The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-02-10

Lutting 1t father blunt'y, but as We
say, it is Gne Of the possibilities. We
know Sc l9ral men who provid- the
board and room and In addition to
that, they hire the washing done, SC
you can't tell which of the two en-
tremes a man will arrive at ii you
give him rope enough. Certain il
is that the girls will have a chance to
make the matrimonial venture this
year, and all they have to do is to
Speak up Sam; 'spress yo-sef."
How 1t Came About
1t took the human race a good
while to discover why the sun rises
in the morning, and why the weather
warns up in February and March
why there are likely to- be hard
storms about the twenty-first OF
March and on the other equinoxial
dates. 1t took the astronomers a
good while to find out whether there
is any real connection between the
storms on those dates, and the ar
rival of the sun at the line from
which it exactly reaches both poles.
Then again, Cook and Peary have
stirred up a big fuss about what and
where the poles are.
Earth Behind Time
One thing that seems certain is
that if we allow 365 days for a year,
the earth will not get around in its
orbit to exactly the same point at
the same time in the season. 1t will
lack five hours and forty-eight min
'utes OF getting to the same spot on
the line in a years swing, and If
we did not allow for it, the equinox,
the time when the sun would ride
all one day directly over the equator,
would change from the twenty-first
to the twenty-second of March, and
then to the ftwenty-third and the
twenty-fourth, till our reckoning of
time would run spring into winter
so that May would come in cold
weather. In order to remedy this
an extra day is counted in every
four years excepting that once in a
century that is omitted. That has
kept the seasons in the right place,
and the jokers have assigned this
extra day to the girls for the pri-
yilege of proposing, that being suf-
ficient to satisfy their willingness to
lead in such matters, and then for
1850 days they leave it all to the
males of the species.
Started Them Marrying
Four years ago we started COM
menting on the bachelors by saying
fnxx h inc oil FOL 1y
and we took the girls into our coun-
sci rather closely by suggesting how
to get by some rather difficult points
in proposing. You know a man
finds it an awful hard thing to do,
when he is about to declare his love
for certain woman, and leave out
all the others, he falters. But cupid
pushes him on, and while his heart
pounds hard on his ribs, and his
mind becomes blank and he can't
say it. Perhaps he acts foolish and
gives it up, but back he comes again
and tries it over. A thoughtful,
sympathic girl will help a fellow out
in such case and make it easier
for him. In our leap year articles
at that time we made some sugges-
lions to help the girls and this is the
way we started off.
A StOckman
Do you prefer a farmer and stock
man? Bless You, grille, your head
is level! Now there is Albert Whit
ten, rich, sensible, Industrious, i'm
maculate in his habits, modest in
his demeanor, educated and-but
why use up all our adjectives on one
man and have none left for the next
fellow! Albert is held in high es-
TEEN by the girls and is appreciated,
but appreciation never makes a
match unless it is expressed. Any
fine girl capable of making a good
home should resolve that she de-
voted her life to deserving Albert's
favor she would still make no mis-
AXE il she mortagaged the future
20 give good measure to the task.
She will not need to propose to AL
pert She can (here's tip COM
promise the effect by saying some
hing like this: "You see made this
title dinner. for you today to show
,ou that / can cook. 1t is the only
,hance / have ever had to show my
preference for you, and if l merely |
old you appreciate you the evi-
lence would not be so tangible as If
served a chicken and oyster dress
ng Carrot pudding will do as a !
Don't you think / am
rave to single you out from all the |
'thers and tell you that l know your
vorth?" That would be enough.
Albert would fix the rest, You |
wouldn't have to hit him over the
lead to get it to sink in.
In the different issues of our paper
We told something about q. ".
Harold, B. F. Reddick, w. 8. Wright,
Will Stroh, Neil A. Boyle, (de-
eased) Weber Brothers, J. H.
toneman, Wesley Lantis, Fills Gra-
am, Fred Kennedy, DR.. Bernhisel,
heloma Van Blaricom, Eph and
oseph Johnson, Howard Biethan, F.
!. Kutnewsky, Alloys and Frank
panbauer Cloth dead now), Tony
Telson, Henry and Simon Peterson,
)r. Mackie, Isaac Johnston, Dan
varian Hale, Earl Fer
ell, Charles Stranger, Farley Will
ANS, Manual Burkman, Lather
ing, James Nunley, John and j. H.
'ayle, John and Frank Murlhey, Il
liner, Joe, Rudolph and Adolph
resi-, Antoine and Adam Arvish,
lick Stevens, John and Frank Pratt,
harlie Pelkey, N. T. Weigel, Roscoe
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