WOMEWS I
WHY CAN'T YOU
TO SPEND HOUSEHOLD MONEY?
By Uea'trlee Fairfax
"I can't decide," says Janet, "I haven't |<
the least Idea whether I ought to spend I <
niy money going over to see my sister I:
for a week-end, or whether I ought to i
take the same money and buy her a
presest, or whether it will be better to |
ksave the money. There are reasons for
doing each. X simply can't decide." j
Which means that Jane will not take j
any of the courses she has outlined,
but will instead buy herself a new waist.
and some handkercheifs with the j
money.
Do you knew what "I can't decide" i
really means? It means that you are I
to sit down quietly and do a little men- j
tal and moral bookkeeping. It is al- j
ways possible to figure out what you |
think is the best thing to do in a given
situation. If your decision turns out J
to be wrong, at least you have the '
moral force to make a choice, and you [
have to be a good enough sport to abide j
by it unless you are a clever enough j
manager to rearrange the situation and !
Its conditions. .
When two or three courses are open j 1
to you and you are tempted to say "I j i
can't decide," why not sit down with a ;
paper and pencil and figure the thing ; f
out like a problem in mathematics? 1
Life 1s mostly human mathematics, af
ter all—a matter of equations and the
finding out the shortest distance be
tween two points. And when it comes
to your personal equation, no one but ;
yourself can solve it. The sooner you |
realize that the better.
Shifting the burden of responsibility
ts an evasion that does not work. You 1
say, "I can't decide," but what you j
mean is, "I hate the bother of making ]
tip my mind. It is so hard to determine j
what I ought to do and as long as there J
Fashions of To-Day - By May Manton
TF the reader is considering a
I trip to any one of the
Southern resorts she will
y/vjfe ]'k e to make this dress of silk
LgVf* jersey or of pongee or of ma
it I terial of such sort. It is a
A Very farming model, adapted
ot ' l to s P orts to general
tW \ morning wear. If a colder
luj: fsf; ifjf { \ climate is to be considered, it
ml ill A I ft would be pretty to make the
(i f /®-c : j///i \\ skirt of broadcloth or of serge
111 •■*"* i' it/f \li \ t * ie b' ouse of crepe de chine
7uU Nj \ in a matching color. Crepe de
ivjgß chine is one of the pronounced !
Jwff | p u\\ favorites of the incoming fash
l/J ' VOJ \\ ' ons and it; will 1)6 utilized in
f y-n numberless ways. Here, how
vf/ It . \ fll \ ever, the dress is made of natural
v # I i \ jH;r colored pongee with bands of
J II I I / narrow braid. If you want a
111 I i I W\/ rca ' sports effect you could use
81 I I | W a brighter color, you could make ,
111 \\ t ' ie s k' rt w hite and the blouse
IPI I\\ ce " se or B°'d color or blue.
I I l\ | \ For the medium size the
I II I\ \ blouse will require, 3 yards of
% "*> I n ■lft \ material 36 inches wide, 2®^
II i \ yards 44 and the skirt, 4}^
E I yards of either width.
FS blouse pattern No. 9324
L I I ILJ - S cut ' n s ' zes f rom 34 to 44
Ij inches bust measure and the
jTC I skirt No. 9319 in sizes from 26
I I l\ \ Hi 1 to 36 inches waist measure.
I\j \ \ II I 1 Thay will be mailed to any
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partment of this paper, on re
ceipt of fifteen cents for each.
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Our lines are still unbroken in styles and sizes due to the
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These shoes are now being sold at the old prices which
means 50c to SI.OO less than present market value.
Misses' and Children's Goodyear welted shoes broad toes,
flexible soles, smooth innersoles, give comfort and wear, in vici
gun metal and patent at $1 ..>9 for 8% to 11, and #1.98 for 1
to 2. Present values up to $3.00.
Gun Metal Shoes full broad toes, heavy soles, good looking
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Present values up to $2.00.
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FRIDAY EVENING,
Is a choice of courses I'd like some one
I else to tell which to take, so that if P
[come out wrong I won't feel I have only
! myself to blame."
Suppose your decision does turn out |
to have been the less wise one? If you]
know you made an honest effort to face I
the situation and figure out how you j
ought t,o meet it. at least you have the
comforting knowledge that you tried.
Indecision is laziness, or , mental
weakness, or both. Who wants to take
unto herself the title of possessing
those characteristics?
When a difficult situation arises and
there is a choice of one or two courses,
if you really want to force yourself
to a decision, try this : Sit down with i
pencil and paper ruled into as many j
columns as there are choices, and in !
each column make a subdivision for j
reasons pro and con. Actually reduce j
the situation to mathematics. Add up j
the reasons for doing a tiling and the i
reasons against doing it. When you j
have subtracted one from the other, you
will get the actual value of action or
inaction. And when you discover that,
as the saying goes. "There's no per
centage in a thing," you'll have very
little difficulty In deciding against do
ing it.
So, when you have gotten the re
sults of subtracting all your reasons
against action in one case from -your
reasons for action, just compare yotir
result and take the one that is nu
merically best and greatest.
LiOglc and mathematics and a con
quest of mental Inertia will do away
with the stupid old formula, "I can't
decide." Sadly I confess that inde
cision is a feminine rather than a mas
culine fault. Men are sometimes in
clined to a fault in the opposition di
rection—too great cocksureness and a
certain stubbornness in deciding.
An open mind, a willingness to think |
and a logical ability to estimate values j
makes decision a comparatively easy [
thing.
TEACH CHILDREN
TO BE THRIFTY
Parents Make Mistake in Cul
tivating Extravagance In
stead of Economy
By Dorothy Dix
Are you raising your boy to be a
spender?
Are you teaching your girl to be a
waster?
Are you bringing up your children
to throw money away, and to think
the only use of a dollar is to blow it
in as qulcky as possible?
Are you Inculcating In your child
ren no idea of economy, and no habit
of thrift?
If you are you are blighting your
children s lives. You are handicapping
their future.
\ou are raising up a man who will
be poor, and hard run, and in debt
to the end of his days. He will be one
of those men who with plenty of ability
and energy, never arrive anywhere, and
who at last get discouraged and quali
fy as members of the Down and Out
Club.
ou are raising up a daughter who
will keep lim husband's nose to the
grindstone as long as he lives, and who
will bar his way to success by her
mountain of bills.
Fond and Foollnh Parent* Often Stint
ThemNelve* to Spoil Their Children
The greatest fault In the American
character is extravagance, and instead
of trying to eradicate it in their child
ren, the average father and mother cul
tivate it.
Go into any household that you will,
and you will be shocked at the way
the children /are taught to waste
money. AH day long there is a never
ending appeal from Johnnie and Mary
and Susie for dimes for the movies,
nickels for ice cream and soda water
and pennies for this or that.
This is the case even among people
who have to toil hard for every dollar
they have, and who live always on the
ragged edge of hard times. They are
bound that their children shall be indul
ged. Father will do without the warm
coat that he needs and mother will wear
leaky shoes that Johnnie and Mamie
may have some ridiculously expensive
toy upon which they have set their
hearts.
We want our chiildren to be happy.
We don't want them to be burdened
when they are litte by having to think
how far a dollar may be made to go,
as we do. They'll have to worry about
money soon enough," say these "parents
in self excuse for their folly.
A Child Trained to Extrnvngnnee In
Foredoomed to Poverty All His Life
To which one may reply if you be
gin teaching children thrift in their
cradles they will not have to stretch
their dollars so far, nor will they need
to worry about money when they come
to their parents' age. Nothing is more
certain than this, that if we take care
of our money when we are young, our
money will take care of us when we are
old.
Any boy that grows up with the be
lief that money was only made to spend
and whose money burns in his pocket
until it burns a hole through it. is fore
doomed to poverty. No matter how
much he makes it all goes for noth
ing.
He can never take advantage of the
opportunities that come his way, be
cause opportunity has to be backed by
a bank account. If he gets sick or
loses his job, he becomes a burden on
other people, and in his old age he is
dependent on the charity of others. He
has got nothing to show for his life's
work just because he has never learned
to save when he was young.
The wickedest woman on earth is no
more a curse to her husband than is
a good woman who is wasteful and ex
travagant. No man can make any
headway against a wife with a spend"-
ing mania.
She makes of her husband a slave
who is so'd into bondage to milliners
and dressmakers, and grocers an( j
butchers. Many a great career, many
a great man's life is sacrificed to a
woman's having the bargain counter
habit.
All of these catastrophles could be
| prevented by parents teaching their
children habits of thrift ivhen they are
little. If every child was taught to save
(instead of to spend; if it was taught
that a collection of nickels Is far more
interesting than a collection of marb
les or dolls, that one of the most ex
citing things in the world is to watch
a bank account grow, we should do
away with riine-tentlis of our failures
and loafers and half of our divorces.
Xor Is this as difficult a thing as it
seems. Foolish spending Is simply a
bad habit. It's merely the gratification
of a passing fancy.
Most of the things that children
waste money on they don't want the
second after they have them, as is
proven by the clutter of toys that every
child possesses that he never plavs with
—useless toys that often total up into
hundreds of dollars.
If the child were taught to at least
put half of all the money given him
in the bank, and show how this money
grows, and how it represents some
big thing that he wants, while the
money that lie has spent has gone
forever, he would soon become as in
terested in saving as he is in wasting.
A Saving* Hunk Account Appi-iil* to
a Child a* Few Other Thing* Do
kvery child should havo a savings
bank account started in his own name.
He should be permitted to go person
ally to the bank with his little de
posits, and he will soon come to feel
that it's a far more interesting ex
perience than a visit to the candy shop,
and that the serfse of pride In having
a real bank book to show the other
boys is a more exhilarating feeling
than exhibiting a new bat or ball.
I have seen the bank account ex
periment tried on numerous small boys
and girls, and I have never seen a child
yet that didn't respond enthusiastically
to it, nor one who didn't get so inter
ested in it that he or she didn't soon
begin to let mother and father and
uncles and aunts know that a check
was the most acceptable of all pres
ents on birthdays and holidays.
You can ,get a child interested in
saving for a definite purpose. -a.
bicycle, a motorboat, a trip— anything
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HABJUSBURG TELEGRAPH
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g§ at really remarkable savings. / M
B ji- Come early wh ile the selections are best. A deposit will reserve any article for future U
g' delivery. Charge accounts can be arranged. / ||l
|, Extraordinary Values In Dining Room Furniture
| 9-Piece Queen Anne Dining Suite Special $l6O j
lOf Antique Brown Mahogany—consisting of 60-inch Buffet, large China Closet with mul- B
honed glass panels, 48-inch Extension Table and 6 leather slip seat Chairs. An exquisite suite §
and an exceptional bargain. See it.
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large China Closet and <> leather slip seats, specially priced alnnt consisting of 54-ineh Buffet, 48-inch Extension Table, g
at $125. large China Closet and U leather slip seat Chairs; specially Srs
priced at 8200. '
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that is a big desire, and in so doing you •
have taught him one of the great les
sons of life, to sacrifice the impulse of
the moment for a greater pleasure later
on. or do without the little things that
he may have the big thing. i
Teach your children thrift when ! I
they are little. It makes them good j
citizens, good husbands, good wives.
It assures them of Independence audi 1
prosperity. ■ Don't be afraid of making
them care too much for money. The
people who care most for money are
those who haven't got it, and who feel
the need of it at every turn.
Don't raise your children to be i
spenders.
Referee Dies While
Taking Train For Home
Elmer K. Saylor, referee in com- |
pensation for the district comprising |
Dauphin, and adjoining j
counties, died suddenly in a Pennsyl
vania Railroad train which he had just
boarded to go to his Lancaster home
yesterday afternoon. Mr. Saylor had
been unwell for a few days and in- !
sisted on coming here to hold hearings i
in scheduled cases, holding that they ,
were matters of importance which had
to be cleared up. Me had just sat 1
down when he suffered an attack of <
heart disease and died immediately <
after. His remains were sent home, t
accompanied by attaches of the Com- I
pensation Bureau. i
Mr. Saylor was named as one of the
first referees and had made an excel- i '
lent record in disposing of cases. Mr. i
Saylor was born in Washington bor- '
ough, Lancaster county, on January 7, !
1862. lie was a son of Mrs. Annie E. I
(Keen) Saylor and the late David .
Saylor. He resided in Washington i
borough for twenty-three years, being
engaged during that time in farming
and the study of telegraphy. He then
moved to Lancaster, where he was J
made buyer of dry goods in the Watt I f
& Shand department store, which po-'t
sition lie held for about six years,
giving it. up to accept a similar one In 1 1
Erie. Pa., but he was in Erie only for;!
a short time. During the adminis-> t
tration of Mayor John P. McCaskev I
Mr. Saylor was appointed assistant city
controller of Lancaster and held his
office until the expiration of Mayor <
McCaakey's term, when he was ap- j
| pointed deputy State factory, inspector, i
r '
serving under tlio late Can tain John <\
Deluney and later under <.'ommissloner
Jackson.
When Frank 15. McClain. now lieu
tenant-Governor of Pennsylvania; was
elected mayor of Lancaster Mr.
Saylor was appointed superintendent
of the water works and served in
that capacity throughout Mayor Mc
clain's administration and during a
part of the term of 11. I-. Trout, pres
ent mayor of Lancaster, who is
McClain's successor.
Besides his widow, who was Miss
Margaret Erisman, of MillersvUle,
1-ancaster county, before marriage, he
is survived by his mother and these
brothers and sisters: E. 1,. Saylor, Fal
liston, Bucks county; W. H. Saylor,
Ephratn, Lancaster county; Margaret,
wife of M. H. Mill, of Philadelphia,
and Carrie, wife of Samuel It. Myers,
of Bareville, Lancaster county.
C. of C. Hears of Dishonest
Solicitors Every Day
Another warning has been sent out
by the Harrisburg Chamber of Com
merce against fake salesmen and dis
honest solicitors for special advertis
ing propositions, church nnd charity
causes. All members are urged to
communicate with the Chamber so
that all propositions can be investi
gated. Cases of dishonest operations
are reported daily, it is claimed..
Special notices have been sent out
by the Chamber urging members to
attend the meeting of the Harrisburg
Chapter of the American Bed Cross
Society to be held in Eahnestock Hall
to-morrow evening. The Harrisburg
Auto Show, which will open on Satur
day. also is commended.
SHIItLEY MASON'S JOKE
This Joke was written by Shirley
Mason of McClure Pictures, one of the
stars cf Seven Deadly Sins. Sho takes
all the blame.
Mother (reading from her paper)
Tt Is "the most colossal, astounding,
audacious, powerful, stupefying, mas
terful. mammoth"
Father What's that more stuff
about the war? !*f
Mother—lndeed not. It's the des
cription of the two reel picture that's
going to be at the' Nickelodeon to
morrow*
FEBRUARY 9, 1917.
Dr. Walsh of New York
to Lecture on Shakespeare
MBr y
DR. JAMES J. WALSH
Dr. James J. Walsh, of New Yorlt
City, will lecture on "Shakespeare
Then and Now" on Tuesday evening,
February 13 at 8 o'clock; in the Tech
nical High School Auditorium. The
lecture will be conducted under the
auspices of the Knights of Columbus
lodge. Dr. Walsh has lectured in all
parts of the United States and has
been recalled to the majority of the
cities where he has talked. Those who
have heard htm many times know
that he will handle the subject from
an individual standpoint.
In his lecture Dr. Walsh brings out
the fact that it was a mighty, lucky
' j J
thing for Shakespeare that ho viral
born 350 years ago and work for tliu
people or that time rather than ours.
The Londoners of Elizabeth's tim*
fairly crowded to Shakespeare's plays.
It is impossible to Ret good audience*
for Shakespeare's plays now. Musical
comedies, trivial shows of many kinds
are crowded and sometimes run foe:
a eouple of years but Shakespeare'#
plays, and a great many have never
seen any, it is quite impossible to get
a hearing for them in our large citiei
for more than a few nights.
Husband Has Dying Habit,
but It Doesn't Fool Wife
Chicago, HI., M r j,,
\ iolet Daniels Furna, a former
member of the Chicago Grand
Opera Company, anil wife of Dr. John
T. Kurno, u physician, blames cabaret*
and women for their separation. J
"He has hounded me so that at last
I ve M<*d a bill for divorce." she said-
The strange.part of. this.is.that I be-2
lieve he still loves ine. He has a habit
of 'dying of ptomaine poison' when he
wants to see me. He sends me tele
grams saying he's at the point of death.
Ho fooled me once. But never again." •
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