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The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-09-29
Badly Behaved Garment.

Anita had new dress which con-
tinued TO pull up and show her pctti.
coats.
Annoyed by this. the child said:
Mother. can't you fix this dress; II
certainly doesn't behave we'll"
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-09-29
TO THE MEMORY
OF THE
FEMALE STRANGFp

LMNI-h STRANGER
whose mortal surerings Terminated
on the fourth day Of October. ISIS
.sed t"ents-eight years and eight
NOUNS, TINS stone is erected by her
1isoonsolate husband in whose arms
she breathed out her last sigb 'nS
who. under God. did his utmos, "iiu
soothe the duh. cold ear ~ a. 70
That is ali-and the most da,o-
ined efforts OF the residents .,
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-09-29
GOLD MEDAL
w &XXduAX3 y

bring quick relief and often ward d
deadly diseases. Known as the nationd
remedy Of Holland for more than 20
years. All druggists, in three sizes
Look for the name Gold Medal on ever ID
and accept no imitation
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-09-29

How loved, how honored once, avail.
thee not,
To whom related. or by whom begot;
A heap of dust alone remains of thee,
lis all thou art, and all the proud shall
be.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-09-29

They, too, misunderstanding with
them the secret of the identity of the
woman whose history and personality
Is forever hidden from the world be-
hind three words 1.-THE Female
Stranger"
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perfect In that complex art. Is
nsvertheles quite typical Of the
continent. There are no dyspep-
tic men and neurouc women in
Paris. This does not mean that
the Parisian and the Parisienns
knov no Ills.
The artist in life must recon-
pense IN some small measure for
the good that Life yields. But the
ills Of good living are not grabbed,
cranky and pale-and thankiess.
They are robust and induce hearty
profanity rather than pesvish
whining.
Who would not much rather
have Rheumatism for joys he has
had. knowing what It 10 all about
than >aerves-for Joys he has not
had. and that he can't understand.
Continental civilization - partic.
ularly the LAtin-is based upon
sophistication. More than that.
There is in It also. q certain mild
disillusionment. Anglo-Saxon CIV
ilixation. that Is the traditions
which America has inherited to an
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exaggerated degree from England,
is based upon childish castles in
the air. day dreams and mirages.
MISGUIDED PURITANISM.
This result II . misguided prud-
ish puritanism. which does not
succeed in doing away with vice.
but leads. rather. to . second vice
Hypocrisy.
You have, therefore, the man
whs idolizes his wife AZ some
thing ethereal, not to be contami-
mated by the baser side Of his
nature. who spends . not incon.
sequential part Of his time In the
Tenderloin-a procedure, Of which
wife" must know nothing. lest
this evidence Of his grossness
shock her fine sensibilities.
In this happy family. you have
then, hubby" who Is q moral
hypocrite and ''wifie" with jumpy
nerves and moods-an excellent
start for a newspaper sensation or
q. novel.
The Frenchman, on the other
hand, takes = natural. yet unexag-
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serated pleasure in his physical
and mental appetites. He realizes
that all life 10 not rosy-colcred.
and In complete sophistication he
attempts to make the most Of life
"a 1t 10 and not ~ It should b.
He takes two hours for his mid
day meal-whatever his status In
life. The. workman In his pictur.
esque. bsggy trousers and blouse
stops work at twelve o'clock with
the silk-hatted banker. and both
walk, siesta or talk With their fam
lilies until two o'clock.
LAW HAS IT'S PLACE.
The Frsnchman would no more
think Of missing his walk in the
Bois dc Boulonss on Sunday
morning In order to catch up
with back work than he would
think Of being deprived Of his
wine-flavorsd water with his daily
meals. Work has it, place-on
Monday morning; and law has its
place-which II not the infringe
msnt Of personal liberty.
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men and women over such an
abuse?
One fact especially in modern
life Is generally fastened on by
those who look back with longing
to the days when the discussion
Of sex was kept hushed and under
cover. It IL the increase In the
number Of divorces.
Now this is not q cause, but a
result of q definite cause. Any in.
crease cannot. therefore. bs con.
demned a. wholly evil and show
ing marked degeneration In the
race without some study Of the
causes from which the results
spring.
A divorce 10 granted by reason
Of the unfaithfulness. dessrtion
and cruelty Of . husband or wife.
But the iAvs are Aes equal for
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This was all very well for
those who were placed in com.
Portable cages and had no desire
for liberty. But masses Of women
suffered intensely In their cages,
and the comfortable ones. equipped
with the blinksrs Of ignorance and
indifference, did not seem to care.
DO you hear the children cry
Ing, o. my brothersf" said Eliza
beth Barrett Browning. But the
children had to wait many dreary
years bsfors much was done for
thsm.
II took Lord shaftesbury ten
years to stop women and young
boys being forced to work in
mines, crawling on all fours for
eighteen hours . day dragging
small trucks of GOAL.
weuid II take him ten years
now - rouse the Indignation Of
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men and women. II you improve
the status Of woman you make her
less willing to submit to indignity
and suffering.
Hence q larger number Of appli-
cations for divorce. Those OF us
who are claiming an equal moral
standard want divorce to be grant
cd for unfaithfuiness In man as
well a. In woman.
II such q standard were adopted
It might double and treble the
returns Of the divorce court.
But It would be . reform in the
very truest moral sense. for q
law that II unfair to q group OF
individuals cannot b moral.
One Of the chief causes Of d.
vorcs and ss1 immorality 10 the
fact that too few parents teach
their children sslf-oentrol
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The artist sips sparkling Bur.
gundy or Sauterne or . thimble-
ful Of Chartreuse. the while he
writes verses to the subtelty Of
the beverage that wsnds its way
warmly down his throat.
The artist tells his lady Of the
exquisite chart Of the tiny mole
on her left shoulder.blads that
heightens the whiteness Of hsr
skin, the while he touches his
lips to this most perfect impsr.
fection.
The artist Of life spends two
hours on his luncheon and two
hours on his dinner every day.
And while he eats IN appetizing
variety OF hors d'oeuvres. meats,
vegetables and chsesss, he dis-
courses with some amiable oom.
panion on cuisine-or perhaps
the politics Of the day, Or books
KNOWS THE ART.
Tho country better versed in the
art Of living than any other II
France. Paris. although more
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MORALITY OF TODAY SHOWS NO DECLINE

FOLLOWING Str Arthsr Con-
an Doyls's thoughts on divorce,
q different aspect Of che case Is
ad Janced by a distinguished con-
tributor IN ths following ovtiols:
BY MRS. H. b. IRVING.
One hears . great deal about
the decline Of morality In these
days, particularly among young
women. Those who hold that
England is losing the sancity Of
its home life point to tas quiet
homes Of . generation o. two
ago.
But one must remember that
a. far - the women we're con-
cernsd thcss homes were cages.
though many Of them were most
comfortable, and the women in
them saW only % much Of life %
II was deemed proper that they
should 80
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the set Of the rigging was right
from the standpoint of the in.
flexible laws Of mathematics
and how the man who made it
who doesn't pretend to be any.
body especially. and 30 has no
studio or poured cement convic.
tions-went to q great deal Of
trouble to have everything about
the yacht model as right as he
could make It ~ long a. he was
building . yacht model.
Studio? Oh-the room I work
In? why-1 do some Of what
do in here" And she led the
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Miss BrinSley said. lis the de-
scendant Of the girls Of the time
I am trying to picture here. You
see they wear skirts that are Just
a. they should be for outdoor
play. Since girls have become
devoted to sport in this country
you see. am trying
On the table near the drawing
board there we're several books.
One on Greek SCULPTURE. another
on architecture with . picture Of
the Parthsnon on the outside. and
. volume cut Of the set Of Grote
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KATHLEEN NORRIS DECLARES TINENlBBLERS WASTE LIVES
JUST AS NBBLING CHECKS SOON WRECK BANK BALAN

"oh, yes; We did; that's right.
Well. then, III see you anyway
tomorrow. And II you can come
to Sues Monday. do come
well. al I say. III have to
speak to Harry"
"Yes; I know. Well, ring me
up sometime. won't you? ! just
thought I'd ring you up /"
I'm % glad you did . ."
There II moro of II. equally
vital. The baby's mother hangs
up. walks the floor. takes the
telephone down again. and hears
1t still going on.
The telephone people can In.
struct their employees in courtssy
and brevity. and they do. But
they can't control the time nib
blers. who choke the line. impede
the service, and render what
should be q simplifier Of life and
. priceless convenience. too often
. source of absolute annoyance.
SUBURBAN TRAIN BORE.
Then there are the suburban
train conversationaiists already
indicated. With what . futtsr
Of pleasure they seek out their
victims. with what fatuous de-
light they drop into that empty
seat, and how they blast ones
busily moving and concentrated
thoughts with their breezy. well.
what do you knowf"
One has been playing cards
with them the night before until
1l:20. One knows all that they
know--thers 10 nothing vital,
nothing new. But the pencil that
was steadily listing the names for
the church or club committee. the
scribbled letter to . small son
away on his visit to grandma,
the tempting book about women
and social work, the editorial that
will clear up. ones haxy ideas
about Russia's internal struggle
must be laid aside!
"Suburbanites make pathetic Of.
forts to avoid this daily oomplica-
ton; Jim Smith knows that Joe
Davis likes him; he doesn't want to
hurt his feelings. But both would
be so much happier apart for that
twice daily nfty-two minutes.
Mary Smith has nsighborly prob.
lens In common with Mollie Davis,
but oh. what . relief II 10 to have
the train draw out Of the station
without Mollie chattering beside
her!
RAILROADS, TAKE NOTICE.
A commuter suggested to me &c.
riously the other day-and I pass
the idea on to the railway compa.
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By HELEN FOX.

. HE most subtle of the arts.
and the one in which
u America 10 least talented,
10 the art Of living. She has
dabbled with paints; she has
penned sonnets to the moon;
she has flocked to hear the COM
positions OF new, young COM
posers at Carnegie; but she has
not yet attempted the express
sion Of the individual through
life-a mere matter Of breath
ing and pleasuring the senses
and the intellect.
Life to the great majority Of
Americans Is a matter Of food
and meaningless luxuries. for
which they gun night and day in
Wall Street and Hester street
alike. Apd their recreation 10
no less characterized by the
same hectic spirit Of pursuit
that marks the chase for the
elusive calory.
There 10 something despetpts
about jaxzing. booxing young
America. It's furry and bluster
is almost as helpless. but not 30
amusing. as q puppy chasing its
own tail.
The excuse for this madcap
whirlwind Of American life 10
that, life IL short. and therefore
We must make It merry. To me.
however. mad" and merry
are not synonyms. and the Amer
lean idea Of "a short life and
merry one" 10 . sad perversion Of
that venerable carps diem philos-
ophy Of Epicurus.
ARTISTS or LIFE.
The Epicurean art Of living is
quite at the other end Of the pole
from brutal drinking and un-
esthetic license. The artist Of
life does not set drunk on syn
thetic liquor. nor does he set
thrills from suggestive shimmy.
ins and coon-sheutins. end five
minute sandwich lunchsons.
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travel. His secret is always to
have a good book. a magazine or a
newspaper editorial with him.
He has taught himself several
languages in those. hours on the
ferryboat: he has tasted the de-
Lights Of the astronomer. the scient-
fst. the historian. He 10 a political
and social power. and he says 1t
10 because Of those leisure, quiet.
Insulated" (the word is his) hours.
And on his coat lapel he wears q
small metal disk clearly lettered,
Don't talk to me-" He doesn't
always wear 1t. but a. he settles
himself upon the airy upper deck,
out Of the wind, or in a seat on
the train. he puts 1t in place.
That brings US to the time nib
blers.
We all know them. We are sur
rounded by them. They are van.
dals: ones privacy, ones own
thoughts. ones business, mean
nothing to them.
DO YOU RECOGNIZE THIS.
They telephone at meal times.
And the frantic mother of a sick
baby. who is trying to get the
doctor on the same extension
hears something like this:
well. I thought I'd call you up
nothing special"
I'm SO glad you did ."
Well. I thought / would - -"
Ring me soon. won't your"
II will. Yes. will, Ethel"
"If I'm not here with mama,
III be at Georges"
Yes, I know. But I'll see you
at Elsie's tomorrow"
"Oh. that's right. I forgot that.
And you'll stop for Betty?"
"Oh. I thought we arranged
that Flora would"
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from one Of the sectional book
cases.
In trying to get everything
right find It helps Q great deal
to 90 to the source. Once I just
used to draw whatever I felt,
without bothering about accuracy.
But I can't do that now. I try to
have everything a. it ought to
be. historically and every other
way. Still q picture ought to sx.
plain itself. II the artist, I mean
the person who draws the picture.
has to explain it why then the
artist mean the person Who
draws the picture-I am trying TO
explain that in drawing pictures.
as you go along and try to do
the best you can you find that
you don't know very much.
have to keep buying books all
the time"
Then the interviewing journal.
list tried to find out II Miss Brink
ley had certain hours for work.
II she worked best In certain
moods, II she felt that her work
accurately expressed herself. II
when the white flame Of inspfra.
ton was on her its reaction left
her pallid and exhausted. All
that sort Of thing.
KRAZY ABOUT KRAZY.
Miss Brinkley works practically
all day when she isn't interrupted
and has never considered at oil
II her work accurately expresses
herself. And she hasn't any
studio except the room with the
typewriter and the drawing board
In 1t, she has no art PHILOSOPHY
or convictions about truth to ones
self In art expression. or the
necessity for a high clear cour.
age rising triumphant over ip.
hibitions.
"When I take a day off and 90
down to New York." she finally
admitted, II find II Q little hard
sometimes to 80 hack to work.
And sometimes I do set q little ter.
rified-when I don't seem 10 be
able to think Of anything"
And the only further pronounce
ment on art that the interviewer
was able to elicit was that lllss
Brinkley II q militant Krasy Kat
fan and considers that George Her.
riman 10 great poet and genius.
Perhaps II 10 no more than fair
to say that Miss Brinklsy 10 also
Q poet and genius. Even II It's
creator wears no smoc,e and has
not bobbed her plentiful pais-goid.
neutrality-suspicious. hair. and lives
In . studieisss house In New Ro-
chells, which 10 exactly forty-five
minutes from Broadway and forty.
five and one-haif thousand miles
from Greenwich Village - the
crow fliss.
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"O keep nibbling at chocolates.
crackers, nuts and odds and
u ends in general betx cen
meals means that you ruin your
digestion, your complexion. your
disposition and frequently the des-
sert intended for the family dinner.
To nibble at your bank account
means that all the little weak. ir-
resolute. insignificant checks sud-
denly gain force. like q swarm Of
tiny bees. and literally sting the
bank account to death.
And to nibble at your time
those precious waking sixteen
hours out Of the twenty.four-
means exactly the Same thing
where success in life is concerned.
Time is an asset to some persons.
to a minority Of persons.
To the majority 1t is q vague
condition to be wasted. ignored
and thrown away anywhere and
everywhere.
" you and I. at the end of our
lives. could see the total of the
minutes we have wasted, or that
others have wasted for us, we
would stand appalled,.
Take a pencil and paper some
day and work out a budget Of your
time.
So much for once. so much for
sleep. and then what -?
A WARNING SIGN.
A friend Of mine astonished me
the other day with the statement
that he spends one.fifth Of his time
in travel. He Is an elderly man, a
suburbanite, who makes a train
and boat trip Of one hour and fif.
teen minutes twice daily and two
trolley trips Of fifteen minutes.
Nine hours he sleeps out of twen-
ty.four. That leaves fifteen. And
Of these fifteen he spends three in
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Some Real Inside Stuff About the Bnley GmAnd Her Won
TT isn't SO many years ago that
Nell Brinkley was working.

TT isn't SO many years ago that
Nell Brinkley was working,
- in . very obscure way. on q
paper out in Denver, Col. But
fate couldn't conceal her for long.
Ever 90 many clever Newspaper
people have come out of Denver
indeed. perhaps. as they used to
say about Vermont. the cleverer
they are the quicker they came.
However that may be. Miss
Brinkley didn't stay long on tho
Denver sheet. She came East
with q nice fat contract awaiting
her. for up.to-date editors are
always on the watch for talent,
wherever It may break into tho
light. And now everybody knows
her fluffy Brinkiey girls and
watches for them eagerly daily
and Sunday.
But comparatively few Of those
who know all about the Brinkley
girls know much about Miss
Brinxley herself. Arthur Bris-
bans, in writing once about Miss
Brinkley and her work. comment
ed upon the beautiful hair of the
Brinkley girls and remarked that
Miss Brinkley's hair was no less
interesting.
This talented young woman IL
extremely industrious, but her
work 10 q lot of fun for her. She
has . home at New Rochelle. q
town which can boast at least two
other distinctions. namely. the fact
that It was the scene Of George
M. Cohan's "Forty-five Minutes
from Broadway" and the fact that
It 10 the home Of Eddie Foy and
his elaborate family.
JUST A GOOD HOUSE.
Miss Brinkley lives In q gray
shingled house under trees q few
hundred yards from the heart Of
the town. 1t has no effects In
gables, lawn furniture, sun par
lors. or colonial appurtenances.
1t is just a. good house. The
porch is enclosed In netting and
contains two plain rockers, q
Morris chair. and a door mai.
Miss Brinkley opened the door
berself.
Miss Brinkley, who has glad
dened the world for beyond a
dozen years with an art which 10
personal and Joyous and sound,
and fully acknowledged even by
ten thousand helpless. hopeless
imitators, has no studio. Yet
such 10 the melancholy fact.
The journalist. imagining Of
course that she had. asked to
be shown II.
Miss Brinkley had been exhibit.
ing the model Of . yacht made
by somebody else, explaining how
true the proportions were. how
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the average office fs tossed aside
with an impatient mo answer"
In they flood. the circular let.
tiers. the advertising matter. the
mimeographed long sheets about
nothing.
And with them como these
wordy, luxuriant effusions dictated
by some very young man In some
busy office to girl whose
tethered thoughts and whose i'm.
patient fingers can hardly show
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Then, too. the Frenchman
doesn't idealize his woman. a.
does the Anglo-Saxon. He loves
her. His one aim in their life
together IN to please her. to make
her happy. Unhampered by vague.
splendid sounding illusions. II he
loves his wife. he does not make
excursions to Montmartre.
He and his mate have too clear
IN understanding Of the marital
relationship to BE- unhealthily
prudish.
= The main difficulty with Amer
lea and it's inability to live u the
fact that Americans do not feel
that living 10 an achievement; and
Americans are out to achieve. The
child Of three lisps his first ambi.
ton, II wanna be q polithemanr
which his fond mother interprets
to friends as you see! Sonny win
be q great diplomat some day. He
is talking already Of being an off,
Ger Of the law. Who knows, he
may be President some day"
TO ACHIEVE Is KEYNOTE,
To achieve il the keynote OF
American life. Thus far the only
recognised achievement 10 fame
or wealth. Once ifs-vivid, fun
and overflowing-is recognised a.
something to be achieved, the art
Of living may flourish more bril-
Mantly on this side Of the ocean
than II does on the other. Self
expression to the artistic person in
America means music, or litera-
ture, or painting; to the more com.
merciai minded II means aocumu-
lating millions.
America is not yet able to real
ize that one of the finest forms Of
self.exprsssion 10 through living.
Really to live 10 ~ much an art
a. to paint . great landscaps.
When America learns this We
may expect among our biographies
OF great statesmen. writer's and
artists thrilling stories Of the lives
Of great iivsra
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here and there in the familiar
handwriting. saying % much in
50 little! Not for him the REBEL
ious, bored secretary and the roll
ing phrases. His time counted.
Our earliest ancestors walked
wherever they went and talked
only TO those within the range Of
their own voices. Later. the
epistolary age. the age Of journals,
diaries and letters, came in. and
then they drove in leisurely sur
ries to enlarge their range Of
acquaintance
But We are perpetually geared
in hgfh. We moderns. We rush,
we spin. we fly. we broadcast
through the uncharted heavens
our voices and our personalities.
The door bell. the telephone bell.
the mall. the boy with kilograms.
the crowded elevators, are jam
ming life against US in every wax.
ing hour and half through the
night.
A GENUINE SOCIAL DUTY.
It has become a genuine social
duty for us to spare each other.
There 10 not one Of us among
the professional millions-the girls
in shops, the men in offices. the
stenographers. bookkeepers. clerks.
the brokers. doctors. agents-who
does not need what leisure we
can seize for recuperation. and
what silence we can achieve for
mental readjustments.
Fifteen minutes Of peace. with
closed eyes. can be managed upon
tho bumpiest train that ever rat.
tied out Of . station 4 the nice
little woman whose family recent
ly moved into the shingled house
on Elm street IL not beside one
saying:
10 . not hard one bit! Be
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niles. with an due respect-that
that every suburban train have
one car marked with a large disc
Immunity Car" and that the men
and women getting into. that car
shall be tacitly regarded as un.
desirous of company.
Then there Is the subtle time
nibbiing that goes on through the
mails.
1t is not too much TO say that
one-third Of the mail received in
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How Artist Nell Foregoes the Buncornbe of Greenwich
Village for a Quiet Nest i'm New Rochelle Where
She Spins Beauty With Thread-Like Lines.

the board was of . scene In
Greece along about the time Of
Pericles, and showed . half dozen
young Athenian girls. each wear.
ing . chiffon inch Of white paper.
and with her hair caught up in
fillets playing At ball.
Tho napper. you see. today"
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By KATHLEEN NORRIS:

TO nibble ct your bank
account means that all tho
little weak, Insignificant
checks suddenly gain
force, Hike q swarm Of
angry bees, and literally
sting ths bank account to
death. And to nibble at
your time means exactly
the Same thing whore sue.
cess in life Is concerned.
II You and !, at tho end
Of our lives, could see the
total Of the minutes we
have wasted, or that
others have wasted for N,
we would stand appalled,.
4 4 \
Time nibblers-we all
know them. They are
vandals. onA's Drivacv. or