Life's Problems Are Discussed f Early last spring I began to write n atory. I thought I had an extreme ly good idea, and by the time I had finished the first chapter I flattered myself that I was in my very best story telling vein. When I stopped it was with a feeling of serene satisfaction not only in the progress X had made, but in the freshness of my work. X had caught something I felt of the stress of the times, the spirit of the moment. i never finished the story. A heavy cold for a week or so, and theft a rush of other more urgent work intervened to prevent me. But 1 held it in mind and kept promising myself that I would take it up again the very first time that an opportun ity presented itself. Last week the opportunity came, I lifted the manuscript from the drawer where it had lain and pre pared to take it up again where I ta%d left off months before. But I had not read two pages before my zeal began to ooze away. Another page, and I laid It back in the drawer with a disgusted shake of the head. Flat, stale and unprofitable! Old stuff! That, I realized was the damn ing comment that any editor would make upon it. Yet X could see, too, that my Judgment of it when it was written had not been at fault. Last spring it as fresh, timely even a little ahead of time. But now, less than six months later —well, by con trast, a last year's bird's nest stands as the symbol ot .something virginally new and up to date. It was all oat of key, as obsolete as the green veil fad of some years ago, or the bicycling craze, or some popular song of the vintage of "After the Ball." And the incident brought home to me with something of a shock the runaway speed with which this 'old world of ours is careering through space. Events follow one another with such cinematographic rapidity that it Is hardly possible to assimilate one before another claims the atten tion. You do not dare turn yourj head away from the film for a sin gle instant. Unless you are con stantly on the alert you are going to miss something. And just when you think there'll be a chance to draw your breath a sign flashes out on the screen: "The next reel will follow immediately!" Oh, yes; "tempora mutantur!" And there is, of course, no question that Suffered 12 Months With Terrible Itching Rash. Cuticura Soap and Ointment Healed. I suffered from a rash so that I could hardly sleep at night for the terrible § itching. The skin was inflamed and red, and the itching caused me to scratch and irritate the affected parts. I suffered with this for most twelve months. "I used all home reme dies imaginable and was treated but with no results. Then I used Cuticura Soap and Oint ment with marvelous results and after I used two boxes of Cuticura Ointment and tvfro cakes of Cuticura Soap I was permanently healed." (Signed) Miss Ethel Myers, Cassandra, Pa., January 29, 1917. 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Name Address City or Town WEDNESDAY EVENING, HAKRIfiBURO TELEGRAPH NOVEMBER 21, 1917. Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1917, International News Service By M NAASIE -ITS A 1 , T™ E OOCTOR - "] s. DOVJMr'IT I THOUGHT I WU7. tICK 1 611 HE \ DOCTOR \ £ I ' V— / C - ) T _ INK V , *—-—————^—————_— „ .„ , I /Y-a/ we are "mutantering" with the times But so adaptable is human nature that few of us recognize to how great an extent we have changed. Just try to return to your mental attitude of four years ago. It seemed to us then a very progressive age. But as we view it now in perspective we can see that for the first fifteen years of this century we were prac tically at a halt, simply marking time. We might have said of it as Em erson said of another period just prior to a season of great national stress and upheaval: "Our age is ret rospective. It builds the sepulchers of the fathers. It writes biographies histories and criticisms." We are absorbed in the infinitely little. We had grown soft. Our creed, whether we admitted it or not was, "Let well enough alone." And when the voice of prophecy reached our ears we felt irritated at being disturbed. We talked a lot, but did little. We had a pretty low opinion of human nature and a very exalted idea of our civilization to which we had attained. And then came Liege and Lou vain and the Marne. And human nature revealed itself not as the poor thing we had been deriding, but as; something great and grim and splen did and terrible. Our world of sham and tinsel and make believe has van ished, and we are caught in the grip of primitive forces. The things which were mere words and phrases to us —valor and democracy—have be come life's actualities. This has happened before. With every great demand humanity has risen to great heights, only when the cataclysm has passed to sink back again to a lower level. The stern virtue of Cromwell's time had to give way to the silken, dissolute court of Charles 11. France beheld a vision of equal liberty, only to turn from it to her Reign of Terror and the tyranny of a Robespierre. And from the sacrifices of the Civil War our own country passed to the "flush" materialism of the early seventies, with its riot of graft and speculation and sordid scandal. Action is succeeded by reaction. "As it was in the days of Noah," in sists the pessimist. But each fresh wave has borne us a little farther out on the ocean of progress. So the present mighty sweep will im part such impetus that we can never fall back to where we were. As a writer recently put It: "It isn't only that the old order has changed, Riving place to the new. The old order has blown up, van ished, evaporated, fled and gone for ever. You could no more bring back to this earth the conditions that existed here on August 1, 1914, than you could bring back the millions of men that have perished between that day and. this. An entirely new era very. strange and wonderful is dawning upon this old world, and when it is well under way and go ing properly we shall rejoice and be glad therein." We wil never give up what we have gained. Out of the wreck of autocracy and provincialism and sel fish exploitation and all the lumoer of the dark ages shall arise a higher standard and a great new statement. ■ Of course, it is a mere sentimental fantasy to expect an immediate mli lenium. After the war there will Nerves Cry Out for Phosphorous Like Muscles Call for Food Saya Doctor Who Preacribt* I'hoKphornted Malt to Sternly the Nerves, Clear the Drain and Brlnit Dnck the Joys o( Life Boston, Mass.—"Your nerves need phosphorus like your muscles need food. ' says Dr. Reid, "and tile trou ble with most men and women past thirty is they have exhausted their natural supply of phosphorus and find themselves run down and unable to do their usual work. Often they look strong and robust as if they could do a full day's work, but, while they may have strength oif a certain kind, and often do, they lack the endur ance that comes of healthy nerves under perfect control. They lack de cision and find it difficult to concen trate on one thing and finish it. and often show a disposition to take life with easy indifference; or they are iervou irritable and easily startled at any sudden noise or unusual oc currence." "But generally a lack of phosphor us shows itself In a lack of general interest, —apathy, indifference, to such an extent that people are often thought to be lazy whereas they are only nerve-starved. Such a condition never comes on suddenly, though it may reach a crisis and seem to. We go on for months or years constantly consuming more phosphorus than the system secretes and that is the rea son it is so often unnoticed till the crisis Is reached and a complete nervous breakdown is close at hand. Both mind and body are affected. Mentally you are less alert. You see less and feel less, either of pleasure or pain. Nothing tmpresses you or interests you as it once did. You actually live less because vour nerves are loss alive. It is dangerous and needless to run into such a condition for if taken in time the nerves can be supplied with phosphorus and re stored to perfect health. A good test for this condition is the following- Walk around a block and then sit down and write of what you saw, people, show windows, street traffic trees,—everything. Date this list! Then take two five-grain tablets of phosphorated malt after eacli meal for ten days. Take the same walk again at the same hour of the dav and write out what you see. You will be astonished at the second list In all probability you will have from two fo ten times as long a list as the first one." still be cakes and ale—or possibly, if the "drys" have it, cakes and lemon ade. Men and women will cheat and lie and steal and covet and disobey their parents and blithely break ev ery commandment of the decalogue. But still we women like to think —and our dream is not going to harm any one, while it gives us a lot of pleasure—that the retrogres sion which has always followed each fresh advance will this time be far less marked. A great new force has been added to the upward striving of mankind. And that is the introduction of wo man as an equal factor in the eco nomic and political life of the world. To her has always been vouchsafed the spirit and the vision. She has lingered hesitant in her woods of Domremy, listening half afraid to the heavenly voices, but now she is coming forth fully armed and her shining sword is pointing the way to victories, of which as yet j we can only dream. Daily Dot Puzzle - j 14. fc 17 i* • # 13 i .18 .• * 5 ' .0 •a „• . 6 • 3 • 7 .4 V 2Z io 9.3 'W • 4i* * • 28 30 • 17 v,* 2*4 fe 44 2 . 9 37 33 3' I ' ' * 3*2: i f s ' s Can you And Johnnie's French teacher? Draw from 1 to 2 and so on to the end. "I have seen phosphorated malt produce astonishing results in a very short time. Recently a patient came iu me pnyslcaii} run duwn and on the verge of a mental collapse. His Oaily work had become drudgery and he got neither rest nor recreation irum his sports or holidays. He could neither sleep nor concentrate his inina on his work. 1 advised him to eat less and take two flve-graln tab lets of phosphorated malt after each meal. In less than ten days he walked into my office full of vim and vigor,—his eyes bright, his step firm and his manner that of a man of .enty-flve though he was well past fifty." The value of malt Is well known to all physicians. it is a remarkable tonic and tissue builder. Combined with phosphorus and phosphates as in phosphorated malt it Increases mental stamina, balances the blood arid aids the system to convert food into living tissue. The old liquid forms of malt are not pleasant or convenient to take and most of them contain alcohol, which produces a needless stimulation always followed by a dangerous and depressing reac. tion. Phosphorated malt has the tissue building properties of malt without the evils of alcoholic stimu lation. In It malt Is so combined with other ingredients as to produce a line exhilaration and a noticeable feeling of well-being. After a few jays of it you will wake in the morning vigorous and refreshed, ready to rise and begin the day's work with double confidence, optl .ntm and endurance. Note: The feeling of exhilaration often noticeable after a few weeks' • p of phosphorated malt is not the result of stimulation. It is the buoy tnco that comes of perfect health, — a life stream flowing freely, laden with the nourishment the body needs and flushing out through the ellmi ••tlv System the poisons of which the body needs to be rid. The fine exhilaration of perfect health and faultless nourishment Is so rare to Hist people as to be, remarkable and -ttrange. Phosphorated malt is sold by all druggists and especially in llarrlsburg by J. Nelson Clark, H. C. Kennedy and others All's Well That * Ends Well m BV .JAM: MCLEAN "She's fretting because the baby isn't a girl,", said the nurse, speak ing cautiously. "We can't do any ! thing with her. She doesn't even | want to see the baby." "Well, well," said Miss Benson | j ted a girl, but I didn't think it would I make this difference. Most mothers love their babies whether they are [ boys or girls." "That has been my experience," returned the nurse. "But in this case things are not coming out right at all." "Shall I go in and see If I can do anything witb her?" queried Miss Benson. The nurse, used to all kinds of human nature, regarded the woman before her a moment and then nodded quickly. "Yes, if you would," she began slowly, and then finish ing in a burst of confidence she said, "I believe you might be able to in fluence her." M'ss Benson went into the room netly and closed the door behind her. The figure on the bed turned at the slight noise and for a brief instant a look of pleasure flashed across her face. This faded almost immediately and gave way to an ex pression of utter despondency. She turned her head resolutely to ' the wall. "Well, Mollie," began Miss Ben son sitting down next to the bed, You surely have a splendid boy. The woman made no sign that she had heard. "I know you wanted a girl," Miss Benson continued, but women are not having girls just now, at least very few are." The head on the pillow turned quickly. "What are you talking about?" Mollie asked. "I thought we were talking about your boy." "What about women not having girl babies? Oh," she exclaimed pas sionately, "I prayed for a girl, I wanted a girl baby, I don't want a boy." "But it seems to me, Mollie, that you have nothing at all to do about it now," returned Miss Benson. "That's just it, they want me to accept It and act as if I wanted it, and I don't." "How do you know whether you do or not if you haven't cuddled it in your arms? You are acting like an absurd child, -Mollie, just as if the baby could help being a boy. You ought to be proud of having a boy, above all, right now." "What did you mean about women Fashions of To-Day - By May Manton There is a great tendency toward over-bodices this season and the effect is always pretty for little girls. Here is a charm ing school frock that is made of b-rge over a blouse of plaid taffeta. The plaited skirt is joined to the blouse ap.d is closed at the front. The ove bodice is entirely separate. Th novel feature is fbund in th extensions on the front that ar turned up to form pockets Serge is the all round standb for such dresses, but it coul be copied in a plaid taffeta wit a blouse of plain to become a afternoon in-place of a schot frock, or it could be copied i a plain linen with the blouse t plaid, or you could make bot the blouse and skirt of a plai material and the over-bod it\ needed, 2% yards of material 36 inches wide, 2 yards 44 for and skirt, 1% in sizes from 6to I shears. Lt will be mailed to any address ' 9566 Girl's Dress. 6to , 2 years. & the F ™ hion Department of Price 15 cents. this P a Pe r t oa receipt of fifteen cents. naving boys now?" Mollie asked again curiously. "Just what I said. This is war time, my child, and the more .boy children that are born the better." A real smile broke across Mollie's face at this naive remark. "Oh, you funny old thing," she said amused ly, "if that isn't just like you." "But doesn't it sound rational?" "No, not to me." "Well, it should. You ought to be the proudest woman in the world, to think you have given a man child to the country just when it is needed most. If you stop to think about it, Mollie, you will see that I am right. Of all the girls that I have known who have had babies lately only two have had girls. It is because of the spirit of the times: I insist that I am right." Wise Miss Benson did not know whether she was right or not, but she was determined to give the little mother something to think about. "You will be bitterly ashamed of ourself for this attitude some day, Mollie," she continued gravely. "You are missing precious moments that can never be yours again. Some day you will think back and long for the moments you are throwing away now, some day when your boy is grown up and leaving you for an other woman." Mollie moved restlessly. "As if there were any difference in the love you could give it," .Miss Benson pursued. "Boys are just as cuddly as girls, and you are willing to let your own little baby, the first one you have ever had of your very own, to receive its first mothering from a stranger. Oh Mollie!" "Oh, Bendy!" Mollie wailed, sud denly; "don't talk like that any more. I can't bear it. Bring me my baby —I want to see it." Miss Benson rose quickly. "Are, you properly ashamed of yourself?" I she asked severely. "You don't dese—'e the most pre cious gift in the world," Miss Benson went on relentlessly. "Suppose you hadn't been given .any baby at all." At this moment the nurse poked her head in at the door. "The baby is crying, Mrs. Dean," she said soft ly; "shall I bring it in?" And Mollie turned toward her, quickly, a smile on her white little face, and held out hungry arms. Advice to the Lovelorn BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX To Jilt a Girl Bear Miss Fairfax: I am about twenty-two and have been going about with a lady two years my junior to whom I am en gaged. After three years I find I do not love her enough to marry her, -but I have not the courage to tell her my feelings, as everything has been arranged and the wedding date set. After giving the matter serious consideration I finally came to the conclusion that it would be best to marry her and, undoubtedly, after our marriage I will learn to love her ntore. Do you think I am taking the right step, or, would you advise me to tell her exactly how I feel. J. Q. My dear boy, aren't you a bit of a shirker? Don't you see that you have no right to ask any one else to make your decision for you? Don't be mentally lazy. Just sit down and figure out the thing sane ly. What do you mean when you say that you find you do not care enough for the girl you have loved for three years to go through with your marriage now that the date Is all set. A great many people get a little uncertain and nervous when they begin to realize the Importance of the step they are taking. If you care enough for the gii'l so that rather than cause their unhappi nesa you are willing to sacrifice your own, perhaps your love is very real after all. Figure out the sincerity "Goldsmith Furniture Ma 5 Sensational Selling of High | 1 Grade Dining Suites J Buy Now—The Savings g Just in time for Thanksgiving too. Delayed shipments which should p have reached us in July and August, but owing to freight embargoes have H just arrived. ' H We're overloaded and must have room for holiday goods arriving daily hence =§ jp these EXTRAORDINARY REDUCTIONS reductions that will be sure to move E| the goods. |= |g' Every Dining Suite is REDUCED—and a REAL BARGAIN. Over 40 styles to H select from. We quote but a few of the many wonderful values now offered. If you j= are in need of a Dining Suite don't delay buying any longer.' Come in and see the = H Suites then you'll appreciate the low prices. | This 9 pc. Wm. and Mary Dining Suite in Antique 1 | Mahogany or American Walnut Specially Priced at j| jj In the new and fash- H of Buffet with mirror back, as illustrated, or == wood back, 54 or 60 inches long; double-door ▼ China Closet and 6 leather slip seat chairs. , 5c =J Serving Table s2l extra. 0= 01 B-PIECE FUMED OAK CKOMWEDLIAN H.I'IECE ANTIQUE MAHOGANY HEPPLE. M 1= DINING SUlTE—Consisting of 54-inch Buffet WHITE DINING SUITE Consisting of 60- yc —4B-inch Extension Dining Table double- inch Buffet—s4-inch Extension Dining Table; = door China Closet, and 6 slip seat cane-back large China Cabinet; onrt 6 leather slip seat == § Dining Chairs; 4he celebrated Gustav Stickley Chairs; all dustproof construction; a hand- E= r= make dustproof construction regularly some suite; formerly $305.00. (OCB fin £3 S|i $206.50. Specially . SI 75.00 s l )ecia "y Priced at ipZOO.UU C j §1 prlced at _ * H-IMECE SOI,ID MAHOGANY INLAID SIIER- 11 --- 0-PIECE MAHOGANY QUEEN ANNE DIN- I> J XIN<! SUlTE—Consisting of 60-inch §§|! 5 ING SUITE Consisting of 60-inch Buffet Sideboard; square Dining Table 42x60; China ||| with mirror 4B-Inch Extension Dining Table l-ablnet and 6 leather slip seat Chairs; the g=|| —large China Cabinet and 6 leather slip seat 5?,!!?° an . . ay malte !' elegant Esj| Chairs all dustproof construction • a „ a , bargain; formei 'ly $335 00 beautiful and attractive suite; flft Specially priced • S3 M formerly $225.50. Special price K-FIECE SOLID MAHOGANY EARLY COLO. p=3 = DINING SUlTE—Cons'sting of 60-lnch E=j == 9-PIECE WALNUT QUEEN ANNE DINING 3ldeboard —5 4 inch Extension Dining Table; I=l === SUITE Consisting of 5 4-inch Buffet with ' v.una Cabinet and 0 leather slip Beat iHi SE mirror; 48-inch Extension Dining Table; China Royal make; an exqul- fill Cabinet and 6 leather slip seat Chairs; regular- site Suite; note the saving. Fornvrly $426 50 fS| | s r!' uy . $190.00 SKST. $355.00 gj EE ______________ Ess] | Three Special Offerings From Our Drapery Dept. ft § Of course every housekeeper wants her dining room attractive for Thanksgiving. |Sq| These three special offerings will help her materially and save her money, too. SUNFAST MATERI- FILET LACE CUR- SUNFAST CUR- |f i ALS - for curtains and TAINS-with linen edge TAINS - for archways 8 . • Hi a,1(1 insertion 2 ]/ 2 yards - „ , <£^l g draperies all colors— ] on ,r 40 inches wide—reg- and doorways—all colors Rg regularly 75c. Special at, ularly $5.00. Special at —regularly $7.50. Special- =1 per yard, 50£. tftt.9B. ly priced at $5.95. I . GOLDSMITH'S 1 p North Market Square jj of your love and the sincerity of your doubt. Try to decide which way you will cause the girl more happiness—by giving her up now or by marrying her and letting your tendency to changeableness make As Age Advances the Liver Requires nail Pill. Small occasional .light atimulatlon. '>se, Sraill CARTER'S little liver pills ,Vork HP f? ,TTLE correct I3W B&j?. CONSTIPATION \WlkimW Genulns s? Colorless or Pale Faces SrtJ"! dicate the ■*•• of iron in wvx&wft * wiv, M. ( he blood, p . 9 T EVII a condition which will be greatly helped by SlrOHt lllS you both morbid. I don't know enough about either one of you to advise ycm seriously. The only hon est advice I can give is: Take counj sel with yourself; reckon It all out In terms of "for and against." 5
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