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Thuredsy? Meareh 10. 2018" Bae orl Why Not? @ «vent. BY By Maurice Ketten ts MOTABLISHDD BY JOSEPH PULITEER | Pablasnes Datly espe Sunday by the Prone Pudiishing Company, Nos. 63 10 President, 6% Park Row. 0c PEAR Pees EPO ho, Reflections of a Bachelor Girl Ter tathuat ana tee, continent and Thence By Helen Rowland i All Conatesas in the Tateraationel MEETING Copnright, 1918, ty The Pram Pubtidiing Oo, (The How Yack Broning Wedd), te] One Tear. $9. | We O man is as sweet and noble as his voice sounds over the telephone - ‘t0lOne Month. lay pe when he is telling his wife that he will have to “work late at the VOUUME B5....0000cccssesees 19,56 SEBEL Soe ‘The same acute desire to get something for nothing which prompts on@ {man to buy a gold brick, tempts every men to marry the woman whq succeeds best tn bamboosling him. PREACH AGAINST wi ANY OTHER BUSINESS CONCERN.” aoe Maxey INTEMPERANCE NW LESS then seven pages of big type the Mayor and four City Commissioners of Dayton, Ohio, report to Daytowians what the firet year of commission government has accomplished for ‘the city. Under thirty-four heads, each of which gets from three to fifteen Timex, the commission tells concieely what it did for Health, Street © leaving, Parks, Police, Fire Protection, Sewerage, Buikting Code, ete, etc., giving aleo the amount epent on each department as com- pared with the previous vear. After steting the city’s financial condition in three lines, the commission adda: One consolation in having to listen to a man talk about himself by the hour, before marriage, is the knowledge that, once you have safely landed him at the altar, the conversationa) monopoly will be changed to the other foot for life. COME IN AND SIGN THE PLEDGE Almost any straight path of ‘otion will lead to a girl's heart; but th average man can't help sig-sagging from adoration to indifference, fret; hope to fear, aad from sentiment to self-preservation, so that if he ever getp there at ali, it is merely by accident. A girl never knows whether to let a man see tha e expects him to propose, and run the risk of frightening him off too early, or to let him VEGETARIAN ANTI -GAMBLING We have not issued any bonds in 1914 for operating ex- MEETING MEETING think that ehe doesn’t, and run the risk of letting him off too easlly. penses, or for any deficiencies, street repairs or street light: Tae SECRETARY ay ee ; notwithstanding are eo exercised in trying to discover what impressi: arrive in addition to that J ial haa i fon OF AGRICULTURE “THe SECRETARY fan made on thats, thet they Soraet to wonder what inpression—it p104 ‘ : . they have made on the girl. And any citizen cgn greap in ten minutes what that service Witt PREACH TREASURY i! one hes been. AG AINST PI ‘The men we “might have married,” like the fish we almost cayght, and One or two remarks are interesting. Under “Improved Syetem MEAT wi eo Sie tes bet on, always appear doubly dear and fascinating in of Bookkeeping,” for example: _ t jshing perspective. A complete inventory of all clty property and effects has . PLEDGE GAMBLING been ken and usar rave placed on h hereby etablanng pc ate ers See ae BEA her interest in the etyles and des ia for the first time the city’s true which are now carried VEGETARIAN COME InN ANO pore on the books, giving a basis for a system of bookeeping the SIGN THE PLEDGE same as in any other business concern. Aleo as to Civil Service: The installation of more business methods throughout the various sdministrative departments has resulted in stinrutat- fag all employees of the city to an enthusiastic interest in ‘The only woman who can trust a man in the love-game is the one wha can trust her own ability to beat him at it. Everyday Perplexities Capreight, 1915, ty The Pree Publishing Oo, (The New York Drening World). w WHY NOT 7 LABOR E HAVE SUCH Sick Room Visits. Don't tell long stories of other peo~ MEETING Cient Soop | HE west time you call on al rowing Getalle, Lat the invaild tail au ERNMENT: ‘cick friend or relative take|® little about his own sufferings if ‘ “At the end of its report the commission can say: HEAR THE he wants to. This is rellef to his In conclusion, without issuing any bonds for the operation SECRETARY oF LABOR PREACH IN FAVOR oF HUSBANDS DOING THE Sell. HOUSEWORK, ty the Tour | — I never could quite see the point of | Come In aw SIGN reminding a sick man of his bless. that he should be Tue PLEDGE has not, porhape;! Hl as Ey Hh E i g ; Tat it i 5 g 4 : a wil as i i Ht i eae ugk i g > & POGPEEDEOOE ODDELS COPLEECESOREDLODE CESEEOERECALSEEED Mr. Jarr Once More Vainly Attempts To Beat a Game That’s Unbeatable | | The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell all play if we play auction pinochle.” | and irate Mrs. Gus, with a shawi over Copyright, 1915, by The Press Publishing Oe, (The New York Bening Werld), But Elmer had served only the first | her head. ( SUB ET out of my liquor store! {eed Mr. Jarr, ‘and let's all go in the} round on the first hand when the side ‘How tas it 1 go over to Mra. Raf- | i 5 i 5 } 3 a3 if fi Bs gras mit! i t i % 5 4 iti! i with her million and « belf squere miles and her eald Gus, belt in jest _amd| back room and play pincchle; we can} door few open, disclosing the buxom | fe half in earnest. ‘What My Wife’s Husband ~==By Dale Drummond = Coppright, 1915, ty The Pres Publishing Oo, (The New York Bveniag World). OHAPTER XIX. I thought “home Jest I felt that I could af- ford an automobile. At least, 400,000,000 erent can Supe So? x you coming now for when Mamhart Chins. Menchur R i " " ‘i Aone jayresty with e popdation of only 11,000,000. It Remit tote A long ume ie yon len wan The Simp le Life and the «Idle Rich iheenini band. (But the reel China—the Chine of Centon and Shang-| "ren nn Mae ee ne nasty By Sophie Irene Loeb ‘Ana five tai—that vest impenetrable mass thet. has endured for centuries by| Dutchmen,” said Mr. Jarr, as he! back to chains and slavery. patience and perseverance—is not going easily into anybody’s|ere about a dollar and a half ahead the world. died. the other| 2s women, however, learned very So Wags the World. y soon that no matter how much mon: ‘woman by giving her and it my come f Jot the game, If you hadn't that day, you have, your capacity for enjey-| By Clarence L. Cullen. At T could not ate tet | paniondtdp, my mein ae far aa © Milbe Chinese are thriftier than the Japanese, better farmers, bet- cummed up ny, {td wpenwured and limited: and os leg Manag Bey nre Prog iy fh th 4 @eemed to be the keynote of it all, {at (trite a it may seem) 9 sure oer, Has Yak tovccing Wethe Jess of an extravagance. I Compared the Jaq re vid stag and forget it. Hat} ‘This woman millions at band|Leope the spirit ailve "and the heart ‘ENUN' : "He's the|2OW spent & great deal of time a¢ peggraary It is not always by armice that countries are cap- you pay for It.” | yeemingy very early that alyoung. : ind of fellow wno, whan | Wonatord. 1 Wtuned to the vook up| S2keds roturning to . ‘ A er” rT life ‘The man of the hour hasn't a min- if twice eek, and my clinica took up certainl; 1" I returned; othe or saved. Solid economic etability, inert as it may ecem, is ong Ute Apa 6 Simole cme to better! out Mioare Ie gen went er (ning he tells you that he weare| ("we Nee Mime, I bed been get-|'men have, and I rather think I am ap than a short one with complexities. ai seek the BUSBY ry ‘son, The the same weight under- oree | intelligent as the average.” below, came in‘and said: Tt wae anie Of par that of} drone in the human hive wets drunk | siete ee tacuih a: ting along with the same old Dr. Bue you are no machinist, ns : leading a luxurious existence she| With too much sweetness and is too y’know—all th sack and bugsy that I had used when Dr. | .14 you might have trouble with hi} So, no, Meester Jarr, I am to tell | chose to be a real partner in her mar-| Week to defend himeelf trom tho |’ know © year round expects | tish was alive. I had bought it/engine. You know you are positively you that your vife calls me up by the | rieg life, in the good old way. Her stings when they come. They usunily |you to get all het up with interest) >. Jomingl sum from the exec-|helpless aa far as fixing anything telephone and it ia ahe asks me to . come, over that astounding revelation.” around the house, and I don't see how an impregnable defenve againet a raiding neighbor. * Other nations have been under the impreesion that, when China threatened they must frown and talk loud to save her. But China thes. weathered some thirty centuries—even the civilized ones, She @lase-put-in man from . op. ‘ almple home activities were embodied} A rich woman came to me the other 7 utors. you are to manage an engine.” wen’t be stolen in « jiffy. abe itue & come by here nnd tellin that home, and she did not seek| day crying, “Tell me something to do.) When you're breaking your neck.| 1 bought @ reasonably priced Car) | After trying the car out near home, a yes. if yen -den't come ‘sight away in the limelight, nor climb |! t to help some way—anything |go to speak, to pay for a dinky little |® Tunabout, one very popular in LObh) and nearly having @ bad accident auick home you won't haf no home | ,, to break the monotony of time-kill-\,. ., gection of the country. pretty | when little John was with me, I de- Killing frosts in the South remind us that th when you do come te it” : Bhe had belonged to the idle |#1200 bungalow, with enough ground | gyre I could run it myself, so did not) cided to have a demonatrator out ough spring peerahindiiet” ghia Me; 3 e sense.| “reserves,” who are not content tolaround it to enable you to raise| bother having any one teach me. from Woodford, and learn to run the arrives next Sunday it only registers, Winter doesn't give up Mrs on re Sarr, wane et OTHERS register in their places ‘chickens and thus provide for a fru-| “Aren't you obliged to have &lcar properly. I had not told Jane of im ite key. “If my wife thinks I am | qual mad ty. on the firing line of action. jwal old age, it's sort o' numbing to Jane asked when I told her/my trouble, but it made me # bit here, ahe knows Gus has a t . v" ny it—th kere see a picture in a Rewepaner s€¢ & | intended to run the car myself. | nervous nevertheless, and I $y A hidabigh a her husband: or satiate tion wees aim fo find | Chink vase that Feri: bought cathe shall get one right away,’ i ; ; “4 a new thrill. They realize after all {for $400,000, or a picture of a squash |I told her. cs Hits From Sharp Wits. that ‘there is nothing new aaa the court that some fellow has had-built| ‘What will It cost? aun” except the aun itself that brings |a# an afterthought on his Lo ‘About fifteen or twenty dollars,” j “What profiteth a fellow to be a, vertisement life would possess some| Cherman.” ideas, but} with it a new —and with it some- at a cost of $126,000./1 haszarded. lighted, and tted happily and A ‘ked | additional charms.—Pittsburgh Bun. | “‘Slavinsky,"’ sald Schmidt, the dell- thing actual to do whi “Why sbould it be so much? This merrily during the frst part of our * ‘ It have envied t! wom- Fapasecge shoul mak J le. , mer He who hesitates always apaite| Catemen dealer, ‘coming in, an for her money you have chosen “You must teach me to run. the wrong. — Memphis Commercial Ap. | Wife calls me on the real|the lesser of her sources of happi- ear, George, then I can tal peal. asks me to come ness. One great source Nappies | ore th out sometimes when you are away,” a #2 8 you may have right now, It is the! from the b, b. training camps. “I did not buy the car for any rea- ivea tent: simple re ‘of cont | @on save that I needed it,” I returned, ree y that little money can procure.| It’s astontehti how many women a treating Brand 1 ai id Mr. Ja Yantt Miclieaussns lies’ tet tn tae ea-|letnsiion weed aees “Win vr," says Prof. Brand- “Tam,” sa! ir. Jarr, “but I think ont ent me in en- | ing yellow 4 er Mati “ie = fine word.” How-| A little authority looks large to a| (hat is one on #lavinsky.’ ee. Mam) ves, after hard |joyment of eage—a life of jusury— “But why do men allow it—etand | 4, my hospital work, going back ind that al t ha’ become uut comes only to him that labors and| Before we had our first view of bev|for it?” abe queried. “It is perfectly ee en 0 er ce San ne | AR 6 seal soensal calibre, Slavinsky gave an appealing glance and continue to eens | overcomes—to him that pertorms the | we imagingd that the woman ™ | Fidictious the way you ory ‘graft’ at| fort to Woodford, and to save Nashville Banner. When a man is determined to|@round. “Must J treat?” he asked. | aume all produce nothing. They|task in hand and reaps the satisfac- | ing the flat above us, inasmuch as every little aniag, “Oh, I see!” ahe replied, and neve: ee 8 argue, you can't stop him even by| Everybody assured him that he must,|are the Idle well-to-do, the parasites ‘tion of work well done.” seomed from the noise she made in|on your way, doing nothing to pre- y eee a mae Mayaties If we could only wear our clothea| professing to agree with ‘him in ali] and be then wild: ““L will the dice Welring oe tae. Meer eee: | TN os excited, Jann” I enghed, oy 88. yoil as do those chaps in the ad- that he saya—Albany Journal, chuck for it.” Betty Vi t's Advice to Lover pelgh at least #49 pounds. And whea|It te one of the wrongs that takes| ‘Then it will be good for aw fh vss? > They were rolling the ‘dice again, y Vincen' 8 we lamped ber we feared fw our t,” amused at her appear | 1 continued, pretending Hus te eee ” fe saw L ad boping to “stick the house,” which le GIRL working la an office caa- Tes. picked’ reedbird and couldat ‘ate go with me when J make my country ® vain hope, when. Hepler, ¢he uch above ity-ive. calls and so get more fresh air. Epa ot be too careful to keep the Wave weighed wm Gentes Boo “That witt be very nice,” 4 . relations between herself a ideas flatly, all animation gone from ability of th 5 else he| We've never seen a picture of a war rratic turned flatly, mudent T, WARD. Hey Schmidt, your wife says YOU! no, employer strictly business-like. | declares that I shail love Mm atter| correspondent without & ®eld glass have had that 1 would sympethi: voice. led by constant- "We must try and how we can wens me ae T conaldered red xpenses so that I can pay for i} t means you would like me to President Associated iivening High | Bohool Alumni, bel) Compound interest. are to come home right away or ah , In the re of late more than with him steadily for a year or| slung over his shoulder, sort 0’ care- will lock up the store and throw the| one ¢: iy been detailed which | so. wt shall I do?” Tonecline, But if one of ‘em ever by key out of the winder. She tells me@/ could be traced directly te the ac-| Since you are not see 4 the first y chance fi t to have his binocu- ip with | lara i ed =we can imagine He hee Mabon pig d yetellyr vere fe aecond? him’ that’ you'll | how the omisnion must hin’ broke his go without something to pay for it, T In reply to Joe to come in here and tell you it. undertake WY heart. pressive and convincing if #0 man ca simplest formula f ‘What's bight” tt %, i — of ‘em dida’t leer sheepishly or fool- |, if you can save a little im of compound interest, I “Hey,” said Muller, the grocer, fr , When two women in to tell each t the camera man at the mo-| the house I could it patd for ms mont of napping. "uneasy usual to ‘the following. 1n' simpler words, | looking in, ‘Bepler, your wife tele- the ether “Ml. D.* writes: “A young man hee qporetions, willing to deny my- hould find mount of $1 for! phones me to ask if { won't come over | fered accepted, Thi been seeing me three nights a week, | one of them invariably becomes obvi- riod at simple interest, After considerable reflective hark- Just then Gus's telephone com- —_— ‘think are i bim too — menoced to ring urgently. “D. D." writes: “I love with He ‘pair bool cnontiont ‘The pictures of the mem in the % take it ef the hook, Gus!" a ean ween I mek toe years aae ‘hie pouel calls, treeches4gould be a heap more waa ee ee mene Be i re ne et - A he said ‘I will see you | ous!; ved when she finds that the Po oth ee ee tained by | hers and say if you don't come back | mom on Nald, ‘It you cam't| other wes on the o tants for ‘seem to remember that High |bar ot poriode"(l'er if for'vns Teets| needu't ever'come backs’ ""| mie. gentigmam he Wil net” ‘Boryou tniak he really |ceiy’ under'the nile tor forty, mine ove, forty whose werk (i. @., if for t ‘ears x Sud a only ie re - | oA . Sr 6 yer cont, cotmpuled ‘somlcane | Manctt ever this ataituse. : ually, he would get’ 1.03X1,05Xi.08) and multiply this Foul 4