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Charlevoix Jaunty Herald G. A. LISK. rubHiher. EAST JORDAN. - - MICHIQAN Poets should always apostrophlio the weather as feminine. Every dog has his day because no body else wants dog days. Walking Is a delightful exercis when it is not compulsory. The dictagraph should be tried and convicted of perjury unless it tells the truth. I An eastern man offers to teach fly ing by mail, this at least being a safe way to study. Vacation and Christmas are the two great agencies for putting money into active circulation. However, If St. Louis women do wear socks, whero will they carry their chamois rags? I A pessimist is a man who thinks, he'll never get a chance to wear his, fish net underwear. ! An old maid in New Rochelle is re-i ported to have found a burglar under her bed. Lucky old maid. A Brooklyn dentist has become an' aviator, and will now have a chance to work on his own nerve. i A San Francisco woman has a spe cial car for her dogs. This no doubt cults the regular passengers. Another royalist plot in Portugal has failed. The best thing a royalist plot in Portugal docs is to fail. Next to a game of chess probably a balloon race is the most exciting contest that can bo witnessed these days. A Denver preacher Bays that it Is a sin to kill a fly or break an egg. It surely is a sin to break some eggs. A New Orleans girl went to hear en during a five days' sleep. This is the first mysterious-bourne round-trip record. "When is a man old?" asks an ex change. A man is old when he loses his hankering to do violence to ' the umpire. Pittsburg man at the age of eighty three marries a girl he had known two uecks. But such is the impetuosity of youth. Glri In St. Louis claims to have killed 10,063,000 flics, and we are willing to take her word rather than count Vm."""-- " J ..7. . i ' Another reason for the unpopularity of aviation among women Is that it is impracticable to fly while vcaring a Paris hat. Vital statistics telis us that New York had a murder for every day in July. New York is a great place for en undertaker. The women's clubs of Chicago have declared war on the "masher." The most effective club In his case would be the policeman's. . A Brooklyn man, bitten by a fish he had caught, is now afraid of hydro phobic It'certalnly is enough to make any man mad to have a fish bite him. The Agricultural Department has Just Issued a little pamphlet on the fattening of calves. However, It omits mention of the first and most Impor tant step taking away their cigar ettes. riaylng roque by electric light is one of Chicago's present activities, though nobody really need be asham ed to play it by daylight. As duchesses and . princesses are now going up in airships, aviation may Justly claim to have been admitted Into the higher circles. : Farmer In California becamo weary of hoeing potatoes in the hot sun and turned hlghwaynan. The glori ous climate of California. The New Yorker who has invented a machine to tell when a man Is in lovo has gone to unnecessary trouble. When you feel foolish, that's it. "Listen to your wife." advises a medical expert. Being a medical ex pert, he well knows the damage that a rolling pin or flatlron can inflict The doctors havo finally decided that there Is no such thing as a blood purifier. Those who remember tho Kulphtir-and -molasses days of child hood wish that the discovery had been mado sooner. Rich old lady in Ohio hired an or chestra to play while her dog waa eat ing. No wonder clogs go mad. Japan's emperor was a poet, but as he waa a pood one thl3 will not be counted against him when his record is mac-o up by the historian of the fu ture. An Austrian woman created a sen ration on an ocean liner by wearing a lioopskirt She may do welcomed as the embodied reaction against the fcobble. Women Flirts By ISADCLLB A DISTINCTION should be made between a flirt and a coquette. Mnn receives from woman about what ho demands, not only in her mental attitude toward him, but even in the details of her attire the wearing of tight corsets and high-heeled shoes, at the cx)cnse of her health and her physique. If a man seeks sin cerity and earnestness in a woman, he usually finds those qualities. Many men grow weary of the deeper side of a woman's character. So, in order to please and hold them, she uses the gifts which nature has given her. Few men comprehend the magnanimity of a woman's sacrifice, the depth of her affections, and how her effort to please, that is, her coquetry, is often by the means to an end to bind more closely to her the man she loves. Such a woman often leads a man to the gate of his inner being and helps him to awaken and preserve the greatness and purity that lie sleeping there. The "llirt," on the contrary, is a destroyer, a heartless, selfish crea ture, living like a parasite on the society to which she contributes noth ing, grasping all the adulation and enjoyment within her reach, heedless of the wounds which her acts produce. A flirt must have both physical and mental attractions, but she need not 1h3 handsome or even pretty, llright and vivacious she must be. She must know how to ingratiate her self into a man's heart, flatter him, cater to all his bobbies and make him believe that he is the one man in all the world for her. She must be a good listener. Men are her toys, to bo used according to what they have to give some for the theater, others for good dinners or for what ever they may have to bestow. The flirt seeks to advance herself socially or financially by using her dupes to forward her own selfish ends. But ther arc men flirts, too, in abundance. How many women have had to meet the disagrecablestart, the insulting, insinuating smile of the male flirt on the street, the cars and in other public places. lie is quite as dispicable a character as the woman flirt, and far more dangerous, with his subtle, seductive flatteries, his sophistries, his plausible, beguil ing manner a creature to be botli shunned and scorned. As long as these monsters survive on the face of the earth, and are allowed to glide like poisonous serpents into the affections of innocent and unsuspecting women, jut so long will women be betrayed. The flirt, then, whether man or woman, is a subject of pity and con tempt, for, although liberally endowed by nature with attributes which might have been used to bless mankind, they forsake the good and fol low the evil, abandoning themselves to the heartless selfishness. MZCttet ffafc Girls' Vanity Boxes and "Doll Ras 99 By Alice Williams, La Porlc, Ind. orphan and living on a limUcd income, has to be satisfied with being neat. These two, strangely enough, were chums. They met men who, it is said, have judgment and iseerning powers. Bid they choose the plain girl? IS'ovor. And why? For the most simple reason she didn't have on the latest agony. They never waited to see whether there was any character. She was beyond the pale. Tiring of this sort of thing, she decided to do the picture shows and theaters alone and stroll down sijle streets on Sunday afternoons whistling to herself when no one was looking. As this was too highly exciting, she will have to rosm on where men have a few ideas above collecting baseball pictures from fancy cigarette boxes and whose greatest boast is the amount of "straights"' they can con sume and still reach their own door without the aid of a passer-by or policeman. Do Human Beings Have Sense of Reason? By CII1RIES A. PCTf RS0N Miaieapalif, Misc. and for other necessities? Are we human to-allow a girl to work eight or ten hours daily, six days a week, for 5, for doing the same work in many places that a man receives a larger salary for doing?" 3 Teach Little Ones 4o Be Careful By F. Strong, Oak Park, III. I'arents should warn their children never to run across the rtroct, but that when once they have started across they should keep on going and never turn back, ns turning back is mnt confusing to a driver and Ls in most cases the cause of so many accidents. Seeks to Advance , Herself by Using Dupes HATCH O'NEILL Ikecently there was quite a discussion regarding girls with vanity boxes and the latest thing in "doll rigs," and their de manding of their friends expensive amuse ments. Let me cite a personal experience which from observation is most common. There were two girls. One was neat and moder ately modern in dress, intelligent and a good listener, the other vapid and rattle brained, but dressed beautifully. Her only creed is dress, and she is gratified in this because, being an only cllild, her parents give their .all to her. The other, being an I have read many articles published re cently on the question "Do animals think T and found them of interest. I would, how ever, be more interested were the subject changed to "Do human beings think?" We look about us and seo the misery and suffering caused by the selfishness of in dividuals and the greed of corporations and politicians, and yet we do nothing to pre vent them from robbing and starving us. Do wo think when wo permit an em ployer to pay a man $1.50 a day for ten hours' labor to support himself and fam ily, to buy food and clothing, to pay rent As an automobilist myself and one vlio has had many narrow escapes from run ning down pedestrians and especially chil dren, I would like to give my views on the prevention of accidents. If 'the parents of children and espe cially mothers, who are with their children more of the time Avill only teach them when quite small how to cross the st.tts and what to do in a case of emergency when alone, I am sure that many Attic lives will be saved and the older ones will learn through the children how to avoid accid?nts as well. Tic lite iPiii ';:: n l:i n u si y COLUMN OT far away ls the famous res taurant of the Smoking Dog, tfhos dingy portrait is easily overlooked In its decadence.. In this section, too, if you search, long and faithfully or are lucky at the start, you will find another of tho banging signs over ancient tav erns. It is a bunch of grapes, gilded and worn away, suspended over the sidewalk on an ornamental iron brack et. These are survivals from a time long forgotten, but modern Paris has delightful parallels. Nor are they en tirely devoid of historic interest of their own, for the cafe on the Place de la Rastilo known as "The Cannon of the Bastile" has historic associa tions surely. Even the great tin can non which surmounts its glass covered red terrace is the replica of one used by the populace in etorming the Bas tile, and the waiter will assure you tho original stood on thi3 very spot. Across tho broad square is another cafe, with a soldier trumpeter at pa rade painted life size on a sheet of tin. It is less romantic in connection, but ttie cafo beneath it is dingy and replete with suggestions at least of revolutions. And speaking of revolutions, what can tell a more romantic history than the washerwoman's signs of Paris? Painted on tin and crudely finished, to be sure, still they are nothing less than tho tricolor of France, the stand ard of the republic. What a ftory it ls that the national ensign, as jealous ly guarded as the stars and stripes, should -serve as a trade sign for the laundries! But remember the story of the revolution and the meetings in laundry shops at night and remember Mme. San3 Gene, the washerwoman who become a princess was it not? In Pari3 one can never pass under that stiff tin draped flag, usually sadly faded, and glance at the toiling wom en inside the windows without remem bering the pranks of the royal laun dress and understanding the flag. The fashion of hanging 6igns in Paris depends largely on the quarter of the city, and in some proud sections there are no tin flags over the laun dries and no strips of red cloth swung to the breeze at each end of the dye shops. Uut In no single section of the capital is missing. the sign of the barbers. Parisian ideas of mercantile adver tising go back to the middle ages, when there were no show windows and no reading public and the height of progressiveness was expressed in a golden symbol of the tradesmen hung outside the house wherein he lived and traded. In Paris Busy Center. The hanging shop sign has a cold efficiency about It after all. It lell3 all that needs to be known. It serves another purpose also the preserva tion of the atmosphere of the pictur esque. In the old streets you can find many of the ancient signs yet and some mod ern examples besides. The really old signs are few and far between, but walks in the historic quarters bring you to them and warm your heart with their sight. You are sure to hunt first for the old tavern signs, which you hope to find still swinging over dingy cafes, and if you are lucky you will find half a dozen ih all Pari3. Over In the Ma rais, the aristocratic quarter of two centuries ago, you will find most of those left. At one little corner, for In stance, is the sign of "The Armed Man" crudely executed in cart Iron, tho man In full armor sitting astride a cannon of historic type. About him twilt iron vines and leaves, giving kim true artistic company in his un tiring (invitation to you to come and drink the excellent wine within Neater the heart of things and swept by the? currents of the busiest center of Pari?, the llallcs, or public markets, Is another sign you can And easily, though it, too, Is flat against the tran N OF JULY som fpace above the doqr. It would seem at first glance to have been a church piece, but it is only a manifes tation of the religious feeling of the first proprietor, who placed on the Iron grating a holy infant with shep herd's crook and a sheep or two dully gilded to this day. It is the barbers who use the golden balls as a sign here, golden balls with a magnificent switch of horsehair hanging down below and swinging merrily to the breeze. The reason for the horsehair is obvious, but you will likely puzzle long over tho gold en ball until you notice that some bar bers do not use the ball but Instead a qucerly shaped, ajmost flat piece of brass, which in time you decide must be the barber's bowl. The ball was mere decorative than the bowl. The Jewelers of Paris hang cat clocks as in America, but not one In a hundred of them runs. In Paris, too, the Jeweler's little brother, the op tician, hangs out a pair of spectacles as in America. But here this sign is quite conventionalized, the rim of tho glasses, the bridgeplece and all being made of brass tubing an inch thick and the two eyepieces are of red and blue glass. In tho good old days thoughtful American tobacconists used to pro vide wooden Indians for small boys to wheel away on Hallowe'en night, but the tobacco trust eliminated that char ity. How the dissolution of that or ganization has effected the wooden In dian business none of the American periodicals which reach Paris has tak en the troublo to nay. Here the sign of the tobacco stores is a convention alized red cigar, the result of placing two equal cones of tin base to base. This sign is at onco the trade sign of Paris, for, the sale of tobacco being a government monopoly, tobacco stores are few and far between and, a3 one American here remarked, "The sight of one of those red tin cigars is as inspiring as a swinging latticed door in the waste of a high license town on a summer afternoon." In Front of the Hat Store. The old .fashioned hatters of Paris cling faithfully to a sidewalk sign In the form of the glowing curves of the high hat of a century ago. This ar ticle of gent's furnishings, painted bright red, with a yellow band and a yellow cockade, ls to be found every where In Paris, the only variation be ing the red palmer's hat of the clergy supply houses and attempts, of mod ern establishments to replace it with modeU of ugly up to date derbies of colossal size. Another modernization Is seen now and then in the way of bootmakers signs. The conventional old style sign is a carved and gilded wooden boot of classic lines. The modern trav. csty ls an up to the minute American shoe of the brogan type, also of carved wood or papier mache perhapsj gilded till it shines again. Glove stor2S and haberdashers and notion shops generally announce their business by means of giant gloves bus pended over their doors. . These signs, like all the rest, are either attached to tho signs directly over the doors or aro suspended from iron supports ex. tending from the second story wall. Umbrella stores hang out tin umbrel las, usually opened and painted red. Immense geld scissors announce cut lery stores, and giant pincers, over grown planes and the druggists' mor tar and pcstlo advertise their obvious trades. Paint stores hang out palettes with brushes stuck through the thumb holes or merely squares of sheet Iron paint ed diagonally with bars of brilliant colors. Florist3 hang out a dllapidat ed gilded wreath and the thousands o. locksmiths are kr.ow'n by immense golden keys. Usually the keys are of the typical French sort, which feci quite as bulky as the signs look to be but the modern touch is found here, too, for some hang out keys of tf-e flat "LET US HAVE A HEART TO HEART TALK." Be you producer, consumer, dairy man, farmer or manufacturer; are you giving thought to economic condition as they are today in America? If so, what are your views on tho needs c? Importing $10,000,000 to $12,000,000 worth of dairy products the last fiscal year, and what do you think about uur having to Import $4,000,000 worth, of meat animals during the same peri od? What got us into such a shape? Le4 us talk it over. Was It cheap produc tion on the low-priced lands of tb west, or were we scared by the con stant hammering that the politician gave our Industry, and which the city press has only too thoughtlessly been willing to publish as news, to the ef fect that we were being robbed by th trusts? Or was it mere indifference to some kind of live stock production on the farm because we were breeding 6crub stock and it did not pay? No matter what it was that has put us where we are, we are losing ground. Profit, labor and all the bugaboos that enter into the subject have been, cussed and discussed, but the serious problem Is before us of overcoming" the need of sending $125,000,000 to $150,000,000 of our good American gold to foreigners for our food supply. We are as intelligent as any nation on earth and as capable as the people of any country to Eolve the problem of economic production. It is one that must be seriously considered by all tho people and each and every ona must give of his talents and means to solve It. The price of land In the middle west has been enhanced very considerably In the past ten years, and our stato agricultural colleges have done splen did work In showing us what can bo produced profitably on these high valued lands, and dairy farming seems to be the answer, but this must be en gaged in Intelligently. You must first have profitable cows on your ' farms, then intelligent farming, so as to se cure maximum of production at mini mum of cost. As the merchant, manu facturer and railroad president must seek new and modern methods to at tain the best results in his business, and is constantly expending largo sums to equip himself for present day competition, why should not the far mer r.nd dairyman seek tho best ob tainable information on subjects of Interest to him? Each year at Chicago, we have tho National -Dairy Show, which giver, actual demonstrations in problems of breeding and feeding for greatest profit in all of the dairy breeds. Theso shows give you a practical demonstra tion in all that is modern in machin ery, both for the dairy and for tho farm. Experts who have solved tho marketing of and caring for the dairy products for best results, here givo you their findings. Why ncjtake ad vantage of it? Do net get it Into your head that you are too small in tho buslnes3 to get value out of this show; the small men and the beginners real ly are tho chaps tho show ls for. Tho creamery man, the milk dealer, tho butter maker, tho ice cream man, all rcceivo their benefit at this great show that ls founded for no other pur pose thr.n to advance the Interest of tho dairy cow. Think this over end come and seo us October 24 to November 2 at tho International amphitheater, Chicago, the only building, except state fair buildings, where the Immensity of your Industry can be fully displayed. Will you do your part to advance tho cause? The problem 13, before tho country, "Which shall It be, Beef er Dairy?" Dcst Dooks for Children. Eugene Field, asked for the best ten books for young people under six teen years of age, is said to havo given this list: "Pilgrim's Progress," "Robinson Crusoe," Andersen's Fairy Tales. Grimm's Fairy Tales. "Scottish Chiefs," "Black Beauty," "The Ara bian Nights," "Swi3S Family Robin eon," "Little Lord Fauntleroy," "Tom Brown's School Days," for boys, or for girls, "Little Women." Norwegian Scientific Expedition. 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