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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-24
One Year Ago TODAY.

Z. S. super dreadnought Idaho was
placed in commission at Camden, n.
j.
Raoul Villain was placed on trial in
Paris for the murder of Jean Leon
Jaures. the French Socialist leader.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-24
Try This on Your Banjo.

Information wanted as to the where
abouts of Mrs. j O. Plonk Blonk). wife
of j. o. Plonk (Clonk) ADV. in Chinese
paper.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-24

MRS. LUCILLE HIXSoN, Of
Kansas City, only weighed 70
pounds when she began taking
Tanlac. She has already gained
So pounds and says this wonder
full medicine has been the great
est blessing of her life.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-24
ARCTIC NATIVES sTARvE.
Scarcity of Big Game in Red Rive,
Causes Great Hardship.

DAWSON, Y. T., March "a Natives
Of the Arctic Red River region are facing
starvation because of the shortage Of big
game this winter, according to members
.of the Royal Canadian mounted police
expedition to Herschel Island and Fort
Mcpherson, on the Arctic coast, who ar
rived here yesterday Net even enough
skins were available to supply natives
with moccasins, they reported Relief
supplies have been sent to Fort Nc
Pherson.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-24
Oft in the Silly Night.
Manchester Union

NhUHCHtSItT JHIOl.
We hear reports that in the still
watches of the night the golf sticks
can be heard stirring uneasily in many
well regulated households.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-24

The most quibbling stickler on in
come is not likely to eclipse the low
record in income tax payments made
by silk mill girl at Altoona, Pa. who
after careful computation decided she
owed Uuele Sam one cent and made
payment of that amount to the income
tax collector
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-24

Nothing surprising is there in the fact
that Michael Buggy, proprietor of the
Wheeler restaurant at Springville, Okla
homa, serves dinners la carte!
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-24

ton. Nothing would please ar. and Mrs
Earl Wolf more than to add a daughter
TO the household, but Earl admits the
prospects for such good fortune are not
bright. News item in TX.
News Headline: Liquor used for medi
cine goes down in Rhode Island
Wen, isn't that where they want it t.
20?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-24
CLIPPINGS
With Now q Comment and Then
Only a Caption.
Revised Version of the Once Familiar
Ten Nights.

John Black will start his singing school
here Tuesday night and will 60 on ten
ights.-Danylle Democrat
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-24
THE LIQUOR ISSUE.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH "a. 1920.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-24
The Einstein Theory of RELATIVELY.

I1IoO1 u hoIdtIsIUy.
(By II. A. Lorentz. PIP. Ga (Brentanos. J
A discussion of the new Einstein
physics especially for the layman-Adv
Aunt Sarah hasn't decided yet whether
this IS book on medicine or geneaology.
Harry Wheeler has been laid up with a
few Of Jobs comforters. Too bad Harry
No Hyde Park item
Too bad he can't commune with Iva
Boyle of Waco, Texas
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-24

Washington the 35th,
Seth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-10
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-10
HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
BIZ MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: 1 am a young
girl II years old l am in love with
man eight years my senior. 1 have
been going with him ever since Christ
mas He tells me, he loves me and
wants me to marry him. The trouble
is that every Saturday night he has an
appointment to see another girl whom
he has been going with for over two
years. He says he goes with her for
reasons which never knew. In all
other ways he Is true to me and re-
spectful.
have had dates with him and
broken them and he never seemed to
object except he says he is sorry for it.
Do you think he really loves me? Shall
1 continue to go with him II he goes
with the other girl on Saturday
nights? IN LOVE.
Indeed you should not marry tho
man or gives you an entirely satisfac-
tory explanation regarding his visits
to her. 1t is difficult to believe that
he has any reason except that he en-
joys her company. 1t is impossible for
me to say whether or not he loves you.
1 should think he would want your
company only il his love were deep
enough to warrant marriage
Dear Mrs Thompson: What would
you think of a girl Is years old. nearly
II, meeting a young man six years
her senior and within two hours going
riding with him and also the next day?
! And what would you think of her il
she would tell this man he could not
! kiss her for she did not think 1t was
right and then turned around and let
him. saying she felt SO helpless" when
he would hug and kiss her? PETE.
In every mail I get letters like the
\ above. most of which ignore because
| they are minding some one else's bust
ness. 1 often wonder IL the person
asking the question would not act in
the same way il circumstances fur
nished the opportunity.
Ny dear girl, If you make your own
conduct above reproach you will have
enough to keep you busy without con-
corning yourself with the affairs OF
another.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-10

While lower prices have been prom
Used from time to time in many lines
of goods. little hope has been given
out regarding cotton fabrics. But now
comes the Dry Goods Economist with
the following:
Cuts in the prices of cotton fabrics
are by all odds the most engrossing
feature OF recent occurrences in the
textile world Both mill prices and the
quotationsNof jobbers on brown and
bleached cottons have been revised
downward.
Perhaps the most spectacular of all
OF the reductions was the cutting OF
Fruit OF the Loom" price to IS cents
by the selling agent OF this famous
brand On the same goods the job
ber's quotation dropped 5 cents per
yard. .
On no less than 4s items of brown
and bleached cottons reductions OF
from 1 to 5 cents per gard have been
made These reductions average %
per cent.
Prints and ginghams have not been
reduced. and the prediction is made
: that there will be no change for some
900 $500 $500
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-10
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
HIDDEN IN OUR BODY.

Our body is its own revelator. Hid
den within its marvellous walls and
recesses are the secrets of the universe.
For what is world without a mind in
a body. to hunt it out?
Solomon once said that the world
was in mans heart
And so we are sensitive to the least
impressions of beauty and wonder
if we but let the fingers of natural in
fluence touch the chords of our re-.
sponsive centers. and there compose,
as they get the feef' of what we most
desire.
No one ever sees beauty in the same
way. any more than one tastes and
knows that what is pleasurable to him
is pleasurable in exactly the same way
to someone else.
1t is well that this is so-that in
be any number for any fnterpretative
mood.
For we see in combinations. To
some minds a certain picture may be
but a few masses-littIe in interest or
appeal. To others the same few
masses may scatter in a thousand
gradations OF delicate colorings and
appreciative may. in turn. mix each
separate combination of natural love-
illness into numberless newer tints.
1t is the things which are hidden in
our bodies which give US hints as to
what we may do and become.
Some OF us, however, wait until the
plastic influences have hardened and
lost their cunning.
Hazlett tells in one of his essays OF
how he went from house to house
among those of his wealthy friends
who owned great works of art. only to
discover that he had trfumphed over
these owners. with their vast collec-
he -,
their pictures more than they did
themselves So he proved that appre-
citation is much greater than owner
ship
Many there are who spend all Their
lives amassing money. only 20 discover
at the close that they have missed the
real greatness to lfe-t~hich is TO dis
cover the living spiriti''
Try TO find out early the things
which are hidden in your body.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-10
Dorothy Dix Tails
BY DOROTHY DIX
WoRie's Highest Paid WonaaA wires,
PartneE.-2.

Also the organizing of the firm of
Benedict G. Co. will enable thousands
OF young people to marry who other
wise would be compelled to remain
single 1t is all very well to say that
a man should be able to support the
woman he marries. Under present
economic conditions the average man
cannot afford the luxury of an idle
wife before he is middle-aged, and by
that time he is SO set in his ways,
and case-hardened in selfishness that
he is not fit to marry
But there is no reason why any
capable, industrious young couple,
who are willing to work together,
should not organize a business and
matrimonial partnership while they
are young enough to have the blood
running red in their veins. and the
wings of romance lowering over them
Moreover, the business partnership
will come nearer to solving the divorce
question than anything else. The rea-
son SO many couples drift apart Is
because they have no common interest
to hold them together. The man is
woman knows nothing. The woman's
days are filled with dress, with society
with clubs of which the husband
knows nothing. They are so little in
touch they haven't even anything TO
talk about. and they are so bored al
hOilS liicS seek aILlnltleS ABROAD.
But the married couple who are
business partners have the strongest
of all bonds tying them together
They have a vital, mutual interest
They speak the same language They
have something they can endfessly
discuss together, and you will find nc
husbands and wives such chums. or sc
united, as those who work together.
The business partnership of a hus-
bond and wife also eliminates strife
over money from the matrimonial
partnership. There is no fight ovel
every penny with a tightwad husband
nor any running of a generous man by
extravaganza when the wife shares
equally with the man in the profits
of the firm, and knows exactly whar
they can afford to spend, and JUS
why they can't buy a car or do over
the house this year.
They used to say that whenever g
man lived over his store he always
got rich. They say now that when
ever a wife works with her husband
they become rich. The idea of the
domestic business partnership is only
new to US in this country. They have
practiced it for centuries in France
and it is what has made the French
bourgeois the most generally prosper
Gus people in the world.
So here's wishing all the firms Of
Benedict & Co. luck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-10

The voters probably will not be
seriously misled by campaign oratery
this year. They have confidence, in
view of the record of the past. that
no matter which party shall control
the government there will be no fail
ure to maintain the honor of the
United States by the fulfllment of
every obligation either moral or legal
On the other hand, the people also feel
assured that the country will not be
involved in international complications
which would require the constant
maintenance of armies on foreign soil
and constant expenditures from the
treasury on accounsIof Weddings with
affairs that are no concern of ours.
The congress can be depended upon to
see to that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-10
LITTLE BENHY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE

Pop was reeding the spoarting page
with his feet up and ma was darnins
holes out of socks. and / sed. Pop. do
you think it would bert you to eat
soap? Do you think it would. ma?
That's a sensible oifestion for ,brits
young man to put to his bizzy father.
sed pop. Ma not saying enything, and
you to eat watermelon rine? Do you
think it would, ma?
/ / think some Children ask redickiliSS
questions, sed ma Meening 1 was one
of them. and pop sed. 1 End the mo-
ton. Meening he thawt so too. and I
sed. Well, how about candle greece, do
you think it would bert you to eat
candle greece? Do YOU, pop? Do you,
ma?
Have you the slightest incIinat ton to
eat candle greece, soap. or watermelon
rine? sed pop.
No sir. I sed.
Well then watts the big ideer? sed
pop.
i've ate them aIreddy. 1 sed.
The doose you have. sed pop. and
ma sed. Benny Potts. you've done
man.. yes sir. this afternoon / was err
round at Pubs Simkinses and we had Q
bite taking contest and took bits out
of different kinds of things.
For mersey sake. no wonder you feet
sick. sed ma. and l sed. I don't feel
sick, ma. and ma sed. 1 think I better
give him some medicine.
No, let bad ehuff alone. sed pop. and
1 sed. Do you wunt me to tell you wat
elts We took bites out OF pop? Do you.
MAJ Wfch they both led they dident,
bisgitt and the cake of yeest and the
suUflOWer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-10

The increased freight rates should
make for the upbuilding Of home in
dustries. There is no good reason why
cattle and hogs produced in Kansas
should be shipped to Kansas City and
Chicago and later back to this state
in the form of fresh and cured meat,
thus paying freight charges twice.
There is no good reason why hides
produced thruout the agricultural dis
tricts should travel to far off Massa-
chusetts and then return to the pro-
Queer in the form of shoes. Why
should Kansas. which is near the cot
ton fields of Oklahoma and Texas, be
compelled to go to New England and
Georgia for cotton goods?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-10
AS OTHERS SEE Us.

The secret divulged by Senator Cap
per in the North American Review,
that Kansas farmers have been losing
parently has not permeated so far as
the office of the Los Angeles Times.
Perhaps the editor of that paper does
not read the Review. The Times says:
In spite of the supposed shortage of
farm labor, the advertised superior at
fractions of the city, the ominous
stories of large acreages lying desolate
and barren, of once thriving farms be-
ing given away with a pound of soap,
the middle west has come forward
this season with banner crops. Heaven
has smiled on the worker who refused
to be froWned out of his heritage.
farmer loads the wagon of prosperity
with the abundance of his unremitting
toll. Now it is the business of the city
to make sure that the wagon finds its
way to market.
Kansas once again leads the process
sion, not only because of the fertility
of its fat acres, but even more because
of the resolute fashion in which it has
defended the freedom of it's laborers
against the designs of all organized
tyrannies. The Lord has taken care
of the fields and Kansas has taken
care of the agitators. The result is a
double blessing.
One county alone in Kansas has just
harvested a wheat crop of over eleven
million dollars. This represents a sum
of $40 for every man, woman and
child in the county. Moreover, this is
not the whole income of the county
from it's agricultural produce. Now
find out what the income in one year
for every man, woman and child in
New York City amounts to-then you
will understand why the solid pros
perity OF Kansas appeals to the best
brains and Drawn of America.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-10
Questions-Answers

u. What do the terms birdie" and
eagle" mean i'll coffin. {.
\. In strict gOn pariance, a birdie is a
score of one under par Ior hole while
an eagle is a score which is two under par.
In practice, a birdie Is often considered a
all the lother players participating in the
=. A claims thers is a difference in value
in the sum Of one billion III different
countries. Is this true -. +. I.
A. The WORT billion" is differently in
terpreted In different countries In Ameri-
ca and France billion is one thousand
million, while in England ana Germany it
is million millions.
o.. What do the letters .s"[stand for in
legal papers, as State of Illinois, Rock
Island County, SSH. X
A. The letters SIS stand for scilicet"
but in English, TO wit namely
=; What breed of hogs do meat packers
A. Most packers say that breed in hogs
counts for very little when the quality is
the same. few have expressed u prefer
ence for Berskshires and Poland China.
T. What is meant by a "Jepthah Vow !:
A This is VOW which is to be kept
regardless of consequences, and is COM
monty supposed to be derived from the
Bibls story of Jepthab, the Ieadersof Il band
the Ammonites he vowed if successful he
would offer a sacrifice whatever was the
Tlrst thing to cross the threshold Of his own
door when he returned triumphant. His
daughter was the first one to advance to
meet him. 1t is recorded that he sacrificed
her according to his vow.
o. What meant by a ship being hog
ged PC. L. q.
A A vessel is hOgged when her ends
droop In such fashion that the keel curves
upwards amidshIps. The opposite of this
nautical term is sag
=. How much does cork weigh as. c. ].
A Cork weighs 15.6 pounds 10 the cubic
(Any reader can get the answer 10 any
question by writing The Topeka State
journal Information Bureau, Frederic ).
Haskins. Director. Washington D. C.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-10

A subscriber to The State Journal,
residing in Onaga, writes in regarding
an article recently appearing in this
paper'in which the findings of a Cleve-
land grand jury were quoted, to the
effect that wages of mechanics in the
building trades had advanced 200 per
cent and that the workmeh were do
ing less work than formerly. He chal-
lenges the truth of these statements.
The State Journal has no first hand
knowledge regarding the situation in
Cleveland and gave the findings Of the
jury for what they were worth The
correspondent says: 1T cannot be
shown where wages on an average
have advanced 100 per cent and where
Iaborers. of all classes. do only one
half the work they did in the pre-war
period in ans part of the United
States. Without any desire to disprove
the correspondent statement, it can be
mentioned that here in Topeka carpen-
tiers before the war were paid 55 cents
an hour They now receive 81 II cepts,
an advance of $50 per cent. The pre-
war wages of painters were 81 Il cents;
they now receive 81. Bricklayers have
not received so large an advance but
contractors declare that they lay only
about third as many bricks in day
as they did before the war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-10

produced. Well, the furniture makers
decided on a similar plan.
In the old times manufacturers had
to bid for contracts, and retailers had
to bid for public favor, by continually
offering novelties in furniture The
extreme styles which were the result
of this system required extra planning
and extra labor, and then the stock
could rarely be sold out before the
style changed
But when the lumber shortage be-
gan to be really felt, and labor he
came scarce, not enough furniture
could be produced to meet the de-
mand- This turn in affairs proved a
charter of independence for the furni-
! ture business, since 1t was no longer
necessary to cater to caprice in order
to drum up trade Instead of turning
out dozen styles of beds or desks.
all more or less freaky, the manufac-
turers agreed to simplify patterns and
TO cease striving for variety.
RMS has meant lull in the vogue
in Chfppendale chairs with their com
plicated legs. and in the other elabor-
ate kinds of period furniture. In
| their stead makers favor such nat
terms as the Queen Anne style which
Is simple and still has the desirable
period erect There are so many diff
rerent factories that even with pat
terms cut down to one-fourth as many
as before the war. there is still a great
variety of stock on view in any large
furnishing store.
1t is predicted that our woodless
future will produce some captain of
invention who will devise a single
piece OF furniture that can be used
Tor bed, kitchen table and victrola.
or some other combination on the or
DER OF a trick pocket knife. 1t may
take us some time to get used TO
super-simplicity in the home, and
combination furniture would be an in