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THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
(Founded January SO. 14tt.)
Comyr-a.r.t Th. San Antonio Llyht and the San Antonio
Gantt*.
BxetuMv. beaaed Wire Day Renert of Aaaoeiated Preaa.
Sntered an oaeond-claaa matter at the Powtoftlc* at San
Antonio Tax. under the Act of Conirreaa. March 3. .597.
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tetefatracon da Correct en Nuevo Laredo. Tam. con
fecha St de Junto de 1020.
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between Aven-jee C and D.
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TOO MUCH CHALK.
The continued absence of rain that
marked the month of September should
convince the street department of San
Antonio of the utter uselessness of using
Austin chalk on our streets unless it is
constantly dampened—which is not easy
to accomplish in this climate and in a city
that covers so much area as docs San
Antonio.
The chalk is used presumably because
it quickly accommodates itself to the sur-
face of a street rolls easily and makes
in a very short time a comparatively
smooth surface. There ends every virtue
it has. It dries quickly after being sprin-
kled makes for dust with great rapidity
and then blows away. It also offers very
slight resistance to heavy rain.
One of the problems of comfortable liv-
ing in this part of the world is presented
by the dust. It is not only destructive of
property but when dense is an actual
menace to health. Every sanitary officer
in the land knows that. There is not a
health department anywhere that does not
seek to keep dust at minimum. Here in
San Antonio we through our street de-
partment seem to try to keep up as great
a supply of dust as possible. It is impos-
sible to conceive a greater creator of dust
than the Austin chalk that is so everlast-
ingly thrown upon our streets.
San Antonio has at its doors the great-
est shallow oil pool in the world. That
pool is being constantly developed and en-
larged. Yet there is not five hundred feet
of oiled street in the city and no effort
is ever made to oil a street ihe only
thing that is ever done is when the street
car company slops a lot of black stuff
out of the rear end of a wagon and makes
oil puddles all over its right of way. The
first human being who ever thought of
using oil on a street used better methods
than that.
There is absolutely no reason why the
people of San Antonio should be constant-
ly annoyed with the dust created by
throwing' this utterly unsuitable stuff on
the streets. It accomplishes no good pur-
pose and at best creates a surface that
lasts only for a few weeks.
It is the greatest nuisance we have and
yet we constantly seek to increase it in-
stead of doing away with it. It is about
time we adopted some sensible method of
street repair and allowed Austin chalk to
remain where an all-wise Providence
placed it.
— oo
THE JAPANESE PROBLEM.
Regardless of the legal and treaty
phases of the Japanese situation as they
relate to California and Tokio there is
another angle to the proposition which ad-
mits of no legislative cure —it is the wage
and standard of living of the Japanese.
The Jap problem in California is almost
entirely agricultural. However the condi-
tions that apply agriculturally apply in
all lines of business where the Japanese
and Americans come into competition.
The question is not so much one of the
inability of the yellow race to commingle
with the Cacausian race for the reason
that there is very little intermarriage.
Rather it is the inability of the Mongolian
to adopt the American standard of living
with consequent standard of wages and
prices for farm products.
To get at the basic trouble it is neces-
sary to repair to Japan where this unde-
sirable immigrant comes from. In Japan
as all students know land is so scarce in
proportion to population that the average
farm is less than ten acres and it is com-
pelled to support a number of individuals
pay a heavy tax to the government and
feed what we would consider in America
an impossible number of mouths besides.
Farming naturally is entirely intensive
entirely by hand and the cheapest com-
modity in the industry if such we may call
it is human labor. In Japan the aver-
age farm hand receives the equivalent of
seventeen cents a day in our coin. For!
the entire year Su average earnings are!
MONDAY
I but $19.50. Women receive even much
less yet perform a great deal of the skilled
and unskilled work in connection with
the planting cultivating and harvesting
Yet even under these abnormal conditions
the tendency is rapidly towards concen-
tration of the lands in the hands of a few
thereby creating "estates” which are
fanned by tenants who are paid on about
the basis indicated above.
Naturally when this system or any
modification thereof is transplanted to
American soil the American farmer
whether he be native born or originally
from Belgium France Germany Italy or
England is up against a line of competi-
tion he cannot meet.
Moreover the Japanese as a class
transplanted to American soil does not
in time acquire the American standard of
living nor the American view point. The
Jap digs and saves lives on a pittance
retains his Oriental customs and buys land
and more land. Eventually he runs his
white neighbor out of the district which
he elects to farm because he can under
sell him underlive him undersave him
and under no circumstances ever acquires
anything approaching the ordinary ex-
penses of the average American family no
matter how humble.
While there may be numerous other ag-
gravating features incident to the drastic
legislation California contemplates against
the Japanese immigrant the basic com-
plaint is the impossibility of Japanese
adoption of the American standard.
Were the Japanese allowed unrestricted
or even limited entrance to those states
where climatic conditions are suitable for
their propagation it would be equivalent
to the creation of a strictly Japanese com-
munity from which all Americans and in
fact all Caucasians would be excluded not
through any action the Japanese might
take collectively but by the individual
competition and standard of living which
no Caucasian has ever been able to adopt
and exist.
That is the real Japanese situation as it
confronts California. Diplomatically it is
embarrassing and difficult to lay these
things before a friendly government no
doubt but as for California it is a case
of life and death for American citizens.
Either they must exclude the Japanese
and Chinese or quit the state.
Not only school boys debating the old
question of the pen versus the sword but
many grown-up Americans as well might
get a few "pointers” from Senator Hard-
ing's recent speech at Wheeling W. Va
At least they could gain from that source
a more nearly accurate conception of "the
power of the press” than most people
seem to have.
If Senator Harding had said in these
exact words "My election if accom-
plished will be due to the newspapers of
this country” his assertion would have
been wholly misunderstood. His hearers
and those who read his speech would have
thought that he meant the newspapers
were backing him. In effect he did say
that his election would be due to the
newspapers. How such an assertion can
be true with implying that the press is
backing Senator Harding is a 'question
that is not as difficult as it may sound.
The answer applies not only to Senator
Harding's case but to that of Governor
Cox and any other national candidate.
However it applies more clearly to the
Republican presidential nominee’s candi-
dacy than to that of any other man whose
name will appear on the ballot in the No-
vember election.
Senator Harding told his Wheeling au-
dience why he had adopted the front-
porch method of campaigning. When he
went on a speaking tour he said his au-
dience was limited; he could talk to only
a few thousand people. But when he spoke
from his front porch his audience was the
entire country.
"One thing I could do in Marion” he
said “was that I could talk to virtually
all the American people through the med-
ium of the great American press.”
Upon first thought there may appear
to be a flaw in this method of reasoning.
One might say that the newspapers give
no less publicity to the speeches of a
presidential candidate on tour than to
those of a candidate who remains on his
front porch. But there is an important
difference between the two kinds of
speeches. When traveling from one sec-
tion of the country to another a candidate
is called upon to localize his remarks to
a large extent. His speech must neces-
sarily be cast to please his immediate
hearers and their interests arc not neces-
sarily the interests of people elsewhere.
But when he speaks from his home he
does not encounter local demands and
can take a country-wide survey making
remarks that appeal to all sections. I
Whereas a localized speech might gain a|
few votes a nationalized one stands to i
gain many.
The newspapers reflect this difference. I
When Senator Harding makes a speech |
designed particularly to please the people
of one state the newspapers in that state
"carry” it in full but newspapers in other
parts of the country print only parts of it.
What he says from his front porch at
Marion is given fnjl publicity throughou*
the country.
Even were there no such difference it
could still be truthfully said that either
Senator Harding or Governor Cox would
"POWER OF THE PRESS.”
owe his election largely to the news-
papers. Many people place an erroneous
construction upon “the power of the
press.” The term “power” seems to con-
vey the idea of a positive force being
directed toward the accomplishment of a
pre-conceived definite end. But “the pow-
er of the press' is not necessarily such a
force. Only the editorials in a properly
conducted newspaper arc designed to per-
form such a function. The nature of the
news printed in such a paper depends
upon the events which constitute news.
If a candidate makes a trite speech or one
that for any reason holds little interest
for the public it gets little space in a
properly conducted newspaper. But if
he “says something” his remarks are given
the fullest possible publicity irrespective
of the newspaper's political preferences.
This is not "the power of the press” in
what seems to be a popular conception of
the phrase. Tn the strict sense it is not
even an “influence.” It may be more
nearly accurately defined by the twrd
“facility.” The most forceful and per-
suasive candidate imaginable might go
over the country’ making speeches to
thousands of people but if there were no
such facility for the transmission of his
remarks as the newspapers now afford
there would be millions of people who
would not be reached.
FIFTEEN-CENT VOTES.
The Dean bill passed finally by the
senate and reported favorably by the
house negatives the opinion of the attor-
ney-general on the effect of the nineteenth
amendment with respect to suffrage in
Texas. It blasts the hope which that of-
ficial's ruling had brought nearer to frui-
tion than it had ever been since the citi;
zens of Texas were first required to pay
for the privilege of voting—the hope that
this state would again enjoy "the freedom
of the ballot.”
The gist of the measure is that the
women of Texas may vote in the No-
vember election without paying a poll tax
but that they mtlst pay such a tax there-
after at the time stipulated for its payment
by the men. However as a prerequisite
of voting in the November election the
women of Texas must pay a "fee" of fif-
teen cents for “exemption certificates.”
Whatever else may be the bill's effect
“woman pays.”
The exact status of those women who
paid a poll tax to vote in the primary
election of July 24 does not seem to be
clearly defined by this bill. If they al-
ready hold poll-tax receipts issued to
them for the purposes of the primary
election will it be necessary for them to
obtain exemption certificates to vote in
the general election? This question might
not suggest itself were it not for the
legal niceties with which the legislature
is concerning itself.
It should be borne in mind that the
poll-tax receipts issued to women for pri-
mary-election purposes did not entitle the
holders to vote in general elections. The
law under which the women of this state!
were granted the privilege of voting in
primary elections was held constitutional
by the Supreme Court of Texas on the
ground that such elections are not elec-
tions within the meaning of the state
constitution. Therefore if women who
hold poll-tax receipts are not required to
obtain exemption certificates to enable
them to vote in the general election and
those who paid no poll tax for primary-
election purposes are required to obtain
exemption certificates and pay even a
nominal sum for them then there will
be a discrimination against the latter class.
It was professedly to avoid discrimination
that the Dean bill was conceived.
Another feature of the measure that
may not meet with state-wide approval
is the requirement that all cases involv-
ing the constitutionality of the act shall
be taken before the district courts of
Travis county. Thus a sort of super-
tribunal superior to the local courts will
be set up.
But what else should one expect of a ।
legislative body that ratified the nine-
teenth amendment in direct opposition to
the expressed wishes of the people of
Texas'
Our idea of a really forehanded peri-on
is a man who will deliberately go to a
dentist twice a year whether hi- teeth
ache or not.
O4 J
Now that the price of Fords has been
reduced to pre-war bash what effect will I
this ultimately have on street car fare- in •
San Antonio?
LILEABY OF VS IM XT < lIIEI .
O bukU tb*e my Labi' thy sire na. a k&igut
Thy mother a lady both lowly and bright;
The woods aad tb< gkn- from the towers nbieb we
Th"; are all lwh/ng:ng. dear babi* to tb‘<.
O bo ro i ri ri ■ adnl gu Jo.
O fear not the bugle though loudly it blows.
It calls but the warders that guard thy repose;
Their bows would be bended their blades would b< '
red
Ek the step of a toeman draws near to thy bed.
O bo n. i ri ri eadul gu 10.
O bush thee tny babio the time ooou will come.
When thy sleep shall be broken bj trumpet an'J
drum ;
Then Lush thee UJ y darling take rest while you may.
For strife comes with maMod. and waking with
day
U bo ro i ri ri cadul gu 10.
—Waiter Scott 1
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
Today’s Short Story
HEK SI MMER FIR.
(Copyright 1920 by W. Werner.)
Verua bad l”.ard the girls talk of
uminrr fuit but she had never mt*
lously considered owning one until she
uvard Minnie sp?aking of the neces-
sity of being up to the minute:
“Men always say that they think
girls silly to follow the fashions but
believe me they admire the well-dressed
women. I would rather go without
food than without a really good fur.
I rather think the brown Jynx will
be the one; I have saved up $lOO iiad
tltat is only $l50 —” *
At that point in the chatter Vera
lost track. The words so airily uttered:
"Only $150" bad stunned her. While
ihe was not definitely engaged yet she
felt sure that Fred intended to speak
noou. He was expecting or rather
doping to be sent to the western branch
of his firm which meant not only in-
creased opportunities of advancement
but a raise in salary. Perhaps F.*e<«
considered that she dressed shabbily
that she might be a detriment to his
chanco should he marry her and take
her with him to the new home.
On their next meeting Fred took
her to the park and Vera now pain-
fully conscience of her attire indicated
a rather overdressed girl wearing an
immense mink cape although the heat
was sweltering. "My what a stunning
fur.” exclaimed Vera unconsciously
imitating the natois of the reckless
poor. “Doesn’t she look smart?”
I'rod glanced at her oddly a harried
expression clouded bis eyes but be
merely said: "The fur looks very ex-
pensive.” |
The afternoon did not as usual pass
swiftly. Instead there was a constraint
between them an intangible coolness
that made the girl’s heart ache. It
must be her clothes that had annoyed
Fred. He would not. of course hint
at such a thing but rhe had noticed
how his eyes had remained upou the
mink cape and the beribboned sandals
that they had seen. She contrasted
hep own round fresh face guiltless of •
powder with the smooth pink cheeks.
and harbored eyebrows of the other
looked down at her one-button white
silk gloves that she had thought so ’
nice when she bad bought them and •
then looked bitterly at the twenty-but-I
ton white kids on the girl who minced *
along complacently in her narrow skirt;
"Guess Minnie is right” she muttered
"clothes moan a lot.”
"What did you say?” Fr*d was walk-
ing along moodily beside her. his mouth
wearing a now. stern expression.
"I ?ai»l clothes moan a groat deal
in the city.”
“Perhaps. Shall we go back now?
I have some work to look over this
evening.”
It was a very despondent girl who
said good-by at the door. Usually Fred
spent Sunday evening* with her. The
next noon she wont to look at furs at
an installment house.
Three days later Fred telephoned
her io the afternoon asking her t<»
dine with him downtown. "We uill
go tn some quiet little place where w*
can talk for I'm going vest for sure.”
be said with a jubilant ring in Uis
voice.
It was a different looking Vera who
met him. She had copied the girl at
the park as nearly as possible and
although she had mortgaged her salary ;
for months ah 'ad to meet the payments <
on the rather scrawny fur that de-1
pended stiffly from her neck on a l
heavy cord she felt very urban. Fred •
would surely open his eyes when he '
saw how she could look b ith proper •
dressing. ']
“Why Vera. I scarcely knew you.” i
be said as they sat down at a little t
tabic by the window where a light (
breeze augmented the efforts of the <
electric fan. "Aren't you warm with I
fur stuff around your neck?” il
She loosened the cord languidly al- i
though the dropping down of the hot >
fur relieved her immensely. “Do you 1
like it? I found a really cheap little c
shop where I picked it up for only r
$125.” Sho had shopped so assidii- i
ously for the article that the ridiculous I
price really seemed cheap to her so s
readily had she assimilated the at- c
mospliere of spending and luxury of r
girls v bo did ne’t save a cent nut of i
Wonder What the Winner of a Beauty Contest Things About —By Biiggt
their liberal salaries. Fr< d felt t..(
note of conviction under the fdlJ
c cty manner that she was trying to
cultivate.
"You arc not joking? You spent $125
for that thing?"
"This is real brown lynx all one
skin. (Inc really needs a fur in this
changeable climate" she drawled and
wondeied at the quick sigh that es-
caped him. •
The evening dragged interminably.
Fred intended to leave for Seattle the
following week and Vera wondered
in serably wbj he did not apeak.
At her door he stood studying her
powdered face for several minutes
then :
"I’n afraid 1 shan’t see you again
befoie I leave so—”
Vera threatening by a swift rush o(
fears that were already filming her
eyes interrupted with a brief good-by
aud hurried inside. She sprat a sleep
less night. Why had Fred changed so
suddenly? The eyes that nad met he.
own on the doorstep had been filled
with a mystified disappointment his
face hod been white and set not at
all resembling the pleasant eager
young countenance that had always
appeared so happy. •
Minnie met het radiantly next morn-
ing : “Going to be married” she an-
uounerd jubilantly.
"Got your new fur yet?" countered
Vera full of her newly learned worldly
wisdom.
Minnie giggled acorufully: "Not on
your life ami I'm not going to fool
any money away like that. D<» you i
know that Sam says it was my shabby 1
little fur that decided him. He was
afraid to propose because girls nowa-
days want so much that it scares a
fellow; said be wondered and wondered
how much my fur cent cost and that
one night I let it out that my aunt
gave it to me. I never meant to tell
for I thought a girl bad t< put tr» u
front but when be found I had’ut
goue into debt for it be decided th>* I
was the girl for him. We are going
to put my SIHO with his savings uu<i
pay it down on a cottage right away
Theninstead of fooling away a lot of
money on a wedding trip we’ll go right
into our own home; won't have much
furniture but it will be fun picking
up bargains.”
Vera looked at her speechlessly. Sam
had wondeied about the fur worn by
Minnie. Perhaps—here a light began
to glimmer in the befoggled little head
—Fred had wondered how she could
pay $125 for a fur. She had not told
him of the installment plan and h”
did not dream of the mountain of debt
to be paid off slowly each week.
.Saturday noon Vera tired out from
the week of heat and worry went
lowly out the great marble entrance
»f the building where she woiked.
Lake Michigan sparkled gayly under
the July sun and far up the boulevard
i band played but Vera’s sombre eyes
lid not brighten. She had lost Fred
>y her futile attempt at style and notb-
ng else mattered.
’ill you come to lunch with mo?"
Fre“s voice sounded cheerily in her
ars. He was wailing for her and his
juick glance rested compichensivoly
ipon her face guiltless of powder her
infurred neck and lastly upon the trim
ittle tan Oxfords that she again wore
n preference to the absurd slippers.
How nice you look dear” he added
uoking her hand under bis arm in the
dd masterful way.
“I thought you had gone” Vera
ound herself saying as she faced him
it the balcony table in their favorite
afetcria.
He Joked at her gravely: “I wanted
o sec you gain Vera. "Haven’t you
hanged your dress or something?
Vhat ia different?"
She laughed. The burdens of th*
ast ueek suddenly dropped. Fred
ranted to see her and bad come as
isuaj for her on .Saturday. Why not
njoy the piesent to the full. She
ould mourn wh*n h* bad r*aliy gon<\
n a few sentences she told hinr of her ;
elief in the value of dress—of how (
he hod copied the costume of t#- girl
be bad felt to be an example told •
im of h*r piling" into unjustified
ebt to get an article that would be ol j
o real benefit to h*r. and then smil-
agly recountered Minnie’s change of •
eart after she became engaged. "I -
uppose every one makes a mistake ।
n< e in a while and I guess I made all t
line at once” rhe ended frankly too t
3t<*nt ui>on b*r whimsical recital to i
notice the old familiar glow in Fred ?
eyes.
"Then you only lost the first $lO on
^ ur ^” said presently.
"Yep the man was lovely about it.
said I bad’nt hurt it a bit?’
M I must have been blind not to have
realized that your sudden splurge into
expense was only a girlish mistake but.
Vera. I thought that I could nw i
> make you happy if you longed for such
(luxuries. When I’ve made my wax
you shall have everything reanonable.
s but for a few years we shall be bust
। getting our homo.” His ruddy frock-
. ! led face beamed adoringly at the lit
tie black-eyed girl in her trim blue
I suit with the dainty white frill re-
placing the brown lynx fur.
An neither of them remembered until
later that ho had not really proposed.
Pointed Paragraphs.
1 ’ Lota of folks judge a disinfectant
by its smell.
Many a bravo man has lost his nerve
in a dentist’s chair.
One isn't necossa ily wealthy because
he has more money than brains.
• High notes arc hard on the singer’s
throat and Mill harder on the neigh-
I bor*.
’ Lend a man grass seed and ho will
■ come around later and borrow your
lawn mower.
The Ohio man who recently beat
his wife because Mje refused to sing is
iof comae hopelessly insane.
। Sometimes a girl turns >ale from
' fright and a^metimo it’i from too
close proximity with a man's coat
( sleeve.
He lit a cigarette n the choir.
; When the sexton Michael Makhoir
Remarked as he ran
1 To bounce the young man.
Wherever there’s smokp there’s fhoir.
Where to Go.
Majestic Theater—" Big Time” vau
deville also Babe Ruth in a movie.
Grand Theater—Pantages theater
also Low Cody in “Are You Logaliv .
Married?”
Princess Theater —Loew's vaude-
ville and Wallace Reid in "The Duh."
Royal Theater—Pictures. Wlllhni S
Hurt n “The Cradle of Courage.” and
a Universal comedy.
Emp’re Theater—Pictures. Georges I
Carpentier in "The Wonder Man’’ also
a comedy.
TO STANDARDIZE GOLD?
Says Advantages ns Currency H -''
Been Proved in India.
Izmdin Oct. 4.—The times are pro
pituous for improving she / urreucy sys-
tems of tho»e silver countries not pos
messing th* gold standard asserts Find
lay Shirras director of statistics in In
dia. in a paper which has been issued by
th* League of Nationls in connoction
with the International financial •onfer
cnee held at Brussels this months.
Mr. Shirras declares that the advan-
tages of the adoption of the gold stand-
ard as a system of currency have Imtu
incontestably proved in the case of In-
dia especially between tho years IoJS
and 1917. j
The statistician points oat that an:
agreement between LOvernmentH regard-'
ing the purchase and sale >( silver in ght I
lead to a steadying of the market an I
prevent speculation. “During the war." I
he “ays "when th* allied u.cmments
purchased silver jointly competitio.i was I
tn a considerable extent so fur os the
governments were concerned restricted
and the benefits of concerted action were
clear.”
Ho recalled that an American eo-nmis-1
sion on international exchange .u It;e3
had pointed out that a steely lemand
on tho part of the government for the
silver which they actually ncede<l fn m
year to year would tend to steady : ls
price. He also recalled that n Mexican
commission had suw^ted that the Bank
of England and Bank of Franco act
for their governments in making silver
purchases.
Mr. .Shirras a bribed the fluctuation* <
iu the pr ee of silver in th* last few
xears to a decline in production and a I
eteat demand for coinage owing to the <
xvar. Asia he said had enjoyed pros-
perity by exporting its products during |
the war and India and Chinn had ta':< n : '
paym*nt bv importing precious metals
notably rilver. <
OCTOBER 4. 1920.
A Laugh or Two
An argument as to the origin of
bagpiiies had waxed loud and l"uu
between a Scotchman and an leotimun
w each of wh o m
claimed that uis
ijlr own country t.*«
product d the .a
strument.
4 Finally th* Irish-
‘ '“A man c. iicmsi mat
< \ X tors by remark ng .
“Wei: the tiulh
’ is the Irish nivin*-
— ed the poij.es nu<l
i i’.de a pi scut av them to tlx Scots.
•And the Scots haven’t se<n the jok-
yet!”
Pat was a nodcarrier. One mottl-
ing he happtocd to be late. Putt.tig
ou his clothes in haste he hurra'd
axvay xvlthout u»»
t eng that he 4)ad TZ
out his overalls on x J
backwards. Arr.v
lug at work just in
time he was soon infc
climbing the la Ide
with h s first hud of
brick but half xvny
up he fell to the Vjy
ground. His mates'
rushed to the rescue. “Art you huit?”
they asked. I’at opened his eyes and ^or
n moment gar.rd wonderingl.x at his nnn
legs. "No. bednd ” he said “but I've’baa
a terrible twist.”
“I am try.ng to find ny brothet.
said the Eng i liman t midly to 'he
fierce lu«»l<ing person with a sh<4«n
z ~ < knife on one side
•Cq f * V <’f his belt and .1
1 (I a/' s * x xhtH.ter on toe
7 /L’r i- other. "He was in
this ueghberh >od
pl a*' about foui yc^.s
k/V n *°- H”* uame was
j 1 (J Do’ b ns ton.”
“Dobbiustou kino
- - lof goody. goo*»y
rbap?"
"Yes. that s the man.
"Gu-hm I know him. ID committed
sti’c’de three years ago.”
"Whnt! my brother committed sui-
cide? Was he ill or in trouble or
what ?”
"He called me a liar stranger.”
“A flirt am I?" erda med Mary
Ann under note* to go Well 1
know them as f.i .s more than I d>
rnd • i h p s hex-
- n Z** - ’ cuse.” She shot a
'' M l’• tP ^ u ^ <xk at ier
.. w • CfjQf m stress and wdd .
V I’m better
I okiiig than you.
f 1 .<4 'lore ’andsome.
Si C. ’>w do I knoxvi
<2? : Your ’usbond told
me mo.”
■ — “That will du
a I l.er n t.« . fr *id!y.
’ut I ain’t f cd yet!” rctorte«l
”■ Ann. ‘ <• i gve it ix-.t«i kh*
;mi! Want to know ’oo told m*
t.ium?”
.»u mean to suggest that ny
liu ml —’’
■.s .it xvaan’t your usbond this
t n sn d Mary Ann. “It was yom
(•iieuffeur.”
The new typist d terminal to
rroke a good impress'on ujtou her
chief. She turnvil up half an hour
►arly and Iwgan ■— -
tidy ng*uf» the room. -
When that was \
wn-. done she ex- An
nmind her type-.
writer. discovcrid .
bot'ie ami gave it I o W.//
u thoreu h ♦» ling. I -
Wii Ie a’out It she 1
i xam ned nil ti * other typexivritera in
the offer ar<l oi "d them. too.
There । i n r . she thought lik*
mak ng en. i ind spcnsabie !
. Her ch ef n.r ml. He Iwked arounu
liim \ th an air if sat .-fart <»n aou
ini rd to t 1 •• mantelpiece Then his
■rnii e c’lL’iuted to a frown
“M < Sm tli.” h* 1 Maid “have yuu
my cou”h mixture?”
British See Flr.t Oil Burner.
Un?>n Cet. 4.—T ie first oil driven
' । -o*7: on ft B ’itlsh railway ran from
London to IBrmin'diam recently. To the
nyman. the converted locomotive ehow-
nJ but little depnrtu’’r from the old ronl-
• - " Ti • latter u* ed 70
>oundM of coal n mi’e. but Miner its con-
erFhin it bums < nh- about pounds
‘ ' • mi’e and does not emit smoke
•r cinders.
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