Life's Problems Are Discussed Bjr MRS. WIL.SOX WOOBROW "We will now study Satin In all is offices and characteristics," an ounced the' Rev. Mr. XacTavish fter having already preajhed two did hours to the long-suffering con regation of the Free Kirk at Drum uchty. And even Klspeth MacFay en, that model of church-sping pro riety, scraped her foot n disap roval at the prospect. Yet the Rev. Mr. MacTa)ish need ot have detained them mo'e than a loment longer fully to ■lover his t'.bject. He could have p-onounced he singe word. "Fear." ind then ave proceeded to his bmediction ,-ith the assurance that he had ut ered all there was to say Fear is Satan's middle rame. He ? born of it, and so is e*ery varl tion of him that man haj ever In ented wherewith to vex hmself. It s the greatest negative fo-ce in the r.iverse, the primary caus of every \il under the sun, destructive alike c our moral, mental anc physical ber. liewhere in these Uni'ed States, ticago, to be exact, here is a blessed by the gods who has ed its corrosive touei. Nor is her case a fearlessn-ss engen by ignorance. She s familiar the city's ways, a reader of s and newspapers, open-eyed to is called a knowledge of the I. Yet she faces life with a se and steadfast confidence that it >ring her no harm, ather these details from a let ent me by the girl's mother —a •, one would naturaly suppose, with joy and thanksgiving. On ;ontrary. it breathes a tone of complaining, far Mrs. Woodrow." my corre lent writes, "please advise me to say or do. I am he mother firl of seventeen, a sweet. cheer- Single Application Banishes Ever/ Hair (The Modern Beauty) re is how any woman can easily quickly objectionable, growths without possible in to the skin: Make a saste with powdered delatone jnd water, to hairy surface aid after 2 rfiinutes rub off, wasi the skin the hairs are gone. This is a ess, inexpensive method, and iting where the grqwth is un ly thick, a single afplication is ;h. You should, lowever, be ul to get genuine delatone. ught Cold Easily i Nervous, Stomach Was Bad T. D. Baltimore, 56 4 Sehaefer :, Harrisburg. For several years e been bothered with stomach ile and nervousness My food ,'s lay like a weight |n my stom- I would bloat and had severe . night I just rolled and tossed ight long, and felt vorn out in norning. aught cold very easy, my head throat always seemed full and ;sted. thing helped me until I started ke Sanpan when I was soon re d to health. My itomach no r troubles me, I sWep well. I catch cold as before. My ;s are steady and my head npan is being introduced, at Kel- Drug Store. 405 Market street, isburg.—Adv. RAY OF HOPE OR THOSE WITH RHEUMATISM I Here Is a Message That May Mean An End To All of Your Suffering If you are just feeling the first little twinging pains of Rheum itism, we would uarn you to take the right course at the out set, and avoid permitting your self to fall a helplcis victim to ane of the most disabling and jainful diseases to which the tiuman family is subject. And if you have had Rheuma tism for any length of time, the chances are that you have kept the liniment bottle pretty busy but you have realized by now that gallons of liniments and athcr locally applied remedies will never rid yon of this body wrecking, pain-racking disease, rhe best that you can expect From such treatment is some lit tle temporary relief from the sharp, shooting pains. But you want more than mere ■elief. You want to break the shackles of a disease that has ►ou so firmly within its power. ¥ou want a treatment that not inly relieves the pains, but that stops them forever, by reaching heir sourc,e and removing their :ause. Experience has proven that a WEDNESDAY EVENING, RXIKUBBURG CfiKA* TEL&GKXFB MARCH 6, 1918. 1 Bringing Up Father *"* *•* Copyright, 1917, International News Service By McManus I'LLPWNTTHIt, WINDOW 111 111 4EEI lT<b ] T ° It ' T * ° MLV [ 1 KfS ° W ~ BLACK-1 CAN'T 'bTAND = NEARLY TEN 1 TREAT HICKEY -HE LI OCLOCK,- 7 WHERE WERE Y THE CLARE FROM THAT 1U OCLOCK - I'VE AN L P L ° SE JOB NOW JU? v 1 VOU MONOAY ' STREET LAMP-ILL BE APPOINTMENT TO .] BHH ffl " ?'7X j A TUESDAY P n > .t./ ' <LAO WHEN macoe E v ', ful child, bright and clever in every way. "The odd thing about her, though, is that she refuses to believe that -he can come to any harm. She has proven this under many circum stances. She reads the awful things reported from time to time in the newspapers, and knows as much about life as the ordinary woman of twenty-five but so far as she herself is concerned, she seems to imagine that she is immune and that nothing or nobody will do her harm. "Fortunately, she has never had any experiences to disabuse her rnind of this notion, and I rather ad mire her faith; yet, at the same time, her utter lack of that caution which a girl of her age ought to show tills me with the gravest apprehen sions. Please tel! me what I must do in such a case." In her fluttering anxiety that [ mother reminds me of a hen which | has hatched out a duckling. Still she has my sympathy, too. She is I of another era: and that does not; necessarily mean that she is bowed | with age or even that her hair is j touched with gray. The world progresses very fast these days; and within a few years the fashion in girls has entirely changed. The jeune fille of her ideas—timorous, blushing, ready to shriek at the sight of a caterpillar— is as out of date as the hand-paint ed rolling-pins with which our maid en aunts used to decorate their bou doirs. The keynote of to-day for our Alkali in Soap Bad For the Hair Soap should he used very carefully, if you want to keep your hair look ing its best. Most soaps and pre pared shampoos contain too much alkali. This dries the scalp, maken the hair brittle, and ruins it. The best thing for steady use is just ordinary mulsified 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 thor oughly. Simply moisten the hair with water and rub it in. It makes an abundance of rich, creamy lather, which rinses out easily, removing everv particle of dust, dirt, dandruff and excessive oil. The hair dries quickly and evenly: and it leaves the scalp soft, and the hair fine and silky, bright, lustrous, fluffy and easy to manage. You can get mulsified cocoanut oil at any pharmacy, it's very cheap, and a few ounces will supply every mem ber of the family for months. great majority of cases of Rheu matism are caused by a disor dered condition of the blood. Millions upon millions of tiny little disease germs multiply rap idly, and spread throughout the circulation, setting up their at tacks of pain at some susceptible part of the body. Of course the blood cannot be reached by local applications, which explains why Rheumatism is never cured by liniments and lotions But those whose blood is in fested with the germs of Rheu matism should be delighted to know that in the midst of all their suffering, there is a bright ray of hope. S. S. S., the reli able purely vegetable blood rem edy, promptly purities the blood, and cleanses it of all impurities and disease germs, and in this way makes it impossible for the germs of Rheumatism to remain. A full course of this remedy will prove to you its great efficacy, as it has in numerous cases which have been reported to us by grateful patients. Do not continue to suffer be cause of wrong treatment, but go to your drug store and com mence taking S. S. S. to-day. Also write fully to our head phy sician, who will give you full in structions about your own case. Address Medical Director, 401 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga., daughters as well as for our sons is self-reliance, intrepidity and pluck with efficiency. They can't be little fluffy chickens—how current slang dies play havoc with one's meta phors! standing shivering and shrinking on the bank; they must plunge boldly into the swim and pad cile for dear life or be left hopelessly behind. Of course, if any mother really wants to make a coward out of her t.aughter. it can no doubt be man aged. Hippocrates or some other father of medicine prescribes. I be lieve, blood-letting behind the ears for maidens afflicted with a too ven turesome temperament. The intro duction of a mouse into the patient's bed is also to be recommended, or a band of thugs might bo hired to jump out at her from dark corners and shout "Boo!" But perhaps the most efficacious method is simply to follow the plan of my correspondent, and shadow the daughter's days with worrying ap prehensions and repeated' warnings. For there is nothing in all this world so contagious as tear and pan ic The alarm of on* timid beast over the- crackling of a twig its able to stampede a whole drove of cattle. And human beings are 'quite as sus ceptible. The mother would never write me to ask what she should do because her daughter had shown herself im mune from scarlet fever or small pox, but she is distressed because the girl obstinately declines to indi cate any symptoms of a far more deadly and tormenting malady. Farental anxiety is natural enough. From the time that the child takes its first toddling step up through all the vicissitudes of adolescence one's heart must be con stantly in one's mouth, one's nerves on edge nevertheless, the wise father and mother, and the ones whose chil dren rise up to' call them blessed are they who repress the impulse to shield and shelter top much and who. following the example of the birds, push the fledgling out of the nest, the bantling on the rocks to shift for itself. I would not be understood for a moment as countenancing an abso lutely free hand for a girl of seven teen. That is the time when she most needs a mother's Judicious guidance and direction. Nor would I minimize the dangers that beset her. I would explain them and their inevitable consequences as clearly and candidly as I would tell a child that if it stuck hand into the flame of a candle it would be burned. But I would certainly never try to infect that girl with the virus of fear. I would try to realize and to im press upon her that the very best armor in which she could panoply herself against these perils is an utter fearlessness of them. The n.ost vicious dog will never attack a person who entertains no fear of him, and there is the old story of Sir Charles Napier sending a tiger ccwering back into the jungle simply by facing him unafraid and looking him in the eye. In the very case at hand my cor- | respondent writes that her daugh ter "fortunately has never had any experience to disabuse her mind of its fearlessness." May not that re sult be due solely to the girl's own mental attitude? The world gen erally meets us In the spirit with ■which it is met. The defiant cour age of old Barbara Fritchie was quickly honored by the dust-brown ranks she opposed. Yet, here again X qualify. Reck lessness and bravado is one thing and so is that ignorance which rushes blindly into danger; quite another thing is that quality which, while recognizing the existence of the terror by night and the arrow that flieth by day, also knows that it shall not come nigh thee. Of this character seems to be the 17-year-old girl of my letter, calm, well-possessed of herself, unafraid. Imagine wanting a splendid, free creature like that to quake and shiv er and be continually looking over her shoulder for the bogie man. All over this country to-day moth ers by the thousands are sending Uieir sons into certain and definite danger. Their hearts are torn with anxiety, yet not by word or expres sion would they seek to imbue those lads with their own fears and appre hensions. They even feel a justifiable pride in the dauntless courage of their boys. They wolud despise a different spirit. Why should they wish their daugh ters to be less brave and fearless as women than their sons are as men? SERVICE FLAG FOR CAMP CURTIN FIREMEN UNFURLED Special patriots services were held last night to dedicate a service flag with seven stars at the Camp Cur tin firehouse last night. Speakers of the evening paid tribute to the men who have gone to the front, complimenting the men of Harris burg who have taken their places in France. Among the speakers were Mayor Keister, Colonel Henry C. Demming, Robert B. Reeves, gen eral secretary of the Central Y. M. C. A.; the Rev. A. S. Williams, Mrs. Lyman D. Gilbert, president of the Harrisburg chapter, American Red Cross, and Charles E. Pass, pho thonotary. Use McNeil's Pain Exterminator —Ad. THE FOUR O A SERIAL. OF YOUTH AND ROMANCE By VIRGINIA VAN DE WATER Copyright, 1918, Star Company. CHAPTER XXV Mrs. Livingstone appeared at the door of Cynthia's room by the time that Dora had helped her cousin to divest herself of her hat and coat and had brought a wrapper from the closet. "Lie down, dear," she was saying as .Mrs. Livingstone entered. ''Yes, lie down," Mrs. Livingstone advised. "You will have a full half hour in which to rest before you have to get ready for dinner. If you girls wish 1 will invite the two young gentlemen to dine with us." Dora went on into her own room without replying, and Mrs. Living stone was not sure that her daughter had heard her proposal. "What about it, Cynthia?" the matron addressed her niece. "Would you not like Mr. Stewart to remain to dinner?" "It makes no difference to me, Aunt Amanda," Cynthia replied. "For, if you will excuse me, 1 will not come downstairs this evening. 1 am rather shaken up and am sure that it would be well for me to keep quiet for the rest of the evening." "That's too bad!" Mrs. Living stone sympathized. "'Suppose I send Marie up to rub your shoulder for you?" "I do not need her, thank you," Cynthia rejoined. Her one wish was to have her aunt leave here alone. "A little rest will be better for me than anything else. Don't you think so. Dora?" she appealed to her cousin as she returned after leaving her wraps in her own room. Mrs. Livingstone hastened to ex plain. "I was telling Cynthia that I would ask Milton and Mr. Stewart to remain to dinner if she felt able to come downstairs. But she pre fers remaining up here. I am sorry." "I believe she should do what she feels like doing," Dora re marked. "Well, I will go down and tell Mr. Stewart just how you are, my dear," Mrs. Livingstone addressed Cynthia, smiling significantly. "He looked much disturbed, and I know he is anxious about you." Cynthia flushed. *'l do not fancy he is anxious," she demurred. "I see no reason why he should be." An Inucndo "Oh, dear little girl," her aunt teased, "it is well that the rest of us are not as blind as yoU are. Dora." turning to her daughter, "shall I keep Milton to dinner?" I have no idea that his friend will care to remain since Cynthia will not appear belowstairs." Dora's eyes snapped in a way that might have been a warning that her temper was rising. "Why do you suggest that Gerald would not stay unless Cynthia came down?" she demanded brusquely. "What are you driving at. Mother?" Her mother gazed at her reprov ingly. "Dora," she protested, "you must be nervous and over-wrought, or you could hardly speak to mc like that. I simply suggested that you might like Milton to remain, and that " Dora interrupted her. "And that 3erold would not care to stay unless he could see Cynthia. I understand Daily Dot Puzzle 12 • *l3 1/• *l4 -• *<s 6 • 14 *23 • lb 5 • • 27 4 * 28 3. 3° i 1 • I • 22. .16 ' 21 • • \° >a . 17 Draw from one to two and so on to the end. what you mean, but I hardly see on what you found your ideas. If Ger ald does not want to dine with us, he needn't. I, for one. don't want him. As for Milton —I don't care to have him stay either. Kindly do not propose that he does it." Her mother stood motionless for a full half-minute, her face stern. Then, without a word, she started towards the door. "Mother!" Dora spoke tremu lously. "If I was cross, lam sorry. I guess I see things a bit crooked because of my scare about Cynthia." "Perhaps you do," her mother admitted, unbending slightly from her dignity. "I suppose I should not have made any suggestion about Milton. Parents nowadays have lit tle to say in such matters." With which martyr-like observa tion she went from the room, clos ing the door behind her. "There, I have hurt her feelings!" , Dora burst forth. "But she does try i me sometimes. Oh, dear Cyn, don't you ever get tired of it all?" Dropping into a chair Dora buried , her face in her hands. Cynthia, surprised and distressed, i stroked the bowed head. "There, dear," she soothed. "I I don't know what the matter is, buti it's too bad that you should be so I upset." Dora Is Inattentive "Nothing's the matter!" Dora de clared, suddenly springing to her feet and laughing away her tears. "I guess I'm just cross—that's all, and here you are suffering like an angel of patience and I am not doing a thing for you. Take oft your sleeve and let me look at that hurt place, please." Then, as she saw the bruised shoulder: "Oh, it's all red and purple, honey! You poor dear! I will bathe it with witch" hazel. That will help it" When she had suited the action to the word and had laid a cooling compress on the bruise, she kissed her cousin tenderly. "You were the one that had the accident, and I was the one that got the nerves," she said penitently. "I don't know what ailed me for a while." "You were startled by the acci dent, and over-tired by an afternoon of shopping, dear," Cynthia said. "Now go and dress for dinner, and I will try to get a little nap. I will promise to lie still and rest." But, left alone in the darkened room. Cynthia could not sleep. In stead. she lay thinking of the look on Dora's face when Gerald Stewart had brought her, Cynthia, up the steps and into the house. She re called also the look In Stewart's eyes as he gazed at Dora as she sat in the car. What did it all mean? Was Dora glowing fond of Gerald, or—the idea was not a pleasant one—was she dis tressed because of Milton's attentions to her cousin? Cynthia moved impatiently, but a sharp twinge in her shoulder re minded her that she had promised to lie still and rest. (To be continued) Couple Married 64 \ Years Celebrate Collingswood, N. J.—Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Merrick celebrated their six ty-fourth wedding anniversary to day at their residence, surrounded by their five children, seven grand children and three great-grandchil dren. One grandson, Allen Merrick, is in the Navy, but was at the cele bration. Messick celebrated his eighty ninth birthday a few days ago, when he was given a birthday party. He is hale and hearty, goes to Philadel phia several times a week and once a week to the meeting of the direc tors of the Soutnwark National Bank of which he has been a director for fifty years or more. Mrs. Merrick is eighty-three years of age, enjoys social occasions and is able to attend her daily household duties. 'Perfect 75,' Weight 503, Rejected by Draft Board St. Paul. —Thomas Wood is so big that when he was called in for phy sical examination for the draft he had to be weighed in a grain scale at an elevator. The draft board's scale could not register his weight —503. Wood is 23 years old, six feet and a half inches tall, and is a "per fect seventy-five." He was rejected. MAY SELL THRIFT STAMPS Letter carriers have opened a campaign to sell Thrift Stamps. De livery of stamps and cards can be made through these carriers. Other organizations assisting in the sale, include Boy Scouts, insur ance agents and other agents. The Bell Telephone Company encloses literature describing the stamps and urging their purchase with each bill sent out to subscribers. Pamphlets afe being placed in pay envelopes and letters throughout the city, and every effort is being made to have Harrlsburg go "over the top." Advice to the Lovelorn By BEATRICE FAIRFAX A CASE FOR YOUR OWN AID! Dear Miss Fairfax: What would you do if you were I? I am well educated, pretty, and have had unusual opportunities for meeting men. Yet I have never made a hit. I think I am just naturally stupid. I was not a success socially, and now that we have lost our money and I am a stenographer at sls per, I do not feel that I am a success in business either —it is only that I am working for an old friend of the family's or I would not be able to ' hold down the job." I am one of those foolish women that have dabbled in many things, but have never stuck to any one thing long enough to make a success of it. Though I look much younger, I am thirty-one. "OLD MAID." Your estimate of yourself is not a very enthusiastic one, is It? Can't you find something in your self to admire and cultivate? With a good education and good looks and enough critical faculty to write about yourself as you have, surely you ought to be able to treat your own case as well as to diagnose it. Because you have spent most of your life "dabbling" need not pre vent you from now settling down and mastering one thing. Why not stop thinking about yourself and your shortcomings and give your entire attention to your present po sition and its opportunities? Per haps it hasn't any! Well, then, in a world as teeming with chances for women as is our present little old globe, I suggest that you look around for the place into which you will fit! Take stock of yourself. Perhaps you are a good executive, perhaps you are a sympathetic stenographer who brings out the ability of the person who is dealing with you. Perhaps you would be a good saleswoman. Maybe you have some artistic ability—or know a lot about cooking. Find out what your marketable ability is—then take it to the market and insist on getting the best possible price for it. Your letter suggests humor and is dis tinctly indicative of character and ability. I fancy you are really a clever, worth-while woman, and that you can make a great deal of yourself if you simply choose. Go ahead, my friend—choose! DOMINEERING DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: I am engaged to a girl a year my junior, whom I love dearly, but she has a habit of scolding over the merest trifle, and always wishes her advice to be taken in all things. When I can, I do, but of course her advice isn't suitable for all purposes, as I try to point out to her, but of no avail. She may get angry and not talk to me nil week, (I call three times a week) or until I give in to her point. If we have no particular engage ment on hand for Sunday, I call about 4 p. m., no later, but she gets angry and won't go anywhere, say ing the day is gone for any amuse ment. Now, Miss Fairfax, can't you tell me what to do to get her out of that domineering habit? A. B. C. The domineering woman is likely to be a vexenisli. srewish wife and unless the man who loves her teach es her to conquer her habits, it is likely to net her and him as well a great deal of misery. I think what is required of you is firmness and com mon sense plus determination. Per haps the uncertainty as to what time you are comig gets on the girl's nerves. Have enough respect for her to make your appointments and to keep them. Have enough re spect for yourself to demand that she listen to your viewpoint, meet it half way, and stop nagging at you when your ideas differ from hers. Take a firm stand. If she becomes petty and ugly about nothing, tell her that you will leave her unless she acts differently. Tell her that and stick to it! Lift Out Your Corns ICE-MINT THE SEW DISCOVERY ENDS ALL Foot Troubles This new discovery, made from a Japanese product, is certainly a won der the way it draws out inflamma tion from a pair of swollen, burning, aching feet. It takes the soreness right out, then the corn or callous shrivils and Jifts off. Hard corns, soft corns or corns be tween the toes, just shrivel up and lift off so easy. It is wonderful. Just think! Not one bit of pain while ap plying Ice-mint or afterwards. it doesn't even, irritate the surrounding skin. You will never have to cut a corn again and run the risk of blood poi son. Say good-by to your old corn salve, plasters and bundling tape for that pet corn of yours is sure to be a "goner" if it ever feels the magic touch of Ice-mint. It imparts such a delightful, sooth ing. cooling feeling to the feet that you will sigh with relief. Ice-mint is the real Japanese secret for fine, healthy little feet. It pre vents foot odors and keeps them sweet and comfortable. It is greatly appreciated by women who wear high heel shoes. / Just ask In any drugstore for a lit tle Ice-mtnt and give your poor, suf fering. tired, swollen feet the treat of their lives. It costs little and' there is nothing better.—Advertise ment. War Time Lexicon (Copyright, by British Ca nadian Recruiting; Mission, which maintains depots In all large cities where men, except Americans, may volunteer.) Mechanical Transports: The trains of motor trucks used to carry forward supplies from the railroads. Refilling Point: The station or supply depot where the mechanical transport trains turn over their supplies to the quar termasters of the different units in the front trenches. Hangars: Sheds or huts where aeroplanes are housed when not flying. They are built of wood, tin, or canvas as most convenient. Camouflage: * The fusion or blending of colors to destroy the outline or distinguish ing features of an object so hidden and make it practically invisible. Thus batteries are shielded from ob servation under sheds made of green branches, so that aeroplanes flying wailing | Smart and Inexpensive I Draperies | Your With the coming of Spring new draperies yf are required to make the home bright and cheery. || A few minutes spent here looking over our = wonderful stock of smartly designed and in- M expensive draperies and drapery fabrics will H surprise you,—they represent the best values money can buy. H Special No. 1— M Fine double-thread MARQUISETTE CURTAINS— -2]/> yards long, hemstitched and trimmed with ||l dainty lace edge—a real $2.00 value— 1 Cl"| §| special at, per pair m) 1 1 Special No. 2 1 Elegant hemstitched MARQUISETTE CURTAINS Hi —a splendid $1.50 value. Special at, 1 1 Q ST per pair tJ/laA*/ Yard Goods Moderately Priced H Cretonnes .. 25$ to $ 1.00 per yd. § Marquisettes 25$ to 75$ per yd. Sunfast Materials 00$ to $ 3.00 per yd. @ Quaker Craft Lace 30$ to Sf? 5.00 per yd. == Velours, (all colors) $3.50 to SIO.OO per yd. H Reps and Poplins 75$ to $ 2.50 per yd. || Curtains at Prices to Please All = Marquisette Curtains ..$ 1.50 to $ 5.00 per pr. M Lace Curtains $ 2.50 to Sf? 6.50 per pr. H Net Curtains $ 2.50 to $25.00 >er pr. H; Duchess Curtains $ 5.00 to $27.50 per pr. =0 Sunfast Curtains $ 5.00 to $20.00 per pr. H Silk Curtains $16.50 to $25.00 per pr. H NATURAL DAYLIGHT DRAPERY DEPT., 2D FLOOR Our workrooms are prepared and equipped to supply slip = covers, awnings, etc., promptly and at moderate prices. I GOLDSMITH'S North Market Square 7 over them cannot distinguish thd location of the guns from the sur rounding green meadows. The term which is French, as now adopted into the language and generally used, means any effort to cover up or obscure the true nature of a thing. Try This If You Have Dandruff There is one sure way that never fails to remove dandruff completely, and that is to dissolve it. This de stroys it entirely. To do this, just get about four ounces of plain, ordinary liquid arvon; apply It at night when retiring; use enough to moisten the scalp and rub it in gently with tha finger tips. By morning, most If not all, of your dandruff will be gone, and threa or four - more applications will com pletely dissolve and entirely destroy every single sign and trace of It, no matter how much dandruff you may have. You will find, too, that all Itching and digging of the scalp will stop instantly, and your hair will ba Huffy, lustrous, glossy, silky and soft, and look and feel a hundred timea better. You can get liquid arvon at any, drug store. It is inexpensive, and four ounces is all you will need. This sim pie remedy has never been known to fail.—Adv.
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