GIRLHOOD TO
MOTHERHOOD
lowa Woman Found Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Come
pound Always Helpful
Vinton, lowa—“When I was seven-
teen years old I had to stay at |
home from schoal, |
I finally had to quit
school, I was so |
weak, I suffered for
about two years be-
fore I took Lydia |
1. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound,
then I picked up |
one of your books |
and read it. I be |
gan taking themedI-
cine, Now I am a |
| housekeeper with
six children, and iI have taken fit |
before each one was born. I can-
not tell you all the good I have re-
ceived from it. When I am not as well
as can be I take it. I have been doing |
this for over thirteen years and it al- |
ways helps me. I read all of your little
books I can get and I tell everyone I
know what the Vegetable Compound |
does for me.”—Mgrs, Fran SevrEns,
510 7th Avenue, Vinton, Iowa.
Many girls in the fourth generation |
are learning through their own per- |
sonal experiences the beneficial effects
of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- |
pound. Mothers who took it when they
were young are glad to recommend it
to their daughters, |
For over half a century, women have
praised this reliable medicine,
For Piles, Corns
Bunions, Chilblains,etc.
Try Hanford’s
Balsam of Myrrh
All dealers are authorized to refund your money ior the
first bottle if not suite,
SAY “BAYER ASPIRIN” and INSIST!
Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for
Colds Headache
Pain Neuralgia
Neuritis
Toothache
Lumbago
Rheumatism
DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART
Accept only “Bayer” package
ee io contains proven directions.
Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets
Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists.
Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Moncareticacidester of Salicrlicacié
sas
Cuticura
Heals Imitating Rashes
Don't suffer with rashes, eczemas or irrita- ~N
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will quickly selieve and heal. Bathe with NN
Cuticura Sosp and hot water, dry and NSS
anoint with Cuticura Ointment. Nothing DS
quicker or safer than Cuticura Sosp and
Ointment for ail skin troubles.
Sosp Me. Ointment d snd We. Taleom Me. Seld sveryw’
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A volume of smoke will bring tears
to the eyes of the reader
’ The School Girl’s Health /
Is Of Great Importance!
Wheeling, W. Va
health, and
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON = =~ Wil : re
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Guard Against “Flu”
a With Musterole
sive Sr w weep and wail ever Europe's Influenza, Grippe and
y ench : hat i t debt usually start wil
: K : { : you get those wa
in such poor health £4 e other? If you can du . '
tkat for a year | was that for of them ¢ | mon + and groaning about
good old Mus
bi Musterole relieves the congestion
Rot inal jo to you're a most exceptional i= hound to
school. nally, my person And if you America, Mex
nd stimulates circulation. It has zi
father got me Dr. : Hu
should set out to learn them—bewnre!
«5 of the old-fashioned
. thout the blister.
Pierce's Golden Med- i raala 3
ical Discovery and | It was Sir Hiram Maxim, the n tingle as the
by the time I had inventor, who once said, “1 cannot un
taken close to a dozen
bottles 1 was well
and strong, my cough
disappeared and |
was able to resume my school work and
I have never had any trouble of the kind
since.” —Mrs. Paul Bryson, 3935 Wood
St. All dealers. Tablets or liquid.
Write for free medical advice to Dr.
Pierce's Invalids’ Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y.
Enclose 10¢ if you wish a trial pkg. of
Discovery Tablets.
FF-HAND,
our
weights
of
of
Mensnres
and
{to
how many anc heon
present
and
you name
units
a" had a vear of 3 ;
, W. Va. I had a year of ill Pneumonia
it looked as th The moment
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cnn
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no help for me. | was '% their relations
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Weighs
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scruples |
drams - 1
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cae »s the pores,
rihle web
y Suen sensation and
derstand
and
why we stick to these weights
There
the English
he studied
he just
fellow
emergency use.
illness.
To Mothers: Musterole is also
made in milder form for
babies and small children.
Ask for Children's Musterole.
Jars & Tubes
tore ay BOVE
Mmensures, was only one ere t may prevent serous
who Kkpew weights
for
them
and mea
thirty
ail
and
them
knew
went
sires
und
poor
years
when the mad
died!”
OR THIS:
Long ugo we simplified the currency
in 1786 led the in
decimal ney
an absurd of
CONSTIPATION 500 So See reason, we nav
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Carter's Little Liver Pills puted, to other factors In our dally
gy Vegalaie Len life, When James Watt, the Scotch
| pain and uaplessant after inventor, announced the plan in 1783
shies, Thay selitva the system of constipa- upon which the metric system is
based, Washington, Jefferson, Robert
cause that dull and aching
feeling. Remember they are a doctor's pre-
Morris and Gouverneur Morris immedi
indorsed its adoption for our
Srision and can be ta hI uti:
All 25¢ and 75¢ Red Packages.
weights, meusures and coinage. Wash
ington, in bis frst message to con
Success, the Answer | cress, urged its adoption, but its ap
to the plication to our colnage only was
: In 1866, through the efforts of
Charles Sumner of Massachusetts the
metric wns made the legal
system the United States
But the average American, seeming
| ly wedded to an outgrown tradition,
has preferred to go on using the old
cumbersome system. In the mean
time more than 100 countries of the
world have adopted the metric sys
tem and are enjoying a great advan
tage in commerce, education and com
{ mon world understanding thereby.
| Only In Great Britain and America
are there human beings who are out
| of step, commercially and economical
{ ly, with more than 1.000.000.0000 of
| the people of the world who are trad
ing on the metric basis. That we are
| conscious of this handicap is shown
| by the agitation by various organiza
| tions and individuals which has been
| under way for some time for general
| adoption of the metric system. The
| states of [llinols, California, North
| Dakota, Tennessee and Utah, with a
| combined population of 16,000,000,
| through their state legislatures, have
| memorialized congress to adopt metric
IY YY
oe
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avatons ‘and world no Apothecaries
” 24 £58
the units of mo ir nen
Gift to City
ns of porcelain, china
srse
sr 4
Royal
face
colnage \
a cont
12 ounces
nge reason, we have
rest f the
decimal
Beubenlienfunlesl
ir
ceramics and enunmel
Avoirdupois Weight (Short Ten)
behind the (7 11.32 ar
the
simple
Kiang
world has been
of Naples
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museum by the
is the Vil
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OR
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Better than a mustard plaster
CORNS
16
16 ounces
i
drame i
i
2% pounds 1
3}
1
Oonee
pound
quarter
in extending
system,
Metric Weight
malligrame 1 cer
centigrams 1 decigram
tec rgr acee 1 gram
grams 1 dekagram
Arckagraavs 1 Bectogram
bectagrams 1 kilogram
which is so com tigram Count
4 quarters bundred weight
z0
opened HE A
Italy. The m
where
diana,
king of 1}
tion fills 21 rooms, and consists of 10.
000 pled mong the prized exhibits
are several Sevres cups used by Marie
Antoinette of France. The enilection
includes rare specimens of wares from
famous pottleries and works
throughout Europe and Asin
hundredweights
tan
(Long Tow)
gram
1Seum
Seubenduatonteslelosdnd
feelers rT TTT TT TTR TR TTT ae eR
Avoirdupois Weight once lived
11-32 grange = i
168 drams -
6
12 pounds -
27 e Two Olel
ounce
pound
hundred weight
ton
o%
ately 20 bundredweights ss
Troy Weight
24 grams - 1 pennywerght
206 pesnyweights . } ounoe
IT ounces wr tT pound
THIS:
Long Measure
12 inches foot
8 feet yard
815 yards vod or pole
0 rods furinag
8 furlongs statute mile
1.760 yards mile
220 rods mile
3 miles league
M - » MM 4 r
& feet = fathom
fathome - cable length
cable lengthe = mile
feet - statute mile
feet : Ril oautical mie
THIS:
Dry Measure
2 pints » 1 quart
8 quarts - | peck
4 pecks = 1 bushel
Liquid Measure
w= 1 pint
1 quart
1 gallon
1 barrel
1 hogehead
eines ;
wil Ends pain at once/
and In one minute pain from corns is ended.
Dr. Scholl's Zino-pads do this safely
by removing the cause~—pressing and
rubbing of shoes. They are thin, medi-
cated, antiseptic, healing. At all drug
and shoe stores, Cost but a trifie.
Dr Scholls
Zino-pads
Put one on—
big question tm
fe o y ccesaful
made
Cannery Waste Utilized
Tomato cannery waste, formerly dis
carded. has been discovered to be
worth 6 cents a gallon in Italy, where
faundries utilize it to remove
| stains from linen, particularly eoliars,
| The clothes are soaked in vats of the
| diluted cannery bypreduct for an
hour, by which time the stains are so
thoroughly loosened that they ean be
washed out with little soap and prac
| tieally no rubbing.—Popular Mechan
ics Magazine,
system
able plan for r in
lar if you decide to
VOCATIONAL 8
Temple Bldg.
BUREAU
Rochester, N. ¥. Metric Length
millimeters cetitimeter
centimeters decimeter
decimeters meter
meters delcameter
dekameters bectometer
bectometers kilometer
go now
Deltatype (Strain 5) Recleaned Cotton Seed
$1.50 bu. sulphate ammonia 356 ex vemgel
NITROPHOSKA (30p-16n-16k) $85 per ton
ox vessel. Excelsior Beed Farms, Cheraw, & C.
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PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
Removes Dandruff -StopsHair Failln
Restores Color and
Beauty to Gray and Faded Hi
he. and $1.99 at Druggisia
1 Stace x Chem. Wie Patchogue N.
FLORESTON SHAMPOO-Ildeal for nse in
connection with Parker's Hair Balsam. Makes the
hair soft and flnffy. 850 cents by mail or at dru
gists. Hiscox Chemizel Works, Patchogue, N. X.
Expectation of Life
Modern science has destroyed the
tradition of “a short life and a merry
| one,” writes Dr. Donald B. Armstrong
| tn the North American Review, The
| life of the average modern is longer
| and merrier than that of a century
! ago. The average expectancy of life
| at birth has been increased from
| twenty-eight years in 1780 to forty.
| eight at the present time,
What a baby doesn’t put into its
OR THIS:
Metric
milthhiters
centiliters 1
deciliters 1
liters 1
1
1
Capacity
wm 1 centiliter
deciliter
liter
dekaliter
hectoliter
kilaliter
4 pills
2 pints
4 quarts
81; gallons
2 barrels
dekaliters
inflamed eyelids or other bectoliters
eye irritations, You will
find a soothing and safe
remedy in MITCHELL
EYE SALVE.
HALL & RUCKEL
New York City
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is shown by the fact that this coun
the world at large, The advance to |
the metric system under this bill wili |
He who is able to hold his tengue.
Pain
A Liniment
Powerful, penetrating
tried remedy bringsquick
relief from menacing
and colds.
PISO'S
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Quick Relief! A plassant, effective
Torna gon F180 5, Theos and
The General Federation of
year, passed a resolution calling upon
More than. 100.000
time ago Congressman Fred Britten
of Hlinols announced that he expected
to Introduce In this session of con
gress a liberal metric standards bill
and press its passage.
The need for a new set of standards
try suffers a loss of millions of dol
lars every year in its world trade be
cause of delays and losses due to the
inequality between our standards and
the metric standards of other nations
and the difficulty in translating one in
terms of the other. The purpose of
the proposed metric standards bill, as
stated by Congressman Britten, Is to
give to Americans “the world langunge
of quantity.” It proposes to estab
fish a standardization of terms, so
that our units of weights and men
sures may be alike and invariable
throughout our land, snd alse fortn
nately in accordance with those of
not so much affect the making
dising of things by measure.
In contrast to our present
ards, which are complex and unreiat
ed, the metric system is simple and
based upon the decimal system
our currency, its
inter-related. There are
damental units, the meter, the liter
and the gram, and all three are deel
mally divided or decimally multiplied
Both multiplication and division are
automatie. You move the decimal
point and--presto! you have iL
Record Tree Planting
OC. C dow .or of the American Near
fast Rellet at Athens, Greece, reports
to the American Tree association, of
Washington, 00,000 trees were planted
in one day on the slopes of Hymettus,
School children and orphans made the
pilgrimage following the preparations
a week in advance by the army. In
his work Director Thurber Is nsiug
the forestry primer published by the
association. Here Is a lesson for
*
Americans. The nssocintion has tree
planting instruction ready and it wel
comes all tree planters to membership
tn the tree planting army,
Slingshot Days
The country boy who uses a sling
shot to knock some unwary sparrow
off a Himb has little thought that he
is practicing one of mackind's earliest
arts. Not alone Is the story of David
an instance. There were long cen
turies of the Stone age when slung
pebbles formed man's most effective
weapon--his only weapon, it is prob
able—in the chase of that consider
able fraction of his animal food
which had to be ciptured awing.
Toast With Honors
The reference to drinking a toast
“with all the honors three” is to the
cheers with which a toast Is greeted.
Some toasts are drunk standing, such
ns a loast to one's country, and are
often received with hurrahs three in
number, or, in case of great enthusi
asm, with three t'mes three
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