Little Talks by Beatrice Fairfax H} BEATRICES FAIRFAX Before me lies a letter which I liope applies only to one girl in ten thousand—and which I fear applies to one in a hundred. For that hun dredth girl this little holding up the mirror to the canker spot that will blacken her whole nature. "I had a frlena for over a year. ■H hile i was away last summer she met a man of fifty, twice her own age. He fell madly in love with her and began to take her to dinners and luncheons and to lavish on her such sifts as evening: gowns, expensive i ivcater coats, silver bags with money mclosed, perfumes, powders and oth er lavish gifts. ".She never mentioned the other man to me nor did she let him know of me. I returned accidentally and v. e met. Two days later lie disap peared and she has not heard from him since. She broke the news of his gifts to me gently—but gradually 3 got the whole story. I'm only < arning $.lO a week, but she wanted me to give her a lavalller, set with three small diamonds, for her Christ mas gift. I could not, and gave her a S2O gift instead. Then she wrote mid told me not to try to see her for the present, but to save my money, Mtid when I felt I could spend a great li'-al more on her to let her know ;Mid she would take me back. I know now that I am well rid of a woman who wpuld be an encum ' ranee, but the disappointment hurts. The other man was honest, too, and T feel sure he planned to marry her, | even as I did. J. IC." Cold-blooded, mercenary, selfish, a cheat—these are the titles that i spring to the lips in contemplating | the history of J. IC.'s friend. She] was more than that—she was guilty .r a high crime against herself—that of dwarfing her own soul, When any girl measures her own , charms in terms of what they will buy for her and looks upon friend ship as a means of obtaining lavish gifts she is putting herself in the ugliest classification into which a woman can fall. Of course, the girl who let an in fatuated old man pay for her clothes and give her money never stood off and took a good, square, honest look at herself. If she had done so. this is what she must have seen: A mer cenary girl selling a smile for a pair .f shoes, a friendly word for a new hat, an hour of her society for an evening gown—a creature selling herself. Friendship and love give. When a girl is capable of asking a man for an expensive Christmas gift and of telling him, callously, "If you haven't liny money you needn't come around." she is just a huckster, crying her j wares in the alley like the men who drive around their little carts full f red apples. But they are honor able hucksters, trafficking in mer i handise. She is selling her soul, and TVJEURALGIA ** J[ For quick result* rub the Forehead and Temple* with /v.( ,: iEk) V"r* * LIMI, BodyijuAfd trilGw, Hon, J( You Pay Less For Better Quality at Miller & Kades The "Leader" Columbia Grafonola And Ten Double Records Selections) On i vms of r There will be real delight in your home if you have a Columbia Grafonola—no matter whether it be an SIB.OO one or a $350.00 one. We have them all—and sell them on convenient terms. The "Leader" outfit we mention here is, however, our best seller and consists of the full cabinet Graf onola shown, in cither oak, walnut or mahogany, and 10 double records (20 selections). The "Leader" is an extremely artistic model and has a rich, mellow tone. The three spring motor's a marvel of accuracy. The cabinet at first glance shows that none but the most skilled craftsmen have had a hand in its design and finish—truly it is an instrument for the finest home. Hear a demonstration in our luxurious sound-proof booths. % Miller & Kades Furniture Department Store • \V J OJJ 7 NORTH MARKET SQUARE VjSUfiX THE ONFjY STORE IN HARRISBCRG THAT GUARANTEES TO SELIi ON CREDIT AT CASH PRICES MONDAY EVENING, Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1917, International News Service ,*■* ** By McManus F > KNOW YOU FEEL )r~ S lf "M AFRMD T^RY ) I / . ( MARY- a HERE THW ~) * SHOULD Z' DISTRESSED-MARX- YES-TT> 1 — U TO LEAVE OH 1 . SHE'S IF} THIS TOWN HAS ONE WORRY- | 9 9J THIS Rmhv ) BA.O ENOU<H €V 0t> ** ) LONESOME- | V POLICEMAN TO EVERY I C.OT I * IS | WHEN THE net guessing she is related to the woman who sells in more business like exchange. The duplicity or deceiving the two men about each other' existence is the merest trifle —we waive it aside. But her lies. Well, what is deceit to 9. supreme cheater who parcels out her cold, unsympathetic nature at so much a handshake? j An* extreme case, you say? Yes. I hope so, but a striking illustration of the lesser cases that go on un ! tragically about us all the time. | The gir who wants attention from men, who demands that they take her out and spend money on her. who look for gifts, defends herselt like this: "It isn't fair that he should come and wear out the parlor furniture. He ought to do something to show his appreciation of my so ciety." Oh, you mercenary Mabel, has it ever occurred to you tliat Johnnie I shows the most earnest appreciation of your society by merely seeking j it? A girl who bores him, but to ! whom he is indebted, he takes to the movies; the girl he's perfectly | willing to share with the other fel- I lows, he takes to a dance, but the ! Rirl Johnnie honestly likes is the girl with whom he can contentedly spend a quiet evening at home, i Life is full of "quiet evenings nt ! home." Happy married people have | to be chummy enough to enjoy them I together. Happy married people give each other sympathy and understand ing without setting a price on them. So do lovers —so do friends. A girl who puts a price on her society, who lets greed and gifts and graft come to appeal too much to her. is simply unfitting herself to be a friend or "a sweetheart or a wife. And that is a worse charge than the one we made originally against her. Greedy. mercenary. calculating. cold j K.'s friend and all others of that type are .unfitting themselves for life and love. For the sake of little presents, and a garish present, thev a re foreswearing life's whole beautiful future and the great gifts of love. j! Daily Fashion j 3 H' ll ' | a Prepared Especially For This \ B Newspaper A CHIC GINGHAM. Serviceable and good - looking frocks are made of check gingham and of tub models there Is not more worthy of note than this, with straight narrow skirt hung over with a gathered tunic. The simple waist has a collar and vest of white linen, and the cuffs and pocket flaps are of the same trimming. In the case of the pocket flaps buttons are added. Medium size requires 4 yards 38-lneh gingham, with 1 yard white linen. Pictorial Review Costume No. 7037. Sizes, 34 to 44 inches bust. Prlee, 25 cents. Daily Dot Puzzle /twW ... " • i•' , • L * ! 17* • 26 I |b* 2o • #3o .5., a 2 "32 "•V * ,a 31 I • . *36 | It4o\1 t40 \ 8 • 7 41 I • • % 4Z 6 -Ji • < -4 v 1• t * . v ? 3 * *SA • • SX £3 * s+ j *; ' | Draw from one to two and so on to the end. HAHRISBURG TELEGRAPH! dp Red Cross If the war memories of Easter could be written down by Red Cross nurses what a revelation they might be of the universal heart of the world. Nursing as a profession is being called bj many names In this war. Some call It a science, some an art, some a ministry. This is what one thinks of it in the wards of the grands blesses —the severely wounded: There is one nurse, a French woman, much too busy and over worked to know that her name is known through France, who has had one of those sternest tasks of war, the care of men blinded and muti lated. To have seen them—to have seen her —to know even a little of what she did is to have had one's spirit quickened by new visions. This woman, and she is a young woman, on the very first day that she bathed them, and fed them— often having to invent strange means for these so cruelly crippled— used to send her spirit of courage and hope out to meet theirs. She did it in a hundred ways. If their eyes could see, there was a smile, or a flower, or a piece of fruit, or a scrap of lovely color, anything, anything she could find or devise that was different from the things they had been through. If their eyes could not see, but their ears could hear, there was a word, a phrase of song, a sisterly or motherly endearment—so quiet— oh, so quiet. Sometimes, there couldn't be any response—sometimes not for very many days when the faintest-fluttering of spirit answered. But the gallant soul of that nurse began her ministry with the first day, and with every service she* gar nered a little more knowledge of her patient—some boy or man called on to do something so infinitely harder than to die. And, as the days or weeks or months passed, often she had learn ed the name of Jacque's mother, or sister or sweetheart, or, as so often happened, if he had no one; or if those he had had been lost or killed in the invaded country. And all the time she was learning too what his trade had been before the war, and what were the things he liked best to do. She had a wonderful interest in all her visitors and in any kind of relief work they might be en gaged in. Again and again after talking to them she found in them | the solution to Jacque's or Pierre's I problem of independence. One way or another she would And a person who through some other person could secure some coveted informa tion, or railroad fare, or tools. All this time she was replacing i hope where hopelessness had been. And the spirit of her became part of them. The -visitor to her ward saw men maimed almost beyond de scription getting ready to take hold j of life. I In the most vital sense the nurse j is the representative of us at home, | who cannot go abroad to our men when they are suffering. And so the requirements of her. going, and the | figures concerning the number of Advice to the Lovelorn By BEATRICE FAIRFAX Decide For Yourself DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: I am eighteen and in love with a man of thirty-three, and know that my love is reciprocated. He asked me several times to marry him, but I always refused owing to the great difference in our age. He has been a friend of the family for a great many years, and mother would readily con sent to our marriage, but would not enforce it by any means. He is rath er and I know that I would never want for anything, but please don't be under the impression that I am thinking of marrying a man for his money, This marriage will entirely depend upon your opinion. M. B. Fifteen years difference in your ages need not terrify you. The point is that at eighteen you are likely to be only a child, while at thirty-three he is probably a man, settled and mature In his tastes. When you write, "This marriage will entirely depend on your opin ion," you show weakness and child ish uncertainty. How can you feel that a stranger will read your little note, form an impersonal opinion with nothing Involved but her own ideas of right and then be allowed absolutely to settle this grave ques tion for you. If you are congenial, understand each other, have sympathy and tastes In common, as well as love and emotion, the fifteen years be tween will not be an impassable bar rier. But you must show enough cer tainty of .yourself to form your own judgment instead of leaning help lessly on what I say. Sixteen Years! DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: I am thirty-nine and in love with a girl of twenty-three. My mother thinks It a mistake to marry with such a difference in ages, while many friends tell m it is not. Do you see any reason for future regrets or un nurses needed for our men are con- | nected intimately with our own lives. Even though over 7,000 American ! Red Cross nurses are now on active duty in military and naval hospitals i and in public health work at home i and abroad, thousands more will be | needed; over 30,000 it may be, foi our army alone. And the Surgeon i General of the Army has issued a call to the American Red Cross for 5,000 nurses before the Ist of June. I It is a world problem, and the I supply of properly qualified nurses j is a limited one. We dare not j>ic- i ( ture to ourselves a shortage of I trained nurses as our men are I brought from the battlefields. Then, ; our hope is going to rest on the j nurse. If our men are to have | proper care it means that large num- I bers of nurses must be released from I hospitals and private duty. Yet it is I impossible for her to go if the sacri- | fice required of her is too great. And ! she must be made to decide alone, j The public must help her by making | the conditions of her going as fair j as it is humanly possibly to make ! them. It is not fair to hold her ! back; nor is it fair to give the ad- i vantage to the less patriotic nurse. Young women in great numbers are responding whole heartedly to the hospital needs by tilling in the ranks of the training schools. The number of pupirtiurses enrolling for training this year increased twenty per cent, over the year before. Large numbers of men and women who depended on private duty nurses are | now instead utilizing hospital and visiting nurses and other agencies where one nurse can care for several patients. Over 50,000 "women have completed the Red Cross course of fifteen lessons in "elementary hy giene and home care of the sick," which was established by the Red Cross to aid women in caring for the minor illnesses in their own homes. College women are recruit ing students for the special courses in nurses' training to be given at Vassar and supported by the Ameri can Red Cross this summer. Credit will be given for this work in the regular hospital training schools, thus shortening the period of train ing and hastening the date of readi ness for active service at home and j abroad. Intercollegiate alumni from | every state are expressing their keen interest in this significant ex periment. | Throughout the country men and , women are seeing their share of the | responsibility in the nursing prob- | lem, and are rising to meet it. I To those who remember hospital ; wards at night, after the bravado j and brave jests of the day, when the men, sick and wounded, are like! boys in trouble, when they call on j the nurse for the pillow to ease the . pain of the fracture, for help with j the letter home, for the promise i which gives peace to many a passing the uniform of the nurse will al ways be a symbol of some woman's vearning love fultilled through her; no Easter will ever pass without gratitude and reverence for her high | [ service. j [ happiness in a marriage with such a J [difference? W. A. E. What is much more important I than the difference in your ages is i the sympathy of ideas, the real love and the fine feeling that exists be tween you. Perhaps you two have more in common than many others whose years are approximately the same. Real love means more than mere attraction. It means sympathy with each other's ambitions, under standing of each other's natures, af fection, devotion, loyalty. If you | have these, the difference in your ages cannot deprive you of your chance of happiness. Q € I (Cl\ \ JV** "mi Let Cuticura Care for Baby's Skin It's really wonderful how auickly a hot i bath with Cuticura Soap followed by a j gentle anointing with Cuticura Oint ment relieves skin irritations which | keep baby wakeful and restless, per mits sleepforinfar.t and rest for mother, and points to healment in most cases when it seems nothing would help. Sample Each Free by Mail. Address post card : •'Cuticura, Dept. 7A, Boston." Sold everywhere. Soap 25c. Ointment 25 and 50c. Warm Weather Adds to Gaiety of Easter Parade ! Not the oldest citizen of Harris-! burg could recall a more lovely day! for Easter Sunday. Warm, bright,) cloudless, the Susquehanna shim-1 mering cheerily, Front street mark ed a great parade of churchgovcrs, 1 but it was noticed by all that 'the i vast variety of color was lacking, nor was there so lavish a display of I flowers as in other years. Wartimes evidently had the effe.ct of subdue-1 ing the gayety of raiment and ex-! cessive luxury in rare flowers. From! the West Shore side came hundreds j to join the throng, and dozens of l men in military garb lent the nec essary touch of war times. Unusual-| *ly large crowds filled the churches | and the musical features werp of higher class than ever before. TO HOLD RECEPTION FOR NEW CHURCH MEMBERS New nrembers of Christ Luth eran Church will be entertained at a congregaiional reception at the | church edifice, Thirteenth andl 1 Thompson streets, this evening. The j I number of new members is 100. A; j literary and musical program will bei given and refreshments will be serv- j TO PLAN S. S. EFFICIENCY J Plans tor a Sunday school efficiency | drive will be made at a general inasa meeting to be held at 7.30 o'clock i this evening in the Grace Methodist! Church, State street, near Third. | Campaign rules will be adopted and plans will be. outlined for the drive which is to be held by the Metho dist Churches of Harrisburg und vicinity. The meeting this even ing will be under the chairmanship! of the Rev. Morris E. Swartz, distiict superintendent. BIG BASTER OFFERING The Derry Street United Brethren | Sunday School broke all records yes- j terday by giving an Easter Offering j of $5,249.58. Each class went over | its quota so that each won a "victory" banner. The men's class alone gove I $1,507. The maney ill be used to low er the church debt. Furniture of Individuality at Live and Let Live Prices You. like every other American, are economizing you are making a study of Furniture and home Furnishings to-day as you never have before. That is the reason we want you to visit our store this spring, look over our stock and compare our values with those of other stores. We feel that if you do this, your decision as to where you purchase your spring home needs will be favorable to us. We are ready—the sooner you come, the better off you are apt to be,.under present market conditions! Pictures / That new picture which the Spring house-cleaning shows the need of can be very readily and satisfactorily selected from our large stock of pictures. Remember that this store is noted for showing the largest and most complete line of real pictures of any store in Central Pennsylvania. This is not an exaggerated state ment as a look over our line will prove T BROWN & CO. Credit 1217-1219 North Third Street The Big* Up Town Home Furnishers APRIL 1, 19181 Don't Mind April Fool Jokes, For Hindenburg Is World's Biggest Victim Wake up, old top! If you go go about to-day with your head down, meditating the problems of the universe, some brisk "kid" is like ly to hand you a woolen doughnut. And, say, be sure to pick up that purse which is nailed to the side walk, and also do not pass by the brick wrapped up so tenderly. Above all, let your risibilities loose if some one puts one over on you. You will be no exception, for, as they say in the circus: "There's one born every minute, and two to catch him." Speaking of which reminds that the most stupendous April Fool this year must be Gen. Hindenburg. He is a long ways from Paris where he promised to have his breakfast April 1. Best Treatment For Catarrh S. S. S. Removes the Cause By Purifying the Blood. Once you get your blood free from impurities—cleansed of the catarrhal poisons, which it is now a prey to because of its unhealthy state—then you will be relieved of Catarrh — the dripping in the throat, hawk ing and spitting, raw sores in the nostrils, and the disagreeable bad breath. It was caused in the first place, because your impoverished blood was easily infected. Possi bly a slight cold or contact with someone who had a cold. But the point is—don't suffer with Catarrh— it is not necessacy. The remedy S. S. S., discovered over fifty year 3 To Outline Plans Tonight For Prohibition Campaign Delegates from all the city churches will outline plans, at a meeting in the Fourth Street Church of God, to-night, for Harrisburg's prohibition campaign. The aim is to secure ratification of the Federal Prohibition Amendment. At leatt two delegates will represent each church. O. P. Beckley is chairman, of the subcommittee in charge of | organization of prohibition vote. BELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Druggists refund money if it fails. 25c ago, tested, true and tried, is ob tainable at any drug store. It has proven its value in thousands of cases. It will do so in your case. Get S. S. S. at once and begin treat ment. If yours is a long standing case, be sure to write for free ex pert medical advice. We will tell you how this purely vegetable blood tonic cleanses the impurities from the blood by literally washing it clean. We will prove to you thousands of sufferers from Oft— tarrh, after consistent treatment with S. S. S., have been freed from the trouble and all its disagreeablu features and restored to perfect health and vigor. Don't delay the treatment. Address Medical Direc. tor, 439 Swift Atlanta, Ga. 5
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