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Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

A dollar will go farther than two
years ago. but it is harder to get one
started.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

Some people abuse the government
and others seem to get along very
well.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

Sunny. but nervous people as a
rule are those who have lost their
nerve.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21
CORSET WEEK IN ARKANSAS

Miss Ferbe Lowe has been in this
vicinity the last few days. introducing
a new line of corsets. Several Of our
young ladies are trying to walk as if
they had bought one."
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

Bright men, You know. never look
on the dark side of things.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

Lots Of people would he poor if all
their debts were paid.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

We sometimes suspect that thy
good old days" were good because
of the people who lived in them.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

Now the prohibition people are try
ing to make the ocean dry.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

Cheer up. We won't have so much
warm weather during the coming
winter.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

This epidemic of comment on an
kles won't last long. Airplanes were
thrilling when people first saw 'em.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

others acknowledge that they are
lazy.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

Now that the Irish and the Egyp
tians have secured home rule, ",
Americans should not lose hope.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

Another thing that we are not wor-
rying about is the report that Amer
can tourists in Germany are Ctinl
ovcrcharged.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21
A. NJ. OR ?. NJ.

Wanted-Would like to board lit
tie girl between and S. Adver-
tisement in Chicago Tribune.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

1T is all right to rock the boat if
there is nobody in it but yourself.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

You never know how much temper
II man has until he loses it.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

v nen may bob their hair, but few
men are going to let theirs grow long.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

Times Az changing. Bill collector,
have got 50 now that they go prov
ing around at almost any time of til,
month.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21
ELEVATED THOUGHT

See by the papers a fresh guy
kissed his girl right under her chap
eron's nose. 1t would have been bet
ter to have kissed her right under
her own.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

Wonder what the people of Ireland
think of recent events in Illinois?
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21
BLAME II ON HIM

st. Louis has baseball player v,I
is threatening to beat Babe Pr,.J
home-run record. Let Judge IsnSj
be making preparations right s~.j
to serve as an alibi.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

Bill Spivens says if you save ,hl
pennies the dollars will take car, !
the lawyers who break the will
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

The thing to do with hard-boiled
husband is to keep him in hot water.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

The road back to normalcy seems to
he n rough and painful one.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

We are not concerned over the re-
port that Germany and Russia havt
formed a treaty. for we don't believ,
that either would trust the other.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21
DISAPPOINTMENT

Tenderly retrieve it
From moth-proof chest;
Of all the fine raiment
This did | love best.
In fabric twas fragile,
Bnt oh. boy! a beaut.
Now look at the dern'd thing
Ny Palm Beach suit.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

A crouch is a jealous thing. 1t de-
mandS all Of ones time and attention.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

Congress is looking out for the We
men vote. 1t has levied. 400 per
cent tariff duty on razors. while curl
ing irons come in free.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

When man stands aside to let
a woman board a street car, you can't
tell whether it is chivalry or curios-
ity.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

But dearest, what grounds does
your father object TO me?"
"On any grounds within a mile Of
this house"
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21
CAN'T FOOL HIM

Overheard at the ball game:
"Oh. Paul; isn't your pitcher
grand? He hits their bats no matter
where they hold them"
Bill Spivens says after marriage a
woman generally loses any admiration
she may have had for cave man and
methods.
NEARLY all the knowledge in the
world has been acquired at the ex-
pense of somebody's burnt fingers"
gargles Bill Spivens.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21
HE MUST HAVE ONE OF
HENRY'S SYNTHETIC COWS

Wanted-EXnericnced Gardner
Who can milk and run automobile;
apply by mail giving age and refer
cnce. John S. Stoors, Ft. Thomas
Ave. Highland.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21
SURE

1t costs lot to live these days,
More than it did of yore;
But when you stop to think Of it,
It's worth a whole lot more.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

KNEW IT WAS COMING
Congress says: The bonus is all
right so long as you don't bone us
about it,"
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

He--to fair maiden sitting on the
running board of stalled car:
whats the trouble ?"
She-"It's the thing-um-bob in the
What's-its-name; whatever it does, it
doesn't"
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

Bill Spivens says the hardest time
in the world for most people to get
up is in the morning.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

The high cost Of living, as an eX-
change point ont, is aS nothing a
cumuarcd TO the high cost of loafinC
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

Those Americans who went to Ru-
sia seeking for work made the mi
take Of not carrying their rations wit
'hum.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

DEFINITION OF A NEwsPApEI
BY the Ad Manager: An oasis n
advertising surrounded by a dessr,
of news.
By the City Editor: An oasis A
news surrounded by desert Of A
rertising.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

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Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21
THE LATEST OUT

The latest style is called "The Pm!
digal Skirt" 1t brings out the fatt,j
calf.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

= ~tand~ to reason that poets ar
bora and not made. No man wou i
deliberately make poet Of himself.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

Germany's broke. hook der ex
Kaiser, carols Bill Spivens.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

The DURANT
Wa f;ngton has quit saving d..
light. In fact, Washington is oppo- i
to saying anything.
----X----------
When man starts ont to pay pc,
tical debts he generally winds up :;
playing the dickens.
-X-
After the experts get through m. =
ing peace in Europe they might
their hand on Chicago.
\ man may be right in the sw
and still have all that he can do
Keep hi, head above water.
Now the shipping board is in h
water because il permits whiskcy
be old on IL vessels at sea.
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Now thoy are talking about HI
ing national Father Day. So,
fathers would prefer night.
-N-------
History repeats itself. We a.,
told that the United states will so
have to intervene in Cuba again.
y
The cx-yoldicrs seem to think tn
should get a bonu- now because t..
cv slackcrs got one during the wa
-X-----
And spcaking of profiteering, IT,
former kaiser of Germany has WRITE
1. Nt.ntl- fA,~
-X--
The main trouble with our STAN
ing army j. that there are too mar
scttin' down jobs connected with il
-X--
There is no mistake about it. IT,.
man who thinks well Of his neighbor-
is thought well Of by them.
Now that the Irish and the Egyp
tians have secured home rule, W.
Americans should not lose hope.
-X------
The high cost Of living, as an eX-
change point ont, Is aS nothing a
comDarcd to the high cost of loafinc
---------X------
i' ~ldiu~ " l'i~bl liidN IuelS al %
bora and not made. No man won i
deliberately make a poet of himsel.
-----X-------
Thosc Americans who went to Ru-
sia seeking for work made the mi
take Of not carrying their rations witt
them.
-N-----
Time. arr changing. Bill collector.
have got 50 Low that they go prov
ing around at almost any time of th,
month.
Another thing that we are not wor
rying about is the report that Amer
can tourists in Germany are CEN.
ovcrcharged.
Congress is looking out for the We
men vote. 1t has levied. a 400 pc
cent tariff duty on razors. while cur
ing irons come in free.
--X----
We are not concerned over the re
port that Germany and Russia hav
formed a treaty. for we don't belev
that either would trust the other.
We sometimes suspect that tn
good old days" were good becau,
of the people who lived in them.
----------X----
Cheer up. An inventor has promis
ed the country a radio o-controlle
lawn mower by next summer:
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-07-21

Two heads are better than one at ;
kissing bee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-06
LOTHIAN TO BUILD A POWER DAM

Dothan, in southeast Alabana, whose people were among the first to get away from the one-crop system and raise hogs, cattle, peanuts and the like in addition to cotton, whereby they emerged out of agricultural serfdom to pros perity and independence, will float $75O, ,000 bond issue for building hydroelectric plant on the Choctawhatchie river. The pucky city has been delayed in this enterprise by ltiga- ton, but that is now happily out of the way and the dam will be built.
 Dothan will have 4,0oo electric horse power for her factories and homes, with surplus for sale to surrounding territory. This is an example for other committees near power sites on Alabama streams to emulate
 Tennessee and the Carolinas are full of small water power plants, and they are in the hills of north Georgia. They should be in Ala bama, and they will be, as other communities develop the spirit of Dothan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-06

direction. It is in line with the League of Ma tions idea.
 MT. Underwood's statement on the league as a political issue in the autumn elections was made in reply to Senator Mccormick, who is trying like a great many other republicans, to the eyes of voters and bolster up the tottering republican party. It is a piece of political strategy for the republicans to make it appear that question which was believed to be largely instrumental in the defeat of Cox is again before the people
 MT. Underwood effectively answered MT. Me Cormck by saying:
 But do not make political issues Con ditions make issues. The republican party cannot get from conditions by endeavorng pitch the next fight the League of Nations There is want in the homes and poverty on the streets The people dissatisfied because have been reduced. expenditures have been eliminated and the republicans have failed in every material respect to live up to their prediction promises
 Such will comprise the issues in the ensuing paign. The republicans would inject the League of Nations to distract from their own shortcomings their palpable failures
 
 and the next presidential election is the record of the republican party. This Is the reason why republican leaders trying to drag in the League of Nations. They realize that the party has failed deplorably to live up to its pre- election promises and in the administrators greatest single achievement, the arms confer ence, they dependent for success on democratic support.
 Republican spellbnders have their work cut out for them The party on the outside always has the advantage in campaign, but the dem ocrats have never had better grounds to attack the republican party than they have now. By sticking to their guns and keeping the light of publicity playing republican mistakes they stand good chance to regain lost ground.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-06
HER MOVIE IDOL

"Miss Founders" said MT. Dubwaite, with a twinkle in his eye, "take this letter, please: 'Percival Pruner, Hearthrobs Photoplay Con- pany, Los Angeles, Cal. Dear Sir: Although aware that for professional reasons you do not want the public to know that you have wife and four children, l believe it would promote stenographic efficiency and prevent needless heartburning if your numerous ad- mirers could be assured that you are already happily married.''
 "Do-do you want me to send this letter." asked Miss Founders.
 "No. Just keep it for future reference. It contains some information I thought you ought to have.1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-06
MOLIERE IN NEW YORK

From the New York Telegram.
 / high compliment was paid America and the American Academy of Arts and Letters when the Acadamie Francaise sent two of its members-M Maurice Donnay and M Andre ~Chevrion--to take part in the celebration this week of the anniversaries of Shakespeare and Moliere.
 As Ambassador Jusserand pointed out, this is the first time that such mission has been dispatched to foreign country by the French.
 Dr. Brander Matthews, as chancellor, at the dinner to the delegates suggested very feici- tously certain moderen applications of the plays of Moere.
 He found that our "learned ladies'" instead of devoting their time to Greek roots are dig ging up the roots of society. They are parlor socialists. They are Little Groups of Serious Thinkers, who pride themselves on being open minded, not having discovered the inconven- fence of having minds open at both ends.
 The Imaginary Invalid" today is nor bid student of psycho-analysis making a fraudulent collection of his own complexes. And Tartuffe? We'll, our Tartuffes do not masquerade as religious bigots; rather are they moral reformers, who damn the sins they have no mind to-" reformers for rev. enue only, as dangerous to public welfare to- day as was Tartuffe in his time.
 There could be no better indication than this of the fact that human nature has not changed in the years that have elapsed since Moliere was playwright and an actor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
SELLING KIWIANIANS

q like good advertising. The nearer it ap- breaches art the better" said Morton Simpson, premier lad. man," yesterday.
 q had the pleasure of having the post com- mander of the American Legion my guest at the Kiwanis luncheon. The Kiwanis chief called upon him for speech and limited him to a minute and half. He of course talked about the musical comedy, The Microbe of Love- which the legion is staging at the Jeff ferson theatre next Tuesday night, May 9.
 "I think never saw as much real advertis- ing done in minute and half before. In that time the post commander proved that the Kiwanans and the legionaires are brothers under the skin; that it is the duty of all organizations which stand for patriotism and good citizenship to lend hand in aid of the disabled and unemployed ex-service men ]; that those who attend the legion show next Tuesday night will be lending such aid and at the same time getting their moneys worth He concluded by saying that the .Microbe of Love is both musical and comical and that those who attend the performance will hear more good singing than was ever heard in Birmingham except when Scotti comes to town, and they will see more next Tuesday night than could be seen around the chicken run in a whole summer.
 "This part of the ad. undoubtedly sold the Kiwianians"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-06

Arthur Brisbane can always do neat bit of sarcastic writing when Great Britain is his subject.
 x < With Mary Garden and Geraldine Farrar both on the dramatic stage it may sag in the center.
 * * Making treaties behind the backs of other nations is not a new trick in European dplo- macy.
 x A home equipped with a radio outfit and well-stocked cellar leaves little to be desired.
 x x According to precedent, Chang, bandit, should have defeated Wu, mere statesman.
 x x Nurse Knox gets 20 years. She made the mistake of killing woman instead of man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-06
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS IS NO LONGER AN ISSUE

There is a sharp difference of opinion be- tween Senator Underwood and James M Cox on the League of Nations. Senator Underwood says it is no longer issue between the demo- cratic and republican parties MT. Cox con- tends that the league is still an issue, and is prepared to stand or fall by it. Woodrow Will son Is silent, but there is no reason to believe that his views have changed. So far as that | concerned, neither has MT. Underwood re- pudiated the league. As he has repeatedly stat cd he thinks this country would have been bet ter off had it entered the league, and his par ticipation in the arms conference did not mean that he abandoned his former position. He be- Iisves, as most right-thinking people do, that - tour-power treaty was step in the right
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-06
PLEASANT PART OF IT

q enjoyed my visit to Nashville as dele gate to the convention of the southern chamber of commerce secretaries,' said o. L. Bum, manager of the Birmingham chamber. But the pleasantest of events connected with it was the banquet where we were waited on by the pretty girls of Nashville. A feature of this was the calling of the name of each of the visiting secretaries and, following that, the girls born in the state which he represented, made known their birthplace.
 "I had my picture taken with of the pretty Alabama girls and felt quite proud of the opportunity to do so
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-06
POPULARITY OF SINGER

Mrs. Donnelly and myself attended grand opera in Atlanta and enjoyed it very much,' said J. W. Donnelly. "We heard La Traviata with Galli-Curci, Gigli and DeLucca the New York cast, and it was one of the most beauti- full presentations I have ever heard.
 "Galli-Curci was in excellent voice and sang dvinely and received an ovation which was phenomenal. The house showed $23,000, $5,000 in excess of any house ever sold during the 10 years of opera in Atlanta, great tribute to the popularity of the wonderful Italian prima donna. People were standing and oc- cupying every available space in the vast audi torium, and it one of the most brilliant occasions Atlanta has ever had. The next evening I noticed Galli- Curci, Scotti and Rosa Ponselle occupying box enjoying the opera just if they had never heard it before"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-06
PRELIMINARIES

"Now, don't forget" said the lawyer who was coaching his fair client. When scratch my right ear that's signal for you to faint"
 "And if you rub your chin with your left hand that means I must burst into tears?"
 'Yes, and-ahem-if you see me plucking at my right trouser leg it will indicate that the gentlemen of the jury have been sui ficiently edified by the hosiery display, and you might change your attitude so they can concen- trate their minds on the evidence"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-06
SWINBURNE AND HUGO

From the Toronto Globe.
 Living with genius often has it's irrita- tions as the whole history of literature and art has informed us. A new illustration comes in the "reminiscences of Mrs. Theodore Watts-Dunton, recently published in England. Mrs. Watts-Dunton's marriage to the famous critic took place in 1905, and Swinburne lived with them at The Pines on Putney Hill until his death in 1909. Edmund Gosse once, in writing of Swinburne, said: ''No doubt the biographers of the future, intent on rub ping the gold dust off the butterfly's wings will tell us everything day by day"
 Mrs. Watts-Dunton has numerous stories of their home life, but perhaps nothing so pointed as the story told by Mlle Tola Dorian of meeting between Swinburne and Victor Hugo in Paris in 1882. Both poets were very hard of hearing. Victor Hugo was i'll and old and irritable and Swinburne was more than usually nervous. The day was cold and dreary, and Watts-Dunton, who to have accom- panied Swinburne to Hugo's house, was obliged to stay at the hotel, suffering from toothaehe.
 Had it not been so pathetic, it would all have been intensely funny. All through the meal had to continue to act as interpreter, and at intervals Swnburne kept on sayin.s to me in undertone, q ought never to have left him. All alone in the hotel-and the poor fellow was suffering agonies." The cli- max came when at dessert Victor Hugo drank the health of his guest, and Swinburne, raising his glass to toast the great master, in homage, threw the empty glass over his shoulder.
 Victor Hugo did not grasp the full mean ing of the action, and he only stared at the shattered fragments. A kind of childish ava- rice had developed in him with advancing years, and this got the upper hand of him as he muttered: And one of the best glasses too! One of the best glasses!" And that was his refrain long after the poet had left.