Life's Problems Are Discussed By Mrs. Wilson Woodrow. Are you an ugly girl? Yes. Then like a recent correspondent of mine you have probably exaggerated the fact, and your misery has been in creased by all those pin-pricking quotations in current use, as "A man loves through his eyes," She Is beautiful, and therefore to bo ■wooed," "If to her lot some female errors fall, look on her face and you'll forget them all," etc., ad in linitum. The girl who has .written me be moans the fact that she is the plain est girl in her set, and says that she has become so sensitive about her lack of beauty that she feels in creasingly self-conscious and awk ward and she wants to know what to do about it. She loves to go out among people, she is very fond of all social gatherings, but it makes her very unhappy to feel that she is always at a disadvantage. I take it for granted that she doesn't want me to utter a lot of; platitudes and tell her that beauty is only skin deep 'after all, and, paraphrasing Kingsley's famous line, urge her to be good, sweet maid, let those who can be pretty. She wants to know how to hold her ! own and be a social success among a whole group of girls undeniably j more pleasing in appearance than ! herself. In the first place, let us not un- j dervalue the importance of a good appearance. Beauty is a power and i a charm and a lure, and because it is all those things many women overestimate it. It is a corking asset on the journey of life, but if j you've only got one asset you are traveling with pretty light lug gage—too light by half. You may not have read Addison's "Cato," netther do I advise you to bore yourself by doing so, but in one of the acts he utters this truth; Boys and Girls Clear Your Skin . With Cuticura i Soap 25c. Ointment 25 >nd 50c. 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But, admitting the worst, I have a small opinion of your will and determination and ambition if you are content to re main an ugly girl. You know, the French have a saying that no woman is unattractive who has good eyes and teeth. I will take your word for it thru you are plain, but you must have some attractions, a good figure, perhaps, or pretty hands and feet, or a delightful smile, or an in tuitive knowledge of how to wear your clothes. You must have some special charm or grace that is all your own. Every one has. Then, whatever it is, emphasize it. I do not believe that any girl who is exquisitely neat and dainty can be called ugly. Your hair can always be so well cared for, so shiningly brushed that it will be a pleasure to look at it. A good complexion is not entirely a gift of the gods—it can always be achieved: it's merely a piatter of cleanliness and proper diet and I enough exercise—that is, unless you have some delinite skin trouble. As for your clothes, the first thing of importance is to get a clear idea of your own style, you have an own style, you know. Be ing very young, everything you wear should be simple, otherwise it de tracts from your youth; but your hats and frocks and coats should all bring out your best lines and should suit your coloring. There you are! As far as out ward appearance goes, .you have done the best that is possible for yourself, but we will still err on the cautious side; we will take the dark view of the situation, and say that even so, as far as looks go, you do not come anywhere near the pretty girls with whom you as sociate. • Very well, then. Since they have eclipsed you in the matter of looks, it remains for you to eclipse them in the matter of charm and interest. Oh, yes, don't sigh and /turn away. I mean it. Be charming— just like that. You must have heard of the ugly duckling. Well, the ugly duckling, you will remem ber, carried all the prizes. It is not you, my dear, who are at a disadvantage; it is the pretty girl BLAJUUSBURG *&&& TELEGKXPB who has not yet awakened to the fact that the merely decorative per sons ultimately are left where they belong—against the walls. "Petty but inane," is a damning phrase and hard to live down. No matter how great a beauty-worship per a man may be, he very soon gets fed up on vain and vacuous pulchritude. To sit and look at a beautiful object is one of the delights of life, but it is not the only thing our souls crave by any means. Do you know what our souls really greatly crave—yours, mine, everyone's? Just two things, sympathy and understanding. Every one in the world has dif ferent gifts, different ideas and view points and different ambitions. That is what makes the world such a diverse and interesting place. Did you ever pause to consider what the great majority of the people you the things that interest them. They don't care a brass farthing for the things that interest you, or if they make the attempt to do so, their in terest is merely passing, perfunctory and polite. At least that Is true of six per sons out of seven; and then comes the seventh. The seventh is the possessor of that secret wisdom which knows that everyone has an Interesting and lovable side, which only waits the sunshine of a genuine sympathy to reveal itself. To air his own views and hold the center of the stage is to him a small and unworthy satisfaction. He is perfectly familiar with his own opinions and that suffices him; he sees no particular reason to bran dish them in the face of everyone he meets; but to make the other person shine, that is an achievement which is worth while. It is like pouring water on a plant and then watching all its drooping leaves spring up and expand. We have all met that person who comes up to us with the care fully burnishing smile and says: "I hear that you are so much interested in such and such a subject. I should so much like to know." And you are immediately and definitely aware that they don't care a straw about it; they are just trying to be polite, consequently you feel yourself shut ting up like a sensitive plant, and you say lightly, "Some other time, perhaps, not now," feeling all the time that you would rather die than put forth your enthusiasm in that shrivelling atmosphere. Oh no, ugly girl, if you would ex ercise the white magic of charm and work its miracles, your in terest must be real and unfeigned. It must be a matter of unending delight to you to discover the fascin ating side of bores, to draw out the wit and sparkle of the stupid, the romance in the prosaic and prac tical, the second common sense in the flighty. It is all there, waiting for that magic touch of a sincere and unerring sympathy. - J If you can achieve this gift and grace, you needn't bother about your looks, no matter if you are as ugly as a gargoyle. The world will make a path to your doorstep. Girls! Use Lemons! Make a Bleaching, Beautifying Cream The juice of two fresh lemons strained into a bottle containing ihree ounces of orchard white makes a 'Ahole quarter p'nt of the moit re markable lemon skin beautlfier at obout the cost one must pay for a small jar of the ordinary cold creams. Care should be taken to strain the lemon juice through a fine cloth so no lemon pulp gets in, then this iotion will Keep fresh for months. Every woman knows that lemon juice is used to bleach and remove such blemishes as freckles, sallowness and tan and is the ideal skin softener, smocthener and beautifler. Just try it! Get tnree ounces of orchard white at any pharmacy and two lemons from the grocer and make up a quarter-pint of this sweetly fragrant lemon lotion and massage it daily into the face, neck, arms and hands. It naturally should help to soften, freshen, bleach and bring out the roses and beauty of any skin. It is simply marvelous to smoothen rough, red hands. WOMEN SHAVE UNKNOWINGLY When too only rrmorf hair from the nrfift of the akin the result la the aame a* ihavtac. The onl r comraon-aenae wax to remove hair la to attack It under the akin. DeßHraele, the •rlsinal aanltary liquid, doea thla by abaorptloa. Oaljr Itiilne Dr Miracle haa a money-back smarantee la eaeh package. At toilet eonntera la Me, •1 mmf a alaea, or >r mall from ao la plain wrapper on receipt of price. FREE hook ma(le< la plala acnled envelope on re* Beet. De- Mlrnete, lth St and Park Ave* Now York. THEFOUR O A SERIAL OF YOUTH AND ROMANCE By VIRGIMA VAN DE WATER V - J CHAPTER XXVI (Copyright, 1918, Star Co.) Dora peeped into Cynthia's room on her way downstairs. "I will send Mane up with a tray of dinner for you," she informed her cousin, when she saw that she was awake. "No, dear, please don't!" Cynthia began. "I am not hungry." "But you must eat something," I Dora insisted. "If you won't eat a ; regular dinner, I will bring you some soup later on. I will be glad to have an excuse for coming back here, for i 1 fancy mother is a bit c.lsplcased with me, and it will not bi hilarious down there alone with her and father. She took me at my word, for I heard the front door closi a while ago, and there has been silence be low ever since. Which proves that Milton and C< raid have gone away." "Mr. Van Saun expected them back to dinner, you know, - ' Cynthia re minded her. "That is probably the leason thev left." "I hope so, and thit mother did not deliver my peevish decision ver batim to Milton." "He would not be vexed with you If she did," Cynthia consoled her. "He would not misunderstand you." "Perhaps not," Dora agreed dubi ously. "Anyway, if he was vexed he can get over It —thats all. I should worry!" With which bit of slang- she ran on downstairs, leaving Cynthia alone again to her thoughts. Cynthia had spoken tri'y when she expressed the oelief that her aunt would say nothing to vex Mil ton. The girl knew tha'. Mrs. Liv ingstone approved too thoroughly of her daughter"! engagement to intro duce a note that might .ie discord ant. In fact, Cynthia had been sure that the match had b.;eu xided and abetted by both families. If this wera so, was Edward V?n Saun beginning to doubt if, after all, Dora was as much in love with his son as the father had i'pposed her to be? Cynthia might be fanciful, but surely ne had looked a bit dis appointed at Dora's light mention of her coming marriage. How could she talk so flippantly of marrying Milton Van Saun? Yet j Milton himseir—in spite of his ten der. sympathetic nature—showed no depth of sentiment when he leferred to his betrothed. Were they suited to each other? lint her Homesick Cynthia recalled unwillingly her aunt's teasing remark about Gerald Stewart. Did Mrs. Livingstone imagine she could bring about a marriage between her niece and this man? Dora was certainly not in ac cord with- the Idea. Indeed, Dora seemed to resent her mother's scheme. Cynthia lay, her eyes closed and her lips compressed, as a great wave of homesickness swept over her. How different was all this kind of thing from the simple yet comfort able life she had led with her father! In her girlhood's home the things that were of the spirit mattered more than the things of the world. There had always been peace, com fort, plenty, but no striving after effects or worldly advancement. Daily Dot Puzzle •9 8 \ H ■o '• 2 . -.2 7 • • .1 - .'3 V * l4 6 5 .15 a / '7 * 4 * • 3 j. 3 * ' 6 * 22/ a *35 *23 2o 34 M 25 0 9 2b " ' 32 ' * Draw from on® to two and so on to the end. It was surely a sign of the ravages disease had wrought in the mental condition of her father that in his last few days he had yielded to the temptation to increase his fortune by one grand coup. Or had it been be cause he wished to protect Hs child from the very conditions the was now facing—dependence upon others or the necessity of making a mar riage of convenience? • Tears welled through her closed Hds and rolled down her cheeks. She would not allow herself to cry violently, but she was miserable. A knock at the door startled her. "Come in!" she called, wiping her eyes swiftly. "A box of flowers for you. Miss Dong," Marie announced, entering. "Lay it on the table, please," Cynthia ordered. ! "Will I not turn on the light, ! ma'am?" the girl asked. "Then you can see better." "No, let it wait for a while, Ma rie," Cynthia told her. "My head aches." She was afraid that the merciless glare might reveal to the curious maid that she had been shedding I tears. Yet, when the girl had gone away, Cynthia arose and turned on the electric light, then looked at the box lying on the table. It bore the name of a fashionable florist. Who could have sent it to her? Merely a Surmise Unfastening the string, she re moved the lid, revealing a mass of huge pink roses on their bed of cot ton. There was no card to show from whom they came. The address on the hox was evidently written by the florist's clerk, for the handwrit ing was unfamiliar. As the girl bent to inhale the de licious fragrance of the flowers, there arose before her mental vision a face she knew well—fair, with blue eyes. * "He sent them!" she whispered. She drew in her breath sharply. If he had sent them, he had no right to do so, and she had no right to receive them. "Oh." she murmured, pushing the 1 box from her and turning out the I light again. "I wish they had not come!" A half-hour later the door opened j to admit Dora, carrying a tray on ■ which was a plate of steaming soup, j Her mother accompanied her. Evi- i dently any quarrel between the two j had been forgotten. "I smell roses!" Dora exclaimed as she turned on the light. "Why, Cyn, who sent them to you?" "No card accompanied them/' Cynthia evaded. "But I can fancy who sent them," i her aunt said smilingly. "Can't you, j Dora?" "Yes," Dora admitted, bending to j sniff at the roses. "I suppose I can. It was either Milton or Gerald." Her face was in shadow, but there was a tense sound to her voice that made Cynthia uncomfortable. Was Dora Jealous —and. If so, was it of Milton or of Gerald? (To Be Continued Monday.) TO KEEP JAIL EMPTY Phoenix City, Ariz. —This place, once the most notorious city of 10,- 000 population in the southeast be cause of its illicit whisky trade, prepared for the new year with a resolution to preserve order and keep the jail empty. As a result the city jail has been tenantless for more than a week. A suppression of blind tigers has lessened crime to a mini mum. ' "\ Use Cocoanut Oil For Washing Hair ,j If you want to keep your hair in good condition, be careful what you wash it with. Most soaps and prepared sham poos contain too much alkali. This irtan the scalp, ntHM the hair brit tle, and is very harmful. Just plain mulsilied cocoanut oil (which is pure and entirely greaseless), is much better than the most expensive soap or anything else you can use for shampooing, as this can't possibly injure the hair. Simply moisten your hair with water and rub it in. One or two teaspoonfuls will make an abund ance of rich, creamy lather, and cleanses the hair and scalp thor oughly. The lather rinses out easily, and removes every particle of dust, dirt, dandruff and excessive oil. The hair dries quickly and evenly, and it leaves It fine and silky, bright, fluffy and easy to manage. You can get mulsified cocoanut oil at most any drug store. It Is very cheap, and a few ounces Is enough to last everyone in the family for months. —Advertisement. CHILDREN Should not be "dosed" J2?y for cold*—apply "ex- fSTfA (ft tern ally"— A-/W- . MARCH 8, 1018. Woman, to Equal Man, Should Shun High Heel Providence, R. I.—"Wear sensible shoes and help win the war," is the slogan of Dr. Edward H. Bradford, dean of the Harvard Medical School, and a noted orthopedic. Dr. Bradford believes that whe lithe public real believe that when the public real wear they will come to consider pointed, high-lieeled shoes as being as disfiguring as the tatoo and nose ring of the savage. "Shoes are the cause of more of j women's supposed physical inferior ity of men than is generally real ized," declared Dr. Bradford. "If women were properly dressed they would be able to perform almost any kind of work. Look at women in savage countries. They do prac tically all the hard labor except the hunting and fighting. They are smaller than the men, but they have practically the same amount of mus cular force. Of course, that only ap plies to unmarried or childless women. "One objection to women in stores and offices is that they are not able to stand as much hard work or keep on their feet as long as men. If they wore proper shoes a great deal of this inferiority would be elimi nated." I Water at Premium in Seige of Palestine London.—Some of the hardships experienced by the British forces in Palestine are described in a let ter received from a priest. The let ter, written shortly before the fall of Palestine, tells of a day early in November when a camel convoy from Beersheba was unable to reach the men then fighting for the deliv erance of the Holy City from the Turk. "There was a hot wind blowing," wrofe the priest. "A tumbler full of water was left in my bottle, which I divided between four officers whose lips were split and covered with a green slime. That afternoon I had a burial service, and, literally. 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