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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-12-08

The Old Ace Of Santa Claus.

n In Anna Farquhar's convictions
in The National Magazine, she says:
"Santa Claus tOtters under his pack,
wearing a long old face these days.
Probably in his youth he had no idea
Of growing old or departing this life |:
therefore when his enthusiasm and
joyouSness began to wane unaccount-
ably, he must have opinedG that, the
world was tottering--not his own gen
erous throne of life. Nowadays he
creeps down the chimney steaithily as
II somewhat ashamed of his mission,
like a polar burglar, and his eigld thy
reindeer make small clatter OH the
lawn, for many of their joy bells have
been lost When Santa lays finger
aside of his nose reflectively in our
times. he exclaims, without a bit of
Jolly shake below the waist: Dcgnn-
crates! Degenerates Has my world
come to such pass that people wis.,,
70 T,.y me for my presents? Can IL
be that little children are SO surfeited
with toys that tl:ey stop to ask how
much they cost before accepting them.
There was little Willie, last year, who
said TO his mamma, when ne first saw
a beautiful wOolly dog, What's II got
inside? Candy or money? Don't want
dog Mess it's got somethin' in
side 49,"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-12-08
impossible to Resist influence

4 is quite impossible TO resist the
sweet influence Of the coming holt
days and not 20 feel a thrill of SYM
pathetic delight over that which serves
to gladden. all mankind, The very air
seems TO have caught the Inspiration
OF the hour, and no one canfafl TO per-
ceive, as he hurries through the
streets, when Christmas is drawing
Moor 81 ta"-
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-12-08
HIS HOLIDAY CIGARS
Select From World Famous Brands

Cigars for gift purposes should be selected with utmost
care Consideration should be given to brands which the
recipient favors. h., ...
Our cigars all weknown goods- the kind he VI be
proud to offer his friends t#I.
Domestic Key West, Havana and Porto Riean.
These in fancy holiday packages, % or50 in box.
Should cigars not suit ell gladly refund money
change for others ~ :ir.,.er t5t asrs a.1
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-12-08
Games Of Heather Origin
NEANY of our most famil-
WI iur Christmas games have

NE ANY Of our most famil-
WI iur Christmas games have
a heather originfi and some of
their requirements once played a
most important part In the
heather rites and mysteries. Ev-
cry one Knows how, when play
ing the popular Christmas game
Of "snap dragon all other lights
in the room are extinguished
while We try to snatch raisins
from blazing brandy. but prob
ablg few are aware that the
ancient British Druids were ac-
cusfomed 10 worship, In q ten
pie otherwise dark, flame OF
burning spirits into which they
east and out of which they
plucked certain sacred objects,
and that they thus performed
some of the most awful solem-
mites of their religion.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-12-08
$2.25

$2.25
Our best overalls now sold at $2.25
other grades at $500 and $1.35.
... S. LARSEN.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-12-08
TOILET GOODS 80 sSs,s
The Kind That Find Feminine Favor.

There's true satisfaction in givA something that is
practical and useful because you may be certain that
such gifts always acceptable to the recipient Brush
es Combs Mirrors Toilet Sets Manicure Sets Leather
Goods Ivory Goods, Atomizerss Carafes and High
Grade Toilet Preparations for the of the skim Com
plexion Hair Nails, etc. Through attractive packing
and wrapping give such goods real Christmas at
mosDhere..- ... y. -
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-12-08
FINE PERFUMES

.aIg Present That Will Please Her
Flowers and their sweet odOrs closely associated
with the Christmas spirit. For the holidays always
increase stock of Fine Perfumes. They may be
tested and chosen in bulk in fancy gift packages We
also have excellent line of
Toilet Waters Sachet Powders, Etc.
No matter what else a woman receives her happiness
will not be complete without of these dainty odors
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-12-08

Great Array From Which to Choose
Beauty makes appeal to adies-but if you can COM
bne utility with beauyits all the better Suggestions
yewey, Wrist Watches Cut Glass China, Caen-
oars dra Iost Sets Leather and Ivory
and scores of other articles which will be acceptable to
any An inspection of stock will all
queries as to-''What Shall | Give Herr
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-12-08
GIFTS FOR GIRLS

They'll Want Goodly Share
The big idea with girl regarding Christmas gifts is
that she should be generously remembered. There's
plenty to give her, too
Books, Cameras, Watches, Jewellery, Calendars
Hand Bags, Work Boxes, Toilet Articles, Sta
honery, Manicure Sets, Ivory Goods, Etc.
For the smaller girls suggest Juvenile Books
Such goods should be selected now.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-12-08
GIFTS FOR THE. COLD FOLKS"

Practical Goods Are Sure to Please
With Old Folks the principal thing associated with a
gift is sentiment So give them something useful which
they need and feel assured that it is appreciated
Books, Calendars Thermometers, Vacuum Bottles,
Spectacles Hot Water Bags, Bibles, @Festaments.
In gving-dont forget Box of Candy for Mother and
Pipe Box Of Cigars for Dad Om stock contains
gifts for ALL
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-12-08
CHRISTMAS CANDIES
Contribute to Holiday Cheer.

Christmas calls for candy just little better than is
ordinarily chosen. This means than excellence of
qualityfor the package should be suggestive of the
festive season. We have Lovells & Connels
Chocolates Caramels, Nuts, Fruits, Nougat and
- Delieately Favored Creams
These are in fancy Christmas Boxes-some of them
hand painted. Cane Candy, Lime Fruits, etc.-for
children.
The Washington times., 1920-05-16
| OF 6 IN U. S TYPHE
DEATH SQUAD ESCAPl(

pispstches 10 Ilsa Cross ksA4
quarters today from Reyai, EstheatQ|
stated that but one member OF t.
American "Dsath squad" which we
there 70 fight typhus remains TwI
are dead and three viii bear 10 thst@
graves the marks OF the spotted ec1
phus. One is returning 20 America. u
Those reported dead are ciifford ~
Bianton. OF Chattanooga Tenn. sG)
George w. Winfield. OF HighlsnD
Falls, N. Y. The three who were VI
with typhus but are now reported oQt
OF danger are A. c. Robinson, ~
Honolulu, Wilbur Howell. OF Brock
lyn. N. r.. snd DIR. J. w. Whitaker, -
West Branch. Mich. willard c. SMITH
Of Winchester. Ill, is on his woo
back to America.
The Washington times., 1920-05-16
TODAY

ions. He thinks he doesn't. want
TO, in reality he cannot.
Betwecn twenty and thirty and
forty educated men receive new
IDEAS easily. After that with dif-
ficulty, or not at all. Unless an
opening has been made. into the
brain, through which the truth
may 70, ip youth, the truth cannot
get in later. Hence the import
ance Of having what is contemp-.
tuously called, "a smsttering OF
general information and general
opinions" Each "smatter' may
leave q hole to let In the light
later. Uneducated men rarely
accept q new thought after. twenty
five. Beyond that age they can
hate, but think with difficulty.
That makes mobs SO dangerous.
When Harvey announced that
the blood circulates through the
body, pumped by the heart, any
fool, you would say, should imme-
ditely Nave recognized the truth
of Harvey's discovery. Yet that
truth, SO plain to us, was denied
by all the great doctors" OF Eu-
rope, except some Of those under
forty years of age. The minds OF
the others had settled into solid
concrete. Voltaire, in his chapter
on Statesmen" in the "philosophi-
cal dictionary" says he does not
write for statesmen Of his day,
because they haven't time to listen
but for the young men that will
be statesmen. later. You cannot
model or reform solid concrete.
The scientific world is puzzled by
the fact that we should have two
complete brains. as we have two
feet and two hands. The second
brain seems unnecessary. still we
all have II, ready In case OF acci-
dent, the speaking brain. TO take
up the work OF speech. thought,
and perception il the accident
comes early enough.
Nature does her big work in
spherical form. The. suns and
planets are spheres; water in the
brook or the blood in your veins
rolls In round drops. Perhaps
there is a good reason. to be de-
veloped later, for a spherical brain
with its two hemispheres. Some
day we may use one brain for our
little work of thought and organi-
cation ON this earth. the other for
exploration and contemplation OF
the outside universe. 1T hath not
yet been shown what We shall be-
The two brains that live back of
your eyes, above your nose and
ears, and under your hair, deepen
ing their convolutions, increasing
their power as long as you think,
deteriorating with dreadful rapid
ity when you stop thinking, are
separated by cleft and united at
the bottom OF the cleft by an in
teresting bridge called corpus cal
losum, it is a bridge of white
fibers passing from one brain TO
the other. Information is sup
posed to travel over. this bridge
from one brain TO the other. There
Is no certainty as to its use. Men
have lived normally without il.
. Some day the experiment Of
transplanting one-half of a very
young human brain in the place
of one-half of the brain Of a
young chimpanzee may be at
The Washington times., 1920-05-16
U. 5. Places Ban lyon
Dry Law Agents Using
Too Many Phone Calls

Waste OF public funds by
dry Law agents In excessive use
OF long distance telephone. caused
Prohibition Commissioner Kramer
10 iAsue an order yesterday forbid
ding such practices. Agents are
instructed TO resort to the teie-
phone only where consideratiou
OF secrecy or urgency Will not per
init use Of the telegraph or mail
Large sums have been dissi-
pated eedlessiy. officials said. by
the apparent upwiiiingness Of pro-
hibition agents TO use the malls
for their reports. wires being
crowded with lengthy communities
tions which might just ss well
have come by post.
The Washington times., 1920-05-16
tcOntinued from Fir., P.se)

or announce with accuracy the
weight OF this earth. One theory
teaches that the mind Is like an
aeolian harp. giving out thought
when outside forces strike II. as
the aeolisn harp makes music
when struck by the wind. The
other important theory iikens the
brain TO a violin. that. no matter
how skillfully made, must be played
upon by a thinking being before II
can produce music. ~,
= What works the brain. or how. or
why, no one knows. The ancients
said the earth rested on the shout
ders OF the giant Atlas. Atlas
stood on the turtle and there they
let it drop. II didn't seem worth
while to ask upon what the turtle
stood.
We say that our nerves. OF sight.
smell. taste. touch, and hearing.
inform the brain. The brain in
forms the Consciousness. the con-
sclousness orders the will, and the
will gives orders to the body. The
will. like the thing that the turtle
stood on, remains unexplained.
When you put on another mans
hat and 1t falls over your ears, you
are indignant. You know the
other man concludes that he is
your mental superior. That does
not follow.
A brain of normal size is usual
ly better than the brain abnormal
ly small. IDIOTS and half-witted
persons usually have small heads
and lighter brains than normal
human beings.
Helmholtz, one of the worlds
most learned men, had a brain
weighing only forty-five ounces.
Thirteen men that died in, an Eng
lish poor-house had brains weigh
ing more than sixty ounces. Web
ster's brain weighed only little
over fifty-five ounces.
Dollinger, learned student and
expounder Of theology, had q brain
weighing thirty-seven ounces.
Among five races, Swedish, Bava-
rian, Hessian, Bohemian, and Eng
lish, the English are found to have
the smallest average brain weight,
the Bohemian the highest.
Size of head and weight of the
brain do not always go together;
a brain, like an orange, may have
a thick covering.
A small saw, of the right kind
of steel, will cut through a big
iron bar; a small brain, of the
right material, is more important
than mere brain bulk.
Women's brains, as we'll as their
skulls, are smaller than mems, on
the average.
AS time passes, the substance of
which your brain is made "sets,"
becomes, mentally speaking, hard,
like concrete. After a certain
age a man cannot change his opin-
The Washington times., 1920-05-16

The Salvation Array In the most
religions organisation In the
world. More than Afty Thousand mu-
sicinns are enrolled In it's ranks.
The Washington times., 1920-05-16

warning.
Lks ysars,if, your hstic
brother, the chimpsnses, has two
complete brains. And you would
find II diffcuk TO tell the brain
Of the chimpsnzee child from that
Of q human child.
Your brain has its bark like
that Of Q tree, called the 'cor-
tex" and below that q white cold
substance, like the hard wood in
side Of = tree. The thinking Is
all done In the brain bark or
eortex. thought apparently flows
In there. as the life-giving sap
flows In the trees bark.
A all your seeing, hearing,
and identifying Is done in one Of
your brains. SO all Of your think
ing Is done In one brain, never in
both at once. An accident of
childhood can decide which shall
be the working brain and which
the idle brain. through life.
1t was q great shock to the
superficial when il was shown
that the chimpanzee's brain pos
sssses not only every lobe but
every convolution of the human
brain. "Broca's convolution" II
there only the monkey cannot
speak.
Huxley even proved, against
Owen, that there is not in the
human brain one single peculiar
ity missing from the low brain
of a baboon. The dissecting knife
cannot explain the difference that
separates, in worth, the baboon's
brain from the brain of a scien-
tist.
No animal talks or ever has said
a word, with all respect to the late
DR.. Garner. No human race has
ever been known that did not pos
sess speech. however low It's intel
ligence. Every word you say to
express all your thought Is located
ain a small part Of gray matter,
not larger than the hazel nut"
Break blood vessel in that part Of
your brain and you are dumb.
Injure that part OF the brain
slightly and you may forget how to
speak English. yet be able to re-
tain your knowledge OF French or
Of some dead language The men
tai shelf holding the English
language may be destroyed and the
French or Greek shelf" remain
intact.
81 think, therefore / am" the
scientist says. Why we think, or
how we think, or what ii Is that
thinks, whether thought is real,
created by US, or printed on our
minds from the outside, as the
suns light prints a photograph on
a plate, We do not know.
Even sleep. the brains vacation,
Is a dark mystery to us. What hap
pens when the brain sleeps and the
body rests? Does mind, spirit,
consciousness. or whatever the
thinking machine Is, go off to en-
joy itself elsewhere. as the chauf-
feur leaves his car when he runs
You may say 1--WE sleep because
We are tired" Part of US is tired,
part is not. Everything that re-
ouires effort of the will causes
fatigue. II your will makes you
work, run, or jump, you tire and
must rest. But one part Of your
brain, working unconsciously, puts
upon certain nerves or muscles a
task that lasts without ceasing,
The Washington times., 1920-05-16

for u hundred years, ~ you 1--we 80
long, without a seconds interrup-
tlon night or day.
The power that you use In TAX
ing a single breath, using muscles
Of the chest and the abdomen, Is
equal to the strength that would
be required TO raise i've hgndred
pounds one inch. More than
thirty times every minute, as long
ss you live, certain muscles act
with power enough TO lift five hun
drsd pounds one inch from the
floor and never rest.
And that wonderful engine and
muscle, the heart, how does II last
without resty Carrel. the French
surgeon, operating ON the lung
cavity Of a dog, held it in his hand
without injuring II. the animals
beating heart saying. "the most
wonderful engine in the world"
II is that, in animals and In US.
Something In your brain Of which
you know nothing keeps the heart
working. Two nerves, running
from the lower part Of your brain,
the '1medulla," to the heart, regu-
late the work Of that engine
Stimulate one Of these nerves with
an electric current, your heart IN.
stantly doubles its speed and
power. Stimulate the other nerve,
the heart beats more slowly.
Overstimulate it, and the heart
stops. Cut that second nerve run
ming to the heart and the heart
races like team Of horses with
the reins cut.
One nerve drives the heart fast.
like the whip in the coachman's
hand, another one holds II back.
like the reins fastened to the bride.
And as the hearts action Is con-
trolled, so everything within our
bodies, "fearfulfy and wonderfully
made" Is controlled from the
brains dark cortex. muscles and
nerves that regulate blood pres
sure, marvellous system that con-
trolls the body's heat. so that blood
temperature doesn't change frac-
ton Of a degree between the equa-
tor and the north pole. And about
all that automatic management, We
feel and know nothing.
Whoever reads a book on anat-
omy or physiology asks at the end.
What Is the thing about whech /
have been reading? What is 1t
that lives within us, recognizing
facts reported by the nerves. send
ing out through the feeble hands
and words of man orders that
change the earth's surface. tear
down mountains, and unite
Oceans?'
. Two thousand four hundred years
ago Democritus OF Abdera, taught
by the Chaldean Magi, said, "Man
lives plunged in a world Of illu-
sion and OF deceptive forms which
the vulgar take for reality. To
tell the truth, We do not know
anything"
Learned physicians and phys
iolegists of today study tissue"
nerves. muscles. and also confess
concerning the power ruling us,
that we do not know anything"
"Only~the flash of the eye reveals
the indweller," the soul. But does
il?
The horses eye seems to flash
as he neighs and paws the ground,
hearing the bugle blow. Has he
also an indweller OF lowex grade?
The Washington times., 1920-05-16
You always know
where to find us
- q nIrucaGW

The responsible and established electrical contractor
of course maintains store shop where he may be
found-whether you want him to estimate work to
talk about work under way completed
There are however, contractors of less stable
character-here today, gone tomorrow
Very often a contractor of this kind has his office
"under his hat
And how annoying it is to try to find this man!
Perhaps he has done job for you which has "gone
wrong. But where he? He may be here this after
noon' Or perhaps, "hel be there tomorrow" But you
haven't the time to after him! S.
For this we'll for many Others you
should employ permanently located reputable electrical
contractor. ''.
The Washington times., 1920-05-16

As time passes, the substance of
which your brain is made "sets,"
becomes, mentally speaking, hard,
like concrete. After a certain
age a man cannot change his opin-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-01
TAX LIENS ARE
PUT ON FILE
Uncle Sam Charges Taxes and Pen
atty to Owners Who Rent Their
Buildings for Places in Which
to Sell Liquor.

Uncle Sam has new way to punish
people who rent their buildings TO
people who use them for selling
liquor. The government is fling tax
liens on the owners of the property
where agents report that liquor is
being sold.
The first of these liens to be filed
IN Keokuk was recorded by Deputy
Clerk Wah1gren recently against Al
bert Ramsey, owner of the Central
hotel in Burlington. According TO
the amounts named in the lien Ram
sey Is to nay s2,o50 taxes and s1,o12
penalty. This morning an additional
penalty of over $3.50 was ordered re-
corded.
According to Louis Mccormick of
Ottumwa. who filed the papers, a man
was convicted of selling liquor in the
Burlington mans hotel. It was claim
ed by the agent who worked on the
case that Ramsey must have known
Of the transactions, and as a result
the tax lien is filed. Authority for
fling such liens is given under new
revenue act.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-01
HAWKEYE
NATIVES
Older Residents of the County are
Extended an Invitation to At
tend the Anniversary of
the Organization.

The older residents Of Lee county
are extended an invitation to attend
the celebration of the fifteenth ami.
versary of the organization of the
Hawkeye Natives association which
will be held at Burlington during the
afternoon of Sunday, October 10, and
will doubtlessly be attended by d
great many of the old settlers of this
and other counties.
Mr.. E. R. Harlan. curator of the
Historical society of Iowa, will be the
principal speaker of the day and has
message teeming with interest in
and to the pioneers of the glorious
state of Iowa.
a fine program will be presented
which will include the formal rails
ing of a flag. the gift Of the Ladies
Auxiliary of the Natives.
A word in regard to this associa-
ton which, as its name implies, is
composed of members born within
this state-this is one of the require
ments of eligibility. Another is that
to become a member, one must have
attained the age of fifty years. OBJ
iects are to promote sociability and
good fellowship, to preserve the an
nails of the early days of Iowa and
to add to the history of the state.
The invitation to the celebration
is free.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-01
COMPARISON
OF PITCHERS
Farrell Thinks Brooklyn Has Slight
Edge on Cleveland, Being Bet
ter on Defensive and Even
on Offensive.

BY Henry L. Farrell, United Press
Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Oct. Some of the
st pitching arms in the major
agues will go into action in the
ming world series.
Cleveland has a small but brilliant
tching staff; Brooklyn has a large
d equally capable stable OF hurlers
Cleveland has Bagby. Coveleskie,
ais and Caldwell, with Morton and
ME for relief; Brooklyn has Grimes
effer, Mamaux. Marquard and
nth with Galore and Mitchell in
serve.
Speakers weakness-the lack OF
finland pitching-w which bothered
him all season, will be another prob
lem in the world series. Eighteen
of the twenty-four Dodgers bat from
the right side OF the plate. Seven
of them are regulars, including the
big three, Myers, Johnston and Ko-
netchy.
.'Uncle Robbie" has three good
southpaws in Marquard, Sherry Smith
and Mitchell and it gives him dis
met advantage, inasmuCh as the
leyeland team is heavy in left-hand
alters. Twelve Of the twenty-five
dams bat from the near side of the
an. Seven of them are regulars, in
Guiding Speaker. Gardner. Smith and
Sewell
In defensive strength, the choice
of the two staffs goes to Brooklyn
on number. On the offensive they
are fairly evenly matched, Brooklyn
having the slight advantage of .c27
to .221
Grimes and Bagby are the two
leading hurIers on the opposing clubs.
Grimes is one Of the best hitting