Life's Problems
Are Discussed
By MRS. WILSON WOODROW
I should like to write a series of
articles on "The Difficulties of Being
Young." The sorrows and disappoint
ments of youth are so poignant, its
rebellions are so intense, its convic
tions so strongly held. It has yet to
learn the wisdom of compromise, the
necessity of tolerance, the mitigations
of time.
And older people almost universally
ignore or belittle youthful woes. To
I hem youth in itself is so wonderful,
so beautiful, so full of opportunities
(hat it is impossible for them to see
why girls and hoys should ever
clamor or bewail their lot.
Youth will be served; but not al
ways as much as it deserves. It
needs sympathy and understanding,
and it doesn't always get good meas
ure in these respects.
I was talking to a girl this summer,
vho said: "My mother and 1 simply
don't understand each other and
never will. We look at everything in
life from a different angle. We have
nothing in common. That isn't
mother's fault; she thinks as they
did in her day, and I'm thinking as
we do in mine. That is all there Is
to It."
"Do you believe that is quite so?"
I asked. "You were speaking a mo
ment ago of the two writers, one a
man and the other a woman, who
most stimulated your intellect and
imagination. The man is considera
bly older than your father; the wom
an is at least ten years older than
your mother. And yet you of the
younger generation find yourself per
fectly in accord with their ideas and
views.
"It is not the differences of age
that count. Those can easily be
bridged by understanding, if the
older generation has held the flexible
and open mind and has kept its ideas
subject to change, modification or ex
pansion."
"Oh," she burst out bitterly, "I
have perfectly clear ideas of what
I want to do; but I am constantly
thwarted and opposed, and the only
reason given is 'i am older than you
and know what is best for you.
Mother will not recognize that we
are nuite different in temperament.
It takes her days to make a decision
nbout anything; I make mine in a
minute. She likes to have everything
done for her; I want to arrange
things myself and put them through."
"Suppose," I said, "that you go to
your mother and frankly say, 'can't
we sit down and discuss this thing
like two reasonable human beings,
with no tears and no emotionalism,
'nt in a perfectly plain, straightfor
ward way as if we were discussing
seme one's else affairs? Won't you
try at least to see my side? And I'll
hr nestly try to see yours."
She replied: "That sort of talk
lr.ißht have some effect on a brick
vail, but not on Mother."
And there came that expression on
her face that I notice on the faces
">? many girls when they are In the
family circle—that shut-in, repressed
li ok which should have no place on
their young features.
Pome one said to me a few
days ago: "Isn't it too bad about
May ? She was so pretty
and bright when she was at college,
and now she is almost an invalid.
Her father and mother have done
everything for her. taken her to
Florida and California, and have
given her everything that heart could
desire. And the worst of it Is, that
the doctors say it is merely some
nervous or imaginary affection, noth
ing very real."
The doctors had failed to diagnose
the case correctly. All that girl
needed to restore her health was
something to do. Her father was an
extremely clever and restless man,
the sort of person who could organize
and manage a dozen big interests at
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WEDNESDAY EVENING,
Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1917, International News Service By McM
the same time. If he hadn't given
his excessive mental energy its nat
ural outlet, he, too, might have been
a bored and listless invalid. And yet
he and his wife were doing their best
to ruin the life of their adored
daughter. If you had told him so,
he would have looked at you in
amazement and said: "Why, what
more can we do for her? She has
not a wish ungratilled."
It is not of much importance in
our lives to have our little wishes
gratified—a set of new furs, a beauti
ful ring, a journey that may delight
us for the moment. But it is the big
needs of our natures which must be
met, or we desiccate, or turn to vine
gar, or suffer the bodily ills which
are the result of the suppression of
our souls' impulses.
This girl did not want to play at
doing things. She wanted to go out.
in the world and put her inherited
abilities for organization and con
struction to the test. She had the
stuff for a stiff fight In her, and all
she asked was a fair Held and no
favor. Yet out of their great love for
her and the conviction that being
older and wiser than she they knew
what was best for her, her parents
promptly smothered her in cotton
wool.
A woman writer was laughingly re
counting some of her earlier experi
ences. Her mother, who was an am
bitious woman, had been deeply dis
appointed that her daughter was not
a shining social success, so she fell
in enthusiastically with the girl's
plans for a literary career. She ar
ranged a study for her at the top of
the house which was sound-proof, and
where the young writer was never to
be disturbed during the hours that
she reserved for her work.
But. alas, !lie mother's interest did
not stop there. When the rejections
came she went around all day look
ing so lugubrious that it was pitiful.
When a rare acceptance arrived she
made a feast, and invited all her
friends to tell them the important
news.
The girl couldn't write in such an
atmosphere, and she simply couldn't
make her mother understand why.
The poor lady felt injured. She had
done everything she could to assist
in the development of genius and
now she was accused of clipping its
wings so close that it couldn't fly
at all.
I heard a mother wailing but yes
terday that she was heart-broken
because her daughter was determined
to be a nun. "She is so lovely and
so young. She knows nothing of the
world, or what she is giving up."
"Well," said a sensible ivtoman to
whom she was talking, "it is only j
fair to you that she wait two or three ;
years and learn something of that ;
world she is anxious to renounce. If
at the end of that time she still de
sires to enter a convent, I don't see
that you have anything to say about 1
it. It is her life after all."
"It's very hard to bring a daughter
up, and then have her marry and
leave you," says another mother.
And, "It's very h'ard to have a
daughter devote herself to a business
or professional career, just when
you're preparing to enjoy her com
panionship," says another.
And "It's very hard to have a
daughter who won't spend ten min
utes at home and cares for nothing
but clothes and amusements," cries
still another.
Of course it's very hard. But
daughters arc not automatons. The
n ajority of young women of to-day
are very definite, and have pretty
clear ideas of what they want in life.
And about the best thing any one can
do for the younger generation is to
believe in it and trust it.
EFFECT OF DRYIXG UPON FOOD
VALUE
The nutritive value of food is prac
tically unchanged by drying. In ad
dition to the difference in flavor pro
duced by drying, there is usually a
difference in color. Green shell peas
and beans remain practically un
changed in color; but apples, for
example, when pared and exposed to
the air are changed to a darker color
due to the action of the oxygen of
the air upon certain of their ele
ments. According to the laws of na
ture, this is the result to be expect
ed and everyone should recognize the
fact. Many factory evaporated prod
ucts are treated chemically to give
them a lighter color, because the
public demands a less highly-colored
product. Such treatment, however,
detracts from the natural color and
flavor.
The important fact, which should
be clearly understood, is that al
though the color and the flavor are
changed, the actual nutritive value
is practically unaffected by drying.
The amount of water in the dried
fruits and vegetables is greatly re
duced, which means that there is a
greater concentration of food ele
ments in dried products. Pound lor
pound the nutritive value is greater
in dried than in fresh food. When
dried foods are prepared for the
table, however, the water lost \v
evaporation is replaced by soaking,
so that the nutritive value of cooked
dried material and of fresh material
is virtually equal.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
All's Well That
<e Ends Well
BY JANE McLEAN.
"Aren't we perfectly crazy to goi
into this thing," sighed Louise, her,
blue eyes anxiously regarding her!
dismal surroundings, "but it's the;
only location we c6uld get and 11
couldrt't bear to give up the scheme." j
The other woman smiled. Im
pulsive Louise, always avoiding dis
appointments that sooner or later;
came to her. Impractical Louise, to j
whom a single success loomed large j
against a dozen or more failures..
But she did get a lot of fun out of,
life.
"Well, it is dismal, isn't it?" was,
all she said against the scheme. I
"But you can help me, I know you
can. If you will say just one word;
for it I shall be satisfied. Every
one has heaped words of scorn upon I
my head until I feel as though I had!
gotten Isabel into an awful scrape. |
You see this is the only location we i
could get for the amount we could j
pay, and when I saw my tea house,
going up in smoke I just determined ,
to take it and try my best, and I j
signed the lease without waiting for .
Isabel to say a word."
"And how does Isabel feel?"
"She would be all right, but her
mother influences her. But I am
going to make a success with this. I
know I can do it if you will give me
a few ideas."
This spirit of adventure, of not
knowing how things were coming
out, had appealed to Carol Ward
when she had first met Louise
AVayne. This pet scheme of the gills
to run a tea room had been what the
girl had planned for for ages. Then
Isabel Friend, a rather colorless,
pretty girl, had offered to put in a
small legacy for a share in the re
turns, and Louise, glimpsing her
dream come true at last, had not
waited to determine whether or not
Isabel would make a good working
partner, but had accepted tier offer
with a joyous promptness.
The next impulsive thing that she
had done was to sign the lease for
the tea room, which was to be situ
ated in a basement, now dark and
very dirty. Even to Carol AVard the
success of the enterprise looked du
bious. But not for anything would
she have admitted such a thing.
"Well," she said briskly, "let's get
right down to business. Louise, how
much money have you?"
"About a hundred dollars," the girl
faltered.
Carol AVard did not exclaim, she
simply said, "you can borrow a few
things from my shop, and we'll man
age somehow."
That Carol Ward, one of the best
Interior decorators in New York
would actually stoop to help beyond
a few minor directions, brought the
girl's spirits up in an instant.
The older woman nodded. "As
long as the place is so dark, you'd
better try to keep it mysterious. If
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See a on the floor.
Draw from one to two and so on
i to the end.
you tried to brighten it at all, it
would require too much in the way!
of alterations."
"That's what I thought," said i
Louise, eagerly, willing, to speak to
tell her choicest thougHts to an ap-1
preciative audience. "And 1 thought i
that I could have a Chinese atmos
phere, dark lanterns and so forth. I
saw a stone bench in a little shop
yesterday that a man said I could
have for five dollars. It has just the
right atmosphere, and a jeweled lan
tern of hammered brass."
Carol Ward looked interested.
"You'll want table novelties," shei
suggested. "Order old tables, and |
paint them yourself with shiny black'
paint. Isabel can paint some designs
on them."
''Of course," Louise said ecstati
cally, "as scon as I tell her she'll get!
interested all over again."
"I have just the right kind of dec-I
orations for you," Carol Ward went j
on, "some tapestries that you can j
drape over the walls, some quaint!
chairs, and a darling counter that!
you can finish temporarily."
"Oh, Tow lovely," said Louise,
"and I thought we might sell queer
little things on the side, some novel
ties that will give the place a name.
That counter will be just the place!
to display them. Oh, you are. a dav-j
ling," she finished with shining eyes,
"I thought you'd do so much in the|
way of encouragement and new I
you've helped plan the whole thing
besides. I'm just filled with hope. 1
"It's something to have confidence
Fashions of To-Day - By May Manton
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9546 Dress for Misses and "Small
Women, 16 and 18 years.
Price 15 cents.
How Soldiers Stop
Serious Rheumatic Pains
Anyone can do it within ten minutes and without any liniments
or ointments, writes T. S. Wilburn after serving three years in
France with an Army Medical Corps.
If there are any rheumatic possibili
ties in a soldier's system, it requires
only a few hours of standing; in the
cold, wet and muddy trenches to
bring on a crippling attack. Wet feet
and clothing without opportunity to
change, long periods of exposure to
the elements, and various other con
ditions at the Front are, of course,
extremely bad for a rheumatic sub
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tremely effective treatment by means
of which the medical officers Anally
succeeded in stopping almost immedi
ately the torturning pain of muscular,
articular or inflammatory rheuma
tism, gouty twinges, stiff Joints, lum
bago, sciatica, neuritis, neuralgia and
other uric acid complaints, may be of
interest to civilians who are afflicted
with these forms of acute misery.
To quickly soothe and draw the
pain out of any sore muscles or ach
ing feet, and to limber stiff joints, all
you Heed to do is to bathe either the
entire body or simply the affected
in the face of almost certain defeat, |
child," said Carol Ward earnestly, |
"and when you get tired of your tea
house, try my line of work; I'll givej
you a job. Your ideas are good, and |
a girl with your cheerful tempera- j
ment is certain to make a success j
out of a hopeless failure."
"Then there's something in being i
Impractical," said Louise naively,
nnd they both laughed.
"If you have faith enough in your
own beliefs," said Carol Ward firmly.
Advice to the Lovelorn
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am engaged to a young man five
years my senior. His sister and:
father opposed and tried in every I
way to break our engagement. Now;
she persists in coming along every
where we go, and when my fiance |
leaves us for a few minutes she in
sults me in a contemptible manner.
I've suffered all retorts for the sake
of peace between us all. She has
many friends to go out with, yet
seems to> enjoy hurting my feelings
all along. Do you think I ought to
speak to my fiance about her insults?
and her coming with us all the time?
Your advice would be greatly appre
ciated. VIOLA.
Was your fiance's family opposed
to you for any legitimate reason?
Now that they have been compelled
to accept you, are you trying to win
their love, or do you gloat over them
because you have defeated them?
Rather than complain of his sister to
your lover, why don't you settle
down to the real personal satisfac
tion of making her fond of you?
Play it as a game and see if you
says unkind things to you give her
can't win her regard. When she
the retort courteous. Smile and be
good-natured; tell her that you are
so fond of her that she really makes
you suffer, and that you don't be
lieve she wants to do that. Think of
little kind things to do for her.
When she goes with you welcome
her and consult her pleasure. Be a
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The pattern No. 9546 is cut
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water, preferably hot. A large hand
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dCTOBF.R 31, 1917.
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