Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 15, 1916, Page 4

\ _MAKE QUICK DECISIONS. r Wrong to Waste Valuable Time Over i Trifling Problems. There are some. folks in this worm who never appear to be able to come to a decision on any issue, either big or ! Mttle. They are constantly harassed o by doubt and the fear that they will | make the mistake of picking up some- thing by the wrong handle. They spend their lives sitting astride the fence because they lack the courage to get down on either gide of it. They strive to propitiate everybody and please nobody. ‘What more pathetic spectacle than to see a strapping big man chasing back and forth between the hat counter and the mirror on the wall in the agony of doubt and despair over the momentous question as to whether he ought to purchase a straw 11d with a red band on 1t or blue! Sympathy goes out w the woman who for weeks perplexes her pretty head over the problems as to whether she will have her new gown cut ob- lquely or on the bias. In the end she has it cut scalloped, and every time she | wears it her regret is that she didn’t | have it made severely plain, I your processes of decision are go- ing to halt and buck and stall over the | color of a hatband or the cut of a I gown how can you hope to decide the | really serious problems of life? Bless- of 1s he who can marshal his wits in ¢alm fudgment, then decide Whetlier he will stay on this side or cross over and burn the bridge behind him. Rather than dilly-dally and shilly- shally through life, you had. better, in the interests of strengthening your moral fiber, make a mistake by a quick, decision now and then. Focus thebest judgment of which you are capable on \the question at issue, then take your stand and hold your ground.—Boston Post. 0Odd Coronation Ceremony. In the old time cerémony of corona- tion in Abyssinia there was one most pleturesque incident: Noble maids held a crimson cord in front of the church door, and the king, approaching on horseback, cried successively: “I am your king, the king of Ethiopia!” “I1 am your king, the king of Israel!” But the girls repudiated him. Then he cried, “I am your king, the king of Zion!” and cut the string with his sword, while the damsels cried, “It is a truth; you are our king!” and ac- claimed him with hallelujahs.—London Chronicle. Such Peoplet “The Jibways want to borrow our car tonight.” “I admire their nerve ' b “You haven’t heard the worst.” “Well?” “They also want to know if we'd object to their pasting a label over our How He Made the Sales. A ocouple of traveling salesmen bump- ed' into each other on Broadway the | other day. “How’s business?’ queried the first |’ one, “Rotten,” was the answer. “How is it with you?” “Fine, simply fine. On my last trip I opened ten new accounts and did a to- tal business of $45,000. I sold one man a $6,000 bill and another one $5,000.” “So? Well, I think I ought to get a commission on those sales.” “Whatddye mean you ought to get a commission on those sales?” “Sure I ought to. If you hadn’t met me you never would have made them.” —New York Tribune. Great men should think of opportu- nity and not of time. Time is the ex- cuse of feeble minded and puzzled spirits.—Disraeli. Busy Enough. ) First Playwright—If that manager had only had more time he would have shown me all the rare objects in ‘his studio. Second Playwright—Was . he very busy? First Playwright—Just had time to show me the door and nothing else.—Puck, His Selfish State. “I live in a state where there are absolutely no divorces.” “Indeed! What state is that?” ;!,__”., e b e N oo B remark you often hear made in homes where our . WHITE ROSE KEROSENE has not yet _found its way. But it will soon be burned in every home that dses an oil stove or lamp. The light is so pure and white and the flame so blue and hot when burned in a stove. \ NO, IT- NEVER SMOKES That’s saying a lot, but we can prove our claim. Now, don’t mix it with a lot of cheap or ordinary kerosene, but clean your lamp or stove burners thoroughly and see that the oil is not v RERRER 5 1%, 1916, IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIlIIIIIlIIlIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIlllIlIIIIlIlIIlIlIIII THAT SMOKY OLD LAMP - “It certmnly makes me peeved. I don’t seem to get the good old ‘COAL OIL’ I used to use way back in the mnety’s ” This monogram."—pimginghm Age-Herald. monev “The state of single blessedness.”— Boston Transcript. ~0pPOFtUnities for aving ought ia\ ' interest pou=- As we told you yesterday, we have made arrangements with Capt. Mac whereby The Duluth News Tribune will "be delivered to your door very shortly after its arrival in Bemidji. The train carrying this paper is due in Bemidji at 3:17p. m., Now we want to maké you a special reading matter offer by the month, one you can hardly afford to let go by without serious attention. Two of the finest magazines in the country and The Duluth News Tribune—Daily and Sunday—ma,ke a fine combination that ought to be in every home in Bemidji all this winter and we’re going to make it easy to get them. g The special price of these three publications will be ‘only 50c per month. The Duluth News Tribune alone— regularly—is 50c. The Woman’'s Home Companion is -15¢ and the American Magazine is 15¢, making a regular ;pnce for the three of 80c. Fifty cents per month will bring all three pnb].;ca.tlons to your home, the News Tribune by carrier service and the magazines by mail. But this offer is open for a limited time only. The American Magazine believes that every man has a story, and that these stories are not only ‘interesting, - | but that they will help you. It finds men who have made a success and gets them to describe how they made a sue-: cess. It tells about businesses that are enough like yours i for you to apply their suggestions. It is edited for the selfish man, the man who wishes to get something for his . : money, but it will interest every member of the family because it is full of things that are humanly mt.erestmg and well told. The Woman’s Home Companion tells you each manth what other women are \‘.hmkmg and doing; what other women are eating, and wearing, and reading; how other - women furnish their houses; how other women save. . money; how other women save work; how other women bring up their children, and dig in the garden, and run a g motor car, and make a ha.t Its scope is as broad as the interést of the home and woman'’s interests outside the home: i In tomorrow’s issue of this paper you will find a coupon for your convenience. Fill it in and just call Capt. Mac ' by phone, he will send a representative after it, savmg ] you the trouble of taking it to lus store. iy @he iflu_luth Nems C'Lfttlmmz i Bemidji Ageney : Oapt. Mac’s Book B!m. Mm m : IillllllIIII-ITI'IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIllIlIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllfllllllllllllllllllIIIII|Ill’llllllllllllllllllllllllll mixed. WHITE ROSE KEROSENE is particular and pre- fers to associate with oils in its class. * We are particular and want you to be particular. -The following stores sell WHITE" ROSE exclusively, so if you buy of them you are sure to get pure WHITE ROSE KEROSENE Tagley & Wold, Nymore, Phone 169 Edward Akre, Nymore, Phone 501-J " Chas. Madson, Phone 75-W Otto G. Schwandt, Phone 33 - C E. Battles, Phone 21 Bemidji Hardware Co., Phone 35 Mrs. B. J. Neely, Phone 117 0. E. Erickson, Phone 23 Wm. H. Schmitt,.Phone 657 F. G. Troppman, Phone 927 " Yes, other dealers sell WHITE ROSE, but these are the ones who'sell WHITE ROSE only. If your lamp or stove smokes, just try the kind that burns bright and smokeless. . LU T T L St. Cloud 0il Company Phone 91 [T SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PIONEER MEN! A SUGGESTION FOR YOUR WIFE'S CHRISTMAS PRESENT If you canriot present it to her for Christ- mas get it ready for 1917— A beantiful Hardwood Floor for her hom instead of the old pine floor. Or Better Still Present her with a httle Bungalow or Cottage. Let us help you plan it and give you an estimate on the material. Consult us now and be ready to start the work easily next spring. SI_;HIIalre Hetail lumher Go. Phone [ 00 -