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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-18
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 When Miss May told me how far short we were of the funds necessary to pay our months bills, I had a mo- ment of sheer panic. Then suddenly I realized that I had one big asset to fall back on. This was the rent for my apartment
 Of course, spending money as fast as it comes in is a hand-to-mouth way of doing things, and doesn't ap- peal to me. Still, have to make sure of my credit in order to establish my agency on a. dignified and stable basis. So, even if I find my self with no more than two dollars in my purse and having to lunch daily on milk and a. sandwich, I know that the thing to do is to pay my bills the minute the rent check comes in.
 This, felt sure, would be in a day or two at most, since my tenants are always prompt.
 Hold up the checks until the fifth" I suggested serenely. ''Ive lssome payments on interest outside the office, which ought to be in by that date And even if we don't make payment until the tenth that will be pression. Now, I think I'd better
 
 Co. And, in the meantime. there's nothing in the world to worry about, my dear.''
 As left the office I wondered why I'd made such point of that, and whether I'd been trying to impress Miss May or myself. DismtsStng all worries from my mind, I hurried over to the garage, ordered out Evvy's blue car again, and drove down to my o1j With rJx a nra1jH11 - mary moment or two of red-tape, I was ushered into the private office of MT. Rockhi11, the young president de- scribed to me by Max Hoadley as Hiking swank."
 He looked up with an a1oof ,expres- sion and said almost indiferently:
 Thought I'd suggest a little more sp1urge on our stuff, Mrs. Harrison. We want to get over, you know, and it seems to me we need 8 back page position on the magazines. Would you mind looking into the matter of getting an artist to do us something unusual and stunning in the line of a trade mark? And you might have him do some originals for us-exclu- sive1y''
 That will all cost money" I be- gan, but Mir. Rockhill waved the sug- gestion aside in one large gesture. "Of course it will cost money. Put it on your bill. I think you'll feel that your larger commission is satis- ia ctory.''
 '.I may have to pay the artist in ad- vance, I suggested hopefully. But this, too, MT. Rockhi1l waved aside in a manner which told me I'd seem like very picayune and second-rate sort of person if asked for the money. to pay the artist. His words showed he how correct my irnpreSSiOn had been, Don't get that sort of artist" he smiled suavely. "We want a top-notch- er-no piker struggling along on a | shoestring waiting for the public to discover that he can draw. This is a big organization, Mrs. Harrison. And we're coming strong. So we can af- ford the best and pay them--in due and proper course when their bills come in and are properly O. K'd."
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-18
Sacrifice vs Love

Sacrifice vs Love
 Dear Miss Fairfax:
 I am IS and my friend is 20. He used to work as clerk, but he dec1d- ed to give it up and learn g. trade. Last Christmas he bought me a $25 friendship ring. His mother was angry and said he must pay S15 board instead of SIP. When he comes to visit, we have to stay in the house and you know how much girls like to go out. I love him very dearly, but on the other hand don't like to be tried down. They own their own house and have an autom obile. Please tell me what shall do- M. s.
 Perhaps the boys mother is trying to teach him saving, and to teach you at the same time that love isn't real unless it can sacrifice and go without You don't have to stay at home. Spring is coming and five cents will take you to the ocean. There are wonderful walks all about. And if what you want Is to help the boy toward a fine future, giving up few. amusements won't worry you much That $25 Christmas gift was way beyond his means His mother probably worried over the demands you were going to make and the in fuenc you were going to wield. Don't blame her. Just appreciate that she is trying to build chara acter.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-18
DINNER STORIES

"I hear tell that a passeI of fel- lers out hunting over luther side of Mount Piggy seed a wild boy and took a shot at him yiste' d'y," related 9 neighbor. '"They say he didn't have any clothes on and ran like a deer" That so?" returned Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge, Ark. "Aw, well. he hain't none of my children as fur as know. Tennyrate, wife has been making so much poster for the last three, four months. about the kids not having anything to wear, that luther day when I sold a hoss I bought a whole bolt of cloth, and [ reckon likely by this time she's made 'ern all the britches and one thing and another they need. If they're running around naked it's their own fault
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-18
Give Up the Man Dear Miss Fairfax:

Dear MISS T
 I have been going about w1rn a man have known for quite 8 while. During our association we grew fond of one another. Then one day-he told me he had recently become engaged to another girl I never until then realized how much thought of him. a few weeks ago. All my old love came back again and when we ar ranged to see each other again I was very happy We did meet then and several times after. I know it isn't fair to his fiancee, but I just can't seem to give him up entirely.
 Just the thought seems to drive me to distraction.
 Won't you give me some advice ? for perhaps you cAn reason much more saneiy than |
 A DISTRACTED GIRL
 Don't go on with this. as you value your happiness and peace of mind. You have to respect yourself in order to have any contentment. and that you can't do when you're being unfair to another woman. Moreover, though you do feel strong attraction for this man. you don't admire or respect him Of this I'm sure. Giving him up won't be as hard as is all this un- rest and dissatisfaction. Make a brave, clean break You may miss him for a time. but you'll find your self out of turmoil and misery and ready for the finer, more beautiful things life has in store for brave, hon. est folks Please listen to what I'm telling you-for it Is the truth and 1t can't fail And waen-you look things
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-18
ADVICE TO THE LOvEL0RN
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX

straight in the face, you're bound to ackno owdedge that Pm only telling you what you already know deep in your l soul. Good luck to you!
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-18
Continued from Yesterday


 The Pug-the Adventurer! She did not quite seem to grasp it's signifi- canoe as applied to her in a personal way. It seemed to branch out into endless ranaifications. She could not somehow think logically, coolly enough now. to decide what this meant in a concrete way to her, and her tomorrow, and the days after the tomorrow
 She hurried on. Tonight, as she would lay awake through the hours that were to come, for sleep was a thing denied, perhaps a clearer vision would be given her. For the moment there-there was something else wasn't there? That money that be- longed to the old couple.
 She hurried on. She came again to the street where the old couple liv- ed- It was a dirty street, and from the curb she stopped and picked up dirty piece of old newspaper. She wrapped the banknotes in the paper.
 There were not many people on the street as she neared the mean little frame house, but she Ioitered until for the moment the immediate vicin- ity was deserted; then she slipped in to the aIleyway, and stole close to - the side window, through which, she noted from the street, there shone light. Yes, they were there, the two of them-she could see them quite distinctly even through the shut ters.
 She went back to the front door then, and knocked. And presently the old woman came and opened the door.
 This is yours," Rhoda said, and thrust the package into the woman's hand. And as the woman looked from her to the package uncompre- hendingIy, Rhoda Gray flung a quick goodnight over her shoulder, and ran down the steps again.
 But a few moments later she stole back, and stood for an instant once lore by the shuttered window in the aIleyway- And suddenly her eyes grew dim. She saw old man, white, and haggard, with bandaged head, sitting in a chair, the tears streaming down his face; and on the knees, a woman knelt-and the mans hand stroked and stroked the thin gray hair on the woman's head.
 And Rhoda Gray turned away. And out in the street her face was lifted and she looked upward, and there were myriad stars. And there seem- ed a beauty in them that she had nev- CT seen before, and a great, comfort ing serenity. And they seemed to promise something-that through the window of that stark and evil garret to which she was going now. they would keep her dreaded vigil with her until morning came again.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-18

Urban Faber. Kid Gleason's pitching ace. stood out as one of the big stars of the spening tilts in the big leagues the other day although te was chalked up with a defeat at s.a hands of the St.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-18

Louis club at Chicago. Faber held the slugging Brownies to three hits-which should have brought him 8 victory. The Sox. got to Urban Shocker for nine blows. but their failure to bunch
The evening world., 1922-03-21

Vontnor City Water Works, ended her
life with gas at Atlantic Citq.
The Canadian approach OF the pro.
posed International bridge across the
Detroit River at Detroit will be in Sand
wich, Ont, II was announced to-day by
the engineers. The Detroit approach has
not yet been announced.
James Pillow. a retired accountant.
walked all night through the rain from
his home near Garrison on the Hudson
70 Carmel, a distance OF twenty miles,
to attend the Supreme Court as a trial
juror.
Believing that many cases OF mental
disorder can be corrected through thu
Medium OF comedy movies" Henry
Wink. n motion picture magnate OF
New York and London, will conduct n
series OF experiments at the Atlantic
City County Asylum for the Insane.
A system OF wireless communication
is to be used to assist in breaking up
rum running over the Canadian border
into Michigan. Col. Roy c. Wander
cook, head Of the Michigan Department
of Safety. has announced details of the
plan at Washington.
The evening world., 1922-03-21
THE WAY I WASH MY
CLOTHES

am old-fashioned enough to
believe that while better house
hold machinery and materials
have been invented than our
grandmothers had, nothing equals
their Vdy of doing things.
That is why l always soak my
clothes. After sorting them l
soak them in Rinse, using enough
to make a good suds that will
stand up even after the clothes
are put in. l let them soak for
an hour-or longer if am busy
about other things-for l have dis
covered that Rinse won't injure
them in the least, yet it soaks out
more dirt than any other soap.
Then | rinse them. The first
rinse water is terribly dirty but
every bit Of dirt that is soaked out
means that much less rubbing.
l only rub neckbandS, and the
like. Every three or four weeks
boil my white things-except
flannels, of course-using enough
Rinse to get mild suds.-Advt.
The evening world., 1922-03-21
DOMESTIC.

Nearly dozen star" destroyers
which saw action against enemy sub
marines in the North Sea during the
World War are included In the $50 de-
s,royers 10 be pdecommissioned" by
order OF Secretary DENLY prior TO
June 30.
A saving Of moro than $500. .OOo. 900 viii
accrue directly to shippers OF the
United states in 1922 as a result OF
freight rate reductions already in effect.
according TO DR.. Julius Parmalee. Di-
nomlcs at washington.
Announcement has been made
nv Mrs. John Il. Peterson OF Philadel-
phia of the marriage of her daughter,
Miss Joan Peterson, to Louis Oakley
Brewster Of Elizabeth. N. j.. junior
et Princeton, revealing a runaway ro-
nance OF an engaged couple.
ChlcaRo's first skyscraper. and fol
years the highest building, the Masonic
Temple, has been sold for SS,l00,000, oi
vvhIch $1,000, 900 was paid In cash and
the rest assumed in a mortgage.
An automobile driven by William Har.
old Peckham OF New York, accompanied
nv Miss Elizabeth ID. Stang OF White
plains knocked down Traffic Policeman
Robert c. Scott at Newport. The po-
liceman died in hospital
Mentally depressed as a result oil
III health, Mrs. Anna McIIain. wife o.
george McLaIn, Superintendent OF the
The evening world., 1922-03-21
World News i'm Brief

eight. widow Of Isaac Van Wagner,
one time Surrogate and political leader
Of Passaic County, N. j., died yester-
day at her home In Paterson.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle win arrive
on the Battle April 0 for q lecture tour
and will be at the Ambassador during
his stay In New York.
John T. C'1ndian Jack") Bryant, who
declared himself to be a full-blooded
Choctaw Indian, died yesterday at No
10 Arlington Street, Newark.
There will be o double wedding this
afternoon at Delmonico's when Misses
Dorothy L. and Jessie Winlfred
Schwartz, daughters OF Mrs. Louis
will be married, respectively, to Joseph
J. Furman OF Kingston, N. y, and
Arthur ]. Becker OF this city.
The annual get together meeting OF
the Export Managers Club OF New
York Is being held to-day in the Hotel
Pennsylvania.
Joseph Cicatreiii. eighteen, a Columbia
student, was held in $4,000 ball for the
Grand Jury In ESSEX Market Court Tor
alleged felonious assault on Kenneth a.
Campbell, twenty-five, q student. of No.
Sheridan Square. following a party st.
Patrick's eve in the studio OF Mrs. Linda
Marshall, an artist, In No. IS Washing
ton Square.
The suit OF Levy & Glatzer Of No. rs
West 47th Street against Sol Rosen-
bloom Of Pittsburgh for the recovery Of
$4,000 In Il liquor transaction was
ordered transferred to-day from the
Bronx County Supreme Court 10 the
United States District Court. Levy &
Glatzer claim they gave Rosenbloom
1000 to pay the Kentucky state tax.
Later. they allege, the tax was de-
clared invalid and Rosenbloorn received
the money, but that he has refused to
reimburse them.
Several men were unable to get a
horse to move out OF its burning stall
In the stables at No. 2l4 26th Street,
Brooklyn, to-day. Finally. OF its own
accord, the horse ran out OF the stall
into the yard. and died. II was owned
BY Michael Coretta.
Tne Baby Health Station at Dock and
Bay Streets, Stapleton, s. l., will be
closed and q new station opened at
Vanduzer and Swan Streets, Tompkins-
Vile, because the rent at the old station
has been raised from $40 to $50 a
month.
william E. Boland and Frank Sven
sky, ex-convicts, were sentenced to-
day by Judge Mack In the Federal Dis
trict Court to five years each in the
Atlanta penitentiary. According to
Federal authorities. they were MEM
bers OF a gang Of letter box thieves
The evening world., 1922-03-21
FOREIGN

G. Lambert, Liberal. In the House OF
Commons at London. asked the Gov
ernment II 1t had any official informa-
uon to the effect that since October,
1917, there had been executed by Soviet
authorities in Russia a total Of l,7ss, AIS
persons.
The evening world., 1922-03-21
GEN. WOODS son TO wrn

WILMINGTON, DEL. March 2l.-Mr.
and Mrs. Henry 3. Thompson to-day
announced the engagement OF their
daughter. Katherine. to Lieut.. Osborn
c. Wood, son OF Gen. and Mrs. Leonard
Wood. Miss Thompson is now at
Manila. P. l.. on a visit to Miss Louise
Wood, sister OF Lieut.. Wood. She is
a granddaughter of Brig. Gen. James
Harrison Wilson, U. S. A.. retired.
The evening world., 1922-03-21

who made thousands Of dollars through
forging and passing stolen checks.
Th, Bronx County Grand Jury to-
day began an investigation OF fifteen
alleged liquor violations in that bor-
ough. Assistant District Attorney Al
Cohen has summoned fifty witnesses
70 testify
The evening world., 1922-03-21

JOHN WANAMAKER'S
sound advice is not always
confined to items of mer-
chandiSe, of which he has
a vast knowledge.
In one of his crisp
editorials last week, dis
cussing the rapid disin-
tegration of the bucket
shop evil In new York,
he says
Don't descend into a
we'll with a rotten rope,
as a big farmers boy did,
to be nearly drowned.
Almost every day the
newspaper reveals the
rotten ropes employed by
The evening world., 1922-03-21

stock speculators who advertise themselves
bankers, schemers forming companies based
on patents, and adventuresome exploiting
of undeveloped affairs for which they are
selling shares.
almost every list of losers from the
rotten-rope adventurers shows that many
women have been defrauded Of large sums.
Mr.. Wanamaker then advises his readers to con
hefore IettinQ 60 their lifetime savings.
Readers of THE WORLD will be doubly appreci-
ative Of Mr. Wanamaker's timely counsel, In that
their interests Safesuarded by one of the most
rrorous censorships established over the fnan
cial advertising pages of great newspaper.
Before II can attain publication In THE WORLD
an offering of investment securities OF any nature
must undergo scrutiny so searching that none out
the soundest could by any analysis survive
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18

The British public is said to resent
the second coming of "Pussyfoot'
johnson. The Britishers appear to be
growing impatient with these repeated
attempts to reform them. Their atti-
tude seems to be a bit unreasonable.
Mr.. johnson must I've and reforming
people is his chosen line of endeavor.
If they lived in this country they
would be so accustomed to being re-
formed, that they would cease to mind
it. Reforming people rs one Of our
chief industries over here and affords
occupation to a large number OF per-
sons. The work is light and the wages
are good. to say nothing of the fire.
quent opportunities of being elected
or appointed to office under munich
pal, state or federal government
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18

Senator Frelinghuysen has con-
ferred a kindness upon his weak
kneed tariff colleagues by furnishing
them a spot on which to alight! Cap
per and Poindexter are reported to
have taken advantage of his proposal
already. Probably a number Of 9TH
ers will follow. with the result that
tariff tinkering will be in allegiance
for a long time. The Frelinghuysen
plan contemplates the naming of a
committee of tariff experts, to go over
the whole tariff problem and report
to congress what that body should
do Taking the tariff out of poll
itics," it is. called. But what it really
means is an indefinite postpopement
of tariff revision. Everybody knows
the interminable delay connected with
any action that is placed in the hands
of a commission.
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Questions-Anstoers

O. Is the Salon Carrie named for q
French collector? II. P.
A. The room is SO called because 1t is
square.
Q. What is the dwarf language? W. B..
A In the old Morse the echo is called
the dwarf language. probably because il
was thought TO be produced by dwarfs
within the mountains Initiating the sounds
from without which they heard.
Q. Can a caterpillar sting? NJ E. R.
A The caterpillar does sting and Il is
found that its netting hairs may be blown
thru the air, lodge on person and pro-
duce a rash. This accounts for the stings
people often receive when there has been
no contact with caterpillars.
tAny reader can get the answer To any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau. Frederic J.
Haskin, Director, Washington. D. C This
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to be an indispensable part of our ma
tional life, on a firm foundation" is
the advice given by Thomas H. Mac
Donald to every voter, taxpayer and
legislator. Mr.. Macdonald is the chief
of the federal bureau of public roads.
I'VE are starting out to construct a
system of highways such as no ma
ton ever before constructed. The
nearest approach to it is found in
France and Germany, and the area
of neither of those countries is as
large as Texas. This great undertake
ing is entered into because highways
are not a luxury, but supply a real
service, have a real earning capacity,
and have become a national neces-
sity."
When and where man first began
to build roads is not known. That it
was long before the beginning of au-
thentic history is certain. Further
more. the construction of such works
as the pyramids of Egypt and the
great walls ana hanging gardens of
Babylon could not have been accom-
plished without the existence of roads
for the transportation of materials
and supplies.
But whatever the beginners of road
building 1t appears that it has been
left to this country to carry the art
to its final fruition. We are leading
the world at the present time and the
policy that is being carried out meets
with such widespread popular ap-
prevail that there is no likelihood of
its being abandoned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE. a

The Huckster
Whose voice do heer coming
About mile away?
All tbs the merry huckster
Yelling wat he has to say.
He's got cabbiages and orindges
And beens and other stuff,
He may not be very proud of 1t
But he repeats it ofen enuff
He makes as mulch noise as possible
And more than necessary.
For his voice alone is loud enuff
But he yells thru his hands to make
1t very.
And enybody that wunts enything
Jest picks it out and pays,
Vile the ones that would drather not
heer him
Haff to lissen anyways.
His horse is thin and pointy
And its knees seem to be on wrong.
And it proberly got that hungry look
Heering about food all day long.
And his Vaughn dissa ppeers from site,
He wont be GROUND today eny more
But cheer ups-fomorro he mite.
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George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
AN AVERAGE, EVEN TEMPER


The Creator must have thought
highly of tempers or else He wouldn't
have given US each one.
have often wondered what hui
man being would be like with no tenn
per at all. am inclined to think
that he would be a rather tame affair
A man might as well lack all spirit,
The trouble lies, 1 believe. in the
neglect that our tempers have been
given. We educate our minds and
and train our voices-but our tempers
We quite overlook. That's why they
spring up so quickly and in such wild
style.
Occasionally, however. you meet the
strongly controlled, even temper. And
it is a fine spectacle indeed.
How many unkind things have been
spoken during the reign of a quick
temper. And how we would like to
have blotted out forever such words
so full of hidden poison.
The control and uses of a temper
should be part of the training of every
child, and we Jrown folks should COM
pei our temperS to become servants
and not masters.
y There are plenty of times when a
good temper comes in handy-but
there never comes a time when it
should be lost, and allowed free run.
An average, even temper-what an
asset
The natural thing for US to do when
temper belonging to someone else
comes at us like a rushing, mad ami
NAL, is to go after it in kind-but the
biggest man. and the wisest, will take
his stand and let the storm blow by.
1t is surprising how soon a temper
cools or runs away in the face of
strong control.
Under the glass of one of my desks
is this motto: THE dog banks, but
the caravan passes on"
Copyright, 1922. George Matthew Adams)