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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-12-08
LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT
TO JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT

My Dear Husbands: / know now
that the old man who said almost at
the end of a long life, "Ive had d
great deal of trouble in my life, most
of which never happened,'' was
right. The things which perhaps
| fret US most, never happen.
| Here I've been worrying about
your being angry at me, Jack, ever
since went into business with Ruth
and you surprise me by saying that
you are very proud of me and pay
me all sorts of compliments about
being a good business woman.
1t is these little variations in the
moods and character of those we
love that make US enjoy them more
and more. am never quite sure
Jack what you will do next or how
you will do it.
] am afraid, however, that you are
too sure of me. that I am too de-
pendablc perhaps to really be inter
esting. You seem to know that given
{. certain set Of circumstances | wiz!
always react in certain manner.
Some day will surprise you, dear,
by doing something totally uneXpect-
ed.
Dea est. you know that although
I may make great mistakes in judg-
Ments Yet l never do things that I
think would hurt or anger you. Nat
orally of course ! claim the right to
help a friend whenever | feel it nee
essary without consulting you just
as you have helped your friends
many times probably without con-
sulting me.
Sometimes l think it is not the big
troubles that "mess up" Gas you
would call IT'D the success of married
life, but it is the little a>.noyances
that come up every day that keep
ones nerves frazzled and ones view
point warped, that makes two peo-
pie hate each other who once loved.
| am very glad that you have
found out one thing by going back
home without me and that is how i'm
possible it would be to have your
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PRINCE AND COMEDIAN
(Springfield News)

N'Ii SiiNIu .>t"SJ
A story is related in the news
papers about meeting between
Will Rogers, the comedian Of the
Follies, and the prince OF Wales.
They both played polo, though on
opposite sides. and later met at a
dinner, where Rogers was urged
to say a few funny things, meaning
to poke fun at the royal visitor.
The prince, as a matter of fact,
seems to have come out of this
banquet scene without any scars
and laughed heartily at the iibes
OF our premier comedian in Amer
ica.
All of which goes to show that
even the heir to the throne of
England is most human and ca
pable not only of understanding,
but appreciating an American joke
as we'll. Over there some of the
more scholarly of the punsters say
that the Americans are not funny:
that our brand of humOr is stale
and incomplete and that it only
forces a laugh fer the sake Of be
ing cordial.
The plain fact is there is a very
interesting side to English humor
and one would be seriously want
ing in proper appraisal of the sub
ject to attempt to prove that all
English comedy is impossible.
When the prince and the comedian
net about the fiesta, board it
was a rare occasion and not the
least interested was the fair-haired
young man who was a stranger in
a strange land and apt to be borei
by being made the object of q
strangers jOkishness.
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closed while back. all the other
supper clubs in MacDougall Alley lost
patronage. Business in the village
thrives through contiguity, it seems.
A book shop in our Bohemia. A
boy of IA enters, wearing heavy-rim-
med glasses and an Eton skull-cap.
He glances over the titles and the
young clerk makes several sugges-
tons. "Oh, MOI" he answers. II
want something for mother. She's
quite sophisticated, you know. She
has just finished The Tattooed
Countess l read it myself week
ago and thought it wasn't half bad.
How's this new thing by Ben Hecht?
I imagine mother would like it,"
He bought four books. After he
had gone the clerk told me that he
was the son of learned man who
wrote boys version of the Bible so
his boys could understand it.
Life isn't so drab in the Bronx
county Jail. In front there is a park,
in the rear theater where music is
played. on one side busy fremont
avenue and on the other Il row of
apartment houses with an amply sup
ply Of radio loud speakers. And for
one hour each Wednesday and Fri
day an organ grinder entertains with
out hope of pay. Screens over the
jail windows prevent inmates from
tossing him coins.
JAMES w. DEAN,
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New York, Dec. 9.--See-saw up
and down Broadway saw Tom Meig-
han, on his way to Birmingham, Ala,
there to do scenes for a movie Of a
story written by Jack Bethea, Birm-
ingham newspaperman. ..... Saw Al
Woods, the bedroom farce impresario.
Forget now whether he was on the
way to England, or just returning
he does both so often-Saw Eddie
Sutherland, young nabob who was
my idea Of the worlds, worst screen
actor, now successful director.
Saw Helen MacKellar, the most
wronged woman of the stage except
Florence Reed, and methinks she
looks lovelier on the street than be-
hind the footlights. 49,. Saw Eugene
Frey, baritone, making his first
New York appearance after a tour
of the country. He looks more the
part of screen villain than that Of
songster. Saw George Rasely,
as sweet tenor as sings on Broad
way. Saw Toto, the clown,
looking as lugubrious as pall-bear-
err. Seeing more short skirts
than for several months and girls
with ugl;est legs seem to wear them
Seeing far less fur-bearing
animals than roamed" Broadway last
year. .............
Barney Gallant is going to open
new supper club in Greenwich Viii
llge. When his former place was
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mother live with us, She would not
be happy for a moment nor would
she let us be happy. I have always
thought that the Puritans must have
been very uncomfortable to live
with. Their descendants are always
so sure of their own righteousness
and their own judgments. They can
become your judge without question
ing their own fitness in any way.
You say, dear, we will try very hard
when we get old to remember how
prone old people are to think they
know so much more than the young
err ones.
l don't blame your mother for do
ing what she wants to, when she
wants to, and how she wants to, but
I do blame her for insisting that we
should do exactly as she thinks best
'or us as we'll as for herself.
| think my own dear mother un-
t!erstands the viewpoint of the young
er generation, for although / have
said nothing to her about the letter
that your mother wrote me, yet
when we were talking yesterday and
suggested that she live with US in
the old house after we purchased it,
he told me she was not going to live
with either of her daughters.
81 know we will get along and love
each other much better if we do not
i've together" she said little apollo
getic;al'y. think mother has decid-
cd to travel and then come back to
live in one of the hotels near Us.
Will you please tell sgd that l am
going to write him long letter and
l do hope he will come over here
with you, but until l see him, he
must always remember that l con-
slider him my best friend.
LESLIE.
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-12-08
ADVENTURE OF
THE TWINS
BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON
A SHOO-FLY RIDDLE

See it you can guess this riddle,
my dears, as quickly as Nancy did.
"Tm the friendliest person you ever
did see,
If there's half Il chance for meal,
But when Pm not invited
You cannot blame me,
If my appetite tempts me to teal.
81 go round the table from this rlate
to that,
And dantily sit down and sip,
! sample the gravy,
| nibble the fat,
And into the tea-cups | dip
II dearly love butter, and jelly's a
treat,
But I'm not so greedy for bread,
| am always around,
When there's anything sweet.
Such as cookies or cake-crumbs or
spread.
II am not at all sensitive, never feel
hurt,
When you cry at my manners, oh,
fie!'
1t matters far more,
, What you have for dessert.
! II you've berries. or pudding, or pie.
II buzz my delight as l feast on your
food,
/ And sample your coffee and water,
1T doesn't disturb me
At all to be shooed,
The one thing that fear is a swat
ter"
The Twins had gone off by them
selves to hunt shady place. But
they could hear the Riddle Lady's
voice through the trees quite plainly.
"It's a fly!" called Nancy popping
out.
"Oh. ] guessed it, tool" said Little
Boy Blue. "But all the flies aren't
in the dining-room and kitchen.
There is whole stack in the hay
field"
Everybody laughed.
"Why, what's the matter?" asked
Little Boy Blue in surprise.
Where would a stack be if not in
the bayfield," said Mrs. John kindly.
Either whole stack or half a
stack"
"Oh, don't mean the kind of a
stack | went to sleep UNDER said
Little Boy Blue. 81 mean a stack
of flies. suppose should say
great many flies"
Well" said the Riddle Lady. THE
prize is whistle and I'll have to
give it to Nancy. She said it first"
"Give it to Little Boy Blue, please"
said kind Nancy. "He needs a whis
tie more than do. A whistle is
much better than a hotrh'
Here is another short riddle"
said the Riddle Lady. What has
one wheel but makes three tracks,"
Well, sir, the Mother Goose people
guessed everything from sleds to
kiddy-kars. But it was none of
those.
Everybody gave up and the Riddle
Lady had to tell.
"A wheel-barrow," said she.
Now. why, my dears, does it make
three tracks, do you think.
(To Be Continued)
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(|0|1l57fmS
SAYS

Price of bread in Paris is higher
than it has been since 1870, so may
be there's something crooked about
| the staff of life.
Somebody shot vaudeville man.
ager in Los Angeles, perhaps be-
caused he hired another skating act.
1 Anything can happen now. Elec-
ton expenses filed show eight elected
| congressman spent nothing.
! The Wall Street boom shows the
brokers are taking lot of stock in
the reported business revival.
Senator Capper says there is too
much hot air about Congress-, but
doesn't say how much is enough.
Keep your mouth closed when
angry, says health expert. That's
right, unless you can lick everybody.
"Contentment makes long life"
is more health advice. But many
men work themselves to death try
! ing to get contentment.
Scientists think they can make
gold out Of quicksilver, but we don't.
lnf Foil lad OF
eide three times might try going into
the Michigan woods and yelling like
a deer.
The big apple crop which was re-
ported recently is more than likely
big cider crop now.
Man named Aaron was robbed in
Chicago, indicating they are taking
them on in alphabetical order.
Just when the dark clouds were
lifting comes the sad news that more
played pianos are being sold.
Wear your hat while thinking up
yourself bald headed.
Almost as bad as being in Jail
would be to have some friend give
you the humps for Christmas.
All we hope is that the first man
who spells Christmas with IL "X'
this year is small enough for US to
whip.
If an Ohio boy, who shot three pco-
pie. ever grows up he can join our
army as a couple of squads.
They say one man has deserted |
the army III times. Let's marry him
to Il movie star.
The money saved by not buying |
Christmas presents is wasted.
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) |
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-12-08
COMMON SENSE in TRAFFIC

Conditions and all other things considered ever has
been true that New York City has handled traffic better
than other city in the country. That because the
mensy of the proposition has forced the authorities seek
ideas rather than employ whins Now having had good
spell Of thinking the big city going better
scheme will be tried out Fifth avenue as well
as other representative horougfares All the present
signal towers will be taken down and in their stead will be
erected steel poes % feet high with 12oot arms
carrying the housing for lights and other direct
ing and controlling appliances.
These warning appliances will be controlled operated
not at each block but the whole length
simultaneously That is, the whole traffic given
will move at and the time, will stop on signal
In addition the removal Of the towers will allow more
for traffic to
The idea is the correct and is applicable to every
city in the country The block control of traffic
never has solved problem of congestion but the
trary, has increased it.
This true because and has been invariably the case
that, when officer stopping traffic. another
block away ordering it to The result has been
jams while another but few hundred
away clear
It stands that traffic may be properly
controlled and made safe until is compelled both
and stop in good order-unt is synchronized The rail
ways and fractions learned this truth long time ago and
New York gives evidence that municipalities be-
ginning to find their common and to it,
If you don't know where they get bootlegthey get i'll
the neck.
woman can't make fool out of without his
help
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ON HEALTH--
A JOB FOR THE COOK

A selection from which one weeks
assortment can he built might in
clude,, spinach, lettuce, garden peas,
carrots, young beets, potatoes. cell
cry, string beans, peas and young
onions.
Another list can be compiled con-
tanning such vegetables as aspar-
agus, lentils, tomatoes, squash, caul-
iflower and onions.
Or, the vegetables can be arranged
according to their family: Leafy and
green vegetables, such as lettuce
or spinach; the bean, pea and lentil
type; the cabbage varieties, etc.
With little planning the house.
wife can secure such a selection as
would please any diner.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-12-08
FEELS IT'S ISOLATION

Wisconsin, the only state under the third party
the GAINESVILLE Daily GAINESVILLE Wis., asks the fol
lowing pertinent question: 'Why Not Recognize Someh hing
Else in Wisconsin Besides Politics.?
This newspaper wants the people to forget Wsconsin
politics and think of the fertility Of it's SOIL the beauty
it's scenery and the yield of its mich and the output
of the cheese factories
Wisconsin has felt the curse of too much politics in
business. Some very important industries have left Wis
wiser legislation attracts industry rather than attacks it
In North Dakotas however, not being great
featuring state the experiment in socialism, boards com
missions and what not the burden has right back
upon the farmer in whose behalf these experiments sup
posed to be made AS the farmer votes 85 of the vote
and pays approximately that proportion of the the
politicians urging that he continue the mill
elevator and other ventures long he to the
piper.
But people in Wisconsin regard the regime of La
Toilette boil" irritating but necessarily fatal
malady The Gazette of GAINESVILLE is quite entertaining in
the opening paragraphs of its editorial in which outsiders
are asked to forget the states politics and ponder its
statistics. Says the Gazette:
Daniel Webster in his reply to Hayne of South
Carolina when the integrity of Massachusetts had
been attacked, replied, Massachusetts! There
she stands; she needs no encomium! But Webster
did not leave his adopted state there" He went
on to tell about it and that's what should be done
ITS an old story that one about the travellers
In the Pullman, each proudly naming the state of
his BIRTH TT when the little jaundiesd man. called
challenge, Il was born in Arhansaw; damn
it, laugh
led with the questioning look that INTO the
faces of the others when declaration that you
are from Wisconsin is made. Invariably the out
slider, especially he is from the east smiles pit
fully. He judges Wisconsin only by the election
returns.
mo true Wisconsin man will make apo-
ogy for his state. He may make personal explanation
but never, never apologize for living in Wisconsin.
Rather he will carry few facts concerning his
state with which to confound it's enemies and beat
them at any game they want to play in total points
when it comes to figures. If has boil
his leg it may cause him pain, keep him standing
up, but 1t is not necessarily fatal. We may have
boil in Wisconsin, but it is political and will not be
fatal We have the experience of Job, who
expert in bols and survived, to prove it.
1--WE have fool laws in Wisconsin than
other states. Maybe we have not inherited
many from a dead and worshpped past. This is
state of superlatves We have scenery which no
other state can touch in serene beauty and Nature
has been most generous everywhere. Most of the
scenery be cultivated You can eat your
scenery cake in Wisconsin and keep it too. But
more than all else we looking ahead. There
will be repetition of Lots wife in Wisconsin,"
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To teach children, and grown men
as we'll, to like foods that are good
for them is a job that centers upon
the cook herself.
Thus Mrs. Jones of Anytown
sought to vary the type Of vegetables
served at each meal, and also to
alter the style of cooking them. Such
frequent changes in variety and ap-
pearance and taste are to be recon-
mended. .r,
A list of vegetables, arranged for
various days, can be jotted down
by the housewife who, on some days,
can cream them and on another pre-
pare them without sauce and upon
another combine two or three of them
into one dish and secure consider
able variety, from day to day.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-12-08
Aged Ferry
Operator Dies

Williston, N. d., Dec. Soap"
Baily, age 80, we'll known Williston
character, operator Of the famous
Williston ferry, died here last week.
Baily was born in Ontario, went
to what is now South Dakota sixty.
two years ago where he operated a
fevry at the Sheyenne reservation.
He went from there to Mobridge
and % years ago brought his ferry
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-12-08
CONSTIPATION OVERCOME

The use of FOLEY CATHARTIC
TABLETS will bring speedy relief
from constipation if taken promptly.
They are purely vegetable and act on
the liver. Mr.. John D.. McComb, Luz
cas- Co. Home, Toledo, Ohio, writes:
"Have used Foley CATHARTIC TAB
LET'S in severe cases of constipation
to which l am subject and found
them beneficial" FOLEY CATHAR-
TIC TABLETS are easy to take,
leave no unpleasant after effects. Try
them.
ADV.
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Peoples Forum
Bismarck, N. Oak,
December 6, 1924.

Bismarck, N. Oak
December 6, 1924
Editor, Tribune:
Will negligence on the part of any
County Treasurer of this State, in
failing to send out the proper no.
tice, between the LIST day of Novem-
Der and the fifteenth day of Novem-
Der of each year, to each owner of
any tract or parcel Of land, that tax
es upon the same are delinquent and
that the same will be sold at tax
sale. invalidate such tax sale?
A Tax Payer.
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to Williston and operated it until
failing health prevented.
A portrait Of "Cap" Baily, taken
in 1912, won the grand medal at the
northwest photographers convention
! d: Minneapolis. Il
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at writing. But do not try to ridi-
cule or be sarcastic. This trait,
often noted in persons born this day,
can easily be corrected.
Your sense Of humor can be made
profitable, and you can make many
friends by being more jovial.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-12-08
Editorial Review

Comments reproduced In this
column may or may not express
are presented here In order that
our readers may have both sides
OF important issues which are
being discussed In the press Of
the day.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-12-08
A Thought

Casting all your care upon him;
for he careth for yGu.-Pet. ST.
To carry care to bed is to sleep
with a, pack on your back.-Halibur-
ton.
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Is This Your
Birthday

MONDAY, DEC. 8.-If you have
not already done so, try your hand
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The money saved by not buying
Christmas presents is wasted.
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-12-08

They say one man has deserted
the army III times. Let's marry him
to Il movie star.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-12-08

Price of bread in Paris is higher
than it has been since 1870, so may
be there's something crooked about
the staff of life.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-12-08

If an Ohio boy, who shot three pco-
pie. ever grows up he can join our
army as couple of squads.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-12-08

ont know where they get bootleg-they get it
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-12-08

The Wall Street boom shows the
brokers are taking lot of stock in
the reported business revival.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-12-08

Somebody shot vaudeville man.
ager in Los Angeles, perhaps be-
caused he hired another skating act.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-01-25

Homer Bittick. Edith Jones. Rex
Davis and Genevieve Hurd were a
party visiting the Black Canyon dam
on Sunday.
Lucille Justice spent Sunday visit
ing with her sister Mrs Vance al
Emmett.
Mrs. y. L. Parrish is spending a
lew days visiting in Boise with rcla-
tives.
Scott Mechanism spent Sunday in
Payette with his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. c. B. Lewis and
daughter Peggy are spending a week
IN Wilder =, the Fred Rowland home.
Mrs. Hatfield and Macy attended
ditch meetinr in Dixie on Monday AZ
ternoon.
Charles Hams and Luther Fritts
left Saturday for = trip to Kansas
and Oklahoma.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. 5. Babcock. Mr..
and Mrs +. Talbot and Dr. W. J.
Boone were dinner guests Sunday OF
Mr.. T L Bolln,an in the Black Can
yon district
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Notus News

Carl Petersen made a trip TO Cald.
we'll on business Friday
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rowland OF
Wilder were calling on friends in No
ius Thursday evening
J. }. Conway, Joe Ascuaga. r. C.
Boaiman, Mrs. Echols and Claude
Coffey made a business trip to Boise
on Wednesday.
Will Johnston made trip to Par
ma Thursday afternoon on business.
Woman lodge met in regular session
on Friday evening. After business
refreshments were served.
Mrs. John Hultz was a caller FRI
day afternoon at Hodgsons'.
The funeral OF Mrs w. O. Coff-
man was held Saturday afternoon
at the Notus Baptist church. Rev.
Haslam having charge of the service.
lnterment was made in the cemetary
at Tendavis.
Mrs. Fred Spechi and Fred Specht
OF Caldwell and Harry Sabin of Boise
came TO No,us TO attend the funeral
OF Mrs Coffman.
Mrs. J. c. Clennon is spending a
few days at the Farley home near
Parma.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Lewis spent
Friday evening at the G. B. Lewis
home.
]. B. Newport returned Sunday
from business trip to Salt Lake.
Rev Burchard of Caldwell had
charge OF the Sunday services at No
tus.