Girl at the Top in Health Tests Millions of boys and girls all over the world, thousands of them right here In the West, are being restored to health and strength by the purely vegetable ton- ARE fc and laxative known as California Flg Syrup and endorsed by physicians for over 050 years, Children need no urging to take it. They love its rich, fruity flavor. Nothing can compete with it as a gen- tie, but certain laxative, and it goes further than this. It gives tone and strength to the stomach and bowels 80 these organs continue to act nor- mally, of their own accord. It stimu. lates the appetite, helps digestion, A Kansas mother, Mrs, Dana All- gire, 610 Monroe St, Topeka, says: “Bonnie B. is absolutely the picture of health, now, with her ruddy cheeks, bright eyes and plump but graceful #ittle body and she stands at the top in every health test, * Much of the credit for her perfect condition is due to California Fig Syrup. We have used It since baby- hood to keep her bowels active dur ing colds or any children’s ailments Said Lydia to Roy 8B By FANNIE HURST (© by MeClure Newspaper Byndicate.) {WNU Bervice) HE sun lay blanching the hills to the splendor of perfect spring and as far as the eye could reach, from the little swelling of the land where Helen stood, slanting orchards, with young trees eager to bear, reached to the horizon. Pres- ently, very presently, they would burst into Incredible blossom and a world crammed already to its perfec- tion with beauties of one sort or an- other, would accomplish the impossl- ble, and become more beautiful, At least, that was the way Helen, eighteen, and with the love of a youth in her heart, felt as she viewed it from the rear of her father's fruit farm, that was Known as Farnham’'s, With that kind of youth in her heart, and added to It love, and a one-hour- old betrothal, it was natural that to Helen, at eighteen, the quieter, more adult world which contained her fa- ther, Adam Farnham, and her mother, and she has always had an easy time with them. She always responds to its gentle urging and is quickly back to normal.” Ask your druggist for California Fig Syrup and look for the word “California” on the carton so you'll always get the genuine, Which Is It, Umps? She was group eager wide-eyed children at reg- ular libr story hour. “Today, boys and 3, I am going to tell you a real scary story about a vampire, You know what a vampire ls, don't you?” “Oh, sure,” ticated youngster scornfully., “You mean the one who decides in a base- ball game.” of addressing a he it “Listen to him. an empire.” sion. about Railroads in Nation How many railroads are there In | the United States? 1571 including 174 class 1 having an op- erating revenue above $1,000,000; 282 | class 2, having operating revenues from £100,000 to £1,000,000, and 348 class 3, having operating revenues below $100,000.—New York World- Telegram. i ‘STOP THAT COLD ISTRESSING cold in chest or throat--that so often leads to ething serious—generally responds to good old Musterole with the first application. Should be more effective if used once every hour jor five hours. This famous blend of oil of mustard, camphor, menthol and other helpful in= gredients brings relief natarally. Mus terole gets action because it is a scientific Scounter-irritant’’ —not just a salve ~—it penetrates and stimulates blood circulation, helps to draw out infection and pain. Used by millions for 20 years. Recommended by doctors and nurses, To Mothers—Musterole is also made in milder form for babies end small children. Ask for Chile dren's Musterole. Custom Made Wigs & Toupees World's Finest Iliastrated catalog sent free with price list. Bambina toupee He per box postpaid. Writs or onli LOMBARD BAMBINA CO. 497 Washington $8, Lymn, Mase, COMPOUND For Coughs due to Colds, Minor Bronchial and Throat irritations JAS. BAILY & BON, Baltimore, Md. So many persons obeyed impulses to take dips in irrigation canals of southern Arizona, which run full of cool, sparkling water, that the sheriff of Pinal county posted notices that anyone bathing in such canals, which line highways, would be prosecuted unless garbed in a bathing suit, Young people of today enjoy lib erties that young people have never enjoyed before in all history, “RUNDOWN, NERVOUS Westminster, Md. —“1 was weak and rune down, was al- ways tired, very servous, had no appetite and what ate made me sick to my stom- ach” said Miss Adelta Lockner, A Route 1, “I heard of Dr. Pierce's medicines and sent for a bottle of the *Golden Medical Discovery Tablets and also the ‘Favorite Prescription Tablets.’ 1 felt much better after tak- ing the first bottle, I have taken four bottles of cach and feel like a new person. All druggists. Fluid or tablets) of Dr. Pleres’s Buffalo, N. X. should seem, by comparison, You wondered, when you were eighteen and so In love with life that the ground under your feet seemed to quiver, when It was only you your- self quivering from love of it, just what there was left for forty and for- ty-five; Cora and Adam, It mattered only to have been kissed, as she, Helen, had just been kissed by the youth named Blalr Beck, who had just ridden over in his brand new car from his father's farm, not twen- ty miles distant, and with a ring in his pocket which now sparkled on her left hand. They were to be married and Hive In a white house with green shut- ters on the Beck farm, the promised gift of the senior Beck to his son, and the blessings of all four parents had descended on the youngsters as the apple blossoms would presently de scend and whiten the scene for miles around. The only deterrent, It seemed to Helen, was to have reached the peak of life so soon. From now on, what could there be but anticlimax to the ecstasy of this; the ecstasy of the betrothal kisses that still lay singing against her lips: the tingling of the flesh; tomorrow that could enough In coming. “Yon are young and too Ife, my lamb,” her mother trying to calm her excitements. everything in its turn. compensations for every age” old the er of Helen seemed to her when she sald this seat sweet of quick strange the dream not be eager for told her, “1% come There are How mot}! ed beside her lamp In her perpetually gray gown, with her n low gray halr drawr her and her hands so tranquil at thelr tasks of i How sap for Cora? they had had portieres over Sars, mending or se less, ing frocks. What was Pather, of course, everything together. Adam was ns re Iaxed now as Cora was, and there were deep braces ground In perpen- dicular lines on the sides of his mouth. and they seldom kissed, he and Com, and it was nothing for him to come In dog tired of an evening, kick out of his boots and Just lounge with his head sometimes on Cora’s lap, If she sat at the head of the sofa. And lit. tle to say. Scarcely ever any of the tender, lovely things to say, except it Cora happened to be alling, and then he could be tender, But who wanted tenderness only when one was ailing? Who wanted tenderness from a tired gray man In his stockinged feet: who, In turn, and the private question to herself shocked Helen, who wanted to bestow tender ness upon a pale old lady with hafr of a gray pallor? Helen did, of course. Helen wanted to bestow tenderness up there left but passionate love she felt for them. The love of daughter for parents. Put that was different. The question still re | mained high In her heart. How dared once face the down side of life, after the ecstasy of a present like hers? Cora and Adam myst have had that youth, too, and now look. Oh, one must live, one must live In youth to store up against the bankruptey of nge! They were married, Helen and Blair, when the ground was white with the apple blossoms, and the day they re. turned from a four months’ honeymoon the last slap of green and white paint was on the cottage on the Beck place and four aged, tired, amiable and retrospective parents were there to wish them endless blessings, There were blessings. Health, chil. dren and a farm that widened and prospered. Blalr succeeded well and the children of Helen were the fine, ripe children of health, and the sor. rows that eame were the Inevitable ones of passing life and death, With the years, the four parents sickened and died; there were fright. ening fllnesses among the children, drought came and pestilence among the cattle, but In the main, the good overbalanced the Il. Drought passed, pestilence lifted, the children throve and the beauty that was Helen's rip ened, bore ita fruit, and oh, so gently declined. The same with Blair. His heftiest years reached thelr peak, hig broad shoulders carried their heaviest bur dens, and slowly, almost imperceptibly, ! the years marched down. So imper i ceptibly that Helen, who had not felt her body wither, awoke one day to the shock of a realization that was almpst more. than she could bear. Lydia, her lovely child, her little child, her little girl, only yedterday with plaits down her back, was be- trothed. There was nothing one could say, because it was right that she should be, The youth was a fine up- standing one of her position and kind They were cleanly, rightly, in love. They were of age. Helen and Blalr, gazing with amazement upon this phenomenon which had befallen them, were the older generation, looking down the years at the love of thelr young ones. A rather quiet smiled more her often than a little, Remote, a little gray, a little luster. less, they seemed to Lydia boy, Roy, who came asking blessing. too, but pale silhouettes pale, unexciting, ground of age. against the uninteresting en and Blalr and back chasm Blalr and Helen found selves looking at thelr daughter, “Blalr, were we at their Roy seem? How can two low little pans contain happiness? How can they know the rich, things of life that we know? long they must walt, dear! it seems sad to be so young. such shal- staring at age, held one another tight. ly by the hands, “How terrible It must he to be old" sald Lydia to Roy, and Roy to Lydia. Whole World Joined in Mad Desire for Change In the reign of Charles I, when dis- turbance was brewing in England, Falkland imparted to parliament the maxim: “When It is necessary to change, it Is not to change I™ He was for no violent change but for medication of public affairs without it, Would he were alive to set the fash- fon now when change runs loose In the world! Change for no good rea- son, merely for the sake of change One's first moming coffee comes in a ean with a new label, a new double ld. The old label was all right. ing the matter with it; the top of the can fitted perfectly: nothin The new label not necessary noth- g alled it. is a shock, the double lid an impediment. One's shaving soap has a new holder, new cover, or comes in a new size every year, with tooth powder; ter, just new, Io not chante The same new cans, no bet good friends the our mer dors not es dervalune the familia milinr does have a to get what he got before In of a wr i sODer PIETY, truth or English n in There Is ¢ Bible Little Is gained It Just makes unfamiliar words of the a rush to translate unto con {temporary vernacular, it end mental texture of millions of Life. by sounds of what was part * 3 people, First Modern English Poet Reuben Post Halleck says: Chaucer's works English was, as we have seen, a language of dialects. He wrote In the Midland dialect, and ald “Before land. Lounsbury influence: says of Chaucer's It was only a man of genius who could lift up one of these dialects into a pre life. This was the work that Chan cor did.’ poet. At first sight, much since Chaucer's day.” Inventor of Post Cards Tt was on the suggestion of an Ane. trian, Doctor Herrmann, that the post ecard was born. He had advocated the of an envelope, to be carried at a ro. a maximum of 20 words, signature and address, 1869. The idea ‘was quickly adopted by the Austrian post office, and other postal authorities followed suit, In. cluding Great Britain, where the post including But, unknown to Doctor Herrmann, fore 1869, by Henrich von Stephan, the founder of the Universial Postal union. It was turned down, but Von Stephan was the man who thought of it first, All-Time Holiday Time Some employers of France are try. Ing the experiment of spreading vaca- tion time over the entire year. It has been suggested by some employees, who would rather have thelr vacation when the weather was not so hot as to prevent the full enjoyment of the time, There is much to be sald for and against this scheme, but some om ployers argue that it is much more convenient to have a few away at one fimo rather than several, as has heen the ense heretofore, Others claim that there 18 not much business in the heat ed term, and therefore the assistants can be spared best at that time. AC 'ORDING to that which is to be seen In midseason and early spring fabric world of fashion sclous as ever and even more so, if that be possible. Which does not mean that “it's the same over again” On the contrary those prints which earry entirely new message qualify as chile. You sense a this-season's print ot an glance, in that its unusualness, both as fo col or and from a print of yesteryear, There's pew stunning striped prints, per example, which designers are making up so Intriguingly. They have that out-of-theordinary look about them which at once classes them 8s being of year 1832 vintage. Most women yield to the lore of these hand some designful stripes at first sight The print stripe fashions the dress shown to the rigl showings, the is as print-con- an can design, differentiates it the gilk which t in the plc ture is typical of the new trend, er a happy } agree, this of allyl lath cot you will orful Paisley pattern These Paisley stripe put to more uses than one. Many an (black with a irt thi topped gloeves an of striped Pa Kits : k of this type also is n rock color Is so afternoon Liack touch of very sm a geason) is vith i deep yoke sley ' y a smart hlogse a biack rated XN per cent or navy «1 F cortume collect , too, a strikingly new depar the get-together gesture which plaids and dots are making this season ture in the way of printed silk is The very iatest in bordered silks is that of polka dot which is complemented with wide bandings of printed plaid, or If the patternings be not dotted then a tiny gtar or conventional design contrasts the big high-colored broken plaid de sign. It is silk of this description which dist! sented fizu lustration. uishes the gown on + in the accompanying i} Note the new flaring cuff dot.-print. revers. worked together which reverse thelr pret a smart spring style theme, The highlights of the new mode. Speaking of prints In the street, silks, espe neat small with white Steel engraved nearly leading In favor. included in Dark prints are also every collection, Among white on these, navy, hlack roses and or brown ong appeal this season usly colorful white » or ch have a very st designs or black ing wear at the mo- © with resorters : summer vogue, combina- combination blue is » genson’s showings, most Instances a lig for the major in color of scarf! and accessories surfaces prevail, (8 1922 Weatern Newspaper Union.) SPRING FASHIONS STRESS SIMPLICITY The best dressed woman this spring will be the one whose clothes reflect and design, “Simplified simplicity® was the way tose A. Glemby, head of a buying syn the spring 1082 fashion forecast ses gion of member stores in New York Miss Glemby also told the session that a sudden Increase In price levels wns not expected. “From present indications the great- est volume will be done on somewhat lower price levels than spring last “It will be necessary to stress quality, and fashion correct. ness, regardless of price.” Flowers to Have Chief Place in Spring Hats Flowers are going to play a leading role In spring millinery. Certainly, there are always some flower-trimmed hats available, but the new crop of blossoms will bloom un der, not on, the hat. A much more at tractive way of wearing flower trim. mings and one that most cleverly com bines demureness with sophistication, a pot always easy task, All sorts of new straw weaves In the offing, but the good old standbys such as milan and picot will be most exten sively used, There will be colorful straws, straws of all hues from delicate pastel tones to vivid colors, Popularity of Fur Has Spread Even to Blouses The vogue for fur has spread even to blouses. One of the smartest aft ernon costumes has a tunic blouse of fine black broadiail. The tunle, which Is designed with an surplice neckline, Is worn with a black broadcloth skirt and tiny black f it hat trimmed with a band of broad tall, SMART FOR SPRING By CHERIE NICHOLAS oe This winsome spectators sports suit has several features which reveal new spring trends. Not the least of its at- tractiong Is the very lovelr material, of which It is made-an exquisite crepe woven of bemberg and silk. It is a superb fabric with a semi-bright fuster and a beautiful smooth texture. It drapes to perfection and comes In a list of delectable colors. The model pletured Is In a beguiling soft green together with white. The lines are In. teresting In that the graceful high belt and the panels of the skirt blend Into one another, 1307-0 Loox for the name Bayer and the word genuine on the package as ictured above when you buy Aspirin, Fhen you'll know that you are get- ting the genuine Bayer product that thousands of physicians prescribe, Bayer Aspirin is SAFE, as millions of users have proved. It does not depress the heart, and no harmful after-effects follow its use. Bayer Aspirin is the universal antidote for pains of all kinds. Headaches Neuritis Colds Neuralgia Sore Throat Lumbag = Rheumatism Toothache Genuine Bayer Aspirin is sold at all druggists in boxes of 12 and in bottles of 24 and 100, Aspirin is the trade-mark of Bayer manufacture of monocaceticacidester of salicylicacid. YOUNG GIVEN NEW IDEA OF IDLENESS Things have « No one talks ab The ch the Ing and sex hast! dren is a gi y ti of idieness. E that easy Ve thought that personal achieve be over. ng ven thes money isn mnexplored land left, to discover, But there on the vitalizing and finance and Just as much ener can be brought to The idea going as things fare enormous ind to be hetter if things luxurious, have been their swift, pace, They realize tha are being brougt cConsia and For Stomachs TEMPORARILY Out-of-Order Ocearional constipation should neves be allowed to attach itself Check itat once with a cup or two of Garfield Tea. A good oid fashioned, tried and nate ural remedy, it Bushes the bowels, stimulates sloggich liver and renews the cheery good health of an active stomach. Recommended br many years of splendid, certain results. 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