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Arizona republican., 1921-12-04

little schoolhouse half an hour earlier than usual and found Jobetta await ing she knew the mistake she had made.
 Miss Susie, Miss Susie" cried Jo- betta in an outburst of tears. tremb- ling arms clinging about her, your getting married means that you won't come back to Fern River; that I've lost you out of my life; that more than likely the school will be closed again; that all the things I've dreamed of( hoped for, worked for, have come to an end."
 If Susie Harmon's own life had been amid the lilies of ease and abundance. if from her girlhood up she had not struggled and done with out and longed for, perhaps she would not have understood. But as it was, Jobetta's cry went straight to her heart And as she drew the weeping girl close and kissed and comforted her, a sudden bright little plan leaped into her mind.
 A week passed, with letters flying back and forth from Fern River to her old home town, where the prince lived. At recess on the day before the last day in the little red brown schoolhouse, Miss Susie slipped her arm III JOpeNld anu iSu uGr dN ay from the other children down a hid den fern -plumed path to the river.
 T have something to tell you, dear" she said as she broke the silence between them. The bungalow the fairy prince and I are to live in after our honeymoon trip has spare teeny- wee bedroom, and it's all arranged that in September you are to come and live with us and go to high school. You can give certain hours work a day to pay for your board, as so many college girls do, so as to feel quite independent, and I know we will get along beautifully together. That is, of course,' she smiled down at her, if you want to come"
 If 1 want to come!" cried Jobetta. her face a sunh .-rst of joy, her voice breaking in a title sob of ecstasy. "Oh, Miss Susie."
Arizona republican., 1921-12-04
SLEEPING BEAUTY'S AWAKENING THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY STORY
 A COMPLETE NOVELETTE,

out the opened door, but Jobetta waited.
 'I know now what if Is I want" she told Miss Susie, with a breathlessness half from eagerness and half from nervous shyness. "I want to get edu- oated l want to be a teacher like you"
 In the little schoolroora they talked 1t over together-the schoolroom with Miss Susie's wonderful photographs of the worlds great masterpieces thumb tackled on the bare walls. and with Miss Susie's wonderful books upon the shelves that Tom Fitch and Zeb Sherman had made for them.
 I've always had something restless inside of me-" said Jobetta- Like the quivering wings of a butterfly that doesn't fly. just flutters," she naively explained. But I didn't un- derstand. had no one to tell me. l thought it was because I didn't like to wash dishes and scrub floors and mend and darn like some folks. And although I've always had plenty to eat, I've been often hungry here. With a dramatic but entirely unaf- fected gesture the girl laid her hand upon her heart. T did not know" she said with shaky little laugh.
 mat II was tHc bcdutJ All -eAAS beauty dreaming in her sleep"
 So 1t began-one of the sweetest things in life. The friendship be- tween an inspiring olGer woman and a young girl of awakened aspirations. A friendship in which Susie Harmon stayed an hour after school to help Jobetta in her English work. Every Saturday she had the girl come to her for coaching in mathematics. She loaned Jobetta books and directed her reading. She led, she guided. she guarded her unfolding mind.
 And in turn, but all unconsciously' Jobetta gave. too, companionships in the overwhelming loneliness of being shut off in the country. Courage to meet the disheartening days with a brave. bright spirit. For the school teacher had dreamed such different dreams for her first year of teaching. But the little school at Fern River
Arizona republican., 1921-12-04
See Good Times Ahead VOTT cod As Steel production OO d1Iu l Climbs Rapidly Out
 of the Depths

Here is good news. Prosperity is returning. Steel mills in October produced 1.61S,S10 tons of ingots That compares with 1,174,740 tons in September and S03,376 tons in July, when steel industry hit bottom of stagnation and began fighting its way to the surface. October output, more than twice as big as July.
 These figures are from the Ameri- can Iron & Steel Institute. and cover total output of mills that produce s5 Der cent of all steel ingots made in America An ingot is the raw ma = terial from which finished steel prod ucts are made. Same relation as flour to bread.
 The long swing upward in general business recovery is unquestionably under way. Time will give it mo- mentum.
 Think of the gain in steel produc- tion when you sit down to Christmas dinner. It will whet your appetite.
 So goes steel, so goes general busi- ness.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-04

become buxon girl of twelve who could do days washing without a tired muscle, Jobetta was practically free to make up her lost time.
 By the end of winter the progress she had made seemed incredible-as incredible as the radiant change in the girls whole being.
 And as along the country road spring began to peep out from its winter hiding in opening leaf, upleap- ing blade of grass and -he sky, started faces of the first wild flowers, there came almost as radiant change in the little school teacher as In Jobetta- For, as God gives dawn in answer to nights patient waiting in the dark, so after the long, dreary year at Fern River life held out to Susie Harmon glad surprise.
 But hidden in her shining new hap piness was a stabbing pain. the thought of telling Jobetta. After all, when the time came, she did not have tc tell At her first words Jobetta guessed. You mean the prince has come" she cried. T know it by your face-by something in your voice."
 'He has written" Susie Harmon admitted with a sweet, shy blush.
 "Oh, dear Miss Susie," cried the girl excitedly, begin at the beginning and oont leave out single detail.
 And when the school teacher went home that afternoon she had a sense of deep relief-and, being human, a wee bit of hurt vanity. Jobetta had taken her news so differently from what she had expected-did not seem to care at all that she was leaving Fern River
 She did not realize that in the girls experience, in the spellbound glamour of the first romance in the fascination of listening to the plans for the June wedding and for the lit- tie rose-hung bungalow where the fairy prince and the awakened sleep ing beauty were to set up housekeep- ing, Jobetta had thought of nothing else; that in her exaltation of joy over her dear Miss Susie's happiness self simply did not exist. But the next morning when she went to the
Arizona republican., 1921-12-04
By N. JESSIE lElTcB

It was only after the new baby be gan to cut its teeth, when it was seven months old, that its mother realized how very little she knew about teeth.
 It was the motherly woman in the big gray house across the street who gave her a little friendly lecture one afternoon about teeth in general and her own baby's teeth in particular And the young mother was very glad in the days that followed to profit by the experience of this older, wiser mother.
 Gladys. my dear. don't be deceived by what people will tell you about these first teeth of baby's not being important. They must be well cared for. otherwise bacteria will reach their roots and bring about conditions that will prove injurious to the per- manent teeth when they appear"
 How the Teeth Appear
 ''And when do the permanent teeth appear?" asked Gladys, who was still child to the woman across the street.
 Generally between the sixth and seventh years" said Mrs. Grant, who was the woman in the big gray house.
 The baby's first teeth. the ones he Is triumph antly displaying now, are the two lower central incisors. Be- tween the eighth and twelfth months he will probably cut his two upper central incisors, and also the two upper lateral incisors. After the twelfth month come the lower lateral incisors, then the four anterior mo- lars. some time before his sixteenth month.'
 'The poor darling. Such dreadful names for teeth,' said his mother. Please tell me what incisors and mo- lars are.'
 My son isn't a dentist for nothing. smiled the older mother. What didn't know about teeth in his baby hood I have learned from him since he grew up.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-04

Copyright, 1921. by w. Werner,
 ''In the heart of every one of us is . sleeping beauty waiting her awak- ening." said the little school teacher earnestly. AS in the old fairy tale, it may be the Prince of Love that gives the awakening kiss" she went on In a glowing tone. But it is not always so. Sometimes it is the kind ling touch of ambition that fires one - 10 noble effort. Sometimes the in Spiration of some great achievement that cuickens hidden talent we have scarcely guessed at; sometimes the tugle call to right a wrong or to Spend ones self in service for others. The manner of awakening is not our choice Our responsibility is this, ' she paused a moment to give empha- sis to her concluding words, that when the prince comes the beauty within. rubbing the sleep from her eyes. shall arise in awakened life and action"
 Her young people had listened as they always listened when their dear Miss Susie told a story. but their riv- eted attention was more from their worship of her than because of any responsive thrill to what she was say ing. the significance of her words merely brushing the surface of their minds.
 Il didn't get it across. was Susie Earmons own disappointed way of putting it. Then she saw Jobetta Aliens face.
 Iii was a dark little face under a dusly mass of black hair, for sum mer sun did not burn or freckle Jo- betta's skin. It tanned it brown-a sharp-featured. unchecked face that until the revealing moment Miss Harmon had judged unattractive. But now a warm. rich color glowed upon the thin cheeks The girls big brown eyes had a new-lighted briiliance. A trembling eagerness transformed the homeiy mouth. Had the beauty with in really awakened, wondered the school teacher, or had 1t merely stirred in its sleep?
 At the close of school that day with a rush of spirits the others hastened
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had been the only immediate opening and, having spent her last cent in the
 world on her education. Miss Harmon
 could not afford to wait.
 Meanwhile in the wooded stretches along the country road she trudged to and from school The early fall
 golden rod and wild asters, the fat, waxy stars of the dogwood had given
 place to glowing sumac and flaming maple. Tn turn the autumn sunset brilliance had burned itself out with falling cinders of November's dead, brown leaves. Then came the winter afterglow of shining, dazzling snow and the deepsthroated roar of the air tight stove in. the little schoolroom, where Miss Susie and Jobetta some times fingered into her short winter days drab dusk.
 Little by little In the intimate talks that followed the eager boring over books Miss Susie learned what Jobet- ta's life had been. The oldest of sev- eral children, she had never had a child's carefree happiness herself. AL ways had there been a baby to mind; always her mother to help in endless household tasks and endless nending and alarming. But 1t was not the work and care put upon her small shoul- ders that had been the real tragedy of the girls fourteen years. IT was that Jobetta was different
 By one of those mysteries that no human mind can fathom. one of those shining miracles of birth that no law of heredity can explain in the remote country wilds, in an ignorant, com monplace family, shiftless, without ambition, was born soul of innate refinement, delicate sensibilities and ardent longings.
 In her studies Jobetta was far be- hind girls of her age The little red brown schoolhouse hsd not always
 been open, and often when it had her
 mothers need of her had kept her out weeks at time. But her keen intel 1igence was like newly sharpened
 blade. And now that Christobel and
 Clarissa-eVen the two-year- tod
 dler Lancelot-were old. enough to
 mind themselves, and Clementina had
Arizona republican., 1921-12-04

Education consists in knowing what to unlearn." This statement is made by one of the characters in a clever novel of the season. 'The aca- denlic mind is the curse of party politics, the results of theories ac- quired at second hand. too much classical education, and too little common sense.'
 Sometimes we gauge our own in- feilisence by what we have studied or read. We forget that examining Erings indigestion, which in turn pre- SiSposeS to serious inorganic trouble. AS in the physcal system, in the men taI. too
 Study and reading furnish us with material knowledge. But not until we nave used thought and reason does il become really ours. Not until then is il safe for us to insist on using the thoughts of others How can we be sure that they are fitted to the par
Arizona republican., 1921-12-04
-FooLsH HABITS THAT SPREAD oIsEAsE--- MAKING UP' EXERCISE

the balance should be restored i: possible the next day.
 If you have lost a certain amount Of sleep one night. you usually tr. to make up for 1t the next. If the morning or afternoon exercise has had to be omitted, an extra amount should be taken as soon as possible.
 But to let it all go to the very end of the week is absurd. It any attempt is sincerely made to make up the exercise at such a time. the benefits of exercise would be lost Rather would the individual be harmed by such methods. for he would fatigue himself and lay him self open to easy infection because of lowered powers of resistance. It is ideal to make the day, not the week, the unit in which all duties are performed
 There is an example of which I heard in a college iu this locality. Certain of the college men had neg lected to attend gymnasium classes during the school term. According
Arizona republican., 1921-12-04
HOME NURSING and
 HEALTH HINTS
Mainly About MoIars
Position of the Teeth

. VT kffS G0An
 The fucisors are the central teeth, there being four in each jaw. The canine teeth are the pointed teeth. and there are two in each jaw, one on either side of the incisors. Then the anterior molars. known also as the bi- cuspids. are behind the canine teeth. and the posterior molars are behind the anterior molars.'
 Why do some babies get their teeth so slowly2' asked Gladys, sew ing busily on her boys new sleeping suits.
 Very often delay in cutting the teeth is due to poor nutrition" said the other woman. Though I am sure there is nothing in your baby's ap- pearance to indicate under-nourish- ment"
 No: he healthy little soul. isn't he:" smiled his mother, thinking of the way in which her small sons weight crept satisfactorily along in just eats and sleeps and smiles and gurgles."
 Effect on Permanent Teeth
 And that Is exactly what healthy babies should do.' said her compan- ion. But speaking of teeth, don't forget that, though the permanent teeth do not appear through the gums until your child is six or seven years cid, they begin to form in the gums in earliest infancy. And if the milk teeth are lost too soon, the shape and condition of the cavities through which the teeth come and in which their roots remain may be altered so as to interfere with the shape and normal condition of the permanent teeth.''
 T shall institute tooth brush drill with my small son as soon as he has enough teeth to brush" said the younger mother.
 And he will thank you for it when he is older. Too many mothers neglect their children's first teeth.'' said Mrs. Grant.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-04
CRIMES OF
 COMEDY
By JOHN BRICK

Funny? Of course. they're funny. That's what makes them so awful to live with, Why. tell you, the gloom of a chronic crepe-hanger would be easier to stand. They're funny and | they know it.
 Know what they're doing? Of course, they do. They know just how much they're plaguing me all the everlasting time. You two little fools, you won't stay in your cage (they slide out the place where you put their seed cup in)-well, if you want your freedom, why don't you fly away? The windows open No, l don't bother to shut it down: or, rather, shut it if you want. There, they always sneak back in just in l time"
 1 This diatribe was addressed half to
 me, half to a pair of little green parrakeets, soft-eyed. innocent look | ing patterns of propriety as they preened themselves on the window sill.
 Why don't you give them away?" It was the natural thing to ask. Then, 1 truly, as if they did not choose to l permit an answer, they began their deafening chatter. Their owners lips
 moved but her words were completely drowned Nevertheless, I managed to uH0orSIanO, w no WOulQ Idhr Ln6Iu 1 That's what they always do," my | hostess finally went on, very time
 I open the door to speak with any 1 one; that is unless it's Mrs. Slyfield.
 the woman who always says I never said aye yes, or no!' So, of course,
 she talks all the enduring time. In terrupt her? Never! They know want them to. I think they admire her voice because it's so like their | own"
 But they didn't squawk when came?" I protested. hurt at the inn piled discrimination.
 1 Didn't they? Then they must have been-yes, they were-tearins open the paper bag I left the rice in. It's all over the kitchen. I have to keep
 everything in glass. And the DOW der box on my bureau---they'll be into
 that by now. Mag's the worst, but Liz (he's really the Tommy bird, you knew), alwayI backs her up. He l keeps watch while she does the dirty
 work He'll perch on the percolator
 at breakfast time-right up here in the hot g;ass-so's to let her know
 she can wreck my toast when I an
 swer the telephone"
 'Why not wiring their necks?" I Isuggested wickedly.
 Oh, the indignant look from all three of them. Didn't know it was | all in fun?
Arizona republican., 1921-12-04
Just Between Ourselves
 BY DELLA E. STEWART

ticular use to which we are putting them?
 Undigested facts are the cause of much present trouble. We have grown so used to the sight of adver- tisements of 'predigested food that we are demanding predigested thought as well. Why trouble to think out our own problems? Let the labor leader, the lecturer. the edi- torial writer, do this for us. Why bother our own brains?
 Just-becausA Because no one else knows as well our own environment and our own rights and our own needs as we do ourselves. Because our in dividual arc has some use of it's own in the cycle of advancement Be- cause unused brains atrophy-grow useless and flabby.
 Purely academic knowledge is use less. but it isn't all. We must add to it life's teaching, else often it becomes q snare instead of a blessing.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-04

ly. when the term ended they were pronounced deficient because of ab- sences. They were, however. al lowed to make up'' their term re- quirements by passing a rigid eX- animation in what are known as track and gymnastic exercises. They went through these examinations in one day.
 The result was that several lost as much as ten pounds and all were in a thoroughly fatgued condition Although, fortunately. none hap pened 10 catch" any disease. all had laid themselves open to infeC tion by such a foolish course of a tivity. l. was foolish to attempt 70 make up" a years exercise in one day and foolish for the gymnasium officials Co require SD strenuous an examination in so short a time
 As a general rule. it -s distinctly uuhealrLful either 10 ovCrdo or un- derdo work. play. rest or sleep Mod cration jn all things iS rule par tcularly important il this realm |.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-04
 PARABLE OF THE PLAYTHINGS

method of instruction would not be- come too popular.
 Nevertheless, there is something to be said for it.
 When my friends who have auto mobiles take me driving, and I own more cars than any other man in town, then do comfort myself. ana say.
 am not wholly to be censured for hus cultivating good graces in the lives of my neighbors. Too easily might they grow Aristocratick, and proud of their Privilege.
 I am a most virtuous man in help ing them to cultivate their generous sentiments. They live the better and enjoy life the more by reason of the sharing of their good things, and I will assist them in the distribution. I am teaching my neighbors to be Un- selfish
Arizona republican., 1921-12-04
Chicken

Marshal Foch, fed chicken two and three times day since he came to America, asks if we ever eat any thing else.
 Cheer up, Ferdinand, Serving chicken to a guest is the way Ameri- cans manifest honest hospitality Like potato salad, without which no church supper is complete. You must admit, our chicken Is deiectable. Unlike England, which invented spicy sauces to camouflage bad cooking.
 Some kind-hearted person should try the marshal on buekwheat cakes and homemade apple pie, distinc- lively American dishes. If Foch misses them, he goes home without knowing the real America.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-04
Watching the Parade
BY JOHN PILGRIM

should De risn" eu .urh tbino she eusedtos being too right
 of of the usso au Before be real sure that you want found a church" be done % , h.t..n our lawyers willing make compromise TOT o;ns he spirit detun but Old Doctor sans 'o note omise . cent"
 wrong" he said to "i know you are acting buty vrong seod!'
 know it well Old Doctor Hssns knows of from friend mine that he told the truth Doctor checked and knows .st his friend have to fight out on that inc therei no compromise.
 told the old doctor 1t isn't matter all be snoethed fara will a a little further'
 the blood . He hammered long enough sIastn the Now we're angry will make of more eindeee rich ha already.
 nnernost opinion I'll tell you cou pie ofred-sy old fools.
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dignant sllrieks.

dignant shrieks.
 Another dawn. Nor fur nor feather marked the scene O. grewsome con- flict. Another night, and it broke out again. But that squirrel had brought it down to present times. I knew him. He supped on thorn apples just outside my window while I supped within; he slept in the oak. Detective work with an opera glass in the redwood having yielded no clue, I resolved to shadow him.
 The mystic hour between day and night crept on. Lights glimmered in the house. On the instant that mysterious bird uttered a cry of triumphant accusation. There was no mistaking it; justa S there was no
Arizona republican., 1921-12-04

vail from the son of my son And when then mothers entered, behold, the daughter of the daughter of Ke- turah had all the playthIngs, and she held them high above the head Of her little cousin.
 And when keturah and the wife Of my son inquired concerning the trouble, and the little lad made loud lamentation, the daughter of the daughter of Keturah spake with great Consciousness of Virtue. And she said: I am teaching my little cousin to be Unselfish.
 That is one way to do 1t. and the way in which it hath been done from the days of Eve down. albeit Ke- turah knoweth not how to do 1t in that way.
 And l smiled much at the way in which the daughter of the daughter of Ketura taught her coupn to be uuselGsh, and I hoped that that
Arizona republican., 1921-12-04
Diamonds

A gown decorated with 75.o0o. dia- monds and pearls. insured for s5,- 900. 900. is worn in London by Mrs Smith Wilkinson. IL is the most cost ly garment ever worn by a woman, surpassing even Cleopatra and the of Bagdad-
 Mrs. Smith Wilkinson is 5s years old.
 She probably would give you her jeweled gown if you could restore her youth.
 Diamonds make no impression on Father Time and Mother Nature.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-04
Corners

About 1i.000. coo foreign born lived in the United States last year, says the census That Is less than one in eight of our whole population.
 Immigrants bring Uncle Sam his new blood, giving him more steam when at work In a growing country like ours, they are as necessary zs milk for a baby.
 Everyone living in United States, except red Indians. had foreign-born ancestors. The immigrant of today is the American citizen of tomorrow. Speed the change. Treat them kindly.