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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-05-25
NOT ALL BEER AND SKlTTLES
Enalishman Has Somewhat Lengthy
LIST of Drawbacks to Life in
the Turkish Capital.

An English business man backed me
into a corner in a Constantinople club,
looked at me sternly over the top of his
brandy and soda and addressed me as
follows:
when you write about this town,
old chap, hope you'll tell your peo-
pie what a beastly place it is, what?
A chap can't make move, you know,
without some one asking him to have
something. Look here, old chap. In
a court Of law, you know, chap is
ordinarily supposed to be sober after
o'clock at night, what? Here it's
the opposite, by Jovel A bit thick, eh,
what?
Look here, make note of this,
what? They celebrate five Christmas
es and five New Years In this rotten
town. Oh, at least five. On my
honor, old chap! English, Armenian,
Greek, Russian, Turkish, Jewish-real-
ly, old chap, become fearfully in
coherent when / try to remember
what they are. BY the time the last
New Year Is over one can just totter
around. oh, absolutely, | give you
my word! And then there is the Rus
sian Easter, which is fearfully nerve
racking. 1t lasts from one to two
weeks, and one is obliged to do fear
full amount of drinking. While it
lasts one goes up to any one and says
He is risen and kisses him three
times. It's done that way, old chap.
l give you my word, everybody does
1t. One hunts for pretty girl and
says He is risen and kisses her three
times, and, by jove, it's considered
quite all right. Oh, quite. In a way,
old chap, it beats egg rolling on a lawn
all hollow, what? A bit thick, by jove,
but bit Of all right, what?
But of course there's fearful lot
Of good feeling and one must ever
lastingly be buying drink for some
one. 1t cuts into ones work fearfully.
You just tell all that to the chaps at
home, and they'll see that living in
Constantinople isn't all beer and skit-
ties, by jove! What?"-Chicago Daily
News
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-05-25
URGE WIDER USE or CABBAGE
Experts Of Cornell College Of Aoricul-
ture Extol Humble Vegetables
Value as Food.

Lovers Of cabbage will welcome the
announcement of the experts at Cor
nell's College Of Agriculture, acclaim
ing the merits of this succulent vege-
table Cabbage 10 a subject the dis
cussion of which is not considered
rood social usage. For some inscrut-
able reason to acknowledge fondness
for 1t does not raise one in the esti-
nation Of processing epicures, writes
II. Young in the Providence Journal.
Cabbage is. rich in iron and other
mineral salts. it contains a moderate
amount Of grovth-promoting substance
and the American people should eat
more of 1t than is their habit, accord
ing to the Cornell propagandists.
Have we not heard, too, that it con-
tains these precious, if as yet uniden-
titled elements called vitamines? This
cabbage report suggests that Ameri-
cans do not cook it properly, as rule,
and that may explain why apprecia-
ton Of it is not more general. 1t
should be plunged into boiling salted
water and left there for 20 minutes.
no longer, uncovered"--instead OF be-
ing confined to tightly-coyered re-
ceptacle for an indefinite period.
The practice Of covering the dish
has grown up because Of a convention
al dissemination to having the house
filed with the perfume of boiling cab
bage. But to a hungry cabbage lover
this fragrance Is one of the vegetables
charms. 1t exercises, as one may say,
an agreeable psychological influence
There are, of course, divers ways of
serving cabbage, all of them good. And
since our tastes are often ruled by
the Judgment Of authority, it may be
believed that widening circle of con-
Tossing cabbage eaters will be the con-
sequence of Cornell's approving YER
dict.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-05-25
HAD THE LAUGH ON TEACHER
Instructress Called for Examples, and
Tommy Was the Boy Who
Could Furnish Them.

There has never been any love lost
between Tommy and his teacher. Tom
my thinks the teacher is severe and
occasionally unjust person, who has
never known what it is to be young,
while the teacher considers the little
chap both stupid and mischievous.
"Xou are not attending to what l
say, Thomas" said the teacher one day
in the midst of an address to her
class.
Eyes, teacher, / is" said Tommy
with much earnestness.
"You should never say i is" cor
rected the teacher. II have told you
that a hundred times. You know the
correct form. There are no excep-
lions to its use. Give me two ex-
amples at oncei'
Eyes, maam," said Tommy, meekly.
al am one Of the letters Of the alpha
bet. / am a pronoun. philadelphia
Ledger.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-05-25
SHORTAGE IN PANTS SUPPLY
Evidently Pioneers Wardrobes Were,
at Least to a Certain Extent,
UnpIeasantly Limited.

In the early days of central Illinois.
q, period when the settlers drove their
hog. to market at Chicago, breaking a
path In winter by means Of yoke
of oxen and a heavy log, certain
young man was an the habit OF walk
Ing eight miles to see his best girl.
On the occasion of one visit heavy
snowstorm swept the prairie, and the
young man found it necessary to re-
main until morning. He slept in an
outside" room, the space between the
logs being untitled. The old-fashioned
feather bed with wool blankets pro-
tected him from the zero weather.
1t so happened that the young man
wore the style at that date, buckskin
pants. Thoughtlessly on retiring he
laid his pants on top of the bed
clothes. A coyote or wolf crawled
through the cracks between the logs
in the night and carried his pants
away. The theft was revealed when
the young man was called for break
fast, and to cap the climax, not an
extra pair of pants was to be had
The young man was forced to stay In
bed and send boy eight miles to his
home for pants. There was only one
pair in his family. those worn by his
father. Thus the father had to go to
bed and send the boy these pants In
order that the latter could get back
home.-Indianapo News.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-05-25
Altogether Too Suggestive.

Journeying along the border few
weeks ago, Tom Mix, a motion-picture
actor, drove his automobile across the
river into Juarez for glass of beer,
innocently parked in a space where
parking was prohibited and walked
off. He had made about two blocks
when he was clapped on the back by
a breathless Mexican policeman.
"You air under arrest for putting re
automobile where he do not belong.
Come with me. Why you not stop
when 1 call your painted the gen.
darme.
"Sir, senior, call you twenty times.
hees-like dees: Ssssssssss Eat is ze
way we call re attention Of hombre
In Mexico"
"Well," said Mix, "all I've got to
say is that's a rotten way to call an
actor"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-05-25
PICTURE HUNG BY "sP0OKs"
Rejected Portrait Appears Mysterious
ly on Walls Of Salon In Big
New York Hotel.

A phenomenon, as startling and
mysterious to the officers and directors
of the Society of Independent Artists
as were the recent ghostly manifesto
lions In Antigonish to the MacDonalds
and DR.. Walter Franklin Prince, was
revealed at the artists exhibition on
the top floor of the Waldorf.
The New York spirit nailed re-
jected drawing to wall, and above it
hammered four tacks in card which
told that the picture was the work
of Mrs. Emma Mabel Field Of Chicago,
and was called "Impressionistic Per-
sonality Portrait of Miss Edith Ben
nett"
"Spooks or no spooks," said A. S.
Baylinson, a director and secretary
of the society, that picture has got
to come down. No one gave Mrs. Field
permission to have 1t exhibited, and
our walls aren't open for spirits" A
special delivery letter from the artist
to Mr. Baylinson, arrived few days
later.
Il am starting for home now" her
letter says, land will be under way
before this letter Is mailed. And beg
to inform you that have left the mat
ter entirely in the hands of my guide,
who has assured me that my poor
little picture will be exhibited there
whether you wish it or not. New
York Times.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-05-25
To Take Census Of Bees.

A census of the bees in a hive has
been made possible by a clever de-
vice invented by an employee of the
bureau of entomology.
The invention consists of gate to
be placed at the entrance to bee
hive with a series of telephone mes
sage registers attached In such way
that every time a bee goes through
the gate it's passage is recorded. The
device is operated electrically by al
ternating current.
As about 100000 bees go out during
the day, on gathering expedi-
tons, considerable electrical energy
is needed to operate the recording
gate, though the amount of energy ex
pended by the device each time bee
passes is inf1nitesimal.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-05-25
A Willing Spirit.

An DID, crippled cOlored man recent
ly knocked at the door of North
side residence and asked for work, re-
lates the Indianapolis News. Having
no work she thought he could do, the
woman of the house answered in the
negative, but she gave him his break
fast instead. When he handed back
his dishes she espied check In the
empty coffee cup and asked the mean
ing of 1t, and he said: Just show ii
to the mister" 1t developed that 1t
was cancelled check of the vintage
Of '1o. The housewife accepted 1t In
the spirit 1t was intended and sent
the old fellow happily on his way.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-05-25
shIpplna Cases for Rubber.

A new case for shipping sheet rub
Der has been introduced into Singa-
pore shipping circles by an American
firm. These reach local exporters in
the form of sheets made of 100 per
cent fiber, the riveting, packing and
wiring being done by the shippers The
thlnness Of the sheets enables the
cases built from them to hold from
10 to 25 per cent more weight of rub
Der than the old wooden boxes, and
the new construction is practically I'M
breakable, very cleanly and water
proof Scientific American.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-05-25
Seasoned AutoIst.

Virginia is three and one-half years
old. She calls herself Buddy" Her
father owns an automobile. The other
day while the family was enjoying a
ride, travelling at rapid speed, the
auto struck large bump. SO violent
was the jolt that it seemed as If
every spring would break. AS the car
rolled on Buddy, seated beside her
father, looked up at him with large,
round blue eyes and said: Daddy.
why don't you say damitohell?-In-
dianapolis News.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-05-25
METHODIST CHURCH

1890 Union service at the Congre-
gational church. Memorial day adj
dress by Dr.NJ. 0. Thrush.
11:45 Regular Sunday School ses-
sion. Let us not drop on these special
days.
7:45 Union service at the Metho-
dist church. The sermon to be de-
livered to the graduating class Of the
High school will be delivered by the
pastor of this church.
Remember the mid-week service
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-05-25
Handy Eihla for Blind.

The American Bible society has an
nounced it is to bring out small
handy volume" of Scripture selections
for the blind.
The pages are by 10 inches, and
the volume will weigh about pound
A complete Bible prepared in the en-
bossed system used for the blind
weighs about $50 pounds and comes in
from IL to 5S volumes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-05-25
Adopt United States system.

The American idea of public health
nursing has been formally, adopted by
the city council of Warsaw, Poland.
A corps of nurses has been organized
to work with the school doctors ex-
aiming children and investigating
health conditions in homes. Fifty
thousand children of local grammar
schools make the first group to come
under this new system.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-05-25
More Locals

Joe Betterley has been electee
chief of the Elnwood Fire Depart
ment.
John Peterson of Ellsworth is visit
ing at the home Of his brother, T. ID.
Peterson.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. A. Glass were in
itiated into the Eastern Star Lodge at
Ellsworth last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Knowltcn visited
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Knowlton in Ellsworth Sunday.
B. A. Baardson of Gilman, aged
g., died Saturday. Funeral services
were held at South Rush River church
yesterday, Rev. Mr.. Ordahl official
ing.
Andrew J. Baker of Oak Grove
died last Thursday. Funeral services
were held in st. Mary's church at Big
River by Rev. Fir. Kriel Monday morn
ing.
The movie at the normal auditor
ium Little Women" based on the
story by Louise M. Alcott, was well
attended both afternoon and evening
last Friday.
Now is the time to start working
for the $1,000 prize. Read the Puz-
zle Picture rules, then study the pic
ture for 'B" words. See the picture
elsewhere in this issue.
Carol Brown was painfully injured
Tuesday in a fall from an automo-
bile onto the Main street pavement.
One hand was badly lacerated and he
may lose the use of a finger.
James Boles and Mrs. John Black,
father and sister of Mrs. Will Buck
ner, and Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Wright,
all of River Falls, srent Sunday at
the Buckner home in Ellsworth
Miss Lenore Reed entertained the
following at dinner Sunday: Miss
Mildred Heidbrink of River Falls and
Miss Donna Brown, Messrs. Roland
George of ST. Paul, and Lorimer
Johnson and Rollie Donovan of River
Falls.-Ellsworth Record.
While in St. Paul one day last week
Messrs. and Mesdames VIM. Bittner
and C. A. Ames left their car outside
a store. When they returned a suit
case containing clothing valued at
several dollars had been taken from
the machine and another suitcase had
been rifled of its contents.-Pierce
County Herald.
Mr.. and Mrs Harry Ehle and chill
dren, of Harvard, ILL.,, are spending
week at the home of the formers
brother, Harvey. The Ehles, Spill
ckes, and Leo and Olga Spillcke of
MINNEAPOLIS, joined a family reunion
at the Caesar Spillcke home in River
Falls Sunday.-Roberts. Cor. in Ham
mond News.
There promises to be considerable
activity in the race for sheriff of
Pierce county this fall. VIM. Nor
row, of Ellsworth, Frank Baker of
this city and H. L. Blomquist of Hart
land are already announced as cand:-
dates, and others are said to be con-
sidering the proposition. Rumor hath
it that there also may be lady can
didate.
Just as he was leaving the ball park
at st. Paul last Sunday afternoon
Bert Lord of this city felt someone
give a pull at his watch chain and
discovered it being transferred to a
mans pocket. A. B. reached out and
grabbed the thief before he could get
away (Now don't ever say that
fat man can't move fast.) The fell
low handed over the watch but got
away in the crowd.-Pierce County
Herald.
Mr.. Hayward, Mr.. Goble and Mr..
Davee visited the high schools of
Polk county in the interest of the
normal school last Tuesday and We'd
nesday. Mr. Hunt, Miss Haddow and
Mr.. Mitchell visited the schools at
Elmwood, Spring Valley, Durand, Pep
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-05-25

Wednesday evening. A brief devo-
tional service followed by the Bible
study. The text book, The Worker
and his Bible is here andwe are ready
for business.
G. A. Bird, Pastor
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-05-25
EPISCOPAL SERVICES

Episcopal services will be held in
the parlors of the Gladstone Hotel
the 1st and Ord Sundays in the month,
commencing at 10:45 a. m.
Arizona republican., 1922-03-16

approval of the employer. as he felt
that marriage was huge joke. and
he believed the boy too valuable a
man TO meet the catastrophe of a
Womans love.
The girl the lad had married had
penchant for pretty clothes and
finery, and was much disappointed
that her marriage had not brought
her the case and luxury she had ex-
pected.
The employer, looking on all wom-
en- as dangerous toys" hit on a
scheme of proving the woman's shall
lowness. and the plot is started.
He has the wife. who had OBJ
tanned employment in cloak empo-
rum. let it be known at home that
she is being sent out of the city on
a buying trip. In reality she is 10
go to an apartment, furnished BY the
cynic, where she is to enjoy for two
weeks every luxury wealth can
know. At the end of that time she is
to decide whether she wants to con-
tinue that life, or whether she pre-
fers the love and homelife with her
husband. The two weeks shall pass
without her being molested in any
manner there will be nothing done
to coerce her decision; it is test
Of love.
The affair Is progressing wonder
fully well. when the husband learns
of the plot and in a violent scene
confronts the wife with the charge
if infidelity and names his employer
as her partner.
This action precipitates the story
into a whirlpool of situations, out OF
which emerge the worth Of true love,
unscathed. even strengthened by the
ordeal; and it even opens the way
10 the disiilusionment and the con-
sequent finding of happiness for the
employer.
Desmond's cast is a worthy one,
and contributes largely to the sue
cess of the story
The added attraction is Lee MO-
ran comedy. "The Straphanger."
Sunday opens the engagement or
eOueen Of Sheba," the William Fox
sensational picture, starring Betty
Blyth.
Arizona republican., 1922-03-16
COTTON EXCHANGE
MERE BUCKETSHOP
BROKERS CHARGE

NEW YORK. March Is - Charges
that the American cotton exchange
is a huge bucketshop where actual
trading'is rare and where the south
ern speculator is at the mercy of the
New York broker were made today
by former members of the exchange
at a John Doe" investigation con-
Quoted by the district attorneys Of
flee before Chief City Magistrate
McAdoo.
Witnesses testified TO numerous in
stances Of "cross trading" fictitious
orders, dummy accounts, "scalping,' =
secret manipulation of unrecorded
transactions. sensational advertising
designed to WOO the business of small
spectators in the south and undis-
guised bucketing Of orders.
w. b. Wilson and J. II. Watson,
members of the firm of Wilson and
company. which was expelled from
the exchange last February % on
charges that they had warned their
clients against further dealings with
the institution were principal wit
nesses for the prosecution
when there was cotton for sale
in the ring, we made bonafide sales
for our clients" Mr.. Wilson testified
But the southerner. who is an optim-
list about the cotton market, almost
invariably bought. As a result there
seldom was any cotton for sale and
brokers simply 'bucketed' the orders,
taking a chance on covering them
selves when cotton eventually was
offered in the ring"
Several gilt embossed pamphlets,
distributed through the south by New
York brokers. were introduced as
evidence.
These should be called to the at
Arizona republican., 1922-03-16
NIGHT ROSE" WITH
LON CHANEY OPENS
At COLUMBIA TO-DAY

Lon CLANCY is seen in one OF the
finest character portraya.ls OF his
carer at the head of an all star
cast in "The Night Rose" new
Leroy Scott melodrama of life in the
underworld. which comes to Mauks S
Columbia theater for a limited en-
gagement of three days, beginning
this afternoon. It's a Goldwyn picture
and the finest screening this pro-
ducing company has offered since
THE Old Nest
Much abused as is the expression
"all star cast" there has never been
a more conspicuous example OF its
deserved use than in The Night
Rose Mr.. Chaney's work in this
gigantic offering entities him to
place at the very top of screen play
ers. He has the role of a boss of the
underworld but one of unusual type.
Though living on the fruits OF evil,
an enemy of law. he hides behind
the outward personality and garb
of a gentleman. Cullen Lands is seen
as the Curly Kid" a bit OF work
that deserves to rank with his never
to-be- forgotten character in THE
Girl From Outside" Leatrice JOY.
who has risen rapidly to the top OF
screen favorites. easily does the most
notable work of her career as Geor-
gia. In some of the emotional roles
She rises to real heights. Betty
Schade has the role of sally"
ORourke's favorite. She makes the
character convincing. yet lifts it far
above the usual type. Mary Warren,
long prominent in important roles,
and Edythe Chapman, favorite moth
er of the screen, have the two other
leading female roles. John Bowers,
John Cossar, Lefty Flynn and M.
Milton Ross are other members OF
the male cast.
The climax of the picture takes
Mace in a magnificent ballroom,
where the underworld czar is about
to dance with his new girl" But in
order to get her fiance out or the
way he has had him shot. Though
this turns out not to be fatal. IT
nerves the girl to the point of ap-
pairing at the hall with the intention
of taking the gangster's life. How
her aim is thwarted but her inten-
tion carried out by another forms
Arizona republican., 1922-03-16
THE BOHEMIAN GIRL
COMING FOR Z DAYS

There Is more than unusual inter-
est in the forthcoming production of
"The Bohemian Girl at the Elks
theater on Saturday and Sunday,
March Is and 10. with a popular ma
tinee on each day. First because
"The Bohemian Girl" is without
doubt the greatest Of all the light
operas and second, because the Dun
bar Opera company is the best light
opera organization in America. The
combination makes a dish that can
not we'll be overlooked especially at
the modest admission prices that the
Elks is charging.
"The Bohemian" Girl Is wonder
fully colorful production and the
music the kind that rings in your
ears for years. 1t is so near to grand
opera that many of the grand opera
companies include 1t in their reper-
toire. yet it is brimming over with
rich wholesome comedy and popular
airs. Those who have heard the
Dunbars sing robin Hood" "The
Chimes Of Normandy and THE Mi
kado" realize the exceptional treat
that Is in store for them and many
are making reservations for both
nights, realizing that this is posi-
lively their last opportunity to hear
this wonderful organization as the
company goes from Phoenix almost
direct to the Columbia theater in San
Francisco for an extended engage
ment.
The Dunbar Opera company has
endeared itself to the hearts of the
Phoenix music and amusement lovers
as no other stock company ever did
and they are going to be really
missed when they are gone. Many
matinee and theater parties have
been arranged by admirers of the
members of the company and the
two days promise to be the best III
the history of the Elks theater this
season.
In "The Bohemian Girl" the differ
ent members of the company will be
cast as follows: airline" Theo PEN
nington; "Thaddeus," Harry Pfeil;
Gypsy Queen" Paula Ayres: Devils
Hoof." gypsy leader, Ed Andrews;
Count Arnheim," Carl Bundshu;
"FIorentine," George Alsen; with
captivating June Reed. Vernelle
Rohrer, Irma Tice, Esther Snyker,
Regina Manville and all the rest OF
the Dunbar girls and boys as the re-
tainers, hunters. soldiers. gypsies. etc.
Don't delay in making your reser-
vations until 1t is too late but be on
hand to say farewell to the best mu-
sical show that has ever honored
Arizona with a visit
Arizona republican., 1922-03-16
QUEEN OF SHEBA'
COMING To STRAND

Queen of Sheba," the love romance
OF the most beautiful woman the
world has ever known. a production
which marks the most pretentious
gift William Fox has ever made to
the science of the cinema, comes to
the Strand for an engagement start
ing Sunday.
Queen of Sheba" has been eagerly
awaited for several weeks. Changes
in routings, substituting of dates and
other unavoidable circumstances
have been responsible for the delay
which has attended the arrival OF
this much heralded production in
Phoenix, but now that the definite
date has been set. the Strand is
bound to claim the spotlight of at
tention during the engagement of this
remarkable epic in celluloid.
Queen of Sheba' is unquestion-
ably one of the most massively pro-
duced films Of the present era. Its