! Life's Problems j Are Discussed f • A few weeks ago a woman sent me what purported to be the story of her life presented in the form of i a George Ade fable. I read it, took j it for a bit of fiction, and laid it aside. Yesterday X received from an other part of the country a letter i from another woman which told an; almost identical experience. The; only difference was that the llrst was couched in the form of a flip pant narrative, while the second made no effort to embellish what to the writer was a tragic fact. This is the fable: "There was once a Human Saus age who, in his thirty-ninth autumn decided that it was up to him to impose his special brand of kultur on some unsuspecting Bunch of Floss and make her very happy. "Clara May fell for his speci fications. She was twenty-two and sophisticated, which means she had come to realize that to foxtrot di vinely does not necessarily imply serious intentions. Here at last was something solid, not to say stodgy. As a romantic ideal. Fran- Cis X. Bushman or Lou Tellegen may have had it on him by several shades, but 'good provider' was banded all over him. He was in business for himself, and diffused .in aroma of blended sterling citi zenship and liver and onions. "Clara May had a mental bird's eye of herself as the plump matron in one of those home and fireside scenes depicted by the advertiser of oil heaters and encyclopedias. She had herself all set for the role of thrifty little housewife, and had already begun to rlan the pleasant! surprises she would spring on him when he came home tired and hun gry to dinner. She bought a cook book and pestered all her married 1 friends to tell her the most judicious and economical ways of marketing, j As a conservator of the family re sources she was going to show Her bert Hoover that he was still in the primary class. "Futile dreams! Somewhere in those thirty-nine bachelor years of j his the Good Provider had run across ; the aphorism. 'A man is as pros perous as his wife will let him me." i*nd it took. Hardly had the strains of the wedding march died away be fore he started to dig himself in attack. "Let a flighty, inexperienced young, person of twenty-two dope out his menus for him and overplay him with the butcher and baker and candlestick maker? Not a China man's chance of it. That was a task befitting ripe and sedate ma turity. Suppose he should come home with his mouth a-water for corned beef and cabbage, only to find spread out a dainty, schoolgirl i hinchen of lettuce sandwiches and French pastry? And wasn't Mrs.; Xewlywed traditional game for thej wily profiteers? "Accordingly he issued General! Orders Xo. 1, as follows: " 'I will benevolently relieve you | of all responsibility in regard to my household, will order all the meals, do the marketing and settle all ac-1 counts. Your duties will be to cook. | scrub, wash, iron, sew and mendi under my direction, and to make me ; comfortable. j '(Signed) 'Husband and Commander-in-chief.: •••p. s.—if the unwarrantable Hair Often Ruined By Washing With Soap Soap should be used very care fully, If you want to keep your haii looking Its best. Most soaps and pre pared shampoos contain too much alkali. This dries the scalp, makes the hair brittle and ruins it. The best thing for steady use is Just ordinary mulsitied cocoanut oil (which is pure and greaseless), and is better than the most expensive soap or anything else you can use. One or two teaspoonfuls will cleanse the hair and scalp thorough ly. Simply moisten the hair with water and rub it in. It makes an abundance of rich, creamy lather, which rinses out easily, removing ev ery particle of dust, dirt, dandruff and excessive oil. 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Certainly it is the strong est possible proof of the merit of I S. S. 8. because it comes from one who has sold the medicine for twenty years, and has seen from actual ex perience the wonderful good that it has done. The staunchest friends of 8. 8. S. are those who know the rem edy best. MONDAY EVENING, HXimißßtmO TELEQMXra FEBRUARY 25, 1918. Bringing Up Copyright, 1917, International News Service *-* *-* *— * By McM IVE COME TO~l_£i T °^ EE OH 1 . DINTX AND t° HE OOT OF OH INO - WE. TOSSED AND Vou J , , few* 9 v aOTH N cOMe LET ~ WON * contingency should arise at some time that you might desire a small sum of money for personal expenses I will graciously allow you as much as I see tit, provided full explana tion is given of the manner in which it is to be spent, and the request is couched in properly submissive form, it being always understood that such donation is granted in no sense as a right, but merely as an evidence of my favor and kindness of heart." "And having thus settled matters, the poor fish believed that the rest of the story would be: 'They lived happy ever after.' "But he had to give so much time to his domestic affairs and seeing that his wife didn't ruin him that there wasn't much left for the of fice; and finally the creditors held a meeting, and, as they say in the profession, he was at liberty. "Well, what could he expect?" commented his family. "He would marry that extravagant little thing, instead of taking a sensible woman of his own age." Some people may regard this fa ble as overdrawn and fanciful, just as I did. To such I submit the let ter received from the second of my correspondents: "Since I have been married my husband always has attended to the shopping for our home. He buys the meats, groceries, everything, and even looks after the laundry; and as a result we quarrel continually, since I naturally regard these things as my province. I have coaxed, de manded, entreated him to give me an allowance, but all in vain. Every time I want a nickel or a dollar I have to go like a beggar and ask for it. He doles out what he likes. "I am not extravagant, but he never gives me a chance to show whether I am or not. I never see the bills. He pays them all, and once in a while gives me a dollar for myself; but by the time I get it I need stockings or something, and then he claims I am spending all his money. "He does not do any work at present, as he failed recently in busi ness, so he hangs around the house all the time. I have gone to busi ness myself for several months, and he raises Cain because I do not give him my money. He constantly tells his own family everything that hap pens with us. and they sympathize with him, and make suggestions to him. and so cause a great deal of trouble. "Do you think, Mrs. Woodrow, he is right in mollycoddling at home all the time, and making me ask for everything, or in talking me over with his family and airing all my faults? Please excuse mistakes, as I had to answer this before he came back." That, it may be urged, is purely an ex-parte statement, and the hus band. if given a chance to reply, might show an equal list of griev ances. Yet, granting all that, and discounting every charge presented. 1 still maintain, if only on the evi dence of her last sentence, that the man is to be condemned. He is obviously a Junker on the marriage Question, reactionary and meclia\ei in all his ideas. There is only one thing a domestic bully and tyrant of that sort can comprehend, and that is force. The wife in this case apparently has all the trumps in her hand. She has no children to consider, and she is capable of earning her own living. One wonders, then, why, in stead of bickering and quarreling with him, she does not calmly lay her cards on the table and assert her position. Why does she not say to him: "I am not your slaves or depend ent. but your wife and equal part ner. My rights are fully recog nized by the state. Unless you are willing to treat me with proper re spect and consideration, I shall ap peal to the courts to settle our dif ferences and accord me a separate maintenance." „ I am willing to wager that if she says it, and says it in such a way that he knows she means it, the troubles she complains of will promptly disappear. Why then doesn't she say it? Why don't thousands of similar matrimonial victims say it? Is It from ignorance or through fear of what people will say? To those two causes may be set down most of the misery which humanity endures. edy the Famous S. S. S. S. S. 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"About what?" < "Why, that present 1 sent to Bea- '■ trice, I mailed it to her the Thurs- j day before Christmas, and I've < never heard a word about it." "Well, you know the way Christ- , ■ mas presents often go astray." * j, "Yes. But don't you think it's J queer that just that one has gone .' astray? I mailed one to Frances!] and one to Louise, and I sent moth- , er's box on that very same day, and j everything else reached its destina- j' tion safely enough." "Well, why don't you settle it for j - yourself? You women ought to ! • know how to handle those things. , Why do you ask me what to do?" ] "Just to get your opinion, 1 sup- j pose. You know I didn't receive anything from Beatrice this year— j just a very formal card, 1 wonder if j • it could be possible that anything is wrong with her? Maybe she is angry about something." i "But if you haven't done anything • how can she be angry?" "I don't know a thing that I have done, but she may imagine anything j she pleases. You know I don't make a great many calls, and she lives ] so terribly far out of town. I be lieve I will write her." And Helen , walked over to her writing desk, j took some of her new stationary out of the drawer and wrote a rather stiff little not in which she simply wondered whether or not the little gift that she had sent at Chi istmas time had ever reached ; its destination safely. That certainly ought to make Bea trice feel small if she neglected ac knowledging the gift from any per sonal motive of spite, thought Hel en, and addressing an envelope with a feeling of righteous conviction, she took a stamp from her box and got up with a little flourish. "Well, Warren, dear. I wrote It." "Wrote what?" asked Warren, looking up from his paper. "The letter to Beatrice. I'm go- j I ►aily Fashion | Hint 1 3 Prepared Especially For This § | Newspaper gPEMMEgMBMBBBggf fj&\ SIMPLE BLOUSES IN CHARMING STYLES. The lady to the lower left, eonsei ous of her dainty appearance, wears a blouse of chiffon cloth trimmed with j filet lace. The broad revers cross j at the front and are joined to a collar of filet to match the cuffs. Two and : ene-half yards 44-inch material make the blouse. In the center is a stunning model in figured batiste with an embroid ered collar of organdy. Narrow lace ruffle finish the collar and two rows of black satin buttons ornament the front. Medium size requires 2 yards batiste and •% yard organdy. The third blouse is of dark pink satin with a collar of self-material. It fastens at the left side and the collar and cuffs are edged with filet edging. Medium size requires 2% yards 40-inch satin and 2 yards lace. First Model; Pictorial Beview Blouse No. 7461. Sizes, 34 to 48 inches bust. Price, 20c! Becond Model; Blouse No. 7570. Sizes, 34 to 4 4 inches bust. Price, 20c Third Model; Waist No. 745. Sizes, 34 to 46 inches bust. Price, SOe. Ing to put it on your chiffonier, where you can see it the first thing in the morning, and take it out with . you. I feel much better now, atid I've made the note just frigid enough to make her feel small when she reads it." Helen thought about the matter in spite of herself all that evening. She thought of it long after the lights were out and the cold night air blowing the curtains inward had begun to make her drowsy. Little j things of this kind always annoyed j Helen. She hated to admit that I any one could make her give a sec- I ond thought to an intentional j slight, but try as she would, hurts j of this kind always lingered. I In the morning as she was dress- j ing she remembered the incident i again, and took special pains to see j that Warren took it out with him. 1 When she was sure that the letter ! was actually out of the house and i on its way she drew a breath of re- j lie'" and went about her usual morn- I ing tasks. Mary came in while Helen was busy with the beds. "A letter for j you ma'am," she said, handing! Helen a small envelope. Helen took it without recognizing the handwriting, and tore it open. The note inside was from Beatrice VTentworth. and ran as follows: "Dear Helen —I know you will forgive my tardiness In not writing to thank you for those lovely hand kerchiefs you sent me at Christmas. But my mother died during the holi days, and I am afraid that all my friends suffered in consequence, for I made no preparations of any kind this year. "Your remembrance was more than thoughtful and reached me at a time of great mental anguish. I appreciate both the gift and the mo tive that prompted it. "Most sincerely. "BEATRICE WEN'TWORTH." Helen, who had set down on the bed to read the note, let it fall into her lap with a little gasp of dis may. She might have known, if she liad stopped to think, that Beatrice j Wentworth was not the kind of a ' woman to neglect anything like the acknowledgment of a gift without I some perfectly good reason for do | ing It. And that not had been so j nasty and pointed, and would reach 1 her at a time when she needed sympathy and understanding. He. 1 len blamed herself terribly for her j impulsive act. If only she had not yielded to that i sudden desire to be "even." And I there wasn't a chance, either, of i Warren's neglecting to mail It. She had lectured him so often about ! carrying letters about with him that he always mailed any letter she gave him as soon as he reached the mail box. Well, it was too late to do anything now. Of course, she could write another letter, telling Beatrice how grieved she had been to,. hear of her sorrow. But that would never counteract the other letter. Helen had written with in tentional malice, and no woman j could read it and not feel the un derlying motive. Through her readiness to jump to conclusions, she had wounded with out reason a good friend. To Be Continued. I | Daily Dot Puzzle . V Vv 4 . \\ WL \ 2 ; O W . 6 ' 7 . | IT 5. % 16 6 4o 1 Draw from one to two and so on to the end. THE THBEE B'S l*nltcast fall when I was expecting to become a i mother I was in very poor health. J* dPali 1 suffcred from a female weakness jm so I did not have 1 ■ W strength enough i 2P t0 my ° wn work and could not stand on my feet for any V"L zm&/ length of time. Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound cor rected my trou ■ l>le and I improv ed in health so that when my baby came the doctor said he never saw a woman get along any better than I did and I know it was Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound that helped me."—Mrs. Ernest Beebe, 124 Wyoming Ave., Watertown, N. Y. 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A SENSE OF POSSESSION Dear Miss Fairfax: I am deeply in love with a girl two years my junior, with whom I have been going about for several years. I have taken notice that what I am unable to visit her, she goes out with others and so this has left me in doubt as to whether she really cares. 1 may be called away on a twenty four hour notice and this puzzle j has kept me worried. B. M B. J. You don't need a sharp rebuke. ' Wheels are not what they used to be Ever see an automobile ness—a most discouraging dash out of a side street part in times like these and cross the track in front when wheels are hard to of a street car? get, due to war conditions. A very small flat spot will Remember how the make a noise like a trip motorman throws on the hammer when the car is brakes and stops the car going at a good speed. Sudden ' y? Take the flat wheel off? Well, that makes the car Yes, that is the thing to slide. And when the car do. But what are you slides that makes a flat spot going to put on? A new on the wheels. wheel, of course. That's not as easy as it sounds 22 tons that's what when wheels are not to be some of those big cars had. weigh—sliding along on a . ra j] j Ihe old wheel is useless when it's taken off. Steel But it was done to pre- wheels could be repaired, vent a smash-up! when the flat spot was small. But cast iron • Same thing happens wheels with flat spots go to when a person tries to the junk pile. Steel wheels "beat " a car to a street cor- are out of the question ner. When the motorman now! sees the person—on short , notice —he stops the car " on * wan t flat suddenly. wheels. They shake up the motors and the car Sometimes a passenger throughout and cost us decides to get off the car— more in general car repair at the last second—and than the wheels them pushes the signal button selves, when the car is but a few Kf feet from the corner. What NO ' wheels ar e not what is the result? they to be—and not . to be had in a jiffy. We The motorman stops the wish the car wheels we car suddenly to let the pas- have ordered a year ago senger off. would come. But Uncle Sam's war needs must be Flat wheels—they are a taken care of before all part of the street car busi- else, and rightly so. HARRISBURG RAILWAYS COMPANY You simply that sense of possession which makes many of us long to cut off the one for whom we care most from any interest which shall interfere with our own supremacy in his or her life. It would probably be at once a sign of generosity and of faith in the girl you love l'or you TETLEYS! India TEA Ceylon Today . v Purity ; Tomorrow Quality ■! Always Strength I; 5 ONE LITTLE TEASPOONFUL MAKES TWO CUPS -j VAVAV.VA'A'AWVW/A'.VWMW^SVWWAW.W I to recognize the fact that she la i young, full of the joy of living and that she may enjoy the friendship and attention of other men even though you have her love. 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