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Show THE CITIZEN Chicago, who is visiting her daughte, Mrs. George H. Watson. The guests were Mrs. M. S. Kisselburg, Mrs. George II. Watson, Mrs. William L. Shiverick, Mrs. W. A. Porter, Mrs. S. S. Dickinson, Mrs. Michael Morrissey and Mrs. John Pavlak. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ostler enter- tained at a lawn party Thursday at their home on Yale avenue. Mr. and Mrs. B. O. Yeamans have returned from attending the national meeting of the Greeters of America. Mrs. Yeamans was elected secretary of the ladies auxiliary to the national organization. Mr. and Mrs. John M. Clawson have arrived home from an extended visit east and south. Mrs. Lawrence Crawford and daughters, Pearl and Helen, of McGill, Nev., are guests of Mrs. R. L. Shannon and Mrs. Florence McGhle: Mrs. Shannon" entertained at supper Monday evening and a lake party Tuesday in honor of her guests. NEW BOOKS (Continued from Page D.) of the workmen had such perfect manners that they exclaimed apologetically: We have spoiled your light gloves with our biack hands! Isnt it too bad? Why, I am more proud than I can say of the color you have given it, I replied gayly. .. It . will - seem as If - Ir also,-wer- e making munitions for the boys. The director then took us to luncheon in the factory and as we sat down at the table he said to me: May I formulate a wish expressed by my owrkmen? Pray do! I am ready to do anything to prove my delight at having found such a marvelous audience as the one I have addressed this morning. Well, they have asked that you wili' part with your glove and give it to them. We will have a frame made for it and it will be hung in the place of honor in the factory as a souvenir of France. In France, we are told, public speaking is an art in itself. In America It is a means to an end A successful Liberty Loan speaker may not be the one who makes the most finished speeches, but the one who gets the most money out of his audience. At the moving picture show which we attended one evening a man mounted the platform and showed an obviously new straw hat and called out in a powerful voIcp: I just bought it today, and hoped it would spend the summer with me. But for my country I am ready to separate myself from my new acquisition. So for a thousand dollar bond I will offer you the diverting sight of the wilful destruction of my new hat. Yes, ladies and genetle-meI will stick my fist right through it. Now (and he raised his voice louder than ever) who will subscribe for a thousand -dollar bond? Who will give the thousand dollars? Five hundred dollars, called a voice. No. I want the thousand dollars. I wont spoil my new hat for less. Come along now, a good bid. Wholl give it? A thousand! shouted a mans voice from the balcony. And the speaker, with a happy smile, thrust his closed fist vigorously through the crown of his straw hat, shooting it straight toward the generous subscriber. n, Mrs. John l Seeley and daughter, Mrs. Robert H. Hinckley, of Mt. Pleasant, are guests of Mrs. Olive E. McGahen. Mrs. Frank Doran of San Diego. Cal., with her daughter, Madeleine, is visiting at the home of her mother, Mrs. Belle Kunkel, on Redondo ave- nue. P. J. J. Cleveland, Mr. and Mrs. N. R. Fox and son, Mahlon Drage, and Lawrence Smith have left for an automobile trip to Los Angeles. Mrs. Cleveland, who has been visiting in Los Angeles, will join her husband there. Mrs. James Ivers, Jr., entertained at luncheon Wednesday at her home on East . First South street in honor of Miss Ann Lane of Battle Creek, Mich., who is the guest of Miss Florence ISNT THIS TOUGH. Entered an family head intent upon a steak for dinner. The man with the white apron draped about his broad horizon chose one from a platter of such luxuries and anxious-eye- d said: There you are, my friend, just as soft as velvet. "It looks nice, but are you sure it is tender? Say. neighbor, that steak is as tender as a womans heart. Well, I'll have to take something else, then; we have no steel knives at our house. Five guineas a week for that little room and with such dirty paper, too? I can have a new paper put over it. Heaven forbid the room is small enough as it is! What! An occasional word of frank criticism removes some of the honey that might otherwise be a litttle cloying. America, we are told, in many respects is trending towards despotism and the country is going through a phase of imperialism: fornians were seriously investigating the question of suppressing coffee and even tea as producing a banefui Influence on the nerves. This may possibly be an exaggeration. Again I remember having more than once been requested to enlist as a propagandist against the poisonous influence of nicotine toward the suppression of the pleasures of this world. After one of my lectures in Indianapolis a lady drew me mysteriously into a comer, declaring that she had a communi cation to make of the utmost Importance. One may imagine my astonishment when she drew out from the depths of her bag a pamphlet entitled A Puff of Smoke, which she thrust into my hands, hoping therewith to convert me and to make me renounce those highly dangerous and pernicious cigarettes, capable of bringing to pass ali1 the disasters under the sun. I found out afterward, when I perused the contents of this little book, that the Puff of Smoke was a real league with headquarters in Chicago. Another lady one day remarked to me while I was traveling in Montana, that cigarettes were forbidden in that state, though cigars and pipes were allowed. And she added to my amazement: When I send ready-mad- e packages to the boys who are fighting in France I carefully take out beforehand the tobacco Poor boys. they contain! The great beauty of the west she tells us is due to the fact that the upper classes wish the others to benefit by the same advantages and joys they themselves have. She had never that attitude nor had she" thought that such principles were applied on this planet. It is surprising to learn that an American, when offering a cigarette to a lady, lights the cigarette, puffs it a few times and then presents to his victim the prepared articles. Offering cigarettes to ladies is not an American accomplishment because so few ladies comparatively speaking smoke cigarettes, but, of course, the comtesse and her sister did not know that. The gentleman who stoked the cigarette and tried to park it between miladys lips probably began his career as -bearer to a window dresser. nd west: hotel calls your attention to "The X the following fifth rule: It is customary to have the door open at least six inches when entertaining some one of the opposite sex in private rooms. How fearfully moral! I suggest that if hotel wishes its guests strictiy the X to comply with this rule a yard measure be attached to the door to insure the correct measurement. Our great French writer of the nineteenth century, Balzac, says in one of his novels La Peau de Chagrin, that liberty gives birth to anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and that despotism brings back liberty. Millions of men, exclaims one of his heroes, have perished without being able to bring about the triumph of any of these systems. Might we not admit that human thought perpetually evoives In circles. When mankind believes it has progressed, it has turned toward another pole. America in many respects is today steering for her moral pole toward despotism. Although a democracy, this country is going through a phase of imperialism such as few other nations have been able to attain. The comtesse is not quite convinced of the wisdom of prohibition and she is disconcerted when she learns that tobacco, tea, coffee, and kisses are also on the index expurgatorius. She seems to think that California stands in the forefront of the suppression mania: I heard, although I can not vouch for the accuracy of this statement, that Cali You should be equipped with the Auto 10 GamD-Gomfo- rt if J! OUTFIT it THE OUTFIT DtLUXE. Jve doie to Nature in luxury, eae V'l and comforl F tiv Ce wl 12 on A. THIS OUTFIT COMPRISES Ac C. M' Ci vc The Lightest, Cheapest, Host Practical end Compact Campers Outfit bt T pi on the Market EmOt nuwtng ldt m f ndUi tmhul hri luniMtnt . ii SAWYER & TYLER 369 So. Main. Open Eveninge Try w w v w w e'w w ? w ? 1 V A ribbon- It took us fourteen hours to Denver. In the dining-ca- r we get to lunched with several notabilities of the state through which we were passing. Wont you have a cigarette? one of them a tall, and strikingly man asked me. With pleasure, I answered, as I dont belong to any of your frightfully virtuous leagues. man And the strikingly took out a cigarette from his gold case; then, putting it between his lips he iit it, blew a few puffs, and mots politely offered me the prepared article. Oh. no, not that end! he shrieked in alarm when he saw me endeavoring to thrust the lighted part into my mouth. However, I think he failed to understand why I was trying to be so original in my smoking methods. But afterward I learned that preparing other peoples cigarettes in that extremely and personal manner was a polite custom in that particular part of the country. DRESS UP the old car. Make it look new, and be satisfied and proud with its appearance. Have it painted and varnished now. Get our lasting good work and you'll get lasting satisfaction. Low estimates. Prompt work. SCIIEFSKI AUTO PAIXTIXG CO. 812 So. State Phone Wax. 1550 dark-haire- d, good-looki- When we sailed for the United States we thought that we were going to the land of liberty, where its happy people could enjoy life and do just as they chose. I began to wonder whether this was not an illusion when, there in free America, I read on the table in our room, in one of the best hotels in the middle CAMPING TOURING anti-tobac- ng co good-looki- ng well-kno- wn Would you mind explaining to me? asked the comtesse of a neighbor at the Commonwealth club in San Francisco, how it is that men never lunch with their wives in America? Our work makes it impossible for us to go home in the middle of the day, he answered with an astonished smile. But the wives do not lunch at home either. The men frequently take two hours or two hours and a half for their lunch. She presumes, therefore, that it is more a matter of custom than of actual impossibility: The largest audience I addressed In America was at Berkeley, on the opposite bank of San Franel3co bay, In the wonderful Hearst Greek theatre, which can seat 10,000 people. This theatre is an open-ai- r one, and the acoustic properties are such that it is not necessary to make any superhuman effort to be heard by the entire audience, as I often had to do when I talked in factories, out-of-doo- rs 1J A with machines and engines puffing loudl at my side. Nothing, indeed, seemed more curious to me than to watch the public right be cl in the last rows laughing hearthy whet I ventured a few jokes, and jokes have, necessarily to be said almost in an un-dertone, and not as the teller of tlw comic story who does not slur the nub," as Mark Twain indignantly explains ir' but shouts it IIow to Tell a Story, All of which is von you every time. depressing, and makes one want to renounce joking and lead a better life. This meeting, like nearly all of th we attended, opened with a musical that never varied n.uch, and as nr who was of my on a French official war mission to America remarked to me one day: After ten months in the United State:' and any amount of official banquets have ended by associating in my mind Jte Marseillaise with the entree, God Ss vt the King with the roast, and tne Stir Spangled Banner with the aspargaus. When the address was finished a grn part of the audience advanced, ande: wc! shook hands with them, as we (lid day with several thousands of peopie v ei:h greeted us in all the generosity of tl great enthusiasm, expressing In this v rya; their sympathy and love for our count 1 i j; pre-gra- fellow-countrym- i s-;t- f en HIS LINE. What do you work at, my pcoi man? At intervals, lady. St. Paul N)H Partisan Leader. i |