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The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-20

The rsssias passenger ,r,,, =.
Of rusblo tslsscopsd a ca ,.,' wv
snsa. rear cad collision. Ia,t 90
aay moraing. The engines, ,.,
tirsmsa jumped and .ay.s -, aa
selves. aad no one on si,hs, -
vss ssjsrsd. The c. .. eseoo,. ..s
ess car es s1elss we're d..,,o,,s y. !.
fFs' TAs sasias Of ID. pa......
~ss pfsssy lady damaged. su, =.
es' The circumstances they ,sn ,s., ~,
sAsy sos % fairly sasy.
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-20
CORRECTION

The statement Of the Library as
ISOLATION was incomplete as pub
iished last week. as shown by the
following:
Percentage from concessions re-
ceived from Commercial club, $3.50.
Eastern Star. 356.2l also IS pies
donated to cafeteria.
Woman's club. $500; also 4 gal
Ions baked beans to cafeteria.
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-20

Ralph Gwartney has entered into
partnership with Ben Akers in the
Cash Auto Repair Shop. which IL
located across from tho Hunter ho-
tel. These boys are experts In the
auto repair line and will get their
share OF the business.
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-20

Marion Spencer. rrcd Shan and
10y Spencer came home Thursday
from Lexington. Mo-. where they
are students st tho military acadc-
my. TO spend their holiday vacation.
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-20

Take homo = few Of those rolls
at Valentines Bakery nsxt sstsf'
day. the cinnamon rolls. coffee cake,
butter rolls and Parker house rolls
viii all M fine.
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-20

They arc coming surei rAr., nj.
dances. Xmas night. Nov Y.,,''
Eve and New Years nixh,. woo,
mea hall. . p. n. Special music
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-20

The new bakery people cay they
will soon control the peanut trade
because both aaited and Jumbo pea
nuts will be open hearth roasted
and fresh every day.
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-20

We notice that the Monte Vista
Bsak and Trust company 10 all
drsssod up with rose coior-d vcivc,
saaA curtains. making the bank very
attractive.
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-20

Plan for the big dances Christmas
night. New Years Eve and New
New Years nikht. woodmaa hall.
.. m. Special music.
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-20

Lewis Hadicy has gone TO Oska.
ioosa. Iowa. for = short visit. having
left on Monday Of this weak.
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-20

Don't miss the big fun! Attend
the big dances. Woodmen hall, . D.
m. Xmas night. New Years Eve
and New Years night. Unexcelled
music. floor In finest shane.
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-20

Whoa! Back! Have you got
tnose dates straight! Big dances.
Xmas night. New Years Eve and
New Years night. Woodmen hall.
. p, m. Good floor. extra good
music.
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-20

asy noy' These cookies ~ Val.
on,inea' Bakery are sure delicious
aud are cheap. too.
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-20

FOR aALE-Chaimcrs -. Looks
like new and In good condition.
Price easo.oo. Inquire At Journal
Office.
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-20

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES
arc held at Woodman Hall every
Sunday morning At IL O'Clock.
Everybody welcome.
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-20

Don't forget Valentines Bakery
opens next Saturday At one O'CLOCK
p. m.
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-20

FOR RENT-Four room fur
nished house. See Mrs. F. c
Spencer.
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-20

Read the Woods Floral Store list
OF Christmas gifts in this edition,
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-20

FOR SALE-Nice bunch of thrift.
y double immune stock hogs. W.
8. Woods.
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-20

FOR SALE-First class mile
COW. fresh In few days. II. {
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-20

Meet your friends at the big
dances: tell them you are going.
Xmas night. New Years Eve and
New Years night. Woodmen hail.
p. m. Finest music, best floor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31

And as the other turned on her
heel to continue her walk and her
signs, the beggar, before departing.
murmured:
Life is not always sweet, ma
DAM"
She said this without whining
and in tone so grave that the
promenader within the park
stopped.
Then the old woman began to re-
count her misfortunes. Poor peo-
pie do that very simply, for the
benefit of the first conner. 1t is a
privilege which they have and
which, doubtless, solaces and con-
soles them.
1T is my ARM" she said. (which
is the worst of all. An automobile
struck me one evening when I was
sleeping on the side of the road. !
was worn out and needed sleep
Think of it, madam. l have to SUD-
port myself, at my age, after hav-
ing had a husband and five children
My husband deserted me when ]
was still young, leaving the five
children on my hands. l brought
them up, nevertheless. One died
of meningitis and one of consump.
ton. A third disappeared during
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31

the war. The fourth is in prison.
The fifth, who was a girl, ran awav
with young man, who took her
abroad.
SO | went to work again for NV
self. They gave me clothes 70
wash and | slept in the houses of
those who employed me. But now.
with this arm, / have to sleep out
side, madam; and it is very hard
in winter"
The young woman opened her
mouth to respond. Shame Redeemed
her face. Had she not been think
ing just now of her own old age.
and had she not judged it in ad-
vance to be perfectly lamentable?
The mendicant interrupted her in
her burst Of pity. STRENGTHENING
up, smiling, with her countenance H.
Illuminated, she said:
But it is wrong to get discour-
aged, madam. For some days my
arm has been better. 1t is a good
time of the year and the rains no
longer drench me to the bone. And
to-day you have given me this
piece"
Then, with all her soul, she added
this startling little sentence:
For some time past God has
been good to me-"
The young woman had SLOWLY
bowed her head She raised it and
looked at the old mendicant. Then
1evershly rummaging in her bag
she emptied it of all the money if
contained--some 20-franc notes and
several pieces of silver.
Take these" she said. "The,
are yours"
Dropping them in the one gooc
hand of the astonished begga,
woman, it seemed to her that she
dropped with them all the affiictions
Of her heart.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31

And my love is dead. | haven't
even the recourse of religion. Can
:! still believe in God when l suf-
fer so much. and when everything
is denied me? Moreover, the war
has deprived me of a part of nv
income. | can't live as | used to.
| have fewer servants. | have had
to sell my auto. And that isn't all.
! am neurasthenic. I have diz2v
spells. My health is being under
mined.
"That's how things stand now. AS
to the future, it is blacker still. I
can see myself now, lonely invalid.
dependent on the care of servants. a
melancholy old woman whose onlv
concern IS not to suffer too much.
while others are surrounded by chill
dren and grandchildren to keep the
heart warm even until DEATH What
chill l feel within me and about
me! l wonder whether there is an
other woman on earth more for
saken and more unhappy than I
am"
After drinking her tea, which a
maid had just served in the salon.
she dried her eyes. The late spring.
time was SO beautiful out there in
the park that the crickets yibrated
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31

the garden path, until the dog
barking loudly, startled her out of
her grief.
THAT'S it. There is some one
behind the fence. An old woman.
Some beggar, no doubt
1t was, indeed, a beggar. Bent
her arm in a sling. her white locks
under the wreck Of a bonnet, q
mans shoes on her feet and rags
about her body, she looked across
the barrier, with eyes blinking in q
face without form or color.
MADAM" she called softly.
And the other came, already
opening her bag, while the little dog
scandalized, shifted and growled.
"Madam," the voice continued
would you be so very good as tc
give me little help? l haven't
had bite to eat to-day"
The younger woman saw hersel-
again before her tea and cakes.
Here my poor creature" she
SAID, giving her a 5-sou piece.
Five sous! 1t is not the ordi
nary tariff. To the poor one gives
one big sou. 1t is a convention.
ooh! Thank you, my good ladv.,
exclaimed the old woman, joyfullv
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
The Less0n-By Mme Lucie Delarue- NIadrus
.HE poor woman had gone
into the country to nurse
n her hearts griefs. 1t is a

Il
into the country to nurse
~ her hearts griefs. 1t is a
painful thing when love
ends of itself. shoulders down to
ashes from WEAKNESS, from safety,
comes to a finish because the two
poles of attraction go dead and
the current which used to flow be-
tween them no longer emits a spark.
Surely a violent rupture, with ali
its brutalities, is better than that,
What shall she do now to as
suage her hearto Alone in the old
country house, she finds no pleasure
but that Of reviving her bitter eX-
periences. She counts them over,
one by one, classifies them, studies
them.
Life! What is it for me now?
| am no longer young. ! am going
to grow old soon. | had a husband,
but l lost him. l had a lover, but
! no longer care for him. Others
have children. If | had even one!
Others have friends. | am alone,
forgotten. During the long years
of my passionate attachment | mar
rowed my world; for other people
are tiresome when one is really in
love.
II could cultivate some consolinp
art, as many do. l could paint,
write or be a musician. But thew
didn't teach me anything when |
was a girl. l am pretty-that is
all. What is the object of being
pretty? To love and to be loved.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
Dark Alleys
by Mary Kennedy


On Judy")
MY life is entered through dark
alleys,
Where a dim light glows above a
dingy door.
1t is entered across an empty Mat.
form
With shrouded disarranged furni.
ture standing about
Like ghosts Of things that might be
My footsteps echo holowly.
Clouds of dust rise from each sepa.
rate sound.
My life is hemmed by a narrow
shelf
Holding a few paint boxes and four
smeary sticks.
A powder puff is my talisman.
My sanctuary is a numbered door.
! am an artist Yet | cannot see
the picture paint.
] am doomed eternally to see but
the tools of my art.
My life is entered thru an alleyway!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31

with JOY and the birds couldn't keep
silence. An elder tree balanced it's
white clusters to every little breeze
that passed. The golden dandelion
buttons in the grass plot shone in
the sunlight. Bits of blue sky APP
peared above the heavy branches
of the trees.
What good is all this?' She
thought
She dried her eyes once more be-
fore buttering her tea cakes. 1t is
frlghtful to live with a sob ALWAYS
in ones throat.
Pushing back the empty teacup
she got up. What should she do
with herself through the rest of
this long, bright day? Should she
walk in the park with her little dog
as she had done the afternoon be-
fore?
1T is certain that ] shall COM
NIT suicide one of these even
ings"-
The servant gave her an umbrella
and wrap. The little white dog
rushed ahead of her, happy to get
out Of doors.
"Alone with my dog
She warmed to the idea and be-
gan to weep again as she followed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31

~ ALL the queer things that
have roamed the terrestrial
globe during the history of
man, there is one thing
queerer than all the rest-rarer, too
and that is genius. This is the con-
clusion reached by Alfred Sinclair
Clark, writing in recent number
of "Everybody's Magazine who
announces that not even the giraffe
is queerer than genius. In fact, he
believes that genius is the radium
of the mental world
what" asks Mr. Clark, "is the
queerest thing in the world?
at all depends upon the point of
view. The Germans thought nothing
could be queerer than the reluctance
into sthe house and then meekly stand
about to receive orders. Men regard
summer furs ~ queer: so do women
regard mems bleak, stiff collars. Green
wich Villagers think Cape Cod natives
delightfully."- queer; Cape Codders know
the villagers are queer but they en-
phasize it with another word begin
ming with d. When you ponder
about them you realize that whskers
are queer. Relatives often are. So
Is day-old calf. , Even queerer than
all these is a giraffe, which seems to
have grown on and on like a German
sentence without being able to stop.
But not even the giraffe is as queer
as genius.
Almost everything else that is
queer can he explained. Even the
giraffe A French naturalist says that
gi1affes orce ma short necks which
were inconvcnient in an arid region
where tender growing things were
just out cf reach, The giraffes
stretched and stretched Finally, after
se> eTal Thousand years. they got the
sort o. neck they wanted.
''Cerios Iefes explanation. great
mary wise men have said wise things
about it, but they do not explain it..
Here Glty and environment help it to
grow. but they cannot create it. If
they cori1 the son of Mary Arden and
John Shakespeare would have been a
butcher and ~ the son of Elizabeth
Browning might have written Hamlet
Genius is dangerously fascinating
subject to novel writer's Usually the
attempt to create one ends in dismal
failure. The novelist tells you over
ard over that his hero is a genius
This is helpful information. yet one
wonders why it is that these geniuses
so seldom do or say anything remark
able"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
Dark Horizons
The Candle End
By Harrison Dowd

On "McQuWD
THE candle end is short My
little game
Is done. Here, take it friends, to
light your play.
This move of mine has failed. TO
you the fame
Of winner is now due. I'll find
Somehow out in the dark to guide
me home
weary of the game at best. IT'S
sleep
I'm wanting; I've viewed your
vaunted Rome,
Have tried your games and lost
l do not weep;
l want no victor's pity. Here, take
the candle
And go on with your winning.
You'll recall
Some day the foolish hands that
could not handle
The subtle cards, so lost their
paltry all.
But do not pity now. Let's not
pretend.
My stupid games not worth the
candle end.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31


Il lists, is crying for an artis.
to picture its true life A.
cording to "The MINNEAPOLIS .rorr
nal" Says that newspaper, u,dor
the heading Where Are *he A..
ists?":
There's no doubt ths. the mind
tends to slip its information and ~
periences into certain labelled pigeon
holes. The literary mind seems - \.
no exception to the rule. A New Eng.
lander, in The bipartisan Review.
complains Of the cut-and- dried Jew .,
his section of the country a. II ;.
found in fiction and poetry-storie.
and poems with an inevitable te,5sro-.
toward tragedies about stern women
and silent men, stalking Up and down
against a background Of hlsat al
stony hills He denies this b,sat
ness on the part of the hills or .,
the people, for that matter. and sns,,.
of the hills as rose pink with 6arsb.,L
in bloom, lovelier than any scott;,b
heath clad hill
Gwen boston is getting s.av and
New Yorky,' and, as for the rural non.
ulation of the Mary wilkins stor;e,
he denies it and repaints the picture
made up of people who live for the en-
joyment of the moment, asr etsesen..d
by croquet, quoits dancing :. tim.
voiced gramaphone' and rhsr Meas
ures.
Then the South is usually repre-
sented by the fictionists as land q.
Old romance Love, passion. jealousy
revenge play their parts All the ladies
are 1anguorousy beautiful and tire men
passionate, proud and unrelent'ng. The
fact IS, however, that prospe r.v has
revisited the South, and its people. like
all other Yankees, are busy making
money, hardworking and just as COM
monplace as the rest OF Us.
"But the West, the Wild Vest
Think what we have suffered and are
suffering at the hands of the fiction
Even as far away as London nro.
tests are now heard over tho great
prevalence of Wild West films the
screens. Bad men and a COATES. cbiv.
airy and the heroine with ne, chan,
for gunplay and bronco bustsns IN.
bad Indian, and an artificial candi-
navian that we do not RECOGNIZE ..
from real life-all these abound -
Western literature and Western movies
Such seem to be the established ira
ditions, and the editors seem 70 de-
mand, or at least to accept, these view
points.
Some day new writer il going 10
appear who will break through all
these traditions and paint Is As we
are, wherever we are, Norm South.
East or West-and we viii hardly know
ourselves and will doubt and question
And he will not heighten and lower
the lights and make melodrama of US
but he will paint the picture as it is
Then we will begin really to live and
to act in literature as we do in life.
"Shakespeares and De Morgans are
not very common anywhere. and their
scarcity on the North American CONT
nent is particularly noticeable Just
now"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
The West
Wantsu
Writer

West, maligned by movin,
pictures and popular novel,
Il lists, is crying for an arts.
to nicfure it, I,.,,o IL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
UnSOLUed
Problem:
Genius

~ ALL the queer things that
have roamed the terrestrial
globe during the history of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
IX 7 f have been slow to evolve an individual
w development of many things in America,

M f have been slow to evolve an individual
w development of many things in America
though ours is, and justly, called the land
par excellence of invention. 1t has often been
SAID that. in the realm of architecture, the
skyscraper is Americas most characteristic
achievement. When it has come to building
churches we have been, largely, content with
European models. And yet the question set
down over these pictures is coming to be one
which may be asked with increasing assurance
The views here presented show one of the
most recent efforts in this direction. Here we
see the new Huguenot Memorial church at
Pelham Manor, New York, designed by Francis
"A. Nelson. In the upper left hand corner is
shown the chancel, with pipe organ, pulpit and
large window. In the lower right hand corner
is the pulpit again, this time showing details
of carving In the adjoining picture we are
taken up close to the tower. The photographs
are reproduced from "Architecture"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
TwoPoens
Collectors
By Marian StrobeI

I'm "OtherS")
THE barnacle of crowds
Like tuck
On finished skirt, unnoticed-
He collected his material
Covertly:
A ragpicker,
A scavenger Of words
And the gleaninn
OF his hearing
He would costume
In his own words,
And parade before
A listener.
So that now,
Across the tea-cup,
He was telling
Of his research,
Of his study,
OF his deep thought-out
Conclusions.
And the lady,
oonnolsseur of old thought
bound in new gilt bindings,
Smiled approval
At the finding
Of another cu-:o
To place
In her long gallery.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
Destiny
By William Saphier

I'm "Others")
PARCAE, here l am
Winding a love-sunrise
Around my sprlng-soiI heart.
And covering my eyes
With silver blue moonlight.
And like the <agebrush
/ shall follow you to the desert.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
Translated by William L. Mcpherson
Copyright, 1919, New York Tribune Iuc.,

he hnmh% re" ""m~
The Washington times., 1919-03-28
BAR RLADY WATERS
IN GERMAN CAFES

BERLIN. March 2s.-A liberal goT-
eminent OF the people Is not always so
liberal after all. The provisional gov
crnment has made some laws very
contrary 10 its policy in Germany.
One Of the most notable new laws
is in force in Berlin. It prohibits
women. from working as. walters in
Berlin restaurants. There is no other
reason for the law other than the
wish OF the male walters, who demon
strated in the interest OF rYiing out
women walters and got the law
passed. Women can do any other
work, no matter how hard, but not
wait on table.
In Munich one OF the first laws
prohibits sending kilograms in any
language other than German. This
law came from the radical Socialists.
VINO replied to the protest Of inteIIi-
gent Bavarians that il prohibited cor
respondents from giving Bavaria pub
hcity with, We'll. they'll have TO write
In German-Otherwise how will we
know what they are writing?"
The Washington times., 1919-03-28
DETROIT women
Brew OWN BEER

DETROIT, March 2s.-he brewing
OF home made beer has become a De-
troit industry. Nearly every house
holder has become skilled in the gen.
tie art OF brewing. and fourth-stOry
and basement breweries are thicker
than frogs in a mill pond.
The home brew rates as high as
u per cent OF alcohol, indeed has
more kick, in it bS long odds than
had the beer sold before prohibition.
Housewives take as much pride in
the quality Of their beer as they do
in the quality and texture of their
homemade bread.
Five pounds Of hops, a small pack
age OF malt, q little filter-masse, and
who cares for prohibition?
4 local pharmaceutical firm Is do
ing a land office business in the sale
OF prepared malt A brewers sup
ply house. one that formerly sold
its products in car load lots to the
legaIized brewers. is now catering to
the household trade, in five-pound
packages. Autos are parked for half
mile around the place.
At the outset, recipes for making
beer, and more or less personal di-
rection IN the art, were freely given
to the patrons Of the place. but, to-
day. there is no time for such things.
The supply house Is too busy selling
hops to bother about recipes.
The Washington times., 1919-03-28
.ONE SMART WIFE
WINS women VOTE

NEW YORK, March 2s.-Time-
January, 1S09.
Place-HOme OF William 81. Bright.
Cheyenne. Wyo.
Scene-Combinati living and din
ing room in which are seated Mr.. ana
Mrs. Bright discussing the eternal
question OF equal rights:
The fact, is. Betty" said Mr..
Bright, in addressing his wife. ''it Is
a shame that should be sitting in
the legislature OF Wyoming instead
OF you. Ny early education can't
measure up to yours, and know you
are far more capable than i am
History fails TO record the exact
words Of Mrs. Bright's reply, but IL
is known she cleverly admitted f'there
were several women in Wyoming far
more capable tosrepresent their State
in legislative matters than the hus-
bands who had been elected to that
duty" Her reply apparensiy made q
deep impression on her husband, who
closed the conversation with the en-
phatie remark. - -, -
NOV, Betty. I know you are right,
and Pm going to see what can be
done. We viii see IL politics in Wyo.
ming can't be played so that women
may have the vote the same as men,
The Washington times., 1919-03-28
IAPSPIACE TABOO
ON FOE MERCHANTS

TOKYO, March eS-Germad mer-
chants have been driven out of bus
mess in Japan. according to officials
6f the department Of agricuIture and
commerce, although some still retain
their offices and a few are allowed
to put deals. through .iunder rigid
Supervision by the japanese govern
ment. Some OF these Offices which re-
main are TO be given up, and the COM
panies will withdraw completely from
the country. according to report. They
Rave apparently despatred OF all
chances of trade after the war.
According TO the latest official cen
sus. there are Sixty-four German firms
In Japan. There are tWenty-fOur in
Kobe and twenty-five in Yokohama,
but as many Of them have branches,
which are counted separately, this
number may be reduced IL the distinct
firms be carefully enumerated. Tokyo
has seven German firms and Osaka
three, with q few Others in smaller
towns. Another census shows that
there are still 7e4 German residents in
this country. although not all Of these
are fntereEted m the firms. Many of
the Germs who W6fe1 Interested in
business - were deported during
the war .6h was the case with the
German AsIatic bank, the German
financial institution in this country,
which now Is entirely inactive.