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New Britain herald., 1921-07-12
INVENTS GRAIN CRADLE.

Morgantown, w. Va, July 12.-A large demand for grain cradles still ex- .sts, it was discovered rectntly, when George w. Brown, of Grafton, obtain ed patent on a knock-down cradle which is said to be a vast improve rent over the old style, still used ill the mountains of the state where a reaper is impracticable
The Washington herald., 1921-01-21
PHOTO-NEWS PAGE
Deductions of Harvey Hunt
FRIDAY, JANUARY Al, Is2I
By Philip Francis Nowlan.

pointments of the room. 1t was
early fall and warm breeze
breathed into the sick room.
Mrs. Derrivale believed the GRIM
inal Investigator to be a psychic
student. He. had been summoned
by her sister, Mrs. Wonston Cald-
well, who was loath to believe IN
the spirituality Of the weird whis-
the very night before while staying
with Mrs. DerriYale.
They began about a month after
my boy died" said the invalid. You
know, Mr.. Hunt, he went to France
with the Marines. He was wound
ed at Chateau Thierry and never
recovered.
He fingered for several weeks,
and l. was determined my prayers
should save him. even though they
all told me from the beginning
there was no hope. 1t was then,
yon know, that ! sold the old man
sion on Fifth avenue and bought
this one. did it for him. His
father died just a year ago, you
know, and l didn't want him to
come home to old memories. Now
l just live here by myself with old
Justine-she's been in the family
for years-and OCCASIONALLY Bertha
comes to spend the night with me-"
She indicated Mrs. Caldwell.
And what does your son talk to
you about in these midnight vista
tiOns?" Harvey Hunt asked gently.
'Oh. it's terrible. Mr.. Hunt, the
way he pleads with me to buy back
the old Fifth avenue home. He says
his spirit can't rest peacefully there
while it's occupied by strangers. l
try. oh. so hard. to make him un-
derstand I'm going to buy it back
from the man who sold me this
house. but he wants 50 much more
money. and l have to wait until I
can sell certain securities to give
him what he asks. But it seems
that though the psychic laws per
nit him to communicate with me,
he cant hear me, no matter how I
concentrate my mind on what I'm
saying"
And you say these manifesto
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IV.
HARVEY HUNT believed that the
= = letter from the anonymous
owl" in the professional bank
ruptCy case was sincere for this
reason: II it had been sent by a
tricky person with a real malicious
intent, that person would have been
clever enough to sign a seemingly
true name. Back of the name owl
he sensed the psychological reac-
ton of a straightforward mind to-
ward the dramatic when engaged in
an act of unaCcustomed secrecy. BY
the same reasoning he was inclined
ia believe there was some direct
connection between the word owl"
and the mans real name. The
phrase bill Of goods" indicated the
mercantile mind, probably a COM
petitOr made desperate by the un-
fair advantage Sanvine had through
his operations as fraudulent
bankrupt.
Again he argued that such a mer-
chant, fighting for the life of his
business, would be stung into using
the most modern and efficient meth
DDS Of merchandising available, in
Guiding advertising. Therefore he
looked for him first among the au-
vertisers in the local paper.
As his eye ran down the list of
advertisers, with the thought of
FOWL in his mind, the name Wal.
lace Knowles naturally appeared to
him as Wallace Knowles. In hunt
ing for fictitious name with which
to sign the letter he had simply
taken the three central letters out
of his own name.
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tions come as whispers in the dark,
and always about midnight?' Hunt
queried.
Yes" said the invalid. but
they're distinct. Even Bertha has
to admit that. now that she's heard
thom. They just float down on me
out of the darkness"
And never until after she hears
Justine go up to her room" sup
pIemented her sister with a quick
little glance in which were mingled
half suspicion and half belief in
the weird phenomenon.
Harvey Hunt agreed to come and
hear the disembodied voice that
night with Mrs. Derrivale and her
sister.
Come he did; but he came to ar
rest a clever scoundrel who did
not hesitate to prey upon a woman's
most sacred instincts and memories.
The answer will appear tomorrow.
Can you dsduee from the foregoing
facts, Harvey Hunt did. who this
scoundrel was, and how the psychic
vhisperings were produoedl
Copyright, 1920, BY Public Ledger Co..
The Washington herald., 1921-01-21
The Horoscope
For Today
January Al, 1921.

Again astrologers report an un-
fortunate day, although the infiu-
enCes are less conflicting than they
have been, for Saturn alone rules
strongly for evil, while Neptune is
adverse.
1t is a sway read as not favorable
to agriculturists or their interests.
Whatever has to do with profit or
sustenance obtained from the earth
is believed to be subject to the ma
lign power Of the sinister planet
Saturn.
Real estate investments made now
may not be profitable for there will
be a decline in values.
Some new difficulty over coal
mines seerEs to be presaged by the
stars and heroic remedies are fore
told
All who survice the destructive
power of Saturn, which takes away
the most valued material posses
sions, may attain the, heights of
spiritual understanding, the seers
Declare, but this is small comfort for
present-day Affections.
Neptune gives warning Of ex-
tremes OF public opinion which viii
be manifested during the coming
months. Demonstrations that may
lead to riots are foreshadowed
. Persons whose birthdate it is
should take care of the health dur
Ing the coming year. They should
not run any risks with money or
business.
Children born on this day are like
y to be high-strung and exceeding
" individual. Both girls and boys
pnobably will be talented but diff
suit to control.
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. DOUBLE ORDER OF WIVES.

A man in Colorado is trying to
get law passed to permit farmers
to have two wives. He says that
1t takes two women to do the work
properly on a farm, and inasmuch
as 1t Is impossible for a man to hire
female help in the country he
should be permitted to marry II.
This rural statesman also believes
that nothing would stimulate the
back to -the-land movement, like
polygamy, and that with the boom
that this would give our infant
Industry We should no longer have
to import farm labor from Europe.
We should raise it on the premises.
or the practicality of the plan
there can be no doubt. The Nor
mons tried 1t out a good many years
ago, and 1t worked beautifully.
Much of their prosperity is due to
the fact that every married man
had an assortment of faithful and
industrious wives working for him
without pay.
Nor can anyone say that those
times are past, and that man
cannot hire a woman with a we'd
ding ring to do the thing she
couldn't be persuaded to do for
money, for We see women making
that sort OF curious and lop-sided
bargain every day of our lives. Let
a man wave a marriage certificate
at a woman, and it hypnotizes her
so that she will get up and follow
him to the ends of the earth.
OF course when it's just half OF a
marriage certificate that he flashes
before her dazzled eyes she may not
be quite so fascinated by it, but
the mans plan for marrying a cook
and a laundress because he can't
hire them, and it saves their price
anyway, is a practical solution of
the great servant problem. Thou
sands of men can testify that they
have tried it, and that the results
were entirely satisfactory.
Why, the reason that widowers
almost invariably remarry as soon
as they decently can, Is because
they find that a wife is money in
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Borrowed Husbands
BY MILDRED X. BARBOUR.
M-The Turn of a Card.
Copyright, 1920, by The Wheeler Syndicste, Incl

You know, Gerry. it's frightful-
ly bad luck to say goodby to any
one a second tfme,'' insisted Nancy
over fve o'clock tea the following
afternoon in Burrard's hotel sitting
room, Being superstitious, 1 al
most didn't come, bHt truly want
ed to see you again because think
I've got better perspective on our
relations 'andsI won't be. as flip
pant about our farewell as I was
last week"
He looked across the table at her
gravely.
I'm glad you realized something
too. These last few days would
have brought me to my senses
pretty quickly If I hadn't already
known the state of my heart ana
mind. Nancy, it's been damnably
lonely without you. A score of
times I've been on the point of cut
ting it all out. Even yet, if you
gave the slightest sign-'
Nancy hastened to reproach him.
Gerry! It's what you've spent
years planning for that you've got
at last. Don't be a sentimental old
goose!"
of course, you're right, dear"
he said with a sigh, pushing away
his cup and lighting a cigarette.
Nancy, was almost disappointed at
his easy acquiescence-and at the
same time relieved.
Deep down in her heart there was
a little guilty feeling when she re-
membered that. at his tentative
suggestion of calling off his part
in the expedition, there had flashed
across her subconscious vision. the
face of Major Desmond.
What would everyone say-Con-
ME and Curtis and the Reeve
Lewises-h she brought Gerry back
with her after all her boasted free
dom? And Harding and the Major
What explanation could she givs
them IL she showed up with a re-
incarnated husband? = ~
OF course, there was always the
last recourse Of explaining the,
whole situation as the result of a
joke. But the joke had gone rather
far, Nancy thought, as she selected
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a bon bon from the box the Major
had sent
Have one?" she offered the up
per tray of sweets to Gerry.
He took one carelessly, bit into
it, and then looked across at his
pretty wife suspiciously.
where did you get these?" ne
demanded.
Nancy laughed.
Poor old suspicious dear! Does
he suspect another man of sending
me candy already"
Her tone was tenderly mocking,
but she found herself unable to
meet his eyes.
Burrard. however, was not sus-
picious by nature. Quiet, reserved
in his emotions, above all fair, he
never made hasty judgment.
But some inexplicable impulses
made him toss away the bon bon
and come around to Nancy's side.
I'm going to miss you damn
ably" he said, slipping his arms
around her shoulders and laying his
cheek against her hair.
She reached up a lazy hand to
touch his cheek.
Isn't it amusing" she laughed
SOLlly, just DSCduse we re parting
for long period we find each other
SO immensely desirable. And we're
on our very best behavior. If mar
ried people could only teach theSa-
selves to imagine that they were
constantly on the verge of separa-
ton. they'd be awfully nice to each
other, wouldn't they? believe
that it's only the thought of being
tORether forever that rousas FL.
demon in most of them"
His lips buried in her hair. Gerry
made no reply.
I Nancy jerked away from him pet
ulantly. 3
Don't be so nice!" she exclaimed
impatiently, Quarrel with me, ind
fault with me-anything, so I'll be
a little bit glad you're goingw
Gerry laughed and lit a cigarcst it,.
DO you think I'm fool enough
to-set you free in a world of at
tractfve. men with. a bad memory of
me? ! know precious little of wo-
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Dorothy Dix's Advice
(Copyrisht, 1870. By The wheeler Syndicate,

their pockets. BY the time a poor
man has paid an army of women
to do his cooking, and marketing.
and washing, and sewing, and
mending, and baby-tending, and all
the thousand other things that his
wife did as mere matter of course,
he is bankrupt. -,
Leaving aside, though, the prac-
tical and economic advantage of a
mans having one wife, to say moth
ing Of two Of them, who are willing
to work for their board and clothes,
and precious little Of either, we
can but speculate upon certain
other aspects OF the subject.
For one thing. IT makes us won
der IL matrimony is still, as IL was
in the beginning, a female partner
ship instead of one-woman job.
OF course, the modern woman is
strong for the domestic monopoly.
Like the jealous Turk, she can bear
no rival near the throne. She can
not endure to think OF any other
woman sharing in her husband s
affection. or taking up any of his
thoughts and interests, or dipping
into his pocketbook, and when she
hnds that there is such a one, she
halls him into the divorce court
and trades him off for the right to
pose for a wronged wife and a little
precarious slimony. All or none
is her motto. Better no husband at
all, than half or three-quarters
interest in one
Yet there probably isn't a mar
ried woman alive who hasn't had
times and seasons when she didn't
feel that being a wife was a syndi-
cate job instead OF a career for one
poor lone female creature. For II
would take a bevy of women. en-
dowed with every known charm and
virtue. to fill any average mans
ideal of the kind of wife to which
he is entitled.
! For instance. every man thinks
it is no. more than his due that he
should have a wife who is per
petually easy on the eyes, and who
is always young, and beautiful. and
charmingly dressed. Inasmuch as
nobody has yet discovered the foun-
tain Of perpetual youth, and the
years take their devastating toll of
, every woman's looks. 1t is an i'm
possibility for anyone to keep her
self a living picture, no matter how
much time and work she bestows
on touching up her handmade COM
plexion, and trying to maintain her
girlish hgure.
Every man thinks that he should
have wife who is a good cook, and
housekeeper. and a wizard who can
work miracles with pennies. and
make them do the work of dollars
He expects, when he comes home at
nights to find an orderly house,
good dinner, and children who have
been washed and dressed, and dis
ciplined into the likelihood of little
angels. But he hates a wife who
smells of the kitchen, who is frow-
sy and untidy, and who is tired
and cross. and nervous and irrita-
BILE
Every man wants a wife who is
his Chum, who reads the things he
reads, and keeps abreast of the
times, and is vivacious, and bright.
and entertaining company. SO that
an evening at home is a stimulating
experience instead of being a sure
cure for insomnia He wants a
wife who is ready to drop things
and go of to the golf links with
him, or automobiling, or on any
little jaunt that strikes his fancy
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He is bored to death by the woman
whose conversational repertoire
only reaches from the kitchen to
the nursery and back again. and
who Is more interested in a new
recipe for eggless cake than she
Is In Harding's policies, and who in
terrupts the most thrilling passage
In a play to ask him in q hoarse
Whisper II he supposes the baby
mas got its feet uncovered.
It's the impossibility of combin-
ing all of the different kinds OF
wives that a man wants in her own
propria persona that discourages the
average wife, and makes her slack
on her JOB. She could be either
OF his ideals, but she can't be them
all and in her moments of despair
she would be almost willing to
suolet the contract to various and
sundry Of her sisters. instead Of
trying to I'LL the whole bill of be-
Ing a parlor ornament, a cook
stove, a century dictionary, and q
compendium OF sports.
And 1t is because no man is real
ly satisfied with either the cook.
or the beauty. or the blue stocking.
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FEATURES, FICTION
Watch TIE Herald orowi
GOODMORNING, JUDGE!
BIZ HUDoLPH PERKINS.

skillet except a little grease. Ths
chop was gone completely and alb
soiutely.
The visitor suggested that Burt
might have taken the chop, and
Mary agreed with her. She way
laid Burt when he came back.
He denied the charge and e1-
plained that he had just come from
the lunchroom, where he got his
breakfast.
The pair began 20 fuss. and the
fuss attracted the police. who ar
rived in time TO see Burt being
pushed out Of the house amid OUT
bursts Of profanity.
Mary was arrested for swearing.
She attempted 10 Justify her con
duct by blaming Il on Burt and the
missing chop.
But IL did not 60. The court
fined her IS.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-21

6 dozen Good Quality GAL
vanized Ash Cans; no covers; f.;
regulation size. Special, s1.es
each.
$500 Cakes Swifts Borax
Laundry Soap: good general
household soap for all pur-
poses. 4Sc dozen caEesI s3.s5
case Of 100.
500 Cans Sunbrite Cleanser;
a good securing powder. spe-
ciaI, Sc can.
500 Rolls Good Quality Crepe
Toilet Paper. Special Sc roll.
As Square White Bread
Boxes; gilt lettered and trim
med. Special, csc each.
IS Heavy-quality Wash
Boilers, with copper bottoms.
Special S3.1s each.
70 Tipped Aluminium Sauce
pans with reinforced handles:
~ quart capacity. Special,
sc each.
Is Heavy Quality Aluminium
Convex Saucepans; 4-quart
capacity. Special, $1.6s each.
Is Aluminium Teapots, Soup
capacity; heat-pToof handles.
Special s1.6S each.
O. Housewares Section. Fifth floor.
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Blankets

: Pairs 76KsI Wool Blankets.
soiled. S12.55 pair werc 81.
4 Pairs T6XS4 Blankets
soiled. S13-2S PnIri were SIs.55s
. Pairs 76NS4 Wool Blankets.
soiled. $14.55 pair were so.
4 Pairs 7ONS4 Wool Blankets.
soiled. sII.55 pair were SIG,
; Pairs 7ONSI Wool Blankets.
soiled. S1255 PHIrG were sI7.
? Pairs 7OKS4 Wool Blankets.
soiled. $I3-25 pAirG were SIS.
II Pairs 6OxS4 Wool Blank
cts. soiled. $40 PaIri were sI4.
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s Pairs 72xS2 Wool Blankets.
soiled. - PsirI were sII.
4 Pairs 7OxS2 Wool Blankets
soiled. 81 pairs were SO.
Pairs 6SKSO Plaid Blankets.
soiled- $3.50 pairs were SI2-
Pairs 6SxSO Plaid Blankets.
sOIled. $3.50 pair; were SO.
Pairs 7ONSO Wool Blankets.
SO pairI were $3.50.
Pairs 7OxsO Wool Blankets
50 pairs were $I2SO.
Blanket Section, Second noor
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Can you explain the
PSYCHIC WHISPERINGS

= when did these spiritual mani
fsstations first occur. Mrs. DerrI-
VsIe?' asked Harvey Hunt.
He let his eyes rove over the
stately bedchamber of the invalid
with an artists interest in the fres-
co of the vaulted ceiling, the
wrought-iron grill of the oId-fash-
ioned hot air radiator. set high in
the windows with their rich drap-
cries and the exquisitely modest ap-
The Washington herald., 1921-01-21
Bungalow Aprons

OF fine percale and gingham.
in plain or figured designs.
stripes or plaids. These are
made to fasten in the front or
back, also some in slip-over
style. Low V, round or square
neck, trimmed with folds and
rufling in contrasting colors:
adjustable belt and pockets.
Colors are pink. blue, laven-
der, black and white or navy
with white figuring. January
Sale price, S1.s5.
House Dress Section. Third floor
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BEGYoUR
PARDON!
THE HERALD takes

THE HERALD takes
precautions to be ac-
curate.
But in making up news
paper editions every twenty
four hours errors are bound
to occur.
Readers of The Herald
are requested to address
the BEG Your Pardon" de-
partment for the correction
of any errors which they
find in the columns of this
newspaper.
In order 20 hasten cor
rection of errors, readers
are requested, when making
their complaints, to tell the
column, page and date in
which the mistake occurs.
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men, but I've sense enough to real
ize that there's nothing like a
knowledge that they've been badly
used by one man to square their
conscience with, any bit of deviltry
they may get into with another"
Yet their farewell ended in a
quarrel after. all. :.
While Nancy dressed for dinner.
Gerry. wandering aimlessly around
the tiny sitting room. stopping to
look down on bustling Michigan
Boulevard with its clustering
frosty lights stretching out to the
pier-end, above the heavy slate
grey waters of the lake, turned
back to the table. Nancy's travel
ing bag, which she had opened to
remove the candy, lay there.
book, temptingly new AMI
crisp, lay on top of a swirl of pink
silk garments.
He picked it up casually and
glanced at the title.
Z A CLEAN of interest crossed his
face, and swinging himself down in.
the chair. he opened the volume a.
the first chapter. o.,
Out of the crisp pages, Major
'pesmond's card fluttered, and tell
into his lap. =.
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IL Good Quality Aluminium
Preserving Kettles; 4-ouart
size. Special, S1.3s each.
Is Good Quality Aluminium
Double Boilers. 5-pint capa-
city. Special s1yes each.
6 Canister Sets. consisting
Of flour. sugar. tea and cofree
cans; slightly imperfect. SSc
enchi were s1.25.
6 Small Stained Scrap
Baskets; Slightly shopworn.
81 eachI were s1.85.
IL Colored spIint Scrap Ras-
kets; slightly shopworn. use
eHch' were s1-2S,N
Vacuette Hand-power Sue
ton Sweeper slightly shop
worn. s1s.T5i was s2S.
2 Large Willow Clothes
Hampers, slightly damaged.
sz-Soi were $3.50.
. Cylinder Gas Heaters,
slightly shopworn. s1.eS eschI
were s4-25-
2 BoIo Ovens, single burner;
slightly damaged. $3.50 each
were sIe.7S.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 2O.-Thoughts
while strolling around New York:
1t is IL a. m. and Forty-second
street is just awake. A crowd ed
dies up to see the first news bulle-
tins in Times Square. Most of them
have that half -wakeful look that
remains until sundown. Belted
overcoats-tan, gray, mauve. The
doughnut kettles are simmering. 1t
Is the Forty-second street morning
diet.
A silver haired character actor
gone to seed. He has the spiritual
look of the conQueror. Flapping
spats over broken shoes. A shabby
coat over a staunch heart. No job
today or tomorrow, but he has his
dreams. The zippy aroma of Turk
ish coffee. Busting young men
with miniature mustaches. They are
theatrical agents.
Chorus girls, sleepy eyed and
brooding, rush to early rehearsals
Now come the well-fed men with
the heavy paunch. They carry gold
The Washington herald., 1921-01-21

but wants them all punched in one,
that men find marriage a failure.
Perhaps after all, as Mr.. Howell
said long ago, even after centuries
OF civilization man Is still imper-
tectly homogeneous, and the only
time he is ever truly thankful that
he is only the husband Of one wife,
is when the bills come in around
the first Of the month
The Washington herald., 1921-01-21

One day Mary Emmons put a pork
chop in the pan and while Il siI-
zled she listened to choice Bits OF
gossip from the lips of a visitor.
Burt, -roomer, came downstairs
and went on out through the kitch-
en-. Mary did not take much no.
tice OF him.
Ten minutes later she discovered
that she had nothing at all in the
The Washington herald., 1921-01-21
Water GobLets
Special, sI.So dozen

IS dozen Thin Blown Etched
Glass Water Goblets. subject
to slight factory imperfcC-
tions, but not enough to in
terfere with good appearance
or dependable service.
] Incrusted Gold Sugar and
Cream Set, slightly imperfect,
sz-SOI was 50.
s Gold Decorated Sherbct
Glasses on plates, SSc each
were rs.
Gold Decorated Glass
Candlesticks, s2-SO EACH were
x5.7S,
Rose Cut Glass Vase. cy-
Under shape, l4-inCh height.
sI0.7Si was s16.
l S-inch Cut Glass Berry
Bowl. slightly imperfect.
$685. was s6yeO.
Footed Cut Glass Bowl.
slightly imperfect, ss.TSI was
$500.
Glassware Section, Tifth soOr.
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ID THE iNQUIRING
= THE QEsTIoNI
Mat Would Be the Most
Pleasant Message You Could
= Receive?

Peasant Message You Coulc
Receive?
. THE ANSWERS,
MAURICE M'DONNELL. ad-
tutRRnt. Vincent b. Costello
. post, American Legion; En-
, closed please Hnd check for
! years dues to Costello post-
JOHN CARMODY, student,
] Georgetown Law Schools 81
guess the most pleasant mes
. sage 1 could get would be n
. letter telling me somebody
, didn't know had died and left
me q million dollars"
DENNIS REIDY, 2I8 I street
! northwest How should 1
. know. L haven't received it
yet"
! II. L. RICKETTS,, Public
: Utilities Commission, District
BuiIdInEI ~ think Il " ouId run
: Ike thisE Dear sir, you are
; hereby notified that you have
seeH granted a years vacation
with double pay.'7
ARTHUR C. COLE, chief clerk,
sealth department.; @The best
Jews I could get Mt present
|. would be notice that the two
. iepers here had been taken
: away by the Public Health
9 Service