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The Elbert County tribune., 1920-02-20

TT is pleasant to face a summer that
L promises to find children and
grownups sensibly and beautifully
clothed.
Plain colors in cotton cloths appear
In about the same shades as those that
are boasted by satin or georgette
crepe. and some OF the new cottons
have a finish as soft as georgette.
These materials made up with or
candle in white or In contrasting color
are to be credited with as pretty
frocks as can be made. We have only
to look at the frock for a little girl,
shown in the picture. and imagine 1t
In any of the light colors. rose-pink.
canary. blue. Jade green. with frills,
collar and cuffs of white organdie, to
appreciate It's beauty. 1t Is too simply
designed 10 need description. but one
must mt overlook the cut of the collar
The Elbert County tribune., 1920-02-20

admitted with some spirit. land nat
chelly l couldn't help thlnkin'. now
rould IT,
"Oh. naturally" said l, and laid 1t on
the tray along with the scissors and
paste and the pen box that had, only
yesterday, held million dollars worth
Of diamonds; and then l asked her
would she please bring in my break
fast. And my knees were shaking I'M
der me and I thought. "Oh. boy-you
saved my life last night for fact, by
talking to me while he was up here
waiting. Oh, Billy-you saved my life,
taking me to silly show. But how
long will 1t last? Where is 1t going to
end?"
"You look real sick this morning."
observed Mrs. Jimmson, setting the
tray on the dining-room table.
Il don't feel very we'll" This was
the truth.
Perhaps you better go right back to
bed and let me stay and take care of
you'd like nothing better"
Mrs. Jimmson-if you don't mind
I think I'll get you to boil me an egg
this morning.
IF you don't mind me givn' you the
hint feel you ought to find out what
The Elbert County tribune., 1920-02-20

ails you before you eat any more-you
may need one of those fasting cures
the papers are telling so much about"
81 may-but I need a soft-bolled egg
now, If you will be so kind as to cook
1t for me"
had broken my roll to crumbs in
the effort to control ny wrath at her.
though the general situation was moth
ing new.
Unless you wish me to boil the
egg myself" l added severely.
"Oh. yes-the egg. They do say raw
eggs-when person gets run down"
With that. rose and stalked to the
kitchen.
She sidled past me. hastily snatch
ing saucepan off the shelf and filing
1t with water. / went back without
word. What little appetite had was
gone. When the egg finally arrived.
couldn't eat (which convinced dear
Jimmson. not that she had made my
eating impossible. but that was hav-
ing an "atfackt'' and needed her watch
ing to see | didn't get any worsel She
tagged me up, when / went to my bed
room. to know If she hadn't better
telephone the doctor to look in-just
as a precaution.
1t was in the tip of my tongue to tell
her. brutally. that what she'd better do
was to attend to her own affairs and
let me attend to mine. when realized
that she too might be standing be-
tween me and sudden death SO long
as she was In the fat / was relatively
safe.
The Elbert County tribune., 1920-02-20

MOTORING hardly needs an extra
1V1 lure when early spring begins to
call us out of doors, but II 1t needed
one. the new coats and capes would
surely provide It, Already we are ac-
cused of cultivating the gasoline tramp
and the motor hobo in the wide
stretches of this country with some
thing worth while at the end of each
journey.
Among the new and very attractive
wraps for the motorist there are long.
enveloping capes In soft wool plaids,
fringed at the bottom with wool fringe
and provided with slits for the arms
and big patch pockets for belongings !;
"Mongolie"-that is goat hair-collars
are cozy and becoming on them, but
The Elbert County tribune., 1920-02-20

which is wide in both the front and
back. nor neglect to notice that an or.
Candle friil finishes the tafreta hat
White cotton sox and canvas shoes be
long with dress of this kind
Next to the plain colors for frocks
of this kind, small checks In white
and color find the most favor They
all requisition plain white. In organdIe
or In heavier weave, to touch up the
color and give the frock daIntiness
In the little frock pictured we find
dress equal to dress-up requirements
and in 1t the young maid may make
her journeys to Sunday school or ts
parties with equal assurance.
The Elbert County tribune., 1920-02-20

Hastily pulled out the papers ana
rubbish and dumped them on the floor
and had just pounced on the hyacinths.
when the front bell rang.
We're the diamonds safe? didn't
dare at the minute TO investigate
didn't dare even to be caught with
them in my hands, Suppose It were
monsieur. coming now In broad day
light,
The ring was repeated, l grabbed
up bit of newspaper and rolled up
the bunch. crammlng it into the
kitchen saucepan on the shelf--an op-
Grafton hadn't more than finished.
setting the lid on as softly as could,
when l heard mans voice shout my
name, followed by the words special
delivery"
Without waiting for Mrs Jimmson
to decide II IL We're safe to call me,
stepped out and signed for IT. As
closed the messenger out I looked at
the address-the writing was unknown
to me. and l was in the act of tearing
open the envelope. when Mrs. Jimmson
sank on hall chair and began to
weep.
ITO think-oh. to think-to think"
she sobbed ITS hard"
"Yes, 1t is hard for some people to
think" l observed. icily giaring at her
and running my thumb under the flap
ITS hard-after all these years L
1--we tried my best to p-p-please
you"
'No-you haven't. have repeated
ly told you never-under any circum-
stances whatever-to throw away any
thing in my rooms without first asking
ME. Today. you have thrown away
some flowers that l had reason to
value"
''If You had given me the tip. now
told me you valued them"
do you think 1 have to tell my pri-
vate affairs to your" cried hotly.
81 hope Pm a friend" she inter
rupted at the word. "If I'd seen any
| reason"
tits not your place TO see reasons"
she took step toward the kitchen
at the remlnder-'but to obey orders.
I'm under no obligation to give you
reasons why i value flowers or why l
don't"
The Indignation faded out of her
took its place. and this Is what she
said when l stopped for breath:
"Pm awful sorry / touched those
flowers. AS true as / stand here.
never once thought 1t might be gen.
tleman friend give them to you
With that she started for the
kitchen, adding: "And here am keep
Ing you from reading your special de-
livery" She smiled knowingly.
Gentleman friend In those words
all was explained and forgiven be
tween the two of us-there was moth
ing but kindly sympathy-woman to
woman. you know-as she said them
She closed the kitchen door tight
knew 1t was the better to wreathe me
in new haloes and fresh glories of ro
mancel I could have wrung her neck
Gentleman friend, indeed, The one
gentleman actively interested in me
was after me with a knife and hat
threatened me with a revolver.
/ had forgotten all about the letter
still in my hand. and thought only OF
the diamonds.
The front bell rang as Jimmsor
crossed the sill. She stepped back ant
asked If she should go. but motioned
her I'd answer 1t myself and she dis
appeared from view.
1t was a boy with telegram.
found his "sign here" line and scrawled
my name.
Then | came to myself. l had lost
the special delivery letterl
The Elbert County tribune., 1920-02-20

may be replaced by collars OF cloth.
A plain collar, gray for intance. with
n cross bar In yellow. or other strong
color. makes handsome coat or cape.
If coat is preferred in these cross
barred or striped cloths. n model
worth study is shown above. 1t is as
roomy and comfortable us cape and
probably somewhat warmer. With this
coat appears one of those new oil-cloth
hats that the m0torist finds solves all
the problems of motor millinery. Coats
are also made of this light. flexible
oIl-cloth and have advantages for the
motorist who travels anytime, rain or
shine, but they are for the woman who
can afford more than one coat.
The Elbert County tribune., 1920-02-20
From the spinster's brother
or De Ravenol?
CTo BE coNTINUED1
oh, for an Accident.

Some dipIomatists seem 10 achieve
great success simply by sitting tight
and letting mntters take their own
course. something after the manner of
the Arkansas fnrmer who retired in
disgust. saying he believed he could
make more money by accident than
he could by farming.-Kansas City
Star.
The Elbert County tribune., 1920-02-20

Three thousand -four milf employees
In Mexico City are demanding an eight
hour day and higher wages.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-08

tCopyj '0't, 122o. b. BeH Syndicate. Ipc.J
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-08
The Phantom Lover
THIS STARTS THE STORY
BY Ruby Ayres

8tcky Msiiotoes, considered
"oatoh" by mothers Dph marriage
able daughters, has been carrying on
q Irritation 10Th Marie Deldnd on the
etreet nc hears q t0ontdn sobbtn0 and
asks her the reason aud trhether the
bundle she carries Is q baby. She re-
plies that there Is no reason for her
tears and that the bundle 10 a cat.
Returning TO his apartment he finds
his friend, Ashton, tcho at HE
mothers request Is fleeing from his
5toeothedrt. Facts reveal Esther
Ashton asks Micky to deRver q letter
TO Esther, but instead Micky tUrites
Esther letter very different from the
hedrtless ono Ashton had left for her.
But Nicky signed Ashton's name to II
aud posted u, hts first loUe letter.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-27
Today's Anniversaries.

l83l-Lucius Fairchild. governor Of Wis
consin 1862. born at Kent; OHIO
Died at Madison, Wis, May %,
1896
l845-Judah Dana, former United States
senator. died at Fryeburg, Me. Born
at Pomfret. Conn. April %. I772.,
ls53-The mammoth clipper Great Repub-
lie was burnt at her wharf in New
York city.
Ise0-Ralph Farnham. the last survivor Of
the battle Of Bunker Hill, died at
Acton. n H, in his lo6th year.
l862-Gen. sherman. aided by Admiral
Porter. began an assault on Nicks-
burg from the north.
lSs2-Austria celebrated the 6ooth ami ann
versary Of the establishment OF the
house Of Hapsburg.
1S93-A committee of the United States
senate beqan an investigation Of
President Cleveland's Hawaiian pol
icy.
le02-Oueen Alexandra gave a Christmas
dinner to the widows and orphans
of soldiers killed in the South Al
lican war.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-27

1t is found that most of the offenders
against the prohibition laws are the
foreign-born. 1t is likewise the alien
residents, not the native Americans, who
are most vehement in denouncing pro-
hibition as an unwarranted interference
with their personal liberty" \ po-
lice judge before whom these offenders
are brought in droves, says:
Il have seen violators of foreign birth
stand up in the witness chair and
threaten to fight me. Not for anything
personal but because / was there to en-
force law that they could see no rea-
son in. I have had violators shake their
fist at me across the bench and declare
they were entirely within their personal
rights in making their own liquor and
drinking it, 50 long as they did not try
to sell it. They were loud in their dec
larations that the police had no right
to interfere with anything they chose
to eat or drink Their attitude is sim
lly the result of their system in the old
country. and they cannot see the reason
for subjectng their old habits and Gus
toms to the provisions laid down by the
law of the land they have adopted
Most of them are from countries where
homemade liquor is the usual thing.
The judges conclusion is sound-that
these people need education more thar
punishment. He recommends commune
ity houses with libraries, rest rooms anC
play rooms where the foreign-born mar
with his family can spend leisure time
amid American refnements, where they
will come into contact with Americans
and get tie American viewpoint"
This is expensive and troublesome
but is it any more so than the let-alonC
policy of the past?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-27
FEMININE 0RATnRY-

Most of the proceedings of the league
assembly at Geneva, though important,
have lacked ordinary human interest.
The missing note was supplied one day
recently when Mile. Henri Forthammer
arose to address the assembly on the
subject of suppressing white slavery.
She was a substitute delegate for Den
mark.
As a correspondent tells it, Mile.
Forthammer took the floor and in the
purest English gave the delegates an ex-
ample of cIearness and conciseness
which, if it had come earlier, might have
shortened the meeting of the assembly"
Needless to say, she got what she
wanted When she had finished speak
ing, the white slave resolutions were
adopted unanimously. This is getting
to be familiar story since American
womcp entered political life, yet men
continue to he surprised every time a
woman makes good speech. Feminine
oratory, obviously enough, is something
that is going to receive study hereafter.
That is, the men are going to study
women ) speeches 10 see no" tHeS no IT,
There is an odd contradiction that
remains to be explained. Women in or
binary conversation have generally been
considered rambling, incOnsequential
and wordy, compared with men. That
is, the men have so considered them.
How then does it happen that when
women rise to address a crowd, they us
ualIy speak more eoncisely, logically and
forcibly than men do? Is it because
they try harder, or because they have
some special gift that they have not
been given credit for?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-27

Today S Events

Today is Boxing day, one of the mer-
riest holidays of the year for all Britons
The American Economics association
meets in annual session today at Attain
tic City.
Chicago Is to be the meeting place to-
day of the mid-winter convention OF the
American Library association.
The Pi Tau Pi fraternity, the largest
Jewish secret society of its kind in the
world, begins its eighth annual conven-
ton in Cincinnati today.
Delegates from fifty colleges and uni
versities of the United States and Canada
are to meet at the University of Michi-
gan today for the annual convention OF
the Cordra Fratres association.
More than 1000 prominent scientists
members of the American association for
the Advancement of Science and Its
many affiliated scientific societies, will
gather in Chicago today for the assocla-
tion's annual meeting, which will occupy
the entire week.
Many learned and educational societies
are to be entertained in annual session
in Washington during the week beginning
today. Among them are the American
Historical association, American Political
Science association, American Sociological
society, American Catholic Historical as.
ISOLATION, Mississippi Valley Historical
association, and the Agricultural History
society.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-27

Another raid on the public treasury
is now proposed. 1t comes from the
Brattleboro Reformer in the form of
a salary grab for the justices of the su-
preme court and the superior judges.
The Reformer goes on to show that Yer
mont pays its judges $4,000 a year and
expenses while other states like Maine,
Massachusetts, New York. New Jersey
pay from $1,000 To $4,000. Well, what
of it? Vermont has not got the wealth
of those states and a comparison Is not
fair.
The Vermont supreme court judges
are now paid enough. or at least as
much as the state can afford to pay.
There are very few if any lawyers in
Vermont that net $4,000 a year after
paying all their expenses. For years a
supreme court judgeship has been con-
sidered a nice fat plum and Is even
looked upon today with much favor.
The position is so good that when va
cancy occurs there are many asplrants.
The judges are among the highest paid
officials in the state and to even pro-
pose an increase in their salaries Is an
imposition on the taxpayers.
If the state has a surplus of money
and does not know how to spend it the
compensation of the members of the leg
islature might be increased or a little
more pay might be given the school
teachers. As for paving the judges
more money nothing should be done as
they are now receiving the lions share.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-27
Working The Government

lrL. -AlbdIlS heSStlRef.l
On the last day of July this year. &C
cordlng to the report of the civil service
commission, one person out of every $50
IN the United States was on the civil list
of the government. This didn't include.
1t seems, the men of the army and navy
or the others who are not under the civil
service. Suppose to these we add the
number of state, county, city and town
officials, which would include the school
teachers, and then what would the ratio
be! 1t looks as if perhaps one out OF
every 80 or IS men, women and children
in the country are in the employ of the
public. This does not mean. of course,
that one out OF every 50 or IS are living
at the expense Of the rest of IFS entirely,
for the government employee has to pay
taxes like the rst of us, although some
Of them escape certain types of taxation.
1t does seem like a large proportion, how
ever, and it will become even larger if
we keep extending the field of govern
mental interference and regulation. The
cynic will 60 so far as 10 say that if
Uncle Sam keeps up his present pace of
telling the individual what to eat. what
to wear, what to drink and the like we
will have to open wide the gates of i'm
migration in order to secure from Europe
and other parts of the world men and
women enough to enforce the regulations
and do the work incident thereto.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-27
Little Benny's
Note Book
By LEE PAPE.

Me and Pubs Simkins was telegraihng
to each other during the joggrlity lesslh
yestidday by making noises with our
ruler agenst our desk, the dIhrent souhds
not meening enything special but SCUM
ing as if they mite, and all OF n sudan
Miss Kitty sed. Benny Potts and Charles
Simkins will rename an hour after skooi,
I've stood that noise long enuh. rs
AIeening the telegraffing, me thinking,
Aw heck, G. gosh And at recess Puds
sed, / got a good ideer how to get out
of it, | got my pennife with me, lets
cess is over and Sharpin Miss hlttys
pencils and wen she sees the swell
points on them and finds out who did
! it she wont make us stay in.
Sounding like a pritty good of ldeer,
and we quick went up and there was 4
pencils on Miss kitty's desk incloodlng
a red one, and Pubs quick started TO
sharpin them, and the points all kepp
| breaking off agen on account OF him try
| ing to be in Sutch a hurry, and then
started to sharpin them and the points
still kepp on breaking, me saying, Aw
| this is a becky pennife.
They're becky pencils you meen, sed
| Pubs WITCH by the time we got them
shapened they looked more like stumps
than wat they did like pencils and the
! shavings was all over the desk, witch jest
| then the bell rang for the end of recess
| ana we nat 10 run out dBtI ~ We IOuAO
come back with the rest of the class as
if we had bin out all the time, and the
| ferst thing Miss Kitty saw was wat
| was left of her pencils, inclooding the
red one. making a fearse face and say
| ing. Who did this, whose bin at my pen
| ciIS?
WITCH me and Pubs dident raise our
hands for a vile to see if enybody elts
! wunted to take the credit, witch they
i dident, so about the 18th time Miss Kitty
asked we raised our hands Pubs saying
/ We wunted to serprize you.
j How nice we'll then III serprize you
= scd Miss Kitty. Me thinking. G, gosh
o. it worked after all, and Miss Kitty sed
Insted of remaining one hour you may
! both rename ,.
/ WITCH we did.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-27
Good Work In Vermont
BARRE Times.)

The office of the state board of charities
and probation, through its secretary, ".
H. Jeffrey, is doing valuable work for the
state of Vermont in remedying some ser
ious situations in various parts OF the state,
besides doing work with d view to the re-
lief of suffering and the, starting of per
sons with hopeless outlook on the road to
self support and a brighter existence. One
of the worst cases of the need Of a
moral physician was recently revealed in
the town of Lunenburg, and as result OF
the action by the state board of chari-
ties and probation an unnatural father
has been sent to the state prison; his
oldest daughter, 81, has been sent to, the
house of correction; another daughter
grown to womanhood under conditions
most unfortunate, and four younger chill
dren have been placed in the state IN IN
dustrial school, where they can get. the
benefit of kindly guidance and training
toward better citizenship. This state de,
partment is constantly coming mp against
eases of this nature and Is doing valuable
work in shaping the courses for those those
who have been merely drifting, drifting
The department is exercising a mora
physieianship that is very much needed.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-27
In the Days News.

William Chandler Bagley. mentioned to
succeed DR.. John II. Finley as commits
sioner of education of the state of New
York, has long been a prominent figure
OF Michigan. and was graduated from the
state agricultural college. Then he spec
ialized in educational topics at the. Uni
versitv of Wisconsin and at Cornell uni
versity. and went out to teach. 1t was
not long before he had important nor
NAL school administrative positions IN
New York state: and it was while in
charge of the training department Of the
large state normal school at Oswego that
he was called to the University of Hi
nois to become director of its school OF
education. Since 1917 he has been pro
lessor of education at Teachers college
done much writing for his profession, ant
has been editor of several well-known edu
cational periodicals.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-27
Whiskey Replaced.

In the days before the 18th amend
ment became operative, Peoria, Ill, was
fhe center of American whiskey manu-
facture. A thousand persons were en-
Dloyed in the distillery plfmts of Pc
rria's south side, and the annual reve-
nue. paid to the government from that
'ection amounted to $36, 100000 1t
was predicted that prohibition would
ruin the city and bring desolation. FL
nanciaI reports from Peoria tell a story
with a very different ending
Today 80 staples are produced in
place of the single commod ity, whiskey.
Four thousand persons are employed in
stead of the 1000 of distillery days.
Bank clearings for the year show a gain
IF nearly $20,000,000. Deposits gained
S15,0O0,000 in the first year of prohibi-
ion.
Industrial alcohol, wheat flour, cane
syrup, preserves and jeIlies, stock, feed.
oorn oils, vinegar and glucose are a
eew of the products. now turned out by
Peoria's thriving factories.
Prohibition may not wholly prohibit
in Peoria. The localities in which it is
completely carried out are few and far
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-27
His Education just Beginning.
lSnringfeld Renorter.l

The marriage engagement OF Edmund
p. Howe of Bennington to Helen Il. FER
kins of Rutland is announced. The young
man. a son of ex-Lieut.-Gov. Frank H.
Howe. is a genuinely humorous newspaper
writer guilty occasionally of musingly
cynical observations on feminine follies
and fripperies. Now that he is no longer
to tread .'Life's Dreary Path alone and
viii have other use for his ears than 70
listen to Moaning Waves his views
ON certain subjects, or at least his Eexpres-
sion of them, will be likely to undergo con-
siderable modification. There is nothing
like matrimony to bring q young man to
a realizing sense of what's the limit.