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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-10-20
The PolIyanna Club

noon.
The Poliyanna Club
The Pollyanna Club will meet next
Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 25, at the
home of Mrs. Tom Davidson.
Afternoon Party
Mrs. H. E. Simpson and Miss Helen
Pratt entertained number of their
lady friends at very pleasant after
noon PARTY last Saturday.
Home Culture Club, Oct. 26.-
Early Landscape School.
+. The Hudson River School.
George Innes, Martin, Wyant.
Minnie Reynolds.
Hostess-Nancy Martin.
Foreign Missionary Society -
The Women's Foreign Missionary
Society Of the Methodist church vii!
meet Friday afternoon. Oct. Il, witt
Mrs. L. F. Oakley. We will have re-
port from the district convention.
The Mysterious Whist Club
The Mysterious Whist Club had
grand and glorious time Tuesday
evening at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
E. C. Malgard. Mrs. Carl Pearson
took home the card prize for the eve
ming.
Saturday afternoon
Last Saturday afternoon about
twenty of Mrs. Parsons friends gath
cred at her homie and had very
pleasant social visit, after which
lunch was served. The guests pre-
sented Mrs. Parsons with beautiful
comforter. She has been confined to
her home all summer by illness, and
this visit of her friends was greatly
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-10-20

NOTICE
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FARMS FOR SALE

100 Acres-160 acres unimproved
land that | would like to trade for city
property. Walter Glass.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-10-20

For Rent-9 room house near Nor
nal, known as. the Keith house, water
and lights. Inquire at 122 Vine st.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-21

man marred says the old proverb, and
II Is motto that every boy should
hang over his mirror where he will
see II every time he brushes his hair
or shaves. and so have this homely
wisdom borne In upon his mind.
On the other hand. man should
not wait too late TO marry because Il
takes lot of enthusiasm and romance
TO stand any woman's peculiarities, and
make a man feel that her society is
worth her bills, and it Is only when we
are young that we can get up that
sort OF altrusttcfeeling about another
human. being. Also a man should marry
before he gets fussy about his eating,
and crochety about havi.s his things
kept exactly so. ID acquires ways
that no woman should be expected to
stand.
BY the time man is thirty he is
Old enough to know his own mind and
not too old to change it. He has had
his little fling and is ro&Iy to settle
down. He is able to support a family
without feeling 1t burden, and he is
ripe for matrimony.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-21
A MAN TO HIS MATE
BY J. ALLEN DUNN
Copy hight Hobbs Merrill Go.

"Carlscn's fake He's got you
hippcd. He thinks he's boss, beco1
he's the only navigator Of yorc crowd
amt overlooked that card, Garrison.
That amt the only string he's got on ye:
Nor the three shares he expects to pull
down. He made YOU pore suckers fire
of all your shells; he found out you
amt got gun left among you that's
emmy more use than n club. He's got
gun an he showed you how ne could
use it. He's sittn' back lar6n' at the
bunch of you'll"
The men stirred. Rainey saw Carl
sens grin disappear. He dropped the
paper. His face paled, the veins showed
suddenly like purple veins IN dirty
marble.
1--WE got that gun yet, Lund,' he
snarcd.
Lund laughed, the ring Of it so con-
fidcnt that the men glanced from him
to Garrison ncrvously. =,
"No're a fake, Carlson" he said:
"And I've got .yore number! To he--l
with YOU an yorc pop-gun. You amt
even doctor. saw real doctors ashore
about my eyes. Niphablepsia, they
call snow-blindncss. I'll bet you never
heard Of il. lo're only a woman
coming dopc-shooterl Else you'd
have known that niphablespsia amt
permanent I've hin gettin' my sight
back ever since left Seattle. An
now, d-n YOU for n moldy-hearted,
slimy-soulcd fakir, stand up an say
yo re my equalr'
lie stood up himself, towering above
the rest ms they rose from their chairs,
tearing the black glasses from his
ewes and flinging them at Carlsen, who
was forced to throw up hand to
ward them off. Rainey got one glimpse
of the giants eyes. They were gray
blue, the. color of agateware, hard rs
stec, lmplacab!e.
Garrison swept aside the spectacles and
they shattered on the floor as he leaped
up and the automatic shone in his hand
l.und had folded his arms above his
great chest. lie laughed again, and his
arms opened
In an instant Raincy caught the OBJ
icct of Lund's spcechmaking. lie had
done il 10 enrage Garrison beyond en-.
durance. TO make him draw his gun
Giant az he was, he moved with the
grace of panther, with swiftnes.
too fast for the eve to register Some.
thing flashed in his right hand, gun
that he had drawn from a holster
slung over his left breast.
The shots blended. Lund stooc
there erect, uniniured. A red blotcl
showed between Carlsen's eyes. ii,
slumpcd down into his chair, his arm
clubbing the table, his gun fslin,
from his nerveless hand, his forehead
, striking the wood like the sound o
an auctionerr's gavel. Lund had beatel
him TO the draw.
(To be continued.)
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-21

could get on the clothes that he wore
when he was slender slip of boy
He would no more pick her out for"
wife In HIS maturity than he would
make meal on the chocolate fudge
that he used to devour by the pound.
There are no marriages more unhappy
than those In which nature has sep
arated a couple by developing one
and not the other. and In which both
husband and wife go their lonely
Ways because they have nothing III
common.
OF course. now and then there is "A
youthful larriage in which the man
and woman do grow up together but
these are as scarce as hens teeth.
They are matrimonial miracles that
no one can count upon, and there are
risks enough in matrimony without
mans taking a chance on what he Is
going to be himself when he becomes
a man.
If you will observe the happy, con-
tented married couples among your
acquaintance you will take notice
that in almost every one the man was
old enough to know what he was
about before he picked out a Wife
Likewise he was old enough. and had
had experience enough, to know how
TO manage other people-how 10 side
step unpleasant domestic situations,
how to deal fairly and justly with his
wife. and how TO cajole her into doing
the way he wanted her TO do, instead
f,x,a oil 20 Il
centricities of her temper. 1t takes a
mans wisdom to manage woman.
It's no task for boy babies and suck
lings.
II man has his own way to make
in the world an early marriage is a
handicap that nothing short of A.
nancial genius can surmount.. II takes
money TO make money. The pass
word that opens the door of oppor-
tupity is your pass book at the bank.
| You've got to have your feet loose to
climb.
These are truisms- that every man
knows. but that he puts behind him
when he commits the folly of an early
marriage. The man who has to sup
| poi IL id4i save uOtHiilS Oul VI
a small salary. He can never get
ahead. He can never take advantage
Of the opportunities that come his
way. He cannot take any risks when
the fate of his wife and children are
at stake. He is a domestic slave
fettered to his desk and with no
chance of ever freeing himself
1t breaks his heart and his spirit
He loses initiative and courage as he
watches men of less ability outstrip
him in the RAGE. And the young man
who has blighted his own prospects
by his ill-advised marriage makes a
miserable husband because he takes
out on his wife and children his Inn
potent fury at his own folly.
A young man married is a young
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-21

you see, and they knew if they re
turned to the dell without their caps
that the Queen would want to know
where they were, when they appeared
before her that night.
Please give us our caps they called
10 the wave sisters.
"Oh, but we want to keep then" "
called back the waves. please let us
keep the caps and couldn't you bring
us some more? There are not enough
to go around"
But we can't go home without
thcm," said the fairies. ''Our Queen
will he very angry if We do not wear
our caps. You see we ran away and
we should be at home in bed at this
hour. Please give us back our caps. "
The waves did not reply at once. In
stead they gurgled among themselves
as they waved about the rock. far be-
low the little pleading fairies.
What they were saying was this: III
those little creatures have run away
they ought to be willing to do some
thing 10 get their caps back and we
will make them promise to do what We
ask before We will give them back to
them"
CTo be continued.)
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-21
WHY?
Copyright. 1922 uy
Wheeler Syndicate. Ino
Why Does a Pop.gun ~Popl.

Remembering that all sound is
made by movement of the air, the
matter of the peculiar noise made by
the cork when it is elected from the
barrel OF a pop-gun resolves itself into
a consideration of why this particular
sound results. instead of clang or a
muffied boom.
Possibly one of the easiest ways OF
explaining this is TO consider other
sounds which make a somewhat SINH
lar impression upon the ear-drums-
the pop" of n cork when withdrawn
from bottle of soda water. for ex-
ample, or even the action of the mouth
in pronouncing this word which is in
dicative of the sound itself. In the
latter case We unconsciously gather
air In The mouth and open the lips
suddenly. closing them at once. In
the case of the bottle of soda wa ter
there Is air compressed in the LIQUID
and in the pop gun, the same effect
results from the movement Of mechan-
ism inside the gun which presses the
air up against the cork. The sound
therefore. is due 10 the release of this
compressed air, which, suddenly ex-
panding in all directions. creates a
wave or disturbance which impresses
Itself upon the ear-drum in a par
ticular manner. differing radically
from the metallic vibration of a gong
or the longer and more powerful
force of an explosion.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-21

A young man wants to know what
is the right age for a man to marry.
There is no one lucky day or year
in which 1t is perfectly safe for Il man
to enter into the holy estate. Also
n mans fitness for matrimony depends
upon many other things besides his
age. but, generally speaking. man
who marries when he is arounc the
thirt.es-say from twenty-eight to
thirty-five. has the best chance OF
being happy himself, and making the
woman he marries happy.
That is the golden time Of life. He
has found himself. His tastes are
formed. He knows what he wants in
a wife. The flesh pots have palled
upon his taste enough to make him
banker for good plain home cooking.
Yet he is not blase and worn out and
ready 10 retire TO the chimney cor
ner. He can still thrill with romance
and enjoy good time, and he has not
encased himself in the bor1b-proof
selfshness of the old bachelor.
For a boy to marry is a misfortune
10 the woman who gets him. and a
catastrophe to himself.
II is a misfortune to tn. woman
because il takes a lot of self-contrcl
and forbearance, and uns,.lflslr ess
and tact, and diplomacy to make
marriage a success, and no boy pcs
sessses these qualities. II takes the
discipline of life. and the hard hand
OF boss. and the losing of JOBS, and
the walking of streets hunting foi
work TO teach them to him.
The average Toy is utterly undis-
ciplined. He is child who wants
what he wants when he wants II
and when he finds that his will comes
in conflict with that OF another spoil
ed child il is no wonder that they
quarrel like cats and dogs, and thai
so many bread and butter romance.
end in the divorce court.
Early. marriage is a disaster fol
the man himself On many accounts. Fol
one thing the man who marries he
fore he is we'll along in his twentiei
takes a gamblers chance on back
Ing his own taste in women. An,
the odds are a hundred to one ae;ains
him. that the girl who fired his fame,
at twenty will bore him To extinction
when he is thirty.
This is the gre.t tragedy on life
that a man in his early youth vii
marry a good. sweet, dull, innCcuou
girl, who is, at the time, a perfect,
suitable mate for him because the!
both are crude ard immatars. and ig
norant, and orly interested in III
jelly-bean type Of conversation, an,
the latest dance step, in all of whicl
she is just as proficient as he is. Blu
the man goes out into the world. Iii
mind develops. He broadens and deep
ems llectualiy. He becomes polishe,
and brilliant, while his wife stay
put, just wEerc she was and VIVA
she was.
He has outgrown her. He can n,
more fit his mind TO hers than h
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-21
DOES YOUR CHINA HARMONIZE
WITH IT'S SURROUNDINGS

Two young housckeepers have written
TO nsk me for an article on the choice
Of china. 81 wouldlike a handsome mon
ogramcd set OF china" reads one oi
these letters, "but ! am Just married
and we have hardly enough money Tor
necessities The other letter contains
this question: Our dining room is l'ir-
nishcd in mission and our living room
with stained willow furniture. Would
n set of china with embossed gold band
ings be appropriate for our homeY =,
Now, | don't think one needs knowl-
edge Of interior decorations 70 agree
with me that "showy" china such as
these two readers want, is not Tor the
simple home. A small, inexpensively I'M
nished home should have china in keep
ing with its simplicity. China with {.
striking pattern is just as much out OF
place in the modest home, as china
bearing a coat of arms would be IN a
farmhouse. Anything that simply
screams money" should be left to palatial
houses.
What, then,is appropriate for the aver
age young housekeeper who starts her
married life in cottage for two" where
economy is q most important consider
alton? ] can recommend some OF the
| following wares:
Almost everybody is familiar with
'Sedji" ware II is of one tone "a cool,
refreshing green, whose glaze is satin
like in texture. Osher solid colors-
yellow, old-rose, old-blue and mauve--
may also be found in Oriental pottery,
but these colors are perhaps better
suited to the tea-tray than to the dining
table. The gree Sedji, however, may be
used day in day out on the home table
for all meals, without grating on the
nerves.
Canton china in the familiar willow
pattern is also well-known ware. 1t is
inexpensive and may be replaced-like
lthel Oriental ware mentioned above
when pieces are broken.
Still another Oriental ware called
"Howo" ware comes in an open pat
tern" and this is simple and dignIfied
for the little home; this ware comes in
blue and white.
At the present moment there is a re-
version to primitive peasant pottery
which although too crude for at
dinner, is very effective on the luncheon
OF breakfast table--especlally when used
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-21
Install me nj q.

Install mcnt %.
I'VE arr waiting to know whether
v,u agree with use" replied Garrison.
ll,s voice had altered quality. II held
the direct challenge. l.und accepted
A. ,,,
II don't, he answered dryly. There
aim, emmy one of YOU my equal, an
,ouvr shove Int. You had TO band to-
pclhcr IN n y ick, like flock of sheep,
with Cars IA for shccphcrdcr. I'm
talking" lie wen, on IN n tone that
suddenly mapcd to thunder. None of
,nu hnyc 20, the brains of Carlson,
l,.cos he had To put this scheme inter
Vntc noodles. Dcmlng, YOU know d--n'
we'll YOU 'plny better poker than the
cs,, an YOU agreed TO tins hccoz yo,u,
hpsct You'll win most OF the gold
nlun the wage ~ over lhe rest oi
ynu suckers listened hccoz some one
tells ynu you are poln To get more
than what's rightly comm To YOU.
"lhir r,tu y mine 10y right ot dis
royefy, lose my ship through bad
luck, an | make deal whereby the
skiplwt gets the same as ] do, an the
shin, which is the same as his daugh-
ter p,ls almost ns much. You men
wrir ul,yfcd share on top of yore
wavra N Vnu wanted Ia take the chance
lWn shares 80 the hunters IL was do
literal, nm YOU grabbed ~ H. ! got
leii Ca the ice, blind on u bfrnkin Hoe,
nn ,nu sailed OF an grabbed handful
~ sn VI gnld, enough 90 so YOU crazy.
What Ia hlarcs would you know
What ta dO with u, emmy OF your Splll
Il al nlnng the llarh'fy coast, ur gamble
\ 10 lo p.nirv u there one ul YOU
ud have got ui that llcc an b ind as
was turned NJ aaainG Not one of ye.
Nn' when did show YOU ~, sore bccos
you'd hprerd there nd bc more with
mp avnV
"a hnc loi II skunks You can take
Nnre Il Il ht Of paper an light yorC
mlwa with H. lor oil 0i the. To h u
with ~
"Shut up" Ills voice topped the
mufmuta nt the table. Garrison SAT
utiri, sometimes licking his lips gently
listening Go liund ~ he might have
listened tn the rantings ot "A mclodr'
maiic actor Hut Raincy scnscd that
hu WAS making a mistake. lie was
lelliny lund go too far. Tho men wer,
listening to lund. and he knew that
ilie giant WIS talking for a specific
purpose Jus to what end he could
be-, guess The bug booming voice
held them, whAc v lashcd them.
"lnunl ,o racg" Bah, I'm a man
lo'c n lot OF fools Talk about m,
h,ln blind. Il was icc-blink got me
Then ophthalmy ma,tcrin' up my eyes
les pold-hlink's got YOU. lo're cave
fish, lo, OF blind suckers"
lie leaned over .thc table pointing
a massive square finger, tha'ched viii
red wool, direct At Carlson, as If heshaC
lecn lcyclinp a weapon.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-21
Il. d.ir"u' fH's"'a r s'h"'t

I~ttlcoats No they would not blow and
,u~e them of the rock
Their wands they put in n safe place
hack of the rock, bui they forgot to
ins,cn on securely their tiny green
psuse caps.
IN, hig waves ,umhing in from far
ON n, scn jumped higher when they
saw the tiny creatures on top OF the
h,ghcs, rock
let us Jump up there and sprinkle
them said one hig wave that could
timp higher than the Others, but the
little fnlr,cs were very nimble and OF
course danced ont OF reach every time
the blr wave threw ia spray at the
rock
"l'hcy ARE very pretty little creatures,
SISTERS" the bir Nave told the Others,
that could not Jump so high, "and
they wear the prcttlest caps you ever
saw. am sure We would look well IN
caps with our sca-grcen dresses"
When the waves heard about the
cnI~ each one ~ II ran back went far
th~r out 10 sea, that they might be
able to Jump higher when they came
IN again, and, II possible, see the caps
their sister wave had told them the
l,uIe strangers were wearing.
With dash and higher Jump each
wave came ap,inst the high rock this
time and the fairies had TO dance
quickly 20 save themselves from get
ting wet in fact, they danced so quickly
that oH fell their little green game
caps and tumbled down the rocks right
on the waves.
Oh, such frolic as there was among
tho wave sistcrs' When they saw the
caps each one wanted 70 wear them
and ot course they couldn't for there
wcrr only two caps.
The little fairies were terribly fright
ened when they saw their caps below
on the waves. for they had run away.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-21
flight the film

The first law is to fight finn
that viscous coat you feel II
dims the teeth and causes most
tooth troubles.
Film clings to teeth, enters
crevices and stays. Old ways of
brushing do not end it. So few
have escaped some form OF film
attack.
Film absorbs stains, making
the teeth look dingy. 1t is the
basis of tartar. 1t holds food
substance which ferments and
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-21
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
BY Laura A. Kirkman

with coarse linen doiies or runners that
have the tones OF the pottery repeated
in simple embroidered design The
young housekecpr should not hesitate
TO buy odd pieces Of china which are
simple in shape, color and design and
which will barmonizc with other pieces
she bas For il is considered quite proper
today to have odd pieces grouped to-
gether, if the general effect is pleasing.
Another drastic departure from the
conventions Of our forebcars, is the use
OF different wares Of china for the various
courses Of meal. Great grandmother,
who prided herself on her hundred-picce
dinner set. would gaze with horror on our
plain white soup plates, our patterned
dinner plates, our cool green salad plates
and our glass dessert plates-noDe Of
which wares match" in any wayl
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-21
LITTLE BENNY'S
NOTEBOOK
BY Lee Pspe.

Pop was reading the paper with his
feet up and ma was darning holes out
OF socks and / was looking over my
stamp collection wondering wat would
happin If a Chinee sent a letter to
Spane with a Germin stamp on 1t, and
pop sed He's<a CRATE man, all rite,
there's no doubt of that. he's a great
man.
who. Mr.. Hardingy sed ma. yes, 1
think he is, too.
Harding nuthing. I'm speeking of the
CRATE and ony Charlie Chaplin. sed
pop. dident you reed how all Europe
went crazy over him wen he was over
there little vile ago?
Well wat of it. don't think so mutch
Of Europe, sed ma and pop sed, Be
careful wat you say, if Europe ever
heers of that there's libel to be another
war. but leeving politicks aside Char
lie Chaplin is a crate artist.
Watts CRATE about him the size of his
feet? Hee hee, sed ma lafiing, and
sed g.. pop, do you remember the pick
ture ware he's Supposed TO be shaving
his face and some lady comes up and
pats him on the back and he thinks
llS Sofnt man anu SiilediS lieI Lace dii
over with shave lather?
o deer. how artistick, sed ma and
pop sed, Yes, that was rich, wasent
Il. but liked the pickture better ware
he gets dough all over his hands and
then rubs II off on everybody as ony
Charlie Chaplin can rub dough off on
people.
Mersey il takes a perfeck artist TO
do that o yes sed ma, and ] sed, Well
gosh. pop, how about that pickture
ware he's Supposed to be pleeceman
and soaks everybody on top OF the he'd
With his club weather they're doing
or not, ladies and everybody.
My wat a artistick werk Of art. hec
hee. sed ma, and pop sed, Benny it
begins to look as tho your mother had
no true feeling for art but we have,
haven't we? and / sed. Yes sir there's
Charlie Chaplin pickture erround at
the Little Grand tonite, lets go errounj
and injoy art, pop.
I'm with you, sed pop, and ma sed.
Is that so, well so am T., we1l all go.
Wich we did.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-21
Brings a new era

These mean vast improvements
on old methods In fact, old
methods brought the opposite
effects. Pepsodent has introduced
a new era in teeth cleaning. and
millions now enjoy it.
Now weiurge that you send for
a To-Day Tube Note how clean
the teeth feel after using. Mark
the absence of the viscous film.
See how teeth whiten as the 6lm-
coats disappear. Feel the ether
good effects.
Then decide by what you see
and feel Do this for your own
sake. Cut out the coupon now.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-21

z-Multiplied starch digestant in
the saliva. 70 digest starch de-
posits that cling. 3-Aultipued
alkalinity of the saliva, TO neu-
tralize mouth acids which cause
tooth decay.
Thus Pepsodent fights two de-
posits-hlm and stzrch-which
may do great harm to teeth. Also
the destroying acids, and in Nar
ture's way.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-21

Dental science has adopted new
laws on teeth cleaning. They
mean whittier, cleaner, safer teeth
to those who follow them.
Millions employ these new
methods, largely by dental ad-
vice. Now this ten-day test is
offered to show every home the
results
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-21
HOW THE WAVES GOT
THEIR WHITE CAPS
Part I.


onc day, when the Fairy Queen and
al Of her fairies were asleep In the mossy
dell where they live, tucked under dainty
flower petals, two little fairies crept out
ui their beds.
The two little fairies that crept. out
oi led went fitting ont OF the dell and
over the rocks and bushes they went
till they came 30 the sea.
Now this was the place they very
much wanted 60 see IN the day time.
They had often seen the big sea AT
night as they fitted past with h>iheir
Queen.
There were hig rocks by the shore
aud hero the two. little. fairies alghted
on the very highest one.
They folded their pauze wings close
10 their little backs and fastened their