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Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-12-19
Snow and Colder
This Weeks Guess

Washington, Dec. 1s.-Weather pre-
dictions: Rocky mountain region: Cold
and generally fair but with occasional
SHOWS in high regions.
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$50 ARGENTlNANS DIE
RESULT OF TEMBLoRS

Buenos Aires, Dec. 1S.-Reports
from Mendoza province late Satur-
day night estimated the dead in the
earthquake at $50.
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After careful survey of conditions, the
court. presided over by Rear Admiral
Henry T. Mayo, found that General Bar
nett's charges were i'll considered, regret
table and thoroughly unwarranted reflec-
tions" on the work of the marine corps
in Haiti, adding that the corps had per-
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SINN FEM BRITISH CHRISTMAS
ARMISTICE NEGOTIATIONS END
DIRECT PARLEYS With ''OFFlCIAL
PRESIDENT ONLY WAY TO PEACE,
DECLARES FATHER O'FLANNACAN

Attitude Closes Door to Counses
Of Good Will Which You Invoked'', Replies
Lloyd George to Priest. ALLOW Constitution to
Function and Violence Will Be Rare" Answer.
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ANY person subject to military o.
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Double Wedding of Fifty Ago Celebrated by Kentucky

so loud. Her name is Eugenia Gar
nett"
"Know her, Kilgore?"
"Sure, l know her. Want to meet
herr"
eyes, you bet l do"
1t was springtime and the grounds
about the Garrett home were resplen-
dent with bright-hued flowers, red
client of magnolia. Encountering
such odds, is it any wonder that John
A. Murray, a seasoned veteran, a
tried infantryman, who had spent
four years lodging bullets, should
surrender to an army Of one
equipped with bow and single ar
row?
Poor Miss Garrett, who never had
heard the whine Of the MIME or the
roar of the shrapnel, was lost at the
very start.
1t was not long until ECZEMA s
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Peripatetic Newspapers

II T REALLY isn't fair to tell this
on the women. But if they had
anything half SO enlightening to
tell Of the men they'd proceed post
haste to make it as public as pos
sible. So here goes.
For many months there has been
a practice among the women of Long
Island who really haven't a thing
on earth to do except to read good
books and keep themselves warm
rot to read good books at all. In
fact, they haven't read good or any
other kind Of books.
Here was their system. It's going
to hurt a lot of them to have this
come out, but it's too good to keep.
While the Woodworking husband
was in New York at his duties
milady was sitting by the fireside
listening to a middle-aged woman
who talked on and on, giving high
point after high point in the latest
and most widely read books of the
current time. Sometimes half
dozen miladies or a score of them
would gather at the home % one
Of them and the INSTRUCTOR" per-
haps an erstwhile school teacher,
would arrive in her automobile and
begin her instruction. This, of
course, was after proper fees had
been agreed upon.
This instruction" consisted of Civ
ing the women a general idea of
what was contained in the best
sellers, so that in case a converse
ton having to do with books should
arise at the dinner party of any one
of them during the week they would
be able to discuss it intelligently. Do
you get the point? No reading, but
all the necessities of first-class, off
hand conversation.
But consider this.
The instructor" idea has gone
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evening was deepening into black
ness. Negro stevedores were sing
ing, accompanied by guitar and
banjo. The waves of the Ohio,
formed by light breeze, FLASHED
against the hull. A full moon rose.
shedding it's silver rays upon the
waters.
And then a whistle blew. The
boats engines started The engineer
threw in the lever and the wheels
commenced their task of propelling
the craft to Cincinnati. On the ton
deck Mr.. and Mrs Murray and Mr..
and Mrs. Kilgore watched Louisville
receding in the distance.
The light on the pilot house disap-
peared around the bend.
Monday, the place of high festival,
the kilgorc residence. was crowded
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going to get married" went II
rounds of the village gossips.
Cupid's Other Victim

f. Y. Kilgore, young merchant,
had to stay in his store from early
morning until quite late at night.
Eight-hour days were undiscovered.
Closing up one evening and craving
| advertisement, he decided that
church, to use an unchurchmanlike
phrase, was his one best bet.
Entering, Mr.. Kilgore was nom
plused. He just couldn't concen-
trate on the sermon nor could he find
hymn No. such -and-such in the
green book. There was a reason.
Her name was Annie Rogers. She
sat in an adjoining pew, a total
stranger.
No one seems to know how they
met, but meet they did and there
after frequently. 1t wasn't long un-
til mighty good business man was
nightly in love.
Then a memorable day appeared
on the calendar, May II, 1870. Very
early in the morning a young man
named Murray was having the
DEVILS own time finding a collar but
ton. In another part of town Ed
Kilgore remembered the teachings of
the Good Book and smiled as he
struggled with refractory necktie
A Miss Garnett and a Miss Annie
Rogers sat in front of separate
and individual mirrors. A single
thought, however, filled each mind.
The thought was: "Do | look as good
as l should?"
Plenty to Eat
A crowd of klnsmen and neigh
bors was gathering at Beechlands,
the Rogers estate. There was an
odor of delicacies, cooked in the good
old way.
Suddenly silence fell save for a
ministerial "Do you?" and several
emphatic repetitions of II do" and
81 Will"
Afterward there was a wedding
breakfast at Beechlands, wedding
breakfast that is still talked of by
the older generation. Then, having
received congratulations, the party
started for the Garnett residence,
where, after a good dinner, they
packed up and walked down to the.
old BILLY Jones" stage coach stand,
commencing honeymoon trip that
ended weeks later in the same place.
In those days railroads were few
and far between. Glasgow was not
connected with the outside world ex-
cept by post road. Down this road
sped the Billy JONES'" drawn by
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beyond the novel and short story
stage. The women have conceived
still better idea. Now they have ~
living, walking, breathing newspaper
that makes its way to their houses
every other day, impartisg to them
the progress of the treaty iigh''
Presidential primaries and the news
in general.
There are three reasons for ths
fact having been brought to lighs'
One is that a certain Great NecA
Hills contractor has been missing
change from his purse now and IhsH
through the stormy weather. An
other is that his neighbor, lunlDel
man, ventured the thought to Ms
neighbor, the contractor, that hls
wife appeared to be pretty darheu
well up on the news Of the day-aha
how does she do it," And the thru
is that man living just across 1ls
way, also a neighbor, walked righ'
into his own home and found UTE
wives of the other two neighbors' 81
we'll as his own wife, sitting IN
semicircle. listening, intently -
three third-grade school girls, 10 d.
exact verbal reproduction by an e.
derby woman of an afternoon news.
paper which he had just happeheu
to think to bring home.
Tie three neighbors comparsa
notes. All three asked their wives
about it on the same DAY. Anu
when they were told now much ths
three wives were paying the walking
newspaper for her services they III
mediately turned cave man iohs
enough to declare they would pu'
an end to such doings. One OF them
said he felt just like writing 1t Tor
newspaper so other men could sec
how little some wives cared iof
household expenses. And. hero ID
what he wrote.
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with mass of people, happy in the
reflected happiness of the principal
participants. A spacious lawn held
those who had arrived too late to get
inside. Voices hummed, intermin-
Cling with ripples Of laughter.
Then a flower decked door opened
and the four persons to whom the
assemblage was paying homage
stepped forward.
The majority of the people attend
ing were young, or comparatively
young, but there were a few who
had witnessed the original ceremony.
Mrs. Lille Delvaux (the Miss
Dickinson Of fifty years ago. again
attended the brides.
For Glasgow the AFFAIR was a gala
day. A town of $500, every one
knows every one else. and especially
do they know people VINO have lived
there lifetime. Mr.. and Mrs Xii
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RECIPES FOR MARITAL HAPPINESS
MR.. JOHN A. MURRAY

II" the first place. haze pick right qonou Your
heart " tell you whem youue me-
men, after you hare married coutshp
ana not cease at the AUoys
h'd Arrays be charitable Remember yo human
oe"g Remember that she herself yor care and
"efsh hef hare been married today hoppiue
because she "as true helpmae helped
MRS JOHN
10 oe happy must oWays husband believe
tno' ne IS houmg has wheher he She mast
arrays remember that ouergrovm boy-that he
never has 9ro'm and W Keep mendcd and
ms hose darmed Have faith the sayng mans
heart hes through his stomach vor husband yth
otss Of the daily trials Sme you are hcv;uo
a good tame regardless Of anything"
MR.. E. Y KILCORE
Happ.e is being happy Be happy recipe hare
TO o6ef 1T doesn't do crouch 1t makes one
dyspeptc Make believe your sweetheo uo
matter how long hare been foweys nom and
then Take her candy Show her no power 10
decrease lone her. If she trouble her, If shs
nssds ynapathy synpahie ith surprising svha bin
returns such small Investments otttimes bring n"
MRS E. Y KILCORE
u hare never had TO about being Topsu
growed that aOay My life everything that
DESIRE than cxpected IN girlhood girls had
wonderfu dreams of Wonderf,d prince married
him. haze regretted it, hare fifty gears together
dued of the luster with which agree aui Mrs.
sat- HsW like them and he'll worship you e
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married he said to mo that he
wanted to 60 into business for him
self. He was only nineteen then and
l was seventeen.
Nineteen and Seventeen
"'If I can go into business for
myself, Katie he said, I think I
can give you as good home as any
body would want
"'Well, then, you'll have to save,
and III help all l can, I told him.
This was fifty years ago, and all 1
can say is that I've had a happy
home and a good husband"
Mrs. Mccarthy is hopelessly old
fashioned, and seems to take pride
in the fact. AS proof Of this it need
only be said that she has never
smoked a cigarette in all her life,
does not drink, has never voted and
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four fine horses and carrying four
of the happiest people in the Burley
belt.
There were changes of steeds and
changes Of drivers, but there was
no change in the spirits of the trav-
elers. Notwithstanding the long
journey, when the party arrived at
the Gait House, then Louisville's
most exclusive hotel, smiles were
paramount rather than signs.
OFF on a Boat Trip
After spending several days in
Louisville, Louisville much more
picturesque than the city of to-day,
the two couples strolled to the levee
one night and walked down the
gangplank that connected the shore
with United States mail packet.
The time was approximately 8
o'clock and the dim light of early
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Mr.. and Mrs. Mccarthy, Celebrating
Their Golden Wedding, Admit
They Are Old-Fashioned

part, seemed equally impervious to
domestic ennui.
In their later years, when the
weather was fine, Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
Carthy would take their rocking
chairs in the evening and sit in the
garden back Of the house. When it
wasn't, they'd sit side by side in the
old-fashioned parlor and talk over
the events of the day there.
Separate establishments? Egg
stains? I don't know what YOU
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I'D be doing you a wrong to let you
marry her.

I'D be doing you a wrong to let you
marry her.
Willing to Take a Chance
"But Mr.. Mccarthy said he was
willing to take the chance. and that
he had two good. strong hands and
arms with which to work for his
wife, and my father said all right.
81 know great many people
think that boy who is only nine
teen and girl who is only seven
teen are too young to marry, but
| believe in people marrying young.
What is it they say? Before
the bloom wears off and peo-
pie become disillusioned. | don't
think people should marry who
have become disillusioned. They
should marry when life is still in
teresting to them.
cat least, that was the way with
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gore and Mr.. and Mrs. Murray have
done just that
Farmers from miles out drove in
early in the morning and drove
home late at night.
No invitations were mailed for
fear that some one would be sighted.
Judging from the crowd in attend
ance, no one was. Advertisements
were run in "The Glasgow Republi-
can" and Glasgow Times" stating,
Come on. No presents" The men,
women and children of the commu-
nifty Came
"Reb" Murray (he's "Old Reb"
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now and ED" Kilgore jumped
from group to group, receiving con-
gratulations. Mrs Murray and Mrs
Kilgore received inside the house
Refreshments were in order, each
guest eating from a plate with 1870
1920 written on it in icing.
Two huge wedding cakes were
served and countless smaller ones.
The guests began to depart. Finally,
as the last one had shaken hands,
Mrs. Murray turned to her husband
saying:
Fifty years, John. God has been
very good"
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1--WE Have Never Had Quarrel IN
Our Life" Says a New York
Bride Of al alf Century Ago

be the two. There are a great many
people, know, who will sa~ 11at
it is impossible for two people to
live together for fifty years and
not quarrel, bu: I can only say that
my husband and / never have.
"Although l have always tried to
make the home my chief work in
life, my husband and l very fire.
quently talk about his business.
When something comes up at the
store that he wants to tell me about
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in the summer when ! would go to
the country. But even then my hus-
band would come to see me. He
would come on Friday and return to
the city on Monday. Those were
the only times we did not live to-
gether continuously and that we did
not see each other every day.
No Divorces Among Them
"Do believe in separate estab-
lishments for husband and wife
OF course not. That sounds very
foolish to me. A man and wife
should live together and make q
home. That's what marriage means
At least that is what it means to
me and what it means to my friends
And it may surprise you to know
that not one Of my married friends
not one of the old-fashioncd cou-
pies / know Intimately, has had to
take their marital troubles to
court.
Glow have they managed it?
Well, by we'll known methods. The
women have made it their business
to provide their husbands with
homes. Nowadays great many
women do not seem to care to as
sumo the care and burden of that.
Of course, when a woman takes
that attitude a home is out of the
question, because upon her, more
than upon the man, rests the duty
of making the home.
$50, first Of all, if a marriage
is to last, the woman must be will
ing to do her share. She can't
spend her time in cabarets and think
more of a good time, or a career,
either, for that matter, than of max
ing a home. To-day, it seems to
me, great many women are losing
sight of that. I know l am old
fashioned, but I can't help but feel
that the fondness of women for a
good time is chiefly responsible for
large share of the troubles hus-
bands and wives are having"
A woman who was present at the
interview began to display signs of
restiveness at Mrs. McCarthy's adj
herence to mans cause and broke
in with, "Well, isn't the man ever to
blame?" But Mrs. Mccarthy held
firmly to her ground, fearing, per-
haps, that to do otherwise might
be looked upon as sign of dis
loyalty to her husband.
s'Women to Blame"
cts generally the woman" she
insisted stubbornly. "a man may
have lapse, at some time or other.
But if the woman holds fast to her
part and does her duty he'll gener-
ally come around It's the woman
who counts most in preserving the
home. But if, instead of realizing
this, and regulating her conduct on
this basis, her thoughts are all for
spending money and for having ex-
travagant clothes or separate cs-
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mean" Mrs. Mccarthy exclaimed in
real bewilderment when on the day
of the golden wedding celebration l
asked her her views on marriage in
general and the opinions of the short
story writer in particular.
when Mr.. Mccarthy and I were
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us. We started young, and one of
the things l made up my mind
about very early was that it always
takes two to make quarrel and
that in our case there would never
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believes that more important than
any career is the duty Of every
woman to make a home for her hus-
band.
We've never been separated since
we were married." Mrs. Mccarthy
went on, Except on those occasions
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he never hesitates to do so. And
when something happens at home, of
course I tell him.
"We consult together about every,
thing. If | want to buy some
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HE fact that Mrs. katherine
Mccarthy has had more
l.. than two breakfasts q


than two breakfasts q
week with her husband has
ACT rubbed the dust off the wings Of
the butterfly of her romance. On
the contrary, the dust still seems to
be there, thicker than ever. Unlike
q famous short story writer, whose
views on marriage, separate estab-
iishments for husband and wife and
kindred topics recently gained wide
circulation, an occasional egg stain
on the tabiee1oth Of her, establish
ment does not terrify her.
Mrs. Mccarthy is the wife of John
G. Mccarthy, one Of the oldest and
best known furniture dealers on the
east side Of the city. They have
been married for fifty years. and
she confesses she still loves him. Her
husband comes home daily and has
never had to telephone her for an
appointment in his life.
The routine Of the Mccarthy
household, as Mrs. Mccarthy her
self explained it the other day when
she and her husband celebrated their
golden wedding, seems for a full
half century to have been something
like this:
Every evening, after finishing his
work at the furniture store, Mr.. Nc
earthly would return to the family
domicile. This is now at 315 East
Thirtieth Street, but don't turn up
your nose at it, for if you do it
will merely prove that you have not
been there.
Breakfast Every Morning
Arriving there, he would change
from boots to slippers and chat with
his wife. There would be no for
mality about this whatever. Some
times she would ask him if things
had gone along all right at the store,
and he, in return, would express the
hope that her domestic duties about
the house had not tired her too
much.
They would have dinner and in
the morning they would have break
fast. For fifty long years, with the
exception of those times in the sum-
mer when Mrs. Mccarthy went to
the country for a vacation, they
kept this up. Mrs. Mccarthy never
got bored looking at her husbands
face across the tablecloth, as the
famous short story writer feared
might be the case with married cou-
pies who lived under the same roof,
and the furniture dealer, on his
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dresses I generally ask his adv,
about the kind of dresses he ill.,.
l am DOT a saint and like M.
clothes,- but l have never gor. ::
for the extreme fashions. Ny bns
band, on the other hand, asks W..
opinion when he wants to buv Co.
thing for himself. We don't do ~;
formally, but as matter Of COVE
as two people who have lived han
PLY together for fifty wears ~,
have become accustomed to consult,
ing each other"
Lived on the Bowery
ION the mantel of the old-fashion,d
room in which Mrs. Mccarthy Wa,
sitting was q piece OF weddino c.L.
representing a bride and bridegroo.
facing each other.
That's fifty Years DID," Mrs. NJ.
earthly said. at came off the c.l.
we had when we were married and
we are going to put it on ton of tbo
cake we are going to have al tbs
anniversary celebration tonight
'It's been fifty years since ~.
were married, but I can remember
it all very clearly. We were LIVING
then on the Bowery. which was
much different place from the Bow.
cry Of to-day.
at was a nice street, with
broad promenade, and not filled with
the kind of buildings which Arc
there now. We were married in the
paclcr Of my fathers house by the
Right Rev. Monsignor Kearny. Of The
old Cathedral, who is going TO he
present at the wedding celebration
tonight.
Only One Left Alive
among the guests were seven
brides, and of these only one is
alive. She is Mrs. William Darragb
Of Corona, Long Island.
at was a beautiful wedding, at
least it seemed so to me, and mine
has been a beautiful and a happy
married life all the way through.
"And the reason for it all is tina.
/ have tried to do my part as wife.
1t didn't fall to my lot to be
mother and did not go in for any
new-fangled ideas. I've tried to
make a home, and | could want for
no finer, cleaner, higher type of man
for a husband than the one have
"And I am only too glad to eat
breakfast with him every morning
and to be with him every day, as
I know he is with me-
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tablishment, things will go wrong,
Of course"
'"Then you don't believe in d.
vorce?" I asked her.
"No. I am old-fashioned, as
told you, and / don't believe in d.
vorce. / believe the Church should
do it's share in keeping marriages
sacred"
Mrs. Mccarthy, as already ex-
planned, is old-fashioned, but this
does not mean that she does not
keep in touch with what is going on
in the world, or that she is one of
those intensely domestic women who
become so engrossed in their house
hold duties they have no ideas about
anything& else. She is Irish, as her
name indicates, and every once in
a while her native wit will flash
through, showing she has not lost
her sense of humor.
She is motherly in appearance,
with fine brown eyes which light up
with mirth when she is amused APP
parently Mr.. Mccarthy has keen
sense Of humor also, as he proved
recently when he. sent two police
officers, friends of his, to his house
on fictitious complaint that Mrs.
Mccarthy had been violating the
garbage laws. AS Mrs Mccarthy
is an immaculate housewife, her
agitation over the appearance of
the men in uniform may be sup
posed.
Never Had Quarrel
"Mr. Mccarthy and l have never
had quarrel" she said, "but
certainly felt like giving him a good
humping that time. The policemen
were old friends of his, but didn
know he had sent them until after
| told him that night about their
visit. Then he got to laughing and
admitted he had sent them IS q
joke. He woke up several times in
the night, and l heard him laughing
about it,"
Mrs. Mccarthy laughed herself
while telling the story, but added
that her husband could "take q
joke" as we'll as play one. Mrs Nc
Carthy's father was Alexander Nc
Coy, who owned two shoes storcc
in the early days at 280h and
294 Bowery, and it was he who
played one Of the jokes on Mr.. Nc
earthly. This was, according to Mrs.
McCarthy's version, in giving her in
marriage to the future furniture
dealer.
81 didn't know much about MAX
ing home in those days." she said,
"being as was only seventeen and
fresh out Of school. I was born in
New York, as was Mr.. Mccarthy.
When he asked my father for per-
mission to marry me, my father said
it would be playing a joke on him
to let him do it.
" Why, she can't even boil a
kettle of water, my father told him.