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GIVE IT A MEANING
WTHEN IN DOUBT, vote no. This
W 0nce was sound advice to the
voter who went to the polls Igrant
o?the ramifications of
measure. But today u -J
even dangerous. ,
his ballot no witnout
the issue itself is faced with this
question: Did you really vote no .
And do you really know how you
voted?
The ballot has become too complex,
especially where measures are con
cerned. Withness Oregon City.
To decide on the location of the
city hall, two ordinances were refer
red to the people. One provided for
the selection of the down town loca
tion and the other for the selection
of the hill site. They were separate.
s it happened, the lower site was
defeated and the upper site carried.
It is to be presumed that the action
was what the majority wished hut it
is also probable that some people
voted as they didn't intend to. To
vote yes on one site it was neces
sary to vote no on another. Failure
to do this killed one's own vote.
Imagine this situation: Hill propon
ents voting for the hiU only and Main
-street proponents for their location
only, and both measures carrying?
Then where would the matter stand?
Or if both had been lost tnrougn wb
reverse of this case? The matter
was not entirely clear upon the bal
lot and the omission further of the
up-hill site from the ballot title com
plicated it.
The recall directed against the
county judge presented complications
to some voters. Under the law there
are two things to be voted on; the
recall and the candidates. It is known
that there are instances where peo
ple voted for the recall and voted to
place Cross in office to succeed him
self. The reverse of this case is
probably also true. At one time dur
ing the count in a certain Clackamas
county .precinct, the recall was lead
ing by a sizeable majority and the
county judge lead his opponent for
re-election.
The theory of the great American
ballot is that it expresses the untram
meled will of the people. Butit must
first be provided that the people know
what their will is to 'be expressed on.
Agitation for the short ballot covers
a needed reform. Elimination of tech
nicality so that the measures may be
intelligible should merit prime con
sideration. -
TOYS AND TARIFF
GERMAN-MADE TOYS, manufac
tured to meet the requirements
of the American holiday season, make
up a large part of the cargo which
the Orduna of the Royal Mail Steam
Packet Company is bringing to port,"
says a shipping note of the N. Y.
Journal of Commerce. "The Orduna
sailed from Hamburg early this month ,
with her hold loaaea wun ions o
German toys, the handicraft of the
German toymakers, who before the
war were known all over the world.
The shipment that is now about to
arrive here was gathered togeiner
from various parts of Germany and Is
.the advance guard of later shipments
that are to come in time for the hol
iday trade in the United States."
It was the New York Journal of
Commerce that was most persistent
in its assertions that the new Repub
lican tariff law would prohibit the
importation of foreign wares. The
Republican law placed a duty of 70
per cent ad valorem on toys. Prior
to the war about 85 per cent of them
came from Germany, the total Impor
tations being about $9,000,000 annual
ly. In 1921 we imported $10,000,000.
worth, and Japan has been getting al
goodly share of the trade. Last year,
fiscal year 1922, importations dropped;
to $7,300,000 but an increaisng Ger
man trade became apparent. In 191
the importer could take an Amerlcanl
dollar and purchase with it in Ger
many about four marks worth ot
toys, the German wage scale at that
time being about one-third our own.
In 1922 the American dollar would
buy from 300 to 1000 marks worth of;
toys in Germany, and while the prices
cn toys in'that country had risen, the
rise was iar inmi uaiu.ui6 -
rreciation. The pamphlet published
by the Finance Committee of the Sen
ate while the present tariff law was
being framed showed prices of Ger
man toys to be from one-tenth to one-
fifth what they were before tne war,
i-hile the importers were Belling them j
over the counters in this country at
large increases over pre-war price.
The increased tariff affects them but.
little.
For example, before the war the
dniT on tnv was 35 per cent. A Ger
man doll at that time might have
nurchased by the importer for, say,
i rt anrt sold nere lor
ilar doll might be purchased there to
day for 50 cents and sold here for
five or six dollars. In 1914 the import
er was paying a duty of 53 cents,
making his landed prices about $2.03.
Under the present law he would get
' the doll for 85 cents 50t cents plus
35 cents duty. In 1914 he woulA
have made nearly 3.00, while today
he would make probably as high as
$5.00.
It' is highly probable that the toy
makers of the United States are not
getting as much protection now a$
they were in 1914, even though the
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rate is doubled. If such is found to
be the case within the next few!
months, the President is authorized
to apply the flexible provision of the
tariff, and in view of the fearful de
preciation of German exchange this
may be - -found necessary. Indeed,
foreign currency depreciation was the
chief motive which actuated Senator;
Reed Smoot to draft the flexible
clause. That works both ways, so In!
case a duty Is found to be too high,
it can be adjusted without throwing
the entire tariff law open to debate.
The repeated assertions of the anti-protectionists
that the present law
would prohibit importations have al
ready been proved unsound as Treas
ury men state the prospects for In
creased trade with Europe are big.
But the opportunity for underselling
American producers has been great
ly curtailed. As the Republicans con
tended, the present law is not prohib
itive, but it Is restrictive.
THE INVESTMENT INDEX
IN DISCUSSING the financial sit
uation over the country. Will T.
Wright of the Bank of Oregon City
who recently returned from the east,
makes the declaration that there is
adequate capital available for
investment and that this year, as
has not been possible at least during
the years of 1920 and 1921, funds are
being placed in industrial and com
mercial fields upon long time as well
as short term security.
Railroad investment has been one
of the indicative fields, wherein the
investment has been heaviest. Thurs
day the announcement was made by
the Southern Pacific of contemplated
expenditure of $8,000,000 in the con
struction of 7,000 new freight cars.
This new freight Equipment, which
will be delivered during 1923, does
not include refrigerator cars for
handling perishables, as the Com-
pany's supply of refrigerators is
vided by the Pacific Fruit Express
Company, in which the Southern Pa
cific owns a one-half interest. The
new equipment program of the Pacif
ic Fruit Express Company, soon to be
announced will add a substantial num
ber of refrigerators to the21,598 the
Pacific Fruit Express Company now
owns. The addition of these cars to
the Southern Pacific's present sup-
ply will materially benefit Pacific-
Coast shippers. Plans for the con- j elections are over. Having seen the
struction of these new cars for the , horror8 0f- tne Great War he is tak
Southern Pacific are nearing comple- . no rjsfe8. Punch (London).
tion and it is expected that a large ;
proportion of the new rolling stock f To most folks there appears only
will - be built on the Pacific Coast one K in Kansas, but Governor Allen
with Pacific Coast materials and Pa- baa a hunch he's going to find three
cific Coast labor. of 'em and throw 'em all out. Ore-
That the management of .the St. gon journal.
Louis'-SanFrancisco Railway, com-!. :
monly and commercially known as ', n tne 0jd days it was the Grand
the Frisco Lines, has abounding faith , opera House and Palace Livery Sta
in the future of the territory these ' Die now they call them the movies
lines serve, and that they are looking the garage. Salem Capital Jour-
forward to an era of prosperity which - n8j.
must soon, and inevitably follow up-: .
on the termination of the present per-. Where are we going to put the vil-
lod of industrial unrest, is evidenced
in a statement of Chas. A. Forrest
General Agent, Pacific Coast, for
these lines with offices In San Fran
cisco, Los AngelesL and Seattle, that
his lines have recently let contracts
for 35 large Mikado freight engines.
15 mountain type passenger engines'
and 1000 fifty ton steel hopper bottom
coal cars at an expense of over $8,-
000,000. Bids have also been asked
for 1500 fifty-five ton all steel gon
dola coal cars, 1200 heavy steel un-,
derframe automobile box cars and 300
heavy steel underframe stock cars.
Delivery of the locomotive will begin
i in November and the freight equip
ment will follow rapidly.
In addition to the equipment above
enumerated, they recently purchased
14 steel passenger coaches and chair
cars.
"To further show how my lines" are
looking ahead," said Forrest, "with
a view ot improving our facilities so
as to be in position to give better ser
vice, our double track between St.
Louis and Pacific (34 miles) and be
tween Kansas City and Paola (43
miles) will be completed at-an early
date. We have recently completed
two sections of double track from
Globe to Monett, Mo., (4 miles) and
Sleeper to Lebanon (8 miles)."
This type of activity, of which the
foregoing examples are picked at ran
dom, is evidenced over the entire na
tion. Big business does not invest its
millions when there is danger of fu
ture depression. The country has al
ready passed through one of the most
serious crises in its history without
an economic break. There is a reas
suring note in the investments being
made by those concerns which are in
a position to assess completely the
color of the situation and the situ
ation which is to come.
A laundry mark forms the latest
clue to Portland's newest "beast man"
mystery. The fact that it has provenl
of little value to the police ought to
give them the hunch that the "beast"
probably wouldn't have occasion to
obtain such an identifying mark.
The only American firm continuing
to do business in Asia Minor is the
Standard Oil company whose pro-
ducts are paid for by the Turks in
Bolshevik gold, which places the fliv
ver in the list of essentials,
The defeat or tne women s ennui-
s 1
dates over the nation is attributed to
the fact that the women didn't hang
together. They haven't much more
sense than the men after all.
Now that the election is over and
Armistice day properly celebrated,
with Thanksgiving an immediate
prospect do your. Christmas shop
ping early.
The fifteen year old girl who is al
ready singing for the metropolitan
opera, should, as the saying goes, be
good hen she grows up.
The Ameicran tobacco company has
closed its office in Smyrna. One j
atrocity less. No more Turkish cig-j
arettes. -
Borrowed Commerjt.
What Editors of State and National
Papers Have to Say.
Well, we see the Republicans have
already cut down the number of Gov-J
ernment employees from 438,057 at
the end of the last fiscal year before
we entered the war to 560,863 at pres
ent. Ohio State Journal. '
The French are trying out a new
fuel composed of a mixture of alco
hol and gasoline. We predict now
it won't work. Experiments in this
country have proved it is too danger
Bus. Philadelphia Inquirer.
The rapidity with" which divorce fol
lows marriage with the movie folk
suggests that marriage licenses and
divorce decrees should be issued on
a detachable form similar to round
trip railroad tickets Astoria Budget.
The Harvard astronomers who have
located a new universe six hundred
thousand trillion miles from the earth
will foe needed later to figure the to
tal issues' of marks and rubles.5 Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
Judging from the description of
it that follows, the geometric rule
best fitting the case would be to
rush the artists by straight line to
the nearest police station. Oregon
ian. Up to this writing, nobody has sug
gested that the murder mystery at
New Brunswick, N. J., was caused by
the movies or booze. Columbia Rec
ord. Milwaukie girl, according to head
line, "Found a Husband on the Golf
Pr-tTtnks" Nothing strange. - Thats
where most of them are. New i orK
American.
Manuel, exiled King of Portugal,
says he is a democrat at heart and in
Dractice. He must confess, thougn,
the practice was forced on him. Phil
adelphia Evening Public Ledger.
tt niemenceau has decided to post-
' M , lt to America until their
jage smithy, now that all the chest-
nut trees have been cut down to make
room for filling stations? Oregon
Journal.
"Turkey price is lower for the hol
idays,", the papers say. Which means
that they're still out of sight. Ore-
gon journal. '
- Speaking of holiday delights, had
you noticed that there are just 43
days more in which to do your Christ
mas shopping? Oregon Journal..
It's a fact that we all have an over
powering interest in automobiles. If
wq don't own them we have to dodge
them. Lebanon Express.
Those who think America can pre
vent massacres In Turkey forget that
we can't even prevent massacres in
Illinois. Virginian-Pilot.
The Democrats are talking about
abandoning the mule as a party sym
bol. What's the matter, has the mule
I been kicking? Detroit Free Press.
Maybe one reason Germany hates
to pay out that reparations money is
that she needs it to prepare for her
next war. New. York Tribune.
A psychologist objects to what he
calls "herd thinking," but what a ma
jority of people think is always what
they've heard. Washington Post.
The Allies could handle the Turk
more effectively if they didn't have
to watch each other so closely. Dal
las News.
When they vote on the projected
bill to legalize beer and wine, there
won't be a dry aye in the House.
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
The three R's of the American
schoal ot diplomacy seem to be Res
cue, Relieve and Relinquish. Sacra
mento Bee.
The Christian powers have discov
ered that there is still something of
a slam left in Islam. Weston Lead
er. .
Oil is said to be the dominant ' fac-j
tor in world politics, but it is not
used for lubrication. Pittsburgh Dis
patch. Gaston is a candidate against Sen
ator Lodge in Massachusetts.
Haven't any report from Alphonse's
activities. Oregon Journal.
; "Nations are Staggering
Under 1
Load." Thanks to prohibition that
doesn't mean - what it once might
have. Oregon Journal.
At this season, the candidate's pref
erence in lubricants is soft-soap. To
ledo Blade.
With long skirts, they can ta"ke
their time about mending the runs in
their hosiery. Oregon Journal.
Did Billy's boy take the sua out of
Sunday? Oregon Journal.
The Book Corner.
By C. E. G.
THE BALLAD OF 1595
From the Pepysian Library of Mag
dalene College, Cambridge, Dr. Hy
der B. Rollins of New York Univer
sity has unearthed a rich .collection
of ballads published between 1595
and 1639, the golden age of the . bal
lad, which came to an end in the
Commonwealth, when ballad singing
was prohibited by law, street ballad
singers became liable to be flogged;
and the beginnings of journalism pro
per in the shape of news sheets and
pamphlets superseded the more prim
itive art of the riming minstrel. -
Ballads combined the functions 06
mulsc halls and . newspapers. Some
are sentimental or take the form ot
social comment and satire; oCers are,
pure journalism the latef inging.
tho latest wonder but crime
is the subject it is gc jandled
in a moralizing stre ,a recalls
the manner of the Newgate Calendar
rather than our current reports 0
proceedings at the police court or Old
Bailey. Other ballads possess a strong
religious flavor and point to the fun
damentally religious frame of mind)
of London three hundred years ago,
full, of prophecy and fears of immi
nent judgment. A few are definitely
historical, one or two are derived
from ancient sources and several
have come to London from the coun
try; but London, somehow or other,
seems to have set Its seal on them;
all; London as it was lived by the
common people, husbands and wives,
young men . and maidens, tradesmen,
hawkers, peddlers, tipplers, thieves,
apprentices and servants.
The gem of the collection is "A
Country New Jigge between Simon
and Susan to be sung in merry pas
time by Bachelors and Maydens";'
though before coming to it we must
pay attention to what the editor has
to say about the jig as a species of
composition. He regards as "the
most important single ballad in the
volume" "Francis' New Jig," of the
date 1595; and the most important
it may well be, on several" grounds,
though for daintiness we prefer Si
mon and Susan. . The jig was a mini
ature comedy or farce, written in bal
lad measure, .which at the end of a
play was sung and danced on the
stage to ballad tunes. ' There were
at least two performers; and by 1590,
we are told, jigs were thoroughly es
tablished in London theaters as the
usual conclusions to plays.
They were not always of the utmost,
delicacy, but Simon and Susan is be
yond all reproach, and with its pretty
refrains is in its way as sweet as the
ballad of the "Nut Brown Maid."
. SIMON .-. '
On mine owne sweet heart
And when wilt thou be true:
Or when will the time come
That I shall marry you.
That I may give you' kisses
One, two or three,
More sweeter than tie hunny
That comes from the bee.
SUSAN
My father is unwilling
That I should marry thee,
Yet I could wish in heart
That so the same might be:
For now methinks thou seemst
More lovely unto me:
And fresher than the Blossomes
. That bloomes on the tree.
But her mother - is "most willing"
and they decide to approach his fath
er, and tell her mother so, who gives
her consent:
For young-thout are as blosoms
That bloom upon the tree
In the old man's presence Susan
begs him not to say nay, for she has
found a "husband kinde," and "will
evermore agree": :
Which is 'more sweet than honey
That comes from the Bee.
Her mother, too, and Simon plead
on the same ground, until at last::
SIMON .
Then let's unto the Parson
and Clerke to say Amen:
SUSAN
With all my heart good Simon
we are concluded then,
My father and my mother both
doe willingly agree
My Simon's sweet as honey
- that comes from the Bee. .
Douglas Reynolds.
Viscount French, the Earl of Ypres,
is one of the very few peers who use
the name of a place -outside the lim
its of the British Empire for their
title. The name of Ypres will forever
be associated with the glorious
achievements of the' British army he
commanded in the first terrible years
of the war.
A suggestion has been made in Am
erica that the Earl should identify
the pronunciation of his tile with the
British Tommy's light hearted "wip
ers" and that as Earl of Wipers Lordl
French should perpetuate the histor
ic mispronunciation.
There was a shooting affair on
another lower Columbia highway
stage the other day. If that keeps
up, the railroads will get their pass
enger business back. Eugene Regis
ter. 1
i Three sets of triplets and two sets
of twins in ten years is the record
of an Indiana couple. What a pity;
Teddy couldn't have lived to see that
family! Eugene Register.
A Chicago woman poisoned her
husband because she was jealous ot
him. She would have got farther in
the long run by feeding him. Eugene
Register.
Somebody else's -wife and a minis
ter were found murdered in Montana
vAHterdav. That'n ft ciiRtam that in
spreading too fast. Eugene Register. '
The Office Cat.
By Junius. -
REVOLUTIONARY .
Dancing Instructor "Next, I'll
show you how to do the Russian Bol
sha." .
'She "How does that go?"
"Just' one revolution after another."
STILL FAR AWAY
The millenimum will have arrived
when little Georgie is willing to take
a bath without any promise of a re
ward. When a man swells up with the
notion that nobody else can handle
his job, it isn't long until there is
a strange name on the payroll.
SECOND HAND
Doctor: Now that yon have a oar
you must not neglect your daily ex
ercise. .
She: "Oh, he won't. It's a second
hand car.
- HERE'S ONE
Wife (at breakfast) : "Could I have
a little money - for shopping today,
dear?" ' .
- Husband: "Certainly. Would you
rather have an old five or a new
one?"
Wife: "New one, of course.'
Husband: "Here's the one and I'm
four dollars to the good."
There was an earthquake recently
which frightened the inhabitants of
a certain town. One couple sent their
little boy to stay with an uncle in
another district, explaining the rea
son. -
A day or two later the parents re
ceived this telegram:.
"Am returning your boy. Send the
earthquake."
WHAT EVERY HUSBAND KNOWS
When a woman goes away from
home the first tthing she talks about
on returning is not her trip, but the
awful condition the house is in.
Bath tubs are . becoming so com- j
mon and familiar that talcum and per- j
fume do not bait the men like it used j
tj. I
GOOD, TOO
"Our stage villains no longer roll
their r's."
"Well, the telephone girls have tak
en it up."
' Many a man has lost his reputation
for veracity by going on a fishing trip,
THE GREAT FINANCIER
Smitson: "Do you know that Noah
was the greatest financier who ever
lived?"-
Dibbs: "How- do you make that
out?"
Smithsonf ''Well, he was able to
float a company when the whole
world was in liquidation. -
The gas and light meter is the-nearest
thing to perpetual motion he has
found.
SUSPICIOUS
"Why do you close my place? You
ain't never caught me doing nothing."
"To much argument in here for
near-beer." .
SAME IN EVERYTHING
No matter how carefully you pick
apples off a tree there's a fine one
away up there at the top that .you
missed. In life, it's about the same
way.
Love is blind, and with people mar
rying in times like these we suspect
it is also wholly ignorant of arith
metic. SETTLING THE BET.
"Will you settle a bet for me?"
askd Jinks.
replied Blnks. "What's the!And ardent hued to niark the sun
bet?"
"I made a bet with Winks and lost;
ssn- tvdIIp TfTiir mii Mm 'I
check for the amount, will you?"
YEP!
There are a lot of saving folks
-And I will say they're sly ones -
They used to save for rainy days
And now they Save for dry ones.
Barnum is famous for his one born
a minute statement. Ford turns out a
flivver every seven seconds. There
is still lots of prospects for sales.'
No one can feel more virtuous than
a man who goes . without a cigarette
all Sunday morning because he ran
out of them the night -before. - ""j
Few girls are as bad as they are'WUh kjsses teii8 aloft its world fare
painted, or as "white" as 'they are, well! "
powdered.
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About the only thing that limits the'
cost ' of living" in this country is the(
pay envelope. ,
Mrs. Gush "How did your husband
get run over?"
Mrs. Gass "He was picking up a
horseshoe for luck." ' I
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The fact is, the men had better quit
devoting so much time to criticism j
of woman suffrage and devote morej
to planning how they're going to re-'
tain their seats in the smoking car.
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THE EYE OF THE LAW. I
First Officer "Did you get that
renows number?" - i
Second Ditto "No, he was going
too fast." . 1
First "Say, that was a fine look--
ing dame In the car."
Second "Wasn't she?"
We noticed a sign which read:
you want to see our town, go slow ; .
if you want to see jir.jail, let 'er
go." We did not see any autoists
letting er go in that burg. 1
The Poets Corner.
Songs and Sonnets From the Pens
of Modern Writers.
WHITENESS
By Isot)el Hume
The little betrothed has washed her
linen
And hung it out to dry;
It puffs and blows into mists and
cloudlets
Under the April sky.
Her arms are white as the white pear
blossom Her throat is as white as may;
And her heart, like a song on sunny
morning,
. Newborn and sweet as they.
Shje will walk in white to church on
Sunday
Through orchards where birds sing:
And the bridegroom, taking her home
at evening
Will think he weds the Spring.
Westminister Gazette.
DESERT SAGE
By Edith Osborne
My feet are treading the city streets,
But my heart is far astray,
Over the distant desert hills
Where the sage grows cool and
grey.
Where the scent of the sage is keen
and sweet x
That flies on the wind away.
I hear the noise of the' busy town
And the crowds that pass me by;
But my thoughts are away to the dis
tant hills
As wild birds homeward fly. , -I
am one with the hills and the fra
grant sage,
The wind, and the autumn sky.
And ever the western winds do blow,
From the Land of Yesterday,
Where the silvery plumes of desert
sage -
Fragrantly bend and sway;
(Oh, my feet are treading the : city
- streets
But my heart is far away!)
Lyric West.
HARVEST
By Robert Haven Schauffler
They heard that she was dying, and
they came, - -
The reticent New England village
folk, '
And wrestled with their tongues
and stammering, spoke
j Their very hearts, torn betwixt love
and shame.
The wheelwright ibrought a crock of
flowers . aflame
And,' with moist eyes, said: "Mad
am ef a stroke
O' the axe could save ye (and this
ain't no joke)
I'd cut my right hand off to do that
same!" ' ,
When her white soul had sped the
fisherman rowed
A fare of fish his parting gift
ashore.
And choked, and simply said: "I nev
er knowed
No one I liked so well as her afore."
And the charwoman sobbed: "Twas
me she showed
How not to be .down-hearted any
more." Contemporary Verse.
EBB TIDE OF THE YEAR
By Edith M. Thomas
Do you not see and hear "
Already is the ebb tide of the year.
Though it should seem no more
Than a first wave retreating down
the shore? . I
"No, no," you say, "for still j
Noon empties his hot arrows on the t
hill;
And many are the flowers
bright hours!"
answer: Though the moon
Flames on the hill, when has night
brought such boon . I
Of cooling drink outpoured I
Deep Sleep the oldest - vintage ever i
r " stored; i
While the tree crcket plays.
Movng hs slender wngs of chryso- j
phrase,
And searching is the sigh
Of the low wind through leaves grown
crisp and dry!
AndV as for many flowers.
Look how like ladies from .heCr
windowed towers, j
The bloom creeps ever higher 1
On foxglove and on eveaing primrose ':
spire
TTntH the lauf flower-hall
No birds in nests: thev fare
In fiocks sfarno mated loves are
. there.
siTver yon stubble fields
Where her swift shuttle the graw
weaver wields.
jeA eoi,j. the ereat orb'd sun- i
Leans yearningly toward earth, day
being done.- -
Some beauty past all guards,
Each evening will be slipping heaven-
wards! . .
Summer's old heart is tired,
Beats fitfully, but Time cannot be 1
hired.
You will not have it so?
Too young! These aging signs you j
will not know!
More wise or sad, am I:
So many a year has bidden me Good-
by! New York Herald.;
i The head of the famous Krupp mu
I nitions works in Germany is now
"If convinced that onlv adherence to
Woodrow Wilson's fourteen points
can 6a ve the world. He used to place
his dependence-on heavy artillery.
Eugene Guard.
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The Woman's Column.
By Florence Rlddick-Boyi.
THE KNIFE RACK
I have never seen a knife rack so
convenient as the one my mother or
iginated for her own kitchen and
which my husband has made .for me
in each severalth house we have oc
cupied. I wonder that kitchen cab
inets do not attach some such con
trivance. We have put two of them
on each end of ours and could not
think of living happily ever afterward
without them.
Think how much trouble it is to
open a drawer to find a certain knife
or fork or spoon. You see everything
tn that drawer except the article in
demand. In fact that drawer is "a
place for everything" and apparent
ly everything is in it, exactly as the
old adage says it should be. You take
out all the contents and perhaps last
of all find what you were after, or,
perhaps it was right there on top, but
the confusion of so many utensils
jumbled together dazed you and you
couldn't see it, though it was right
before your nose. ? Now, you are con
vinced of the advantage of the knife
rack and want to learn how to make
one. . -
Here are the specifications : Take
two narrow srips of wood the length
I you want your knife rack to be. In
sert a small chip between them at
each end and screw the whole busi
ness to the wall, or kitchen cabinet.
A knife blade, or fork prong, or spoon
handle will slip down into the crevice
between the strips, which are held
apart by the" chip at each end, and
each tool win stand up in its place in
the row as nicely as can be.
It took me a long time to wake upi
, to a farther advantage: to have a
particular location in the row for
each article, so that I wouldn't have
to look the whole row over for the
desired one. Now each spoon, and
each fork, and the bread knife, and
j the paring knife, have their own prj-
i vate quarters and I could lay my handj
! on any one of them in the dark.
FASHIONS, FADS AND FOIBLES
I
Skirts arenot growing longer, in
j Paris they have' already begun to
I grow sherter again. They are now
all the way from eight to twelve
j. inches from the floor.
!- Uneven lengths are more popular
! than ever. Tbe dipping scallop on
I each side or the panels longer than
j the shut are fyequent styles.
I Long, straight lines are the latest.
'. outvoting the drape and the blouse.
Bell-sleeves are "going strong.'
Quits frequently they are of a differ
ent material from the town. If this
is dark wool, the bell or lower half
of the sleeve may be a bright red
silk. A bell of the goods is likely
to be lined with a gay colored satin
or velvet.
This year's dresses favorthe econ
omncal habit ot making over half
worn gowns. The two-toned garments
persist, allowing a make-over of two
old dresses or a piecing out of a
worn dress with new material.
The circular skirt is drawing cuts
with the slim, straight model to see'
which is the favorite.
For this severalth season we havb
been decorating our garments witii
beads and fringes in true Indian stylt
These ornaments are in evidence this
year more than ever.
Coats do not come quite to the
skirt hem. They are an inch or two
shorter.
Rough, novelty goods for coats, af
ter the English sport model, are more
in style now than the gentle, match
ing, dark coat to go with the suit
skirt.
Belts may be worn or omitted from
the suit coat.
Coat collars are large and capable
of bundling up the
neck in cold
weather.
Little folks are still "plain clothes
citizens." The simpler the lines in
their garments, the more stunning is
the effect. The children are so charm-
ing of themselves, they need little dec-
oration. Kiddie clothes are made
for srvice and play. Bloomer knees
show below the dresses .
SMILES
. Rtght-o!
"Please, what is an optimist, Mother?
Twas Johnnie who asked the ques
tion. "An optimist," replied Mother.
"Is a man with a good digestion."
YOUR CHILD'S HEALTH
Teachers have a better opportuni
ty than have mothers for teaching
health as so much may be accomplish
ed by the community spirit, the ri
valry and competition. These are
the things which handicap the child
and which both mothers and tsach
ers should be on the look out for:
malnutrition, slowness in growth., an-
emia, chronic . indigestion, . extreme
nervousness, want of concentration.
and Pr work in school. How does
I your, child check up on these? Are
i.y la in overseeing them? Is health
j being taught your child in school?
i " r
HAPPY THOUGHT'
: Go-To-It.
Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the
same story
Tomorrow, and the next more dila
tory, For indecision brings Its own de'ays.
And days are lost lamenting o'er lost
days.
Are you in earnest? Sieze this very
minute!
What you can do. of thin't you can,
begin it!
Only engage, and then the mind
grows heated; ,
Begin it, and the work will be completed.