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tr 1 1 4 4 ip iAW I 1 'j i i THR DETBOTT EE 8 A DECEMBER 16 '1 923 rAJtT UCTg JSPOKEN IN JEST hands Ml'CHIQAN CITIES pronounetJ nursed small boy to Store open evenings starting Thursday Dec 20th usefal gifts you '7lm Beautiful Art Calendar With Purchases of S3 or More Give Dad or Son a PASSING VERSE and lea slanting the first world all will buzzing of the boughs eatured this week Hart Schaffner Marx i ANECDOTES AND A STORY OR TWO Lots of families are clubbing together to give the men folks the not Specially Designed Boxes In All Depts PER MONTH Three monthsIX MONTHS ONE YEAR the harvest ra These arc Hart Schaffner Marx whtclh tells him that they're authentic in every detail tiia needlework the finish of the lapels the woolens everything is just right' Clothes for format or informat wear and at! the essential accessories in a separate department Merchan dise Certificates for Gilts In Any Amount io Dsliy A Sunday I 111 171 1400 YEAR (Paid In Advance) POSTAGE PAID IN UNITED STATES AND Dally 1 Ji Lil 41000 Gifts to Wear Mackinaws Sheep Lined Coats Corduroy Trousers Corduroy Suits Town and Country jackets and vests lannel Shirts Woolen Shirts Stag Shirts and Breeches Duxbak Clothing Leather Coats Hunting Coats Pelt lined Ulsters Knit Sport Vests 1 Travel Bags Suitcases etc etc Much Married A certain actor who haa been known for his matrimonial adven Handsome blanket robes' with cord edging and glr die Excellent choice of at tractive colors and pat icdiB ivariy cnoice is aavisanie at reature price ESK? i Shirts of pure silk silk stripe madras flannel $165 to $10 Hosiery 25c 40c 50c $1 to $250 Mufflers big selection $150 up Silk reefers $5 to $12 Golf suits hose shirts i knickers bags etc Ties 50c to Belts 50c to $750 Jewelry Detroit's Largest Exclusive Men's and Ahbarel Store CorMichigan and Shelby Since 1883 Extra fine extra fine extra long service and satisfaction what ho wants and what these Hart Schaffner Marx fleecy overcoats and 2 trouser suits will give him Lots of beautiful blue serges included A big selection at meso feature prices utners Wo WU and up An entire floor of useful gifts for boys Dally Sunday I LIS US Result of Work Do you think myhow any signs of toll? Marie The one with the engage ment ring on It shows that you've been working "Well" A answered think that 3 would be too are rather a be earning 18 a suppose I am" said Tommy know I am small for my age but ULL DRESS SUIT OR TUXEDO 555 565 Grace Before tight When we were little children We had a qusro wee house Away up in the heather By the head of Brabla The hares we'd see them And we'd hear the crowln' grouse And when we'd all be In at night You'd not get room to turn The youngest twa she'd put to bed Their faces to the wall And the lave of us could sit around Just anywhere we might Herself 'ud take the rush dip And light It for us all And "God be 'she would say "Now we have a light" Then be to quet the And pushln' on the floor And think on Ono who celled us To come and bo forgiven Himself would put his pipe down And say the good word more "May the Lamb of God lead us all To the light of Heaven!" O'Neill In Boston Transcript Lsnuon Englao Pane rants Washington Naw York CbKsgo rancisco Id DECEMBER 16 1923 rost I shall have winter now senlng days Lit by a smoky sun with rays And after falling leaves determined frost The colors of the be lost So be It the faint snow Will fill the empty And after sleet storms I shall wake to see A glittering glassy plume of every tree Nothing shall tempt me from my ftrelit house And I shall find at night a friend ly ember And make my life of what I can remember Teasdale In The New Re public And Warm the Matt teas have only one request to make" groaned the college man who had pome to participate In "What Is that Mr turned the farmer "Please Jet me stay in bed long enough for the lamp chimney to cool off" Work Without Thought Dr Harry Emerson osdlck whose teachings were attacked at the Baptist convention In Atlantic City said the other day in New York "If some people had their way ministers would do their work after the manner of the old railway hand a traveler saw an Old grev bearded railway hand passing slow ly along beside a train and every now and then tapping the wheels with a hammer "'Why do you do that' the travel er asked him got to be said the old man the feller paid to do why Is It persisted the traveler 'or what "The old man pushed back hla greasy cap and scratched his bald head If 1 ever thought of that' he said" eatured this week Bathrobes that I should be with a lady and she says no ladjr would have nursed a servant" 4 Gifts He Prefers Dress Gloves Driving Gloves Collars Pajamas Lounging Robes Collar Bags Suspender Sets Armband Seis Toilet Cases Links landkerchiefs Underwear Night Shirts Military Brushes ancy Vests Tie Holders etc etc SLIVERED by CARRIERS IN DETROIT AND lW AND VILLAGES DallyS 11 71 710 Every man and boy will welcome I Almost Hut Not Quite A fond father discovered his young hopeful reading a dime novel me the detected boy cried "or there will be blood No" said the father grimly tightening the hold on the boy's col lar bloodshed woodshed" MICHIGAN'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER Established May 1 1111 orehanded did Rublnsky make hla money so quickly?" "Why ha established branch Junk shops close to all the Important grado crossings of the Golfers' Numerals A rench caddie after listening to many visiting players British and American Informed a friend that he learned how to count the strokes liv English vlsf do thre fore fl sees damn alt Being asked how seven was distinguished from nine in this scoring he replied that when the latter was meant it was with double force her maid of measles her away for a On her return the Rank Optimism Representative Byrnes was talk ing In Washington: about ths Ship ping Board "You can't look at the Shipping Board with he said "un less you're as blind an optimist as old John Hake business' the friend groaned i Looking up And John' chuckled Inhumanity Bishop Tyler was condemning the 12 hour day In a argo address: "The business men who advocate the 12 hour day are as inhuman" he said well it's like the story "Two Scotchmen were fishing about 10 yards apart each in his own boat One of them got a bite and fell overboard He sank came up again then sank once more! "The other Scotchman rowed like lnd waited UH hla unfortunate coniratrlo emerged and then yelled at him if ye dlnna come up 'after the third time can I have yer 1 in HE things he will like the things he can use a 1 ft and which win repeat day alter day tne friendly message of what gifts for man or boy should be And the kind of gifts that await your selection here big storeiul oi them plus the sincere courte ous cooperation of willing salespeople OUT TOWN OICES DorUnd AgMCy IS Rnnt St 430 Rus St Honoi 303 Metropolitan Bsk Bldg Vorra A Conklin Inc 300 Madison Ava Vsrrss A Conklin Inc Sttger BJg Vsrrss A Conklin Inc 4S4 Monadnock Bldg tures one day approached a phy sician and asked for a thorough physical examination "I want to see that I'm' fit for good many years yet doc" he said "You know I'm to be married again soon for the fifth time" muttered the examiner as he put the stethoscope to the actor's heart "Of course this fifth lady 'Is the only girl In the world for you and this Is positively your last matrimonial venture "Oh come cried thespian much alarmed "I'm as bad oft as that am Then Ilin Salary Grew Tommy the diminutive office' boy had worked hard on a salary of IS a week He was a subdued little chap faithful and quiet inally however he plucked up courage to ask for an Increase 1 "How much more yould you like?" Inquired hla employer Tommy I a week more i Cheap Things President Lowell of Harvard was Championing the League of Nations at a Boston dinner party i "To enter the League" he said''would cost us a great deal but all fine thlnvs are costly Cheap Mr Lowell shrugged hla should ers "A man the other day" he went on "told me he didn't believe In expensive clothes He persuaded me to stroke the sleeve of his coat Then he said: things are as good as dear This suit only cost 118 Yet If I you It cost J30 you'd oeueve me wouldn't you? I I said told me over the 'f'" The Music Critic Irving Berlin the rich composer whs talking about a music critic "That fool's Ignorance of music" he said "reminds me of I'alnt Rock "A brass band once visited Paint Dock and the Inhabitants were delighted with IL But they make head or tail of the trombone so they sent tor old Peleg Hoskins who was supposed to understand music "Well old Peleg watched the per formance of the trombone player for some time Then he said with a sneer: "'Take no notice of him fellers There's a trick In It Ho don't swal ler it every time' The Experiment Gleuseppl accloll chief engineer of the General Electric Companyaid In Pittsfield thfe other day: "The theaters are disputing with the broadcasters as to whether it Is profitable or not to broadcast plays "A manager consented the other night to have an act of a certain piay broadcasted as an experiment and the next morning a man held him up on the street and said: By golly that farce of y'ours must be a corker My wife was so delighted with the act you broad casted last night that she Insists on seeing It So my dear old col lege chum going to ask you for two tree scats for Tuesday good ones 'A mistress through a bad attack and then sent week's holiday girl gave notice What exclaimed the amazed mistress "After nursed you through your "That's just It mum" replied the girl mother's particular anxious lands? I IS41 SM MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS PAYABLE IN ADVANCE CANAUA Sunday I IM 100 S00 AN INDEX CONIDENCE At the recent meeting of the Association of Life Insur ance Presidents Edward Duffield the presiding officer announced that there is in force in the United States now about $55000000000 of insurance a sum that exceeds the insurance in force in all the fest of the world and is grow ing more rapidly than ever before Mr Duffield attributed this remarkable showing to a variety of causes some of which will readily occur to any one The wealth of the country and the high rate of wages enable a large number of people in the wage earning classes to put aside a considerable part of their incomes in antici pation of old age and of the needs of their families in case of death Policies of considerable value are held there fore by in classes which in many other countries live from hand to mouth The American people are willing also to undertake financial engagements looking to long terms in the future because they are confident that prosper ity is not likely to be interrupted over any extended period Mr Duffield believes that the ambition to educate his children is a large factor in making him pre eminently a believer in insurance But there is another factor which though not so directly operative must have a large share in affecting the Ameri willingness to make present sacrifices in hope of a long deferred return This influence is the character of the government which in obedience to the constitution andTeflccting the opinion of the vast majority of Americans promises unswerving protection for the rights of property Americans who are now taking out insurance at the rate bf about $11000000000 a year do so with confidence they have seen millions of their fellow men in father parts of the world stripped bare of their possessions jt)1 red radicals and have witnessed a process of currency depreciation throughout a great part of Europe which leeched 'he value from every sort of money claim They would not trust the future as they do if they thought America would follow nrh nvnri VAUllll Probably Cleveland will claim that Ohio earned a right ft the Republican convention next year by refraining from putting a presidential candidate in the field Padlocks as an adornment to the architecture of Detroit threaten to become common enough to set an entirely ftew st vic to tall the troth sines I've been working hors I've been so busy I haven't had time1 to Tommy got the raise The Punctual Worshiper A minister In a small Scottish town noted the regularity of one particular member ot his flock in his attendance at the kirk Meeting him one day he thought it his duty to commend him for his good example and express his ap preciation "I am delighted" he said "to see one of my parishioners take such an Interest In the kirk and I wish to thank you personally for being so regular In your pew I trust you are enjoying spiritual comfort from my ministrations" that replied the supposed devotee the father a big that glad to get out the hoose When I get Into ma pew I jist like to fold ma alrms shut my eyes an' tljlnk naethlng!" Why He Waa Disgusted A Scot and a minister were in a train together traveling through a lovely part of Scotland Beautiful mountains dales rivers and all the glorias of nature When passing a grand mountain they saw a hugs' advertisement of So and Bo' whisky I 1 The Scot gave a snort of disgust The minister leaned forward and said: "I'm glad to see sir that you agree with me that they should not be allowed to desecrate the beauties of nature by advertisements" "It's no' that sir" said the Scot bitterly "It's rotten Was Coming to Him The other day Jinks heard good conundrum and decided to try It on his wife you know why I am like a mule?" he asked her when he arrived home i Hie wife did not stop to think she replied promptly "I know you are but I know why you J' Quiet Evenings your said the ag grieved woman as she dabbled her eyes "he neglected me shamefully Why he never was at "And I suppose you had to your evenings all by 'yourself with no (Companionship sho sobbed I had two Premier Baldwin may resign but he is going to let the British public have an opportunity to ask him not to do so 2 pant Suits now featured at 35 40 45 I i MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED Ths Am octa ted Prut is exclusively entitled to 'he use lor republication ot i SB news dispsichss ersditsd 'to It or not otherwise credited this psper snd else the locel news published herein AU rights cl republiestlon ryclal dispstebee feSrcin sis slso leserved (July 31 1(17) 1 WEEK PER MONTH PER YEAR (1 ivhat he wants! Hickok Bcltograms $1 and up Umbrellas Walking Sticks ur caps Hudson Alaska Electric Seal $5 to $30 Velour Beaver Cloth caps Sweaters and sport jackets $485 to $15 It is peculiarly appropriate for a chiropodist to represent a for health WHY THEY ARE 1 Add to the number of visitors from the Old World whoare terribly worried over us the Reverend A Herbert formerly minister of a Presbyterian church in Glasgow and lately'1 author of a dissertation regarding'American college students published in the Intcrcollegian Gray is disturbed because American students are 1 strangely docile in mind He says: else in I the world I find the rising generation in conscious and rebellion against the conventions and methods of life and thought which dominated their fathers and which iled the world to the present disaster but young Americans are not rebelling they arc eagerly getting ready to go on i' in the old 1 The' reverend gentleman acknowledges that morallyof course many of them are rebels they are making the same old attempt discard the eternal moral laws which 'each generation has made in its turn But this does notscm to satisfy him He complains that he finds among 'American college students or none of the burning 1 passion to discover a new way for mankind which is the real hope of the world Anybody who really knows young Americans knowshow genuinely funny is Dr insistence that they are docile in mind What he mistakes for docility good hard sense and balance Nor is the reason ffar his error particularly obscure He fails to understand that while everywhere else in' the world the and methods of life and which dominated the fathers of theorising generation the world to the present in the United States methods of life and thought which dominated the fathers of the republic and which have been handed down as heritages from them have led many from trouble and disaster into unexampled prosperity strength and happi 'less If the young people of this republic were to enter Into and intense against these things'which have proven a marvelous blessing they would' not be progressive they would be foolish and destructive American college students arc not calling for change and revolution because they know a good thing when they see it and understand that the duty which lies at their i hand is constructive work on the sound foundations which have been delivered to them Wise people are not given to kicking over what is good but what is bad ublirtisd svsry morning by Ths Dstrolt res Pros from Its Homs OSes 117 111 Lsfayetts Boulevard Dstrolt Mlchissn Entered si eecond clsss muter at the Postoffice at Dstrolt Mich under the Act ot March 1 Il7 Collar Plaid or strlnea HIK loops an exceptional value when you Smoking Jackets $Q50 Made of very ftna woolen material Collar pockets and cuffs In contrasting ivillh You'll say it's svo them i' I i 3 i a i air srM I a A MM SI I IMWtz i rMS 03' rrfl I a i A Vraa i 'ii1' pm ClayTofCs i i I I i BMCaaggl XUB I sn 1 1 A TMcmhiiwT lW WVJ JJCUr 4f J1 jMhbbh 4 i 4 I I 1 I.