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Arizona republican., 1922-05-21

metic. She wasn't. She could figure
herself into anything, but all the
same she did not get Ezra away from
me, though she tried hard enough.
She did figure herself into the
Badger family. and she did well for
herself, too, but l always thought
she regretted not getting Ezra. Well.
it was lucky for him. I'll say that,
for even If / wasn't smart and pretty
i was no schemer like Clara. Ezra
and l took a good deal of comfort
together for thirty years" She lifted
her eyes to his picture-the picture
of homely. kind, grave man. 1t
was then she saw the last straw ap-
preaching.
The last straw was nipping down
the street at a smart gait. Her feet,
in high-heeled shoes with gray spats,
stepped out briskly from under the
hem of a narrow black silk skirt.
Her ability to stand up on the
smoothly trodden snow seemed mar
yelous. As a matter of fact, she
wore sandals, but they We're as yet
invisible. Her velvet coat showed
its brocade apricot lining with every
swing. 1t was finished at collar.
cuffs and bottom with soft long fur.
A muff of the elbow. But her hat
was the chief ornament of her Co.'S
tune, since it struck a high color
note 1t was of mauve Straw, with
something very shiny on 1t that
caught the afternoon light and be-
came a flaming jewel. From its edge
to her chin the last straw had drawn
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21
The Last Straw
THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY STORY
A COMPLETE NOVELETTE,

a finely meshed veil, with a butterfly
motif on one cheek.
my land!" gasped Sarah. "it's
Clara Trip, and she's coming to
see mel"
The clang of the doorbell verified
this. Sarah hesitated. Her old
cheeks warmed. Turning, she seemed
to do several things at once. She
snatched the rag off her throat. hid
the paper and pencil under the ta-
Bile cover, shut poor Stubbytoes In
the kitchen-much to his dismay--
and set chair over the worn spot
In the ingram carpet. With one
sweep of the hand she smoothed her
hair and likewise her ruffled coun-
tenance, after which she opened the
door, Her eyes did not falter as she
looked down into the sharp black
ones behind the notified veil.
"How do, Sarah! I happened to
be in this part OF the town and !
thought I'd run In and see how you
were,'' said the last straw. as she
blithely entered.
IF you're cold, come up to the
fire." said Sarah, placing chair,
not the one that concealed the hole
in the carpet.
why, I'm not cold a mite. There's
nothing warmer than fur and velvet
to dress in, you know" Mrs. Badger
dropped into the chair. Immediately
setting afloat in the room a warm
odor of white lilac. II heard you
were sick" she went on, scrutinizing
Sarah. What seems to be the mat
ter?"
Sarah braced herself. 'I may have
10 Of 70 ha
wondered at this winter"
Hasn't it been awful?" Mrs.
Badgers eyes wandered over the
room. Plants freezer" she queried.
But before Sarah could reply her
glance had found Ezra's picture.
"My, that looks just like Ezra" she
said. You'd think he was getting
ready to sing that song he was al
ways singing-just that funny little
look remember so we'll. My love
was a bookfolder and each day I'd
behold her" she began half to sing,
half to laugh.
Sarah put her hand behind her so
she could clinch it. She had to do it
or slap Clara hard on that nasty lit
tie butterfly that sprawled over her
tinted cheek. The idea Of her speak
ing like that of Ezra! And singing
illo SOtLSs k1QouGiiiy StlC
bered something about Linus Badger
something he had always said
when he had wished to torment his
wife. He had been one Of those meek
men who could bear a great deal,
but sometimes he retaliated by say
ing in a slow drawi. that always
made Clara wild, since it reflected
the early breeding she would so glad
ly have had him forget. Its one
thing TO lick cream off the churn-
dasher and another to be licked for
doing it."
She said it now. and Clara fairly
jumped. swell. my goodness" she
exclaimed. How did you ever come
to remember that?"
Sarah laughed. II don't know. It
just came to me-"
Poor Linusi" sighed Clara. "Poor
Ezra. Too bad they both had to go.
But, anyway Linus left me well pro-
vided for" She took stock of the
shabby room.
Sarah Strengthened UP in her chair.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21
Art

European artists believe that the
United States is on the verge of a
great artistic awakening.
'It would develop normally with
culture" says William H. Fox, di-
rector of the Brooklyn museum. IN
dications are. it is coming fast. AS a
reaction from the war. wide spread
interest in the best art works is
rapidly developing. Attendance at the
Metropolitan museum of art has
doubled in the last six years"
This is both good news and bad.
When a civilization develops great
artistic culture. it is ripening to de-
cay.
Fear not. however. It'll be a long
time before statutes and oil paint
ings attract as big crowd as Charlie
Chaplin'a custSrd pilS
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21
Those Examinations
By n. AppINGToN BRUCE
Author Of "The Riddle Of Personality" "seIf Deveiopme

"sef- Development Etc.
Copyright 1922 by Associated Newspapers
while young all the land viii be ace
with their school college examinations Aware OF ne I'M
ordeal bucklng earnest to the task
Of preparation.
they, however, efficiently merely insure
flying coors but also to make what
learn of lasting value to them?
that question answered
indeed to
nefeny far lower
rating than aecords with their real ability
r. Garth undertook survey OF stuoy
o stuoenss
in OF how studied
submitted 100 competent judsspersons d'
the Of educational pocessh request that
methods reported by the students From the ndnss
Of judges Mr. Garth infers.
25 students only really study
according of them
studies probmat fashion IT this be true what can
the remaining e cent? 1t would appear that hey are
enga form of memorier work.
Translated its scholastic argon this means that tne vast ma
memorze rather than
what they studying Thus without appreans
their examinations and
at rather TOR using
their intellectual later in life.
itself largely conditioned clear
Of remembering deal is requisite in
case of examinations
Hence school and college examin
giving what would be correct questions otn
they und that they made no real
they have been studying
examinations would accordingly say
the ideas back Of the words in the textbooks have TO
Really abe of those books
relatives friends
times do not have the book IN your
hand Sincerely try to understanding of it.
this only, hope to arrive at reay
it, IT be o
will be dreaded by
with they are"
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21
Murder

Lillian White disappeared at Ny
ack, N. Y. Two boys, picking wild
flowers. found a skeleton, its skull
battered in.
Scientific detectives reconstructed
the victims head by shaping plaster
over the skull mathematically re-
storing the face as it looked in life
with muscles and skin over the
bones.
Relatives viewed the work, instant
ly identified it. Blue grass eyes and
a wig OF the victims hair. found
near the skeleton, made 1t life-l like.
Sherlock Holmes, Lecoq or Doctor
Bentiron never did anything as Won
derful.
By similar method, scientists
take a fossil fragment of jawbone
and reconstruct it to show what
primitive man looked like-500,000
years ago, according to science, 5000
years, according to w j. Bryan.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21

HER so SHE COULD CLINCH 1T
"weli, Ezra did well enough by me.
I've all / want. ] never did have ex-
travagant tastes. Fire, victuals. and
the like of that content me well
enough. ! suppose IL had as much
money as Uncle Jerry Pope has
wouldn't buy another thing than I've
got" Her glance followed Clara's
about and came to rest on Ezra's
kindly face. which seemed to be re-
garding the two of them--the woman
he could have had and the woman
he had wanted. Yes. Ezra did well
enough by me. I've my income and
a roof over my head. I've much to
be thankful for. Come to think of
it"-she paused--"I haven't one single
thing to find fault with unless it's the
fact that my cat lost two of his toes
in trap the other night"
THE ideal" Clara burst into
laugh. "As if that would be a hard
ship for anything but the cat"
Sarah sat and looked at her curl
ously. II suppose his toes mean just
as much to him as yours do TO you"
she said quietly.
"Oh. / dare say" Clara arose. T
guess I'll CO." she said. II heard you
were sick and ! thought probably
you'd be blue and need chirking up.
ANYWAY, I've got other calls to make.
And there's couple of women COM
ing in here" She peered from the
window.
1t was two OF the birthdayers car
rying numerous parcels. They passed
Clara on the doorstep. "How are you,
Sarah?" they cried cheerily. We've
brought some chicken and cake and
posies and such to you. thinking may
be you'd ask us to supper. We
missed you at the party. Seems to
me you've got well awful quick. You
| look as bright as a dollar"
81 feel good" replied Sarah, ''in-
side and out And I'm right glad to
see YOU"
Then her eyes misted as she saw
the great pot of begonias and the
other things they had brought
Thank the Lord for my friends"
she said, but I tell you. when all is
said and done. it's your enemies that
set YOU up
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21
IF You Are
Well Bred

You will dispense with the for
mality of removing your gloves
when shaking hands with a man
friend. However. it Is a nice cour-
tesy to remove them when shak-
ing hands with one of your own
sex who is noticeabIy older than
yourself.
You will not remove your gloves
during a formal call, even for
bidding your hostess farewell.
You will not wear the cuffs OF
your glove turned back over your
hand.
You will open Immediately the
box of candy your caller brings
and pass it to him as we'll as to
others in the room.
You will have the bonbons to
be passed at the conclusion OF the
family dinner on the table in a
fancy dish at the beginning Of the
meal.
You will have candy tongs in
the bon bon dish, which is passed
around the table. But this is un-
necessary with candy which is not
an accompaniment OF dinner.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21

Sarah Woods was in the midst OF
one of those weeks which seem some
times to drop right out of the calen-
dar without any apparent reason or
provocation. 1t had begun on Mon
day with a bill which she had been
quite sure she had paid and which,
of course, she had no money for
that is, she could pay the bill, but
she would have to economize Woe
fully zntil her interest check fell due
in another week. A cold night had
surprised her by freezing her be-
gonias and the water pipes as well.
She had caught cold while thawing
out the pipes and had to go round
with hSr throat done up in flannel,
in conseqnence of which she had
missed a dinner party OF the Birth
day club. This club consisted OF
nine old ladies who celebrated their
birthdays by the most festive spreads.
That very morning her cat, Stuppy-
toes, had the misfortune to get MS
toes caught in a trap and lose two
of them. The hurt to Sarah was
greater lIldlI " LAG dAhAAAtt NNA 49,
had q loving heart. But still IN spite
of all this the last straw had not yet
been added to her burden.
If she had known that it was on
the way she would not have sat so
conposedly beside the stove in her
living room, alternately making fig
ures on a piece of wrapping paper
with a pencil and glancing at poor
Stubbytoes, who was jerkily dream
ing on the rug beside her. Sarah's
throat was sore and her windows
looked bare and tragic and she could
not make s11.29 become S12, no mat
ter how many times she went over
the figures Added to this. the fire
had "a spell of not drawing and one
of the frozen pipes had sprung leak
and wet up portion of her clean
wallpaper directly opposite where
she was sitting.
Its the worst week / ever passed
in my life" she thought. i suppose
il were crying woman I'd have 1t
out and feel better for ii. Ezra used
10 saw when he was living that l had
the softest heart and the hardest
head he ever saw, and l guess he
knew. for he was the only boy in
family of ten. Sometimes wish
Ezra had left me with a son or
daughter or something besides that
semi annual dividend. ! never was
any kind at figures. I remember
way back in my school days that
Clara Tripp was always making fun
of me because / was so slow in arith-
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21

suspense over the outcome, Out
rolled edges show that the winds
are most industriously sweeping the
upper sides of the gray cloud blan-
kets which are spread across the sky,
and almost beating them down to
the treetops in the process. Now and
then a capful of breeze leaks through
a rift and sets a pine or poplar to
bending.
Whether this makes the sky paths
too rough for travelling, or whether
bird engines do not work we'll in the
over moist air one cannot judge. My
guess is that, since insect engines
scarcely work at all, they find easy
hunting. And every one seems to be
developing taste for what he will so
earnestly pursue when nesting season
comes along.
AS yet that prospect does not seem
to have dawned on them. A flock of
robins explores the garden. skip and
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21
piaestibiIity and Nutrition

II imagine there are fewer home
cooked meals served in the homes
long this street and more doctor
bills rendered than in any part of the
city,
"oh. mother protested the
daughter again.
But her eyes rested on the wide
street, with its smart ,stucco houses
and garages, and it's air of well bred
unconcern, ans she meditated.
There is no Saturday baking, any
more" continued the elder woman.
mo odor of fresh bread or biscuit. or
of roast meats floating around the
corner of the shousel at mealtime. |
can remember"
But the daughter broke in rather
abruptly.
''Why make soup when you can
buy it canned" she demanded. mo
nasty raw meat or bones to handle
no vegetables to pare. Just add
little water and turn on the gas"
''Paper-bag cooking murmured
her mother.
Cooking is the actual preparation
of food for digestion" the mother
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21
COOKING FOR HEALTH

Life might be worth living. these
sunny days, if it were not for cook
ing three meals" complained the
woman, who was drying her hair on
the porch in the sun.
Her mother, sewing under the ap
pie tree, while a pair of robins fit
tered and twittered about their nest
building in the branches above her
head. looked up and said:
But cooking, good cooking. is SO
essential to health. my dear. There
is far too much paper bag cooking
these days and not enough good
homemade soups and puddings."
''Oh, mother," said the married
daughter, impatiently. 'Im sure it's
much nicer to live with as little effort
as possible, as far as the kitchen is
concerned, and to direct ones energy
into other channels. Why spend all
ones youth over washtub, or a
soup kettle?"
IF young married women only
would direct some of their surplus
energy into other channels" mused
the mother. taking up her sewing
again. Then she said:
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21
DandeIions

The crop of dandelions is phe-
nomenaliy big this year in most parts
of the country. Home brewers, glee-
fully filling their baskets, will
chucl1le that Nature in this instance
lines up against prohibition.
Back of this is an interesting piece
of vegetable world biology.
The dandelion family last year dis
covered what amounted to a national
campaign to exterminate it by rob-
bing it of the blossoms that play
'stork" in dandeliondom.
So the dandelions, fighting back,
produce an exceptionally big crop of
flowers. Some may scott at the idea
But it is scientific fact--a working
of the instincts of self preservation
and self propagation. That's why it
is so hard to kill weeds.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21
Watching the Parade
BY JOHN PILGRIM

My wife that doesn't and
bitter She She that
the outward habiIments of folks too much.
M people don't look like Wall Street brokers who have
long of won't have anything with
To which reply that she has sohbed human
There
mushine
charitable mark Anyhow,
coming q visit" she said
other
Jennie and June who?" asked.
After remembered 'en-dimy of
sundhos the of High
evltonsued hard old maidens
like their
I'll that Life hasn't WELL
said Life Life
them well Is they deserve.
come" said "And, having let III have
nothing to do them"
But Pilgrim horse and buggy them
they did
| perhers.
and have been friends Of
entertainment comfort be had
snbbish being backmaed
into playing the for of Zphe- -What-is- That lying,
that the liar slandeer
| and i'll dressed
| submitted
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21
Gambling

A seat on the New York Stock Ex-
change sells for $4,000. This is
within $4,000 of the highest price
paid for the right to do business on
the exchange during the great specu-
lative movement of 1920. 1t is $4o,-
900 more than the record of 1914. a
bad business year.
Wall Street farmers apparently are
betting on a big crop OF specula-
tors.
They are safe in making the bet
now that prosperity is returning and
everyone Is due to have more money.
which burns a hole in nearly every
pocket
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21
important

Today's most important news is
that the railroads are moving as
many cars OF freight as during the
great business boom OF 1919.
II is a remarkable showing, for the
coal strike has reduced freight move-
ment 10000 cars a week.
If coal shipments were uninter-
rupted now, as they were in 1919,
freight traffic would be more than a
seventh bigger than during the boom.
1t is important news. mighty en-
couraging, for freight loadings show
how much is being produced. how
much sold
Prosperity is returning in the hum
BILE boXcar.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21
How to Avoid Spring Fever

out for some special herbs which
would be brewed as a tonic.
What value these home remedies
had lay in digging for them in long
tramps in the open air.
Fresh air and exercise is the best
tonic for spring fever
One of the best ways for the aver
age city man to take this Mother
Nature tonic is by planting a garden,
No matter how small the plot, il
will serve the purpose by taking you
out into the open air and by giving
you exercise through digging ana
hoeing and planting.
Working regularly in the garden
will relieve that mental and physical
condition that makes you feel only
half alive-that chronic grouchiness
sluggish liver" and general run
down condition in which winter often
leaves the body.
And If your garden is a good one
you will get more strength and
stamina from radishes and onions
than from all the sassafras tea you
can drink. There is tonic, too, in
young Irish potatoes cooked with
Jackets on
Hoe handle medicines will not cure
all diseases, but it is better for pre-
venting and curing 'spring fever"
than medicine out of bottle.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21
Sleep

Mothers clubs and movie exhibit
tors in New York state have caused
a falling off in use of daylight saw
ing' system. In many communities,
they have been more active than
farmers, in forcing repeal of gain
an hour" ordinances.
The reason is ferreted out by John
r. Young. of the Merchants associa-
tion, which keeps track OF such
things. He says:
''The women thought that the new
time robbed the children of an extra
hours sleep. The movie men wanted
an extra show"
The best daylight saver is an
alarm clock.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21
Brains

The cave man had jaws like a
gorilla, for cracking bones and masti-
eating tough raw meat. His brains
We're in his stomach.
He had almost no forehead. 1t
grew higher as man began to think.
On the other side, many big skull
has nothing in it. These are excep-
tions. Place your bets on the big
skulls. Cuvier. great French natural
list who died 80 years ago, had brain
weighing 81 ounces, against present
day American average of SO.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21
GAh By ALBERT Apple

pressive as a. dusty courtroom, IL is
in the home. the original and greatest
agency of law and order For the
most part, courtrooms exist to rec
tify and punish mistakes of early
home training.
Many man looks back to a youth
full session in the woodshed, with
fathers shingle, as his shifting into
the path of righteousness. Best when
taken in moderate doses.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21
Theft

A young fellow held up a New
Yorker and found nothing of value
on his victim except half package
of cigarets. He took the cigarets.
Now he is in Jail, facing maxi
mum punishment of so years i'm
prisonment.
Theft is theft, regardless Of amount
stolen. though sentimentalists usually
measure theft by amount of plunder.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21
Beauty

Next time you are nt,.r a big mu-
scum. especially the American Mu-
scum of Natural History of New
York, be sure to see the reconstructed
skulls of primitive men.
Instantly it will strike you that
modern man. compared with his an
cestors, is like beauty alongside the
beast.
Man is losing his ferocious head as
he loses his ferocious disposition.
Progress is certain, if slow, and the
primeval skulls prove 1t.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21

street looking for a place to eat in.
They approached a handsome res
taurant With sign above the door
saying, Luncheon, IL to 8, SO cents"
The old lady never dreamed of stop
ping before such fine place, but
her stingy husband held her up.
"We'll 60 In thar" he said reflec-
lively. 'Tl amt bad bargain, Han
ner-three hours steady eatin' for
half a dollar"
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21

l. nSil Il w dltI SSS
brought a large
plate in the center
Of which a small
piece of meat re-
posed. The soldier
turned 1t over and
examined 1t care
fully I Then h e
said pleas a n t Y:
Yes. that's the sort
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21

who was about to-
be married did not
relish the prospect
and instructed her
prospective h u s.
band to tell the
clergyman t h a t
she did not wish
him to kiss her. The
bridegroom obeyed.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21
BY DR.. r. Il. BISHOP

HERE will come
balmy days soon
when the pleas
ant weather will
seem to sap all
the strength from
your muscles and
that tired feeling
we call spring
fever" will lay
hold on you.
Our grandmoth-
ers at this time
would always go
to the shelf and
bring down the
new would send us
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21
BY JOHN HREcK

N the flying season
we who watch for
passing wings do
not say, Its go
ing to be a clear
day." but Its
going to be a
birdy day." Birdy
weather is neither
rain nor sun, but
a constant threat
of both. 1t may
be still, as II the
earth were hold
ing its breath in
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21
Woodshed

Mrs. Mildred Brandt. newly elected
police magistrate announces she will
hold court in her parlor at home, ito
take less time from my domestic du-
ties" This is at Winslow, Ill.
While a parlor may not look as i'm
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21

street and asked If
he might keep 1t.
He also asked II 1t
We're a "boy cat" or
a "girl cat" as he
wanted to give it a
name. His grand
mother told h | m
she would find out
and that he might
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21

get to pizness"
early.
No answer re-
ceived, he rushed
to the bathroom
and banged loudly
at the door. Still
on response.
He burst open
the door. only to
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21

The people of the United States
will present to Brazil a statue OF
liberty on the one hundreth annivers-
airy of the Republic of Brazil. The
statue is of bronze. Liberty. hold
ing q branch of laurel in her right
hand, with her left, supports the
flags of the United States and Brazil
interwined with laurel and palm. At
the base are figures of George Wash
ington and Abraham Lincoln, rep
resenting America. and Rio Branco
and Jose Bonifacio. representing
Brazil.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21

keep the Kitten. The next day he
burst into the room in great glee
and announced: II named her Mary
How did you find out it was a
girl cat?" his grandmother asked.
"WelL" replied William, II watched
her and she washed her face and she
washed her ears and she washed be-
hind her ears, and nobody but a girl
cat would wash behind her ears"
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21

once said, does or
says a good and
generous thing 1t
is always an acci-
dent, a mistake.
The politician in
this is like the
stingy farmer. He
was walking his
wife along a. CITY
Arizona republican., 1922-05-21

'WeII, Harry, SAID the young
woman when he appeared, did you
tell the minister that did not wish
him to kiss me?'
: "Yes.''
"And what did he say?"
HE said that in that case he would
charge only half the usual fee."