Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-09-07
Here and There.

/ II the foliage has not put on lie brIgh
colors yet, some OF It begins to show th
wear of the season, dropping It's cblo
rophyl parenobyma and showing frame
works Drowned BY burning suns. One o
the things that is showing this most !
sweet fern, because, probably, there 4
60 much Of It. II covers every pastur
or neglected piece OF ground, also, Garlic
In the season, many strawberry or blue
berry, or mayhap, the nest Of Mistres
Bobolink. There is kind OF narcotic
fragrance to sweet fern that, maybe
gets into the head OF Mister Bobolink
for he Is apt to billow on Q topmos
bough and sing like 9 grand opera teno
that is, the melody is all right, but th'
words-oh, my! They sound like, "bob
olink, bobolink, sphinx, spank, sphinx, ap
partitions, superstitious, apple sass, sassa
frass, chee, chez, Chez" Perhaps 1t val
this song that put 1t into the head OF th,
small boy that sweet fern leaves coult
be used as an introduction to tobacco
Turkish Trophies never can seem as goo6
as the cigarettes rolled and smoked or
the sly out in the pasture on the hillside
Now that Brother Bryan has secured
prohibition of liquors, he may tackle TO-
bacco next; and il he does, old nicotinet
can taper of on sweet fern, the same az
old topers on dsndelion wine.
Women have won the ballot, but the
probabilities are that she will not cease
to be woman ON that account, although
opponents to suffrage have always said
she would. Countless generations OF
history would 90 for naught il she did.
Queens, Amazons and other minority
fsmininities have continued to think
more of the Venus of Milo than any
other earthly bauble. Every woman
wants to be the perfect woman IL not the
perfect lady. The trouble is they have
not always known what the perfect
woman should be, and when In doubt
they leave 1t to the men. The men prob.
ably don't know, but they are always
ready to pass judgment on the opposite
sex. Well, here is what New York
sculptor says she should be: Height, 8
feet, 7 inches; weight, lat pounds; wrist,
6 IL inches: bust, 38 inches; waist.
"a IL inches; hips, AZ inches; thigh, %
inches; knee, II inches; calf, Is inches I;
ankle, 8 inches. She should be able to
wear 6 1.2 glove and IL shoe. 1t
ia not altogether understandable what .
sculptor has got to do with color, but
bis choice of q perfect woman would
have chestnut brown hair and hazel eyes.
Tables showing how people divide
their earnings are always interesting and
sometimes surprising. People with in
comes have right to spend them as
they see At; but sometimes an analysis
of the expenditures show peculiarities Of
taste. It is thought desirable to protect
old age by portion OF ones income laid
up In a savings bank or in some other
form OF investment; and many persons
90 farther and think it desirable to leave
something behind for heirs to fight over; (;
but just to what extent one should sacri
fee the present to the future never has
been determined. Some persons who
pose as guardians of society would indi-
cate people should save, as the boy said
be piled up wood-what he could ont
doors and the rest In the shed-that is, 1t
Is moral and economic to save more than
is spent; but II ones income is the aver.
age size there must be considerable doubt
about this. Somebody 10 Massac husetts,
with her 1000, 900 and more people, has
analyzed the yearly spendings and saw.
ings of this mass of humanity. The
spendings occupy the bigger part Of the
tables. To begin with $4,000, 600 is
spent for cigars, tobacco and cigarettes; (;
automobiles and parts, $50, 900, 900; candy
and chewing gum, s42, 1000, COO; amuse-
ments, $40 900 900; perfumes and cos.
metics, $50, ,000. 900; ice cream and soft
drinks, s24, ,0O0, 900; jewelry. $40, 900, 900;
pianos and monographs, $4,000, ,000;-
all luxuries. Against this is the savings
banks accounts Of s35. 900, 900. In other
words, Massachusetts, people believe Q
bird in the hand Ia worth two In the
bush, and mean to buy their luxuries in
the present with their money, rather
than have 1t doled out to them in some
old folks' retreat from surplus earnings
gathered In by exploiters. Nevertheless,
the order of their taste, as expressed by
size of expenditure, is interesting to say
the least.