16 FIRST STEP IS VERY HARDEST ''Have You Had Any Experi ence?" Cause of Much Misery By BEATRICE FAIRFAX "Have you had any experience?" "Who has not faced the unanswera ble misery of being forced to admit that experience is the very thing he wants to gain and that this is his first application for a Job! Recently one of my correspondents, a woman who had studied nursing and who had for Ave years kept up her own home, applied for a position as chambermaid in a hotel. She was asked if she had ever done the work for which she was applying and she liad to confess that this was her first effort. "Oh, we can't employ inex perienced women," was her dismissal. The young actress striving for her first hearing, the unknown writer, Ifh wnnts a staff position in some syndicate wfccre eKperience can be gotten, the young doctor waiting for his first patient, the lawyer eagerly anxious to prove himself by serving his clients well—all of them know the agony of being scorned and passed by because they have had "no experi ence." Life itself is a laboratory in which "we test out practically the theories we have learned In our textbooks. How trite it is to say that there has to be a first time for everybody! How almost equally trite It is to say that perhaps our eagerness to do well •will make us measure more carefully and plan more exactly the first time than after the much vaunted experi ence has made us carelessly riady to take for granted our ability to do the job. One Experience Recently one of the highest-priced writers in America settled a bet by Bending a story of his to a magazine which had handled quantities of his "stuff." Instead of signing his name, something as unknown as John Jones was appended; and the man who gets two thousand dollars for a story got a rejection slip! The idea of the magazine to which he sent his story •was clearly, "None but authors who have proven themselves need apply!" The author's friends are still trying to decide whether his stuff was so poor that nothing but his well-known name could have swung it, or whether the unknown name failed to secure a reading! Most of us pick up magazines on the newsstands and scan them hastily for the names of writers who have given us interesting half-hours In the past. All of life is like that. After you have proven yourself, every one agrees that you were always worth your chance (or confides that it is a mystery how <you ever got it). The point is that you want your chance— before you get it! A few months ago a girl came to me In bitterness and desperation. She bad gone to a dramatic agency to apply for a part. The agent gave her a bit of verse to read and was so pleased with the girl's rwdition of the poem that a chance to run over a part which was right there In the office was given her. That, too, was satisfactory. Then the agent turned to her and asked Alice what experi ence she had had. The girl had to confess that she had none. "Well, you are very clever; go and get a year's experience and come back to me and I will be glad to place you." And Alice sobbed out wearily the tale of how almost a dozen offices had said the same thing to her. How Is any one of us going to take the first step if all the rest of us stand blocking the way and say that directly we have taken that step we are to be worth considering? An Explanation Why aren't all of us a little bet ter sports about beginners? Why don't we have a feeling of adventure at the thought of discovering some body new and worth while? Why don't we remember our own pitiful, trembling, long-deferred beginnings? Are we afraid of youth—afraid it will wrest our laurels from us? A friend of mine, who is the editor of a syndicate, offers a very sane ex planation of why it is so difficult to take "a first step." "If I come down in the morning and find that my read er has put twenty manuscripts on my desk and I realize that it is going to take me six hours to go all through those manuscripts and that I have already six hours work scheduled for an eight-hour day, what do I do— what must I do? "I glance at the names on the title pages. There are three or four there which mean something to me. I know those people; they turn out' good stuff—l have to have three or four stories right away, and so I read what I can count on. If I still find myself in need of another story I glance over the things submitted by the unknowns. A good first para graph, a clever title, a brisk conclu sion—any of these may take my eye. But about the only chance the un known has is for the known to fall me!" All of us are a little too busy to do much investigating—too busy, too selfish or too lazy. AVe like what we can count on; it is easier to use that than to search for something else. But we are miserably selfish and un fair and forgetful of our own begin nings when we refuse to try to help other people make their beginning. Ice 18 Feet Thick Walls Austrian Forts Rome, Aug. 1. The difficulties ex perienced by Italian Alpinl recently In storming some of the Austrian for tifications on the slopes near Corno Cavento were enormous. While summer is here, in the high mountains the conditions are still those of winter. One recent battle took place at a. height of 10,000 feet, with the troops approaching the en emy forts on skis. In some places the Austrian forts are actually built of solid Ice with walls frequently 18 feet thick. Such conditions of warfare are common on this front. • The Italian troops are dressed from head to foot in white, so as not to attract attention. So well are the Italians prepared that recent losses have been surprisingly light in thlß area of mid-summer "snow warfare." $345,000.0Q0 FOR ALLIES Washington. Aug. 2. A further extension of credit was made yester day to Great Britain and France by this Government. The amount ad vanced to Great Britain was |lßr>,ooo,- 000 and the allowance to France was $160,000,000, a total of $346,000,000, leaving a balance yet to be granted of 155,000,000 of the regular program of $400,000,000 a month for the ally Governments. The total thus far given to Great Britain is $955,000,000 and to France $530,000,000. REPORT 40,000 STARVED Paris, Aug. 2. Forty thousand Greeks have been starved to death in ICastern Macedonia since the Bul garian occupation began, according to authentic reports received by the Greek Government, says a Havas dis patch to Athens. "The Bulgarians," adds the correspondent, "have carried .on a systematic persecution of the Greek element in the population looking to Its extermination. They have Inflicted all sorts of privations upon the Greeks, burdening them with military work and deporting them to } Bulgarian localities.". THURSDAY EVENING. Dives, & Stewart . —; T x HE fields Of America have yielded a wonderful harvest; the world is to be fed and clothed j_l C* PITT 1 1 I^J - ° a L±CIL VTOtUI Ud V Illg b I from her many products. We should rejoice that such bountiful supplies have been given ijOth OeCtIOTIS OT WrlSh ( TOOQS • £1 . . us - So the Harvesting of Nature's offerings will benefit mankind everywhere. in OUmmer rOOLWPaT* August finds usi winding up stocks of summer merchandise, and a Harvest of rare fJ Mrr | TTWvm ir fVI Qolo values has been gathered throughout the store for your benefit and profit. X? X OXll 111 L>li.G A\ omen s $1.75 and $2.00 white pumps and oxfords. Har- ~ " Many of the best values f the season are included in this vest Sale Price $1.45 TT „ ~ 1 T T T • "l double list of Harvest Sale specials in fine cotton dress goods. Hosiery and Underwear Specials w^:' : nthis Ust cannot * duplics,ed when ,he lo,s are c,caned up - -mH W omen's $4.50 patent'colt and trun metal oumos a WOMEN S IMON SUITS length. Harvest Sale Price, suit. 50c silk lisle hose, fashioned y a Jd erouninp of broken lin#> r.f v 7 5c white and pink cotton 42c feet, black and white. Harvest „ ° Jc Pongee. silk and cotton, tan and colored grounds and fancy u tr Luoktn lines Ot our famous Queen Oualltv union suits, sleeveless, knee $1.25 grey mixed union suits, Sale Price, ;s9c figures. Harvest Sale Price, yard, 25c shoes. Harvest Sale Price . . ~*R'2 SQ length, regular and extra sizes. short sleeves, sisies 34 and 36. 65 silk hose, seamless, lisle 50c voile, silk and cotton, tan ground with woven figures. Harvest Men's SD tin R..cci, i' ;V" •' * , , Harvest Sale Price 50c Harvest Sale Price 75c tops, white and black. Harvest Sa ' e „ Price, yard ~ V , , , ssld calt antl R un metal calf oxfords, 75c cumfy cut cotton ribbed Boys' 35c white cotton ribbed Sale Price 12c „ 29c suiting, white ground with colored stripes, 36 inches wide. rubber soles and heels. Harvest Sale Price SS2 ItO union suits, sleeveless, regular union suits, short sleeves knee 65c fibre silk hose, elastic Harvest Sale Price, yard Men's SI.OO canvas low shoes and tennis oxfords'.' Harvest p n r 1 C( f Xtra , Blzes - "wveat Sale length. Harvest Sale Price, 29c seamless. Harvest 35c woven tissue, colored stripes. Harvest Sale Price, yard, 20c Sale Price ' - BdSeiTient DreSS CottOUS CHILDREN'S PtSIPS AND OXFORDS • Price, 12}™ white black°and h colors *Harvest Harves^Sale^^ce^.' 1 . , sl ' 9s semi-made skirts, made of wash suiting, fancy stripes: sew $1.25 brown canvas play oxfords with heaw leather -mm, „ , , 35c w,llte cotton ribbed vests ' Sale Price? . . . laTc <l ' 2s fancy silk hose ' assorted ° n p V® am ' " nish hem and y° ur skl,t is rca(, y to wear. Harvest 06 ' '' ' • " 0 & £"7 Har vest °Sale heels H W a^ve e ß t C |a n .? Pr!ce mPS Whltß r " bbCr SO,es and Oc"' whUe 6 ' coUon •"* colors. Harvest CHILDREN'S HOSIERY® 50 :••••■: ••• • ; • ••••• •- -• .MHc p M.M ,„n willow CI, play .Vrori,,' SS? PrtS"'. "T"'""' *£ JSTLS&m ffi "HlrvUrsKVi; rSTVrUZS jSXS 'TT™ P wf;v isc W .u c.,w S: Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart. Street Floor. Rear Sale Price 12Up 591 c silk hose, grey srnd cham- bed hose, seamless. Harvest >ard fK . v >s i.vnriuiT.i, pagne. Harvest Sale Price, 42c Sale Price. . (i/„ ~— * 50c nainsook a J thletic' shirts vest seamless - H "" Children's 86c'white fkney top A 4-4- 4-* /T1 T 1 Men's Shirts From Regular SSPpi m Stock Repriced in the js-ss.-sS.-bS sS r5 A 1 tt irii rm -r. " • erly 300 ' Harvest Sale Pnce $1.9. August Harvest Sale The Linen Section Contributes Many k . : . ,! S£| Hundreds of dozens of fine oualitv nercale -x t j. l 1 T-T t , . pa L r women ' s white sport shoes, leather trimmed Nu Notable Values For the Harvest Sale ltegular 59c stripe' percale and' blue' ch'amb'ray "shirt's with two C ° meS } ° U S Alt " S . ?8 p SO Banister Oxfords, in fine black calfskin. Har coliars. not all sizes; not more than 2to a customer. Harvest Sale TAnM = UNEN $2.50 white diminity spreads. WHITE DRESS GOODS VC f, S ? le *^ lCe 96.95 Harvest Sale Pn°rp SP ° n shirts ' in whlte <>'' with silk stripe collar. 75c unbleached cotton tabln 12 %c cotton glass toweling. Special lot of dotted Swiss, line Mens $6.50 black English oxfords. Harvest Sale Price lsl I 'toT? V# VaV r ! P e it m Sa1 rran p n 1 e^lKeeßhlr^ Boti V ° id Pr^VdV inC . h '..""T. tS Sale p n Hce b ya e rd P,a . idß .. l pe ora ndle. 'ASM English „ arvcst 5.,. FH^ S s,r " t Neckwear For Men & Boys Spe- DreSSeS, Coats and Skirts cially Priced in the August 1 """ Hnriwcf 7/1 $5 0 ° Turkish towels., Price, yard lOc J.J.UI l/CZI KjU.Lt SPREADS 17c, 25c, 2c, 5c to $1.25 20c fine thread Nainsook, soft Our entire remaining stock of summer clothes for XoF a Tach tripes and embro ' der e<J aty,e 9 . spreads, medium X k , and 75c !.. ; Ha ™ Bt .. a "d misses goes into the clearance beginning to-morroTa? 50c wide end silk four-in-hand lies," in 'stripe's' and over? med Harvest Sale Pr'ci, SI.J " lle&Ch hUCk 75c DiVe8 ' St^lt°Fl & SteWart ' PnCCS . lt P oss . ,ble 111 some cases to own several 60<f sflk bat" wtng P Ce ° f <>"• 3 'v' o "JK"i l and t|eß - Harvest sale'Price,'3 'f' o 'r'is c : 'each'lfl Silver and Gold Notions Rpddincr $2.98 A uto Coats,s2.so; $6.50 Dresses,s2.75 8 " P i9Ce „ Sf 4 ™ Harvest £ XltiCtib nGQUCGQ Sale Price 18c SUDD IPC; , KeK , ular 5 - 00 I'l-en coat dresses in a variety of excellent s'tvies""in -n. 1 x-Ml 50c sllver mesh bags. Harvest sizes 3-0, 2-0, 1, 2 and 3. Har- 50c bleached sheeting. 2% Copenhagen Special in the August Harvest Saie' " ■..•,7,2 TTrnCil QQ VTl nr\ r\-p O-. ___ Sale Price 25c vest Sale Price, bolt 3 C yards wide. Harvest Sale Price, f m"? VO " g dresses wit h deep sailor collar and 1? lllctl Vjl \JCLL CXIICO OT kMImmPV 25c gold brooches, bar and t parning cotton in white and yard voil f contrasting shades; sizes 36 to 44. Special Millinery Last of the black lisere Sale Price ver tO P- Harvest Sale Price, 43c "Vrtwi" pins,' ' '366' count 15c bleached muslin, ss'lnch. Sale ® 8 . . r .° m to . Specla l M the August Harvest shapes, formerly $3.95 Small lot of Scpearl bead necklaces. Har- Harvest Sale Price, paper, . ,5c Harvest Sale Price, yard, . 12>/ a c Kn l eßr( J^^ ar !30,00 and * 35 - 00 fln e quality black taffeta coats' '4B ami to $6.95. Harvest Sale . T " ° trimmed vest Sale Price lOc American and Swan dress $3.49 set of embroidered sheet SO Inches long; sizes 36 to 40. Special in thr August Harvest Price hatS - Harvest Sale Prices, $1.98 tattoo Intermlttant Harvest Sale Price, and 2 pillow cases, sheet is Regular' si 260 ion e ' Several dozen fancy SI.OO Prt™ . C ' ock "... H '™ " •'1 ,■ spor, ha,. Harvest US btek'Ha the "a,Vim 1 ioor Basement 'rji $7.50 unM , Pomeroy & Stewart. Second Floor Sjig ranee of I whTtfchS I i IVI \ 11 t * i * W1 • 1 i • fold lace forms the border design in some jAwy | w IIP A lit art cy Suits Lr went inal Reductions | i|rV' T, ' " " Specially priced in the Harvest Sale— YmM Evw Sf ZS Sf* u fco" 8 h , Xt I,igher P rice - Not so the merchant. """" V:. 1 liJZ y han When We bought "• Wo °' has sold - Within a few days, at 75c a pound. 5*7 pw our ciortfnrstMk^t'horouffhiVfh- 0 " 13 ' 0011 ' m'"' you now by a gers - not merchandise, we shaii clean up s"V'pMo"" h "1 Oc Aii r stocks . thorou g hl y this season. Men, you will benefit no wby a greater than ever savin? Drinking C u P a uv,/ /fr All fancy suits are reduced as follows: saving. Pick.e dishes A !!m | u l ts a f S ll - 75 $25-00 Suits at $i 8 . 75 • Somsniupt |}2- 7 5 $28.00 Suits at [; >22.75& d t7.^aT r . p pates.::::::::! ates .:::::::: ? SJ'St 'J ! ,$30.00 Suits at $23.75 Cakeplat tterß I he'ioc JMk A \ \n • Hi !a± \" W" ao $17.75 $35.00 Suits at 75 £ overed butter' dishes','.' ;;; 10c a,,d 1. - r ' 37 t0 ; 48 StOUt ' and . sizes for men and short men. ***.<* /y 1 Stj les ate all of this spring and summer designing. Milk pitchers, .!!.!.*!!!!!!!!!!!! o-'! y ./] Fabrics— Pattern.: PULLMAN GARItIAGKS FOR THE Baßy "' iHrV Worsteds Flannels , J21.50 White enamel, reversible gear il7 50 7*3r ■ rawimTM Greens Neat Checks Mo.oo white enamel ... Z^'So. Mixtures Y f 8 Rich Mixtures Overplaids CARPET swkepkrs "I, Homespuns Br ° WnS * anCy Stri P es onl 0 t 0 o H aTu n s?o b m r^ m TT T|r n _ 8 - I>° YOU PLAY CROQUET? Hurry Men, Get a Palm Beach Suit Here—They Are Special at $6.95 Hills? $8.50 grey tan, dark grey and striped black Cool Cloth S ui ** and tan Palm Beach Suits. Special, $6.95 ■ $12.50 Suits Special at $8 50 SffiSS p '""-oiu,, n , F ,„of ■special at ss.ru .......... .......y, ~~ — ' . Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Basement ' ===== HARRISBTJRG TELEGRAPH: \ \ AUGUST 2, 1917.
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