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The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-10-06
HEALTHY PEOPLE LOVE COLOR
Repression of That Feeling, Too Com
mon Among Americans, Declared
to Be Mistake.

If one is to believe Constantin Guy,
Fills. love of color is a sign Of excel
lent health morally and physically. He
writes in Arts and Decorations.
The movement initiated by the Rus
slams to rescue our color sense from
the shadow stage of the Victorian era
had an invigorating influence on the
color elements in dress.
Boris Anisfeld made his colors shout
like a choir of trumpets in super
orchestra the colossal orchestra
dreamed of by Beethoven for his I'M
finished Tenth symphony. Bakst fol-
lowed with a welding of scenery and
costume in magic ensemble.
Too often this revival of color has
been accompanied by sacrifice of ar
chitectural beauty. but in the best
work of Bakst. his "Papillons Ballet"
for example. there is happy blending
of the decorative and the pictorial
The mid-Victorian costumes for this
Schumann fantasy are a model for the
dress designer.
A healthy people loves color. Ameri-
cans. with sense OF humor and love
Of life. have too often in the past re-
pressed their natural desire for robust
color. lest they be charged with levity
or bad taste. Only in her outdoor
moods does the American girl reveal
her buoyancy in areas of radiant color.
In the cities We are too subdued. Ma
irons seek an asylum in deadly blacks,
| forgetting that there is no color like
| gray for maturing years. This re
straint has had one compensation,
| however. since it has discouraged the
| crude and the vulgar.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-10-06

other things In addition 20 improving
his live stock. lie ietrained from say
ing anything about silo on that visit,
but he did say he could let him in on
a car of middlings that some neighb0rs
were getting at a price much below
Tom Feedsby's figures.
The county agent ventuIed q few
other suggestions that would not in
vOlve much outlay, ami rather after
ward told mother the fellow actually
seemed to know something about farm
ing. Some side talks with Billy and
catching up and then passing his
brothers and sisters, and the calf get
ting to look lot better than any
other that had been on the place.
The agent hadn't the heart to tell
Billy that the calf would stand no
chance at the county calf-club show
and felt that better results would come
from helping him to do the very best
he could with what he had to work
with, SO he arranged for him to make
given quite gloss to the calfs coat,
and after he had used the clippers
on his tail and sandpapered his little
outstanding horns he thought the calf
| surely looked like a winner. Rube
| Mossby's children came over and de-
| clared that Brindy and Runty were
the best-looking calf and pig they
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-10-06
PLAYING UP TO THE TEACHER
Indianapolis Youngster Had Pretty
Shrewd Idea Of What He Was
Doing, After All.

John Arthur is a pupil in a Jeffer-
sonville departmental school, and had
to write an essay ON Woodrow Wilson.
among others. He evinced such high
regard for the president, especially in
his management of the World war.
as to express the view that he was
even greater than Washington or Lin
coin. He said they made fine show
ing in the little wars they had TO ham
die, but could hardly. he thought. have
got through the big one. His father,
seeing the essay. ventured the Opin-
ion that the writer was too positive
in his statement, although admiring
Wilson himself. John Arthur showed
he was perhaps something of a dip
lomat as well as an essayist.
'Oh, well.' he remarked. 1.-The teach
er is a Democrat, anyhow.
apolis News.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-10-06
Limitations Of Novelty.

The narrowest thing in the world is
novelty Innovation wears thinner
than imitation. So far from liberating
mind more and more. For mere inno-
Walton is mere elimination. -.
A modern artist is really discoura ged
from doing what has been done he
fore, even if he can do it better: just
rs Il fashionable woman might he dis
couraged from wearing an unfaShion-
able hat. even if she looked divinely
beautiful in ito. X. Chesterton in
the Living Age.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-10-06
They'll Never Admit IL.

At the dinner table the talk was
about the women getting to vote this
fall. Sis, who was just past twenty.
asked: How old does woman have
to be to get to yOte?'
Bud. who was TO get his first vote
this fall and who did not think much
of women having the right to vote,
replied: "Why, they have to be thirty
years Old"
eff what you say is true, Bud, many
women will lose their votes" was Sis
reply as she looked across the table
at her aunt, who has been twenty.
eight" for six years.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-10-06
CHILDREN HELP
IMPROVE STOCK
Parents Learn That Good Care
and Good Feeding as Well as
Breeding Are Requisite.
STORY OF BILLY AND BETTY
Cir. Makes Wonderful Success With
Runty Pig and Boy Does Almost
Equally Well With Ewe-Necked,
Frouzied-Lookino Calf.

Zeb Powers thought he knew all he
wanted to know about purebreds. He
had seen reckless fellows in his sec
ton put all their money into pure
breds, and had later attended the
sheriff's sale and seen the neglected
animals sold at farm-cattle prices.
That was enough for him; and when
the college professor, the county
agent, the MISREPRESENTATION man,
or anybody else began talking about
the advantages of, better stock. Zeb
gave him cold shoulder.
But when Billy and Betty got to
reading up on what other boys and
girls were doing in the community
with corn. pigs, or calves, pop just
had to listen. He argued with them
and told about cases he had known in
which "tricksters had put purebred
| stock through the ring on fake bids
to get free advertising and catch suck
ers." He had even heard old ST Slocum
and Uncle Peter Tumbledown make
the charge that the university fellows
were hired by slick sellers of pure
breds to help them bunco the farm
ers.
Mother Strikes a Bargain.
Then Billy and Betty would make
further inquiries and talk it over with
mother, who perhaps was grievine
over the fact that Molly and Bob
long dissatisfied with slovenly farm
work, had gone to town, one having
a S15-a-week factory job and the other
driving team for a contractor. She
had a real heart-to-heart talk witt
father and finally got him to let Bill
ly have old Brindle's calf and Bett!
the runt pig out of old Spots pun.
litter: and if they were silly enough
to think there was anything in all thi:
club stuff, maybe this would help Il
get the foolishness out Of their heads
Needless to say, Billy was the frs
one up the morning after the an
nouncement. He and Betty attended
to their new treasures long before an,
of the regular chores We're done. Bett.
gave the old SOW some nice extra feet
and got on such good terms with he
THAT the SOW was satisfied to let Bett.
see to it that the stronger pigs in thu
litter didn't lick the platter clean be
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-10-06

have ever given her second thought.
81 wonder what ever became of her.,
said Edward. and it was not the first
time that this Question had occurred
to him.
at was funny" unused the mother.
Said she was going to see Aunt
Amanda she thought it was real
Aunt Amanda that put out those crul-
Ter sets. SO ! suppose she went and
looked up those Aunt Amanda people
in the city and made a fool of her.
self"
"As far as that goes, there really is
an Aunt Amanda" Edward Rollins
told his mother, land she is pushing
those dOughnut cookers for all they
are worth. She is on the road sell
ing them. too. Just got circular let
ter from the firm today, saying that
Aunt Amanda had started this way,
and would be here with the improved
doughnut cooker besides five or six
other special cooking utensils"
"Well. I'll bet that isn't her real
name; I'll bet
Out MIS-. DCNCl loiN hSA 'NAA
just what she would bet, for she was
interrupted by his clerk just then to
say that Aunt Amanda" had arrived.
And Aunt Amanda was none other
than Laura Perkins. 81 didn't want to
come here when l knew how you and
your mother had felt since fathe.
| died" she said. But your store was
on the list, and didn't want to refuse
to stop"
So that is how Laura Perkins al
thirty-a well-dressed. debonnaire
Laura that hardly anyone recognized
save Edward Rollins-came back t.
| the home of her childhood.
II went right to the Aunt Amands
people," she told Edward. II mus
have been a scream. l insisted thai
there was an Aunt Amanda and tina
had something to tell her about how
she could improve her cruller cooker
saw the president of the concern
and he told me l could be Aunt Aman
da if | wanted to, and started me IL
right away. All the assets l had wal
some good common sense and lot o
enthusiasm"
"You must have made big success,
suggested Edward. fearful lest just thi
success would stand in his way in tn
plan he had in his heart to propose.
Eyes. suppose you'd say So SAT-
Laura. I'm secretary of the concerl
now, with a good bit Of stock. The
get royalties-these new specialize
are my inventions. They are things
worked out back in fathers kitchen be
fore he was married. The royaltie
and the interest will go on"
She stopped short, looked at &c
ward and both blushed.
"Maybe So" Edward found courag
to say But the road job won
Laura I'm going to marry YOU
And that is how it happened tina
Aunt Amanda" never went on anotf
er sales trip. but that within fe'
months the letterhead paper of tn
thriving Aunt Amanda compan
showed the name of Edward Rollir
instead of Laura Perkins printed a
ter st cretary."
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-10-06

ever saw, and Minnie Crookfur-
row and Tommy Sourgrass wanted to
know all about what Billy and Betty
had done and were keen to know how
it would come out.
A Lesson for Billy.
When the county-fair time came
around the calves were lined up, and
Billy was surprised. and, of course,
disappointed to find that his calf had
to stand next to the last one, and in
deed it was a frouZled-loOking calf
that stood with its little ewe-neck and
its funny shaped head hung low. Billy
saw that the judge was perfectly right
and not only told him so. but asked
him if he wouldn't tell him what was
the matter with his calf. The judge
was glad to have him show such in
terest and pointed out that in his judg-
ment Billy as feeder and caretaker
had really done very well. but he
could not hope. with a calf bred as it
was, to compete with those that nor
only had as good care and feed as
his calf, but something besides-good
breeding. He showed him that Brindy,
while having an exaggerated paunch
was sharp shouldered, had very little
meat on his ribs or loins, and was
too long legged. lie carefully went
over the black, the white and the
roam calves above him. showing their
good points as we'll as their weak ones.
This was real lesson TO Billy. and
it is needless to say that it was a
much more valuable lesson to father.
who the next year bought him high
grade calf and was as proud as he
could be when his son won the blue
ribbon and trip TO the international
live stock exposition at Chicago
Betty's runty pig also opened fathers
eyes. for the younsster got in the
money" with him and he said. Next
year you can have the best instead
of the poorest pig. and if you come
out all right l may bu. a bred SOW of
| one of the good breeds and let you
| raise her pigs on shares"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-10-06
Spirits.

Little Harold one day overheard q
discussion upon the subject Of spirit"
seances, which aroused his curiosity.
Some time afterwards, his uncle came
to stay a while.
'Oh, Uncle Henry" said Harold.
when you go to the next seance. will
you take me with you?"
"Seance?' exclaimed his uncle.
"Why. bless you, I'm not a bit inter.
ested in such nonsense"
That's strange" answered his
nephew because 1 heard mamma say
you We're fond of spirits. "-Edinburgh
Scotsman.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-10-06
Do Not Get Careless
With Your Blood Supply

the great vegetable blood medi.
cine, will revitalize your blood and
give you new strength and .
healthy, vigorous vitality. Every
one needs it just now to keep the
system in perfect condition. Go
to your drug store and get bottle
to-day, and if you need any med
ical advice, you can obtain it with
out cost by writing to Medical Di-
rector, Swift Specific Co., 109 Swift
Laboratory. Atlanta. Ga.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-10-06
LOSING a Eayorite Theme.

I'm kind of sorry to see this votes
for women question so close to settle
ment," remarked Mr.. Meekton.
Don't you approve of votes for
women?'
Eyes indeed. But I've heard Henri.
eta talk on the tariff and the league
of nations and most everything and
honestly think suffrage speech is the
best thing she does"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-10-06
Her Idea of 1t.

Mr.. Bacon-I see that the Bedouin
marriage does not take much time. 1t
is said the bridegroom cuts the throat
of sheep and spills the blood on his
father-ln-laws threshold. and it is all
over
Mrs. Bacon-No. it's not. either.
Don't you forget that somebody's got
to clean up the mess. and I suppose.
of course, it Is the poor bride.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-10-06
Impurities Invite Disease.

You should pay particular heed
to any indication that your blood
supply is becoming sluggish, OF
that there is a lessening in its
strong and vital force.
By keeping your blood purified
your system more easily wards of
disease that is ever present, wait
ing to attack wherever there is ar
opening. A few bottles of S. S. S.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-10-06
LIVE STOCK
D5 NOTES

Green heritage is essential to the
economical production of pork.
II the sheep have ticks. dip them !:
vou can't afford 70 feed ticks. sum-
mer ~ winter.
''r,tt,' hnlls. hoarS Hnf 'ur,,S heSet
's.'s,' ra"E ha'Arc"S Slogan Used
~ .s'.. rs oC i.eI.i, Oregon.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-10-06

fore Runty got his turn. After that
square meal, the first the luckless chap
had been able to get, his tail began to
get t4inky. and in few days had de-
veloped a genuine curl. This was a
case of fellow needing a friend, and
h. responded to his better treatment.
The bull calf that had fallen to the
lot of Billy hadn't been playing in
much better luck than Runt. Old
Brlndlp was supposed to be the family
milk COW, but except during a short
period after freshening the children
hadn't had all the milk they wanted
and mother had always had to keep
on hand a supply of condensed goods
to mix with it for the cereals and
sometimes to keep from drinking black
coffee. The hay that couldn't be sold
and the straw stack were about all
Old Brindle had to make milk on dur
ing the winter and skinny bit of So
called pasture that was too billy, rocky
and stumpy to pillow came as near as
she had chance to be knee deep"
even in June. The calf's daddy was a
1.0N-pcund 6-year-old that a farmer
kept for freShening his own cows and
letting to his neighbors at "siX bits"
a service.
The County Agent Calls
Mother knew that pop was dead
agin" the county agent because he
knew that it was just one more scheme
of the politicians to make a job for
some Teller that ought to be doing
honest work. and that it was another
plan TO increase taxes. She contrived.
however, to have him stop long enough
one day to talk things over with the
children. AT first pop was anything
hut cordial. hut began to get interested
when the agent told him he knew a
! farmer who would be glad to pay him
| $50 more than the local buyer had
| offered for little bunch of shoatS and
| another man who was looking for Just
such pair of yearlng mules as he
| had. to put with a bunch he was feed
| ing for market
Tie agent saw AT . glance 10 things
| that were Keeping father poor. down
| irndtieu, ShifslFSs fag',lrg. hut lee was
, wise P''"s' . Ia "e Slnw - >1;.s5,.e' ~
~ IA =" "n:'S, p'Ea,''. !, -. e~~= -
~ ..,.e a.; ;.,r ,iia,u.l,I, W-t "a Ia, .l
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-10-06
Life's Merry-Go-Round.

You may not know it, but when you
are laughing at a man behind his
back some other man is behind your
back laughing at you.-Cincinnati En-
quirer.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-10-06

Giving Him Every Opportunity.
"We're going to move to Ohio"
"What's the idea?"
"Want TO give my young son (
chance to become president some day.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-10-06
The Kind.

The Kind.
81 understand the candidate you
speak of is climber in politics"
"Yes; a front porch climber"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-10-06

Playing the Market.
"How's the brokerage game?"
Business has picked up wonderful
~ since we installed ouija board for
our lady customers. Cour.
ier-Journal.
In One Laundry.
First Wall Street Lamb-How were
you cleaned out?
Secondly wash sales.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-02
CUBA A "MANS" COUNTRY
to Any Marked Degree, on Gem
of the Antilles.

Cuba, like all Latin-American cOun-
tries. especially of the tropics, is es-
sentially mans country. One of the
great surprises of Havana is the
scarcity of women on the streets, even
at times when they swarm with prom
enading men. The Cuban believes as
firmly as the old Spaniard that the
womans sphere is strictly behind the
grill of the front window, and with
few exceptions the women agree with
him. The result is that her interest
in life beyond her own household is
virtually nil. The woman's suffrage
party of Cuba recently issued
pOmpous manifesto, but it seems to
have won about as much support on
the island as would a missionary or
the prohibition movement In the
words of the militants of the sex in
AnglO-SaXOn lands, "the Cuban woman
has not yet reached emancipation"
The clerks, even in shops that deal
only in female apparel, are almost ex-
clusively male. The offices that en-
ploy stenographers or assistants from
the ranks of the fair sex are rare, and
these usually recruit such help in the
States. Except on gala occasions 1t
is extremely seldom that a Cuban girl
of the better class is seen in public,
and even then only in company of her
duenna or a male member of her i'm
mediate family, and few married wom-
en- consider 1t proper to appear unac-
companied by their husbands, despite
American example. Yet of open Of
Tense against her mOdesty the Cuban
lady is freer than on the steets of
our own large cities. Even in restau-
rants and gatherings, where those of
the land never appear, an American
woman is treated, except in the mat
ter of staring, with genuine courtesy
by all classes.-Philadelph Evening
Bulletin.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-02

&c. 1871, by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
For hours Baird had hidden in the
shadow of clump Of holly in the
big suburban yard waiting for the
near morning time when people sleep
most soundly. The young fellows gar
ments were whole and decently clean,
but his dark red sweater hung loose
ly on his gaunt body; his face, thin
and blue-white was desperate, bitter,
hopeless
Baird had come West with those
who listened to the alluring tales of
city boosters and the real estate in
terests, to make his fortune" in the
Land of OppOrtunity"-an his for
tune, at this moment, consisted of a
single battered copper!
For weeks he had tramped the
streets with hundreds of others look
ing for wOrk-when there were ten
hungry men for every job. But he
had not given up until the day be-
fore: Then, sitting in the free read
ing room Of the MEMS Resort" at
five O'Clock in the morning, he had
been roughly seized, with fifty others
of the hungry unemployed, and after
search at the police station had re-
veaIed the amount of the silver and
gold of the fifty to be less than rs
cents, the empty" ones were ordered
to leave the city under penalty of
lengthy rOCk-pile sentence.
Stung to the depths of his sensitive
soul by the injustice-crazy with the
hunger pain in his stomach, Baird
resolved, and as a result of his resO-
luton he was waiting outside this
silent house.
At two o'clock he fell into a light
doze. Presently his own dreaming
cry: 'Wait, Mamie! Wait for met"
awakened him. He laughed under his
breath at the absurdity of his words.
He had said words like them back
there in South Carolina, six years
ago, wheE his heart was breaking,
and he had told Mamie Tharp good
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-02
by, just before her wedding to reck-
less Bob Givens.

by, just before her wedding to reck-
less Bob Givens.
Old Hugh Tharp and Arethusa, his
wife, were worldly wise; Bob was an
only child, and his parents were rich.
Baird had had nothing but the wages
of a clerk in a hardware store to of
fer her, but Mamie had thought that
enough until her parents had taught
her better.
II can't quit loving you, Mamie"
Baird had said to her, "even though
you are going to marry somebody else.
I'm going away, but if you are ever
in trouble or need I will come to you.
Be sure you call me, Mamie" And
In his dream, Mamie, with a white,
stricken face had held out her arms
to him, for help-to him, a thing I'M
able to keep himself in food
Well, he'd have a full meal once
more anyway, and he'd take enough
of these prosperous peoples stuff to
take him out of the city, and
Cautiously he swung himself
through the open window. In the light
of his lantern, he saw in the dining
room, next the kitchen, mahogany
sideboard, covered with silver articles.
He reached out his hand toward a pile
of spoons, then dropped it as sudden
ly.
81 can't do it he murmured. "God
i can't do it,"
As he turned, there fell on his ears
the. heavy distressed breathing Of a
! child. Then a woman came running
out of an adjoining bedroom and
| turned on the lights.
"Oh, my baby" she was moaning.
81 don't know what to do for him, and
I'm afraid he'll die If | leave him
Oh, Jimmy-Jimmy Jimmy"
Her voice rose in the entreating
wall of one who unconsciously calls,
in dire need for one she knows is be-
yond reach. Then her eyes fell on
Baird She caught at his unexplained
presence in desperate eagerness.
"Oh, sir--help moi My baby's dy.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-02

Then locate the center of short stick
B, and at this point drive a short brad
through the three sticks Gigs. 4 and
81, and clinch it upon the face of the.
third stick.
Figure 3 shows how to spread the
sticks, with the centers of the tops,
of sticks A IA inches apart, and the
ends of stick b at equal distances.
from the tops of sticks A.
Use heavy wrapping-twine for the
framing-string. Figures 6 and Z show
how to hitch" it to the stick ends.
Run the string through the notch, twist
loop in one end Gig. g., and throw
this loop over the stick end Gig. y.
For covering the. framework, moth
ing better can be found than the light
weight brown wrapping-paper now IN
common use. Lay the kite framework
upon a sheet of this, and with scissors.
cut it parallel to and an inch away
from the framing-string. Apply -four
paste to the edge, all around, then turn
the edge over the framing-string ard
with a rag press it down and rub out
all wrinkles Gig y.
Figure 1 shows where to attach the
bride Fasten the string ends to the
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-02
Unsafe to Walk on Lava.

The temptation to walk on the thin
crust over hot lava seems to be al
most as strong as the longing which
little boys feel for trying new ice.
1.-TWO young ladies'" reports the Hilo
Tribune, stepped into volcano
crevice and were rescued somewhat
bruised. Greater care is necessary in
rambling through the Kilauea crater
Another Hilo lady was visiting the
crater after nightfall with a party Of
friends and they were walking along
a safe trail when she suddenly sank
up to her armpits in a crack which
opened beneath her feet"