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Questions-Answers

Hswaiis ana the fEsIippine Islands in the
A. From Hawaii 5.644 soldiers and 255
from the PHILIPPINES served with our troops
Q: was canada ever invaded by the
E A. In 1865, a proposed expedition of
10000 men resulted in 500 Tenians cross
ing the border from New York and YER
mont. They defeated the Canadian mil
itia but were forced to abandon their
campaign for lack Of reinforcements and
q. How could the Old Testament be
translated, If there. were no vowels in
the Hebrewf-N. M. /.
Z. A. The translation of the text of the
Old Testament is due to the work Of q
special guild of scholars, who, by many
years of study and research we're able to
supply the original text with system Of
vowel points and accents. This work Is
called the ''Massorah.'
Q. What Is a coalition cabinet?- &c. P. G..
A A coalition cabinet is one in which
members of all parties are combined tenn
porarily for the attainment Of definite
3. Is there any good farming land on
the Florida Keys ?-J. n.
A. The larger Of the many islands which
make up this archipelago are fertile and
are beginning to bee used for raising truck
crops such as cabbage, potatoes, celery and
asparagus. The conditions here are espe-
cialiy adapted to poultry raising.
O.. Which libraries contain the, greatest
number cf books?-F. p.
a Bibliotecque Rationale in Paris comes
first with four million; British Museum,
London, second, with three million. our
Library of Congress, in Washington, third,
with two million and quarter.
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Dorothy Dix Talks
BY DOROTHY DIX
worlds Highest Paid Woman wrlser.
Training Girls for wiyes-2.

The first quarrel that the great ma
jority of young couples have is over
the wife's incompetency, to manage her
end of the joint matrimonial partner
ship. She can neither cook, nor keep
a cook. She has no idea of how to
buy, and runs her husband in debt.
| His first disillusion comes when he
finds out that instead of getting a
helpmeet, he has taken on himself a
burden, and that the home that he
had looked forward to for SO many
years is not the place of rest and peace
of his dreams, but a place of turmoil
where a hySterical bride weeps over
food that is first aid to the undertaken.
and sobs out that she wishes she had
never married and was back with
m-o-t-h-e-r. In which wish she is fer
vently. if silently. Joined by the poor
goat of a husband
OF course, in time. the young wife
generally does learn to cook, and to
keep house; and to keep the bills in
reason, but by the time she has ac-
quired all of this valuable information,
that she should have started out with.
she has brushed the first bloom Off
of marriage, and it's finest rapture is
gone. Her husband will never more
see her upon a pedestal. but as blum
dering amateur, who didn't know her
job, and learned on him at the ex-
pense of his digestion.
daughter from this disastrous expert
ence If she would. for no matter what
other advantages or lack of adyan-
tages they may have. every mother
can teach her girls how to cook, and
how to market, and how to sew. And
no matter what else she does in the
world she is sure to be called upon at
some time to have to do these things.
That girls are reared without any
domestic knowledge is the mothers
fault. because all girls have an in
stinctive~ yearning towards their
hereditary occupation. You can see
this in the way little girls Always play
keeping house. and making mud
pies, and having their doll tea parties.
But mothers are so jealous Of their
own prerogatives,. they are so bossy
have some authority in their houses.
that they keep their daughters out of
the kitchen and never give them a
chance to learn the things they need
to know. Mother wants her daugh-
ters to help. but she will never let
them take any responsibility. and 1t is
only by doing things with ones own
hands that one gets a working knowl-
edge of how to do them properly.
Mop do mothers teach their daugh-
ters anything of the ethical duties of
wifehood. They do not tell them that
marriage means sacrifice, that II
means unseIfishness and putting OF
someone's else happiness before their
own. that IL calls for patience, and self
control. and understanding and ten
derness, and that when a woman takes
a man for better or worse. II means
being a good sport who swallows the
bitter with the sweet without making
faces.
There is only one person on earth
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George Motthew Adams
Daily Talk
MAKE 1T YOUR BUSINESS TO
KNOW.


It's the things that you know-and
that YOU know you know-that make
you strong and UnShakable.
Judgment, as a wrapping to deci-
sion, forms the greater part Of sue
cess. g
General knowledge, taken up by the
carload and carried around, makes a
man SO cumbersome in his actions
that he gets but a small way. But If
he has learned to select, to crystalize,
to make his own the things that are
vital and important, he enters the
leader class at once. He knows-and
he knows why he knows.
Make it your business to-knowi
Nothing rattles the rafters of the
house of character like the little and
big Don,t-Knows. Your pride is never
lessened by admitting that you do not
know everything-but it is sorely. bent
and bruised by not being able to know,
at the crossroads of everyday expert
ence, just how to handle the things
that you do know.
The business man makes it his busi-
ness to know people, as does the pub
Usher, the writer, the entertainer, or
engaged an office boy many years
ago. / like him. so to him for in
formation and he tells me in yes's or
nos. He never says he doesn't know
at least, he never puts it that way.
And I have noted that when he does
not know what I want to know from
him, he finds out.
You never know when you will be
wanting to know something that, may
not now seem important TO know.
So do not shove too much information
aside Stamp II and label it and put
it into a handy place.
Make it your business to-know!
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REFLECTIONS.
CHAPTER rs.


talked with Mrs. Lane. pretending
to take her into my confidence, so
that she would break her rule and
board. 1 felt rather small at being
obliged to use a subterfuge. but rea-
soned that it would be but for a short
time.
Mr.. Meredith hasn't been well
since his accident" I explained, land
he is so restless that think it would
be better for him to have a little
too. is poor, and we think that If he
went out to his meals to different
places for a time, it would perhaps
be better for him" considered that
I'VE" rather a good idea. Mrs. Lane
might take it I meant the doctor.
She did. And was really very nice
about it,
Certainly Mrs. Meredith, I have
no objections for a short time. OF
course I could not do it as a perma-
pent thing. That room would not
bring in enough if I let it without
board"
THANK you, I expect he will be
feeling more himself after a bit" I
had accomplished my errand, had re-
duced our expenses for the present.
wouldn't cross any oeAer bridge until
came to it,
l. IneI arranged IIldl we were u
have our breakfasts in our room, an
other concession from Mrs. Lane. She
made it one of her rules that, except
in case of sickness, no meals were to
be carried to the rooms. But 1 Of
fered 70 pay her extra, as well as put
ting the request upon the ground of
Roberts health.
Even now that I had it all arranged,
knew our expenses would be greater.
While we paid, a fairly good amount
for board. it would not begin to cover
the expense of eating in a restaurant.
would have to manage very carefully
if we were to be at all social, have
anything left with which to entertain
our friends, or go to any places of
amusement.
As looked back, it seemed to me
that after the first few weeks of my
married life I had been constantly
confronted with some sort of a prob
lem. wondered II all married womA
en- were so troubled, and wished
knew someone older. someone with
more experience, to advise me.
Occasionally. I recalled things Mary
had said before. and after we were
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LITTLE BENNY,S NOTE BOOK
By LEE PAPE.

Yesterday I was walking throo
the dining room without eny speshil
reason, and wat did see on the side
bord but a big lemmin merrang pie
about inches thick, me thinking, G,
gosh, G./ And I looked at 1t a vile
wishing was eating it, and then 1
stuck my little finger in the merrang
part to see how long it would take to
get to the lemmin part thinking, Gosh,
It made a hole.
And licked my finger and went out
of the dining room. thinking. G. that s
a heck of a way to leeve a lemmin
merrang pie, with a finger hole in it.
And / went back agen and looked at
the hole, thinking. Maybe better cut
out the whole peece and eat it, pie
with a piece out looks a darn site bet
ter than pie with a. finger hole in.
And cut out the slice with the hole
in it and ate IL, tasting swell, and the
empty space in the pie looking about
twice as big as wat the slice did, and
went upstairs and ma was in her
room darning holes out of socks. and
sed. Ma, can I have a slice of that
lemmin merrang pie before suppir?
Do you ever thing OF enything ex-
cept to eat, sed ma.
Yes mann, I sed. And ma dident
say enything. and I sed,. Can 1, ma?
wy not?
Because I say no, sed ma.
Being a reason without eny argu-
ment TO use agenst 1t, and after a vile
1 sed. Well I don't think 1 wunt eny
pie for suppir, ma.
WY, not for pity sake? sed ma
Because had my slice, 1 sed.
Well, sed ma, you take the cake.
Wich take the pie, enyways.
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The Woman Who Loved and
Earned 4 Modem Soy q Home and Ba.;ns..
BIZ JANE PHELPS

first married-how she had said she
knew people who were tied, and who
wished they was united" And my
answer:
people" I had said to her. you have
been unfortunate in knowing the un-
happy ones. If folk are really happy
no one ever hears anything about
them. But If they are not, everyone
seems to know it,
had made up my mind that II
ever I were unhappy, no one should
know it. And yet I had not been
strong enough, self-sufficient enough
to adhere tony determination. L had
lifted the veil to let Mary have peep
into the unhappiness that had gradu-
ally stolen upon me.
She had warned me that 1 would
be up against many things, as she
expressed it. 1 had often smiled as 1
recalled her speech about a little frilly
apron that made a woman look like
domestic bird, meaning more to a man
than marcelled hair and stylish
clothes. 1 had forgotten all these
sayings Of hers. or thought I had, but
lately they were constantly recurring
and making me wonder whether she
could by any possibility have been
right in her premise; that man would
rather have what he wanted to eat.
warm slippers and wife with an
apron, than wife who could hold
her own in the business world, but
who knew nothing of domestic affairs.
had felt that Robert was bit
one-sided, that he did not take into
account the pride I had in my ability
to earn--in my success i'm the busi-
ness. I knew he didn't quite sense
the fact that business woman's out
look was identically the same as a
business mans point of view. l had
tried long ago to make him understand
this, but had failed.
Now I recalled, too. the first time
had seen Robert the slightest bit
under the influence OF liquor, his ex-
cuse:
at was lonely, Gerry SO I went out
when you didn't show up. I ran into
some fellows and we1l-you know the
rest" That IT was lonely, Gerry
had haunted me for a time. But that
could not have been his excuse this
last time he had INDUCED. 1 had been
getting home early for a long time
Could it be that he was tired of me,
had ceased to love me, and-no!
wouldn't even think such thing. IT
wasn't fair to him, nor to myself
Hadn't I always done the very best
could every way?
Tomorrow-Cncert
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the most capable woman ever knew.
Say, I wonder If it would be too much
to ask you to go down to my car now,
it's on the tracks, ready to pull out
any time, and show my chef how to
make chicken salad like we had here
last Sunday night"
'Why, of course will. The idea of
you remembering It'll"
Remembering? he echoed. How
could a man forget?"
A few minutes later as they went
ldown the worn old steps, Eloise turned
up her nose disdainfully. To her
mother coming out TO ascertain the
facts of the amazing news that Hem
rietta had gone out with Jerry, she
said, He talked to Henrietta about
her cooking as if that had been bring
ing him here all the time. Men are
pigs. all Of them. She's talking Hindu.
literature to him now heard her
start. Wouldn't it be a perfect scream
il she managed to go to the Orient
with him?"
Which is the very thing that Hen
rietta did, after all, only Jerry did the
mana ging, and he did it with incred-
ible swiftness and with the ardor of a
young man very much in love.
(Copyright, 1920. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
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In setting up a defense of the ex-
cess profits tax the Oregon Journal
asks: would it be right for those
who lost by the war to pay for the
war? Would it be wrong for those
who profited so enormously from the
war to pay for the war. or most of it ?''
Regardless of the right and wrong of
the matter. those who are least able
20 pay for the war are Faying FOR it.
Every cent paid in excess profits tax
is collected from the commodities and
.those-who finally hand the money over
to the government consume little If
any more than does the day laborer.
Extreme rates of taxation do not and
cannot fully reach those whom they
are intended to reach, but they do in
evitably reach. in one way or another,
in their ultimate consequences, the
masses of the people. He who would
lead the people to believe that they
can be benefited-or that they are
other than greatly harmed-by op-
pressive taxation of capital, fools him
SELF or attempts to fool others.
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lust FOLKS
THE POINT OF VIEW.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

PUNT OE VIEW
can stand off and sneer at the conduct
When Browns winning fortune and local
renown:
can say it's too bad that he's Worship
ping gold,
And is losing the joys he will miss when
he's old:
But the fact still remains, when I'm thru
with his case.
That I might do the same were / put in
his place.
And frown at the fruit which are out of
our reach:
It IS easy to say that my neighbor is
In driving his horse. stead of jogging
But the fact still remains, when my whin-
ing is thru,
That If I'd a fast horse, might gaIlop
him, too
fancy. while fortune still smiles from
That wouldn't be as some other men are ;
stand up and talk of the happiness which
I would scatter about if ever got rich.
But l know in my heart that IL wealth
I might be the same sort of rieh man as
they.
The man on the mountain sees more and
Much that is missed by the man down
below.
And in my station may well govern me
By the light that / have and the path 1
But 70 3s oas ,; should say wha. another
Unless he is sharing the same point of
Copyright 1870 by Edgar A. Guest.
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a bill passed, limiting a landlords
profits to ten per cent on the same
sort of a basis that loan sharks are
limited in their profits as well as pub
lie utilities, such as street cars and
gas. Housing under present condi
tions, they assert, is just as much of a
public service as these latter, and
should be treated as such. Indeed
some of the tenants leagues are work
ing for municipal housing with ever
increasing gusto. The city has appro-
priated money with which to build
docks for rent; $50 why not houses?"
they ask.
While the city has 80 far exhibited
no enthusiasm for a civic housing pro-
gram, several OF it's officials have re-
Gently stated that they feared it would
be forced upon them. The city is short
of houses and apartments for hun
dreds Of thousands of families. The
majority of its apartments are crowd
ed to the point of being q menace to
public health: while recently large
numbers of the homeless have been
compelled to seek shelter in dilapi-
dated lofts
Housing facilities. as is only too well
known, are scarce all over the country
as a result Of the lack of building dur
ing the war but nowhere else have
conditions reached such an acute stage
as they have in New York and in the
nearby New Jersey suDuEoS- 80 ois-
tressing are the conditions in Hacken-
sack, for instance, that the municipal
ity recently offered to evicted tenants
the unoccupied apartments in the city
jail.
Commenting on this at a recent ten
ants mass meeting in New York, the
speaker stated that such an offer
would be eagerly accepted by many
families in his neighborhood.
mo, we won't OCCUPY the jaiI" cor
rected a mild-faced tenant in the audi
ence, flourishing his arms in a blood
thirsty manner. We'u reserve that
for the landlords"
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Present conditions indicate that a
large building movement which now
seems inevitable in view of the hous-
ing shortage must be of slow and
gradual growth, the National Bank of
Commerce of New York declares.
''The dearth of building supplies" the
bank continues, 'is rendered more
acute by difficulties OF transportation.
Some time must elapse before the
various lines of industry which fur
nish these materials will be able to
function at full capacity. Added to
this Is the difficulty. under present
conditions, of financing new enter
prises."
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CAR SHORTAGE.

There are many indications that
business progress and return to more
nearly normal conditions are being re-
tarded by the inadequacy of railroad
service. A big numbering firm in the
northwest is reported to possess a
huge accumulation Of its product,
which it is unable to market, owing to
a lack of cars.
The shortage of houses and the
consequent demand for lumber for
building purposes are increased by a
scarcity of lumber and the whole stu
alton tends to keep prices so high as
TO discourage builders.
Coal mines are declared to be forced
into idleness much of the time as a re-
suit Of this same scarcity of cars. An
excuse for advancing coal prices is
thus afforded and the operation of
many industries is hampered. In
fact, our whole industrial and eco
nomic machinery seems to sbe out of
gear thru lack of adequate transpor-
tation facilities, altho travellers in
TO see long lines of empty freight cars
standing on sidings.
Railroads cannot fairly complain of
a lack of cars il they are not using
what they have, but possibly there is
an insufficiency of locomotives. What
ever the trouble the public is demand
ing that it be remedied and that
quickly. II the railroads need money,
provision has been made by law for
them to get it. The interstate COM
mcrce commission is empowered to
advance rates and the people are will
ing that this be done. They want
service.
Under the provisions OF the railroad
law. a 100000. 900 fund has been es-
tablished to make loans to the rail-
roads during the next two years, these
loans to be repaid in five years at 6
per cent. But as the roads need 70
expend this year twice that sum, the
question arises whether they will be
able to market new securities with the
investing public. High grade indus
trial corporations of large earnings
are paying from to 9 per cent for
now capital, while the railroads are
not permitted to earn more than per
cent on the total valuation of their
properties. ~
Unless something be done soon the
present system of private control will
fail and the country viii be. face to
face once more with the periis OF gov
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An American commercial represen-
lean business men employ cheap Ger
man labor in production, thus giving
employment to men who might other
wise be idle and provide a means by
which the German people may pay
their debt to the rest Of the world.
But in the existing state of American
feeling it is probable that even the
Japanese would be more welcome.
Besides it would pe awkward to open
our doors to a nation with which we
are at war.
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When DR.. w. H. Berg, representing
the New York real estate dealers, as
serted before the New York assembly
that the cure for the housing evil lay
in more building and That the, best
way to get cheap labor would be to lift
the ban on immigration, he was
howled and jeered at for two minutes.
But the doctor was right all the time.
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The Cincinnati drug firm. that
bought 100000 gallons of whisky for
medicinal purposes from a Kentucky
distillery must be anticipating a sea-
son of much sickness.
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who can settle the divorce problem.
And that is mother. In her hands
rests the domestic happiness of the
men and women of the world. and she
doesn't trouble to safeguard it. What
a pity!
Copyright. 1919. by the wheeler Syndicate
Incl
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In the matter OF placing President
wilson's name on the primary ballot
in Georsia it is. "on ag'in; off as'in.''
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1t is all right with us il the president
decides to make Article x the cam
palgn issue. We were getting ready
to yawn, anyway.
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A good husband seldom succeeds in
attracting the attention of his wife.
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Well do it. of course. Anything to
oblige a brother editor who may also
be a brother Elk. But it's mighty poor
business for a married man.
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AS Colonel Major Jeltz so aptly puts
it: THE word is SO frequently used
until many who use it are ashamed of
the term friend themselves; there are
Just few now living who can tell
about the intrinsic value OF "a
friend. So why make such frequent
use of the word? They know it is only
an apologetic word
The Topeka state journal., 1920-04-05

A woman often looks as well as the
display in a shop window, but a man
never does.
The Topeka state journal., 1920-04-05

AS one Wild knows the hearts of the
people, we deeply regret the passing
of the patent-m edicine 'testim onial'
1t was the publicity of the humble. No
wonder the poor and worthy are rest
less! Their only avenue TO fame has
been plugged.
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A reader of the column gets some
comfort from the fact that both Wood
and Lowden ran ahead of johnson in
tho South Dakota primary. Our cor
respondent, doubtless. has the DalSotas
confused. 1t is North Dakota that
gives forth the pecan flavor. South
Dakota has never been more than
mildly irrational.
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We note.s quite incidentally. OF
course. that the feeling of extreme
lassitude which seized Colonel House
some months back. and which subse-
quently permeated the country, has
finally infected the Democratic minor?
ity in the house of representatives.
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Talk" says an Iowa newspaper.
''of Aphrodite rising from the sea;
dream of Helen OF Troy; think of all
the beautiful women of history whose
blond tresses have altered the course
of civilization or figured in the
mythology of old-think of the most
perfect blonde ever visualized by
dramatist, poet or artist"