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Arizona republican., 1922-04-30

that sat in your lap to hear the Jack
the Giant Killer story. and wore flan-
mel wrapped round his neck when he
had sore throat, and rode a sied
painted red, named Victor. But you
didn't tell me he was ever nauglitys;
only that he grew up into a big man
and went away to live on the other
side of the mountain"
A small and very dirty finger
pointed out the open door to a misty
blue purple mountain range lifting
against a sapphire sky.
You haven't told me about your
birthday" said Miss Pembroke alb
ruptly, the mischievous twinkle gone
out of her face-a queer look in the
eyes that had wistruIly followed the
pointing finger to the distant noun
tains.
There isn't anything to tell,' said
Charles Edward laconically. II had
a birthday, and now I'm a big little
boy"
but you got some presents? At
least you had a birthday cake?"
Whats a birthday kind of cake ?"
You don't mean to tell me that
you never saw one?' cried Miss Penn
brooke incredulously. "a big, beau
tiful cake all white and shiny with
icing. and dear cunning little lighted
eandles-a candle for each year
bossoming out Of its top like lovely
fairy flowers"
Again he shook his head ST guess
my mother isn't home often enough
TO make a dressed-up cake like that
he remarked sagely. Then he eagerly
added, When he was a little boy,
did Sam Hill have a birthday cake
with icing and candles and every
thing?n
mot only when Sam Hill was a
little boy - sighed Ann Pembroke,
man as we'll This will be the first
birthday since he came into my lie
that I haven't made him one and
lighted the candles with my own
hands. That's the reason giving up
my usual visit to him and Camilla
this summer is such a disappofnt-
ment. The poor boy will have to go
without his birthday cake, for / know
perfectly we'll Canilly won't take the
bother; she thinks such things fool
ishness. And so the happy habit of
years is all spoilt because that horrid
flu last winter left my heart weak
and the fussy old doctor forbids me
crossing the mountains, and" She
broke off abruptly.
In thinking of the little boy who
had lived with her, and grown up
into a man, and gone away. she had
forgotten the child at her elbow, but
Charles Edward was too absorbed In
problem of his own to have noticed
this.
Can little boyses only have birth
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
Just Between Ourselves
By DELLA e. STEWART

Most of our petty annoyances
would vanish If we refused to allow
our minds to dwell on them. It's the
constant state of self-pity, the re-
iterated abused feeling, the remem-
bering of each irritating experience
or word that makes the day dark with
resentment. And yet what little oc-
currence or set OF occurrences is inn
portant enough to overcome mans
or woman's calm Of spirit hour after
hour2
Why should we take it so seriously
If some member OF our family allows
some sharpness of expression to flash
forth at the breakfast table? Not re-
sented on our part, it would soon be
forgotten, lost in some expression of
their really tender feeling for us.
Why should we mourn over some idle
word of friend, or resent so bitterly
some little business annoyance? Must
life never have any harnesses for
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
You and |
ByAIbert Apple

The dancing genius, Enrico Gee
chetti, celebrates the 50th anniver
sary of his first appearance on the
stage. In his dancing academy at
Warsaw, he trained many Of the
greatest Russian dancers.
Pavlowa was one of his pupils.
If Cecchitti had listened to his
parents, he'd have been a lawyer and
the members of the Russian ballet
wouldn't culver whenever they hear
his name.
If you have son, let him follow
his own iaclinations in selecting his
htc-work. The quickest way 10 n,ake
failure of the average youth is for
parents to pick out his career for
him
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
THE CURSE OF AFFLUENCE

years. carefree and gay as the Lord
intended him. then ten ox-years of
hard labor and plain living. and fif-
teen from the dog. He would fawn
for favors. become strictly law -abid-
ing. surly and suspicious in the ef-
fort to guard the fruits OF his OK
industry.
Now doesn't that seem to malign US
both? But my dog does fawn for
favors, at other back doors than mine,
and gets them, too. She treasures
them in secret; woe betide the
strange dog who disregards the taboo
she sets on her trails of inspection.
Some visitors are duly scrupulous.
these she esteems, after satisfying
herself by some very careful shifting.
But heaven help that yellow weak
ling who cannot resist the temptation
to nose them out, for certainly shall
not. Yet l cannot but regret that af-
fluence has such a bad effect on her
disposition.
Aye, the parable is certainly right
where dogs are concerned. AS to men,
you are welcome to your own conclu-.
sions
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
Leaders

Keeping the nations at peace with
each other depends on "as much in
tercourse as possible betwixt people
and as little as possible betwixt gov
ernments."
This comment Is from the pen of
Richard Golden, English statesman
economist and original enemy OF
tariffs.
Golden died 81 years ago. But his
notion that wars are caused by gov
ernments, not peoples, is as timely
now as when he wrote it. Same
thought probably has occurred to
mature intellects since time began.
Truth is the most obvious thing in
life. Also, the most elusive and dis
regarded.
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30

the thought of the happiness she was
giving somebody else helped immeas-
urably to bear her own disappoint-
ment.
Poor young'un," she said to her.
self, Il know his kind of mother so
well--her own pleasure her one aim
and purpose in life; when her child
is clothed and fed shes perfectly sat
isfied that she's done her whole duty
toward him. Never does it enter her
head how his poor little stripped bare
heart Graves birthday cakes and other
little luxuries of love-
The cunning birthday cake candles
had just been touched into flame
when Charles Edward gave an ex-
clamation of delightful surprise
"You never told me- he cried, ''that
Sam Hill was coming to the birthday
cake party tool"
And, turning to look where the
small finger pointed, Miss Ann Penn
brooke saw a tall young man joyously
approaching on the path that led
around the house from the front gate
Phil" she exclaimed, springing up,
with outstretched arms, MY own
dear boyi"
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
copyright. 1921. by W. werner.)


"Ann Pembroke, I'm ashamed Of
you,g said Miss Pembroke to Miss
Pembroke herself. "You are a great
big cry baby she added. severely, as
fat tear flashed down upon her
whiting pad.
Where is the little girl you was
scolding?" piped a child's voice from
the open doorway.
Miss Pembroke looked up from
her letter writing with jump. Hello,
Sonny Henderson. Is that you?" she
asked.
my name is Charles Edward" the
youngster corrected, with impressive
dignity. Il had birthday yesterday.
and now I'm a big little boy. Where
did the little girl go to?"
s'Shes hiding" mischievously twin
kled the woman at the desk, fold
ing her letter and putting it in an
envelope.
''F'rom spanking?' eagerly asked
Charles Edward, now at her elbow.
eat least, she deserves one. nne
was a very naughty little girl"
How was she naughty?"
The countenance of Charles Ed
ward fairly beamed with a child's
usual delight in another's transgres-
sion.
Because she wanted to do some-
thing that was not good for her, and
when she was told she could not she
acted like Sam HILL"
Who's sam HIP"
Big little boys who have birthdays
mustn't ask so many questions
laughed Ann Pembroke
"Oh, know who Sam Hill is" de-
clared Charles Edward, with unper-
turbed serenity. He is the little boy
who used to live with you. The one
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
Sam Hills Birthday Cake
THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY STORY
COMPLETE NOVELETTE,

day cakes on their birthdays?" ht
asked wistfully.
At sight of the eager upturned face
the light that had gone out of Miss
Pembrooke'S eyes came back again
only now it was not a light of twink
ling amusement but one of tender
ness. Il tell you what well do, dear,
she smiled. "As I can't make a birth
day cake for my own boy this year
I'll make one for you. And since
your birthday is already passed We'll
celebrate on Sam Hills birthday, the
end of next week"
People who did not understand
claimed that no one could love as
much as a mother loved. Ann Penn
brooke knew better; for how could a
| little child's kisses and twining arms
and dear prattle mean more to a wife
who'd had her husbands affection,
than to lonesome woman who d
/ lived by herself and TO herself for
/ live starved years?
And as Ann Pembroke shaved the
ends of the little birthday candles to
| fit in their holders she went over in
| her heart that first day when she
Borrowed" Philip for a weeks visit
the forlorn, neglected child of four,
scantily clad. only nalf fed, OF rne
ne'er- do-well family her church So
ciety was helping. ribs snyness of
her, her shyness of him. The Won
derful change in the child one little
week Of happiness and good whole
some food wrought. She went over
in her heart the night at the weeks
end when she woke up and could not
go to sleep again thinking of the pain
of losing him on the morrow-until
the dawn came on the shining in
spiration of adopting and keeping
him with her always.
And her investment in love had
paid a hundredfoldl The darling lit
tie boy had become a fine, promising
lad. the fine, promising lad man of
ambition and energy who had early
forged to success.
The thought of the responsible po-
sition that her Philip was holding at
% lighted her pride in him with as
glad little flames Of rejoicing as those
of birthday cake candles.
Talk of a mothers self sacrifice!
Could any mother of man-child
have given up more when she urged
Philip to accept the wonderful offer
of junior partnership that Camilla's
father had made the year after the
young peoples marriage?
But her yearly visit to the other
side of the mountains-the radiant
happiness OF always being with her
Phillip on his birthday that bright
ened all the other dull. lonesome
months-was the one thing that made
the separation bearable. And now,
when weak and forlorn and depressed,
the mere sight Of him would have
done her more good than medicine,
she had been forced to write him she
could not come.
The night before the birthday cele-
bration, as Miss Pembroke looked
wistfuIly down at the big, beautifm
birthday cake ready waiting on her.
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
Rats are Carriers of Disease; Kill Them

There are three good reasons why
rats should be killed:
One: They destroy millions of dol
l9rs' worth of property every year.
Two: They are disease carriers
and have introduced the bubonic
plague into the country. This disease
Is always a potential menace, es-
pec'ally i'll seaport towns.
Three: They cause rat-bite dis
case. Of which there are few reported
cases.
From the economical standpoint, no
rgument is needed to convince peo-
.le of the rate nuisance.
Farmers in Ohio-and no doubt the
1ine has been done in other states
ave combated the rat by organizing
ms for competition.
The team which presents the larg-
number of rat tails is given a
nner at the expense Of the others
Among the most ingenious schemes
killing them is the use of the au-
5nobile exhaust. A farmer will back
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
John D.

In 20 years John y. Rockefeller has
given $126,7SS.094 to teachers and
schools, through his educational
board.
Charity, as viewed by the worlds S
richest man, Is best handled by at
tacking poverty at its sources-ig-
norance and disease. Kill these two
monsters and poverty automatically
will vanish. Such is the interesting
philosophy of John d.
If you had his money, could you
spend it in wiser way? If so, how
Rockefeller. if he lived 800 years
would go a step further and recog
nize war as the leading cause Of dis
ease and ignorance.
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30

Harding's tailor's name is Gettum.
He probably does.
The 2S Princeton freshmen who say
they have never kissed a girl don't
say what girl.
Sausage Prices Drop'-headline.
The wurst has come.
When a woman speaks OF her new
suit these days you don't know il she
has bought or brought one.
Laugh and the world laughs with
you; don't and it laughs at you.
"a good man is hard to find" says
everyone. mot as hard as a bad
one" say the police.
Little brown jug and little town
jug are never empty the same day.
"How TO Find Wife" is a new
book. Just do something you
shouldn't and she Will show up.
Having nothing else to break, the
ex-kaiser has broken silence.
After days of fierce fighting over
the bonus bill, congress will want to
pass one for itself.
Farmers quit raising whiskers.
Must be in the way under an auto.
Health hint: When a girl promises
to be a sister she often means she'll
be her brothers keeper.
The man who tried to marry on a
hunting license took her for a dear.
'iHeavy Snow Falls" - Canadian
headline. What else did the Cana
dams expect heavy snow to do?
A woman is asking 1000 because
her husband was killed. Some of
them would pay that much.
Too much peace is being made and
too little being had.
Crooks are stealing too much" !"
says an official, who forgets to men,
ton how much is enough.
Who furnishes the wrong numbers
on the new wireless phones?
If these new silver dollars won't
stack up keep them rolling.
Ford is making Artificial leather
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
Oysters

Tony Primano opened 1878 oysters
in an hour, winning contest at War
rem, r. /. He claims the world cham
pionship. AS far as we're concerned,
he can have it.
Anyone who has ever tried to open
even one fresh oysters powerful jaws
viii admit that Tony has speed and
that his fingers must be powerful
enough to pull a spike out of an oak
plank.
The oyster contest, however. would
make most of us yawn If we partici-
pated. What is it that makes people
interested in so many different
things?
And what sort OF contest interests
you most? Probably 1t is closely al
lied to the thing that'd bring you
greatest success.
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
07omyzm53aEy

from gunpowder. Approach these
restaurant steaks carefully.
One thing that scares a horse in
town is seeing another horse.
West Virginia banker in coma
eight weeks nearly reached period.
Another chorus girl has married a
millionaire for love.
If everybody were rich how would
hound dogs get raised?
An English princess is paid sac, 900
yearly; but you have to be born for
the job.
A bad man is hard to fine.
"Thief Weds Victims Daughter
headline. A regular chicken thief.
Europe thinks her pow vows win
go to the bow-wows without US.
The man who thinks twice before
he speaks usually has wife who
speaks twice before she thinks.
You've got to look sharp to cut
much ice.
The first almanac was published
1900 B. C. 1t is time to revise it.
Princeton asks parents not TO give
students autos. You can't burn gas
and midnight oil at the same time.
The couple who married after
quarreling 80 years are well trained.
The darker things get, the more
chance there is to shine.
II there were only four autos %
years ago where did the taxi COM
panies get theirs?
Giving hospital patients confiscated
booze is one way to keep them.
When a man tells girl her dresses
are too short, Cupid moves on to the
next victim.
The cost of the World war to Can
ada is estimated at $4,000, 100000.
E;igity-si thousand French SOL
diers are said to have fallen victims
to tuberculosis during the World war.
s--O----
Thirty girls in Kansas have formed
a club and pledged themselves 10
marry none other than former service
men,
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
Ripe

The wrecking crews. sent out by
economists to investigate the busi-
ness smash that began in 1920, make
this comment: "A great business
boom occurs. roughly. every so years. ;
These periods of high prices and
prosperity coincide with big wars.
Big prosperity booms eliminated in
the World war, the Civil war, and the
Napoleonic wars.
Is war the cause of prosperity or
prosperity the cause of war? Prob
ably the latter, though it's like the
problem: Which came first, the egg
or the chicken?
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30

our pathway? Why should we always
expect perfect sunshine?
Why should we even say. weakly:
If things were only thus and so with
me. II my environment were only
different, if my fanny were only as
conside-ate as some others, why then
could be happy?" The chances are
that we wouldn't be. Wed merely
exchange one set OF annoyances for
another. For no one is exempt We
only think that we would be. The
root of the trouble always lies Within
ourselves, in our way OF meeting and
conquering or being conquered by
circumstances.
We don't have to show annoyance,
we don't have to argue or oppose or
criticize openly. We can remain calm
and sweet. "Y-e-es. but it's so hard
to act like that?Y Who said it wasn't?
Must we always choose the easy
ways? What particular credit is
there for us If we do We admire a
hero. Why not be an every day one
ourselves?
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
Income

To get furs for women, thousands
of trappers toll in Canada's terrific
winter cold.
Latest reports shows that Canadian
trappers in one year brought to the
market the pelts of 2,924,500 fur
bearing animals.
These were worth a total OF $780,
1851.
During the boom, one auto manu-
facturer in Detroit is understood to
have made that much in 20 days.
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
Juriies

A jury hearing a prohibition case
in Brooklyn, N. Y, was permitted by
the judge to sample the evidence.
This precedent is said to have cut in
half the number of men asking to be
excused from jury duty.
The procedure is not without bene-
fit to a bootlegger. One of them had
his case nolled recently in a western
town because the police had drunk
.up the evidence.
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
IF You Are
Well Bred

You will remember that any
sign Of haste in note writing is a
diseourtesy.
You will not underline words
written in q letter unless the Iet-
ter by very informal.
You will pay strict attention to
your spelling in letters. Nothing
is more deplorabIe than bad SPELL
ing.
You will never write anything
over your signature of which you
later will be ashamed.
You will never let anyone read
a letter intended only for your
eyes.
You will reply to a note on a
card, with a card, and to a letter
on paper, with letter on paper.
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30

Bobby wanted a donkey-and he
had seen the donkey in a nearby
field
What would happen if / stole that
Donkey" he asked his father.
You would get six months In pris-
on" replied his father.
Bobby thought while and then
said:
You wouldn't forget to feed it
while l was away, would you,
father?"
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30

looked up and appealed: ''Oh, daddy,
do tell me what it isl
Father. looking very solemn, said:
IN give you one guess. What is it
you want from mother more than
anything selse in the world ?''-and
then collapsed as the darling, clap
ping hands. shrieked. Guinea pigs!"
Il hear" said Margaret, that Elsie
finished her education abroad
NO. corrected Susan she didn't
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30

finish it until she
married II a rr y
Hedges and had to
live on $1,000 a
year."
4How was that 2,
1T was not until
then that she
learned that money
was needed to buy
something else be-
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30

"Just take seat, please. There are
three others ahead of you. II you
watch you viii see 'em chucked
through the window one by one.
When the third comes down you can
go up" But the visitor had changed
his mind.
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30

pantry shelf, such a longing to see
her own boy stabbed her heart that
the hurt was infinitely more than the
help. But on the afternoon Of the
birthday, when the party" had actu-
ally begun-out in her side yard.
brimming over with roses and honey
suckle and bird song--when she be-
heSd the breathless rapture of the
little neighbor child at sight of the
first birthday cake he had ever seen,
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
MiLady

Tiny gold pocket flasks that hold
a nip of liquor have been brought out
in the jewelry trade and are having
big sale. Some OF them are set with
diamonds. They can be hidden easily
in a woman's purse.
Prohibition is not far from success
when few thimblefuls of "the stuff
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
Bobby's School Bag.

Within his school bag, Bob
by takes
Some needed things each
day.
Their names are here,
though they are spelled
In such a curious way.
bee double o k. . ell aye
tea e, pea en- sea eye ell,
tea aye bee ell e tea, are
you ell e are, e are aye Sc
are.
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30

age 10000 hairs, blondes 10000.
Scientists, claiming prehistoric man
was as hairy as a monkey, say that
thinness of hair or badness is a sign
of superior mentality. Future men as
bald as eggs. is the prediction.
If the scientists are right, the red
heads must be a super-race.
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30

ItLUIIItu 90 AIIItI :
ica on the same
trip of the George
Washington which
brought President
Wilson h o m e.
Whether in honor
of the victorious
nation represented
on the passenger
licf or Nrln Of her. In
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30

70 see nm per-
sonally ?" queried
the office boy. "Of
course, / do" an
swered the irate
citizen. I'm go
ing to thrash him
within an inch of
his life. See 2"
"Oh, all right" an
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30

UIUuB fIL q UCdUtI :
full gift.
wv ell, darling
he said affably,
"the fairies have
brought something
to mother which
you will love as
much as mother
and / do"
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30

a detail, but we
shall require a
bankers reference.
DO you think you
could furnish us
with one p
The prospective
tenant bit his lip
doubtfully.
II could" he
said. after q. mo-
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
Hair

"A red headed person has about co.
600 hairs growing out of the scalp.
Speaker says this at convention of
New England hairdressers.
The figure seems unbelieyably
large. Yet it is low. Brunets aver
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
A Word Square.

This word square has
four words and each word
has four letters: ID Your
stove is made Of the first.
~ Your swing Is made Of
the second. go The third
Is set in someone's ring.
(4) The fourth is the name
OF some girl.
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
CAN'T BE DONE

You don't believe everything you
hear?"
mo" said Mr.. Jagsby. Least of
all the solemn assertion Of steady
drinker that he always buys good
stuff
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
A Riddle in RHYME.

We're just getting out.
We've been hidden all
winter.
But spring is the time
when the boys like US
best.
they shoot us and roll us
and hope they can win
us,
For each boy is trying to
skin all the rest.
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30

theater tickets and phonograph rec
ords, and pay taxi fares
There's just one other matter"
said the prospective landlord to the
flashy looking flat hunter. Its only
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30

is honored with a diamond studded
gold container.
Those who live until 1850 will find
illicit whiskey as rare and difficult
to get as opium.
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
NEW ALTERNATIVES

Ethel-A girl no longer marries a
man for better or worse.
Harold-No; now she marries him
for more or less.
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30

ANSWERS TO LAST WEEKS PUZZLES
The to charade cup, board cup board
The animals in the menaserie tiger elephant monkey,
camel
The to the ridde-me.ree is spring.
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
For You TO Guess
A Charade.

MY first is a color; my sec
ond has wings:
The voice of my whole in
the spring sweetly
rings.
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
Laugh With
Us

A fond father was desirous of an
nouncing to his little daughter that
the fairies had visited the house and
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS TALK

Jinks-You look as though you'd
been up with the boys last night.
Bangs-I have. Two Of them came
to our house last night. thought TO
myself that one sample would have
been quite sufficient.
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30

ment's thought, "but I'm sure it would
only disappoint YOU"
Following the adjournment Of the
peace conference in Versailles M
Jusserand the French ambassador,
Arizona republican., 1922-04-30

0, Bobby Bunny, can't yon read.
Or don't you believe in signs?
The ice is cracking. Can't you see
Those great long scragly lines?
Find Mother Bunny, who has come
to take Bobby home.