Life's Problems Are Discussed THERE was a little group of us talking- together, when some one mentioned the word democracy. One of the men present suddenly woke up. As the subsequent con versation was chiefly between two men, I will call them Frank and I George respectively. It was George] who spoke. " Democracy! " he exclaimed "There ain't no such thing. No ruling government on earth can be called so in the full sense of the word." Frank looked at him in a dazed sort of a way. "What is a democ racy, then?" he asked. "What do you say it is?" George countered. "Why, a government by the peo ple of course." "Oh, that's a dictionary defini tion," returned George. "Would you imply that any Government, ours included, which maintains half its population as a privileged class is a democracy?", Now, when Frank is puzzled his tongue is temporarily paralyzed. I am afflicted in Just the opposite way; my perplexity is loquacious. "I suppose there is something be hind that statement of yours," I hroke in, "but if there is I've missed it. Just what do you mean when you speak of maintaining half the population as a privileged class ? That's not true of America, any way" "It certainly is," George asserted. "You ought to know that. You be long to it." ' "I belong to a privileged class? it's news to me," I cried. "May I ask how?" "In your capacity as a woman, of course. You are one of a great mass of the population which en joys exemption from the perform once of any public duty except that of paying taxes. You are, more over, made the beneficiary of spe r*"U legislation and at the same time relieved of all responsibility for the proper and efficient conduct of the public business. If such a condi tion doesn't prove you one of a priv ileged class I'd like to know what does." "Well, whose fault is it?" I de manded. "I like your cheery way of berating us, as if we had made ourselves a privileged class. I'm sure we women have been clamor ing for the right to vote long enough and the ballot implies public ser vice." "The right?" he commented in a disgusted tone. "It's a matter of plain duty. The question of 'Votes lor Women' has been made a prob lem by discussing it as a privilege, a prerogative, a vested interest. This has obscured and confused the mat ter. Can't you see the hollow mock ery of all that pretentious chatter I about 'democracy' when fifty per! iint. of the people of the United! States are exempted from the public | service. "And does it make any difference) why they are immune? Whatever u the reason, the contribution of worn- ! ** an to the common good is withheld. I So long as that remains a fact we are not a democracy. We are an 'anthro-| pacacy,' a government by men solely, as that mouth-filling word implies." I "Women," said Frank, who had | found his voice at last, "are not i lif ted either emotionally or intellect- I ually for public duty. Their truest i service, and the one absolutely essen- j tial to the state is the service they ! render in the home." "That was all very well," observ- ! ed George Wearily, "when the home j was an industrial institution and be- | lore it had been turned into junk: by factories and canneries and sup- j plied with all the readymade articles j which meet its needs to-day. But the j home in the patriarchial sense no! longer exists. There are plenty of I households where it is necessary for women to drudge from morning till night, but not as former generations drudged. I The poorest home has its labor saving devices and houses are stead ily yielding to flats and apartments. Women of every class find more time to devote to outside interests. "Oh, it is to laugh," he went on. "This vast nonvoting class is consid- j cred sufficiently intelligent to rear j the future citizens of the country, I to teach them in the public schools, j to tutor them for college, to settle their legal difficulties as lawyers and minister to their ailments as doctors. , Women have engaged with credit in practically every profession, every business and every trade, and yet they are still told that they are un litted intellectually and emotionally to perform their share of the muni- TETLEYS f India and Ceylon f'EA Good health and good sense work together when it comes to the household war diet TETLEY'S TEA Helps both ways ONE UTTLE TEASPOONFUL MAKES TWO CUPS Open-Air Exercise and Carter's Little Liver Pills are tw* splendid tilings For Constipation If you can't get all the exercise you should have, its all the more Important that you have the nil! other tried-and-true remedy for a tor- SnuUPric? P id "ver and bowels which don't act freely and naturally. aiTTi r Take one pill every night; more only W|VER when you're sure its necessary. IS* 8, CHALKY, COLORLESS COMPLEXIONS NEED CARTER'S IRON PILLS MONDAY EVENING, HXRRISBURG SSKfttf TELEGRAPH NOVEMBER . 1 Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1917, International News Service By 1 JL| rOUWE NOT LOOKING I I ( . MR-•*<* "XOURI ( -WELL -HE SMO 1 SEE THA.T YOO '] I I YE'B I N, I I I V/ELL-I'M f QU COCK'TAM.'! Xrv) XOO WW TO IKNOWBUTtTH I'll *V|| J J cipal. State and national housekeep ing. "They are efficient enough to be drafted for service in the war, that they may step into the places of the men and keep the business of the country up to standard. But tliey are not efficient enough to assist in keeping tidy this house of the nation which they have helped build. "I believe that many of the women who are opposed to woman suffrage are blind to the position in which their attitude Mas put them. If 1 quote them correctly, they claim that they do not regard the vote for women as a right but as a privilege, and that it would be no benefit to the nation for them to assume this privilege. Yet they are quite willing to take advantage of all legislation, and to influence public sentiment and legislation as far as possible— in other words, get something for nothing, and write themselves as persons willing to let an honest obli gation go to protest. "And, by the way, I see that Elihu Root addressed a meeting of Anti- Sulfragists the other day. lie said he was opposed to suffrage for women, adhering to an opinion he had formed 'many years ago,' imply ing of course in the absence of any reason for it that an 'opinion' is valid because it is old. What right has ahy man, however distinguished, to claim a hearing from an intelli gent audience to-day on a vital issue of to-day, and base his arguments on the strength of an opinion formed many years ago? "He concluded with the assertion, that votes for women 'would be bad for the Government of the country and state and bad for the women.' "Well, I can conceive of something as being very bad indeed for Mr. Root's idea of a Government, and at the same time an exceedingly good thing for humanity. I can also con ceive of something which Mr. Root considers bad for the women as highly beneficial for men, women and children taken together. "It all resolves itself into a ques tion whether genuine democracy :s an ideal that is worthy of the sacri fices necessary to establish it on earth. And there will never be a real democracy until there is a gov ernment of all the people, by all the people, and for all the people." Political Unity Means Dry Nation, Says Bryan Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 19. A plea for political unity in support of national prohibition, so that a sober nation might support a sober army, was delivered by ex-Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, be fore an audience which filled the Metropolitan opera house yesterday. Mr. Bryan warned both the Re publican and Democratic parties that they could not afford to ignore na tional prohibition and that neither could afford to permit the other to sponsor it alone. Therefore, he de clared, he was glad it had become a political issue, and asserted at the conclusion of his address that so much was it a part of politics that should it be supported properly by those who have carried on the fight against liquor for so many years, even "brewery-ridden Pennsylvania would not vote against it," when the federal amendment is brought before the House at the next Congress. } "THEIR MARRIED LIFE" I Copyright by International News Service BY JANE Mcl/KAN Slie was a little woman with cold eyes that never seemed to smile, ller lips smiled quite often, but those cal culating even seemed stationary as though a glow of warmth could never in the wild world touch them. Maude said once that they re minded her of a pool in the forest bidden so deeply under brush and creeping foliage and overhanging boughs that the sunlight could never possibly reach its waters, and the simile was very striking, only those who knew and had talked with Mrs. Long, knew just how apt it really was. She lived in the apartment over ours, and for a time her livelihood was uncertain. We used to wonder what she did, hut when we met her on the stairs she always was dressed in the very latest style, and so we just accepted her. Later we discover ed that the painted children's toys and did them beautifully and design ed strange little favors and did in fact very fascinating work. She was a widow and was, I im agine, most attractive to men. Cold, mysterious women nearly always are. If it hadn't been for the night I was really ill, 1 don't suppose we should have discovered anything else about her. People living in New York flats are rarely congenial and never really know each other or care much about that kind of thing. But I had taken COldi and ill the middle of the night my ear began to ache. -Maude is the most helpless thing in the world where a sick person is concerned. In fact, we neither of us knew very much about sickness, due to the fact that we were both disgustingly well and had never been bothered since childhood days. "Oh, Clarice!" Maude moaned, more distracted than I was myself even with the pain. "I wish I knew what to do. Shall I send for a doc tor?" Now Maude and I had never tak en unto ourselves a doctor. We didn't know any doctor in the city, and I felt very chary about calling up a stranger in the middle of the night, no matter how distressingly ill 1 was. "We don't know where to send," T snapped. "You might get me a hot water bottle," I shivered. "And for Heaven's sake, Maude, close the window. It's, cold in here." I know I was cross, but any one who has ever had an earache knows that it is something to get cross about. Maude brought the hot water kettle and then stood by the bed looking so dejected that I snapped out again, "Do, for Heaven's sake, get into bed, Maude; you're not do ing me any good standing around and getting cold yourself." "Does the hot water make you feel better?" Maude asked timidly. "I haven't felt a change yet." "Oh, Clarice, dear, I wanted you T , —— Fashions of To-Day 9542 Girl's Coat Suit, 10 to 14 years. Price 15 cents. to see a doctor about this cold," she began tentatively. Maude is one of those persons who invariably says, "I told you so," after tlie thing is over. Dearly as I love her, she does make me angry in this particular. I said nothing. I was in too much pain to answer in my usual brusque fashion, and besides, there was noth ing much to say to a positive asser tion of this kind. "O, I know what to do,. Clarice," Maude burst out suddenly, "111 run upstairs and ask Mrs. Long to come down." This was too much even for my patience and I turned wrathy and said horrid things. "That's a bril liant idea,"l returned, lifting myself up on my elbow so that the hot water bottle which wasn't hot enough anyway, Maude had simply let the water run out of the faucet instead of heating it, fell to the floor. "As if Mrs. Long cares wheth er 1 live or die. I should say you won't get her down here." But Maude, the idea firmly in trenched in her mind, made a flying leap across the room, and, leaving our door ajar, was speeding on her way upstairs. Our apartment build ing is an old one, with no beautiful "narble facade and no elevator and and but one apartment on a floor. Maude was reasonably sure of not cni-oiintering any one on the stain? at that time of night. But what could have possessed her to do such a thing? Then I heard voices and then her footsteps on the stairs and 1 those of Mrs. Long's. Miserable as I was I could not help noticing Mrs. Bong's appear ance. She did not seem cold and distant. Her eyes were filled with sympathy, and she said, "You poor child," and meant it too. Yesterday I met Mrs. Bong on the stairs and she smiled in her usual cold, brilliant manner. But I have seen her at 2 o'clock in the morning in a pink bathrobe and her eyes wore a different expression then. Perfect Attendance Records of High School Students Biverpool, Pa., Nov. 19.—0f the twenty-nine students in the local High school, J. Paul Charles, teacher, ten were placed on the honor roll for perfect attendance during the past month. Males had an average of 89 per cent, and the' females 99 per cent Pupils on the honor roll are: Miss Arna Grubb, Miss Julia Albright, Miss Helen Hamilton, Miss Margaret Stailey, Miss Myrtle Mengle, Miss Pauline Shuler, Miss Catherine Hepner, Ralph Brown, Harry Deckard, Alvin Williamson. The five leaders in scholarship are Miss Catherine Hep ner, 94; Miss Arna Grubb, 93.8; Miss Margaret Helmbucher, 93.7; Bee Shuler, 90.2 and Ralph Brown, 90. - By May Manton Girls are wearing a great many coat suits this season and this one is so simple it can be made at home without the least difficulty. Since home 6ewing is making a feature of the season, and a great many mothers are planning the Au tumn wardrobes of their young daughters, that fact is a valuable one. There is a simple three piece skirt with the front edges lapped and a perfectly loose coat that is held by a belt. Tlvp collar is adjustable and can be buttoned up about the throat or rolled open, and you will find almost any seasonable suiting material appropriate. Serge and gabardine are fa vorites for the early season but for later wear wool velours and duvetyn are in greatdemand and are very beautiful, and there are cheviots that are admirable for hard usage, while broadcloth always makes a pretty suit for a young girl, if the color is well chosen. For the 12-year size will be needed, 5 yards of material 36 inches wide, 3% yards 44, 3 yards 54. The pattern No. 9542 is cut in sizes from 10 to 14 years. It will be mailed to any address by the Fashion Department of this papfcr, on receipt of fifteen cents. Advice to the Lovelorn BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX Ijoiiging For Affection DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: I have had a hard time all my life and was deprived of going out much jin my younger' days. Now it so hap , | pens I met a man to whom I've tak en a fancy. At llrst ly? seemed to 11 like me, but now lie tries to avoid . [ me. 1 can say frankly he isn't wor , thy, because he doesn't hold a good i position and is very poor in convers ing. still I would overlook all thi6. I can't seem to concentrate my mind on what I'm doing. ESSIE. There is an old Hindu proverb which reads: "This too shall pass." Now, back of that proverb is the wisdom of all the ages. The most terrible sufferings are dulled by time. You have idealized this man because you are an emotional creature, who is longing for love, but don't deceive I yourself about the situation—what you feel a great many other women feel. But if necessary, any strong woman can conquer and live down her emotions, and there is always the possibility that she won't have to—that her capability for feeling will be rewarded by the gift of love • and understanding much more splen did and worth while than the emo tion she tried to realize by giving her unasked devotion to an unworthy man. Now, my dear, stop thinking aboyt yourself. Go right straight down to the Red Cross and enroll for some war work. Never mind about your own hard lot—put your mind on the tremendous sufferings all over the world and see what you can do to help alleviate that. Please, please, take my advice, and three months from now you*will look back on to day's sufferings as morbid and self ; centered. I know they seem real— but you (and you alone) can con quer them. Can You Influence llim? j Dear Miss Fairfax: The man I love does not respect old age, and he is not at all patriotic He seems to have a hatred for his father, and while I am sure he cares for his mother, he does not rever ence her. This young man has been sadly pampered. He has an abund ance of wit, is aristocratic and can be very sympathetic. He also has a "take-it-for-granted" sort of way, and, although he has not asked and probably will not, he expects I will marry him. Do you think that this man can be capable of making a good hus band ESTELLE M. It sounds rather dangerous! The man who does not respect parents or country and who has only the outward bearings of a gentleman, who can be sympathetic occasionally and who is spoiled and selfish is likely to be brutal and exacting as a husband. And yet it is possible that a sane young woman like you—one who has the keen powers of analysis you show and the ability to stand off and examine a situation critically— can, if she be sweet-tempered, pa tient and clever enough to lead with out making it evident that she is do-1 ing it, influence the man for whom she cares for his own great good. I j His wit and charm do not qualify) ! him particularly as a husband, till I will make him a pleasant companion I and probably mean that he is brainy ! enough to respond to the right sort of stimuli. Why Not? Dear Miss Fairfax: I am engaged, but my fiance's sal ary is small. I could get along on it nicely, as I can cook and sew, but he has nothing saved, as he has had heavy family burdens to carry until recently. He has a small fur nished room, I another, and we are both alone. I was married before and have one child. I pay for his board. Now we thought if we were married right away wo could take a couple of rooms and both work till we had enough to start house-1 keeping, and we would both be hap- j py together. But my friends all say lam very foolish. I know it is much nicer to have your home from the start, but as neither of us have any home life now we feel if we were together we could be very hap py, as we love each other very much. MARGERY S. Why shouldn't you marry and work together'.' Which matters more | Face Wrinkled? Complexion Sallow? > Then Why Not Trent Your Skin | As Beautiful French Women Do? Paris:—Science has discovered that faded, mottled, aged-looking complex ions can be virtually renewed and made surprisingly beautiful by means of the following recipe: Merely wash your face with buttermilk and rub in a teaspoonful of Creme Toka lon Roseated; wipe the face and ap ply Poudre Petalias—a very line com plexion powder prepared especially for shiny noses and bad complexions. If your face is badly wrinkled, get a box of Japanese Ice Pencils to use in connection with the roseated cream and you should get quick action on even the deepest wrinkles. Thus do famous French actresses preserve the rare beauty of their complexions, and if you were to pay hundreds of dol lars for special treatment you prob ably would not he anything like as well off as by using this simple and inexpensive recipe. The articles men tioned above are supplied in this city by Gorgas, Kennedy's, Croll Keller Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Bowman & Co.—Advertisement. to you—your happiness and content ment or the opinion of your friends? It seems to me you will find a certain restfulness, content and spur to am bition in being together. Beside that here is a perfectly cold-blooded, practical consideration: Two people living together do not need to spend as much for food and lodging as the sum total of what both of them | spend when each keeps a separate i little home. Perhaps you could even manage to have your baby with you if you got rooms with an amiable woman, who was willing to look out for him when you are away from home. WILL INSTALL PASTOR Columbia, Pa., Nov. 19.—The Rev. George W. Genszler, who left Co lumbia, October 1, to assume The pastorate of Bake Park English Lu theran Church, Milwaukee, Wis., will be installed as pastor November 21. 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"We had tried many remedies without doing her any good and fi nally she started in on Tanlac on the advice of a friend. The results have been really miraculous, for now she has a wonderful appetite and can hardly wait for meal times, she feels brighter and stronger and rests beau tifully at night. "My sister has been taking Tan las, too, and they are both enthu siastic over it for the help it has been to them." Tanlac, the famous reconstructive tonis, is not being introduced here at Gorgas' Drug Store who have secured the exclusive sale of this master med icine in HarrJaburg. Tanlac is also sold at the Gorgas Drug Store in the P. R. R. Station; In Carlisle at W. G. Stephens' Phar macy; Elizabethtown, Albert W Cain; Greencastle, Charles B. Carl- Middletown, Colin S. Few's Phar-' macy; Waynesboro, Clarence Croft's Pharmacy; Mechanlcsburg. H. F Brunhouse. —Adv, A Dead Stomach Of What Use Is It? 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