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New Britain herald., 1920-07-17
THE DOMINICAN PLAYERS IN
 NOTHING BUT THE. TRUTH

Under the personal direction of James w. Ashley, who originally pro- duced the piece for William Collier. The Cormican Players at Parsons theater, Hartford, will offer for the fifth week of the summer season James Montgomery great comedy success Nothing But the Truth"
 The story of this play is woven around a young man. who, in a spasm of virture voices it as his opinion that there is altogether too much pre- varicating in the affairs of every day life, and that if everyone told the truth this world would be a much better place to live in. His two business partners laugh at him and gIeefully offer to bet him s10,000 that he cannot tell the truth for twenty four hours. He thinks he can win and accepts the wager. Then his troubles begin. The amazing situa- tions in which he finds himself in as a truth-teller are pleasantly and up- roariously funny, but not to the young man who thought it would be easy 10 speak nothing but the truth
New Britain herald., 1920-07-17
LYCEUM THEtTER.

For the first half of the week Bryant Washburn will be seen in the role of a salesman selling soap in or der to beat his father at the game, Many complicating incidents occur. Sunday evening Tom Moore will have the role of Brown of Harvard" Ben Turpin will be seen in the famous Mack Sennett comedy Yankee Doodle in Berlin" Shorty Hamilton will bring a two-reel western picture, Shorty Goes to College" and Billy West comedy is also included. For the last half of the week Miss Olive Thomas will be seen in "Footlights and Shadows"
New Britain herald., 1920-07-17
PAULINE FREDERICK AT PALACE,

The Fear Woman newest of Pauline Frederick's Goldwyn pie lures. comes to the Palace theater beginning Monday and promises to re- veal anew the extraordinary drama tic equipment of the vivid star as we'll as to disclose beauty of face and figure that will surprise those who know Pauline Frederick well.
 The Keith vaudeville bill offers four fine acts including Jolly Johnny Jones Co. sensational Gerialists: "The Three Founders" in a comedy offer ing: Robbie Folsom. n clever com edienne offers songs and stories and the Dancing Hagens in whirlwind dances are one of the classiest danc- ing couples in vaudeville.
New Britain herald., 1920-07-17
|LDING A HUSBAND 4 Adele Garriso on's New Phase of
 Revelations Of q Wife
|-d When Mag. Grantlan,l
 Arrived.

a W ttHH NtttIs sA
 Arrived.
 Maj, Grantland's car
 drivcwny 1 caught up lat box and went to the Hastings was driving. tautifui car drew up to young ofiicer alighted an up the steps Of the ? hts arm hung n heavy even tho most cursory
 Identify as both beau |ly.
 my car isn't a closed
 n. apologetieally, but l m quickly.
 nd it lsn't" | said cor |hfnIly. "l detcst closed bye known you would" there wns approval in |ut you must be warmly h twenty -tive-mile ride. To liberty of bringing |the wrap over his arm. bs shy. as hesitant in me as n boy of x. | bifui cloak--an immense )erfully soft texture and Eratly fur throughout puzzled wonder as to lwnorship of it was re- Do. | knew he had no
New Britain herald., 1920-07-17
women relatives. and it was distinct ly q feminine garment.
Grantinnd l. Embarrassed.

| ly a feminine garment. GrantInnd l. Embarrassed. "I hope you won't mind." he con- | tinuod diffidently. You don't know how cutting the wind is tonight" Mind 1 repeated emphatically. ''T am most grateful for your thought ! fulnessA I don't think polar winds ! could penetrate through this" had opened it's folds as l spoke. and us I finished l held it out for him to help me on with it. It was an entirely involuntary action, the habit of years. Dicky. as far as little punctilious attentions go, is a knigrl par excellence, and he has quite spoiled me II. this regard. But I had forgotten that Maj. GrantIand is little used to the society of women. and the attentions usually given them. until startled look in his eyes gazing intently down at me recalled the fact to my mind.
 There was something else in his kind eyes also. something which made me drop my own and turn quickly to put my arms into the sleeves of the beautiful coat. With angry embarrassment I realized that was flushing. but I hoped that I had turned away quickly enough to hide the fact from Maj. Grantland.
 He helped me on with 1t awkward ly. and l heard again the quick. sharp, intake of the breath that with him betokens strong feeling. There wns a high collar also lined with fur which was part of the wrap, and us he turned it up felt his fingers trembling against my hair.
 III at Ease.
 nf caress that those tremulous fingers gave me. but that it was caress. in- stinct told me as we'll as the remem- brance of the look in hts eyes as I held up the cloak to him. f do myself the justice to think that if l had not been tingling with re- sentiment against Dicky for what believed to be his disregard for my comfort. when Edith Fairfax's was in question. I would have felt repeIled by the caTess. But-I flushed with shame as 1 admitted it to myself I not only was not repelled, but the consciousness that this man with whom l had once faced death, who had been my ideal of valor and pa triotism, still cared. as had long suspected he had done. affected me strangely. I found myself flushing.
 
 | home under the moonlight with her | first boy admirer.
 But I stepped back quickly and let his hands drop from the coat, gave q careless, perfunctory thank you" | and added quickly:
 What n wonderful wrap this is feel quite royal"
 His eyes held mine again. as he hiurted out shyly. huslSily: Tt isn't half good enough for you. laughed lightly. picked up my hag and hat box and handed them to him. There was too much tcn- sion in his whole attitude. I felt the necessity of getting back to common places.
 Instead. feel as if I must live up to it's grandeur. I know I shall turn up my nose at every woman I pass"
 walked down the steps rapidly as spoke. Maj Grantland following me. Hastings jumped out and touched his cap as we approached. and Maj. Grantland put me into the front seat next to his own, tuckinE the fur robes awkwardly but carefully around me. Then ho slipped into the drivers seat as Hastings got into the tonneau. and in another moment we were speed Ing toward the station.
New Britain herald., 1920-07-17
SUNDAY AT THE PALACE.

Two exceptionally fine features will be offered on the Palace program for Sunday evening. June Caprice will be seen in her new success "In Walked Mary" and an all star cast presents The Man in the Cellar" Comedies and other subjects make
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-05

ago. Bricklayers lay less than half the
number of bricks; paper hangers.
painters and plasterers all do less than
half the work in a given period OF time
than they did five years ago.
Manufacturing firms which make
and sell building material prove by
their records that while wages have
gone up 200 per cent in some cases
labor costs have gone up 400 per cent.
indicating that their employees are get
ting double pay for one-half the work.
as compared with the prewar period"
If the conditions pointed out by the
grand jury actually exist, it probably
applies to the production of material
as we'll as to its conversion into build
ings- The only remedy therefore ap-
pears to be an honest days work for
an honest days pay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-05
JUST FOLKS
THE FAILURE.
By EDGAR a. GUEST.

He was failure. Let's study his case:
He entered, and then didn't finish the race.
Somebody passed him that he couldn't
And so. in despair. he dropped out of the
match
Quit trying, and worried and heartsick and
He decided that he wouldn't run any more.
He got position. AND made mistake
As everyone living is certain to make
And they discharged him. But right
there and then
He made up his mind he was doomed
among men:
He put On his hat and went out Of the
door
Deciding that he wouldn't think any. more.
He was a failure. And vet he possessed
That selfsame equipment God gives to the
best;
'Twasn't lack Of two legs and two arms
and a brain
That made all his efforts seem useless and
vain
He failed not because he was really I'M
fit
But because he was always so ready to
quit.
Copyright, 1920, by Edgar A. Guest)
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Dorothy Dix Talks
Marry a speIIbinder-2.
r., BIZ DOROTHY DIX
VVorad's Highest Psid won&a WEAsez.


A woman may be a household angel,
and worship her husband with dou-
Bile dyed devotion, but If she Is silly
and ignorant with a conversational
gamut that only reaches from the
kitchen to the nursery and around the
block, he will find nothing but misery
in his home If he chances to be an in
te1ligent man.
For while we abstractly admire
goodness we don't find 1t contains
many thrills unless 1t Is favored up
with other qualities. 1t is like bread
and butter pudding that requires a
spiced sauce to make it palatable-
On the other hand. most of US are
willing to condone< almost any fault in
those who interest and amuse us. and
this explains why the husbands and
wives who are dull saints are less loved
than are those who are cheerful sin
ners You remember that in Shaw
play the erring Mrs. George was al
ways taken back and forgiven by her
husband because she was so entertain
ing after each of her little excursions
from the domestic fireside.
of course youths and maidens will
laugh and scorn the suggestion that
they will do we'll to find out before
marriage whether they interest each
other or not. They know they do.
and prove it by saying that they spend
hours together ithOut WEAKNESS
Billing and cooling is no test of ones
conversational ability. Nobody ever
wearies of flattery. Any one can listen
entranced for weeks while some one
tells them how beautiful and wonder
full they are, but that line of talk ends
at the altar. 1t forms no part of the
daily menu.
Therefore, the young man contem-
plating engaging in the prolonged tete-
tete of matrimony is wise II he cuts
out the love talk long enough to find
out whether the girl he fancies can
talk interestingly upon a thousand
topics whether she knows enough
about the news of the day to discuss
it intelligently; whether she can dis
cuss with him the books he loves. and.
above all, whether she is one of those
delightful women whom Stephenson
described as good gossfPs' who can't
go down the street without collecting
a budget of gay and entertaining news.
Let no man ever forget that 1t was
lasted thousand and one nights who
kept her husbands interest after he
had tired of and cut off the heads of
all the good and beautiful wives who
had bored him.
And. Oh, girl, turn a deaf ear to
Romeos wooing. and harken unto him
when he discourses of politics and tells
stories, and marry him or not accord
ing as you find yourself sitting fas-
cinated on the edge of your chair as
you listen, or yawn behind your hand.
For of all qualities that the perfect
husband or wife can possess none is
equal to being a spellbinder. Married
life is long, and when you are tied to
bore it is longer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-05

OF the total federal expenses in the
last fiscal year, approximating $780,
1000, it is estimated that more than
three and one-half billions were swal-
lowed up in the cost of government
operation of the railroads, in settling
war contracts. and in the payment of
$3.50, 100000 in loans to the allies
which. it Is presumed, were contracted
for before the signing of the armistice-
With all such items eliminated in the
future, it looks as tho the public
might hope for an early reduction Of
the taxes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-05
WHY HOUSES ARE SCARCE.

The shortage of housing turnout
the country and the failure to find a
remedy remain among the serious
problems of the day. Producers of
building mateT1aI place the blame
largely upon labor. Labor comes back
with the counter charge that prices of
material are so high as 10 be prohib-
tive.
What might be fairly regarded as
disinterested discussion of the subject
appears in the report of the grand
jury appointed to investigate the
housing shortage at Cleveland. o.. re-
Gently submitted to Judge Thomas NJ.
Kennedy. of the court of common
pleas. In essence. the report lays the
responsibility for high bBilding costs
largely at the dooE-of labor. saying:
we would be remiss in our duty
did we not point to a lamentable con-
dftion which no doubt has injured the
very group that created it as much.
II not more, than the public generally.
We refer to the present tendency on
the part Of mechanics. artisans and la
borers OF all trades to do less than a
full days work. The testimony ad-
duced before US indicates conc1usively
that it requires twice as long. with the
same number OF men. to erect a house
as it Gid before the war. Impartial
tests show that It takes twice as many
carr nter hours to do the carpenter
work on building as it did five years
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-05
LITTLE BENEY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE

A Vaughn all full of orindges came
down the street yestiddy aftirnoon,
and me and Pud Simkins and Sid
Hunt was standing there looking at
them vile the man was across the
street selling some 20 Mrs. Wernick,
and suddinly all of a suddin the horses
tale came erround as hard as 1t could
and hit me right. in the face. being
more of a serprise than a axsident,
and 1 quick jumped back saying. Hay,
wat the dickins. hay.
/ bet you could sue that man for
that, his horse amt got eny rite to
go GROUND hitting people in the face
with its tale. sed Pubs. and Sid Hunt
sed, C. Benny, wy don't you lsrtend
you're going to sue him enyway2. Me
and Pubs will be your witnesses and
maybe he will give us each about 6
orindges apeece to settle the cast out
OF cort-
Sure. C, that's crate ideer, Benny,
even II he ony gives us each orindges
apeece it wont be 50 bad, sed Sld
Hunt.
Sounding like a pritty good of a
ideer. and pritty soon the man came
back, being a tuff looking man with a
long mouth proberly being stretched
on account of him yelling Orindges so
awffen, and sed, Hay, mister. your
horse hit me rite in the face with its
tale.
Well wy don't you keep away frum
horses tales? sed the man. Being a
kind of unexpected anser, and sed
Well 1 got witnesses and l could
sue you for that if I wunted to. you
saw it happin, dident you fellows?
saw it. 1 was standing rite heer
looking, sed Pubs. and Sid sed. saw
it. was standing so close IL Id of bin
standing eny closer 1t mite of hit me
too. and III prove It in cert, too.
So will !, sed Pubs.
Hers my witnesses. I sed, ana tnt
man sed. Aw go home and tell your
mother she wunts you. III give the mole
Of you kick in the Stats. ortngdes
orindges navy orindges.
And he wawked away and so did hli
horse and nothing elts happened.
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George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
FEATHER-BED EXISTENCE.

Reactions are the most dangerous
things that come to experience.
During the great war there seemed
to be no hardship or sacrifice too great
thru. The cost was/not counted-or
if it was, it was isdmissed in the light
of the thing desired.
But now that the reactions have set
in, the world seems to be hunting out
some kind of feather-bed upon Which
world does its work for 1t.
We are getting too close to a
feather-bed existence.
When Roosevelt wrote to his friend
Sewell to come "out west" to his
ranch. he told him frankly that 1t
meant great hardship and work, as
well as privation and danger; and that
he wanted him to understand it at the
start. for unless he was ready to go
thru il all and not be sorry after. he
had better not come
Well. SeweI went-for he had as
much contempt for the feather-bed
life as did Roosevelt.
1t can never be too greatly empha-
sized that the life OF ease and COM
fort is the life of a whitening interest
and of an existence without a chance
for service and power.
Stevenson, in one of his delightful
essays,N has this to say: ITO hold a
pack upon a pack-saddle against a
gale of the freezing north is no high
industry. but it is one that serves to
occupy and compose the mind
And so 1t matters not what one does
so long as there Is doing. And so
long as that doing amounts to some
thing that is useful to ones own mem
tai. or physical or spiritual progress
or TO the growth and betterment Of
someone else.
If you do not want TO work. there
is something most seriously the matter
with you. And you should find a
cure = which remedy is none other
than work itself,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-05

Senator Harding declares that he
prefers peace at home to peace
abroad. But it might have been pos
sible to have both. Those who believe
this are not necessarily out of accord
with the senator. But the senator's
efforts to make an issue of the League
Of Nations look like an attempt to stir
up discord at home on subject which
the people seem entirely willing to
forget, since the time for the estab-
lishment of the league has been per-
mitted to pass. The League of Ma
'tlons as originally planned is dead. 1t
can hardly be resuscitated while a
large part of Europe is at war and
those nations which are out of the
fighting are about to enter the con-
flict. The theory of world peace dis
appears in the face of the approach
ing world war.
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we waited for her to put on her hat
and dab a little powder on her nose
Women are entitled to vote and
should Have that privilege. but time
spent in inducing them to exercise IL
largely is lost motion. a good pre-
cinct worker can assemble enough
votes to swing an election while man
and his wife are endeavoring to fix an
hour for voting suitable tc both.
The candidate who is talked about"
is lucky. There is nothing so likely to
anger the, public as an excessive dis
play of virtue.
Do not be discouraged because of
what appears to be your failure TO
accomplish anything. The probabili-
ties are that, by, comparison, you do
pretty well. The Lit'ry Digest spent
several hundred thousand dollars in
taking a poll of the country in rela-
ton to its presidential preferences.
More than a million voters returned
marked ballots But the Lit'ry Digest
didn't swing a delegate in either con-
yention-
A complaint that the column takes
up too much space has reached this
desk Our correspondent says We
should write not much more than half
a column daily. Very well. We strive
to oblige. Here it is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-05

Unless all early signs are misIead-
ing, says the Sioux City Tribune, the
gentlemen who will take active part
in the presidential campaign this year
have a new public with whom to deal
A strange public it is. A public hun
CRY for facts, shy of catchy slo-
gans, suspicious of glittering but
meaningless phrases. a public whose
votes are not apt to be caught with the
time honored political sugar" In
short. the public is thinking. Perhaps
this is due to the SOLDERING influence of
the world war. Mayhap it should. be
credited to the fact that where men
in the old days spent their evenings
over glasses of beer they now pass the
hours between the evening meal and
bedtime reading newspapers. Most
likely all these things are responsible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-05

"Attila, with the progenitOrs of
some of the people who are now be-
hind Lenin, got to Chalons. The
Turks got to the walls of Vienna.
Lenin is almost to Warsaw" says the
Chicago Tribune. But there is some
thing more to the parallel. Lenin is
backed by an idea, which has OBJ
tanned foothold in every country Of
Europe. while the other conquerors
named were actuated by no other mo-
tive than desire for power and loot.
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Moulton Musings

By ROY < AFOUIToN.


/ don't believe that the voice with
the smile" wins. A voice with the
smile can become the most tiresome
and sickish thing in the world.
don't like to see women smoking in
automobiles
think the tail end of the Repub-
hcan ticket will swing more votes than
the head end.
am very tired of seeing a man and
a dog climb over mountains in the
movies.
I hope they don't build the movie
theaters any larger. 4 can't see the
pictures now from where I can afford
to sit.
believe the satevepost editorials to
be the best cure for insomnia to be
found in this world.
I never eat in a cheap restaurant. I
can't find one.
would rather have the Turks stay
in Europe than to have them come
over here.
am not in the market for second
hand automobile tires.
I believe that IL everybody went to
work, the cost of living would come
down and I don't believe the cost of
living viii ever come down until every-
believe cambridge Colby would
make a stronger run for the presi-
dency than any other Democrat.
much admire jazz music, when it
is being played in the next county.
One hundred and fifty prisoners es-
capped from. a Chinese Jail, and it will
be difficult to recaPture them. This
hundred and fifty Cinnamon will look
exactly like any other hundred and
fifty Cinnamon.
This Is a Single Case-Not an Emf
demIc.
Jack Allen left Friday for Lead City,
s D.. where he is going to work.
Miami. Okla, Record-Herald.
certain home-b brewer writes in
that Necessity is the mother of
vinegar"
What shall we do with our ex-
presidential candidates?
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1t was necessary for the millers to
hurry, in order to get in their advance
in flour prices before wheat dropped
back from the high mark reached on
Tuesday. If they had waited a day
they would have had no excuse to raise
the price. e
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arms Yes" he said That's game
and set-a love set, Mary. q Do you
know what that means?"
With a little sigh she rested her
brown head on his shoulder.
Yes, Edgar" she whispered. 1T
means-I love you"
Copyright, 1920. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate-l
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the price at s2.2o This year, when
the government guarantee expired,
wheat still went up. Now that the
supply continues large, and the de-
mand is falling off. what will happen
to the high prices that have prevailed?
Here is a question of vital interest to
many men in many lands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-05

The advance in railway passenger
fares probably will render 1t necessary
for the people of Colorado, Florida
and California to turn their attention
to a means of gaining a livelihood
other than that afforded by tourists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-05

If earthquakes continue in and
around Los Angeles it may confidently
be expected that the citizens of that
town soon will capitalize the tremors
and advertise them as an extra attrac-
ton for tourists. And they may
make it go. just as they have their
climate and their harbor. neither of
which is what it is cracked up to be.