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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-29
Harding's Christmas

President Harding spent a quiet Christ
mas With Mrs. Harding, he attended
church in the morning.
They had their Christmas dinner in the
evening at the White House There were no
guests, and they spent the evening quietly
at home.
Former President Wilson had as his guest
his daughter, Miss Margaret Wilson,.
There was Christmas tree at the Wilson
home and the usual exchange of Sits. The
former president was in good spirits and re"
ceived callers during the day.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-29
Modern Santa

Acting as the agent Of Santa Claus and
dressed in his native costume Sergeant An
eel Chambers, worlds highest parachute
jumper stationed at Post field Fort Sill,
Okla, came through the clouds lowering over
tkat ;eld late Sunday in De Haviland air.
plane and leaped 1900 feet with pack of
toys upon his back. The parachute descent
was witnessed by 1000 officers, civilians
and children. who gathered to witness Saint
Nicholas new and most unique mode Of
travel.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-29

Two good excuses TO! the absence of Christ
mas egg-nog-prohibition and the present
price of eggs-Harrisburg Telegraph.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-29

ftFSIIUR Cup
A new style in headgear for army officers,
designed by the quartermaster general and
known in the army as the "Pershing cap"
has been approved by Secretary Weeks.
Specifications show it to conform in color
and material to the style now in use but to
b. considerably different in size and shape.
The visor is longer and extends farther
from the forehead with a slope of SIS degrees
fro-l the vertical. The top is an inch bread
err, with the slack cloth crown, and is slight
ly higher than that of the cap now being
worn.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-29

1, seven; =, lotion; 3, rorqual; 4, rose;
Philadelphia; 6, Monte Carlo; 7, red sa
phires; s, rye; 9, 500; 10, sandstone.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-08-05
HOW ONE MAN LOCKS
CAR AGAINST THIEVES

A half dozen men were discussing
the Thompson car robbery ON the
street, Wednesday,, when a car owner
ventured the opinion that the best way
to flock" car to keep it from being
stolen is to remove the distributor
plug. "Takes too long," remarked some
one. Can be done in three seconds"
returned the first man, and he proved
it right there on a car parked at the
side of the street.
Professional thieves have but little
trouble, it is said, in picking the car
lock, but they don't go around with a
bunch Of distributor plugs
Il don't lock my garage" said man
present, "but I would like to see the
man who could get my car. The door
hinges squeak so loud my wife would
hear them any time Of night, and oil
don't help them any"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-08-05
ASSESSMENTS LOWERED

r. M. Brown, chairman of the town
OF hurry, was in the city on town
business Tuesday. He came especially
to investigate a reported called meet
ing for the organization Of a Joint
school district to include territory in
the towns OF hurry and Weirgor. He
said he found no sound basis for such
call. He also said that the ASSESS
ments Of lands and timber in his town
OF large nonresident owners had been
greatly reduced over last years as
sessments which caused considerable
trouble and litigation, and that he be-
lieved this years assessments were
generally satisfactory, Or that the de-
termination and action of the board
OF review were. He personally went
over and inspected a considerable por-
ton Of the holdings of the American
immigration Co.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-08-05
%E;&zESz&<.

William Moore, Wausau, was awak-
ened by smoke to find his home
ablaze He rushed up burning stair
way to save four children, making two
trips. He was burned severely. The
home was destroyed with loss esti-
mated at $4,000.
Miss Lenore TowIe of Merrill is the
first Lincoln county teacher nominated
by the county superintendent of
schools as member of the cOunty's
delegation of eight to attend the
teachers camp at the state fair in
Milwaukee.
Gerhard Grauer was ordained a
minister in st. PauPs Lutheran
church, Wausau, his father, the Rev.
e. G. Grauer of Wausau, and his I'M
Gle, the Rev. C. L. Grauer of Fond du
Lac, having charge of the service.
Miners employed at the Florence
iron mine, at Florence, have been
placed on three-day a week basis,
and another wage cut of 10 per cent,
effective Aug. /, has been made; &C
cording to announcement from the Off
ces of the Florence Iron Co. The men
have been working five days week.
Miss jeanette Schields, teacher in
Wausau schools for 80 years, with nc
absences from duty during that Pc
riod, is dead at the age of CT years,
due to extreme heat. After giving up
the teaching profession she travelled
considerably in this country and in
Europe.
The annual encampment of Madi-
sons cavalry troop will be held at
Camp Douglas, Aug. to Aug. 20, in
stead of Aug. % to Sept. %, the adju-
tant generals Office announced, The
change in date was due to reorganiza-
ton of the regular army now under
way.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-08-05
CONSTABLE APPOINTED.

Atty. CarOw appeared before the city
council Tuesday night and asked for
the appointment of an officer who can
serve papers outside of the city, ex-
planning that situation arose during
the week when there was no one in
the city qualified to serve legal papers
outside the city. The mayor took cog
nizance OF the matter by appointing
VIM. Dodson, ex-sheriff, to the office
of constable. At the same time the may
or took occasion to fill vacancy in
the office of justice Of the peace by ap-
pointing Matt Edgar, who has served
in that capacity In the past. Both APP
pointments were confirmed by the
council.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-08-05
U I|;.,.,l11;!,I,I!'l
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WATER

WATER
They tell waters harmless the universal drink,
and in mighty handy in the BATH kitchen-sink.
We it, smiln' meekly, the bosom of the lake,
but, sometimes she's deadly collin rattlesnake!
The dam above the city, spreads destruction when it
busts-and tempered steel is HELPLESS in the moisture,
where it rusts There's demons in the under-tOw,
that drags out to sea,-whch that these here
quiet things is dangerous can be.
Where the thunders of Niagara mocks the bOomn' of
the skes-o where the roarin rivers sweep the valleys
they rse,-you ask the flynn thousands they
in wild ALARM if they think little water is entirely
free from harm!
It's the with Chrstianity-as calm twiights
hour-as peaceabe angels yet Hercuean it it's power
and once it gets Roadway it's everastin'
path will sweep the world fer Jesus like the waters in
their wrath
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-08-05
Was He Hungry

A Chicago preacher intended to
write for his text: "t.e We therefore
steadfast," The printer translated the
hieroglyphics BE We there for
breakfast"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-08-05
ATTENDS CONFERENCE.

Deputy Conservation Warden Soule
went to Madison Wednesday to attend
conference Of wardens and deputy
wardens. The situation in the admin
.istration Of game laws has been in a
rather chaotic condition for some
months, owing to an unusually limit
ed amount Of funds for the purpose. 1t
is proposed to reorganize the force of
deputies, or at least to revivify the
enforcement Of the laws for the pro-
lection of game.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-08-05

Big dance in farmers club hall at
Holcombe on the evening of Aug. 8 IT.
The New York herald., 1921-01-09
rom Americas Plains and London's Drawing Rooms
It's Fun to Write About Children

Connecticut newspaper man whom he
had succeeded in puzzling, to tell me
his secret and let me die happy. There
isn't any secret" he said with a laugh,
but whatever 1t is, Mr.. Interviewer, Z"
he added In way that left me more
puzzled than ever. you'll have to
guess It, Won't, you please tell me
why so many people are curious about
this phase Of my book? New Eng
landers have asked me dozens of
times to tell them the name Of the
family / had in mind. They seem to
feel that Laughing House has pc
culiar New England significance. As
matter Of fact, I might have chosen
New York State as my locale without
affecting my story one way or the
other. I simply chose New England
because l have lived there for many
years and have an intimate knowledge
of the people and the country"
Nevertheless. any one reading your
book" 1 said, "is at once aware that
you are writing about an existing
group of people-people who are evil
IDENTIFY well known-and 1t is natural
IHdL your IcducIS SllOuiu Uc CuiiOuos
Which Minnegerode answered by smil-
ing.
Speaking of New England" he re-
sumed, II received a letter the other
day which represents either a very
pathetic circumstance or the latest
kind of con game. I'm not sure
which. The letter came from Florida
and the writer, who described himself
as an elderly man who had lived In
New England most of his life, said
that he was incurably i'll of diabetes,
that my story. which he had recently
read. had made him so homesick for
his native Connecticut that he wanted
to return at once, and wound up by
asking me to furnish the cost Of trans
portation!"
In dedicating his book to his heroine,
isabelle" Minnegerode has done an
unusual thing. 1 ask him about 1t.
why shouldn't an author dedicate his
book to his heroine? Nobody ever does
1t and yet 1t seems a natural thing to
do. There have been dedications to
The New York herald., 1921-01-09

side you.' Cardigan had explained,
you'll go like that!' He snapped
forefinger and thumb to drive the fact
home"
Knowing exactly his condition, Kent
gives the reader another thrill by con-
Tossing that he. and not the man he
has taken in as prisoner, who was
confined in the strong cells that Kent
himself had carefully planned, was
the murderer of one John Barkley.
The reader learns that Kent's con
fession" Is nothing but a lie-a lie
to set free McTrigger, whom Kent
thought guilty. but who had, at one
time, saved his life. Now that he was
to die he felt that he could, through
his lie, repay a debt. But the doctors
diagnosis proved to be wrong. Kent
will recover, only to find himself be-
tween the devil and the deep sea- If
he can prove his innocence 1t means
imprisonment for perjury; II not, he
must hang.
And then Marette comes into the
story. She visits Kent while the doc
tors sentence of death still affects his
mind. She laughs at him. She calls
him a splendid liar and then tells him.
that she knows that neither he nor
McTrigger killed John Barkley. Then:
think IL you lived very
long I should love you"
This beats the doctor Kent decides
not to die but to live to be loved by
the beautiful. fiery Marette. which he
does. But not for several pagesl For
she came from the valley of silent
men and he had to evade the law and
travel to the northland. through the
living hell of the sulphur country
right into Marette's own land and to
her people.
In THE Valley of Silent Men" James
Oliver Curwood holds the helpless
reader suspended In midair and then
suddenly drops him, only to yank him
up again. You will find that you can
fall In love much quicker with a girl
of the north but that 1t takes more
time to make her fall in love with
you. You've got to fight for her, pro-
tect her, share her every hatred and
be her ideal cave man from the start.
That's enough Of the story. II Cur
wood doesn't look out he will be re-
sponsfble for an many million cases of
palpitation Of the heart as Harold Bell
Wright. j. A. Q.
The New York herald., 1921-01-09

my pipe, the friend that has lit IN
many a dark hour to my wife, with
out whose encouragement and support
I should never have finished this book,
to my father, whose guidance has been
responsible for whatever success I
have achieved to my mother, whose
understanding mind has helped me to
triumph in many a bitter struggle to
my dog, friend Of friends, companion
on many joyous pilgrimage into
the country, whose sympathy-a trait
which he possesses in a greater de-
gree than most human beings-means
everything In the world to me- &C.
all of them In good taste, perhaps, but,
oh, so conventional. Books have been
dedicated to every one except police
men, politicians. iongshoremen ana
trained fieas. Why not dedication
to a heroine? If an author thinks
enough to make her the leading lady
Of his cast, why not hand her still an
other bouquet"
Especially" I asked, "if she is
THAT may have something to do
with it," said Minnegerode with a
laugh.
IF it ever becomes popular to dedi-
cate a book to ones heroine" he con-
tinued, I'VE may see some interesting
variations. We may see dedication
To Luella, whom created in felici-
tous moment and whose prototype in
real life (since l am young man and
unmarried) I am not averse to meet
ing; or a, dedication To Genevieve
whose defiance of the villainous Nc
Gregor in Chapter II was as daring
a deed as I have ever imagined But
I'd better cut this out" Minnegerode
added, "lest in your article you accuse
the author of Laughing House Of an
overfondness of the frivolous" Not
an overfondness, just fondness, we'd
say And what's the harm in that?
Another book by Meade Mime
gerode. "The Big Year" is soon to be
published.
The New York herald., 1921-01-09
Story Out of the Northland

THE VALLEY OF SILENT MEN. BY
James Oliver Curwood. Cosmopolitan
Book Corporation.
Sergeant Jim Kent Of the Royal
Northwest Mounted Police was about
to die. That was the diagnosis Of DR..
Cardigan, who found that the aorta
was so weakened from the bullet that
pierced the chest Of Kent, that its
outer wall bulged out In the form Of a
sack, just as the inner tube of an
automobile tire bulges through the
outer casing when there is a blow
out.
"'And when that sack gives way in
The New York herald., 1921-01-09

Jack was selling his fathers stock to
rustlers and planning with diabolic
cunning to fix the blame on Wilson
Moore. Wade broke in upon a meet
ing of Buster Jack with the rustlers
and after killing three men in ter
rife gun fight he made Jack promise
to give up all plans for marrying
Columbine. 1t would be unfair to the
reader to tell what happened when
Jack did not keep his promise. for
Zane Grey has constructed story
which holds the interest from the first
page to the last.
1t is Wild West romance with
enough gun play in it to furnish many
thrills, but 1t is much more, and this
explains why Zane Grey has and de-
serves such a large following. He
knows the West. and both his pictures
of ranch life and Of herds Of elk
browsing in the forest have the stamp
Of the authentic upon them. AS a
character Hell-Bent Wade ranks but
little below Cooper's Leather Stocking.
The New York herald., 1921-01-09

shenanigans. and secondly because
when II is we'll done, as Ernest Poole
did 1t in The Harbor,' real character
work is the result. But the first reason
is sufficient. We writer's must have
our fun!"
There has been much speculation on
the part of reviewers as to the iden-
tity of Shirley House. Shirley, Conn.,,
the Laughing House" in which Min
negerode's story is laid. William Lyon
Phelps, who, incidentally, called the
book charming, said in his review:
"The protagonist is Connecticut fam
lily whose identity may be guessed"
The writer, who has gone the length
and breadth of Connecticut as a news
paper correspondent, hasn't any the
ories at all. Connecticut looks small
on the map, but there are many
Laughing Houses" in it. Minnegerode
gives one some clues, but only a good
detective can do anything with them.
Near Shirley House, says the author.
is a little hotel, where holds forth a
parrot which is in the habit of greet
ing visitors with raucous Get to h
out Of here" There is also, hard by,
the statue Of Revolutionary soldier
surrounded by ominous looking cannon
balls. AS for the house itself, for
two hundred years it has been in
habited by the family that built 1t, and
the door latches are fingered to-day
by people bearing the same name as
those who installed them. There is an
enormous open fireplace; on the walls
of the dining room there are pictures
Of the family ancestry, including a
member who disgraced the house by
siding with the King during the
Revolutions; there are old fashioned
knockers on the doors, two peacocks
strut about in the back yard, and there
is cat named Hecuba which is
reputed to have had one hundred
kittens. Now, you amateur detec-
tives, tell us the name of the family
that inhabits Minnegerode's Laughing
House!" You can't? For shame! All
those detective stories you have read
haven't done you bit Of good!
I asked Minnegerode. as an ex-
The New York herald., 1921-01-09
BY E. A.


After had finished Laughing
thor Meade Minnegerode, a man who
accepts the antics Of boys and girls
like mellow old sage. to be an elderly
gentleman whose frolicsome grandchil-
dren had inspired the merry child epi-
sodes that one finds in his novel. Mary
Elizabeth of the heavenly lisp; Newell,
the nine-year- lion tanner; Billy
the effervescent and the other young
sters he writes about are the children
of his children" thought, "and night
ly they sit on his knee fondling his
whiskers as he tells them jolly bed
time stories" Imagine my surprise,
then, to find Minnegerode young man
who only a few years back was a
student at Yale cheering his head off
for the football team-I'm sure he
cheered at the games, for he talked
affecttonately Of the Bowl-and passing
or fiunking examinations, whichever it
happened to be. Can aside, In the
manner Of the old fashioned drama,
I'm sure he passed.)
It's more fun than circus to
write about kids" said Minnegerode.
THAT is why + presented my char
acters at the beginning of the story as
children and let them grow up before
my readers eyes. Wherever it is
feasible believe in this method of
telling a story. first (and this is a
selfish reason), because the author.
calling upon his childhood memories,
has the time of his life making the
tots Of his yarn perform all sorts of
The New York herald., 1921-01-09

part In the affair. The scandal results
In depriving Anton of the sacred role.
as he Is believed to be the father Of
the child. The enmity of the village
is aroused against him and martyr
dom is threatened for him and the
woman also. Anton maintains silence
and cares for the woman. being willing
to take the sins of others upon him.
self. But simon's wife. Ruth, learns
the truth and tells the story, and all
ends happily. Anton Is reinstated In
his role and the village rejoices
Robert Hillyer. author OF THE Five
Books of Youth and Alchemy
(Brentano's), has temporarily aban-
doned his position as instructor at
Harvard to study for two years In
Denmark, as the result of receiving
one of the first scholarships awarded
an American by the scandinavian
Foundation.
The New York herald., 1921-01-09
McKenna Heroine
a Friend of Sonia

LADY LILITH. BY Stephen McKenna.
George H. Doran Company.
McKenna has created another fas-
cinating young figure. who while re-
sembling Sonia has an individuality of
her own, and who enchains by her
vagaries and whimsies however we
may disapprove McKenna endows her
With far too much cleverness and wit
70 make her convincing. Imagine, for
instance, a girl Of sixteen talking In
this fashion:
you talk just like Fatty Webster's
limitations Of you! That's so clever
OF you! But why do you do it? You've
arrived. There's no need to be ec-
centric now. But perhaps you've grown
into your own pose? In that case
you're right to express yourself in
your own medium. Life is simply
self-expression, isn't it? The discovery
of the Ego. the refinement of the Ego,
the presentation of the Ego. 1t would
never do to be submerged by that kind
of thing I'm always so sorry for roy
atty"
Lady Lilith is Lady Barbara Neave,
daughter of much tried and long
suffering British Ambassador who can
deal with affairs far easier than with
his own wiful daughter. She gets
into one scrape after another and
finally gives ball in her own name,
receiving by herself, unchaperoned, a
thing unheard Of in London society,
where debutante is always spoken of
as Mrs. So-and-So's girl"
LADY Ra arho 10 coptov,, 80
Sonia and O'Rane, who appear oc-
casionally. and O'Rane makes a pre-
diction to his group of friends when
their university days close:
within ten years five of us will be
married and five will be dead, one will
have to cut the country. one will have
lost his money, one will achieve fame,
and one. and not more, will make great
money" But 1t took the unexpected
war to bring all these things true.
There exists no young lady in Lon
don society who could have done and
said all the things Lady Barbara does
in this narrative, but the story might
be called composite Of the extrava-
CANT. McKenna sketches, but does not
picture, present day English society
He is one Of the social elect, but he
uses too small a brush and fails to
convey a picture of life and manners
at all comparable with the novels of
Bulwer Lytton or Disraeli.
Interest deepens when Lady Barbara
develops conscience, and there COM
mences contest of wills-her own to
do justice to the man she has led on
and flouted, and her lovers determina-
ton to have done with her forever.
What she did girl might do for love,
but for conscience sake-we are not
convinced. The book ends with moth
ing solved, and a new love dawning in
Barbara, and 1t is plain that new
trilogy is impending in the Sonia man
ner. But for one thing we can rejoice
to learn that Sonia and her blind hero
husband are very happy, so doubtless
Lady Barbara will be brought safely
into port some day.