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' FROM FORTY-FIVE TO SIXTY A Word of Help to Women of Middle Age From Mrs. Raney. • Morse, Okla.—“When I was 45 years cld Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com 1 pound carried m e 1 through the critical period of the Change of Life in safety. I am over 60 and have raised a family of eight children and am in fine health. M y daughter and daughters-in-law recommend your Vegetable Com pound and I still take —-it occasionally roy Beif. You are at liberty to use my name if you wish. ’’—Mrs. Alice Raney, Morse, Oklahoma. Change of Life is one of the most critical periods of a woman’s existence. This good old-fashioned root and herb remedy may be relied upon to overcome the distressing symptoms which accom pany it and women everywhere should remember that there is no other remedy known to carry women so successfully through this trying period as Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. If you want special advice write to Lydia E. Pinkhani Medicine Co., (con fidential), Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, Tf ad end ans^ersd by a woman and held in strict confidence.* j'w* ^The Cheerful Optometrist. Patient—My headache is not finy bet ter, doctor^ . . . * i Doctor—Did you report to the eye Clinic, as I told you? Patient—Yes, doctor, I went to the eye clinic and the optimist said I was all right, although he did not examine my eyes.—Journal of the American Medical Association. Sample Submitted. Visitor—Are you good at your work? I am very particular about the way my hair is cut. Village Barber—Well, I’m reckoned fairly decent; but, if you like, I’ll do one side of your head ilrst so that you can see for yourself.—Der Brummer .(Berlin). An Unaccommodating Parent. Mrs. Billups—Why is Willie crying so? Billups—He lost part of his engine find now lie’s yelling because I won’t ' let him have my false teeth for a cowcatcher.—Boston Transcript. Order Filled. “Did you see where some woman complained because she had to pay SI for a glass of lemonade?” “Well, she asked to have a lemon handed her, didn’t she?” Her Idea. Edith—1 like an engagement with some snap about it. Mfirul—Onp thnt hrprsks pnsilv. ph? Get Back Year Health Are you dragging around day after day will) a dull backache? Are you tired, and lame mornings—subject to headaches, dizzy spells, and sharp, stab bing pains. Then there’s 6urely some thing wrong. Probably it’s kidney weakness! Don’t wait for more serious kidney trouble. Get back your health and keep it. For quick relief get plenty sleep and exercise and use Doan’s Kidney Pills. They have helped thousands. Ask your neighbor! A South Dakota Case Joseph Van Kirk, retired farmer, Tyndall, S. Dak., says: "I suffered from severe attacks [of lame back and mornings I could hardly bend over to tie my shoes. 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The actual position as stated in the House of Commons is as follows: On March 16 the chancellor of the exchequer (who naturally resented the defeat of the government on February 26 on the subject of police pensions by the House, after all its professions of economy), said: “The origin of the heavy expenditure is not the government nor the bureaucracy * * * it is the continuous demand from this House. • * * If you do not support us * * * the blame must be on your shoulders.” (Hansard, p. 2076.) Private members on the other hand (1) took the line that "the House of Commons has no control whatever over public expenditure” (Hansard, p. 2109), and (2) roundly told the chancellor that if members will not support him “it is the business of the chancellor of the exchequer to resign” (Hansard, p. 2108). The result, as far as the public is con cerned, was well expressed in the words of another member (3), "a feeling of despair, anger, and mystification.” (Hansard, p. 2117.) In these circumstances, in view of the appeal of the chancellor to his critics, “I would be content if they would put their finger on a practicable means of saving £500,000” (sic, Hansard, p. 2078), one may perhaps claim Support ior the following practical suggestions: 1. The source of extravagance as to which (a) the government and treasury control is least efficient, and (b) the House of Commons is most prone to reckless interference, are to be found in the various acts of par liament which for want of a better term can best be classed under the heading of Public Assistance. On March 24 the chancellor of the ex chequer appeared to recognize this for the first time. He said: “Yau cannot, when you have things like National Health Insurance, Old Age Pensions, and a National Unemployment scheme and a National Housing scheme, exercise or offer the same blunt and uncompromising refusal to proposals for new expenditure as you could in the days when it was accepted by al! parties that such matters were altogether outside the proper sphere of government activities.” (Hansard, p. 626.) Thanks to the importunities of the Denison House committee on pub lic assistance, of which 1 have <he honor to be chairman, a return has been pabUrhed 1919J which shows that expenditure from .rates and taxes on public assistance has risenT Apart worn' war pensions, from £25,800,000 in 1891 to £104,000,000 in 1918. War pensions and widows’ allowances for 1920 will amount to no less than £123,000,000 (Hansard, p. 2124), ana will, it is said, affect one person in 16 of the populattyp^ ^ Thanks to cur further requests, the government on February 16 agreed to make the return annual; hut this is not enough. Ever since January, 191>, when I began this agitation, I have been asking that this return should (1) not only show the total rise in expenditure, hut (2) give ad ministrative expenditure separately, so that comparisons should be insti tuted and an administrative standard be set up. (3) I have also repeatedly asked that capital and current expenditure should be shown separately, so as to indicate the proportion of salaries to upkeep in successive years and in different areas. Unfortunately it is not the only department which requires super vision, there is also, as we have seen, the House of Commons, which the speaker has described in his memorandum as having become "one of the chief spending departments of the state.” (Report, p. 122.) According to The Times cf March 26, the chancellor of the exchequer stated in answer to a question that while it is his duty to protect the taxpayer, “the minister of health is the guardian of the ratepayer.” The House of Commons is, of course expected to control both, ith all respect one is led to ask, Quis custodiet ipsos eustedes? Are we not, as to public assistance at any rate, approaching the position we occupied in 1830? Are we not threat ened in that sphere, at any rate, with bankruptcy? A royal commission was then appointed which was eventually clothed with executive power In order to meet the unpopularity of retrenchment which the House was then, as now, unwilling to confront. Is not a similar step necessary now? 4. Finally, one may venture to put in a plea for immediate action on the above lines. The Lord Privy Seal, in a speech at Worthing not long ago, is reported to have asked the public for patience. (1) Surely seven years of unremitting work is sufficient to warrant a request that a com plete return of expenditure on public assistance should now be granted. There is no question of policy involved. We are merely asking for a proper account to be rendered cf money spent, in order to eliminate waste. One would think such a request would appeal not only to every minister and every advocate of economy, but also to every honest man. (2) Surely 14 years is long enough for the authorities to ponder over and digest a re quest for the reorganization of official statistics or, in other words, a de partment ol civil intelligence under the prime minister, a reform which is only opposed by the department interested in maintaining existing Inefficiency. (3) The proposal oi am executive commission on public as sistance may sound novel and. therefore, excite opposition, but there Is the precedent of 1830 for a I'eicrm which proved in its day a complete success. At any rate, cne may say that there are no other proposals than the above in the field which are calcinated to mitigate the existing "feel ing of despair, anger, and mystification.” ■f-f4-4444444 + t444444> ♦ 1 f+j HANG THE CRAPE. ♦ 4 t 4 From the Weekly Underwriter. 4 4 He stepped on the throttle to 4 4 see if he could beat the train to 4 4 the crossing. 4 4 He couldn’t. 4 4 He struck a match to see if 4 4 his gasoline tank was empty. 4 4 It wasn’t. ' 4 4 He patted a strange bulldog on 4 4 the head to see if the critter was 4 4 affectionate. 4 4 He wasn’t. 4 4 He looked down the barrel of a 4 4 gun to see if it was loaded. 4 4 It wac. 4 4 He touched an electric wire to 4 4 see if it was alive. 4 4. It was. 4 4 He said be would not bond his 4 4 clerk because he thought he was 4 4 honest. 4 4 He wasn’t. 4 4 ♦ 4444 + + + > + + + ’» + + + + + + + The Little Houses. I love the little houses ©n a newly opened street. Where rosy wives with a child or two, Their homing husbands greet. Where toys are on the new front steps And a baby cart chokes the hall. Where velocipedes are the only cars And like birds the children call. The little house Is a house of hope And of love and faith also. There’s a busy hum in it all day long. And the hours like moments go. The stately house has all achieved, It is dull and weary too. But the little house is aglow with dreams That may. perchance, come true. —Mary Alicia Owen, in the Twilight hour. Trade In the Near East. From the New York Times. The United States has a fine array Of merchant steamers In Levantine wa ters, hut the complaint Is that they do not get enough business, because our rivals have more influence with the local authorities than the shipping board has. and there Is an active propa ganda against American representatives and American goods. But was not that to be expected ? For many years be fore the war the American flag on a merchant ship was seldom seen In the near east, and there was only a nucleus of trade organization to aid the Ameri can merchant. An American shipping expert has this to say about our argosy in the near east and the trade prospect: I am afraid it Is like a railroad which Is trying to run without terminals and stations. We have ships, but we haven’t American shipping agents to handle them. We haven’t facilities at the va rious ports and are at the mercy of for eign agents backed by their govern ments, which ane far more interested In assuring their commercial future than In protecting the rights of the minorities about whom they talk so glibly. There Is no doubt that we are at a disadvantage in the preliminary skirm ishes for the world's business, particu larly as, for want of practice. It will be some time before ,we can get our new merchant marine running gnwthly. t However, the British, ~ur most formid able rivals, have no illusions about the American opportunity. It is admitted that American tonnage will carry our goods all over the world, unless there is gross mismanagement, and that we shall be no more beholden to the Brit ish, the French, the Italians, the Nor wegians and, of course, the Germans. Furthermore, the prediction is made that American tramps will find their way into all of the seven seas and try conclusions with the British in their own preserves. Cemeteries of Stars. From the London Mail. Has it ever occurred to you that there must be multitudes of cold, dark stars in space for every pin point of star light in the night sky? Evidence is gradually accumulating to prove that this is so. Suppose there existed on Mars a be ing gifted with the strange power of seeing each match which was struck on the earth. At any moment he would no doubt see thousands of tiny flames dotted all over the visible surface of our globe. For every one of these there would be thousands of burnt matches In addition to thousands still unstruck. A match may exist for indefinite period before the chemical energy in its head is transformed by collision or friction into a flicker of light and heat. And it burns only for an infinitesimal frac tion of the time it has been cold and dormant. So it is with the stars. They are the result of friction or collision between pairs or bodies whose mechanical en ergy of motion was transformed, aeons ago, into the radiant energy of light and heat. And the long ages In which a star remains incandescent must be but a fleeting Instant compared with the vast period during which the two parent bodies were dormant and cold. Press ing this theory to its logical conclu sion, astronomers believe that there are untold myriads of dark stars scattered throughout space—burnt out ashes of dead suns. In the rush of those mass ive objects through the void there yet lies the possibility of collision and the regeneration of worlds. *?.r theory. The facts which are being collected ax© even more con vincing. TTiere ar© extraordinary dark patches to be seen in many parts of the ?*»• frequently against the most brill J3?r‘?Judded background. They ******* of non-luminous material interposed in our line of siKht. Imposing on Hospitality. Prom Saturday Evening Post. Down In Birmingham a negro team driver came home one night and found his wife highly agitated. “Jeff,” she said, "you know dat Asa Rogers' wife Sallle Is dead. Alnt you goln' to be a pallbearer at de fun’r’IT” "No, I ain’t," he answered with un usual poBitlvenesa "You alnt? Well, wasn’t you a pall bearer at de fun’r’l of his second wife Melissa?" "Sho I wuz. But dat ain’t_” "Bn wusn’t you a pallbearer at de fun’r*l of his first wife, Mandle? Whut you mean, you ain’t goln’ to act dls time?" "Liza,” he said, "suttlnly 1 wuz a pall bearer at dem funVls, en I done de best I could, but I'm tellln’ you now I ain’t acceptin’ no mo* favors frum no body whut I can’t return." Elucidated. "A woman’s life la divided Into two great periods.'* “The first she spends looking for a husband, and the second looking after him.’* # ♦♦♦♦444444444444444 4 4 4 DIFFUSION OF WEALTH. 4 4 4 4 Otto H. Kahn, in Leslie’s Weekly. 4 4 It is not true that under our 4 4 economic and social system “the 4 4 rich are getting richer and the 4 4 poor pooret.” On the contrary, 4 4 the diffusion ot wealth has been 4 4 going on .pace; the trend of 4 4 things within the past «u years 4 4 has beeK greatly toward dim in- 4 4 ishing the difference in the 4 4 standard and general way of liv- 4 4 ing between the various cate- 4 4 gories of our population. And 4 4 our wealthiest men are not those 4 4 who inherited their possessions, 4 4 but those who started at the bot- 4 4 tom of the ladder. The eternal 4 4 law of compensation works in 4 4 mysterious ways. It la unques- 4 4 tionably a fact that it is not the 4 4 children of the rich to whom life 4 4 yields the greatest measure of 4 ♦ joy and satisfaction and reward. 4 ♦ 4 *444 4 4 4 4 4 4 4444444? r SCIENCE REPLACES MAGIC. This is the season for rheumatic fever. Beware! Not only is the diseasb important in itself but it frequently leads to heart disease and heart disease is now our most fatal malady. A study made by Lambert in Bellevue hospital indicates that rheumatic fever during four years was one and a half times as prevalent during March, April and May as during June, July and August, twice as prev alent as during December, January, and February, and six times as prevalent as during Septembers October and Novem ber. This is almost enough to establish that rheumatism is a seasonal disease to about the -ame extent that typhoid, pneumonia, measles and smallpox are. By rheumatic fever is meant the old fashioned rheumatism—the kind for which our forefathers carried in their pockets buckeyes and Irish potatoes. According to Edwartfs, on^-eightTI "of the cases are preceded by tonsilitia. Ed wards wrote before great attention had been concentrated on the tonsils, gums, and teeth. Looking at the tonsils and teeth more closely as they do at the present time the cause is much more frequently located in the mouth. Our forefathers carried buckeyes in the wrong place. They should have kept them in the crypts of their tonsils or the cavities in their teeth. Rheumatism is characterized by fever, profuse sweats, and pain and swelling in one or more large joints. The disposi tion of the disease to jump from one joint to another 1b well recognized. In fact the rheumatics themselves are sus picious of any inflammation which sticks to one Joint. It is much more liable to be something besides Rheuma tism. An acute attack of rheumatism com monly lasts about four weeks. The fever having subsided the man is some what lame for several months. He is lucky If a careful examination of his heart made at this time does not show that the disease has affected his heart. To prevent the disease a person who Is subject to rheumatism should have his teeth cleaned and polished at least once during this rheumatic season. If he has tonsil trouble he should have them removed or at least cleaned up and massaged. If he has chronic sup puration in ills nasal sinuses or else where lie will do well to give it proper attention. Acocrding to the older views he should wear flannel underwear and flannel hands, especially around the joints most liable to develop the trouble. Lambert's finding that there is more rheumatism during June, July, August, than during December, January, Febru ary, gives the chilling theory consider able jolt. More recent investigations tend to lessen our fear of local chlllings as a cause of rheumatism, but no one Is justified It, leaving off his flannels dur ing the rheumatism season until the evidence is more complete. For relief during an attack of the dis ease, salicylates and alkalies are given. Opiates are not. Water should be drunk freely. After an attack has sub sided iron tonics and visits to baths are helpful. Meat bears no relation to the disease. It can be eaten in mod eration without harm. Pocket Money. From the New Fork Sun. A few years ago. .jacket money al lowances for a small boy meant a nickel or a dime a week. The youngster whose father or mother gave him a quarter was exceptional; he who boasted half a dollar was a prince of high good for • tOne. Nowadays the boy’s allowance has to be larger. Soda water, candy, marbles, tops, practically everything a boy wants to buy out of his own pocket have soared along with beef and bread. There are carfares to be paid nowadays where none was known only a few years ago. Oldsters shake their heads and lament the banishment of poetry from juve nile life, but their regrets are not shared by the victim of a stone bruise who can ride home on the strolley instead of hoofing it ‘cross lots. There were no movies when a dime loomed large at the beginning of the week; movies are now a steady drain on the pockets of youth. Probably the Small Boys Protective League is be hind the shrewd campaign today in pro gress to impress on the adult mentality the educational value of close and con sistent study of the screen. If movies are of educational value their attend ance on movies becomes a duty, and as a duty the cost of it must be de frayed from the parental pocketbook. However, the circus is still to be at tained by carrying water to the ele phant, though our friend Mr. Dockstad er, on more than one occasion, has re vealed the danger inherent in this method of gaining admission to the big top; they switched elephants on Lew. Hoaxed a King. Prom Manchester (England) Guardian. The fact that several residents of the Spalding district of Llnconshlre have been hoaxed by announcements purport ing to emanate from Buckingham pal ace and to be signed by his majesty's private secretary, conferring honors upon them recalls recollection to one oc casion at least of the conferring of an honor as the result of a successful hoax, royalty Itself being the victim. In the reign of George IV, a Dublin medical doctor wrote a book. He had a copy splendidly bound for presentation, and then went to London to the royal levee, where he handed a card to the lord-ln waiting, on which his name appeaVed as attending to present his work on a cer tain professional subject and "to receive the honor of knighthood.” The lord-in waltlng thought that all was right, the king thought so, too. The Dublin doctor knelt down, the king took a sword, gave him the slap of dignity, and bad him arise Sir Thomas. After the levee, and when the newspapers had published the knighthood as one of the incidents of the day, there were some Inquiries about the recipient of the distinction. Who iiad recommended him? Of what min ister was he the protege? But they were all too late—the knighthood bad been conferred, and people could only laugh. Canning was reported to have said that he supposed this doctor iluimed the honor "by prescription.” No Nsoesslty. Shop Assistant (uellhig (Ior trouRli) —Would you like one with '•(log" painted on It, madamV Customer—No, thunks. You see, ths dog can’t rend and my husband doesn’t drink water.—London Answers. Baby’s little drosses will Just simply dazzle If Red Cross Ball Blue Is used In the laundry. Try It and see for your self. At all good grocers, Be. An occasional domestic storm Is nec essary to clarify the matrimonial at mosphere. JTORIA For Infants and Children. QHaMHffeaKJMMMMaMMMHMlAaM Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always Bears the Signature • lit Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA y-mc-i Copy of Wrapper. thi ciwtwh count", lira to»k city. COULDN’T FORGET THE GREEN Mrs. Flannlgan's Neat Expression of Loyalty to Her Native and Her Adopted Land. Mrs. Flnnnlgan for years lias proud ly exhibited from her front window a row of geraniums, In pots wrapped In bright, Irish green crepe paper, says the Indianapolis News. But the other day when her neighbor, whose son was In France for several months, pulled back her window curtain and revealed her flower pots, decorated in red, white and blue pnper, Mrs. Flan nlgan was visibly troubled. She wor ried and worried. It Is quite hard to be loyal to two countries at the same time, yet Mrs. Flennlgan desired to be so. Then one morning her wide Irish smile came back to her face. And passers-by saw In the Flannlgan front window a row of flower pots brave In red, white and blue coverings and every covering was tied to the pot with a wide band of green ribbon. Unique Specimens. “The only thing,” solemnly said Pro fessor Pate, “that walks back from the tomb'with the mourners and re fuses to be burled 1s character." “Just so!” replied Festus Pester. “And the only thing that comes back from the cemetery giggling and on the dead run is the rickety old widower who figures on —ee-hee 1 hee 1—mar rying again.”—Kansas City Star. ) MORALE AIDED BY MUSIfc Fact Brought Out by the War Bounifr to Have Great Effect on Future Generations. 1 “Music makes mornle,” and' m promptly music was enlisted In th» war. Song leaders were appointed at all the training camps and Immedi ately the glory of real music waal spread before the millions of mm as a reinforcement and aid to th« idealism which bad brought them intof the war. From then on the soldiers had mu sic Individually, In masses, In groups*; They made It themselves. It was made for them by our finest artists. They had phonographs. They hod record* by the millions. The process of musi cal education was swift, and the pn plls were apt. Now they have returned to us men who know good mnslt as a large part of their life and enr tertalnment, have become reasonably apt performers themselves In a great many cases. What must this mean t<* the country? It must mean that the people ns a whole are readier than ever before to listen to It as well a* to be taught It. To Be Washed Out. Hogg—Wrote a ballad on my cuff the othor day. What would you ad vise me to do with ltf Blogg—Send It to the laundry.—* London Tit-Bits. Coffee Often Disturbs Digestion » and frequently causes ner- j vousness and sleeplessness. If coffee annoys you in any way, try : , Postum Cereal ; This favorite drink enjoys growing popularity because of its pleasing flavor and its su periority to coffee in health fulness. i Sold by Grocers in two sizes—25c—15c ;j ^, I I No raise in price < 1 Made by POSTUM CEREAL CO, Inc. > * Battle Creek, Michigan \ ~ *