that we
had situation to repairs that was better than
it is now. 1t has been accentuated somewhat of
COURSE as to the bad order car situation by the
shipments strike, but in accomplishing that record
last year had preferential movement of coal
cars, loaded and empty, on great many railroads.
1--WE had also curtailment of the use of coal
cars by certain commodities of lesser necessity in
the than coal, and the prohibition of other
commodities that were not necessary at all. Your
road building jobs, for instance, practically
stopped. Those things within the power OF
the Railroad Administration to put back into effect
and they contributed materially to that record"
Frank McManany, Assistant Director of Oper-
alton, in charge of mechanical matters for the Rail
road Administration, followed Mr. Guthcim on the
stand and presented statistics concerning the num-
Der of locomotives and freight out of order this
year. The locomotive statistics showed that the
general condition of locomotives is better today
than it has been at any time during the period of
federal operation during the three-year test
period preceding.
Therefore" said the witness, so far as loco
motives concerned, there is no ground for ap.
prehension, as there will be sufficient power to
handle all business offered to the maximum
capacity of terminal facilities With respect to
freight cars, the situation is somewhat different"
$4,000 BAD ORDER CARS. ysa .
Roughly speaking, the witness said, there were
approximately 10000 coal in the shops await
ing repairs now, and that they hoped to reduce
this number at the rate of more than 5000 cars
per month unless unforeseen labor troubles
materialized. %.
while the number of bad order cars is high
at present." he said, the action which has been
taken by the Railroad Administration, will, l be-
licve be sufficient to meet the demand for coal cars
unless it reaches abnormal proportions in which
event it will not be so much due to car shortage as
to terminal facilities
c. E. Lesher, in charge of Fuel Statistics for
the Geological Survey, was called by the Commit
tee in an effort to get some accurate figures con-
cerning the actual consumption of bituminous coal
in this country this year. He said that the figures
were not available, as the Geological Survey had
no appropriation which it could use to secure the
information essential to such an estimate He was
requested to ask Secretary of the Interior Lane if
sufficient funds could not be made available by HE
Department of the Interior to secure this informa.
tion
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-20
ONLY REAL MENACE
,aaa is CAR SHORTAGE
Lack of Coal Cars Is Forcing Many
Bituminous Mines to Run on Part
Time, but Railroad Administration
Representative Testifes That EX-
ceptiOnal Efforts Are Being Made
- to Improve the Situation.

YEARS that the exporting of bituminous coal
to our allies this year would increase the
danger of coal famine in this country,
were dissipated by representative of the U. S.
Shipping Board at the resumption of the inquiry
which the Senate Subcommittee is holding in
Washington into the soft coal situation.
n H. Y. Saint, head of the Expert Coal Depart
ment of the Shipping Board, told Senator Freling-
huysen's Committee that sending the seven million
tons of bitumnous coal due to be shipped across
the Atlantic between now and next April will not
injure the domestic situation, nor cause an in
crease in the price of bituminous coal here. In
addition to clearing up the unfounded rumors con-
cerning the export situation, the hearing developed
the fact that if the Railroad Administration can
materially reduce car shortage, the chief menace
to the domestic coal situation will be eliminated.
Representatives of the Railroad Administration
admitted that the shortage problem was real
one, but declared that extraordinary efforts were
being made to eliminate it.
Mr.. Saint, who appeared for the Shipping
Board, gave detailed account to the Senate Sub
Committee of the efforts which his board is max
ing, in cooperation with the biuminous operators,
to supply France, Italy and several other European
countries with the coal which they so sorcly need,
without leaving this country at the mercy of bad
winter.
There are demands from practically every
European country" he said. 'They come from
France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark,
Italy, Greece, Portugal and North African coun-
tries but the greatest pressure right at the present
time is from Italy, and then France" Even the
British Isles had asked for American coal, but
had been supplied, he said
. ENGLAND'S PRODUCTION DROPS.
''The threatened coal famine in Europe is due
primarily to the falling down of the production in
England England was the great exporting coal
nation before the war, but her exports have
dropped from about sXty-sevcn million tons to APP
proxmately twenty-three million tons. Italy got
the bulk of her coal from England France got a
very considerable amount. The Northern neutrals
got their coal mostly from England and South
America got great deal Of her coal from the same
country. In addition England kept up practically
by herself the bunkcring situation of the world.
That is, she supplied the coal that is shipped to
the bunkering stations throughout the world to
supply the worlds shipping"
Questioned specifically as to just how the re-
duced coal production in England is affecting the
other European countries, Mr.. Saint cited The case
of Italy.