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The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-04-29
POSTAL IMPROVEMENT
week IS OBSERVED
May I Sees Inaugurated First
General Campaign Of
Kind In Service.


without tue rosta' service, business
would languish In day, and be at a
standstill in week. Public opinion
would die Of dry rot. Sectional hatred
or prejudice only would flourish, and
marrow. mIndeduess thrive.
II 4. tho ,,ooa.t d,u,,nct,v. hu.,nas.
:, ~ 80 ~, =. -. =. ~ !.
."e WI" ~" :. so"e' "ea'e' W '"'
'n"e'n'os' i"'eres'S OF xreu'e' NUN
bef OF men ana women than my other
Institution on earth. No private busl-
ness. however widespread. touches 50
many lives SO often or sharply; no
church reaches Into 10 many souls,
-autter, m many nu,se. bs. an MANY
human beings denendent IN II, min.
,.,-.,,o,.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-04-29
Home Town
!4Itlelps&A
COLONIAL DESIGN ATTRACTIVE
Architects Tee Often, However, Do
Net Apply Its ostaiIs
With Courage.

The average house OF COLONIAL de-
sign, however attractive may be It's
general ensemble Of graceful form.
consistent detail and pleasing color,
Is, a. q rule. not picturesque: that
Is, according to the common conception
Of term which implies more than II
mOdicum Of individuality and Informal
ity. Indeed, In the design of the ma
jOrity Of new Colonial houses, the key.
note ID almost invariably q rather rigid
formaiIty-and formality Is never the
ideal foundation upon which to rea'
a picturesque superstructure.
The low. rambling, English country
houses, the steeproofed. turre'ed
French chateaux, the characteristic
chaiets Of Switzerland and the low
ro0fed homes Of Italy have usually
an indeanable element Of picturesque
ness, undoubtedly attributable In large
measure to their pronounced infor.
mality Of composition, as well as to Y
perfect adaptability to their respective
locations. Countless American homes
are, of course, also picturesque: never
theless the average American house
to which tile possession OF picturesque
qualities may truthfully be ascribed
ID, as rule. replica after some
foreign prototype. rather than an out
growth of that Colonial style which
Is. perhaps, our most nntionalistic
phase Of architecture.
The only apparent reason for this
phenomenon must lie surely In a lack
Of courage, on the part OF the archi.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-04-29
Many Homo, Zoo croy.d.d.

Many people have an unnecessary
amount Of hangings and draperies.
ornaments, knick-knacks, and other
dust hnrborers about their houses :;
rooms have too many ornamental
holdings, books. crannies, and cor
ners about them and all these harbor
dirt and dust. and time will not allow
them to be cleaned except on quite
rare occasions. which may he annual
sly at the time called .'spring clean
Ing Carpets may be very well In
their way. and make room more cozy.
but 1t Is certain they are not so clean
~ as linoleum or stained and polished
fonrs. with few rugs or mats placed
where required, and easily taken up
and freed from dust.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-04-29
Catarrh

Catarrh is a local disease, greatly
Influenced by constitutional con-
ditions. HALLS CATARRH
MEDICINE is a Tonic and Blood
Purifier. By cleansing the blood and
building up the System, HALLS
CATARRH MEDICINE restores
normal conditions and allows Ma
ture to do its work.
All Druggists. Circulars free.
F. ]. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-04-29
HUMANIZlNC THE
POSTAL SERVICE

"There Is no unimportant person or
part of our service. It IL total of
human units and their cooperation IL
the key to Its success. In Its last
analysis. postal duties are accommo-
dations performed for our neighbors
and friends and should be so regarded,
rather than as hired service per-
formed for an absentee employer
Postmaster General Hubert Work.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-04-29
HERE COMES A s1aAneERl

Lets make our post ONCE look neat.
Mr.. Postmaster Stralghten up the
rural letter box, Mr.. Farmer. Tidy
up some, Mr.. Rural Carrier. First
Impressions are lasting Maybe Mr..
Stranger, taking notice of these i'm
provements, will come back. bringing
you benefits. Stnrt these with POS
TAIL IMPROVEMENT WEEK" May
1-8
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-04-29
COURTESY

It sticks in human relations like
postage stamps on letters. The
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT ex-
poets it to be used by its postmasters
and employees in dealing with the
public.
Help them in It's use beginning
with POSTAL IMPROVEMENT
WEEK, May 10, 1922.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-04-29
M1m1ux *.

How do you expect the Postal Clerk
to know whether you mean Trinidad,
California, or Trinidad, Coloradof
ALWAYS SPELL OUT THE NAME
OF THE STATE IN FULL IN TIE
ADDRESS
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-04-29

PERCHERON STALLION FOR SALE
Color, Black; weight 100; coming
six years old; broke to work. Fine
animal. Call or address A Dixon.
Meeker. a8
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-04-29
The Road to Happiness.

You must keep well II you wish to
be happy. When constipated take
one or two Of Chamberlain Tablets
Immediately after supper. They cause
a gentle movement of the bowels.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-04-29
FOR sALE-INCUBAToR

One Incubator, 1870 egg size; one
Incubator, $50 egg size; one stove,
Hoover, 800 size. Prices reasonable.
Inquire Of H. A. Fay, Meeker. m4tf
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-04-29
A oLDLAND 4 co.

One Rambouelett Buck for SALE o
TRADE. Apply to T Baker. ab-29
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-04-29

s'vRAYED--A red heifer, three
years old; branded 2 on left ribs.
Finder please notify Dan Lohmsn.
Axial, Colo. $500 Reward.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-04-29

BROMO-FEBRIN will cure your
cold. Try 1t. At STRHLKEs.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-04-29

On account of bad roads, Miss Arm
stead with the Gossard Corsets was
delayed. Will announce her coming
In fer
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-04-29

Well. Uneae Joe Cannon got enough
Of congress at last.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-04-29

Yes those who have the most tenn
per frequently lose 1t.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-04-29
FOR SAN DIEGO LAWNS

The sidewalks Of San Diego, a.,
are equipped. at Intervals, with hose
connections placed near the eurbs, for
the convenience Of property owners in
sprinklino the sidewalk or lawn.-Pop-
uiar Mechanics magazine.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-04-29

DIR. ]. p. Riddle, specialist In dis
eases Of the eye, ear, nos and throat.
Glasses fitted. Glenwood Springs. tt
Indigestion and Constipation.
"Prior to using Chamberlain Tab
let's, 1 suffered dreadfuily from indig-
estion. Nothing ate agreed with
me and lost flesh and ran down In
health. Chamberlain Tablets
strengthened my digestion and cured
mo of constipation" writes Mrs.
George Stroup, Solvsy, N. Y.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-04-29

You can contract Q cold at any sea
son. Check and cure 1t BY using
sTREHLKE's BRoMO-FEBRIN.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-09
Editorial Echoes

Wireless telephony is only in it's infancy,
and it is impossible to predict how far it
will go. There is one very important service
that it will render, and that is to permit peo-
pie living in country districts to enjoy music
and lectures and addresses delivered in city
centers. Fine concerts and operas will be
made accessible over wide ranges of terri
tory by wireless telephone. People living in
remote homes will sit in their living rooms
and hear masterpieces Of music played in
the big city concert halls. Political orators
will have messages conveyed over the coun-
try through radio instruments. Thus one more
step will be taken to break down the isola-
ton of rural localities, and people who are
a long distance from their neighbors will be
in close touch with the world OF activity in
centers of population.
Such methods of communication must be
a boon to invalids and shut-ins and elderly
people, who are cut off by inability to attend
public gatherings. The wireless telephone will
bring into their secluded rooms the activity
of the outside world and their life will seem
less limited. Such folks will enjoy church
services without stirring from their homes.
A development like this is not merely a
scientific marvel, but it will do wonders to
keep people in touch with the movements of
the times.-St. Joseph News-Press (Ind.)
Gone are the good old days Of 1919, when
man could take two hours for lunch and
knock off at $3.50 in the afternoon for golf
and other violent exercise.
1t was observed at that time that private
secretaries had more to do with actual run
ming of the average business than the boss
himself. About all some of the bosses had to
do was to sign letters and checks. All of
them appeared to be continually Sin confer
ence."
About eight million women are gainfully
employed in American industry In thousands
of offices, with the title of private secretary,
they have been handling the wheel The i'm
portance of the part played by women in in
dustry cannot be over-estimated. But the
greatest business ability in America is in the
home. If the average corporation head had
managed his business with as much economy
and system as his wife managed his kitchen
and general household the sheriff would be
getting an occasional breathing spell. Woman
is thriftier and more far-sighted than man.
After alls said and done, Atlas-who holds
up the worlds a woman.-Rock Island
Argus (Dem.).
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-09
VIM Women Talk

~ HAT scientists sometimes rush in
where angels fear to tread is evidenced
by the hardihood with which a British
psychologist now ventures to explain why
women are so much more talkative than
men. (Pray observe, dear dame or damsel,
that it is HE, not we, who dares assume that
women ARE the more talkative). Not that
they have more to say, nor that they even
think they have more to say, accounts for
feminine loquacity, in the opinion Of this
savant He charges it all to "Broca's convo-
luton" that wondrous fold of the human
brain wherein is centered the control, or
should one say the production, Of speech. In
woman, avows the Professor, this convolu-
ton is larger than In men, wherefore: "Her
speech-making factory being larger, her out
put of words is necessarily So" And by way
of Illuminating his theory he remarks,
History is full of records of taciturn men,
but holds few If any references to taciturn
women"
This latter observation, come to think Of
it, seems soundly made. Whoever heard OF
Mary the Silent? The Sphinx, it is true, was
fashioned in woman's image; but that was
in most ancient Egypt; and, besides, what
was, or is, more of riddle than the Sphinx?
1t was the colossal irony Of the Pharaoh
arClSlS CnaC represented ner as uOlulHS d Sc
cret unspoken--that quite Impossible she"
If it is light-minded cynic whom Shake
speare makes say, "To be slow in speech is
woman's only virtue" it was his adored
Cordelia whose voice was lever soft, gentle,
and low: an excellent thing in woman" Let
the betrousered scribe acknowledge how
ever, that of all garrulous, gadding, gall
linaceously voluble things beneath the wink
ing stars it is company of men absorbed
in talking politics, whether in national
convention where they shout themselves
hoarse without being heard above the din
and cackie of their fellows, or in the village
juntas that drawl away long summer after
Moons around the grocery checker board
That muchly married king to- whom the
book Of Proverbs is additionally ascribed
gives bit of counsel that we all may profit
ably ponder. even fool,' says he, when
he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and
he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man
Of understanding"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-09
SYMPATHY

that is the kind of blight that unnumbered
mothers wishing on their children by
their maudlin pity.
We have been in the way of clarifying
mothers sympathy that never failed, and
that was always ready to kiss the hurt
place, and make it we'll, but in reality
mothers sympathy has done far more evil
than it has done good. 1t is responsible
for nine-tenths of the failures, and slackers,
and divorces in the world,
For it isn't sympathy we need when we
come to the hard shedding in life. What we
need then is brace. We don't need some
body to cry over u.s. We need somebody
to stiffen up our backbone. We don't need
someone who will mingle their tears with
ours, and make us sorrier than ever for
ourselves. We need someone who will give
us the strength and the grit to fight out of
our difficulties.
The mother who really helps her children
is not the one who tells them how cruel it
is that they have to work instead of being
loafers and speaders. It is the mother who
tells them how lucky they are to have a
good job, and who keeps their interest and
enthusiasm aroused, and who is a spur in
the side of their ambition. She doesnt
weep over them because she can't give them
automobiles, and diamonds, and trips to
Europe. eff you haven't got what you
want" she says to them, ego get it. There's
and industry can't achieve in this country"
The woman who helps her children doesn't
salt them down in her tears because they
haven't got what some millionaires child
has. She doesn't waste their time and spoil
their dispositions by filling them with en-
vious longings. She holds before them the
men and women who are famous and rich,
the headliners in our country today, and
she tells them that these men and women
were, almost every one of them, born poor
and obscure, that they had to fight for every
bit Of education that they got, and to make
their own opportunities She makes her
children feel that what others have done
they can do, and that poverty that forces
people to make the most of themselves is
oftener blessing to the young than a mis-
fortune.
And it is mothers sympathy that is first
aid to divorce. 1t is because many a girl
knows that she can always run home to
mother and be wept over and pitied as a
poor, prosecuted martyr that she turns quit
ter when she finds out that marriage means
duty and sacrifice.
Mothers sympathy \ J virtue that leans
to vices side. It is because women weep
over their children so much that they have
to weep for them so often.
Copyright, 1922, by the N~Aeeler Syndi-
cate, Incl
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-09
A FIFTY-FIFTY PROPOSITION

The original Of Peter Dunne's immortal
character, "Mr. Dooley,'' kept a saloon in
Chicago much frequented by newspaper men.
He was born wit, and in his way-and a
very good way it was, too-a philosopher
and student of human nature in it's vary
ing aspects.
One vintry evening as he perched behind
his bar in friendly conversation with two Of
his regular patrons there entered a so-called
journalist whose reputation as a ready bor-
rover and poor payer was more than city
wide.
''Uncle JOHN he said briskly, "Im detail
ed to an out-of-town assignment and I'm a
little short of cash--need some coin for trav-
cling expenses Slip me tenspot, will you?
I'll hand it back to you sure on pay night
along with the rest of the small loans I've
had off OF you lately"
The old mans face gave no sign Of his
real feelings. He lifted his broad bulk, wad-
died to the damr-r, extracted from the till
a bill and without word passed it across
the bar to the promising man.
The latter, murmuring his thanks, started
to cram it in his pocket but took a second
glance at the greenback.
Hold on here, Uncle JOHN he said. 81
needed ten bones and this bill is only a
fver'
That's all right, ne son. said Uncle
John: sit makes the thing come out even.
| what do you mean, makes the thing come
out even?"
"Why, five lose and five you lose,' said
! Uncle John.
| Copyright, 1922 by the Central Press Asso-
| ciation)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-09
THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA
Bv DR.. Frank Crane

Emile Amayet, director of industries in
Burma, some time ago reported the follow
ing:
at have succeeded in photograph1ng a
marine monster of the order 'cephalopoda,
which has beens thrown up on this coast.
This mammoth of the Indian ocean meas
ured when alive nearly 80 meters in length
and weighed about 80 tons. No one has
vet been able to identify or to classify 1t
scientifically The natives, frightened by its
fabulous dimensions, have been cutting 1t
up with hatchets for twelve days. What is
this animal? Is it the devil of the deep
sea which, according to the legend, used to
attack banks and drag them to the bottom
of the ocean? It's flesh is as hard as india
rubber. 1t is probably several centuries old
and rare descendant from ante-diluv1an
times when the marine fauna was of the
most monstrous type"
Is there some truth, after all, in the
legend of the sea serpent?
At any rate, it is much more in the realm
Of probability that grotesque and unknown
monsters habit the deep places of the ocean
than it is that spooks, friendly and other
wise, wander among men.
1t is thing we do not realize, that
there is more life in the ocean than in
the air.
The surface of the sea is a great cur
tain, which conceals from us a vast world,
teeming with living creatures.
We catch a great many Of them and
destroy and devour them; but then they
catch great many of us, and probably
enjoy eating us as much as we enjoy eat
ing them.
The vast depths of the mighty waters
have not been fully explored, and it is quite
within the realm of possibility that there
are jabberwoks and gazoozlums hidden down
there, whose acquaintance we have not yet
made.
In fact, human life is surrounded by re-
gions that trail off into mystery.
Within us, and about us, is the innumer-
able company Of microbes For all the in
habitants of the microscopic world have not
yet been listed. Above us are the regions
of the air, and more than one story has been
told Of palpable monsters that Turk there
and threaten too-daring aviators.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-09
CENSORED TOMBSTONES

Y "A - ",
wv sorship is now being carried to the
very grave. The latest thing in CEN
sorS, according to a serious-minded trade
journal which keeps UP with tombstone
news, is censor Of epitaphs. This official
has been appointed in an unnamed English
village and entrusted with the job of see
ing that graveyard solemnity is not violated
by flippant quips and epigrams on the tomb
stones.
English Wears for a number of years have
supervised to some extent tombstone senti-
ments. It may seem strange that now, when
epitaphs are no longer INDUCED in by poets
or pOetasters, there should be any great need
for special guardian of tombstone dignity.
But the dangers, it seems, are in the cpl
taphs which have been perpetrated in the
past. Graved on old, moss-grown, tottering
stones, the verses of century or two ago
oftentimes express sentiments regarding
death and the dead that are flippant, irrev-
erent and in short, unsuited for public
perusal in this highly regulated age
Our attitude toward tombstones undoubt-
eddy has changed. 1t is not so much that we
think more solemnly of death; but rather
that we think less of it. The churchyard is
seldom the graveyard any longer. Few people
think of visiting the cemeteries outside the
city when they set out for a Sunday after
noon stroll. Decidedly, the dead are not SO
much with us as they were a few centuries,
or even few generations, back.
Tombstones Topics of Talk
Then, tombstones were live topic. A man
expected to have an epitaph written about
him, and if there was any fear in his mind
that his relatives would not make good job
of it, he wrote the label for his stone him
self or hired professional to write one.
Ben Jonson, Milton and Pope wrote cpl
taphs. Shakespeare wrote his own epitaph in
four-line verse of warning to any who
might wish to disturb his bones. To dash off
witty epitaph for friend or enemy was a
parlor trick with which kings and courtiers
whiled away dull afternoon. '.
Thus when Charles II casually asked
Rochester to write his epitaph, the courtier
thought minute and produced the follow
ing now famous lines:
Here lies our mutton-eating king,
Whose word no man relied on;
Who never said foolish thing,
And never did wise one.
The king took no offense, but set his brain
to work and composed second stanza:
If death could speak, the king would say,
In justice to his crown,
His acts they were the minister's
His words they were his own.
Even if a man was inadvertently mis-
placed, he had to have tombstone and an
epitaph, as is shown by the following in an
English churchyard:
| Underneath this sod lies John Round
Who was lost in the sea and never was found
Rhyme or Free Verse
Epitaphs were correct style and everybody
| had them. Those individuals whose outstand
| ing deeds and characteristics could not be
| squeezed into rhymed couplets were glorious
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-09
DOROTHY DIX'S TALKS =

n MONG my friends is woman who has
~ a family Of husky, handsome children,
n alert and alive in mind and body, and
plentifully endowed with what new England
people call faculty" They have had good
high school education, and in every way are
unusually competent young people.
But they have to make their own way in
the world. They have to work, and their
poor, foolish mother weeps great gobs of
tears over their unhappy fate.
"Just to think that we could not send my
poor Tom to college," she walls. 1T cannot
keep the tears out Of my eyes when I think
of him toiling away in an office while John
Doe, around the corner, who hasn't got half
of Toms intelligence, is at Harvard, and has
his own automobile, and lovely room, and
belongs to all the most expensive clubs, and
goes to New York almost every weekend.
"And it just breaks my heart to see my
darling Marian starting out so cheerfully to
that dreadful old office every day, when
other girls not half so pretty and attractive
as she is, have nothing to do but to buy
fine clothes, and go to parties, and don t
have to get up until noon.
"And think of my angel Nettie having to
worry all day teaching in that beastly school
with those horrid children, and my precious
little Sammy actually having to punch a
time clock at seven o'clock in the morning.
Oh, it is cruel, cruel! But my children have
one comfort. They always know that they
fail to tell them every day how pity them,
and how hard I feel that their lot isl
Now that woman is one of the fanatically
devoted mothers who would cheerfully be
chopped in pieces if she thought that her
children relished minced meat. She would die
a thousand deaths before she would volun-
tarily do her children any harm and she
really thinks that she is giving them the
most precious gift in the world when she
breaks over their feet the alabaster box of a
mothers love and sympathy.
In reality, however, she is doing them the
greatest wrong that malice itself could in
vent, for she is doping them with her SYM
pathy. She is paralyzing their energies and
their ambitions. She is inoculating them with
the virus of self-pity, than which there is no
deadlier poison in the world.
No human being who is sorry for himself
ever does anything but sit down and shed
futile tears. Nobody who hates work ever
does good work. Nobody who isn't proud of
his job and glad that he has got it, ever
keeps it long. Nobody who hasn't joy in the
race, and who doesn't put pep and enthu-
siasm into it ever wins out. To make young
ster feel that work is curse, that poverty
is a misfortune, that he is degraded by be-
ginning at the bottom Of the ladder instead
Of at the top, and that fate has served him
scurvy trick by not putting him into the
idle rich class, is to foredoom to failure. Yet