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The Washington times., 1921-10-23

Solomon said all life was vanity. Solo
mon had three hundred-or was It three
thousand?-wives. and II anyone ought TO
have known II was he.
"Oh. Liberty" exclaimed Nine. Roland
when approaching the guiIlotine during
the French Revolution, "what crimes are
committed in thy name!"
"Oh, Individuality what worse ones are
committed in thy name!" Is my exclama.
ton.
Another reason our marriage was not a
permanency was that had shop at home
as well as downtown. Part of the monu.
mental twaddle we read in the women's
pages of the newspapers and in the wo.
mems magazines is the advice, talk over
your husbands business with him at home :"
Bosh! A man doesn't want to talk of
his business at home. He wants to forget
It. The woman who talks to him about II
does so at her peril and that Of their hap
piness.
But to the actress her stage life Is all.
Asleep or waking, she cannot forget II.
Quite naturally, when II occupies so much
space in her consciousness, nothing else
has much room
Then there is her continual habit Of
dramatizing the most familiar things A
cross word. misunderstanding. and-up
goes the curtain and the lady is before a
hig. imaginary, happy audience and a sim
gularly unhappy real but small audience
of the husband. Where can a man get off
in such a life? How can he find any
reality beneath his feet? He longs for the
solid ground of the commonplace while
choking in the quicksands of emotionalism
| am through. Forever through with
matrimony n were not should look
about at my brother managers and learn
wisdom from their mistakes. What man.
ager do you know who is happily married?
know none. And know them all. They
are either miserable or bachelors.
Lee Shubert will not marry because he
has been shrewd enough to observe the
consequences of marriage with an actress.
Charles Frohman must have observed
them. for he was a bachelor to his death.
olVer MOrOscos matrimonial trOuDies are
on the tongue-tip OF the Rialto.
Edgar ,Selwyn, married for seventeen
years, is now unmarried. Henry Miller
has long been separated from his wife.
Charlie Hoyt, married to an actress, was
divorced.
On the other side of the Atlantic II is
as here Arthur Boucher, divorced from
an actress. Sir George Alexander! Sir
Charles Wyndham! Their stories we
know.
do not blame the actresses. blame
the conditions that make them impossible
as wives.
Peggy Hopkins was nice girl She
might have been a sweet, contented little
wife. She has had and still has at times
the instinct for quiet little home and the
simple life. was driving with her. motor
ing through Westchester County, on our
way to luncheon at Briarcliffe. We passed
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easily they develop expensive tastes. II a
thousand-dollar check has appeared under
their plate they think OF buying a thou
sand-dollar hat.
OF what wife stuff does such a girl be.
come? There is nothing new for her. Life
holds no further novelty
There is Billie Allen charming. lovely
girl She is immensely attractive. might
have aspired 10 make her Mrs. Hammer
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stein But she already seems a wife-in.
law, for | married another Mrs. Johnny
~Hoaglsnd, once Grace Weir, and I DO not
want to take two wives from him. Billie,
TOO. has acquired the habit Of thinking in
seven figures.
Why, then, does manager marry an
actress? Because his choice is limited to
that narrow world OF the stage. He may
admire women Of the larger world, as I DO
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her million.dollar house in Florida Henri
Letellier gave her for a trip, not an auto
mobile but a train.
As manager have probably arranged
for a hundred parties in which the squan-
derer had sway. II Is common for group
Of. say. ten millionaires to telephone to
manager and say, There will be dinner
at the So-and-so.' We want ten girls"
The manager tells the company of the
invitation and calls for volunteers or sug.
gests girls who look well in evening
clothes. The girls go to the dinner. Every
one Of them finds beneath her plate
$500 or $1,000 banknote or check.
There Is no ,meretricious motive for the
gift. The girl understands that this Is her
payment for being sprightly and agreeable,
simply her natural self. at the party. Do
you wonder that II turns her head?
Some Of these girls have never had more
than dollar or so ahead OF their rent and
meals In their lives. Don't you suppose
tCl 1921. by star Company.
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a cottage ov er.
grown with vines.
THAT is the kind
of life ! should like
to live" she said.
But 1t is too late.
Peggy Hopkins's
naturally sweet and
simple disposition
has been ruined.
She has developed
the disease OF ac-
tresses-moneyitis.
The squanderers OF
the world have de-
stroyed what was
fine and simple in
har Joyca rave
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why 10 UltllOudlTtS marty dCLTSSSeS III
stead of women of their own class? You
know how many of them do II is because
the actress is the most attractive woman
on earth.
The reason why she can charm a man
is found in her personality plus her ex.
perience. Personality is the asset FIX,
perience the tool. No one can say just
how she does it nor what she does But
the man who sits next an actress at a
dinner or supper is invariably charmed.
Actresses know human nature They
know men. They know what wives never
learn-that men are only babies! The &C.
tress treats them as babies. Read the
evidence in some suit involving an actress
and millionaire and you find a bald
headed, paunchy old man being addressed
as Darling Boy" or Sweet Toodleums"
And he has purred with Joy at the title!
Actresses not only catch a man. They
can hold him as long as they wish. The
trouble Is Of another kind The home can
not hold them Adulation of the public
has blunted heir home sense. The ad-
miration of thousands has made them
careless OF the devotion OF one man In
fact, the devotion of one man bores them,
They want the admiration OF the multi.
tude Ft@
And so have,le the spurs to De Wolf
Hopper and the, late Nat Goodwin. I have
stopped marrying Bot n still remains
with me to make one woman happy. ] have
my clever and beautiful daughter. Elaine
She has always been Jealous Of my wives
save OF her own mothar. Now that have
no wife, or am In process OF losing what
may be termed the remnant of one, I have
q great deal of Elaine's company. will
be content with that
have quit the marrying habit The odds
are too great The cards are stacked
against any man who would marry an
actress,
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Mrs. Hammerstein No. I, Whom
Mr.. Hammerstein Married After
Her Divorce from Multi-Millionaire
John A. Hoa gland.

A LMOST everybody has wondered
~ now and then why so many
actresses are unable to remain
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-12-07
ELLSWORTH FALLS.

A carload of machinery purchased
by Whitcomb, Haynes & Whitney, al
Whiting has arrived, and was un.
loaded Monday and Tuesday.
Waldo l.. Higgins, Asa c. Flood
and Leon G. Flood have returned
from two-weeks' hunting trip at
the Smith camp at Morrison ponds
bringing two deer
Mrs. Harriet l.. Hastings went to
Boston last week to spend the win
ter with her daughters.
William E. Joy has returned home
from Surry, where he has been Wis
iting since Thanksgiving.
= Miss Ruth TrewOrgy visited Mrs.
Joseph Patterson at South Brewer
last week.
Salem T. Hinckley of Menana,
Alaska, who left here when a young
man, was here Tuesday renewing
old acquaintance. Mr.. Hinckley
has been visiting his sister, Mrs.
Louis F. Tapley, at Bucksport. This
is his first visit East for forty-six
years. His boyhood friends here
were glad to see him.
An important meeting of Mrs.
Hastings Sunday school class is
called for Friday evening at 7
o'clock, at the home of Mrs. F. H.
Lowell.
Maynard Quinn and wife spent
the weekend with Mr.. Quinn's
father, George w. Quinn, at Reeds
Brook.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-12-07
NORTH ELLSWORTH,

Nicolin grange met December 8,
with good attendance. Three
proposals for membership were re-
ceived. The lecturer presented a
short program, of music, readings
and stories. Officers for the ensu-
ing year were elected as follows:
Charles G. Moore, master; Harold
E. Maddocks, overseer; Maud M.
Dewitt, lecturer; Eugene H. Moore,
steward; George E. Davis, assistant
steward; Helen F. Maddocks, chap
lain; William E. Richardson, treas
urer; Claudia M. Richardson, secre-
tary; Erastus Ware, gate-keeper;
Annie A. Moore, Ceres; Tena Nc
Gown, Pomona; Minnie H. Danico,
Flora; Helen l.. Dewitt, lady as
sistant steward. 1t was voted to
have a public Christmas tree and en-
tertainment Christmas eve. There
will be degree work at the next
meeting. An oyster stew will be
served.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-12-07
THE FARM BUREAU
Program for 1922 and Brief Sum-
mary of Work Done in 1921.

HhIy Vi VOIA DOnC LII
The executive committees of
Hancock County Farm Bureau and
extension department of the Col
lege of Agriculture, have mutually
agreed to carry the following pro-
gram of work in Hancock county for
the year 1922. In order to arrive
at this program, the county agricul-
tural agent and, home demonstration
agent have held analysis meetings
in fourteen of the towns of the
county which have organized Farm
Bureaus at the present time.
At these meetings, committees ap-
pointed by the people, assisted by
the agents, carefully consider the
principal sources of income on the
farms of that community, and also
recommend ways of improving
present methods of farming where
possible. The results from the
meetings of those communities are
summarized and voted on at the an
nual Farm Bureau meeting, so this
is a program of work fitted to each
individual community. This is very
briefly the general plan followed in
arriving at the program of work in
this county.
AS has been stated, this work has
been organized in fourteen COM
munities of Hancock county. This
does not mean that extension work
will not be done in communities
which have no Farm Bureau organ
ization, but a much larger program
can be put across more successfully
when "a group of farmers will organ
ize as a Farm Bureau.
The following is the program of
work adopted for this coming year
in Hancock county:
Club Project
(a) Boys and girls clubs
Crop Project
ca Improved potato seed plots
Orchard Project
(a) Grating demonstrations.
OBJ Pruning demonstrations.
Small Fruits
(a) Survey of best varieties and
growers of same.
Poultry Project
(a) Culling Demonstrations.
CD Poultry accounts.
Stock Projects
(a) Better sires, better stock.
(b) Forage crop campaign.
Following is summary of some
of the other work accomplished in
1921:
Names of communities where
farmers committees stopped to
analyze farm conditions with the
agricultural agent, also number of
such meetings (first column) and
attendance (SecOnd column:
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-12-07

School begins here Monday, after
a vacation of two weeks. The
teacher, Miss Hale, has been at her
home in Brooksville during vaca-
ton.
Mrs. Allen Greene is a guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. D. w. Torrey.
Fred Billings of Little Deer Isle
was guest at Capt. William Gray's
Thursday and Friday Of last week.
Will Marshall left recently fol-
Wexford, Conn.
4 On account of low prices on lob.
sters, Winfield Greenlaw has hauled
all his lobster traps and put his boat
into winter quarters.
Mrs. Flossie Powers of Little
Deer Isle is visiting her uncle, Fred
Eaton.
D. w. Torrey has piped water into
his barn from well near by.
Mrs. s. T. Lowe, with daughter
Claribel, is visiting her mother, Mrs.
Carter, in Rockland.
Howard Pierce shot a fox last
Saturday.
Mrs. Will Marshall and daughter
Elisabeth have moved to the Har-
Dor, and will spend the winter with
Mrs. s. T. Barbour.
Dec. s. r.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-12-07
Green Mountain Pomona,

Green Mountain Pomona
grange met with Schoodic grange,
Franklin, December g. There was
a good attendance, sixty-five being
present. The grange voted to send
Master Fred e. Milliken and wife
to the State grange at Portland. A
special Christmas collection was
taken to be sent to the Home for
Little Wanderers at Waterville. Of
ficers were elected as follows:
Worthy master, Fred e. Milliken
overseer, Perley Wilbur: lecturer
A. Evelyn Howe; steward, Lester
Howard; assistant steward, A. l..
Jellison; chaplain, Julia Moves;
treasurer, George E. Davis secre.
tary, Margaret Milliken: gate.
keeper, Irving Clark; Pomona, Bes-
sic Wilbur; Ceres, Edith Butler;
Flora, Ethel Clark; lady assistant
steward, Julia Jellison.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-12-07
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.
(By the Pupils.)

(By the Pupils.)
The average attendance for last
week was 93.7.
Our boys went to Franklin last
Wednesday, and were defeated in a
fast and exciting game. The sum-
mary:
E. H. s., Is F. H. s., 33
Merrill, RI, Q Donnell, IF, 8 CD
Tilden, If, 2 DeBeck, If, 5
Luchini, C, 2 Cd Fernald, c, 1
King, RIB, Smith, RIB
Harrington, lib, 1 Abbott, lb, l
Young, If
The students who are to take
part in the Zip Zip Follies, the
minstrel show to be given Decem-
letic association, are working hard
under the leadership of Miss Giles,
and report good progress. 1t is
thought that this years show will
even surpass that of last year,
which, it will be remembered, was
a great success both financially and
socially.
One session of school was held
Saturday, to make up for the holt
day of Friday, Nov. Is, which was
given on condition that we make it
up. This rule was very unpopular
with both teachers and students, as
the day after Thanksgiving has al
ways been considered a holiday.
Principal Abernethy addressed
the senior French class Saturday on
the life and customs of the people
of France. This was very interest
ing to the students, who learned
much about France which they had
not know before.
Last night our boys defeated Sui
livan high by the score of 4 to II.
Summary:
ELLSWORTH SULLIVAN
Harrington rf ca M Gordon rf 2 60
Merrill If, lb Esterbrooke If (2)
Luchini ~ Hall c
King RIB l o. Gordon RIB
Jordan lb S. Grindle lb
Young If l Lipsky RIB
Tilden If
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CATARRHAL DEAFNESS

as greatly relieved by constitutional treat
ment. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
is constitutional remedy. Catarrhal
Deafness is caused by an lnfiamed con-
dition of the mucous lining of the Eusta-
echian Tube. When this tube is infiamed
You have a rumblng sound or imperfect
hearing. and when It is entirely closed,
Deafness 10 the result. Unless the in
Examination can be reduced, your hearing
may be destroyed forever. HALLS
T,ATARRrT MEDICINE acts through the
blood on the mucous surfaces Of the sys-
tenn. thus reducing the Inflammation and
assisting Nature In restoring normal con-
,xlitions.
4 Crcuisrs free. All Druggists.
y. j. che.ey & Co.. Toledo. Ohio.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-12-07
COUNTY GOSSIP.

The American received this week
a letter from another of its old
Pacifit coast subscribers, w. H.
Johnson of Pescadero, Cal, a son of
the late Whiting Johnson of Otis,
who died last spring at the age of
ninety-seven years. Mr.. Johnson
has been in California forty-five
years, but writes that he will return
home to stay some time next sum-
mer
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-12-07
Catarrh Means
Impure Blood
1t is a Constitutional Disease.

II IS a Constitutional Disease.
= When it affects the nose and
throat and becomes chronic it
weakens the delicate lung tissues,
defangcs the digestive organs, and
may lead to consumption. It i'm
pairs taste, smell and hearing.
Take Hood S Sarsaparilla, which
by purifying the blood removes
the cause OF the disease, and gives
permanent relief.
81 had catarrh of the head and
stomach, and dreadful ringing
noises in my ears. I decided to
Try Hoods Sarsaparilla: my
health improved wonderfully, and
| adopted Hoods Sarsaparilla as
my family medicine - Mrs. M.
Jenney Shaw, st. Johns, Ohio.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-12-07

aims and seeks to hold the same
power over Europe that Germany
tried to WELD The effect of Mr..
Brands speech on the other dele
gates was immediate. Mr.. Hughes
and Mr.. Balfour fastened to assure
the French premier of their coun-
tries sympathies. They deprecated
the idea that any charge of mill
tarism should be raised against the
French because they have taken
means to protect themselves against
threatening danger. mo words
ever spoken by France" declared
Secretary Hughes, "have fallen
upon deaf ears in the United States.
There is no moral isolation for the
defenders of liberty and Justice"
Millions are dying of starvation in
Russia, and relief is hampered by
prostration of transportation facili-
ties, and the demoralized condition
of the whole country. The fact that
Russia has brought much of this
upon herself by submission to
bolshevistic rule, lessons not one
iota the appeal that the suffering of
millions of children brings to Ameri-
can hearts The will and the means
to help are here, but the power to
help is limited. Bolshevism has col
lapsed, and left large sections of
Russia paralyzed and beyond the
reach of outside help. In the
famine district there are 25,000,000
people. How many of them will be
alive in the spring? Flight is i'm
possible. Horses have been killed
for food, or because there was no
food for them. The rivers are
closed by ice. Railroads are few,
and many of them dismantled. In
one district alone, $4,000 children
have been abandoned by their pa
rents. The dead lie by the roadside.
OF course something has been done,
and in the relief work, thank God,
America leads. In one province,
the American relief administration
is feeding 100000 children once a
day, but that is only one-tenth of
the children in that province alone
Sir Philip Gibbs, writing from the
famine district, says the sights there
are more horrible, more heart-rend-
ing, than anything he saw in the
war, and no writer saw more of war
than he. "Unless the powers act
quickly" he says, death to hun
dreds of thousands is inevitable"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-12-07
BOY SCOUT NOTES,
(By one of the Boys.)

(By one of the Boys)
There was no meeting of the Boy
Scouts last Thursday, as Scout
master Brookes had to attend a re-
hearsal in Hancock hall, and AS
sistant Scoutmaster Barron was ill.
The meeting next week will be on
Friday instead of Thursday, be-
cause there will be a sale in the
Congregational vestry Wednesday
and Thursday All who have not
passed the tenderfoot tests must be
on hand at z o'clock. At 100 the
regular business session will be
held, followed by an address by DR..
A. H. Parcher ON First Aid to the
Injured"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-12-07
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE.

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE.
Whereas Melville A. Hutchins of
Bucksport, Hancock county, Maine, by
his mortgage deed dated June 18th
A. D. 1920, and recorded in Hancock
County Registry of Deeds, in book
$50, page 523, conveyed to Daniel
Courcy of said Bucksport, a certain
lot or parcel of Land situated in Or
land, said county of Hancock, bound
ed and described as follows: Begin
ming at the northeast corner of Jere-
miah Mink homestead lot on the south
side of the county road leading from
Orland village to Bucksport; thence
south 20 degrees west about IL rods
by said Mink's east line to the south
east corner of said homestead lot
thence north. 50 degrees west by the
south line of said homestead lot four
rods to a stake; thence north 20 de-
grees east on line parallel to the
first described line about IL rods to a
telegraph post on the south side of
the county road; thence southeasterly
by said road to place of beginning.
And whereas the conditions of said
mortgage have been and now remain
broken, now therefore, by reason of
the breach of conditions thereof, /
claim a foreclosure of said mortgage.
Bucksport, Maine, December End,
1921.
DANIEL COURCY,
By Wiley G.. Conary, his Attorney.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-12-07

The greatest oratorical effort of
the ornaments conference thus far
was the speech of Premier BRAND,
IN which he prayed that Great
Britain and the United States should
understand the motives that in
huence France in maintaining a
large standing army. It's main OBJ
Ject was to dispel the propaganda
that has been coming from many
quarters that France has militaristic
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-12-07

The recent rush for investments
in Liberty bonds, municipal bonds,
and dividend-paying railroad bonds
proves that people find bonds more
attractive than industry. 1t indi-
Gates, too, good supply of money
for investment, but it would be more
encouraging if more ready money
were going into industries and con-
struction and development work.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-12-07
GIRL SCOUT NOTES.
(By one of the Girls.)

(By one Of the Girls)
The Thistle troop met Monday
evening in the grand jury room at
the court house, and took the ten
derfoot test given by the captain,
Mrs. C. R. Burrill, assisted by Miss
Hazel Giles, captain of the Pine
Cone troop. They hope all will
pass and become Scouts. A meet
ing will be held in the grand jury
room next Monday as usual.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-12-07

The farmers of Maine are cup in
arms" and apparently with good
reason, at the exclusion of New
England from the benefits of the re-
duced freight rates on farm pro-
ducts as granted recently by the
board of railroad executives. The
reduced rate is effective through
out the entire United States, except
on traffic moving wholly within or
from New England. Why this dis
elimination is not explained
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-12-07
FEMALE HELP WANTED.

WOMEN WISHING TO EARN
Christmas money-an opportunity is
given in every locality to secure good
returns for regular or spare-time
work handling an article which re-
ceives every woman's attention
Rogers & Palmer, 671 Congress ST.,
Portland, Me.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-12-07
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Bids for School Wood

BIDS Tor SCHOOL Wood.
The school board of Ellsworth in
vites bids for green hardwood for the
schools of Ellsworth. Bids should be
enclosed in sealed envelope. mark ed
on the outside Bid for Wood" and de-
livered to the superintendent OF
schools of Ellsworth on or before
noon of Tuesday, Dec. 81.
By order School Board of Ellsworth
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-12-07

N0te-A total Of ninety-one meet
1ngs, with an average attendance of
500 at each meeting.
Too much praise cannot be given
community committees and project
leaders who have helped make such
seasons work possible. The
above shows but small part of the
seasons work and is used only to
show in a general way the amount
OF interest being created for better
farming.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-12-07
North Penobscot.

Sarah, wife Of Charles Leach,
died Tuesday, Dec. 6, after a long
illness, at the age Of seventy-five
years. She leaves, besides her hus-
band, two sons, Jay of this place
and Walter of Haverhill, Mass, and
two daughters, Mrs. Florence Har-
riman of Lynn, Mass, and Mrs. Win
ME Ordway of Haverhill, Mass.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-12-07
WANTED.

DRIVING HORSE FOR HIS KEEP
for the winter; safe for lady to drive.
address, Anderson's restaurant, Ellis
worth.
TO RENT, SMALL HOUSE OR DOWN.
stairs tenement, to 6 rooms, in or
near city. Address Farm Bureau Of
fice Ellsworth, Me.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-12-07
AGENTS WANTED.

LIVE AGENTS WANTED TO HAN
die city trade for the genuine Watkins
Products. A real opportunity Write
to-day for free sample and particu-
lars J. r. Watkins Co., Dept. II, New
York, N. Y.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-12-07

There is food for thought in a
letter contributed to the Mutual
Benefit column this week by Aunt
Fanny" Read it.