The Ponca City Courier (Ponca City, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 6, 1923 Page: 6 of 8
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THE PONCA CITY COURIER
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CHOOSING YOUK VOCATION
(Article No. 3)
In my previous article I spoke of
the selling of bonds and similar in-
vestments as a good choice for the
girl who is fond of personal con-
tacts.
I must go back to this point. For
this “personal contact” will enter,
also, into other lines of endeavor.
For instance, if you choose any
work in which “tips" play an im-
portant part, remember that liking
or disliking these “close-ups” of peo-
ple is a determining factor or your
results. If you choose to start as a
waitress, a beauty shop attendant, a
clonk room girl, any of these places
where your patron's largesse is apt
to be much greater than your em-
ployer’s, you will fail unless you
have the happy faculty of winning
people's favor immediately. T’nder-
sland that I do not recommend the
“tip” jobs to the particularly am-
bitious girl, but I am well aware
that often these are the best oppor-
tunities that present themsel^as at
the start of working life, fhev ara
fairly good starting points, but one
cannot help but feel that for true in-
dependence one must and ought to
seek a work wherein a regula • sum
is paid for a definite value received,
rather than the catch-if-you-cau at-
titude the tipping job offers.
The chances agaimt the untrained
worker are, of course, very difficult
to combat. The girl who has stud-
ied some particular vocation lias, to
an extent, thereby decided upon her
medium. Yet again, t lie tendency
to drift must be argued against Ho
noc “drift” into teaching; do not
•drift” working in a shop. Tic: line
of the least resistance ends at just
on ; spot—the end of the ladder—tl.e
lower end.
Do try to learn whether or not
you have a definite talent. I know
you have. Everyone has. If by com-
petent judges you have been assured
your life's gift lies in singing or
writing or drawing or acting, then
tlie only hope for your happiness is
to at least try to prove to yourself
that you can develop these talents
to their highest point of expression.
This can be done, and yet you can
earn money at the same time.
For the artist who must make
money there is “commercial” art
which can be used for your advant-
age and you can study for your finer
art at the same time. The girl who
becomes a good fashion designer, a
good sketcher of some one else’s de-
signs, a clever poster artist, and
and the like; or at the other ex-
treme, tlie clever interior decorator,
the girl who perhaps paints and de-
signs dolls and their furniture, for
all 'these are outlets which roughly
may be grouped under the head of
“commercial art"—that girl has be-
fore her a career in which the finan-
cial reward is practically unlimited.
in writing the field is not quite
so clear. For a novice to enter the
newspaper game is very difficult,
though the field of special articles
sometimes presents an opportunity.
As for acting, I know enough about
it to advise you to keep away from
it.
DUMB BELLES AND
DUMB DULCIES
the private affairs of her associ-
ates and getting them into hot
water, ‘a regulur dumb belle' as my
director expressed It. There he was
wrong. He knew just what she
was but he classified her incor-
rect ly.
"Dumb belles are among our most
popular beauties, for they are con-
tent to he dumb. With men especi-
ally they are successful for they
never try to impress their opinions
on their companions—They haven't
any opinions and they don’t want
to have any. They simply glide
through life, beautiful, empty head-
ed. their tongues prattling innocu-
ous nonsense, while their eyes ex-
press wondering admiration for the
wisdom which their ears are receiv-
ing, hut which their brains don’t at
all understand. They really have a
wonderfully good time in their own
way and they do add to the joy of
living to many a man of importance.
“Ilut these Duleies! They want
to run the universe! I didn’t select
this play; it was thrust on me. But
I did enjoy making it, and if only
the Duleies will recognize them-
selves, I will feel that I have done
something even more important than
uplifting the silver screen. How-
ever, we never see oorsels as itliers
see us, alas.”
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Buy in Ponca. City
This page contains the week’s seasonal buying
suggestions. It will save time and money to read
it carefully.
The busy man or woman should watch this space
for the advertising news olf the week in Ponca
City.
By MARY DEAN
ETIQUETTE OF THE ROAD.
!ome to See Us For
YOUR
HARDWARE
About
Hollywood, Calif. — “There's, all1 1 was born and partly raised in
the difference in the world between the state of Georgia, which is an
a dumb Dells and a dumb Du icy ! essential thing for you to know in
“A dumb bells has a legitimate j order that you may join with my
place in the scheme of things; a ! northern friends in their objection-
dumb Duley smears treacle in the able gigglemeut.
machinery of her friends' affairs. . i own a right smart motor car
if you don't care for the dumb that can do—and does do—sixty-
belle you can ignore her—she ceases f jVe miles per hour—real, not con-
to exist for'you ; but the dumb Duley versational miles.
' thrusts herself upon you, and is as Whenever anyone gives me the
easy to get rid of as a piece of fly passing honk, toot or bray, I
paper on a hot day.” . * promptly give him his full half of
Constance Talmadge, the First
National star was speaking. Her
voice had taken on a vicious note
and she savagely tore into infinitesi-
mal scraps a letter which she had
just received from a well-meaning
friend.
We were sitting sipping tea on
the lawn of her beautiful home in
the outskirts of I.os Angeles, and
everything was so quiet and peace-
ful that this outburst in answer to
my question as to the difference be-
tween a dumb belle and a dumb
Duley seemed something in the way
of an explosion.
Miss Talmadge had just finished
making the pieturization of 'Duley”
which had had a successful run ns
a comedy on Broadway, and as the
name Duley has become a synonym
for "dumb-bell,” “stupid,” “crazy”
and “scatterbrain” around these
parts, we had called upon her to
explain the distinction.
"Tins letter is from a woman who
is always trying to be an orct Mrs.
Fix-It just like Duley in the play,
and I think she is one of the most
cordially detested women I know.
“While I am not personally in-
terested in dumb I idles .1 made a
study of a few before I started in
making this last picture. Of course
the road and allow him to pass me
—if he can.
1 was coming down a wide ball-
room floor—smooth stretch of high-
way—idling along at about forty-
five per, when an insistent horn
behind me demanded half the road.
I gave it fully and cheerfully—
and stepped on her to the exteut of
fifty-five. Just as I was about to
swing back into the center of the
road again the cock-sure blare of
a horn sounded close alongside me.
So I pushed her up to a good
sixty-five and gave the aspiring
driver more than his half of the
road.
And a big green car, driven by
a coal-black negro, who sat alone
in his glory at the wheel, slipped
quietly past me without even a cut-
out opened, and a big solicitous
voice boomed back at me: “What
seems to be de mattar, friend?
Has you got engine trouble?”
WANTS
Prices in Keeping With the
Quality
Hancock Hardware Co.
>18 E. Grand Avenue Phone 148
STl'DEBAKER PLANTS
OPERATE FULL CAPACITY
even better than (he average plan- Duley is nu attractive young wo-
ner of postcard designs, greetings! man who Is always Interfering with
Step Honey Bee Harvest Hands
From One Nectar Crop to Another
Browne’s Fruit and
Produce House
All Kinds of Fresh
Fruits and Vegetables
SERVICE with QUALITY
llJllliiPiW’'
A WCa KEPT APIARY
EARNS PROM filOO TO
$ 2000 A YEAR
5ELECTIN© BEES FOR
Shipment to other
NECTAR FIELD3 AFTER
THEY HAVE- GORGED
themselves on sugar
SYRUP.
PUTTINS BEES INTO SHIPPINa CASE
THROUGH
FUNNEL
The plants of the Studebaker cor-
poration operated at capacity In tlie
j second quarter. 43,680 cars were
sold, against 37,252 last year.
Manufacturing operations of all
! plants are at capacity, with 41,000
cars scheduled for production in the
j third quarter. The remarkable iu-
terpst aiid sales demand resulting
from the nation-wide announcement |
1 a t the “2nd inst. of the 1024 Model j
S mlebaker cars Insures the absorp-
tion of capacity output indefinitely.
Despite the lugubrious predictions |
if a prominent chart reader and!
1 ,-ophet widely circulated quite re- j
-fly, the automobile business is
tee livest prospect in the United
States today. There is no over-pro-1
duetiou of automobiles, but there is ■
an over-production in the country
of fearful opinions and impressions
by professional prophets, pessimists,!
. it critics. These destructive forces.1
.irking a gainst the productive
fmres of ilie country, undermine
< iitf.deuce in business and scare!
some people nito inaction or undue
isulioM which leads to unemploy-
ment. Facts and not opinions and
impivesslons are what we need, but
e: fortunately, there is an acute
!'.hi» tnge of facts. Uonceriiing tlie
motor vehicle industry, the facts are
. ; hut the value of its 1023 production
! o date puts it in second if not first
rank in American industry, and it
will Bold this position for tlie rest
of this year and proha lily indefinite-
ly. $1,500,000,000 of capital invested
in the automotive Industry and over
kuo.OOO people are directly employed
liv it. It is also one of tlie biggest
iiiesumers of raw materials and of
ueueial industry's best customers
.lioness generally, therefore, can-
ot lie proesperous in tlds country
unless the automobile business h
prosperous, and this fact might well
he appreciated once for nil. With
;lie railroads, it provides transporta-
tion and distribution, which next to
production, are our greatest econ
miiie necessities.
In 1020 there were more than 20,-
tNio Indian children of school age
who were not in school because of
la< k of facilities. All the Indians
are not Usages, wealthy ill oil lands.
Olliers live on poorer reservations
whose homes are hovels, tents,
shacks and houses with dirt floors.
Higdon Monument
Company
31.2 West Grand Ave.
Phone 1267
Builders of Ilia'll Grade
MONUMENTS AND
MAUSOLEUMS
Reasonably Priced
Ponca City
Oklahoma
WE HAVE
IN STOCK:
Touring honey bee harvest hands Is the latest efficiency etuut of
PUslHH
The experiment was highly profitable
Tlie faking of sculpture lias
reached such proportions in France
Hull a movement is on foot to forbid
the departure of any art work from
Hint country unless the sale is ap-
proved By the Ministry of Fine Arts
and a group of connoisseurs.
With the modern girl It appears
in he handsome is us handsome
doughs.
—Notes
—Warranty Deeds
—Mortgages
—Releases
—Bills of Sale
—Farm Leases
—All Legal Forms
COREY PRESS
107 N. 2nd St.
Phone 1372
Paints
Dear Reader:
I am not going to utilize this
space to give you a more or less
interesting review of the places I
have visited or worked in my
twenty-five years experience as a
house painter, fresco painter and de-
signer. It will, however, give me
pleasure to tell you some of tlie
tilings I have learned from experi-
ence that will perhaps save you
time, money and regrets.
“The Bewares”
Beware of paint advertising that
guarantees to do tills or that. Take
it from me, folks, it is mostly bunk.
If you ever have a written guaran-
tee, you will find tlie conditions are:
temperature just so, weather just
so, surface to he painted just so, and
in fact so many “just so’s” as to
make it valueless except as adver-
tising dope.
Remember always that the great-
est compliment that it is possible to
pay to outside house paint is to
claim a large percentage of white
lead and ut least 80 per cent linseed
oil.
Don’t pay a high price for var-
nish. When you pay more than $5.00
a gallon you are paying mostly for
page ads In the Saturday Evening
Post, Literary Digest, Cosmopolitan,
and other high priced advertising
space.
Don't fail to prime all exposed
metal with red lead and linseed oil.
Red lead and oil readily lend them-
selves to the excessive contractions
and expansions of heat and cold.
Don’t let some paint clerk tell you
ready mixed paint is superior to
lead and oil. Ask some reputable
painter.
' Don’t let anyone use gloss oil for
size on smooth plastered walls for
any purpose But water color. Gloss
oil under flat wall paint is seldom
if ever successful. Your walls are
sure to craze or alligator.
Always remember that highly ad-
vertised paint is u good deal like
whiskey in the old days. It was
really made to sell, not to use. if
you have paint troubles bring them
to our store and we will lie very
glad to straighten them out for you,
whether you buy material from us
or not. We go on the basis that
walls and woodwork that need ren-
ovating and re-patnrmg are similar
to a sick person who requires the
attention of a competent physician
in addition to having tlie sympathy
of friends and family.
To lie a successful painter or dec-
orator one must have a profound re-
spect for tlie surface that is to be
treated. One must take into con-
sideration the fact that from a
small seed a tree evolves and devel-
ops Into a finistied door, trim or
cabinet*work. Therefore It reaches
at tliis point tlie end of its activi-
ties. Tlie painter gives it its final
finish or dress, which really might
lie termed or considered in tlie same
light as a bridal dress, beenuse
henceforth it is destined to become
the companion of a man until it
reaches a ripe old age and is ready
for its filial resting place.
Bring your Paint
Troubles to
Lyons
YOU WILL GET THE TRUTH
REGARDLESS.
They are Here
The
Real Original
Yellow Taxi Cabs
For Good Clean Courteous
Taxi Service, Call
PHONE 482
ALTON'S
Battery Factory
saving
Careful buying is the secret of
money? Saving money is making
money. So why not buy your battery
from us for we can save you from $8
to $10 and give you the same guaran-
tee as high price batteries. All our
batteries are made here in Ponca City.
One year guarantee. Testing and
water service free.
217 North First
Phone No. 138S
SAVE MONEY
on your Fancy Work
BUY ROYAL SOCIETY PACKAGES
(All Floss Included)
A NEW LINE JUST IN
Luncheon Sets Buffet Sets
aVnity Dresser Sets
Pillow Cases
Linen and Huck Towels
Fancy Pillows and Scarfs
Gowns and Teddies
Negligees and Boudoir Caps
Pajamas
Infants and Children’s Dresses
Little Boys’ Suits and Rompers
— AT —
MRS. FLOOD’S
Art and Gift Shop
205 North Third
Kay Auto Top and
Paint Shop
You’ll be surprised how little it will
cost to fix the old car up—and
when we do it you can rest
assured it will be
done right.
203 S. Third
Ponca City
Spend It Here
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Hubbard, Ernest L. The Ponca City Courier (Ponca City, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 6, 1923, newspaper, September 6, 1923; Ponca City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1078284/m1/6/?q=wichita+falls: accessed July 2, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.