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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1924-03-07

Magistrate Clark Hall, of London,
says, Boys are great show offs -;
they are subject to the gang
spirit. and they never want to
take a dare; hence, they often get
into trouble
The remedy for the above, accord
ing to Magistrate Hall, is to keep
them busy, to direct their simple
enthusiasm and fullness of spirit
into creative lines of usefulness,
and not to let them drift aimlessly
with other boys.
In this connection we'd like to see
Magistrate Hall deal with the gang
of young loafers that constantly
hang around the movies and beg
! pennies. Gimme a cent, Mister,
they whine. ~ jes' need cent to
make up the price of the movies.
Gimme cent, Mister"
ssssss
When they start out they haven't
, red; but by keeping up this PAN
handling they soon acquire enough
cents to make up the price.
| Parents should blush with shame
at such conduct. But do they know
it! You bet your sweet life they
don't know it'll
They are only too glad to get
their children out of the way, even
II they are on the streets begging.
The best way to get rid of them
is to offer them some work whereby
! they can earn the price of the
/ movies. Then they'll avoid you like
the smallpox.
Incidentally the movies here are
getting so rowdy with the yelling,
stamping, clapping and kissing that
adults who demand decent order
; for their amusement are either fore
ed to stay away, or go to Trenton
theatres.
These rowdy youngsters go to
the first show, and if they like the
picture. they stay on for the Sec
ond show-especially the comedies.
And il they don't succeed in beg
ging enough pennies to get in for
the first show, they hang around
the side exits and sneak in when
they are opened at the end of the
first show.
Amy other city would clear child
rem off the streets and make them
60 home before nine o'clock.
Mother-"Sammy, you've been
fighting again! You've lost four
front teeth"
Sammy-(taking a package from
his pocket.) "No. amt, mother;
here they are" Exchange.
II boys were as anxious to be
on hand when the school doors are
opened as they are when the movies
open, they'd soon be so bright you'd
have to lock them up in order to
give the sun n chance.
s.ssss
Parents who haven't backbone
enough to control their children need
not prolong the agony any longer.
They had better go jump in the
ocean with the rest of the jelly
Ash.
In the good old days girls used
to help their mothers do the house.
work and the boys did the chores.
But now they are so considerable
they do not wish to deprive their
parents At soch exercise,
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1924-03-07
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Catering as We (try toy do to all
sorts and conditions of men, we
not always serve the same menu.
To this weeks bill-of-fare we
submit four toothsome delicacies
for your mental appetite.
BLO0MIN' LATE
Bloomin' late my ramblers is
June's the time they do their biz.
But this year they're dretful shy;
Here it is way past July,
An their heads is hardly riz.
Kinder make me think O. Liz
Don't know scurcely what it tbs.
She's grown sort O. sweet an shy
Bloomin' late.
She amt any girl to quiz
Guess a Teller would get friz
If his feelings get too high,
She might look him in the eye.
And say, Zeke, you're too'-Gcc
"Bloomin' late"
Ethel M. Kelley, in N.Y.World
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1924-03-07
NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY

Natures first green Is gold,
Her hardest hue TO hold.
Her early leafs q flower;
But only 90 an hour.
Then leaf subsidies to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes dcva to-day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Robert Frost in Literary Digest.
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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1924-03-07

Edward was his own
From birth, and Harold mine.
What though blown seeds be
Lifted as q star.
It Is not meet, Of three.
More than one 20 FAR.
ABDUL Tina In N.Y.Tribune
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1924-03-07

In the good old days girls used
to help their mothers do the house.
work and the boys did the chores.
But now they are so considerable
they do not wish to deprive their
'paEsnts At soch exercise.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1924-03-07

Parents who haven't backbone
enough to control their children need
not prolong the agony any longer.
They had better go jump in the
ocean with the rest of the jelly
Ash.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
To Make Ribbon Irinrned Hat
 For Spring

Hats are still uppermost in our minds, so here's another idea for a hat that you can make yourself. Buy a straw crown or get a shape and cover it with shiny black straw that comes by the yard. Keep the shape very small, 30 that it just fits your head and has no brim at all. or else just sugges- tion of one. Then get shiny satin rib bon an inch or less wide, in three colors-black, gray and green or yellow, blue and black or red. gray and blue. Get enough of each color to go around the hat twice and there will be enough. If you want to have little flowers on the side, get about half n yard more of each of the colors.
 When the straw is sewed on the shape. beginning at the top and wind ing down to the brim, sew circular lining around the inside of the tiny brim. Make it of black taffeta prefer ably, but another color would do if your face is the type that does not look so well with black next to it, Then put the rows of ribbon on the hat. fastening them at the top edge. Sew the bottom row on first and the others just slightly overlapping each other. The upper series of rows should be. at the point of the very top of the sides. and here t4e ribbon must be gathered bit to go smoothly.
 The flowers are formed by twisting the ribbon around and around and the leaves are just points of green ribbon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
We Women By BETTY RRAtNERn
POLITICS AND CORRUPTION

Professional politicians used to argue that woman's place was in the home. So, too, did Caesar and other men who could not see quite beyond their noses. I do not question the sincerity of those not professionally interested in politics who were unable to recognize the i1- evitable logic of suffrage. Lately new light has been thrown upon the subject in relation with the attitude of some politicians during the agitation for the tOte.
 The newspapers have contained nauseous stories of corruption in pub lie office. High officials have been charged with treachery and self az grandizement. Money has changed hands. Public trusts have been used for private gain. But not once has the name of woman been mentioned in connection with all this scandal. It seems to me pity that woman was forced to remain at home so long. l am sure politics and public offices would not reek with the taint of crook edness if women had been allowed a greater freedom in the field of our gov erning agencies. Few of us, compared with the number of men, sell our honor. | This IS profession on which men ex- ercise almost n complete monopoly, and in politics it has virtually been an abso- .ute monarchy thus far.
 The accident of my sex has nothing t) do with this opinion. Some women sometimes give me an acute pain. Some men do. too. But everything consider ed, it is my belief that women, as a species, are more honorable fundament- ally than men, and it is especially true, in my opinion, that women in public life are more honorable and sincere than men. I have yet to hear of wom- an being indicted for malfeasance in office. Of course, the number of wom- en holding office is comparatively small but it is a splendid and pretty perfect minority. It does the right thing through a love of duty and right. This is more than can be said of most professional politicians.
 Women are stubborn and not easily
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
DOMESTIC DAYS

q noticed MT. .Jarr rushing; down the street in great haste this morning, { remarked Mrs. Rangle. who dropped in to find out the name of the embro- cation that had done the Jarr children 50 much good when they had wheoping cough. s <
 "Yes, there's an important meeting of the board of directors of his firm to- day" said Mrs. Jarr with a mysterious air. You know how it is with Mir. Jarr. ..They simply can't do anything without him down at the office Y Well, he looked to me like a man rushing as hard as he could to his work to avoid his firm demonstrating they could do without him." retorted Mrs. Rangle uppishly. Mrs. Jarr affected no: % see the gauntlet that had been thrown down.
 And, although Mrs. Rangle. now in q thoroughly awed attitude of mind, stayed on and hinted, and laid traps, she. could not glean a word further from Mrs. Jarr as to why Mir. Jarr had rushed downtown to the special meeting of the board of directors of his firm-unless it was because he was angry at them and was going to dis charge them.
 In vain Mrs. Rangle unpacked all her budget of local information about the people who had been put out of the apartment above them for non.payment of rent. Mrs. Rangle even told all about the operation her well-to-do cous- in contemplated.
 You know, Mrs. Jarr." she added, my cousins husband has lots of money and he denies my cousin noth- ing. So he said to her, What will it be Sis? A trip to Europe or an oper- ation? Of course,' continued the visi- tor, my cousins husband can afford
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
Must Concentrate If You Would
 Succeed
By RUTH LEIGH

Tive read this letter about fifteen times," heard a young woman call to a colleague across the office, land l can't seem to get my mind on it to know what it's about
 Of course she can't. I saw her read the letter, lay it down and look at her finger nails. Then she turned back $ to the letter and ran a comb through her bobbed hair. She then put her head between her hands in an attitude of strict attention, only to look behind her and make a sharp retort to a friend to whose conversation she was prob ably listening.
 She couldn't concentrate-obviousl Can you? Do you ever read book or letter or a newspaper over and over ngain without having the least idea at the end of what you were reading?
 Being able to concentrate on given subject is an achievement that is worth cultivating. If you can concen- trate in the presence of noise and other distractions so much the better. There are, however, those who cannot even concentrate in close, silent room without any interruptions. All because they have not schooled their mind to attend to one thing at time.
 The. reason so many people cannot concentrate is because they don't try. They think they are trying hard, but they are not using their brains. The first step toward, real concentration is actually to think hard about the sub iect or the book before you. The con scious human mind is capable of think ing of only one thing at time, and if you actually attend to the subject be- fore you, and every time an alien 1 thought enters, you shove it aside de stcrminedly, it will not be so hard to { concentrate. The reason it seems so difficult is that when an outside thought does obtrude itself, you dwell on it and let your mind wander. with no attempt to return to the subject you should be considering.
 One of the modern lecturers on phil osophical subjects declares that there are three kinds of thinking: First, real, directed concentrated thought i; second, day dreaming, in which one Jets ones thoughts wander in hit-and- miss fashion, and third, thought which lis devoted to justifying ones actions trying to attach a good reason to an action apparently performed without a l reason.
 The first kind of thinking is the hardest. The other two are easy. It shows how few people can really con 1 centrate. because they have never train 9,ed themsslves. To see newspaper folk. writing D noisy room, midst talking, Eelatter and loud conversation-each in Bent on the sheet of paper in the type writer-is a splendid illustration of how one can learn in necessity to con- Nrentrate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
Hearts Of TiUo
By VIRGINIA TsRHuHE VAN og WATER
 CHAPTER e5


 Marian sighed impatient1y. T do not see why it should. You and l are with him so much that we both know there is nothing to be afraid of. 1. ''No--nothing to be afraid of, of course" Lois admitted. But I Ger ,tainly would not like to be alone with a person as i'll as father. Anything might happen
 1very well.' Marian controlled her inward impatience. We must arrange with Ellen Dolan to come to do her cleaning each day, at the hour that Mrs. Fisher takes her airing. That is. if find it necessary to be away then"
 If you teach, it will have to be in the daytime" Lois said.
 Not necessarily" was the brief re- sponse. There may be pupils who pre- fer taking lessons in the evening"
 Then she rose as if to end further dis cussion.
 George Dixon made a long call, ' Lois remarked. II hope he gave you some suggestions as to how to earn money in some way.
 Marian did not reply directly. George is good chap" she said at last, as if musing aloud. "The best thing about him is that he can hold his tongue and mind his own business. l am sure that if I told him thing he never would mention it to any one"
 II takc it for granted that, any nice person would follow the same course" 1" Lois rejoined. "He is no exception to the ordinary run of decent people"
 Perhaps not Marian assented. "Yet---it is wonderful to know how to keep a, secret"
 Then she said goodnight and went on into her own room across the hall.
 Two hours later Lois awoke from her first sleep and saw gleam of light through her transom. Softly she slipped out of bed and, opening her door, looked out into the hall. There was bright light shining from the transom of her sisters room The older girl stole across the floor and put her eye to the keyhole.
 Marian's bed was within her range of vision. and Mai.an was leaning bacl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
N Grsat Min.

f.
 We all know the story of how Abra- ham Lincoln rose to greatness and how he freed the nation from slavery, but too few of us realize the debt that we ---we womenowe him. think Lin- coln's greatness was never better shown than in his treatment of us.
 A pretty. charming young iady. Ann Rutledge, beeame engaged to dashing young man. tsF One day he disappeared, leaving Ann to mourn over his neglect and to haunt the post office in the hopes that she would receive mail from him. Lincoln was the postmaster. She confided her troubles to him. He fell deeply in love with her. But it was only when the gossip about her being tilted became unbearabIe that he let his love become known. She finally be- came engaged to. Lincoln but grieyed so much over her departed lover that she died. Lincoln's sorrow was deep and bitter. His infinite tenderness.is shown by a remark he made to friend who begged him to forget his grief. IT cannot" he replied, "the thought of the snow and rain on her grave fills me with indescribable grief" He was only 2ti at the time but he never forget her. his wife every luxury her heart desires. It will cost thousands and thousands. But, then, her husband has his own business. He isn't depending on small salary like my husband or yours !"
 Mrs. Jarr smiled in a superior man ner again and said, Why. my hus- bands salary--but there! How stupid of me! l promised not to say word !"
 Mrs. Rangle had to depart, as she had beef stew on the stove, and she ran right into old Mrs. Dusenberry as she was entering her house. I've just come from the Jarrs," said Mrs. Ram gle. MT. Jarr, has had his, salary doubled.-but I promised not to tell !"
 Mrs. Dusenberry spoke of it to Mrs. Schmidt, wife of the delicatessen dealer, who told Mrs. Slavinsky, and Mir, Sla- yinsky told Mrs. Stryver's cook while putting glass in the basement window. and when Mrs. Stryver learned of it from her maid she told her husband that Mir. Jarr had bought out his bosss business.
 By love, Is that so?' cried Mr. Stryver. We must give them din- ner."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03

on the door would drown out the bill ing and the cooing in any home. Next, would pick out a man who WAS hard worker, and energetic, an ambitious, up-and-coming man, who was keenly interested in his business or profession. A number of reasons would enter into this selection.
 First, I would want a husband of whom could be proud. in
 whose career l could take an in-
 terest, and in whose success could
 share, for a wife invests her all,
 of brains and talent and hopes,
 for the future in her husband.
 Secondly, I should want n husband who was too busy with his own affairs to meddle with mine, for I should loathe the sort of a man who was always snooping around the ice box, and who picks out his wife's clothes.
 And lastly, I should know that
 there is no better chaperOne for a
 man than for him to be too busy
 with his occupa ton to have time
 to philander. It is the idle men and
 the unambitious men, who are
 going nowhere in particular, who
 have time to notice what perfectly
 wonderful hair their stenographers
 have.
 Next, I should pay particular at tention to a mans, disposition. If he was jealous, and suspicious, and un. reasonable; if he took offense easily 1; if he was moody and sullen; if he was high tempered and said cruel things when he was angry, 1 should have none of him, though he was as rich as Croesus, as handsome as Rudolph Valentino, as moral as Sir Galahad. For it is a mans disposition with which his wife has to live
 every day. His virtues are more
 outside commentators for, Sun
 day wear. So 1 should pick me husband who was gOOd-natured, who was jolly, who turned an op- timistic eye on me along with the
 rest of the world and believed that
 l was trying to do the decent thing
 instead of the wrong thing.
 You know the kind of man who is always humorous, and kindly, and philosophical who has a pleasant word for everybody, kiss for a child and q pat IOr uOS, WHO mdkSS tne OebL Ol every situation, and who makes yo, feel simply by his presence that God, in his heaven and all's right with thu world. That is the sort of man would pick out for a husband.
 l would pick out a generous man
 for husband, just man, a man who would not expect me to run house on air. would never
 marry a man who always rowed
 with waiter over a bill and who carried his change in a purse that
 he had to undo three clasps to get into.
 Finally, I would pick out for a hus band what the old-fashioned novels uset to call "a man of sentiment" I would want a man who was understanding who was sympathetic, on whose tend erness could throw myself, as secure of comfort as on the pity of God. There are plenty of men who
 measure up to all of these stand
 ards, and if girls would select their husbands with as much care as they do their hats there would be
 mighty few unhappy marriages. ! DOROTHY DIX.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
RIG GAME HUNTERS

The United States government. main- tains an army of big game hunters to kill predatory animals in stock raising sections. In 1923 the Biological Sur vey crews. unoer whose direction this work is done. killed S0,000 wild ami malls. and in seven years their rifles have brought down 3S0.O00 stock-kill- ing wild animals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03

Alas, daughter, there are no infal- lible earmarks by which you can tell beforehand whether a man will make the sort of a hus- band who keeps his wife on her knees thanking God for her luck in getting him. or makes her spend the time from her wedding day to her funeral wondering what the Fool Killer was doing the day she was married that il didn't get her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03

against her pillows reading. Noise lessly, Lois returned to her own bed.
 My fair sister cannot get to sleep ; she reflected. T am perfectly sure that her talk with George Dixon has dis turbel her. She might as we'll tell me what it was all abouts for I will find 1t out sooner or later, anyway"
 (TO Be COntd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
CUPID MADE TO WAIT ON MARS

Tshaka, a Zulu chieftain, who wielded great power more than a century ago. segregated the young men and women in his community and only every so often, after the men in regiment had done so much war duty, were the girls and the boys allowed to intermingle and marry. In this way he regulated mat ters so that he always had a sufficient number of unmarried soldiers. A breach of his rule meant certain death
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
BOOK BORROWERS ARRESTED

Delinquent book borrowers at public libraries who refuse to heed notices and return overdue books, are likely to be arrested and either fined or imprisoned if the action recently pursued in Seattle, Wash, becomes popular
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03

Furthermore, when woman chooses her life partner she almost invariably uses her heart instead of her head, and this causes her to be deaf, dumb and blind to any warnings that her com mon sense might offer hre. Nine Wom- en out of ten marry man because he looks like a sheik, or ia glib talker and q good dancer, rather than because he possesses the desirable qualities that go to make a good yoke mate.
 Now. if I were n young woman
 contemplating matrimony l should
 choose none but strong, healthy,
 husky man for husband. No lean,
 cadaverous dyspeptic would get me,
 nor would l undertake the job of
 .ing human buffer between the
 world and the nerves of any neu-
 rotic and temperamental gentle
 man. no matter how poetic and
 soulful he was.
 I wouldn't want husband whose thoughts were so centered on his st0m- ach that he forgot he had heart, and who was 90 bilious and pessimistic that he kept the whole domestic atmosphere the color of indigo. Nor would I want to always be walking on eggs for fear of saying or doing something that would jangle tk, raw nerves of an irritable man who was about as soothing to have on the premises as a sore-headed bear. It is only in stories that sick people are patient and angelic. In real life they are grumpy and unreasonable So, unless I felt call to martyrdom 1 shouldn't choose an invalid for 6 husband.
 Next, I should give mans busi-
 ness ability the careful once-over.
 l would not expect a young man
 to support me in the way in which
 l had been accustomed to live if
 my father was prosperous man.
 l would not demand car and
 fine establishment, nor imported
 frocks. But I would not marry any
 man who had not proved that he
 could stand on his feet and by his own efforts support family. 1
 would rather marry man who
 could make $2,500 year himself
 than an idle rich mans son whose
 father made him an allowance of
 $25,000 a year
 I should know that love and romance have to have substantial financial backing if they are to endure, ant that while 1 might pity poor, shift less husband who couldn't make 6 living, I could not respect him, ana I'd have a mighty strong hunch that the noise of the bill collector beatinI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
Dorothy Dis's Letter Boz
When You Go HusbandP Picking Choose A Healthy, Ann- bitious Young Man With Good Disposition And 4
 Kindly Word For Every One-See That He Has His Head In His Work And His Heart In Your Keeping

A young woman asks me to tell her how to choose good husband.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03

One mother says:
 A strap which merely passes in front of baby is scant protection. l make my baby safe by fastening at the back. on either side, of his high chair and perambulatOr stout loops of upholster- CTS webbing. Through these loops slip a strap which fastens around the baby like loose belt. This insures reasonable freedom, with safety.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
MONKEY TAUGHT TO REASON

Instinct is supposed to guide beasts and birds exclusively, but captive monkey has been taught to reason ac- cording to eminent naturalists who have reported one capable of selecting a lever to perform mechanical piece ot work. The particular monkey under observa- tion confronted with the task of lifting & lid on a box pondered a while and then selected strong stick to use as prying lever.