Dc ——————— ———————— so THEDA BARA Be Ree hee Theda Bara, known all “movie” world as the sensational vam. pire woman, owns a fullblooded Rus- sian wolf hound, a present from Coun. tess Schwaynzi. The dog is called uable of ifs kind. Unable to stand the summer Heat of this country, Gal. loper spends his midyear vacation in Russia. ES’ HOLI nto |THE FAIRI { i hard and that of course put an end to all that Elsie had planned for the day. She was to take ber lunch with some other girls and thelr mothers and go to the park for a picnic, Elsie did not want any breakfast, NE morning when Elsle got up even. She was cross at everybody be- cause it rained. “IL just think it is tao mean for any- thing, this old rain to come and spoil our fun,” she sald, “But, my dear, the park will be | much sweeter and cleaner ‘after the rain,” said her mother. “Be a good, cheerful little daughter and smile.” But Elsie would not smile. pouted and even eried, breakfast was over she upstairs to the playroom out of the window, “Horrid ol I “I just hate raindrops.” |. “on 1 sorry,” said a side her; “for went und looked d raindrops!” Elsie said. am voice be there on the window pane” On the arm of the big chalr in which she was sitting, Elsie saw a pretty lit tle all which dismond, and she knew creature in iver, sparkled like no that her visitor she carried a wand. “I am sorry you hate the ralndr 7 was a fairy, because i said the fairy again. “I am sure THE TEETH. . —— NCE every six mont} who to a values her dentist } During this t an gO looked little tiny with longer greater the pa At this half-yearly should be cleaned by the the tiny lime and yellow the a knife ine, decay take place, and as appear oar small expense and trouble the time between v th the ¢ ihe io fixing visit more the teeth All sil loner t cOiieet dentist, deposits that teeth like inst are removed by p- rument, the small Bad Teeth Spoil the Prettiest Smile Good Teeth Enhance It. teeth are then cleaned with powdered pumice on a small whirling brush, and then cleaned again with chalk. They look beautifully’ white, To keep them white—though milk white teeth are no logger considered 80 beautiful--a little peroxide may be a p————— asians CROSBY'S KIDS ro This foams in- outh snd is one of the hent could be used. iy use PREY { the The women would inure find subieet gums, should out from her dentist whether to acid or not, and which { mouth | would anit The la da i recon her best, Id be and three shou mi times this needless The brush down, 1 ean penetrate This RAVER auch figurement, ost used the the and should be ar Crossivise, bet bristies teeth, dis- sO een decny (Ce pyright) ay THE MORNING HOURS. ” “You t} Boome The hours rest feeble, oreep ng-time : Are tott'ring hours and Yhes f fiy lagging some wenry foot hours are the can't be beat! instead The noontime and mo simg aw on “ i goes The oties that The morning-—when you're full of pep the wt big day terrors of the night are couragements are fled It's youth again and truth again come back with hope renewed yester's wisdom standing by check éach impulse erude. The early. pearly hours are the that can't be beat ahead! gone ile The With ones is young and sweet! - - NO INNOVATION! “This ‘digging themselves in’ is a new stunt in warfare, isn't have The chiggers Dear Offagin—Deo you sign your stuff because you think It is good 7—J. i F., La Crosse, Wis. No, no, Jayeff, far from it. We. are past forty, and ¥id of all jilusions, But we are deeply impressed with the advice that all writers should sign thelr stuff, and are doing this in a spirit of self-sacrifice, and to show our nerve, » * » O VERY WELL. ‘Why, | thought you told me your oar was a self-starter!” “It is. Didn't you just see me start it myself?” - - * These Things Annoy One So. Dear Offagin—You think you're mighty smart, so 18t's see if you can answer a real conundrum, one I made up my own self. This Is it: What is the difference between a tallor and a freshly tarred auto- | mobile road ?-L. B., Rolla, Mo, We suppose, smarty. that It Is because one makes men's wear and the other makes men swear eh, what? i 1 ! ) - . » THE MIRACLE. EE. Yeaterday, he was a common mut, But things have slipped & cog, | Who calls him common now, 's a nut | We bought Mm—he's Our Dog! know who they are” "They have spoiled my plende in the park." said Elsie, “and | sure | shall never like ralodrops sgain” “But wait until I tell you about them!” said the fairy. “Those are my fuiries, and the only time have holiday *is when we can disguise ourselves as raindrops and have a day off.” “A day off!” questioned. Elsle, “What do you mean by that 2" - "Oh, dear! Didn't you know that a fairy busy oun run- v itn Wwe ever i Is Just as as be, i i — lid | ning about nnd whispering good things the of think wrong things?” | “No; I didn't,” sald Elsie heard you Yes, into enrs children who whispe “Oh, you hay replied the course, you did not was a fairy who You do rig tnade “Bn having a holl. Hl not such things change who hard vi hate you ev ¥es id sing “and I'H you Uiil ARTA week I go veesit town where flu bug still worka steady. Mosta we but deesa piace leetle behifida Poleeeman say before I stay here gotta and weara mask I no lka pass examinash fin Ilka dog muzzle ting but examinash, too moocha start, I dunno, Cop catcha me, Judge fina me tree bucks, geeva me flu mask and say I am isolate for two days. By time I gotta all feéx up for stay out of jail I so late heesa no use for show up at frien's house, But I ne lika deesa dog muzzle any- way. Maka look too moocha lika One ting you can looka everybody you owe straighta een one eye and he no ean tella you for dees. guise, While I am} waita for flu to leava town 1 getta acquaint weeth one swell cheecken. 1 begin tink mebbe fla no #0 bad till 1 go veesit her house one night. When sheesa taka dat dog muz- zle off, sacere Lulu, shees gotta face Just lika “No Man's Land.” Nexa day I telegraph letter to Pres dent Weelson for aska heem please eef he make feefteen points for stead of fourteen. 1 goota great admire for one hees point on freedom of da seas. But I geeva suggest he maka one for freedom of da sneese. No goodh firsta class sneeze gotta chance behinda flu mask. Wot you tink? ' mss Psissnicsns Mebbe hees gotta | What the Sphinx Says. By Newton | Newkirk. “To use any means to an end’ means a to for no body but a MEAN man" HALL. PA. PROBLEMS FACING. STRICKEN WORLD Shall Thaos or Resonstruction.in Europe Follow the Great / World War? . HOPE FOR PERMANENT PEACE Those Who Fought, ind Those Who Suffered at Home, Alike ‘Favor Some Form of a League of Nations. Article X. By FRANK COMERFORD. Europe was succumbing to exhaus- | tion when the war came to an The terrible waste was telling. En- | durance had reached the breaking point, With peace thought ran | around the There must no more war. The men who did the fight- | ing said it loudest, “I'm glad 1 bad a chance to do my | part—I wouldn't have the ‘show' for million dollars, b wouldn't take a million dollars go thre it again” the way they | put Everywhere in Europe 1 heard, “It 1s over, it is finished, thank God.” The first plan end, | one world : be missed fl and 10 ugh is is iL. thought 6f reconstruction to make peace permanent, The laboratory and the shop gave to this war a terrible mean- ing, had Heen duced to kill and maim men, liquid fire, mustard gas, high explosives, bombs from the clouds, torpedoes from the depths, The world was hor- rifled, The length the war, the number of dead and crippled, the raid- ing and of defenseless ol taught be put to live, So the machine new agencies intro sen of bombing i! world if civilizati 1 that war ing peo of Nations ¢ f enfe vie, took heart when ke 8 rr WAS SugResieq reing peace hopes in from from Is snl the ranks All hetween na the tration fCoOniroversies or War, uncommon for Indiv Came casunities from of as large. know tions inevitable of of there is bit one way that these be It is men that are Sone schon arbi | ahsenice 2 in settled im differences of opinlo if, and there are thousan ry city of every country, difere did not ha courts ‘ id getermination “ve represents a sof opinion, we peaceful the 11 pelied t Dnt litlennts paies sLIEANnt oO : Assault orderly settle their iferences hy would Nations foree gt eceed have proce been sting consequencyd without a peaceful difficulties they means and as their af bave been pedled to oom resort to force. itil some arbitration to talk peace Is to waste words, to hope for it Peace Conference Fell The scheme of is created, is idle dreaming Short. in Paris At an early stage intrigue was dis Wrangling., bieker conference met it, proceedings at work. pe ace in its covered mercial advantage occupied the time a league that would at least decrease the chances of future wars. States | in their blind devotion to ex. | son for the conference, * They talked | of boundary lines, discussed frontiers, i and always from the point of view of | financial and military advantage to their respective countries. It was no- ticed that the territories over which they quarreled were rich in minerals or some other thing of great commer cial advantage, They squabbled over spoils, Then, too, these men who were supposed to be concerned in the future peace of the world, in arguing over frontiers urged their respective claims on the grounds that their pe spective countries needed these fron. tiers to make them secure in future wars, What future wars and why the discussion of future ware at a eonfer ence, the object of which was future peace? Working men watched, Hetened and thought. They construed these bick. erings and wranglings as evidence of the fact that there is an interest in the world which does not believe in giving up force. I am only reporting the truth when | add they suspect this interest ts Capital If the League of Natfons falls his suspicion will be confirmed. The movement toward an internationalism of the workers will be given great impetus. The League of Natiohs fall ing, they argue there Is only one other means of preventing war, It Is for the men who make up the rank and file of the armies in time of war, the millions recruited from shops, fac tories and fields, to get together and organize an international labor au thority to save the working men from war. Such a movement would take away from governments an important one class In the world a power so great that political governments would be puppets in thelr bands, and vet in thé light of the happenings of the last five years labor could not be blamed, The world entitled to against such slaughter as we have just gone through, and if the political gov- ernments fail to In take the, necessary World Now Closely Knit, Internationulism coming —in it is already here. Inventfons brought the people of the world close together. The is fact wireless and the cable of the world in a few hours, Distance has been destroyed, We are lng npeighbors in knowledge other, whether we live the same continent or not. Modern transporia- tion Is shortening the time between places. An service in prospect which promises London as near New York as Chicago is today. WE already inter- nationalism in finance and credits, Big business long ago obliterated nations lines, The commerce of the already organfzed Internationally The bmportant question at 1 is what form will the pew Inter alism take? WII it be an Internati If so finan inter It at becom of each on air is minke fomorrgw to bave a successful world is i the is In serious danger of a Wil it be an organized labor? world cial sutocracy. nationalism of clators Pp i i Both of the enforce He egunRiis pe ople their kind of slav of the proletariat undesirable, No part should permitted will the ery, is bad he to rest, One as another. The kEuman race not advantage. It to tated to. A League of Nations Is the is a the nati upon ns majority of the freedom bitious is Do dictate—it will not be It world represent all stiles ’ uion of and as the nations people the | kintes com i Peace Table Proves Worth, A League of Nations is + of the table sia ind Peas ng the wranglings € 1 #3 ent pence (able there would before’ this war in arta. Two cases Jrves The each ! fact tha not Eives piace as in the we Europe United States $ do not trust fed Eu- the digin- respedis the States does seek This commanding Dower rope, ous the one world With to terested this moral maintain the peace of the wor The propaganda of revolution com- out of bolshevik Russia, urging the workers organize an international dictatorship of the proletariat and gelze the world much 4 a. forve can do ing i -~ to is not nearly as dane gerous to the peace of the world as the political heckling against the League of Nations, (Copyright, 1520, Western Newspaper Union) TAXES individuals Are Beginning to Feel That Country Really Suffered Defeat in the War, The individual German has not be gun to feel the peace terms, cially. During the IN GERMANY HEAVY fo give It, ative A peculiar feature of this law, {lus trating its severity, is a provision that in no case may the tax exceed the which would compel the recipient to pay more than he got, anyhow, Anh income tax ranges to about 70 per cehit 48 the Income grows, There is a profits tax and a heavy tax on wealth Increases during the war-