THE ALLIANCE HEltALD, ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA, NOVEMBER 13, 1919
PAGE HIRES'
Comment-and
Discomment
Do you remember the old Sunday
school library? There may be such
things yet, for all we know, but they
flourished most In the days before
' Andrew Carnegie donated all those
ten and fifteen thousand dollar build
ings to the smaller cities and towns.
And do you remember that choice
ufcflortment of books that you used
to lug home after Sunday school was
out they were always urging you to
"'stay for church," but you never did
and the Sunday afternoons that
.you put in reading them, the whiles
you propped yourself up as close to
v the base burner as you could get.
Those were the days and those
were the books.
It was a point of honor with the
folks who selected the books In those
libraries to choose none that had a
possible gleam of Interest, and only
occasionally was there one without a
moral on every page. Every volume
was on the order of the Little Rollo
series and the Elsie Books. Many
of them were cunningly written with
the aim of encouraging attendance at
Sunday school.
We remember one of those vol
umes which helped to pass a rainy
Sunday and strengthened our moral
purpose. It dealt with two play
mates, John and James. James was
an exceedingly good lad, according
to the story, and used to plow
through snowdrifts almost up to his
little shoulders so he wouldn't be
late at Sunday school. He had won
all the medals there were for good
attendance. He was never known to
play marbles for keeps, or to use
coarse and vulgar language. In time
he grew up to be a pillar of the
church and a member of the legisla
ture, which, somehow or other, the
folks who used to write that sort of
literature felt to be a great honor.
All the heroes found their way, after
many trials and lots of tribulation,
to the legislature.
James, on the other hand, was in
clined to be wild. He occasionally
played hookey from school, and on
f one occasion, at least, had lied about
' ' It afterward. He had been known
to withhold his penny when the plate
was passed, and had afterward boen
seen at work on an all-day sucker.
"When the fish were biting, he would
start out for Sunday school as usual,
but would be found by the others
down at the mill pond after the ses
sion was over. John felt it his duty
to remonstrate with James, but all
Jfofforts to set him right failed. James
f persisted on his-downward path and
finally became a vile horse trader,
from which, by easy stages, he trod
a path that led ever downward. In
time he smoked cigarettes. Our
memory fails us at this point, but
he probably proceeded from cigar
ettes to chewing tobacco; from chew
ing tobacco to beer; and once he
reached beer, anyone could have
foreseen the end.
The story of John and James is a
fair sample of the average book In
the old time Sunday school library.
Some of them had plots that later
were a boon to the nickel novel writ
ers, who peeled out a part of the
moral element and enlarged a trifle
on the thrills. A few of our readers
may have learned here for the first
time that the paper-backed thrillers
had a moral side. - As a matter of
fact, they were modeled on the same
pattern that the Sunday school lit
terateurs used. In either case, the
hero was an extraordinary model
" young man who succeeded In doing
Impossible things, while the villain
was a dyed-in-the-wool schemer who
was baffled at every turn by the hero.
The only difference was that the
paper-backed thrillers stirred the Im
agination, while the old time Sun
day school books embalmed it.
The use of that word "baffled" re
minds us that an old word or expres-
ft
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jsion dies every day. What has be
come of the villain who was "non
plussed"? Or the hero who walked
off In "high dudgeon"? What on
earth was a dudgeon, anyway, and
why did they make It high? No one
ever heard of a low dudgeon.
You may have heard the story of
the nice old lady who was reading
her story by the fireside one night,
when she came across a peculiar ex
pression. "John," she called out to
her husband, who was looking for
his pipe In the parlor, "John, what's
a halidom?"
"Well," said John, who wasn't
quite sure of his ground, and wanted
to gain a little time, "how have they
use it there?"
"T 3 book says," said the old lady,
reading It out: " ' "By my halidom,"
said the marquis, "it is now nine
o'clock!"'"
"Simple enough," said her hus
band, "halidom was the old English
name for 'watch.' The marquis bad
Just looked at his Waterbury."
One of the university professor
esses has devised a system for telling
of the period a piece of literature
came from by the expressions It con
tains. It's remarkably interesting
and fairly simple, too. The first
American authors wrote of young
ladies who were extremely nervous,
and given to fainting on every occa
sion when someone broke news to
them, good or bad. This period Is
called "The Glass of Water" era, for
invariably the heroine, when she feels
herself slipping, calls out to the
maid, or to her father, or mother, or
the butler: "Bring me a glass of
water, please," and then faints
gracefully, or else revives suddenly
and with a wan smile remarks: "I
feel much better now."
Another period is "The Glass of
Whisky" or "Brandy and Soda" era,
for the men, and "The Smelling
Salts" for the feminine characters.
The symptoms were much the same.
Someone tells the hero something,
and he takes some whisky or a stiff
brandy and soda to recover his
nerves. He never took a simple
brandy and soda always a stiff
drink; it seemed to make him re
cover self-control more quickly. The
lady in this period of literature al
ways called for her smelling salts
the word used was usually "vinai
grette" although it has always
puzzled us to know how a fainting
woman could get It .uttered in time.
Now that there Is no more whisky.
and smelling salts are no longer car
ried in the best sets, what on earth
are the poor novel writers to do?
They can make a hero take his bath
every morning. That In Itself Is
enough to make him an exceptional
man. We remember once trying to
make "Rus" take seven baths a
week, when it was easy as pie. There
were nice hot showers and we pro
posed to him that we'd take a bath
every morning. He was with us for
six straight days, but rebelled on the
seventh. He said that six baths were
enough for any white man. He liked
to bathe, and all that, but his hair
was so dry that it broke off when he
tried to brush it, and his skin had
whitened so much that four people
asked him in the course of a block
whether he wasn't getting ill.
Speaking of baths, Rufus Jones
over at the Community club told one
that we hadn't heard before. Some
gentleman of leisure had been out
late one night, exploring, saloons
Rufe didn't really know the man,
he'd only heard the story and had
accumulated a load. Late the next
morning a friend called at his apart
ments, and held conversation with
the valet.
"Is Mr. Smith about yet?" he In
quired, genially.
"No, sir," said the valet, "at least,
not now, sir. Mr. Smith got up
about 7 o'clock this morning, drank
his bath and went back to bed."
It's getting so a mere man Is up
against It. Women can now learn to
read character in a course of ten les
sons, sent on approval at a nominal
cost of only five dollars. Hand-writ
ing experts are willing to give you
away for half that amount. And
now comes a scientist who has dis
covered that a man's character and
disposition can be told from the way
he smokes cigars. Here are the
characteristics, and If you show up
In a bad light, there is yet time to
change your smoking mannerisms
before your wife or sweetheart gets
next:
"The man who smokes is easily
recognizer. His lips will show ii
without his speaking. He who flxrs
his cigar deeply in his mouth is of a
nature resolute, skeptical and ar
rupt; one who bites off the end rf
his cigar Is careless, thoughtless or
listless. When the cutter Is used to
nip off the end, the smoker may be
considered a man of caution.. The
user of the amber holder la a delicate
person. The man who smokes hlsH
cigar to the end is a faithful friend,
a constant husband, and of a perse
vering nature. If one Is In the havlt
of throwing away the cigar when on
ly half-smoked, he Is In danger of
being considered fickle, blase, and a
trlfler."
IlKAL KSTATH TUAXSFtHUS
Real estate transfers in Box Butte
county, Nebraska, for the week end
ing November 1, 1919, as reported
by J, D. Emerick, bonded abstracter,
First National Bank building, Alli
ance, Nebraska:
F. M. Knight, single, to John
Dougherty, lot 4, block K, Sheridan
addition to Alliance, 1275.00.
Jerusha E. Baxter, widow, to Effle
A. Wells, SWU of 23-2S-48, $1,065.
00. George F. Atkins, single, and Rlcn
ard Atkinson, single, to Louis E.
Hood, NE4 of NW4. NW4 of
NE4, 4-25-48, $1,000.00.
W. S. Acheson and wife to Eliza
S. Brown, Stt of SEVi of 25-27-48,
$2,000.00.
George A. Mollring and wife to
Henry A. Rust, E of lot 7, block
7, second addition to Alliance,
$7,000.00.
F. E. Reddish and wife to John L.
Ward, 50x140 feet, lot 1. block V,
Sheridan addition to Alliance, $1,-
250.00.
Ursulla Tuttle, single, to E. T.
Kibble, 140 acres in NWVi of 25-25-
48, $11,025.00.
James R. MeKiney and wife to J.
W. Carroll, lot 4, block 14, Wyom
ing addition to Alliance, $3,000.00.
- Elizabeth L. King and husband to
C. L. Hill, lot 6, block W, second
addition to Alliance, $2,800.00.
W. S. Acheson, et al. to Charley
L. Finch and wife, -lot 3 block 21,
Box Butte addition to .Alliance,
$500.00.
JOXF3S BUYS NEW LOCK
Rufus Jones, secretary of the Com
munity club, had a large sized grouch
on the other day when approached
by a reporter for The Herald, and It
would seem that he has a perfect
right to the grouch.
Someone has been effecting an en
trance Into his office at night. Sev
eral times he has come to his office
and found an empty whisky bottle
left on the floor, and once or twjee
the marauders had left other signs
which Mr. Jones did not care to dis
cuss.
The lock on the Community club
is an old one, Just about worn out.
Sometimes It works and sometimes
it does not. Whether this Is respon
sible for the fact that outsiders have
been able to get Into the place dur-
ng the night, or whether some per
son unknown to the secretary has a
key to the place, Mr. Jones is not
sure, but he has solved the problem
by getting rid of the old lock and
having a new one Installed In Its
place.
A strike Is regarded as about as
cheerless a form of holiday diversion
as a man can select. Record.
As a Counterbalance
At the present time, when values arc high anil possibly going higher, when
the adjustment of post-war conditions has not been completely made, it is a
doubly wise business principle to think of the strength and-stability bne gains
by
A BANK ACCOUNT
In addition to affording the material financial aid at the time you arc in need
of it, it develops in you the habit of economizing in small things. You learn
the great, results that can be obtained by small beginnings strengthened by
regular additions. You can start a savings account with One Dollar and the
first stop toward methodical savings has been taken.
It is a particularly advisable habit for parents to give their children. Advance
them the money to commence the account and endeavor to teach them to save
their pennies and nickels. They, too, soon learn how simple it is to accumulate
an appreciable sum in the bank , m , . . ,- '
In order to encourage the opening of savings accounts in the community of
Alliance, The First State Bank has, since the First of November, been adding
One Dollar With Your First
We invite you to open a savings account with us, and assure you that you will
receive in addition to the Dollar we give as encouragement every courtesy
and convenience that modern banking houses afford their patrons.
The
First State Bank
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Alliance, Nebraska