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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26
GET THE. CANDLES READY
FOR THE BIRTHDAY CAKE,
M 4 AND THE PARTY FOR ALL
WHO WERE BORN FEB. %

rapidly. Judgment bsred on the one
instance would be favorable TO the
view that Feb 20 is an especially
desireablos date tor a birthday.
Rev Mr.. Smith was born at
Chester, Pa, the son OF Rev. Joseph
H. Smith His mother is dead but
his father is living, his home now
being at Redlands, Calf. j. Hunter
Smith was graduated from Pomona
college at Pomona Calf, in 1909,
and took his seminary degree at
Drew seminary, New Jersey, with the
class OF 1912. He was married in
1924. He is member OF Tie
Kiwanis club.
Another who will have a birthday
on Feb ,e29 is Mrs. Edith M. Borcherd-
ing, wife OF w, E. Borcherding, an
engineer sof the Arizona Edison COM
pany. She was born in8 Magdalan,
N. M, on Feb 30, 1892, arIdA therefore
has enjoyed but eiggG1t Birthdays, hit
erallyA speaking, but she fraIakly adj
nits all the 36 years involved.
Samuel Bolich was born on Feb.
49, 1908, and so he scores fcr o
birthday on, Wednesday
Gus Nelson is a Douglas boy
whose home is now at Phoenix, who
will celebrate a birthday on WedneS-
day EIe is the son OF Mr.. and Mrs,
Gus Nelson, ST., OF the. Copper Queen
Smelter He was born on Feb. 20
1904 and was married to Miss Frances
Mullen, Of Tempe, and they rave a
daughter born to them on March III,
1927
f. c. Mcbride, Of 1900 Greene
street was born en- Feb. %, 1896,
and so will observe his 32nd birthday
on Wednesday, although the calendar
has given him but seven birthdays
in that time.
Napoleon Boyer admits his age as
50 years But his birthday is Feb.
20, and he was born on FEB. 20,
1876 He has enjoyed II calendar
birthdays during that time. lie came
to Douglas ten years age. He was
born at st. Jerome. Quebec, and was
one of q family OF 21 children.
A. friend of Miss Inez Wright, OF
Lordsblirg, offered her name rs one
who will celebrate birthday en-
Wednesday, @4
% There will be one advantage found
in plans tor observing the birthday
of a person born en- Feb. A29, When
placing the candles on the cake it
is regarded as legal and proper to
use only as many candies as they
have had calendAr birthdays. That
lis to say, that one born pr7or 70 1900
would have one candle less than
the number indicated by dividing the
wears elapsed by four. II the birthday
was 1896, that would be 80 years
which, divided by four would give
eight, but by deducting one because
of the fact that 1900, the century
year, is not divisible of 400, it gives
seven, the number of candles to be
used. Even the persoI:s VINO have
birthdays on Feb. % find truth in
the lines BY Moore from his poems
Ny Birthday" in which he say:
"My birthday What a different
sound
That word had in my youthful ears
tAnd how each time the Gay comes
IS round, Va ..,,t
Less and less white its mark appears,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26

How long have you lived in Douglas?
How we'll do you know your home
city?
Do you know any peculiar charac-
teristic that it possesses that possibly
no other city on the continent can
claim? What is one of the most
striking things about Douglas, as you
know it?
Those are questions that new
conner probably can answer more
promptly than pioneer. There are
many things that newcomers praise
and few that they criticize, All OF
them praise the city because of its
apparent cleanliness. It's streets COM
pare favorably with the streets of any
city of it's size. Its business places
and. shops are better than average
for a city of the size.
One of the peculiar characteristics
OF the city is the unanimity with
which it's business places close when
the days business is over. The mer
chants believe in a reasonable days
service and they believe that if their
shops are open until p. m. they
have given the customers reasonable
time to supply their wants. And it
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26

In everyday parlance, the word
birthday is supposed to De synonom-
GUS with anniversary and anniversary
connCteS yearly, or returning on the
given date each year. Ana so it
happens, usually speaking, tnat a
PERSONS birthday suggests an even
date in the year when, with or with
out tormality, they charge themselves
up with another year in age and
start the new year with hope and
determination to record greater and
more interesting experiences and
achievements than were SHOWN in
the last. There is an age old Jest
about the female of the species losing
memory as to age after the 30th
birthday arrives. but that is only
legendary and there is no authentic
evidence of record TO prove the
charge. In fact, it is emphatically
contradicted by many women whose
reputation for truth can not be
challenged,
But it is also a long accepted fact
that rules are established more firmly
by the exception and so there is,
in the birthday rule, a. positive
exception. This week there will be
many people over the country celc-
brate their birthday but 1t Will not
be yearly event. They are the
ones who happened to have been
born on Feb. 29 some year in the
past and they have been observing
their birthdays only occasionally
since that date. They have been living
according to the same calendar as
others but when they looked at the
month OF their birth each year they
discovered in every year except the
years that were exactly diviSible by
four or 400, the latter divisor being
required where the year marked the
end OF the century, that the maker
of the calendar had deprived them
of birthday anniversary. Tnetei was
manage it as best they could without
birthday party. ~ 'i 1915 q
Whether being born on Feb! 20
is an advantage or q disadvantage
is probably a inlattet'i OF personal
opinion. Those whose names occur
later in this story assert they have
found nc i'll effects from having a
birthday only occasionally. Some ot
them were born back on the century
mark and all such. Of course, missed
their birthday date tor q perisd of
eight years from 1896 to 1904 But
they worried along without it I'D
made no complaint.
They all smiIingly admit their true
and full age, Notwithstanding they
have had only one-fourth as many
birthdays as other people, when one
gets literal with the fact Oh birth
day and insists that a birthday can
come only on the date on which the
birth occurred.
Among those who respond to the
roll call when inquiry is made as TO
who has a birthday next Wednesday
is the Rev. j. Hunter Smith, pastor
of the Methodist church, Oh Douglas
Rev Mr.. Smith has resided in Doug
las only since last Oct 81, but in
that time he has brought the in
dividual proof that one born on Feb
20 is not affected as to disposition
by that fact. He has proved to be
a man of genial nature. agreeable
and pleasant and has made friends
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26
HEARD STEPS OUT OF POLITICAL PICTURE
(Tucson Starr

cdJ
now
of
timber
losing the election
the
a
The three candidates
Phillips Clark
Harry
connection with
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26
BARBS

Will Hays has ruled that a monkey
appearing in a picture Gloria Swan
son just made must wear pants, We
never have seen monkey, in q
picture without them. IL
Secretary OF War Davis wants
Indy to quit risking his neck as
a flier But, maybe it isn't his neck
he's risking SO much as his stomach.
Don't pity the Eskimo. He lives
on the fat OF the land.
: Argentina seems to be "agin" us
at the Pan-American conference
Maybe we ought. to send Indy down
there with a load OF tnar famous
cement.
An owl stopped passenger ~rain
in Russia by pulling the air brake
Probably cnly Trotsky in disguise.
Dr. Emil Ludwig says Americas S
four greatest people are Thomas
Edison, John D. Rockefeller, Orville
Wright and Jane Addams. And he
never even mentioned Bossy ellis.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26
More Truth Than Poetry
BY JAMES ]. MONTAGUE
AN APOLOGY

AN APOLOGY
I have often read stories of Indians
who proved
Too stole to quiver or quake
When their ears were clipped off or
their scalps were removed
Or their families burned at the
stake.
semblance OF fear
With passion profound and in
tense,
And the Red Men 1 therefore could
hardly revere
For felt that he hadn't much
sense.
1 never could see why a man shouldn't
vince a.
If he happened to step on tack
Or some tangible sign OF annoyance
evince
If bumblebee jumped on his back
To pretend you're not hurt by a
kick in the shin
Or to laugh off punch in the nose
At trouble and pain and alfliction
to grin
To me seems inetfable pose.
But now I discover that story and
song,
BY poets and nove"sts wrought
Together have done the brave Red
Man much wrong
He is not as hard boiled as J.
thought.
BY human reactions poor Lo is
impelled,
Which was recently proved beyond
doubt +"
BY the case OF an Indian who hoped
up and yelled
When he had an incisor pulled out
He didn't by silence refuse tc admit
He'd been suddenly knocked for
a loop; l3
He made no display or pretension
OF grit,
He let out an agonized whoop.
I have hated the Indian, it must
be confessed,
But Ill make such amends as I can
BY stating, that when he is put to
the test tlr
he really can ACT IKE d IIldIl!
yu& Dr.
NO HELP
The khan. will seem just as ridicu-
lcus without these hoods,
,UNDESERVED
" Having to listen to Heflin is an
other form OF capitol punishment.
q. fsfs7 y. IL
p HF, ALWAYS HAD A CLUE
The teeth OF cave men. show no
evidence Of dental work, It was only
after men became tame that ANYBODY
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26
The Brains at the Ton

A new cabaret was recently opened
in the east forties. The proprietor, a
hard -boiled gent who had mad great
deal OF trouble with the prohibition
department, was describing the place
to a friend.
'The place has three 1ioors, said
the proprietor "On the first is my
bar, and my kitchen And on the
second floor is my dining room"
The friend was persistent.
And what" he questioned, rs
on the third floor?"
The proprietor groaned
"On the third floor is my lawyer" >"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26

During Anders Zorn's visit TO Chi
cago in 1893, when he painted Mrs.
Potter Palmers portrait, Mrs Palmer
gave reception in her home, where
the artist was introduced 20 a num-
ber of ladies in Chicago society. One
of the women, somewhat nervous
when shaking the hand Of the great
Zorn, exclaimed: $50 delighted to
make your acquaintance-m cook is
a Swedei'
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26
PZucked From the Plains
Prediction

'T see," said I, that he got solitary
confinement with hard labor, for life
"WeI," said the wife, hell never
survive that"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26
Steady Improvement

"Oh. what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceived"
At first, perhaps; but later We
Get by with more facility.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26
Social Note

The collector OF internal revenue
has been mailing lot OF letters
to his acquaintance.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26

antcorpalon In sentiment This
possibility republican
most outstanding candidate in
seriously announcement by
Kerby
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26

Wed-LOck
Having been detained late, 'in con-
ference" Walter Anthony s:rolled in
Studio Inn and said though Iully:
Lets see; I've got to get some
flowers and scme candy and some
theater tickets and"
whats the trouble?" Jake wanted
to know Doing some mental arith-
metic?"
mo-" said Walter. Sentimental
arithmetic
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26
e instalments BY instalments."
And No Wonder

"They we're surprised" remarked
the gentleman who never tipped,
when The waiter spoke 10 me at
ALL"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26
The Maiden,s Praver

'Please, dear Lord help me to be
half as popular as the dog that ran
through our lecture room this
morning"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26

T Kawamara, of Toxic, Japan,
! representing a japanese copper
concern, spent a portion OF yes
terday at the G. @. and c. and
A.. SmelterS.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26

John McGarty and Henry Dens-
berger were taken to the deten-
ton hospital yesterday as Sus-
pected ceases of snarE pox. Mrs.
McGarty is in quarantine at their
undertaking establishment also as
a suspect.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26

Douglas is the center OF attrac-
ton to many citizens OF Mexico
who wish to avoid trouble in
their country. Yesterday about
IS Mexican citizens passed through
the local immigration station.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26
In tho Convention City

A quiet stranger, apparently from
the open spaces where i.ic:l are men,
registered at a downtown hotel 1t
was 8 p. m.
After registering he loitered for
while, looked at the clock, hesitated
and walked again to the door.
FINALLY he accosted. the room clerk.
Say, son. he drawled, I'D like
to go to a show tonight, but l don't
want to be locked out. What time
do you close your doors?"
Friend (to motorist): How much
speed has your car got?
Motorist: Up to $50 and costs.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26

Easier Payments
Aren't you happy, now that the
furniture people are willing to les
you pay for the furniture by in
Stalments?"
''I should be if they'd let me pay
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26
Very Queer

<, Very Queer
Father (reading school reportts
"Cahduct, bad reading, bad; cons
position, arithmetic. history, bad-bad
-bad" What is the meaning of this,
Gerald?
Gerald: l can't understand it, Dad.
Do you think it might be forgery?
eff Uncle Sam ever feels like
breakin' with South America we
might send Charley Levine down
there"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26
-------
SIXTEEN YEARS AGO

/ Mr.. n and Mrs. George Kingdom
are here from Globe and are5l
guests at the Gadsden hotel. q
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26
Not for Publication

Not Tor PubIcaLIOn
A certain lecturer in Aberdeen told
reporter who was present at cne
Of his meetings that he had few
more engagements in the city, and
he did not wish him to publish any
thing of the lecture, as it might spoil
the attendance at the others. The
next day he was horritied to read
in the papers: Mr.. delivered
an excellent lecture in the U. F..
church hall He gave some very good
stories, but unfortunately they cannot
be printed
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26

p HE. ALWAYS HAD A CLUB
The teeth OF cave men show no
evidence Of dental work, 1t was only
after men, became tame that anybody
dared take up the profession.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26
ABE MARTIN

Most so called cOntentment is due
L an inactive liver. A lot o. green
horns still look at women.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26
UNDEsERvED

y Having to listen to Hetlin is an
other form OF capitol punishment.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26
NO HELP

NO HELP
The klan will seem just as ridicu-
lcus without these hoods,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26
A Bond Of sympathy

Motorist UP to $50 and costs.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26

. Don't pity the Eskimo. He liv
on the fat OF the land.
The Washington times., 1928-01-25

young and provocative through
shining gates OF an endless fu-
ture.
Future years become the pres
emit. They also vanish!
She closed her eyes sharply on
this thought. Yes-vanish, il one
is fool enough to let them!
She wouldn't! Seize them
somehow.
She became restless, excited
burning. This menace OF a long,
painful postponement was often
creeping into her dreams now.
He had limited this. The high
years lost in waiting-fervor dim
ming.
No-not for her!
She clasped her hands behind
her head and whistled a sprfghtly
challenge through the lifting April
air.
They weren't going to Europe
she and Nara. Things had hap
pened; two apartments idle; a
new heating system to be installed
Marza's old sister i'll in Chicago;
Maria terribly agitated over this
and getting ready to leave now.
She went with Nara to the
train. A moment before the whis-
tie blew. Maria said abruptly:
jerry may send for you"
you mean il your sister dies"
Nara seized the arm of the
seat. her face white and convulsed.
She isn't going to die! What
made you say that"'
IT don't know except that she's
old. isn't she old and very i1l?"
The Washington times., 1928-01-25

pearances." She drew herself up
proudly. $50 many people have
nasty minds. I'm sure I'm sorry.
Henry, il anyone's annoyed you
by talking about me. And / shall
see to it that they have no chance
to do so, even falsely, in the
future"
''Wel1. well" said LoveweIl, APP
peased. Perhaps / was hasty. I
~ didn't see little Eileen, at
first. John--shake hands, and
lets forget this. What do you
say?'
"ohr' John started; then,
family reluctant, he put out his
hand. ''Yes-yes, by all means"
wait till you're married your
self-you'n know what 1t is to be
jealous them" said Lovewell. fatu-
ously. When q mans married to
the NEST beautiful woman
Henry! Spare my blushes!"
said Marcia.
He laughed. uproAriously.
"P1ease-I think we'd better put
on our things, now. Marcia, don't
you?" said Eileen.
II certainly do" said Marcia.
The Washington times., 1928-01-25
JERRY

one and go about an animated
emptiness in the other?
"Oh, Saxon, why am I not in
France; why am not this mo-
ment under a golden tree, you
beside me in the heavenly wilder
ness? Enough without the jug;
without the book! The fault is
yours! You're just a year and a
half too late in asking me.
did you not know you had
only to speak and I would have
followed; that your wanting a
thing and sanctioning a thing,
makes it right for me?''
Many times, Jerry pondered
that last line and told herself
with a pang: 1.-THE terrible thing
is that it's true" He had this in.
credible power.
But suppose she had gone and
they had had these mad. sweet
years together.
She leaned over the flower boxes,
lost in an excited language. The
two years would be drawing to a
close now. but they would have
been intense and dazzling, with
supreme moments to last as long
as memory. When she was an
old, old Woman-though, of course,
she never really believed that she.
too, could grow old-but when
she had lived a long. long time.
there would still 1oiter about her
this perfume from a radiant past.
Two precious years vanishing
now-a1lowed to slip away be-
cause one has the hope of gleam.
ing future years--years filing
The Washington times., 1928-01-25

CHE began to dream. She was
~ nothing but a warm. tremulous
longing these days; nothing but a
thrilled, pervasive expectance.
Where was he today? Where
would he be tomorrow? Want
ing her yet? That letter Of his
was a call.
She wrote back one Of the bold.
infinitely young letters that puz-
xled his mind and lit fires in his
senses.
"Why in the world didn't you
get your brave bunch to carry
me all over Europe, your COM
panion of JOY, before this belated
hour? All my life I've wanted
to do just such stirring, danger
mad things. Oh, why is the world
not rightly managed Why could
we not have seized this glorious
adventure? I'm for Antoinette
when it comes to living blazingly,
riotously, daringly. And in the
here and now
Everyone who believes in life
must believe in this kind of life.
Otherwise you are a champion Of
suicide-spiritual or physical
What's the odds, except that
you get decently buried for the
The Washington times., 1928-01-25

ness trip, and Marcia was minded
to make the most Of his absence.
And she had an idea, daring for
those times-all this was some
few years ago, and the world has
moved swiftly in the interval.
1t was hot night; they were
near Clegg's Pond.
Let's slip away and cool off in
the pond" she whispered to John.
1t was he who thought of bath.
ing suits.
"Oh. we can keep something
onv' she said.
.They didn't know anyone had
seen them slip away. Nor did
they know something else-that
Henry Lovewell had kept some
thing back about that business
trip of his, which was that he
was coming home that night, and
had arranged for the Limited to
make a special stop for him.
But their departure had been
seen-by two people. One was
already enlisted in Henry Love
wells service; the other was Eli
leen.
And so 1t was, as the two
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think you're making q ridiculous
fuss about nothing!'
He started, stared at her; swal.
lowed his next word. She was
lovely picture in her clinging gar
ment that revealed every line and
curve Of her young body. As he
stared at her she gave a little
cry and snatched up a coat and
drew it close about her.
Yes, Henry" said Marcia.
Really I'm surprised! What
right have you to come here act.
ing like this?"
"Eileen--you here. said Love.
well, surprised, dismayed. "Why
II thought heard"
''Of course I'm here" she said.
Please. Mr.. Lovewell, you've not
going to make a fuss, are you?
Mother would be furious with
me-" go
"of course he's not going to
make q fuss, my dear" said Mar
cha. She had recovered her GUS
temAry poise; her moment of
panic was past. She flashed a
smile at her husband. "Henry's
The Washington times., 1928-01-25
By ELENORE MEHERIN

waste yourself on commercial
work"
zone must eat"
"Yes-but you don't have to do
an advertising poster with the
fervor of a whistler"
Jerry thought, concealing q
beaming laugh: This isn't q
poster. This l. a symbol. OF
love and a two.fold flowering!
Oh, wait-wait till next Sep
TENDER! She counted piercingly
on this.
In the middle Of June came q
sudden, exciting, wholly unex-
pected message.
She stood in the hallway trem-
bling, biddy with shock and glad
ness.
Dear Jerry: Arrived in New
York today. Left Paris suddenly
without time to cable. Leave at
once for home. Five days more.
Love. Saxon"
Five DAYS more! She went
about delirious with expectance.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. In the
midst of a traffic jam she came
to an abrupt halt-five days more!
It was a mercy she wasn't run
over, the way she had to stop
now and then for these radiant
signs.
AS the days dwindled and there
was but the last night OF wait
ing, she was in q panic-What
had brought him home suddenly?
Would he be the same? She re-
called him in the moment OF
farewell running back for that
The Washington times., 1928-01-25

a darling, really. He thinks we're
frightfully unconventional, though,
don't you, dear?"
well" LovewelI, discon-
certed, feeling himself put, some.
how, in the wrong, though he
knew, really. that he had been in
the right, didn't know what to
say. II must say, my dear, that
your costume"
"Oh, hushv' said Marcia. "I'm
just as fully dressed as ! am in a
bathing suit! You're so old-fash-
toned, darling. 1t was So warm
and I really didn't think John and
Eileen ought to come here swim
ming at night alone-you know
how people talk when you give
them q chance"
81 certainly dor said LoveweTI,
grizzly. That-that's just what =
think you've been forgetting lately,
Marcia"
"I?" she said. "But, how alb
surb! I'm 4 model OF good con-
duct. / suppose perhaps I'm so
sure OF myself that 1 don't al
ways give enough thought to APP
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of them stood, in the moonlight,
shivering q little, on the banks
of Clegg's Pond, a slim white
figure flashed past them and into
the water, darling from the woods
behind them. And the next mo-
ment Eileen, dripping, clad only
in a now shapeless pink gar
ment. stood beside them. But,
before they could cry out. Henry
Lovewell's angry voice rang out
behind them.
CHAPTER
80" he cried. This is the
way you 90 on when you think
I'm away"
He stood glaring at his wife.
He turned on John MacVeagh.
And you! I've done enough
for you to be entitled 70 think I
could trust your friendship he
said. yet I find you carrying on
with my Wife
Mr.. Lovewelle' Eileen's voice,
soft and gentle but singularly
clear, interrupted him. whatever
are you talking about? John and
l wanted to swim-Marcia just
came along to chaperone US. 1