WE SHOULD GROW OLD GRACEFULLY But Do Not Assume Vanities of Youth, Is Advice of Beatrice Fairfax By Beatrice Fairfax "Grow old along with me, The best is yet to be— The last of life For which the first ts made" —sang Rabbi Ben Erza in Brown- Ins's immortal poem. Which of us to-day will accept that philosophy, will recognize the merit and simple beauty in the sug- Sestioft that age is the best of life? To-day we use every means we •an find with which to counterfeit outh. Our clothes, our manners, made to give the illusion of r^'ith—and our faces are made up :o produce Jt, too! The peace and placidity and simple honesty of age are things vhich we deny and avoid and evade. SVe want desperately to be young ind have the charm and fresh less which we think a semblance of •outh gives. We forget that no ounterfeit is ever really attractive! iVe ignore the fact that we are en ering on a tight where the odds ire against us and the weapons all n the hands of the opposing forces. Youth has the vigor and vitality md freshness and buoyancy which ve try to immitate. It has them vithout using up any vitality or en-! irgy trying to get them All Its i towers are fresh and unimpaired' or the ocntest, and we use ourselves ip trying to seem like something ve are not. and so we go out into he world worn out from the en rpy we spent in making up to ap-1 icar before it. Growing old gracefully is an art j >f which we seem to know nothing' nd desire to know nothing. Recently I spent an afternoon in a ] roup of people who pursue the arts, 'he youngest woman present was wenty, the "oldest inhabitant" was man of sixty. He was pathet cally eager to seem young enough nd gay enough to be the partner f the young girl. Every detail of lis costume, from his gay, flutter- j ng tie to his immaculate white tlan lel trousers and a spec and span 'snort shoes" was a negation of! ige. .\'o one objected to his careful I ;rooming. but every one uncon clously revolted against the things lis pale tan silk shirt and vivid ting's blue scarf and handkerchief ind silk socks and the band on his rhite felt hat expressed. If he had >een a woman, to the look of being veil tubbed and well manicured and arefully put together. he might lave added the offense of an arti- Icial complection. But for his ar iflcial hair, his toupee, he was eas-, ly to be forgiven; while for his false [ ilr of gayety and youthful enthusi- | ism he could only be pitied. The young trirl amused herself BELL-ANS Absolutely Removes indigestion. One package jroves it. 25c at all druggists, i —^— ... ... f - i j ' ' ' On Being Natural ■ * TIKE seeks like. A natural, honest-to-good- Li ness man don't have much time for artificial things. An' real pipe smokers take I , to VELVET, because it's a natural born pipe I tobacco, kept natural. g It takes two long years of natural ageing in wooden hogsheads to make a tin of VELVET. I Nature's way is a slow, expensive way, but just compare VELVET with any of those "improvements on Nature." I. That's the answer. MONDAY EVENIN Former Princeton Captain in Engineer Corps KDDIE, HART. AT WOISK &,wr*9K/*r,oAt. Eddie Hart, the former Princeton football captain, now a member of the Seventeenth Regiment Engineers at Camp McPherson, Ga,, repairing the engine of his motor car. by flirting with h'.m elaborately and meeting his ridiculous advances with anu air of equally ridiculous tender ness. The poor old beau was a blot on the beauty of a wonderful June day. * But age was saved from being a travesty by a marvelous woman In our group. Age had brought her poise and dignity and knowledge and 1 generous sweetness and kindliness. | Her enthusiasms were big, vital, ! helpful things—not the dance steps j and comic opera tunes and love songs which seemed to occupy the j foolish old beau's mind. While he insisted on looking be tween thirty-five and forty and act ing about twenty, and failed mis erably, she who made no effort to counterfeit furnished the real charm and lovable beauty of the day. When age has the wisdom to dress in simple, tender gray and to live warmly and generously of its knowl edge and experience and kindly tol- | eration, it is beautiful, lovable and furnishes charm even as It wins re- j spect. A Confession I have a very dear friend who is! (as she confesses to me and mej only) thirty-three years old. She j looks no more than twenty-five, and j she expreses the vivid enthusiasm j and the desire for gayety and excite- j ment which fit her in with the men i she knows best—a group of youths | whose other girl friends are all about I twenty. Xow, for a long time, my friend Carlotta made every posible effort to look as youthful and act as ! youthful as did the other girls in l her group. It was a very unequal j race, in which she could not help be- | ing worsted. She hid her good mentality under I a mantle of coyness. She disguised here interest in worth-while subjects and discussed dance steps and sport records. She giggled and gurgled and coquetted and managed to be a very poor imitation of the most fool ish debutante in all the group. Car lotta was only tolerated and was miserably unhappy because she was not more popular in her own set. "I don't like older men. And they don't like me. They want 'flappers' and the boys I go round with want debutantes. I don't seem to fit in any where, though goodness knows I try hard enough to be young." Carlotta's complaint made me smile over the tragic imitation of baby-stare girlishness she was giv ing. But I dared not take advantage of her confidence and sugest that she be frankly thirty-three and see whether she could not create a de mand for youthful maturity. Then one night she got her change. A group of six of us mo tored out to Westchester to done at an inn. The other girl in the party was twenty, a sweet, thoughtful, earnest young person of twenty. Carlotta started out by giving her usual imitation of a gay. foolish, flirtatious and flighty young person of twenty. Suddenly I discovered that the real sweet and twenty was very much interested in a uroblem of model tenements. Carlotta knew nothing about the question of housing the poor, and she seemed at first inclined to dis miss the discussion in favor of a little talk about some canoeing par ties she wanted to arrange for sum mer Saturdays. She insisted on being trivial, al most as If she were trying in that way to prove her youthful exuber- HARRISBURG rfBBV TEI.EGRAPH ance and gayety. Most annoying Carlotta! At last we succeecec tn panning her down, and she began snowing an intelligent interest in the prob lem of housing the poor a bit more attractively than had heretofore been thought possible. From topic to topic we carried Carlotta. and at last the younger girl had persuaded her to enroll on some splendid com mittees. Joyfully I said to myself, "Now she will find something in which to take a worth-while and dignified in terest." But what really happened was' this: Carlotta came rushing in a week later. "Thank Heaven! I found out that I can be frankly ma ture now that I've got something worth while to talk about. At last I've discovered that I dare express the things I really think. People seem to like my brain. Phew! It's fun to find yourself free to talk about the things you think instead of having to try to think about the thinps of which people seem to want to talk. I don't care who knows I'm thirty-three now. "Everyone is going to have to ac cept me as a thoughtful, intelligent, 'older woman,' and if they don't like it and want to drop me out of their parties, I won't mind, because I meet such a lot of interesting, worth while people through my work." The man or woman who does not realize that his very maturity should give him charm has failed to put into the years understanding and intelligent appreciation of what they bring. No one who lives his life fully need play at being young and ignorant when he is old and wise. Every year ought to bring a more interesting viewpoint Every year ought to bring a better perspec tive on life and its incidents. As wo grow old, we understand, we learn to tolerate, to smile, to give instead of demanding. Out of the richness and fullness of time and its experiences, we ought to build up a graceful maturity which youth can love and envy. Who wants to be so foolish, so blind, as to pretend to be a silly, coy, kittenish young thing when in reality he is a fine, strong, sane crea ture to whom middle age has given a wealth of knowledge which youth still must fight and strive to get? COUNCIL TO CONSIDER PAVING Lemoyne, Pa.. Aug. 6. Council will meet in monthly session to-mor row night. The Raving of Ross moyne street will again come up for discussion. Little progress has been made by the committee in regard to a communication from the directors of the Valley Railways relative to that company paying the cost of paving between its tracks. A GRAVE ERROR By Porter Emerson Browne of Uie Vigilantes Because we are a great, wide spread country; because we are far from othep countries, and because it takes much time and 'much money to travel abroad, there is one grave error that, as a nation, we nifornly make. It is that we fail to recog nize that there are as many different kinds of racial psychologies, as many different forms of national mental processes among the countries of the world as there are almost, among the various species of the animal kingdom. We think as we think: and we imagine everybody else thinks the same. We do not stop to realize that while we have one scheme of psychology, an Englishman has an entirely different on.e, a Frenchman yet a third, an Italian a fourth, a Chinaman a fifth, a German a sixth, and so on. Each race has its own ideas, and its own ideals, its own be liefs and its own disbeliefs. Does a dove think like a lynx? Why, then, should an Esquimau think like a Prussian? That which, in an Englishman la cruelty is, in a German, efficiency. That which „ in a Frenchman is treachery, in a Mexican is acumen. That which in a Japanese is loyalty, in an American is suicide. But we go fatuously on, bulking all humanity under one head, giving that hcad our own intellectual en dowments, and letting it go at that. We say the same things to Mexico and Japan, forgetting that what is an insult to Japan, may seem a com pliment to Mexico. We have writ ten. notes with equal facility to the English, who regarded them "as notes, and to the Germans, who regarded them as jokes. It is for us now to remember, and vividly, that all nations are not alike. It is for us to remember yet more vividly that among nations the most unique and the most gone to all our accepted rules of reasoning, is Ger many. Germany has frankly avowed her self beyond all laws of mankind. Her soldiers have crucified men against barns, bayonets through their bleeding hands and tortured feet. Germany has slain and slaugh tered in cold blood; and she has slain not only men but innocent women, and little babies. Germany has used against her enemies the poisoned gas, that sends men to their Maker in horrid, rack ing convulsions, with froth upon their lips. Germany has made slaves of con quered men. and conquered women, a thing; that has not been done by a nation in a thousand years and more. Germany has ravaged and rav ished Servia and Poland. And she has used the bones of her victims to make fertiliser for German fields. Think of that, you Americans! An.d cease thinking of Germany as an honorable foeman. Because she isn't. Appointed New Ambassador to Japan \ ROLAND 3. MORRIS Roland S. Morris, a lawyer, of Philadelphia, has been chosen as ambassador to Japan to succeed the late Ambassador Guthrie. Mr. Mor ris is forty-four years old. and is a graduates of Princeton University and the law school of the University of Pennsylvania. Store Opens 8.30 A. M.—Closes 5 P. M.—Excepting Thursdays (12 noon) —Saturdays (9 P. M.) BBIL' J mil—23flo UNITED HAItRISHURG, MONDAY, AI'GIST , 11(17. FOUNDED 1871 fij Telephone here to , Mh/f Miss Kathryn Brooke the food expert from the Drexell Institute now in charge of the demonstration of canning, preserving and drying fruits and vegetables house-furnishing basement. Better still come and see the very best methods for this sort of food-saving a practical demonstration showing the various food products actually cooked and dried and L M 'V-'-Z.- put up for winter tise. woTl—I L_L/Sa|Miss Brooke will be pleased to answer questions and give you • valuable information covering this important subject. The August Sale of Quality , Furniture in Full Swing ---fVjth carefully selected up-to-date assortments. —Furniture of excellent workmanship in variety of design in suites and odd pieces. —Prices based on what we pay and not on future conditions. —An absolute guarantee of satisfaction with each purchase. In these times when economy must be assumed wisely, you should give serious consideration to value analyzing qualities thoroughly. In this August Furniture Sale you may expect to see only the better kind so measure your needs now and I?uy while prices are far below what you will have to pay later. A deposit will hold your selection until such a time when you may want future delivery made, and if not convenient to buy furniture now our salesmen will acquaint you with our modern club plan of paying gradually in moderate amounts. More Examples of the Very Splendid Values Over 2,500 Pieces to Select From U^et genuine Dining 7. drawer for lunch cloths and with mahogany long linen Mahogany Davenport Table _ 48-inch top. August Sale William and Mary period— nce '** * Reed Arm Rocker fin ■ yll finished antique brown ma- William and Mary Dining ished walnut brown, uphols -11 w hoganv size 19x60 inches. Suite finished Jacobean tered cushion scat and back of V 1/ August Sale Price .. *16.75 oak _ nlade G f genuine quar- beautiful figured cretonne Twin Poster Beds size 3 tered oak suite consists of e r , m p . ar 0 ! . lia c ' Overstuffed Fireside Rocker ft. 3 ins. wide finished dull buffet, china closet, extension - satin finish— — covered in a beautiful pat- rubbed antique mahogany table and serving table. Au- 2 inrh nit with law mnnnh tern of tapestry spring seat neatly turned posts with cross gust Sale Price $99.00 _ l . fi lK ro( f s in hcad and spring back large and rail in foot end Colonial Old Ivory Bedroom Suite— and foot cnds _ fu j, or si k . 'comfortable. Arm chair to pattern. August bale Ijrice, straight line period design s j ze August Sale Price, match. August Sale Price, eac h $15.00 dust-proof cases triplicate " $15.75 each $25.00 Solid Mahogany Arm Rock- mirror in dressing table Golden Oak Dining Chair Platform Base Extension er Fireside style cane gentleman's compartment in s jjp seat G f genuine Spanish Table—genuine quartered oak seat and back finished an- chiffonier powder puff trays leather banister back—full —plank top, 45 inches, extends tique mahogany arm chair and jewel compartments in ] )OX seat construction. August to six feet. August Sale Price, to match. August Sale Price, dresser and dressing table. gale Price $3.49 $19.70 each $10.9> August Sale Price, $129.00 1 BOWMAN'S Fifth Floor Clear away Lots of_ Laces and Embroidery Many of Them at About Venise edges and inser- Venise edges from baby Filet laces and insertions, Organdy embroidery with b . ... edges of pink, light blue, Co tions, match sets, yard, widths to 2 inches, yard, Ito 4 inches wide, yard, penhagen, reseda 5 and 6 25c t0 SI.OO 10c ' 50c 9c "35^ BOWMAN'S—Main Floor. By All Means Decide to Attend This WB> ~ ~ Lace Curtain Sale if you do all your shopping before you go. We have ... . . ■^ r r ..- >rrn - , , - plentiful stocks of All event rich in varieties JMIinEE Bathing Suits Bathing Caps Bathing Shoes and good values, enabling you to buy curtains for any 111) Dress Accessol £? of Every Kind room in jour ome a , 6 j /Isf And remember if you want to take pictures of people ductions wnicn, wn 11 < yQajl and scenes to look back to pleasant memories years most unusual now, would I! , \/\ hence—you can buy cameras here below the regular prices. seem remarkable next fail .iftLdg fiff Kodaks and AnSCO Cameras when pnees ar, h.gher. / gj . fl Don t neglect this oc- UJ @Hg casion though_you Special Lots of Silks may have to hold the cur- —I ® <s) JuipaiMiu—'Bflflt Going at very attractive prices—quite the best values for the tains for future service. ' money you'll find; and they are stylish, desirable and of high .. • . .. . r- . . . 36-inch fancy striped taffetas and messalines light and Marquisette curtains in Scrim curtains—white and medium colorings for suits or skirts. Yard, $1.29. white and ecru ~/2 yarc s ecru - hemstitched with 36-inch Japanese hahutai in gingham patterns a cool sura long hemstitched wit Clluny lace and insertion mer silk washable as weil as serviceable. Yard, --inch insertion inser s. yards long. Pair, $2.00 36-inch white Japanese habutai can be used for under " al *" ri let net curtains, in as well as outerapparel. Yard, 090. Marquisette curtains white, ivory and ecru— 36-inch chiffon taffeta—light and dark shades. Yard, $1.29 white and ecru 2yards yards long neat figures BOWMAN's —Main Floor. long, with valance hem- and lace edges. Pair, $3.00 —— edge h s '%at' h ..'.'! n 'V( wh^T^'ec™ -2^l Quaker Craft lace cur- long hemstitched, with ~, , ! i j ! " ! | "T tains white, ivory and Cluny lace trim- wh,ch havc become broken in assortments. Some have been the ecru—2 l /i yards long—some ming. Pair . $2.25 best scl,ers and others mov d rather slowly—all are desirable have plain centers, others Scrim curtains in white and'come in striped and dotted effects on white and Jan with small and large de- and ecru lace and inser- grounds, splendid suiting 36-inch width, at ,yard, 19ffc signs. Pair $3.00 tion trimming. Pair, $1.25 — A ' s ° 36-inch finest grade of suitings, fancy. weaxqfeA! BOWMAN'S—Second Floor. 1 ' - iMgln ffljifi. AUGUST 6,1917. 3
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