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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-21

George w. Bevans, Jr., is reported ready to dispose of his permit to op- crate a jitney to Long Hill to Charles H. Randall. his former competitor. Lack of patronage is reported respon- sible for BevanS' move.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-21

the MILL END Sale.
 This enthusiastic vimu and distinctive sale open the blue sky itself
 Nothing is hidden about it. Everybody Everybody judge. Everybody know!
 It has It has hickA It has no evasons This is what the Mill End Sale is-
 An opportunity to buy needed things
 at less-than- usual prices.
 How do hem9 By many methods-but all business like and progressive.
 Mill Ends in the beginning, ends of pieces from the mills where textiles made MImen did them as worth full pieces Actually they worth just much. But they could be bought for hs-and sold for less They Everything built the sale has measured the standard thus We find Mill lots of every of merchandise Buy them put em into the sale Mill End price, And this fine big sale act!!
 Your of the summer, wear ready Mill nd price, Your home needs for all seasons ready at Mill End price, Did ever your dollars count for more? Was there ever better time to benefit by savings? Those dollars will work great savings right here at the Mill End Sale.
 THE ROWLAND DRY GOODS co. naS1ns~
Arizona republican., 1921-12-25
Chapter xI,

Chapter xl.
 Narcia,s dinner was success-so she said. John thought it rather ar1zteuriSh. yet as the co-called art ssxs- were her friends he felt he had 10 praise thcm-
 The ouija board had been used satisfactorily. if one could judge ruorn the expressions of some of the rnanipulators. The music and danc- inx had been a bit hilarious, too much so to suit Johns ideas of what was fitting in a private house. When he said so to Marcia after their guests had left she laughed at him for an old fogy and told him that since jazz had become popular peo- nie'S ideas had changed.
 The ouija board said l was to go to Europe. John. I knew you would have to take me next year. l want so 10 go. But ouija said I would perhaps 20 sooner. but surely then Isn't it marvelous?'
 You are sure you didn't move the board yourself, Marcia I noticed vou were laughing and talking. thought when the spirits were il
Arizona republican., 1921-12-25
Ever So Many Times Farmer Browns Boy Came and Whistled and
 Called Softly to Him

waiting for me-" whispered his stom ach.
 I'll never touch it!" said Chatterer freely.
 Just then he hit something with his foot and it rolled. He picked it up and then put it down again. It was nut, a plump hickory nut. Two or three times he picked it up and put it down, and each time it was harder than before to put it down.
 "I-I-Td like to taste one more nut before I starve to death,' muttered Chatterer. and almost without know ing it, he began to gnaw the hard shell. When that nut was finished he found another, and when that was gone still another. Then he just had to taste a grain of corn. The first thing Chatterer knew the nuts and corn were all gone and his stomach was full. Somehow he felt ever SC much better. He didn't feel like starving to death.
 TT believe I'll wait a bit and sec what happens" said he to himself And while I'm waiting I might as well be comfortable" l With that he began to carry the shavings and rags into the hollow stump and soon had as comfortable bed as ever he had slept on. Chat terer had decided to live. Next story: Farmer Browns Boy | Tries to Make Friends.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-25
Scientist and Author

If anyone were to tell you that there could be two and even three, Christmas days going on at the same time, on our earth, you would prob ably ask them how they made their home brew. And yet it is a scientific fact which may explain to the chill dren how it is Santa Claus can cover the whole world on Christmasi
 As the earth revolves on its axis, midnight and morning must con stantly change. A new day is always beginning somewhere. But there must be some official spot or line where any given day begins on the earth.
 By fortunate chance this line can be drawn precisely half way round the globe from the Greenwich meri- dian, and this line crosses no impor- tant land area, being almost entirely in the Pacific. ocean.
 Where Day Begins
 This line is known as the inter national day line" and here each day officially begins. A glance at the mar will illustrate this.
 On the right of this line it is, say Sunday, wher. it is Monday on the left of the line. Monday begins al midnight at this line. but Sunday is still finishing on the rest of the earth. It takes Monday 24 hours tS encircle the globe. and get back tt this line, so as to begin Tuesday Meanwhile Sunday is running out a.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-25
Little Stories For Bedtime
 BY THORNTON w.. BURGESS
cHArreRER DECIDES TO LIVE
BY THORNTON w. BUR,

At first CEatterer the Red Squirrel decided that he had rather die than live in a prison, no matter how nice that prison might be. It was very foolish thing to do. but he made up his mind that he just wouldn't eat. He wouldn't touch that nice yellow corn Farmer Browns boy had put in his prison for him. He would starve himself to death. Yes, sir, he would starve himself to death. So when he found that there was no way to get out of his prison he curled up in the little hollow stump where no one could see him and made up his mind that he would stay there until he died. Life wasn't worth living if he had got to spend all the rest of his days in a prison. He wouldn't even make himself comfortable. There was a little heap of nice shavings and bits of rag for him to make a nice comfortable bed of, but he didn't touch them. No, sir, he just tried to make himself miserable.
 Not once that long day did he poke so much as the tip of his nose out of his little :ound doorway. Ever so many times Farmer Browns boy came to see him and whistled and called softly to him, but Chatterer didn't make sound. At last night came and the woodshed where his prison was grew dark and darker and very still. Now, it was about this time that Chatterers stomach began to make itself felt. Chatterer tried
 not to notice it, but his stomach would be noticed, and Chatterer couldn't help himself. His stomach
 was empty and it kept telling him so. I'm, going to starve to death,'' said 1 Chatterer to himself over and over. | I'm empty and there is plenty of | food to fill me up if youl only stop being silly" whispered his stomach. | The more Chatterer tried not to | think of how good something to eat
 would taste the more he did think oi it. It made him restless and uneasy He twisted and squirmed and turned At last he decided that he would have one more look to see if he couldn't find some way to get out of hi: prison. He poked his head out of the little round doorway. All was stil
 and dark. lie listened, but not {
 sound could pe heard. Then he softl,
 crept out ..nd hurriedly examined al the inside of his prison once more It was of no use, There wasn't ; single place where he could use hi
 sharp teeth.
 "There's that little pile of corr
Arizona republican., 1921-12-25
NAGGlNG NEURoTicS

Her nerves have long been wom- ans excuse for getting her own way. A decade ago, nervous prostration &C., counted conveniently for almost any disability. A little later neurasthenia described the same states of ill-health and justified almost any amount of dependence upon relatives and friends.
 Today the victim of nerves is ciassed as neurotic Students of the mind and of human behavior say that there are as many men neurotics as women.
 Victims of neuroses do not like to have the word applied to them. It sounds like a disease-which it is. Nagging wives are neurotic and SC are tyrannical husbands. I have been reading letters from women for nearly 15 years. When began to do so, it was the custom to suggest that the nagging wife could be cured by a little judicious neglect and that kindness would modify tht
 manners of a male tyrant.
 And that rmeained the common opinion, even after the theories hat
 been worked out to zero in untolt hundreds of unhappy homes.
 Today psychology explains the neu
 rotic but doesn't always prescribe ; cure. Some samples of him are thu described by wives:
 No. 1. After four years of mar
Arizona republican., 1921-12-25

he was worth it, Claire said my din- ner was simply delicious
 Tt was.''
 John said no more-what was the use? As long as he coIld keep out of debt he would give Marcia all he possibly could. It was as Len Mor- row had once said: Its mans duty. Unless he intends to make a woman happy he shouldn't marry her.
 Gagged, bound, imprisoned for life, and by my own hands," John mutt l tered to himself as he lay wakefully l thinking of Muriel Doran. He knew | that until he met her the only thing he cared for. deep down in his heart. was his work. His marriage didn't really matter any more. Marcia mat tered in that he must keep her happy if he could. She had married him | expecting to be happy. He would try not to disappoint her.
 But how gladly would he give up his career, everything, for a woman like Muriel. All his hopes, his ambi- | tions, seemed cold when compared to the joy of laying them aside for | the sake of being with Muriel. He would ask nothing better, nothing more of life than to belong to her; | Sie u W4ln Just SuOuSH Ol worldly goods to be comfortable. An6 metime-a-boy-like lit tie Don, of whom Marcia had de veloped a sudden jealousy that was most disconcerting to John, who kaC grown very fond of him.
 Not often did John allow aimseE to dream of the future in this way More often he thought of it as a bar ren waste of years in which he mus
 struggle on to keep Marcia happy And whenever his thoughts did wan
 der into forbidden paths. his up heavals of repentance were sure t follow, with a corresponding len iency toward Marcia's extravaganza
 John never quite realized at thi time how well Marcia knew him how perfectly she had learned t know his mechanism-the effect upol him of a specific action-how sh
 played upon his feeling of duty to ward her. She often reminded him You married me, not I you, yo know, John. A man shouldn't as a woman to marry him unless h
 loves her so well he intends to mak = her happy all her life long" John always accepted such re N marks in silence. That sex, propin quity would have in any way bee
 an excuse, a reason for asking a gi
 to marry, Marcia would not hay
 understood. Neither would the long
 ing for home. for comfort, haY
Arizona republican., 1921-12-25

Monday .a.~uSs up with il while en- circling tine globe. Thus, there are always two days going on at the same time on our earthi
 Furthermore, while a day at any particular riace is 2f hours long, each day lasts on earth at least 4s hours.
 Any given day, say Christmas, Is first couited as that day just west of the date line. An hour later Christ mas begins 15 degrees west of that line, two hours later it begins 30 de- grees wesz of 1t, and so on round the globe.
 That Third Dayi
 The people just west of the date line, who first hailed Christmas. have | enjoyed r. horIs of it when it begins in England, IS hours of it when il begins in central United States, and 24 hours of it, or a whole day. when it begins in western Alaska, just east of the date line. Christmas, then, has existed 24 hours on the globe, but
Arizona republican., 1921-12-25
A HUSBAND TO MARCIA
Bu CAROLYN BEECHER

communication with mortals 1t was essential that the mortals be serious"
 T asked about you, John. Such a joke, Ouija said you were inclined to be a. philanderer. But Claire San ders moved the board, then; l saw her do iti You needn't blush know, nothing in the world would make you run after any other wo- man. John had. flushed uncom- fort9bly.
 Your dinner was a perfect suc- cess, Marcia. The menu was perfect. It must have cost lot now that food is so expensive"
 Wasn't it good? I had the same chef Mrs. Calthorp hires when she gives a dinner"
 You hired a chef! Marcia, have you no idea of what is correct and proper for people in our circum- stances? Della"
 But you said the dinner was 6 success. Now you kick
 'The dinner was a success from gastronomic point of view. But Mar cia. We cannot afford to copy Mrs Calthorp; neither is it in good taste They know pretty near what my in- come is; Calthorp can guess pretty close He must think we are dsmr | fools. or that we don't pay our bills | People don't think any more of you 1 Marcia, for apeing those who can buy and sell you. It isn't true hospital l ity"
 That's right, go ahead and spoi everything for mel It's just because you are getting so dreadfully clos' that you fuss over every little thing I was so happy over my party. Nov it is all spoiled and just because vol | have to pay that chef a few dollar 1 for looking after some of tn 1 dishes"
 How much does he get for thi
 looking after you speak of?''
 T paid him s25. He came cheape
 than he goes to Mrs. Cathrop. Bu
Arizona republican., 1921-12-25

will be splendid father for a while and suddenly. if any one of us differs from his opinion, he will spoil every thing by fit of temper"
 No. 8. "No matter how diplomatic am I cannot keep peace in my home My husband nags from dawn to night but in public he is always the jolly good fellow"
 He is the hardest person on earth to live with because his ego-urge is
Arizona republican., 1921-12-25
Sold by all Grocers The quality is guaranteed
 by us

ARIZONA STAR Whole Wheat Flour is packed in specially labeled sacks and should not be confused with Arizona Star Gra- ham Flour from which some of the bran has been removed.
 if you wish good whole wheat flour insist on get ting this sack.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-25

96 and has them housed in the Sand Springs Home, which he founded.
 I'll enjoy Christmas more than they says Page. He is a multi millionaire oil man. But once he was an orphan and felt the pinch of pow erty. That's why he's devoting his fortune to bettering the plight of other orphans.
 He adopted two 13 years ago. He put them in a tent on the outskirts of Tulsa His family grew. Now it's in a comfortable five story building on the old tel site.
 Sand Springs has grown up around | that house.
 Page keeps his children so long as 1 they want to stay with him, He edu- cates them in a private elementary ] school and sends them to public high
Arizona republican., 1921-12-25

SAND SPRINGS, Okla. Dec. A. The biggest, and happiest. family in sae world is enjoying a ss000 Christ mas here
 This family has s5 children, little mites 10 half-grown youngsters. They all wrote to Santa and they'll all get what they asked for.
 They're adding to their Christmas .aseer by inviting 200 aunts and cou- sins 10 share in the party. For what's Christmas without company, even in a family of 96?
 Charles Page, foster-father of the Ss. will look on and show one kiddy how to run the new electric railway and tell another to keep his new bat clear of the chandelier.
 Legally Adopts All
 Page has legally adopted all of the
Arizona republican., 1921-12-25

the little god of his life which must be appeased daily and hourly by the members of his family.
 If that is true. the wife hasn't much chance of making him over.
 Just as some men enjoy getting angry, some women delight in weep ing and wailing. As destroyers of domestic comfort, they are not sus- passed by the male neurotics. Sue eeeding letters will tell what some of their husbands think of them.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-25

if they choose.
 Widows Colony
 Besides that, Page has established a widows colony. He has 50 needy widows and their children in 50 neat little cottages.
 They'll be the aunts and cousins at the Christmas feast. Besides, ev- cry widow will have a big Christmas dinner brought to her cottage. The S6000 spent in this Christmas party represents one-tenth of the monthly salary of Pages employees who tithed themselves to provide the | fund.
 Part of it has been used for a com munity Christmas tree for all tn, people of Sand Springs, displayed ii | the public square.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-25

having just begun in western Alaska, it wll tarry 24 hours longer among mankind, making 4s hours that this day blesses tho earth.
 But the date line is not quite straight; it varies. Attu Island, for instance, is included with Alaska Because of this every day actually exists 49 hours and IF minutes, be- fore it actually ceases to be on the earth.
 But 4s tours runs into the third day,
Arizona republican., 1921-12-25
Wonan's Case
 Anazes Phoenix

A business mans wife suffered for two years with sore, watery eyes, which pained day and night Finally she tried simple camphor, hydrastic, witchhazel, etc, as mixed in Lavoptik eye wash. This helped her AT ONCE. Another lady reports 'it leaves eyes cool and fresh" One small bottle Lav- optik usually helps ANY CASE weak, strained or inflamed eyes. Aluminium eye cup FREE. Sun Drug Co, and Wayland's Central Pharmacy.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-25

appealed to her. It was the idola trous love of her, Marcia, which had been the cause, and nothing had ever changed her ideas on the sub ject.
 CTo Be Continued)
Arizona republican., 1921-12-25
 NE 8~1znmaNzhoa

ried life. haven't friend except my husband. He has arranged things so that my girl friends have ceased to call upon me. Of course. I can't talk to the boys used to know. My hus- band sneers if a man takes off his hat to me in the street"
 No. 9 My children and I live in fear of my husbands explosions. He
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-13
Confessions ofaBride
Copyright 1920 BY TheNeuspap Enterprise As,Ocato9

We came TO the end OF our ser4ng
suddenly. It led US straight 10 the
wine vaults. They were dark. but I
found the light button.
The tiny ball Of linen twine had
been carefully concealed under q
box next the wall. OF one thing 1
felt sure, whoever had put It there
would not dare TO wander far away
from it
Daddy and Spence had forgotten
about the Cltcquot and Mumm we
had started 70 find. glanced
around the low room and chung 20
Spenos's arm. The place was az
still RS a tomb. knew that what
1 suspected was about TO come true.
1 was not at all surprised to hear
a voice that 1 had loved, ages and
ages ago.
Jane! You here7" Il called.
saw my husband standing In a re-
cess Of the room. I saw girl with
tawny hair emerge from darkness.
Her hair shone like gold under a
nearby light. She ran toward US
as IL she were welcoming US. She
cried out:
why. it's only you'll Goodness.
what a relief"
I saw Bob coming 20 mel turn
ed to, cling to Spence.
And then the sound OF deepening
waters hurt my ears. blackness ana
cold overwhelmed me. went down
in d heap.
But finally, I came back, painful
~, 10 light and to life.
I was in my husbands arms. /
was confused! There 1 cuJdled,
with that safe feeling every wife
knows. and which every woman
needs
Bob held me close, tenderly- Then
suddenly I saw the glory Of Kath-
crimes hair above mis- shoulder.
Never any more could his arms
be my shelterl I acted on the
thought before I had expressed It 70
myself.
Don't touch mel" 1 pushed him
away.
What's the matter? don't un-
derstand ?" ne exclaimed.
tried to rise-gave my hand to
SPONGE who helped me. Bob would
have displaced Spence. He claimed
the husbands right with a gesture.
Don't you dare to touch met ]
cried passionately.
Father. explain"
Young man. you're the one to do
the explaining," his father replied.
II Chrys were actually lost in the
tangle Of caverns and sub-cellars,
beneath Certeis' garden beds. she
night as we'll have been buried alive.
"The openings into the rooms are
all so hard TO find" I chartered.
"Put that look back into its
gravel Daddy spoke TO Spence who
was bordering above the box in his
arms. let 'em stay buried forever
Now. Jane! Find heri"
Wen get her out OF here In FIVE
minutes, Daddy. dear!" Trying to
comfort him, I tried to reassure my
self. 1 failed. I realized, that man
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-13

TAKE me home" 7 moaned
Ny husband seemed TO feel that 1
had appealed TO him. He put al,
arm around me- Secretly. I dis
covered a little remnant OF delight
left IN my SOUL lie claimed the
right 20 comfort me-before Kath-
crime Miller
II seemed a terrible pity that Bob
should have 50 completely wrecked
our very excellent variety OF rO-
nance pitied HIM. I pi.ied my
self. 7 realized that had no home.
Take me 70 mother" I pushed
Bob aside. hid my face on Daddy
LorimeTs shoulder.
We walked slowly back 70 the
door IN the wall under the foun-
tain. We moved IN silence. I wOul6
have preferred 20 hear my husband
in conversation with his father.
Daddy had told Bob that be was
the one 70 do the explaining. But
Bob was silent. I knew him so
well. knew how obstinate he could
be, how sullen, how perverse when
he thought he had been wrongcd.
He thought he was merely proud
when he sulked. We had discussed
IL more than once. believe his
moodiness to be the essence Of sell
hshness.
Surely II he cared about me, IF nc
could explain his presence with
Katherine in the cellars. he would
be pouring pleadings into mine, SO
I reasoned, as Jordan Spence led
me back TO the door in the outer
wall
Don't forget what we came for,
Spencei Better bring along that
coffin to the carr" said Daddy.
We stopped. Spence pushed the
lever in the wall which moved the
tiles and revealed the pavement /
heard Katherine scream as the babes
caslcet was disclosed. Bob did not
say a word. He was Obvious to all
Of US. He was absorbed in his own
melancholy, and 7 flattered myself
that he didn't want to lose me. and
he wouldn't take pains to conceal
the fact from Katherine.
Well, he was going to have a long
life to regret me in.
'STaloe off your coat and wrap the
box in it," directed Daddy. Bob,
you're coming straight home with
me. Wen drop Miss Miller at her
own door Don't say a word now
-" as Bob started to speak-"Comc
on"
Let ne explain, Mr.. Iorimer, {"
said Katherine.
Daddy held up a protesting palm
LET the boy talk" He was bru-
tally abrupt.
Where is Chrystobel?" asked
Jordan Spence suddenly.
~fWhere-iS-Chrys? I echoed.
in an appalled, whisper.
was she with you >" asked Bob.
"She was not when we met you"
'She did not come into the wine
vaults at all" added Katherine.
ats so easy TO get in" 7 babbIed
ainlessly. "And almost impossible
to get Quit"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-13

lurking IN the place might have
sagged her. had she singe-ed be-
hind Us.
Chrys had been silent throughout
the expedition. She had been preoc-
cupied with her own thoughts. why
not SINCE she was az least IN name
the wife OF the spy whose perifdy
We mad uncovered Why not, since
Jordan Spence was in our party
We retraced our steps, going rap
idly from tbs room OF the machine
guns to the room OF the bombs, slip
ping sideways through a passage too
narrow for the width OF the human
body descending steep steps into the
suo-cellars. All the rooms were
open as we had found and left them.
Chrys was not 20 be found. We
walked softly--at last we gather
ed, once more. in the wine vault
And nobody dared TO suggest that
our search had proved futile.
Nobody thought Of going home.
Daddy had his champagne at last.
While he slipped and talked, I
thought about poor Chrys. She was
as stubborn as Bob. full Of whims.
and quick 70 act upon them.
Wen have to use a bomb 10
break down these walls" was my
silly suggestion.
ITO bring them down on Chrys,
InaybeT" Daddy grunted. Cham
payne had not made him amiable.
Girl, do you know any more secreta
about this hole?"
mediated. In wartime, when
Bob was with the A. Z. r, I had
worked as Certeis' secretary. Then
1 had discovered what kind OF a man
he was. I had found the queer cor.
ners In his establishment as well rs
in his character. 1 had gone down
a vertical ladder from a closet or
the second floor OF his house TO the
sub-cellars. Once had lived
rather had nearly starved-iE the
labyrinth OF rooms underground.
Maybe Chrys has left the place
by a secret passage" I suggested
Maybe she went out on the i'm
pulse, and couldn't get backl'
"Just like her" agreed her twin
brother. IF I know her at ali, she's
apt to be waiting in the auto for us
while we worry herel"
"Or maybe she has climbed up a
secret ladder" threw open the door
OF a shaft
Here! WHAT'S thls!" Katherine
snatched q scrap Of blue vetlins
from a splinter Of the door frame