The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 304, Ed. 1 Friday, March 21, 1919 Page: 2 of 4
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The Daily Transcript. Xorman, Oklahoma
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from a soldier in Colmar: ' This The cars run, hits p*:, screec!.trg,
.1 ■*>' which I have seen so sad, it While wonderful toys,
is difficult to recognize. Its dear For girls and boys,
Published every aiiornoon r*ce(>t Sunday i little old streets, so narrow that Can always be had by reaching.
, th. Trmrtp.-EnMrpri.. ***** Co. fl.,KS touch eacll other> form. , them from Adam or Solomon, or
.1 0 FOX - - President j 8 colorful arch above our heads Oh, Cuddledowntown is a village of some other of the ancient pillars
J J. BURKE - Secretary-Treat i s'n^ happiness of Alsace. dreams , of the sex. Spitting with them is
R. 11. PARHAM - Bu-iin"ss M rt There are old flags of the time Where little tired legs find rest; a time worn custom, an institution
before the war, old faded flags, 'Tis God's hand-- as it were from which they find'it
Sntmi .I second-class nutter January and there are rich silk flags, 'Tis Holy land— hard to break awav
i/, ivn, at rnc post-omrc it « Hi* '
tjjma. under act of congress of March 3, whose colors may not be quite true \ot far from mother's bea^t. ! "But can we imagine what sort
! perhaps, that have been hastily Anil many a weary grown-up man of a howl would go up from mas-
Office. 215 Fast Main siren. Telephone fashioned by loyal fingers out of With sad soul, heavy, aching ruline throats, if the women along
DAILY SUBSCRIPTION RATES. ;dancinjr frocks and wedding gowns
By mail, one year.. $.t r>0, whose white is old ivory, and
By mail, six months L'.OOl whose red is ashes of roses.
I their masculine superiority, we may say of them,, no dressmaker I FOR SALE:
are at a loss to say. It is one of ever intended women's skirts to be k per setting
; their divine rights it would seem, used as street cleaners."
' which has been handed down to
WANT ADS
WANTED: Good Ford car must
b£ in good repair and priced
right. No junk considered Cash
r.nd terms. Phone 544.
303 tf. D
Barred RocR eggs.'le is doing well in the retaurant
. . 6 cents, per hun- j business.
dred $4.50, Mrs. Chas. Standley,;
603 West Comanche, phone 107.
30?-6*. 1 Gov. Robertson intends making
1 a flying trip to Hot Springs, Ark.,
FOR RENT: One south bed room after the legislature adjourns
512 Ini. Blvd. Phone 655 ^ ^ I having accepted an invitation to
j be a passenger in Lieut. Barnitz's
airplane. He says it will be pleas-
W. D. Dillbeck, formerly well ant to get up in the air where of-
known resident of Norman, was 1 fice seekers cannot get to him for
here this week from Yukon, where a few hours.
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The Story of
Alsace-Lorraine
^ By Constance Winifred Stumpe)
• Charlemagne had two sons, Pip-
I i'ii and Lothaii between whom he
t'livided his kingdom. To Pippin
fell the land on the west, home of
the Franks; to Lothair the valleys
.10; "Today 1 went to the schools
I where the Red Cross was distrib-
uting chocolate among the chil-
dren. There has not been such a
party for a long time, for choco-
late has sold for 5 and 6 marks a
cake! Most of the children are
poorly clad, wearing paper shoe"
but all are wearing the loyal
cockade, and there is new
Could he lie down
In this sweet town | charming custom of
Might keep his heart from break- the Sidewalk. Of coil
with the vote, would take up that'
WANTED: Good Ford car must
be in good repair and priced
the thing right No junk considered Cash
spittins
ing.
-—Joe
Kerr, in Collier's Weekly.
we c.'in | and terms.
Phone. 544.
Perrogative of Man
:s positively unthinkabl
fun y the horrtr whic . shakes ev „ A T t- n,, x.
, , , . . ., FOR SALE: 2% horsepower
ery readers heart at the veryi gasoline engine Been used about
mention of such an atrocity. But. six months. Guaranteed in good
where's the great difference, when' running order. Holtzsche Motor
'Car Co., 107 East Main St., Nor-
Since the disposing of the
Cherokee Republican, Mrs Walter
Ferguson has transferred
happr- "Woman's Column,", to the
ness in their wan little faces, for tonga Republican and is filling it
they know, although they do not with some good articles Her
cf the Mouse. Moselle and the j understand, that something won- one of them :
TJiine. The kingdom of. Lothair jderful has happened Fairer days "Watonga, like all small towns,
was called Lothringus. or what we „r, mminu-! The lilies will bloom is possessed of
we get down to fundamentals. As
American citizens, the women
would have the same right to spit
her:on the sidewalk that the-men now
\\ a- enjoy.
man, Okla.
303-Gt.
"We trust that such will never
Vegetable plants of all kinds
can now be obtained at Eken-
bergers Hot House. Phone 467
303-4t.
today call Lorraine, so it would
seem that the claim of France to
this disputed bit of territory goes
back farther than 1871, farther
than Louis XIV'., whom the Ger-
man* accused of stealing it, back
to that king of the Franks, who
ruled at that point in time when
historians say ancient history ends
and modern history begins—800-
814
Existing along with the greater
part of Middle Europe, as part of ''nddl
are coming,
again "
store will not be opened until 9
o'clock—but be here early so as to
get a front seat.—RUCKER'S
THK SAM) MEN OF
C UDDLEDOW NTOWX
numlx
jbe the case, but at the same time
we fail to understand just why
the men will subject the women to
i of muie | inicleanlineas as this-unhap-
citizens, whose chief delight seem | py habit of theirs causes The L0ST
rru TT* 1, • t0 to Stami arOUnd °" tl,e COr" sidewalks of town were made for
There will be a rush at Ruckers ners, and spit on the sidewalks. L. . „ ,,
„ c • d i the women to walk on as well as
I on Friday at 9 a. nv, Sewing Sale Uns last is one of the chi-f perog
starts promptly at that hour. The atives of man. Just what partic-
ular pleasure they get out of this
form of amusement, it would be
hard to determine, but we have
them with us always—the sort of
men, who litter up the clean
streets and make walking on pub-
lic highways a pain as well as a
for the men. and now that long
skirts are again coming into vogue
i it is going to be a sort of danger-
! ous pastime, to both sexes. Dan-
I gerous to the temper of the wo-
men, and equally so to the pocket -
WANTED: Work by experienced
girl. Boarding house preferred.
Phone R. J. 551. 303-3t.*
Between 624 and 719 E.
Eufaula street, pair of glasses in
case. Return to 719 E. Eufaula.
303-3t*.
LOST: A pair of nose glasses
with short gold chain. Return
to Transcript. 303-31*.
dnwnton is i\ «r Cradlcville danger.
the Holy Roman empire, and later Where the Sand men pitch their
a detached state, people by Ger- tents;
I'nans, Alsace was annexed to the In drowsyland
J ealrn of "the Sun King," Louis I You understand,
JC1V, in the middle of the seven- In the state of innocence;
tcenth century, in return for cer 1 'Tis a wondrous village, this Cud-
tain favors done the inhabitants. er of Life
"From time immemorial men
have seemed to enjoy spitting. The
tobacco habit and smoking has aid
ed them in this great work, and
now with twentieth century pro-
gress, the festive cuspidor in the
city, and the festive sidewalks
LOST: A pair of gold rmimed,
straight bows, shaded lens glass-
, . , ,, , . . es on West Main. Return to the
books of the men, for whatever we Transcript. Reward. 303-3t.
Strand Theatre
Oklahoma City, Sunday, March 23.
' ISABEL 0STRANDES
Great Book Story
"SUSPENSE"
The most startling scree story of today.
The most startling schene story of today.
Norman patrons as worthy of their pat-
ronage.
When tlie iulin<r house in Lorraine Which the Grandma Storks watch 'n the small towns are native in
over.
While Honey-bug bees,
'N'eath Funnny-bug trees.
Croon Lullabys in sweet clover.
died oat the land reverted to the
related House of Bourbon, then
on the French throne What
more natural and legitimate ac-
quisition than this?
On June 9, 1871, by virtue of the 'Tis o wondrous village, this Cud-
tveaty of Frankfort, Alsace-Lor dledowntown,
raine passed into the hands of the For its people are all sleepers;
German emperor, a teritory of And never a one.
5,600 square miles, with nearly From dark till dawn.
2,000,0000 inhabitants. And what Has ever a use for peepers.
of the conquered territories ? They They harness gold butterflies to
must e Germanized. They must Sunbeams—
speak Oerman, look German, think Play horse with them, a-screammg
German. Thousands of workers While never a mite,
■were deported into Germany to Throughout the night,
I?arn German ways and German E'er dreams that he's a-dreaming.
methods. German was taught in
American institutions. Just why
men think they must expectorate
(if we would avoid the more vul-
gar parlance) in order to retain
the schools. The French language-
was forbidden. In spite of their
efforts we see how well they suc-
ceeded in drawing the mailed
guantiet over the silk glove of
kh France Beneath it all t:ie lilies
J'h bloorr.'
Americans feel a peculiar and
hpecial .-cnt ment in the return of
the lost ej'enies. On a rolling hill
that loo*s down into the flowering
Aaiievs of the Rhine, and over the
fieJi* . f Lorraine there stands a
pi white monument, erected to the
!N first three American soldiers who
gave their lives for France Be-
^ u tie graven names of this he-
t ir trio rest the arms of Lorraine,
fd '.nth its feathery thistles carved
in the eternal marble, abloom for-
ever in memory of these Ameri-
':> cans, in memory of I.arraine, for
■'1 whom they died.
It is a fair land, drained by the
River Mosselle, that runs through
fertile grape country, and further
I'M south, bu the Rhine as it eomes
id down from the Swiss Alps Be-
1 tween lie the extended ranges of
(he Voages, the "blue Alsatian
1 ►>ountains," theme of an old wait'
E iung. Its generous fields yield
quantities of sugar beets, hops, to-
5 baeco, flax, hemp and luscious
fruits. The mines of Lorraine
J produce coal, iron and salt. Rich
5 booty for the conquerors of 1871.
1 Mclz, Clomar, Strassburg and
' V.uhlhausen are the largest cities,
each boasting well over 20.000 in-
• habitants. The last existed as an
I independent city-republic until
1798, when it vountarily and un-
1 animously asked to be incorporat-
ed in the French Republic! Wh'
•hall call it German?
I About the city of Straussburg,
capital of Alsace, romance and
i sentiment cling. Its memorial
I has stood weeping in the Place d0
la Concorde in Paris for forty
years, the shrine of loyal French-
men, covered with myrtle wreaths
and tokens of the mourning of
France. Today that same memor-
ial is abloom with lilies and gay
with the dear tricolor, for Strass-
burg is French one more; Alsace
has come back to the waiting arms
of Mother France.
The streets of these Alsatian
citiiw are thronged with American
aoldiers. Little Alsatian girls ,
with huge bows in their hair wear i
Old Glory and the French tricolor '
aide by side. A letter comes I
in Cuddledowntown there are choo
choo cars
In all of the beautiful streets;
And round bald heads
Curly heads
\re the engineers one meets;
From Piggybacktown to Patty
cakeville
Office phone 225
Residence phone 505
THOMPSON'S
QIA Transfer
U" Company
Would like to do your
hauling.
Special equipment for
moving pianos.
—Call us by Phone—
We are on the job all
are on the
the time.
lie .McDougall was the.tirst « < <I Kitch-
en C ahinet made and has always been the
r>est. Die McDougall compam keep hi
progress with the times and alwav- keep
he McDougall (.'ahinet in the I.I A!).
I hey are the strangest built in everv va\
and the most convenient wrom every
standpoint for the housewife.
.\.McDougall user is a satisfied customer.
Cash it you have it, credit it you want it.
MEYER & MEYER
Quality Furniture.
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