Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 11, 1921, Page 6

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OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY, GIRLS? (Youth’s Companion) : There is a type of girl perfectly familiar to all American town dwellers. She may be seen dawdling about the streets, singly or in groups. She is usually very young, but as uncon- trolled apparently by parental restraint as by any saving qua}- ity of taste. She is a traversty of vice. If narrow skirts are in vogue, hers are absurdly tight. If short skirts are worn, hers mount to the knee. If collars are loose, she bares her meager chest and her assertive little bones to every reluctant spectator. If hair is dressed high she rolls hers on fearful-looking objects bearing the sympathetic name of rats. If hair is dressed low, she plasters it down in scallops and eartabs. She walks awk- wardly, and without the spring of youth, on her high-heeled shoes. She has a pathetic belief in the transforming power of cosmetics, dabs her childish face with crimson, and whitens herself like a circus clown, without achieving his cheerful and| piquant vivacity. He, at least, has a standard, and reaches it. Tlhe girl has no standard at all. She is a travesty even on the clown. A boy possessed of the ambition to appear a lawless vgga- bond can do no more than ceck his hat, smoke cigarets and swagger. Those are his simple and restricted methods of seem- ing other than he is, and they deceive no one. Even the police- man eyes him with a contemptuous grin. But a girl has so many/| devices that she succeeds in looking, if not depraved, at least discreditable. To do that she sacrifices all the advantages that nature has lavished on her. There is nothing in the world more decorative than a girl. Whether she be pretty or not (and she nearly always is pretty to an appreciative e i an appreciative eye), she has the quick step, the fearless:mc e by Lazcy Jeane Pice New York, May 11.—The days when fathers began to train their sons at childhood to follow in their steps as fellow craftemen have not entirely passed. In one profession at least a' New Yorker is holding to them. Louis McCarthy, who, is paid $76 a day for scaling church spires and skyscraper towers to paigt their flagpoles and the trimmings' is al- ~{geady seeing to it that Louie, Jr; aged 15 months is prepared for the joh. “‘Someffimes T hold him out of 7 fourth story window by the wrists, for one thing,” explained the steeple- jack. “He's mever yet shown the slightest sign of fear at it, .And we encourage him to ‘climb anything that is climbable.” It's about-the only trade in which °compétition - ’t worry a fellow all the time, McCarthy argues, and as only a half- dozen steeple jacks are listed among the 10,000,000 names in the tele- ‘phone books of New York and its sub- urhs, it seems that he is correct. Every. college has felt the impetus to higher education due, presumably, to the war. But Columbia University is faced by such a record breaking attendance at this summer’s course that she has resorted to registration by mail to facilitate matters. There are. already 12,000 applicants, and one of the most interesting things about it is the unusually large per centage -of business men and women Corporation finance, advertising, economic geography, and subjects of that kind are being grasped at by people of early niiddle age who have already achieved some business suc- cess, to a degree unknown before. Y The “Life-saving” suit is the latest innovation among the early season crowds at the beaches hereabouts. It hasn't exactly the chic look of some other costumes we have observed, but it certainly is practical. A splashy grouprof youths alarmed the fishes as well as the beach onlookers the other Sunday at Coney when they merrily walked forth into very deep water indeed, and never made a move to swim, The suits are of rubber, air-tighty and according to -their wearers, unsinkable. An officer of the Seventy-first In- fantry, at the Park avenue armory was ‘recently drilling a mounted troop at Van Courtland Park by wire- less telephone. A number of the rank and file were watching with in- terest as 'he shouted his commands Then as the smile, the charming indefinite outlines, the angularity that is so| expeviment came to an end, away oft different in its litheness from the stiffened angularity of age.| P(;)vlerty cannot rob her of her charm. Vulgarity destroys it at a blow. . That she should know no better than to coarsen her own delicacy, debase her own comeliness and stale her own/youth is inconceivably pltlf:u]. That, being innocent, she should aspire to look 'depraved\:s at once tragical and grotesque. Thé poor little painted, plastered maid, in dirty slippers and a hat resting on the tip of her nose, is at best an absurdity, at worst a confes- sion of defeat. S gl A e . IMMIGRANTS DON'T WANT. LAND Minnesota sent an immigration commissioner down to New York to induce some good European farmer immigrants to settle on some of its cheap 7,000,000 acres of good-land. TPhe terms on.this land make it almost’a gift, yet it is not sufficiently attractive to induce the immigrants who swarm through Ellis Island from the famine-stricken.and faction torn|| c,ountrigs qf Europe to settle on it. ¥ iy Illinois has 15,000 acres of wonderfully “fertile reclaimed land in th.e southern part of it. 'An effort was made to get 1,600 immigrants to settle each on a ten-acre tract. The price was almost notl}ing,'but they didn’t even get a nibble. y Some day immigrants may wake up and find that if they will not settle on land in this country they may not get the chance to go to the cities. There will be no room for them there. ?erhaps it would not be a bad idea to follow the plan-of _our neighbor to the north and make the selection of our immi-| grants across the water before they reach our shores. We would| be spared the trouble of weeding them out here and we would get a }'nuch better class of people. There is plenty of room in America for more people, but they are needed to develop our ‘lgn’ds and.not to form little Italy’s, little Germany’s, little Rus- sia’s and little Bulgaria’s in our now over-crowded cities. 0 3 ‘A GOOD EXAMPLE i % Re_cent.ly in the Dominion house of commons, in Canada, an appropriation of five million dollars was made to finish deep- ening the Welli.md canal, Asin the United States, so in Canada, there are parties opposing the Great Lakes tidewater scheme and bitter opposition was made in the Canadian parliament on the.grounds that Canada should not bear all this expense alone as it would benefit the United States more than Canada in the end. The appropriation. carried, however, and Canada will carry on in the work of getting ready for the ocean traffic. i fl:}‘le arguments used in the Canadian parliament by the op- position will be used-in the United States when the time comes as they received in Canada, | This great project is bound to be put over because it has sound foundation and selfish opposition must fall before reason- ing that is based on sound judgment . Some booze bug wants the St. Cloud police to keep hands off the moon- shiners, and says his god with a small glass is the only authority he will obey. thl:ez];:lfixfimde ugds]}x:ve beer}nl present }:'n the world for a long time, and fol 0 are foolish enough to worship them naturall; i- john and damnation.—St. Cloud Journal Psess.e i ?nl Y pr R i \ ,Sending cream to Dulut.h may get you an extra dollar to jingle in your pant’s pocket just now, but it cuts the value of your farm a dollar an acre. Boost the home creamery and bhoost your farm values,—Northern'News. * 'Bill Bryan and Hiram Johnson are helping Tammany—the former t make New York dry and the latter to save the city ftomy state conh:)!l' o'; trdction lines. Truth is stranger than fiction.—St, Paul Dispatch, When an office man géts a cut in wages he does not talk about strik- ing; he either works_on or else looks for.another. job.—St.- Cloud ;i;‘;s.sm in the crowd a voice was heard to remark, “If a captain can drill his trcops by this thing ten miles away, can you imagine how far behind the lines the generals will be in the next war?"” ! New York may tighten up on the liberality with which she has been throwing around “the freedom of the city.” Aldermanic> President La Guardia presented a resolution to that effect at the board meeting the other night. Maybe he thought the city didn’t have enough freedom to be giving it about so carélessly; may- be he didn’t want to embarrass vis- fl'to*x by having inquisitive alderman have not already done so. 315 Minnesota Ave. QUALITY FOOTWEAR The quality and service that we are giving to our cus- tomers in our Foot-Wear Department will be given in our Repairing Department We can make your old shoes look like new—try it if you THE STORE OF ECONOMY AND QUALITY BEMIDJI SHOE STORE ask who they were ‘when proposals for its bestowal came up, as hap- pened recently, when one of them said, “Who is this Dr. Einstein?” However, as some one pertinently in- quired, “When you get this ‘Freedom of ‘the city’ what have you got?" BEveryone knows that women keep their youth much longer ‘than they used to. But if anyone doubts it, let him (for there are mno *“hers” who doubt) consider the case of Miss Mary Sherwood, of this city, aged 50 years, who has just been adopt- | ed as a daughter by Henry C. Webb. Nearly fifty years ago, Mr, and Mrs. Webb lost their only child, a little girl. Soon after they met six-year- old Mary Sherwood. - They ‘‘borrow- ed”’ her from time to time to play .about their, lonely home and event- ually she becames’a permanent mem- ber of the . “So now, 44 - BY POET. | ‘Word' Painting of Sunset on the Arno | Brings the Scene Vividly to the Mind. It was sunset on the Arno; far down the river, over mountain ranges where snow yet lingered, a warm tint, half rose and half amethyst, gleamed along the horizon; beside the low parapet that bordered the street, people were loitering back from their afternoon promenade at the Casino; here a sol- dier, now “an Englishman on "horse- back, and then a bearded artist; some- times an .ovalfaced contadina, the ‘broad brim of whose finely woven straw hat flapped.over eyes of mellow Jet; and again a trig nurse with Saxon ringlets, dragging a petulant urchin along; -and over all these gronps and figures ‘was shed the heautiful smile of_.parting day, and by them, ungder graceful 'bridges, flowed the turbid stream, the volume doubled by the spring freshets. I-surveyed the pano- rama from™'an -overhanging balcony, where I'stood.awaiting the appearance of a friend upon whom I had called.— Henry T. Tuckerman. | At The “B. R. Z" Margaret, 3, obliged to spend a night with /her mother at'the Y. W. C. A, awgke to insist upon a drink.’ Mother was compelled for lack of a glass and fountaln to make & drinking cupof her hands. Margaret, very much “im- pressed, frequently recalled the in- cident and several montbs later as-| tonished us.by asking: “Mother, why don’t you' ever let me drink out of your hands like you did that night at the B. R. Z.7—Cleveland -I’lain. Dealer. Where the Grouch Errs. Al that the grouch needs to do Is to get in step with his fellows. All that ails Him is.that he is trymg to | keep step_ with himself and make |’ everybody, else come to time with him, | = and 1o mAan ever Was ‘big enough to do that yet.—Exchange. Astronomer’s Advantage. ! Jud Tunkins says an astronomer: talks in such large figures, you'd rath- er believe: anything he says than try t6 check up his arithmetic. E { | | Bemidji, Mign. ' SOFT DRINKS AND CONFECTIONS NEW TOBACCO STORE NOW i OPEN— COMPLETE LINE OF TOBACCO, CIGARS and CIGARETTES WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 11; 192 Wfi ' put on a shingle roof ‘when you can ge 0od asphalt roofing that.will look better, last longer and is eas put on? P Our roofing is'a Pure Asphalt roll, shingle or four-shingle style— one of which will suit your job, whether house, garage or barn. ; The Slate Surfaced Roofing in'Red or Green makeé an ideal roof for a cottage or for a side covering for your building. Qur roofing being. of Pure Asphalt and not a taf body, will not col-" or the water off-your roof, and, therefore, leaves you good soft wa- ter. { % Don’t be fnis]ead by a cheap tar-body roofing. The sun will bake and dry out a tarbody roof; but will not.affect an As‘ph'alt body. 1 ply (Asphalt Body) Nuroid Roofing . . . 2 ply (Asphalt Body) Success Roofing 3 ply (Asphalt'Body) Success Roofing Heavy Slate Surface Roofing L e Call in for Our Quantity Price When You Think of Roofing AUTOMOBIL " REDUCED 'WE JUST RECEIVED WORD THAT THE PRICES ON THE CHEVROLET CARS HAVE BEEN GREATLY REDUCED— TO TAKE EFFECT AT ONCE. i R \ IF YOU HAVE BEEN STUDYING ONBUYING A CAR (—COME IN AND MAKE YOUR SELECTION NOW SO THERE WILL BE NO DELAY IN DELIVERING YOUR CAR WHEN YOU WANT IT. * ~° NOTE THESE [PRICES AND: CONSIDER THAT IT IS \ ON A HIGH GRADE CAR. ! Model Four-Ninty Chassis . ...............$595 Model Four-Ninety Roadster .............$635 Model Four-Ninety Touring ........ Model Four-Ninety. Coupe ..............$1,155 or Week. Your Trade Is Solici Will ‘Be Appreciated;/Here I have opened my store at the corner of Minnesota ‘Ave, and Fourth St. Ready for Business. I will;also conduct.a Pool Hall and will operate a Rooming House with Roms for Rent by Day ted and 3 A lover may not know much about photography i it s Ot e, RICHRTIRAY AN Job be develoning Frank Dewey ‘ACROSS FROM THE CITY HALL Model Four-Ninety Sedan ..............$1,195 Model Four-Ninety Light Delivery ... ......$645 Model “G” Truck Chassis, 3-4 ton «.........vive.nooo $820 Model “T” Truck Chassis, 1ton .........cc..veenn.....$1,225 A F.M.GOUGHNOUR MOTOR INN GARAGE | m———