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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-22

in its context three out Of its five sen
fences began with the letter ct" The
third sentence, I changed into two
lreading, Can you come to my home;
If that is not convenient for you, how
ever, 1 can meet you elsewhere" Their
I copied the letter over, addressed the
envelope and stamped it. AS I was
debating whether to call Katie to posi-
the letter or to go myself, she APP
peared at my door.
"Wot you tink, Misses Graham" she
said, excitedly, I'VE all forgot every
thing today. Noting for tomorrow
dinner. Plenty for breakfast. Ham
here. eggs, grape fruit, everything, and
1 make cream pie for dessert tomor-
row, but no meat, no salad no veg
table. I take me basket, go queeck
before market closes. Vot you want ?''
y why! Kate, aren't you afraid of the
man with the black beard who fright
ened you the other night?" I asked
Islyly. I knew that she had Invented
I the man SO that 1 would allow her 20
! sleep in the apartment instead of GO
ing to the miserable tenement on the
East side, where her cousins lived. but
she was so transparent, / really could
not resist asking tho question solely
81 tink he no dere, now Katie de-
clared unblushingly. "IEe no see me
last night, he tink move away, he
no come tonight"
VERY well, Katie, If you are not
afraid you may go. Please post this
letter on the way"
"All right" Katie put it carsfully in
the pocket of her jacket. Now you
tell me vot you want for dinner"
Can you open oysters, Katie?"
Me? can do everything"
Then stop at the fish market and
get dozen oysters. MIR Graham is
very fond of them Oh the half shell.
Then get small leg Of lamb. the
smallest nice one you can find can
of peas, bunch of fresh mint, or =
package of the dried mint, and an the
things for a combination salad, head
of lettuce, two tomatoes, cucumber
two green peppers, two punches Of
lradishes-we will have dish of those
separate from the salad--and bunch
of those little scallions which 10 so
green and fresh. Are you sure yot can
remember all those things?"
me? I nevaire forget nothing de-
c1ared Katie proudly, if ungransriat-
ically, as she started for the door. Z.
The telephone rang before she had
opened the door. wait until I answer
this. Katie" I said, as 1 took down
the receiver.
Lillian Gales voice sounded in my
ears.
Il don't suppose you ever want to
hear Of us again." she began gayly,
and reflected grimly that as far as
my own feelings went she was speak
Ing the truth. But of course ordinary
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-22
THE WoMAN's CLUB.

On next Wednesday afternoon or
ganization OF the Woman's Club Of
Pensacola will be perfected, and Pen
sacola will enter upon a new era in
womans work. No more important
movement has been inaugurated in this
city for many years. While there are
a number of women's clubs in Escam-
bia county, this is the only club iden-
titled with the Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs, one Of the strongest as
lsociations of women in the world.
Pensacola has it's literary clubs, the
Caxtons, the Browning and Shake
speare Clubs, the Music Study Club,
the Sketchers. the Suffrage League,
the U. d. c. and Memorial Associa-
ton, it's benevolent organizations and
clubs which are auxiliaries to lodges
and various church denominations.
But the Woman's Club will bring the
interests of women into closer union;
it will promote broader as well as
a more unified spirit, and it viii make
for greater efficiency in every way.
Within short time, possibly before
the coming election, almost certainly
within the twelfth month, the suffrage
amendment will Be ratified by the nec-'
essary thirty-six states; there is only
one state now lacking to complete
qualification, and all the women of the
nation will be called upon to take their
part in making this country a better
place in which to live. Already at
least a dozen cities in Florida have
municipal suffrage, and the day is
not far distant when this obligation
will be laid upon the women of PEN
sacoia- On her visit here recently,
Mrs. w. S. Jennings urged upon the
women of Pensacola the realization of
these responsibilities. Several years
ago the Federation of Women's Clubs
endorsed suffrage, and the suffrage de-
partment is one of the strongest
branches of federation work.
But it makes no difference how
women feel towards the ballot; the
Woman's Club will give them contact
with better things in every line; bet
ter opportunities for home and public
service; better opportunities for the
hearing of great minds and good music,
of bringing about happier social and
better1civic conditions.
The club will be divided into various
departments, and will be enlarged
as it grows to meet the needs of all
interests, and the members can but
gain tremendously in coming together
and working comparatively for a bet
ter and more beautiful and happier
social and civic life.
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newspaper. But, realizing the danger
of the flaring headlines which seek
to exploit evil. to play the sensa-
tional, to belittle the. good and cry
out the evil from the house-tops, ne IS
calling on the American press to over
come this proneness to look only on
the high lights OF life.
One OF the most successful news
papers in the country, entirely ASIDE
from its appeal as an organ OF
Christian Scientists, is the Christian
Science Monitor, and from its very in
|ception this idea has been carried
out. The good is played up deeds OF
progress in any line; OF valor that does
not strike it's roots in murderous lust;
all that is high minded. stimulating.
Interesting and helpful. Nothing that
is poisonous, criminal or debauching.
While it may be true that the Chris
tian Science Monitor errs on one side
as far the the yellow journal errs
on the other, the fact remains that it
is one of the most generally read and
most widely quoted publications in the
world.
A new conviction has seized upon
the minds Of the people Of America,
and Of every other country. The peo-
pie are tired of b1ood-shed, fed up on
crime. sickened Of meanness and filth.
and the newspaper that can give to
them good food for the mind and the
soul. we'll seasoned but not poisoned
with fetid matter, the newspapers
which can, as Mr.. Daniels says. go
up and down the city and ferret out
the good deeds that shine" will be
the newspapers that will reach the
hearts of the American people and
will lift this country back once more
to sanity and decency.
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YOUR LIBERTY BOND.

Inc United states government Dor
rowed money from you to finance the
war. You hold the governments prom
Use to pay you back. This promise
is called a Liberty Bond or Victory
Note. On this Bond is stated the con-
ditions under which the government
borrowed the money from you.
For instance: If you hold Bond of
the Third Liberty Loan, it states that
on April 18th and October 18th of
each year until maturity, you will re-
ceive interest on the amount you paid
for the Bond. Other issues bear other
rates of interest and other maturity
dates, all of which are clearly stated
on the Bond.
Now, if you keep your Bond until
the date when the government pays
you in full for it, you do not need to
worry If, in the meantime, the price is
low one day or high the next. You and
Uncle Sam are living up to your agree
ment with each other, and neither will
lose by it.
On the other hand, If you sell your
Liberty Bond, now, you will find that
the man you sell it to will not give
you dollar for every dollar you paid
for it. The price has been brought
fering to sell their Bonds. If the mar
ket is flooded with tomatoes you can
buy them cheap, but if everyone is
clamoring for tomatoes and there are
few to be had, the price goes up. The
same is true of Liberty Bonds. Short
sighted people are dumping them on
the market, and wise ones are buying
them.
The best advice that can be given
to the owner of a Liberty Bond is
thus: Hold the bond you bought dur
ing the war; it is as safe and sound
as the United States government itself.
Buy as many more at the present low
rate as you can afford. If you hold
them to maturity, you are bound to
make the difference between what they
sell at now and their face value. You
will also receive good interest on your
Hold on to your Liberty Bonds and
buy more.
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Revelations
of a Wife
Bv ADELE GARRISON.
CHAPTER xxx.
NV First Party is Arranged.

When I had recovered from my as
tonishment at Dicky's uhceremonious
departure 1 again started to write to
Mrs. Helen Brainard Smith, secre-
tary of the Lotus Study Club.
It was not Saturday evening, and
had received her courteous letter ask
ing me to consider conducting the his
tory class Of her club Wednesday
morning.
I went to my room and switched on
the electric drop light over my desk,
an old-fashioned solid affair, which
had been my mothers and which
valued beyond price, and returned to
get my pen, which Dickey had used to
write his check.
AS I picked up the pen my eyes
fell upon Dickys checkbook, from
which he had hastily filled out the
check for the old artist. 1t lay open
at the page from which he had taken
the check, and / could not help see
ing the figures on the stub-$150.
bent closer to see the name. II | were
to take over the finances of the FAM
lily, 1 told myself, l had right to
see where the money was going. Yes,
the name on the stub was Maxon,
Horace Maxon.
One hundred and fifty dollars!
repeated the figures to myself as ]
went back to my room to write my
note. / hope 1 am nSt parsimonious
and I always have tried to do my
share Of social service. Out of my
salary always contributed a certain
portion to the societies which have
charge of the charitable work of the
city, and in addition / gave some of
my time to help the regular workers
in my district in times of emergency.
But a constant borrower seemed GRIM
inal in its recklessness. AT the risk
of more unpleasantness, l resolved to
speak to Dicky about it when he came
back. He would ruin himself II be
persisted in doing things like this.
In the mean time l would write my
note. I thought it over for a few
minutes. my invariable practice in
writing a letter. and then wrote:
46 East Twenty-ninth Street,
department. ~
My, Dear Mrs. Smith: l shall be
glad to consider taking up the work
OF which you spoke in your note Of
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Editor Journal:

Editor Journal:
There is a great deal Of talk about
building up our city, but most OF II
is like some peoples prayers. it Is
not from the heart. If every industry
was fostered and supported by the
people we might have some permanent
pay rolls.
From memory I mention a number
that have been throttled. Some years
ago one of the fish companies packed
1000 or $500 cases Of snapper, Ike
salmon, but the merchants would not
push it and they quit canning. the
fishermen dried mullet, snappers and
groupers like cod fish and 1t was
equally as good. The merchants pre-
ferred to patronize. Cape Cod. Then
they put up Spanish mackerel in Kits
and one half barrels but the mer-
chants bought Boston fish. Some
young men put up small fish like sar-
dimes, used up their money, borrow
ed some, could not get their fish IN
troduced and quit. Then the Saun-
ders Fish Co. spent good deal On tnelr
chowder and other products put II
went the same way. Twice parties
have tried making brooms anu Hhdoe
first class ones but had to give up
for lack of support. A paper mill was
started, died of strangulation, and home
made cigars have hard time to e4-
list, outside made ones are pushed In
preference. And when sidewalks were
to be laid, nearly 40 miles of them, the
work was nearly all given to outsiders.
There was one and one-haf cents per
cubic foot apparently in favor OF the
outsiders but I contend that 1t would
have paid better to give that dlffer-
ence to the home men as they were
tax payers and all that volume OF
money would have been kept at nome.
One of the contractors even brought
his laborers with him. Now why not
saw Pensacola for Pensacolians,' and
support the enterprises that would
give employment to labor and induce
persons with a little capital to invest
it with assurance that they Will be
supported.
Respectfully,
J. N. ANDREWS.
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last Tuesday, the 18th. can meet you
at any time to make the necessary ar
rangements. / should be glad to have
you come to my home, or If it be more
convenient for you can meet you else
where. II you will telephone me few
hours beforehand, we probably can ar
range a meeting place which will be
convenient for both of us. My tele-
phone number is Madison Square 2468.
Thanking you for your thought of me,
I am yours very truly,
MARGARET SPENCER GRAHAM.
Mrs. Helen Brainard Smith,
Z Secretary Lotus Study Club,
215 West Washington Ave.
I read the letter over noting that
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-22
Simple Simon went a. fishin'

Simple Simon went a. fishin'
For to get job;
Simon said: Now, here's my chance
To make the people sob;
My valor and my eloquence,
My money and my life,
I'll offer these, and get the votes
My enemy I'll knife.
But when he came to speak his piece
The people asked:
What have you done?"
Not answering, they very quickly
passed
Poor Simple Simon for a man.
Who always does the best he can.
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of Florida, or else he is OF the opinion
that the citizens of Suwannee county
are OF very low type, and thinks
they will fall for man who tries to
reach their SUPPOSED level by the
use Of bad grammar and catch ex-
pressions. On June 8, our citizens will
have an opportunity to rebuke Mr..
Van Swearingen for his insult to their
intelligence, and we believe that they
will do SO by casting their vote for
G "A. Hardee.-Suwannee Democrat.
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Bombay, Fla, May 10.

bOnIldy, Z Ia, 001y 10'
Pensacola Journal:
Your editorial on Hurdis Whitaker
yesterday was good and you are TO De
congratulated on the stand you have
taken. The good people OF Escamola
county will make no mistake in re-
electing him sheriff. Give him four
years and you will then know how to
appreciate his good work, such as
holding down the violators of the law.
/ have known him for over 20 years
and can truthfully say that he is an
honest, fearless man.
Yours very truly,
M. M. OWENS.
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VERY SIMPLE

It was. simple little gown,
A bingham gown she wore;
A plain and pretty little gown;
ut cost just Fifty-four;)
Her neighbor on the other side
Went clad in crepe-de-c hine,
A friIly little kind Of frock
With rulings, all of green;
The neighbors cried: "Extravagant!
Her husband will be wrecked!
This silly little addle-pate
Should have her spending checked
And silly little addle-pate
AS sure as you're alive,
Was saving. money for her man;
Cher frock cost Thirty five.)
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Screen. scree, screen with care
Or the skeeters'n get you every
where!
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oh, Fannie Hurst oh, Fannie Hurst!
Go right straight on and do your
worst;
We do not care a single rap;
We do not even know the chap;
But this we know, oh Fannie, dear
Your actions are a little queer.
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- OSo

Graham. s5Lo Mrs. Underwood
Seliy, and we Il be mighty ga
= ~. Those other people y
~. mas suggested are bully SC
too. 1 hope you'll like US all, goo
"Good-by," ] said mechanically
hung up the receiver. had a
little hurt feeling, inside me- !
invited the Underwoods 10 please ,
and he had taken the thing out o.
hands, and consulted Lillian
about the other guests as If l do
exist.
(Continued tomorrow
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courtesy made me interrupt her.
You ought to know better =
that" 1 assured her and hated ~
for the evasion.
Il am so glad." she s7i'
certainly had good reas 70:
crouch, and it's awful wee. o..
not to cultivate one, EE .sla1
UP to see if you ~ id forelvs ls
come to play with US tone-rT q.
Well promise to behave. 5-r
to little shack somewhers
acquainted.
1 did some rapid tniDE4g IS 7
tened to her words AID enc IL 0 s.
den decision. :. 7 knew 7 wo1is -.r
spend an ev' Aig wiz thess 20
soon. res. ed 70 lave III meet
IN my own hone There, GER
extent I coUld onntroI the situation
81 nave better plan man that
said, and put as much enthusiast
my rvlcs as I possibly could mus
Suppose you AMI Nr. Underwood C,
o, er here tomorrow night. Dickey
mere just nov, out when he come!
III ask him II there aren't two or {,
more OF his friends who would add
the EayeIy of nations, and Wen get
Guainted over my new chatting dist
hasn't been christened yet"
I had not heard the door open,
save a little start as Dicky took
receiver from my hand, smiling
chievously at me as he did so.
Il am surprised at you, Lii" he
gan. How dare you call up my Il
cent bride after inviting me to >
orgy last night and getting me
let us say a trifle mixed. J 4
you that if you come ton sr0v 4
you get nothing but tee ard l1-s;
family prayers. I'm q Te1oaae1 % 4
am"
Evidently Lillian made aim
witty reply for he laushec ga~
ous1v before he said; sure /. .=l
tax ~ q 7~e. altbCogh it's ID
ie.e. ! ~ a ToE. By toe way. p
10 y5u ar. "a 5out the staulora.
Atwood e4- - Mars6ca fer
rest o. H. t-ywd tomorrow ID
= za-- -.8r.-y out O.. Tow? W
who f6e- g Lester I'm ! 4
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Another "HalIucination."
Take Your Choice.

Take Your Choice.
Van c. Swearingen is one Of two
things; he is either a very ignorant
man and does not know enough to be
governor OF the great commonwealth
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So some folks say; =.
We wonder how III
They get that way?
Screen, scree screen with care
Or the skeetersn get you every
where!
The louder money talks the less it
explains itself.
The open season for politicians will
soon be closed.
Spring has passed in her checks at
last, and we are glad of it.
Old-fashioned oratory is all very
well, if the orators are not.
The new definition of liberty: Loaf
and live on the other fellow.
Some people are SO cheerful they
must be charged with high spirits.
They are still picking on Hoover.
But he looks as though he could stand
1t.
Now that we are trying to clean up
politics how about some nice clean
streets?
If Carranza should escape to the
United States would he be a fugitive
from justice?
Why don't we get some Of that
for it's development?
If Sims had any idea of making
rubber stamp Of Josephus Daniels, he
has lost it, by this time.
Office seekers are still making the
same old promises, but the people are
not making the same old response.
The Ohio boy who tried to steal a
full grown elephant must be related to
the campaign manager of the republic
can party.
These ear muffs that Nina Wilcox
Putnam tells about would not be a
bad idea for the voters until the cam
paign is over.
Only one drunk in st. Petersburg in
April. And now somebody will rise
to remark that that one swallow did
not make spring.
Jacksonville Claims to be more dis
satisfied than any other city with it's
census returns. But Jacksonville
thrives on divine discomfort"
1t will not be necessary for any of
the high school graduates to write an
essay on the present high school
building-it speaks for itself.
England wants to come to the res
cue and sell us some imported clothes,
at reduction. If they are anything
like those the royal family wears, we
say: Keep 'em.
The poor shivery girls of Fifth Ave-
nue. may rest assured of their August
furs. Six million pelts valued at over
thirty million dollars, have just been
sold in st. Louis.
The Times Union says I'VE can only
wonder what the San Francisco con-
vention will do with the democratic
party What We are wondering is
what the convention will do to the
democratic party.
1t is said that the streets of Greater
New York, If extended in one straight
street. would extend almost across the
American continent. We always
thought those New York streets were
as crooked as sin.
.
The a. iator student. 1T 'he Univer-
sity of Michigan who are goin, to earn
their way through college by giving
rides to their college mates. must in
tend to fly pretty high, with rides at
ten dollars a throw.
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Press Comment
Florida Editors As Judges.


Editor Bob Davis of the Gainesville
Sun is municipal judge in his own
home town, while Editor Joe Earman
of the Palm Beach Post is municipal
judge of Palm Beach. They haven't
anything on the News, because the
president of the News Publishing Co.
is municipal judge in DeLand-and a
good one, too.-DeLand News.
Farmer Gets the Short End.
Former weather bureau chief, who
for Is years was engaged in the work
of the department of agriculture, as
serts publicly that of the $32 900 900
appropriated annually out of the public
funds for the use of the department,
$25, 900, 900 thereof goes for the pay
ment of. salaries, indicating that the
farmer, as usual, gets the short end
on the stick."-Times- Union.
Lots Of Fun in the Newspaper Game.
S. A. Lynch, a. large owner Of
amusement enterprises, has bought the
Jacksonville Metropolis. Lots of
amusement in the newspaper game. Mr..
Lynch undoubtedly will learn. How
ever the Met. has always been a
ney-maker, and it's proprietors,
Messrs. Carter and Russell, doubtless
have made a snug fortune in their 80
years of wnership.-Lakeland Tele-
gram.
The Women Can Do II.
The most hopeful indication Of high
prices taking a drop is that women
are awakening to the fact that they
have been reckless spenders, paying
exhorbitant prices for clothing and
shoes and in many cities they are
pledging themselves to wear only
staple clothing until the prices come
down. A wise decision that could be
followed in many small towns.-Sara-
sofa Times.
Another "Haliucination."
That ring Gov. Cats is displaying
from the stump, with the story that it
w.as given him by the state prisoners
at Raiford because he established the
honor system there doesn't ring quite
true. The Ocala Star, practically on
the ground, asserts that S. H. Bitch
the honor system at Raj
ford. and the governor had nothing TO
do with it. Another one of his rev.
erence's Authorizations. Lakeland
Telegram
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Some people are SO cheerful the.
must be charged with high spirits.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-22

Office-seekerS are still making the
same old promises, but the people are
not making the same old response.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-22

The new definition of liberty: Loa
and live on the other fellow.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-22

The Ohio boy who tried to steal a
full grown elephant must be related to
the campaign manager of the republi-
can party.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-22

Only one drunk in st. Petersburg in
April. And now somebody will rise
to remark that that one swallow did
not make a spring.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-22

Jacksonville Claims to be more dis
satisfied than any other city with it's
census returns. But Jacksonville
thrives on divine discomfort"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-22

These ear muffs that Nina Wilcox
Putnam tells about would not be a
bad idea for the voters until the cam
paign is over.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-22

1t will not be necessary for any Of
the high school graduates to write an
essay on the present high school
building-it speaks for itself.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-22

old fashioned oratory is all yer
well, if the orators are not.
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Spring has passed in her checks a
last, and we are glad of it.
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If Sims had any idea of making {
rubber stamp Of Josephus Daniels, he
has lost it, by this time.