9 Life's Problems Are Discussed By MRS. WILSON WOODKOW A friend of mine who is byway of being something of a mystic and psychologist of the modern school, sent me a card on which she had written a wish for the new year. This wish embodied the highest good she could think of. and she had ex pressed it in four words: "Peace, Poise, Power and Prosperity!" The longer I looked at the card the more the value of these words im pressed me. I began to analyze each one, and then the wish as a whole. Peace! The most desirable thing in the world, for the world and the individual, if it's the right kind ot peace. Poise! According to the dictionary, a state of equilibrium, making for equanimity. Well, an admirable thing is equanimity, and peace is impossi ble without it. Power! The only kind that sane people desire, the power over one's self, the sort of power that enables one to say: "Henceforth I ask not good for tune—l myself am good fortune. Henceforth I whimper no more, post pone no more, need nothing. Strong and content, I travel the open road." But that is a state of mind incom prehensible unless behind it, reinforc ing it, is poise. Prosperity! That is easy to imag ine. A delightful condition if you have the poise necessary to enjoy it. And thus I made the discovery that in this wish embracing all good things, poise is really the keystone of the arch. Time led me to the further con sideration of it as a definite factor LIKE BOLT FROM ! HEAVEN'S BLUE 1 : A happy discovery of Cincin- j ; nati chemist interests women here | Tour high heels 'iave put corns on your toes and calluses on your feet, but why care now? A genius In Cincinnati discovered a magic ether compound and named j it freezone. A qiAirter ounce of this i freozone can now be had at any drug store for a few cents. Apply a few drops on your tender, aching corn or callus. Instantly the sore ness disappears and shortly you will find the corn or callus so shriveled and loose that you lift it off with your fingers. Just think! You get rid of a hard corn, soft corn or a corn between the toes, as well as fiardened call uses for a few cents arid without suffering one particle, without the slightest irritation of tho surround ing skin. Just a touch of this mar velous freezone on a sore, trouble some corn gives instant relief. MEM I A Special Feature of the | I Goldsmith February f I /s a Big Sale J Pirn tlliflllk, e (^ou^t an y store ' n Central Pennsylvania p ulfll / H ever assem^^e( l such a wonderful assortment of p V artistic Floor, Table, Boudoir and <p l Lamps of every description as we now offer '= at suc | l remarkably j ow prices. Stands ■ Thi s unusual sale of Lamps is bound to ip attract attention, for never before in the history M and of this business have we been able to offer such M Shades values at such economy prices. PI Separately VALUES—and you'll get them, too. ■ I H| S i Here are Floor Lamps of solid mahogany with M ] an almost endless variety of shades of cretonne, |§ || I silk, parchment and artistic butterfly designs— M ft Table Lamps of mahogany and wedgewood, || armor bronze and Nippon pottery bases—bou- "p M FLOOR LAMPS - doir Lamps with mahogany and Japanese lacquer I m.k'ogan", flashed bases and Desk Lamps of brass—all in all the ■ HI bases with 22-inch Em- most beautitul showing of lamps ever shown in H p pire shades £15.00 this city. Eg I values, special at H d? i i *7 C We quote but three of the many extraordi- j %P 1 1 • / nary values ! $9.00 TABLE LAMPS AT I | $12.00 TABLE LAMPS AT ! | J, l ° S 'A , /"ahogatiy J | Solid mahogany 3 * bases with 14-inch Em- a t\w* * % v •*_ ~ : == % pire silk shades in rose, .95 * I 16 " m ° h S ' ,k JO flfl * P * pold, or green. Must Y % * shades in rose, green or tIC % jg ♦> be seen to be appreci- * % S°ld 2 light fixture. ~^ * ated. * | A rare value. £ H Harrisburc's Best Furniture Store jj North Market Sauare I mum Jf FRIDAY EVENING, Bringing Up Father /■' Copyright, 1917, International News Service ,*■' * By McManus\ | YOU W VOU CAUCHT 1 _ WELL - THE |~ AND HE sAir> HF I I in our lives; and immediately all kinds of vistas opened before me. The person of unshakable poise is not only the most enviable but the most formidable of beings. The ar rows which are aimed at him splin ter against the chain armor of per fect equanimity, and fall harmlessly to the ground. It was the almost superhuman poise of Joffre that won the battle of the Marne. The Germans advanced and advanced. The French fell back. Still no rash, impetuous action. The clamor of criticism was unheeded, until just the moment to strike. And the enemy was outflanked. It was the poise that controlled the situa tion. It is the poise we can muster that controls all of the situations which confront us. It will turn de feat to victory. In a quandry or even a cataclysm, it is the essential thing. If we get frightened or nervous, we are lost. Our faculties scatter. It is not necessarily the people who possess great ability who win under conditions of stress; it is the people who keep their wits about them. Physical poise alone is a very beau tiful and wonderful thing; it is al ways a pleasure to watch the work of a trained athlete or acrobat. And mental poise is its corollary. Both are certainly acquirable. The people who have to have poise to get it. Those who cannot accomplish their work without it manage to secure it. Surgeons, for instance, and nurses on duty. I once had an injury to my hand and arm. To have the full use of them afterward required some very pain ful surgical treatment. I instinc tively chose the surgeon who I felt would be interested solely in the work to be done, and would not be moved in the least by any torture I might be suffering. In all of the things that make for our personal safety and welfare, we prefer cool heads to kind hearts. After all these cogitations, the next step was inevitable. I determined to acquire complete poise for myself. Since it was the most desirable thing in the world, why be without it? When I made this resolution the day was already half gone; so I decided to postpone the experiment until the following morning, and begin right. A perfect day of perfect poise! No matter what came up. I should be: "Undisbranched by the storms that uproot us, by the lures that enthrall unenticed!" This was on the eve of the now his toric cold spell. The mercury vol planed downward through the night. It is hard to be calmly happy with the thermometer outside your habi tation below zero, and the one inside going it one better. However, there was the open fire to fall back on, and quite a decent supply of wood. But no one has been abie to explain to me. why a log that will burn for hours in moderate weather only lasts about ten minutes in immoderate weather. I Invaded the studio of an artist whose last picture had aroused much favorable comment. "I wonder if you have an extra supply of wood?" I began. He pointed to his roaring fire, and then to a model in a gossamer eve ning frock. "Wood?" he said bitterly. "I'm burning up my capital. That fire," he shook his finger at it dramatically, "consists of some of my best can vases. I've got to have this job finished on time." < I turned then to the studio of a famous illustrator. As I approached the door there was a tremendous sound of splintering and pounding. "I can't get my thermometer above forty-eight," I said. "I thought you might have a surplus cord or so of wood." "I'm breaking up the furniture now," he replied. "If this chair round is any good to you, take it. You've grown stout in the last few days, haven't you?" ".Oh, no," I answered. "I've got on all my wool tailored skirts, two sweaters and a fur coat." I went back to my seat, not beside the radiator but on it, and took my aXRRISBURG jfllftl TELEGKjfcPB pen in my numbed fingers only to find that the ink had frozen In the bottle. "Poise! Perfect poise!" I said to myself, and began on the typewriter. I broke down on the second para graph. I went to a concert in the after noon. The music was lovely but a women behind me knitted persist ently with the clickingest kind of knitting needlles. We had a few ear est words on the subject. A dozen other things unexpected and annoying happened, and by night my perfect poise was completely shat tered and lay in fragments about me. I called up my friend of the four wishes on the telephone. "That poise business doesn't work," I said gloom ily. "You know Hell is paved with good Intentions, and I've la,id down a walk to-day that Atlantic City might be proud of." "It'b the mental law," she returned, "that when you resolve on a new course and try to hold to it, a thou sand things come up to test you. But just hang on to the idea of perfect poise, and in a littlfe while the obsta cles to your progress will fall away." "I don't know whether my temper can stand the strain," I answered. "I'm certainly a shorn lamb now. So maybe the wind will be tempered. But, all fooling aside, in these try ing times when all the world is full of sorrow and every other person you meet has a new and terrifying rumor, we need to keep our heads as never before. It is our plain duty to summon up all the courage and all the cheerfulness we've got in us, and scatter them broadcast. 'lt may re quire a supreme effort to do so, but it is supreme selfishness not to make that effort. Hurry Construction of Five Cars For Traction Company Efforts have been made to hurry the construction of the five steel cars for the Harrisburg Railways Company. The contract for this work was placed with the J. O. Brill Company, Philadelphia, last summer, and it is expected the cars will be finished by April 1. Because of the war and Government orders, the time required to fill car orders is much longer than in the past. The price of each car Is approximately 100 per cent, higher than last year, officials said. I Daily Fashion Hint Prepared Especially for this Newspaper K ¥ j j . %^r-506 THE COQUETTISH AND THE PRACTICAL. The bustle frocks hold their own despite the insistence of traight-lin frocks. Here is shown a charming effect in printed organdy trimmod with very narrow bands of taffeta ribbon. The skirt is caught up at the back and worn with an overwaist of eelf-material under which is a blouse of plain lawn with deep sailor collar. The sleeves match the skirt. In medium size the model requires 5 yards 36-inch organdy, with 1% yard lawn for the blouse and 2*4 yards lining for the upper part of foundation skirt. The tailleur is one of the successful models for early spring, being liked well for its simplicity nnd wearable lines. Blue serge is utilized in its development, the coat falling in points at the front. It has a deep shawl collar of plain satin ani sleeves trimmed with buttons. Medium size re quires 4% yards 54-inch material. First Model; Pictorial Review Waist No. 7COB. Bizes, 34 to 42 inch* bust. Priee, 20c. Skirt No. 75T3. Bizes 24 to 32 inches -waist. Price, 20c. THE FOUR OF HEARTS A SERIAL, or YOUTH AND ROMANCE By VIRGINIA VAN DE WATER CHAPTER XV (Copyright, 1918, Star Co.) Mrs. Livingstone regarded her husband's niece gravely. "Really, my dear," she said, "you carry your self-absorption too far. You are not quite fair to yourself or to others. The matron and the girl were seated in the library. The 5 o'clock tea-wagon was between them. Mrs. I-ivingstone sipped the tea daintily from her cup; Cynthia had not tast ed hers. She was gazing at her com panion, her eyes wide and anxious. Mrs. Livingstone was glad to have this interview as soon as circum stances would permit. She had not forced matters, but had bided her time. It came this afternoon. Dora had gone to a reception for which Cynthia had also received cards. But Cynthia, on learning that it was to be a "crush" affair, had sent her regrets. Mrs. Living stone had an influenza, which, though slight, reddened her nose and eyes to an unbecoming extent. Therefore she considered herself housebound. At a quarter of five she had sent upstairs for her niece, suggesting that they tike tea to gether by tho library fire. Without preliminary she broached the subject she had in mind. This was her disappointment that Cyn thia should have declined this af ternoon's invitation and that she evinced such an aversion for so ciety. Cynthia answered slowly and thoughtfully. "I do not mean to be unfair to anybody, Aunt Aman da," slve said. "Nor —excuse me —can I see why my not going to the Delafield reception hurt anyone. Mrs. Delafield asked me only through courtesy. She has met me but once. Dora knows lots of people who will be there; she does not miss me. As for myself—well, I have lijtle heart for that kind of thing. I never eared much for big social functions. I care less than ever for them now." "That's just it," Mrs. Livingstone argued. "If this keeps on you will become a recluse. You say you do r.ot know to whom it is unfair. Forgive me if I say that it is tin fair to us all. DOra loves you and wants you to meet her friends. Yet when she has proposed theater parties for you four young people —that is, you girls, Milton and Mr. Stewart—you have demurred and asked her to go without you." No Herniation She paused, and Cynthia uttered no refutation of these charges. She would not confess that she felt a strange reluctance to be much with Van Saun. She told herself that this was because he was Dora's property. She did not want the intimate friendship of a man who would soon be the husband of an other woman. "What are you thinking of?" Mrs. Livingstone demanded. Cynthia spoke a part of the truth. "That it must be pleasanter for Dora to go about alone with Mr. Van Saun. Under the circumstan ces, another girl would be in the way." "Nothing of the kind!" Mrs. Liv ingstone contradicted—for Mr. Stew art is glad to make the fourth in the party. He calls here often, and it is #ot to seo Milton's bethrothed, So it must be to see you." "Oh!" The exclamation escaped Cynthia. "I never thought of his coming to see me particularly! Hon estly, it never occurred to me." Mrs. Livingstone leaned forward, and pinched the girl's cheek. "Innocence!" she teased. "Your uncle and I have noticed it and we are glad to have such a nice young man as Mr. Stewart on friendly terms with you. Dear child, you must think of your future. I hate to say it—but your uncle feels this even more than I do." "Uncle feels this?" Cynthia re peated incredulously. "What do you mean? Why should he care? If I am happy here with you kind people in your lovely home, why should uncle and the rest of you care whether I go out into society, or like young men, or attend theaters, or do any of these things?" There was a pregnant pause. Mrs. Livingstone was looking at the lire, but something in her face made the girl watching her catch her breath. "Won't you explain, Aunt Aman da?" she begged. 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ALWAYS OOATS Harrisburg's Garment Institution —Tirr*""""""" Twmmmwm mimmimmmbbi FEBRUARY 15, 1918, I derstand what it is all about. Does ! it displease Uncle Stephen and you I to have me stay quietly at home when my heart is not in gay and merry things? X am happy—really I am only 1 cannot feel quite com fortable going out in society so soon after my dear father's death. "That is one reason why you should go," Mrs. Livingstone insist ed, "because you have no father. Were ho still here, he might look after you in the years ahead of you. As it is, you will be thrown upon i yourself. Therefore it is wrong and ; foolish to cast aside all chance to | meet people who may be of value to | you. It is silly and unwise to avoid | any■ eligible man who may want to ' marry you. It is this that makes ] your uncle and me anxious, my child." "But, why should I marry?" Cyn- I thia demanded, trying to speak i calmly and to repress any sign of ! indignation. "Why should I plan | for my future? Am I in the way here. Aunt Amanda? Please teli 1110 truly and candidly if I am." While the elderly woman looked at her kindly, there was no loving pity in her cool, gray eyes—only a regret at having to say something disagreeable. "My dear, suppose I send your uncle in to talk with you?" she sug gested. "I hear his key in the front door now. But before he conies f want to assure you that it makes us all—your uncle, Dora and me—most happy to have you in our home. But it is also a matter of anxiety to your uncle and me that your future is so uncertain." With which .problematical remark Mrs. Livingstone arose, opened the library door and summoned her hus band. (To Be Continued.) EAT "PATRIOTICALLY" Warden Mcllhenny at the county jail has arranged to comply with the food administration to observe the "meatless" and "whcatless" days. According to the official, the pris oners are furnished "war bread" and coffee for breakfast and supper, and soup for dinner. Each one is allowed a half pound of bread at each meal. HISTORICAL SOCIETY MELTS The Historical Society of Dauphin County met last evening in the soci ety's rooms, 9 South Eront street. and listened to interesting talks b-4 Mrs. Joseph A. Thompson and Rev. Henry W. A. Henson. "His-j torical Travelogue of Old Virginia'* and "The Effects of the Present War 011 Palestine" were the subjects the talks. DANDRUFF GOES! HAIR GETS THICK, WAVY, BEAUTIFUL Saveyourhair! Double its beauty in a few moments. Try this! Hair stops coming out and everyS particle of dandruff disappears. Try as you will, after an applica tion of Danderine, you can not tind a single trace of dandruff or falling hair and your scalp will not itch, but what will please you most, will oe after a few weeks' use, when you see new hair, line and downy at lirst—yes—but really new hair— growing all over the scalp. A little Danderine immediately; doubles the beauty of your hair. 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