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Newark post., 1920-12-01
FIND WAY TO
GROW POINSETTIAS

To get poinsettias ready for
market by Christmas is a problem
that has worried florists ever
since the bright red flowerlike
leaves Of this beautiful plant took
their place as a favorite holiday
decoration.
The problem has been reduced
to a practical solution through
the work of DR.. w. w. Garner,
tobacco specialist, and H. H. ALI
ard, plant psychologist of the
United States Department of
Agriculture, who discovered the
possibility of advancing or retard-
ing the growth of plants by con-
trolling the period of light each
day. Where the light period is
shortened the plants reach matur-
ity much sooner than where they
are given the natural length OF
day. In the greenhouses on the
departments experimental farm
at Arlington, Va, it has beer
found possible to bring poinsettias
into full form as early as Angus
by shortening the daily exposure
to lights.
| In fact, department specialist:
are confident that there is prac
tically no limit to the extent tt
which the Garner-Allard discov
cry may be applied in the ordinar,
florist establishment in bringin!
various flowers into bloom outsid
of the customary season. Iris i
December and chrysanthemums i,
the spring are among the accom-
plishments already attained, an
it is the intention of these special
lists to bring together group 0
flowers, all of different nature
seasons, into bloom at the sam
/ time. One value of the discover
I lies in the fact that it can be az
l piled with only simply and ine>
pensive additions to the facilitie
t of any greenhouse.
Newark post., 1920-12-01
AERO MAIL TO CUBA

Cuba is soon to be linked with
the United States by areo mail
routes. The air service will be
opened regularly this fall. The
mail carried on a train leaving
New York one morning and arriv-
ing at Key West the next will be
rushed across the ocean in time to
be delivered in Cuban cities in
the afternoon of the same day.
The return mail will leave Havana
at five o'clock in the afternoon
and connect with the train leaving
at nine o'clock the same night for
New York. Mail will be carried
over the new air route at the rate
of six cents an ounce and pack
ages weighing four pounds six
ounces may be mailed in this way
More than a day will thus be
saved between Havana and New
York.
Newark post., 1920-12-01
What Pauline Frederick
Would Like to Do

One might imagine that pic
ture star earning a fabulous sal
ary could entertain no further
ambition, but it seems that
Pauline Frederick, the Goldwyn
luminary, wants to direct few
stories of her own without any
outside help. She has made some
very valuable suggestions from
the actors standpoint. She says
that a director should keep five
cameras on set and take the
close-ups with the long shots, so
that the actors will not have to
wait ceaseless hours and become
tired out and mechanical in their
work while waiting for the cam
eramen to adjust their cameras
and lighting effects. She also
thinks a camera should be useo
in the very first rehearsal of the
business of a scene.
Pauline Frederick displays some
of the inborn sensible economy Of
womankind, for she says that she
would not have very expensive
sets for her pictures, but instead
would spend a fortune for
splendid story. "The PaliseI
Case" directed by William Parke
is Miss Frederick's latest Gold
wyn picture.
Newark post., 1920-12-01
PUBLIC CRITICISM

Good, absent-minded old Doctor
Wilder was greatly dependent
upon his practical wife. One Sun
day morning Mrs. Wilder sent up
an announcement after he had en-
tered the pulpit, with a footnote
intended to be private.
"The women's missionary so.
ciety," he read aloud, will meet
Wednesday afternoon at 3 O'Clock
sharp" And then he proceeded tc
read the footnote: "Your necktie
is crooked; please straighten to-
wards the right" ."-Watchman Elk
aminer.
Newark post., 1920-12-01
SHALL WOMEN
Chicagoan Assails Old Idea
of Waiting to be
Sought

More and more it becomes evil
dent that great and solemn refer
endum is needed to settle the
question: Shall women propose?
This matter has been agitating
men and women for more than
six months. When 1920 opened,
some newspapers called attention
to the fact that it was leap year
and suggested and even advised
women to tackle men who were
hanging back, and see that they
did their duty and assumed the
burden of marriage. They told
women to boldly propose to men
and see that they gave the right
answer-an affirmative. There is
no person quite so much of a
Stacker as a smuggish bachelor,
and if he possesses not the nerve
to ask a woman to marry him.
then it is the right of the woman
to demand that he marry her ano
see that he does. Weak argu.
ments have been offered against
woman proposing. Some say it is
unwomanly, that it belittles the
girl, and a lot Of nonsense like
that. If persons will look at the
matter reasonably and realize thai
it is the duty of every healthy per
son to have a mate through life
they will understand that it is as
much woman's right to reques
a man to marry her as it is tht
mans right to put the question tt
her. Wherefore we repeat wha
we have said before, that womel
should do the proposing in cases
where men show an inclination tt
hang back or are bashful. If lef
to a referendum we feel sure tn,
woman's right to propose will b.
sanctioned. - Chicago Evenini
Post.
Newark post., 1920-12-01
Opera House Offerings
Small Town Characters in
Tomorrow Nights Show

"Pink Tights" is to be shown at
the Opera House Thursday, De-
cembcr 2, and patrons of that
playhouse may expect to laugh
heartily as we'll as to enjoy some
exciting drama.
1t is the romance of the big
show, in which Gladys Walton and
Jack Perrin are co-featured in the
respective roles of the circus per-
former and the parson. 1t is es-
sentially a drama of thrills and
action, yet the author has provid-
ed an abundance of comedy relief,
and the casting director at Uni
versal City has seen to it that the
principal comedy roles are in able
hands.
The chief comedy roles are
those of Mrs. Shamfeller, the
leader of the Ladies Aid Society,
who heads the movement to keep
the circus out of town; Mrs,
Bump, another scandal monger OF
puritanical cast, and Smiley Dodd
! the village undertaken who can
see virtue in nothing that does not
send business in his direction.
Newark post., 1920-12-01
THE BUILDING HOLDIJp

Conspiracy, profiteering, brib.
cry, corruption, blackmail and
graft on a royal scale" that
makes the late convict Sam Parks
seem "only a cheap CRATER" en-.
ter into the intolerable and
scandalous building situation in
New York City, according to testi.
mony before the Legislative Hous-
ing Committee. The metropolitan
press appear to accept the revela-
tions without much question as to
their face value, approve the sum-
moning of special grand jury to
deal with legal aspects of the in
vestigation, and insist, as we read
in the Journal of Commerce, that
the Enquiry should be prosecuted
with utmost vigor and guilty
parties brought to justice, no mat
ter who they may be-" Mayor Hv-
Ian Cancelled contracts for the new
S6,000,00O court house when it ap-
peared that representative of
the System" had proffered poll
tical support of labor unions if he
would sign certain bids. Labor
men are quoted as saying that
collusion and graft are not merely
local. In any event, adds the New
York Globe, what effects New
York will directly and indirectly
affect conditions elsewhere" And
Attorney General Palmer, promis-
ing all possible cooperation by the
United States Department of JUS
tice with Samuel Untermyer, chief
counsel for the investigating COM
mittee, refers to Federal suits al
ready instituted against cement
manufacturers and hardwood
manufacturers under the Sherman
Antitrust Act. The Topeka Cap
ital concludes that the investiga-
tion early bears out the charge of
"the existence of a combine or
trust of employers and labor
unions which holds up the build
ing trades throughout the United
States. Literary Digest.
Newark post., 1920-12-01
WHAT THE JAPANESE
THINK OF WOMEN

Many foreigners nave been
pleased to call my country, Japan,
the land of proverbs, says Saito-
man in the Continental edition of
the London Mail. A large percent
age of our proverbs, it is needless
to say, concern women.
Most of the old, widely known
ones have been freely translated,
or stolen, by foreign writers. But
we are not worried. New and
clever proverbs are fast being
created by the new generation of
men and women.
| translate here some of the
gems which have recently come
under by notice. They do not nee
essairly represent the opinion of
the present-day Japanese people,
but they are at any rate a contri-
button to the abundant world wis
dom on the immortal problem:
eff you want to love women, be-
gin by loving money"
"Women who remember shop
signs and trademarks make good
wives"
Every jealous women are easy
to control"
pride goes before a fall, es-
pecially in beautiful women"
"Women and mountains should
be looked on at a distance"
"Women fall in love with their
protectors; men with women"
"Men who can neither brag nor
fatter need not fear being loved
by women
Rather than make love in
clumsy language bite your tongue
out"
plain women bewail their mis-.
fortune in proportion to theil
learning"
when marriage agents praise
any woman for her virtues, you
may be certain that it is another
way of saying that she is ugly
"Women who seek liberty too
often lose it"
"A wife who does not know how
to please her husband makes hin
commit no end of blunders."
"Men who like to take photos
with their wives are henpecked."
"'Tis women who know they arr
ugly powder their faces"
"Women admire women of thei
, own type"
, "The secret of winning tn
= woman who jilts you is-persever
= ence."
"Women understand men; thos
5 who understand women are ais
: women"
.. "Poisonous flies carry shin
wings; bad women pretty faces"
"Men laugh with their hearts
women only with their mouths"
$ "Women who habitually bit
t their lips are jealous
e "War makes men strong an
women lovely"
Newark post., 1920-12-01

Serve with steamed dumplings
made thus:
Sift together l cupful of flour,
l cupful of white corn meal, 5
tablespoonfuls of baking powder
and 1 teaspoonful of salt. Cut in
2 tablespoonfuls of fat and add
liquid slowly mixing to keep the
mixture light. Roll into one inch
thickness, cut with round biscuit
cutter, place in steamer, cover
closely and steam for Is minutes.
Newark post., 1920-12-01
It's Service That Measures Success

It isn't the cut of the clothes that you wear,
Nor the stuff out of which they are made
Though chosen with taste and fastdious care,
And it isn't the price that you pad
1t isn't the size of your pile in the bank
Nor the number of you own,
1t isn't question of prestige or rank,
Nor of sinew, and muscle and bone;
1t isn't the servants that come at your call,
1t isn't the things you possess,
Whether many lttle-or nothing at all,
It's service that measures success.
It isn't question of name, or of length
Of an ancestral pedigree,
Nor question of mental vgor and strength,
Nor a question of social degree;
1t isn't a question of city or town,
Nor question of doctrine or creed,
1t isn't question of fame or renoWn
Nor a question of valorous deed;
But he who makes somebody happy each day,
And he who gives heed to distress,
Will find satisfaction the richest of pay,
For it's service that measures success.
Boys Life.
Newark post., 1920-12-01
A WOMAN'S SENSE OF HUMOR

Don't tell me a woman amt
got no sense of humor!" said Con-
stable Sam T. Slackputter, of Pc
tunia. 81 know dad-blamed
sight better! Every once in a
while when l crank lady's fiivver
for her she starts her car before
| can get out of the way, and runs
over me; everybody but me has a
hearty laugh" THE Press.
Newark post., 1920-12-01
For The
Homemaker's Eve

Every locality has its own
favorite method of cooking rabbit
and the aggregate of these
methods gives number of sue
culent dishes which will give
variety to meals of these suttici-
emily fortunate to obtain by skill
in craftsmanship or by gift one
or more of these molly Cotton
tails" so highly priced at this time
of year.
In the North fricasse and pot
pie are the favorite dishes; in
other localities various forms OF
rabbit stew are popular.
Preparation for Cooking
Rabbits weigh from "a to ia
pounds. One rabbit will serve
four persons unless the rabbit
appetite is abnormally developed.
Skin the rabbit thus: Sever the
head, cut off the feet, and with a
very sharp knife slit the skin on
the stomach side from the neck
to the tail. Pull off on each side
to the center of the back. Split the
rabbit lengthwise, wash in cold
water and wipe dry. Cut into six
or eight pieces in very much the
same manner as chicken is cut.
If the carcass has been badly
shot-up and bloody, soak in salt
water for a couple of hours on un-
til the clotted blood is withdrawn.
Fried Rabbit, Country Style
Cut up the rabbits, roll each
piece in crumbs, then in beaten
egg to which two tablespoonfuls
of cold water is added, then again
in crumbs. Fry in fat (about q
tablespoonfuls) until we'll brown
ed. Turn frequently. Remove tt
a hot platter. Add "a cupful Of
flour, 2 teaspoonfuls of salt ant
"a teaspoonful of pepper to th'
fat in the pan. Stir until flour il
slightly brown, remove from tn
fire, add IL cupfuls of milk, re
turn to the fire and stir CONSTANT,
until it boils.
Rabbit Pie
Stew two rabbits until done an
save the stock. Remove meat iron
bones and place in we'll grease'
baking dish.
In an agate or other pan, mel
3 tablespoonfuls of butter or an,
fat. add 5 tablespoonfuls of flour
2 teaspoonfuls of salt, "a tea
spoonful of pepper and mix thor
oughly. Add 212 cups of tn
stock in which the rabbit wa
cooked, finely chopped onion AM
- cupful of finely chopped celery
Boil for five minutes. Pour owe
the rabbit meat and spread owe
the top GA crust made of two cup
of mashed potato we'll seasoned
Bake in moderate oven for abou
35 minutes. Brown the crust ant
serve.
Pastry may also be used for tn
crust.
Rabbit Stew
Remove meat from bones OF on
stewed rabbit. Make a brow
sauce of the ingredients name
above and made in the same mar
ner. Add 8 cups of stock, rabbi
meat, l cupful each of cooke
turnips, carrots and potatoes
diced, and / finely chopped onion
Bring to the boiling point an
serve.
Rabbit Fricasse with Dumping
Cup up two rabbits and soak II
a half hour in salted water. VIII
dry, dredge slightly with flour an
fry in pork or bacon fat turnlr
frequently until we'll browne
Place in casserole. Make
gravy by adding 6 tablespoonful
of -four and cupfuls of water
the fat in the pan. Season to tas'
Pour over the rabbit and cook
a slow oven for several houl
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-05-19

road from the Butler Walker
farm east of Ashland belonging
to P. A. Van Nice. The deal was
made by the Lamkin agency.
E. +. Hewitt and wife will
move soon into the second story
apartment of Miss Anna Har-
groves residence on North Pio-
neer avenue. ..
J. j. Hawks and family have
come to Ashland from North Da-
kota and are spending some time
with the formers father, S. A..
Hawks on Factory street. Mr..
Hawks, Jr, will probably locate
permanently here.
l.. Gartner, who sustained q
paralytic stroke several days ago,
has been taken down to a Medford
hospital for treatment.
Mrs. S. l.. Allen has sold to T.
T. Humphrey five acres in bear
ing fruit, located in the Rogue
River Orchard company tract, and
owned by Mrs. j. Noble of Kan
sas.
w. w. Dillon, interstate sec
retary for the Y. NJ. C. A. Of Ore
gon and Idaho, is here today for
the purpose of holding a confer
erce with the interests of the Y.
in this section. A meeting will
probably be called for tonight.
O @
The Klamath Falls baseball
team arrived in Ashland last
evening to be ready for the game
which is being played with the To-
cal high school team on the school
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-05-19
FRIDAYS NEWS

Mrs. Hulen and son Billy left
last evening for Dunsmuir to
visit with their aunt, Mrs. Carpen-
ter.
William Flackus, who has been
spending several weeks in Klamath
Falls, looking after business in
terests in that city, came home this
week.
II. NJ. Gray of Morley, Calf, is
in Ashland this week, visiting with
his daughters, Mrs. Bomar and
Mrs. COtter.
c. V. Loosely came over yes
terday from Fort Klamath and
viii spend a few days in Ashland
ard vicinity looking after bust
fess affairs.
o q
Mrs. Charles Abbott left last
night on train SO for San Fran
cisco. She and her son, Charles
Logan, of Yreka, who accompanies
hg mother, will bring back an au-
tomobile on their return.
o o
Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ. LaGrande
and daughter Kathryn of Port
land are guests at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. s. A. Prose. Mrs. La
Grande is a sister of Mrs. Prose.
o o
John r. Maxedon is the pur-
chaser this week of the eight
acres of alfalfa land across the
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-05-19

rarch in Eastern Oregon, where
they expect to remain a good
share of the summer taking care
of the crops there. During their
absence from Ashland their home
will be looked after by Mrs. Miller
o o
Mrs. ]. L. Heer and Mrs. Dora
Hubbard drove down to Medford
Tuesday evening, accompanying
Mrs. Stevens that far on her way
home to Rogue River.
o .
Mr.. and Mrs. w. X. Smith, with
their son-in-law and daughter, Mr..
and Mrs. Jesse Drew, drove over
from klamath county yesterday
and will spend few days here
looking after business interests
in Ashland.
NJ. b. Crocker of. Portland, a
former resident of Ashland, is
here this week in connection with
the selling of his property inter-
terests which he yet holds in this
city.
The large DeHaviland plane
that was seen flying over Ashland
Thursday about 1890, be
longed to the 9th aero squadron,
federal fire patrol. The ma.
chine was piloted by Lieutenant
| |. ]. Williams, with Corporal b.
B. Paralto in charge of the wire
less. An altitude of about 1000
feet was maintained, although the
rlane rose to 1900 feet when
crossing the Siskiyous. 1t was on
its way to Eugene.
@ .
Very few attended the meeting
called by President f. T. Staples
OF the Illinois socity Thursday
evening in the interests of the an
hual reunion. Unless more interest
| in the project develops the officers
think il is doubtful if picnic will
be held this summer.
o. @
Mrs. c. II. Pierce and Mrs. j.
Henry Provost spent Thursday in
Medford.
Mrs. Stevens of Rogue River
was in Ashland Thursday seeing
about the Granite street property
belonging to the family, in which
she expects to move as soon as
school is out.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-05-19

ton with the FIGURING mill at Cen
trail Point. Mr., Virgins father
wag the well known owner of the
Ashland FIGURING mill several years
ago.
8 8
+. F. Whittle has purchased the
Esrtges residence on the corner
of B and Third street in which
he will make his home. This is
Cne Of the best builthouses in
Ashland, having been erected at
the time when houses were built
"pon honor" and is a roomy and
convenient structure. The sale
was made through the Ashland
Realty company.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-05-19

grounds this afternoon, This
game closes the series of the year,
and has aroused much interest.
Ashland beat in both games with
Grants ass, and the latter was
beaten by the klamath Falls team
last week. so il Ashland wins to-
day this team will gain the cham
pionship.
@ @
c. c. Darling and wife are mov-
ing today in the property they re-
Gently purchased on North Main
street.
o o
W. ]. Virgin Of Portland is in
Ashland this week attending bust
hess matters here and in connec-
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Troop 2 of the Boy Scouts gath
cred this morning at an early
hour at the Presbyterian church
and started on a hike for the
mountains. Kings cabin, six or
seven miles up the canyon, was
their destination.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-05-19

Mrs. Benton Bowers Jr.. who
has been making an-extended visit
in San Francisco, has returned
home.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-05-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Held of Liberty
street left this week for their
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-04-22
EDUCATIONAL SIDELIGHTS BY
MRS. j. McNAUGHTON STEVENS

and the best schoolmother, several
County Superintendent say they ever
had. She was rejoicing in her pupil
graduating to the desk. She is now
the happy wife of H. ]. Legion, chief
civil engineer for the Great Northern
at Superior, Wis. The grandmother
of the trio was the writer, who num-
bered Anna Gjellstad among her pu-
pills when she was principal Of Towner
in 1894, and many q day besides.
But the most interesting section of
the meeting in Minot was the school
officers section. There our worthy
masters and mistresses, disputed
warmly over the new schedule Of sal
aries presented by the Welfare Com
mittee of the State Association. They
the Welfare Committee had met in
Fargo and they sent out thru the
county superintendent 10000 copies
of their proposals.
The Independent published said ro-
posals on its front age April 18th.
So keenly did they discuss the
schedule that committee Of 5 was
appointed to meet teachers and DR..
Crane headed the list He presented
their conclusions to the general meet
ing Friday, April 8, as their joint
recommendation. Now watch us
grow.
Jean McNaughton Stevens.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-04-22
Dr.. Pidgeon Delivers Great Lecture
NJ.

DR.. Pidgeon Delivers Great Lecture
DR.. E. Leslie Pidgeon, twice inter
national president of the Rotary, de-
livered one of the very best lecture!
ever heard in the city at the higl
school auditorium Tuesday night OF
Social Responsibilities, his lecture be-
ing the final number of the Minot
Normal Lyceum course for this sea.
son.
DR.. Pidgeon is pastor of one of the
largest churches in Winnipeg and his
address Tuesday night was not only
intensely entertaining but he deliver.
ed sermon that could not help but
prove of vast benefit to every person
who heard his message.
DR.. Pidgeon made a plea for par
ents to be more careful in the train
ing OF their children. He exploded
the old theory that the young folks
in order to amount to anything must
sow their wild oats. Every thought
and every act is registered on the
brain Of the child and as he thinks
and acts, SO is his character moulded.
A student in sculpture is given the
most perfect model from which to
copy and 50 should the character of
our children be formed.
The speaker believes that environ
ment is more important in the moral
development of a child than heredity.
The child of criminal parents, if
it be healthy, placed in proper sur
roundings at, say three months of age
will stand just as good chance of
becoming an upright adult as the child
of moral parents.