Let the Girl Have a Chance to Marry By DOROTHY DIX In our simple and sentimental Ameri can society it is the custom to anathe matize the manag ing mother. We hold her up to scorn and ridicule, and are honestly shocked at the spectacle of a woman who tries to shape her daugh ters' futures instead of trusting them *o luck. Why we should ussume this hypo- critical attitude to ward a very important subject no one known. R very body admits that the best thing that can happen to a wom an is for her to marry the right sort of a man, and to live in the peaceful eecurity of a comfortable home. This being: the case, why should a woman be criticised instead of commenced for trying: to secure this happy lot in life to her daughter? Every mature woman knows how marriages are made. She is perfectly aware that the beautiful theory that matches are manufactured in Heaven, and that a strange fate sends affini ties across the world to seek each other, is ail tomyrot. Matrimony is a matter of opportunity and propin quity. The most beautiful and attractive girl in the world can be so shelved by her mother's tactlessness and stu pidity that she will be more cut off from a chance to get married than if she had a humpback and cross eyes. On the other hand, a really homely and unattractive girl can be discreetly boomed into belledom, while It may be laid down as a general proposition that any two ordinary young people will fall in love with each other if they are thrown enough together. Or they will have what our Chris tian Science friends call a claim that they are In love with each other, which will last until after the wed ding day. Worse luck. These facts are truisms with which every mother in the world is per fectly familiar, yet observe the idiotic Jlp^ Unsightly Hair Growths No Longer Necessary El Rado, the liquid hair-remover Is absolutely infallible in itj effect, and it positively harmless. This is proved conclusively by the fact that many physicians use the ingredients in El Rado for exactly the same purpose,—hair removing. A few drop#, a simple application, and any growth vanishes. You see only the skin, smooth and velvety, even whiter than before, because of the soothing, antiseptic ingredients in the preparation. Get a 50c. or SI.OO size bottle to-day. Test it on your arm. Prove for yourself it will do every thing claimed. Your money back if you are not entirely pleased. If inconvenient to call at youf druggist's it will be all right to order direct from the Pilgrim Mfg. Co., New York. Valuable Information sent on request. 1a thii City El Rad* is fold and recommended by: Golden Seal Drug Store, E. Z. Gross, Kennedy's Drug Store, Kel ler's Drug Store, George A. Gorgas. t _ \ HERSHEY PARK Special Trains July 4 LT, Hershey 10.15 P. M., for Leba non. I.v. Hernhey 11.15 P. M., for Harrli hurff. Above Special trains Trill make In termediate Million stops. Tickets reßiilnrly on *«le will be uxe<t on this occasion. I »e regular traliin going: to Hershey. Charles B. Cluck Carpenter and Builder Jobbing promptly attended to; screen doors and windows a specialty; also 6ne cabinet work. Call Bell Phone 1.117-J. 2200 Logan Street / _ - P- A. LUTZ, M. D. D Practicing Physician R Medicine nnd Electricity T iSU Practice Confined to Office Only 105-A Market Street V ——J Business Locals Harrisburg Carpet Co. 32 North Second Street THURSDAY EVENING. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH JULY 2, 1914. way in which mothers act. A wojnan will let a yountr man of dissipated habits, or one who Is so shiftless that he could not support a cat, or a hand some relative, fairly live in her house, thrown into intimate daily associa tion with her daughter, and then, when the two come to her some fine day and blushingly ask for her bless ing she has fits of horror and sur prise all over the place. | "What. let Mabel marrv that | drunken Tom Smith! What. let Susie be dragged down to poverty bv | that trifling. lazy Ben Smithers! |\\ hat. let her darling Mamie marry • Billy who Is almost like her brother!'* j It will break her heart to even , think of such a thing. and she'll | never consent. Never in the world. ; Bnt she does, for what is mother : when a hot-headed girl thinks she ! is in love, and so the poor woman has to sufTer all of the agonv that ! tears a mother s heart when she i watches the long drawn out agony iof her child's unfortunate mar j riage. And the mother deserves i everything she gets for she has I been false to her trust. She should ; have protected her daughter from j falling in love with the wronr man. I She should have manage! hotter. No woman should ever let any 1 man get on a visiting footing in i her house that she would not be ■ willing to see her dau£"iter marrv jif it came to that. On the eon ; trary. just as much as she should i protect her daughter against the : wrong man. she should give her a ! chance at the right man. Tt is the bounden duty of every mother with daughters to make her home one of the places where men like to go. she should tole eligible young men Into her parlors by means of a charming hospital ity. She should take the trouble to make herself agTeeable and attrac , tive and the sort of a possible mother-in-law that a man can think of without getting cold feet. She j shold not. of course, obviously run after marriageable youths, but she should extend them such a glad hand when they drop in that they will be I sure to come again. 1 Police Investigating Purchase of Revolvers by Mechanicsburg Boys Special to The Telegraph Mechanicsburg, Pa., July 2.—wftile suffering considerable ffom the wound caused by the bullet, Everett Smith, the lad who was accidentally shot by his companion, Paul Rltter, on Tues day afternoon while testing a revolver, is getting along fairly well, but the result continues uncertain. Had the bullet penetrated one-quarter of an inch higher death would have been certain, stated the physician. Inves tigations are being made by the au thorities, and the police have caused the boys in the crowd to produce the firearms In their possession, as they were suspicions that others were se creted. So far, six revolvers have been handed over to Chief of Police William Martin by this youthful band of gun ners. Two others. In addition to the one used in the shooting at the quarry, near town, were unearthed under a stone at that place, the boys having ; confessed the same to the chief. All of the weapons are In good condition, three being practically new. As to who I purchased them, and where, is the line the police are working on at present. MUTE SOCIETY BIRTHDAY Special to The Telegraph | Mechanicsburg, Pa., July 2. —Last evening the Mite Society of Trinity Lutheran Church held a birthday In gathering in the lecture room of the church. The program arranged by the president of the society, Mrs. R. M. Martin, Included a piano duet by Miss Pauline Sheeder and Miss Edith Spiinger; Instrumental quartet, Louis A. Diller, G. W. Hershman. D. L. Snavely and Frank Holllnger; vocal duet by Charles M. Senseman and J. Merzbacher. of New York; readings by Miss Margery Herman, of New Kings ton; Mrs. H. Hall Sharp and Mrs. John T. Lamb. The remainder of the even ing was spent socially and refresh ments were served. s "Candy Kid" At Picnics and Ball Games —EAT SOME V _ * Business Locals BETTER CUT THE SHOE than pinch the foot, is not modern logic. Send the shoes to us and we'll put on a new sole and expand the vamp so as to permit greater comfort. The shoe will then be as good as new. The Goodyear way is our way. While you wait, if desired. City Shoe Re pairing Co., 317 Strawberry street BREEZY THINGS for hot days. When the thermometer registers near the hundred mark Just get in out of the s'un and send for us to Install one of our oscillating electric fans. It will send a breeze into any corner you desire when you fall to find one any other place. Dauphin Elec trical Supplies Co., 434 Market street. COTTAGE OR SKY-SCRAPER We will cover either one with a coat of paint, Inside or outside; the smallest tenement or the finest resi dence will receive our attention. Es tablished in 1881, we've wellded the brushes eve/' since, and the Mechanics Bunk and the Telegraph buildings bear testimony to our ability and facility. Gohl & Bruaw, 310 Straw berry street. | Tn a word, without throwing her | dm: «'iters ,at young men's heads, she | should put them in the attitude of re ceiving the blessing of a proposal from i men who would make desirable hus . bands. And she should give the girls S a chance. Chaperoning a girl is highly j desirable, even necessary, but it should I be done so warily as never to be per- I ceptible. There are households In which a I girl's matrimonial prospects are frost j bitten by the entire family always sit- I ting around, helping to entertain her : beaux. This is a fatal play. You ' may take It for granted that no young I man puts on his best clothes and j comes around to listen to Mamma's ! babble abort how marketing has gone j up, or Papa's dissertation on what he | would do if he were Taft. Nor does j it conduce to love making for a young I man to overhear the hum of family ; gossip in the next room, and have a ; suspicion that little brother Is the sofa, and little sister is peeking I through the curtains. Matrimony has fallen off alarm ' ingly of late years since tht sub j stitutlon of the portiere for the ; solid oak door, a circumstance that i is doubtless attributable to the fact j that there are now so few places In i which a man can pop the question I with any sense of security that he I isn't being eavesdropped. This is a plain tip to mothers that I they should furnish Cupid the proper | stage setting if they went their daugh- I ters to marry. According to the divorce statistics the managing mother cuts a very con spicuous figure in the matrimonial dif ficulties in most households. If moth ers would only manage a little more before their daughters marry instead [ of waiting to do it afterward, all of this trouble might bo averted. And one last word—let no woman be scared off from doing her duty to her daughter by fear of being called a managing mother. It is every woman's business to help her girls get good husbands, and to throw oppor tunities In their way and quarantine them against the danger of falling In love with the dissipated, the immoral, the trifling, and the no-account youths that infest society. —— < Pennsylvania Couples Are Married at Hagerstown Special to The Telegraph Hagerstown, Md., July 2.—Miss Mary Woods and Alexander A. Miller, both of South Fork, Pa., were married here on Tuesday evening at the par sonage of Washington Square Metho dist Episcopal Church by the Rev. Allan F. Poore. ■Miss Edith I. Burnett and Eli M. Garrett, both of Mechanicsburg, Pa., were married in this city on Tuesday by the Rev. J. W. Kiracofe, a minis ter of the United Brethren Church. Marriage licenses were issued here yesterday by the clerk of the circuit court to the following persons: William J. Sliver, of Harrisburg, Pa., and En>ma R. Harris, of Mechanics burg. Pa.; James Berton Garwood, of Boyce, Va., and Alice Craver, of Har risburg, Pa. Linglestown Plans Great Events For Fourth of July Special to The Telegraph Linglestown, Pa., July 2.—This town will celebrate July 4 this year as never before. Arrangements have been made by the committee for two games of ball during the day, a pa rade and concert in the evening. Camp 23, P. O. S. of A., will have the Rev. Linebaugh of Hershey and other prominent speakers address a patro tic meeting at the festival, and dele gations of members of the order will be present from Harrisburg and vi cinity to help make the occasion a success. The Penbrook Band will fur nish music and the town will be doc orated with flags and bunting in keeping with the day. MECHANICS ELECT OFFICERS Special to The Telegraph Dillsburg, Pa., July 2.—At the regu lar meeting of council. No. 324, Order United American Mechanics on Tues day night the v following officers were elected: Councilor, J. Percy Heisey; vice councilor, S. C. Gross; recording secretary, Samuel E. Wagner; assist ant recording secretary, Bennett Karns; .financial secretary, William H. Shriver; examiner, H. J. Eurich; in side protector, John Baker; outside protector, W. H. Baker; trustee, J. R. McClure; treasurer, Charles Coulsin; inductor, George Martin. SIX DIE IN MONTH Special to The Telegraph Mechanicsburg, Pa., July 2. —During teh month of June, Mechanicsburg lost six persons by death, which wjis five more than the corresponding month last year. Three of the number had passed the three-score and ten mark. The list follows: June 10, Daniel Glace, 81 years; June 14, Joseph Huntsberger, 83 years; June 19, Pal mer Stevenson, 27 years; June 23, Martin Douglass, 8 4 years; June 24, Mrs. Charles May, 47 years; June 27, Mrs. Catherine H. Meloy, 70 years. TETANUS KILLS WOMAN Special to The Telegraph Grantllle, Pa., July 2. —Funeral ser vices of the late Mrs. William Nye, who died of tetanus caused by tramp ing in a nail, was held on Tuesday; from "ner late home near Indian Town Gap. Services and burial were held at the Moonshine Church by the Rev. O. R. Bittner, of Grantville. Mrs. Nye was aged 5 3 years and is survived by her husband and two daughters. Business Locals PRICES THAT PLEASE Never in the history of this great store have values been so Inviting, varieties so alluring or customers so enthusiastic over the merchandise pre sented as in this annual June clear ing sale. Real bargains when really needed the most. Decisive reductions on coats, stilts, skirts, dresses, waists and underwear. Klein Co., the new store for women, 9 North Market Square. **ARTY FAVORS Place cards and candy favors, guess ing games and all the things to do at a party to make it an enjoyable af fair to the guests, are here In excellent variety. Other games entertaining to the children as well as odd toys and things suitable for unique prizes at party gatherings. Marianne Kinder , Markt, 218 Locust street. Copyright. 1913, by Littla, Brawn tt Company "Don't call me Mr. Hawkins," pro tested Bill. "Call me Bill. This ain't any place for the mister business." Bill had gradually loosed his clothes as he talked. He was now ready to retire. Montgomery saw him lift his long, powerful arms and take hold upbn the edge of the upper pallet Without touching the lower one with his feet he drew himself up and swung into bed with the agility and ease of au or a ng. "Good night," he grunted from above. Montgomery prepared to retire, and when he was ready to creep under his blanket he knelt and bowed his head. The cell lights had been turned out. Hearing no sound from below, Bill loaned over the edge of his pallet and peered into the checkered shadows made by the tier lights shining through their bars. He saw the boy in prayer and held his peace. James Montgomery had started the long treadmill jaunt to the grave of a life convict. The gong awakened him in the morning, and he fell in line out side with the men of his tier, to be counted and accounted for in the morn ing report of his tier warden. The morning meal was dispatched in si lence, as prescribed by the rules, and he started work in the machine shops. The careful training his old mother had given him stood him in good stead. Every task that came to his hand he did cleanly and quickly. He found that t.he dreaded rule of silence was an advantage. He had much to learn about machinery and could apply him self to getting this knowledge without distraction of any sort. His foreman found him efficient, steady in his work and •willing. He promised to become one of the most uat-ful men who ever worked in prison garb. The weeks passed Into months and the months finally rounded out a year, and No. 60.108 had a white chevron sewed to his sleeve under the white disk. During the first year he had been as much cut off from the outer world as if he had gone down to the bottom of the sea with the crew of a sunken submarine. Now he was given pencil and paper. He had earned the privi lege of writing a letter. His heart hungered for a word from or about his mother. Resting a pad of paper on his knee, lie sat on the edge of his cot after the end of a year's work to write to her. The task was a mighty one. The very beginning of the letter with the words "Dear mother" shook his whole nature. His hand trembled violently and his heart beat so fast that he felt weak and 111. A great sorrow envel oped him, so great that It left no room for bitterness or protest. Just the touch of her dear hand, Just a glimpse of her dear, sweet face and the sound of one spoken word from her lips! Could any boon be as great? The tears filled his eyes and fell upon the sheet of paper. He turned from the task. The stretch of hopeless, bar ren years for both of them was before his mind's eye. He threw himself on his cot and sobbed. His burglar cellmate moved uneasily, not knowing what to say or do In the presence of such distress. "Say, kid," he said at last, "get a strangle hold on the Job. Don't let It floor you. Don't be taking the count, old fellow. 6imme a chance, and I'll write the letter for you If you tell me how to spell the words right." Montgomery felt the kindness and humanity in the offer. "I'm all right now, Bill," said he. "Thank you. I Just lost my nerve for a minute. I want to write my mother, and I didn't know what to tell her." "Tell her?" echoed Bill. "Why, there's lots to tell her. Tell her about the white disk you still got on your arm and about the white chevron. Tell her you're the best boy in the Sunday school and always know your lesson. Tell her that every time you get a white stripe there's something doing for a big, fine record and that after awhile they will let you out for being so good." The suggestion was a worthy one. Ho would tell her all of this, as the practical sense of the old burglar bad advised. He \?ou!d tell her also of his advance in his craft, of the new tools he had learned, to use, of the machin ery he was already building and re pairing and of his plans for perfecting mechanical devices. He would draw a picture of Inventions he had In mind and that he would have patented, of the fortune that he would make some day and of the spending of that for tune to gain his liberty and prove his innocence by finding the man who had killed the watchman. "That's the stuff, kid!" exclaimed the delighted old burglar. "You're bound to put it over on them yet. You got brains. The warden will help you get your patent, and there's plenty of law yers in this place to draw up the ap plications. Before you know it you will have money rolling in on you, and with money you can do anything in this world. You can buy political in fluence enough to get a pardon. Go to it, son, and make the old lady think that you'll soon be out and be a rich man too." In the morning Bill was ready with more suggestions. "If I could stomach all these rules like you," he said, "I wouldn't serve half my term, believe me. Once they get to trusting you they watch you less. You come and go like a trusty, and then some day you'll see your chance for a getaway, and off you go. And If you ever get a start all you got to do Is to beat It over the to the West Shore tracks and hop a fast freight for the Hackensack mellows. You'd be as safe there as In a Jungle. If the mosquitoes don't eat you aih*e you can take your time, and as soon as you get a coat and a pair of pants you're all right." "You mean try to escape?" "Sure," replied Bill. "Why not? You're in for life, and they can't add nothing to your sentence." "But the pardon?" "You might have to wait fifty years," said Bill, "and what's the use of get ling out then? You would starve to death. „ When the time comes I'll lend you a hand, kid. There'll be a way of slipping you a little money and getting clothes for you." Montgomery felt a curious little thrill of pleasure at the suggestion. I "There's lots of time, lots of time," Ihe warned. "Don't be in any hurry. You can afford to wait five years if necessary. Just keep at. your Job, but nil the time keep your eyes skinned for the chance. It will come some day «ure." CHAPTER Planning. NO. 60,108 began t<m count the hours and dn.r> the prob able momeiit / n tie would receive an hi to his first letter from prison. His home was hardly more than twelve miles away from Sing Sing, but it was across the river and well out in the country. It would depend upon the rural system for its delivery. Aa it traveled on its way, he let his mind follow it with many tender and yet distressing thoughts of her who would receive it Two days passed and the looked for letter came. It was delivered to him O. K.'d by the deputy in charge of the correspondence department He studied the handwriting on the en velope. It was not in the old fash ioned script of his mother, and hla hands shook as he drew forth the letter and unfolded it He glanced at the signature and read the name of Margaret Wadhama, a friend and neighbor of his mother. She wrote that his mother had been very ill and that her eyesight was fail ing rapidly. She could not see well enough to write and hnd asked Miss Wadhama to do the writing for her. "She tells me to write you only a bright letter," wrote Miss Wadbams, "but I think it is my duty to tell you that your dear mother has broken very rapidly and I believe that she has not many more days to live. Her heart was crushed by the blow that fell upon you and that was only in tended for you, James. She is patient and prays constantly that some day your innocence will be established. [To Be Continued] AMUSEMENTS Paxtang Park THEATER CORR & SYTELLE The Musical Crockery Shop JIM GILDEA EVANS & ANDERSON The Stiener Trio I Fire Works Friday Evening \ Sacred Band Concert Boiling Springs Park Bth REGIMENT BAND OF CARLISLE Sunday, July 5,2 P.M. / fjjT MARK "jj teGULdI Why b* wutl|«M wkem Renb work. Cu be kai at all trng mtwrem. Try Telegraph Want Ads. Safety in Summer Safety in Summer comes from a wise selection of easily digested foods which supply the maximum of nutriment with the least tax upon the digestive organs. Food follies in Summer lower vitality and decrease efficiency. The ideal diet for the sultry days is SHREDDED WHEAT with fresh fruit and green vegetables, a combination that is cooling and satisfying, supplying all the strength needed for work or play. The world's universal, staple breakfast cereal. Ask your grocer. Always heal the Biscuit in oven to restore critpneM| then pour over it milk or cream, adding salt or sugar to suit the taste. Delicioualy nourishing for any meal in combination with berries or other fruits of any kind. Try toasted Triscuit, the Shredded Wheat Wafer, for luncheon with butter, cheese or marmalades. Made only by The Shredded Wheat Company, Niagara Falls, N. Y. FOURTH O F JU L Y Why not open a charge account by using our Store Or- I ders. They are accepted as cash for any and all merchandise purchased at Leading Department and Best Cash Stores. <STORE ORDER SYSTOT> You CREDIT Whare You Wbnt It MARKET STREET BELL PHONE 2749R AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS 4TP 1 Colonial rp l j 1 o=day Theatre 10-day | 1 FIRST OF OUR HOME-MADE MOVIES 1 1 "Kid Gloves Don't Make a Hero" ff Written in Harrisburg Acted in Harrisburg 1 1 Taken in Harrisburg Shown in Harrisburg J Come and See Your Neighbors Act i J See the Rescue in the Susquehanna I i[===inr=ini=3gEinias=ini=a=sirai=g«inmsnni=ini=ini^ama| | F' rewor^B - JULY FOIIRTH-Firework, I | Biggest and liveliest display of the day at HERSHEY PARK. I Magnificent Extra Attraction. I Paine's Fireworks j Finest ever seen In Ilauphln county. Something doing all the time, fS not a doll moment In Herehey Park. GREAT BAND OP 40 PIECES. I TWO ORCHESTRAS. DANCING ALL DAY TWO 810 DANCING PAVILIONS UJ SIO,OOO CAR HOUSE 1.1. CONCRETE SWIMMING POOL □ SHOOT-THE-CHUTB ROW BOATS D MOTOR BOATS , ELECTRIC RAILWAY CHILDREN'S ALL-STEEL PLAYGROUND APPARATUS SPECIAL ATTRACTION IN THEATER g BASEBALL —Morning and Afternoon—HEßSHEY vs. NEW HOLLAND | FAMOUS HERSHEY 7.00 Plentv of sport and Intercut for all ages. Plenty of room for all and I 1!J the moat daidlng display of Firework* ever aeen In thla locality, 1 HERSHEV PARICj Coal Is Cheapest and Best Now To buy coal now la to buy It at tha cheapest price for which it can be obtained during the year. And then you gain In quality, too, for tha coal aent from the mines at thla time of the year may ba thoroughly acreened bsfore delivery, a difficult matter In cold weather when froat will cauae the dirt to cling to tha coal, flo to buy Montgomery coal now la to buy the beat quality of the beat coal at tha loweat prices. Place your order. J. B. MONTGOMERY Both Phones Third and Chestnut Streets Try Telegraph Want Ads. 13
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