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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-25

serving courses. Every penny count
ed. Every penny meant release.
After dinner Maxine and her moth
er sat down to eat off the edge of the
kitchen table. 1t was often 8 o'clock
before the last struggling diner,
sprawling on the parlOr davenport
with his evening paper and cigar, de-
parted, leaving Maxine TO pick up the
scattered newspapers, cigarette butts,
ashes, straighten chairs, lock doors.
Then the dishes. The dishes
When Arnold Hatch asked her to go
to movie she shook her head, usual
ly. I'm too tired. I'm going TO read,
in bed
Read, read, That's all you do.
What're you reading:'
ooh, about Italy. La bel NapOli :"
She collected travel folders and often
talked in their terms. In her mind
she always said "brooding Vesuvius' !;
blue Mediterranean" "azurc
coasts: "Egypt's golden sands
Arnold Hatch ate dinner nightly at
Pardee's. He lived in the house next
door. which he owned. renting it to
an Okoochce family and retaining the
upstairs front bed room for himself.
A tall, thin, eye-glassed young man
who worked in the offices of the
Okoochee Oil and Refining Company.
believed in OI)ochee, and wanted TO
marry Maxine. He had twice kissed
her. On both these occasions bis
eyeglasses had fallen off, taking the
passion, so to speak out of the pro-
cess. When Maxine giggled, uncon-
trOllably, he said. Go on-laugh
But some day I'm going to kiss you
and I'll take my glasses off first. Then
look out"
You have to have a good deal Of
humor to stand being laughed at by
a girl you've kissed; especially a CIR
who emphasizes her aloofness by
wearing those high-colored white silk
blOuses.
"You haven't got a goitre, have
you?" said Arnold Hatch, one even
+ ing, brutally. Then, as she had flarct
in protest, Il know it. love that lit
tie creamy satin hollow at the base o.
, your throat"
! you've never s." The scarle
famed up. She was human.
Il know it. But l love it just tn,
same" Pretty good for tall THU
young man who worked in the Offices
of the OkoOchee Oil and Refinin;
= gCompany.
Sometimes he said, I'm darned Ger
tain you like me"-bravcly-"lovc me
: Why won't you marry me? Cut on
n all this shaving. l could support YOU
I Not in much luxury, maybe. but
And settle down in Okoochee
Never see anything! Stuck y thi
= GOd-forSa zen hole. This drau. dull
j oil-soakcd village! When there ar
@ wonderful people, wonderful places
color. romance, beauty! Damascus
Mandalay Singapore, Hongkong
Hongkong, 1t sounds like
D temple bell. 1t thrills me-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-25

| like good food, and I'm thankful they
do. If they didn't don't know where
I'd be-"
I'VE might be anywhere-so long as
it could be away from here. Dull,
stupid, stick-in-the muds, all of them"
"Why, they're no such thing, Max
inc Pariee. They're from all over
the world, pretty nearly. Why, just
last Thursday they were counting
there We're seventeen different states
represented in the eighteen people
that sat down to dinner"
pooh. States! ThatN isn't the
world"
What is, them
Maxine threw out her arms, sprink-
ling dish water from her dripping
finger tips with the wide flung ges-
turc. Cairo. Zanzibar Brazil !.
Trinidad! Seville-uh-Samar-Sam-
arkand.'
"Where's Samarkand?"
81 don't know. And I'm going to
see it all some day. And the differ
ent people. The people that travel,
and know about what kind Of wine
with the roast and the fish. You
knOw-the kind in the novels that
say. You've chilled this sautcrne too
much. Bemish.'"
"And when you do see all these
places rctortcd Mrs. Pardce, with
the bitterness born Of long years of
experience, you'll find that in every
one Of them somebody's got a board
ing house called Pardee's. or some.
thing like that, where the people
. flock same's they do here, for a good
meal
'Ycs, but what kind of people,"
Same. kind that comes here"
81 don't believe it,"
, "Well. it's so. And I'm Thankful
. we've got the comforts of home"
: At this Maxine laughed a sharI
- little laugh that was almost a bark
d Perhaps she was justified.
r The eighteen struggled in between
5 6 and G:30, nightly. 4 mixture o
u townspeoplc, and strangers. Will
r Maxine poured the water in the din
y ing room the neat little parlor becam
;, n mess. The men threw hats an
+, overcoats on the backs of the chairs
d Their rubbcrs stopped under them
y They rarely troubled to take them of
n While waiting avidly for dinner to ,
/ served they struck matches and light
5 cd cigarettes and cigars.
= The women trotted upstairs, chat
tering, and primpCd and fused i
: Maxine's neat and austere little bed
u room. They used Maxincs powdc
K and dropped it about on the It'd
c dresser and the floor. They brushe
away only what had settled on tn
+ front of their dresses. They forgot {
switch off the electric light, leavin
) Maxine TO DO il, thriftily, betwee
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-25

ing. Y. NJ. C. A, Rotary Club,
knights of Columbus, Kiwanis, Box
Scouts
Gosh" said Sam Pardce, "this
towns no good"
Milly Pardec took a last stand.
Sam Pardee, I'm through traipsing
up and down the world with you,
like a gypsy. l want a home.
want TO be settled. l want to stay
here. And I'm going to-"
you're sure you want to stay?"
"Ivc moved for the last time. L
I'm going to plant a Burbank clam
berer at the side of the porch, and
they don't begin to flower till after
the first ten years. That's how sure
| am"
There came look into Sam Par
dec's eyes. He rubbed his neat brown
derby round and round with his coat
sleeve. He was just going out.
We'll, that's all right. 1 just want
cd to know. Where's Maxi"
"She stayed late. They're rchear-
sing for the Pageant of Progress
down at the Library"
Sam Pardce looked thoughtful
little rPgrctful, one might almost have
said. Then he clappcd on the brown
derby, paused on the top step of th,
porch to light his cigar, returned thu
greeting of young Arnold Hatch who
was sprinkling the lawn next door
walked down the street with tn,
quick, nervous step that characterized
him, boarded the outgoing train, anC
was never heard from again.
WELL said the worse-than-wid
owed Git was her own terms), 'we'v
got the home"
She set about keeping it. Parlce'
dinners became an institution i
OkoOchce. Mrs. Pardee cooked, Max
inc served. And not even the grea
new stucco palaces on the Edgecomb
road boosted finer silver, more e1
quisite napcry. As for the food
old Glenn BarstOw himself, who ha
chef and a butler and sent east ia
lobster and squads, came TO Pardee'
when he wanted a real meal. FroE
the first they charged S1.50 for thei
dinners. Okoochee, made mellow b
the steaming soup, the savoury meat
the bland sauces and rich desser
paid it ungrudgingly. They serve
only eighteen-no more, though Oko'
chez could never understand why. o
each dinner Mrs. Pardee made a mil
imum Of - cents. Eighteen time
20 E. naught and carry the four :.
naught O.. five thirteen-fifty &.
seven times well, S9J or Their,
abouts each week isn't so bad. o.
of this Mrs. Pardee managed TO ban
a neat sum. She figured that at II
end of ten or fifteen years. -.
Il hate Them said Maxine, wasl
ing dishes in the kitchen. Greed
pigs"
They're nothing Of the kind. The
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Evening star., 1923-02-26
DECLARES SOCIALISTS
WOULD ENLIST FARMERS

In a warning against the efforts
of socialist groups to influence the
susceptible farmer vote in the devel-
opment of state socialism within both
political parties, Mrs. Haviland H.
Lund, president of the institute of
Government brought to a close the
last session of the convention of
that organization Saturday at the New
Willard, which meeting was devoted to
agricultural topics.
Few who are working for govern
ment control in the creation Of acres
of bureaus realize" she said. that
they are breaking down constitu-
tional government under the SPECIFIC
directions of Carl Marx anu Lenin.
If there is to be a third party, let
the communists call themselves COM
mupists, and let the real Americans
from the old parties join hands under
a new name called the constitutional
party"
sentative of the National Grange.
made the opening speech. He was
followed by Samuel Adams of Chi
cago, president Of the American
Agriculture Editors Association, who
said that the farm group in America
the most radical to the most conser-
vative and that the compromise view
was the only hope of the farmers.
At the afternoon session Mary
Weeks Atkeson, agriculture writer,
urged the inclusion of farm women
of the country in all national move
ments by women. Miss Maude Young
er of the national woman's party
told of the work of her organization
in compiling the legal status of
women in this country and said that
the equal rights amendment would
cember after all the data were COL
lecte1l.
Evening star., 1923-02-26
PRESIDENTS PLEA
IS LAUDED BY cox
Request for senate's Ap-
provaI of U. S. Place in
World Court Praised.
BEST NEWS IN LONG TIME
Triumph for Public Opinion and
Religious Thought, Says For
mer Governor.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, February 26.-Presi-
dent Harding's request that the SEN
ate authorize American membership
in the international court set up by
the league of nations 'is another
triumph of public opinion in Ameri-
can affairs" and demonstration of
the power of our religious thought,
when aroused and organized former
Gov. James NJ. Cox OF Ohio, demo-
cratic nominee for President in the
last campaign, declared in state
ment here yesterday.
The presidential recommendation
to become associated with the in
ternational court of justice is the
best news that has come out of Wash
ington in a long time" he said.
Plea for Delay Reasonable.
while the subject is not a new
one and the senator's are famillar
with every detail involved" Mr.. Cox
continued. 1--WE may reasonably ex-
pect a plea for delay on the ground
that the proposal involves too impor-
tant issues for hasty action. Whether
senatorial concurrence IS given OF not:
the changed attitude on the part OF
full influence in the sadly involved
affairs of the world. International
law is as essential as local or ma
tional laws.
1--WE can easily understand how use
less the latter would be without our
courts, and yet until a very recent
time international laws have existed
without any established tribunal TO
interpret them in their application TO
disputes between nations. The cove
nant of the league of nations created
the international court and IT Is
functioning in a way that connrms
the faith of it's sponsors.
Triumph of Public Opinion.
That American participation in this
great judicial organization will yield
the results predicted by both the
President and Secretary Hughes
seems assured. BY the same phi
losophy we can assume that 1t will
accomplish in the future what could
have been accepted in critical period
when we denied our cooperation. The
is another triumph OF
public opinion, in American affairs
and a demonstration of the power of
our religious thought when aroused
and organized. The federated churches
of the country have not for a moment
their efforts even in the
face of repeated announcements of
policy of isolation by the State De-
partme nt."
Evening star., 1923-02-26
Tilted WOMAN TO KEEP
BARENTzEN'S CHILDREN
Governess Who Came From Den
mark Expecting to Wed Will
Sail Back Home With Trio.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. February o6.-Niss
Sigrid Svenson. governess. of Den
mark, and the three motherless chill
dren of Frederick BarentZen, Brook
lyn leather dealer. who failed to keep
his promise to marry the young wom-
an, were held at Ellis Island, await
ing a ship that will take them back to
Copenhagen.
Three years ago, when Barentzen's
wife died in Copenhagen, Olga, Olaf
and Hans were placed in the care of
Miss Svenson. She learned to love
them and they returned her affection.
The father, who came to America two
years ago. was prosperous. He wrote
to Miss Svenson. proposing marriage.
She accepted. He sent money for her
passage and that of the children.
Happiness in their hearts, they
sailed. AS they neared a Hudson
river pier the father, carrying flowers
for his betrothed, waved greetings.
But when they debarked he did not
meet them and they were sent to the
immigration station. Welfare work.
ers pleaded with the man to keep his
promise. He refused. He declined
even to request custody of his chill
dren, they said. He gave no reason
for his attitude.
Miss SvenSon today was advised by
immigration officials to appeal from
the action of the board of inquiry
that excluded her and the children.
NO" she said. I'VE will return.
can care for them"
Evening star., 1923-02-26
Z lbS., Z5c potatoe. Lettuce Lettuce, head sc
- PALMOLIVE -
DC Cake SOAP Cake &c

In
obliged
CUSTOMER
Evening star., 1923-02-26
Don't Fuss With
Mustard Plasters!
Musterole Works Without the
Blister-Easier, Quicker

There's no sense in mixing a mess
of mustard, -four and water when
you can easily relieve pain, sore
ness or stiffness with little clean,
white Musterole
Musterolc is made OF pure oil of
mustard and other helpful ingredi-
ents. combined in the form of the
present white ointment. 1t takes
the place of mustard plasters, and
will not blister.
Musterole usually gives prompt
relief from sore throat, bronchitis,
tonsilitis, Group, stiff neck, asthma,
neuralgia, headache. congestion,
pleurisN rheumatism. lumbago, pains
and aches of the back or joints,
sprains, sore muscles, bruises, chill
hlains, frosted feet, colds of the
chest Git may prevent pneumonia. l..
35c and Csc, jars and tubes.
Evening star., 1923-02-26
RADIO MUSIC FROM US.
PICKED up IN GERMANY
First Successful Broadcast Trans
mits Voice of Woman Singing
in Department Store.
By the Associated Press.

BY the ARSOcAteo Frcks
LICHTERFELDE, February 90
Germany, for the first time. Saturday
morning listened to a program of
music transmitted by radio from the
United States. The experimental wire
less station at Seehof, at o'clock
Saturday morning. picked up the
voice of Miss Edith Bennett singing in
a department store in Newark, N. ].
Both the vocal and instrumental
tones were perfectly audible. The
transmission is. regarded as remark
able, since the broadcasting station
was operated on a 400-meter wave
length, the same as is commonly used
for nearby American listeners. Eight
high vacuum amplifiers were used in
receiving, but only ordinary antennae,
eight meters high.
Lichterfelde is q suburb Of Berlin.
Reports were received in New York
Saturday that receiving stations i'm
England and France and far inland
ci tiles of the United States heard Miss
Bennett singing in Newark:
Evening star., 1923-02-26
REWED AFTER II YEARS.
Groom. 50, and Bride, SO, Patch
Up Domestic Spat."

MIAMI, Fla, February ga do
mestic "spat" that began in Gillespie
and eliminated in divorce seventeen
years ago had a sequel in Miami Sat
urday in the remarriage of Mrs. Sarah
A. Hamilton of Gillespie, ILL.,. who
arrived in Miami last night, and L.
T. Hamilton, a retired painter, max
ing his home with his son, George F.
Hamilton, in this city. The bridegroom
gave his age as eighty eight, and that
Of his bride as, -sixty-six. They will
make their home in Miami.
Evening star., 1923-02-26
LIFE TERM FOR SLAYER.
Man Is Convicted Of Killing His
Twelve-Year-Old Daughter.

SAGINAW, Mich, February 26.-
Walter T. Hubbard, forty-three, former
credit manager here for an oil company,
was convicted by a circuit court jury
of the murder, December 9 last,
of his twelve-year-old daughter Mar
guerite. The childs throat was slashed
with a razor.
Hubbard was sentenced by. Judge
Ernest A. Snow to life Imprisonment,
the court expressing regret that it was
not possible under the state laws to
impose the death penalty.
During the trial the prosecution at
tempted to introduce evidence tending
to show the girl was killed because she
had knowledge of another crime by the
father, but the court ruled the testimony
out. Z
Evening star., 1923-02-26
NOTED CHEMIST DEAD.
HARTFORD. Conn.,, February :

HARTFORD. Conn.,, February 20
Edward W. Morley, noted chemist,
died after months illness He
was born in Newark, N. j.. eighty
five years ago. He was graduated
from Williams College in 1860, and
in later years received degrees from
several universities and colleges in
the west. DR.. Morley taught chem
istry at Western Reserve College,
afterward named Adelbert College.
from 1869 to 1906, and also was pro-
fessor at Cleveland Medical College
from 1873 to 1883. He 6txised appa-.
ratus fof analyst ~of gas. II
Evening star., 1923-02-26
CRIMELEss CITY IN ENGLAND.

LONDON, February 26.-The city
Of Crewe, which boasts $4,000 inhab-
itants, has established a record for
itself. Not an arrest on a drunken
ness charge was made there during
the last twelve months. Lighter and
more expensive beer as well as a
curtailment in the number of hours
the saloons may be open are given
as the reasons for this sobriety.
Evening star., 1923-02-26
CAR STOVE BLOWS UP.
Sixteen Passengers Hurt in Odd
Blast at Youngstown, Ohio.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, February 26.-
Sixteen passengers were injured when
stove blew up in an interurban
car on the Youngstown and Subur-
ban railway a short distance from
here The blast blew the entire front
out of the car. Thirteen Of the injured
were taken to hospitals, but ten Of them
were discharged after receiving FIRST
aid.
Evening star., 1923-02-26
OF TRUDEAU DEAD.

SARANAC LAKE, N. Y, February
26.-Mrs. Edward Livingston Trudeau,
widow Of the well known tuberculosis
specialist, died here.
Evening star., 1923-02-26
INVADE MASONIC HALL.
Emblems Removed From Head
quarters at Turin.

TURIN, February 26.-The head
quarters of the Scottish Rite Free
Masons here was invaded, the furniture
demolished and the books. registers
and emblems removed. The raiders
wrote on the walls: Remember st.
Bartholomew night"
The grand fascista council recently
issued an edict against the Free Ma
sons and gave fascist who were af-
filiated with Masonry the alternative
of resigning from either organization
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-10-26
$500 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.
Friday, October 2e, 1928.

Emerson said that wisdom is 9
sort Of mental and spiritual ele-
walton that enables a man 70
come down to the ordinary, end
even extraordinary, problems OF
life with out getting excited or
losing his balance, and that it is
the lack of this same elevation OF
mind that causes men to get ex-
cited over little things. Did you
ever notice one-of those quiet
men. who amidst the hustle and
noise of the crowd maintains a
quiet balance of mind that in
spires confidence in those VINO
approach him?
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-10-26

It is a significant fact that the
limited States Governmel lano
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-10-26
SCHOOL NOTES


The high school and the seventh and
eighth grades enjoyed an interesting
talk Tuesday morning, from Miss KEN
the Chautauqua lady. She gave an ac-
count of the Chautauqua program and
also told us to make this ''hello week
by speaking whenever they pass her on
the street.
+ The high school was dismissed for a
part of the afternoon Tuesday, to see
the chautauqua parade of the grade
children.
The report, cards were given out
Tuesday noon and we see all OF the
students survived,
Senior Notes
| About next week we expect some
interesting editorials, appropriate for
a school paper, written by the Juniors
and largely addressed to the Senior
GLASS ~? ~! 49,
/ We pity some of the Freshmen, now
that colder weather is approaching.
Tor particulars inquire OF William
lSteinmetz.
The English Nv class will soon take
up the study of shakesp sre's Hamlet.
Yes, we'Irall attend the Chaatauqua.
Junior Notes
We are proud to have had one OF our
L 2
members in the Chautauqua parade
| We don't know how we did it but we
managed to live through the six-week
examinations.
r We are arxiously awaiting the Fresh
Imam return party.
IL Freshmen Notes
Il The Freshmen are willing to admit
THAT the Sophomores gave them a
!. good initiation, but they are not lg-
Inorant of the fact that if they had not
!: had a good initiation last year they
would not had SO many ide as
AT any rate we now consider ourselves
n full fledged' high school students,
land we are now fully recovered from
4 the effects Of the party.
/ We are glad that the six-weeks ex-
arninationa are over.
/ 7th and 9Th Grades
Margaret Root from Omak, enrolled
in the seventh grade Monday.
Y The first six-week's examination pa
per's have been graded and report cards
sent out, so we can move on with our
next six weeks work.
Two very poor English papers were
handed in. The parts received a y
mark for snch careless work.
| Three papers were below standard
in Arithmetic, but no names are men
toned at this time.
Our penman ship class. which was
organized last week will be postponed
this week on account of Chautauqua.
I 3rd and 4th Grades
Mary Hamilton entered the third
grade Monday.
We were glad to welcome Onie Smelt-
zcr to our room again this week.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-10-26

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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-10-26
At CE,autauqu1a tonight, Oct. 2StE1

Bert Lamb and sons were out to ths
ranch Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Koren, Forest Hunt,
Mr.. ard Mrs. Lloyd Taylor, Mrs. e,
Wagner and two children, were visit
ors at the Taylor home Sunday.
Albert Holmen is very ill in Mans
field. His friends in DelRio wish him
a speedy recovery.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-10-26

-Four welknown
Fay Company who
Chautauqua
with all the attention
Broadway
study
political ambitions
hose Americans who appreciate the
Europe
II nment
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-10-26

some reason,
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-10-26
MORE LOCALS

Manager Mitchell Of the Gregg
Theatre, has decided to put on a
picture show Sunday afternoon
at two o'clock. This is the film
he had for Saturday night, and
as the Chautauqua is taking
both Saturday and Monday nights
lis is all he can do as the film
1ast be returned the first of the
eek
The weather the past week
IS been decidedly autumn, vita
ram again the first of the week
ID followed by cool days and
fosty mornings.
Elmer Box and Leo LAWN have
finished their road contract at
Edwall and have been in Coulee
the past week.
w. J. Smith, Chas. Schemmel
and T. H. Twining were Ephrata
visitors yesterday,
Mr.. Mckay pianotuner from
Cheney has been here this week
on professional business.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. W. Green of
Maritime, were transacting bus
mess in Coulee yesterday.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-10-26
DEL RIO

Oct. 22.l
The hard rains we are having are
with the threshing.
Mrs. Hester spent Saturday and
Sunday at the Frank Taylor home.