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the supervision of families after they
are placed on the pension roll. Aid rs
administered in such way as to en-
courage the self-respect of the benefit
ciary, and a relationship of co-opera-
ton is established between the pen
stoned mother and the supervising
probation officer
eIIowever, methods of administration
are diverse throughout the state. and
facts presented in the report point to
the conclusion that the principle of To-
cal responsibility for administration
should be replaced by some measure
of state control or Standardization. The
Importance of perfecting the mothers
pension law is strongly emphasized
because, the report points out, his
system If properly organized and safe
guarded may contain the nucleus of
new form of state aid free from the
pauperizing effect of the old public
charities and capable of considerable
extension, along with actual economy
of expenditure.
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furt, are evidently unable to stand the
shock Of heavy bomb explosions. The
Frankfurt was sunk by bomb which
did not hit her. The fatal explosion re-
suited from the dropping of a 900
pound charge in the water nearby.
Two or three other bombs, missing
the deck and falling in the water near
the vessel, are thought to have con-
tributed to its breaking up. Several
charges struck the deck causing moro
or less wreckage, but failing to sink
the cruiser.
1t has been General NTitcheI's com
tention all along that the explosion Of
a giant bomb in the water near war;
ship would be equivalent to a hit on
the deck in practical results. The air
may no longer be neglected with
safety.
Another view of the results Of the
tests also favors the airmen. In the ex-
pertinent with the Iowa lin motion) a
few weeks since, only two hits out of
seventy struck upon the deck. The per-
centage of hits was figured according.
But since it appears that an explosion
in the water in proximity to the OBJ
ject Of attack is equivalent to a hit it
follows that the percentage should be
figured considerably higher than in the
Iowa test.
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MuMMlFlEp MERRIMENT.

7 made a joke and uttered II
Beside mummy in case
And could swear he muttered it,
For, when looked upon his face,
Though many years had taken flight
Since he had been upon the earth.
His countenance was very bright,
He actually smiled with mirth.
Swhy, oh! why" said. thus grin?
What is it that excites your glee?"
He answered. TT is for sin
Committed in the years b. c.
Three thousand times made that Jest,
Since then three thousand times
each year,
rye been aroused from my long rest,
And cursed each time that Jest I'd
hear.
It is my punishment" quoth he,
whenever that hoary joke is said,
Hilarious am doomed to be,
Although I'd rather far be deadl"
Cartoons Magazine.
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HURTING BUSINESS.

For several weeks, or months, rather.
Garden street has been torn up west
of DeVillier. This is especially true of
the north side of the street, which has
been barely passabIe at any time and
impossible a part of the time.
A contract is being let for the paw
ing of the south side of the street but
little action has been taken to clean
up the wreckage on the north side Of
the street or to make the street passa-
BILE.
All this has interfered with the COM
fort of the public which uses Garden
street, has embarrassed residents Of
the section in question. and has mill
tated against private business, espe-
cially in the case of the Garden Cash
Grocery, which is located at DeVillier
and Garden street. where the wreck.
age has been worst, because of tbs
sewer being laid both on Deyillier ard
on Garden.
1t is devoutly to be hoped that this
street will be placed in proper condi-
tion at the earliest possible date.
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GLOWING in the
Steps of Wilson.

AS far as this session of congress
goes, President Harding has success
fully killed the soldier bonus legisla-
Zion.
To kill it was not a difficult task
because democratic senators as vel
as those affiliated with Mr.. Harding's
party opposed it; In fact, Senator Os-
car Underwood, of Alabama, minority
leader, was loud in his denunciation Of
the bill as 1t was presented
Further, the legislation is dead for
all time to come. In spite of the post.
ponement intimation, we venture to
make this prediction and confidently
believe that the future will establish
it. The height of interest has beer
reached, the crest of argument passed
and, like thousands of other proposed
measures, the bonus idea will pass
"unwept, unhonored and unsung," as
it We're.
However, the method by which Pres
ident Harding caused the postpone
ment Of the legislation is interesting
especially when compared to the bar
RACES Of criticism directed at Presideng
Wilson by Senator Harding and hi
associates for, as they referred to it
interfering with congressional prerog
atives. And, too, in his campigr
speeches Mr.. Harding promised tbs
American people that he would no
interfere with the prerogatives O.
congress"
We are not criticising the presiden
for appearing before congress an6
making the speech he did. AS chic,
executive it is his solemn duty to ad.
vocate those steps which insure tbs
protection of the nations interests, ano
doubtless this was the thought whicl
sent him to the senate chamber; but
as the republicans applied it to Mr.
Wilson, If this is not interfering witt
congressional prerogatives black i
white and white is black. And again
President Wilson appealed to congress
when the country was at war, whel
one false move might have wrecked
the nation. In time of peace Presiden.
Harding follows his example.
This is additional evidence to the
accusation that as the administration
progresses it enlarges on the custom.
inaugurated by Mr.. Wilson, and be
cause of which he was the most criti
cised man in the world.-Florida Me
tropolis.
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hours, tells the correspondent of
news service that the garter is now
one of the most costly articles of the
Atlanta lady's wardrobe. As If this
information was news. When, for in
stance, was that not the case?
Shakespeare and contemporary au-
thors wove love and romance around
the garter and nobody appears to re-
call when it wasn't the pride of wo-
men and the joy of men.
A writer Of the Restoration period
speaks Of the court ladies as fair,
frail beauties, who lift their petticoats
to show the gallants the fortunes hung
around their legs as garters" This
love of display was evidently not con-
fined, to the women of the Restoration.
Tor a sarcastic poet about the middle
OF the eighteenth century wrote:
Make your petticoats short
That a hoop eight yards wide
May decently show
How your garters are ty'd.
The garters worn by men in the six
teenth and seventeenth centuries Of
ten took the form of richly embroid-
cred scarfs, fringed with point lace of
gold and tied in a bow at the side OF
the knees. At a later period they We're
adorned with diamonds, paste or steel
buckles and were broad or narrow, ac-
cording to the fashions of the day.
1t was natural perhaps that our
most fashionable men should take IN
and lavish on the garter much money.
in colonial times, when the pictures of
that day show us General Washington
and others adorned in knee trousers.
with flashy carriers and powdered hair.
The women of that period wore
lengthy shirts and one may guess at
the lingerie that those dragging gar
ments covered.
Now that women are prone to show
more of their anatomy than ever" saic
the fashion expert in the Arcade shop
ping center who supplies feminine
wardrobes, "it would be odd, if they
didn't wear garters no less dainty,
elaborate or costly than of yore, even
If they are now more for ornament
and sentiment than for use. And as
for mere man, who hasn't noticed the
anxiety on his face when something
goes wrong with his garters ?-St. Au-
.gustine Record.
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REVELATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY ADELE GARRISON,
Why Did Mr.. Drake Ask "Do You
Happen to Know Robert Gordon2"
Here's the missing chatelaine of the
ca site IraIZe ,,rnnnrI,r t,nr,ito,,t

Here's the missing chatelaine of the
castle, Drake, properly penitent."
Dicky led me forward to meet the
guest he had brought home with him
for dinner with a little air of pride
which I secretly resented. He be-
haved exactly as If he were showing
off some possession that he had pur-
chased.
felt decidedly foolish as I stood be-
fore this unknown with my arms fun
Of flowers. Dicxy had insisted on pill
ing the roses Mr.. Drake had brought
me as a dinner courtesy into my arms
before I came down stairs. and with
the strong consciousness of looking RI
diculous upon me / could hardly sum-
mon courage to raise my eyes to those
of my guest
do you always reward hardness in
a hostess in this way, Mr.. Drake?" /
asked the question, indicating the roses
as I spoke, hoping that the sound Of
my own voice uttering the triviality
would restore my self possession,
ut is good of you to call it re-
ward" he said, bowling with an air that
1 knew could only have been acquired
abroad. There was no trace of accent
in his voice, however, even though his
next words were hardly those in which
the average American would couch his
recognition Of courtesy done him
MY poor roses are too much hon
ored," he said impressively. 81 am
afraid they are too heavy for you"
Il shall put them in water directly"
returned. ''Dicky. viii you get me
that tall brown jar in the library?"
Dicky obediently departed, and 7 put
the roses on a table near me, and bus
led myself in their arrangement
was glad Of something to occupy me,
glad that 1 could avoid meeting the
eyes of our guest.
For there was something in those
eyes that disquieted me. which made
me want to lower my own.
oddly attractive eyes they were.
with long lashes that any woman
might envy. But there was nothing
womanish in the expression of the eyes
which I had caught when their owner
Strengthened himself after his bow to-
me.
1t was a glance as keen as a rapier's
point that had flashed at me from theI
gray eyes behind the feminine lashes
lashes which I felt instinctiveIy their
owner must find convenient as a mask
behind which he could watch and ap-
praise people.
So searching was the glance that he
had given me that it startled. even
me. 1t made me wonder
vaguely If there might not be some
motive behind the eagerness
with which this new acquaintance Of
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KEEPING MOTHERS AND Chill
DREN TOGETHER.

1t is against sound public economy
to allow poverty alone to cause the
separation of child from the care Of
a good mother. This is the principle
back of the mothers pension system,
the administration of which is dis
cussed in a report entitled THE Ad-
ministration of the Aid to Mothers
Law in Illinois," recently issued by the
U. S. department of labor through the
children's bureau.
The Illinois statute of 1911 was the
first mothers pension law in the coun-
try. At present 40 states have such a
law.
The administration of the Illinois
law of 1911 was placed with the judges
of the Juvenile courts throughout the
state, and very wide discretion was
vested in the court. In 1913 the law
was radically altered and the authority
of the courts was definitely limited.
Minor changes have since been made
During the first year following the
enactment of the pension law in Ilh-
nois, only 16 counties outside Cook
county made any use of it, while by
the end of 1920 pensions were being
granted IN all but 10 of the 102 coun-
ties of the state. At the close of the
first year of the administration OF the
original law, there were 327 families
on the pension roll of the Juvenile
court Of Cook county representing a
monthly expenditure of almost $1,000,
while in November, 1919, there were
S51 families on the roll with monthly
expenditure more than four times q
great as in 1912.
The report gives detailed account
Of the administration of the law in
Cook county, which has set an admir-
able standard both as to the adequacy
OF pensions and efficiency Of adrninis-
tration. The court follows methods
standardized by good private relief
agencies in the investigation that pre-
cedes the pension grant and also N
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Oh, Where Has the
Treaty Copy Gone?

The erstwhile Morphean- inclined
national capital is considerably
aroused over this disappearance Of the
United States copy of the treaty Of
Versailles
President Harding has ransacked
his desk. Nothing doing" he states
Iugubrious1y.
Secretary of state Hughes has in
vain dug through the archives of his
department. mot here" is his an
nouncement.
Certainly Mr.. Wilson didn't take the
document along as a souvenir of his
administration
But where is ftp" official Washing
ton IS asking.
Joseph Tumulty, who was President
Wilson's secretary. says the last. time
he saw the treaty was March 4th. when
some kind Of a celebration was being
staged in Washington.
BY the living shades Of rejection,
this priceless paper must be found!
It is the biggest scalp the republican
party ever swung from it's hip, and to
lose # now would remove from the
trophies of the party its most priced
possession.
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll may have
stolen the treaty and buried it near
Berlin; Big Bill Haywood may have
taken It over for Lenine and Trotzky
to read: or perhaps the poor kaiser
having read the library at Doom dry.
is reading it and revising it to suit
his taste. Then again, when the ship
of state was going down, someone may
have been thoughtful enough to place
1t IN a bottle. Congress might begin
an investigation to determine the fate
Of this copy of the treaty!
On the long winter nights to come
If this document is not found-wher
the old elephant is relating how. wher
in the prime of life. he wrapped ma
tons in his trunk and shook the whole
world. suppose a child or grandchild
should ask for the certificate Of proof |
what a multitude OF explanations |
would be necessary
Find the copyi-Florida Metropolis |
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In Rryan's Wake.

Increasing years produce remarkabl
changes in mems thoughts and opin
ions and set them upon odd crusades
but none, it may be ventured, is NOR
curious than the conversion of tn
Pennsylvania senator to the militar,
or rather non military militancy of MI
Bryan. Those springers whom Bryal
saw taking arms by the millions, ri
files in hand, at the first hint of dan
ger to their homeland, are now tn
adopted children of Senator Penrose
Whence his optimistic suggestion tina
the United States disarm without wait
ing to see what the rest of the work
does?
The president and the cabinet Sc
danger in such a proposal, and profes
to have facts which make it inadvisa
BILE for the United States to assume s
disinterested and unselfish an attitud
until the Europeans, and it may b
until the Japanese, situations hay
cleared a little. A time is spoken of, !.
far distant date, when all anfmosit'
shall have departed from this mum
dane sphere In the Book Of Books
Have we reached those ha1cyon days
Rash indeed, is he who would ex
press certainty When the willy Kenaa
Pasha dares to propose terms to tt
British lion, which he would certainI
never dare do IL that kingIy beas
were not licking his paws. sufferin
still from the wounds of the late wa
and were his hide not perforated i.
spots BIZ Irish spear thrusts, it sug
gests that the lion might go waril.
about disarming.
Passive resistance is not awarde.
any medals by history. No empire has
been more passive than the Chimes
and none has been plundered b.
stronger nations more ruthIessly. Tn
Greek city OF Gnossos had one thou
sand years of uninterrupted peac
during which the citizens cultivate
the arts and sciences and reached Z
high degree of culture. They were dis
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Dtclky's had accepted his invitation t.
our home. The look he gave me wa
exactly the kind he would have be
slowed upon some one whom he had
planned to meet before hand. And yec
I knew that had never seen or even
heard of this man whose eyes I could
feel were still appraising me.
was glad when Diclxy came bac-
with the brown Jar for which I hal
sent him. He had thoughtfully filled
It with water, and I fingered over tho
placing Of the roses within #, hoping
that DiclSy's usual flow OF CONVEX station
would take the strangers attention
from me.
But my hope was vain. True, he lis
tened to DiclSy's talk had almost
written chatter-for I felt an unac-
countable and uncalled for irritation
at my husbands unusual loquacious
ness, with every appearance of interest.
But there was more than the usual
courtesy due hostess in the manner
in which he managed TO include me fl
every turn OF the conversation all
through the dinner, which Katie. pale.
but with no other trace of the strange
agitation in which I had found he-
Katie had eutdone herself in tbs
preparation Of the dishes. They wera
delicious and her service was very
good indeed. But my housewifely pride
In the success Of the meal was spoiled
by the behavior of our guest.
And yet there was nothing in his
actions to which I could have taken
the least exception. It was simply that
I.
as If We're some queer species Of in+
sect under the microscope OF a scien-
list.
There was a subtle fascination aboue
the man, too, that recognized IN spite
Of the distaste I felt for the mental
scrutiny which I knew he was giving
me. After that first long, keen. search
ing glance at me he was careful or 50
I imagined, not to startle me again r.
any direct glance. But I had a quee-
consciousness that. there was no move
ment, no utterance OF mine that es-
capped his careful study.
I think I have never met so wei In
formed a man as our guest OF that
evening. A cosmopolite TO his finger
tips. and with an unusual gift 81
turning effective phrases. his vivid
word pictures carried US into the
worlds bueiest marts. and its most re-
mote places, while we listened spell
bound.
And then came the key to the situa.
toni
Carelessly. and could not help but
admire the adroitness with VIII CHI he
did 1t, he followed an account OF his
visit to q South American city with
an innocent appearing little question =
MET a queer old chap there whom
I've wanted TO meet again ever since.
Never happened TO run across him
here in New York, although Under
stand he's quite a character aiong
Broadway. His name is Rober1 Cor
don. DO you happen to know him %
ITO Be continued.)
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BOMBING PRACTICE.

Army and navy air men are agreed
on one thing as a result OF the COM
bined air service bombing practice
held off the Virginia capes. That Is
that the airplane has become a dam
gerous factor in naval warfare and
must be reckoned with in planning the
future strategy OF our navy.
The resistance OF the Osfriesland
to vital damage from the heaviest
bombs proved the contention of navy
naen that the battleship IL not obsolete.
and made more secure the viewpoint
that the airplane has become but an
added weapon OF offense and an added
danger 70 be guarded against on de-
Tense.
The lighter ships, such as the Frank
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PRESS COMMENT
Takers Are Abroad.


To the man who reads the Florida
newspapers it is apparent that the
state has been selected as a fertile
field for the operations of Walling-
fords in real life. Hardly an issue of
any Florida paper but carries some
warning against the sellers of fake
stock in this or that questionable en-
terprise.
Not all ventures in which the sale
of stock is necessary are fakes. Some
of them prove to be worth while in
vestments, but the average man or
woman is not competent to judge the
value of such securities.
The Times agrees with the Palm
Peach Post when 1t says that the best
cure for the evil is the education Of
the home people. The Post continues:
Neither the courts nor the press can
protect them against themselves. If
they will let the desire for easy money
lead them into stalking their savings
on any get-rich-quick scheme that
some emulator of Wallingford puts
UP to them, they will have to take the
consequences. If native horse sense
will not guard them from the conse-
quences of idiotic guIlibility, the best
thing is to adopt few safe rules for
investments.
Never buy any stocks and bonds
from strangers.
Beware Of any offerings that prom
Use unusually lucrative returns.
Never buy any stocks and bonds
from anybody without first asking the
advice of some local banker of known
integrity.
Never buy any stocks and bonds
against the advice of your banker.
Never put any money in speculative
paper unless you can afford to lose It.
These rules will not guarantee a
safe investment, but they will protect
the unsophisticated from the wiles Of
the wild cat statesmen.
If the swindlers are to be driven out
of Florida, those whom they prey upon
will have to help. Those who have
been victimized must put their pride
in their pockets and go to the authori-
ties and admit their folly. If the FRAUD
was perpetrated through the mails,
take all correspondence to the postal
authorities. II it was done through d
personal SAFE, go TO the poi1ce. OF COuH-
ty attorney and tell him all about it.
If in addition, future recipients Of sus
picious invitations to make a fortune
through bold, oil or moving picture
stock will report the event promptly,
it will give the law chance to lay its
hands on some of the scamps, and do
a service to the community at large
st. Petersburk Times.
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joys of the Free List.

The reading of a protective tariff
bill is a formidable and largely a re-
pulsive task. To go through the long
array of taxes and devices and subter-
fuges and traps, all designed to pre-
vent commerce from flowing in its
natural channels, is not to get cheer
ing view of man the political animal
But there is always one section that
has the interest of surprise and almost
of romance. This is the free list. Here
it is that one encounters those chemi-
Gals of which he never heard before
strange articles used in industry and
the arts, uncouth names-in fact, a
long series of mysteries and comical-
tiles.
The Fordney bill, which drags its
slow length along through no less than
346 pages, is not without this delight
full interlude. Several of the items on
the free list are ineligible. Art low
ers will be glad to know that paintings
and sculptures remain there Coffee
is there, and tea and plows and bibles
But what viii the untutored reader say
to the presence of asafoetida and coc-
culusindicus and annatto and cudbear
and osmium and kieserite? Are these
things made duty free in order to
compensate him for taxes on his cloth
ing and food? 1t must not be forgot
ten, either that this collection of items
exempt from import tax helps to bring
down the average rate of the taxes
laid In other paragraphs.
The expert protectionist with the
free list in hand will turn to the man
who complains of the high tax on
wooden goods and say: But, my dear
fellow, don't you see that by paragraph
1910 you can bring In rag pulp free?"
Many a grumbler about tariff taxes
ought to be silenced by showing him
from the text of the bill that he can
import horn without paying a penny
on 1t, and also hoofs, IL they are not
manufactured. Would he have more?
Then let him discover that the benev-
lent Fordney will permit him to import
free of duty all old junk, also cuttle-
fish bone, together with dried blood
broken bells, lava, 1eeches and skele
tons. If these household luxuries DO
not content him. let him load ship
with puIu and witherite and fossils,
and make his family happy by telling
them that these prime necessaries do
not have to pay cent of customs duty.
New York Times.