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Show Scraps From Our Letter Box I eOODWINS: I have been a constant reader of your paper for many years but its many erudite articles on current topics have been very helpful to me in many ways. Now I am not a regular drinker but on a warm day I like a glass of beer and on a cold day I occasionally drop into a saloon and take something warming. I understand Utah is to have a bone dry law on the first of August and that if a man has any vinous, spirituous or fermented liquors on his premises after that date ho subjects himself to fine and imprisonment im-prisonment and confiscation of his stock of liquors. Please state if this is so? HYRUM HIGHBALL. Dear High: It is the surest thing you know. You will have to eliminate elimin-ate from your curriculum that cold day grog and that hot day tipple or you for the bastile. We would advise you to make the acquaintance of one of the teamsters of a water wagon right now and see if you cannot learn to sit besido him without falling off. Practice all the time between now and the first. The governor has $25,000 to see to the enforcement of the law so don't think you can fool the authorities authori-ties by having a private rahtskellar and inviting your friends down where the Wurzberger flows, because that will be just where the Bamberger goes. Do you know you can make a mint julip out of mint and Young Hyson? Hy-son? We would not advise grape juice because Bryan gets a royalty on that, and anyway it has alcohol in it to preserve it and you might contract some Bryan habit. But buttermilk is cooling and comforting and a drink called lemonade, if taken in reason, though aciduous, will not be without the pale. Our sporting editor knows the names of a lot of other lawful drinks that he would commend to you if ho were here at this writing but he went fishing the other day with some convivial friends and has not returned though largely overdue. Editor. To the Editor: I am a young man, just 22 and I registered for the war on June 5th but I wish to go fishing for all summer. Do you think anything would happen to me? WALTER. Dear Walter: Oh nothing much. Just shot at sunrise. Editor. Mr. Goodwin's Weekly: I am a girl of seventeen and I love adventure and dancing and the good old summer time. I have a beau named Clifford and he is too young to enlist and I am very patriotic and freckled and 'have three or four soldier friends at Fort Douglas who dance with me and one of them seems to h:e mo almost as well as Clifford but I have a mother who for some reason is not at all patriotic pat-riotic and does not wish me to entertain enter-tain Uncle Sam's boys. What would you advise? ETHEL. You dear little girl: First of all, let me speak about the freckles. Tako three parts lemon juice and one part pleasant purgative pellets now mix thoroughly with witch hazel and cod liver oil and apply to face before retiring. retir-ing. If not effective, sweetheart, call and see a fortune teller and she will H tell you what to do she will guide H you aright. Now about the soldiers. lH Be firm, Ethel, keep all four of them H with you all the time or else go back H to Clifford. Editor. fl |