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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-02-16

Persia has no distilleries, brew.
cries or saloons, and native wine is
the only Intoxicating beverage.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-02-16
Undernuslins at Csc

M ANY of you well acquainted with the table of remark
w able values in Undermusns always keep hand at
this price But you not in that following now
and enjoy revelationcome in and view the splendid Of
ferngs you may purchase at this trivial price There Bloom
er Gowns and Envelope Cheise in both pink white fab
RIGS of unusually good quality And the angt SO much
above ordinary that you'll wonder the garments priced
about $1.5O each
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-02-16

A human skeleton dug up In Ohio
In 1899 measured eight feet.
Chicago has more than 100000
volumes in its central library.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-02-16

At one time kings and mobiles
were the only persons permitted to
wear beardc. ..
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-02-16

1t seems that. high taxes will
end when we do.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-02-16
5gHgRsDAY EVENING, FERRUARY d. 1e2a

The government has had four bona nde offers
Eor Muscle Shoals. Where is that man who said
thassmoney was tight these days.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-02-16

Things are high Ii Russia. Costs
10000 rubles to have a collar
washed. That's 100 rublcs a week
for laundry.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-02-16

March is called the month o
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-02-16

Ono concern working overtime
Is the well.known grave concern"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-02-16

When your wife mlsplacss her
noeketbook, call tho income tax
collector. He can find money any.
whore.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-02-16
By The Way AS !; a: 4: :: e; e ' :;'

wind; our politicians start out
then.
Bryan will run for the Senate.
An Alaskan volcano is also &C.
tive. No damage is expected from
either.
"Hard!ng's Address Simple
headline. Yes, Just White House."
One bad break is being broke.
1t would take six hours to read
the minutes OF a woman's club.
Lots of public offices are used
for private purposes.
What that scientist sees moving
about on the moon may Just be
fleas from the dog star.
A man who owes everything to
bis vito doesn't always pay.
Hungary will live" says her
new minister to America. Her
present problem, though. is "on
what?'
Pretty soon we expect to SEQ a
bathing beauty posing by a bath
tub.
When your wife misplaces her
poeketbook, call tho income tax
collector. He can find money any.
where.
One concern working overtime
L. -
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-02-16

This week is smile week.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-02-16

Times may get so good soon a
man will have to blame things on
his wife.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-02-16

Pretty soon we expect to SEQ a
bathing beauty posing by a bath
tub.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-02-16

Amusement taxes are NOT anus.
ing.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-02-16

When Uncle Joe Cannon leaves
Congress they will lose another
big gun.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-02-16
ROADS

nOfAGo
Road building rapidly climbs the
stairs as a leading Industry. About
100000 Americans now work at
highway construction during the
good.weather season..
That's more than are employed
in the steel, coal or automobile
Roads like transportation in cit.
lee, always are at least five years
behind requirements. TO catch up.
our economic system might be
changed to give every man a road.
building job when his regular
work is slack.
Road building could DO made tho
solution Of unemployment.
Maybe VIII Hays can take his
marines TO Hollywood.
When Uncle Joe Cannon leaves
Congress they will lose another
big gun.
Amusement taxes are not anus.
ing.
Times may get so good soon a
man will have to blame things on
his wife.
This week is smile week.
Things are high IL Russia. Costs
10000 rubles to have collar
washed. That's 100 rublcs a week
for laundry.
1t seems that high taxes will
end when we do.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-02-16

Hungary will live" says her
new minister to America. Her
present problem, though. Is "on
what?"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-02-16

What that scientist sees moving
about on the moon may Just be
fleas from the dog star.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-02-16

A man who owes everything to
bis wife doesn't always pay.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-02-16

Maybe VIII Hays can take his
marines TO Hollywood.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-02-16

Lots of public offices are used
for private purposes.
The New York herald., 1922-06-18
Mystery Plays

of elimination further. He will say
to himself it is exceedingly improb-
able that the heroine should have
committed crookery, if there is
heroine; and if there is a young hero
and young heroine Gas in 1.-THE Cat
and the Canary") he will be quite
certain that everything will be made
all right for them at the end. OF
course, some one might write a play
in which the crimes were really car
ried out by the ingenious heroine
and the leading young man, and in
which the professional villain. the
blackmailer and the thieves all
turned out to have been, in this
particular case, models of virtue and
patterns Of self-sacrifice; but that.
unless done in a Gilbertian manner.
would be a dangerous experiment
and doubtful of success.
). Detective Storys Advantage.
The detective story has another
rather important advantage over the
detective play. In a story Won can
bring in a character quite CASUALLY
in, say, chapter two, and then drop
him until the very end of the book
when 1t appears that he was the
man who committed the murder all
the time" The reader, will be prom
erly surprised because he will have
forgotten all about him. We .ro
accustomed-only too wen.-to ir-
relevancies in a story. But in a plav
the more irrelevant a part is. the
more casually you bring in a char
acter for no apparent reason. the
more will he stick in the audiences
memory. They will smell a rat at
once. There is no room for irrele.
vancies in a play, and everybody
knows (which makes it very much
more difficult to bring off a surprise.
THE Bat" achieves success not on
account of. but in spite of, the puzzle
in 1T, and in a certain degree owing
to thrills caused by extraneous epi-
soces, such as sofas moving, hands
coming round the corner, and a
japanese servant gibbering with
fright.
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

II never heard of anything so
absurd in all my life," she cried. "Of
all the persons to accuse! Why,
Georgia Long is above suspicion"
Another test on the ''lie detector"
was arranged and Georgia Long and
Miss Small were among the ten who
appeared. The results absolved the
Small girl beyond all shadow of a
doubt.
Georgia Longs agitation on this
occasion was the most remarkable
ever recorded on the apparatus.
Great Scott" exclaimed DR.. Lar
son, as he looked at the record after
the tests had been concluded. That's
nearly forty millimeters rise in blood
pressure. It's a wonder she didn't
burst blood vessel. Her heart act
ually stopped beating and then went
on rampage. The Small girl show
ed only five millimeters variation"
A few days later Miss Long came
to the police station and asked for
DIR. Larson. She was told that the
doctor was out.
Unexpectedly he called on her at
the K. S. U.
II just wanted to have you ask
Graham to come in and see the chief
the next time you meet him in San
Francisco" he said.
A slow tide of crimson suffused the
girls face.
Graham" she gasped. who told
you about Graham? Oh, what have
you been doing? Tell me-"
But DIR. Larson would not tell her.
Three days later trembling. tear
full girl. pride broken. brushed
through the swinging gate Of the
station and entered my Office.
"Oh, why are they following me?"
she cried. This is terrible"
TT is also terrible for Marjorie
Small, who is suffering untold tor
lures because of unjust suspicion"
said sharply.
She buried her head in her arms
among the papers on my desk and
sobbed.
What are you going to do with
me?" she asked.
IF you can arrange restitution,
s;othing will be done," 1 assured her.
I'VE will help tide you through.
I'm sure you'll avoid such trouble IN
the future"
And so Georgia Long wrote out a
confession. acknowledging that she
was a thief. In it she cleared Mar
jorie Small of all blame.
She had needed the money, she
confessed. The other life that she
had been leading clandestinely had
absorbed her regular allowance.
And all this came about because I
could listen in on the teartbeats of
fifty university goods.
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

TINE mystery play is an offspring
of the crook play 1t goes a
little further. In the crook
play you know who are the crooks
and who are not; in the puzzle play
that is just what you don't know; and
should you guess you are asked by
the management, on a printed slip
which you find in your program. not
to divulge the secret.
The puzzle play sets out to rival
the detective novel; to give you the
same sensations; to have you puz-
zled, pleasantly puzzled, all the time
and to keep you in a state Of de-
lectable suspense until the end Of
the play.
Must Audience Be in Dark?
1t used to be thought, and in fact
was accepted as an axiom, that on
the stage a surprise could only be 4
surprise if the audience were let into
the secret. If the audience were
kept in the dark, we used to be told,
the play could not succeed; and now,
after seeing two puzzle plays, "The
Bat" and ''The Cat and the Canary
in both Of which the audience is kept
in the dark, both intellectually and
ri. 10 Gft n-f. ~
whether. after all, the old system is
not the better. Let the audience
into the secret and let them enjoy
the surprise Of the characters On the
stage, or be thrilled at the ignorance
Of the characters on the stage of
what you already know, or. better
still. of what you have been allowed
gradually to guess.
There are one or two practical rea-
sons which make it difficult for a
stage play to rival a detective story.
One is this. in the game of puzzling
the playwright is handicapped AMI
cannot help being handicapped by
the audience knowing q little too
much at the outset. Why. and how.
does he know too much? Well, there
is the program. The program tells
him who are playing the chief parts
and probably tells him, If he has any
experience as playgoer, who ia
not playing the crook.
He is enabled to carry the process
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

asked. She seemed to be thinking
just one jump ahead of me all the
time. 1t was evident that she was
expecting a catch question. The
conventional preface that had puz-
zled many of the girls was trans
parency itself to the brilliant scholar
The tracings of the pens on the
paper roll were so regular that they
indicated wonderful control of the
breathing function and remarkable
heart torque.
1t was a shame to accuse this girl
Of theft!
did you steal Miss Hopes dia-
mond?"
The heartbeat pen stopped. cut a
low, jagged path on the paper and
then traced v shaped pattern on
the sooty surface. The breathing
indicator spurted upward, dropped
and executed an arratic design. But
the denial came quickly, almost be-
fore the question had been finished.
1 raised my eyes to the girls face.
The long lashes curved down, hiding
her velvet eyes for second; then
she was smiling.
you are lying to me, Miss Long?
Answer, yes or no."
The steel pens inexorably betrayed
the wild beating of the girls heart,
the labored breathing, the quickening
Of the pulse.
Her face was like a mask now,
cold, composed. The dark lashes lifted
to disclose hard, steady eyes. The
smile was gone. She leaned forward
slightly and gritted her teeth as i,
determined to betray no more emo
ton.
We kept at it and each time her
reactions were wilder. Finally we had
to stop.
AS the girl stepped down from the
chair, she laid her hand upon my
S!eeVe. Inero was SOmetnlnS feline
about the half caress.
Her voice was vibrant, insinuat-
ing, compelling, as she asked:
What is the verdict?"
] could only shake my head and
smile enigmatically.
Real Criminal Found.
A detective shadowed Miss Long.
Just what he reported will never be
made public. 1t is locked up in the
secret files of the police station.
Georgia Long is still at the uni
versity, trying to make good.
When had all my reports in hand
l summoned Mrs. Brock, house
mother of the X. S. u.
WELL" queried the woman.
"Who?"
Georgia Long," 1 replied.
Mrs. Brock rose from her chair,
trembling with anger.
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

4 ana Snorted, Dut 1t passed over MISS
Ash's head.
"Oh, 1 know something ever so
much worse" effervesced the fluffy
blonde. IT'S something she told me.
"All right" 1 encouraged. go
ahead. What did she tell you?"
The other girls hugged in closer.
The house mother frowned at the
show of emotion but edged nearer
also.
Miss Ash's eyes were di.ated with
excitement and she actually wriggled
for joy.
THE other night she told me she
was broke-that she had to get
money some way"
"There!" snapped Mrs. Brock.
What more do you want than
1 that?"
She cast her eyes over the crowd.
Then she beckoned to a tall, hand
some girl, magnetic creature. about
whom the others seemed to gravl-
tate There was Difference in Mrs.
Brooks tone as she. introduced
Georgia Long.
Il know nothing about this" said
the girl, revealing eyes Of purple
velvet by the lifting of long lashes.
Her voice was soft and vibrant.
soothing like the purr of cat.
A chatter of protest arose from
the others.
why, Georgia, you know what
you told me?" cried Miss Ash.
Georgia, gorgeous creature that
she was. did not deign to look at the
exuberant blonde. Instead she fixed
her eyes on my face.
Il saw her enter another girls
room and take book" she said
slowly. But 1 don't think she is
guilty"
SSH" warned some one. Here
she is"
At that moment Marjorie Small
came into the room.
|
House Mother Antipathetic.
Several girls turned their backs on
her deliberately. Others stared in
solently with curled lips.
I glanced at the house mother.
Her face wore a bitter expression.
She raised her head coldly, accus-
ingly, as the big blue eyes of Miss
Small were turned to Der in appeal.
1 read the story OF suffering in
the girls face.
She was small, delicate, with great
lambent, dreamy eyes that now and
then took on a vague expression.
She had the face of q dreamer
The pain in her apprehensive
glance, the pathetic droop of her
mouth and the nervous way she had
of wringing her hands belied the de-
fiant toss of her head
IF she is thief it's the strangest
case ever saw" 1 was thinking,
when the house mother spoke.
Miss Small. This is the Chief of
liberately.
The effect on the girl was terrific.
A gasp escaped her as she took
backward step. The pumping of her
heart fiicked two crimson marks
across her cheeks and left them pale.
She caught at her lips with a hand
that trembled.
Just tell us what you know about
this" suggested. speaking very low
"All your friends have had some
thing to say. Miss Small. Now we
would like to hear from you.'
The timid youngster was reas-
sured. She smiled up at me.
You mean about the stealing?"
she queried. "Oh, yes, I have heard
the girls say that things had been
taken. / have lost nothing"
The others gathered close, eyes
large with excitement, thirsting for
the slaughter. Only Georgia Long
turned and walked to a window to
look down on the traffic that ebbed
and flowed on the street below.
Have you heard any one accused,
Miss Small?" / asked Can you
tell us anything that might lead to
the apprehension of the guilty
parties?"
They've blamed me-" she mur-
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

The abrupt question disconnected
her. She glanced at the others as if
appealing for support and then de-
family she said: II can't say why,
but / do anyway"
Miss Ash" commanded the house
mother.
Miss Ash, tittering, blushing
blonde, moistened her lips and
squirmed.
II room next to Marjorie Small"
she said. "She's a very peculiar girl
None of us like her. She just won't
mix"
"In what way is she peculiar?"
"Oh. she's just quiet and queer"
replied the blonde. She don't care
for dances or pretty clothes and she
stays away from all the parties
she's queer"
''Have you other evidence equally
incontrovertible? / asked, and the
next moment was sorry for the irony
that allowed to creep into my voice
The house mother caught the tone
The New York herald., 1922-06-18


Then when the machine had ac-
quilted Marjorie Small 1 took up the
questioning, asking more inconse-
quential questions to restore normal
blood pressure and respiration.
Are you lying to me?" I asked,
without changing my tone.
This time the pen marking the
respiration scratched a jagged line
upward. The heart action was slight
ly disturbed, but no more than it
would have been had / accused any
other girl of lying.
That's all, Miss Small" I said.
after several more attempts to trap
her. Thank YOU"
The azure eyes sought mine in
questioning appeal. 1 avoided them,
turning to the apparatus. The re-
suits Of the examination could not
be divulged now.
So the examinations continued and
finally we came to the gorgeous girl,
Georgia Long, the reigning belle of
the K. S. u.
No one could have been more COM
posed, no one more charming than
Miss Georgia.
The preliminary questions were
answered almost before they were
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1922-11-30

united these two colonies and they
formed the Congregational church.
The pictures we paint Of these PEG
p@ causes the rising generation to
shun contact with these well-mean-
ing early Americans. There IL more
cruelty in the average-sized communi-
'ty today, there is more tyranny in the
land this moment among industrial
classes, more unreasonable civic tax
alton, to say nothing Of various re-
,ligious restrictions. than was exacted
In those days of the Pilgrims regime.
There have been more unjust accu.
satiOns against these nation found.
ers" than Americans realize.
Those people were not half as blue"
or severe as we have been led 70 be-
lieve. They were human and most
charitable. Let us teach and preach
to love and revere them.
Laws Did Not Exist 10 Claim.
Arthur Gilman, great authority on
legal affairs in the colonies, writes
that ut Is almost needless to say that
the so-called blue laws, which have
been made the butt and joke and OBJ
ject Of violent objurgatlon. were never
In existence in that colony, but were
manufactured by a writer who desired
to hold the colony up to rldlcule.-
Certified copies Of these blue laws
fail to materialize. In fact, New
Jersey, Virginia, and parts Of the
South, were by far more strict about
the observance Of the First Day" az
the Sabbath was called. New Jersey
forbade travelling for pleasure. or 9TH
ef similar recreation. Infractlon n
these rules might be punished by the
whipping post, a fine or imprisonment
Let us not point our fingers to-
sharply at the Pilgrims.
1t may surprise some to read that
rum. Madeira wine and punch, with
plenty Of mule power (kick) could b
obtained In Pilgrim communities
The ordinances specified the prices
to be charged.
Ladies' often served the drinks ii
the public taverns, which were under
the immediate Jurisdiction Of the c0un
ty laws. Those taverns were clean
wholesome places. often serving on
the Sabbath as places Of religious
worship.
We are all glad that the pioneer
had good things and knew how h
use them.
Stirred Punch With sword.
/ have before me q long and we'll
defined account Of stag" Pilgrim
party. That famed military spirit
Capt. Miles Standish. had BIZ
bowl Of punch before him. The &C
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1922-11-30

pretty appearance. It II true. but un-
fortunately In radio. pretty II ~
pretty does, and II takes more than
amy artistic appearance to do the
work.
One Of the sO-called advantages Of
the cage II that high tension corona
losses are reduced to . minimum. II
the amateur u usins undamped oscii-
lations, that II. using Z vacuum tube
transmitter, he need not b concerned
about corona losses. However, II .
dsmped or spark transmitter II used.
the cage sntsnna Will be advisable.
Also uniform current distribution 10
secured BY the uss of the cage an
tenna. This q not tho case with the
Aat.top antsnna, where the cuffsnts
srs not equal. the outer carrying more
curfekf thsk the inner wir&s. froA
the foregoing II may b said that the
cage antsnaa 70 to b preferred TO the
hattop only because Of the reduction
Of the high.voltase corona losses and
becpuss Of the uaiform currsat distn.
button.
It has been shown that antsnnas have
certain well deilned directional char.
scteristics. The ono having the most
clearly defined characteristics 10 the
loop antenna shown In Figure ..
ID actual practice . very satisfAc-
tory type Of loop sntsana for rscsp-
ti0nal purposss consists Of eight turns
Of No. 10 wise. spacsd ooe-sighth. and
wound on . frame - inches square.
The fundamental wave length Of this
antenna y approximately 40 meters.
Obviously loop antennss need not
be square. They may BE- triangular.
circulsr. or any closed shape. and
their linear dimensions are not nee
essarily fixed. Due 10 thsts small
dimensiona, the amOunt Of energy
psciDed up b them = alec snail. ed
thsrelors they should b ussd only
WITH several Stages Of radio frequsncy
anpt1Aeatiss befors the dstsetes. So
rlguso 9. u which ~ leop = shewn
with only . 6stectoe.
II the hsoksup. L u The loop antss.
a. and forms tie inductanco n the
sscillating circuit @ u The variable
coodsases connected across tAs loop
terminals and h uoe1 % tuse the loop
to The proper wave lsngth.
4 LOOP a1tsnne II this manner has
sxtrsmsiy sharp d1fsctioaal chasactss.
istics an6 receives slonals only from
stations - ~ plaas ~ ~ log. That
h, the loop must ~ Dsrallsl 70 the
direction II travel ~ The vave seot
ont by the tfansmittse.
Many good circuits have recently
bses 1sviss1 whereby loop anss0nas
are sssd With success b eliminating
static interference. This sliminstios
b accomplished partly By ~ smsli
li1saf dimensions of the Loop and
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1922-11-30

cordially and hospitality toward new.
counsrs u 90 q the sweetest memoir
iss Of pioneer America
They WE'RE ever anxious to win peo-
PIE to Christ, without completely max
ing over the new recruit. It 10 wrong
to charge them with evsa "exactins
that al IN their midst be Of their
faith" for Of the lO2 who came over
u the Naynowef. Ill were not OF the
same faith :.
When the Puritans Of Boston (and
they came many years subsequent TO
he Pilgrims) made It 20 unpleasant
for Roger Williams. II was the RI
sEim community sf Plymouth whicn
welcomed him and made his trip to
Rhode Island safe By insuring kinoly
treatment from the Indians. Williams
was banished By the Puritans fcr -
sorting 1T II wrong to prevent . nan
from holding ONCE u Be BE nos
Christian"
clvwa - on gaOish lSsa.
The Puritans, too. were. arlseocfat.
ic. They chung 70 IL old EAgiiah
ldea that . man was neasoreo ~
~ blue blood-and again some blue
-and bloated pockstbcok.
nut nat % viii he PifsrmA They
cared nothing about blood ana Iess
about the kings nstanSc picture. H.
Prritans were tAe Republicans q Nsw
England and The Pilgrims were the
DsDocratA
The former decided they would not
aaDoe1ate With ~ easy0oang eeualr
" eommunity." - they called tn
Pilgrims. Soon after the Lord caused
4 ueat sickness to fall upon the bos
ton colony. Govegn0e Endicoet VA
OBLIGED to beg Governor Bradford Of
Plymouth to .plsase cone to our re-
cue ana send Doctor Fuller. that fam
ous physician. to take care q fnt
sack colony" nis dses q Hines