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She Snnunsuflle Herald
Established July 4 1892
Fablished every afternoon (except Saturday) and Sunday morning.
Entered as second-class matter In the Poetof/lce
Brownsville. Texas
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Walking to School
Several Missouri newspapers recently commented on
the fact that two boys living near the town of Boonville
walk six miles to school every day and do all the chores
at home in addition; and it’s all rather interesting not be-
cause the boys have to walk so far but because the fact
that they do is considered worthy of mention in the news-
papers.
A generation ago there would have been no news in
such a story. Walk six miles to school? There were
thousands and thousands of youngsters in all parts of the
United States who did it every day throughout the school
year and thought nothing of it. In many rural districts
long hikes like that were the reule and not the exception.
Those of course were the days when the little red
schoolhouse was a more familiar institution than it is
now. No one had heard of consolidated schools then nor
of busses picking up all the children carrying them off to
school and bringing them home again in the evening.
The typical country school was a one-room one-
teacher affair drawing its pupils from a radius of six or
eight miles around; and the children trudged back and
forth through deep snow in winter and through rain
dust mud or wind in spring and autumn. And no one
ever thought that those children were undergoing hard-
ships; on the contrary the children were considered ex-
tremely lucky to have education available at the price ot
a little extended footwork.
This isolated one-room school hasn’t vanished yet
of course; but it is in the process.of vanishing and the
system that is replacing it is vastly better from all
standpoints. Children’s bodies are not taxed now as they
used to be. Their minds are given better training once
the school room is reached. Life is easier pleasanter
more carefully planned.
Meanwhile those two Missouri boys who have to
walk so far each day might be comforted if they were
aware of it bv the fact that they are carrying on a brave
old tradition. What they are doing now most farm boys
had to do a few decades ago.
Wisconsin’s Experiment
It will be interesting to see how Wisconsin’s unem-
ployment insurance bill recently enacted works out.
The bill is apparently a compromise. On the one
hand it has a radical tinge in that all the cost is to be
borne by employers who must set up funds guaranteeing
the payment of premiums. On the other hand it surely
goes less far than most workers would want in that it
limits each worker’s share to not more than ten weeks
of unemployment pay in one year—this pay to he not
more than 50 per cent of his average pay.
Nevertheless the measure represents a good deal
more than any other state has been willing to do. Wis-
consin’s experience with the new law will be well worth
watching.
Young LaFollette Runs True to Form
Wisconsin is one of the best governed of all the
American states. Milwaukee its principal city is the
best governed of all American cities. They are cutting
to the bone in Wisconsin. Fhil LaFollette is the governor.
He has notified the state treasurer he would take a 20 per
cent salary cut dated from Jan. 1. and effective for the
year. This will give the son of a great father $6000 for
the year instead of $7500. All this happened after the
young governor suggested that all state departments re-
duce budgets up to 20 per cent if deemed necessary’ to
keep state expenditures within receipts.
New York
Letter
NEW YORK—Notes from a con-
venient cuff . . . There ought to
be a short story or a scenario or
something tn that Soup-and-Fish
squad the New York police main-
tains . . . There are only very spe-
cial policemen in this division . . .
They're sent out to turn up swanky
gambling houses and speakeasies
. . Most cops look funny in dress
clothes . . . But there are about a
dozen who can make their partic-
ular way into the smartest spots
. . . Sometimes they’re asked to
society dances when the hostess
fears for her Jewels or there's sus-
picion on an inside job . . . These
soup-and-fishers are recruited from
the darndest places . . . Just the
other day for Instance a swanky
gambling-speakeasy penthouse In
Madison avenue was touched off.
... The fellow who got the evi-
dence was one jlaymond Stilley
who got a card when some legiti-
mate social register gents were
turned down . . . And no wonder!
... He was a musical comedy per-
former and a song-and-dance man
I for years . . And so knowTs his way
i around.
• • •
The old cutf reminds me that
Pauline Lord who is back in the
theater picture in a large way.
i came lrcm Hanford calif. . . . And
was a child actress in ‘Editha’s
Burglar.” . . . But got her first
: grown-up chance with a San Fran-
cisco stock company. . . . Mean-
while. Nat Goodwin had given her
a child part . . . But what I'm re-
minded of is Miss Lord s interesting
slant on the theater . . . She finds
it difficult to keep up a sustained
enthusiasm . . . She ran’t remember
the number of times she has drop-
l ped out of sight at a moment when
the public was watching her. . . •
Usually a fatal thing to let the pub-
lic forget!
9 9 9
You're going to hear pretty soon
about an actcr named Ernest
Poole . . . He’s reached middle age
without ever having been an actor
before . . . And when he comes to
Broadway one of these days he'll
be a star right off the bat . . •
Which practically never happens
. . . Poole was a lecturer . . . Made
the rounds of the Chautatiquas and
schools and such ... A tall gaunt
figure people commented that he
ought to be able to make up Abe
Lincoln ... A play came along
titled "If Booth Had Missed" . . .
Producers couldn't find anyone to
pfay the Lincoln part . . . Poole was
lecturing hereabouts . • • Someone
saw him and tipped off Broadway
... So he'll be a star in his first
stage job . . . While thousands
sweat and toil trying to figure out
how to get any sort of a part.
• • •
There's going to be an argumen*
if they leave Virginia Biddle out of
ZioKfeld’s next music show . • .
Virginia is of “the" Biddles with
millions in the family and a proud
society listing But with a stage
bug . . . She's been in Zngy's shows
for a couple of seasons . . . And in
ordinary enough parts. . . . Storv
goes that a certain star has insisted
that Miss Biddle be "out" when the
next Ziggv show comes on . . • And
the Biddles they say. have p .t up
neat sums to back shows in which
she appeared . . . Hence the possi-
bility of argument.
• • •
The old cuff reminds me that Al
Rockett is the new big boss of Fox
now that Winfield Sheehan has had
a nervous breakdown. ... I can
remember when Al and his brother.
Ray. turned out their first picture
on practically “no pair ’ . . . When
it was finished. Just about all tl.i
two had left were their shirts and
the collar buttons . . . But the In-
dependently made film clicked the
industry had to take notice . . .
And here is Al on the throne.
irST A PAIN
LONDON —A middleaged man
I walked in*o the Chester Royal In-
| firmary and complained of strange
pains in his stomach. Physicians
{ took X-ravs of the man's stomach
and here's what they found: 146
nails. 21 pins and needles. 67
rivets and springs. 2 hob nail* and
7 other metal articles. They oper-
ated on the patient who is now
j convalescing on a more digestible
1 diet.
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mus»cales -— AAiP House
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THE MEDICAL SPECIALIST
‘ Scene: The offices of one of
those modern big city high-priced
specialists. The reception room i*
crowded with patients. A secretary-
nurse receives each patient.
Nurse (to patient who ha* Just
entered). Have you an appoint- j
meat?
Patient (smilingly).—Yes. I'm »
regular patient.
Nura (not recalling him. al- I
though he has been coming for six
weeks r jularly at the same hour).
—What was the name?
Patient.—Blots—Phineas Z. Blots.
Nurse (looking through card in-
dex quite skeptically.)—I don't
seem to find any Dloti here.
patient (somewhat annoyed).—
Is that a complaint or merely an
observation?
• • •
Nurse ‘suddenly finding the
card*.—Oh. here It is. I had you
down as Biota Z. Phineas.
Patient.—No matter as long as
It doesn't affect the diagnosis or
treatment.
(He sits and reads the back num-
bers of dull magazines for about an
hour while sixteen patients are re-
ceived by tl: - doctor nine of whom
he is sure came in after he did.)
Nurse (after going into the doc-
tor's office with the Blotz card).—
Ail right Mr. Schlaiz.
Patient.—Blotz was the name.
Doctor (looking at him with an
expression of perplexity).—Good
morning. *lr. Potts.
Patient.—Blotz is the name.
Doctor (with a hasty glance at
the card ) Oh. yes. Sorry. Hows
the shoulder coming along?
Patient—Nothing the matter with
the shoulder doctor.
Doctor (making another attempt
to recall the 'acts from the index
card )—Oh.- no. I remember now.
You had a stiffness in the ankles
Did those baths do any good?
Patient—It was my finger joints
if I am not mistaken. I had no
bails.
Doctor (apologetically) — vou
couldn’t be mistaken. Mr Nott?
Patient—I might be. It seems to
be in the air here.
Doctor—Let me see the hand.
(H« takes the left hand »
Patient—It was the other hand
doctor.
Doctor—Are you sure? |j
Patient (somewhat despairingly)
No. You've got me confused too
I'm afraid. .
Doctor—It's curious but I have
a distinct impression you complain-
ed of pains in your big toe. Wasn't
there something said about the big
toe?
Patient—Not by me.
Doctor—You were here once be-
fore. were you not?
Patient—This is my tenth visit.
Doctor ta little embarrassed)—
Yes. of course. I have so many
patients you see that it's hard to-
remember.
Patient—I noticed that.
Doctor (after having his mind
further distracted by a call on
the telephone)—Now\ then Mr.
Watts sit down in this chair under
the light and let me take a good
look at that spot on your head
j Patient—What spot on my head?
And the name is Blotz!!
Doctor—There was a spot on
j your head wasn't there?
i' Patient (angrily)—Now listen.
Doctor-Oh. no. That must
have been the previous patient or
: mavbe It's the one after you who
had the spot on his head. I re-
member now. Your trouble was a
whirring in the left ear
Patient (rushing out into the
reception room)—Bah!
Whitc-CoaTed Assistant — This
way sir.
Patient—For what?
White-Coated Assistant — The
heart pictures.
■ The patient swoons with a low
■ gurgling sound >
* • •
Candidate for the Firing Squad
I A fellow I would like to slay
Is Chester Dudley Ptaff:
He phones "A rally's under way—
Your stock is up a half!”
• • *
A man is getting old when he
discovers the first of February that ;
j he is still keeping those New Year's |
' pledges.
_
Daily Health
Talk
.Lr. drown describes the case of
a man who had suffered for some
10 years with frequent attacks of
pain in the back. Finally he could j
| not nde in an automobile lift
anything or even lean over to put j
on his shoes without getting a
catch in his back.
It vas found that the habitual !
position of his body was in the ex-
treme range of motion of his spine
particularly low down on the back. >
and that as a result it took but !
slight effort to produce a strain. I
Associated with the backache there I
was a long standing record of j
indigestion difficulty in action of
the bowel headaches and ner- l
vousness. The man realized that
he was in general fatigued
At first it was difiicult for the
man to lie in bed because the back
was more uncomfortable in bed
than when he was on his feet.
However he was able to get good
rest by placing one or two pillows
under his knees taking the strain
off the lower part of his spine. Sit-
ting in bed in an erect position put
more strain on the spine than when
he was on his feet
If the spine can be rested by
having the patient lie face down-
ward with pillows under his hips
the opportunity may be used to
apply hot packs to the back to
relieve the pain and the inflam-
mation The patient was taught to
breathe properly and effort* were
made to strengthen his abdominal
muscles so as to help distribute
his weight properly. A brace was
planned which helped him to hold
himself in the proper position and
when the patient got back on his
feet he was taught how to use his
body more correctly in the sitting
standing and bending positions.
When he finally learned how to
sit and stand correctly his back-
ache and indigestion cleared up.
and he was asked to change hi*
routine of hit so as to overcome
his constant fatigue.
This record is an indication of
aa immense amount of study and j
Out Our Way.By Williams
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backache. The diet the amount of
• •. i the amount of
rest are all important. It is not
pos^iaic merely to treat the pain
ful point and to take It for grant-
ed that that will relieve the condi-
tion.
today m thr ^
Anniversary
NESSIMV BEYS ‘CC^RD
On FVb. 8. 1918. Foreign Min-
uter Nersimv Bey « Turkey
speaking before the Chamber of
Deputies declared that •.« wag in
full accord with the ipeechea of
Count Czernin and Chancellor von
Hertling. who. on Jan. 24. replied
to the speeches on war aim* of
President Wilson and Prtmier
Lloyd George.
Von Hertling had addressed the
main committee of the German
Reichstag and Count Czernin had
addressed the Austrian delegations
of the Relchstrat In these speeches
both men gave their attitudes on
peace differing vastly with the
two Allied leaders.
The Ukrainians claimed n great
victory over the Bolshevik! at
Sarny and the Bolshevikl failed
m an attempt to occupy Kiev.
Viborg was taken by the White
Guards
Quotations
Rep al would save millions on
gangsters graft and protection
—Dr. Lewis H. Haney. New York
University.
• • •
We Americans have found that
a far more pleasant and fuller life
can be lived with machines than
without them
—Professor Clifford C Fumes of
Yale.
• • •
I'm tired of this business «anarch-
ism*.—Premier Azana of Spam.
• • •
We look for improvement In «0
to 90 days
—H H Brown vice president
Great Northern Railway.
• • •
You can say. however that I
d.dn't buy a silk hat
—Huey P Long governor and u
I
Why do you send me away '
only six weeks? Give me the same
sentence you give mv slaters.
—Mrs. Gandhi
BEGIN HERE TODAY
Beautiful ELLEN HovsiTER.
who work* hy day a* a salesgirl
In Barclay** Department Store
live* with her mother. MOLLLY
HOSSITER. her elder •Inter
Ml It A and her young brother
MIKE. Irresponsible Molly has
long ago squandered the fortune
left by her English husband and
the two girls support the family.
Molly foolishly spends money
saved to pay the rent. Ellen de-
cides to work at night as a dance
hall hostess until the aunt Is made
up. She goes to Dreamland
and Interviews JACOB SALO-
MON who offers her a Job on con-
dition that she supply her own
etenlng dresses. Mir has no eve-
nt r.." dress.
STEVEN BARCLAY. Ellen's
employer sees her crying and
asks her In come tn his office.
11 hen she tells hint the situation
he offers to give her a dress. !*he
proudly refuses. lie then lends
her one of the dresses worn by
the st.ire models.
Ellen Is half-pleased. half-
frightened hy Uarrlay's obvious
Interest In her. Ahe dines with
him and hr drives her to Dream-
land where he leaves her. hnlo-
mnn Introduces her tn the other
hostesses. Ellen bates the cheap-
ness of Dreamland Two of the
hostesses. TONI and .ANI>E. wait
for her to dress.
MOW CO OM WITH THE STORK
CHAPTER V
FLLEN sensed the antagonism of
the two girls. She ignored it
Tony brighteyed small and
brunet was barely covered by a
wisp of chiffon which clearly re-
vealed her breasts and young un-
formed legs. Her sigh of artmlra
tion. a purely femin'ne sigh turned
swiftly to envy as feminine.
“The queen herself.” she giggled
“And in a dress from Charnel or
I’ll eat my favorite lipstick."
The youngster Jumped to her
feet ran across the room and before
Ellen understood her purpose she
had pulled down the hack of the
dress to examine the label.
“It Is a Cbantel.” she confirmed
in an awed tone. And to Ellen.
"How eiM you wear a dr as In a
Chantcl to dance in a dump like
this?”
Ellen felt like tearing off the
dress and stamping on it She was
angry and humiliated.
“C.o away.” she fiercely addressed
Tony. “Go away and let mo aloue.
And take your hand3 off my dress!”
“Aw I'm sorry If I hurt your
feelings” apologized Tony with a
contrite distressed little laugh
“Honest I’m sorry. Don't be sore.
I was only fooling. You look swell.”
Anise was still sulky and ag-
grieved when the three girls walked
Into tho ballroom. But Tony had
forgotten completely that she had
ever been Jealous of Ellen and was
eagerly babbling out amazingly
sophisticated advice and instruc-
tions.
• • •
rpHE hostesses sat at empty
A tables one girl to a table and
waited for men to ask them to
dance. Most of the girls had reg-
ular patrons. Tony’s instructions
dealt in part with methods for
“cinching regulars." These men
would buy a whole string of tickets
for the privilege of dancing with a
particular girl for an hour or so.
After each of the short dances—the
fastest couples barely managed
three turns of the room before the
orchestra stopped—the girl would
gravely detach one of the tickets
from the long string proffered by
her escort.
Ellen took a table close to Tony's.
But Tony was gone almost imme-1
diately. away like a green flash in
the arms of a tall youth.
Ellen sat alone for some time. ■
The music once she became accus-
tomed to its loudness made her
want to dance.
A great many of the men who
stood around the walls watching
the dancers or waiting their turn |
The ta>o young people ivere almost alone on the floor.
with Sunny nr Ants* nr Tony or
Maybclle glanced toward her but
no one approached. Ellen a very
beauty and air of cool aloofness In-
timidated them. At last a bold
spirit sought out Salomon and came
over for an introduction. As she
acknowledged the Introduction El-
len realized there were worse things
than sitting alone at a table while
others danced.
One of them was dancing w-Ith
Joseph K. Landis. He was clumsy.
He was crude. He held her so
tightly that she could hardly
breathe. He pressed his damp face
against her cool cheek no matter
how insistently she sought to avoid
the juxtaposition. And all the time
he babbled in her ear inane compli-
ments.
“Wbere’ve you been all my life
little one? At home taking care of
the kids? I thought so. A pretty
little thing like you should have a
better fate. Take me for Instance
—go right ahead and take me. I'll
see you don't get trampled in the
rush."
"You're holding mo too tightly"
she said furiously.
"Naughty naughty! You're not
supposed to talk. I can hold you
tighter than this. See ”
He closed his arms around her
moved his face forward and kissed
her squarely on the lips. Ellen
struggled free slapped him across
the mouth and was off the floor
and back at her table before Joseph
K. Landis thoroughly understood
what had happened.
• • •
JACOB SALOMON was very an-
** gry. He stood before Ellen's
table his feet wide apart his arms
gesticulating as be explained in
detail how angry be was.
"I don't care if be did try to kiss
! you" be snapped. 'That was no
reason for socking him. You gotta
treat patrons decent. Kid ’em along
give ’em a good time. That’s what
you're her® for. young woman.”
Ellen was angry too.
*’I came here to dance. Mr. Salo-
mon. not to be mauled” she re-
torted. her eyes flashing her lips
pale with anger. ’ He didn't try to
kiss me. He did kis3 me.”
She got up from the table and
bad begun to say that Salomon
could find another girl lo take her
place one more amenable to his
ideas when she saw that there was
a small disturbance near the door.
Three men had entered and were
grouped near the ticket booth. The
two in evening clothes plainly
j wished to leave but the third the
' one m flannels just as plainly
wished to stay. Suddenly Ellen saw
him detach himself from bis com
panlons and push his way toward
the spot where she and Salomon
stood. He came straight across the
crowded floor regardless of the'
dancers annoyed by his transit.
He was a young man of 28 or 27
with a countenance in which eager-
ness was oddly mixed with some-
thing almost like boredom. His hair
was thick and red. Ellen bad a
strange feeling that she would al-
ways remember his progress across
the floor that it would remain for-1
ever fixed in her mind unchange-
able.
She continued Malking to Salo-
mon who had bis back to the new-
comer but she was hardly conscious
of what she said. Wbilo she talked
she was aware that all her atten-
tion was fixed upon that figure ap-
proaching and that she was asking
herself the cause of the contradlc-!
tions in hix face deciding it was
due to the aulky bored mouth be-1
neats sues eager eye* mere mey
blue or gray?
Jacob Salomon did not observe
the young man until be was within
a few steps of them. But be under-
stood immediately.
"You're right." he muttered half
under bis breath. "You should've
socked him. Be more careful this
time. This bird's class or I miss
my guess."
Ellen stepped back* aid all
thought of leaving Dreamland gone.
She bad the strangest ^feeling
that she wanted to prolong the
moment of waiting. She was like *
child on Christmas morning hesitat-
ing at the stairway-head before
plunging down to the glittering
tree. She saw Salomon t.p«.ak to
the young man. saw the two turn
toward her. Salomon introduced
her end waited for the newcomer
to supply bis own name. Ellen
with her new and sharpened per-
ceptions. felt that the young man
hesitated as he said that be was
Larry Smith. She could not be cer-
tain. She was certain that his eyes
were gray not blue.
• • •
'THE orchestra swung Into a
waits. Most of the couples were
flocking from the floor. Ellen saw
them beard them even Identified
some of the girls but all tble
served only as a dim and unreal
background for the man who stood
before ber.
He asked her to uauce. W uh
that same strange feeling that all
of this had been preordained that
all this was something that she
would never forget she stepped Into
his arms.
She fancied that she was treat* 4
bling. She was sure that If she <
tried to speak she would flrl that
she had lost her voice. T ie two
tall beautiful young people Wire al-
most alone on the floor. They had
not spoken since they started danc-
ing. As effortless as shadows they
drifted along to the measures oi the
lightly melancholy tune.
"I haven’t any tickets" the youu •
man spoke at last and abruptly.
Absurdly ho repeated *1 haven't
any tickets.”
He guided her to the ticket booth.
Even as they reached the knot of
ri«g men wh^ were supply-
ing themselves w ith fre-!i ti kets
the dnnee was done. Ellen with-
drew a few paces embarrassed shy
confused.
bhe was obsessed w ith a desire to
learn the name of the waits the or-
chestra had played. As she waited
for her partner nothing seemed to
matter In the world save that she
should know the name of that waits.
Without thinking what she was
doing she thumped the violin player
between the shoulder blades. He
was tuning his instrument but he
stopped to ask indignantly what
she thought she was doing.
“What waits were you playing!
What waits were you playing?”
•“Walts Romantic.* Nest time
look out who you punch."
Ellen laughed joyously and with
a disgusted glance at her. be began
to pick at his strings again. A mo-
ment later the lights went out—all
except a round moon over the or-
chestra.
As the room filled with misty
bluish light and the piano began to
tinkle the dancers crowded to the
floor. Ellen was wildly impatient
to be dancing. What If Larry
Smith were unable to find her? Had
he noticed that she had withdrawn?
She turned to see him coming to
ward her through the bluish dusk.
As he drew neer she thought that
she had never been so happy in her
life.
(To Be Continued) *
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