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PUBLISHED BY THE ASHLAND PRINTING CO
ESTABLISHED IN 1879
OENg ßTRATTON PORTEB’S
ASHLAND DAILY TIDINGS
Crater Lake '
Ip Winter Time
MÆAH
The Point System
The advice that young men choose their wives
on the point system is no doubt sound and sensible.
It seems to be the last word in the rationalization
of this institution which is at the same time the hope
and despair of civilized society.
Faithfully followed it would presumably result
in fewer and better marriages- which seems to be the
end aimed at by the leader^ in this field of sqcial
reform. In time, perhaps, as young men grow more
proficient in scoring hymeneal prospects, it could
conceivably produce the perfect union.
But for all its practicability and promise of
improvement in a situation which admittedly can
stand a lot of improvement, it is something too cold
blooded to be attractive. It parallels too closely the
practice of the stock judging pavilion. The appli
cation of what may be merely good business senie in
the purchase of a brood mare can easily hecopie
mean and debasing when applied 0 the selection of
a Wife. One may examine a mare’s teeth and feel
her fetlocks and[ require that she be put through
her paces for his critical judgment, but in the Selec
tion of a bride common decency demands that a man
accept a good deal on faith.
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Topi
Ifepiet banker, has for 15 years
followed a point sykteip of his own invention in the
selection of a wife. Tom, however, has set his stapd-
ard too hiffh ahd a8 & result is still in the bachelor
ranks. Vnqer Tom’s system one point out of a pos
sible 100 is deducted for each waft, com and bunion.
Ten poinfs life deducted for bow legs and 25 points
for halitosis."Tom’s'system is altogether too severe.
We are not yet ready to approve any point sys
tem. We confess to a fondness for a little romance in
matrimony in spite of the fact that romance, pure
and nndefiled, is quite as likely to end in tragedy
in “ thdv lived happily ever after.” Had Roqp
possessed
calculating head op his sh o u ^ r t i
stead of an intpressidriable
trofe«nr fin
impressionable heart hr
in b«-
hie boSom
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doubtless wouldn’t have looked at Juliet a second
time and both might have lived to" worry about their
grandchildren. But how could years have ooip-
pensated for the delicious madness of their romance!
The point system in scoring matrpnonial pros
pects comes to onr attebtidn 4n the form of a maga
zine article« but we are still a little puzzled to, know
how the yonqg man is to go about scoring his list
of proqpqctt troen his thoughts turn to the founding
np article suggests health, appear-
^igence, motherhood, family, vivaci-
lame-making and comradeship as the
cored, perfection in each rating ten,
5 in all' and at least five in any one
J O lM ItK ?
IW4A1BX1
Yon can’t change human na|ure. Methuselah
boasted of his 969 years, but yon never heard of
his wife making any claims.
4quor Pill Taken Up In Legislature.”—Head-
Vobably to be paid gut of any moneys not
o th e r w is e
a p p rc p F fo te fj.
Before instalment payments were invented it
wag a new car by and by. Now i t ’s n^w ear« buy and
Tuesday, M arch 1037.
Remember those rocks near
the rim df the crater« of W lsard
Island? You know that I told
yoq th a t the snow failed to keep
them covered np. W e ll, It has
•nowed seventeen Inches la the
forty-eight hpurs, and
tonight
they ware showing a s'p lain ly as
If It w ore summer time. W h en
r Itbtieed th e ir condition,
and
thought of t^e snowfall,
there
has been very little wind the last
twenty-four hours, and there isn’t
ahy reason why they shouldn’t be
under sqoW. As I said, it made
me tJUpk. I won't te ll you what
I thought, or a lj qf yon would be
S q fïÀ C A T
e rT A ra -U
I
s rç w a T *2
J^D O m T G ì
np here and I Would have
to
cook and wash dishes for all of
ypy; but 1*11 tipll you this; I Wpnt
in' and loaded the black box w ith
a fo il magatine. I f any
thing
happens out of the
ordinary
around here, we 'W ill w rite ' It
down on celluloid.
I t may see strange to say
that a snowfall containing -the
least amount of moisture, fell
w ithin
the
last
»twenty-four
hoars.
I believe the
average
percentage o f moisture In the
snow w ill go above I t per cent
for the w inter, while that of the
last snowfall is less t^an eight.
\NHS MOTHERS <§ST Ö R /W
The snow Is like chalk, the least
brpath of a ir sets it flying like
so many feather*. Tomorrow the
w atlh fires w ill be burning
on
! What Of hers Sa
Oil the high points of Gaywos at
Somebody springs a state-
ment to the effect that there
Is har^nony flow in -th e fish
and game commisstons. I t
can't be. I f a ll the members
had died, we should have
heard of it,
True patriotism contains
little noise. *
61100 damages for being hit
w ith a cat. Despite the al-
lflged In ju ry It would be ap
parent that pussy failed to
make a hit.— Bend Bulletin.
President Coolidge has In
dorsed the reading of the
Bible, perhaps just to see If
Borah could be tempted Into
taking the other sld,e.— Baker
H erald.
<
letter from an applicant,
now living at Tampa, for
wo.rk In Eugene, says: *il am
going to leave Florida for a
temperate
climate.”
And that from a land whose
CAO best het had been bla-
soned to the world as climatic
suluhktty. — Eugene Guard.
And ffappo8e it came to a |ireach of promise
suit, how far would the young maq’s score sheet
get with the court! But |hen we suppose a youth
using the point system would never be rash enough
to commit himself sufficiency to incur such’ a su it
It is curious what havoc civilization plays with
the simplest of the primitive facts of nature. Origin
ally a biological phenomenon marriage has somehow,
become a puzzling social problem. Dvefywhere spec
ial courts of domestic relations have been establish
ed to deal with its difficulties, while social welfare
worker^ discuss and discuss it and advance end
less theories to account for its failures and endless
schemes to reform them. And the more they dis
cuss and the more they theorize and mix their
prescriptions the moje difficult and inscrutable the
problem seems to become.
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BY JOHN MABIN
Caretaker ut Crater Lake
'Lodge
A 65-year old “ g/andmothflr
of the lings” won golf honors
lu Florida the other day,
wfefch naturally recalls to
m in£ '.the
old -Ykshloned
grisndmother'who sat In the
eoruet1 all vrtater long and
knitted red woolen
stock
ings.-— M alheur Enterprise.
very
LONGPORT, N . J.. — Be
cause Chief of Police Joseph
Graves couldn’t get along
w lthJijB foroe. botk of them
have lost their }obs. Mayor
Edwin Lavino has announced
that- Lonffport. A bOfOggh Ot V
flOg, le now in the m arket
fo r a o?w chief and a new pa
tro lm a n .
NEW YORK — Only twp
Nothing
makes people
quicker than trying not to be
“ Show me,” said the man from
Missouri, and all the women re
sponded.
Never mind
wrong.
I t ’s
counts.
if you do
the finish
start
that
The only Joy a country store
keeper gets is going to the city
once a year to buy goods.
cases b e l k g scheduled,
Yonkers City Judge Charles
W . Boote conducted court by
’phone Sunday. Louis Stokes,
19, he freed on a disorderly
conduct charge. But when
W illia m Dalhone, 41, also
came before the receiver of
Justice fo r disorderly con
duct, Judge R & te called Mfg.
Dalhone to the ’phone
paroled him to her.
and
N E W YO R K — The Bowery
100, a select crowd o f bums
who were given an Easter
dinner by M r. Zero,’’ thrbain
Ledoux— Jdlned the
F ifth
avsnne
and ’ P a rk avefcue
parade after dining, sporting
top hats and canes of every
description. The prolnenad-
ers traveled uptown by the
“open a ir limousine” leased
tor a.n ickel a passenger by
the elevated ' railw ay com
pany.
20 Years Ago
J. |(- Mashburn, form erly a
Em il Pell, who has been tarry
merchant of Ashland and now en ing In and about San Francisco
gaged In ranching in the Shasfa ter awhile, returned to Ashland
vfllley, is attending to business yesterday.
and property Interests In the city.
3Q Years Ago
Don’t be too severe with your criticism. Movie
stars have kept the wolf from many a lawyer’s door.
• Lee Rogers was at the depot
Miss Agnes Mattooq, daughter
Dr. E. A., Woods, a recent srr- Saturday to meet his brother of* M r. and H. *J. Mattoon of this
rlvsd in Ashland from Chicago, is Allsn and fam ily, who have been
out from Drain yes
occupying offices in the Sweden- living In Portland for the past terday to make her home lit Ash
burg building.
year.
land. .
Onr prayer is that rich Uncle Samuel m
live tluti he won’t leave any nephew-heirs in E
J. J. McNair was
visitor In Portlahd.
buy.
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Wednesday March 16, 1037
March, the maid of whims!
Last night I was sure that the
weather wpuld clear, so did the
forecasters, at least two of them
said so. W ell, I should worry, I
got eight more beds painted and
eleven Inches of new snow. To
morrow I w ill have to lengthen
out the snow pole, as there are
only six Inches of It above the
snow.
The snow that fell today was
h ea fler than that of the day be-
tore. In fact, it crusted as
It
Some days ago I told you of
digging out the valley on the
roof. As soon as this storm Is
over I ’ll tell you about It again,
for It Is again fu ll to the cone.
ASHLAJÎI)
W ork— Painted beds.
W eather— Day cloudy;
wind
southwest; snowfall since last ob
servation, 11 In.;
precipitation,
1.14 In.; sno Won ground,
234
In.*;- Temp. H . W L. 12, R. 11,
Salem Statesman— Mrs. A. Be
M. 1.76
‘ .
noit of Ashland, who, w ith her
children, has spent the P®81 month
visiting at the home of her par
Thurodoy, March 17, 1027.
ents, Section Foreman and Mrs.
The storm still continues. To
P. D. Prunty, le ft last night ;or day the wind came from the
her home.
northwest, breaking another rec
Adolph Naylor, an old time Ash
The O. B. Carpenter family, land boy who has been at work as
Miss Ollie Brunk left Friday
residing on Liberty ' street, hgt flgUHwrlght near the base of Mount
evening for Portland, where she
he«« 'fteelvlng a visit from Mih, Hood for some time past, was in w ill visit friends for a time, going
whose
w n today.
thenee to Salem. Newport and
Other W lllatoette points.
‘.h. ’ 'A '.1
a
week-end
Charles Rose visited
yesterday.
Miss Jessie Rose Is In from her
Medford school In Klam afh county for a
fear days’ visit w ith home folge.
old and says «he waited a long time
T H E 8T0XT 8 0 FAR
AisaryRte Mkrtoa -Mree of matt to got the chance to ran away be-
ing for M r truant mother to re oause her mother went across the
turn and give her the love the te ocean without her. and her father
Jtaapry for. - She m m away and and her brother do not tore her.
ftnde all 'that the wante In a won- W you are her father, and yon bar«
dar/nl garden, with • a key, who arrived at the conclusion that you
play« <M oioMn to her, and teachet do love her, she 1» out In my gar
her gqinet. - She It happy at lait, den. Yon may go and get her. I'll
said being lonely foo, the bog lean»* he bleesed If I will. All I want you
to love her. The neet dag the to understand about thia Is that we
bag’t father returns and, learning had nothing to do with her being
t M runaway'* identity from a newt- here. She climbed from her auto
and ran away by herself,
, he calle up Mr people <u mobile
because she preferred to risk what
of th e pleadings of John might
to her among stran
t,
<kMF> fig!
I
Ä€ gers to happen
what »he knew would Map-
pen to her if she went back bom«I"
Then Mr. John Forrester turned
Then M r. John Forrester went on hte heel, Went into hie studio
to his backdoor and looked out In and shut the door ,behind him with
me garden and saw two children, elaborate finality.
net ssuking flower <doHtes, not play
Mr. Paul Minton crossed the hack
ing “M irmMto-ty.p«»,? not chastnk porch and started down the path
butterflies; two children sitting that led to the garden. CUanclc*.
very soberly lit a bed of striped down the sunht way. ha saw, stand
grass With their arma tight around ing In the path In front of a bloom-
each other and thair faces laid to laden white syrlnga bush, a slen
gether, cheek to cheek. Big. sol der slip of a boy with bare feot.
emn tears were running down the arms bared to the elbows, a round
brown cheeks o t the boy and the ed throat rising above an open
pink cheeks of the glrL
blouse, as handsome a boy. be
When he slipped down as near thought, as he had ever seen. Even
as he could go without belngueen, at this anxious moment he noted
what he heard was: “John Guido. hie beauty.
I ’m Just scored to death tor tear
The boy's hands were, extended
yunr fatherU gone and told the po- In front of him and slinging to
them stood a little figure with a
clean face, with carefully brushed
the tears grew bigger ai.d rolled curls, a dress as soiled and bedrag
faster. ,’Mr. John Forrester went gled as one the veriest beggar
buck to hie etndlo and got out hie might hare worn. As he stood star
paint and his brushes and put on ing one instant at the picture be
his working blouse and smoked a fore him, he saw Amaryllis tugging
pipe furiously. He made passes al at the boy’s hands. He saw her
a canvas in front of him with a small face lifted; he heard her
brash laden with exquisite paint plaintive tones: “John Guido, I am
mixed front half a dosea different hungry again! I ’m dura hungry tor
colors and wiped It dry and tried love, John Guido 1 Won’t you
again. By and by he drew his please kiss me againP*
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sleeve across his own eyes and
Mr. Paul Minton stood and stared
sold: "Oh, heavens! I don't think and the heart that he had thought
there Is anything In all this world had been rather sorely triad for
S
W o rk— Painted beds.
W eather— Day cloudy;
wind
northwest; snowfall since
last
observation, 6.6 la .;
precipita
tion. .39 In.; snow on ground,
229 In.; Temp. H . 1«, L. 9, R.
7 M 12.6.
fell and I think it has settled
within a few Inches of a ll th a t
It w ill. So the settled snow mark
You can’t do any thinking when
tonight may be said to be well
a brass band plays, and nobody
above nineteen feet. There are
knows this better than a polltlc-
still two weeks, If not four, ef
the snow period
left. Tonight
I had to move my precipitation
gauge from thé th ird story land
ing
of the* fire escape to the snow
K lam ath Falls — Im portant
H er Heck says: “ I f ye ain’t got
d rift. The d rift is about
four
much In yer bead, the chances is new gravel plant at Lobert Is
feet higher, and I was afraid that
electrically equipped.
ye ain’t got much In the bank.
the Wind would d rift the gauge
fu ll and make me storf to you.
ASHLAND
Copyrighted? 1127. Gene Stratton-Porter, Ihc.
Copyrighted, 1929-27, by the McCall Co.
Published by courtesy of F ilm Booking Offices of America (F . O. B .)
From the famous photoplay. “The Magic Garden.
I t It Is clear and a reflection
on the water there w ill not be
flax painting done tomorrow.
I forgot to tell yOtf th a i my
watchdock went hsywlne yester
day m draW trY tovr I xm m y owu
TUHNINCl THE PAQES BACK
WIAND
IQ Years Ago
THÈ M AGIC GARDEN
ord. I have not seen it blow from
that direction tor eight hours
without clearing. Skell finished
the job today. Now that he has
covered up my snow pole I wonder
If he w ill let up tor a day or two
and give me * chance to splice a ’
piece on It.
Thera seems to be a great num
ber df Admirers ot Nameless, by
the number of mash notes he re
ceives. They are not from cats, or
at least It would make them sore
If you called them th a t. As soon
(Pirara Tare Te. P m » Pit»)
"Don’t ion know who
■
that child t e r
tor me to do except to take the boy several days began to he tried tor
and go straight to Italy and start sure. He never moved a muscle
him on hie mnslc. Maybe among when the dark haired hoy fell on
his mother’s people there win he hie kneee and put his arms srounn
another boy or a little girl related the little girl and said: “Amaryllis,
to him who will help him to get you will k ill mat I Just know that
over this.**
I am going to have to give yon np.
Then be told himself one of the and I don't think that I can bear
things that grown people always do It."
tell themselves about children tor-
Mr. Paul Minton stood still an«
getting and the burte of childhood waited, and by and by. he saw
being hauled, and rot of that hind, Amaryllis lift herself from the
becawe deep down In his heart' be boy's anna and stand up. Very dis
knew perfectly weU that the hurts tinctly be heard, her ask! “John
of childhood never are healed and Guido, if a policeman, or my father,
«tat the one thing above all ether or the butler oomesgtfter met, m ust
a child never doee Is to tor- I goT”
’ ■
» thing that really has seared
He saw the shaken body of the
Into Its little soul deeply enough
boy to
and he heard the agony of his
tones as he eobhed: “Yea, Amaryl
lis. You belong to them. You have
put something that woe la hte mind got to go.”
on the oeavoa there come a furious
Then he saw Amaryllis stamp her
hammering a l hte door and hie step Btye toot
ped Into the Wring roam with *
1 don't!" she shrieked.
palette to his left hand and a brush ^1 don’t belong to theml
They
m his right and "stood looking don't belong to met They don’t
through tge screen at two or three want me! I belong to yon. I be-
men who were gathered on the
amall veranda. From their Uni
term« It was easy to select the po
licemen of the group, and from his
lack of uniform and a haggard, red
eyed taco It was easy to select the
n u i tetth light hair and blue «yea
and * teesh eompiexton whom al
most anyone would have awarded distinct.
, .
Amaryllis tor a father.
Mr. Jehu Forrester, because he
woe nervous sad because be wee them. I ll run away from them
hast to the soles ot hte shoos, took S8*1“’
EM come hack to you.
the pain« brush end rolled It In the Every time they get me, IH oeam
green paint very deliberately for a
long second. Then he looked at the thousand times, eosne way M get
floor eufl held te the low, easy, voice away from them, and racesue beck
that characterises fl very distin t o w *
Do m
WM
guished gentleman: "W ill you he
ktod enoajth to some In i"
The dark haired hoy fen on hte
But he did not step forward; ho knese on the herdraorn, narrow
tootpath
th a t« la theaagleotodm Z
did nog open the door. Mr. Paul
Minton opened the door tor hhh-
“ d «iMtched out his arms.
aete and came Inside. He looked at ^7ont you, Amaryllis f” he said.
the «ten hstore him end then he "Do I wont you? Even o S t w i n
cried: “You telephoned me?" His Heaven doesn’t know how nuwh I
Want youf"
»
Right there Mr. Paul Minton fait
Itb a Buie mora deliberation than
itore and sold with withering pra
te s ,It-U am the man who tele-
totod «M Chief ef Police the tact
M a little glri answering to the
if Amaryllis is playing la hay
man with the light hair and
JOIlp Forrester wiped the
ttrdugh the paint and looked
f fir th a tT a L fS :