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AMERICA IS A LAND OF FLIMSY DRESS AM) FANS Laml of Extremes, With Many Millionaires, and the Oirls Scantily Dressed?La! La! He Loves 'Em. This is a story of America as seen today through the eyes of an Englishman?and is amusing as well as an interesting account. It recalls the old adage, "If we could see ourselves as others see us." Of course America is the land cf extremes. The people are either demanding that all countries on earth join in a League of Nations so that universal brotherhood shall be maintained, or they want to shoot, at sight the mttg-wump punnet who would tarnish the glory of America hv having, obligations wh.h decayed and playeu-out European a ads rn winter the thermometer signs away below zero; and In summer it bubles up beyond the century. Just now something like a hundred million Americans are gasping with heat. New York is empty?except for some five million people who are obliged to remain in "the poor little old town." The weaithy have gone to Newport, or Southampton or Long Island, or to the Berkshire Hills, or to charming Tuxedo, and there they live the simple life as only American millionaires can. Half the people one meets are millionaires. The war made eighteen thousand new millionaires?in dollars, not pounds. They are very hospitable. The current thing, however has been to visit Europe. Perhaps you have met them. As the temperature is torrid Amer| ica is adaptive. Many country houses have their sleeping porches, and there, in the open, slumber is sought in the hot. breathless nights. Electric fans are everywhere buzzing overhead in the shops and restaurants, and twirling with mechanical sideswings so that the breeze be spread. A little electric fan is humming on the table as I write?to relieve the 102 in the shade limpness. Elderly and even youthful British golfers would think it bad form to appear on the links in anything but a jacket. The American, a stickler for convention in most things appertaining to garb, leaves his coat in the club house and more likely than not has his shirt sleeves rolled up above the elbQws. Everybody wears .a straw hat. The Panama of Hamburg is not very popular.' Mostly the round straw hat is worn, and in the morning when the great railway stations disgorge thousands of workers coming in from the suburbs, you cannot? looking from your hotel window? see people for straw. Men's costumes are flimsy. The waistcoat is unknown. To wear braces or suspenders is to proclaim yourself an old-timer or an Englishman. Cool mohair suits are the thing, though if you want to admit it is real summer, you wear a Palm Beach suit, canary colored coat and pants, such as oil kings or steel magnates are supposed to don in the general winter sunshine of Florida. What the Englishman would call a Nut?though the word has not the $ same meaning m Amerita?is not content unless he is wearing a silk shirt. A silk shirt costs anything from $12 to $20. City clerks spent half a week's wages to buy a silk shirt. The most gorgeous silk shirts are not worn in New York. The most wonderful silk shirts I have seen have been in the smaller towns of the Middle West, in Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, flaming stripes of chocolate and green and puce, and collars of orange and magenta. At th? risk of making myself unpopular at home, I must say that I think the young American girl is the greatest creature on earth. And she has taste. And, further, when it comes to scantiness of attire in the warm months she "goes some." La, la! the costumes of the girls I saw in France last year were demureness itself compared with the fiimsiness of the dress worn by the average American girl this year. Being a mere man, I dare not attempt to describe. The dresses, however, begin low down and end high up, and lace and silken ribbons, shown through the gauze, leave a little, but not much, to the imagination. The other day down at New Orleans a clergyman was so shocked when a bride walked up the aisle that he ordered the church lights to be extinguished and the srirl to go and find more clothing before he would officiate at the marriage ceremony. Life is made possible with ice. The first thing that probably makes i an American mad in England is the I absence of ice. Our tepid drinking water nauseates him. Everything is iced in America. The first thing you do in the morning is to drink iced water. At all meals, whether at a quick lunch I counter or at the Ritz. you are sup-! plied with a glass of water with j pieces of ice in it. The last thing! you do at night is to have the ser-j vant bring you a pitcher jangling with lumps of ice. The ice chest is | an institution in every household, j Ice is delivered each day the same! as milk. Xo doubt the ice habit is a bad one. But like most bad habits it is very pleasant. Americans have many pastimes. Put tiie enter one seems to be eating ice cream. Talk about the roast beef of old England! [ \Viiat is it compared with the ice I cream of young America. Thej American has the sweetest tooth,! and when he, and particularly she, i is not'munching candy or chewing; gum, .the local drug store is being; patronized. Incomes are made from, selling patent medicines, but for-! tunes are accumulated by the sale of; ice cream and soft drinks. These parlors?I leave the "u"i out of the word in deference to my' American friends?are really gor-j geous establishments. They are spacious, scrupulously I clean and decorative. On one side is a long white marble counter and j you sit on a high stool while white-; clad young men spryly supply the j thirsty mob. Everything is neat,! dishes clean, glasses polished with medicated paper cups, so your lips; run no risk of contamination, and with plentitude of straws through i 1- - 1 -L - ~ 1- J. 1 1 Vs ^An i Wllicn 10 SUL'K LUtJ LUUllUg ucvciasca. ; There is grape juice and logan berry juice, root beer, orangeade,\ cola, cherry * Phosphate, limeade,! mixtures of aerated water, ice cream,,1 crushed strawberries, chocolate! sundaes and ice cream of many colors and many flavors. There are;' thousands* of these places. They! are always full?fat men as well as slim women. I felt quite a shock one day when I was introduced to the governor of; a state while he was sitting at a drug! store table eating vanilla ice cream. It had never entered my mind that; governors could eat vanilla flavored! ice cream. At the rear part of the establish-1 ment are nice glass covered tables,! i where you can sit and while the | hours away consuming inordinate j quantities of ice soft drinks and'' listening to a band, or a nickel in j the slot machine, not infrequently ai horrible but ingenious German con-! trivance of a fiddle played by electricity. Last Sunday I went for a solitary five-hour walk among the beautiful j ( hills of Western Pennsylvania. Not j once did I meet a pedestrian out for i, a stroll. Not once in -he woods nearj the town where I wds staying, and| overlooking the Ohio river, did Ij come across any couplos. How dif- ' ferent from England! cinnnlocs rl r\ TlHit era , J- U Ullg V/U U VA V XJL o A/ QVf v\/ MM V* ^ I walks in America. They chiefly con-j sort in the ice cream parlors. And j when, hot and dusty, T. got back top the town and sought refreshments in ice root beer, there was a throng! of young people in the drug store! ^liiiiiiiiitiiiuiiiiiiiiiKirauiiiiiHimiiiHniiii^iiiniiiiiiHMitnifiiinHinimnitiTuiirinnimwiniiniuij | A GOOD BU A six-room house, and one-half block from Main be rented, which will pay | vestment. J REID, THE JEWELER, Wi ^iiiiiiwiiiiiiiiiiiuiuiitiiuiuiiiiiiiiiiiJWiniiiiHiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiitiniuiiiuiiiiniitttHaiiwiiuKimiunmm r Alabama Mir Stomach Troubles Made HI But Now Always j DO YOU enjoy your meals? Eat without the dread of the after effects? Lack of appetite, and a dkgreeable, cick-at-the-stomach feeling after meals, usually indicate that your digestive organs are not working properly. As a result, you will feel weak, lose weight and lack the energy that is to be derived from well-digested food. A valuable help in correcting such conditions is mentioned by the Rev. X. K. McKenzie, of Rou..) 1, Section, consuming ice cream plain, ice cream with walnuts, ice cream with syrups. Of course, everybody in America has a motorcar?called automobile ''for short." A man may have a heavy mortgage on his house, but he must have a motorcar. Xobody is anybody in America unless he has a car. And women and young girls drive just as often as men. While there are social distinctions in the Eastern states, just as much as in England, they are practically non-existent in the Middle West. The atmosphere is that of a big, good-natured family. Everybody is , '"Bill" or Euphelia" to everybody else. There is bathing and eating ice cream, pieknicking, with plenty of ice cream, fighting the mosquitoes and consuming more ice cream. Why bother about the League of Nations when the evening is warm and a bucket of ice cream is on the table? Somebody ought really to write a book on the Land of Tee Cream. Cotton sheets reduced to 60c at G. O. Simrnons's, Bamberg, S. C. The Herald Book Store can sell you ledgers, cash books, etc., at prices i cheaper than elsewhere. Our stock was bought more than a year ago. "FLORIDA SEE HEALTAY. Good Roads, Good Schools, and Good Neighbors in Red Clay Section of North Florida, adapted to general farming, cattle and hog raising; any size farm $20 to $50 per acre. For information write JOHN PASCO, Monticello, Fla. No Worms in a Healthy Child All children troubled with worms have an unhealthy color, which indicates poor blood, and as a rule, there is more or less stomach disturbance. GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC given regularly for two or three weeks will enrich the Wood, improve the digestion, and act as a Gene ral Strengthening Tonic to the whole system. Nature will then throw off or dispel the worms, and the Child will be in perfect health. Pleasant Jo take. f^lc per bottle. DR. THOMAS BLACK DKNTAL SURGEON. Graduate Dental Department University of Maryland. Member S.. C. State Dental Association. Office opposite postoffice. Office hourse, 9:00 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. THEY ALL DEMAND IT Bamberg, Like Every City and Town In the Union, Receives It People with kidney ills want to be cured. When one suffers the tortures of an aching back, relief is eagerly sought for. There are many remedies today that relieve, but do not' (cure). Doan's Kidney Pills have brought lasting results to thousands. Here is Bamberg evidence of^ their merit. Mrs. Sallie Moody, 31 Main St., says: "My back ached. I had dizzy spells and could hardly straighten up. My kidneys were also irregular in action. I used Doan's Kidney Pills and they entirely cured me of my trouble." &0c, at all dealers. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. ^ imnuiittMuu>iUttmmtiiiiimmHUitinu!iiinimiiii!uimHi!imiii2i!!iiiffiinii.'iiuiifncmur^ | i lot 90 x 125 feet. Just | street. Two rooms can good interest on the inII tell you all about it ( n.MffiBMiiiutiiifflmininiiflnttniiiHiBiattiiHramiitirawimt'iiiutiimjiwnmMiffl# j m BROS. MARBLE IND GRANITE CO. 3IGNEK8 NTJFACTURBRS 3CTORS lie largest and best equipped romental mills in the Carolina*. GREENWOOD, S. C. lister Relieved I i 7i Feel Sick at Meal Ttmes, Enjoys His Meals. Ala., who write*: "I had stomach trouble. When I would go to eat, I **ould turn sick. I took one bottle of Ziron, and it cured me. Am always r<yady for my meals and enjoy tiiein. I think it is a,fine medicine." If your food hurts vou, if your appetite is poor, if yr i are pale, weak and rim-downt ar 1 ]-:iyq oth^r symptoms that tndicg /l ,.r system needs helix try 2iron. a will put iron"*into yoor blood and help build you up. Take It according to directions, and if mot benefited by the first bottle, the moneyback guarantee will protect you. Ask your druggist Smith-Blease A1 Formed in 1 As Po POLITICS MAKES STF A Direct Charge By George fkn Pnnnln nf ^ kJiiiitLii x avuuo iiiV/ x vi k I charge a direct collusion between for D. Smith to defeat me for the United States This alliance, made in utter desperatio eleventh-hour effert to overcome the sentime paign in my favor. This campaign I was determined to mak ism or factional prejudices. To demonstrat so-called factionas gave support to my can On August 18th, and signed by former of "Cole," letters were prepared, pledging re-election, and maiied out during subseque former governor as an eleventh-hour appea This letter was circulated by hand as w polls by workers for Smith. Acknowledging receipt of a letter from SmitVi n few rlfl.vsla.tfir fixtiressed in a com N/XJklXVAlJ WW A V VV Vkwvj rv J- ? the permission to use the Blease letter. During the time of the mailing out of hu tion, the reputed campaign manager of Se Weston, a long and bitter enemy of Mr. Ble cd, was a visitor to the office of Mr. Blease. The sequence of events leading up to the in my opinion, no further explanation. Another method used in the desperate a lation around th polls of reports that I was a strong anti-Blease men, and that I was run liquor interests. This I charge was a delib I am in the second race. The fight is on. And I will win. WHY THIS APPEAL TO Ft SAVE SENATOR SM HERE IS SOME MORE? (LETTERS, TELEGRAMS AND AFFIDA EVERY SECTION OF THE STATE SHO THOSE MENTIONED IN THE FOLLOW SUPPORTERS Mr. George "Warren, Columbia, S. C. Dear George: Numerous campaign lies were circula tlie last minute, and it looks like this was in that you were against prohibition, but it stri most damaging in its effect, was planned and friends: for Blease wrote to every friend he he did the same thing all over the. state, say do anything for the people, and to vote for Cole." Then the day of the election couriers were a Bleaseite, so you can clearly see that Blease influenced direct bv letter to vote fo the last minute, without a chance for you to 7 ' e those who hated Blease would vote agains Blease votes as well as anti-Blease votes, than one letter that was sent to people at 0 Yours truly, I mTTTi T5DAAP iilJLl iT 1VUU1 VX Hororable Cole L. Blease, Columbia, S. C. Dear Sir: Upon my return from Lynchburg I read it very carefully and fully appre so appreciate your kind permission to expression as to my candidacy. Very sincerely yours, The 36,000 Warren Votes were gotten o the campaign, not by Political Trickery, not would invoke the slumbering spirit of the 0 Bitterness of the past of a Darker Day in S Let us turn our faces, we who are men, in politics as well as in business and in our s dawn of the new day and meet the issues sq ly before as. It will be determined in the se - - ? -"Tit nv> Lr\ co vrn nna m qh'q Tinl 1 t.l lib * -- WIJ.C UilUi | uu ouv ^ uiio iuu>n k/ ^/wAAv<i wLl approve of and become a party to the I did not start this revival of factional fight in victory, because I shall carry on wi ( NEITHER SENATOR SMITH NOR MR. MENTS AS PUBLISHED IN THE PAPE DENIAL OF THE FACTS AS I HAVE (I caution my friends against further el this statement.) fiance Desperation litical Expedient IANGE BEDFELLOWS Warren and an Exposure of >outh Carolina Should Know raer Governor Cole L. Blease and Senator E. Senate. n, was effected and put into operation as an nt which had been created during the came, and did make, without appeal to factionale this fact, thousands of voters of both the didacy. it ! Governor Blease, with his personal signature Mr. Blease's support to Senator Smith for nt days to reach the personal friends of the 1 to factionalism. ell as by through the mails, and used at the 1 Mr. Blease, dated August 6th, Senator mnnioofinri "fn Mr "RIpqqo his srmrpHa.tvion of lllUiliV;UlUlUll ii\J jiliix a/xvmww mxw ? ? ,;Yjf ndreds of letters, on the verge of the elecnator Smith, District Attorney Francis H. ase, whom the latter has repeatedly denoun. A v actual mailing out of the Blease letter need, i'S ttempt to elect Senator Smith was the circuBleaseite, these being circulated among ning on a "wet" platform, financed by the erate and premeditated distortion of facts. m m * jus My fists are doubled. I am in the fight. GEORGE WARREN. |S ^CTIONALISM EXCEPT TO [TH FROM DEFEAT? . .i| mw TT WAS WnPTCtfTV UV TV tf AAIS/ ?i -w - - ?? . ' ' VITS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM WING- THAT TACTICS SIMILAR TO ING LETTER WERE EMPLOYED BY OF SMITH.) Olar, S. C., September 1,1920. tecl on you all over this part of the state at tentional, so you could not answer. One was kes me that the one and best plan, and the framed up by Blease and Smith, or their had in this part of the state, and I imagine i ing that he did not think a new senator could, Smith. This was signed, "Yours in Love, were out all over the county to say that you the plan was to get the Bleaseites, though r Smith, and then circulated the report at < answer, that vou were a Bleaseite and that 7 ?/ t you and for Smith, thereby giving Smith Now if you want them I can give you more lar, and also to other parts of the county. (Signed) C. F. RIZER. % : ; THE PUDDING. J Columbia, S. C., August 9,1920. ' " ' *\ .TT- f* ^ ? v" found your letter of August 6. I have | eiate the motive that prompted it. I aluse it. I thank vou verv much for your ?y * * ' j i (Signed) . E. D. SMITH. n the merit of the man and on the Issues of by compromise, nor through Appeal that Id Factionalism, th old Animosities and the outh Carolina. we who believe in fair play and open dealing ocial intercourse, let us turn our faces to the uarely, honestly, courageously. It lies plaincond primary on Tusday, September 14. It cal fortunes, the elctorate of South Carolina compromise made and the tactics employed. ism, but I expect to be in on the finish of the th a clean fight to the end. iEORGE WARREN. WESTON SAY IN THEIR STATERS ANYTHING THAT CONSTITUTES A LAID THESE BEFORE THE PUBLIC. eventh-hour frame-ups, reports or denials of.