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Arizona republican., 1922-02-26
Just Between Ourselves
BY DELLA E. STEWART

And now they're offering commits
stoned officers fancy breeches, and
privates in the army real tailored
uniforms as a bait to enlistment!
Fine! Near pink trousers ought TO
prove quite an inducement to many
a budding Adonis. With the interest
Of the fair sex so evident where the
army uniform is concerned, what ro-
mances might not be fostered by
more snowy garments? No need of
suggesting patriotism as a motive for
joining the army. OF course not!
Antiquated idea, who would ever en-
tertain il, much less be moved by it?
Snowy apparel, feminine admiration,
self-pride in ones personal appear
ance-aren't these enough incentives
for any one?
But how unfeeling to come out with
such offers just when there's so much
talk Of armament being limited and
armies being cut down! Just think
how many may be barred from max
ing use of the new privileges! The
man-across- the aisle declares to this
idea: "Pooh! It's you women that
care about fine clothes-We men have
something more important with
which 10 occupy our minds" Which
might bring about a proper humility
had he not been heard discussing sar-
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26
A WOODEN BOX
~ M lassia Leiteh

A muffled groan from the BED N
the corner caused the woman VINO
was knitting in the lamp light across
the room to put down her work ana
hurry TO the bedside.
Her husband, who was an unwiH-
ing he'd patient having contracted an
illness which had kept him IN oed
for several weary weeks, tried 70
smile as she bent over him. :,
sIt's nothing he said. trled
NOT to groan. 1t just came IN spite
OF me. someway. o, s.a.oa 49,
.is il the old pain?" asked the
" "01It;s IFS no pain at all. It's just q
feeling that can't lie still, that !
am Ina aching all over and no place IN
,aI.ticular. "a, 1 can't get to sleep I've
cconrted sleep for nearly an houI
aod I'VE said the Lords prayer ana
@i,a Twenty- first psalm backward
aId s sleep Just won't come,
"ii9 pstient Didn't Blame the Light
"Perhaps it's the light that Keeps
80, awake" suggested the. woman
yo,,,ng that it was not the llght'
hocailse of the comfort 1t was 70
-;t across the room in it's rays and
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26

Copyright, 1921, by w. Werner)
There's Pansy again Mrs. Macy's
tone was filled with annoyance.
"Anice, You go and see that she
doesn't handle everything in stock
and tell her that yellow satin gown
is sold" =
"But it isn't" The country girls
face rebuked the harried owner OF
the second -hand shop
"WelI, there's no use letting her
try it on again. She hasn't money
enough"
Anice moved away listlessly. She
never liked the shop, but on a warm
day like this she felt suffocated by
the tawdry floatsam and jetsam that
covered the wall and shelves and
overflowed upon the dusty floors. She
had fancied that it would be most
interesting to work and help her
aunt in the city, and she hardly knew
how to make a change. Her relat-
ives were most kind in their hurried,
engrossed fashion, but it was all so
different from the rose -colored
dreams woven in the peace of the
green countryside. There the wav-
ing treetops lent a soft shadowyness
to the dim, cool streets so different
from the baked payements here. She
wished now that she had accepted
the home offered by the teachers
wife. 1t would have meant the care
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26
P1AINSY-N MINERVA
THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY STORY
A COMPLETE NOVELETTE,

on: There's jes' one feller dat looks
good to me, and he's a swell dresser.
I'm, swell amt the word. Now, he's
axed me to a cullud dance. It's to-
night, and l want that yaller satin
gownd to wear. Luella Despard Jones
tole me that she had a red velvet,
and she said she knew I'd look sin
g'lar in ma old dress. Fac, she ad-
vised me to stay home. Eff did she'd
dance with that swell dresser. Now.
/ got all the money for that gownd
but 50, and l thought maybe"-again
she paused with a hopeful gulp that
gave the listener a real pang to
think that so much could depend
upon an absurd, gaudy satin dress,
not overly fresh.
"Yes," said Anice, as the eager eyes
met her own.
I'D "a had it," pursued Pansy but
this hot weather soured the milk and
ma has had to buy ice--that takes a
lot of money, but 'cose the baby has
to have her milk cool. But, as | was
a-sayin', maybe the old lady would
make q reduction seein' as come in
pretty steady"
Anice dimpled That was the whole
trouble. Pansy was a constant Wis
itor since the coming in" Of the COW
eted gown. The inference that she
herself had too many beaus flat
tered her but the knowledge Of the
meager truth intensified her longing
for the country. She had seen just
one fellow that looked good 10 her
also. After all. the difference in ones
skin was not so much. Girls were
alike the world oyer and IL her
dreams had proved to be of stuff too
substantial TO bear the weight of
everyday life, why not let poor Pansy
have her chance. She might never
again wish anything so intensely as
she now desired the unsuitable dress.
Happiness is after all, a matter of
taste.
Rose, her pretty cousin, stood talk
| ing to a customer who wished TO
| find a second hand typewriter and
| he watched the little scene curiously
as Anice went over to a covered rack
| and took down the dress.
"Will you ask her? She might
do 1t for YOU"
Anice, unaware of the young man
standing in the shadow of a tall ward
robe, nodded gayly at the hopeful
! Pansy. "You may have it at that
price" she agreed.
Pansy Minerva chuckled. II was
a rich. throaty chuckle that brought
an answering response in the wist-
| full eyes of the quiet clerk. "Heah
you is. missy. Ah1l sure think Of
yuh tonight. when I'm a-steppin' out
/ with ma councilman fren."
Giggling joyously the girl gathered
the folds of the shrieking yellow satin
in her arms, and. refusing the offer
| to wrap it, sailed out grandly.
The young man saw the clerk take
| a shabby purse from her pocket and
extract two silver dollars which she
| added to the pile Of small change and
two tattered bills that Pansy Minerva
had given her. He waited an instant
! talking absently to Rose. but as An
ice did not return from the back of
the store he presently left.
Mrs. Macy was exclaiming over
Pansy's purchase when Rose came
behind. "Tve sold that typewriter. |
think. The young man is coming
| in again. Guess he lives to talk" she
added with glance into the mirror.
HE left his card so that il he want
ed to telephone about it"--she scru-
| tinized the printed business card and
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26
Watching the Parade
BY JOHN PILGRIM

nchbor about his sophomore this
ing. like nsahbor, though trust enoush Of
shallow
dooking Kid
o yI understand" said neghbor "but
M really brilliant boy"
"WeI," said, wouldn't worry If He get
over it,
The neiuhbor thought Kidding He laughed laughed be-
I'm the credit for joke if what
QUIT hunorous
/ had hold OF
brilliant Such
brilliant that he shine Because he Is
important of automobile Is
hidden under hood
office who isn't brilliant at
Never has Never will be- he ouiet modest self pos
acquainted with
hold his job More lately have been
he thought worth while to hold that job just by
this morning. There is something
him. If works should he viii be
rich man In another twelVe
Briiarce all RIGHT If il is real brlance But must be
holding capacity before
could make up terms decionees in weeks
school, who
the the whip had dig hardest
4ine he will 90 than the class
There's thngbran boys apt to spend too much
timso
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26
TROUBLES

over the desk of a busy man. 1--WE
have troubles of our own" So reads
another placard. Not many people
want 10 be burdened by hearing the
troubles of others.
1t falls to me to hear great many
people tell their troubles. 1t is a
burden and a heartache often there
is nothing that / can do to help. But
now and then there is something TO
be said or done that helps. Then /
am glad to have been in a position
where people felt at liberty to come.
My own troubles are a small bur-
den to me compared with those ]
bear for others. l have a long expe-
rience in this matter
Sometimes there are troubles that
one must tell and ought to tell. But
many of orr troubles grow greater
as we talk about them. The more
often we tell of them the worse they
seem to be.
David Harum in his homely fashion
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26

said that "a reasonable amount of
fleas is good for dog; it keeps him
from thinking too much about being
a dog" A reasonable amount of trou
bic is not bad. but good for a man;
it keeps him from thinking too much
about himself and his own comfort.
We are not here just to be COM
Portable. We are here to be strong
and brave and true. We can make
our troubles means of strength
of character. We can discipline our
selves to rise above them and to
think of others rather than of our
selves.
A large proportion of our troubles
are homemade. And very many Of
them can be cured at home.
II you cannot dismiss all of your
troubles, try to conquer them by
courage and resolution and selffor
getfulness. Maybe you will see the
time when you viii be glad that
you had some of these same trou-
blCs,
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26
The Meek
Inherit
By JOHN RREcK

by JOF1N 6hEGN
Dusk is the time to prowl. espec-
tally if one has romantic spot 10
prowl in. Then the charitable shades
hide everything one does not choose
to see and cast veil of mystery over
what one is seeking, They mask the
rayages of time and earthquake on
the deserted mansion whose rampant
gardens are my hunting ground until
/ expect to see lights leap up behind
its hundred windows. hear the mur-
mur OF voices echo the whisper OF
iewelled spray from the great stone
fountain.
But come half an hour too soon,
and have no illusions Of the gaiety
40 years have silenced. The massive
chimney, crumbled, gives the facade
a noseless look; the shattered panes
where the conservatory bowed out
beneath it cape like the grin of
skull. Il has not even the air OF being
comfortably haunted: 1t ghosts are
all dead together; none of their line,
that they might feel the need of visit
ing. remains. / reflect sardonically
that the lavish spirits who left their
only memory in this form would
hardly be interested in a real estate
corporation. And yet
j hear an eerle SOunu, SueHCeu, re-
peated After the first start of be-
wilderment | know II for the flutter
of a birds wing. In the old aviary,
IL foot bird cage Of weathered bronze,
a gray ghost fits where gay-winged
finches and golden canaries used to
sing. Mute it is. but its desperate
efforts to break its prison bespeak
the vitality of the wild brood In lts
veins. And now | see where 1t ent-
cred the open door by which the
sleeping perches were cleaned and
flew out again by that other exit the
only one the Gagged birds knew.
| cannot save it. Even II l could
pry those staunch bars apart, it would
not come to my opening. Even IL
could get it where it flies. could not
brine it down to that narrow portal
of edom.
4 .,e free wings outside swoop low
as the dusk, deepens, seeking cover
i'm the holly. in the evergreens; the
hedge is full of them. | see the Guall
step softly over the scattered marple,
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26

OF the younger children and great
deal of housework, all for nominal
sum. for the Grays could scarcely
manage to live on his salary and Mrs.
Gray was delicate.
II seem to be a sort of extra per-
SON." she told herself, with a tinge
of bitterness, for which she was al
most Immediately ashamed. She fol-
lowed the brightly clad person OF the
young colored girl, who was moving
with deliberate gait toward the rack
Of evening gowns.
.sHowdy, miss; ] jes' drapped in TO
see what-al you had in. to-day"
Anice waited pleasantly and the
tall figure lowered over her with an
anxiety that did not escape the OBJ
servance of the clerk.
"My ma needs washboard" she
said at last. And oh, missy, is that
there gownd gomez" While speaking
twitching at the hanging gowns With
out discovering the desirable frock OF
yellow. ,
Anice regarded her thoughtfully.
She was discovering new angles in
life daily. THAT gown could only be
worn to an evening party" she salo
at length.
The brown face opposite broke into
a sudden beaming smile that showed
most OF her beautiful thirty-two
teeth. "Then it amt gomez | jes
knew when / picked up that there
hairpin that I'd have good luck. You
see, l didn't hardly LAX to tell the old
lady. She doesn't look jes' lax a real
listener" Anice could hardly repress
a smile, for the homely words ex-
pressed her aunt exactly. She never
had time to hear the sentence
through, her eyes were always wan
dering about for the fresh piece Of
work awaiting her. "But you're a
gal lak's myself, and you'll under
stand. Cause, you, benf white, have
lots Of beaus, but r." The rich
voice paused a second and then went
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26
HOME NURSING AND HEALTH HINTS

adding that he was as nervous as a
cat and couldn't lie STILL much less
go to sleep, and how We're stocks to-
day, all this in the same breath.
Stocks are the same" said the
visitor jovially. What YOU want is
a cradle IN the bed to raise the
weight OF those blankets off your
feet. know. I've been there. A box
will do splendidly. Knock the ends
out, you know.
Crude Cradle Effective
Certainly it sounded as If the Wis
itor was out of his mind, murmuring
about knocking the ends out of boxes
when there were no boxes in sight.
But a genial rummaging in the attic
and then in the basement revealed a
medium sized apple box. from which
the man removed the nails and then
the ends. Returning, he placed this
in his friends bed lengthwise, under
the top sheet. The sick mans feet
were beneath the improvised bed cra-
die and the entire weight of the bed
clothes rested on the box.
1t was a remarkable fact that al
most at once the ''twitchiness" and
restlessness disappeared. And very
soon the man slept so quietly that
his friend tiptoed from the room.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26

knit and rejoice in her heart because
her husband was getting better.
Its not the light I'm just can
tankerous / guess" said the man.
Don't pay any attention to me. Go
back and sit under the lamp. ! like
to watch il shine on your hair
The woman. going back to her
chair in the shaded lamplight, could
not possibly know that the reason
her husband was weary and restless
was that the weight of the clothes on
his bed was wearying him.
The doctor had said to keep him
warm. She was doing her best. with
extra blankets and the best pink
comforts and some hot irons in the
bed as well.
Visitor Makes Suggestion
And then came the man who made
a point of dropping in each night
for a brief visit. He tiptoed into the
room bit awkwardly, gripping the
sick man by the hand as he sat
down beside the bed.
And almost as If he sensed the
sick mans discontinue, he said pres
emily:
Looks to me as IL you had heap
Of clothes over you. old man."
To which the sick man assented,
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26

read--"Peter Brink. with the Mallers
Lumber Co, Glenn. ILL.,"
Anice wheeled swiftly from the
daybook where she had entered
Pansy's purchase. why" Then she
stopped short. A wave of disappoint-
ment filled her mind.
Glenn. that's your town." remem-
bered Rose carelessly. Cant be any
one you know though, or he would
have asked for you. They all know
you're here with us"
Aniee did not reply. She did not
feel inclined to explain that Peter
and she had been friends since child
hood. He had hated to see her go
to live in the city and although he
had not really said so she had imag-
ined that he had intended to look her
up after he had finished paying his
fathers debts.
Now she looked out duly. He,
judging from the card, had secured
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26

Brady, theatrical producer. brings
actors from England to play high
grade drama by Galsworthy. NO
crowds. The actors are sent home.
Brady laments the decline of the
drama" and says what the American
people want are suggestive farces.
Brady is wrong.
Theaters couldn't hold the crowds
that would flock to see high grade
theatrical productions if the price
were right. Lots of people rush to
see sex farces. But they. like the
ones that pay $40 a quart for whisky.
are in the minority.
The decline of the drama is due
largely to the absence of a decline
in price The trouble is in the box
office, not the audience.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26

varied diet and it is easier to secure
all the elements for good nutrition
as well as good digestion, II 1t is
possible to spend more than this for
food.
A model days food plan for a Sc
dcntary man might be: For break
fast, fruit, cereal, eggs or liver and
bacon or creamed dried beef on toast,
toast or rolls or mullins, butter. cof-
fee with cream, top milk for cereal,
sugar for cereal and coffee.
For lunch, thick soup or broiled
fish or a cheese dish, rolls. butter.
pudding or pie Occasionally, coffee
with cream and sugar.
For dinner, clear soup and crackers,
roast beef dump or stuffed steak
or meat loaf or baked fish. potatoes
or rice or macaroni bread. green
cooked vegetable, lettuce or celery or
other crisp vegetable ice cream or ice
Oh pudding or fruit.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26
FARMERS

Exports OF leading American farm
products last year were greater IN
volume than in any previous year.
They totaled more than 2O,0OO,OOO
tons, compared with l6,bOO,O0O tons
in 1920 and 1O,500,o0O tons In normal
1918.
Yet the money paid for these ex-
ports was under $2.000,000,000 in 1921,
against more than $3,o00,OD0,0O0 IN
1920 and $1,000. 100000 in 1918.
The farmers export problem 10
prices not sales.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26
cARELEssNEss

Autos and motorcycles killed more
than 5000 people last year. says the
census
Nearly all of these fatalities were
due to sheer carelessness and the
driving OF cars by incompetents.
Why not make every motorist take
an examination before permitting him
to drive a car? IL he showed reck-
lessness or lack OF necessary techni-
cal knowledge, he could be trained.
This will become compulsory. not
many years hence. when there will be
two or three times as many machines
as now.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26
RADIO

Herbert Hoover heads Uncle Sans
gropers for a. way to enable ANA
teurs TO use the wireless unre-
strictedly without cluttering the air
with jumbled messages OF same wave
length.
The way. when found, will permit
pEivacy-wireless conversation, with
outsiders unable TO listen in.
Inventors will find the way. Ten
years ago. many scientists hooted the
idea OF sending several phone mes
sages over the same wire simultane-
ously. one couple unable to hear the
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26
PROPER DIET

activity OF daily life draws upon
energy.
A man weighing 155 pounds lying
quietly in bed will expend about one
half calorie an hour.
The same man will eXpend about
three-fif of calorie an hour sit
ting and three quarters an hour
standing. Walking and other light
exercises require about one calorie
an hour.
studies of food requirements Of
sedentary men who sit at their desks
or watch machinery show that they
require from 22G0 to $500 calories a
day. as they vary in weight and
activity.
II is possible TO supply this amount
of fuel in the form of cereals. beans,
pork, bread and butterine hot coffee
and milk, for about Is to 25 cents
q day.
Men, however prefer more
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26
HusRANns

A wife in Somerville. Mass,
estranged from her husband, says she
wouldn't take him back for all the
money in the world"
simultaneously. in Burlington. VT,
wife asks $1,000,000 for alienation
of her husbands affections.
The market price OF husbands
seems to vary. Some women know
when they are rid OF a bad bargain.
Others don't.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26
EQUIPMENT

"Rastus, is gwine get rich. Is
done bought me some stock in nut
Mctory."
"A nut factory, which sells de meat
n pecans, almonds and sich. already
racked an picked out. This heah
company gwine save money with
new labo-savin' device. which de pro-
motah done tole me about. De nuts
am gwine be cracked by trained
squirrels which don't charge no
wages" !,
sIs dis heah company already II
,enged established an ready 70 biz
ness?'
yeah. praktikally-al 'cept train
In de squirrels.
-----C---------------
NOT IN LINE
Down in Texas the short cotton
c,.o,, forced a large number of coun-
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26

torial effects for spring with a fell
low worker earlier in the day, and
gravely debating the merits of blue
serge and homespun as practical
business suits!
Isn't it about time that men stopped
accusing women of undue interest in
wearing apparel in that superior
way2 Don't they (the men) sit by
the hour in barber chairs allowing
themselves to be. not only shaved,
but steamed and massaged and To-
toned and BARRIERS only know what
not for long hours? Don't they use
hair restorer which does not restore
and mustache dye which fails to de-
ceive even the most unsophisticated
of flappers? Don't they spend hours
before the mirror tying ties and prac-
tising expressions? 'Fess up, broth
ers! Eve was your mother. too, you
know.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26
pATHETlc

Toiling in the Colorado beet fields
are 100 children. under is years. The
stopped -over nature of their work has
given 700 of them curvature Of the
spine or other portural deformities,
says the department of labor's chill
dren's bureau. -Four hundred are one
to seven years behind in their studies.
Negro slavery at its worst never
was a tenth as vicious as the slavery
OF child labor. End I'll
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26
CRIMINALs

Chicago is the home of about 10000
professional crooks reports its crime
commission.
That means. one crook to each xes
law abidcrs.
Criminals are decidedly in minor-
ity. Pity, they can't be segregated
like the old English system Of ex-
porting her undesirabies to AUS
tralian and other penal colonies
Crime is a ontagious difease.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26

the world war es-
pecially there are
a lot OF queer I'll
ties floating about
and some OF them
are as suspicious
as Rev. Washing
ton Whites. His
title was 'D'-the
Rev. Washington
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26

it's carvings filled with moss, and
settle into the leaf f-strewn bed OF the
fountain. And a woodrat creeps into
the cast-iron shell Of fallen lion.
Then the self-same power Wnieh
made him seek the right at dawn doea
what l could not--lures my poor
"bush -chippy" to hunt the peaceful
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26

"Yessir," said the
waiter. "A ] can
m u I ( o n chop,
waiter" "Yessir, ?"
said the waiter.
See that it is
grille d over a
quick fire. Tell
them to have a
niece OF garlic
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26

White, d. A stranger asked him to
explain 1t, and he said: De Holy
Saints University Of Yicksburg, sab,
will sell me a d. d. title TO fo'ty
dollars. Well, All took up a collec-
tion among nah flock and collected
$20 sab. and de university done sent
me nah fust ID. Soon's All send de
udder twenty Ah gifts de full title 7"
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26

whats the matter, Willie7 Didn't
you get anything he was asked.
NO" sobbed Willie, spitefully. "As
soon as il got dark that man with the
brown whiskers - boo-hoo! = he
grabbed me hands and didn't stop
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26

dark He finds the narrow archway.
Once he is perched ! close it behind
him, The grating noise jerks up the
attentive ears OF a jack bbit. And
fall to musing how the self same
creatures man dispossessed, without
a protest, are in possession: the meek
are again inheriting.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26

N#A
pigs in a fire on
board a cross
channel boat. 1t
came out in the
evidence that the
steamer had had
a large deck load
and it was this
that suffered the
greatest damage.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-26

VIII women do anything fashion
DEGREES? Not this time. apparently.
Style creators are trying to bring the
long skirt back. Are women taking
to il? About as much as asbestos
burns and cork sinks.
Skirts next summer are going 10
be so short, the flappers won't be
able to roll their hose says a model
at a Chicago exhibit OF womenH
wearing apparel.
Sad situation for textile trades.
Long skirts can be shortened. Short
skirts can't be heightened.