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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-09-27
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A fair example of the excep-
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-17
III AZ THE BHIbW MA A CITY 'H ROMANCE
 edlkEsEMtl- VIRGINIA TE1NRE. RHp.VnrA
? CHAPTER 1s1


 A slight cloud passed over the handsome face. T have not forgot ten about that" the man remarked. T did not mean to remind you of it; dear Dick" she said. Tt is yours as long as you wish to keep it.
 Especially as I hope to make the sum much bigger than it now is" he supplemented. But let us not dis cuss money any more. l would rather talk about our love and how beautl- ful it is."
 She glanced at her watch. It was nearly o'clock. She ordered the chauffeur to drive home.
 Do you have to get home so early?" Richard asked. T must get back in time to dress for dinner" she avaded.
 You are expecting someone to dine"
 No" she replied. Nobody to dine"
 Although perhaps Muir might be coming" Richard said.
 She was acutely conscious that she had not agreed with her lovers s yelled suggestion that he, himself, might dine with her tonight. She must say something by way of ex- planation.
 Donald is not coming. But I have an engagement this evening, as you have.'
 The last three words were added as a subtle reminder that she was not inquiring what he did on Tues day nights. The speech had the de- sired effect, for Rankin said no more of his or her immediate plans.
 winifred sighed with sense of re- lease from an uncomfortable sttua- ton, as, having ordered her chauf- feur to drive MT. Rankin to the sub- way station, she entered her own apartment.
 She was tired and slightly down. cast by the afternoons conversations Moreover, she had been nervous lest her betrothed inquire with whom her appointment was for this evening. She knew that he would disapprove of her receiving Paine in her home. She supposed her conscience ought to hurt her. But it did not. She had told Donald Muir that Paine was coming , and his knowledge of the projected visit made her feel that there was no harm in 1t.
 That was the effect Donald had on her nowadays, that he understood her perfectly. Probably that was be- cause he had known her since her childhood. Oh, what & comfortable friend he wasl She wished she could see him right now. Dick had wearied her today, yet he had never done so before. aw
 She remembered suddenly that she and her lover had parted without a word on either side as to when they were to meet again. Oh, well, he could call up when he wanted to see her
 Then she stopped thinking about him as sine planned what dress to don for Paines visit.
 (TO De COntinued)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-17
< ~-AAventures ,ef * KasseAy,, -Ann
 Ka9se@y AMAy

'Oh. Peter Pelican~ Raggedy Ann laughed, Just you wait until we tell you the joke Crookelookie played upon himself!" ss~z ..as-, were standing at the bottom of the long stairway which wound round and round the tall pine tree, up to the tor to where CrookelQokie, the Magician had his home.
 Maybe we had better get away from here before Crookelookie and his brother Humphylumpy come down, then you can tell me all about 1t, Raggedy Ann" Peter Pelican ad- vised.
 So the Raggedys each took the tip of Peter Pelican's wings and they until they came to nice quiet place beside a lot of fragrant wild flowers
 Now" Peter Pelican said as he sat down upon the soft grass, Tell me how you two Raggedys escaped from Crookelookie, the Magician and his brother, Humpylumpy. I thought sure, Crookelookie was changing you two into monkeys when l heard him singing a magical song"
 well, sirl" Raggedy Ann laughed "First Crookelookie read from hls magical book to give Raggedy Andy puff, three Jolly pops, a glass oi lemonade and box of cracker pack!'
 And we were glad to get them toow Raggedy Andy laughed
 Tt makes me hungry just to think of it." Peter Pelican laughed. T all most wish Crookelookie would try to magic me with all those goodies!"
 we could scarcely keep from laughingw Raggedy Ann grinned "Then when we had finished eating the goodies and had drank the lemon ade. Crookelookie read from the mag I~ hA ct eft m his head with his eyes shut for ten minutes. So, you see, Peter Pelican, as soon as Crookelookie closed his eyes, Raggedy Andy and I tiptoed out of the pine tree house and down the long stairway to where you were waiting for us!"
 And Humbylumpy. where was he. all this timer" Peter Pelican wished to know.
 Oh" Raggedy Andy laughed, "the magical book said that Crookelookie must have no visitors while working the magic, so Humpylumpy went down in the basement to waitl Won Crookelookie be s'prised when he opens his eyes and finds us gone?"
 You bet he will!' Peter Pelican laughed, T am very glad that he fooled himself, I can tell your
 What do you think, Peter Peli- can?" Raggedy Ann laughed as she held her rag hands over Peter Peli- cans eyes, Now guess! We have been sitting all this time right under a bush filled with what?"
 "Oh! I couldn't guess in million years, Raggedy Ann! Is it an ice cream bush''
 "Nopem Raggedy Ann. laughed. q shall not tease you any longer, Peter Pelican, for I know how hungry you must be after hearing of all the goodies Raggedy Andy and I had"
 And Raggedy Ann took her hand from Peter Pelicans eyes. Just ,,ou look at that, Peter Pelican" Rag gedy Ann laughed as she pointed up into a bush above them filled with candies of all sorts and all sorts of cookies.
 Tt looks just like Christmas tree" Peter Pelican said as he picked lot of the goodies and passed them around And. indeed, it was just like a Christmas tree, for there were even little candy canes hanging on the branches
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-17
Simple Application That
 Dissolues BIackheads

No more squeezing and pinching 10 get rid of those unsightiy blemishes. black heads There is one simple, safe and sure solve them. Get about two ounces of salonite powder from vour druggist sprinkle little on a hot wet coth-rub briskly over the blackneads for a few seconds-wash the parts and every black head will be gone.
 Pinching and squeezing out blachheads make large pores end you cannot get Ill of the blackheads out thls way-while the simple application of calonite powder and water dissolves every particle If them and leaves the skin and pores in their natural condition.--Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-17

feet still ache for the dance, and she still wants to run around with the other boys and girls of her age. If she marries while this perfectly natural urge for pleasure is in her veins, we get the flirtatious wife who dishonors. herself and her husband with little affairs that end in the di- Sorce court, and we have the mother who negleets her babies while she gads about. The untidy home, the delicatessen dinner, the unwanted children, the querulous, discontented wife are, nine times out of ten, just the outward expression of the woman who married too young.
 A girl should not marry too young because she is not old enough to know how to make allowances for the faults and weaknesses of others. It takes age to teach Us that. Also all girls are self-centered, and think the universe reyolves around them. That is no way in which to approach the matrimonial problem. For most men entertain a similar idea regard ing themselves, and the love of peace is not likely to perch on the roof pole of the house in which the wife con- siders herself "it."
 On the other hand, domestic fell- city depends on @ woman's adapta- bility, and you have to catch 'em young to teach 'em that trick. After woman once acquires ways and forms set opinions, she is adamant. She can't adjust herself to a hus- bands peculiarities. He must either take her or leave her as she is. She can't change.
 Therefore, a girl should marry when she has cut her wisdom, teeth, but before she is convinced that she is a Solomon in petticoats; when she is settled enough to have some pack bone of her own, yet plastic enough to mold; and when she is tired of playing and wants to be about the business of life. And this psychologi- cal hour comes somewhere between 22 and 80. DOROTHY DIX
 My Dear Dorothy Dix: Sometimes 1 begin to take women seriously in their efforts toward economic free dom, until my eyes fall on their beads, their earrings. their bracelets and then the land of the zulus rises before me, and I wonder why they don't add a few graceful noserings and complete the picture of the cannibal bride.
 When hear men sniff at the pos sibility of woman ever doing. any real thinking, it offends me, too, but then I remember the earrings and like little stray dog that tucks his tail out of sight and creeps un- der the back steps-I have to keep silent.
 We should give all the more credit to the women who have been leaders in the woman movement when we re- member that they have had to buck up against the brainlessness of ear- rings in the women they are trying to help. H. P. $.
 Answer: Cheer up, H. P. s. Things are never as bad with women as they seem to be, nor is any woman ever as big a fool as she looks to be. Undoubtedly, women's mania for adorning themselves in glittering beads, and dangling ornaments in their ears, and on their hands, is a hangover from their savage ances-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-17
ELWELL WIDOW WEDS

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Oct. 16.-- Mrs. Eloise Raymond Elwell, widow of Joseph B.. Elwell. whose murder in New York city about two years ago has never been solved. was mar ried to Capt. F. HCratio Alveranzo. of Havana, Cuba, on a houseboat in the St. Johns river, near here, Sunday. It became known today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-17

But there is no place in the scheme of things for the drinking parties, for the betting parties, for the all- night automobile rides, for the com panionship of disreputable men and women for a woman at any age. Every man who sows a wild oats crop harvests sorrow and repentance, but for woman the harvest is death and destruction. Wild and Twenty be- comes Broken Forty. Don't forget that the woman who does not settle down always has to settle up.
 DOROTHY DIX.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-17
-DREN < WOMANS SpHERE % THE HOME

there are any. He presses the gar ment, thus giving it real tailored finish.
 Much Chinese blue has been seen this season and now along come the returning buyers from Paris with the information that sapphire blue is the new color over there. You can com bire these two blue tones very nice ly---it is most effectively accom- plished in several of the newest gowns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-17
BODY FOUND IN RIy-:

KANSAS CITY. Mo, Oct. 15.-Thes body of Ernest R. Sweeny, prominent local coal dealer, who mysteriousiy disappeared on August 30 was found in the Missouri river here today. At the time of his disappearance Swee- ney left note in V hich he said he was going toTconmit suicide
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-17

There never were so many women making theIr own coats as there are this season. Prices are beyond their means and coats are so simple in linG that these women are "tackling the job" themselves. Some of them
 have the tailor make the fur collar and cuffs, also the buttonholes, if
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-17
HOME DRESSMAKERS

If you have a bit of brocaded vel vet in the house use it this fall Brocades of every description are in demand. If you have only a little use it as collar and cuffs, and. per- haps, a narrow vest. New blouses them. He called them the golden lamps that light up the dusky cheeks of beauty. DOROTHY DIX.
 Dear Miss Dix--I am 20 years old, and people tell me that am too wild and should settle down. Do you think that any girl of 20 should settle down? WILD AND TWENTY.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-17

Perhaps bead necklaces and ear rings do not help woman to clear thinking, and mental freedom, or even economic independence, but nature made marriage the business of woman, and earrings are a first aid to that. It's mighty seldom that an unadorned lady gets a chance at a husband.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-17

And aren't you too hard on ear rings? So great man as Oliver Wendell Holmes set his approval on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-17

her so, because they paid her a lot oI attention. When one of them, an earnest, pleasant chap, went around sfihhlng Tor about @ week and then suddenly became as glum as 6 door post, 1t was obvious that Barbara was up to her tricks again. She mad almost promised to marry him,
 Nobody knew how the partial re- conciliation came about, but a year after the night of the almost kiss" 1lm BroWn arrived in town. He was With Barbara's brother again, and now and then during tine week that followed Barbara and he were seen together. Jim smiles his hes rtiest and one might have thought he was sitting on the top of the earth. Peo- pie noticed that Barbara, too, grew more cheerful as the days passed. All this was mighty interesting to an onlooker, because it began to seem that Barbara would live down her nickname after all, and do some thing more than merely almost marry the handsome Jim.
 There was great deal of conjec- ture, even little betting. The night of the big dance everyone was ex- cited.s Jim and Barbara came late. People who saw them on the stairs said Barbara was white, and barely nodded to them. Then Jim came onto the dancing floor alone He was solemn-hardly noticed anybody. The folks were sorry for Jim, of course, but it was fate. Wasn't that Almost Barbara's way?
 Everybody was quiet for a minute, and then bolder soul spoke out: Well, Jim, she almost married you. didn't she?"
 Jim didn't speak. at once. He walk ed across the floor and stood within a fot of the questioner. When Jim raised his hand threateningly there was an audible gasp from a dozen girls threats. But Jim didn't strike. He just spoke, and emphasized his words with his hand.
 ''No, friends" he said. Barbara didn't almost marry me. But I guess you may still call her the Almost Girl-for she almost didn't marry me-"
 By that time Barbara bushes, rings, roses and all, appeared in the archway.
 Well, the joke was on the crowd, and what else could be done but pick them up and carry them bodily to their train? And like enough the Almost Girl' is going to stick to Mrs. Barbara Brown through life, for the station was a good mile away from the dance hall, and she and Jim all most missed the train,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-17

have panel fronts and sleeve exten sions of brocade and rest of blouse IT georgette or satin crepe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-17

Answer: Every young girl is en- titled to plenty of clean fun, to laughter and music and dancing, and the sort of good times that she can remember without blushing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-17

Furthermore, since the beginning of time men have loved to hang their women with jewels. It's common to all people. In India the women are the family savings bank, and clink as they walk with their anklets and bracelets. The American buys his wife a string of pearls with his first big money. It's the same instinct.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-17

Answer: Cheer up, H. P. s. Things are never as bad with women as they seem to be, nor is any woman ever as big a fool as she looks to be. Undoubtedly, women's mania for adorning themselves in glittering beads, and dangling ornaments in their ears, and on their hands, is a hangover from their savage ances-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-17

tors-and just now we do seem to be reverting back to dear grandmamas s cave costume pretty strongly.
 But even the mighty masculine in- tellect has not entirely out grown this weak love of gauds. Observe the tinsel, the gold and silver embroidery, the shrieking colors, the flowing plumes in which the members of the various fraternal orders deck them selves when they go forth to parade. Consider the splendor of the silken and embroidered, and jeweled regalia in which the dignitaries of the church clothe themselves! Behold the eye-filling glory of the officers of the army and navy! Remember that even the judges clothe themselves in sweeping silk robes when they want to impress us with the majesty of 1 the law.
 Also recall that people do some mighty big things in mighty queer costumes, as, for instance, the war riors of old who fought in rattling coats of mail that made them sound like an iron stove falling downstairs as they walked, and probably every gentleman who signed the Declara- tion of Independence had to tuck up his lace ruffles in his sleeves to get his pen hand free. But it's no effeminate document, at that.
 But take it from me, H. P. S., the reason why women wear earrings is not because they are semicivilized, but because men like earrings. Wom- en may be short on logic. but they are long on guessing what captures the masculine fancy, and the wisdom of the ages has taught them that the more feminine they made them selves, and the more they adorned their persons, the more attractive they are to men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-17
Dorothy DiG'S Letter Boz
The Right Age For A Girl To Marry-Earrings And Wom ans Freedom-Should Wild-And- Twenty Settle Down?

Dear Miss Dix: Will you please tell me what, in your opinion, is the right age for a girl to marry?-JUST ENGAGED.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-17

Another reason why a girl should not marry very young is because she mas not had her play time. She is not ready to settle down. She is not yet surfeited with admiration Hsr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-17

Generally speaking, however, think that the best age for girl to marry is between 22 and 30, for by that time she is mature enough to know her own mind and have her taste in men formed, and she is still
 young enough to be able to adapt herself to the vagaries of a husband.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-17

I am opposed toA girls marrying while they are very Young for many reasons. One is that they lack the experience and judgment to pick out life partner, and they are much more concerned over whether a man dances well and how he combs his hair than they are over his morals and his ability to make a living. Another reason is that they don't even know the kind of man they really want, for the youth who rav- ishes their fancy one day bores them stiff the next. At IS and 20 a girls iancy Tor men changes as often as it does for chocolate creams.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-17

Answer: There is no one particu- lar moment in girls life when the stars are more propitious for matri- mohy as the fortune tellers say, than another. So much depends upon the character of the girl, upon the man, upon the circumstances by which she is surrounded. Some girls bloom earlier than others. Sometimes a girl gets a chance at a prince of a man that she would be foolish not to grab at any age. Sometimes a girl has an unhappy home that she does wisely 10 get out of as soon as she can.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-23
Utility Measure signed

TRENTON, March 23.-Governor
silzer has signed the Whitney meas
ure, which has foc its purpose the
opening of books Of public utility
holding companies to the State
Board of Public Utility Commits
sioners for inspection.
While pending in the legislature,
this measure met with vigorous OBJ
lection on the part of public utility
companies, but after an amendment,
which the governor deems damaging,
she measure passed.
II approve this bill because
think it is a step N the right direc-
tton," said the governor. ST do not,
however. accomplish anything sub
stantial, for it gives very little power
tc the Public Utility Commission"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-23
Ex-SERvICE MEN CAN RENEW
GOVERNMENT INSURANCE.

Local ex-service men who have
heId government insurance during
The war. but who allowed it to lapse
upon their discharge from service
viii be given an opportunity to re-
instate it, before March 3, 1925, at
liberal terms, it has been announc-
ed by the Veterans Bureau, second
dlstrlct. which includes New Jersey,
New York and Connecticut.
The provisions for the reinstate-
ment, outlined are as follows: IL
the-applicant is in good health, poll
cies may be reinstated upon the
payment of two monthly premiums;
II the applicant is suffering from
some specific injury. such as loss of
limb, he may reinstate, If he is in
good health otherwise. by also pay
ing two premiums il the applicant
is IN good health, but if the injury
or disease from which he is suffer-
ing was contracted or aggravated in
service, and provided he is not per-
manently or totally disabled, REIN
statement may be affected by the
payment of all premiums in arrears,
with interest at five per cent per
annunl, compounded annually. In |
all cases where the insurance has1
iapsed for a period of more than |
three months, a full medical exam |
ination must be submitted with the
application.
I{fe examinations may be had free |
OF charge at II Blocker street, New
ark, the sub-district Office of the !
United States Veterans Bureau.
The district service officer, Joseph I
T. Deegan, is cooperating and is
arranging for the use of the local L
postoffice for reinstatements, having
a government insurance man there
afternoons and evenings in the near
future. Service men in Middlesex
county can then come to this city to
reinstate and convert their insur-
ance and pay their premiums. Lo-
cal service officer, Victor Main, of
the American Legion Post No. Is,
will also assist.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-03-14
MRS. ]. P. CHAPMAN
BADLY HURT IN FALL
Sustained Broken Hip Early To-
day At Her Home On
Forrest Street

Mrs. ]. P. Chapman is in a serious
condition at her home on Forrest
street as the result 0 fla fall receiv-
ed this morning as she came out of
her bedroom to their stair landing.
Her hip was broken in the fall and
because of weakness of the heart
it was not deemed advisable to
administer ether for the setting of
the bones,
All of her children have been sum
moned to her bedside, and it is ex-
pected that Mrs. ]. g. johnson, Mrs.
Richard Cooper and Mrs. Frank Co
man will reach the city some time
during the day. Mrs. Perry Clegg,
of Cordele, arrived about an hour
after her mothers accident. Other
Americas relatives are with the fam-
lily.
Because of the advanced age OF
Mrs. Chapman and the condition OF
her heart, grave fears are entertain
ed for her.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-03-14
TAKES UP CARTER CASE
WITH CARRIERS MISSING

STATENVILLE, March ID. - The
Echols county grand jury yesterday
took up the case of Mann and Will
Carter, farmers, charged with mur-
der in connection with the death of
a federal dipping vat Inspector, who
was killed near the Carter home as
he went there on business connected
with his duties The Carters have
not yet been arrested.
The grand jury made no announce
ment as. to the handling of the case,
nor any contemplated indictment, but
court attaches said they knew this
case had been taken uo because of
the witnesses who were called into
the jury room.
The Echols County Superior court
convened yesterday, and civil cases
are now being taken up. Judge w,
E. Thomas is presiding.
Attorney General Napier, of Geor-
gia, is in attendance at this term to
assist in prosecution Of the case
against the Carriers. He came to
Valdosta and was driven over to
Statewide by Sheriff ]. E. Gornton,
Of Lowndes county.