Ellis County Advocate (Gage, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 2, 1921 Page: 2 of 4
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THE RIGHT THING
AT
THE RIGHT TIME
By MARY MARSHALL DUFFEE
CALLING CARDS
Nothin? is so difficult but that it may
be found out by seeking — Terrence
WRITER on social usage has
called attention to the fact that
in the countries of Europe the eti-
OueHg (fte calling card Is clearly
laid down by social law in this coun-
try it is left in the air
If there were but a congress of cus-
tom where some one could go nnd In-
troduce a law setting forth the occa-
sions on which the culling curd can
with propriety be -used and the occa-
sions on which It cannot be used how
much confusion could be avoided 1 As
this cannot be done we can only do
our best with our calling cards and
trust to luck nnd Instinctive good taste
that we will not break such laws as
there are
IH Some sections of the country It
is customary for newcomers to make
the first call and as cards ure the em-
blems of callS the rules regulating
them can be grouped with those regu-
hjting card usage In most sections
It is Customary for the old resident to
make the first call In still other
places it Is usual for a newcomer to
send out at-home cards to such per-
sons as she chances to meet and de-
sires to become acquainted with
r It Is usual however In most places
for the old resident to make the first
call It Is essential for the person
called on to return this first cull or
else run the risk of being called rude
The newcomer who waits for others
to call on her no matter where she is
will do better than the newcomer who
makes first calls where this is not cus-
tomary 1 Here are a few hints which should
be observed in the etiquette of card
usage:
Always call or leave cards within
ten days after a dinner reception or
dance Invitation whether it is ueeept-
V ed or declined
Call or leave enrds after teas also
unless you are sure that custom of
the neighborhood exempts you from
this duty In some of the big cities
among ninny groups cards are not re-
quired after tens But an unne ssnry
cnll or card can never be objected to
Send cards when It Is impossible to
attend a tea for which cards have been
' sent
Leave cards or call at the home of
tiie mother of a bride whose wedding
or reception at the house you have at-
tended
Married women ' leave a card of
their own for each woman of the
household a card of their husband for
each married woman and another for
her husband Young men or bachelors
of any age leave cards for the daugh-
- ter of the household and for her
mother
Here are five “don’ts” about cards:
Never regret an Invitation on a
' card An Invitation sent on a card if
It demands an answer should be an-
swered by note
Never leave a card without making
a call on any one's day at home
Do not return first calls by card
alone unless the hostess Is not home
when you call la that case a card
’ may be left '
Never have anything put on th card
but the name address and If wanted
the day at borne '
“What’s In a Name?”
By MILDRED MARSHALL
hed about yout name Its hbcory mien-
log whence It wee derived significance!
yout lucky day end lucky IcweL
ANITA
THE lovely Spanish favorite Anna
has won almost as prominent a
place among the feminine names of
our ' country as - the equally exotic
Juanita which followed the song of
that title Anita however Is much
more redolent of North America than
Its prototype For Anita signifying
grace baa an ' origin parallel with
Anre
V -About the time that the mother of
Samuel was recorded In ' Biblical
chronicles as the original Hannah the
etymological way was being paved for
Ahe entrance of Anita through the
gateway of Spain ’ Byzantium that
kingdom of royal splendor paid hom-
age to a St Anna who la thought to
:Be a flare-back to the great Roman
deity
t The daughter of Emperor Basil call-
ing herself Anna married Grand
’ Prince of Mvitcovy and carried the
whera It was sub-
name i&to "
j jected to the Slavic Influence and JA-
sued forth In various forms of dlminu-
: tives and endearments one being the
pretty Amar which still has Vogue
there The susceptibility of the name
to the Influence of all tongues prob-
ably brought it to the attention of
sort-syllabled Spain who adopted It
cut off the “r” and’ changed the m
to "u” for euphony’s sake making the
charming Ana which has great popu-
larity there But Spain no sooner
adopts a name than It must haves
diminutive after the Latin fashion—
hence Anita
Italy took Anita and called her
Nlnetta which was later subjected to
a diminutive process and Issued forth
as Nanna
Anita’s tallsmanlc gem Is the cat s
eye jvhlcb has srster mjstlc fluaU-
ties tlinn those of any other Jewel It
has the power of hypnotism nnd is
said to be a charm against evil spir-
its It Is a' snored stone In India
where its dazzling white light shot
with brilliant green imbues it with un-
canny powers Thursday is Anita’s
lucky day nnd 5 her lucky number
The poinsetta is her flower
(Copyright)
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A LINE O’ CHEER
By John Kendrick Bangs
MY STRIKE
I to strike I think
’twould be
For longer days than those
we Bee-
Say sixty hours maybe more
So short Indeed are twenty-four
With much to do our goals to win
And time too scarce to do It in
(Copyright)
DUCKY
My hubby never
kicks at the ex
pense of main-
taining a wife
But then I was
luoky
How’s that?
Before I was
married he had
six months’ ex-
perience In main-
tallpg an auto
mobile - -
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I THE GIRL ON THE JOB I
How to Succeed — How to Get
Ahead— How to Make Good
I By JESSIE ROBERTS
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LUCKY STRIKES 1
rj-iHE business of ’ making lucky
strikes has by no means gone out
of date ’ It Isn’t necessary these days
to kill Indians or give a dying miner
a drink You can do it in less moving-picture
ways than that —
A good idea properly handled has
often proved the best sort of a lucky
trike -
Take the case of Elsie Shaver of
New York She conceived an original
Idea In regard to dolls She carried
It out to the last detail as perfectly
as she could — and that means a lot
Here is the result
The dolls found a welcome waiting
for them They were high priced but
they were - worth It And people
bought them
Now there Is a little shop working
fullttde making the dolls There Is a
large force following the designs
made by Mrs Shaver Money pours
in and it Is a good ’business enter-
prise: — Just a lucky strike
Other lucky strikes have been made
by young women in the advertising
business Sculptors have made them
with a quaint figure I know a girl
who had a bright Idea regarding a
department of the store where she
works She bends the department at
a mighty good salary now
Lucky strikes are good things and
we don’t all fall on them But I no-
tice that each one that really brings
success is nceompnnied by a lot of
hard work The lucky striker has not
sat around waiting for luck to do the
rest
No She got busy herself -
(Copyright) '
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THE WOODS
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
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THE BIGGER THING
JEST yesterday I watched an ant
A-totin’ In the summer sun
I saw him puff an’ pull an’ pant
With little burdens one by one
A wisp of straw acroat his way - "
Once kept him busy fer an hour
An’ ant-mlles long he walked that day
To git around a bloomin’ flower
The sand he carried grain by grain —
’ Great bowlders thet he had to lift—
An' with his engineerin’ brain -He
sunk Ills shaft an’ run his drift
An’ then at night a Bigger Thing
To which the-Little Tiling must
kneel
Creation’s self-appointed king'
Wiped out the anthill with its heel
(Copyright) 1 !
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Laugh Reveals Character
There are those who give - them-
selves over to laughter quickly there
are others who hold back to the break-
ing point and if you are trying to
make them laugh - you turn with a
look of triumph when at last the Ice
is broken AIL of these differing cases
betoken character and we are not far
wjieu we say “Let me hear you
laugh and I’U tell you what sort of
a being you are— whether you are a
good companion or a strenuous one
whether we must take care that you
do uot get even with us I’ll tell you
whether you are cynical cruel good
natured honest or uot to be trusted’
6
SURE’
He': ' Would you
be satisfied with
love In a cottage?
She: v In
OOtOt one — yea
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One of the most popular of the
American "movie" stare ie Pearl
White ' She is so well known to the
patrons of the picture houses that lit-
tle or nothing could be said about
her that Is not already Known - Mlfte
White recently sailsd for gnaUnd an
posed this picture on railing Cf
eamship
HOW DO YOU SAY IT?
By C N I £
Common Errors in English and
How to Avoid Them
THE USE OF “ANY"
IITh
1 youngest son is brighter than any
of them” This sentence is incorrect
and should be changed to “1 know the
family well and the youngest son is
brighter tlinn any other one of
them” or “brighter than any of the
rest or the family” :
When the sentence first quoted is
analyzed — that is taken apart and ex-
amined critically— it seems to say
that the youngest son is brighter tlinn
himself for of course he Is one or
any one of the family’ Such a state-
ment Is absurd and to express clearly
the meaning of the writer or speaker it
is necessary to insert some word or
words (such as i’other” oq “the apst
of”) to show the comparison- between
the member of the family under dis-
cussion and the rest of the family
If you say “The blacksmith is
stronger than any man” you imply
that the blacksmith is not a man Say
therefore’ “The blacksmith is stronger
than any other man”
(Copyright)
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EXPLOSIVES
IN TnE early days of warfare com
bustibles were hurled at the eneui)
to help demoralize his ranks Many
experiments were conducted wiii- tiie
idea of producing highly liiflainina’ile
material Roger Bacon a monk in
the Thirteenth century while experl
nienflng on this subject happened to
use pure Instead of Impure saltpetre
with the result that be nearly wrecked
the place but from this discovery
came our modern powders and high
explosives
(Copyright)
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Egg Strangely Marked
A new-laid egg was put in a pan t I
boll and when the white began to
whiten says an Ontario render she
noticed a dark spot appear- The dark
spot was so like a tiny mouse that
when she showed the egg still in the I
pan to three men they thought It was j
a mouse
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Something-to
Think About
By Fjf WALKER -
HUMAN NATURE
tHEIlE Is one boast that Is pretty
’ nearly universal You probably
never met a man or n woman who if oc-
casion gave opportunity would not Say
with considerable show of pride “Well
I know human nature"
'They mean when they say It that
they think they can solve the causes
of human action that they can ac-
curately point out the ' whys nnd
wherefores that Influence our relations
one with another our acts and our at-
titudes Frequently these renders of human
Quture will ascribe a questionable
motive for any kind of an act good
bad or Indifferent They - would have
you think that the chief force at work
in the world is evil the commanding
passion selfishness w
It isn’t truev There is a good deal
of good in the world
The great majority of people are
animated nnd influenced by high
motives and 'splendid desires '
The really bud man or woman Is the
exception -
Human nature as a whole Is of a
kind tlint really makes life worth living-
’ ?
Elihu Burrltt the learned black-
smith wrote down this wisdom : “No
human being can come into this world
without Increasing or diminishing the
sum total of human happiness”
After all the most of our lives and
the most of our endeavors are to help
In the general scheme of things
The comer grocer may be cross and
urly sometimes but If you only knew
It he sent a basket filled with things
good to eat to the woman down the
street whose husband Is sick In the
hospital Human nature In his case Is
dominated by good ' -And
as It is with the grocer so It
Is with the butcher the baker and the
candle-stick maker with the minister
and the sinner with everybody
It Is a splendid thing a helpful
thing to seek tlie good side of people
to find out their better qualities and
encourage them
There Is some bad In the best of us
There Is a - lot of good In the worst
of us
Human nature Is very much like a
garden In It we plant seeds
Some spront and grow Into splendid
flowering plants that give everybody
pleasure Some come up useless weeds
If we plant kindness and charity and
'love the garden will be worth-while :
If we plant envy and greed and
malice and hatred and jealousy It will
not prove a source of much Joy to any-
body Nobody can plant or tend the garden
but you Nobody can take from you
the credit for the flowers and you can-
not shift to another the blame for the
growths 'that are worthless -
Try to know the good side of human
nature Try to cultivate it and en-
courage It
If a motive Is In question give It
the benefit of the doubt and believe it
was good until It Is proven to be bad
It says in the book of Genesis that
when the Creator considered his work
He pronounced that “It was good”
Unless there is a greater power than
the Creator It must have remained
good
Anyhow It Is sort of satisfying to
believe that Good is more powerful
than Evil and unless we' have to
ehange let us keep on thlnkfng so
(Copyright)-
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THE ROMANCE OF WORDS
“GROG”
AT FIRST glance-there would
appear to be little connec
tion between the word “gres-’
grain” applied to heavy silks
and ribbons and "grog" the
aatlor’s slang for drink But both -of
them were connected with Ad-
miral Edward Vernon of the
British navy the man who
gained fame for the capture of
Porto Bello during the war with
Spain In 1739 and for whom i
Mount Vernon the home ’ of i
Washington was named
To the men of the British !
navy however ' he owes his
greatest fnrae to the fact that
bo was the first to order rum
and water served to the men of
his squadron beginning ' this
practice on board his own ship
the Burford previous ' to
this time the admiral had ac-
quired the name of “Old Grog’’
from his habit of Rtrotling along
the quarter-deck In a “grogrom”
cloak — “grogram” being the
British sailor’s corruption of the
term “gros-graln” Because of
the nickname of the man who
originated the serving of rum In
the navy the drink was called
“grog”— and “grog” It Is to this
day
(Copyright)
Effectual Effacemsnt
“I hear that Crimson Gulch’s
gnming resort has been dosed”
“Yes” replied Three-Fingered Sam
“The police got busy at last!”
“Tweren’t the police Cactus Joe
had a winning itreak”
TIIE GUINEA IIENS
T WAS four days since the Guinea
Hens had been placed In tiie barn-
yard and the animals were still puz-
zling over tbelr queer looks ''
“Who ever heard of hens with faces
like those?” said old Brown Hen “So
white and those fiery red ears I think
they look frlghtfuL” ' t
Just then Red Rooster came strut-
ting across the yard as fast as his
dignity would allow ’“I have some
news for you” he said pausing for
breath
There Is a circus down the road”
he said "and I heard the farmer’s boy
say that he saw' queer tilings aown
there and one was a clown with’ a
white face painted with red In places”
“Oh' those new hens look Just like
that” broke In old Yellow Hen “Now
we know wliat they are They are
clowns and came from the circus”
“They better go back where they
came from” said old Yellow Hen “for
Book
B Ilk th bird that halting In her flight
Awhile on boughs too slight
Feels them give way beneath her ana-pat
Blogs
Kao wing that she hath wing 1
—Victor Hugo
AVORY SATISFYING DISHES
TO A PINT of tender green peas
cooked in very little water add
while cooking a teaspoonful of sugar
and a sprig of mint Drain using the
liquor for a sauce Add butter and a
a little flour and serve after remurlag
the sprig of mint
Hot Potato Salad -
Cook potatoes with the Jacket m
peel cut In cubes add a few young
green oniona minced a few tablespoon-
fula of chopped celery some minced
parsley (a teaspoonful or twoj poor
over the sa!ad some hot bacon fat
stirring and tossing until well mixed
season well add boiling hot vinegar
a little at a time until the salad seems
well seasoned and serve hot Olive
oil may be used Instead of the bacon
fat If preferred and lemon juice In-
stead of vinegar '
Herring Salad
Cook salt liefrlng 15 minutes In boil-
ing water to cover drain cool and
separate into flakes To a cupful of
the herring add an equal measure of
potato cut In cubes and one-fourth
of the amount of hard-cooked eggs' cut
In bits Mix until moist with French
dressing and let stand to season add-
ing pepper cayenne and paprika Serve
on a bed of lettuce garnish with rings
' of egg-white and the yolks put through
a ricer Serve with a good boiled dress-
ing which has been enriched by the
addition of whipped cream
Cream Chess Salad Dressing
'Make the ordinary French dressing
adding one-tenspoonful of onion Juice
then odd 1 very slowly mixing well
to a cream cheese Bent with a silver
fork until the dressing Is smooth
Serve over leaf lettuce -
no hen in this barnyard will have any-
thing to do with them”
That night when the hens went to
bed it was very very dark anti those
that had little ones cuddled them close
under their wlpgs: - '
The new hens — they’ were Guine
Hens whieff - of course you bare
guessed before this-— went to bed away
up in the branches of the nearby trees
as they always do and If anything
disturbs them they quickly cry with
a loud squawk something that sounds
like “Go back t Go back”
Bol) Dog the collie’ was asleep and
he (Jid not hear a sound but the
Guineas did and to the middle -of the
night came tlielr loud cry of “Go back !
Go back !” -'
"Don’t you know any better than to
make that silly nolsq In the middle
of the night?” ' scolded! Brown Hen
“You are rightly named clowns but
I am- sorry you are heps as well” -
- Bob Dog awoke too - and with a
bound out of his house he came bark-
ing with all his might and In a1 minute
he had by the leg a man who-had come
creeping toward the henhouse1 to- carry
off the hens In a bag 1
After the excitement was over Bob
Dog told the hens what had happened
and how the new hens had given the
warning or he might never have caught
the robber
: “If it wasn’t for that awful cry they
make” said old Yellow Hen after a
call on the Guineas “they wonldbe
very nice companions nnd they are
very genteel I am sure”
“But It was the cry that saved us
last night” said Mrs Brown Hen “I
shall never again Judge any one from
appearances” -
(Copyright) '
' Vinegar Sauce -
Mix with three-fourths of a cupful
if sugar a tablespoonful of flour a
be tf-tea spoonful or less of grated nut-
meg In one-half cupful of boiling water
Gbok until smooth add two tablespoon--fats
of vinegar and a -tablespoonful of
bolter serve hot a
- Ginger Ale Salad '
Soften one-half package of gelatlm
Ms ene-half cupful of cold water add
one cupful of boiling water Strain
add one and one-half cupfuls of ginger
ate one-half cupful of sugar and the
Juice of a lemon Add one cupful off
strawberries cut In balves and one
bassos sliced tbln Stir until well!
mixed mold and chill Serve unmold-
ed en lettuce with French dressing:
Peached Eggs 1 nchovy Toss
Work a teaspoocftil of snehovy paste
or more If desired Into one-third of
cupful of butter Spread on thin
slices of crisp toast andi lay a
poached egg on each slice
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