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T311: \K.\T MUST LADY. Interesting Character Sketch of Mrs. Warden (?. Ha:ding. All hail the next mistress of the white house! Much has been written of the personality of Mrs. Harding, but in view of the undoubted importance of the role women will play in the new administration, nothing that throws light on the subject is supertlous. The following observations are based on a day spent, in Maryland?October IS. much of it at the Harding home, and on about an hour's private conversation with Mrs. Harding herself. To sum up Mrs. Harding in a nutshell, writes Constance Drexel in the Washington Herald, it may be said that, unless the president-elect's wife reverses herself entirely after enterin the white house, we shall have a first lady of the land who embodies within herself what one might consider the new type of American woman. Mrs. Harding is a woman who is a forceful, independent personality in herself. She would make a splendid success as a business woman or in any executive position "011 her own," but she throws this undoubted ability into team work with her husband. Be it said, all to the honor of our future president, that he is the first to acknowledge this situation. All close" friends of the Hardings say that Mrs. Harding complements personality. As some one said in describing them: Friend Describes Them. "Mr. Harding is the kind who would stop in the street to help a wounded dog, but his wife would gently tap him 011 the arm to remind him: 'Warren, you know we won't get to that important engagement if you stop here; somebody else can do this but we have got to get to that place by a certain time.' "And, instead of resenting this as interference or as any evidence that his wife is 'strong-minded,' Mr. Harding would appreciate the suggestion and the result would be beneficial to the affairs in hand," said my informant. Yes, Mrs. Harding has a decidedly 'practical turn of mind which adds just the needed "punch" to Mr. Harding's make-up. This, in my estimation, is added assurance that the American people have made a wise choice in selecting Senator Harding as chief of state. With Mr. Har- ~ ding's help he will steer a straight course in the turbulent seas which are always ready to engulf a man in y so responsible a position. I ei Has Girlish Figure. bl In appearance, Mrs. Harding is about five feet six inches tall, slen- n* der and girlish in figure. She might <3 be anywhere from 4 0 to 50 years ofjre age. Her hair, carefully coiffed under a net, is turning gray, but attract" ive with its marcel wave. She is fair it in complexion with a nice clear skin! ai and good teeth. Her most striking G feature is the straightness of her niose as it blends with the forehead. gc This is a contrast to the decidedly Ro- bl< man nose of the senator. t0 There is a colored butler and a col. ored maid, but the entire house-keep- yjiiig arrangements were being manag- TJ ed by the wife of the Hardings' chauffeur. This was due to Mrs. Harn ( ding's good sense, for she felt that yJ she must be free at every moment to mi .ereet the hundreds of people who ne to poured into Marion almost every day, ^ wanting to catcli a glimpse of the st< Hardings. The senator might be bu- ~ sy in his office in the house next door, font he always knew that Mrs. Har- cai ding was on hand to come out of the E. front door to the porch. ? Front Porch Huge.' The "porch" at the Harding house is a huge covered veranda, with a decided rotunda effect on one side. No F doubt that in other years on summer ?jl days, it has been tastefully furnished _ j with wicker furniture, but this summer it has been bare, making room for the hundreds of people who climbed to it on "front porch days." to In personal conversation, Mrs. ^ Harding struck a philosopmc note j Q1 when she declared that she thought fi women had not yet realized how 1c much thev can accomplish in the st world through the medium of the b( home. Sc There isn't a bit of doubt but what Mrs. Hardir ,vill support the ape i pointment of women to important q positions in the new administration. e: And there is no doubt but that she is o heartily in favor of the promise Sen- ? ator Harding has made in several of his campaign speeches that he will consult with women as well as with men in shaping the policies of his ~ administration. But, nevertheless, Mrs. Hardng feels that in spite of the necessity of women's point of view in public life, the good that they can accomplish within the sphere of home life is not as yet appreciated to the full. The Herald Book Store carries the largest stock of tablets, pencils memorandum books, and school supplies in Bamberg county. ????? ? ? ?r MM ? gPWM??y??M?BM???M The Facts of ' Situation in S By J. Epps Bt SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHOI Quality of Prior to ihe war, the telephone service in South Carolina was equal to the best. Service reports from all parts of the United c?tn hi is h this fnct. Today the service is not equal to the prewar standard. This is the direct result of furnishing the present abnormally large volume of service, both exchange and toll. We are now furnishing a far greater volume of service than the plant was designed and constructed to furnish. We had no alternative. The vital needs of the public, both commercial and social, required that we do this. This demand for service continues to grow larger and more insistent. Every telephone that we install, and every additional toll message that is transmitted, before the additions to the plant now under construction are completed and put into service, delays and p. rents the improvement of the service. Efficient telephone service involves two fundamental prerequisites: fat Adeonate facilities, including an un? used margin of not less than 15 per cent. (b) An adequate force of .trained and skilled workers. The amount of switchboard equipment in every central office is engineered upon the basis of the average daily number of calls to be handled. This determines the number of operators' positions for each switchboard. Each operator can handle only a given number of calls per hour. When the number of calls per hour exceed the maximum capacity of the switchboard, and is beyond the human endurance of the operator, the connections simply cannot be promptly made. Since the switchboards now in service were installed the average daily number of calls has materially increased, so that the switchboards are today carrying a greater load than they were engineered and constructed to carry. All surplus switchboard equipment has s ^ The next advertisement will tell of the grej SO You Do More Work, j SSI SfiSSBBSBSB ou are more ambitious and you get more: ||| ?? ??< ijoyment out of everything when your siS B ood is in good condition, impurities in , !JJj g| i te blood have a very depressing effect on ; raj g ie system, causing weakness, laziness, j IK 8 Epj& jrvousness and sickness. || 9 Byk ROVE'S TASTELESS Chill TONIC H | ?M stores Energy and Vitality \ y Purifying Eg ?3 B IS id Enriching the Blood. When you feel i raj Q I 1 > strengthening, invigorating effect, see Kg | B \ >w it brings color to the cheeks and how ji Sm improves the appetite, you will then ipreciate its true tonic value. B __ ROVE'S TASTELESS Chill TONIC 11 | jMMi not a patent medicine, it is simply j ||| 2 ffllliJfl ON and QUININE suspended in Syrup, j jgj, ^ pleasant even children like it. The rp; n,; Dod needs Quinine to Purify it and IRON J Enrich it. These reliable tonic prop- Kg aj ties never fail to drive out impurities in j |p p ie Strength-Creating Power of GROVE'S ; th' & ^STELESS Chill TONIC has made it! p C lavurilt; UJI1IC III lUUUSdHuo v/x huiuuj. ' H Dre th*n thirty-five years ago, folks, 9L p )uld ride a long distance to get GROVE'S ! ?> ft \STELESS Chill TONIC when a; |p p ember of their family had Malaria or | |p p ;eded a body-building, strength-giving j p> p nic.tThe formula is just the same to-; p : iy, and you can get it from any drug p ore. 60c per bottle. j f \ Colds Cause Grip and influenza JCATTVE BROMO QUININE Tablets remove the j ise There is only one "Bromo Quinine."4 j S W. GROVE'S signature on box. 30c. ] Hj J. V. MACE | | I SURVEYOR AXI) EXGINEER j Hg 1 Barnwell, S. C. arm Surveys and Subdivisions a [Sfi ? Decialtv, Timber Estimating. All: 'ork Guaranteed. SHERIFF'S SALE. j In accordance with the executions j P" me directed by G. A. Jennings, j igg easurer of Bamberg county, I have! p vied upon and will sell for cash, j pp i Monday, December 6th, 1920, du-j |jp ng the legal hours of sale, the fol-j ?j| wing described tract or parcel of j M .nd, in the county of Bamberg and j |g ate of South Carolina, said land to j H 3 sold for taxes due and owing the j ^ lid county and state: ; = ? That tract or parcel of land con-1 I. | lining 35 acres more or less, bound-! I B i on the north by lands of J. H. A. j K ? arter, formerly of John R. Carter; I 0} $ ast by run of swamp; south by lands j rf? f J. Wms. Carter; west by lands; g|;; J; f J. H. A. Carter. Said land being! be property of Jacob Carter. [j ^ Sheriff Bamberg County. H B nn November 8, 1920. n g IbImm COTTON j j II LUMBER 11 l! Why Not Ship Your Cotton to Wi Mai Our Bonded Warehouse and Let i Us Furnish You With Your Lum- K B *?? ber? We Pay All Charges. H SSBSBSSBI Cook & Co. Greenville, S. C. Nicest Line o 3 the Tel ephone & / -> outh Carolina own, President. NtE & TELEGRAPH COMPANY i the Service disappeared, having been put into daily con* stant use. This makes it impossible to add additional operators, or to adjust the load to meet varying conditions. This is equally true of the toll switchboards. The toll circuits are, likewise, re ' and constructed to transmit a certain number of messages during a definite period of time. When a greater number of messages is forced upon the toll lines, the quality of service is inevitably impaired. Today, a greater load is placed upon the toll circuits than they were designed to, or can, efficiently carry. There is nothing haphazard or accidental in a telephone plant. Each part is engineered to perform a definite function, the service being dependent upon each part functioning as designed. The switchboard is the heart of the service. The maximum capacity of the switchboard measures both the quantity and the quality of the service. The operators have more than done their part If the public could know what efforts, and in many instances sacrifices, they have made to serve you, you would be as grateful to these fine women as is the Comnanv. While the service is not now as efficient as our pre-war service, a very large per : cent of all calls, brth exchange and toll, is efficiently handled. It is the small percentage of calls which go amiss that occasion criticism in the minds of the individual subscribers, who accept the larger percentage of calls satisfactorily handled, as a matter of course. These are the facts; conditions, not theories. are the sole cause of the present situation. The quality of service furnished by this Company, Is always the composite of conditions, .lust as Is service furnished by any other business enterprise, public or private. Service Is dependent upon and varies with conditions. The sole solution of the situation is adequate facilities and trained forces; there Is no other remedy. ???? ' itly Increased costs of operation. Because our Front is not | Decorated iWth Cloth and Big Letters is no Reason | Why we are Not Offering Some Real Bargains. We made our profit as ] j Goods were Advancing. Now ' we Expect to Take Our Loss. ! We offer Our Entire Line of Shoes?Men's, Women's, I and Children's?at Cost. We | i Carry Nothing but Shoes we g Can Guarantee. I ALSO THE EULi.UWJ.JNW: h Fruit of the Loom Bleaching, 25c per yard. Best Outing, 25c to 30c per yard. Cheviots, Chambrays and Ginghams, 25c to 30c per yd. Underwear at great redue- * tions. I Truesliape Hosiery, 50c to 1 $3.00. I E. & W. Shirts, were $3.00, now $2.00. E. & W.Collars, were 25c, now 20c. Overalls, were $3.00, now $2.50. Jumpers, were $3.00, now $2.50. Come in and See What We Have Before Buying. A II A i Gi NIK GO.' n Street BAMBERG, S. G. imbbmbhmbbhhhhbmmbbbbbmbhmbhmbmvhbmhhhba (s {Stationery in Bamberg County at Herald Book Store t ft I BAKE THE I Christmas Fruit Cake I EARLY I All Ingredients on Hand I IUITKUJN, UUKKANTS, FIGS, DATES, NUTS AND CRYSTALIZED FRUITS j Fresh?Just In I folk & McMillan i PHONE 24. BAMBERG, S. C. > I I COMING I DECEMBER 4th, 8 P. M. I MAGIC! I ' I LAURANT I AND COMPANY I 9 iJSS3l \ 1 WIDELY KNOWN MAGICIAN AND 1 i| ASSISTANTS ' - I ILLUSIONS AND MUSIC I j 1 MANAGEMENT REDPATH BUREAU I I Ehrhardt School Auditorium | HH * | [ EHRHARDT, S. C. | A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^LAAAAAA A inniifr nri avI > IIUUI1 I UCLH I | % XMAS IS DRAWING NEAR I v| % For X m % Watches, Jewelry or Silverware | , y 4 A That You Can't Get at Home Write Us. A X WE HAVE A TRULY WONDERFUL STOCK Y X Y y Goods sent on approval, where satis- V i V factorv references are given. V f | . | J | James Allan & Company | 8 4 THE HALLMARK JEWELERS Y S A A' A No. 285 Kins Street Charleston, S. C. A IX Established 65 Years. V Y - Y I Plumbing and Steam Fitting. I I WE HAVE WITH US MR. T. B. KING I II Plumber and Contractor | < I PHONE ALL YOUR PLUMBING AND I I STEAM FITTING TROUBLES TO US. I II We Furnish Everything and Give You a Complete 1 I Job at a oCntract Price. I t 1 G. 0. SIMMONS I | I BAMBERG, S. C. I VL ' fc.-sjy.jH ''V'