Lift/e Talks by Beatrice Fairfax i Mow many of us realize what a iragniflcent gift life is? Life—youth, if we have it, or if we haven't, the ability to "be young," as our "new thought" brethren put it. "We waste Cod-given opportunities in such vain regrets as: If this were lß j But there is something peculiarly awakening about the season of 191 S. ! It is a year big with fate—the cru- 1 cijl year of the war—as our Presi- ! dent has said. The year when hun- i dreds of thousands of our young i men nuist < ross the ocean tc that | vague "somewhere in France." When in the course of events there must be splendid news that will n:nke our hearts thrill with victory, and again —news that must wring them with anguish. And whaj of the thousands and ! thousands of young men and women i who must stay home—sometimes the | harder port—to carry on tho world's 1 work? They will undoubtedly be j caught up in the wheels of new con- j | ditions brought about by a world ; , war. In tills great crisis we have t got to look to the future, to Amer ican homes and American-born eliil- i dren to carry on the traditions of J our country. This will bring squarely before us j the question of women continuing in ' business, or the professions, after; marriage. We can't afford to give up | women, as economic factors, now that | the year has made us so desperately j short-handed, and for the same rea- ! son we need more and more Amer- | ican homes, and more and more, American-born babies. The Married Woman Teacher We are likely, before the eventful year of 1918 is over, to have the ! question of the married woman ' school teacher, that was fought out j with such bitterness in the metrop- j olis a year ago, revived and thresh- i ! ed out on nation-wide lines. Why do we employ an army of' ! statisticians, census-takers, and en- i : dow research bureaus with huge ] ! sums of money to prove that the ! native-born population has small | families, or no families at all —and \ j then raise insuperable barriers to | j women, employed in gainful occupa- \ | Hons, marrying— That is part of our curiously, I oblique American philosophy, our l ! utter repugnance to face facts. We j I complain of the dearth of native- | | burn Americans, and then we proceed i to do everything in our power to I [ eliminate them. It. is as much to the interest of i this country that we have fine, clean American marriages as that we build ships or drill soldiers. Our vital stat istics are not sufficiently American; they are too often made up from groups of people who make their ltjcney here, but leave their deepest patriotic feelings in the older coun tries. . . Unit IteNign When She Mnrrtrn It is understood, though there is j no actual law on the subject, that ( when a girl marries a fellow employe j she must resign; in marrying she au-! tomatically dismisses herself. And j yet the joint salaries of these two young people would make a happy I American home. I never see pretty, blooming girls sitting around boardinghouses or ! segregating themselves as seems to i be, more and more, the custom of j our country, without thinking of ; that line of Bernard Shaw in his j play. "Misalliance." I may not quote i to the letter, as I haven't tha volume j handy, but the idea is: "Girls, girls, all over the country, withering away into ladies." He doesn't say anything about the , fine young men withering away into I grim, old bachelors and imitation j RECEIPT FOR . WARDING OFF AGE Fat is commonplace—middle aged. ; It stamps a woman as unquestionably past the period of youth. Hence it lessens her influence. She may charm still —by nimblem-ss of wit —but that indefinite fascination a line figure wields has lied from her. Forever?. No! for it can be regain ed. and that easily. Youth as ex pressed in the straight front, the lis some hip, the wavy outline, is not be yond recall. Bet any woman who is too well filled Out take a Marmola Prescription Tablet after each meal i and at bedtime. The sprightliness of ! youth will come back to her. Oft will go tho fat, uniformly and smootiHy, revealing the foundation of the foal youthful form beneath. Try this method. No exercising or dieting is necessary to take off a pound a day. The Tablet will do it alone. No. wrinkles or haggard lines will form; instead the health, the brightness and the litheness will in crease. The Marmola Prescription Tablet is absolutely nonlnjurious I be ing made of the famous fashionable formula % oz. Marmola. oz. Fl. Ex. cascara uroniatic, oz Pep-1 permint Water, and it is also inex- • pensive, a large case, enough to show , i f suits, costing, at any drugstore, or direct from Marmola Co., 861 Wood ward ave.. Detroit, Mich., only seven- I ty-live cents. —Advertisement. THEIR MARRIED LIFE Copyright by International News Service "What on earth are you fussing| about in there? Helen looked up.! Hushing sensitively. "Oh, Warren, I, don't like this hat." "Thought you were crazy about it when you got it." "X liked it well enough; you see, I bought it for just a little hat to begin the season and I didn't want to pay much for it. 1 liked the shape ot' it, but they are so common now that 1 have had it changed a little bit, and now I don't like it at "Well, put on your things and come on down town. We'll get a decent one and pay a decent price for it, and then there will be no more worrying." "But, Warren," Helen began. "Now don't begin a lot of reasons why you don't want to do it. I get so tired of this foolishness. You get a cheap hat, and then, before the season is even begun, you have to buy others because everyone is -seen wearing the same kind of a hat. If you paid enough in the beginning for an exclusive model you would find that you would get some wear out of your hats." Helen said nothing more, but she j obediently got into her things.putj i 011 the despised hat and meekly fol- I lowed Warren down town. It was I Saturday afternoon and the sun was | shining brightly. Helen felt happy, i and showed it in her manner, which I | Warren did not encourage. He wast I bound on an errand he did not fancy j j overmuch, and he would wait until' ; he had done his duty before he en- \ | joyed his afternoon. "Where do you want to go?" he| 1 asked when they reached the shop-; | ping district. i "I don't know, dear, any of the j I stores." 1 "No, not any of the stores, either.; | We'll go to a really nice place, as! ! 1 said, and pay a good price for '.he; j hat, and for once I'll select It. Youl ! can have that thing you have on! 'sent home and wear the new one."j They were passing a little French' ! shop as they spoke that Helen knew: j to be very expensive. "Come on, let's see what they have j | in here." ) "No. Warren, I've never been in 1 I the place: they charge terrible; | prices." "There you go trying to throw! ! cold water on the first shop I hap- j pen to select. Come on in and see, I what they have. If you're going to[ ! try my plan of paying more for u] i hat and not having so many, then , don't begin to argue the first thing." i "All right. Warren," Helen re-j | sponded, and followed hini into the i tiny gray enameled shop without! j another word. A tall gray-haired! j woman came forward to wait on i ' them, and Warren exclaimed curtly! that they want a hat. i clubmen. And yet their fate is the more tragic, since a woman with a bookshelf, a teapot and a spirit lamp may turn a hall bedroom into a near-home, but a man cannot. No, he desiccates and withers more ; pitifully than she does, while togeth- I ir they might find happiness and a j home, both of which are the inalien j able rights of everyone. Advice to the Lovelorn By BEATRICE FAIRFAX | DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: I am a young girl 18 years of age. Have quite a few friends of both sex. When out I am very quiet. I cannot make myself friendly, of j course, the boys always take to the i girls who are lively, and I am sort of a side number. I am seeking advice how to over come this quiet disposition, for sure ly I do not like It. I I know that some of the boys said | | they would take me out on different I occasions, but they think that I will ! refuse theni, which I would not do. I Now. to overcome this bashful way of inline, I am asking you what to do.. '■ Hoping to receive good instruction, I am, BASHFUL. ! Bashful: Don't worry about your disposition; it takes many kinds of, | people to make a world, and a quiet , disposition is as much to be desired as a more lively one. There are many people to whom such a disposition as yours would appeal far more than would that of your more lively com panions. Remember, it is better al ways to be your own natural self , than to imitate someone who in your eyes posses a more attractive per sonality. On the other hand, cultivate . a pleasant disposition, without assum ing a hilarity ?ou don't feel. Ue j pleasant and amiable to those whom ! vou meet. To overcome your bash fulness with boys, make efforts to be friendly with them when you meet them. Don't make unladylike efforts to attract their attention. It is en tirely permissible to invito to your home, with the permission of your parents, any boy with whom you are acquainted, and whose attention you wish to cultivate. DEAR BEATRICE FAIRFAX: I am a girl 21 years old. and there are two young men that say they: love me and both of them asked me to | I got married. The one is a soldier. | and 1 love him very much, but he does j Inot seem to care to like the ns much; las the other one, and he also does not in love with it immediatfy. "How do you like it, dear? she | asked, smiling up at Warren. "Well, that's something like it." he responded heartily, "that's my| idea of a hat." "But. Warren, it's absurd to pay such a price for a hat, really it is." "Not any more than you would pay for three or four hats before the season is over. If you can be satisfied with that hat, we'll have it, and don't let me hear another word about hats for some time to come." Helen wanted to expostulate and tell Warren that she would much prefer two cheaper hats bought lit a more moderate place so that she could have a change occasionally, but she decided that it would be better to let him have his way. The hat would really go with everything and was certainly serviceable enough to wear every day the rest of the season if necessary. (To Be Continued.) more than the soldier does, but I like the soldier the best. Please advise me which one to take. CURIA" II RAD BETTY. Dear Curlv Head Bettj : I am afraid, little Curly Head Betty, you do not know what love is. Surely you ought not to mistake the regard you feel for those two men as love. Surely, if your feeling were so deep as to be termed love, you would not be so perplexed whether to take the idler, who is afraid to work, or the young man who is faithful to himself and •you. Maybe if the other, too, wore a kahki uniform he would be more at tractive than the present soldier. Better wait awhile, Curley Head, un til you know your own mind. But don't marry either young man hastily. Tf the soldier does not seem to care for you so much, as you, he surely will not make you as happy as the other man will. Wait until you know your own feeling, and remember taht 21 years old is very young, in deed, for the step you are pondering. Twenty-one Taken in Raid in Strawberry Street Twenty-one negroes were taken to police headquarters after detectives and police had raided last* night 510 Strawberry street. A cutting match between two negroes which develop ed the fact in pblice court on Thurs day that a family lived in each room of the house determined police au thorities to break up the place. De tectives Speese and Wills, Patrolman McCann and Sergeant Owen made the raid. The place is described by the po lice to be a worse resort for negroes, Italians and Mexicans than th fa mous "Bucket of Blood." It is said to be the headquarters of the for mer narcotic gangs that operated in the city. Andrew Washington and Charles Sofes were held for running a dis orderly house. Those held for hear ing are: Ada Reynolds, Willie Wil liams, Adeleine Bailey, Anna Johns ton, Benjamin Dougherty, Perry Mar rinay, Louise Strotter, Charles Allen ar.d Daisy Jones. The following were charged with disorderly practice: Kdward Wlllinghain, Charles Mitch ell, Lucy Marshall, William Thomas, ( iitharlne Winters, Sara Johnston, Virgie Diggs, Margaret Winters, Ella Mathews and Elmer Gardner. Use McNeil's Pain Exterminator—Ad. TECH BOYS JOIN 1 RESERVE MILITIA I Youths Also Willing lo Do Bit in the Working Reserve ! Technical High School students of the upper classes arc enthusiastic over securing membership in the I'ennsylvania State Reserve Militia and a number of them have already enrolled in the body. Frank Fahne stoclc addressed a meeting yesterday lhat was attended by many of the students, and the following have joined the organization: James Min ick, Henry Shope, Gordon Matter, Howard Jones, James Peifer. Fred Henry, Abram Gross, Newton Heish ley, Paul Huntsberger, Karl Rich i w.ne, James Wallace,* Glenn Beard, j Samuel Arch, Joe Schmidt J Charles Vollnier. j Another organization in which the : ; Maroon students are interested is the j : Poys' Working Reserve, of which J j Principal* Charles B. Fager, Jr., ,is I chairman for Dauphin county, | | year over 100 of the boys enrolled, i ■ but few' had a chance to work on a | : farm, as tlie farmers were not edu- j ! c.ated to the fact that the city lad j I could "do his bit" as well as the I country boys. The members will be i ! used for industrial and farm work. ' j and badges will be given to the : j members who work a minimum of i I three weeks during the summer. j I Farm camps will be established in the | ' agricultural districts. The city lads j 1 will eat and live in these camps and | will go out from them to work. To Be Well I'nld j The plan provides this year that j each worker shall receive $2 a day ! and $1 of this amount is to go to the r commissary of the camp. It is cx | pected that this plan of boarding the i members will be more satisfactory i than in the cases where the workers j were boarded by the farmer. An en- I rollment bureau has been opened in the library, and many of the students 'will again respond to the appeal for j ! members. j Professor Pierce Rettew, head of j the department of history, .was ab j sent from school during the past ! week because of an attack of grip. ! At a meeting of the Camera Club | V.eld this week Hugh Wells, of the ! junior class, was elected assistant I treasurer. Karl Schwartz presided. I Tile Rondon Xews and L'lllustfa j Hon, the former an Knglish and the ! latter a French magazine, have been Placed upon the tables in the li brary.' Both papers are profusely illustrated with the leading events of lhe war. Students of French are par ticularly interested in the French magazine. Pins and rings arrived yesterday fcr members of the four classes who had placed orders for class jewelry. Special C'ISIMM Meeting A new Stieff piano lias been placed in the auditorium for use during chapel exercises. The piano was re cently dedicated by Barton Botts. pianist of the school. Ralph Rrough will drive an auto truck to York Tuesday evening, tak ing many of the Maroon students to the White Rose city. Tech plays In the York High School gymnasium on that evening. Tlie March' issue of the Tech Tatler | was distributed by Circulation Mana ger Joe Schmidt yesterday afternoon. I The paper was dedicated to the jun- | iors and contained cuts of the entire I class, the junior basketball team and ; the junior class officers. Individual j ruts of the members of the Tech i basketball team were also displayed. The literary department featured a] war story by John Wachtman, 1916, j telling how he was wounded in "go- | ing over the top" while a member of, the British army in France since his | graduation. A special class meeting was held ' yesterday afternoon to take action on the death of 'Krncst Baehman, a member of the class. The following committees were appointed: Flow ers. Stehman Bell. Albert Ilahn. Ralph Shader. Abram Burkhold/r and Stewart Taylor: resolutions, Robert fpicer, Henry Shope, Kenneth 3Jy- • er, Roy Dixon and Kenneth Fisher: committee to yisit the home, Wil liam Hoerner, Victor Bihl and John Connor. Two members of each of the three upper classes will act as pallbearers, as follows: Ralph Rrough and William Watson. William i j Hoerner and John Connor, Carl Beck and Anthony Wilsbach. MISS WII-SON TO SAIL Cape May, X. J., March 16.—Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of the President, who has been here for three days visiting the naval reserve force cantonments at Winsahickon Barracks, the naval air station and the Sewells Point base of the sub marine patrol station, is going to France. That was the statement she made to the men at Wissahickon Barracks last night, when she made a brief (alk to them, after her appearance at a concert. She praised the work of the French and British soldiers, but said she expected the American boys to outdo their allies in defeat ing the Hun. NEW RATES FOR i WATER APPROVED! ! I " ! Generally Recognized That City Needs Additional Revenue City officials to-day commended the action of members of Council in approving the water department re port by J. W. Ledoux, of Philadel • phia, and in deciding to use the | schedule of rates prepared by this j expert and based entirely on a costl |of operation plus allowance for a | return on the water department j property and a depreciation charge. I Because of the complete change in the system of charging rates it will be necessary to print new blanks to be used in tilling in monthly, quar terly and annual statements to pri vate and manufacturing consumers, •i A number of minor points not speci ! flcally mentioned in Mr. Ledoux's ; report are being considered now by ■ the commissioners in framing the I emergency ordinance to be present-, I I ed next Tuesday. Tlie new schedule of rates when I passed by Council will provide a I more efficient method of charging for j water which is used officials said. All I j bills will show statements of the last | meter reading, the new meter read ' I ing and the amount of water used . ! in cubic feet, for which a charge of •|42 cents a thousand cubic feet will j be made, in addition to the meter . service charge. Commissioner Hassler said to-day i he is planning to make a careful 1 study of the other recommendations in Mr. Bedoux's report and will prob ably take up the suggestions in the : near future with engineers in • charge at the pumping station. ; | War Time Lexicon i (Copyright. 1018, ly British Ca ; nudluii Recruiting Mission, which , maintains depots in all large cities j where men, except Americans, ma; ' volunteer.) Jack Johnson: The German 42-centimeter or 16- ' inch howitzer high explosive shell, which liberates a cloud of dense ■ black smoke when it explodes. Coal Box: Another German shell similar to the Jack Johnson, also giving off 1 i dense black smoke on explosion, ; | which rises from the ground very ' i slowly. Also known as 5.9 shell. Hissing Jennie: A 4.1 high velocity German shell 1 fired from a field gun. It may con tain either shrapnel, high explosive, poisonous gas or "crying gas." It I has a velocity of about 2,400 feet • per second and makes a hissing sound as it goes, whence its name. II It is used chiefly to smash troops, 'jits velocity making It especially deadly. BAKER'S -g I BREAKFAST 1 COCOA- . I | The food drink jji I without a fault 1! 1 Made of high grade cocoa 1 1 beans, skilfully blended and | 1 manufactured by a perfect |j 1 mechanical process, without 1 | the use of chemicals. It is •Jg I absolutely pure and whole- | | (Mk some, and its flavor is deli- | cious, the natural flavor of 1 cocoa bean. j| #¥?PfC The genuine bears this | m trade-mark and is made | H | only by 1 Sfi 11 11 Walter Baker 8 Co. Ltd. \j3 DORCHESTER, MASS. |j no. Established 1780 J| BOYS UNDER ARMS DESERVE BOOKS Slate Officials Endorse Move ment to Aid Yankees in Camps While they may differ in some political ideas. State Senator Wil liam C. Sproul and Highway Com missioner J. Denny O'Neil are agreed that the people of Pennsylvania dur ing the week beginning March 18 can do little that will be more bene ficial to the soldiers and sailors of America than contribute readable books to the libraries being main tained for them. "We are seeing to it that our fight ing men have tobacco, candy, warm clothing and other things; now let us see to it that they have books to read," said Senator Sproul to day. "And when we are giving them books let us give them books that we like to read ourselves —and then wo will know that their libraries contain readable books." "An excellent idea," said Com missioner O'N'eil. "The boys in Franco and in the training camps deserve the best we can do for them. In every home in Pennsylvania-there are excellent volumes which Should get away from their job of collect ing dust on the family whatnot. Let's give the boys the best we have." Governor Brumbaugh to-day also unqualifiedly endorsed the move ment. During the week of March 18-2 4 Pennsylvania will "frisk" itself of books for soldiers and sailors. There Is need in the many libraries now being maintained for two million volumes. The demand for books, say the camp librarians, is greater than any person anticipated. "Don't imagine," said one librarian who wrote to Dr. Thomas Lynch Montgomery, state librarian, "that Pennsylvania is doing its whole duty by the soldiers when it sends them cigarets and tobacco, or canVly. The boys would be 'up against it' if all they had to do in their hours of ease was smoke cigarets and eat candy. They want books—books — and more books." Throughout the state, librarians of those cities and towns which sup portlibraries,have been named heads of the committees which will han dle the book campaign. Executive committees are being named and newspaper men have volunteered their services as publicity agents for the drive. In several cities the aid of the Boy Scouts has been enlisted. In Har risburg, where the campaign began a week earlier than in the rest of Pennsylvania, the forepart of the week was given to publicizing the drive and what it means, and on Saturday the Boy Scouts, 550 of them, called at every house in the entire city. It required many hours of very hard work, but the number of books secured was astonishing. In each locality It is urged that really readable books—books that brawny lighting- men will enjoy, be contributed to the camp libraries, through the local agencies in charge of the movement. WHY HAIR FALLS OUT Dandruff causes a feverish irrita tion of the scalp, the hair roots shrink, loosen and then the hair comes out fast. To stop falling hair* at once and rid the scalp of every particle of dandruff, get a omail bottle of Danderine at any drug store, for a few cents, pour a litttw in your hand and rub well into llie scalp. After several applications all dandruff disappears and the hair stops coming out—Adv. BEGIN Oil SALIS AT FIRST SIGN OF KIDNEY PI We eat too much meat, which clogs Kidneys, then the back hurts. Says glass of Salts flushes Kid neys and ends Bladder irritation. Uric acid in mpat excites the kid neys, they become overworked: get sluggish, ache, and feel like lumps ot' lead. The urine becomes cloudy: the bladder is irritated, and you may he obliged to seek relief two or three times during the night. When the kidneys clog you must help them flush off the body's urinous waste or you'll be a real sick person shortly. At first you feel a dull misery in the kidney region, you suffer from back ache, sick headache, dizziness, stom ach gets sour, tongue coated and you feel rheumatic twinges when the weather is bad. Eat less meat, drink lots of water: also get l'rom any pharmacist four ounces of Jad Salts: take a table spoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This fa mous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to clean clogged kidneys and stimulate them to normal ac tivity, also to neutralize the acids in urine, so it no longer is a source of irritation, thus ending bladder weak ness. Jad Salts is inexpensive, cannot injure: makes a delightful effer vescent lithia-water drink which ev eryone should take now and then to keep the kidneys clean and active. 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