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WASHINGTON NORTH CAROLIN A, DEC. 3P. tt>'^ ]
In tho majority of cases, "Happy Now Year" is going to mean
4*Could you please pay this bill now!" "'*?
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There's more than ?*io way of bringing about a discussion of pcace
terms besides getting down into the bottuin of a well and whisperiug
our dc&lrcn.
A LONG CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY.
Pupils of the city school ar rejoicing over the long holiday they
havi been given this Christmas. Tho school will remain closed -?ver
two weeks, no classes having been held for the entire week before
Christmas.
We doubt whether it was a wise policy on the part of tho school
board to give'this lengthy holiday. Impressions are made readily
on young minds and they are just as readily lost. It will take con
siderable "review woik" to bring back to the minds of tho pupils those
thirds tl:at wore learned before tho Christmas season. Thus, to a cer
tain extent, it can be seen that a good deal of the work that has
Veen accomplished during tho first part of the present term will have
been lost.
rSTXO BRAINS WITH YOUR FOOD.
A general agitation is spreading ovor the country in which the
pfopie are being urged to cut down the amount of food that they eat
and to pay more attention to the ingredients of the food than to the
quantity. Promim-nt physicians aro recommending various kinds of
diet* and there appears to be an inslinatiou on the part of tho people
to follow these instructions.
The North Cur lina State Board of Health, in a press article sent
out this week, drals with this subject in a brief and concise manner
and urjjes the citizens of the State to follow the advice that is being
given along this line.
That brains mixed with food will reduce tho high cost of living
without decreasing the nutritive value of the food is one of the con
clusions already reached in the experiment that is now being con
ducted in Chicago for tho purpose of knowing whether or not people
can be properly nourished on 40 cents per capita per day. The ex
periment is being conducted by the city commissioner of health and
includes a "diet squad" of twelve pcoplo who aro furnished thr^o
meni? a day?breakfast, luncheon and dinner?the menu beitig
changed daily with a view of both economy and variety.
The results of the first week of tho experiment showed a total gain
in weight ??f 2Cpounds, the average weight gained per member
beii.g 2.23 pr.und*. Tho members go daily about their business jnst
as before beginning tho test. The actual cost of food served for the
first week was 33^4 cents per^peruon per day, this exclusive of fuel,
lights, sen*ice or other overhead ' hagres. The menu in part for the
week which was Wight at retail prices was two dozen eggs, 35 quarts
of milk, 54 pound# of meat, sugar and flour. Bread was bought in
ten cent loaves.
Probably the most valuable lesson that tho experiment will teach is
tha! economy does not mean deprivation, but education and training?
to mix brains with the daily food supply, in choosing, buying and
preparing. The experiment will not have been in vain if it sets
peo; le to thinking as to how they can buy tho most nourishment
for the lea-t money and at tho same time adapt that nourishment lo
tbe.'r needs.
NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS.
Mondav, January 1, will ho tho day for making New Year reso
lutions. The custom has come to us through many years of usage
and has unqne?tu naLly horn of great individual and general benefit.
How, where ami why New Year resolutions came about no one ap
parently knows. The custom, however,.is not an American one (? r
it is also knowu in European and Asiatic countries. In fact. New
Year's Day is much more observed in some countries than is CVrist
mai. This is particularly true in Franc?, where comparatively little
observance is paid to Christmas hut where everyone joins in cele
brating the advent of the new year.
Thcro are probahly very few people who hnve not mado resolutions
on the first day of the year. It is a time for taking inventory of
our had habits and endeavoring to correct them. Men resolve to
quit smoking, drinking or playing cards; women resolve to give up
candy, to spend Jess for clothes, to attend church more regularly;'
children resolve to bo obedient and kind. Those are some of the
morr. common forms of resolutions that are made. There ar>, of
com so hundreds of others, hut it is safe to say that nine men out of
ten, who make any resolutions at all, havo made np their minds to
quit sin#king. And, oat of this number, probahly eight have g?">ne
back to smoking again before the end of the year.
Even if New Yrar resolutions are not kept, they will have don"
some good. During tho period when a man or woman is endeavoring
to live up to some resolution, there mnst be self denial and us* of
will power. So don't be afraid to mako your resolution on Monday.
Even if you fail to kc*p it, yon will be the better off for having made
it
Today's the Day
Y*mt*nlmy %rIU never Mara Again.
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Bank of Washington
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tha hair of tka com?ulty; ka< tka
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tkaaa poata wara kaM by kuakanfe or
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tka eaaa la tka V?
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trtcUal r. aad haa been in*I
t*? wtit trn?fin, til ?gatkM,
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??a? 10 ?cara, and baa hni<H1 Mik:
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Town Gossip
Mr?, Klapp:?I found th* tele- ?
1 phone, fixed O. K. when I got *
down to work this morning.
I'M much obliged.
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IBBUBVE.
THAT THERE ought to be.
8OMR KIND of a law.
AGA1N8T A merchant.
GELLINO A person.
A LOT of thing?.
THAT HE don't want.
AND YESTERDAY afternoon.
I DROPPED In.
AT ONE of the stores.
ALONO MAIN street.
TO GET a collar button.
AND MY old one.
HAD BROKEN.
AND THE collar.
PERSISTED In rising.
DP ABOVE my ears.
AND I got the new button.
AND PAID for It.
AND STARTED to go out.
AND THE merchant asked me.
TO WAIT a minute.
AND THAT he had.
SOMETHING TO flhow me.
AND HE took me over.
TO THE necktie ease.
AND SHOWED me some ties.
THAT Hfc said.
HAD JUBT come In. 1
AND HE talked.
FOR FIVE minutes. _
ABOUT THEM.
AND THEN he asked me.
TO POINT out the one.
I LIKED best.
AND I did.
AND HE wrapped It up.
AND I paid for It.
AND I started. r
TO GO out again.
AND HE commsnced.
TELLING ME.
ABOUT THE way.
THAT THE price of things.
WAS GOING up.
AND HE showed me.
SOME GLOVES.
Regain
Your Normal
Weigh!
You can add one-fourth to
one-half pound a day by
drinking ? |!?m of thia delicious
digeatant with each meal
Shivar Ale
ton and firm Huh. Your money
UckooHir* doze 3 if net delighted.
At all grocer? and droggUu.
P0,'y by |K. ok
Conot .apply yoo tekphoa.
JAS. ELLISON A CO.
CDTWCTOU PM WAiUIKGr&N.
HOTICI OF TAX
To tmo. O. Pnrrji
You ara hereby notlflad that at ?
OoUalr. ? UM M d>r of AprfT
ltI0. at (bt Court House door I pur
tbaaad the Fallow-lax property am eat?
tate which waa aold (or the talaa
ror the rear 1(11 doe on aald prop
erty Which Waa liatad la yonr nam?
minding the teat or tha ml*, aald
property balat o?a lot Waahlaxtoo
Yob ara farther notified that rot.
KT.u-i,rsr2ite
ill owed by the law oa or before the
Irat Monday la April, HIT. p. vabi?
.o the aadertlitaed or to W. C. .
City ClaA. Waahlnttoa. N. c.,
?t mM by aald tlma, tha
il*n.d Win daaaad a tai .i.m
laid wotMrir :.ymt ??
This December fttif, 1916
ELLIft B. ?
AND HE Mid.
THAT BEFORE Another vnt
THEY'D GO np 6? c?oU.
AND HE asked me.
TO TRY on a pair.
AND I did.
AND TOOK them off again. -
AND HE wrapped them np.
AND I paid for them.
AND HE showed me.
''SOME NEW shlrta.
AND BEFORE he got through.
I HAD bought
ONE OF them.
AND JUST then.
ANOTHER FELLOW.
CAME IN.
AND SAID something.
ABOUT WANTINO a suit.
AMD WHILE he was talking.
X TOOK the chance.
and beat tt.
AND IF he hadn't come In.
St JUST about that time.
I GUESS.
I WOULD hare
BUYING YET.
I THANK you.
Tie annual meeting ef tl
hotter* of the Ftrat National Baaft
of Waahtagtoa. N. C.. wUI be held *1
the banking house Tneoday. Januar)
?UfclMT. at IS o'clock moon.
A. X. DTOAT. Caahfer.
1S-4 to 1-9.
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\t our store offers many at
tractive values in odds and
ends. Many citizens are
coming in daily find looking
over the new things we are
putting on this counter.
Aluminum Ware, Lamps,
Toys, Crockery and many
other articles are being sold
at extremely low prices.
i. .e i
Harris Hardware
Company
The Stenographer Says
1 SPEND most of tta* day. AND WHEN I feeL AND THE work it don*.
AT MY typewriter. LIKE THAT. BEFORE I know H.
WRITINO LETTERS. I'VE FOUND out. AND THE boee.
OR ELSE THAT THE beat thing. HAS TOLD me.
I ll WITH the boae. FOR ME to do. SEVERAL TIMES.
TAKINO DICTATION. 18 TO phone. THAT WHENEVER 1 feel.
AND SOMETIMES. OVER TO the drag-More. LIRE ORDERING a drink.
I'LL GET * bunch. AND YELL them. OF PEPff -OOLA.
OF LETTERS. TO SEND me. TO GO abend.
THAT HAVE to be typed. A PEPSI-COLA AND DO it.
BEFORE GOING home. AND I drink It. AND HE drink? It too.
XJCD 1 ?Urt la. SlX>WL,Y. AND KNOWS.
AND HAMMER *t the ken TO THE tut drop. A BIO h?lp.
UNTIL MY Angers. AND THEN. . JNjOETTINO out.
MHO. T.IKE in], I START working actio. TH* DAY'S, work.
AND MT head Mhes. AND I fool.' AND I rtont' ?no*.
AND IT doesn't MS. AT.TOOBTHBR DIFFERENT. WHAT I would do.
AS IF I could possibly. AND MT iafisrs. WITHOUT IT.
GET MY work Hedsh?d. RACE OVER tbo k?T?. I THANK TO?.
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The Pin-money Club Is Now
Open For Membership
10c, 25c. SOc or $1.00 WELL MART A SYSTEMATIC SAVINGS ACCOUNT
have already joined. They will make
weekly payments for 50 weeks and befc
Christmas they will draw out a neat sum.
tiever uriss the dime or quarter tnat you
nratf'
hMt at the end of the 50 weeks you will I
ow the amount has grown. * - :
feee Us About It
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Business
G.
H. W. CARTER, M. D.
PtmMm Umltsd to dlMUM m?
m. BAR, NOB* *
ta* um rrrrnro or
CAm mr BronH bra?
Bo?* ? to It i?.; ? to I
| rim Monday*.
WASHINGTON. N. a .
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I DANIEL * WABREN
I MANNING * KTTCHIN
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of thl*?at*
JOHN H. BONNES
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