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
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MONDAY EVENING,
Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1917, International News Service ,*■* ** By McManus
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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.
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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
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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.
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gentle anointing with Cuticura Oint
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Sample Each Free by Mail. Address post
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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
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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
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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.
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