WEDNESDAY, Ay<i j g u g g » 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. ' ' 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 1 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. 1 •>« 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. ’ ’ * » 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* - 4-~~------ 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 :