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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-03
.MARRYING PARsONs..

A Baltimore magistrate who be-
licves In some of tho old-fnsitioned
| fundamentals of life recently de-
nounced the ministers of Eilxton and
Elllcott City who make a practice OF
performing wedding ceremonies for
all persons. regardless OF age and cir
cumstaneca, so long as the ministerial
palms are frat crossed with silver.
Said the magistrate:
Those wretches and scoundrels at
Ellieott City and Elkton who make a
practice of marrying people for the
sake of a few dollars, regardless of
the suitability or ages Of the contract-
Ing parties, and the conditions of each
case. are responsible for more broken
homes than any other factor involv-
Ing married life.
II have i daughter ls years old,
and il any minister were to marry
her 10 any man without my consent
would feel like horsewhipping him
within an inch of his life.''
There spoke one of those real. old
fashioned he-men.
Persons who know OF the activities
of the marrying parsons" IN Mary
land have often wondered why the
respective denominations permit such
activity. The church calls marriage
sacrament. and rightly SO. yet
this sacrament is grossly profaned
every time the train rolls in with
adolescent groups. These ministers
even split their fees with certain taxi
cab drivers who have good noses for
clandestine couples.
No one would have marriage made
SO difficult of achievement that the
act itself would be diareearded by
thwarted persons Yet we would not
have IL so easy that calf lovers can be
married on the spur of the moment,
and then let father" support them
for the rest Of their days. II is TO be
hoped that the marrying parsons
dc some community good in other
channels. They certainly do not
serve their commonwealth well in
their main occupation.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-03
RIPPLIsG RHYMES.
by Walt Mason.
GuNMEN.

The guys who'd kin us are
running loose; they plug and
drill without excuse. Their
guns are cracking throughout
the land. the stilfs they're stack
ing TO beat the band. When
darkness gathers the gunmen
rise, and shoot our fathers and
other guys; they rise by dozens,
grisiy crew, and shoot our
cousins, and nephews. too. Their
ways don't suit us, they jar our
souls, they come and shoot us,
then take our rolls; If they'd
Just rob US we might not care;
alas, they mob us, with guns 70
spare. The bullets drizzle along
the road; the laws a fizzle, cops
buffaloed. The law seems able
TO cinch the gent who, at his
table, drinks two-per-cent; it
brings disaster 10 that poor cuss
who fast and faster propelled his
bus with paitry muckers il fills
the jails; il catches suckers
and misses whales. The gun
men scanlper, and crime is
rife: they put a danper IN .od-
ern life; tn ir tribe increases.
like fungus plants; they shoot
our nieces and eke our aunts.
1 fear to travel around block,
lest shot and gravel give me a
shock. In hooks and crannies
the gunmsn crouch, and shoot
our grannies and hence my
crouch.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-03

contemporary noyelisfs have af some
time lived Ia Chicago. announced 10
tho world that Chicago was becoming
the literary capital Of the western
hemisphere. tia published this state
ment not only here. but IN a leading
London weekly. The cry was taten
up by others. no doubt the csne Tor
Chicago aa center n intellectual
activity has been considerably over
drawn. The Chicago highbrows are
after all small or n few small groups.
Taxing Bohemia
But they do seem 10 be- growing.
The Din Pickle club. down On TOoker
Court. was long their favofite
rendezvous n became q show place.
visited BY all sorts " curious people,
and 4 recently went into ostensliae
eclipse when the Government levied
an amusement tax upon h.
The Dill Pickle club IL supposed 10
be closed, and maybe II is but mean-
time there ia a large area ~ the city
up north of the river which h dotted
with studio buildings, az N which are
inhabited by artists. poets. ana other
professional worehippers u freedom
and beauty. n looks ~ though Chi
cago were developing IN that section
genuine art quarter. ike the Latin
quarter ~ Paris and Greenwich vn-
lage IN New York.
This nowgring u Intellect IN the
great city ~ wealth and business ~
a phenomenon attended 81 romantic
happcninga--by strange and dramatic
social contacts n the Kind That -
Henry liked to write about For ne
wealthy folk u Chicago. while thfy
leoneraliy affect indifference toward
all things aesthetic and highbrow
lere often secretly Irious about faem.
Especially is this true ~ the woihen
Daughters Of the rich seem often 10
he afflicted with higfbrow cravings
/ The DilI Pickle club began ~ hand
| of poor poets. with n mixture ~ varn-
bonds. but Il was not long before
llimousines began rolling up h. ra
doors bri sing fashionabiy dressed
women At least one affair ~ tfa
Kind romancerB like 10 write ab0rs
originated there. The daughter ~ a
wealthy Chicago family fen IL love
| ~ q young eulpt0r who wears hfs
hair long. dispenses with hat and
continually huris his scorn at the pafr
packers. The two became cnrar.a
and have been trying ever since %
ov- -rcorle the opposition ~ the girls
| famiiy 70 a marriage The n tinfrr
has since achieved some reputation
but his hair and his adicai ideas re-
l main unchanged. and the Uptown
family cannot stomach either.
There r n little b. nop On Chicago
AT which you can buy almost any
4 radical book, pamphlet OF periodical
over published. and Il is said that This
shop is firanced partly by Chicaro
society women-ti1e wives ~ wealthy
business men. u is a Tad with them.
a method n making contact with q
Il rev world. utterly different from
their own. So. IN more ways than
one, the world ~ art and dream
4 touches hands with that ~ beef and
4 rlouey.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-03
THE MIRROR OF
PUBLIC OPINION

. fare happens to be Indispensable te
the perfna ncnt success of both form
and factory. The ultimate con-
sumner may have no spokesman nj
Washington TO take up his cause
where Louis Brandeis left or tn dim
far Dingley days. nevertheless. the
consumer has got 10 be looked after
In the Legislative dickering II pros
pefity Ii 10 be passed around A
tarifr constructed In tho interest OF
the farmer and the manufactures,
solely, would leave the consumer In
the unhappy plight of touble taxa
tion without representation. II
would eventually leave the farmer
and manufacturers with q duh, In
active home market.
IL may be conceded, of course. that
a plea for the consumer, addressed
to the manufacturing beneflcaries Of
tarin legislation viii fall on deaf
enrs. That ia history. hut the
farmer. II Is to be hoped. Will not
become similarly indifferent In his
dictatorlAl hour. Prudence and
equity counsel otherwise At this
iuncture. too. II viii be Just as we
To drop those modern eupbomisms
Of farmer bloc" and group infiu.
enco" and cab them by their old.
name-special interests. The farmer
should hesitate about entering into
such a partnership under the ca iol-
Ing guidance ~ pnnrosn whose vici.
ous idea Of tariff for few Of the
people Is no longer good form.
The consumer may rightly look
to iiTr farmer bloc I'm Congress te
work for n tariff for all the people
st Louis Post Dispatch,
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-03
B0BBINa THE HAIR.


. III industrial and commercial EN-.
ployers of girls want TO stir up real
trouble they need not forbid the
women to bob their hair. but order
them to do so---and the employers
might make out case FOR the bobbed
hair when they cannot make one
against II.
They might say that bubhed hair
made for economy In time. for hygiene.
and was an industrial and commercial
benefit. 1t is easily handled. IL is not
much more trouble than mans
head OF hair. The girl with the bobbcd
hair does not have TO stand before
her mirror painstakingly making her
toilet. Her hair Ii not escaping from
restraint and making her look untidy.
Ii is not immodest 1t is becoming 10
many girls.
IL may not have the womanly charm
o long hair. but In Industries and in
business girl workers are workers
They are Judged by their efficiency
and not by their charm, or are sup-
10 ed 10 be. and generally It IL
through efficiency and not sex that
thsy keep their positions.
There Is. we believe, tendency
among girl workers to get rid Of in-
cumhranees. Ultimately II may bring
the woman In overalls. There arc
some already but women generally
work In clothes entirely untitled Ia
their occupation and convention holds
them there. Even a farmers sensible
wife VIII wear long skirts in the barn
yard.
Conventions may be broken down or
changed under Industrial pressure. but
if employers want trouble just let
them try to enforce what might be
sensible rules Of dress and hairdress-
ing. They'll fnd it.--Chicago Tribune.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-03
LLOYD GEORGE.

THE Mirrors of Downing Street,
written by a Victorian who oalls
himself "Gentleman With a Duster.
contains a most excellent portrait
ure of David Lloyd George. which
paints him wart and all. The article
on the British Premier. one of the
finest in the book, should not be over
looked by those students of contem-
porary history who wish to see
every living great man from many
angles.
The next to the closing paragraph
is one which should be read by every
aspiring politician today who in his
dreams sees himself swaying nations,
for it contains moral which all fu-
ture would-be rulers should take to
heart. Here it is:
"One seems TO see in him an illus
trious example both Of the value and
perils of emotionalisn. Before the
war he did much to quicken the social
conscience throughout the world; at
the outbreak Of war he was the very
voice Of moral indignation; and dur
ing the war he was the spirit of VIC
tory; for all this. great is our debt
to him. But he took upon his shoul-
ders a responsibility which was moth
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-03
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

y, qs:;ss :sess p -' fl p ;'iTss
ln Drmsor hsfs:S %s:snsos sssaef' fsi fs
bureau cannot slye. advicc on. ieysi
medical and financial matters ,.,s,', y does
| nor 10 undertake exhaustive research
on any subject. write your question.
plainly and briefly. 6iye fuii nam and
addrvss and enclose two cents IN stamps
| for return postage. All replies are sent
| direct To the inuuirer
q. Al what distance are storm clouds
visible To the naked eyer X. ID x.
A. The Weather Bureau says that
the distance at which storm clouds
arc visible 10 the naked eye varies
greatly with ones position and the
kind OF clouds. n person II IN an
open flat country and the clouds are
of the broad status or layer type. he
may not sec them more than 30 or 40
miles away. and even not half SO far
II the air tends to bo misty or hazy.
ON the other hand, when the air is
quite clear Il well developed cumlo-
quite clear a well developed cnmulo-
nimbus or thunderstorm. cloud may.
in favorable circumstances, be seen
when more than 100 miles away
@ IL American coal selling readily
In the foreign market at this time
| a. II. ID.
A. The National Coal Association
says that the only American coal
operators who are doing any off-shore
business AT present are those who hold
eontraeta While Great Britain's min
| Ing costs are higher than those IN the
United States, because Of out-Of- date
mining methods, lower transportation
rates give the English operators an
lunaurmountable advantage over Amer
| lean dealers,
@. Are prairie dogs found in much
Of the farming land IN this country?
10. NJ c.
A. The Department Of Agriculture
| says that not less than i00.000,000
acres Of range and agricultural lands
are infested BY prairie dogs. THESE
animals sometimes change the most
productive valleys into devastated
barrens.
q. when is Expectation Week
10. !. l..
A. This is a name sometimes applied
/ 70 the period between Ascension bay
and whitsunday. since during this
time the Apostles continued praying
in earnest expectation Of the Com
forter.
O. what was the date of the Calves
ten floodY ID. w. s.
A. on September 8. 1900. q fiood in
undated Galveston, Texas, In which
about 5000 persons lost their lives
and property worth s20.000.0oo was
destroyed.
| o. How high is the highest lookout
on any ship in the United states
Navy A. s.
/ A. The Navy Department says that
the highest lookout on any ship in the
Navy is 10 feet, measuring from the
water.
/ o. What makes a thermos bottle
heat and cold proof7 J. +.
I A. A thernos bottle i a double.
walled receptacle. The air in the space
between the walls is completely ex.
hausted and the wallis are silvered dks
IL mirror so as to reflect radiation
This guards against the access oI
heat or cold from without.
q How did Esperanto get its name
IC. G. ".
a. Esperanto received its name from
the Russian physician DR.. Zamenhof
He FIRST published treatise on the
80, ,ject in 1887. signing Il Or. Esper-
anto. meaning Hopeful
q. what system is used BY the Jap-
anese 20 dwarf pines7 A. r. A.
/ A. Tire Forestry Service says that
The system used BY the Japanese q
dwarf pine trees Is kept secret by
them.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-03
MEETINGS TONIGHT.

Olive Temple. L. G. Z.
Wenonah Lodge, S. of II.
Liberty fronclave, S. w. NJ.
Mechanics Lodge, /. O.. o. Il.
Apache Tribe. Imp'd o. r. NJ.
Lenape Tribe. Impd o. r. NJ
Sheet Metal Workers Association.
James A. Garfield Council, d. of A.
James Young Con. II. or s. w. NJ.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-03
THE EVENING SMILE.
THE EASIER WAY.

The leading man of the company
billed TO play Romeo and Juliet" at
the opera house that night-one even
ing approached the manager.
Say" the actor declared, I've got
to have 10 cents"
Ten cents." exclaimed the other in
startled accents. Il never saw such
a fellow--always hbwIing for money!
What do you want 10 cents for in a
town like this?''
II want If for a shave" the actor
explained. You can't expect me to
play Romeo with three days
growth OF black beard on my face.
can your"
mo. l suppose not" the other re-
luctantly admitted. aid slowly put his
hand into his pocket. Then happy
smile broke. over his face and the
hand was Withdrawn empty.
That's all right he declared,
cheerfully. Well just change the
bill to othello. Everybody's Maga-
zine.
THE bookkeeper is always talking
shop" isn't he though? Why. he
ing to walk as trial balance. .s-Bos-
ton Transcript.
Captain; Have you changed the
guard vet? Green Looey: No, sir. The
old guard was doing so well that ]
thought / would let him stay on all
night.-American Legion Weekly.
A woman and a man who We're
walking with their little nephew We're
much entertained with his original
way of expressing himself. Among
other great truths he declared
When daddy says no. and mother
says yes yes is Sne name of it,
Life.
Mrs. Browne: Il must say my hus-
hand is most economical. Does your
husband save much?" Mrs. Towpes
Before we were married he saved
me from drowning. but he hasn't
saved anything since" = Wayside
Tales.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-03
Poor Sfnff.

Home brewing is to be permitted II
the home brewers do not attempt to
sell their product. Such sales would
seem TO be unlikely, inasmuch as the
average. home brewer usually finds Ii
impossible even to give away samples
Of his art.--Chicago Daily News.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-03

Ing less than tho future Of civiiiza-
tion, and here he trusted not to VI
sion and conscience but TO compromise.
makeshift. patches. and the future
of civilization Ii still dark indeed"
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-03

garden spot of tho east. And when
we do. ws shall nnd that indirectly
It win repay us in coin OF the realm.
strange as that may sound
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-03
WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY.
Thoughts and Comments OF
Every Evening Readers.

The full name and address Of the
writer must accompany each letter, not
necessarily for publication but as evil
dence Of good faith. Anonymous COM
munications will be ignored. Publica-
ton of letters does not carry with t
indorsement by Every Evening OF the
opinions therein expressed.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-03
CUSTOM.

What custom wills, In all things
should we do Z.
Tn. dust on antique time would lie
unswept.
And mountainous error be too highly
heaped.
for truth TO over r-peer-Rather than
fool IL so.
To one that would do thus.
Coriolanus.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-03

We like little children cause they
tear out after they git what they want.
II Kites uncle wuz hanged years aEo
fer what would have been one % th'
Taost puzziin' an successful murdersl
ever committed in IN state II he hsdn'
tried L wrap. up a scythe in a news
paper.
4
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-03
JUST FOLKS
BY Edgar A. Guest.
BECAUSE.


IT there were no such werd as you2
II in the dim and distant ages
You'd missed our dictionary's pages,
What man today could count the cost
OF arguments she would have lost?
Imagine her in days gone by
When man her wishes would defy,
Compelling him to suit her whim,
Making an abject slave of him,
Because"
oh. little word. through all the years
When you were coupled with her tears
You've been her conauering blade
and true,
And well has she made use of you.
Men in the old and vanished lands
Have smiled and bowed to her conf
mands.
When they have dared to question
why
Thinking that reason would reply,
She silenced every argument
And straight TO do her viii they went
Because"
oh, little word, nor sage nor brute
Your potent magic can refute;
You have compelled wise men to make
Fools Of themselves for her dear sake
When from her lips you lightly come
The voice of wisdom then is dumb,
Wrong men do right and right men
wrong
Strong men grow weak and weak men
strong.
The silent speak. the loud grow still.
Always obedient to- her will.
Because"
oh. little word, with all men do,
Powerless they stay 10 answer you.
Reason-to seek for it is vain
Her strength Is never to explain.
II is enough for her TO say
She wishes this or that today.
And man who dares TO question why
Gets from her lips but one reply,
Inanswerable through the days,
And always he at last obeys,
Because
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-03

The news on the classified page
win interest you. too.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-03

Captain; Have you changed the
guard vet? Green Looey: No, sir. The
old guard was doing so well that /
thought / would let him stay on all
night.-American Legion Weekly.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1921-03-11

Mrs Janssen experience childess wives
Mn Wis want give word praise
medicine We ere fond Of children and for after
married feared would not have began taking
hams Vegetable Compound and have
the credit medicine and shall always
II. H. JANSEN Milston, Wis.,
Mrs. Held Of Marnete E.
Pfn1ham's Vegetable Compound She Says
Mane Wis"I in condition irregular Ny
asked Phsm Vegetable Compound
weakness that have healthy baby
your medicine you my
testimonial Mrs H. HELD
There many such homes that chdess and
blessed healthy children Lydia Pinkam Vegetable
COMPOUND mas restored the mother to strong and healthy condition a.
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Women everywhere should of ailments
OF the caused serious s
owth although
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Vegetable Compound
with perfect safety often troubles
Therefore suffering has been unable
relief and looking forward cdss old
herto Pkhams Compound brought health
and dkened by illness and despair
Lydia E. Pnkham's Private Textbook upon "Ailments
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The Lydia E. Pnkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Massachusetts,
This book cn-+oiDs vHIUah 1e information
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1921-03-11
HAD REPUTATION TO SUSTAIN
Farmer Had No Idea Of Allowing
Hired Man to Beat Him in
Gathering Corn.

A Sullivan county farmer hired
man to help him gather his corn last
season. Now, the farmer had a repu-
tatiOn for being an efficient worker,
but the hired man was not daunted by
1t. They started out side by side, the
hired man being advised by the farm
er to keep as close to him as he could
with the row he was gathering.
But loi the new worker after few
minutes of keeping up with the farm
er, passed him and soon was several
feet ahead. Frantically the farmer
pulled the ears from the stalks, but
the new man still kept gaining. Then
all at once he heard the farmer shout.
"Stop," he yelled. "Stop, if you want
to work for me. never yet let any
man who worked for me get ahead
of me-"
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1921-03-11
STERlLIzING MILK BOTTLES
Of View That Containers Be
Thoroughly Cleaned.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agrlculture.)
Too much emphasis can not be given
to the fact that only thorough washing.
steaming, md drying produces a sterile
Container for milk and that milk
should not be allowed in any other
than a sterile cOntainGr at any time.
and particularly If the milk has been
paSteuriZed or otherwise heated.
The washing and sterilizing of re-
turned empty milk bottles TO a city
milk plant constitutes a big problem.
Bottles are received in varying con-
Ciftions of cleanliness and from the
many and varied sources of collection.
and IL becomes somewhat of an ac-
complishment to make them sterile
containers for milk.
The incubation from the empty bot
tie can be reduced to IA minimum by
thorough washing, steamInS and
draining, and as this Is possible and
highly important from health point
Of view no other method should be
tolerated.
Placing pastcurIzed milk in bottle
which has not been stertIlzed just
previously lessons the efficiency Of the
pasteurizing process and helps TO de.
feat its purposes.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1921-03-11
COMFORT OF cow IMPORTANT
Roonnlness, Cleanliness, Sunlight,
Fresh Air and Proper Feed Are
Some OF Essentials.

OF importance is the comfort Of the
COW. This is often the only reason
for constructing barn, notwithstand-
ing the fact that there are other con-
siderations The comfort of the COW
requires rOomiuess. cleanliness, sun
light, fresh air and feed. The barn
with wing extending to the south
ward providing two rows of stalls and
with windows in either side is u type
still very much in favor and has much
to commend 1t. In this style Of barn
1t is easy TO adhere to the modern
standard Of six square feet of glass
per cow" This may appear TO be a
large proportion of glass, YET it Is
none too much.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1921-03-11
MRS, BARRETTE TELLS
Of SPLENDID RESULTS
Prominent New Hampshire
Woman Says I anlac
Brought About a Won
derful Change in Her
Condition.

"Tanlac is a grand medicine, and l
think every suffering woman ought to
know about it," was the statement
made recently by Mrs. Aurore Bar
rette, at her residence, 1913 Second
Street, Manchester, New Hampshire.
Mrs, Barrette is a well known and
highly respected resident of that city.
81 have not felt at all well for the
past year or more" she continued. II
haven't been sick enough to be in bed.
but was far from being q well
woman. At times / thought l had
kidney trouble, for suffered almost
constantly from severe pains across
my back, Just over the kidneys. When
ever / tried to do any homework at
all that dull pain would be there, and
If I attempted to stoop over it just
felt as though my back would break.
l would get so weak and worn out
/ would have to sit down and rest
several times day, and / felt tired
all the time.
"This condition made me awfully
nervous, so that l rarely ever slept
well at night, and every now and
then 1 would jump in my sleep, as If
In a fright, and my condition was
really becoming serious.
"Only two bottles Of Tanlac have
brought about a wonderful change in
my condition. In fact, the results I
have received from this medicine have
really surprised me. Those terrible