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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-02
Making More Money
Lots of n

N'''D os ~
1t Is IN the litogal, rather than in the
hguratire sense. that the Iulter sisters,
foSES Sd a@n6 mn6s With With ey 2 earned
during their spare. time work seemed
like fortune when compared with
their regular salary of 80 week.
dne dannnF MsiGS faea1H aHkeP se s s
constantly rising tide OF prices made
Il essential that they add something TO
their incomes A careful reading of
the the CLASSIFIED Advertising columns Of
of interest, until they came across one
announcement stating that persons could
make spare'time money by selling real
estate" with a line which told where
to apply.
Suppose we try that" suggested the
elder Miss Zuker
But" protested her sister, I'VE don,
know thing In the world about selling
they wish to dispose OF. We'd only
waste our time and get oursclves
laughed at"
The timo isn't valuable. IL We can't
nounced, "and We have nothing 70 lose
Let's. sec what tho proposition Is. any
So the next evening they applied a,
an outline Of the plan, built around the
sale of small 'home lots, to workers
throughout tho city. AS they left. the
building the elder sister remarked :
what lots of the mon and women at
our factory would like to buy--only
they don't know how easily they can be
purchased. All we have to. do Is 10
proved, was all that was necessary.
Sales the first month were fair the
second month was much better and the
third month showed an even greater i'm.
provement. For the last months sales
the Zul<er sisters received $2lo0--and all
through their sparc-time work.
Tomorrow SmalI-Town Success
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-02

al,o,usness and suspense for Nan, for
B,,n 1i,n the Yanks at grips with the Hun,
Buys steady flow OF letters stopped
r,,,,,s nan sought relief from her worry by
ptunsms INTO her own work with re-
ntwed vigor, and Billy's brief notes be-
Gart.e "a events rather than mere incidents
N nan 3 routine. As time went on Nan
pegah TO laugh at her fears. OF course
ply piIty vas all right Certainly he would
mans even now asking for an armistice? q?
ana then on Armistice Day, with a
CITY tull Of joyous, shrieking, half-crazy
patriots, the blow fell, ,...
regret to report Lieutenant William
nenurlck seriously wounded In action
September 22d," read the telegram from
the War department Two days later
TINS scanty Information was supplement-
ed ny a letter from the Red Cross
pedtion than the cumbersome machin.
cry or the War Department. Billy was
nadIy gassed and suffering from shel
shock and scheduled for an honorable
| discharge.
| Weeks OF uncertainty finally gave
place to throb of JOY. Billy was com.
ING nome again---the effects OF his
gasslng Practically gone, but still Will
nerves shattered. Rest--meaning no
york demanding a sustained mental ef.
| regimen for year at least Nan, over.
Joyed at the prospect of Billys return
| cheerfully buckled down to the Job OF
providing for two for the next year
had received her discharge from serv.
ice and promptly went to work again in
| downtown office.
In tho spring Billy came home again
"a pit wan and with nerves still on
edge, but cheerful and optimistic with
| al.
"Eyerythlng would be fine and dandy
| GEAR, no told Nan, III I we're only
earning s,oI,b Our bread and butter instead OF
The FIRST hundred years are The
hardest smiled Nan cheerfully. Where
DO we eat today. Billy boy7"
Anywhere, so long as 1t is quiet" re-
turned Billy. II confess these down,
Town eating places do get on my nerves
place sTo t's'Sa; rcpiicd come HnsW on 1"' very
Mans destination was a little base
ment restaurant on a side street. ia,
enough below the street level and suf
ncientiy remote from the main thor
! oughfare for the noise OF traffic TO bt
scarcely noticeable.
Fine" commented Billy. Food very
fair and rooms quiet. Everything beau,
! Nan thought a bit. Finally, 'Prunes
and prisms Billy" sho breathed excit'
u,1,u "JIuh, ,3o,, whats t';,s tho idea. with the
mo. not that this time, Billy. I've
got a big idea. Gregore wants 70 sell
out. Let's buy. I've got every cent OF
your allotments still. and some of my
salary. We can swing it just as easy
But what's prunes and prisms 60,
to do with it?"
"Prunes for our speciality, Prune
whip. prune soufrle, jellied prunes, prune
glace--oh, hundreds Of ways! Well
glolify tho humble prune and make II
famous"
And prisms?" suggested Billy.
"Prismatic glass in the windows You
said the room vas dark. It won't be
WIN prisinatic glass. Come on, dear,
let's get started"
inside of a week Gregore's changed
hands. Billy's naturally artistic taste
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-02

Some Of the high collars nowadays
are attractive enough to interest even
Annie Laurie. Not impossibly she might
be tempted to cover the throat that was
like the swan, particularly so If there
were offered to her the sort of compro-
mise effected by the above model with
its high collar showing an open space
below.
1t is. in fact, the infinite varieties Of
infection of which the choker is capa
Bile that has perhaps defeated the
gloomy predictions of those fashion
prophets who, early in the season, de .
clared that the American woman would
never adopt it. The high collar has
been adopted-that much is certain.
And the above model illustrates only
one of the many possibilities Of treat
ing this accessory. The frock shown is
a navy blue velvet made in coat dress
style and trimmed with emerald and
orange embroidery.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-02
Handmade Blouses
Drop to $3.50

Half price and less for these
fine white batiste blouses. Every
stitch made by hand. They show
marks Of handling and sizes are
broken or the price could not be
so little.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-02

came into play in newly decorating the
rooms In scheme of quiet gray, with
white chintz at the windows of pris-
matte glass according to Mans specl.
featons. The sign over the. door, of
course, read "Prunes and Prisms,' with
an explanatory line, IT'S where you
cat"
The oddity Of the name was suffl-
cient to attract attention. And Nan saw
to 1t that food and scrvice were such
that transient patrons became regulars.
! The new venture was successful from
| the start, and with something to think
about besides his gerves, Billy began
| to look and act more like his old self
| Fortunate for the business that he did
too, for Nan took n vacation n few
months ago, and Billy had TO run the
place alone.
"prunes and prlsms. its where yo,
cat" has become a. proverb In the bis
town now. Nan, however. has handed
tho reins over to Billy for good. Sh'
has something else on her hands now
adays.
Billy. dear" she said tho other day
I'm, afraid the baby's got my biz
mouth. When he gets old enough e
talk, we'll have TO teach him to sa!
"Irunes and prisms!' they chorused.
Next Complete Novelette, - "Georr,
Onlyn
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-02
Adventures With q Purse

la TOOTHBRUSH for the unexpected
~ overnight guest is quaint conceit,
knd one that will appeal to the woman
| who prides herself on the completeness
Bf her hospitality. Personally ] am
kure would never have done with talk
Bng about a hostess who handed mo n
Eice new toothbrush when she knew
! hat the uneXpectedness of my visit pre-
luded the possibility Of my having ny:
|pvn, and saying. "Now. my dear. OF
Pieres o nice new one I've been saving
for you" Anyhow. by this time you
bnust have guessed that this adventure
fhas something to do with toothhrushcs.
pt has, ! have found a store that has
[Ihey have light wood handles, and the
|brlstles, while about as long rs those
|Hf any brush, do not extend quite so
|far down the handle. These stocky
tile brushes can be had for eighty five
NntS for a whole dozen. ] bought q
|'ozen, and can hardly wait for an uncN-
bectcd guest,
A smelling salts bottle that will look
Exceptionally we'll on your bureau or
| H'' q ht'u'I' ioNhh'l Ni''
fiender taporiug neck, The shape is
frlferent from any l have seen, and is
feTy graceful. The bottle Is filled with
ose smelling salts, which show through
be glass and give a pretty pink touch
20 harmonl2c with a room done in pink
Pr old rose. The price is S1.30.
Al the real Jade have ever seen is
InnNE III NIL
kr@Iooth cool piece of green marble.
ne Jade effects in chains and beads do
|lot a ways catch this distinguishing
(oaractcristic. But one shop has
fglngS OF beads that have this speckled
{nect most artistically. They are three.
quarter length, in graduated sizes, and
1re priced at $I%5. They are very
.so r ,,Games names Of shops address Woman's
.'e Hd'tor or phone Walnut or Main 5000
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-02
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURES
Judge oprs B'rg'"
BY DADDY
CHATTER III
,.,,, of the Dark

-,v perky sparrow and Jnnoo ir,,o
T1JUB IT, tod gotten tnto sey!oiS
b e.nT.',m ~, creeplng through the hoie ,rony III
rouble py ,Lo hen house. MT. oIioiIs
he door o. o.,ev e,' we're the night pIo"iieiiGG II
was su,gG sng been sucking tho i0"''
s tsss. ,ur ready to shoot them, = =,
Get your ,ffon,,v Harry. the coloron
he said TO ,,amiy aI"Tt Harry raised the gun
boy. And HcpPS carGr to show what q gooo
For he was css'' ,,..
bSntsr he w1y whoo. III prov, tmoss i.,ss
yMnTo are not guilty. Of sucE,iiie i '''0
iroI, o,,I,vbt." I'll" hootod Judge fiarrv and Eli
Mr., M Strong and liappS cn,iIdn't under
snlbsoh, fudge owl was saylns' ou'
stand wnJ wnaJ' t2iilv quickly told them. t.
Peggy anu don't think that old f,, 3wI 10
Hun Hun ss he looks" grunt,ea co iI"ppS paS
Es WE WISE Drive those birds i,i 9ui srnbson, S
lsaot t' them" he said ,hsn, 10 l'I1 a fair trial"
no! We Wt,. Strong. "1f Judge owl can
heclarcd ~, ~ re not guilty OF sucMIns
prove tneS y hen house at night, then
Eggs " III ~ % free tr he doeSn prove
he, y,s, sn' shaIl be shot at once, c,,r-
y, u Iris time Blue jay, ftnnH sonn
BY n .,d' 1nnco Snowbird hau seen
row ana Jv, tho dark insides of the hen
enough ud od co they came squeezing OUT
again CON sec, got in-which IS
"Ihere I,dre owl could do," boasteu
more ma" hnt ho wouldn't have been SO
Blue JaS' 'hoost IL he had known that by
ready 70 20 oV o,Vhro,,Rh the hole he had made
squeezus link him tho prowling egg,
Mr.. stro"SS SSCreo Cree I'm sleepy
sucker, piuo Jov. IT'S getting dark
yawnGd ooiYg TO bed" and Blue Jay
and u, ,,,o S' tnc barn and up to his snug
dartSu INV :,
perCm,, ,nct, We're sleepy, too.
,Cns CneJp5 Jp5orrv Snarrow and Junco Snow
tGnS9ePd S Pdsriing ring after him.
oEg, ,nn,, "%, Harry pointed his gun up az
HAPPY ppcyrcb land and chuckled. II can shoot
.e,r Een, IN IN the dark. I know just where
gem III S"o
eauaitr ordered Mr.. Strong. we
Ma' What this owl is going TO do
wi,i Ses ncoI rolled his eyes wisely and
JuaSe oTest,on'
fskea kSl.s = a .be nrowler suck the eggs by
Does S,igbt Hy ,"
Peggy eNp,a ~ chopernan, answered. ''The
a,so amGsoN. sucks the eggs only by night
ro"ae. ,.o. ara empty eggs except in the
I'VE ne,e!, '''
HW.ao Fnornl.s, whoo, Did you ever hear
WIZ Wiz ra,' or n Sparrow, or a Junco
ahi.I bIu1 Gying in the dark?" asked
h9HoIptu 9sI 40,
u1sv "bu+ thnv might do It without our
'eIV Would you prowl In a graveyard
,ter dark" asked Judge OWL
No indeed wouldn't Prov, in a
r,avevard after dark. There wouldn't
70 any sense in that" declared Harry.
"Try 10 get Blue Jay, Perky sparrow
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-02
Girls Spring Dresses
$1.5O; Boys Suits
$1.75

Gay pink, blue or green cham
bray clothes for little folk Of to
8 years. Both the dresses and
suits have white collars and cuffs
and black stitching, and the
frocks have cunning little birds
embroidered on them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-02

Do you think Judge Owl will keep
f s promise?
Have you any idea who tho egg
Fuckng night prowler is?
Can you guess what the next chapter
Is going TO reveal?
New Mexico state record., 1921-05-27
Glue Stronger Than Steel.

new field for wood has been
opened by the use of what is called
ply-wood and glue made from the
blood of the animals killed at the
slaughter house and of the casein, OBJ
tanned from milk.
Remarkable sturdiness under all con-
dltions has been shown by this com
bination. The combination was first
thought Of in connection with the man.
ufacture Of nirplanes.
Thin sheets of wood are laid one
over the other with dry sheets Of pa
per coated on both sides with the
new glue. The mass Is then heated
under pressure and the result is that
a structure Is formed which Is strong
er than steel and has many other ad-
yantages over metal.
Panels were glued together with
these and tested in boiling water for
eight hours. At the expiration of this
time none Of the pieces showed any
separation Of the plies.
New Mexico state record., 1921-05-27
"You Wait and See What Comes Mi,
the Commiddee Room Out"
h.-7

was making up a freight, and the way
they slammed the boxes together, re.
gardless Of broken drawheads and the
like, was a sin and a shame.
After a while. after Id loafed
through the shops and around the
yard and got few more whlfs of
the decay, I strolled on back TO the
hotel.
] was wondering n little what had
become of the boss-who was general
ly the earliest riser on the lob
when two men came bulging through
the screen doors of the cafe. picking
their teeth and feeling in their pockets
for cigars. Right on the dot. and In
the face of knowing that II couldn't
reasonably be so. I had a feeling that
I'd seen those men before. One of
them was short and rather stocky
and his face had a sort Of hard. hun
CRY look: and the other was big and
barrel-bodied. The short one was clean
shaven, but the other had a reddish
gray beard clipped close on his fat
jaws and trimmed TO a point at the
chin.
After they had lighted up they came
along and sat down three or four
chairs away from me. They paid no
attention to me, but for fear they
might. l tried to look as sleepy as an
all-night bell-hop in a busy hotel.
THE Dunton bunch got together In
one of the committee rooms upstairs
a little after eight O'Clock" said the
short man, in a low. rasp1ng voice that
went through you like a buzz-saw.
Thanks to those Internal blunderers
Clanahan sent us last night, Chadwick
was with them"
Il think that was choost so.- said
the big man. speaking slowly and with
something more than a hint of a Ger
man accent. Becker was chOOst what
you call him-a tam blundCrer."
Like a flash 1t came over me thai
I was "Iistening In" to a talk between
the same two men who had sat In the
auto at Sand Greek siding and smoked
New Mexico state record., 1921-05-27

while rney were waiting for the actua'
kidnapers to return. You can bet high
that ! made myself mighty small and
unObtrusive.
After while the big man spoke
again.
what has Uncle Chon Chadwick up
his sleeve got, do you think?"
81 don't Think KNOW was the
snappy reply. ITS one of two things:
Il eceivership-which will knock us
into Il cooked hat because we can't
fool with an officer of the United
States cOurt-Or a new deal all around
in the management"
"Nich of the two will it be that will
come out of that cOmmiddee room up
stairS?"
"A new management. DuntOn can't
stand for a receivership. and Chad
wick knows it. The securities would
be knocked out and the majority hold
ers-DuntOn and his bunch-cOuldn't
unload. Chadwick will name the man
who is to take Shaffer's place as gem
eral manager of the railroad outfit.
We might have stood it off for
while, just as | said yesterday, if we
could have kept Chadwick from at
tending this meeting"
But now we don't could stand it
off-what then?"
well have to wait and see and
size up the new man when he blows
in. He'll be only human, Henckel. And
if We get right down to 1t we can
pull him over to our side-or make
him wish he'd never been born"
The big man got up ponderously
and brushed the cigar ashes off of his
bay-window. You wait and see what
comes nit the commiddee room out
| 90 up to the ovvice"
When | was left alone in the row of
lobby chairs with the snappy one |
was scared stiff for fear, now that he
didn't have anything else to think Of.
he'd catch on the fact that | might
have overheard. But apart from CIV
ing me one long stare that made my
blood run cold, he didn't seem to no.
tice me much, and after little he
got up and went to sit on the other
side of the big rotunda where he could
watch the elevators going and coming.
l guess he had lots of patience for
| had to have. | had been sitting in
my corner for two full hours when
saw the boss coming down the broad
marble stair with Mr.. Chadwick.
New Mexico state record., 1921-05-27

raised as you might guess" Mr. Chad
wick was saying.
grabbed at the name, Basil right
away: ii isn't such very common
name, and Mrs. Sheia had said some
thing-under the water tank, you rec
ollect-about cousin Basil VINO
was to have met her at the train.
was putting two or three little private
Suesses of my own together, when one
of the elevators came down ana here
came our two, the young lady ana
the chunky little girl, with the major
chuckling and smiling and giving an
arm to each. They had apparently
stopped at the Bullard only to walt
until he could come after them ana
take them home.
saw the boss sit up in his chair
and stare at them. Then he said !;
That's Mrs. Macrae with him now.
Is she a member of his family"
"A second cousin, or something of
that sort" said Mr.. Chadwick. 81 met
her once at the majors house out in
the northern suburb last summer"
Mr. Norcross let the three of them
get out and away, and we heard their
taxi speed up and trundle off before
he said, "She is married, I'm told.
Where is her husband"
Mr.. Chadwick looked up as if he'd
already forgotten the three who had
just crossed the lobby.
"Who-Sheila Macrae? Yes. she
has been married. But there isn't any
husband-she's widow"
For quite while the boss sat star
ing at his cigar in a way he has when
he is thinking right hard, and Mr.,
Chadwick let him alone. Then, all of
sudden, the boss got up and showed
his hands into his coat pockets.
"Tve changed my mind, Uncle John"
he said, looking sort of absent-like out
of the window to where the major's
taxi had been standing. "If you can
pull me into that deal tomorrow NOR
ning-with an absolutely free hand to
do as I think best, mind you'll take
the job"
New Mexico state record., 1921-05-27
"Now let's go and get our
fighting clothes on"
(TO BE CONTINUED
SABBATH DAY" NOT SUNDAY
Modern Writers Display an Amazing
CareIessness in Their Misuse
of the Words.

In English there is not more def
mite word than sabbath yet it is used
with an amazing carelessness as a
synonym for Sunday. The writer's and
translators of the New Testament use
sabbath correctly, says writer in the
Brooklyn Eagle.
1t is always Hebrew and In no in
stance Is it associated with the New
Testament dispensaton-now univer-
sally known as Christianity. Indeed
the apostles were severely rebuked by
the Jews for breaking the sabbath.
Christians cannot break the sabbath.
for they do not have II to break.
Sabbath and Sunday are observed
on separate days, but this Is not nee
essary. as astronomy shows that the
Identity of days from year to year Is
impossible; since the year and day
are inconmensurable. The leap years
show that any given date varies a
day; even this does not correct the
dates, as other correctiOns-the GEN.
turial leap years-become necessary.
There is still deeper reason for dis
carding the severity Of the sabbath.
namely, our seven-day week Is un-
counted thousands of years older than
the book of Genesis. Evidence is very
strong that 1t was founded on quarter
ing the sldereal month-the true
MONTH" Long before anything even
approaching astronomy arose man no
ticed that the moon slowly moved into
another group of stars each night. and
by rough eye measurement. completed
her revolution In % days-"the 2s
mansions of heaven" of the Chinese
and japanese.
New Mexico state record., 1921-05-27
CHAPTER ~
The Directors MEETING

was up bright and early the next
morning, and after breakfast took
a little sashay down Nevada avenue
to have look at our railroad. OF
course, / knew, after what the boss
had said to Mr.. Chadwick the night
before. just before we went to bed,
that we weren't ever going to see
Canada, or even Illinois.
I'll have to admit that the look I got
Cullinan diamond. Down IN the yards
everything seemed TO be at the lOosest
kind of loose ends. A switching crew
New Mexico state record., 1921-05-27
Proof Of Wars Havoc,

In spite Of the fact that the sea.
going tonnage of the United States Is
today nearly 1O.4O0.OO0 tons greater
than in 1914. an advance of more than
sou per cent. and in spite of the in
tensive steamship production In Great
Britain and the United States for
themselves and other countries. the
worlds steel steam tonnagei now less
by 3,5co.OoO tons gross than Il would
have been II the war had not inter-
fered with the normal rate Of ex-
mansion.
New Mexico state record., 1921-05-27

Il don't see it," said the boss,
briefly.
Don't you? l do. have an idea
rapibling around in my head that IT
IS about time some bright young fel-
low was showing the people of the
United States that a railroad needn't
be regarded as an outlaw among the
Industries; needn't have the enmlty
of everybody il serves; needn't be the
prey of lot of disloyal and dissatis-
fled employees who are interested only
New Mexico state record., 1921-05-27

ask one Of the porters TO carry the
traps. and we'd walk to the hotel,
which was only a few blocks up the
main street.
She took Maisie Ann on the other
side Of her and let two of the blocks
20 by without saying anything more.
and then she gave that quiet little
laugh again and said, Your Mr.. Nor
cross amuses me. Jimmie. He says
| have no business TO travel without
guardian What do you think
about it;"
told her | hadn't any thinks COM
ing. and she seemed to take that for
New Mexico state record., 1921-05-27
Good Time TO Be Born,

Persons born between January 20
and February 10. when the sun IL in
Aquarius. are broad judges Of nuran
nature and can be relied upon to es-
innate a persons honesty almost at
first sight. They are good mixers. .
lovers Of public entertainments, the
afers. fairs. public ceremonies. absorb
information easily and from every pos
sible source They are clever at MIN
icry. and see the funny side Of life.
Are well adapted 70 mercantile o.
political pursuitS