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fiirtis ^fonsas ?ff;
? ^ the Kansas senator
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Life Romance of
New U. S. Senate
Majority Leader
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By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
I FN a common, everyday
-itizcn visits the United
I ^LsL/ I Slates senate chamber at
I wW I Washington what do you ;
? ? "suppose he says, as soon |
;i> he is in liis seat in the j
gallery? Why, something
Mwyrf "K":y liko thl?:
.fVM AW "Which is Curtis of
Kansas ? ;the one who took
I. mice's .place as Repub
Hcan leader?"
Senator Curtis is jmiti t- j
r?i out to ltlni". There- |
i> v-iys. "lluh! Looks like' an j
ali right. And which one is j
w!;h _ i ?T Lodge's seal?"" Seu- j
? Massuchii^et ts is point- j
he sa\s again, "he
? j art."
. >: seem t'> make much dif*
???? ?he visitor is a West- |
Hast erner, a man or a I
A!! want to have a look at t
; i !* .' ? > funis i if Kansas, who
i I hi.- la; o Senator Henry '
of Massachusetts as ma- ;
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I \ { S< 'IIS.
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? .< :: !er. and at Senator Wil
li.' . r who succeeds Senator
>.?' : * er from Massachusetts.
? is natural, for obvious
S- \;Mor Lodge had beet! c<(U
,r. ?; e senate ever since
and e\ er,\ ? ?;.e knows how he. looked, if
only from portraits. As to Curtis.
irrost visitor^ have heard that lie is
p;.ft 'Indian and sense a wide contrast ;
between ti e Kansair and the man who i
(ypttied New Ftigland. As to Butler. I
they know of him us the chairman of
the Republican national committee
and ?>: -> of President Coolidge's cam
paign managers and thoy want to com
pare him u ; i i . his predecessor.
?The visitors are right in sensing a
.contrast between the present majority
.leader and his predecessor, l'robably
you will have to go to tiction to find
a greater. For example:
Lodge was born in Boston; Curtis
in a camp of Kaw Indians in Kansas,
t-io miles or so from Topeka. Lodge
was an aristocrat of aristocrats by
birth ; Curtis is one-quarter Kaw by
birth. Just about the time Lodge at
twenty was being' graduated from Har
vard. Curtis, a boy of ten. was running
through the night for help against a
war party of Oheyennes. A little later
Lodge wa< studying for the degrees, of
LL. II. and Ph. I>., while Curtis was
a Jockey and' driver of a night hack
in Topeka. Then Lodge wrote histor
ic a! works and Curtis studied law be- i
twpen fares. Still later they met as
members of the ? house in the Fifty
third congress. And then they were !
in the senate together. And now f
Lodge, .the elder by ten years, is dead i
and Curtis is in his place as Repub- j
li'ca-n leader of the senate.
You will not find even a hint of the i
life romance of Charles Curtis in the I
Congressional Directory or in "Who's j
Badger Brushes Rare
"Real .badger h.;iir, sir ? only three
shillings." This was said to thj writer j
by way of pushing the sale of a shav
ing brush, but the description did not
deceive.
Badgers are very rare in Great I
Britain, and are becoming rarer still
every year, . en on the continent they j
are not numerous. Then, as those who !
know how delightfully springy a real
brush is c;(n t'tiess. onlv the hair of :
condoled with him over his misfortune.
After eight terms in the lower house
of congress and one term in the sen
ate, it looked as if Curtis was through.
He had passed the meridian of life,
and the records show that few men
who are defeated for congress after
they have reached the age of fifty ever
come back. But Senator Curtis had
really not heon rejected by the voters
of Kansas, lie had received, the popu
lar nomination as the Republican can
didate for United States senate In 1912,
Tint lost the nomination under the dis
trict plan, lie was a victim of con
ditions arising out of the Roosevelt
Taft feud, and the man who defeated
him for the Republican nomination
was himself defeated at the hands of
the Democratic legislature of Kansas
in January, 1913, when William II.
c fenator>
Curtis
T~f2<?JY3~63 <S<sn 3 for I<ocL$&
Who." But here are some of the high
spots, as the story Is told:
The story boffins with an Indian
maid, the daughter of Chief White
Plume of the Kaws. She married a
French voyageur and her daughter
married an American pioneer of Eng
lish blood. When Charley Curtis was
ton years old a war party of Chey
enties swooped down at noon upon the
iyiw camp. The Kaws held out til!
night, when Charley slipped through
and made his way to Topeka on foot,
sending hack help in time to save his
people.
Topeka was then a frontier cow
town inn<ii given to racing cow-ponies.
Before he knew: it the l?oy was a pro
fessional jockey, riding in Kansas, .Mis
soiitl. \vbraska, Colorado and Indian !
Territory. Those weiv tin* good old
days. At a race meeting in Kansas
City the .lames Boys raided the gate r
arid rode away with the :idtiiiVk;i"a
money. After live years in ? < .1
young Curtis put on loo weight
and found himself in Topeka. pretty
much adrift. There a party of Kaws
found him. There was great, rejoicing
arid the boy decided to go back to his ,
people.
In the party of Kaws was Charlie's
grandmother? they, give her the name
<>f Julie I'oppin. In the stillness of j
the night of the first camp out of To- j
peka she came to her grandson, told
him she loved him, advised him to j
follow the way of his father's people!
rather than become a blanket Indian
on a reservation, gave him her best
pony" and started him back to the
world of the white man ? and the lead
ership of rhe United States senate.
In Topeka young Curtis went to
school for a year. Then his money'
gave out and he took a job as driver
of a night hack. A lawyer friend ad
vised him to study law and loaned
hiui books, which he studied by his !
hack light between fares. He was ad- j
luitted to the bar in 1S.S1 and prac
ticed in partnership with A. II. Case
until elected county attorney of Shaw
nee county. in 1884. lie was elected
to the Fifty-third congress and served
continuously to the Sixtieth. In 1007
he was elected to the senate.
In February, 1013, a little group of
Republican senators were sitting in
the Republican cloakroom of the sen
ate gossiping in reminiscent vein. The
congress expired on March 4. and many
old-timers were being retired to pri
vate life simultaneously with the be
ginning of the tirst Woodrow' Wilson
administration. Senator Curtis ex
pressed his regrets that he was to
be sent back to private life at that
particular juncture.
"I would have been ranking Itepub
lican senator on several very itnpor- j
certain parts of the animal can be
used, remarks London Tit-Bits. This
reduces the number of genuine badger
itair brushes still more."
Bigs' bristles are too hard to take
the place of badger hair, while the
hair of other animals is mostly too
soft and not1 suliiciently resilient. It
is the opossum and the mongoose
which supply most of the "badger
hair" used for brushes. Why the
badger should have to shoulder a re
sponsibility -.Inch really belongs else
where is one of the mysteries of trade
Thompson, a Democrat, was elected to
tlie senate.
But Senator Curtis was strong with
the voters, and when the Kansas leg
islature In tlie session of 1913 pro
vided for the nomination of United
States senators by direct vote of the
people it was freely predicted that
Curtis would be the beneficiary of the
popular election plan. At the first
statewide primary for senator in 1014,
Curtis defeated .T. L. Bristow, a former
Bull Mooser who had been one of the
assistant postmaster generals at Wash
ington in the Roosevelt regime, and
resumed liis senate s<#vice March 4,
1915. Lie was re-elected in 1920.
Senator Curtis is swarthy. Ills hair
is black and so is his mustache. He
is stochJly built. He is physically fit
and keeps himself so by walking 30 to
40 blocks, mostly at night, before bed
time. There are practically no marks
of age on his face at sixty-four, lie
is a patient man, who never loses his
temper, lie is tactful, gets his way
without irritating his colleagues and
stirs up no animosities. If you ask
a well-informed oldtimer for the se
cret of the new leader's success, he's
apt to say something like this:
"Well, lie pretty much keeps his
mouth shut and when lie opens it he
.says something? always knows what
he's talking about. Can't get him
rattled, either."
The traditional political leader, you
know, is supposed to have a phenom
enal memory f?r names and faces.
Well, Curtis is. hard to beat along that
line. He's got a system about it and
his ability to ??rive the right name to
the right faee is a tradition in con
gress.
Curtis, as a matter of fact, put a
lot of system into ids work arid sticks
to his system.
One of the rules of his system is
promptly to look after matters that
are put into his hands. Another Is to
answer letters within 24 hours? at
least to acknowledge receipt. Another
is to carry conviction In speaking by
knowing the facts and being brief.
Senator Curtis believes in staying on
his joh and attending to his duty. His
pet aversion is the legislator who is
always off somewhere lecturing or
speaking for a fee. He turns down
every offer of that kind.
And of course the main thing in the
svstom Is ? work !
Senator Curtis, his intimates say, Is
a "good scout." lie must be, for he
got pretty close to Senator Lodge. In
teresting, indeed, is his comment on
his predecessor.
"I ended," be said, "with an entirely
different idea about Lodge than I be
?an with. I found he wasn't, cold
blooded or selfish. He had a great .big
heart and was susceptible to argument.
I>ut you had to make the first approach.
You had to get close to him yourself.
He wouldn't get close to you. He was
always anxious to do what he thought
was the right thing to do, hut he
avoided conferences.
Almost any night Senator Curtis may
be met on the street "keeping tit."
Here's his recipe:
-Walk. I walk 30 to 40 blocks
long blocks? every day. Mostly at
night. A good, leisurely walk, taking
it easy and not overdoing it, but getting
home covered with perspiration. All
this just before bedtime."
names which, like the "beaver hat"
and many others, puzzle the ordinary
man.
Got Wrong Number
A couple up in London for a holiday
went' to a picture gallery and came
upon a picture of Adam and Eve.
The indignant wife said: '"Er's a
brazen hussy. Who is "or?"
The husband looked up the number
in his catalogue, but got it wrong, and
read out: "Queen Elizabeth receiving
the Spanish Ambassador."
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HOW TO KEEP
WELL
DR. FREDERICK R. GREEN
Editor of "HEALTH"
l(S). litis. Western Newspaper Union.)
IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SundaySchool
' Lesson '
(By REV. P. U. FITZWATEK. D.I).. Dean
of the Evening School. Muoily Blblo In
stitute of Chicago.)
|(?. 1925, Western Newspaper Union )
Lesson for February 1
E VINE AND THE BRANCHES
SSON TEXT? John 15:1-17.
J)LDEN TEXT? "Ho that abideth In
and I In liim, the same brinð
much fruit." ? John 15:f>.
jtl.MAitY TOPIC ? iieinK Friends of
p.
NIO It TOPIC? The Vine and the
cIich.
TERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP
|Fruit-IU"arlnK Lives.
lUNO PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP
Rinlon With Christ.
dor the beautiful allegory of the
and the branches Jesus set forth
Spiritual oneness of Himself and ?
llsciples.
|The Relationship of Jesus and the
r to the Disciple (vv. l-.'l).
|Jesus tiie Source of the Disciple's
(v. 1). He is the true vine,
igh the Incarnation Jesus Identl
Ilimself with humanity, iind by
! of His II toning death and resur
|>n it Is possible for the believer
a partaker of Ills life so that be
tbe disciple and his Lord there
community of life. As the vine
its life Into I he branch, so Christ
His life Into the believer. Our
ion Is eternal life because It is
fe of the eternal Son In us.
The Father Has In Ills Hands the
line of the Disciple (v. 1). The
r is the husbandman." Just as
lture of the vine is In the hands
lusbandman so the discipline of
liever's life is in the hands of
ither. In this disciplinary proc
Removes the unfruitful branch
He does not take the trouble
tne the fruitless branch. Tba
1 church member, the mere pro
He removes.
purges the fruitful branch that
produce more fruit (v. 1!) . He
is our natural tendencies and
in order that the virtues of the
the fruits of the Spirit, may
lorth.
|lie Instrument by which the
is accomplished 1h Jesus'
1(v. :i). The disciples already
eansed by Christ's words, for
;he traitor hml been cast out.
el lever's life is to be fruitful In
?r and service the pruning
Christ's words, must be intelli
lind regularly applied.
lie Conditions of Fruit Bearing
{)?
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all l'?*. jilml fit lie riil of them. The
Invest ig-atfoii now being made by the
public health service is the (irsf na
tion-wide study of colds ever iin?I??r
'.fjiki-ii. Any thing which can !??? done
in redine I ! i i < disagreeable pest will
!>e a real service the public.
AN HEROIC METHOD Or
REDUCING
TiWlvNTY \ ? ? i r < a ill i Truly Shatliick
was a 1 1 ii'i 1 1 J >? -r n! fin- lai*'iiis
Weber am! j'i"lds chorus. Mori- llian
l j:al. she wa* widely known a- having
tlu-' rrji f-i perfect tigure ut' a:t.\ woman
i'ii the <age.
Kecentry tin- daily papers si a toil
that .Mi>s Slialluck bad entered a ( 'id
ea go liM-pital weighing 1 : ?!_* pounds and
wij.li a waistline of TJ inches, ami hail
been discharged a few days later with
a * M i m il waist in. 'asttre ami weighing
12.'! pounds.' Sixty-nine pounds' reduc
tion in a few days is certainly a siren
Units method and one that lew women
care lo undertake,
Fat. anywhere in the l>odv or in any
amount, is caused hy surplus food,
over and above: the body needs. If we
knew exactly how much fuel the body
required for its daily work and it' each
one of us, whether banker, otliee
worker, housekeeper or laborer, ate
exactly what we needed and no more,
tllere would be no fat people. Prob
ably tlie death rate from Ilright's dis
ease and diabetes- would begin' to go
down. Certainly a great deal of
money would lie saved for other- uses.
I'at is not only unsightly ; it's an ex
pensive and useless inconvenience.
We pay to- get ii and We pay to keep
il and we pay to gel rid of ii.
In most eases, fat is deposited under
?the skin and around the muscles all
over. the body. Ii is particularly fond
of settling around the waist, on the
lips and thighs, but. as a rule, it is
fairly evenly distributed. In some
cases ? why. we do not know? it accu
mulates in masses in these particular
spots, so large that they can be shelled
out from i In; skin very much as the
cook shells peas out of pod's..
The surgeon, after putting his pa
tient to sleep, cuts through the skin
down to thu fat, loosens I lie fat layer,
removes it in wedge-shaped pieces anil
sews the skin over the wound. The
amount removed depends on the case;
from twenty-live pounds to seventy
live pounds have been removed in a
single operation. If carefully done by
a skilled surgeon, no harm and much
benefit- may result.
It is doubtful whether this form of
reducing will ever become popular.
Most women would prefer to keep out
of the operating room and to rediH-e
more slowly.
That is wise, hut how much wiser
to eat less, exercise more and so .ivoid
the necessity for any kind of reduc
tion treatment, either by the surgeon's
knife or by fasting
object in pruning, the
culture of the vine, is fruit .
1. Abiding in Clirist (vv. 4-ii). As
the branches draw sap ami lift- from
til*' vine, s<> believers must ;d >ii in
Christ, l'runi ivhoin tliey derive ilieir
purity, strength and wisdom, iinieed.
it Is :i mutual abiding. tin- disciple in
Christ and Christ in the disciple. It
is Christ's life expressing Itself
through the believer. The niie ilnis !n
dwelt l?y Cliri*! will hear much fruit.
So great is I lie displeasure ??:' llie Lord
with lifeless, unfruitful branches iliat
I hey are t ? ? lie "c;e|f forth." "'wit ln-reil,''
even burned (v.
'2. I 'hrisl's Worijs Abide in I s (v.
7). So mighty i-< the puwer of the
one who abides in Clirist ami in whom
IJis words ahide that lleuven ran with
hold no iii ft from him.
III. The Blessed issue of a Fruitful
Life (vv. V- 17).
1. The (ilorilieation of the Father (v.
S). Through nitieh fruit hearing, the
Father will he glorified (Matt. ."? : H?) .
'J. Credentials of 1 dscipieship (v. S).
The only way to prove that one is a
child of Cod is to manifest the cliarac
teristics of Cod in one's arts and serv
ice.
S. Abiding in Christ's Love and
Keeping His Commandments (vv. St.
10). The way to ahide in < 'hrlst's love
is t<? keep Ilis commandments. The
one who neglects the words of Christ
is destitute of His love. It is folly tn
talk "f being In the love of Christ i
while disobeying Ills teachings.
4. Fulness of Joy (v. 11). The way
to have fulness of Joy is to have
Christ's joy in tin.
Loving one another (vv. 12, IS). ]
The one who abides in Christ and has i
the life of Christ flowing into him will
live a life of love, will love his fellow
tliuh, especially 1 is brother in Christ.
(5. Friends of Christ (vv. 11. 1.").
Christ's friends do whatsoever ll-e
commands. Ileing thus obedient lie
takes us into His confidence and
makes known unto us the Heavenly
Father's will.
7. IVrpeutal Fruit-Hearing in Love,
With Power in Prayer (vv. Hi. 17).
i
Physical Vigor
Physical weakness is not a sign of
spiritual power. All other things
considered, the man or woman who
enjoys physical vigor will be able to
accomplish more than those who are
puny arid ill.
How Many?
"How many people." says Jeremy j
Taylor, "are busy in the world gather- j
ing together a handful of thorns to sit j
upon !"
Our Fears
What we fear most is not today's
trouble, hut that which may happen
tomorrow.
Dumb Love
A dumb love is only acceptable from
thn lower animulB. ? Doctor Van Dyke.
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