Kansas City Advocate

KANSAS Announcement Annual Series Hear Pastor H. B. Bronson, first sermon of the Annual Series, Sunday, March 1st. Metropolitan Baptist Temple, Corner Ninth and Washington Boulevard. The general theme for the morning subjects thru the series is "Anthropology: Or Man in Genesis and Geology." The general evening theme is "Ecclesiology: The Church, The Pillar and Ground of Truth." Sunday morning his opening theme will be: "CREATION OF MAN; A CHILD OF GOD" Gen. 1:27; Luke 3:38. Sunday evening his opening theme will be: "THE CHURCH: ITS CONSTITUTION AND POLICY" Matt. 16:15-19 There will be special music for each service. The series will extend through March and April. Cordial welcome awaits one and all. Vol. XI TRINITY A.M.E. CHURCH TO GO IN THEIR NEW HOME SUNDAY Bishop A. J. Carey to Preach the Opening Sermon. Pastor and Members Working Hard to Meet the Initial Payment. Tag Days Granted by City. The Trinity African Methodist Episcopal church, at the corner of Stewart avenue and Fourth street, Rev. Mr. Winston, pastor, and his congregation, will move into their new house of worship at the corner of Greely avenue and Fifth street, Sunday. Bishop A. J. Carey, presiding bishop of the Fifth Episcopal district, who has been here Since Sunday will deliver the first sermon at 3 p. m. He will preach Sunday morning at 11 a.m. at the North East Junior High school and at 2 p. m. the congregation, ministers of the two cities and friends will march from the high school to the church, when another sermon and a rousing mass meeting will be held. The pastor and his faithful members have been working day and night for the past three months to meet all requirements of their contract to take over this magnificent house of worship. This church was purchased from the Baptist (White) who, on account of this neighborhood being filled up by colored. It is a magnificent structure and was built eleven years ago, costing $62,000 and the purchase price by this congregation was $35,000. It has a seven-room parsonage also. The city officials have given permission for the church to have two tag days, this Friday and Saturday. Ten thousand dollars is the goal they want to reach and report Sunday. Last Sunday afternoon a rally was held at Allen Chapel on the Missouri side, when $300 was laid on the table, coming from the various churches of the two citys' of African Methodists. The new church will be known as Trinity Institutional church. BISHOP A. J. CAREY HERE. Bishop A. J. Carey, the presiding prelate of the Fifth Episcopal district arrived in the city from his home in Chicago, last Sunday morning and was the guest of Allen chapel on the Missouri side, when he delivered a masterly sermon to a packed house at the eleven o'clock service. The bishop is remaining here all the week, in the interest of his work at Western University and to be at the opening of the new Trinity church purchased by that congregation, which will be entered Sunday. Bishop Carey is one of the races most progressive men and one whose heart and soul is in the work of his church and humanity. The people of the west believe in him and feel his supervision over this district, will mean much to the church and all mankind. He has already made many friends, here and throughout the district and each visit ads new friends to his already substantial list of true and tried ones. The bishop has been the house guest this week of Rev. and Mrs. C. E. Brooks, at the parsonage, 1111 North Eighth street. Knife and Fo A POPULAR APPOINTMENT IN W. H. MACKEY AS WARDEN. Governor Ben S. Paulen has made no greater or popular appointment than when he officially announced, this week, the placing of Mr. W. H. Mackey of this city as warden of the State prison at Lansing. Mr. Mackey was a former United States Marshal of this district and made a fine record as an officer. He is a rock-ribbed Republican. His service in the last election for the ticket and his wide experience with that class of which he is to manage makes him doubly fit for the place. Governor Paulen is to be highly complimented in his wisdom in selecting such a man for this very responsible position. SOCIETY NEWS AND CITY BRIEF'S The Women's Commercial Club meets Wednesday, March — at Mrs. L. Grave's on State avenue. The Religious Schools are invited by the whites to have a Music Contest and sing against the whites or against their own schools. Mrs. M. Butler, who is visiting in Texas, writes that she is having a delightful time. The Art Club, of young people, met at Mrs. I. Gayden's Friday afternoon and were entertained by Mrs. P. Gayden and Misses H. and Mayday Gayden. A typographical error made, it read over 100 people present at N. E. Junior to hear Mrs. I. B. Wells, it should have been over one thousand (1000). The Women's Commercial Club had a large meeting at Mrs. J. J. Lewis' last Wednesday night and meet next at Mrs. L. Graves on State avenue between Tenth and Eleventh street. Mrs. E. Stovall, the florist, has sent her petition to the Commercial Club. Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Booker visited in Topeka this week. Miss H. Gayden worked in McClelland's office during Mrs. L. Hornbeak's absence in California. Mrs. Nellie Ford-Harris has moved to a new bungalow on Virginia avenue. Our Society Editor was guest at a Chicken dinner on Washington's Birthday. Mrs. Isaacs and many others called on Mrs. P. Bradford and Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Williams this week. Mrs. A. T. Marr has moved to 1215 Ann avenue. Mr. Gray is reported very ill. Mr. J. M. Stovall is reported better. Metropolitan Religious School are invited and may take part in the National Music Contest March 25. Mrs. Anderson, quite a musician, is teaching afternoons in the largest Religious school. E. C. PICKENS BACK IN BUSINESS E. C. Pickens, a former well known business man in new and used furniture at 421 Minnesota avenue, who sold out last year and went to California has returned and will open up a store at 1612 North 5th street, Monday, March 2. Mr. Pickens is a good business man and his new and used stock of furniture, with a good line of hardware and kitchen utensile will be worth while to the buying public. His stock is large and prices at a very low rate. Mrs. Leola Miller, 1010 State avenue, is still confined to the house of which her many friends regret very much. Annual Series on, first sermon of the Annual Metropolitan Baptist Temple, in Boulevard. the morning subjects thru the Man in Genesis and Geology." is "Ecclesiology: The Church, th." CITY THAT I WILL FAITHFULLY EXECUTE THE OFFICER OF PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND WILL TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY PRESERVE PROTECT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL SERVICE (Copyright, W. N. U.) KANSAS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME CALIFORNIA BUT NOT FOR MINE Last week I told you of my trip to this wonderful country, but I didn't tell you all I would like you to know. So in order to set you right I am telling you the same story this week with the added features. If you fail to read it through you won't get the joke. On or about September 12, 1924, I decided to find a better place to live. So "Lizzie" and I—I mean "Tin Lizzie"—got together and turned our faces to the west, to search, as it were, for the land that flowed with milk and honey, and where pork chops grew on bushes, and watermelons in the back yard. And after traveling day and night for five days, winding our way over hills and hollows, rocks and mountains, we found ourselves one bright morning, in a place they said was California. But I didn't see the milk and honey, not even a cow in sight. Nor did I see any bees. There were a few dried up bushes but no pork chops on them, and not even a watermelon vine. But, oh you sand. It seemed as though I was crossing the ocean on dry sand. There were sand hills, sand mountains, sand holes, sand hollows, sand roads and sand toads. I never saw so much sand in all my life. Some one however was kind enough to tell me that that was the land of sunshine and flowers, etc., instead of the land that flows with milk and honey. So as the sunshine was too hot to eat and the flowers too sweet, I changed my mind and thought I'd find And while "lizzie" stopped on the side of the road, I badly froze my feet. And to prove to you how glad I am to be here; beginning March 1st, I will be at 1612 North 5th street with many bargains in new and used furniture equal to those had at 421 Minnesota avenue. I shall be glad to see my old friends; to shake their hands and tell them how I missed them while in that land. Alas, I find there is no place like old K. C. K E. C. PICKENS. Fax. 5357. NOTICE. NOTICE I hereby notify the public, that I, Benea Kindred, will not be responsible for any debts contracted by my alleged wife, Albertha Kinzie Kindred on and after February 27th, 1925. BENEA KINDRED. Fifteen Hun ADVOCATE SUMNER LOSES TO WESTERN U. First Defeat of Season In a thrilling game played on the Paseo "Y" court Friday evening, Sumner Hi quintet suffered a 18 to 17 defeat at the hands of Western University five. Shortly after the initial toss-up, T. Irvine, right forward for Western shot a field goal. This play immediately followed by another by Lowery, seemed to have unnerved the Sumnerites who were too confident of a second crushing victory over Western. But with Lee at center, and Lowery at left guard, Western had a change of line-up that tightened her defensive work. Her passing and shooting also showed an improvement which permitted the caging of five field goals in excess of the number similarly caged in last week's game. T. Irvine, who was remembered for only a foul goal, dropped in four field goals and one foul. This made him high-point man for his team. When Western had a four-point lead, Lowe, center for Sumner, tied the score by two successive under the basket shots. This gave a 6-6 score at the end of the first quarter. At the end of the first half the score stood 11-10 in favor of Western. When the game was resumed, Cotton, a high-point scorer for Sumner went in as substitute for Washington who starred in the first Sumner-Western encounter. Cotton make a spectacular shot when he caged a basket on a center toss-up. Sumner played her best during the third quarter. Sumner—17 G FT F Lucas, f 0 0 1 Washington, f 1 0 0 Cotton, f 2 0 1 Lowe, c 4 2 1 Jackson, g 0 1 3 Carroll c 0 0 1 Totals 7 3 7 Western—18 G FT F T. Irvine, f 4 1 0 Anderson, f 1 0 4 Lee, c, f 1 0 2 Jones, c, g, 0 0 2 Lowery, g, c, 2 1 0 B. Irvine, g 0 0 0 Totals 8 2 8 Referee—Wright; Scorer—Kealing; Timer—Smith. In the curtain-raiser, Western alumni defeated Sumner alumni 13 to 11. Dr. S. M. Banks and wife, 841 Freeman avenue have returned from Hot Springs, Ark., where the doctor spent several weeks for his health. He is much improved of which his many friends are delighted to know. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TWELVE MONTHS, $1.50 . Church, Marc BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA St. Athanasius School Basket Ball On Tuesday morning, February 17, the Basketball Team of St. Athanasius' School, Brunswick, Ga., returned from their trip to Atlanta, Augusta, and Savannah during which they played against college, high school and club teams. The last of five games was played Monday afternoon February 16, in Savannah against the Cuyler Junior High School, St. Athanasius' winning by the score, 31 to 13. The Brunswick quintet lost one game during the tour and that one to Morehouse, the Collegiate Champions of the Southeast. Prior to this game, persistent predictions from all sides were to the effect that Morehause would win by a very large margin. It seemed that this prophecy would be fulfilled from the showing made by the Atlanta College's excellent fighting machine during the first half which ended with Morehouse 20 to St. Athanasius' 6. The Brunswick High School rallied, however, during the second half and rang up 20 points, exactly duplicating Morehouse's scoring during the first half. The record of the tour follows: February 9, Atlanta, St. Athanasius' 32—Morris Brown Univ. 25. February 11, Atlanta, St. Athanasius' 26—Morehouse College 33. February 23, Augusta, St. Athanasius' 19—Paine College, 14. February 14, Savannah, St. Athanasius' 28—Red Sox Club, 12. February 16, Savannah, St. Athanasius' 31—Cuyler Jr. High, 13. St. Athanasius' will play the Stantan High School of Jacksonville in Brunswick, Friday afternoon, February 20, and the same school in Jacksonville, February 28. SUMNER NIGHT SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT After one of our most successful years, the Sumner Night School will hold its regular commencement exercises Friday night, March 6, at 8:00 p. m. promptly in the Kansas City, Kansas Central High School auditorium Ninth street and Minnesota avenue. The music and demonstration from some of the departments will be novel in their feature. A brief commencement address will be delivered by one of the best educators of the Middle West. There will be no tickets and admission will be free to all. No seats will be reserved excepting those for classes in regular attendance. The doors will open at 7:30. G. A. CURRY, Principal Mrs. Ophelia Jackson, 1414 North Eighth street, was on the sick list a few days this week and was not able to take charge of her school. Washington THAT I W FAITHFULL EXECUTE OF PRE Number 28 26, 1925 J. O., ADMIRES THE GOVERNOR OF KANSAS John A. Andrews Memorial Hospital, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, Feb. 27.—You find me still on the inside looking out, and I suppose ere long you will be wishing that I will either get well and get out of this place or die out of it, but I will have to wait on time for either, for I am not going out before the doctor tells me I can go, and I am not to kill myself out, and if you think so you tell the world that I say to you have another think coming to you. There is no need of you or any one else going through this world with a chip on your shoulder flirting with death, for this will find you sooner or later, and you will find that it will not only knock the chip off but it will knock your own block off and then just dare you to open your mouth. What can you do about it? Nothing but just look like a dead phule which you will be. The thing we all should do in this world is to try to live and in living make the world better. Stop right now and take an inventory of your life up to date, see what you have accomplished? While here I have been thinking about the late Booker T. Washington and I have thought and thought of this monument which he erected while he lived. Tuskegee Institute is his monument, and we have none greater in all the world. Dr. Armstrong erected Hampton as his monument and out of it evolved Booker T. Washington, and now what great man will come out of Tuskegee. Time alone will answer the great question. When God was ready for Booker T. Washington, then there was already planted and ripe Robert R. Moton, another product of Hampton, who stepped right on Washington's shoulders, and is going on and on carrying up the work of Washington. Many have been the improvements but Washington planned and laid the foundation which is as solid as the world itself. It will stand the test of time and eternity. This is and has always been God's way of doing things. We pluck clusters from vines other generations planted. We ride in trains and ships other generations invented; we admire pictures and statues other hands painted and carved; our happiness is through institutions others built; and we speak languages that generations long since dead spoke. We are but living in the past. The radio is attracting much attention, but it is nothing new. But if I continue along this line you will think that I am getting ready to die, and I am delivering my farewell letter, but I hope not, I am just in bed thinking and thinking, and I do not see so much to talk about but I can hatch up things to think about. My think tank is in operation these days. This place is enough to make you think. Spend three weeks in this hospital here. Come in touch with this skilled surgeon, and learned physician. Let him cut into you, put you together again and you will join me in thanking God for the life of Dr. Eugene H. Dibble. The world will know that he has been this way. He takes his place with the best in America. He is going to win his work by his skill and actual work and not by newspaper puffs. There are many silent forces for good at work in this world, and we have given the world some of the very best women, and you do not read about them in the newspaper, nor you may not know what they are doing to help you. I shall never forget Miss Mary S. Booth, who is a native of Virginia, and comes from the best blood. She is a living wonder, and yet, why not. She has had the best possible training, from a good old common sense mother and father, and that was home which help to bring --- --- - Friday, February 27, 1925 Price of Popularity Malcolm MacDonald, son, of the former British prime minister, sald at a Washington reception: "The prince of Wales is very popular. Well, he pays-for his popularity with hard work. Popularity, you know, must always be paid for." Young Mr. MacDonald chuckled. Then he went on. "Lafayette, at a funeral, was tremendously applauded by the people. In the end the people took his horses from the carriage and drew him home through the streets with their own hands. "You must have been gratified,' a friend sald to Lafayette afterwards. "Yes, I was,' sald he; 'only I never saw my horses again.'" In the Silent Night In the middle of the night father heard in the next room—Roger's room a little murmur, very soft: "Papa, papa! Mamma!" "That's Roger dreaming," said father to himself. But the murmur continued, still soft and still muffled. "Papa! Mamma! I fell out of bed!" Father got up, went into Roger's room and found him actually on the floor. "But I didn't want to wake you up" said Rozer.—From L'Echo de Paris. Invent Glass Substitute A chemical product resembling glass and useful for many of the same purposes recently was perfected by Fritz Pollak, a German Inventor, says Popular Science Monthly. It can be rolled, bored, polished, or cut, without the tendency to splinter that glass has. Because of this quality it is useful especially for automobile windows, optical instruments, ornaments and toilet articles. The inventor arrived at this product by condensing carbamide and theocarbamide with formaldehyde. Playing Games With Bones Playing Games With Bones Nothing is ever wasted at the Chicago stockyards, but recently there has been an unparalleled call for shin bones for exportation to China for making mah-jongg sets. Such bones are now an important article of commerce and are sent to China by the ton. China does not have many domestic animals, and therefore is not able to supply the ever increasing demand. Time Will Tell John Jimson was very ill. He called in a doctor, who hemmed and hawed, and called in a second doctor. Then while John Jimson listened, the two quarreled about his case. "You're wrong," said Dr. No. 1. "I'm right," retorted Dr. No. 2. "You're wrong," repeated Dr. No. 1. Here the patient gave a groan and brought the medical men to a realization of the needs of the moment. But Dr. No. 2 couldn't resist a last swipe. "Have your own way," said he, "but I'll prove I'm right at the postmortem."—The Argonaut. Whitens Celery With Gas A new process of gas treatment for cetyl, by which blanching or whitening may be at once hastened and cheapened, was described before the American Society of Plant Physiologists by Prof. R. B. Harvey and L. C. Regental of the University of Minnesota. Both green and self-blanching varieties were exposed to varying concentrations of ethylene and acetylene gas. Both gases can now be purchased compressed in cylinders, ethylene at $4 and acetylene at $1.85 per hundred cubic feet. Roman City Long Buried The recently excavated city Leptis Magna is in northern Africa, about 100 miles east of Tripoli. It was the birthplace of the Emperor Septimus Severus. It was a Roman city. Records upon it do not state whether or not it was a commercial city, but it probably was, since it had a considerable population and was a seaport. Authorities say that it contains far more imposing structures and more valuable works of art than any found in Pompeii. Personality is something others see in you, but which you can't exactly measure yourself. When pugilists begin to use soft answers the chances are they will fight. It may pain a mother when she corrects her naughty offspring, but not in the same place. Barber Shop Wilson's Place 10th and Everett Three Chairs First Class Workmen Hair Bobbing A Specialty ROBINSON LAUNDRY CO. Prompt, Efficient Service. Office and Residence, 333 Lafayette Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. Fairfax 1174. . N. B. Robinson, Mgr HEARD IN PASSING Nothing hurts a conceited man like being ignored. You can't convince a brunette that all is fair in love. Only a fool man will refuse to laugh at his wife's jokes. Each wrinkle on a woman's brow represents an experience. When members of a family quarrel a lot of truth leaks out. Some men can't even do their duty without making a fuss about it. Truth can always be if you know how to listen. Happy are those who don't realize that it is a crisis until it is over. Of course, you have a real grievance; but so has everybody. What is the rarest thing? A letter full of joy to a "people's column." If a friend really cares deeply for you, he won't let you make all the sacrifices for him that you want to. The naughty schoolboy is always glad when he sees the teacher lay down the rule. It is best in wearing superfine clothes to consider whether one has the style and manner to wear them. As a rule, lazy people are good-humored, but it is impossible to budge them. If one finds he can deceive without half trying, the temptation is fearful. No one wants to be called "middle-aged" until he has passed on beyond that. ENGLAND'S GREAT NEW DREADNAUGHT OF AIR While America's new sky levlathans, the Los Angeles and the Shenandoah, have been amazing the world with their successful performances, England has been testing out its first winged superdreadnought of the alr—a deadly new coast-defense aircraft, sald to be the largest single-engined airplane in the world. This mammoth machine, known as the Cubaroo Blackburn-Napler, recently completed a successful flight near Hull, England, says Popular Science Monthly. Driven by a huge 16-cylinder Napler motor of 1,000 horsepower, it can carry and launch from the air-air a battleship a full-sized naval torpedo weighing 1,000 pounds. Its armament also includes great armor-piercing bombs, as well as machine guns for repelling air attacks. The plane is 54 feet long, 20 feet high, and its wing span is 88 feet. A Better World Edgar Addison Bancroft, the noted Chicago lawyer who has been appointed ambassador to Japan, said at a Blackstone banquet: "Some people complain about crooked business, but, thanks to our excellent new laws, there's nothing like the crooked business there used to be." Mr. Bancroft chuckled. "Why," he declared, "there's many a millionaire today who, if he lost his money the same way he gained it, would insist on somebody going to jail." Chicken Story Bobby was four years old when he went to visit Aunt Millle in the country. He heard her say that she was going to dress a hen and expressed a desire to watch the proceedings. He looked on quietly until the featherplucking stage was reached and then excitedly demanded, with the first handful of feathers: "Why, Aunt Millle, you're undressing it, aren't you?"—Indianapolis News. Girl's Odd Attribute An "electrical girl" has been discovered at Keighley, Leeds, England. She is a mill worker, but recently whenever she approached a spinning frame threads began to break and the machine ran as if acting against some magnetic attraction. Directly the girl left the vicinity of the machine it became normal again. He Explains "If you had no money, why did you order $100 worth of golf sticks sent to your hotel?" "To make an impression." "But you needed clothes. Why not order clothes?" "Clothes wouldn't make an impression like golf sticks."—Louisville Courier-Journal. Pulls Own Tooth Walter Davis, a milk dealer of Candia, N. H., who has not missed a trip on his route for several years, suffered from toothache early one morning. He went to his garage, took a pair of pliers from his machine, pulled out a wisdom tooth and then started to deliver milk. Diamond Cut Diamond "What's the fare?" inquired the woman of the taxicab driver, as the conveyance stopped at her destination. "Two dollars, mum," was the prompt reply. "Well, here's a dollar and a half. I'm not such a fool as I look." "No," said the driver. "I wish you were, mum!"—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. Some Kisser "Elsie says that I'm the first man who has ever kissed her." "You big boob, why I've kissed her a hundred times." "Well, the statement still stands."—Dirge. THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE Possible "Dog Heaven" Been thinking again. Been sitting scratching~my dog's ear and thinking. Nice little dog. She has more sense and more humanity almost than lots of humans whom I have met up with. What a wonderful thing is the love and care of an animal for her young! People have been coming over to see her puppies—three ugly little bull pups, with not much to see but wrinkles, says a dog fancier in Adventure Magazine. Yesterday they disappeared mysteriously from their nest in the corner of my little barn. I looked round and by and by found them. She had dug a large round hole under the house and there she had taken them. I brought them out to the lawn. She smiled at me, in a superior and motherly manner and promptly lifted one by his hind thigh and bore him away to her newly made nest. In a very few minutes they were all back under the house. Then she came and looked up; smiling at me, and requested me to scratch her under the ear. It would be rather nice if there actually were a dog star, would it not? Where we might in the hereafter meet up with our old dogs and hear just what they had to say. The complete trust and comrade ship that a dog offers to a man is a lovely thing. Too bad so many men are not even fit for the trust of a little yaller dog! It is such an unwavering and utter trust. It ought to make a man the better, causing him to sense something of his responsibility to the animal creation. Don't you think so? It would be rather correct, I think, if in the hereafter there is a dog star in which the dogs will live happily together with all the doggy affairs arranged to guilt themselves. Then, perhaps, those humans who in this world have been unworthy of the confidence of their dogs will be led round on chains and fed upon old bones, and occasionally dipped in sheep dip to kill their flens, eh? Shut in the pound and left there till some dog comes along and agrees to pay for their license? How's that for an idea, now? Think I'm mad for sure, don't you? Well—maybe I am, but it was the mother of the puppies below my house who put me wise to it. You'd better look out. Maybe you will have to wear a muzzle yet, in dog star land. Panama's Noah's Ark Barro Colorado island was formed when the valleys about it were flooded by the impounding of the water of the Chagres river to form Gatun lake, says the Detroit News. It resembles Noah's ark in that there gathered as the waters rose nearly every form of animal life in the vicinity, seeking escape from the rising flood. Despite that it is only two rules from the Panama river, it has been found to harbor amphibians of new and strange habits as yet unstudied and innumerable species of Insects never described, as well as many strange and exotic plants, numbering 2,000 or more. It abounds with antenters, sloths, armadillos, peccarles, tapirs, agoutis, coatis, the ocelot, the jaguar, many species of bat, monkeys of various kinds and the famous black howlers. May End Mosquito Plague An end to mosquito plague may be brought about by raising a brand of non-stinging mosquitoes guaranteed to expel the stinging variety, according to a paper by a well-known scientist, read in the Academy of Sciences, Paris. The scientist described how he had found in certain parts of Brittany a variety of common mosquitoes which never entered houses and never stung human belings. Furthermore, he noted that where these were found there was never any sign of the stinging variety. As an experiment he transported some of the hermless-variety from Brittany to the Charente department and found the non-stingers supplanted their stinging brothers in a short time. Her Depraved Taste Marle Veronica believed in knowing her job. "I've got a real, depraved taste for labor," she said. "I just can't keep away from it. Some girls take up golf, and I've known others wear their fingers to the bone reading Gene Stratton Porter. But me—work just yanks me away from tennis and motoring and shopping, and the rest of the strenuous things that make woman old before her time. "It's a sad symptom, but I take naturally to the heat and burden of the day. Give me just a yard of work and I'm happier than any girl with a vacation at Newport and a round of galley in her engagement book."—From "Marle Vee," by Douglas Newton. Woman in New Role First civil marriage to be conducted by a woman in England was celebrated when Miss Dorothy M. Haldane, the deputy-superintendent registrar, officiated in St. Giles' register office, Bloomsbury, London. Miss Haldane was appointed deputy-superintendent last April. The bridegroom showed some astonishment at a woman officiating. Although the first marriage conducted by a woman in a register office, women have previously officiated at religious ceremonies. Page Howard Carter The leader of the orchestra was not particularly youthful, although she tried to be. After a particularly vigorous but fatiguing number, a wag in the third row chirped: "Till bet she saw the last eclipse." Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. Oaths are but words, and words but wind.! Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love. God's glory is His goodness.—Henry Ward Beecher. But of course the old bachelor doesn't hold his own. A wise man looks into things in order to size up the outlook. Grace finds people who otherwise never would have found grace. If joys of life decrease it is because everything becomes hackneyed. everything becomes hackneyed. A man may select his wife, but he can't pick out his own relatives. To children every day is exciting yet they never suffer from insomnia. Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.—Mrs. Jameson. Don't attempt to belittle others because you feel that they are superior to yourself. Foolish ideas prosper for years. Sometimes, it takes a later generation to explode them. Some women would be without an earthly mission if there were no gossip to circulate. If some men were paid only for what they know they would never possess more than 30 cents. Some girls require a lot of ready cash in order to succeed in the business of looking for a husband. Youth Altogether Too Senator Magnus Johnson, the eloquent "dirt farmer," said at a dinner in Washington: "The farmer gets three cents a quart for milk that the man in the near-by city pays 15 cents a quart for. This shows us that there ought to be laws controlling the middleman, and the hide-bound conservatives who object to such laws are as unreasonable as—well, as unreasonable as the man who wanted cameras abolished on account of the snaps taken by Smith's boy. "Smith's boy got one of those invisible vest pocket detective cameras for his birthday, and in a week the neighborhood was deluged with the snaps of Dudley in his underwear pressing out his pants, Mrs. Morrill spanking the baby with a hairbrush, old Crone trying to steal a kiss from his pretty serving girl, Rev. Dr. Stiggins drinking a bottle of beer, Bella Peach spooning with the grocer, and Cowes, the milkman, filling a long row of milk cans at the pump."—Detroit Free Press. Democratic Legislator The following yarn is going the rounds just now: The wife of a member of the government (the British labor government) received an invitation to tea from a titled society hostess. When the M. P. came home from the house and read the letter his democratic instincts came to the surface with a rush, and he put the letter in his pocket, remarking darkly that he would reply to it. Next day he sent the following reply: "Dear Countess: My wife and I beg to acknowledge receipt of yours of the fourth instant. We are refusing your invitation for the following reasons: 1. I do not drink tea. 2. My wife only drinks tea with her friends. 3. The day for which you ask us is washing day." Hotels on Ocean Hotels on floating islands in mid-Atlantic will be a feature of the new airway to be opened next spring, which will make it possible to reach Buenos Aires by way of Paris in less than a week from London. The scheme has been prepared by Pierre Latesoers, the French airway magnate, and only the formal sanction of the French government is now required. The floating islands in the Atlantic will be constructed to afford accommodation for passengers and seaplanes alike. They will be established on the route between Dakar (Senegal) and Fernando de Noronha island, off the Brazilian coast. Couldn't Prove It The hall was crowded to hear the eminent speaker on religion. He spoke for some minutes when, suddenly, a man rose from the body of the hall and, walking up to the platform, said in a loud voice: "The trouble with you clergy is that you believe in things you can't see. I don't. I'm a man of common sense." "Ah, are you?" answered the speaker without hesitation. "Well, let us believe the things we can see. Put your common sense on the table and then we will believe that you have it."—Rehoboth Sunday Herald. Here You Have It The cross-word puzzle is an intensively rectangular but essentially heterogeneous concatenation of dissimilar verbal-synonymic similitudes, replete with internal inhibitions, yet promulgating extensive ratification and meticulously designed to promote fulminative vituperation, dispel hebetudenosity and develop speculative, introspective, deliberative and cogitative faculties.—Prairie Farmer. Real Toy Houses Thin sheet metal, used in making toy houses, now is being employed in Budapest, Hungary, in building real dwellings: Four-room bungalows covered with metal veneer can be built in 24 hours, it is said.—Popular Science Monthly. Earl D. Clark Insurance [PHONE DREXEL 1525 7th and Minnesota Over Drug Store Call Fairfax 3767 Hall, Walker and Green 312 Washington Blvd. Twin City Funeral Home Personal Service Rendered Day and Night Res. Phones: Fairfax 5319, Hiland 2517 THE BEST LAUNRY SERVICE POSSIBLE SOFT WATER USED EXCLUSIVELY BY- US PHONE HARRISON 0592 KANSAS CITY, MO. 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ORDER OF YOURS N RULE" 1216 ARMSTRONG NT HAIR AYLOR'S P 188 12 Fairfax 3185 ON Hour Kansas City, Kansas PAGE THREE LITTLE JULIUS SNEEZER GEE WHIZ - I'D LIKE TO GET A GOOD JOB SOME PLACE! I WOULDN'T WANT TO WORK FOR THAT GUY! DICKENS' WORKS FOR $2 WEEK HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO WORK FOR ME, YOUNG MAN? WHAT—FOR TWO DOLLARS A WEEK? I'M NOT IN DICKENS' CLASS! Political Announcements Commissioner PARKS AND PUBLIC PROPERTY Primary March 30, Election April 7 PAGE FOUR Political An Primary March 30th F. LeROY Comm PARKS AND PU Primary March 30 J. M. J Candidate Commissioner Fifteen Years a M J. O. MIDNIGHT (Continued from Page 1.) (Continued from Page 1.) out the womanhood, or the foundation, on which Hampton erected the real woman, and then she followed this up with the finished touch at Freedman Hospital in Washington, D. C., and she knows what to do in a sick room and then she knows how to train young women to do. I would that our young men, would follow Dr. Dibble, get a solid foundation, a college education, and then get right down to the study of medicine and surgery, and go into it not for the purpose of making money, but to help humanity and money will find its way to your pocket. Do your work and do it well and you will never die in the poorhouse and be buried in the Potter's field. But I must come back to Miss Booth, for she is not alone in the world. She has a sister who is indeed a remarkable woman, although you do not read much about her. She is doing great things in this world. She is directing the life of a great man, at the same time training her own family, that is Mrs. Robert R. Moton. I wish you could know her for she is a great woman. I am so proud that our girls can touch lives like these and get the inspiration, the help, the words of kindness, and see what can be done if you will. But I must tell you that I am getting along. I have been able to take an automobile car carriage ride, and one day Mrs. Kate Gover, the wife of the banker has carried me out, and has shown me around through the country. She has been kind to this old man, and looked upon me like a a father. I am sure you remember her, for she is one of the finest and best proof readers in this country. She is considered a school and then she is a good housekeeper. I am under obligation to Mrs. Booker T. Washington, for she has sent me ice cream daily, rain or shine, hot or cold, whether at home or away, the ice cream has been brought to my room each afternoon. She has told me to call on her for anything needed. She was ready to help in any way possible to restore me to health. She wants me to live and there are others. I note with regret that the banking institution of Brown and Stevens took a trip up Salt River the other day, and may never return. This was a private banking institution in Philadelphia and we hate to see our institution fail, but we are not the only people who fail. Many of us try to run business we do not know much about and result in failure. There is another desire to get rich quick, and that will lead many ways. I think with sadness on Brother Perry, who was advertised one day as being among the millionaires, and then see how his investments have ended, handing the Mississippi Life into the hands of a white man, and then Mr. Charley stepped in and got --- the Standard, and what are we going to do about it. He wanted to get rich, and get top heavy, or his imagination toted him up in channels where his ability could not follow, and it dropped into the empty space. The starting success of the Standard, saw millions in laundries, drug stores, and it will take the Lord Himself to tell what else. He had within his own little head a Wall Street, a Morgan and all them other big money men. He plunged into it, and as the result perhaps he is today on the outside looking in, thinking of what he was yesterday, and what I am today. Have you watched the carrer of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company? Starting-with nothing, but the men who started it, have stuck right to that business, desiring to make a success at one thing at the time, until today it is the strongest and richest company in America operated and owned by us. John Merick the first president, and who was one of the organizers did not seek to get rich in a hurry, but to do something for the people, something that would stand the test. Dr. Moore and C. C. Spaulding were right by his side. Dr. Moore has gone to join Merrick, and now Spaulding who is indeed a careful business man is directing things. Right by his side is J. M. Avery. I am not going to tell all, but they have $1,500,000 first mortgage on real estate belonging to my people and they have assets of two and a quarter million dollars. Will you shout with me on this? We can do things if we will. I am going to write more about this company another time. Next week President Coolidge will take his seat. The National Race Congress will meet March 3, at Mt. Carmel Baptist church in Washington, D. C., and some things will take place. Will you be there? I hope you will for I cannot. Will you put it down on your books that I have been a real sick man, and I must now bring this letter to a stop. I want to know how our Governor is getting along in Kansas. I believe his heart is in the right place and I admire him. J. O. MIDNIGHT. Vampire Bats In size, the vampire is somewhat larger than our common brown bat, compared with which it is a much heavier built animal. The spread between the tips of the outstretched wings is 8 to 10 inches, and the length of the body from the tip of the snout to the insertion of the hind limbs is $3\frac{1}{2}$ inches. They are commonly found living in caves or tunnels, suspended from the ceiling in clusters often of immense size. The animals usually attacked by the vampire bats are cattle, horses, mules and donkeys. Their flight is low and close to the surface of the earth and doubtless takes place late in the evening when complete darkness has set in; so that they are, owing to such habits, seldom seen. WOULDNT STAND FOR CHANGE OF KEEPERS Love of his old keeper, an aged employee of the Paris zoo, is the only explanation of an unusual strike on the part of Bobby, a famous elephant, whose back has carried children, rich and poor, for 22 years, says the London Mall. Every day during that time Bobby's caretaker filled buckets with water, potato peelings and oats. But he was growing old and the government decided to replace him without consulting the elephant. The first two days the beast refused to eat and belowed loudly whenever attendants attempted to make him carry his usual load of youngsters. His fury increased until he began to demolish benches and tear holes in the sides of the elephant house, rushing everywhere looking for his old master. To stop the destruction the old keeper was recalled and received an affectionate welcome from the elephant, who caressed the tip of his ear with his trunk, making noises which the old man interpreted as cooling. The Rebuke A. S. Wildey, president of the Wholesale Beauty Trade association, said at a banquet in Atlantic City: "Beauty traders hear some very good things from time to time. A masseur was giving a chorus girl a treatment the other day when another chorus girl came in, and the two beauties began to quarrel. "Well, anyhow,' said one of the girls, 'I'm not like you for sitting around with men at all hours of the day and night playing poker.' "The other girl looked at her friend's frock—it was one of those transparent frocks that we've been importing by the thousand from Paris lately—and then she said in a very significant voice: "You only show your hand in poker.'" Say "Otiose." Not "Lazy" Are cross-word puzzles helpful? The other day we were doing one when we had to find a six-letter synonym for "lazy." As a starter we already had "o" and from somewhere within us came the whisper "otlose." We hurried to the dictionary and verified its meaning. "Otlose" has now become fixed in our vocabulary. Not only that, but we have directed the attention of friend wife to the word, with the hope that when next she feels like characterizing us with the shorter and uglier term, she will substitute "otlose." It is much less jarring.—Boston Transcript. Wanted—A Grandmother Malzie Ellen played with some children next door and they were always talking about their grandmother doing this or that for them. Malzie Ellen had no grandmother, and it worried her because she could not refer to one. She asked her mother, but, of course, mother could not provide a grandmother for her. Finally she approached her Aunt Kate, whom she was visiting one day: "Aunt Kate, I want a grandma. You got gray hair and look just like a grandma. I believe I'll just call you grandma. I want one. All the other little girls have one." Prepared for the Worst There was an epidemic of smallpox in the town in a western state; the edict had gone forth that all must be vaccinated. While waiting in the doctor's office for that purpose one day a small boy came rushing in. The doctor, patting the lad on the head, inquired what he could do for him, to which the boy replied: "I came here to get assassinated." Tree Growing Is Urged The American Forestry association is urging the purchase by the government of thousands of acres of cut-over land and the replanting or seeding of these areas with forest trees. Many of these acres, it is maintained, can never be used for anything but tree growing. It is argued that a large appropriation for this purpose would not be objected to by the tax-paying public. Easily Answered "Why is one of the billiard balls always red?" "Because it is kissed so much." Parlor Edition Pa (working cross-word puzzle)— What is a rat-trap in six letters? Ma—Try T-o-m-c-a-t. Hotel Proprelector—You—don't—see—any—ocean! Well, my dear sir, I'm afraid you're not the man we want to write our advertisements.—Manchester Evening News. Happens That Way Sometimes "Jokeley is full of it. Saw him last night sitting on his woodpile telling funny stories, expecting the wood to split." "But it didn't." "No; evidently he did not strike a responsive cord." NEOLITHIC COUNTRY CLUB Skinpants—How come you to-score me twenty-seven strokes on the fourth hole? His Caddy—Under the rules every wallop you take at your opponent or your caddy counts as a stroke. A Natural Question The Verdict Slim—"How did your wife enjoy your vacation?" Tim—"Oh, she tells me I had a wonderful time." Mystery "How do you sell this limberger?" "I often wonder myself, ma'am." The Fortune Teller "You're gonna have trouble with a dark woman." "My cook."—Louisville Courier-Journal. Uptown—"Stlingy, isn't he?" Downtown—"Yes, yes. Why, he wouldn't even spend a week-end!"—Everybody's Magazine. It's a perfect nuisance when temptation and conscience are whispering at the same time. Finding fault is no way to make a fortune, unless the fault is found in your own business. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Case No. 13147 Wyandotte County, ss In the Probate Court in and for Said County In the matter of the estate of Robert Jones, deceased. Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration have been granted to the undersigned on the Estate of Robert Jones, late of said County, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the 19th day of January, A. D., 1925. Now, all persons having claims against the said estate are herby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance within one year from date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate; and that if such claims be not exhibited within two years after the date of said letters, they shall be forever barred. CLAUDE L. PETERSON, Administrator Of the Estate of Robert Jones, deceased. Kansas City, Kansas, Jan. 19, 1925. In Witness Whereof, the undersigned, Probate Judge in and for the County of Wyandotte, State of Kansas, have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Probate Court, this 29th day of January A. D., 1925. HENRY MEADE, (Seal) Probate Judge. 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