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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1921
THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
PAGE SIX
THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
The Cost of Marriage
WEBBS COLYUM
By “Simhint” J— WM
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.
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How carefully the children of John
finance
Mr. Rockefeller has an estate at Sea!
The New Treaty
with: "Foch! Foch! If Foch had been
for the benefit of those who are in- look after the Chinese and see the bil-
matrimony.
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Some savings bank dis-
investment.
eral months since this firm was or-
ganized.
Well well well. and wat
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now youve gcA
The1' millennium will
Judge quits giving the Houston Post
credit for Life’s jokes.
And it is be-
SUGGESTIONS.
Working on Sunday wasn't the first
out of the paper usually take pains to
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It is interesting to note that while
the women required a larger weekly
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ANSWERS TO
QUESTIONS
ginning to look as if there never would
be any millennium.
new in Washington is so dull as all
that?
tell him how many Ts or Is there are
in their names.
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most cases. the latter believe, to put
this money into insurance or house
furnishings or some other permanent
Some fellows are so unfortunate they
never can get together enough money
to justify them in going into bank-
ruptcy.
Our contention is that it took Mac-
Swiney lots less than 30 minutes to
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Most folks will agree with the dic-
tionary in everything except spelling.
eral question on the financial basis of
marriage is put before men and women
the men tend to answer it by a fig-
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them? se pop.
The champion optimist is the bird
who believes, when he gets an open-
faced letter, that it contains a check.
If the Russian famine situation really
is as bad as it is said to be, we’re win-
ing to offer odds that a dozen or so
of the Russians will be saved regard-
less of all red tape.
won’t run can cause more sweat than
can any haid day’s work.
The man who has got up a list of
commandments for his wife to obey is
a hero, but he has poor judgment.
It really isn’t necessary for a man
to tell a pretty woman she is pretty.
She knowe it better than anybody else.
However, it is a good way to convince
her you have good taste and excellent
judgment.
Half of the world may not know how
the other half lives, as per the prov-
erb. but the better-half part of the
world has its suspicions.
etc.) .. ..
Amusements
A. The potato belongs to the fam-
ily Solanaceae, or night-shade family,
which also includes tobacco, tomato,
eggplant, pepper and bellodonna.
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Shelter, rent,
carfare ........
Food............
Clothing ........
Operating (all ser-
vices, ice fuel,
etc.) ...........
Savings (includes
insurance) .....
thought it safe to get married, but the
men felt that a "comfortable" mar-
riage could be arranged on from $50
to $60 a week.
Budgets According to Sex
The estimates varied among the men
want to use it myself. But he got it
just the same.”
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Red Ants.
' sulphur in the
“If Foch had been an Englishman—”
began an officer in a mess half a hun-
dred miles behind the lines, to be in-
UN"ESPVR&MOMOENI8
A LITTLE SLICE O’ LIFE.
I meen youre rite, Id never gess it,
sed pop. and ma sed. Well then III tell
you. I bawt the most adorable set cf
6 little Japaneez dollies.
Today’s Health Hint.
If you’re subject to sunstroke, stay
on the shade side of the street.
give advice on legal,
nancial matters. It de
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DrNERSTORTES
Entered as second-class matter at the postordice at Austin, Texas, under the
f ____Act of Cungrea^ of March 3,1879.._________—--
________MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS.
Aemonths:
Qne year
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an Englishman they’d have made him
T’other day we saw a messenger boy
who was in a hurry. However, he was
going to a ball game.
An electric fan is all right so long as
it will run. But an electric fan which
Candy manufacturers say it is the
price of nuts that keeps candy so high*
but, looking about us, we are inclined
to believe that nuts are unusually plen-
tiful this year.
any subject. Write ‘yeur question
plainly and briefly. Give full name
and address and enclose two cents
in stamps for return postage. All
eplies are sent direct to inquirer.)
Q. I often hear that there are many
more women in this country than men,
is this true? R. C.
A. The Census Bureau says that
there are 53.906.376 men in the United
States and 51,810,244 women.
Nevertheless, the questionnaire se-_______________
cured a great deal of useful information into a poor old area commander, to
to settle domestic troubles, nor
undertake exhaustive research
plied, “Never bother trouble till trouble terrupted disgustedly by his senior
bothers you.” with: "Foch! Foch! If Foch had been
be suflicient, and clerks felt that $50
was ample. Clerks are resigned to ma-
trimony on a small salary. Their esti-
mate, was lower than that of work-
men.
The women, on the other hand, show-
ed no class distinctions whatsoever.
Q. Are the peculiar papal powers
handed down from the preceding Pope?
A. F. P.
A. The peculiar papal powers are
the Pope’s in virtue of jus heig Bis*
hop of Rome.
Ma was imbroidering imbroidery last
nite and she sed to pop. Willyum, you’d a......
Ee8s wat 1 bawt down town at a tributing standard
Can it be that the law bust- ‘ Sm.toda!:
Profiteering has been made a crime
in Cuba. In this country it is a short
cut to prominence.
usiness Manager.................1
Harbor, Me., where John D. Rocke-
detailed figures • feller II, his eldest son, has been
A4yartieine
.....UH 3«d«lj Mfr....................M*j
The object of the questionnaire was
to obtain exact and Getulic isu5,
that would be used as a basis in mak-i
women are extravagant. When a gen-
Q. Where is the largest pipe organ
in the world? C. E.
A. The largest pipe organ in exis-
tence is the one in Wanamaker's store
in Philadelphia. It has 5 manuals, 232
stops and 17,954 pipes. The second ii
size is in Century Hall, Breslau, Ger-
many, and has 5 manuals, 187 stops
and 15,133 pipes.
on exactly the same scale. None was
wiling to risk her happiness for less
than $71 per week, while one out of
every felt that $100 a week would be
necessary to her peace and comfort.
It must be remembered, however that
these estimates are based upon New
York prices, which are greatly above
those existing in other cities. Below
are a couple of specimen budgets,
showing the different estimates of men
and women:
The fellow who eloped with Fred
Bundy's wife, from Galveston, was abou
the nerviest cuss we've beard of since
completed and another dollar, so to
“ "CPITALPRINPING cMPANY“S"" “
Office of Publication: Seventh and Brasos 8lr«eU_____________
Q. What is the tradition concerning
the nine of diamonds that gives it the
name “the curse of Scotland”?—V. K.
A. There are several theories as to
the reason for the nickname. One,
that the nine of diamonds was the
chief card in Comette, which game
ruined many families in Scotland. An-
other, that the Duke of Cumberland, „
while drunk and gambling on the night
before the battle of Cullode, wrote on
the face of this card that no quarter
should be given on the following day
dawn when
economic experts disagree. Seme hold ,
that disaster swiftly overtakes those
who do not regularly save their ten per
cent, while others assert than when ,
young people marry on a small income J
it is a mistake to try to save too much”
in cash. It would be far better in
Anyway, the evening gowns they
wear won't conceal any of the tan
the dears accumulated at the bath-
ing beaches.
Regardless of varying degrees of edu- ure slightly lower than that on which
cation, refinement and attractiyeness, they themselves would be willing to
they were all determined to keep house I marry and the women by a somewhat
probably ascend through fissures to-
ward the surface where they meet cold,
springs which are heated by the va-
pors.
Q. What causes the hot springs at
Hot Spring*, Arkansas? A. C. M.
A. The source of the heat of th*
Hot Springs is believed to be the groat
masses of igneous rock Intruded in
ths earth’s crust by volcanic agencles
Deep-sented waters converted into va-
Posses are searching the hills of
Kentucky for a moonshine gang. And
there was a time when it wasn’t any
trouble at all to find a moonshiner
in those hills, provided the searcher
didn’t happen to be a "revenor."
For Oil Stains.
To remove obstinate oil stains, mix
well three ounces of spirits of turpen-
tine and one ounce of essence of lemon
and apply as you would any other
Q. How much does a cubic yard
of ashes weight’ H. F.
A. Ashes vary greatly in veight. A
cubic yard of coal ashes average be-
tween 1,200 and 1,500 pounds. Wood
ashes weigh much less.
---- —---- ------ _ trade dollars have been purchasgd a*
pore by contaot with this heated mass bullion when presented at the minta.
The separate treaty between the United States and Germany is
the Harding administration's answer to the problem created when the
League of Nations covenant was interwoven with the Versailles treaty
with the deliberate intention of making its acceptance by this country
an indispensable condition of peace.
We have held the view that peace could be made through
acceptance of the Versailles pact with reservations; but that solution
must have appeared to the administration one likely to promote mis-
understandings, or, at least, to render obscure the obligations which
this country would assume. At any rate, in preferring a separate
treaty, the administration has but adopted the view of advocates of
the covenant that the covenant and the treaty were inseparable.
That view has not been pressed lately, but at the outset ot the
debate on the covenant it was insisted upon. Then we were told that
it would be impossible to accept the treaty without joining the League
and ratifying numerous special agreements, such, for example, as the
treaty sections dealing with labor.
Later, it was contended that a separate peace would give offense
to our associates in the World War and after Congress had passed the
peace resolution we were told that nothing had been accomplished and
that a separate treaty was out of the question.
For all that, the new administration has negotiated a separate
treaty, apparently without giving offense to the Allies.
The terms have not yet been made public, but a course more nearly
in line with the famous “point”: open covenants openly arrived at,
than was pursued in respect of the Versailles treaty is indicated by the
anouncement that publication is to come immediately after the treaty
is signed. The terms already have been made known to the full Senate
committee on foreign relations.
It may be taken for granted that the new treaty does not, in any
respect, conflict with the old. In fact, Germany had no power to
make an agreement with the United States which would be inconsistent
with the obligations she had assumed in the treaty of Versailles. Thus,
there was never any real danger that the Allies would be offended by a
separate American-German treaty.
We cannot but regret that all partners in the struggle against the
Central powers could not join in a single treaty; but, after all, the
United States was an “associated" power, not a party to several im-
portant war-time agreements between the Allies, and not interested in
a number of special settlements that were made parts of the Versailles
compact.
------- ------ D. Rockefeller, Jr., are kept in igno-
Then, in parenthescs the young thingsrance of the fact that they are pros-
were reminded that while “comfort-, pective heirs to the greatest fortune
able'" might mean the possession of a n the world is illustrated by a story
talking machine, it did not include an Mr. Rockefeller told recently.
eight-cylinder car. — * - ’
income than the men, both sexes dis-
tributed their Incomes practically on
the same basis. The only great dif-
ference are in food and clothing, the
women spending more on adornment
and the men more on food.
“It is natural that girls should have
ambitions which men cannot be expect-
ed to share," explained a member of
the committee which sent out the
questionnaire, “and that they should
Of course you’ve read headlines about
“quiet” wedaings But. according to a
recent headline in a Waco paper, the
ceremony was “solemnized VERY
quietly.” We take it there was prac-
tically no rioting at alL
budgets for the
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aneanyirregularty._________ _________________________—
(Any reader can get the answer to
any qyestion by writing The States-
man Information Bureau, Frederic
J. Haskin, Director, Washington,
D. C. This offer applles strtetfy to
information. The Bureau can not
tertested in the relation of money to lets were clean—like they've blank-
‘ ’ - It showed, for one thing. ety-blank wel done with me!"
that women are more extravagant than ___——
Q. "What is the legend of Jack ana
Jill and the moon? A. W. A.
A. According to mythology. Jack
and Jill wore kidnapped by their fath-
er. the Moon, while they were drawing
water. The Swedish Ana Scandinavian
peasants still regard the shadows on
the face of the moon as the childrex
with their pall of water.
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If Bergdoll should make it to Mil-
waukee without being arrested he
could then be elected to Congress and
thus might escape serving his sentence
for dodging the draft
"How ?"
"He simply said: Have your own
way. They’re your clothes that I’m
trying to keep from getting spoiled,
not mine.’ ”
Q. What is meant b ythe expres-
sion "’Tis Lent and the flag’s down?"
T. R. G.
A. Many years ago, theaters exhib-
ited flags on their roofs to signify that
performances were going on. In Lent
there were no plays, consequently no
flags.
“I don't like a friend to domineer
over me," said the young man with
the patient disposition.
. "Who has been doing that?"
NEW YORK CITY, Au*. it.—What “My roommate. He borrowed my
is the price of a "comfortable" mar-dress suit."
Q. I am a German who took out
first papers before this country went
to war. When can I complete natural-
ization? O. N.
A. The Naturalization Bureau says
that it is now possible for Germans to
complete their naturalization.
In New York t’other day a big buck
escaped from the zoo and Fifth ave-
nue joined in a deer chase. Ordinarily,
Fifth avenuers spend most of their
time in a dear chase.
They don’t serve those cute little
quill toothpicks in dining cars any
more. Well, toothpicks do seem sort
of foolish in a diner.
riage?
Although several frivolius answers
to this question will no doubt readily
come to mind, a serious one is badly
needed. Divorce law eyre tell us that
most marriages fail because they are
badly financed. The family Income is
unfairly distributed or insufficient.
"Money," delacres one of these lawyers
rhetorically, “is the rock upon which
the majority of marriages go to smash"
"How then," engaged couples well
might ask, “can we avoid this com-
mon reef of matrimonial woe and guide
This same paper has one of the old-
fashioned correspondents who tells the
world So-and-so “is sick at the pres-
ent wrting."
A Chicago girl, carrying $1000 in
currency to the bank, was stopped
by bandits. But it wasn’t a hold-up.
for she immediately sat upon the
money and began screaming. The rob-
bers couldn’t pull her off the currency.
Anybody want to bet us that she is
not a cornfed?
Some Facts Worth Knowing,
It is much more difficult to row a
boat up Niagara Falls than to row one
down them.
Sharks seldom pursue their victim*
up into the woods unless they are very
hungry.
Pike’s Peak is always covered with
snow, but you never hear Pike speak
about it.
The fur of the Australian woofus is
the rarest fur in the world because
there is no such animal.
The first glass mutter was invented
in 1811, and by 1907 they had succeed-
ed in inventing one that would cut
glass.
If the Rock Mountains were rolled
out flat this country would be much
larger than at present.
It takea four million years to build a
coral reef, and it isn’t good for any-
thing after it is built.
The best way to clean a kitchen sink
is with a scrubbing brush and soap
and water.
If a train of 400 freight cars should
run off the bridge at St. Louis Friday-
morning at 10 o’clock and plunge into
the river it would be quite a wreck.
Thank goodness! Another colyum
- benefit of their patrons, list “invest-
you win, sed pop, and ma sed, How ments, lifci nstrrance and household
“o,-ou meen? * furnituro" under the weekly savings
men. They require a larger weekly in-
come as the basis for a "comfortable"
marriase than do men, but the men
are higher in their estimates of what
is necessary in the way of a savings
fund. A weekly income of $71 was the
minimum upon which the women
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. . ..
Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation or
any person. firm or corporation which appears in the columns of this paper
wilbe gladly corrected if called to the attention of the publisher*.________. that Dallas man borrow
Q. Is the gnome owl identical with
the burrowing owl? 11. P. N.
A. The gnome owl is a name ap-
plied to both the burrcwing owl and
to the pygmy owl of tno western United
States.
Q. How does the disease known as
shingles get this inappropriate name!
R E.
A. The word has the same deriva-
tion as cingle, the Latin cingula. mean-
ing a belt or girdle. The disease often
manifests itself in a series of small
blisters around the waist.
our dispositions and bank accounts --,-+A him i
Sntely Ehrough th. Sorm# They wel for my umbrella I told him I might
might, but do they?
Q. What per cent of the total num-
ber of persons who take Civil Serv-
ice examinations pass them? H. L.
A. Sixty-nine and five-hundredths
per cent of htose taking Civil Service
examinations within the past 30 years
have passed them.
If all the chorus girls who bought
their own limousines were gathered to-
gether, the meeting could be held la
a telephone booth.
All the nations seem willing to dis-
arm if they do not have to reduce
their armaments.
Every once in a while
I read in the papers
That everything is coming down
in price very rapidly.
One week they will be down
Thirty per cent, and next week
Perhaps twenty per cent
And I have even sen
Where they have been down
Forty per cent.
The statisticians always
Give the percentage of reduction.
It seems to be quite a fad
With these figure sharks
Isn’t It the Truth?
The minimum in “little” theater*
has been reached. It would appear Yet
no matter how small they make ’em.
the manager of ’em can draw audi-
ences still smaller.—Walter Pulitzer.
RipplinRhymos
$Walt Mason T4"o
Q. When was the first recorded
sale of land? J. N. E.
A. The 23rd Chapter eft Genesis Is
the first record of this kind. The
transaction relates to a piece of land
which Abraham wished for a burial
place for his family. He paid the price
asked. 400 shekels of silver, In the
presence of "all that went in at the
gate of the city.”
Now thats enuff, that* too mutch. you
can make your meeningless remarks
to yourself for the rest of the evening
because I goin grits off to the movies
Wich she did. leaving me go with
her, proving some god comes out of _
everythin*. they are founc
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HAPPY SPITZBERGEN
Spttzbergen's wind. are blowing, their edge is like a file. end there It’s . N .1I*_______O
always snawine. and life is worth the while; no torrid nights are keepingwicked thing the Texas Legislature
the citizens from sleeping; no sunstruck gents are weeping, but people sing I ever did.
and smile. spitzbergen, land of pleasure, of comfort and of ease. The ' ------
cola they cannot measure, for mercury will freeze; amid those wholesome I Most of the folks who call on the
rigors no voter eVer figures on flies or ants or chiggers, on skeeters, bugs editor to ask him to leave their names
Or fleas. Of that fair land I'm dreaming when I to roost repair, the per- ' m* •• •a wauo"- teka mi-- •
piration streaming from brow and cheekis and hair: how I would like to
wander -among the icebergs yonder and see the groundhog ponder within
KB frozen lair. It seems a thing surprising that all men do not go where
winda are always rising, and there is always snow: why do we shilly-shally?
Why don't we straightway sally to some far northern valley and sit upon a
oz Spitzbergen is inviting the weary to her doors: she beckons, at this
writing. She beckons and Implores; why are we here remaining, where horrid
heat is reigning, oh, why is no one straining to reach her ice bouna shores?
The summer sun is blazing, the sky's like polished zinc; and heat absurd
amazing, has put us on the blink; and still the days grow hotter, why don’t
totter to where men chop the water when they would have
Pct. Pct.
Men W’men
amusing himself with a very old and
very dilapidated rowboat, at which a
neighbor's boy, a Seal Harbor native,
turned up his nose.
"Why don’t you have a motor boat?”
asked the native lad.
"Gee whiz? Who do you think we
are—Vanderbilts?" asked the grand-
son of the world’s richest man.
set the expenses of a comfortable mar-
-----—----------- —--------; riage somewhat higher. The labor and
according to their earnings and occu- j privations of bringing up a family on a
pations. Salesmen were inclined to j small salary fall more on the wife than
agree with the women that $70 a week ; on the husband. He earns the salary,
was necessary to marital bliss, while but she has to make it stretch, often
professional men felt that $60 would magically, to cover the coat of grocer-
ies and clothes and household comforts.
Then, too, we must remember that ab-
stractly and as a matter of principle,
another Dallas man to elope with the
latter's wife. Not only did the Gal-
veston man take Bunday's wife, but also
took Bundy’s name and was registered
as Fred Bundy when the Kansas City
cops pinched him. Fred might appro-
priately misquote Shakespeare: "He
who steals my wife” and al o' that.
The Russian bull-sheviki have abol-
ished prohibition. But the antis need
not regard this as an unanswerable
argument against them. As we’ve re-
marked before, even Senator LaFollette
occasionally takes the right stand on
some question.
Woodrow Wilson made his first ap-
pea rance at the lawoffices of WHson
& Colby t’other day. It has bn sev-
Q. How did hansom cabs get their
names? K. M. K.
A. Thase vehicle* were so named
from their inventor, Joseph Hansom,
an architect at Birmingham and
Hinckley, England.
San Francisco cops in an effort to
determine whether Hightower is tell-
ing the truth when questioned about
the murder of Father Heslin, are us-
ing an instrument placed over the
Ihteart to record the blood pressure
when certain questions are asked. What
if the thing should prove a success?
It wouldn’t be long before every wife ’
would have one and any time Friend
Husband started that tale about being
detained at the office, she'd stick the
apparatus on his shirt front. Science
Is getting too darned smart, anyway.
"Hart Plays Role of the Good Bad
Man” gushes a headline in the Beau-
mont Journal How excruciatingly
odd and original! Next thing we know
Charley Chaplin will be playing a
comedy role.
"Why," asks cne customer, “do you
write so much about whisky?” To tell
the truth, there is so darn little beer.
O, 111 find a good use for them, they
were only 8 dollers -for the hole set.
sed ma. and pop sed, Maybe you can
use them for blotters, do you think
they would absorb ink all rite?
Dont be silly, the original price was
16 dollers, sed ma.
Wy ondt you offer them to the gov-
ernment for targets, they mite be good
targets in case of a war with Japan,
sed pop. and ma sed. Now Willyum,
tawk sensible. I know the original
price was 16 dollars because I saw ware
they had 16 dollers marked off and 8
dollers put down insted, half price is
wat I call a reel bargain, half price
is 50 per cent.
It mite be a good ideer to buy an-
other half duzzen and then give the
hole duzzen away to some worthy Jap-
aneez family with 12 childern. one for
each child, sed pop.
O Willyum, for goodniss sake, now
that* enough, when you once get start-
ed on a thing youre a regular case of
perpetual motion, do you wunt to see
the doilies or dont yout sed ma.
Wy not rapp a egg in each one and
auction em off? sed pop, and ma ped.
A contender for the chappion op-
timist title is the bird who loses a roll
of bills and then pays out money to
tell folks about his,misfortune through
the classified colymns.
There are folk so easily flattered
that they will get all puffed up be-
cause they receivean unstamped mis-
sive from a member of Consress.
Q. hat is meant by the law of pro-
tective coioration in animals? L, M.
A. The law of protective coloration
in animals relates to the law of nature
which gives animals and birds the col-
ors which enable them to hide them-
selves readily. For instance, some
birds are colored about the same as
the trunk of a tree.
Quietly and cautiously Billy Senior
and Billy Junior started their hunt for
the lost kids. They crept along the
fences, peeped through front gates,
strayed into barnyards, sheds and were
peeping into the back doors of kitch-
ens, baaing softly, when they stuck
their heads into some open stable door
where all was blackness within. They
were chased by dogs and boys and hit
with stones that men thhrew at them,
but no twins were to be seen. They
were lost for sure this time.
“I am beginning to despair of find-
ing them in this town,” said Billy Non- l
ior to himself. Maybe we have been
misinformed, or aguin they may not
have gone in the direction of town,
but branched off and gone somewhere
else. Oh, dear, I am so tired and hun-
gry and worried, I can’t think any-
thing but the dismal outlook. It is
turning colder and I know they will be
cold in the damp night air with no
mother or grandmother to huddle up
ciose to them to keep them warm.” 1
"Baa, baa, baa,” rang out on the
still evening air.
ing up standard budgets for the newly
married. What did the average person
expect matrimony to cost?
Of the 1,000 persons selected, only
200 had given the matter sufficient
study to make their suggestions of
value. They were hovering on the
brink of matrimony and were intelli-
gently aware of its financial problems.
Of the others, the young ladies seemed
to feel that the consideration of fam-
ily budgets was rather premature. In
similar vein one of the young men re-
comfortable marriage?”
Q. What other planets belong to
the same family as potatoes? H. P.
N.
Q. What accounts for what seems
to b thousands of small frogs hopping
about atter hard rains? W. C. 13.
A. The Smithsonian Institution says
that these creatures do not come down
in the rain, as many people believe,
but are already existent upon the earth
in cracks and crevices. The rain wash-
es them out upon the ground.
The result of a questionnaire recent-
ly sent out to 1,900 young men and
women living in the Y. M. C. A. and
Y. W. C. A. in New York would indi-
cate that they don’t. “Suppose you
wanted to marry someone," this ques-
tionnaire asked. "What weekly in-
come would you consider necessary to
item. .
This is largely a matter to be de-
cided by personal taste. In fact, the
entire, budget is something which must
be worked out to lust the individual,
there being few standard budgets
which can be used without at least
minor alternations. The important
thing is to have some kind of budget.
I Everybody should hive a budget, but
it is especially necessary to matrimony,
where so much depends upon wise and
careful finance.
"If engaged couples would spend leas
time wearing out park benches,” said a
New York magistrate the other day.
"and more time in the public Iibraries,
absorbing a little information on house
hold finance, there would be a great
falling eff ip divorce cases, In my opin-
ion.”
To tell the exact percentage.
And they sometimes get it
in fractions, to be exact.
But I am sorry to say
That the gentlemen with whom
I do business don’t seem
To read the newspapers.
Or if they do, 2,
They don't seem to belleve
What the statisticians say.
If prices have gone down forty per cent
Or even ten per cent
These birds haven't
Heard about it as yet.
Q. How many trade dollars were
coined and what became of them? W,
A. T.
A. The total number of trade dot*
lars coined was 35,965,924. The num-
berredeemed under the art of 1887 was
7.869.036, an from the bullion result-
ing from the melting of these dollars
there were coined in subsidiary sil-
ver $2,668,674.20 and into standard sil-
ver dollars $5,078,472. Since the ex-
piration of the period of redemption
Q. How much mineral water is sold
in this country? M. T.
A. In 1920, 40,000,000 gallons of
mineral water, valued at $5,00,000, were
sold in the United States.
Q How should a concrete floor be
prepared for dancing? F. W. C.
A. The floor may be treated with
paraffin wax dissolved in turpentine,
followed by a coating of powdered wax
worked onto the floor in the same way
that a wooden floor Is waxed or pol-
ished. Or the floor may be coated
with a lather liquid soap rubbed In
with a scrubbing brush. An occasion-
al application of powdered' soap will
keep the flour in condition.
Q. How did the forget-me-not re-
ceive its name? M. W.
A. Henry IV of England took this
flower as his emblem, and Souviens
do mo (Remember me) as his motto.
The flower was soon known as the
"forget-me-not"
“What was that I heard? A young
goat’s voice ?” .
"Baa, baa,paa."2 /
. "There! Shen I - heard another
voice," said Billy.
"Baa. baa. baa. Baa, baa, baa!"
“Gracious! I hear so many dif-
ferent voices, there must be a whole
drove of goats coming. I’ll run out
arid meet them, for t is more than
higher one."
All Believe In Saving.
Both men and women showed a
gratifying sense of thrift in declaring
saving funds absolutely essential to the
comfort of matrimony. The wisdom of
I such a fund to meet unforeseen emer-
gencies of sickness, accident and un-
expected loss of employment is only to
seldom realized.
Men, the questionnaire replies re-
vealed, place a higher value on this
wisdom than do women. While 6 per
cent of the girls were willing to marry
a man who had no money in bank, only
3 per cent of the men would consider
such a risk. Yet the amount required
by both sexes is rather lower than
might he desired. In most cases it was
fixed at $500, while 13 per cent of the
number replying thought $200 would be
enough. Those who went above $500
usually jumped swiftly to $1,000, while
a third group containing many more
men than women, declared they would
not marry with less than $1,500 in
bank.
Every answer placed great emphasis
on the importance of setting aside for
savings at least 10 per cent of the in-
come. Evidently experience had shown
many of the budgeters the difficulties
encountered in performing this task
regularly, for elaborate schemes were
advanced for doing it. One man, for
example, said that he intended to pay
all of his household bills by check the
first of the month, and that the first
check he drew would be for 10 per cent
of his salary, to be deposited hastily
in the savings bank.
On the subject of savings, though,
Q. How much time is spent in the
religious instruction of American chil-
dren? J. W. L.
A. An estimate made shows that
Protestant religious Instruction aver-
ages 24 hours per year, Catholic 200
-hours per year, and Jewish 250 hours
per year.
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just bringing them home for the night. j get his supper, and as soon as he was
Every morning he drove them to the i out of sight..an old goat, the lender of
hills to graze and every night hojthe flock, walked up to BiUy and ask-
brought them back. Billy, seeing the , ed him if he lived near there, and how
boy was going to shut the gate, tried, he happened to get in the barnyard,
to psh past him, but the boy was to ’ (You'll have to wait until tomorrow
quick and Billy’s nose went bang up’to find out what Billy answered.)
against the gate as the latch fell into
place, which made him a prisoner.
"Not so fast, my fine fellow,” said
the boy. "Why, heigh ho! You are
a strange goat. I did not notice at
first but that you were one of mine.
My, but you are a dandy big one. I
wonder who you belong to? I will
Q. How deep do deep sea waves
get?—F. C.
A. In the open sea. storm wave*
often hay* a height of from twenty to
thirty feet. In rare cases a height ot
fifty feet has been observed.
Q. Does the English walnut coms
from England? M. W.
A. The nut known as the English
walnut is the fruit of the Persian or
Circassian walnut tree. The name
“English walnut” is applied to it in
the United States While the tree ise
a native of Persia and the Himalayas,
it is cultivated in many countries, par-
ticularly in southern Europe and in
California.
Q. What states have the largest
Indian reservations? C. H. Y.
A. Arizona has more than 29,000
square miles in Indian reservations.
New Mexico is second with about 6,-
300 square miles, and Montana third
with moro than 5,500 square miles.
Q. What is the wrold’s record for
walking a mile? L. I.
A. The world's record for walking
a mile was made by W. Murray, Mel-
bourne. Vic., on February 24, 1912. The
time was 6 minutes. 22 4-5 seconds.
keep you until your owner calls for
:you. and if he never comes, so much
the better for me."
Billy walked indifferently off and ।
began to eat hay as if he felt very
much at home, but in reality he was
speculating on how strong the gate
likely that I will find the kids,with
them.’’ _ _ _
Billy started to ruh out of a barn- was, and if there was any show of his
yard, but just as he went to do so! being able to butt it down; for get
he met the drove coming in, as this away from here he must. ; starve to death, once he had a suffic-
was where they lived, and a boy was The boy walked off whistling, to ’ ient start.
Q. Giv a biography of J. J. Tigert,
the new United Ctates commissioner
of education. M. O. H.
A. John James Tigert was born in
Nashville, Tenn., February 11, 1882.
Attended school in Kansas City, Nash-
ville. Webb School at Bellbuckle, Tenn.
Vanderbilt University, and Oxford
England. Has been a college professor
and president. Served abroad during
the war with Y. M. C. A. and army
educational corps. Mr. Tigert married
Edith Jackson Bristol in 1909. He en-
tered on duty as United States com-
missioner of education, June 1, 1921.
Rubber Economy.
It is poor economy to wear low-heele
rubbers on high-heeled shoes or high-
heeled rubbers on low-heeled shoe*,
as the rubbers will then break out at
the heels more quickly.
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