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SHOW IDEA GAINS POPULARITY IN MIDDLE WEST
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P Popularity Increases With Each Passing Year—-The Universal Desire of Pos- 1 session Results in Capacity Crowds Attending Shows — Dealers Who Formerly Objected to Displays Now Contend That the Exhibition Is Biggest Attraction, and Many Sales Result From Visitors — Advancing Prices Do Not Seem to Affect Demand of Buying Public. A
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arranged by officials of th# fair associations so great is tho interest In Indianapolis, tho Indianapolis Automobile Trade Association, one of the strongest organizations in the country, continues to conduct its own affairs. Members of the association point out the fact that the fair is an excellent place to make sales and cite seven years of success, without ap adequate build-
ing.
Some dealers formerly contended that the conditions during the summer and fall seasons were, such that the show's should not be held, preferring the winter months when the new models are produced. However, this idea has been disproven and thpre are many who have realized valuable advertising and made money out of state fair shows.—
Effect of Prices.
Prices do not seem to affect ^he buying public. Although production has dropped off considerably the demand continues and every dealer has his fu-
ture books full of
Above is The News photographer’s conception of the size of the state fair automobile exhibit that is to be given next week. Although the magnificent new building covers 85,000 square ihTautomowil^Sh *V mwi floor space, the automobile exhibit has broken out of it and rAore than twenty-five firms will have overflow outdoor displays popular than ever. ' - Every one who attends the stats fair
should visit the automobils show, whether he is In a position to buy a car or not. The future holds great Jrhing* in store for the rising generation and every one should acquaint himself with the modern models of trans-
portation.
Today the automobile and truck have almost reached an ideal state as far as perfection of construction is concerned. Never before have the manufacturers been gble to offer more improvement in construatton tftM now. And ths lessons they learned *.r« costjMo* they vifere learned in the world war and at a Ireat sacrifice.
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This year conditions have been greatly Improved. The new manufacturers’ building is modern in every detail and has a capacity of 86,000 square feet. In this magnificent structure will be shown forty-two makes of passenger cars, rep-
fair show resenting sixty-six different designs: ***** M». exhibits by Twenty-two firms represent-
ing commercial car manufacturers, showing twenty-seven makes of vehicles and thirty-six accessory firms will display their latest ersations. In addition to this display, which will be held amid a decoration scheme of great beauty,
twenty-five firms will have exhibits in the open. These exhibits represent the overflow of applicants who were unable to obtain space inside of the building. That the state fair automobile show Man. started in Indianapolis is a success, is proved by the number of large state fairs that will devote much space this yeai to automobile, truck, tractor and accessor^ ^displays. The Wisconsin state fair, to be held September 8-13 in a building of 60,000 square feet, is an annual affair. The success of the exhibit can not be doubted and the Milwaukee dealers prepare for it i
as thoroughly as they do for their
winter exhibit.
In past days, dealers, considering the fair from a sales standpoint, questioned the worth of the fair exhibition. The contention of the skeptical was that all classes, / from country, city and small towns, made up the crowds and that, while a few were buyers, there were many who could not be regarded as prospects. But that was long before the automobile attained the great popularity it enjoys today. While It la true that there afe many other exhibits at state fair to attract attention, It is
also a fact that the possession of an automobile has become one of the great desire* of almost every' person. Statistics prove that today, people who never dreamed of owning an automobile two or three years a«t>, now enjoy Sundays and holidays in their own machines, for there is an exhilaration in. driving a motor car that appeals to
an.
So it is. That throughout the middlewest, the state fair show idea is gaininji larger and larger proportions. loSNI has allotted 60,000 square feet of space in machinery hall in the state
IT1NOPLE: SHALL UNITED STATES TAKE IT?
north, together with certain British posL on of Mesopotamia and Palestine
th, would mean almost Jnultimate reunion of the
Jrklsh empire under British pro-
tection. But French or Hallan possession would threaten British interests, while no Russian could patiently sub-
mit to seeing the single outlet, on warm
water, of this vast country In the hands
of any rival European power. Llaa Open to America.
It is perfectly fair to assume, then, that the United States is the only country to which, with the consent of all the other great powers, the mandatory of Constantinople could be assigned. With the possible exception of Russia, now powerless, no great European state would Interpose any protest, and the b rench and British would be frankly relieved to see the city and its waterdays in the hands of a nation which would not under any circumstances use
American lhla po ** e * l,lon *<> d <> injury to English. >■ nn<i ths rtt- ch . or I 1 * 11 **! polincal or economic
a word, aside from pos-
sible Russian objections in the future, and secret misgivings on the part of the Italians, who. at the present moment.
in imperial aspirations as as they are colossal, Con-
open to America at any ss will consent that* we
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to recognize exart‘y would mean. —antinopte in the brought to the va-
who held it and end. To!
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Greek Hope of Restoration.
In the hundred years that have passed since the first fragment of Greece escaped from Turkish rule, enormous steps have been taken toward the realization of the Greek hope of restoring the Byzantine empire. In Europe, Greek frontiers have been pushed northward to the limits attained in ancient time. If the present treaty of Paris shall do anything like justice, northern Epirus will be added to the Hellenic kingdom, while Salonika and alA the lands between the Rhodoplans and the .ASgean have been regained save only for that grotesque ‘‘corridor” which American policy seems now to be determined to interpose between the Greeks about Adrianople and those in western
Thrace.
Even more significant and important is the recent acquisition by Greece of Smyrna and all of the northwest coast of Asia Minor and the ASgean. A considerable portion of tha mainland of Asia Minor thus passe* back into the Greek world. Smyrna in Asia, Adrianople in Europe, become Hellenic. If America should refuse the mandate of Constantinople it would still be possible to erect an international state along the straits and the Golden Horn, but there Is not a statesman in Europe who w'ould look upon such a state as anything but & field for intrigue, a meeting place of the rivalries of the several great European powers, a nurserv for one more of those ■wars which, like the recent world conflict, have had
e as a mandator)-. I their occasion In the eastern question would have to face! The spectacle of French and Italian at no distant hotrr her pos-! soldiers fighting in Flume, the record
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be challenged by Russia,
interrupted but
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tin, France and Italy JBtlnople to imperial
l as a reward for fidelity in this The Bolshevists betrayed the aland renounced Constantinople, their renunciation will hardly out-
while the economic, titary considerations
Constantinople the obof so many czars will survive - ism. Tomorrow then we may if we occupy Constantinople, that tve become for Russia a hostile nafar more dangerous than Russia be for ns if some domestic calami
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in the United States should sp cripua as to enable a regenerated Slavto become master of the Panama and the Panama canal. Two Old-Time Claimants. Nor Is this all. We should also find ourselves in the presence of two other claimants, one ancient and the other a contestant for fifteen centuries. For nearly I.tt» years aftec the separation of the Roman empire-into eastern and halves, the eastern half, with Constantinople as its capital, was, with ver increasing degree, a Greek state. The Byzantine empire, at no distant date after the break with Rome had Helenised and
as the
— —- -— Even after the Turk took the former city, extinguished the eastern empire, conquered Greece as well, the population of Constantinople and of the shores of the straits and the ASgean remained in part Greek, and. aside from the . the largest single ethnic group
Constantinople today is Greek,
for nearly five centuries the Greeks looked forward to the restoration Byzantine empire. Athens, the Is and the cities associated with
of classical Greece remain „ er, and particularly for the expression for the meanas far as the map is cont such a Greece would, in of things, be condemned to of a small power, and it is small power that the Greeks country for the future. In the
larger Turk.
tness, in the days of its i crossed the Danube.
the Byzantine empire the Balkans to the TauEuphrates. All the
surrounding the shores of the itself, were a world, and this
was greater in area or Germany, and
of almost innumerable collisions between various allied elements in the present war, the story of the Salonika armv and adventure, all these combine to indicate how feeble and futile an experiment would be an effort to Inter-
nationalize Constantinople.
Transfer to Greece Logical. In all human probability either imme-
diately or eventually, the failure of the United States to accept the mandatory of Constantinople would be followed by the transfer of the city and its adjoining territom to Greece. The step would be logical and natural. At least half the population In the region affected is Hellenic. In all but political control the populations have been Greek since classical times. Moreover, possession by Greece would carry no threat to Great Britain or to France, while even Russia might acquiesce ultimately. As for Italy, her dreams of creating a colonial empire at the expense of the Greeks and the Turks in defiance of the rights of the peoples would collapse, once a strong Greece
axoee about the jCgean.
Actually, then, the United States as represented in Paris, in deliberately seeking for itself the mandatory for Constantinople, Is interposing a barrier between a legitimate objective and millions of people, for while it is still uncertain whether the congress will permit the United States to undertake a responsibility inconceivably vast, our representatives in Paris are at work so changing the boundaries in Thrace as to erect obstacles in the pathway of the Greeks, on the wholly Ulusionary pretext that the Bulgarians will precipitate a new Balkan war if they are not permitted to hold a strip of Aegean seacoast, thus cutting Greek territories in half. Holding to this argument. American representatives have for a time halted the whole progress of negotiations. But the slightest reference to history shows that for 1.407 years the Bulgarians have consistently and without interruption been provoking Balkan wars without regard to whether they did or did not hold sea frontage on the .-Egean. There never was a history' of a people which runs with a more steady stream of aggressions, assaults upon their neighbors, unprovoked wars, than that of the Bulgarians from the moment when the advance guard of the tribe
Greek influence might be expected once more to repeat the history of remoter ages and penetrate far through Asia Minor. In any event, the construction of a strong Roumania, a unified southern Slavdom, together with the transfer of the straits to Greece, would be a long forward step toward eliminating the eastern question from among the problems out of which European and
world conflicts might arise.
By contrast, the American assumption at Paris that the Bulgars could be placated, does violence to all the history of this people. For 1,500 years their ambition has been to dominate the Balkans. Possession of Adrianople and of the Thracian coast of the ^Egean as far as the Struma river, assured them by the victories of 1912. did not prevent them from attacking their allies treacherously In 1913, in the hope of obtaining Salonika and Monstir. Still possessing the strip on the ^Egean, now proclaimed by American representatives in Paris as essential to persuade Bulgaria to keep the peace, did not prevent her from attacking Serbia in 1913, as the agent of
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By the end of the world war the
friends of Bulgaria in Britain, and she had many, like her friends in Russia at an earlier period, had at last recognized toe fact that it was useless to hope that Bulgaria would lay aside her ambitions to be the Prussian of the Balkans, and dominate toe Serbs, the Greeks and the Roumanians as Prussia dominated the Hanoverians, the Saxons and the Bavarians The Serbs, the Greeks, the Roumanians, have been willing to compromise their difficulties and all three mutually recognize the rights of the others to existence, independent and self-sustaining. The Bulgarian, on the contrary has ever held for himself the role of the Prussian in the Balkans. To sustain this role he haa in the last seven yM.r, fought th. Turk, th. oTSk ft? Serb, the Roumanian and large temporary acquisition of territory has been only an incentive for further hostilities
American Policy Aimoat Naive. There is something almost naive in
the American policy at Paris with respect to the eastern question, and particularly with respect to toe Greek and the Bulgar. The effort to Compromise a quarrel 1,500 years old by the allocation of a small strip of territory, which has been held by each nation during this time without affecting the general morals, is tost kind of literal interpreation of the fourteen points Which can only lead to incongruous failure. The ques tion which one has to ask in the near | east, the question that Americans must ask and answer, is. shall we take Constantinople or shall we lend our assistance to the erection of & Greek state in H,°3?uI.'S 0 ;mp^ h Wtre 0nc * "■»« »y the Byzantine empire, it did succeed
a thousand years in holding back
the various invasions originating in JrtfrvKqn^ s«*fcing to engulf the feeble jrorld war, CoiMtantlnopl. wa» for n.2-!
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com. earlier, while Huron. ,,n, vaMed , "“ rn ’ M Thus in classical times Greece held nfr toe Persians, while in later history the STteSVSSS* the SaScens V l>ed ^ tbe . Turks ‘ Xow it is possible that a Greek state occunvinf much of the territory of the oM B?Sntine empire, gufded by friendlv European and American statesmenshin -Egean and of the straits a new Greek state sufficiently strong to stand un against external pressure and united in who have won the war.
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fair grounds at Des Moines, tor the display of automobile and truck ex-
hibits.
Following is a list of big fairs that will devote space to automobiles, trucks and tractors this year: Nebraska, Colorado. Ohio, Texas. North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi-Alabama, Connecticut and Louisiana state fairs; the West Michigan fair. Grand Rapids, Mich.; the Peoria District fair, Peoria, 111.: the Rochester Industrial Exposition, Rochester, N. Y.; the Chattanooga Inter-State fair, Chattanooga, Tenn.; the Lancaster County fair, Lancaster,
Pa.; the Eastern States Exhibition, Springfield. Mass., and the Central
Canada Exhibition, Ottawa.
In addition to the state fair auto show idea, hundreds of county fair associations in all parts of toe country will hoM displays of greater or less magnitude. There scarcely is a state in the Union without some sort of large fair that offers opportunities for displaying automotive vehicles and
equipment.
Fair Officials Arrange Shows. Some of the fair auto shows are beMg
THE HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD
|OW YOU’VE went and gone and | about to utter, she added a parting I done it!” The Little Mother’s shot, ‘‘You've mothered these young-
r :r B z%: zt? ^ I further disapproval by chuck-
ling: “I don’t see anything funny in breaking Billy Paige’s heart!” she exclaimed. “Seems to me you’re the only person I know of, who ever did that, young lady!” I replied. She had to smile a bit at that. “That’s nonsense, Mother Machree, and you know if. Boys of sixteen or eighteen don’t have their hearts broken. The heart of youth is as elastic as the bones, but by the time a man’s Billy’s age, bones and hearts donlt mend so easily!” “Maybe so,” I conceded, “Billy’s reached the ripe old age' of thirty, hasn’t he?” ”No, he hasn’t!” Her patience was giving away. “If he were thirty or forty I wouldn’t worry so much about him. fey the time a man’s thirty he is so everlastingly sureg>f himself that he can protect his ’feelings.’ He has ceased, in other words, to wear his heart on his sleeve. And by the time he has passed' forty,” she added with a bit of cynicism, “he has usually done so much mischief that he deserves to be hurt a little!” And then, sensing the protest I was
Meaning of Greek Possession. Possession of Constantinople by the
Greeks would mean that Greece would take her place Immediately among the more considerable of toe second class
powers of toe world. She would at onoe a populate* ef 10,090^00,
have Whfi-
the collapse of the Turkish empire in Asia Minor. Above all. It seems tb me a very great mistake for our representative at Paris, while there is still no American decision, before congress has spoken, to insist on the carving up or toe old Turkish territory in such fashion as to perpetuate the grievances which it seeks to abolish. Why we alone in all the world should stand forth as the champions of the Bulgarian people which for 1.600 years has disturbed the peace of toe Balkans and menaced the peace of the world. I can not understand. It is only six yars ago that a Bulgarian army suddenly threw itself upon Serbian troops before it, while these Serbians were still allies and no declaration of war had broken the common alliance against the Turk. It is only four years ago that, while giving public promise to remain neutral, Bulgaria mobilized and attacked Serbia in the back. The story of the outrages committed by Bulgarian armies, the destruction of civil population, the atrocities against women and children, surpasses belief. Yet, now the United States appears as the champion of the Bulgarian against the Greek, and American championship alone has blocked the way to the reunification* of the Hellenic race. We have told the Greeks they could not have Koritza in Albania because toe people are Albanian and we have insisted upon this despite the fact that toe people themselves have demanded Greek citizenship. We have insisted upon creating a corridor cutting off the Greeks at Adrianople from their brethren in Salonika m order that Bulgaria might take the air at Dediagatch. We have found pleasure in Italian support where we have opposed the Greeks, only to discover that when the Greeks had been blackmailed into making satisfactory copcessipns. the Italians, too, forsook
us and supported the Greek cause. Eastern Question Eternal.
The eastern question is eternal. It is as unlikely that it will be settled at Paris now as it was impossible that it should be settled by the congress of | Berlin or by that other Paris gathering ^which followed the Crimean war. But it Is worth recalling that on toe lands now claimed for Greece there once lived in peace and in prosperity a portion of a Greek world and that'if no solution
anybody I know of.”
The Lord for&d, my dear, that they should ever be absolutely perfect! Some one, fax wiser than I ever hope to be, made the remark, once upon a time, that toe people who had no small faults, had no great virtues. And all I ask of the folks I love Is that they'll have enough lovable traits that I can forget about the little faults. But it seems to me that I was arraigned at your own private bar of justice, a few moments ago. over a very serious shortcoming of my own. The average man would think you had forgotten all kbout it. and would be glad to ‘let sleeping dogs lie.’ But, since-we’re both women, I know that you've done nothing of the sort, and if I don’t defend myself now, you’ll be taking me unawares, sometime within the next week or month or year, and convict me unheard! Were you, by any chance, referring to the fact that I’ve had the pleasure of introducing Rose to Pete Bradley?” “Didn’t poor old Billy look mystified at ail their enthusiasm?" She was chuckling now. “And aren’t Rose and the Bradley boy too funny for words, in
their wild theories?”
“I don’t think that Billy was so much mystified at their theories, as he was amazed at their expressing them. I imagine that Billy knows all toe things that they’re trying to study out, so well that he accepts them as a matter of fact, and has never felt the need of
putting them into words.”
“If you had known Billy’s father and mother, you couldn’t have matfe a surer guess. Mother Machree! They were rich in the things that the rest of our small world knew little and cared less about. Old Dr. Paige—he really wasn’t as old as father, but some way or other he h^d achieved middle age early in life—was beloved by every human being and every dog in the county. I’ve heard him say, with his dry chuckle, that if he ever turned housebreaker. Clinton county would have to get itself a new supply of watch dogs! And then Billy’s mother—I wish you could meet her—she’ll be a real mother to Rose.” The Little Mother suddenly remembered her grievance against me, and added: “If you didn’t go and spoil everything by dragging that Bradley youngster into
their bit of paradise!”
“You’ll admit that he was willing to be ‘dragged,’ ” I retorted, “but it doesn’t follow that he will Interfere in their scheme of happiness. If Billy Paige can’t hold his place in Rose’s hfcart. and
and loan company and sell theie houses to our men. Father’s willing, and T ' rrt anxious to show off my Meamin’ ’ v
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“And have them accuse you of profiteering and a few other things,” com-
mented Billy with a grin.
Rose had been listening with the air of a visionary who sees his dreams coming true, and she turned on Billy with an aggrieved look. But it was the Bradley boy to whom she addressed herself: “Build them of stucco—some of them; have the half-timbered effects you find in old English cottages and plant/ some ivy where it will creep over the walls and chimneys! Have little gravel paths running through tKe gardens, with grape arbors and plum trees and currant bushes growing among the petunias
and verbenas.”
“Some little landscape gardener, aren’t you, Girl?” teased Billy. “Bradley. you'd better bespeak her services right now, before the world discovers
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leave room for a bit of friendship for other people, he isn’t worthy of —
her.
that’s all!
“Well, I’m sorry for Billy! And you know what you said, yourself, about Rose and Pete ever meeting one an-
other?”
“Oh, that! You’ve not been holding that against me, all afternoon, have you?. Besides, just because they’re both ardent young theorists along the same lines, is no reason for Billy to fear for
his own happiness.”
The Little Mother murmured something about consistency and added: "You’ve said, yourself, that the surest foundation for happiness lay in mutual interests and enthusiasm—a sort of working shoulder to shoulder partner-
ship.”
“That's a mere theory of mine, my dear,” I said, ”&nd you surely wouldn't deny an old woman the pleasure she gets out of a ‘what- night-have-been’ attitude. Despite the perfectly good arguments that I’ve been advancing ever since before you were born, I’ve known of very few instances where a man and 1 woman married so they could work
her, and beats a path to her door. I hope Billy Paige does endure a heartache or two before he comes to the end of his mischievous young life (if he lived a century, he’d still be absurdly and provokingly young because about toe most irritating creature I know of is a man who refuses to take a woman’s ideas seriously. Incidentally. I’ve known very few men who ever did anything else, but after life has handeef them a few hard knocks most of them subside into a sort of tolqr&nt pity for
us and stop teasing.
Rose turned tragic eyes upon her audience. “Just think, folks,” she said, “if he did build those houses and plant those gardens, somebody’d be sure to dig up a round bed right in the middle of a perfectly good lawn, and plant cannas in it. Not that I don’t like cannas,” she amended. “but I want them some place else besides the middle of a lawn. I want plenty of green turf as a background for them More than that,” she added, “nine out of ten of them would try to fit late American golden oak furniture into those Early English interiors!” “Now, if they want cannas and brass beds and golden oak machine carved furniture. Rose, let thorn have it,” I said. “They’d more than likely find your kind of living room dreadfully col orless and uninteresting!” I told her this, remembering sadly the days when I had thought to redeem my neighbors and myself from toe bondage of “gingerbread” on furniture and furnish-
ings.
“I believe,” I added, “that the surest way for this world to live at peace with itself is for each half to leave the other half alone, so for as personal
tastes are concerned!”
“If I had my way,” Rose interrupted in an exasperated tone, “I’d make it a criminal offense for any one to sell an enlarged picture with a three-inch gilt frame on it to any woman whose living room was papered in a rich red tone, unless she made a sworn affidavit that she’d never put a green rug with pink
roses in it, on the floor!”
“As an amendment, I’d suggest that all ‘statuettes’ decorated In more than seven colors be also denied admission to that room," suggested the Little
Mother.
“Oh, well, I’d rather see a little less money spent for these ‘ornaments’ and a little more spent for gardens and books, myself,” I admitted, “but this is a free land, and if people want to feed their souls with sunflowers instead of hyacinths, far be it from me to interfere; we have to admit that the sunflower’s a cheerful sort of chap!” “Go on and laugh at us!” said Pete, plainly grieved at our lack of seriousness. “Between you folk thinking it’s
look down upon you because you had no talking machine nor velvet xuga, nor hand-painted china, nor—” “I never would have thought that of you. Mother Machree!" Rose scolded. “And besides. I’m talking about what I’d do if 1 had only $15 or $20 a week—
or even less—to go on!”
“If you had only twenty a week, Rose, you’d have to pay five a week to th* furniture man and two on the playerpiano and—*’ Billy took up the cudgel in my defense, and received unexpected reinforcements from the Bradley boy. “That’s exactly the way they do!” he agreed. “The women folk of our mill hands spefld mightly near as much for clothes as bis does. Fact is, they look
a lot more ’dressed **"■' * v
And you see them :
of them, in their family cars. < and I are hiking over the hills.
up’ than she does, riding around, a lot
when sis
d I are hiking over the hills.
You can afford to hike,” I told him, “Nobody’s going to remark in a commiserating tone, that It’s too bad you haven’t a car, because they know that you walk because you want. to. By th* same token, you can wear what you please, be it *ver so shabby, without some one commenting that you can’t af-
ford any better!”
Rose smiled reminiscently. "I hate tot furnish ammunition for the enemy’s guns, but I'll have t* admit, folks, that I’m talking about theories, while you’r* dealing with facts! Remember the time. Just after I left high school. Aunt Mary Ellen, when I went out and spent the
summer with dad?”
v 1 nodded and she giggled over th* memory of that viait. “Remember Fannjr Belcher, the little kiddie who used to tag around with me so much, the one who liked to have her picture snapped so often? Well, .Fanny had a sister , about my own age, I was seventeen, and Fanny herself was fourteen, as well* as I remember. But Isabella was a real live belle, and I was just a youngster: emerging from the pinfeather stags! I remember that I felt very much grownup, with my hair done up on the back of my head, until I saw hers; those were the days when women wore their hair in dozens of puffs-and Isabella had thirty on her head. I didn't count ’em. but Fanny told me so. She watched me brush my hair one evening, after we’d been out in the hills, and finally she said ‘Rosie, you ain't got no puffs at all have you?’ I admitted my -defldencie* and explained that I’d never have ths patience to do them up—and besides it was a mystery to me how they ever managed the ones on the back of their heads. But Fanny set me right on both scores. Isabella didn’t have to do her* up—she bought 'em, already done up, thirty of them, from a Chlcagp mail order house! It was Fanny, also, who said, pityingly, when I appeared in my best middy—ths one I never, wore when I knew I’d go through briar patches or slide down a muddy bank, before I got home—‘Yo’ haint got a single silk dress to your name, hev you?’ And then th* inevitable comment—'Isabella, she’s got
three.”
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The thinking people of our land, and we others, who only stand and wait, with varying degrees of patience, for them to solve <our problems, are wasting a lot of gray matter over the wrong end of a troublesome question. Being
Great Mistake for United State*. It seems to me that it would be & very great mistake for the United States to
permit itself now to be persuaded to now promises absolute security there is undertake a mandatory for Constant!-, on th* other hand no visible settlement<isaid, “I’m going to build a village, just
up above the mills, leave the forest trees and tuck quaint little houses away among ’em; give every house its own bit of garden spot and a bit of iawn and make ’em look like real homes.
together, literally. And I’ve known of quite a few happy marriages, at that!” Pete Bradley leaves the service next week, which may be a possible loss to the army, but will be, he is sure, a very certain gain to the industrial world. For Pete is certain, along with a few million other folk, that an Industrial crisis is looming large on our horizon, and he has theories by the dozen which, if they do not avert the storm, will at least provide us with showerproof umbrellas, under which to find
shelter.
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one thing. Mother Machree,” he
nople, which would carry with it great which gives greater promise and moremilitary and financial burdens, involve) over to restore Constantinople to the us in conflict With the legitimate as- ancient Greeks would be to return a pi rations of toe Greeks, make us a j city, which after five centuries of Turk-
part of in ail the intrigue*, manuvers, i ish rule has preserved in no small „_lllll|llt—■ „ ... ........ „„ quarrel* which must inevitably follow xnettmre it* ancient Hellenic character, And we’re going to •rganis* a building curtains, and your neighbors would the head.
joke, and the other folk thinking we’re lying awake at nights to do them, the path of the reformer's far from be-
ing rose-strewn!”
“I’m not trying to reform anybody,” said Rose “They're mighty fine folk most of them—but I’m just trying to see if we can’t make them a bit happier. Let me confess that what I really want to do is to rent a wee bit of a house some place right down in toe heart o : things—Just a house like the rest of toe worker* have, and fix it all up, for There* was a gasp from all but Pete Bradley, and he was fairly hanging on her words “—with just plain furniture painted whit# or gray or soft gravgreen; there’d be scrim curtains at the windows and grass or rag rugs on the floor, and I’d have a sheR or two for boolw and a pot of geraniums or a fern “And the smoke ami grime,” he said would kill your plants and smirch your
woman,* and therefore illogical, the question I asked, twenty years ago, concerning the selling of liquor, was never considered worthy of an answer-why permit the manufacture of an artiel*. and then try to curtail it* distribution? ■Idn’t it have simplified matters, and saved us a few millions of bushels of
grain and a few more millions of dollars, to say nothing of all the lives that have paid the price, since then, had w* begun hacking at toe head of toe troublesome serpent, instead of chopping off his tail, a little at a time? I admit that the finis is the same, in killing & snake, whether you sever the head from the body or amputate the rest of him, little by little, until you reach toe head.
all the things that cost a lot of money, as long as these things are essential to
no law to compel us to buy luxuries w* can’t afford Whenever we surround ourselves with the things we really need and have sufficient strength of character to forego the possession of other
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