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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-11-22

Eating chocolates all done up in
blue,
Now if had sped 'er ere they got
inside 'er,
I'd have made her call, wouldn't
yOu?
But there is room for another rid
die so III tell you the next one the
Riddle Lady asked. Really it is as
easy as pie. Almost as easy as two
pies.
my finger wears a little hat,
It's good for this but not for that
1t has no feathers, or flowers, or
bows,
But polka-do all set in rows"
The Maiden All Forlorn guessed it
at once. Its thimble," she cried.
and if that's the prize, | need one.
The Man All Tattered And Torn must
be mended up before our Wedding
day"
Here it is" said the Riddle Lady
handing it to her.
Il wish | could guess something.
whispered Nick to Nancy.
What would you do with a Thin
ble!" Nancy wanted to know. "Any-
way there are lots more coming"
tTo Be Continued)
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New York, Nov. 22.-Fifth Avenue,
Americas most famous Main Street,
is celebrating its hundredth ami
versary.
Fifth Avenue is the street on which
New York holds its parades. 1t is
the street on which women who
shave nothing to wear" 60 shopping.
1t is the street on which all the
George +. Rabbits of Gotham hold
forth at cornerstone layings and
monument dwellings.
There is more window shopping
done on Fifth Avenue than on any
two streets in the world. The ladies,
bless 'em. get ideas for dresses.
cloaks and hats from Fifth Avenue
windows for garments made at home
or bought in cheaper stores.
Fifth Avenue, too, is the nation $
greatest Peacock Alley. On Easter
Sunday poor working girls, who have
saved for months to buy fine fea-
Tiers, parade with the richest FAM
lilies in America-and the casual
passerby can't tell the difference be-
tween them.
| believe there are more styles OF
| architecture on Fifth Avenue than
are to be seen on any other street in
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the country. Every aspiring arehi-
tectural student should spend sew
eral weeks, at least, riding up and
down the avenue.
The most significant thing about
Fifth Avenue, it seems to me, is that
it is alien to all the rest of New
York. While it is just an overgrown
Main Street it still is the most cos
mopolitan of all New York thorough
fares. Yet it doesn't represent New
YOrk's mad rush as much as Broad
way nor as much as Wall Street.
Nor does it represent the great hu-
man drama of old races achieving
new life in a new country, as the
Bowery and other East Side streets
do. -,
Fifth Avenue belongs to the coun-
try at large more than to New York.
1t is the general belief that most
Of New York's suicides are girls. The
majority of them are men, and quite
number of them are married men
whose homes have been disrupted. In
six months there were six suicides
in West Twenty-ninth street, between
Eighth and Ninth avenues. One was
a woman.
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LETTER FROM JOHN ALDEN
PRESCOTT TO LESLIE PRESCOTT

Dear Leslie: Arrived here this
morning all safe and sound. Went
directly to the office and found that
Mrs. Anterior had been a regular
trooper getting things under way.
imagine that she will be able to
leave for Pittsburg day after to-
morrow.
The Acme people have been more
than kind to me. The president of
the company said that he had in
tended to arrange so that ! could
become member of the firm by the
first of the year. He was good
enough to say that he had never
had anyone in his employ that could
handle men as we'll as |. This, of
course, was very flattering to. me as
it is one of the things that | pride
j-myself on.
Speaking of handling men, an,
afraid | am going to have trouble
with that cub Condor. You remem-
Der told you Of the impairment
way in which he spoke of you and
| Mrs. Atherton. 1t seems that he
has been roped in by Mable Carter
that women who was in the papers
so much last spring when her hus-
band was tried for murder.
| Mrs. Anterior read ME today parts
OF letter where he asked her tc
take the women under her wing
when she arrived in Pittsburg.
Mrs. Anterior is quite worked uI
about it. or course she declined tt
do anything of the sort and must
have written very snappy lette,
to Condor, telling him just what she
thought about the matter. In return
the woman wrote Mrs. Anterior
letter telling her that Condor hae
shown her Mrs. Atherton's refusa
to have anything to do with her ant
that it was war to the knife from
| now on.
| Mrs. AthertOn is of the opinion
that under the circumstances sh'
ought not to go over to Pittsburg a
all, but | tell her she is crazy, tina
! would much rather fire the DO!
than to get along without her. Sh'
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ADVENTURE OF
THE TWINS
BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

MISS MUFFETT'S RIDDLE
Here's 4 riddle in rime," said the
Riddle Lady. "See if you can guess
it!
'The fairies have spun some lace so
fine,
'Twould never do for u dress of mine,
But 'twould be fine for an elfin fay,
Who wouldn't mind if it blew away.
"The silver thread was spun at
night,
From a single shred Of moonbeam
bright,
And patterned after the rising sun.
With rays like wheel-spokes neatly
when each fine piece was done
then tried,
And all spread out on the grass and
dried,
Cor moonbeam lace. when fairies
get through,
Is sure to be damp on account of the
dew.
at looked like fairyland washing
day,
If you had CHANGED to pass that way
And you'd never dream each skirt
and blouse,
Was nothing else than spiders
house"
ISIS it a cobweb?" shivercd Miss
Muffet.
That's exactly what it is" sale
the Riddle Lady. "a cobweb. What
will you have for prize, my dear?'
"A box of candy, if you please,
said Miss Muffet promptly. 81 an
tired of curds and whey"
"A five-pound box of chocolat,
drops for Miss Muffet,' said the Rid
die Lady.
So the footman in red velvet wht
did all her errands as well as driv.
her coach and four, brought Lowell!
box of candy to the little girl. 1
was all done up in pink and blue
satin ribbon and looked wonderful
and ! do wish that If anybody write
another poem about her that he will
make it something like this:
little Miss Muffet she sat on
tuffet,
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is worth much more to me in the
business.
She seems to like the young chap
very much. Says he was very good
to both her and her husband when
her husband was recovering from
his blindness. She doesn't want to
jeopardize his position in the plant
and made me promise l would keep
him on. l can see, however, she is
afraid something will happen that
will bring discredit upon him and
much scandal perhaps to all of us.
, was for discharging him imme-
diately but she begged me not to
do so. Said Condor was most ef-
ficient in a business way. This was
confirmed by your father who had
told me that he had practically run
the plant while he was ill.
hate very much to have Mrs
Atherton start in alone as no one
will know what that she-devil will
put the boy up to and no one knows
better than. what fool a man car
make of himself when he thinks he
is in love with woman.
i ] did not see mother until noon
She is looking very we'll indeed, but
that damned old maid, Priscill;
Bradford, has gotten her all stirred
up again.
What is it, Leslie, that makes ole
peoples brains incapable of looking
on the bright side of things? Mother
told me about your letter. Said 20,
practically told her you didn't wan
her to live with US. She seems tt
think she ought to come and live il
Pttsburg. III talk to you about thi
when | arrive home.
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ever try sea bathing in winter ?"
Mr.. Jones Of Anytown smiled and
shivered at the question.
9" mean, in your own bathroom"
continued the questioner.
Mr.. Jones shook his. head.
Salt water baths, mixed in ones
own bathtub, are quite stimulating
and restful.
In nervous disorders physicians
frequently prescribe that the pa
tient mix sea salts in hot water be-
fore retiring, dip towel we'll in the
solution and ring it out, letting the
towel absorb the salt during the
night
On the following morning the pa
ticnt, after several minutes exer-
else, rubs his open-pored body brisk
ly with the towel and most slim.
ulating and nerve-soothing effect is
secured.
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HARD
(By Florence Borner)

Put away the baby's high-chair.
He's too old to use it now,
Put away his blocks and rattle
Cut the curls from off his brow;
He is four years old tomorrow,
And, tho time does simply fly,
We must make boy out of him
There, there Mother, don't you cry So.
So they took my little sweetheart,
Cut away his golden curls,
That I loved so much but Dad said
They were only fit for girls;
When they brought my darling to me-,
] could not suppress sigh.
For he looked just like stranger,
To my unaccustomeG eye.
Gone were all his silken tresses.
With their rings of shining gold,
While they'd dressed him up in trousers.
Scarce his little weight could hold;
AS pressed him to my bosom.
FOndiy calling out his name,
He exclaimed: Don't worry Muvver,
Baby loves 90 list tn same"
Oh, the days, how fast they're flying,
Each one shorter than the rest,
For the sun has scarcely risen,
Ere he sinks down in the west;
Let a tear fail on the dresses,
And the little stock of toys
For, it's hard upon us mothers, -@---.-----.--
When our babies turn to boys.
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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
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AUTO TAXES

Noorcars in country last paid nearly 472 mil
liOr dollars in taxes, average of $31 apiece.
This total includes everything from licenses gasoline
and property to federal excise taxes
Combined these taxes amounted to not much than
half of what spent the nations roads. Directly
indirectly you're helping pay for the roads whether you
drive not. Since nearly every family has
very few have unfair burden
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TATTOO

TattOOing is the among sailors. This
isn't surprising for the lure of the has also waned
Tattoong is Chinese art Sailors took to it, to show
they had travelled Landsmen, envying sailor life. aped
them.
The American drift is away from the briny deep, and
toward the inland 1t has been demonstrated by the
popularity of such fiction and movies "The Covered
Wagon and by the national lack of interest in merchant
marine and navy.
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ON HEALTH-
SALT WATER BATHS

A pleasant reaction is to be had
from sprinkling sea salt in the
bathtub and, in many cases, it has
been found helpful in cases of rum
down constitutions.
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PEDESTRIANS FRIEND

Manchester England, Nov. o.
Pedestrians of Manchester have
found champion in their warfare
against careless motorists. A mys-
terious, black-chped man has ap'
peared at intervals on the side
streets of the city at night, firing
a revolver at the headlights OF
speeding automobiles. His accur'
acy is said to be uncanny.
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(|)|1l57fnlS
Sans

We wish to apologize for every
thing we have said about the women,
even if they haven't much more
sense than the men.
No man thinks woman is good
enough for him unless she is too
good.
A husband who wouldn't think Of
darning socks can't see why his wife
hates to build a fire.
Men have a hard time deciding
what to order in restaurants, yet
kick ut home when the food doesn't
suit.
Women's clothes are funny. They
are almost as funny as mems would
be if the men had the nerve.
Men have worn neckties thou
sand years and laughed at the fool
ish things women wore.
A man who doesn't feel dressed up
unless he has shave, will object
to his wife's using rouge.
| A man whose hair has never been
| more than few inches long, will
say women have no right to bob
theirs.
! A man who doesn't do the things
he shouldn't is considered as foolish
as the woman who does.
Very few men would work if they
had to ask the boss daily for what
they needed, as their wives do
shouldn't quit steady paying job
to work for him for board and lodg-
ing.
A bachelor is always considered
one from choice; an old maid is con-
sidered one from lack of choice.
| announcer great danger woman
faces is she is always likely to fall
in love with some man who has {;
mustache.
! And when woman reaches thirty
her stock dwindles, while a man just
begins to make money at that age.
A solution of alcohol and ginge1
/, ale is bad solution of the booze
problem.
| Jumping from the frying pan int.
the fire may turn out all right il
you keep on the jump.
! The greatest crime in the movie
is the way they select their heroes
I(CopyrightS 1924, NEA Service, Inc,
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FLORADORA

Alloy. od-timers It's just "a years since the first per-
Torrance of "Floradora and it's famous double sexet
"Tel pretty maiden, there at home like
YOU" Ah if they sang it now, the answer would be, "A
few kind SIR but they're at home-at the movies, dane
ing and necking.
The theater has changed, hasn't it? But not any
than the public The stage is pretty reliable mirror of
the audience especially their morals, faiths and credy
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MOTOR PRODUCTION

From American factories this year come $500 million
dollars worth of passenger and trucks The auto is
longer luxury toy In most is almost much
necessity other factors in cost of living It's health
value aonegettng people out in the fresh air and
from monotonous rocking chair-makes it necessity.
What a fortunate naton The amount spend on
years.
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CRUELTY

The first American society for prevention of cruelty
animals started in 1928 1t exactly so years later
when the first society for prevention of cruelty children
founded
We still have campaigns for kindness to dumb brutes.
How about few campaigns for kindness to youngsters
lot Of them need are neglected far than the par
ents would neglect horse flivver
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Jumping from the frying pan into
the fire may turn out all right if
you keep on the jump.
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A Thought

Blessed are the meek, for they
shall g. inherit the earth.-Mstt.
5:3.l2.
Weakness is the grace which, from
beneath Gods footstool, lifts up
candid and confiding eyes, accepting
Gods smile of fatherly affection,
and adoring those projections which
it cannot comprehend.-James Ham
ilton.
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A solution of alcohol and ginger
ale is bad solution of the booze
problem.
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The greatest crime in the movies
is the way they select their heroes.
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COMMUNISTS

their partys membership is diminishing rapidly in every
country of Europe. Even Russia, with million
bers in 1920 now is listed under 100000 Communism is
extremists belief Extremes last in politics
economics Nor is extreme right. Common
always is somewhere arouid the "happy medium"
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her stock dwindles, while a man just
begins to make money at that age
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1t seems probable that every living mortal knows hi
cure a cold except the chap who has one.

When man with but single idea gets where he is
ing he hasn't seen much the trip.
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Another great danger woman
faces is she is always likely to fall
in love with some man who has a
! mustache.
New Britain herald., 1924-07-24
AMERICAN QIAnIETTr AT
 CAPITOL.

The bug attraction at the Capitol to- | day and for Inc balance of the week IS the Keith vaudeville show of five great acts, Heading this blll Is the American opera QnaFlette, two men and TWO women who constitute one of the hest singing acts in vaudeville, They have wonderful voices and offer selected program of bits from famous operas,
 Another important offering Is sully, Rogers and sully, from the fact that one Of the hoys in the act Is rrits klamht, A former local athlete who IS quite well known here through his activities in the local Turner's and the |, M, (, 4, The act in which he sp- pears Is trsmpoline bar act and they offer a series of sensational stunts.
 Princess Chin chse Toy is china's representative actress and her get will be very much liked owing 10 the fact that this Chinese girl Is very well educated and very entertaining,
 Wells and BorE will present "rn- cla Sill and The Law" comedy skit that contains many witty lines and a song or two for good measure.
 The comedy hit of the show Is sup piled by Mayo and Deyine. a very popular pair Of comedians. who have m act that is a continuous laugh from tho start to the finish.
 The photoplay feature will offer Richard Taimadre in his latest smashing melodrama "on Time"
New Britain herald., 1924-07-24
GENTRY BROS. CIRCUS

The management Of tha Gentry
 Bros Jas, Patterson Circus. which comes here Wednesday. Jniy 30, for two performances. imported for this seasons show tho cottrell.Posells, famous European carrying riding act. which is one Of over two score fea- lures presented on the big two hour program. This act has no equal in the annals Of circus history and is worth going many miles to witness. From the lime of closing of the dazzling spectacular opening number Fairy land" until the familiar final an- nonncement. 'all out and oyer." the three ring. hippodrome and stages are filled in rapid rotation with aerialists, acrobats. tumblers. slack wire artists, trapeze performers, flying ballet Of girls suspended from the top of the tent by their teeth. whole army Of clowns. educated dogs, goats and other domestic animals and the fam ous Gentry Shetland ponies.
New Britain herald., 1924-07-24
PARTY OF TEN DIE
 ON R. R. CROSSING
Ten Others Badly Hurt at Oak
 Harbor, Ohio

Oak Harbor, O., July .4.-Ten per sons were killed and ten others in-
 jured, some seriously, early last night,
 when a New York Central passenger
 train crashed into automobile truck at grade crossing outside this village.
 There were tsenty-six persons in the truck. They had been on a days outing at Sand Beach. on Lake Erie, and were returning 10 their homes when the accident happened.
 Information received at the offices of the New York Central here said that ten were killed outright and ten were taken to hospital badly injured.
 The officials here said the driver of the truck left the wheel and look ed both ways down the track. A train was passing on the eastbound track. but the driver, whose name was not learned, failed to see the fast train which was bound for Toledo. The party was from Attica, O., and vas returning from an outing at Lo- cust Point, near Oak Harbor.
 The train struck the truck square ly in the middle and hurled the oc- cupants more than 100 feet, it was said here. Some of the bodies are said to have been nlangled almost be- yond. recognition. ... ii.
 The dead Mrs. Bern Cook, 40: Mrs. Mabel | Wold. Ss; Gorest Croninger, IA Viola croninger, 10; Olga Pratt, IT; Milan shaaf, 12; Holdon Huffman, l4; Elda olds, 14; and Geraldine Schimf, 14, Ill of .Attica, Ohio; George Spangler, 90, Willard, Ohio, who was the driver of the truck. .''.- '~r
 Eye witnesses of the accident de- dared that the driver had stopped the machine at the railload crossing. gone ahead 10 scan the tracks and apparently had failed to see the ap- preaching train. He is said to have ,ot back into the truck and driven nto the track directly ahead of the rain, which was bound for Toledo rom Cleveland.
New Britain herald., 1924-07-24

erai months ago 10 Steve stekss heir apparent 10 the eToWR. AnRis's falA- CT ERhEaim Butch, gatage owner Of salem, Mass, accompanied ths de- leetiges la claim his daughter,
 Chief stokes eaaieRdsd he had bought Annie from her lathsE for ss.ah0 as bride for his son, hut The detectives refused 10 recognize fhls orthodox gypsy custom as neither Chief Stokes nor his son could pro- daes the conventional American mar riage certificate 10 show that Annie and Steve were legally married. Rnteh said he wanted his daughter hack heeause she was unhappy with The tribe,
New Britain herald., 1924-07-24
Dol nLE rrAIlRI-IN1EIN

How would gan ilke 10 be going sh0ul 7a miles an hour eH i marrow mountain road, racing up 10 ihs very sdss, Then slap within 4 few feet, having Ihe front Rheels ieskiBg into q valley, hundreds of feet below
 That's what Fred Thompson does th his latest picture, "Ths Fighting Sap which opened this afternoon al the i,sesam Rith companion ffa' ture. "irsisFday's Wife"
 Yesterdays Wife" has an unusual theme. that of q divorced couple sha Ind that they love each other. The working aut Of their strange romance is the subject matter of very inc teresfing drama. reRlets with intrigue and some mystery,
New Britain herald., 1924-07-24

 sn, m,-Lso Reisman Hotel Lsneg Ensemble,
 s'an ?, m,-songs, sth ?. m,-Lso Rslsman and his Hotel Brunswick orchestra. ! ?, ra.-rResults Of games played hy the Eastern, American and Ma. tlonal leagues.
 7:0s ?. m.-Letter from the New England Homestead. At the Theater," 1880 ?. m.--Bedtime story. 2 ?. m.-Rseital by soprano and aeeempanlst, ,a:5o ?. m.-copley Plaza erehes- tFs.
 ih:Sb ?, m.--Arllngton time signals, Weather reports.
New Britain herald., 1924-07-24
LOSES S2,5Ol) BRIDE

Father Takes Baek Daughter Whom
 He Has sold 10 GFpsies For Large
 sum ot sioneh
 New York, July si, - Two detses uses invaded d gypsy camp in wood al Pelham Bay park yesterday and told Peter Stokes, king of the camp he would have to give uR his new daughteF-in,law, Annie Butch, it, who was married by gypsy rites sev-
New Britain herald., 1924-07-24
DISAPPEARED

Here's letter from Mr. Edgar Thomas, age 76, of Hemlsck, N. Y. He writes: ~.s
 T had the itching piles, also high blood pressure. saw Peterson's ad in the paper. I used one box and a half of Petersons Ointment for itch ing piles and the piles disappeared, also the high blood pressure" S5 cents box, All duggists.
New Britain herald., 1924-07-24
Truckman's Helper Dies
 When He Falls From Truck

Waterbury. July 24.-John w Gar rity, 57, helper on truck. died in a local hospital early last night of a fractured skull. The injury was sus- tained when he fell from the back of the truck where he was sitting on desk. and hit his head on the pave ment. He leaves wife and eight children,
New Britain herald., 1924-07-24
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VOICES " THE AIR .|
Thursday, Jal, st
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Westinghouse East Pittsburgh, ]
  : P, m.-Basehall scores, Dinner esheen
 s3se P, m,-Litlle Mss Merry Heart, -.... s'tA ?, ms-Aeaa bulletins T P, m,-Ba.seha.l scores, The Importance Of Pruning and Haw,n
 fllb ?, n,-f'aFm program, f'ie ?, m,-MaFkst repares p, m -eeneert by lhs kpKA Little Symphony orchestra, s'Ab p' m-Arllngtan time signals, Weather iosscass, Baseball seer's. 10 ?, m,--eoneeFi,