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Evening star., 1921-07-24

threw but of corse we aint going to
asst the Hamiltons because
wouldent have them in the house.
This here partys going to cost as
some money but its like Mrs. Mar
tin told Grace IL you want to live
cant no cheap skates get by with
the right peopl in a place like this
here. Grace is going to serve them
with sand witches and ice cream
and coffee and cake only not no
cheap home made ice cream but get
from the drug store and they
VIII be Is of us all to gather the
Martins and the Curtis and Carrys
and some other nice peopl we met q
round here and you might say its
the cream Of Allison society and of
corse we got to play auction bridge
whist on acct. Of that bean the swell
game a round here tho 1t aint near
the game like cinch is.
Well Charley l wisht you and Marv
could be here for the party even II It
would leave ] couple out of the card
game because with you here they
would be 18 Of US including I and
Grace but any way take care of your
Your Brother.
F. A. GROSS.
\ A+t
hhisoH, Ill., March IA.
BROTHER Charley. Well Charley I
guess I would be better Off IL I
was a cheap skate like some peopl
and II I was cheap skate they
wouldent of never nothing come off
like list night. Well Charley I been
SO sorry sence it come of that / was a
bout to pull my gun on some body
with out naming no names but a man
can be drove so far Charley and not
no farther and IL 1t wasent for what
would happen to Grace l would shoot
this here Hamilton full Of led and
take my medison only don't believe
convict me when told them what he
pulled of.
Well Charley theys big differunts
between a joke and not a Joke and
II Hamilton thinks that what he done
was funny I feel sorry for him but
he dident do it because he thot it was
funny Charley but because he don't
mean rotten tricks like sending me
that valentine.
Grace wont never give no more
partys Charley and don't never want
ca hear the word party SO don't never
tell me a bout no party Charley.
the parlor ] and Grace and waiting
for Mr.. and Mrs. Martin and the
rest of our guests to come and II
was getting kind late and Grace
kept sane q bout how late 1t was
getting and all Of a sudden the telie-
phone runge and I went and ansered
the bell and asst who was 1t and 1t
was Mrs. Martin and she says to ex-
cuse her for calling up but she
couldent wait no longer to find, out
weather she couldent do some. thing
for US and find out who was 1t and
! asst her what she ment who was II
Evening star., 1921-07-24

and steal the cream of of his coffee
but they amt been n the stick ups
ing that end Of It and now this swell
head pup trys to call me thief and
CRATER but you can bet your last
shirt that he will hear from me be-
fore I'm threw with him the cheap
bum.
be a law against sending these here
valentines and may be 1t might be
all O. K. to send them pretty valen-
tines with the flowers on them to
the wommen but they should ought
to bar these here comical ones and
there a bout as comical is a hanging
over to the county jail and it might
be Ill right to send them for a Joke
Evening star., 1921-07-24

I'm still so sore yet that I cant hardly
talk to no body and II it wasent like
picking on baby would go over to
Hamiltons house right now and bust
his big nose for him.
1 don't half to tell you Charley that
dident never take q nickle that
wasent comeing to me and the only
thing ever got from stick up men
was abuse and that's because I been
after them all my life and If it wasent
for me they'd brake In to the mayors
house vile he was eating his lunch
Evening star., 1921-07-24

N6m DE GYRIHu had read the iet-
lM tan Sestad In the salon amid the
Evening star., 1921-07-24

Allison, ILL.,. Feb. IL
-RorHER Charley. We'll Charley l
d guess this here Hamilton Will
keep his cat to home and mine his
own business before l and him Is
thrsv with each other. I found out
today from Grace that Mrs. Hamilton
in going to give party the day after
tommorow night the II and the way
7 round out q bout 1t was the little
i,,sh rirl that comes and sets In the
house with the babys vile wear out
NIGHTS found 1t out from Hamiltons
hi1her girl and that's how come 70
fnd out bout II. j.,
Grace was telling me q bout II az
breakfast this A. M ana wHe sne
TO me because. she says it was going
10 be q valentine party because the II
in valentine day 80 I thot all OF
sudden a bout sending this here Ham
ilton a valentine not I OF these pretty
ones that fold up with flowers on
them but comical l only II Woulo
be so comcal It would make MIN
sore and he wouldent get no laugh
out Of It, So / set down besides Mar
tin on the train going down town
and told him about me going TO
send Hamilton q valentine and ne says
II was a CRATE idear only you should
ought to go stronger then that And
null of some thing else on him long
with 1t and 1 says what could pull
and he brot up a bout the party the
Hamiltons is going to have and asst
me couldent get hold of l of these
sines the helth bord hangs up on a
house when the residence has got
some decease and got to be quarnteed
and he says II I could get hold Of
OF them sines and hang 1t under the
elsctrick light on Hapiltons porch
would all of them see 1t and be scared
Evening star., 1921-07-24
UNCIVIL WAR;
One of the best everw written. ~
BY RING W. LARDNER.
ID y

ROTHER CHARLEY. Well
u Charley this is a funny World
where a man has neighbors on
IL side Of you that you
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-05-25
Is rs But Never
Saw Its Equal
DULUTH MAN SAYS SINCE TAX
ING TANLAC HE FEELS AS
HEALTHY AS HE DID
YEARS AGO.

GIVE tried Tanlac and never saw
anything to equal it during the seven
ty-two years of my life" said John
Ryan, of 1913 Sixth avenue, w. Duluth,
MINI. Mr.. Ryan is now retired from
business, having been a lumber valua-
tor practically all his life, during
which time he travelled extensively in
Canada and the United States.
when man gets to be as old as I
am he has to be careful Of his health,
and when my stomach began to go
back on me I knew I had to have
something to help me out. Well,
found my relief in Tanlac, and there's
nothing like it when it comes to doing
away with heavy, bloated feeling
and putting man in a good, healthy
condition. I had so lost my appetite
that nothing seemed to appeal to me
any more, and the little did eat
seemed to lie in my stomach undigest-
ed and caused me awful pain. I al
ways felt bloated up and in an ,un-
healthy condition.
ST saw that Tanlac was so highly
spoken of that I began taking it, and
now am one of the 'Tanlac Regulars
/ have just finished my eighth bottle
and it keeps me in the very best Of
condition. I have splendid appetite,
and feel as healthy as did years
ago. i can't speak too highly of Ton
lac, and it is the only medicine for me.
from now on"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-05-25
Community
+ Brotherhood.
Duluth Herald.

Blue Earth valley, in the country of
that name down in Southern Mime
sofa, long ago achieved the reputation
of being the home of many progress
sive farmers and stockbreeders.
Scores of gold medals and blue ribbons
are cherished there as tokens of their
successes in competition with the ari-
;stocrats of the agricultural world.
But fancy produce and pedigreed
stock are not the only possessions Of
that fertile valley. It is the home of
a community spirit that manifests it
self, when occasions arise, in COM
munity brotherhood that helps as well
as sympathizes.
According to the good thunder Her
aid, published near there. James Col
Inns, farmer, was so seriously lnJur-
ed that he was taken to hospital.
The accident caught him with his
spring work unfinished, no prospect
of getting out in time to attend to 1t
and no means Of hiring it done. Then,
reports the Herald, the Blue Earth
Farmers club took note of their
neighbours plight.
Saturday they put six tractors
and IL four horse teams at work
on the Collins place. They ploW-
ed so acres, following up with
discs and drills and putting in the :.
grain crop. On Monday those.
who could not help on Saturday
turned out with seven four horse
teams and finished putting in the
crop. The ladies God bless 'em) s
were also on hand with good
things to eat and served the work.
ers fine dinner.
This may be selfish and heartless
old world if you look at only one side
of it, but scattered all over it are
kindly people, like these Blue Earth
farmers, who are quietly doing their
part in making it a pleasant place to
live and strengthening ones faith in
the real goodness that is in humanity,
needing only to be stirred up once in
while.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-05-25

Money talks, but poverty goes with
out saying.-Ex.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-05-25
Highway Marked
By Yellow Stars
BLAZE DESIGN ANNOUNCED BY
BABCOCK SHOWS ROUTE NUM-
BERS AND DIRECTION.

Yellow stars on black backgrounds
soon will mark all trunk highways
in Minnesota-the North Star state
according to the St. Paul Dispatch.
Charles M. Babcock, state highway
commissioner, today made public the
markers design which is to blaze all
state trunk roads. The figures on the
star will indicate the trunk highway
number: the flag above a turn-that
in the illustration a left turn The
value of the markers will depend
largely upon the extent to which the
general public becomes familiar with
the highway numbers:
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-20
Southern Streams and Ports

IF Congress follows the impartial and al
together competent advice of Major Gen
eral Beach, chief of army engineers, an
aggregate Of eleven million dollars will be set
aside for expenditure during the next fiscal
year on rivers and harbors in the South. This
sum, which is exclusive of allowances for the
Muscle Shoals project and for Mississippi
flood control, constitutes about one-fourth of
the appropriation recommended for the en-
tire country.
That abs and disinterested engineers
should have reported to this effect after COM
prehensive surveys, bears striking witness to
the Importance of Southern harbors and
Southern streams. No sectional pride or
prejudice swayed these scientific Observers
no purpose ruled them but to serve the COM
mon veal. For the nations good must the
ports and rivers of this region be developed
to the full measure of their usefulness;
therefore, national funds applied to that
end are investments in behalf of all the
American people. Such Is the conclusion of
the engineers, and such will be the persuas-
ion of anyone who studies the broad trend
and basic needs of our country's commerce.
Sore experience during the war years
taught the wisdom, indeed the necessity of
utilizing Southern ports as a relief to danger
Gus congestion at North Atlantic terminals;
and experience likewise has taught the manu-
facturers and merchants of the great Middle
West how vitality their interests are related
t. the traffic lines and outlets that link their
region to the highways of ocean trade. It is
greatly to be hoped, then, not merely in
justice to the South but in justice to the ma
ton, that Congress will think literally in con-
sidering these items of the rivers and harbors
budget.
In that event substantial appropriations
will be made for Georgia projects. The chief
engineer recommends one million twenty
five thousand dollars for the Savannah har-
Dor, two hundred thousand for Brunswick,
and eight thousand for Darien. Among the
for Georgia streams
are: Savannah river below Augusta ten
thousand dollars; at Augusta, two thou
sand dollars, above Augusta, two thousand;
Fancy Bluff creek, twelve hundred dollars;
Satilla rive, two thousand dollars; st. Mary's
river, Georgia and Florida twelve thousand;
Altamaha river, eleven thousand; Oconee
river, twenty-four thousand dollars; Ocmul-
gee river, twenty thousand dollars; Flint
river, twenty-five thousand dollars, and Chat
tahoochee river, Georgia and Alabama, one
hundred an twenty-five thousand dollars
In these improvements, especially those per-
tanning to the harbors, the entire State is ma
terially concerned. Business and civic bodies,
together with all far-seeing citizens, should
stand ever ready to exert their influence,
whether from the mountains, the great mid
land region, or the coast, in behalf of every
movement to increase the useful
ness of Georgia ports and streams.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-20
WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

1. Of which cereal does the world produce
the most-wheat or oats?
2. Does annealing make metal harder. OF
softer?
8. Where are the Go1conda diamond mines
located?
4. What would be the carat marking OF ABB
solutely pure gold?
s. or whom was St. Catherine the patron
saint?
6. What two states are crossed by the Cas-
cade range?
Z What Spanish monarch sent the famous
Spanish armada against England?
g. In the production of what material useo
in cloth manufacture does Australia lead the
world?
9. Which city is further south, Los Angeles,
Cal or Raleigh, N. c.?
10. Which city is further west, Denver, Col.l
or Ell Paso, Tex?
ANSWERS
1, oats; 2, softer; 3, India; 4, twenty-four;
5, spinsters; 6, Washington and Oregon; 10
Philip; 8, wool; 9, Los Angeles; 10, Ell Paso'
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-20

YXT ASHlNGION, u. o., Dec. Ia
w shroud in which to bury the Anglo
Japanese Alliance is the way one
acute observer characterizes the four-power
pact which now stands as the great achieve
ment of the conference.
1t is said by those who know the inside
workings of the conference to represent
real triumph for American diplomacy. Not
that real Triumph was difficult in the cir
cumstances. The American delegation had all
of the best carus in it's hands and in order
t. win it's chief detectives it had but to use
ordinary horse sense and stand firm. That is
good deal more than American diplomacy
has generally done.
That the four-poWer pact does represent
long step toward the accomplishment of the
chief American objectives in the conference
seems to be the consensus of the best-in-
formed opinion. The only unfavorable opin-
ion comes from certain irrecOncilableS in the
senate, who are opposed to any form of agree
ment with foreign nations.
The old phrase "entangling alliances" will
not apply to this new agreement, however,
for it is in no sense an alliance. 1t does not
bind us, or seek to bind us, to any action, Of
fensive or defensive, nor does it bind any OF
the other contracting parties to such action.
1t is merely an agreement to talk things over
in case of trouble, and further statement
that the insular possessions of the powers
concerned shall remain as they are. This
means for us chiefly that our position in the
Philippines is not to be matter of dispute.
The agreement is thus seen on it's positive
side, to amount to very little. 1t expresses
an intention to talk things over in pacific
spirit and that Is about all. The real signi1-
canoe of the instrument is that it completely
supersedes the Anglo-Japanese Alliance and
that it signifies the acquiescence of those two
powers in the American point of view.
The British Plan
1t seems to be generally recognized now
that the British delegation came to the con-
ference to perpetuate the Anglo-Japanese al
lance if it could do SO without antagonizing
the United States. Japan, of course, came
with the intention of keeping the alliance in
effect if possible. Japan had everything to
gain by the alliance and everything to lose by
it's abrogation. The advantages of the al
lance to Great Britain were not so obvious.
1t was suggested in previous Haskin let
ter that perhaps the chief reason why Britain
wanted the alliance was because she shared
with Japan a desire to check the spread of
republican ideals in the Orient. 1t has also
been pointed out that for a great many years
the gist of the diplomacy of Great Britain, as
the strongest sea-power, has been to combine
with the third-strongest against the second
strongest.
Whatever the motive may have been, Brit
ish press propaganda in the early stages of
the conference was all for renewal of the
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-20
The Matrimonial Grab Bag

who yawns in his face when he tries to tell
her about big deal that he has just put
through, and that thrills him to the marrow
of his being.
When you see how little discretion men
use in selecting their wives, you cease to won
der that marriage is so often failure. Also,
you have the solution to the eternal riddle of
why men who are so much in love when they
marry, so soon fall out of love, and become
tired of their wives.
The answer is that they haven't got what
they really wanted in wife. They have been
betrayed by = passing fancy into taking some
thing that caul ht their eyes for moment,
but of which they soon wearied. They have
been tricked into buying something that
doesn't suit them, that doesn't meet their
needs, and thai they really don't desire, and
so it is not strange that they are dissatisfied.
In making no other choice in life does a
mans brain cease functioning as it does in
matrimony. If a man went forth to buy an
automobile, and came home with baby car
riage instead of it: if, when he needed a new
engine and boiler in his factory, he invested
his money in pink chiffon, he would rush to
the nearest alienist to have his mind exam
ined. But he does just that crazy thing in
getting married, without considering the
woman's qualifications to be the sort Of a
wife he really desires.
Every day we see men who love good cook
out burning it; stingy men marry spendthrift
girls; domestic men marry girls whose idea
of heaven is perpetual cabaret; serious
minded men marry frivolous little fools;
amiable men marry shrews; rich old men
marry girls young enough to be their daugh-
tiers, and they all expect to live happily ever
afterwards. God help the optimists.
If men would use much real thought
and bring as much good judgment to bear on
picking out the kind of wives that they really
want and that will suit them, as tt ey do in
buying a pair of shoes that will wear we'll
and won't rub, there would be no more I'M
happy marriages, and divorce would perish
For the burden of responsibility for the un-
happy marriages is on the men. They have
the say, they do the pairing. A woman has
to take what she can get in husband, but a
man has his choice, and his wife represents
his pick.
What pity he doesn't at least bring one
brain cell to bear on the selection!
Copyright, 1921, by The Wheeler Syndi-
cate, Incl
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-20

alliance. 1t is said that this campaign was
stopped when the Americans served notice on
the British that the renewal of the alliance
would on no account be tolerated. Lloyd
George is said to have been the one who
made the sudden agreement of the delegates,
after a long stalemate, possible. He is said to
have cabled the British delegation to aban-
don all efforts either for a renewal of the
Anglo-Japanese Alliance, or for a tripartte
alliance including the United States. The
present four-power pact was then quickly ar
ranged. 1t represents an explicit recognition
on the part of Great Britain that the Ameri-
can point of view mus prevail in the Pacific.
The agreement does no. touch the ques-
ton of China. 1t therefore leaves the
T. linese question as the chief remaining ques-
ton before the conference, and the only
bones of contention.
Where China Stands
Almost everything that China asked of the
conference Las been granted Sin principle"
and almost nothing has been granted in fact.
It now remains to be seen how much the
United States can win for China in the .om-
mittees which will decide the details, of her
status. For the United States stands now, as
she has always STOOD as the champion and
defender of China. In the past her defense
has been ineffectual She proclaimed the
opendoor policy a laughing-stock. Mean
and all of the principal powers to extract
concessions from the Chinese government,
make agreements about China and establish
open-door policy a laughing-stOck. Mean
tine, American capital has not been alto
gether behindhand in exploiting China by the
concession method.
So far gu. professions of high disinterest-
ed friendship for China have amounted to the
announcement of a policy which we could
not enforce, and few small favors such as
not collecting the Boxer indemnity.
The conference, so far, has lone little to
remedy this situation, but it has opened the
way for us. AS long as the Anglo-Japanese
Alliance lasted, we were powerless in China.
Now that is out of the way. In addition, the
p wers have agreed to a rehabilitation of all
of the concessions and spheres of influence
they hold in China. The table is cleared to
give China a new deal. 1t remains to be seen
just what it will amount to. So far she has
got her postoffices promised back to her, and
a statement that extraterritoriality will be
abolished at some time in the future. Moth
ing substantial has been granted.
Perhaps the two most difficult questions
are those of Japan's occupancy Of Shantung
and her position in Manchuria. The United
States must and will press for China's rights
in Shantung, because it is largely by her &C
ton that Japan has obtained her present foot
hold there. Japan's position in Manchuria
is more difficult problem Both of these
will be discusso-- in future Haskin letters.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-20
DOROTHY DIX TALKS

A YOUNG woman wants to know what
~ qualities men look for in women when
they pick out their wives, and uheth-
er they prefer beauty of mind, and soul, or
beauty of body in a woman.
My dear, wien a man gets married he
shuts his eyes tight, and thrusts his arm into
Ethe matrimonial grab bag, and pulls out what
ever piece of calico he chances to get his
hand on. He goes it blind. He doesn't look
for any particular quality in woman when
he takes her for wife. He has no definite
ideal to which she must measure up.
He doesn't even stop to find out whether
the woman he is tying up with for life is the
kind of woman he really likes, or not until
he gets her home, and then he most general
ly finds out mat she isn't what he wanted
1t is both funny and pathetic that when a
man comes to take the most important step
in his life, the step that most profoundly at
fects his happiness and well-being, he brings
no intelligence to bear upon it. He ceases
to be a reasoning human being when he
chooses his wife, and becomes, for the mo-
ment, creature of blind impulse He mar
ries a woman merely because she has fired
his fancy and without reference to her suit
ability for his requirements in a wife, or her
conformity TO his TASTE
OF course every man has formed some
mental picture of what he considers the ideal
wife. If he is a man who has his own way
to make in the world his ideal wife Is a
thrifty, and industrious woman who looks
ways
spread one dollar over the space of five. If
he is a literarJ man, his ideal wife is blue
stocking ladv with whom he can hold heart
to-heart communions about the vagaries of
Shaw, and who will listen unweariedly to his
efforts in vers libre.
If he loves sports, he pictures wife wan
dering contendly over the golf links with
him, and discussing his putting all the even
ing. If he is a business man, he loves to
think of the good times he will have telling
his wife about all the details of the grocery
trade.
But when a man goes to marry, he forgets
all about the qualities that he needs in wife,
The poor man marries girl who is waster
and a spender, and against whose extrava-
gance he can make no Roadway. The student
marries jelly bean who has never read two
books in her life. The man who loves the
out of doors marries a woman who 1oathes
every form of exercise, and is welded to her
chair by the f1reside. The man whose soul is
absorbed in his occupation picks out for his
wife woman who thinks trade vulgar, and