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THE ALLIANCE HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1921
COMMENT & IHSCOMMENT j
A plea for the old-fashioned Satur- j
day nipht bath is more or less of a
novelty, but Brother J. II. Sweet of
the Nebraska City Press is peculiar:
In a lot of respect. Mr. Sweet has an
Idea that the folks who snicker when
Saturday nijrht in mentioned, are those
who don't take to water thRt often.
This stuff of his is simply horrible in
Its implications, but it makes pretty j
good reading! I
The Nebraska legislature has a
rreat many rcat problems before it.
We would Piip-jrext to our legislative
friend that they do something about
the nerd for more personal cleanli
ness. The tendency of so many people
to make perfume and 1o let water take
the place of the old-fashioned Satur
day niht "tub" is a menace to free
Institutions, especially in the winter
teason when a man can't run out into
the open air to avoid an interview.
There ore too many dirty necks and
too few bathroom exercises in our well
known country.
Some four or five hundred years ago
perfumes were used to cover up physi
cal deficiencies. Hut that was the day
before bathrooms had been invented
and the man who laved the whole sur
face of his body considered it a sure
method of suicide, just as some of our
ancestors, not so remotely removed
at that, considered the "night air" to
be so dangerous that it was carefully
excluded from sleeping rooms.
We know a man who argues that
bathing in the winter is. u foolish cus
tom, conducive to much physical ail
ments and a sure invitation to the un
dertaker. He has a habit of arguing
bis side of the question in our presence
and at a time when the temperature
does not permit us to open the win
dows. We quite agree with him that
the undertaker, unless his olfactory
nerve has been entirely removed,
would never go near enough to grab
him.
Small wonder, isn't it, that youths
and maidens are bo chuckle-headed?
One only has to consider the actions
of their parents, as a whole, to get at
an understanding of the reason. The
parents at Torrington, Wyo., have just
cast an overwhelming majority against
the supervised high school dance, and
the superintendent has issued an ap
peal to them to co-operate with him
In keeping the young people at home
nights.
: "
It has always been a popular belief
among schoolmasters that children
ahould study at night every night, if
possible. The faculty has always held
that if "midnight oil" is to be burned
that oil shall not be gasoline. Having
been a student a good share of our
career if you call it a career and
having managed to "get by" the ex
aminations and the rest of the stuff
with no more effort than the average
young man of our age and bulk, we
have noticed particularly that the
popularity of night study has, as a rule
been confined to the faculty. And we
are inclined to believe that it is only
theory with the most of them.
TO TIIK FARMER
You cannot sell your crops unless
men arc working.
Men cannot work unless you buy
the things they produce.
If you Jiuy clothing, shoes .un
derwear, hats, stockings, farm im
plements, household articles, you
give employment to factory work
ers who produce these things, ran
inn. I worlipi-s who transport them.
clerks and stockkeepers in whole
sale and retail stores, miners, wno
supply the coal to run the plants
and railroads, and countless others,
all users of farm products.
They can not eat bread made of
jour wheat, wear clothing made of
your wool, shirts made of your cot
on, cannot consume your corn,
oats, vegetables, fruit, etc., unless
they are working.
They cannot work unless you
keep on buying. If you stop buy
ing business stops your business
and their business.
This is the greatest country on
earth and will continue to do busi
nessbutyou can give it a bud
bump unless you keep on buying
the things you need.
Perfectly safe too now that
prices are down.
Keep on buying Now cautiously.
W. C T. U. 4'ROGRAM FOR 1921
t is no worse than many of the ques
tions shot at newspaper pumisncrs
these days. It follows:
SOME QUESTIONNAIRE.
1. Are you married or single?
Why?. . .
Z. Do you drinK near-Deer i
Why? .
3. What is your favorite nowerx
4.
Are vou troubled with insomnia?
Why?
B. Did vou withdraw any money
from the bank during the past year?
. Where did you get it to put
it in? . .
fi. Does vour wife play the piano 7
, What effect does this have
on your rent?
7. Are you a ngnt eater or neavy i
If heavy, state how and
8. Has your yearly expenditure
for rent increased since the shortage
of houses prevents frequent moving?
Of course, there are the "grinds"
and those who have homes that are so
attractive that they ure hard to leave
These people have some excuse for
studying nights. The average youth
boy or girl, forgets school just as soon
as possible after leaving the building.
and while there may be regrets at
recitation time that a little mole study
wasn't engaged in, youth is naturally
lighl-Ju'arU'd, and one fuilure at reci
tation, or Tovty, ttoeyn't make much
difference to the average pupil.
. t
Parents who h:ie grown up are
prone to forget their dancing days.
And moAt parents have gone through
a period when they would rather dance
till three in the morning than do any
thing else. We had our siege of it,
and can recall without very much dif
ficulty how peeved the whole bunch
were when the owner of the best dance
floor in the city refused to allow us to
dance a single ninute pu.-t midnight.
Fersonally, we look back on those days
With a good deal of bitterness. If
that man hadn't been so stubborn, we
might yet have u normal weight. As
it is, all we have to depend on to keep
our weight down is smoking, and that
doesn't seem so efficacious as it was
half a dozen years ago.
9. Are vou on friendly terms with
your relations? Why?
10. If possible, give me name oi
someone less intelligent man your
self, yet making more salary
11. State average mommy grocery
bill and payments, if any
12. State briefly (no protanity al
lowed) what your wife think of being
13. Do you drink and where do you
get it? (This information will be
treated as confidential.)
14. Exclusive of bartenders, how
many people depend on you for sup
port? 15. Do you keep chickens ?
Does your wife know about it?
16. Does your wife take in washing
to help support the family?
17. Have you suggested this to her?
Jan. 27 Business meeting Leiris
lation. Roll call Current Topics.
Hostess, Mrs. A. R. Acheson.
Febr. 10 "Americanization." Roll
call Respond by items on American
ization. Hostess, Mrs. W. M. Wilson.
Febr. 24 Business meeting legis
lation. Roll call Current Topics.
Hostess, Mrs. Epler.
March 10 "Parliamentary Usage,"
Mrs. W. E. Cutts. Roll call Respond
by items on "Parliamentary Usage."
iio tos. Miss Mabel Young.
March 21 Business meeting Leg
islation. Roll call Current Topics,
iostess, Mrs. J. J. Vance.
April 14 "Scientific Temperance,"
Mrs. J. A. Kecgan. Roll call Items
on Temperance. Hostess, Mrs. Harry
Blaus.
April 2$ Business meeting legis
lation. Roll call Current Topics.
Hostess, Mrs. Iena Williams.
May 12 Mother's Meeting, Mrs.
F. M. Phelps. Roll call Help Hints
for Mothers. Hostess, Mrs. Harry
wells.
. May 2ft Business meeting I.egis- j
lation. Roll call Current Topics, j
Hostess, Mrs. J. L. Overman. I
June 9 Flower Mission. Mrs. L. S. 1
Dye. Roll call Items on What Has
Been Accomplished by Flower Mis
sions. Hostess, Mrs. Fred Blaine.
June 2-i Business meeting Legis
lation, icon can current lopics.
Hostess, Mrs. Patterson.
July 14 Social Meetings and Red
Letter Days, Mrs. J. J. Vance. Roil
call A Red Letter Day of Our Lives.
Hostess, Mrs. Kenrns."
July 28 Business meetine Lecis-
lation. Roll call Current Topics.
Hostess, Mrs. J. A. Bacon.
August 11 "Women in Industrv."
Mrs. J. A. Bacon. Roll call Items
Pertaining to Women in Industry.
Hostess, Mrs. Gentry.
August 25 Business meeting Leg
islation. Roll call Current Topics.
Hostess, Mrs. Rev. Smith.
Sept. 8 "Health." Roll call Items
Pertaining to Health.
Sept. 22 Business meetine Legis
lation. Roll call Current Topics.
Hostess, Mrs. W. H. Glass.
Oct. 13 Institute. Mrs. J. T. Bark-
hurst. Roll call Current Events.
Hostess, Mrs. F. M. Phelps.
Oct. 27 Business meeting Legis
lation. Roll call Current Topics.
Hostess, Mrs. S. O. Carr.
Nov. 10 "Soldiers and Sailors,"
Mrs. T. A. Cross. Roll call Items
Pertaining to the subject. Hostess,
Mrs. I. E. Tash.
Dec. 8 "Anti-Narcotics," Mrs.
Harry Blausu Roll call Current Top
ics. Hostess, Mrs. W. E. Mounts.
Miss Grace Shean attended a house
party given by Miss IaRue Haworth
of Sidney last week-end and reports
a most enjovable time.
Miss Opal Russell is attending the
county superintendents' meeting this
week in Lincoln.
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Bennett have
been called to Rushville by the seri
ous illners of the former's mother.
A number of the Hemingford young
people were in Alliance for the dance
Saturday night
Mr. and Mrs. Bradbary were faffed
to Oskaloosa, Iowa, Sunday, by th
sudden death of the former's father.
TltC UNIVERSAL CAR
The Ford Sedan is the favorite family car, seats five comfortably. While an
enclosed car with permanent top, it has large windows, and may in a minute be
changed to a most delightful, open' car with always a top protecting against the
sun. In inclement weather it is a closed car, dust-proof, water-proof, cold-proof.
Finely upholstered. Equipped with electric starting and lighting system and
demountable rims with 3 J-inclv tires all around. A real family car. Anybody can
safely drive it. It has all the conveniences of an electric car with the economy
which goes with Ford cars, low cost of purchase price, small cost of operation
find maintenance. Won't you come in and look at it?
C0URSEY& MILLER
Alliance, Nebraska
l'LiJJ!ULl J L
As a matter of fact, the inclination
to dance is a perfectly normal one,
and these Torrington parents, who
vote against it so strongly, can't stop
dancing, no matter how they feel
about it. They won't have any more
luck controlling natural inclinations
by their vote than did the naval gov
ernor of Guam, who issued a procla
Biation forbidding whistling on the
island, under the stars and stripes and
an order from the commanding of
ficer. All they will succeed in doing
is to put an end to supervised dances.
But the public dances are going 6trong
in Torrington, or were the last time
we Inquired into the matter.
The supervised dance has been found
the best way to deal with the dancing
problem as it applies to youth. There
is hardly a university or a college that
doesn't have regular supervised dances
for its students, and even the Y. W.
C A. and some of the churches have
' been known to donate their basements
for such a purpose. If young people
will dance, why isnt it better that
they should go to a place that is regu
lated, and dance under strict chaper
onage, rather than to one that is run
on a catch-as-catch-can basis? We
ask to know.
If so, state results and name of hos
pital WASflSPAIR
SAYSKWEIGEL
Didn't Think Any Medicine Could
Help Her But Takes Tanlac
And is Well and Happy
v
"I have a better appetite, sleep
sounder and have more life and energy
since taking Tanlac than I've had be
fore in ten years, said Mrs. W. A.
Weigel, 4100 Binny St., Omaha, Neb.
"Nine years ago my stomach began
giving me troume ana i was goinj?
lown hill gradually and recently I be-
came almost neipiess. My appetite
was so poor I didn't care to eat and
uffered so much that I actually dread
ed to go to the table. Finally I got
so weak and nervous I couldn t get
any restful sleep and went down hill
rapidly.
"I suffered so long and so much ana
had taken such a quantity of medi
cine 1 began to minK mere was nom
ine made that could help me. But
when I began taking Tanlac it took
hold of my troubles and in a short
time the indigestion was gone. I now
feel like a new woman, am just as
well as I ever was and I owe it all
to Tanlac."
Tanlac is sold in Alliance by F. E,
Holsten; in Hemingford by the Hem
ingford Mercantile Co., and in Hon
land by the Mallery Grocery company,
OBITUARY
So many crazy questions are sent
out to people in all walks of life these
days that a South Carolina publisher
has devised a questionnaire for his
readers. It may sound silly and in
aana to the readers of this column, but
Mrs. Eva Treat died at her home in
Alliance, January 17, 1921 at 9 o'clock
a. m. Deceased was the mother of
Mrs. Jack Miller of this city. Funera!
services, conducted by Rev. A. J.
Kearns, were held Tuesday afternoon
at the Miller undertaking parlors, and
the body was shipped to LeMars, la.
for interment Mrs. Miller accora
panled the body, being met in Omaha
by her husband, Capt. Jack Miller.
Eva Wealthy Daily was bor nin
Waterville, N. Y., March 22, 1843 and
was married in 1864 to Thomas Treat
who died three years ago. Three chiV
dren were born, of whom two are now
living, Mrs. Jack Miller of Alliance
and Way! and Elmer Treat of Chicago.
One brother also survives. Mr. and
Mrs. Treat made their home in Le
Mars, la., for more than thirty years,
until the death of the former, after
which Mrs. Treat came to Alliance to
be near her daughter.
Announcing the Opening of
T
oe
peril
of The Alliance Hotel, on
Gar den
22nd
Saturday, January
There will be dancing and refreshments on Alliance's finest dance floor. Special decorations
have been arranged for, to give our patrons a delightfully pleasant evening's entertainment.
You'll be pleased with the music, too, in the
Alliance Hotel Orchestra
Under the Personal Management of "Billy" Ackerman of Bridgeport
-:- Don't Overlook an Evening Like This
Music Starts at 8:30
A DINNER EXTRAORDINARY IN THE
Palm Room
Sunday, Jan. 23
from 5:30 to 8:30 $1.25 per Plate
A Special Shipment from Seattle, Washington, of
Alaskan Reindeer
will be served to our Alliance patrons.
Special Music
, The above extra special dinner will be In addition
to the Special Sunday Dinner. Patrons
may choose either.
NOTHING HAS BEEN SPARED TO MAKE
The .
Fern Garden
ATTRACTIVE
The finese dance floor obtainable has been laid,
together with special appropriate decorations will make
THE FERN GARDEN doubly attractive to both
younger and older sets.
This room is available for any occasion where
banqueting and dancing may be combined. Private
receptions, organization dinners, etc, will find it ideal.
THE
ALLIANCE
J. M. MIDLER, Proprietor
HOTEL