Hollis Tribune (Hollis, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, November 18, 1910 Page: 10 of 10
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TALK ON ETIQUETTE
Beau Says United States More
Polite Than France.
World's Most Famous Cotillion Lei *r
Calls on Youth of Hl« Nation to
Recover Cost Science of
Politeness.
Paris, France —M. Fouquleres. who
fa called the world's most famous
leader of cotillions and is also known
as the "last true daudy of the Beau
Brummel type." finds that the United
State* and England are now more
polite than France, thus contradict-
ing F. Hopkinson Smith, who has held
up France as a model In matters of
etiquette. The noted society leader
baa Issued a stirring appeal to Paris
lans In which he describes the decline
of courtesy, calls politeness a most
useful quality and urgea his fellow
citizens to regain their reputation for
good manners i>s they are recovering
In aeronautics their reputation for
Vrolsm.
"Politeness is disappearing," de-
clared M Fouquieres. M!i must be ad
mitted that we are no longer the most
courteous people In the world. The
poi"'ues which was formerly a na-
aona! virtue, and the former gallantry
which always characterized French-
men are today neglected, ridiculed
and almost despised.
"Look at our young fo!*. They are
forma), stiff, indifferent and disdain-
ful; their movements are Identical
and bombastic like a funeral ballet,
and they affect a phlegmatic ennui
which It Is cain to criticise, for it is
the mode
"Foreigners trusting to our reputa-
tion for courtesy are astonished to
find themselves inspected insolently
when they venture into public places.
Women do not escape sly, gay looks
and vulgar murmurlngs and whoever
makes malicious Jokes at their ex-
pense Is applauded with the laugh of
approbation. Lack of tact is consid-
ered witty. Our savants, aviators, au-
tomoblllsta and sailors perform heroic
deeds dally and their glory Is undi-
minished. Only politeness is lost
"Yet there Is no quality more use-
ful in a democracy. It incites and wins
Indulgence All ambitious persons :
ought to be polite, but foolish persons 1
cannot be. for politeness is a science
requiring an understanding of psy-
chology. Ah opportune compliment
can create a precious ally.
"During centuries we ridiculed Eng- ,
llsh manners. Now we think we are
following the phlegmatic English fash- (
Ion, but we are wrong, for In the
meantime England has changed. The
modern Englishman, although he has
a true compassion for all not born on
English soil, is always perfectly cour-
teous. Even America Is Improving In
this respect and only France Is de-
ter! eating
"There Is hope, however, that the
growing interest in sport and athletics
will renew the old-time courtesy. For
does not the fencing room preserve
the tradition ot elegance? The new
generation will remember, perhaps,
that their ancestors risked life for a
■mile and that the learnt iontenelle
at the age of 80 t^cled up a fan for a
young girl."
SHE HAD 1 001 PROPOSALS I W© have the best farm loan prop-
one nnu i,v/vm lotions In Harmon County.
Young Seattle Widow, a Teiephon. | Gardner Bros. A Motley.
Operator, to Marry the Last One
to Declare.
FISH DRAGS MAN FROM BOAT
Enormous Muskellunge Lunges at
Captor When About to Use
Gaff—Fight in Water.
Mlnocqua, Wis.—An enormous mus-
kellunge, weighing 62 pounds, and
lacking only four inches of five feet In
length, pulled Howard Kennedy, a
Milwaukee fisherman, Into the lake
1 before being captured. Mrs. Kennedy
fired four shots at the fish with a deer
rifle before placing a bullet In a vital
spot.
The flsh was hooked on Loralne
lake, between Mlnocqua and Rhine-
lander. in the woods south of here,
where the Laura Fishing club of
Milwaukee has a camp The Milwau-
kee man and his wife were fishing
when Kennedy got the strike and
reeled in his prize until he was al-
most ready to gaff It.
As he reached out with his gaff
hook, the fish gave a lunge and Ken-
nedy was in the lake. His wife help-
ed him to catch the painter of the
boat, and then he hung to the flsh
while Mrs. Kennedy used the rifle
8eattle—New YorK may have Its
herd of 185 loves In the person of one
Roscoe H. Sanborn, but Seattle has a
real merrv widow with 1,001 proposals
to her credit The one thousand and
first man Is the lucky one and the
wedding will occur shortly
The merry widow Is Mrs. RUa May
Dike, a "phone operator It Is ques-
tionable if Ntrs. Dike ever saw more
than a scant half-dozen of thel.001
suitors. But that did not detract
from the ardor of their love epistles.
They wrote from the north, t e Boutn,
the east and the west.
Mrs. Dike was formerly an Iowa I
| £|rj—ottumwa being her home. Three j
| years ago she married and with he' ,
i husband went to South Dakota. He I
<kas killed in a wreck and Mrs. Dike
! bravely faced the world and took up j
a claim. „ ,
I She called her place - Ottumwa. and
it is still known by that name In
j South Dakota
1 At the ctate fair In Huron. S. D..
in 1908 s. Dike was awarded the
I prize fr,. oeing the prettiest young
I woman In the state Newspapers de^
j voted columns to her photo ant
beauty
' At first letters came by two and
three, but finally the rural delivery
man had to put on an extra mule to
aid In hauling the mall out to Ot-
tumwa "
Mrs Dike has a bungalow on her
160 acres There she opened and read
every one of the proposals. j
Her house needed papering T*otb- j
Ing would better serve the purpose
than a ton or two of love letters. Mrs
Dike plastered the walls and the
ceilings and used the photos for roof- ,
lng and with the surplus built a chick
een corral. Over all the pasted this
large sign:
"Love letter shack. Tack new pro-
posals on vacant space." „
Mrs. Dike was literally driven off
her claim. She came to Seattle In
1909 and found employment. There,
however, her beauty attracted other
wooers, and though she fought them
off with her rugged South Dakota ex-
perience she at last fell victim to
Cupid, and a Seattle business man
won her hand.
Let ns show you some nice lota at
reasonable prices.
^Gardner Bros. & Motley.
The report that Secretary of the
Treasury Mac Veagh is to retire from
service is denied.
160 acres 2 1-2 miles from Hollis—
all good land at 135.00 per acre.
Gardner Bros. & Motley.
We have a good school quarter
close to town at $550.00.
Gardner Bros. & Motley.
' Eight are known to be dead and
four more or less seriously Injured,
as a result of a freight wreck on the
Great Northern railroad near Chat-
taroy, Wash., early Sunday morning.
The census oureau Monday gave
out the population figures of El1 Paso,
Texas, as 39.279; last census. 15,000,
increase, 145.7.
House and two lots close in
for $550.00.
Gardner Bros. & Motley.
Lumber-Lumber
and all Kinds of
Building Material
New Y rd on the Will Hollis Block
McClure-naftzger
Lumber Co.
New York Journalism.
"See this society helle about her ru-
mored engagement "
Yes, sir '
If she admits l . get ten lines. If
<.) i■ .lenies It. get a column and her
holograph."
What have jou to trader We will!
match it If prices are right.
Gardner Bros. ,
Don't make a farm loan until you j
see us.
Gardner Bros. & Motley.
"Killed 3,804, injured 82,374." This |
Is the casualty record of the railroads
in the United States during the year
ended June 30, last, according to the
Interstate Commerce Commission to-
day. It is an Increase of 1,013 in the
number of killed and 18,454 in the
; number of injured over the previous
I year's figures
Good Groceries
Call on Harmon & Stewart
For
Also have a fine line of
Queensware
Goods delivered on short notice to any
part of the city.
HARMON & STEWART
SWISS BRIDES BE HEALTHY HOBBLE SKIRT AIDS MORALS
Radical Action Planned by Govern-
ment of Switzerland In Requlr
Ing Physical Testa.
London.—That vexed question of
state medical certificates of the health
of brides Is now In the region of prac-
tical politics. In all probability Swiss
brides will in future be required to
present a certificate of health to their
bridegrooms, so that If any man mar
rles a girl whose health is not good
he will have himself to blame^
Next year. If the rich and influential
body called the Swiss Society of Pub-
lic Utility for Women, which has done
much good In Switzerland during the
last few yeara. has Its way. all young
women, wed or unwed, will be phys-
ically examined, as are their brothers
who enter the Swiss army
According to its report for 1910. the
society has launched this daring
acheme, which is said to be receiving
warm support
"We feel ourselves responsible tor
the health, the homes and the char-
acters of our people." the report says in
dealing with tho suggested measure.
It further urges every young woman
to undergo the ordeal for the sake of
herself, her husband and Switzerland.
By three things we learn men—lova.
play and wine
High Heels and Peach Basket Hats
Proper for Christian Women
Says Boston Divine.
Boston.—Rev. Herbert 8. Johnson,
one or Boston's foremost divines,
champions the cause of the hobble
skirt and other ultra-fashions of the
fair sex, and advises the American
youth in search of a helpmate for life
to select a girl who is a close follower
of the fashions.
"There Is no more potent influence
for good In the modern community."
said Doctor Johnson, "than feminine
fashion. Not only are the ever
changing fashions of women one of
the chief delights of civilized com
munities. but It is a safe statement to |
I make that we have no more conclu- ;
slve key to a woman's mental and
I moral development than the clothes
] she wears.
I "Much has been said of the high |
1 cost of living. The immense sums
| spent annually in this country on ap-
I parently useless articles of women s |
I personal decoration are cited as argu- |
ments of American extravagance
when, as a matter of fact, this item Is |
one of our smallest national extrava- j
i gances.
j "No woman, however free she may
I consider herself from the lure of the 1
latest thing In clothes, shoes, hats and
gloves can afford to be otherwise than
well dressed; and to begin at the be
ginning, every argument to the con-
trary is a fallacy.
"The man or woman who dresses
the best, whose personal habits are
the most irreproachable, Is the man or
woman whose mental and moral de-
velopment Is the highest advanced
The hobble skirt, the peach basket
hat. high heeled shoes and all the
thousand and one foibles of the femi-
nine sex are entertaining and products
of good. A girl who does not care
about dress and the latest fashions is
not a normal girl.
"The young man who contemplates
marriage may flght shy of the girl of
fashion, but he makes a mistake. He
mav be a gainer at first financially,
but in the *nd he pays a terrible price
for his shortsightedness. The girl
who Is lax about personal appearance
Is lax mentally and morally.
"She is not made of the stuff that
turns out self respecting children. She
is either a visionary and. as such, an
unreliable element In the community
or she is downright lax and shift
less.
"In either case she is not a saft
proposition for the ordinary young
man."
HEADS THE WOMAN TEACHERS
In 1905 Miss Grace C. Strachan placed herself
at the head of the army of women teachers at
Brooklyn. N. Y.. In their fight for better pay
Her ambition was to seo the day when her asso.-l
ates would receive as much pay for their services
as the janitors. She made her point plainer by
demonstrating that the average pay of women
teachers at Washington. D. C.. was not equal to
that received by the city dog catcher.
She is now president of the interborongh As-
sociation of Women School Teachers of the City
of New York, and has perfected an ideal organiza-
tion As the head of 15,000 women school teach-i
^4111 ers she is trying to have the state of New York |
I male and female teachers upon an equal
nay basis Three bills to bring about this were |
' — v etord but the fisht Is still In progress.
„„ r„, effort "fm.^ n"g;n,',ur,Zk ."^nX
City Thrives on the Bermuda Onion
i hage The cabbage shipped from this I
j district brought $1,000,000 this year
Then other garden truck followed nat
urally and this brought back $3.
000.000
When truck growing with river Ir-
rigation proved Successful, an effort
was made to get water through bored
wells. Artesian wells have added
more than a million acres to the oul-
tivatable land.
Attempting Impossibilities.
Female Emancipator—With all our
work, the cause of woman does not
progress. Why is It?
Male philosopher—The trouble is
that the pretty girls spend all their
time trying to be brainy and the
brainy girls spend all their time try-
ing to look pretty.
)T wasn't fop
ME SAN AMtOM/O
WOULDN'T 0£ ON
THE MAP
SAN ANTONIO. Tex. That this city
owes Its great distinction as a
metropolis of the wonderful state of
lexas to the Bermuda onion as grown
In Rio Grande bottom lands, the resi-
knts are proud to admit.
Seven years ago a man named Nye.
who thought he had been cheated in a
land trade, asked the agricultural de-
partment what he could raise on the
land It was dry and sandy soil near
San \ntonio. Bermuda onions, was
he answer This year the Bermuda
.Son crop marketed from this dis-
trict exceeJed $':.000.000 In value _
As soon as Mr Nye demonstrateu
iat the so-called desert land near
San Antonio would return a profit of
$.,00 to $800 an acre in onions^f
sligntly irrigated, someone tried cal>-
Of course, as the business grew. Pan
Antonio prospered. From the trading
point for a cattle country It became
the distributing center for one of the
richest small farming districts In the
world.
The population of the city was 37.
673 in 1SS0. and In 1900 It had in
creased to 52,321 This year the total
soared to 96,641. and. with suburbs, it
fp.r exceeds the charmed 100,000 mark
Thn rearest rival in Texas is Dallas,
with 92,104. What gives the greatest
joy locally is that eight years ago all
Texas was saying that San Antonic
had reached it* limit.
nine watches in an hour
New and Ingenious Machinery Makes
It Possible to Manufacture
That Number.
Elgin, 111.—It Is claimed that the
methods of manufacture adopted by
one American company enables It to
set up. ready for trial within an hour,
no fewer than nine watches. This rap-
idity of manufacture has become pos-
! slble by reason of the Ingenious ma-
chinery Invented for the making of all
I the parts of a watch.
The speed with which the various
parts are turned out is truly remark-
1 able. Great sheets of brass and steel
i are cut and rolled into ribbons, and
j punched out Into wheels at the rate of
' 10,000 a day from each punching ma-
chine. Workers drill the 31 holes In
the roof of the watch as fast as they
can count, other operatives counter-
sinking the holes almost as quickly.
Brass wire glides Into a machine
that measures off the length of a part,
turns It. puts a screw thread on each
end. and actually screws It In at the
rate' of 2.000 a day. The screws are so
small that It Is said 50 gross of them
can be put in a thimble, while of
i others there are 1,000 gross to a
pound.
Balances are cut from the solid
steel, ground down, worked up. and
drilled with their 25 screw holes
apiece at the rate of 100 wheels a day
their teeth cut, a couple of dozen at
a time, some with from 60 to 80 teeth,
at the rate of 1,200 wheels a day from
each machine
banking service
mnr« the custodians of the funds of the
Banks are becoming more a wider apprecia-
The Hollis State Bank
the best
SS« 5fts3bbr-'~7
k=isi
know for yourself at all times how your account is.
If you have any banking business to transact, come to • ^
The Hollis State Bank
HOLLIS, OKLAHOMA
Farmer
His Banker
St
n Ln„h npx>pr fails to give as good servtce to the farmer as it gives to any
Our bankne J ^ ^ ^ /eu) hanks could exist in this day and
agTof the world without the co-operation of the farmers. Often aJar™r
can make money by borrowing, and we are glad to advance money at any
nl lo th" man who deposits his money with us, When he has any to de-
posit It Will pay every farmer to carry a checking account With us and
r/A proteins hank in a growing community. Accounts may be
IZmd by mail and monies deposited or wuhdrmn in this way mlh equal
facility- The rural mail route solves the problem. It is not necessary to
come to town to do your banking.
We Make a Specialty
of Serving the Farmer
And remember we have the largest capital of oTand^he
mth our individual responsibility of more than $1 .OOO.UUU.UU, and the
protection of the State Quaranty Law.
Youi funds in this bank are absolutely safe.
, whit
t r1,c
First State Bank
HOLLIS, OKLAHOMA
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