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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-11-28
The AnsWers

l. The earth. (Flattened or de-
pressed at the poles.)
2. Aeschylus.
8. 100000
4. Socrates.
S. Behold the mani" John 1875.
6. Wine that is heated, sweet
ened and spiced.
Z. One in which the quarters ex-
tend forward to the throat of the
vamp.
8. The Speedwell.
9. ARAB" is a loosely applied
word as it is not a designation for
a person of any one race or re-
igion, the 5000, 900 Arabs in the
world today being of numerous
creeds and colors and native to a
score of countries.
10. Every state in the Union, as
well as each federal territory or
district, has a National Guard or
its equivalent, all of which may
now be summoned to years &C.
tive training duty by the Presi-
dent.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-11-28
By KATHLEEN NORRIS

Y marks of approaching in
- sanity, or incipient insan-
ity, or mental disturbance of
any serious sort, is what the
scientists call the egocentric at
titude.
Egocentric, of course, means
"centered in self" A woman
whose interest is not conferred in
herself will not lose her mind.
Insanity doesn't seem to be my
usual topic. The questions 1 an
swered in this column are usually
the normal obvious questions of
girls unhappily in love, girls who
suppose themselves unpopular, girls
who want to shine in Hollywood, or
all the varying phases and angles of
marriage problems.
But for every letter that I answer
here 7 answer hundred personally,
and destroy unanswered, for one
reason or another, hundred more.
Either because they were not writ
ten in good faith or because the an
swer has been given a thousand
times, or because they are simply
kind and appreciative and have to
leave them unacknowledged for
sheer lack Of time and energy.
Don't Center Interest in Self.
And in every hundred letters there
are three from women who are Ell
Their going into melancholia, or are
afraid of it, or who have had some
relative who went insane, and when
! answer these letters l always re-
mind the writer's of the truism with
which opened this article. A wom-
an whose interest is not conferred in
herself will not lose her mind. That
is, unless some serious physical con-
dition exists. And usually, with the
women who write me, it doesn't.
They are women who are tired,
bored, losing youth, losing their old
close hold over their child or chill
dren, losing their keen affectionate
interest IN the man of the family,
and perhaps approaching that time
of physical change whose effects
have been so much exaggerated,
whose slight and unimportant dis
comforts have been built up into an
actual tradition. Expecting to be-
come fretful, nervous, suspicious,
sensitive, jealous, lonely, restless,
sleepless, ugly, gray, wrinkled and
disagreeable at this time, many a
woman sinks into the role almost
willingly. The experience comes just
at the wrong time, when in sort
of panic she realizes that youth and
bloom and love affairs and beauty
are all dying, and the combination Of
miseries really does bring some
women close to the verge of mental
breakdown.
Everything Seems Ended.
Here is typical letter:
"My dear Mrs. Norris" writes
Helene, from Knoxville. "When
first began reading your weekly ar
ticles my three girls were small chill
dren, and my problem was that of a
busy and distracted young mother.
In Is years I think I have not missed
a dozen articles, and many a time
they have helped me. Those years
have taken me from 81 to 49, And
I find myself at IS with a fright
ened sense that everything is over.
What terrifes me is that there is no
reason for my feeling that way even
though life is not just what it was.
have good, steady, if not particu-
larry thrilling mate; we own our
home; our faithful sigma has car
ried all domestic responsibilities for
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-11-28
Ask Me Huother
q A General Quiz
The Questions

/. Which of the following is an
oblate spheroid - an egg, the
earth, or a baseball?
2. According to tradition what
great author of tragedies was
killed by a tortoise, which an ca
gle let fall on his head?
8. George Washington's estate
was valued at a sum that would
now be how much?
f. What Greek philosopher was
nagged by his wife Xanthippe?
5. Pilates words ''Ecce Homo"
are translated to mean what?
6. What is mulled wine?
z. What is a blucher shoe?
8. What ship started for Amer
lea with the Mayfiower, but had
to turn back?
9. Is "Arab" the designation of
a person of any particular race
or religion?
10. Has every state a National
Guard?
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me. My mind was crawling from
the wreck of another collapsed hope.
Perhaps I was beginning to have
decisions. Maybe, l had only mag
ined the cultural voice that I had
heard once before as the herald of
murder. I managed to smile and
released Lyons cordial hand.
Thanks" I said namely, 81 just
wanted-to say hello"
'But sit down." Lyon urged, max
ing room.
3D." lone begged.
ga glass of wine" her brother
went on and signaled a waiter.
you're godsend. The fact is that
we're killing time rather than
his lean face wrinkled in a faint
grimace-"go home. We're also
waiting for Everett who was to
meet us here. We find Mino's rather
more soothing than what the papers
call the murder fiat Louis, an
other glass"
Thanks" I said again and shook
my head. I did not dare inspect
now the fresh horde of doubts that
cried for attention. The most I
could do was to cover up and tried
to keep my voice and my face quiet
as I went on:
I'm in the next booth, with Miss
Paget. I thought recognized your
voice."
l hoped that by some sound or
sign he might show alarm. The
thick voice must have come from
this booth. I was as sure of this as
I could be of anything, but Lyon was
drawing on in his family English
accent:
''Then I'll not ask you both to
join us, though you'd be most well
come. think I'm beginning to bore
my sister Bit" The fondness, that
ever showed when he spoke of her,
softened his face now. ''We've been
here" said Lyon, "for-when did
we come in, LOUISE"
"Seven-thirty, SIR" the lingering
waiter replied.
For almost FIVE hours, then.
Which only goes to show how much
misery loves any company, Ell,
Mallory? I wish you'd have glass
with u.s."
The band brayed on. My mind
gyrated with the dancing chorus.
81 must go back" l told Lyon.
'We were on our way home. I've
had rather strenuous day"
Good God" he said with lit
tie shudder. who should know that
better than II"
He frowned at the welt on his
hand. lone said in her husky voice:
81 think you're pretty generous to
speak to him at all, Mr.. Mallory"
Accidents" I answered fatty,
twill happen"
Which," Lyon supplied with a
crooked grin, sis scarcely news to
our family, eh? Good luck, old
chap" he added, as / mumbled
farewell and backed away. Mice
of you to hail u.s."
As I returned to my table, craned
my neck into the booth beyond 1t
was unoccupied. That voice could
not have come from there. It had
issued from where lone and Lyon
sat. That meant then that Lyon
managed to smile at Allegro but
my pretense was poor. She asked !:
what is the matter?"
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many years. Now my oldest daugh-
ter is married and mother at %;
my second shocked us all by an
elopement last Christmas; my
youngest is in college and we see
her only occasionally.
with the world in the state it is
I ought to be deeply grateful for
peace and security, know that. /
am not i'll, except in spirit. My
married daughter lives near and my
granddaughter is darling. But I
am so BLUE. Tears are always
near my eyes; nothing seems worth
while; ! don't sleep well. To be told
to busy myself with charities and
gardening and club work merely
maddens me. My appetite is poor;
and look go years old. If my hus-
band suggests a movie or a walk
my inclination is to strike out at
him, to tell him to shut up and leave
me alone!
Fears It's in the Blood.
'The real trouble is this. My
mothers brother died in an institu-
ton for the feeble-minded, and my
fathers two first cousins were gen.
uine cases of melancholia. So you
see it is in our blood. Do you know
any physician who handles cases
like this; would travel anywhere to
find cure"
Yes, I do know Physician whose
treatments never fail in cases like
this. You don't have to travel any
where, physically, to find Him; you
may have to make something of a
spiritual journey. But I'll come to
that later.
Just now what you have to realize
is that generation ago all fami-
lies had their mental cases, because
women dressed idiotically, never ex-
ercised, knew nothing of ygiene and
ate three times too much. Your Vic
torian relatives used to shut them
selves up in unaired houses, among
fringes and upholsteries and bead
portiers, and drink chocolate and
nibble "bon-bons" when they felt
blue. No wonder they went melan-
choly mad! One woman knew used
to boast that she was always bilious
and used to cry for an hour every
morning.
Effecting a Cure.
So first see that your insides are
in order. Then walk two miles
day. Then eat very light dinner,
and wind up with two big, raw ap-
pies, eaten slowly while you read or
listen to the radio after dinner.
Secondly, ignore tomorrow and
forget yesterday. Live each hour
for that hour. The oldest man alive
has no more. The youngest baby
only has that hour. Perfect it and
polish it like a jewel. Make your
expression pleasant. Don't answer
the telephone as if speaking from the
tomb. Be bearer of good tidings.
Realize that you are going through
change, amuse yourself, take life
easily. Forget sights, disappoint-
ments, fears,-forget yourself. In
stead try living, in your mind, your
husbands life for day. See Just
how much fun and peace and pleas
antness the old man is getting.
Above all, don't feel sorry for
yourself. Self-pity is the most dam
gerous cause of melancholy.
Project yourself into your daugh-
ter's problems, and imagine just
how she'd feel if Mother took over
didies, bottles and baby for a whole
afternoon.
Come home tired; only too CRATE
full for the couch and the peace of
home and the detective story. And
don't forget your Physician. No
woman ever dropped beside her bed
and asked for help, started the great
prayer that begins 'tOur Father"
and rose from her knees unhelped.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-11-28
QUESTION BOX

Q.-Can infected teeth and tonsils
cause heart disease?
Ayes.
Q.-What harm could sodium dill
antin cause when taken under physi-
clans direction for petit NAL
epilepsy?
A.-SOdium dilantin gives severe
reactions in some cases. This treat
ment should at first be directly un-
der physicians supervision. 1t
has come into more general use
lately.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-11-28
81 FREDERIC r. VAN DE WATER

not. was not likely ever to forget
the thick foreign cadences.
l managed to smile at my aston
ished companion and slid out from
my place.
''Will you excuse me-just for an
Instant" I muttered and without
waiting for reply stepped around the
high back of my settle to the next
booth.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-11-28
MELANCHOLIA

Women Uho consistently suffer from
melancholy hare only themselves to
blame, according to Kathleen Norris.
She explains that a continually de-
pressed feeling is not natural. This
state OF mind results only rarely from
physical deficiencies; almost altoays it
is caused by centering too much inter-
est in the self. She advises ,oonen toho
suffer from chronic meLanchelia to de.
Uelop outside activities, because they
offer the only cure.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-11-28
Cherokees Involved

The legal status of the North Caro-
lima Cherokees is somewhat in
volved. The Indians are at once
wards of the federal government
citizens of North Carolina and a cor
porate body under the state.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-11-28
Making Better Bread

British baking specialists have
found that dough subject to ultra
violet radiation during mixing not
only gave loaf better color but
also caused definite improvement
In fermentation.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-11-28

by DIS. a. y. Ivy
and A. L. Berman,
Chicago, in Mime
sofa Medicine, who
reminds us that the
bile salts promote
the formation of bile,
keep fatty acids in
solution, aid In the
digestion of fats and
their absorption into
the blood, enable the
blood to absorb iron
and calcium 1.-TWO
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-11-28
.KeepLiver
Healthy and
Enjoy Life
By DIR. JAMES w. BARTON
Released by Western Newspaper Union.)

.VOU have heard the express
L sion that "life depends upon
the liver" but an improvement
on this expression might be
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-11-28

sponsibilities and troubles with
our best selves, whereas slug
gish liver, with slow moving
bile, makes little trouble or re-
sponsibilities loom very large in
our minds.
Some idea of the work done by
the bile salts in the body is outlined
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-11-28

"the enjoym ent
of life depends up
on the liver" A
he althy, a active
liver enables us
to face our re-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-01-04
| SEE BY THE DAILIES THAT

Pope Plus XII called upon Italy'S
King and Queen last Friday in first
visit of any Pope on a temporal prince
in more than seventy years. The visit
signified a closer relationship between
Church and State.
A $52,OO0,OOO gain in deposits anc
record of no failures or closings
marked the operation during 1889 OF
the 126 banks under the jurisdiction Of
the Maryland State Banking Depart
ment.
At least 10000 were the casualties
in series of earthquakes in Turkey
over last weekend. Twenty thousand
persons are believed to have died as g
result.
Addition of ffty-two squadrons to
the Army Air Corps was announced
by Secretary of War Harry H. Wood
ring.
Roger w. Babson predicted business
the first half of 1910 would be the best
for any six-months period since 1929
Almost 10000 patents were issued
the first eleven months of 1889, which
exceeded the number for the whole of
1888.
The Democratic National Committee
will meet February 5 to settle when
the 1910 nominating convention will
be held.
Al Smith, at his Goth birthday, said
he would "take another walk" if his
party Reimbursed hte New Deal.
Congress convened Wednesday tc
find variety Of issues awaiting its
consideration and disposition, includ-
ing the budget, the tariff, defense, So
cial legislation, Wagner Act, Wage
and Hour law
Robert Fechner, director of CCC,
died after months illness.
Floods in Turkey inflicted new loss
of life and widespread damage and
suffering, already heavily stricken by
disastrous earthquakes.
The United States is now requiring
thumb prints on passports in an en-
deavor to combat espionage.
For the second year, Maryland's
yearly traffic accident toll showne q
decline. There were Ala killed dur
ing the year 1882
The Supreme Court decisions give
the National Labor Board freedom to
order elections and certify unions as
collective bargaining agencies without
judicial interference.
w. Russell Morris, Sc, publisher Of
the Tucker Democrat, at Parsons,
dropped dead at Davis on Tuesday.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Homer A. Holt, at Charleston, the first
governors baby born while his father
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-01-04
MRS. SARAH KIRBY PARK

Mrs. Sarah Kirby Park died Sunday
December 81, at her home in Crellin
following a brief illness. She was the
daughter of the late John and Mary
L. Kirby, of near Silver Lake, anG
was born July 26, 1860. She was aged
10 years.
Surviving are one brother, Morris
Kirby, of Tucker county, W. Va, and
four stepsons, Abraham Park, Frost
burg; Alexander and James Park, OF
Crellin, and Thomas Park, of neal
Red House.
Funeral services were conducted on
Tuesday morning at ten o'clock from
the Crellin Union church with Rev
McCauley, of Davis, West Va, in
charge. Interment was at Texas, W
Va.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-01-04
DIE
ALVIN RICHARD REAM

Alvin Richard Ream, aged % years,
of Crellin, a son Of the late Charles
and Ida M. Ream, died in Memorial
Hospital, Cumberland, last Thursday
afternoon, December %, 1889, where
he had been patient since the pre-
vious Saturday He had been in i'll
health for several months, or since
the death of his father on August 8, Of
iaundice. The immediate cause of his
death was pneumonia and compiled
ton of diseases. He was born Novem-
Der 5, 1911.
The deceased was a graduate Of
Oakland high school, 1928, and Poto-
mac State College, 1880, and received
his B. S. degree from West Virginia
University, Morgantown, in 1888. He
was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon
social fraternity and was president Of
the organization while in the Univer-
sity. He was a member of the United
Brethren church at Crellin and also a
member of the Woodmen of the World,
Crellin camp.
Mr.. Ream was married in 1884 to
Miss Pauline Stinebaugh, of Morgan
town.
The deceased was in charge Of
Table Rock Inn, owned by his late
father, in 1884 and 1885, and was after
those years employed in the store of
the Stanley Supply Company at Crel-
lin.
Surviving are his widow, two broth
ers and a sister: Harold E. Ream and
Erval W. Ream, of Crellin, and Mrs.
H. B. Mussard, of Oakland; also by
both his maternal and paternal grand
fathers, Andrew J. Lee and Richard
Ream, of Mountain Lake Park. His
father, who was president of the Gar
rett National Bank in Oakland, and
also president of the Stanley Coal
Company, at Crellin, died in August Of
last year at the age of Sc years.
Funeral services were conducted on
Sunday afternoon at two o'clock from
the Crellin Church, with the Rev. F.
L. Fultz, of Warrington, West Va,
who was a former pastor, officiating,
assisted by the Rev. E. A. Critics, the
present pastor. Interment was made
in Oakland cemetery.
Rev. Fultz was pastor at Crellin
when the deceased was confirmed a
member of the church.
Pallbearers were Robert Ream,
Elmus Ream, Harland Biggs, James
Moomaw, Gilbert Moomaw, Paul Ben
nett, Wilbert Ridder and Victor Ran
Ginger.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-01-04
A SALES TAX MEASURE MAY
BE AGAIN PRESENTER
Legislative Council Proposes u
Study Measure January 10Th

That recurring ghost of Legislator
the proposal for a State sales tax !,
walking the Legislative halls again
The agenda for the January III
meeting of the legislative council IN
cludes a proposal to study the Stats
wide sales tax as a possible revenn.
measure to be submitted to the 19n
Legislature.
The often-killed but never-de.d
sales tax bill was revived during III.
1889 session of the Maryland Legisla
ture but went aground on committee
shoals when the Administrators
showed its fiscal problem through.
The sales tax measure last year was
jointly introduced by bloc of twenty.
five legislators of both parties in The
Lower House. 1t proposed two per
cent levy on retail purchases, unprO.
cessed farm products excluded.
The 1889 measure was modelled on
the Washington State law, which has
produced such revenues that a consti.
tutional limitation of forty cents on
500 assessed valuation has been
adopted in that State. The forty-cent
limitation covers real property taxa
alton for all purposes-State, count,
school and municipal.
Opposition to the sales tax measure
in Maryland came chiefly from the Dor
der counties and the district surround
ing the City Of Washington where
merchants claimed imposition of a
sales tax would drive business into
adjoining tax-free States and cities.
Proponents Of the measure wrote to
Washington for border-county infor-
nation and learned that business had
not suffered in the 300-mile strip Of
counties adjoining the State of Ore
gon, which has no sales tax, but the
Maryland bill was killed before this in
formation was received.
1t was estimated that a two percent
sales tax in Maryland would produce
$10,000,000 annually.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-01-04
MRS. BERTHA C. MCCARTNEY

Mrs. Bertha Custer Mccartney, AT,
died at her residence in Grafton, W.
Va, about $50 o'clock Monday even
ing, January 1, after six weeks i'll
ness Of complications.
A native of Hoyes, this county,
where she was born March 8, 1892,
Mrs. Mccartney was the daughter of
the late Emanuel and Elma J. Cup
petit Custer. She had been resident
of Grafton for nearly 80 years.
Survivors include her husband Wes-
ley c. Mccartney, B and O. repair
man; two children, Miss Ruth and
Robert Mccartney, both at hime; five
brothers, D. S. Custer, Friendsville;
G. W. and H. A. Custer, both of Graf
ton; Roy M. Custer, Baltimore; and
W. A. Custer, Hoyes; and two sisters,
Mrs. W. S. Friend, and Mrs. Margaret
Casteel, both of Oakland.
Mrs. Mccartney was member of
Andrews Methodist church.
Funeral services were held at
o'clock this afternoon from the An
drews church at Grafton with Rev.
A. Coleman Brown, pastor, officiating.
Interment was in Woodsdale Memoir
ial Park
Attending the services from Oak
land and nearby are Mr.. and Mrs. Ma
son Glotfelty, Mrs. Margaret Casteel,
Miss Norma Casteel, Mrs. Nelson
Bucklew, Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Custer,
Hoyes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-01-04
DIARY OF THE WAR
Condensed For Readers OF The
Republican

FRIDAY-The Firms annihilated
two Russian companies and success
fully defended their positions against
Russian attacks. Hand-to-hand fight
ing reported. Great Britain announced
rationing of meat and sugar to in
sure even distribution, not as an indi-
cation of food shortage.
SATURDAY-A British battleship
was damaged by torpedo, killing
three men. The ship reached port
Great Britain is now turning out twice
as many shells as she did when the
war began. The Senate in Paris APP
proved a war budget Of 81 billion
francs for the first three months of
1910 for aviation, tanks and three
new battleships, mainly. Russian ar
tillery and planes shelled and bombed
their own infantry.
SUNDAY-Finnish troops, were re-
ported to have cut the Leningrad-
Murmansk railway at three points.
Russian bombers were active over
Finnish cities. Hitler, in a year-end
message, expressed confidence Ger
many would win the war In Britain
authority has been given to conscript
men from 18 to Al, for war service. ,
MONDAY-Finns destroyed an en-
tire Russian division of $4,000 men.
Soviet planes continued bombardment
of Finnish cities. Only patrol activity
on Western Front.
TUESDAY-Turku, Finnish sea
port, was reported in flames from
aerial bombardment. Russian planes
continued bombing trips. Firms an
nounced the destruction of another
Russian column. Aerial attacks along
British and German coasts reported OF
no effect. The German tanker Takoma,
was interned by the Uruguayan gov
eminent for the duration Of the war,
WEDNESDAY-United States has
protested against seizure by British
of American mail bound for Germany.
Germany has protested internment of
German tanker at Uruguay. Rumania
warned that it would defend to the last
man the province of Bessarabia and
Bucovina, against possible Russian in
vasion. Finn planes dropped bombs
on ice and trapped and annihiliated
most of Russian Division. Only slight
activity on Western Front.
THURSDAY-All Russian attacks
against the Firms were repulsed
Possible French aid to Finland was
limited by sending Alpine troops there.
Patrol activity continued on Western
front
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-01-04

27, at her home in Parkersburg, W.
Va, Mrs. Marry Russell, after brief
illness, died at the age of more than
80 years. She had been year-round
resident of Mountain Lake Park for
many years, going to her Parkers-
burg home late in November to re-
main during the winter months.
Mrs. Russell is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. Grace Hutchinson and
Miss Myrtle Finnell, both of Parkers-
burg. A son, Ralph, died just a few
years ago. Interment was made in
Clarksburg Saturday morning.