fte&diivj all iKe Kywikj PP||| * • Little Talks by Beatrice Fairfax In Washington, D. C., there is a woman wise in her generation. She is Mrs. Alexander E. Williams, wife of a lieutenant -colonel in the *|?,'nited States army.She realized as as girls began to pour into the National Capital to do war work for the Government how necessary it was for them to have real homes. She planned for them not hall ■bedrooms in which to snatch a few hours necessary sleep before going to work again, but genuine hearth stones. Here around a big 'table 'there would be good meals, with talk and fun and girlish chatter about "the department," spring hats, or the last letter from "back 'home." All of these things, instead of a .stool at some wretchhed lunch counter, unappetizing food, with the horrors of a solitary dinner and the V>leak return to the hall bedroom again. Out of her own pocket Mrs. Willl iams financed this scherrte: there were seven houses in the beginning —by this time there are probably more—and now they are all on a paying basis. In addition to managing the houses Mrs. Williams has prevailed on Washington people who could spare the room to accept, on a fam ily footing, about five hundred ad ditional girls. She accepted no of fers where the householders would not agree to accept the war work ers on this family bdsis. In every case she secured refer ences from the home towns, of the girls, and of the hundreds who se cured rooms only two were unable to furnish vouchers of good conduct. No Work More Patriotic No more patriotic work could have been undertaken than that of finding houses for girls who are do ing the clerical work of the country at this time. For the plight of a girl without a home isthat of a mariner without a compass. Not always do parents with daughters realize the necessity of this haven for a girl. The home is too often the place where she eats I and sleeps, not the place where she Warning to Furniture Buyers S|i Fall Furniture prices will exceed anything in his- j ill torv. Present market conditions at the New \ork :j: :|: Furniture Exchange are serious. If you hope to jj: ij; buy furniture right, buy it now from our present :j: ij: stock. There will be no price advances until we pay :j: ij; them. Our tags remain unchanged. Most goods ||j ij: are marked less than the wholesale price quoted at ij: the New York market. Be wise, —buy now and ;j |: avoid the inevitable higher Fall price. You will find our prices at least one-fourth less ij g than elsewhere. Five-piece Circassian Walnut NITH THE DON'T Tou THINK HER WELL- LOOK |, THW A SILLN- T HM "WORN 9 ___J tHE'b BEEN c ?., r FASHION ! 1 06T/\NCE FROM HER O V 3L uOOKb L -1 WEAR\N- . tsHOfS TO HER f I 1 sees her friends and talks out her daily problems. This Is especially true of the homes of our less prosperous citi zens; the struggle to keep things going is so great that any extra pound of pressure—in the way of company—is not to be considered. The already overworked mother does not see how she can do any thing more; the ruinous cost of everything, the difficulty of receiv ing strangers in a home where younger children keep things dis ordered, too often absorb the moth er's attention to the exclusion of the claims of her grown-up daughters' sacred rights. The girl young, and full of the quest of enjoyment, seeks hef so cial life outside of her home; moth er and daughter grow apart, even if there are not more serious con sequences to this unfortunate ar rangement. Girl's Proper Background, Her Home No matter how humble, tl proper background of a girl Is her home; thre are her people, there her friends should be welcomed, and there she should have the best times her scant leisure will permit. Fathers and mothers sin more i deeply against their daughters than they realize, when through indif- | ference or ungraciousness to their | daughters' friends, they drive the i girl to go somewhere else for her i little pleasure. Half the tragedies that overtake j girls begin with this statement: "I I began meeting him out. because I I couldn't see him at home." This is even true of the girl whose j daily work and weekly pay envelope ! help to keep the home going. The mother workls so hard all day long that the added burden of "fixing up for company" is the last straw. She can no longer recall the temp tations of her own youth, the strug gle of making both ends meet has blunted her finer perceptions. She has forgotten that life calls and beckons from without, when those within the home grow forgetful of the claim of youth. And som.etimes the mother is not I at fault, sh'e is willing to accept the | responsibility of "Mary's beau" or 1 the little group of friends who are ' coming to the "party." It is the father who is oftener the offender; father, who after his hard day feels i that quiet and slippers are his I right. Any attempt to curtail these I privileges in favor of company he | regards as an infringement of his I constitutional rights of health, wealth and the pursuit of happi ness. I Cannot "Make Things Go."' i After repeated and melancholy attempts to "make things go" at home, and attendant humiliations and failures, one of two things is bound to happen. Either the girl goes outside for her fun. with all the dangers that that involves, or she became dispirited and gives up the attempt to have a normal life Youth slips away, her chances go by, >-and there is nothing in store for her but a lonesome old age. Parents are to blaim for their children's unhappiness more often than they realize. To them their children never growup; they fail to i realise these children have inher | ited the same impulass, aspirations | and instincts that are the legacy of j the human race. To the mother the daughter is j still thelittle girl in the white j frock and pigtails, and if it is not i convenient for daughter to. have in | her little friends there is no use j discussing the matter. Then sometimes comes the fear ful realization, that daughter Is no longer the little girl in white, but a grown woman, who has been fac ing her life problem away from home—and the solution has been too much for her. If parents would only stand to gether on this vital issue, if father must sit in slippers, there must be some nook or cranny in the flat where he can enjoy the privilege undisturbed. And mother had better let some thing about the house go, while she helps to make the lemonade and sandwiches and then puts on her best dress to make the company feel welcome. ! IN THE LAND 0' COMMON SENSE f j i Says it is suicide to cut corns, and tells how they lift j I right out If. . ■ .. . . | You simply say to the drug store I man, "Give me a quarter of an ounce of freezone." This will cost very little but is sufficient to remove every hard or soft corn from one's feet. A few drops applied directly upon a tender, aching corn should relieve the soreness instantly, and soon the entire corn, root and all, can be lifted out with the fingers without pain. This new way to rid one's feet of corns was introduced by a Cincin nati man, who says that while freezone is sticky it dries in a mo ment, and seems to simply shrivel up the corn without inflaming or even irritating the surrounding .tis sue or skin. Don't let father die from infection or lockjaw from whittling at his corns, but cut this out and make him try it. 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Does my august presence seal your lips?" He turned towards her impatient ly. "Dora, you make It hard for me to talk to you frankly. I never know just how you are going to take things." "What things?" "Why"—awkwardly—"some ques tions I want to ask you." "Because you don't ask them, per haps," she suggested. "But you spoke a while ago as if you had some important matter on your mind, yet now that you have a chance to put it into words you seem to have for gotten all about it." "I have not forgotten It," he de clared. "Only I think perhaps I will ask Stewart instead." He watched the effect of his words and saw the girl start slightly, as if taken by surprise. Yet in another Instant she smiled. "Well, do as you please about that," she said., "It Is evident that the subject on which you wanted to consult me does not concern me, es pecially If you could consult Gerald just as well about It." Milton came close to her and laid his hand on her shoulder, bending over her as he might have bent over a child with whom he wished to rea son sensibly. "Dora," he said slowly, "listen to me. Why are you going to marry me?" I Daily Fashion j | Hint | | Prepared Especially For This ' j Newspaper THE ' 'BETWE FROCK In planning her wardrobe for the season the well-dressed woman must figure on the • "between" frock that somehow has established a place for itaelf in everybody's mind as fitting in where more formal costumes fear to trade. This simple little model is in brown foulard, the only dash of color being In the bright green bow-tie. Medium size requires 6% yards 40-inch material. Pictorial Review Ccstume No. 7758. Sizes, 34 to 42 inches bust. I'rlce, 25 centa. .✓W* * . Her eyes wavered under his steady gaze. "Do stand up straight or sit down, please, Milton," she commanded. "You make me nervous leaning over me like that." She waited until he had drawn a chair by hers and had sat down. Then she looked at him squarely. A Bitter Question "I am going to be guilty of a Yankee trick and answer your ques tion by asking another. Why are you going to marry me, Milton?" "It is late in the day for you to ask me that, my dear," he told her. "Had X not cared enough for you to want to marry you, I would not have asked you to be my wife." "Well, does not the same reason apply to my acceptance of you?" she argued. He hesitated, and when he spoke it was with an offort, as if he had suddenly determined to learn the truth. "Dors," he said, "do you love me — or is there some one else?" "Some one else?" Her exclama tion was hardly louder than a whis per, but It carried a world of mean ing. "Yes," he said, "Is there?" She threw back her head and laughed. "What a silly question! No—l do not know any other man who. would take me If yo*u throw me over to-morrow!" she said harshly. "That Is not true, dear," he re marked. "I know there are men who admire you, and who, but for the fact of your engagement to me would ask you to marry them. But that is not what I meant. I want you to tell me If there is anybody you would ' rather marry than me—if there is any man whom you love better than me." "As nobody seems to love me as much as you do, it is ungallant of you to intimate that I have bestowed my affection somewhere unasked," Dora teased. "Come, Milton—you and I have never been silly and sen timental. We have prided ourselves |on this fact. Let us not begin to be | foolish now. We have always been | good chums. Neither of us loves the other madly. But I have always un derstood that that kind of affection is not essential to marriage. Mother says It is not: so does father." She had risen as if to end the dis cussion, and now started toward the door. But Milton followed her and checked her. 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