; Life's Problems Are Discussed By Mrs. Wilson Wood row I read a book not long ago in •which the writer had permitted hlm eelf some comparisons, not neces sarily odious, of man and woman. "Man," he asserts, "Is given to all the boyish, vagrom, visionary things of building and exploring and de stroying. Woman has a hard raven ousness for clean-cut, tidy things. Woman is not a sentimentalist; she la clear, defined." Personally, I am always inclined to disagree with those statements of fundamental mental difference in the sexes. I believe that, bar train ing and tradition, men and women are very much alike. Nevertheless, 1 do think the remark about woman's "hard ravenousness for clean-cut, tidy things" Is a stroke of genius. If you will consider the matter, you will realize that true feminine efficiency is of a very high order. As an example, women have shown themselves to be remarkable me chanical workers. The rapidity with •which the.v have mastered the intri cacies of machinery has been re garded as almost phenomenal. When the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense was Organized a few weeks ago they eent out a message to the women of the country which was clear, ex plicit and necessary. From one end of the United States to the other women of every kind and degree were stretching out their hands and crying: "What can 1 do to help?" t And the women from the little group whose task It is to organize this eager enthusiasm and desire for 6rvice into one harmonious, effec tive force sent answer, urging as a first duty that all women everywhere ehould concentrate on food produc tion and flood conservation, and combine all their powers to keep life Bteady, normal and sane. Of course this does not deny the necessity for special service. There will be training in various branches for women who show a particular fitness, and a call upon these to give the best that Is in them; and many opportunities will undoubtedly arise from time to time where women can help. Yes: there will be plenty of work for all to do. But our first, our paramount duty throughout the progress of the war Is to keep our heads, which means the doubling, the trebling of our efficiency. We have fortunately, by this time passed through the seething period •when every woman you know was hustling like mad in the service of one of the countless war relief funds, or home garder leagues; or else act ing as a specii . recruiting officer. You found yourself buying flags of all sizes at every opportunity, and innumerable stacks of booklets and post cards. Petitions were thrust at you from every quarter for your | signature, and one would have had to possess all the special stomachs of a camel if one had attended all the dinners to which one was invited for the purpose of exploiting some new method of "doing your bit." But that was just the first bub bling of the pot, which presently settled down to its orderly business of steady boiling. And although we may smile a litle at the overzeal •which was shown in some directions, and may ridicule in our irreverent,' American fashion some of the schemes proposed and some Z.DU< Worth to Voile and Organdie Dresses ( in th tS ' hand , some . striped taffeta skirts • Made of all wool serge in navy, Copenhagen blue; assorted sizes 4 c i D • Tk 1 Worth to $4.00. (ho Of\ £ ™ in a good assortment of colors, all the newest models; assorted sizes. only; 19 capes in the lot. Sale Price *J/ JL ,mO SIP !k 'j |; WASH SKIRTS! WASH SKIRTS! More Extra Big Clean Sweep Bargains j ni( dels, made of fine sheer Organdy I C 5:S w KTrts ; wtr;: sh ™w. stsx ° { | ► S LSO; Sal e Price „69 c SIJS. Sale Price.. 95 C to *j ; so. Sa leP"ce • . to $3.00. Sale Girls' White DreSSPS INFANTS'CO ATS—Two Big #/|||/|\ / 1 y White basket weave and White gabardine, white rep crash- a number of rtvlM to . VIIIIO TT 111 IC I/ICobCO O T3 • SLi/Pl U I as*~ i ZLm I ' "Hundreds of FRESH NEW WASH DRESSES in the CLEAN-SWEEP SALE - Organdy and I to $1.25. Clean Sweep Price 79c 91V II ' ► , w ■ ■ wwaaaHi wm■ ■■ ■■ \ oiles. Made in very attractive One Lot of 50 INFANTS' FINE C ii ► W £™^l^ and MISSES ' WOMEN'S and MISSES' WOMEN'S and MISSES'(WOMEN'S and MISSES" i 3'les and trimmed with fine laces, I WHITE PIQUE COATS; Worth ■ 1/ I > SUMMER DRESSES SUMMER DRESSES SUMMER DRESSES i SUMMER DRESSES embroidery and ribbons. 6to 14- to $2.00. Clean Sweep r\ Q J il Worth to $3.00. 7 Q Worth to $4.00. /IQ Worth to $5.00. OA f\ Worth to $7.50. A 7 A year sizes. Price UOC C ► P r i ce V 1 • Sale Price Sale Price $3*49 Sale Price *b4 •9 4 Fi.nnn. / ► chotc e of \ oiles and Ginghams, fl gures an(l Beautilul Voiles and Ginghams. °range d i # in assorted colors and sizes. and sizes. Assorted colors, styles and sizes. styles. All sizes 1 i I WOMEN'S & MISSES' WOMEN'S & MISSES' I HANDSOME TAFFETA SILK COAT nel' '! AllOtllCr V/ICSIII iJ W66D oale I: f , Silk POPLIN DRESSES SILK DRESSES SUITS. Sale Price 3>y.yD ' i; jL t' I J [ 6 : 50 52.95 Me wet. $4.95 Q e : | of Women's White Shoes & Pumps || J ~ , . Handsome Silk Poplin Dresses; Sale Price VAI• 17 U i ' % sizes to 44. . sorted f colors f^ind S size^' CSSeS ' 33 k inno n 1 ?' Sii Us-" ass or t e"d i'z ' n ? ost ' s one and two o{ a < \ All Popular New Summer Styles I ? Coats! Coats! Coats! Hundreds of Spring Coats in the Clean Sweep Sale' ij Be Prompt, Quantities Are Limited 1 ' WOMEN'S and MISSES' WOMEN'S and MISSES'! WOMEN'S and MISSES' WOMEN'S and MISSES' < ij || | SPRING COATS SPRING COATS SPRING COATS SPRING COATS ' i: - q I| • [J I v ni I iiri •. /"• z Worth to $4.50. <£ 1 Qg Worth to $5.00. (tn Q[- Worth to $7.50. d Q Afi Worth to sls. Q£ < j[ GSIIVdS PIIITI pS Lmeil lUmpS LdCe SIIO6S White LcUlVclS I Sale Price D 1 it/O Sale Price Sale Price Sale Price ! Values to $2.5. Values to $.oo. Values to $2.75. Snnrf 5 xu . r.v i ™ _ ! Blacks, Navies. Tans. Greens 4 !' Sale Price Sale Price Sale Price uUOII IMIOCO |l M Neat Checks and Plaids. Sizes Black and Navy Serges. Sizes Black and Blue Serges. Neat G old. in a good .assortment of < | M tlT* W Values to $2.50. \ to to 44. I Checks and Mixtures. and sizes. *L 1 /I UL I '~V WL ■ '~V Sale Price jj M k must learn the thrift which makes waste a crime, and yet does not mean the foolish, panic retrenchment unset tling to business. It Is a fine thing and a patriotic thing to "do one's bit" in the actual service of one's country, or by help ing along In the work of the vari ous movements and relief funds, -or by cultivating a garden and con serving the food supply. But It is just as fine and just as patriotic to keep the American home up to standard and American busi ness going on as usual. FELL FROM ROOF Shippensburg, Pa., July 13—James Cramer, while working on the roof at the home of Benjamin Barklon fell to the ground and was severely injured. JULY 13,1917. Italian Censor Baffled Over New Code Discoveries Rome, June 11.—The Italian Cen sors Office has been baffled for two years In an effort to discover the meaning of little groups of letters and dashes, such as "axyz-wty" and so on, which appear at the ends of news items sent out by the Associ ated Press in New York and re mailed from there to the Associated Press correspondents from whom the items came. These marks are the initials of the writer, editor, or ir.anifolder of the Jtem, but appar ently the employes of the Censors Bureau suspected they conveyed some mystic meaning for when re ceived by the correspondent here, they have often been cut out of the pages, or carefully obliterated with ink, or sometimes, the entire batch ot mall is withheld for two or three months at a time. Tne latter Is the favorite method pursued by the censor's office for preventing information of a harmful nature from being disseminated. It is not unusual for news cables or business dispatches of a nature seemingly suspicious to be quietly forwarded a week or so after the sender has forgotten having filed them. On the whole, however, from an American point of view, there has been little complaint regarding eith er cables or malls, considering the activity of spies In Italy. Most of the complaints are made editorially by Italian newspapers which, when news is dull, print long tirades de claring that the censor Is suppress ing interesting news. 5