Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 9, 1921, Page 8

Giving and Taking A successful marriage is often spoken of &is a give-and-take propo- sition. That must mean that the wife takes all he gives her.. And probably some he doesn’t give her. ~—And Then Wants More— Nearly Everything Cleveland Plain Dealer: “What is - in the Air?” inquires the Philadelphia North American editorially. Well, there’s spring and birds and blizzards and baseball talk and the latest Rus- sian revolution, and everything.” The Cleveland Plain Dealer evi- dently forgets a few things, such as: the English coal strike which is apt to interfere with the football games next ‘week, the railroad wage con- troversy which has been in the air for some time, and women’s skirts which are taking to the air fast. * —Going Up at Least— Nonchalant Bridegroom. Felipe Garcia may make Prisca ‘Guterres a goed husband, but he dis- played a marked attitude oi indif- ference during ‘his marriage cere- .. mony, according to Judge J. D. M. Hamilton. While the wedding was being performed in the probate court Yeaterday afternoon Garcia went to sleep standing up and his bride was forced to wake him up hefore Judge Hamilton could finish the ceremony. —~Tupeka Capital, Maybe he is so accustomed to such ceremonies that they have become tirescnte. —Maybe They Are, Anyway— How Do They Do It? Have you ever noticed that a girl | can go upstairs and ‘‘dress” for a couple of hours or so and then come down again wearing the same clothes gshe had on when she went upstairs| to “dress.” ~—Not Much On Her, at That— Permanently Sure. The only thing in Russia that hasn’t caught the uprising habit is the ruble.—Washington Post. -—Probably Never Wiil— Not Getting Anywhere. Among the things that have no tendency to get you anywhere, the \ following have been suggested: Singing “Feather Your Nest” and expect that to build you a home. Going for a walk in the graveyard after dark. p Telling people you iwill repay them when they know you won't. Letting a man call you all the cuss worde in his vocabulary. Working for $30 a gmonth and sleeping in the store. Telling people Bemidjl is a poor town to live in. —So, Don't Do Them— He Seems to Know. Luke McLuke says a man wants his wife to dress ‘‘sensibly,” fo she won't show as much ©f her epidermis us other women. And, if she does dress that way, he is ashamed to go out with her because she looks so old-fashioned. —-What You Going To Do?— One Negative Case. Telk is cheap—unless you realize that it hes mlready cost the state ahout $200,000 for the present ses- slon <f the legislature. —Than It len't— In the Solar Plexus. Some men haven't much chance of -lesrning anything as they grow older for they think they know it all from the start, Most of the people who like to | i sing, cant. A man may regard the use of to- bacco as a filthy habit and yet be paszionately fond of Hmburger and onions. Congidering how many persons try to murder it every year, a popular song is hard to kill. An easy-going man is often hard to get started. A man ‘s allowed $200 exemption on his income tax for each child, but nct a cent is deducted for maintain- | ing a pet poodle, a gold fish, or second-hand Ford. . Some girls have an Idea that un-/ less they are always talking they may be considered out of place. —And Maybe They Are— JOHNSTON REPAIR SHOP BEING REPAIRED AGAIN The building occupied by C. M. Johnston as a repair and upholster- ing shop, which was partially de- stroyed by fire 4 few days ago, is being repaired and Mr. Johnston will again have his place .of business there. ~= Diction. ! Be noble both in the affluence and the economy of your diction; spare no wealth that you can put in, and tol- erate no superfluity that can be struck out,—Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Suhscriba for The Dally Ploneer. ADDITIONAL WANT ADS FOR SALE—We have a 9 h. p. twin motoreyele with re , presto tank and light, etc. Frice $65 ‘cash. See it Sunday at Lewis Ra-| diator Shop, 507 Beltrami avenue. P 1t619 FOR RENT—160 acre farm, 5 miles from Bemidji, near Anderson Sid- ing cn Roosevelt Highway. House, barn, 35 acres under plow, tenant to give one third of crop. If in- terested, call at my farm ome mile west of Anderson Siding. H. A. MARKETS HIDES ‘Cow hides, No. 1 .. Bull hides, No. 1, 1b Kipp hides, No. 1, 1b Calf skins, No. 1, Ib Deacons, .each ... Horse hides, large. POTATOES Chicago, April 9,—Potato receipts, 57 cars. Market steady. Northern whites, sacked, 80c to 95¢c: new Flor- ida Spaulding Rose, No. 1, $8.50 to s9 per bbl IMPROVED ROADS ROAD CONSTRUCTION IN 1920 Distinct Shortage of Labor and Higher Cost of Materials Among Diffl- culties Encountered. Every kind of road cost about twice as much to build in 1920 as it did in 1917, according to the chief of -the bureau of public roads, United States Department of Agriculture, and high- way coustruction suffered more than any other. class of work through rail- road: congestion, strikes, labor trou- bles, and. material shortages. After the war there was a great public demand for improved roads. Many roads had been seriously dam- aged by war traffic, and it appearcd that the return of men from military service would provide an abundance of .$1.50-52 Sand-Clay Road Is Satisvactory. labor. The army of laborers which we ! expected to apply for the work did | not, lowever, materialize. On the ' contrary, there was u distinct shortage of labor, and wages reached the high- est levels attained in the history of the country. In 1917, competent labor | could be secured for from $1.50 to $3 per day, but the corresponding wages in 1920 were from $3 to $5 for a short- | er day’s work. In proportion to this demand there W&g also a pronounced scarcity of con+ astrudon materlals. Sand;.. gravel, stone and cement, and materials com- monly used in rond work increased in price between 1917 and 1920 from 50 to 100 per cent. Naturally, these in- creases in cost were reflected in the prices paid to contractors for road work. Gravel roads Increased from $4535 to $7,250 per mile; concrete from $21,165 to upward of $40,000 per wmile, and brick roads from $83,000 to $55,000 per mile. As funds available for road con- | standing perpendicularly when the oc- stryction are lnwgely limited by statute, A cyclone came one summer And then the mortgage man Glick. & 3t4-12 3 LI WO e T e e e His old horse died and his mule went lame, And he lost his cow in a poker game, And blew his house and barn away; Then an earthquake followed, to-make it good, ¢ And swallowed the ground where the house had stood; And heartlessly claimed the hole in the ground. This shock was so great that he up and died, And his widow and children wept and cried; But something was left for the kids and wife, For he had insurance in the NEW YORK LIFE. MITCHELL NEW YORK LIFE MAN Northern National Bank Building KN, NOU 'NERWVY LITTLE SHRIMPL NOL RED-HEADED CHILD OF SATAN! YOL oF by {h¢ re from taxation, & majority of the states this year have deliberately: withheld work, the plans for which had been completed, until they could obtain a greater return for their expenditire, MORE GOOD ROADS BIG NEED Will Increase Growing Popularity of Automobiles and Help Build Up Communities. To determine the average mileage the automobile owner covers in & pleasure trip in the evening after the day's work is over, an investiga- tion among 230°owners in a middle western city of around 300,000 popu- lation resulted in an average of 38 miles. Sixty-two per cent stated they would make longer trips if the roads permitted, 85 per cent stated they usu- ally made their trips out into the country. From these figures it is easy to \| see that more good roads wiil in- crease the growing popularity of the automobile, which will in turn’ help to bulld up communities, ' relieviiig congestion in the crowded cities, cre< ate a wider circulation of money, in- crease redlty values, lower transpor- tation costs and introduce ‘“America First” to more people. ‘ ROAD- SOILS DIFFER WIDELY Just What Characteristics Are Which Make Them Different Puzzies Highway Enginesrs. The federal highway engineers polnt out that solls differ widely s their abllity to support loads, particu- { larly when they are wet. Just why ¢ this is true and just what are the characteristics which make them dif- ferent is little understood at present. It is in this fleld of investigation, of Increasing importance because of the growing volume of heavy traffic, that the federal investigators expect to 8e- cure important information. ADVANTAGES OF PAVED ROADS Give Ever-Increasing Share of Service In Providing Safe Highways for Motor Traffic. Paved roads are giving an ever-n- creasing share of service in providing safe, permanent, dependable highways for heavy motortruck traffic, rellieving railroads of much short haul, lessen- Ing terminal congestion and in these ways making the handling and ship- ment of supplies much easier. Concerning Baldness. A majority of men who have amount- ed to anything have gone bald. To go bald beforesamounting to anything is the lot of millions. Among those mil- lions.are many who feel that the first kingdom of the world would be com- pensation for loss of hair, even if the perquisites of a king did not include an allowunce for a court wigmaker. Even without a crown s a consolation, there i3 a certain sclace In not having to wonder whether your scalplock is casion calls for solemnity.—Exchange. — e Barber's Prerogative. There's only one individual who can slap his fellow men in the face and ,get away with ft, and that's the bar- ber, To Be Virtuous and Popular. Always tell the truth, but don’t be always telling it.—Beston Transcript. The Woman's Way. It the shoe fits, get a size smaller— Cartoons Magazine. day came around STREET ARAS! \F YOU - SMALL , 'O KILL You! RHODESNEVER WOMAN-HATER But Celebrated “Empire Buiider? Had Little Time to Devote to the . GentlerSéx. Cecil Rhodes had the reputation of being a woman hater, but he ‘was by no means a misogynist, though he might have been regarded a misoga- mist. He was tvedded, it was sald, by his friends, to Africa. But his life would have been more complete and no less full of achievement if he had been married to the right woman— at least so says my wife and other women who knew him. While 1 have spid Rhodes was not a woman hater, he was averse to wast- ing his time on women of medlocre in- tellect. Rhodes excused himself for, not inarrying by saying that he bad not the'time to give a wife the atten- tion she was entitled to recelve. In his magnificent house at Cape Town there was only one picture. It was a painting of a young woman, beautiful and modest of aspect, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, and hung in the din- ing room above the fireplace. He loved to look at it and frequently told how he had gained possession of it. As a boy he took a great fancy 'to this picture, which belonged to a relative, and his love for it increased as he grew to mauohood. Eventually he bought it. He always wound up the story by saying: “Now I have my lady, and I am happy.”—John Hays Ham- mond in Scribner’s Magazine. A Man Like Yourself. You imagine you are a pretty fine || kind of a fellow. But the chances are that if you ever met.a man precisely like yourself, you wouldn’t have much. use for him.—Arkansas Thomas Cat. ~ Trout a Cannibal, . The trout is cannibalistic, feed- 15g upon its own kind when necessity compels, says . the Américan Forestry Magazine, and in numerous lnn‘tnncef when'inecessity does not compel. ! e —————— By Notice! Hat pins are used by the Ametlean customs authorities to prod parcels for hidden jewelry. We hasten to in- form our fair fellow subway fravelers that we never-hide jewels behind our. eyebalis.—London Opinion. "n Spring——" Adam was original, So Are You; And since Time’s begin- ning, You’ll find it true, That no two men Are exactly the same; Although, perhaps, They may have the sanie name. ‘And the Little Tailor,” Is successful because Man is so different, And always was. No matter what shape, Your body may: be, You can get a good fit At “The Toggery.” ~ BARNEY’S TOGGERY THIRD STREET WHAT RIGHT HANE YOL GOY YO BE PUTTING PIECES INTME PAPER ABOUT FOLKS © Calling in Cairo. Englishmen who do not know Cairo sometimes take houses in remote and undesirable parts of the -city. In “Egypt 8s We Knew It” Mrs. E. L. Butcher amusingly describes how hard it is to- find a person who ‘has thus gone astray. Her husband, she says, wrote to a doctor for the address.of some friends whom she knew he had attended. . Here is the doctor's -an- swer: “The M——'s live In a house without' a number in a street without & -name next door to an Armenian butcher who, I think, has no sign, west of Abdin palace! The staircase has ‘elghty-seven steps. = ¥ = 22 '\ GOT A BLAMED —~~ | GOOD RIGHT-AND R Plant Triumphs This Year LY The country is practically cleaned up on-this variety, the southern.. growers are now getting big prices for their new crop and the demand next fall for northern seed Triumphs will be strong and the supply" short. X : We have for sale a limited amount of the very choicest seed Tri- uriphs. This stock has been hill selected for over 20 -years and has yielded locally for the past three years over 300 bushels per acre. We have purposely reserved this seed for local planting and we. shall want to buy the crop it produces. k Céme in and See Us—Write or Phone— ‘BURKE BROTHERS—O’Leary:} ~ THIS NEW RED SIX ENJOYS A TREMENDOUS VOGUE No other model ever turned out by the Reo shops hps met with such an enthusiastic reception as this new Six, And the approval seems to be bestowed about evenly ameng the four models. e Sedans rival Touring Cars in popularity, while the 4~ passenger Coupe vies with the 3-passenger Roadster for favor among buyers. - - This new Six is accepted by the Reo clientele as if "twere made to measure for each buyer. It is, in fact, the kind of car you asked us to build—a Six of Reo dependability and low upkeep. Its beauty of outline and excellence of finish; that won- derful oiling system and the general mechanical qual- ity of this product, has made it first choice of discrim-‘ inating buyers. . . : If ‘your order is in our hands at once, we can‘_promise you a definite and reasonably early date of delivery. F. . MALZAHN NEXT TO CITY-HALL