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The Washington times., 1920-10-16
Beatrice Fairfax
GIVES,
The "COnle Back. "
GIVES

Over and over again the question is put to
me. "Can girl come back" Sometimes II
rings out desperately from a girl who has
strayed and who feels that no one is Willing
to let her find again the path she once deserted
Now and then ii sneers it's way to me from the
lips of some man who, having taken his fun
where he found it," distrusts the world OF whose
evil he has contributed much.
Wishing with all my heart that no girl would
stray from fineness and sweetness and
purity and her high heritage of womanhood
I feel nevertheless, and feel strongly that any
woman who seeks again the heights has right
to climb to them. Moreover 1 feel that the
world owes it to her to help her find her way
back.
There's something all wrong with a civiliza-
tion that wastes its womanhood. Theres some
doesn't let atonement wipe out past blundering
and start it's citizens off with clean states II
they want to begin over new-and better.
Suppose man has yielded to temptation
Suppose also that he has done his time and
come out Of the pententiary refined in life's
ideals and sspiati Of rempered ablities Il 's OF
real possibilities II for himself and the state-is
%, There e6 are plenty en of ROY purtan
jailbird another chance They have se no reigon e
large enough to take in the sinner who repent
eth They have no forgiveness and no kindness
such as they ,S will not let woman come
Of hpa.t APP s9m its is utter iss failure to
erly love and real religious feeling such a
course is wanton waste of human material
Civifization has perfected surgery and
science and has a high cult of human efficiency
for salvaging the halt and the manned And
shall 1t do less for a mind that has had its
moment OF blindness or spirit that has bee N
deaf to good? ~
OF course the girl who has bIundered can
come back Equally Of course, there are going
to be plenty of folks to help her Those who
don't are dull and stupid Those who try to
push her back are criminally insane on the
score of their perverted morality
I'm not saying that the girl who has done
doeTs ought to get off scott-free. They don't
The kind of sinner who is too callous 70 care
to suffer shame and degradation and regret is
also the kind that never thinks of trying 70
come back" The mere fact that n mar or
woman wants to return to the rules and repu
lations and bounds OF law and order sbows
that he hasn't found it easy or happy going
outside the law. '' Owns
The woman who struggles back to the patb
OF respectabilty is proving that the other natb
isn't flowery one after all. She NAV have
paid heavily in terms of the law in terms oe
the friends she has lost or only in her o,,n n
shame and regret and humiliation. But rest
assured she has paid. Nature has seen 70 tbnt
The normal course of events jim a world reru-
lated by law and order has seen to that Life
has seen to that 1'''
The Washington times., 1920-10-16
Wrist Watch In China.

CHICAGO, Oct. 16.-wrist watches sud
denly have achieved wide popularity in China,
according to a recent report of United States
Consu-Ceneral Pontius. Sartorial .inconve-
niences make the wrist the only anatomical
spot on which-a Chinaman can carry a watch
successfully.
American manufacturers have built up an
extensive trade with China In clocks The
clock that hangs on a wall and speaks the
time to eve and ear sold readily. But when
the manufacturers attempted to introduce the
pocket watch they ran\ foul OF ian inter-
national obstacle in Chinese clothes whose
voluminous folds make pocket abysmal
mystery. Chinaman had not the time to
learn the time when the process involved
nshing a watch from the cryptic depths OF
his flowing garments. This difficulty
pocketed the foreign trade In watches beyond
hope until the wrist watch came into the
worldwide vogue as soldierly convenience
during the war.
. The sartorial problem that made the
pocket watch impossible In China bids fair
to establish the wrist watch the national
time piece that eventually will consiEn to
innocuous desuetude tho sun dial which still
fingers in this ancient land as the customary
device for recording time
The Washington times., 1920-10-16
THE SHIMMYER.

One of EDMUND NJ. O'SULLT-
VANS boy friends in India sends
him this from an Indian magazine:
She wears a number two,
Although six would hardly do.
How on earth she gets 'em on l do not
Tier nose is very thin,
But not too much to shimmy in;
How on earth she gets 'em on do not
know.
But when those two Two's start to stutter
And her ankles gin to shudder,
And steer home.
The next verse describes her thin
and tight clothes and concludes:
But when those hips begin to wlggle
start to laugh that silent riggle-
Then it's time for us to wiggle
And go home.
VERSE THREE:
Her shoulders may not vary,
For they're merely hers to carry,
And one thing she can not change at will:
Her brow In always penciled
And her checks are somewhat stenciled.
While her face-alasl IL can't change st
But her shoulders, how they culver!
Tremblel Shake with mystic shiveri
Heb, ED Wind up your fivver-
Take me homci
While it's true we have cakies In
Langdon (who study cakerology from
many angles), they are pretty good
on eating hot dogs IL somebody else
pays the bill. Have you species VI
hot-dog cakics in the city7
MARY JAMES.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16
SWOrdhsh Ram.

The ram of the modern men -of-war'is the
device of the sword6sh OF the Indo-Paciac
ocean. The swordhsh's upper jaw has n long
beal or ram, by means of which IL can
pierce not only hsh, but the sides OF timber
built ships. Even the plants have forests llod
human Inventions. Nearly everybody, per-
baps. has wondered why the stems OF nearly
all plants and the trunks and branches OF
trees are round instead of any other shane
The existance OF tall plants and trees deepnd
largely on the wind force. And tree with a
square trunk and branches would offer so
much resistance TO the wind that (. would he
continually having its branches snapped IL
is for the same reason that engineers build
tall chimneys and piers for bridges round i'm
preference to any other form.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16
Chances

Uncle Sam has 2.973,774 square miles Of dry
land, enough to give every inhabitant $50
acres. Grant that three-auarters of 1t isn't
first class. That would still leave forty'hve
acres apiece, and good Intensive tiller of
soil can live comfortably ten acres
This isn't an appeal for a division of land
as in Russia 1t is the prelude to a story
In northwestern Nebraska without a cent. He
worked for wages until he had saved S12O
Then he leased farm and started raising pigs
The town banker today rates him as worth
$3.50. .O00--all of IL fairly earned.
The West is full of such instances. The
South soon will be Ours Is still the land of
opportunity for those willing and able to
work think, save and dare.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16
asHORT sTORuEs.-

"Munseys brother, Country cen
tleman." as well as "Scientiflc
American" met n Modern Priscilla'
OF the Ladies' World" while yacht
ing" After the "outing" Romance"
they returned to the Farm and Fire
side" to enjoy Country Life" free
from the Financial World" and
"Current Opinion" A short Motor
trim TO "Harper's Bazaar" to see Van
ity Fair" in her style" by the De
sipner," the Little Folks" enjoyed
est. Nicholas" who is youths Com
panion," A BLUE Book" came by the
saturday Evening POST for "Today's
Housewife" stating that "All out
Doors" Good Housekeeping" and
Ieslie's Weekly pictorial Review"
will be a Success" to all Being a
twentieth Century" man he devo-
ted himself to the "World's Work" by
going to New York, n metropolitan"
city, to enter the Financial World"
on a new Adventure" The Amer
lean Roy" can enjoy this Nation" as
the sunset" - ever us all.
The BLACK Cat" sat on the "Bill.
board" as the "Lone-Scou" passed
BY. CHEVY.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16
we TOWNE GOSSIP
Il Registered q. 8. Passat onAss.
BY X. c. B.

rNEAR X. C. B.-"Friend Husband" and I
u always enjoy your articles because they
are so full Of good common sense and hun'or.
and, last but not least-so human.
And because he reads them. will you please
write him q special ono on "CONSIDERA-
TION"?
He tells his friends what wonderful wife
he has. And yet, when the least little thing
goes wrong at the office or elsewhere. he
ignores the whole family and refuses to speak
to me for 4 week at time. 90 along as II II
were sublimely unconscious of his sphinxlike
silence, waiting for him to come out IT il.
But feel life II too short to be wasted in
such an unhappy way, and when came across
this little piece of poetry the other day l
found to my sorrow that It expressed NY SEN
timents exactly:
NEVER AGAIN,
I will sing with you; will Jest with you;
will dance with you down the year.
But trudge a day on weary way!
Not willingly, my dear.
I will feast with you when the lights faro
high,
And the hall is warm with cheer
But share a crust in a garrets dust7
Never again, my dear.
For the gold Of the heart is given once
Yes, once and but once fear.
And true love stain comes back to reign
Never again, my dear
X c. B.. I'd rather have married good
,atured, cheerful fool than brilliant crab.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16
ANSWER TO LONESOME
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX.

VIII you kindly tell me where the Wilson
Normal School is. l have inquired OF nu-
merous persons, but they do not seem 70
know where IL is. Also will you kindly teIi
where the Lonesome Club meets, as 1 am de-
sirous or becoming member of said club.
LONESOME q
Lonesome Club meets every Wedne sday
evening at o'clock at Wilson Normal Scbooi
Eleventh and Harvard streets northwest.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16
Mr.. B. Baer
If We Had Signed.

1t looks like the mandates are in bloom and
there will be double crop of diplomatic
bloomers.
Armenia is getting set pretty to take
sock at the Sultan OF Cold Turkey mandate
triple into the international kitty. When
Armenia takes a bust at the red flower pot On
the the bag bag '''' '''' '' ''' ''''''
Under the international agreement controll-
tax concessions, Uncle Sam is compelled to eat
the Sultan eye for a grape. allow the Wins
fangs on your uncle's nose and other friendly
duets under the cooperative plan.
As the ladies have equal suffrage now,
the mandate would have. entitled them to high
heel forth TO Turkey in Europe and Turkey
in Asia, put a neat casserole on them both
would stay home and knit long stockings for.
our brave soldiers in the scalloped trenches.
Fortunately for us We didn't throw a spen.
cerian convulsion on the dotted line.
II Armenia wants to start a war, IL Turkey
and start 'em. We have enough profteers to
take care OF them.
ness, but why should share the splinters
under England's hngernails when we have
enough landlords of our to go around
twice? 3d..
America knows enough about world wars to
know that the line has been heightened eleven
stations past that place Sherman talked about.
The Senate didn't sign on the dotted line
showing that even a Senate has to guess right
once in while.
If we have any signatures to waste let's
mean much this year from the way coal is be-
Sng hyped up.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16

These HaberdssheN Hounds on r
street seem to be giving the Long
Arm of the Law series of sharp
pains. In fact / see by Saturdays
Times that the coppers think these
clothestrees are dangerous mash
ers."
Since l don't believe In capital pun
isbment why not simply render them
harmless as per inclosure and let
them continue to ornament our Fair
City? TOM CULVERWELL.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16

Dear BILL am willing to
make affidavit that ! was ap-
preached in G street hashery
by a caker who anxiously in
quired II ii were perfectly safe
for him to dine alone in a near
by Chinese restaurant. i nomi-
nate this bird as the rightful re-
cipient of the charming cactus-
lined slumber robe. DOC {.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16
Mother Earth As An Artist

The exquisite turquoise, with It's soft blue
color Is phosphate OF alumina tclay) ard
copper In the earth IL the color maker Tho
sapphire, ruby and topaz are crystals of
nnty earth. Tho sapphire's blue is merely
iron.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16
ROuND PLUGi sQUARE HOLE.

A carpenter is required to saw from
a round wooden rod six inches long
and one inch in diameter, a plug
which will stop one inch square
hole in a boat. How does he do it?
T. S. S.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16
WHAT'S THE ANswERs

o. b. j. says Alexandria, Va, can
now boast of being the only city in
the Western Hemisphere that won't
allow a business man to hang out his
sign. and wants to know WHY. We
don't know whether he's sore on the
town or has a joke up his sleeve.
Do you?
The Washington times., 1920-10-16
|.k11EAR[ 20
LIKES II. 4 s-wHO DOEsN'Tf

+. N. H., who is studying agricul-
ture and dairying down at North
Carolina State College, West Raleigh,
writes Just a line to express to you
how much ii. & s. Is appreciated down
here. We enjoy the clean wit and
humor.
Maybe you don't know who we
are. Remember the team that con-
quered Navy 14-7? Sure. that's us.
He adds: Many rough neck Is
hidden by a silk collar" and BE 1t
ever so homely: there's no face like
your own"
The Washington times., 1920-10-16
rv.C.pOLE PROBLEM.

A flag pole is 25 feet long. IT
Is 8 inches. in diameter at the
bottom and Ia inches at the top:
How many feet of 1-inch rope VIII
IL take to wrap this pole7
J.R. NJ. and N. S. II.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16

/ suggest to some of those Percy
fed little boys who walk Eff street
that if they will eat some rock fish
and drink some iron water for a
month or so they may amount to
something. f.. M. 5.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16

Buhleeve you me, BILLS mail Is
the heaviest we ever handled how
he ever got enough Of II In type 10
keep the fans good natured I%more
than we know.
But keep 1t up, bugs; we READ II all
and we'll print them as fast as we
cau-only give us time to tome up
for air. BILLS SUBSTITUTE.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16
BILL PRICES VACATION.

BiHs absence brings 1t more point
edly TO mind that Heard and Seen as
a PRICELESS literary contribution TO
the happiness Of the community.
f. A. B.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16

TO THE cheerful
fools.
AND iF he reads II.
HOPE he'll stop.
AND LOOK a little.
AND LISTEN a lot.
AND REALIZE.
THAT THE sphinx
like SILENCE.
OF A wounded wife.
MAY BE the lull.
BEFORE THE storm
.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16
O, BE GOOD, HARRY:

HARRY WARD (Whom we wished TO
see ID. c. Commish).
Dear Harry know darn well r.
p. A. pulled that Il like it" line. but
he didn't claim to write it, II I'm
ashamed of trottin out .'roll-top"
stuff, etc. i amt going to say so, be-
cause Charles A. Dana declared:
"Whatever the good Lord has per-
mitted to happen, I'm not ashamed to
report" and he's permitted the roll
tops and Volstead act and lot of
things to happen. I'm printing your
lines just to show fans what a bum
pote you are. Here:4
''Your Heard and Seen is awful gun;
! loathe 1t.
II reeks indeed OF curbstone stun: -
I ioathe It.
It's vulger aud it's lower class:
IL seeks to please the hopeless ass
] loathe it" b..
Now; how's this:
Bill Price has got a dreadful job:
'Twould make wooden Indian sob;
/ like it,
You have TO keep yourself serene
when Harry Ward gets so darn mean;
But the fans will stick to Heard and Seen.
l like ii.
JACK.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16
THIS is WHY SHE LAUGHS

There was a little girl
who had been away to school,
And over good literature was wild
She read Shakespeare q lot
Also Longfellow's writings,
And loved Tennyson's work since chnA.
But alas and alsck
when she arrived back ..B.
To dear Old Washington.
Her fancy was changed from works serene
To something far different, you zee,
A friend of hers gave her The Times
And now she reads Heard and Seen.
II. l.. o.
PEGGY" writes that jcakios
are perfect gentlemen" and she
has never yet seen one without
some money.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16

THAT'S ALL
. . a
THERE ISN'T any
more.
SHE DIDN'T sign 1t
OR ANYTHING.
AND I'M printing 1t.
JUST AS it is.
AS A terrible warning
TO ALL the crabs.
AND A ray of hope.
. .
The Washington times., 1920-10-16

Whether
President
Wilson told
the Balkan
premiers that
we would send
ships and men
If they were
attacked or
merely said
that they
would expect
us to, his
odmissiOn In
the Senate
Foreign Rela-
tions Commit
tee that
Article K, II
accepted by
us, would
form IAN ABB
SOLUTELY
COMPEL
LING moral
obligation,
justihes this
powerful car
toon by
Winsor =
McCay.
If you want to
scatter Ameri-
can graves
throughout
the earth by
battling to
defend the
war spoils or
trade ambi-
tions Of for
eign nations,
vote for Cox
and his prom
Use to go into
the Wilson
War League.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16


Dear Editor (while Bill Price is
away:
As "Cave-man STUFF holds sway in
the show at Keith's this week, here
with submit my tribute to Cave men;
OH, FOR A CAVE MAN!
I want a Cave-msn rugged and tough,
To bite my neck and treat me rough
To hold me whether / screech or blum,
Ne for the Cave-man stun.
I would sigh for Cave-man love
Bleak as the tempest raging above
/ want an eagle, keep your sick dove,
Me for the Cave-man stun.
7 want a man who can pick me up, \
Slam me around like an ornery pup,
out of his hand I would eat and sup,
Ne for the Cave e-man stun.
I want a C.ve-man when I've the blues,
To trk> me and shake me out of my shoes,
To swear by note in lurid hucs,
Ne for the Cave-man stun.
7 want a Cave-man just for luck,
I will not be any sis's Duck
I'm no Honey" or any such truck.
Me for the Cavc-man stun.
me '0' 'n' NAE E. CURTIN.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16

I'd like to have some one help me
with my Revised Edition of Fam
Gus Poems" Ny first is:
Brcathes there a man with soul so dead
Who never to his wife hath said:
shove over there and give me half the
bed" = r. 8.
| would like cake to explain why
he would rather be a mollycoddle
than a real man. PAL.
/ feally saw Molly on q street
car with an ivory manicuring set
fixing his nails Ell. d.
NIt's manufactured in still
Way down in the valley;
Shipped here by auto truck
And drank in the alley.
NAT YAGER
The Washington times., 1920-10-16

1t looks like the mandates are in bloom and
there will be double crop of diplomatic
bloomers.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16

Give my regards to Bill and nope
him n joyful vacation. .. U. =. L.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16

Does the Federal Administration propose bring ruin
to GREAT co COOPERATIVE GROUP OF INDUSTRIOUS
AND PROGRESSIVE T1LLERs OF THE SOIL, and the
towns and cities thriving as result of their
operation?
That big question involves all sorts of
the welfare Of the people generally who vitality in
teresed in the primary right to handle their business affairs
in the only calculated to keep them outof bankruptcy
poverty, unrest and deep resentment.
The Government is itself founded upon union of CO.
operating State commonwealth fashioned after the same
mechanism that makes solar system the highest
tAc example of recprocating cooperative mechanism and
it of the most essential duties of these Federated
States to that the producers within them the
protection of their cooperative agencies from
ruinous price manipulating inroads conspiracie from
whatever quarter internal external It such considera
lions that make bond of union and brotherhood among
the people of nation
Now other departments of the economic life of the
State and nation to have their associations their CO.
operations and their unionsand industry and
finance are made up of nothing else-this proceeding
brought by the Department of Justice against of the
great and growing and ourshng basic industries of Cali
forna should be watched by all ustcelovng citizens and
Kindred organizations with the gravest misgivngs as
blow aimed at the very heart of the States prosperity and
its promising future
The Washington times., 1920-10-16

The Senate didn't sign the dotted line
showing that even Senate has to guess right
in while.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16

Say, Buddie, 1 must give 1t to Dear
Ole Bill for good-natured ole top.
I've never heard any complaints from
him though numbers of times he must
have been. tried by us bugs.
w. d. PAYNE.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16

II have any signatures to waste let's
'em for Merry Xmas cards which won't
mean much this year from the way coal is be-
Sng hyped UP.
The Washington times., 1920-10-16

America knows enough about world wars to
know that the line has been heightened eleven
stations past that place Sherman talked about
The Washington times., 1920-10-16

This may sound two octaves above selfish
ness, but why should we share the splnters
under England,s hngernails when. we have
enough landlords of our own to go around
twice?
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CALL
ON PEOPLE TO INSURE
AN ABSOLUTE COUNT

The census enumerators have COM
pleted the canvass of the town Of
Abbeville, every house has been
visited. Some houses two or three
times, but with that, there may be
some people who have not been
enumerated. We desire every name
and now call upon everybody to help
US get the entire population. Find
out if you and those about you have
been counted If not, telephone to us.
In case of doubt report so that we
can investigate.
Mrs. w. =. Wham, enumeratcr
for first and second wards.
! Mrs. Laura Faulkner, enumerator
for third and fourth wards.
2-6-4t.
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COULDHARDLY
EAT ANYTHING
Before Taking Meritone Would
Live on Toast and Coffee
Days at Time

my appetite was so poor that I
would 60 two or three days without
eating anything but toast and cof-
fee," said Mrs. Lufie Neal, Of 172
North Lime Street, Lexington, KY.
81 was nervous and couldn't sleep
well and had suffered from constipa-
ton for eight or ten years. In fact,
my whole system was run down and
I could hardly attend to my house
hold duties.
"One day my son, who is stage
manager at one Of the local theaters,
brought home a bottle of Meritone
for me to try.
'T took it and it built up my whole
system. My nerves are in better
shape and I can sleep better and my
appetite is so good that l just can't
get enough to eat. The constipation
! is almost entirely gone also.
| 81 want all my friends to know
about Meritone, for it has surely
helped me-"
Meritone is the tonic of real merit
that has built up the systems OF
thousands of people in all parts OF
the country.
Meritone is sold exclusively in
Abbeville by The McMurray Drug
Co.
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COTTON GINNED PRIOR
TO JANUARY 16

Director Sam L. Rogers, of the
Bureau of the Census, Department
of Commerce, announces the pre-
linlinary report an cotton ginned by
counties, in South Carolina, for the
crops of 1919 and 1918. The report
was made public for the state at
10 a. m., Friday, january 23, 1920
Quantities are in running bales
counting round as half bales. Inter;
are not included.)
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To the Defendants Above Named:

10 the Defendants ADoVe Idlileo'
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED
and required to answer the Com
Dlsint in this action of which copy
IS herewith served upon you, and to
serve a copy of your answer to the
said Complaint on the subscriber at
rs office at Abbeville Court House,
South Carolina, within twenty days
,4ter the service hereof, exclusive of
The day of such service; and If you
all to answer the Complaint within
the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in
this action will apply to the Court
for the relief demanded in the Com
plant.
Dated 21st day IF January, A. D.,
1920. VIM. P. GREENE,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
To the Defendants Above Named:
Take notice that the Complaint in
the above stated action together with
the Summons, of which the foregoing
is a copy, was filed in the Office of
he Clerk of Court of Common Pleas
ior Abbeville County on January %,
1920, where it is now on file.
January 23rd, 1920.
WIN. P. GREENE,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
1-23-30-2-6-3t.
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The list of prominent lawyers, who
neglect to make wills, made them
wrongly, or altered them without at
testing the alterations and thus have
made more work for lawyers and
courts, is being enlarged every
month.