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next yard and smashed a garage win dow.
 'Sassafras started to come down head first, slipping and scrambling, deaf to our pleas, and then climbed back to the branch with the air of determining to live and die there.
 When it was suggested that we find small boy to climb the tree and per- sonally remonstrate with Sassafras, all the folks who had small boys roared it down, pointing out that even though he climbed thirty feet without breaking his neck, he would have no hands to devote to Sassafras after he got there clinging for dear life.
 "At last Ettamyn, my wife, went into the house announcing that this must end, and she was going to phone the village fire department. ssafa
 When we turned to gaze once more at the cat on the perch we saw there was no cat there. She was sitting on the back steps quite calmly washing her face. No, nobody knows how she finally got down-she may have made it in two jumps for all of mel Yes, the hook and ladder had started and we couldn't stop 'em.. felt apolOgetic enough to start a fire on the premises just to show my good will. And it was then 10 1901"
 "Kill the cat and get tnongoose," ;" advised the man from Mingle Manor. "You can keep it in bag alr the time except when there is a snake around for f. fo kiIl l'S
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WESLEY BIBLE GLASS MONTHLY LUNCHEON

The Wesley Bible<clas of the First Methodist church will hold its monthly luncheon at the Southern club today at 12 o'clock. All members are invited to attend.
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difficult task. It is a job that will
 require all of the patience, self
 control and tact that you can sum-
 mon to your aid, for nothing is
 more aggravating to a thrifty, ann
 bilious woman than to see her hus-
 band throw away in foolishness the
 money that should be the founda-
 tion of their fortune and that
 should provide them against the
 horrors of a dependant old age.
 A few days ago was called on to help the wife of just such man as you describe your fiance to be. He was Q fine fellow, and for twenty years he had held splendid position, getting 6 salary that should have made his fam. fly rich. But he was a good spender He never counted the cost of anything he desired, and when he died he Jeff his wife with the furniture in rented apartment,' a secondhand automobile and $209 in the bank. ThatJwas all.
 A fortune had slipped through his fingers-spent on taxis, on theatres, or restaurants, on treating and lending tC the parasites that hung upon him. Al gone for nothing. Wasted.
 There is nothing more certain
 than that every fortune is founded
 on thrift, and that if you do not
 save up something in your youth
 you will be poor in your old age.
 Also that if you have nothing laid
 up you can take no advantage of
 opportunity when it knocks at your
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But all that is changed now. Women are free of every occupa- tion. They go and do what they please, and many women are pleas ing not to marry because they pre- fer their own latchkey and pocket book to any man.. And, so far as the old maid being an object of ridi- cule is concerned, she is more like ly to be the subject of envy.
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looked upon askance.. She may have been a sort of family convenience and people may have thought that the only reason she didn't marry was because she couldn't marry.
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In this view of the case you will find the answer to your first two questions. The answer to the third question is : just human nature. Because old maids and old bachelors have no families of their own they are called upon to be foster fathers and mothers to the world
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door, for opportunity is like a gyp- sy sibyl. You must cross her palm
 with gold before she will. tell you which way your fortune lies. Also it is true that it does not make any difference how much you make it is how much you save that counts. A million made and spent is as utterly gone as lost dollar.
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MRS. HASSLER HONORS MISSES MITCHELL

Mrs. Roy Hassler entertained re- gently with a rock party honOring her nieces, Misses Evelyn and Jeane Mitch ell of MontevallO, at the home of their grandmother, Mrs. Price Bickins.
 The house was decorated in garden flowers and after a series of rock games with Miss, Elmer Boone winning the prize, were played on the lawn. An ice course was served later in the after noon.
 The guests included besides the hon orees, Miss Martha Sparks, Miss Vir- ginia Ruth Springfield, Miss Louise Dufee, Miss Elmer Boone, Miss Gladys Sessions, Miss Helen Hays, Misses FL len and Jane Place, Mises Marguerite and Celeste Mitchell, Misses Stella and Betty Jones, Miss Thelma Hassler, Miss Betty Jane Hays, Miss Mary Allen Mooney.
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Answer:
 suppose your fate is that of many another woman, that of try ing to sew up a wasteful mans pocket. And attempting to stop the holes in a sieve is not more
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Dorothy Di1's Letter Boz

Trying to SeaO Upa WastetM Nuns Pocketbook; The Modern Spinster's Lot-The Young GirI Should Not Take Her Symptoms With Too Much Seriousness But Seek Younger Compamions
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Answer:
 FortYt it. And for goodness sake do t let your doctor find out that you think you are in love with him. He would laugh at you.
 Dear little girl, every girl in the world probably has a case of hero- worship just like yours, when she thinks she is in love with some man whom she admires very much. Sometimes it is her doctor; very often her preacher, and very, very, very often some actor or movie hero.
 It belongs to her time of life just like having the measles does. and she gets over it just like she gets over the measles.
 So don't take your symptoms se- riously. They will pass in few weeks, and the best remedy for your trouble is to play around with lot of nice boys and forget you ever thought of a man old enough to be your father. DOROTHY DIX.
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All of these platitudes your fiance knows. Perhaps he will listen to you; perhaps not. If you cannot convince him o fthe virtue of saving, be one of the gold-diggers yourself and get every thing out Cf him that you can and salt it away privately. Then you will have something to take care of him with when the inevitable crash comes.
 DOROTHY DIX.
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Dear Miss Dix: Will you please tell me what you think of the three fol- lowing questions:
 (a). Why do so many married wo- men say to a spinster: You should be glad that you have never married, and if had known what I do now l should have stayed single.
 (b). When a woman stays single, why do people think it is because she never had q chance to marry, while it is presumed that man is a bach elor because he wishes to be one?
 (c). Why do people never consider the pleasure or happiness of an un- married woman? Why do they ignore an old maid until they want to ask a favor of her or get some work that no one else wants to do? N. M. F.
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Answer:
 I think, N. M. F., that you are taking a very jaundiced view of the position of the bachelor woman.
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In olden times, when marriage was the sole business of a woman and a husband was not only a meal ticket, but the only open door to society and freedom, the old maid may have been
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A HAT AND SCARF TO MATCH
 A hat made entirely of narrow tan ribbons that are interlaced, is matched by scarf of the ribbons treated in the same way.
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MIR. AND MRS. PEARCE HOSTS AT PARTY

TEXAS, Ala, Aug. 11.-(Special.) Mir. and Mrs. Marvin Pearce and their two sons, Jim and Clarke, are the hosts to delightful camping and house party at their plantation at Texas. The event this year, which is one of annual inter est in North Alabama, iG one of the most delightful held in many years.
 The guests of the prominent Marion county family are being thoroughly en- tertained at dancing, card and swimming parties and golf on the links of the Pearce estates-
 Featuring the outing is the genuine old time southern cooking and barbe- cue, which is being done under the di- rection of Brooks" old time southern darkey, who has been a fixture with the Pearce family for more than a quarter of century.
 In addition to the regular guests at the camp numerous automobile parties from the neighborin gt0wns have been frequent visitors to the outing part headquarters.
 Anon gthe recipients of the entertain ment are: Dr. and Mrs. E. R. Van Diver, MT. and Mrs. B. B. Thomson, Mir. and Mrs. George Gullett, MT. and Mrs. Leon Dodd, MT. and Mrs. Thomas Fl. Robertson, Mir. and Mrs. Thomas Lindsey, Mir. and Mrs. W. w Monroe, of Fayette, MT. and Mrs. O. W. Oden, of Winfield, Mir. and Mrs. W. s. Thornton of Carbon Hill, Mir. and Mrs. John H. Bankhead of Jasper, Mir. and Mrs. D. Roy Taylor of Texas, Mrs. John B. Clarke and little son, John B. IT,, of Auburn, Mrs. H. O, Harvey o. Sargent and son. Harvey, IT,, of Washington; D, C., Judge and Mrs. Mack Pearce of Guin, Misses Louise and Annie Sue PrOpst of Fayette, Lorine Slaughter and Ellen Lipscomb of Carbon fiiil, Irine Bell of Sayre, Florence Harris, Ruth Pearce, Vera Nell Pearce, COrinne Pearce of Birmingham, Itta Metcalf, Mamie Hollis and Alline Brown of Sul- ligent, Messrs. Raymond TrammeI of Conner, Henson Stephenson, Frank Bevis, Claude and Troy SizemOre, Paul Ausley and Royce Kershaw of Birming- ham, Emmett Sizemore of Auburn Charlie. and Dan Propst and Drewery Parrish of Fayette, Barney Bruce Carr and Raymond Fowler of Carbon Hill.
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and to do all the odd jobs that other people haven't time to do. And, thank God, they have big enough hearts to assume the burden laid upon them.
 Somebody said, beautifully, that because God couldn't be every where He made mothers. And I would add to this that because there were not mothers enough to go around, He made old bachelors and old maids to do the work that
 mothers left undone.
 DOROTHY DIX. Dear Miss Dix: I am IS and in love with a doctor who is 35 years older than I am; in fact, he brought me into the world. He never has said anything about loving me, although once he put his arm around me and asked how his little girl was. I know I love him be- cause even to hear his name mentioned just makes my heart feel as if it would jump out and run awaX. What would you advise? TROUBLED.
The Coconino sun., 1924-08-22
COUNTRY PRINTERS DO
BEST WORK, SAYS MARK

Fred Breen of the Flagstaff Sun
won first prize for the best piece of
three-colored work in the Porte con-
test, in which there were several
thousand of contestants. He printed
a three-color letter head for the town,
afterward getting an order for sew
eral thousand from the municipality.
1t has been demonstrated that for the
best average printing the printing
offices in the smaller communities
have generally won out. Just why
this should be is beyond comprehen-
sion, unless it is that the smaller
offices spend more time and exercise
greater care, as well as taking great
er pride in production. Fred got $25
for his prize, and this of course did
not recompense him for the work en-
tailed, but the satisfaction of win
ming was greater than the prize
Holbrook Tribune
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Mars WILL BE NEAREST EARTH
TONIGHT; SEASONS BEING STUDIED
MARS

The opposition of Mars occurs Sat-
urday forenoon at 10 o'clock but the
planet will actually be nearest to the
earth on Friday evening, the distance
between the two planets then. being
about 34,60O,00O miles. The earth
has been slowly overtalxing Mars in
their swing about the sun, the change
in distance between the two from day
to day being relatively small and rel
atively unimportant to astronomers in
their observations, which of course,
they have been making for months
and which will be continued for
months after the nearest approach to
Mars. Thus important results have al
ready been got and it is expected that
the conditions on Mars as regards the
seasonal developments, ETC., will be
stlli more favorable for few months
for the study of the planet.
A further quotation from DR..
Lowell's book, MARS" will be both
interesting and instructive, before
giving some observational results that
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SWIMMERTONS AND GEO.
PRATT, PHILANTROPIST
WERE AT SNAKE DANCE

George B. Pratt, internationally
known philanthropist, of Brooklyn, N.
Y, and head Of the Pratt Institute,
arrived in Flagstaff the last of last
week as a guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Jim
mie Swinnerton, who had recently
been east and came here to take IN
the snake dance, which they seldom
miss. F,arl Germany took them to
Oraibi on Saturday.
Mr.. Pratt was intensely interested
in everything. He was surprised to
note the deserts vegetation, in places
this year dense, and said it doesn't
look much like the Sahara.
Mr.. and Mrs. Swinnerton and Mr..
Pratt went from Hotevilla to Kayenta
to spend a few days with Mr.. and Mrs.
Wetherill. While Mr.. Pratt is devot-
ing most of his time to seeing the
natural wonders in that section, Mr..
Swinnerton will do a lot of sketching
for oil paintings. This more serious
work is crowding him hard now and
leaves him less and less time for his
Good Housekeeping and newspaper
syndicate ''funnies." One of the Fifth
Avenue galleries, New York, will
have an exhibition of many of his
canvases within a few weeks.
Editors of magazines are pestering
Jimmie for stories, insisting he is
versatile enough to win fame as an
author; perhaps taking their cue from
his inimitable manner of telling stor-
les. He has partly fallen for the edit
orial wiles and not long ago sent in a
short story. He hasn't heard it's fate,
and says no matter what happens to
it, he wins, and confesses he will feel
the greater winner if it is rejected.
The party will be back in Flagstaff
for stay of a day or so before going
on to California.
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HOPI DANCE ATTENDANCE
RECORDS BUSTED; SUCCESS
in MANY OTHER WAYS

Attendance records were smashed
all to thunder at the annual Hopi
snake dance on Monday, at Hotevilla.
Conservative estimates are that there
were 800 automobiles and at least
1000 people there, exclusive of the
local Indians.
Certainly, mighty few more could
have been crowded among the spec
tators. Every housetop surrounding
the square was filled as full as pos
sible te pack, and the wonder was that
there is a house left standing, con-
sidering the human loads their flat
roofs carried.
Down in the square formed by the
aforesaid houses, spectators were
massed son the four sides eight to ten
rows deep, packed tight. There was
hardly room for the dancers to
squeeze in at the corners.
Mr.. Duvall, superintendent of
schools at Hotevilla, who issued the
permit blanks ran out of printed
blanks before he'd half taken care of
the crowd.
Weather was ideal, not too hot, and
cloudless. The roads were dry, hard
most of the way, rough in spots.
Very few drivers had any road trouble
and most of those who did have suf-
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more clearly. The essential oneness
of the universe is the goal to which
all learning tends. Just as Newton
proved all the planets to obey a com
mon force, the sun; just as Laplace
showed it to be probable that we we're
all evolved from one and the same
primal nebula; so more recently the
spectroscope has revealed unsuspect-
ed relationship betwixt us and the
stars. Matter turns out to be but
common property; and the very same
substance with which we are so farnil-
lar on the earth, iron, magnesium,
sodium, and so forth, prove present
on those far off suns that strew the
depths of space. Only in detail does
everything differ.
$50 much for matter. AS for that
manifestation of is known as mind,
modesty, if not intelligence, forbids
the thought that we are sole thinkers
in all we see. Indeed, we seldom stop
in our locally engrossing pursuits to
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have been recently got at his observa-
tory:
"That just as there are other mass
es of matter than our globe, so there
are among them other worlds than
ours is an instant and inevitable in
ference from what we see about us.
That we are the only part of the cos
mos possessing what we are pleased
to call mind is so earth-centred a sup
position, that it recalls the other
earth-centred view once so devoutly
held, that our little globe was the
point about which the whole company
of heaven was good enough to turn.
Indeed, there was much more reason
to think that then, than to think this
now, for there was at least the APP
pearance of turning, whereas there is
no indication that we are sole deni-
zens of all we survey, and every in
ference that we are not.
"That we are in some wise kin to
all the rest of the cosmos, science has
been steadily demonstrating more and
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GAME MEN DISCUSSED
LOCAL GAME PROBLEMS

Last Monday night at the forest
supervisors office very enthusiastic
and well attended meeting of the
Flagstaff Game Protective associa-
tion was held
General discussion of the present
game and fish situation in this vicin-
ity was indulged in. The question of
stocking Mormon Lake with muske-
Ionge, a fish whose reputation for
fighting is we'll known in the central
states, was brought up and further in
vestigation will be made to determine
whether this species would extermin-
ate the present occupants of the lake.
A standing reward of $25 for evil
dence leading to conviction for viol-
alton of the game laws on deer, tur-
key and antelope was posted by the
association. Publicity of this offer
through placards will Immediately be
given.
The following officers were elected
for the current year: President, 7. E.
Mccullough; vice-president, E. G.
Miller; secretary-treasurer George
Negray; executive committee, w.
Draine, D. NJ Eldredge, w. B. Raude-
baugh, Ed Babbitt, Stanley Sykes.
The next meeting will be held the
early part Of September.
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FLAGSTAFF SCHOOLS OPEN
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER lST;
ENROLMENT NEXT DAY

Both Flagstaff high and the two
intermediate schools open on Monday,
September /, but that being Labor
day, it vii be devoted to a meeting
of the teachers and Superintendent
John @. Thomas. Registration of
pupils will begin at nine the next
morning.
Superintendent Thomas said yester-
day that he has a splendid corps of
teachers engaged for the coming year
and indications are that the enroll
ment will be well over last year. The
buildings have all been thoroughly
cleaned and put into the best possible
condition ready for the teachers and
youngsters.
Flagstaff, at the high, Emerson and
Brannen schools, has ten-month
school year with one hundred eighty
six full working days. This is the
longest school year offered in any of
the county schools.
Flagstaff people are proud of their
fine schools and the record they are
making in every department.
Mr.. Thomas will be at his Office in
the high school building on Saturday,
August 80, to answer any questions
that may be asked regarding the
school or enrolment.
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S. W. INDIAN CONFERENCE
HAD SUCCESSFUL SESSION

Three and one half miles east of
Flagstaff at at foot of Mt. Elden lie
the picturesque grounds of the South
west Indian Bible conference, Where
annually Indians and missionaries
from all the Arizona reservations as
senble for a yearly council.
This year is historic in the annals
of the conference in that a commo-
dious tabernacle was erected and ded-
icated.
Indians from the Navajo, Hopi, Pin
al, Zuni, Mohave and other tribes
of four states came by horseback, on
foot, in old fashioned wagons, by
train and by auto to the conference
where they gave testimony that the
white mans religion is better than
Indian medicine. The Thlinget tribe
of Alaska was also represented.
Speakers included Rev. John Tim
othy Stone, D. D., L. L. D., of Chi
cago; Rev. w. P. White, D. D., of
Los Angeles; C. Troutman of Butler,
Pa; Rev. w. A. Hills of Los Ange-
es; Rev. P. J. Hoekenga of Ripon,
Calf; Rev. J. r. Smith, formerly of
st. Louis and Rev. G. A. Edgar of
Needles, Calf.
Glasses in religious instructions
were. held for children in the morn
ings and for Indians morning and
evenings.
Singing evangelists Rev. H. F.
Truscott from Corte MADEIRA, Calif.,
and Mr.. Prescott from New York City
ably led in the music of the confer.
ence.
Many Flagstaff people went out
daily to the meetings despite the ex-
ecrable conditions of the road which
is being built.
Rev. j. B. Frey Of Tuba City is the
efficient and capable president of the
conference to whom most of this
years success is due.
The important and statewide val
ue of this conference is one of the
many Flagstaff attractions little
known about because native modesty
has not developed civic advertising to
its proper eXtents
The Coconino sun., 1924-08-22
ROTARIANS AND GUESTS
PICNIC AT FORT VALLEY

Rotarians and their ladies and
guests had an enjoyable time Tues
day night at the southwest forest ex-
pertinent station at Fort Valley, where
after a picnic supper they were fav-
ored with a special program arranged
by G. A. Pearson, chief of the expert
ment station, who was chairman OF
the meeting.
The festivities were a little delayed
because of the forest fire just then
raging on the experimental grounds a
short distance away.
President c.. B. Wilson called the
meeting to order, then turned it over
to Mr.. Pearson, who in a brief and
pleasant talk bade all welcome.
Miss Lora Maxwell, director of
girls athletics at the Normal school,
had brought several of her younger
girl pupils with her and under her
direction they gave some interesting
folk and other special dances. This
sextette of vivacious youngsters
were: Autrey Bryan, Selwig Solberg,
Sybil Smith, Freda Belle Brindley,
Francis Brindley and Margaret Jones.
Dorothy Jones, slightly older, but
still in her earliest teens, did solo
dancing. The youngsters made hit.
Miss Virginia Flickinger played for
them.
Professor C. v. Ridgely and Mrs. A.
E. Douglass, with violin and piano,
added much to the enjoyableness OF
the occasion.
Rev. H. F. Softley delivered short
address on Rotary, what it requires
and effects, making some telling
points and leaving others to be stud
led from some special charts he had
prepared and had distributed.
DIR. Taylor, U. S. government ex-
pert, stationed at Fort Valley this
summer studying the Effects of var
ious kinds of local rodents on pine
tree growth, told about that work and
its Importance.
President Wilson announced that
the next meeting will also be a picnic
gathering, this time with the Williams
Rotary club, at Maine, next Wednes-
day evening. M. /. Powers and |. b.
Koch are arranging the details and
program.
The Coconino sun., 1924-08-22
"YANISHING AMERICAN'
FILMING is POSTPONED

1t is rumored, and evidently is true,
that the Famous Players-Laskey Co.
will not film Zane Grey's "The Van
ishing American" in and northeast of
Flagstaff this summer, as announced
several times lately. The plans, it is
reported, have fallen through because
the picture people did not care to pay
the price they were asked for picture
privileges at one of the locations and
the transportation charges connected
with that location. Postponement of
the filming of the picture is said to
be for an indefinite period, at least
until next year, and it is intimated
that if it is taken in this section there
will be some changes in the locations
decided on a few days ago by several
of the directors for the concern, who
visited and selected them.