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Arizona republican., 1922-02-12
DAWN-MIST

BY what bewitchment does the
dusk Of night stalk abroad, like
hunting cat, long after sun-up? His
misty fur rubs against your windows.
his paws curl curiously beneath your
caves, his ghostly whiskers poke
through every knothole. lie seems
TO comb soft side against the
branches of the trees. but his back
must stand high toward the very
vault of heaven itself, for the birds.
calling inyisibly far overhead as they
steer by the compass OF the breeze,
dip now and again to sound for ia
miliar landmarks.
More alluring than the most radi-
ant OF dawns are those when you
wait for aurora to send him Sinking
back 10 the lair of shades, for traces
of magic ever mark his footsteps.
Does the air have tang enough for
frost? Then win each twig which
lifts against the sky be diamond
tipped, each shagged tree-trunk be
draped in silver? Will all the
cleaning brilliance OF the world be
set in golden light ere 1t dissolves
in the familiar day? Or VIII each
grass blade be beaded with tiny
drops between ice and dew, and the
checks of the berries blush through
the same pearly powdering? VIII
earth be gemmed with such moon
stones as twilight elves hang out on
summer evenings semi precious,
ephemeral beauty shattered in rain
bow glory by the piercing rays Of the
sun?
You go forth to feel its softness on
your face, to have its myriad sights
and scents and sounds break on your
senses mysteriously out of its gray
heart. win it gradually waver and
vanish, this mist wrath that defies
the day, or will it suddenly leap
among the mountains as the warm
wind from down the valley ruffles its
moist fur. leaving the sunshine as
placid rs after an April shower? For
all these are tricks you recall from
the mists OF memory,
No this does something different
as they always do. 1t stealthlly
creeps past. You never know what
instant you feel the warm light strike
YOU. for your eyes, following where
it whisks its gray tail through the
cleft between the two hilltops
glimpse the spiked antlers of a young
buck. He stands at gaze, startled t.
find himself revealed then VIII ~
mGi-uaut snort takes flight across
crest like the wise quail
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12

ought not 10 take so much time to
keep an apartment in order he
began. But she interrupted wearily.
"A woman's work is never done.
Men can never understand that. Ia
like to be through and dress up. but
somehow 1t seems that / cannot fin
ish. You don't need to help, anyway.
You look tired tonight"
1t was midnight before they got
to bed and the next morning he was
unable to get up. The doctor hur-
riedly summoned, said 1t was only
feverish cold. but that he would have
to remain warmly in bed for a few
days. Ed was very much worried
for he was the assistant bookkeeper
in a mercantile house where absence
was usually the cause of dismissal.
Grace had been bookkeeper before
her marriage and her mother, TO
whgm she had telephoned, promised
to come over and look after Ed. That
left her free to take her husband S
place if they would accept her.
The brusque manager was not very
well pleased. ut is not likely that
I
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12
HOME NURSING AND HEALTH HINTS

water and burn the patient by stick
ing to the skin. So 1t is better to
dissolve it first in cold water and add
it the last thing"
Eyes, mann, and what are the
towels and things for?'
Real Care Versus Luck
Mrs. Dean, wrapping the towels
around the hot water bottle and
placing it in the folded blanket, ex-
blamed that one towel was TO fold
over the edge of the tin bathtub to
lessen the pressure of the rim of the
tub upon the patients legs, because
the bath would have TO last 80 min
utes, which was rather tiring. The
other towel was to dry the feet after
the bath. Warm towels, she eX-
planned were more absorbent The
blanket was to fold over the patients
feet after they were Immersed in the
hot water and the bath thermome ter
was to insure the correct tempera-
ture Of the bath, which, Sic sa.d,
should be between 110 and 11J de-
grees Fahrenheit. The hot-water
bottle was to place near hte patients
feet after the bath.
Proceeding upstairs with the bath,
Hetty marveled. But you dc set
yourself a heap of trouble, ma III,
takin' care Of Miss Ellen. My mother
says it's mostly luck, takin' care of
sick folk. And luck isn't half the
trouble!"
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12
aELLS AND BATHS
81 M Jessie Leitch

.r -, sorry" murmured the pa
,o,lt for at least the sixth tune tnae
r,nrning as the bell rolled OIL Tue
ladeide table and under the peu' 80.
tIey sister, engaged in caring IoI
~. emerged from beneath the peo
~ lsa,sontlv, clutching the bell. IheIe
grvs '.aro set expression about her mouen ou,,l
.be went into the sewing ROOM.
lI3,,s1 ~ she returned she carried a ioils
" ~ ne ~ ribbon, to which she tiea tle
LII III with almost unnecessary LII ILL.,
oss 80 The other end oI the dipTbi, Tba
'as leas tied 10 the head OF the pea. ne s
om % tben hung within easy reacn cn,,id "a
pen E sicI woman and where II eoGte its
Wy nossibly assume again the 'i''''9
lot ,Ie posstpii sesInsive collar button. -
9I NV elle dear, I'm going down ), 70 .
,re ND"' your mustard fool-pa'n' - !
oleP' ltd Mrs. Dean, starting toward the
loor. 80. oF Questions
on tnra foot-bath? Don't have IL 700 700
nus'e, LIN n Won? VIII it blister my
ls, lol, o., vailed the sick woman al'et el,
leet anner w of sick folk who ASK
ne ne questions which cannot Oe an
'r,' I,.arod satisfactorily. 49,. ooa for
W. M indeed. Because lts so11 ~ az
certainly not said Mrs, Des,li
ot trire incoheren.ly, trying TO a'
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12
TheDug-Out
BY JOHN BRECK


II some fairy should present the
coyote with the magic cloak of in
visibility l doubt If he would find IL
much Of an improvement on the one
he wears. only a bad fairy would
offer him such assistance in pursuit
of his nefarious ends, and her power
wanes at cock crow, the very time
when old Nom Natures properly be-
gine. What he would prefer is some
thing TO conceal his game when he
steps out of her precinct and into
your chicken coop.
That is almost your only chance
of seeing him. He can nip up
bunny or a wood rat almost under
your nose and make off without be-
ing noticed. Their camouflage is al
most as good as his own, and he is
far too crafty to let a patch of while
belly fur CLEAN in the sun. But when
you spy a limp white hen dancing off
at a. dog trot you hunt madly for your
gun.
You never find it in time; by what
intuition does he always manage to
take YOU unawares? Once you have
him for a neighbor you rather fancy
he spends considerable time study
ing you. You get a distinct sense OF
being spled upon; each rock and bush
seems TO have a satiric pair OF eyes
taking in your COINS ana comlnGs $
about your home, the more irritating
if YOU cannot retaliate in kind. For
only few brief weeks in all the year
does he own such thing.
In the hungry winter he may PICK
no a partner on the principle that
two can hunt better than one. When
this propinquity ripens into love
(some more of Mo mNature's inVet-
crate matchmaking), he and his mate
excavate a dugout TO hide their
whelps through the period OF infant
indiscretion. Full in the open 1t is,
yet you will walk past, unseeins'
where it's door gapes in the shade"
cast by bush or stone.
BY one circumstance only can you
even suspect it; he never hunts near
home; Where every third gopher hole
bears the mark of his Investigations
YOU ned waste no time on your own.
But where no vandal paw disturbs
an overpeaceful hunting ground you
are getting warm. If you do find
him?
Then you know where he lay gos-
sipfng in the morning sun. You see
how he came TO point derisive nose
at vour dwelling, somewhere in PLAIN
view. and murnur to his mate,
"These men! Why build lairs blind
COW could not miss and with pam
trails leading up to them an /.
About those little pigs-I didn't waste
my claws trying to dig In last nlghI'
knew they'd be out this morning.
Just al soon as that fellow and his
team get over the top of that hll IL
bring you a''~
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12
WANT ADS OFFER BIG JOBS

OF all the mediums available to
you in locating openings for services
that you can render by far the most
immediate is the help wanted" ad-
vertisements of the daily newspa-
pers. The avenue is immediate be-
cause here you know definitely that
somewhere somebody requires serv-
ices that you are ready to offer.
Misled by those whose information
is derived from fancy rather than
from fact. many have been led to
believe that good openings cannot be
located through 'help wanted" ad-
vertisements because, as they have
been informed, good positions are
Not advertised.
Nothing is further from the truth.
1 have tested this source in my
ob-hunting days and for clients. and
during this experience / have in
serted advertisements calling for men
and women of large caliber with
salaries ranging from $4,000 to $685.
600 per annum.-Jacob Penn in Les
lies Weekly.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12

she chose with no fear of criticism-to
be in her sunshiny home instead OF
sitting with a green eye shade to help
her to write in the tiny figures with
meticulous care-all these things
count to a woman, and Grace decided
TO overhaul her system so that Ed
should never again come in tired out
from the office confinement to find
a complaining wife with leftover work
that he felt impelled TO do.
"Heven't you made a good many
changes Grace2" queried Ed as he
watched the deft movement OF his
wife as she brisl<ly disposed OF the
dinner work.
Yes. l found that / was using three
movements where one would suffice
that / was allowing my work to run
me. / tell you, Ed. il men didn't use
their heads in business there wouldnt I
be any homes to keep up. | wouldn't
have believed there was so much TO
the mere hanging Of forks and
spoons"
A few minutes later they were
strolling down the street, taking deep
breaths Of the scented June air. and
he turned suddenly toward his wife.
Forks and spoons have contributed q
lot toward our comfort" he said. j
feel like a millionaire when we can
be out by 1880 at night, and you look
so much more contented, too"
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12
II YOU ARE WELL BRED

You will not Issue invitations 10
ehouse party" for "a few days"
Rather. it is proper to state the
length Of time the guests are ex-
.pected to stay.
you Will assume nothing when en-
.oss,;ng q shouse party" 1t is poor
tsste s m to appear wealthier, better born
~. in better social position than you
really are. - - hofore
an entertainment in your home that
vo, may be free to devote your tune
You win not give prizes at caro-
,artv that are so handsome as 70 pe
iovefed for themselves, but only TO
make the little victory more con-
You win never lose your temper .I
when You are the loser at a cara
party. ofa. 70 a mistake
made by another participant In a
card game.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12
Fail Right
BY n. ADDINGToN BRUCE
Author Of Personality" pevecpmsn ETC.
(copyriaht 1922, by The Associated NswspaPersf

Copyright, ASSOCIATED NeWsP~Ps'sI
Long ago -.
he compes him to learn bitter
necessities rather than to the
others
for carving Of the finest
outlines children Bitter and crushing failures
the OF new ana quhe
And another
in nasmuch
after
these give expression principle Of
failure defeat Is
should then be forget It,
For consciousness with general thing
end stimulated face the fact Of failure
calmly and to dispassionay why have faied?
OF all should put to them
profit from failure they might
usually tsto short
appecay this IN order
avoid the future
continue the mistakes tnat nave
brought matter how earnestly they
failure
they without the aid Of the h
faiur should given them
themselves to suffer failure all their
they would learn TO fal
their Fellows by achieving
Of truly
Tor all or
Ihat
largely to the crcu
stance that overwhem them but set them thinking
destructive self
contempt OF sef-pty.
else one should point to
learn how to This truly be said to
the
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12
FORKS AND SPOONS
THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY STORY
COMPLETE NOVELETTE,

dishes that were used for evegy meal.
Tired as she was Grace got up and
walked around looking at the icebox
and the place for the potatoes where
she had always had to pull out a
wooden box to stand on to get the
potatoes out. This waste of strength
no purpose.
Ed was at home for three days.
Grace picked up the new ways rapidly
and kept her husbands ledges in q
sufficiently satisfactory manner. but
behind her earnest desire to keep her
husbands mind free from worry and
hold the position, there was very
riot of new ideas. She realized. for
the first time, the pleasure of being a
home maker TO arrange her work as
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12
Marriage

Woman-s trip into the business
world usually is an excursion. Per-
manent sojourn generally is prevent
ed by Cupid.
How long should a girl remain IN
business before marrying?
About five years. advises Profess
sor Ralph L. Powers, Of the Uni
versity of California.
Women in business are going to
college-training themselves TO be
better home managers.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12

A first class highway to connect
Muscle Shoals with Atlanta Is start
ed by Southern chambers of com
merce. They are anticipating great
industrial development II Henry
Fords offer for Muscle Shoals IS ac-
cepted by the government.
This gives you GLIMPSE into tne
future when the development of
America will follow water power
protects, Just as the building up or
the West after the Civil war fol-
lowed railroad construction.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12
Married

Can you explain this? The census
reports that 21,849266 males and
21,31S,933 females. 10 Of age or older,
in America are married.
Do a little subtraction and II ap-
pears that 530,3S3 women must have
two husbands each.
Error? No. The situation is, that
about half million foreign-bor
American residents haven't brought
their wives from the old country.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12
Female

In our country 2,0s0,242 more males
than females, counting everyone from
babies up.
But figures on people 10 years or
older show the males leading by
only 1,743,149.
In youth. mortality must be higher
among boys than girls.
The surplus of women explains
why so many of them have gone into
the business world. All women pre-
fer marriage and the home in their
sub conscious minds.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12

Amundsen, discoverer of the South
Pole, is getting ready for a trip TO
the North Pole.
He will fly around the top OF the
world, taking moving pictures from
his two airplanes.
A wireless telephone will Keep MIN
in touch with his family back nome.
Polar exploration used to be the
pinnacle of romance. Soon mechani-
cal inventions will finish eliminating
the romance and make the trip about
as thrilling as going into the cellar
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12
Sex

Professor Julian S. Huxley. Brit
ish scientist, predicts that some time
within this century science will en-
able parents to have a boy or a girl
child, whichever they prefer.
That day will never come.
If science discovered how 70 con-
troll sex before birth, nature imme-
diately would raise up a counteract-
ing influence
The proportion Of males to females
has definite and wise purpose in
natures system of biology. We may
not know that purpose. But we do
know that natural laws are beyond
mans control.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12
Just Between Ourselves
BY DELLA E. STEWART

find out the right way. but easier to
learn the folly in the wrong one.
Isn't #? OF course. so trying we
make mistakes. but we learn. never
theless. do we not? And the man or
woman who never makes honest mis-
takes never makes much else, either.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12

In this world we do or we don't, we
are or we aren't. That is all there
is to it in the final analysis. All
our reasons for not being or not do
ing, all our excuses, amount to noth-
ing at the end.
In a certain very warm country
they have this proverb: ut is easier
10 sit than to stand, and easier 10 ne
down than to sit" No one could
deny the truth of this-in such a cll-
mate But in ours it's different III
were inclined to think the opposite,
we might try sitting on a snow pile
or lying down on am ice bank Tor
proof.
1t may seem hard at first the
thought of accomplishing something
worth while. We may need some
thing to stir our latent ambition to
wind up the hidden spring OF energy
inside our brains-for we all have
one. But persevering In the attempt,
we're sure to find it pays. Actual
accomplishment OF something brings
not only a feeling of satisfaction Dut
the possibility of greater things;
1t may seem easier, ana propaply
is. to forego striving and settle down
to take life as it is. with the least eX-
ertion possible TO fairly decent exist
ence. Why bother with striyings
after something better? Isn't life to
II is. The question is. which gives
the greatest, most lasting enjoyment;
Settling down in a sluggish state
caring for nothing more than present
comfort or branching out. climbing
nm after new views and greater
achievements? Discontent-this Is
dangerous. But uncontent-Lhat
points the way. Why not take III
What fame and fortune it would
bring a man if he could write an uni
versal formula of success-an un-
failing panacea for the mental wor-
ries of mankind. Many have tried
and are still trying. But In the
process each runs up against the
blank wall of differing personalities
and the unremovable obstacle OF
varying circumstances.
one delightfully."- impractical ad-
wiser suggests, in order TO bring sue
cess. that one should keep his eyes
on the stars, his ear to the ground
and his nose to the griudstone. But
how to do all this at the same time
suggests a physical contorton De
vond the power Of the average men
ta1itv to imagine. or the average
physical possibility to compass, And
So each formula carries with it its
weak points.
It's very seldom that wholesale ad-
vice counts for much. Its results are
in proportion to the facility with
which it may be given. Giving ad-
vice to others is generally a most
futile thing. Either their minds are
already made up as to their future
course. or they resent the well-meant
suggestions of the adviser
It's much casie. ID really learn hN
ones own experience. Not easier 10
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12
Farmers

Farmers in the corn belt last year
received less than five cents an hour
for their labor and the labor of their
wives and children. claims a speaker
at the national agricultural confer
ence.
He Gays farmers are asking Why
they have to pay 400 bushels OF corn
for a wagon they used to buy for
$50 bushels?
why must they pay $50 bushels
Of corn for a gangplow which form
erly cost 1875 bushels?
"Or 15O bushels for a suit OF
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12

the s n a I I from
the pit. Mike re-
marked t o h 3
coInpanion:
"Sure, I'd like
to see the men
who put I h o S e
great Jumps Of
coal in the skips!
T h G v m Il S I be
fat.,.fhlA cf,.r.stv~ffs
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12

Crowds are flocking to the movie
thriller. Ten Nights In Bar Room,
resurrected from old-time melo-
drama.
Some spectators would prefer
"Ten Bar Rooms in a Night"
This film win have real historical
value a few generations from now.
1t will be a ghost from the past, lur-
ing an awed public, like the relics
of former opium dens that make
tourists cape in Chinatown.
The saloon fades into history, to
ioin the hop ioint.'
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12
YOU AND [

clothes which formerly cost so bush
els, or SO bushels for shoes that
formerly lost nine bushels?
Corn farmer, hit hardest by de-
preston, has put his thinking cap
on. He sees this truth:
The dollar lies, as a common meas
ure Of values. What you can buy
with your money, not how much you
get, is what really counts. The snort
cut to economic truth, is TO think In
terms of commodities instead OF
fluctuating dollars.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12
1 lax

Twenty three per cent of the in
comes Of the English people is being
taken for national taxes
If Americans were taxed the same
rate, the national debt would be paid
off in two years.
Sometimes we forget how well off
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12

HOW are you
getting on at your
new placer" ask
ed Mrs. Bifkins.
Very ell,
thank YOU" was
the reply.
"I'm glad TO
hear it," remark
ed Mrs. Bifkins.
''Y our employer is
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12

WIlklCH . = v = ! a. 4
h u n d I e d words
too many. In or
der to make the
story fit the space
at his disposal
the last few par
agraphs were con-
q Q n 8 @ d into a
single sentence.
This is the way
~ rpa IL.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12

n certain ldncn
fore IN a n w h G
would give him 4
job. He went u
to n man in tn
first village h (
came TO.
"IIave you seer
a tall fellow witt
a dark b @ ar(
hanging arounc
hare 9fi he "a qlxqfi
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12

one sunday NOR
ming. In tn e
evening when he
ascended the pull
pit he announced:
II wish TO re-
m in d you that
there is a col
lie ction at the
close OF the serv-
ice. The text /
r
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12

tree to G ! IN b .
W h en- he came
face TO face with
the irate owner.
who had with him
a ferocious dog.
Where are you
going ?" demand =
ed this unwelcome
individual.
Back" said
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12

hereE' he asked. eS, said the
man; day before yesterday" You're
sure?' asked the Englishman. "Oh,
yes, had hold OF the rope"
Mrs. BliflSins met Mary Smith,
whom she had recommended TO q
neighbor for a situation.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12

we are in America. Think OF pay
ing % cents of every 81 of your pay,
to the tax collector.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12
Copyright. 1927. by W. wernsro
"T listen to this. Grace"

listen to this, Grace"
Grace put her head around the
kitchen door and looked in at her
husband who was reading the paper
beside the dining room table. Il
have to hurry with this fruit, Ed;
the berries are a bit soft for jam,
she said.
I'n help you pick them over he
said resignedly. Grace seemed to be
always behindhand with her work and
never had an instant to chat eve
nings. Always mending garments that
had to be worn the next day and
consequently must be done, or as at
present, putting UP jam and pre-
serves.
"They are picked over and ready
to 20 on" she sighed. She was very
tired and she would have liked to
go to the park where there was a
concert.
Ed got up and cleared the table.
TELL you, Grace, you ought to put
some system into your work. 1t
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12

"Von Berken took a small glass OF
whiskey, his hat, his departure. no
notice to his pursuers, revolver out
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12

Don't be siny!" said his friend
Pat. why, it's that dark down
there they can't see what they're
liftingl"
A Scottish minister discovered n
trouser button in the collection plate
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12
LAUGH WITH US

Two Irishmen We're being shown
round a coal mine for the first time.
When they saw the coal coming UP
Arizona republican., 1922-02-12

very kind, and you can't do too
much for her"
Il don't mean TO. maam." replied
Mary.
Willie, aged six, was going through
an orchard looking FOR the easiest