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pie gull1ble enough to swallow
such stories. Age-old beliefs dc
not vanish as speedily in the face
knowledge as / had imagined
HUMOR with cheese
The funniest sayings are often
not so intended. The best bit of
unconcious humor which l have
heard lately was told to me by a
very able woman physician wlao
specializes in mental cases ii i
New England city.
One of her patients attempted
suicide by taking three boxes of
rat poison. That WAS an overdose,
and nature got rid Of it so quickly
that he recovered. But he had his
cwn theory of why it failed to
work.
"Of course, I see now what was
the matter" the poor semi-lunatic
told the doctor. "The directions
on the box said to spread the rat
poison on pieces of cheese, and
forgot the cheese!"
CHANCE and a "duG'
At a church lawn-party not
long ago l heard the minister's
complain, half seriously,
that young men shy off from girls
who live in a parsonage.
What chance has a minister's
daugter?" she sighed, with one
eye ON the handsome young man
who tends the soda-fountain in the
village drugstore, who was devot-
ing himself to a couple of chatter
ing h%igh-schools girls.
Her father, overhearing her, re-
marked:
"You make me think of a Meth
odist parsonage in England, where
there were two daughters. They
may have felt much as you do,
but those two girls gave the world
two of today's most famous men.
One of them became the mother of
Kipling, the greatest liv-
ing poet, and her sisters son,
Stanley Baldwin, became Prime
Minister of England.
| saw the minister's daughter a
little later, talking earnestly with
a young college professor on vaca-
ton, whom most of the village
girls have branded as a "dud." l
couldn't be sure, but I thought
she was letting him hold her
hand. ~
JOBS frsr-rate men
The mark of a frst-rate man is
that he is not above taking a Sc
cond-rate job if there is a chance
in it to prove his own frst-rate-
ness.
One young man l know lost his
job in the hardest part of the de-
preston. He tried anything else
he could get to do, but all he could
get was a chance to sell advertising
On commission. He went at it as
if it was the biggest job in the
world, and within six months his
commissions were running to as
much as the highest salary he had
ever earned. Now he's the star
man of his newspaper orgpniza-
ton.
Second-rate men want frst-rate
jobs handed to them. First-rate
men make their own hrst-rate
jobs.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-07-14

GREED in human nature
Nellie Gray died a few weeks
ago. A chronic invalid, tricked out
of her small inheritance as a young
woman, she had been the town
I!auper of West Stockbridge,
Mass, for twenty years. Then a
brother died and left her S85 900.
The first thing Nellie did with the
money was to pay back to tie
town all the money the taxpayers
had contributed to her support,
Only one of Nellie'a relations
ever did anything for her when
she was poor. He was a cousin
who was almost as hsrd up as
she was. But as soon as she got
her inheritance relations Aocked to
her house from all directions.
When she died seventeen different
families claimed a share in her
estate. They had left her to starve
but now they wanted her wealth.
The probate court examined all
the claims. There was no claim on
behalf of the only relation who
had ever done anything to be-
friend Nellie Gray. He said he
didn't need it; he could get along.
He wouldn't like anyone to think
he'd been kind to his cousin in
the hope of gain. But the court
dealt out even-handed justice and
this cousin got half of the estate,
to the disgust of the seventeen
greedy ones.
In this imperfect world it is not
often hat l run across a human
situation which so we'll bears out
the belief that right and justice
will always triumph in the end.
SUPERSTITION pains inside
In my boyhood l used to hear
back country people say that it
was dangerous to drink from an
open stream Or spring. They rod
weird tales of persons who h d
swallowed frogs eggs which hat
ched in their insides. Sometimes it
was lizard eggs. l remember read,
ing many years ago a gruesome
tale of a man who had thus ACCT
dentally swallowed an alligator
egg, and was devoured from with
in by the reptile which Matched in
his stomach.
l imagine that belief is as old
as humanity. Folk ignorant of
physiology attributed internal pairs
to some sort of an actual reptile
in their vitals. But I had suppos-
ed hat everybody knew enough
in these enlightened days to realize
the impossibility of such happen
ings, until l saw a newspaper ar
ticle from a seashore resort the
other day.
According to this story a young
woman walking on the beach pick
ed up what she thought was a
pearl. She put it in her mouth
and accidently swallowed it. And
some time later, according to the
account, she died in agony, de-
voured by an octopus which had
Matched from the egg that she had
mistaken for a pearl!
Apparently there are still peo'
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The wife-"This is news-some-
one has invented a shirt without
buttons"
The Nothing new
about chat. I've been wearing them
that way ever since l wa married"
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COMMENT

Please be brief. As q rule 200
words bouA be enough. You,
name and address must accom- ban,
each communication as'a an evidence
of good faith. Your name will moi
be published unless you wish it,
but signed letters wH be given The
preference.
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-umbs to the temptation.

-umbs to the temptation.
To make any banking reform
work it must be operated by pick
ed men of such character that it
will become once more, as it used
to be, a guarantee of the highest
integrity to have a job in a bank.
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PLEASED

W ELL PLEASED
christopher BMott in Tie Balti-
more Evening SUM-
II am willing to die for the
President" observed Secretary of
the Interior Harold L. Ickes as he
scanned the rolling sea, "but
get seasick for MIN An
napolis Dispatch in The Evening
Sun.
That's the sort of man to have
in charge of the interior.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-07-14

IN CAPSULE FORM
Caption in The Raleigh Times.
EHRINGHAUS PLEADS WITH FAR
MER TO GIVE OVER ROLE OF DUMB
GUY.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-07-14

Another good thing about a de-
preston is that it leaves nothing
but room at the top.
The GreenvilLe, S. c., News.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-07-14

LAYING UP STARS
("The Owl" in The Charlotte
Post)
At one time you could collect
from 4 preacher on Monday, but
nowadays he is as broke on Mon
day as he was on Saturday. That
makes us think that preaching is
a credit business.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-07-14
BY Alber, T, Reid

WE HOPE the meteorologist
predicted two aool years didn't
give away his electric fan.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-07-14

SOUND EFFECT
This age has its charms, but i,
hasn't produced anything with the
million dollar sound of swishine
silk petticoats.
THE Columbia State.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-07-14
MERIDIAN

MERIDIAN
(Cbarles B. Pesram in The Nor
canton NeWs-H erald.)
A telephone rang insistently
The colored maid answered and the
caller asked to speak with the
lady of the house.
'She amt hyar."
Can you tell me where 1 can
find herr"
"Shes gone out O town. l don't
know 'zactly whar,' but hits down
whar 'dey is having de Foath at
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-07-14
WALK ON THE BANK

We see by one of the New Yorl
papers that the last bank failur,
in Scotland was. in 1873. Cause 0.
failure is not given. Is it possible
that someone drew out something
We can't believe it!
The Greensboro Record
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-07-14

NOTE ON GETTING PLACES
Italian aviator flies at att of
more than seven miles a minute
News item. Personally, we'd rath-
err start a little earlier.
The Atlanta Journal.
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Borrowed Views
NATIVE Wit

NATIVE WIT
(Charles B. Pegram in The Nor
canton Herald.)
One night not so long ago my
wife and | yer riding on a high
way late at night, nigh onto 2 o.
clock. A strange c%ontraption Aitt-
ed down the highway.
What was that?" she asked. l
told her it was an Austin.
"Well," she said, "it is mighty
little to be out at night by itself"
DIRTY DIG
A committee of wise men after
careful investigation has reached
the conclusion that some of the
things shown on the film stage
are bad for boys and girls. The
statement is rendered conservative
by the inclusion of the last four
words.
The Greensboro News
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Just ArriUed in Time for Saturday!

sold
York with
carefully
"besseler'many
detachable with
Tomorrow the last
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Card Parties

Mineola Council 81, D. of P. will
hold a benefit card party Wednes-
day night at the hall, 1909 Prospect
street.
George H. Thomas w. R. C. 20
will hold benefit bunco and card
party at 2:15 Wednesday at the
home of Mrs. w. P. Batchelder, 1909
Park avenue. Mrs. Mary Begeman
is chairman.
Mrs. Thomas Moore will be
hostess for card parties at her
home, 312 Eastern avenue, tomorrow
afternoon and night for the benefit
of st. Philip Neri church.
Wayne Post Ga. American Legion
auxiliary, will sponsor a card party
Thursday night in its hall, 6311
West Washington street.
Booster club, Marion county, S.
B. A., will meet at $3.50 Tuesday
night at the home of Mrs. Doris
Mathews in Ravenswood to make
final plans for the card and bunco
party to be held at $3.50 Wednesday
night at 116 East Maryland street.
Mesdames Gertrude Kirby, Jennie
Oglesby and Mary link are in
charge.
Auxiliary of Irvington chapter o.
E. S. will sponsor a benefit card and
bunco party at 2 Wednesday in
Banner Whitehill auditorium.
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In the Realm of Clubs

zetathea club will meet with Mrs.
R. E. Stevenson as hostess. Riley
verses will be given in response to
roll call. Mrs. Gertrude Hoch and
Mrs. Frederick Lumley will present
a Riley program.
I'VE Hop to a Home in Hawaii"
will be the subject discussed by Mrs.
William Burcham at the meeting of
the Wednesday Afternoon club. Mrs.
R. F. Guedel and Mrs. B. 2.
Entwistle will be hosteSses.
THURSDAY
Katharine Merrill Graydon Club
will observe it's tenth anniversary.
Mrs. Richard George will present
THE Life Of Our Club" and Mrs.
John Paul Ragsdale will introduce
the incoming president, Miss Lola
B. Conner.
Vacation echoes will be the re-
spouse given to roll call at the
meeting of the indianapolis Current
Events Club. Mrs. c. M. Raber will
talk on Looking Backward; Mrs.
r. D. Stober, Looking Forward"
and Mrs. T. H. Hazelrigg," What
Nature Has Done for These United
States"
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her skill to repair their damaged
articles.
At present she is restoring the
linen background of a petit point
tapestry, which is about $50 years
old and belonging to man in New
York. The linen background had
deteriorated until the tapestry was
in shreds. BY weaving in new linen
threads the piece almost completely
is restored.
At one time, Mrs. Hall had pieces
from the Metropolitan Museum OF
New York, a coverlet from Wash
ington, a dress from Columbus, Ca;
a coat from Seattle, Wash, ana a
shawl from Lawrence, Kan, all
waiting for repairs.
Many times Mrs. Hall must seek
thread of a certain quality to match
the thread of the original she IS
repairing. Then it must be dyed
TO match in color. At present, she
is working on a rare old Chinese
piece, for which she must dye
matching thread.
A society girl comes Waillng to
Mrs. Hall. She shows her a beauti-
fu' dress, bought for special oc-
casion. The dress is expensive, and
was torn when the girl slipped on
stairway at the party. which had
been such a tremendous success un-
til the tragedy to the dress.
Never mind; can mend 1t so
you'll never know it was torn"
promises Mrs. Hall, and the girl
goes away relieved because her IA
vorite dress will be presentable Tor
another happy occasion.
A bachelor comes with a wrinkled
brow. What is he to do with a
moth-eaten vest? The solution is
simple for Mrs. Hall. She hands 1t
to one of her assistants and when
the vest is returned, there is no
sign of moth holes.
Mrs. Halls collection of shawlS in
cludes every known type, and some
which are not duplicated in mu-
seums. A collection, donated to the
Cincinnati museum by Nicholas
Longworth's father, includes the
most of one type, but none match
Mrs. Halls in completeness.
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School Will
Be Held for
Civic Study
Voters League Plans to
Reorient Members
in Politics.

Mrs. w. w. Ramsey of Chicago
will be in charge of the citizenship
school 10 be held Oct. "a to Is in
Ayres' auditorium under the aus
pieces of the Indianapolis League
Of Women Voters.
The school is being conducted to
reorient members in the league
with the political philosophy and
the current developments in the
light of historic government prin-
cipleS.
The local league will open its
years activities with a tea at 3
Wednesday afternoon at the
Propylaeum Club with Mrs. Joseph
j. Daniels presiding.
Guests and members will attend
the affair when Mrs. Daniels will
discuss the future plans of the Or
ganization and the work of the
consumers committee of the NRA.
Mrs. Daniels is member of the
committee
Reports will be given by the fol-
lowing committees: Mrs. Leo M
Gardner, efficiency in government;
Mrs. S. N. Campbell, women in in
dustry; Mrs. James L. Murray, act
ing chairman of the education COM
mittee; Mrs. R. S. Sinclair, inter
national cooperation to prevent
war, and Mrs. Dorothy D. Good
rich, child welfare.
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SOrOrities

Miss Katherine Sturgeon, 1862
West Thirty-fi first street, will be hos
tess for a meeting of Phi chapter,
Delpta Chi Sigma sorority, at 8 to-
night.
Miss Virginia Glass, 1156 Evison
street, will be hostess for meet
ing of Gamma chapter, Rho Delta
sorority, at 8 Wednesday night.
Pi Sigma Tau sorority will meet
at 8 tonight at the Fletcher Saw
ings and Trust.
A business meeting will be hello
tonight by Alpha chapter, Phi Sigma
Theta sorority at the home of Miss
Eleanor Gels, 1882 Madison avenue
Miss Mabel Piety, national in
spector, will be guest at meeting
Of Delta chapter, Beta Sigma Phi
sorority tonight in the Claypool
Alpha chapter, Phi Tau Delta
sorority will hold business meeting
Friday night at the home of Mrs
Eugene Wilcox, 322 East Twenty
fourth street.
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Full figures are coming into
their own at last. Gone are the
days when size 3S was the last
outpost for all the really good
looking frocks.
Flattering necklines, soft sleeves
and slim skirts are designed es-
pecially for the figure with curves.
Here's a frock, for instance, that is
as new as can be, and the sizes go
straight up to so.
Slenderizing details every woman
will appreciate are the diagonal and
vertical seams, the wide collar and
the deep vestee.
Make this in sheer crepe in black,
tobacco brown, pine tree green or
taupe and you will be able to greet
the new season with chic.
It's easy to make, too. Size SO re-
quireS AS yards 39-inch material. Il
yard 36-inch allover lace for vestee.
Width about yards. Send for our
new fall fashion book. It gives spe-
cial attention to the requirements
of the larger figure, as we'll as the
latest fashions for misses and chill
dren.
Pattern No. 5265 is designed for
sizes SO, SO, 40, 40, A, As, 48. so
bust.
Our new fashion book is out. Send
for it-put check here and enclose
10 cents extra for book.
Price for pattern Is cents.
Copyright. 1893, by United Features
Syndicate Inc
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Guild to Seek
New Members
in Local Drive

Every member get a new mem
Der" is the motto of the local
Needlework Guild, which is CO.
operating with the national guild
in observance of membership week,
Oct. to Is Section presidents and
directors will meet Friday at the
home of Mrs. P. c. Reilly, 1884
North Meridian street.
Miss Bertha Leming of the social
service department of the public
schools will talk Oh why the Guild
Garments Are Useful" and Miss
Charlotte Lieber of the Family We'll
fare Society will address the group
on the same theme.
Mrs George B. Elliott will report
the national convention, which she
attended last summer at Philadel-
phia.
Thirteen thousand two hundred
garments were gathered last year
by the local guild, and distributed
to twenty-six local agencies.
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ceeds in getting him to give up the
wife to whom he feels bound by ties
of loyalty. Almost every one who
has lived through such an expert
ence admits that the pangs of re-
nvnciation outweigh the pleasures
of love.
An ANONYMOUS woman, writing on
THE Single Woman's Dilemma" IN
the october issue of Harper's, seeks
to Justify her passion for a married
man on the grounds that his mar
rage already is dead before he seeks
the comfort of another woman. In
her opinion, a vital relationship
which springs up between two peo-
pie has an entity all its own.
IF we kill it at BIRTH she argues,
cor suffocate it in the manner OF
mothers who are ashamed OF the
creature that has sprung from their
loins. we are committing kind OF
murder"
On the other hand, she points out
that the bitter price which a woman
may have to pay for claiming
right to love the man who is mar
ried may range from humiliation at
being deserted to an unWelcome
child with no one to father it.
She mentions the woman who mas
been racked by close relationships
with men who are decent enough,
but hopeless weak-men who are IN
a continual state of filters as to
whether they are doing the right
thing or not. Such men waver back
and forth between the two women,
afraid of their wives, yet returning
again and again to throw them
selves on the mercy Of the other
woman.
such men," she writes, should
be shot at sunrise. for they are not
playing fair. Unattached women,
who themselves have plenty OF
strength of character, often lavish
their maternal affections on such
men and get very little in return"
I believe that this anonymous
writer is exactly right in her conclu-
sion that the woman who ventures
to love outside of marriage must
have the strength to go on alone
when the clock strikes twelve and
the ball is over. She must learn to
bid good-by to her pleasures quite
philosophically. According to this
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prints. They tell of the great
whaling industry, of famous ca
tastrophies at sea and the devel-
opment of the steamboat. The
most beautiful are the prints show
ing the graceful clipper ships, with
billowing sails, racing home from
China with a cargo of tea or
around the Horn to San Francisco
during the gold rush of forty-nine.
in Currier & Ives as we'll as
interesting prints found in old
magazines, such as the Aldine,
have an individual place in Amer
lean art, and the increasing recog-
milton of their charm and value
make them popular with collec-
tors.
The original print taken from
the Aldine will be on display at
the Art Museum this week.
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TUESDAY

Mrs. Edward A. Peterson will re-
view "One More Spring" and Mrs.
Llewellyn A. Turnock will discuss
Life Begins at Forty" at the meet
ing of the Inter Ala Club, with Mrs.
Fred E. Wagner as hostess.
Mrs. Frank Shellhouse, 1880 North
Meridian street, will be hostess for
the Independent Social Club.
1.-THE Raven" will be discussed by
Mrs. Oscar Wadsworth at the meet
ing of the Social Study Club at the
home of Mrs. Clayton Rigsbee, 1929
Lowell avenue.
Women of the Old Testament" is
the subject for the meeting of the
Irvington Tuesday Club, with Mrs.
Francis Payne in charge of hospital
tiles.
Meridian Heights Inter-Se Club
will meet with Mrs. w. E. King as
hostess Mrs. R. V. Myers, Mrs. B.
D. Yarian, Mrs. F.. x. Kern and Mrs.
F. A. Linton will present the pro-
gram.
A luncheon at the Woodstock Club
will open the years program for the
Proctor Club with Mrs. Thomas A.
Wynne and Mrs. Leroy J. Reach,
hostesses. officers will be in
stalled.
Judge Will H. Hough will talk on
Riley the Man" at the meeting of
the Alpha Delta Latreian Club,
with Mrs. James Ruddell, assisted by
Mrs. Russell P. Veit, as hostess.
Artemas Club will hold noon
luncheon, with Mrs. Frank F'reers,
Lindbergh Highlands.
Mrs. Bert Slaymaker, 3O58
Washington boulevard, will enter
tain members of the Stansfield So
cial Workers circle of the Meridian
Street M. E. church, with a 1890
luncheon at her home. Mrs. Ivah
Johnson Wagner will sing.
Tokalon will hold a tea and guest
day at the Columbia Club Mrs
Harriet Burtch, incoming president
and Mrs. Jessie Roush will pour. A
musical program will be presented
by Mrs. Vaughn Cornish, Miss Mar
ian Laut and Vaughn Cornish.
WEDNESDAY
THE Pioneer Woman" and 1.-THE
Modern Woman" will be discussed
at the meeting of the Minerva club
with Mrs. E. S. Cummings as
hostess.
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YOUNG WOMEN AID
KRYL, FITZU AFFAIR

Assisting Sunday night at the
reception for Bohumir Kryl, Miss
Anna Fitzu and Miss Marie Kryl,
following their concert at English's,
were Misses Lucille Stewart. Bar
bara Steele. Fanny KiSer, Elizabeth
Nunnaly. Rita De Vault, Grace Bar
nett. Eleanor Marshall. Helen Louise
Brown, Betty Amos. Emily Pearson,
Helen Louise Titus. Virginia Foster,
Nancy Kalleen, Mary Paxton Young,
Jane Moore. Anna Louise Amos,
Helen Chappell, Barbara Cakes,
Mary Vance Trent, Mozelle Ehnes,
Avanelle Brennerman, Margaret
Mattingly. Mildred Claffey, Helen
Gearen, Martha Heller, Violet earle,
Eleanor Rathert, Florence Condrey,
Mary Alice Birch and Elizabeth Carr.
The tea was sponsored by music
clubs. schools of music sororities in
the Sphinx Arms.
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Manners and Morals
BY JANE JORDAN

unknown author, the fact that an
experience must end is no sign it
was not worth the candle or that it
was tawdry thing.
I realize that this is a moot ques-
ton and wish to gather some &C
tual experiences as well as carefully
thought out opinions from those
who are stirred to self expression by
this question. Let's have a letter
from each and every reader! Read
the article in Harper's and write
what you think to Jane Jordan!
Dear Jane Jordan-I am mar
ried to a man whom I love for the
sake of my child. But I'm deeply
in love with another man who
also loves me. I can't be with
him or see him as my husband
has me watched day and night.
He seems not to want me- Neither
does he want anybody else to
have me. Please print this letter
so 1 can have some advice from
your readers. TROUBLED ME.
Answer-The problem of the man
in love with the married woman is
no less real than the reverse SIT
uation. The wife has more diff
f1culty in pursuring an extra marital
romance than the husband in the
same situation. Usually she is eco
nomically dependent upon her hus-
band and can not afford to give
him grounds for divorce. Public
opinion condemns her more harsh
ly. Many times she can not count
on her lover to marry her after sht
divorces her husband.
do not know what woman il
your situation should do, but i
would simplify matters for you tx
work out your own economic in.
dependence.