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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-02-16
Copyright. 1920, by The Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.

Minnie worked in the Biggest Store
Six days out of her week she doled
out hairpins and thread, and wore tbs.
sue-paper wristlets; six days she
called "cash," and carried a lead pencil
In her hair; six evenings she ate her
lonely little meal In a TABLES for
Ladies" lunch room and one hour
later crept YEARLY into her small iron
bed. But, ah, on the seventh
This history has to do with the
seventh.
At four O'Clock on Sunday after
noon, Minnie took her tan suit of. it's
wire hanger, dragged her hatbox from
under the bed and unearthed a small
n scarcely worn pair of tan pumps.
While she discards the sateen shirt
waist for the tan outfit, we will dis
cUss her.
Minnie lived In a hall bedroom, with
a small iron bed, oak bureau, wash
stand, bowl and pitcher, a straight
back chair and two feet of floor space.
She cooked her breakfast, which in
variably consisted Of a boiled egg and
two toasted soda crackers, over the
gas jet, and there were a pewter spoon
and a china egg cup on the window
ledge. She shared the fire escape with
the occupant Of the adjoining room,
and on the small iron landing outside
the window she kept a jar Of jam and
a stewpan. There were three pink
paper roses in a glass vase on Min
MES bureau and a paper-back copy
Of Lady Audley's Secret" inserted
beneath the mirror to give it the de-
sired tilt. 1t was to this that Minnie
returned six out Of her seven evenings.
But there is a saving circumstance.
On the seventh day Minnie emerged
from her chrysalis and black sateen
shirt waist like a Moth Emporatus,
and the six days Of Biggest Store were
left TO the empty cocoon of the week.
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wish that l might tempt you to re-
veal your name"
She shook her head prettily.
"That would take all the adventure
out of the situation"
Il am bound to discover 1t sooner or
later, and BESIDES" he added seriously,
II want this to be more than an adven-
ture; I want it to be a beginning"
"Oh," she said archly, mot the be-
ginning of the end?"
"You know better than that" he
admonished.
They laughed and he leaned across
the table, holding a crystal goblet
aloft.
L the beginning !"
t drink in water is an evil sign"
she observed, but raised the glass to
her lips and the ice tinkled against
its frail sides.
1--WE will probably meet some day."
she said.
But now that l have found you,
why begin the search anew7 he urged.
1.-THE prince must rescue the maiden
from the tower"
"Ah, | see !" he exclaimed In mock
enlightenment. you want to meet me
on a prancing steed instead Of in the
satin parlor OF a Broadway hotel.n
Eyes. and you must have jangling
spurs and a shiny helmet"
He took a long-stemmed carnation
from the bank between them.
AT least wear your knights %colors.-
She in turn snapped the stem OF q
fragrant red ~earnation near its head
and presented 1t to him with silent
grandiloquence.
And you the lady's,- she wills
pered.
They looked into each others eyes.
II am beginning to fear that I am
encroaching upon your evening" she
said, after they had finished with the
salad course.
IF releasing me from a stupid soires
and an hour of cards at the club can
possibly mean encroachment, you are
offering q delightful substitute this is
a happy respite"
Eyes, but I ann permit you to sac
rifice your social obligations in my be-
half. l., too, am obliged to obey the
dictates of my engagement calendar
Let us ignore those dictates to-
gether."
She finished her demi-tasse.
you tempt me-" she said, but I
have already been sufficiently indis-
81 dared not hope that you would
heed me-" he said.
She watched him blow thoughtful
wreaths of cigarette smoke, and leaned
back in her chair c%ontentedly.
rs it possible" he asked her slow
", that | could have met you at one
Of Lady Stanhope's house parties last
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-02-16
autumn I think I am beginning to

autumn? I think / am beginning t,
place you"
mo. | was In Italy last autumn
but | have heard Lady Aubrey men
ton Lady Stanhope's house parties"
h stirred uneasily and looked to
ward her wraps.
1T grows late" she remarked.
They passed out through the
crowded dining room and the brilliant
lobby. At the entrance to the little
parlor she gave him her hand.
Good by, and thank you for a pleas
ant hour"
His eyes read into hers with we'll
bred insistence.
isn't it to be au revoir?"
I'm afraid not" she answered with
a low note in her voice. "At least. not
until the knight finds the tower"
"At any rate. you have made me
very happy. even if I found you only
to lose you"
He pressed her hand and she slipped
in between the heavy curtains.
1t was nine O'Clock when Minnie
Stradolis climbed up to her hall bed
room there were two pink spots on
her cheeks and her throat was throb-
bling delicately, like a doves. With
nervous are she replaced the hat in
its box and the tan suit on its wire
hanger, then she filled the egg cup
with water for the long-stemmed car
nation and placed the cup on the iron
landing outside her window. She
propped the stem against the stewpan
and mothered and caressed the fra
grant head.
The sash of the adjoining room
opened and Il new patch Of light fell
across the fire escape. A man with
hair gray at the temples placed a
short-stemmed carnation on his win
sill. In the square Of light she
Jaw that OF his right hand he wore
cheap ring with a Crest engraved
it, and her discerning eye also
that his shirt studs appeared
o be gold.
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From Four Until Eight O'Clock Sun.
day Minnie Stradolis Ceased to Be
From four until eight o'clock each Sun
day Minnie Stradolis ceased to be
simultaneously she discarded the sa-
teen shirtwaist for the tan suit, and
the weary yesterdays for the glowing
hour which was the beacon of all the
weary ones that preceded It.
At each week end there was one dol
lar and thirty cents in Minnie'S tan
purse that meant a club steak, shoe
string potatoes, and tip, In a gold hoted
dining room, with shaded candles and
hidden music. To be sure, the one
dollar and thirty cents represented
slightly over one-ffth of her weeks
earnings, seven hungry noon hours and
tortuous walks from the Biggest Store
to the hall room, but those homeIy Sc
crets were her own.
When she strolled into the marble
lobby Of the highest-storied and high
est1priced hotel on Broadway she was
flushed with a beauty that Is COM
monty born Of morning sleep and mas
sage; when she established herself,
as was her wont, in a quiet corner of
n OF the numerous and perfumed
Pariors, she was a daughter of For
tune, fresh from her bath OF milk and
rose leaves. Who could know that she
was awaiting the grand climax Of her
week, and that when the crowds came
fastest and the lights we're brightest
she would venture into the gold dining
room for one hour-one dollar and
thirty cents worth of dreamland hat
had cost her six days of aching feet
behind the notion counter? It is true
that at ten o'clock Cinderella was once
more In the small iron bed. but the
beacon light of an unborn seventh day
was shining truly across the weeks
chasm.
Today Minnie put the Flushing
touches to her toilet with lingering
care; she drew the neat-atting coat
snug around her figure and regarded
herself over one shoulder. After the
manner of women she 1uffed her hair
out from beneath her hat with need
less repetition and posed at herself
In the mirror, a half smile lowering
on her lips and in her eyes.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-02-16
The man regarded her intently.

ASA IL
IF you will pardon the personality
! cannot escape the feeling that W,
have met before. Could 1t have beer
on the Continent?'
Doubtless" she replied. zone
meets so many"
He glanced at his watch.
"Since your maid is delayed, may
have the honor of dining with your
"Thank you, but l am dining in my
own apartments. I cannot account for
this delay. Annette is usually most
punctual."
He did not press further, but bowed
and handed her his card.
"At least these few moments have
been a pleasure, dear lady"
"H. Dudley Livingston" The name
meant nothing to her, but she read II
with an intelligent raising of the eye.
brows and glanced again toward the
lobby.
knowing you at least by hearsay,
and since you ask 1t, l will dine with
you, if you will return me here imme-
diately. Annette is stupid"
He smiled with pleasure, n rose.
Il will station a page here to await
your maid"
She placed a quick, OBTAINING hand
on his sieve.
mo. no; she will wait"
"As you will, dear lady" he &C.
guessed, guiding her through the par.
Tors with a quiet ease and dignity.
As they passed through the crowded
lobby she ventured an explanatory re
mark.
~ slros' feet that | am ~disregardins
10 convention In dining with you, Mr..
The wonder of II is that
We have not met"
life is full of i~ronies." sighed Mr.
They dined beside \ sp1ashing foun-
ain with a bank Of fern and carna-
ion between them.
"You have redeemed a hopeless,
reary day for a dreary cid bachelor.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-02-16
WOLF POINT FLOUR

"Favorite' or "Woltana"
is sold by
Southside Grocery
Wolf Point Mercantile Co.
Cash Grocery & Bakery
S. 7. Cogswell
Equity Elevator
Poulsen & Co.
Wolf Point Mill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-10-21
SPECULATION ON
AMENDMENT IS
HOLDING INTEREST
Child Labor, Curb on Supreme
Court or Equalization of Sex
Rights Are Talked.

By Times Special
WASHINGTON, oct. 21.-What will
be the twentieth amendment TO the
Constitution? A lot Of people here are
guessing.
Child labor? Curb on the power of
the Supreme Court? Or viii it be
this Notwithstanding affair?
mo distinction between the rights
Of the sexes shall exist within the
United States in any territory there
OF or any place subject to its juris-
diction?'
InnoCent-soundinc? Yes. hut fun Of
dynamite. If you don't believe it, just
introduce 1t as the subject Of a dinner
table conversation. with a mixed
crowd present.
Not even all women are for t. The
National League of Women Voters
says under its breath that it's going
a bit too far. They argue that there
are so many differences between men
and women that ii is impossible TO de-
clare them equal.
The national WOman's party, how
ever. says. Lead on, Macduff,' They
are sounding the klaxon, summon
ing all founders of the party to a
national conference. They say they
want to be sure they're right. They're
going to thrash out the ms and outs
Of this equality business, then they're
sting ahead.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-10-21
triple Investigation"

A \ ARMY dirigbe caught fire and burned
~ in San Antonio injuring eight passen-
gers. All that remains of the largest and new
est of the Armys dirgibes is a burned mass
of twisted metal
Result: "Authorities order triple invest-
CATION"
That's today. Back on Feb 81, the Army
dirigbe Roma, bought from Italy for $4,000
600, blew up at Hampton Roads, with loss o.
thirty-four lives and eleven manned for life
Result: "Authorities ordered triple inves-
tigation''
Turn back year The giant dirigible Fri,
built in England for the United States explode /
and burned over Hull harbor, England Loss,
sxty-two lives seventeen injured; cost in
money, 100000.
Result: "Officals ordered triple investiga-
ton.
Let's recapitulate. Three dirigible disasters,
costing ninety-six lives, thirty-six injured and
about $5OOO,0OO, equals three triple investiga-
tons
After each disaster we learned that it could
have been avoided if helium gas had been used.
Yet we are building two more dirigibles at the
cost of 100000 each which we will probably
fill with infammable gas because the Army and
Navy haven enough helium to initiate them.
Cripple investigations are all right, but
they don't mean anything.
Are we getting anywhere with our dirig-
bles? Are we learning anything9
Is helum what our official press agents
claim it isl If so, it is more than waste to use
the cheaper, infammable gas and so destroy
both airships and lives It is a crime
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-10-21
Let's See the Stars

ID EAUTIFUL sunny October days, yes, in
- deed. But those of us who have to stay
down town after. darkness comes and the mists
mingle with the factory smoke and choke US
haven t much that S good to say of these October
nights.
It's all because we here in Indianapolis are
depending on favorable winds just as all seafar-
ers were content to do in the days of Christopher
Columbus. If luck is with us during the day
time, the sun comes out and dries up the mist
and the breezes blow enough of the smoke away
so that we can walk the streets without danger
of being befogged and butting into each other
But when the weather man turns thumbs down
on US, even at MONDAY, we're out of luck.
Building Commissioner Hamilton says we In
dianapolis folk should not trust to luck any more
to get good atmosphere to sleep in. Hamilton
calls for help. He says that if the voters who
elect the city councilmen will 60 to it and induce
city council to pass rigid anti-smoke ordinance
he will guarantee we see stars every night that
they shine above the monument.
Who's willing to help?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-10-21

Q INCE there has been so much squawkine
~ about bepainted and bepenciled fappers, it
is refreshing to hear that welI-known Rotary
optimist, Allen D. Albert tell an indianapolis
audience of school principals that the modern
high school girl is no more morally decadent
than were the school girls of years ago.
Allen D. Albert is not an old man. Neither
is he a spring chicken. He has enough gray
hair about his temples to remember when Jenny
and Sarah and Molly were frowned upon by
sedate folk because they wore bangs and
adopted that frightful new habit of chewing
"wax" He can remember back in the eighties
when the boys cat-called 'Chippy get your hair
cut at every young lady who had her locks
shorn.
Jazz and rouge give Mr. Albert as little
ground for wOrriment as the female adorn-
ments of powdered hair and courtplaster caused
to George Washington and the other Level
headed citizens of his time Mr. Albert knows
that long before the days of Priscilla Alden;
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-10-21
Penalty for Thinking

ID REPRESENTATIVE OSCAR E. KELLER,
IN Republican, Minnesota has committed the
objectionable sin.
Keller dared have a thought of his own Al!
by himself he figured out that Attorney General
daugherty exceeded his powers when he framed
that injunction against the railway shopmen
and should be impeached.
eth be as much as your political life is
worth, his friends solemnly advised him
81 think Daugherty ought to be impeached
and I'm going to do it, he replied And I'M
peach him he did, right there on the floor OF
the House of Representatives,, in Washing
ton, D. c.!
For which the G. O. P has sentenced Keller
to political death. Out in his State the regular
Republican Governor is actually supporting the
Democratic candidate as against Keller They
are smudging his picture off Republican 'litera-
ture" They are knitting him every way they
can.
For no man must think for himself in the
party. He must let the party think for him,
then vote the way his party tells him to vote.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-10-21
Severed Home Ties

w THIN the past twenty-fOur hours three
w persons were reported to the Indianapolis
police as missing. This is not unusual. Every
day requests are made 60 headquarters to locate
persons who have disappeared. The records in
dictate that most cases are aged or mentally ir
responsible persons. who are soon found.
But the records also show that in the course
of year hundreds of piteous pleas are made to
locate men and women who for no known reason
have stopped communicating with their loved
ones and have dropped from sight
How many days and years of anxiety, how,
many heartbreaks throughout the land could be
prevented if every son and daughter away from
home would send postcard to that old mother
or father at least once a month!
By the way, when did you write your last
letter to the home folks?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-10-21
CHEAT AGE is AIM
BY sTEPHEN NJ. WAITER

NEA staff Correspondent.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 21.-The
child born this year is going to see
thirty more years of life than the
young men and women born in 1900.
Such is the gain made for the aver
age child by science, in the long
battle of Man against Death, accord
ing to DR.. Emerson Haven Emerson,
professor of public health administra-
ton at Columbia University.
That the "threescoro years and ten
of scriptural life ideal will be extended,
through scientific methods, to four
score or more, with life really only
well begun at so, is the prediction
OF DR.. Emerson. Furthermore, he ex.
poets this additional span of life TO
come within the lives of persons now
living. /.
THE average length of manklnds
stay on earth, tight now, is but 55
years" says DR.. Emerson. But by
the time the baby is born in 1922 has
reached the afe of so, there remains
little doubt but what the normal span
Of life will have been widened to more
than rs years.
I'm the last twenty years the aver
age human life has been heightened
about eight years. In the last half
century preceding, only seven years
were added to mans lease Of life"
How will man stave off longer his
eventful visitor?
It's simple, according to DIR. EN-
erson. He has put the recipe for
longevity into set Of simple rules
But they must be continually kept in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-10-21
THUMBS DOWN IS
WORD To BOYS
ON CONG. KELLER
Minnesota Representative Is
Slated for Ak for Defiance
of Administration.
By Times Special

By Times Special
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2I-Word has
gone out to the boys" that Congress
MIN Oscar 4. Keller, Minnesota Re
publican, who impeached Attorney
General Dausherty on the floor OK the
House last September, must not come
back to Congress.
Keller's act OF defiance to the Ad
ministratlon, his own party and
Floor Leader Frank w Mondell, has
brought down upon him the wrath Of
Governor Preus Of Minnesota and the
entire G. o. p. machine.
Rather than have Keller back in
the House in the next session, Preus
will support Keller's opponent, Paul
S. Doty, a St Paul Democrat.
The first move to punish Keller
came in Preus Instructions to the
State organization 10 withdraw its
support from Keller, to remove KEEL
ler's picture from all Republican lit
erature and to take anNactIve part in
opposing his campaign"
Governor Nithdraws Support
His disgraceful performance in in
stiRating impeachment proceedings
against Attorney GtNtIdl lJetuS I4ci y =
at the instigation Of the lawless ele-
ment which wants to prevent the at
torney general OF the United States
from doing his duty as a public Off
cial, is such that l cannot support
him." says the Governor in political
broadside.
Meanwhile. orders have been issued
to destroy. mutilate. or blot out pic
lures OF Keller which appear on 25,
600 Republican posters distributed
recently through the State.
Keller is sitting tight lie has the
support Of the farme, 'abor group
and believes enough l. lressive Re
publicans in his district are with him
to put him over. And regardless Of
whether he wins or loses. he says he
will be back In Washington in No
vember to continue his fight on
Daugherty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-10-21
BIZ United Neios

BB UHtEeQ v eWS
CHICAGO. Oct. 21-KiIling off a
few college professors, beginning
with the leading ones" to overcome
a scarcity of plasterers. was advo-
Gated Friday by James A, <Patten, one
time king of the Chicago wheat pit
and donor Of Northwestern Univer-
sity's $500. 900 Patten gymnasium.
The proposal to execute the profess
sOrs was made at a subcommittee
meeting of the citizens committe to
enforce the Lands award regulating
building trades wages in Chicago when
it developed that plasterers are get
ting as high as $40 day and are
scarce at that wage. Patten said he
had talked it over with college pro
fessors.
There's something wrong when
plasterers get more pay than uni
versity professors" Patten said he
had told the professors. There's too
much education-bOys go to school,
acquire a desire for a white collar job
and won't work at a trade.
That's what's the matter with the
rlasterers- It's all law Of supply
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-10-21
SCIENCE PROMISES TO ADD
80 YEARS TO 4 VERAGE LIFE
HOW TO LIVE LONG
BY DIR. EMERSON H. EMERSON,
Professor of Public Health Admins.

Professor of Public Health Admins
tration, Columbia University.
If you would live long, follow these
rules at all times:
1. Remember that eventually, one
of the vital organs must, wear out and
death ensue. The problem Of longev-
ity resolves itself into a fight to keep
the vital organs from wearing out.
Thus far, we have no reason to be-
have that young organs can be trans
planted into old bodies and prolong
a well-advanced life.
2. Society must recognize its re-
sponsibility to itself.
Each community must employ a
full-time. non-politica1, professional
officer of public health. vested with
much authority. His appointment and
continuity should be based entirely on
merit.
g. In conjunction with the health
officer, each community shoule main
tain an adequate health department.
It's functions are: Child hygiene and
infant care. control Of social diseases,
proper maternity care, public health
education and care of communicable
diseases.
4. You must submit to a periodic
health examination by your own ply
tcian.
5. You must learn to know your
self If you hope 10 live long, you
must study your diet, eat the things
that agree with your digestive sys-
tenn.
Follow your doctors advice on nu-
triton, rest. exercises, cleanliness and
occupation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-10-21
q. S. Geological Surrey Sounds
Warning Against Oil Crooks

tempted by the get-rich-quick schemes
of slick-tongued oil stock promoters.
1t appears that every now and then
some fake oil stock crook, to make
doubly sure of his victim, uses what
purports to be a map prepared by the
United States Geological Survey, said
map scientifically proving" that
about all the petroleum in the world
just naturally drains toward the par
ticular spot exploited by the crook.
The departments blast was prompt
ed by advertising matter Of par
ticular company which included
map purporting to show an elaborate
system of oil drainage" from all di-
rections which centers exactly in the
area where the stock promotion is 60
ing on.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-10-21
RIVAL TO SOLOMON
Negro COmfeSSeS Forty Vices

Chillicothe, Steubenville and Column
bus, Ohio. Baltimore, Bloomington,
Ill; Memphis and Paris, Tenn; Pitts
burgh and Monessen, Pa; Mason City,
Iowa, and st. Louis.
Jones claimed he lived with his first
wife sixteen years in oxford, Ia, and
then his marrying spree" began. He
said he had been married fourteen
times this year.
Police declared Jones had Sc we'd
twenty-five months in Pennsyl Vania
penitentiary for bigamy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-10-21
IF YOU ARE WELL BRED

You avert any embarrassments
that may arise from mistakes in days
or hours.
When writing an acceptance to a
social function be sure to mention
the day Of the week, the hour and
the date, copying these from your in
Wtation. Any possible discrepancies
are thus avoided.
Only the most informal invitations
are given and accepted over the tele-
phone.