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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-02-09
FEW WALKERS IN AUSTRALIA
In That Respect Country Is Much
Like Our Own West of Some
Years Ago.

There was once a gay French hu-
morist, Max O'Rell, who arrived in
Australia on a hot day and straight
way declared that the chief occupa-
ton of the people was holding up
lamp posts. The adherence which
pursued that Partisan would pale be-
side the indignation which would
overwhelm the man who dared to de-
clare that the Australian is conserva-
tive, and this in spite of the persist
ence of the galvanized iron roofs of
early Queensland, the determination
with which the black bowler hat
still clings to progressive heads in
Pitt or George street. Sydney, and
the universal rule from Cooktown to
Kalgoorlie of the good old roast beef.
All Of which is intended to prepare
us for the story retold in the Sydney
Morning Herald, the widest read and
most conservative journal in all Aus
tralasia, of the young Englishman in
Rolf Bolderwood's novel who was in
vited to- visit a New South Wales sta
ton seventy years ago, and innocently
resolved to walk part Of the way and
see the country. After many unhappy
misunderstanding rejecting on his
right to be at large, the visitor Dor
rows a horse and becomes respectable.
That story would be in keeping to-
day, with the exception that the
motorcar and the airplane would have
partly replaced the horse.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-02-09
NOT REALLY WOMAN'S FAULT
Time-Honored Joke That She Is Al.
ways Late for an Appointment
Is Explained.

"The Woman's Side of the Story,
this should be called. From time in
the beginning the naughty male has
inveighed against the once so much
meeker half, and above all for her
habit of being late. She was never
late occasionally or off and on, or even
most of the time. You could always
count upon her being late Some said
it depended on the promptness with
which you arrived, her hardness being
proportioned thereto
But these were SANDERS ever. No,
she was late without exception. And
she had her reasons.
MANS natural habitat" says Gene
We've, lis the street corner the curb
stone club. Woman's is the home Man
stares. Woman is stared at. Man
blandishes. Woman bushes. A man
can stand on the curb for an hour or
more without embarrassment But
woman is conspicuous, no matter where
she is and a veritable cynosure when
alone. In fact, / don't think it's too
much to say that nothing is noticed so
quickly as an attractive and unescorted
woman. That is why, when she makes
an engagement to meet you at stated
place, she is sure to be at least fifteen
minutes late. It is all due to her dread
Of being compelled to wait-and be
stared at Oh, of course, we love to be
admired. But that's different. And
safer"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-02-09
Sweet Odors.

Sweet and aromatic odors have al
ways been in request among mankind.
Eastern nations especially have ever
been noted for their intense love Of
perfumes. Some years ago Professor
Tyndall showed that sweet and
aromatic odors were cooling to rooms
i'm other words, their presence bars
out heat-rays of the sun, allowing
those of light chiefly to enter. An
ether-spray of perfume. kept up for
a few minutes in summer room too
holly heated by the sun, has almost
a magical effect in cooling its atmos-
phere, for the reason assigned by
Doctor Tyndall. 1t has just been dis
covered that odors and perfumes are
also an antiseptic-tha is to say. pro-
tective against epidemic diseases in a
very high degree.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-02-09
ADVANTAGE OF Velvet BEAN
When Properly Dried 1t Is Distinct
Addition to Protein Concentrates
for Cattle.

When properly dried before ship
ment, velvet bean feed is a distinct
addition to the protein concentrates
at the disposal of northern feeders,
In the opinion of DR.. ]. B. Lindsey
of Massachusetts, station. 1t has
proved slightly better than wheat bran
for making milk. 1t may constitute
as high as 40 per cent of the grain
ration for cows: but 20 per cent for
pigs and horses is considered enough.
Doctor Lindsey recommends for cows
a ration of 40 per cent velvet bean
feed. 40 per cent corn or hominy meal
or ground oats and 90 per cent cotton
seed meal or some other high-grade
protnin concentrates
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-02-09
Teachers Need Club.

A teachers club house is proposed
by the Milwaukee Teachers Associa-
ton as a meeting place for its mem
bership of more than 1900 teachers.
Some of the teachers will live there
and the club will furnish rooms for
recreation, meetings and the many
activities of the association. Other
professions have their club houses
and this seems like wise move on
the part of this large body of teach
ers.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-02-09
HOW TO ADD THE PIN TUcKS
In Construction Ct New or Re-
modelling of Old Garments.

How often do you want to add q
Few pin tucks or change the style Of
collar, when you are making dress?
Copy the pattern that you are using
as foundation pattern in strong
wrapping paper. If you want to add
pin tucks to the front of a dress,
cut Off length of goods, an inch or
80 longer than the front Of your pat
tern. Tuck it, as shown in Fig. 1.
Fold the goods through the center and
lay on the pattern, as shown in Fig.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-02-09
Dollars Spent in Mineral Point
Will Return To Boost For You
PATRONIzE MINERAL POINT MERCHANTS

Read carefully article printed week in this department OF the
will Mineral
entitled
in
time of
and all example. of he
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-02-09
Tams Match Scarfs.

Tam effect hats of crocheted fab
RIGS with narrow sweater width
scarfs Of the same fabrics form novel
Gets.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-02-09
Body of Dead Child Found.

Platteville Witness: The BODY or
an almost fully developed child,
boy. was found in the rear or the
Methodist church, Saturday after
noon. There is sunken space
along the north windows anu
the dead body, wrapped in news
paper dated the 9Th, had evidentally
been placed there some time before.
The chief of Police was notified ana
took charge of the body.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-02-09

Exactly 4.547 students attended
the 1921 Summer Session OF the Uni
versity of Wisconsin.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-02-09

Foreign Advertising Representative
THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-06
HEART AND HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State journal .
By ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am young
woman % years old. / have been
very fond of gentlemen friends, but
circumstances have prevented me
becoming old and I long for some one
to love and caress me.
There is a young man that works
in the town where I live that am
very fond of. have never met this
boy, but dearly love him and feel
that he Is the one man intended for
me. He works in confectionery
store and nearly always waits on me
when go in there.
Do you think there would be anye
thing wrong in my introducing myself
to him and asking him to come to see
me? 1 feel that each of US would
bring much happiness to the other II
we only had the chance.
DESPERATE.
1t is not your place to introduce
yourself and to ask the man to come
to see you. Man is the aggressor and
almost always he resents 1t when a
woman takes the first step in becom-
ing acquainted or after the introduc-
ton runs after him.
There are many lonely women in
this world who have to walk alone.
Very often it is because they are toe
reserved and cannot meet the man
halfway. Nevertheless they are true
to themselves, and act as their natures
demand. A woman with a nature that
is too reserved should try to become
more radiant and be more cordial. ]
do not think. however, that she should
go more than half way to make the
acquaintance of men. If it is her lot
to walk alone thru life she should do
so bravely.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: am
eighteen years old and I have never
gone with girl. There is girl whose
looks I like very much. We know
each other at school but have never
been introduced. How would you adj
wise me to ask her for a date. BOB.
If the girl has telephone, call
her up and ask her for a date. But
if she has no telephone, go up to her
when you see her and ask her, or
hand her a note at school. Don't be
bashfuI, because doubtless she will be
glad to have a date with you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-06

all lands. Just in proportion as taxes
are more burdensome the collectors
must be more intrusive TO offset the
increased skill of their victims in eva
sion.
Many of the annoyances connected
with our federal taxing system could
be eliminated by substituting q sales
to- for the more cumbersome meth
DDS of raising revenue. Moreover. the
burden could be hghtened for that
portion of the population that now
pays an unjust share.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-06
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-06

colored complexion, with straight
black hair brown eyes. high cheek
bones and rather broad faces. No one
would ever look upon a pure-blood
Indian and have ans doubts as to what
he was.
AS the melting pot of the white
races, however, it is not to be expected
that America will develop a decided
type of men and women who may be
readily identified as Americans from
their physical characteristics. 1t is
not surprising that it required eight
years of research to find 100 indi-
viduals whose parents. grandparents,
and great-grandparents had been born
in this country.
But there is one characteristic other
than physical which many Europeans
insist is distinctively American
boastfulness. They say that we use
superlatives only in everything we say
about ourselves and our country and
our individual and national accom-
plishments. Thoy even intimate that
we have not been at all modest in dis
cussions as to who won the World
War.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-06
LITTLE BENNY'S- NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE.

Ma came home yestidday with a
new hat on, being a small size OF a
hat going over on one eye as If some
thing had happened to ii, me saying,
G, ma, you got a new hat, aint you,
ma?
Yes, sed ma. and sed, is it sip
posed to be over one eye like that or
did it fall overa
Don't ask so meny questions, it ony
shows your ignorants, ma sed. Meen-
ing it was Supposed to be over, and
jest then pop came home, saying, Well
well, look whose got a new hat.
How do you like it? ma sed
Well cant tell jest now, its on
crooked, pop sed.
It's nothing of the sort. its Supposed
to be tilted over on one side and if
you don't happin to know enything
Well of corse if 1t duzzent interfeer
with the site of your left eye 1 don't
see wy enybody should object. I'm
sure, pop sed.
The hat is very becoming, and If
you don't realize it wy its your mis-
fortune, ma sed, and pop sed. Sure, 1
don't perteTfd to know enything about
ladies hats, / wouldent know wat to
say even If you had both eyes covered
with it.
I know its all rite, and that's suf-
ficient, ma sed. WITCH jest then my
sister Gladdis came down stairs say
ing, o look at mothers new lid. how
did 1t get away over there mother?
That's ixackly and precisely ware it
belongs and this family makes me
tired, ma sed. And she quick took it
off and today wen she put it on to go
Amt you going to ware it over one eye
eny more, ma? and ma saying Ill
ware it the way ! feel like wearing it,
Probably meening she wasent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-06

Mr.. Upton. so apparently Mr.. Howe
had found an immediate purchaser.
Exactly on the day he had said, he
was in his office and Mr.. Thad Upton
beamingly called upon him.
LAS a real estate man you can't be
beat" he said, shaking hands. II
knew that property was worth more
than $4,000, but didn't suppose
there was any one waiting around to
buy it as quick as that. You're q Jim
Dandy. Say. who'd you sell 1t to-
noticed the check was your own"
"Oh, the purchaser" said John
Howe. why. I bought it myself
paid $4,000 to myself for 1t, keeping
the $4,000 for commission"
but what in goodness gracious do
you want of the Truax homestead? A
bachelor like you can't want a big
place like that
Il intend to give it to my wife the
day of our marriage. By the way, I
didn't tell you, did I, that I am en-
gagged to your cousin, Miss Susan
Truax?"
Copyright. 1922. by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-06

Unfortunately. there seems to be an
impression on the part of congress
and other quarters actuated more by
politics than economics. that the bust
ness interests OF the country are op-
posed to present taxation methods
purely for selfish reasons. The bust
ness viewpoint, however. is based on
broader considerations. Business men
are opposed to the income tax simply
because in its present form it is dis
criminatory and an attempt to be con-
fisoatory. The very purpose of the
tax is therefore defeated. The result
is that the largest incomes pay a rela-
lively smaller tax rate than incomes of
moderate proportions. Investment in
tax exempt securities furnishes the
channel of escape. Substitution OF
the sales tax for the higher schedules
OF the income tax Would bring about
the release of immense sums to the
industries OF the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-06

Most of the people will recall the
loud criticism of the tariff bin Of 1903
and many will remember the howl
that went up over the Mckinley bill
of $780," says the american Econo-
mist" official organ of the Protective
Tariff league. Also. it might be
added, most peope will recall what
happened to the Republican party
following the passage those two
bills. The enactment of the Mckinley
bill in 1890 was followed two years
later by the election of Grover Cleve-
land and a Democrat congress. The
passage of the 1909 tariff bill was
followed three years later by the cleo
ton OF woodrow Wilson. The people
wait no longer than the next presi-
Dental election to voice their disap-
provaI of such tariff laws as are
backed by the Economist" The next
presidential election is only two years
off and rumblings of an approaching
storm already can be heard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-06

John d. Rockefeller gave each OF the
schiIdren who attended his circus en-
tertafnment a new dime. But we are
not that sort of columnist. The
heights do no more than beckon to US;
we never reach them.
OF q fact. we think Mr.. Rockefeller
devised his property in admirable
fashion, There isn't a chance in the
world that there will be a public row
over it.
Senator La Follette's plan to have
congress pass on decisions of the su-
preme court is well intended but un-
satisfactory. Congress is slow NOV
ing and, shows a lamentable DISPOSE
ton to straddle great public issues. 1t
would be preferable. we believe. to
have the decisions passed upon by 3
committee-say, one or three MEM
bers.
We suggest that such committee be
composed of q journeyman plumber,
a switchman and a longshoreman.
Our theory is that critical analysis
fares best in the hands of those who
make business of it.
And here's a sprig OF myrtle for
Bob" Maxwells bier: He died as he
had lived. And that is as those who
knew him best and loved him best
would have wanted it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-06
Questions-Answers


Q. Are hybrids always incapable Of re-
production? II. L P.
A. While the mule and many other
exceptions. Hybrids Of hares and rabbits
have continued fruitful for generations. In
the human species marriages between re-
while crossings between allied races are
q. Is Ethel NJ Den nom de plume ?
A. This Is the maiden name Of Mrs.
Gerald Savage Miss Dell was married in
Q. Where is Lands Ed? L. D. c.
A, Lands End is granite pomontory.
in the southernmost extremity Of England
Q. Where did the name "The Lost
Cause as applied to the Confederacy,
0risina TS,. n 7; we first h.c.m. c,,-,en,
the title of a history Of Civil War by
f. A. Pollard. published in 1856 Il was
purposes and aims which the southern
people yainly sought to realize in the per-
manent establishment Of the Confederate
O. what was the origin Of the "hnst-
ings" as political term2 C. P. B.
court held IN the the city Of London. In its
present sense. the word denotes the place
where Members Of Parliament were nom
mated before the Ballot Act OF 1872 rejected
the form Of nominating openly. From this
1t has come TO be applid to any election
eering platform.
(Any reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka State
Haskin. Director, Washington. D. e This
offer applies strictly to informat1on. <he
to settle domestic froubies. nor 10 under
take exhaustive research on any subject
Give full name and address ana ENCLOSE tive
replies are sent direet 10 fhs isaSirsr.5
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-06

The people of this country .appar-
emily are growing so accustomed to
big strikes that such disturbances pass
almost unnoticed by the general publ
lie. The strike of 1000 coal miners
did not create a ripple In the pond of
everyday life. The addition OF 4oo,-
600 railroad workers to the ranks of
the idle commands little if any more
attention than did the miners walk
out. No longer are the people aroused
by a cry of wolff"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-06

The American Red Cross, it is an
nounced. has completed its active
work in France and has disbanded.
The forces which started operations
in Paris with eighteen workers in
June, 1917, and rapidly grew into an
organization of $500 has been grad
ually withdrawn during the last two
years until only eighty were left
Since 1917 the Red Cross has aided
100000 French refugees. treated
,25O. 900 French in hospitals and dis
pensaries. and succored $3.50 French
families. 1t also has subsidized SAT
tuberculosis hospitals. The work has
been effected at cost of $4,000
COO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-06
rAxEs ANp TAx popGERs.

England appears to be succeeding
better than we are in efforts to make
the rich pay the cost of the war. It is
related that one peer, owner of 1900
acres. paid 125 per cent of his income
in taxes. and lives in a corner of his
sixty-room house, with, his gardens
leased to a florist. Cases of payment
of rs to 90 per cent of income in tax
alton are numerous and notorious.
England's population is smaller and
poorer than ours. yet it raises six bill
lion dollars in taxes. Many English
men are said to doubt the wisdom of
the policy. believing that more debt
might be left for payment by poster
ity.
One earl incorporated his estates
and REDUCED his taxes from $1,000 TO
$4,000. There IS a society with
lord at the head of it fer conducting
the defense OF $4,000 taxpayers.
Among its successes are refunds of
unlawful taxes of 500 for taxi
driver, $500 for grocer. $1,000 for a
manufacturer, $4,000 for a landlord
and so on. 1t is stated that there are
only 10 per cent OF arrears. In this
country the taxes on the business of
1917 are not yet all collected and the
arrears run into hundreds of millions
It is held by the New York Times
that It is the fault of the lawmakers
that citizens are put in the position
of seeming to defy the statutes. When
the excess profits and surtaxes were
levied IN 1917, it points out. there
were 1854 taxpayers on incomes of
100000 and over. In 1890 these had
shrunk to s,e49. In 1917 the taxpay-
ers on incomes OF 500 or less num-
bered s.s1O.s94. These were they
whose tax burdens were to be carried
by the rich. taxed punitively. But in
1920 their number had increased to
7.oSs.S24.
A recent cable from Paris described
the resentment against the methods
of the tax inQuisitors. It is natural In
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-06

1t is announced that the federal
debt has been reduced more than a
billion dollars during the past year.
1t is a good showing, in view of the
fact that there also has been a reduc-
ton in taxes. The latter, however,
still are burdensone and in their pres
emit form are a handicap on business.
There is serious need of a simple and
equitable means of raising revenue,
such as the sales tax.