Little Talks by Beatrice Fairfax "How old are yoir?" might have been the title of an amusing comedy, enacted at the special Congressional election in New Yor.<, when women voted. This inquiry was put to a tall, slim, boyish-looking woman—one of the keen, live-wire type. Without a moment's hesitation she answered: "Forty-nine." She was informed this was no oc casion for jocularity, and serious consequence might ens le if she l er sixted in merrymaking. The lady, with an air of "1 expected this.' orened her handbag: and produced a marriage license, seating 101 th that she had been niarrieo twenty-eight I J'ars and that she was twenty-one iii (he time of the ceremony. The men looked foolish, and the slender one, with an ai • of having insured herself ag'.iinst masculine ( stupidity, went on with her business of citizenship and iepirted. Another woman with a triple chin, ehrrtness of brea;h an i a 'general | air of limpness who had got wind oi t:ie -comedy nearly contracted alio- i j ltxy in rlinning down the girlish! f irty-niner. "How no you d > it?" ! *he gasped. And the lady who had held tjle clock back twenty years answered t-rielly: "Interest and fresh air.' And the greatest of these is inter <•3l. Some vital interest as a whet- Fton" for every facultv and the yeors fly tj* without leaving- their fatal f"ot| rints. A Group of Yoillls- seventy one, and she often sits up in tne train at night, and mukes three or four speeches the following day. If yoj've ever heard the tnagic of h'.r elcquence, it is not necessary to say how young she is. Amelia Barr, ;it eiphty-seven, is still ,v. iting books that sell up into the thousands These peop'c haven't time to get tin- they are too busy thinking and working at important things—they let the years take care of them selves. If you would be young and haven't a vital and consuming interest, "it's up to you'' to create one. The war. with its countless opportunities for work, has been a godscni tj the type 1 am going to call the mummified wt man. The woman is to be found in all classes of society. The influences that control 1-er life are always material. Her world is thrown out of gear if the silver car.'t be cleaned on Wednesday, if that happens to be silvsr-clcaning duy. if the seamstress is late or un able to come, it is a tragedy. If the department store has no more ma genta satin of the particular shade has decided on foe a belt. It is a world calamity. In her soul that woman is as old as Rider Haggard's "She." Never an interest in life above some foolish material thing, that she'd be better oft without. Sofa pillows, lamp shades, a bargain—something not really needed—ice cream soda, cards, bridge, movies and a petty rivalry In getting ahead of some other woman. f>he never thinks her brain is the or ■tan above which she pins her hat. The mummified woman seldom ■ •ares about children—if she did they would keep a,way that slow drying- Lip process. Usually she lives in a Hat which reduces her housework to a minimum. And lier family consists of a cou ple of plants, a Victrola and a ca nary, sometimes the canary is varied by a dog. More often than not there is a mummified husband in the back ground. and he, too. has h's dry-as dust little interests. Now the great world war J-.as laid its grip on that family and shaken them out of that slaw process of evaporation that was desiuating them body and soul. It has given her something to do, something to think about besides the iniquities ot the Janitor and the great question of rloes the laundress make oft with the handkerchiefs? If she goes out to do Red Cross work, it brings her in contact with other women, who help to bring something into her life. But when a woman of this type decides to take a "job" it makes her over. A Xtnnllnic Change I I know several such women and the change in them is startling. One | in particular who has taken a place with the Food Administration, where j she gets a salary of SSS a month | and with it a new lease of life. • She was the most mummified per | son I have ever known. She kept | house neatly and well, but there was I not enough to keep her busy more ! than a few hours, the rest of the I time she spent in drying up. She and her husband had a simple breakfast at eight, and ne departed not to return until 5.30 o'clock. Then they sat down to a silent dinner, not l because they were "mad." but be j cause there was nothing to talk I about. She "did" the dishes and he ' smoked, and their day was done, j Her husband was fond of her in i his dull, dry way. He accepted her BS a month. ' Jifttlf'n Value to the Country 1 It was incredible, but Nettie was ; worth something besides going to j market, cooking the dinner and i making the stew now that the price j of steak had gone up so high. He I polished his glasses and began to j regard her with fresh eyes. She | was only thirty-six, after all—and not bad-looking. So he began walk ing to her office with her in the | morning and sometimes bringing ! home a bunch of violets at night. I The maid they have in to cook I the dinner is not as good a cook as ! Nettie—but what's the difference? 1 That particular husband has begun j to show some of the attentions of) | their courting days—he's not so sure • j of Nettie as he was. liDaily Fashion! I Hint I IP Prepare 4 Especially For TTiii | p Ncjuspapet A COAT IN HIQH FAVOR. Despite the cry for wool conserva tion entire coats of brown English cheviot are to be seen among the spring modes, and also In high favor are the Canadian homespuns, Eng lish woolens, Irish friezes and Scotch tweeds. The model pictured is in straight-line efTect trimmed with large pockets, cuffs, collar and belt of self-material. Medium size re quires 4 yards 54-lnch material. Pic torial Review Coat No. 7750. Sizes, 34 to 4ti Inches bunt, l'riuo, 2f cenu. HAREISBURG TELEGRAPH Wheatlessness at Dinner So croutons, macaroni or spug. hetti in soup—use barley, tapioca, sago, peas, beans or eat with it wheatless and ryeless wafers. NO BREAD—Double servings of potatoes or two kinds of potatoes, (sweet and white) or potatoes and hominy or potatoes and rice. Crackers (if any) wheatless and ryeless. (Use rice flour, corn flour, cornmeal, oatmeal.) Pie crusts of corn flour, barley | Hour, cornmeal, oatmeal. Other wheatiess desserts such as I tapioca puddings, rice puddings, gel j atin dishes, frozen desserts, custards, j hlanc manges, fruit compotes, fruit ! sponges, pota'to flour desserts, | steamed puddings of cornmeal and I barley, baked puddings of cornmeal | and barley wheatiess cakes. , CORNFLOUR BISCUITS I 2 2-3 cups corn flour i ti teaspoons baking powder I 1 teaspoon salt .1 '.ablespoons fat ' 1 cup liquid Sift dry materials together. Work 'in fat well. Combine liquid and j dry materials, handling lightly. 801 l | or pat inch thick and cut as bis ) cuits. Bake in a hot oven. RICE FLOUR SPONGE CAKE i 4 eggs 1 cup sugar I 2 tablespoons lemon juice j '4 teaspoon salt j 3-4 cup rice flour i Separate the whites and yolks of . eggs. Beat the yolks until thick land lemon colored. Beat sugar into j yolks, add the lemon juice and salt. I Fold in alternately the stiffly beaten ; whites and flour. Bake in ungreas- I ed pan for 35 to 40 minutes. Advice to the Lovelorn By BEATRICE FAIRFAX The.v Are Selfish Dear Miss Fairfax: 1 am in love with a young man, and there is no doubt as to the sin cerity of his love for me. The bar j rier to our marriage is the fact that , his people are not anxious to see i him marry, as they hate to see him [ leave them. He is urging' me to wed him without their consent. What would you advise ? M. C. S. S. This man's parents, as you de scribe them, are selfish and self centered. Most parents nafe to see their children leave the home nest —but most parents conquer their own feelings ! They once upon a time wanted a home of their own and now they should realize the tight of their children to have an individual existence, too. If only a selfish unwillingness to part, with their boy stands between you and the man you love, then I think you J two young people have a light not] only to take jour happiness <>nd to force your elders to a more generous attitude of acceptance—but to com pel them to recognize your rights ' if generously, or not. Why Kncouraee Him? Bear Miss Fairfax: o 1 am just eighteen years. I am in love with a man of twenty-one in my class at college. This young I man has been friends with a young ] lady, about twenty, for several j years, and though they are not for- I mally engaged, are understood to ] be so. What shall I do? May I offer ' him any encouragement ? I do not want to feel that I would be the cause of making a girl miserable. S. N. i Why should you "offer him any i encouragement"? He has not 1 shown any signs of wanting to be I encoi.raged, has he ? You "think" j yo'i nre In love. I think you are romantic and not too honorable. ' Leave this boy alone. He is plight- ! ed to another girl. He might mere- ! ;>• be disgusted with you if you tried ; 'o steal his love—but even were I possible for you to gain 'iT, such a i course would be contemptible. Are You Mercenary? Bear Miss Fairfax: I am twenty-eight and have a friend (widower) twenty-one years •my, senior. He is well able to g • What the Bel fil'1" j'"',''- ; j worry. Ii j should run into a fHpip j SlUTPCd'cd until the h 'g city which the Belgian had men-1 tioned—and which 1 cannot name fori rear of identifying some of the peo-i pie there who befriended me I! j would proceed with the utmost pre-: i caution. Since I had discarded my uniform and had obtained civilian clothes, I had not been Quite as care-! ful as I was at first. While I had done my traveling at| night, I had not gone into hiding so early in the morning as before and I; I had sometimes started again before j lit was quite durk, relying upon the. tact that I would prooably be mis j taken for a Belgian on his way to ori | from work, as the case might be. ] From now on. I resolved, however. I 1 would take no more chances. I That evening I came to a river per- \ I haps seventy-live yards wide an.l l| was getting ready to swim it when I thought I would walk o i:ule way to' find, if possible, a better place toi get to the river from the bank, i! had not walked mo:e tnan a few, ; hundred feet when I saw a boat. It! I was the first time I had seen a boat! j in all my experiences It was firmly, chained, but as the, stakes were sunk in the soft bank it j i was not tpiuch of a job to pull them | out. I got in, drank to my heart's j | content, shoved over to the other j I side got out, drove a stake into cl!<- I ground and moored the boat. It; j would have been a simple mutt ?r| ! to have drifted down the river, but i ! the river was not shown on my map! and I had no idea where it might! lead mc. Very reluctantly, therefore,] I hnd to abandon the boat and pro ceed 011 foot. Making Hotter Headway T made several miles that nignt J and before daylight found a s.tfe place in which to hide for the day. Ftom my hiding place I could ste; through the bushes a heavy thick' wooil only a short distance away. J J decided that I would start earlier| than usua", hurry over to the wood and perhaps, in that way. I could' cover two or three miles in the day-1 time and gain just so much time, j Traveling through the wood would! be comparatively safe. There was, a railroad going through the wood, but; I did not figure that would make it any the less safe. About 3 o'clock that afternoon, therefore, I emerged from my hiding place and hurried into the wood. Af'er proceeding for half a mile or so I came to the railroad. I took a sharp look in both directions -md seeing no signs of trains or soldiers,! I walked boldly over the tracks and; continued on my way. I soon came upon a clearing and| knew that someone, must be living in the vicinity. As I tunned group of trees I saw a small house and in the distance an old man working in aj garden. T decided to enter the house and 1 ask for food, figuring the woman! would probablv be ol d.}aa. nrvu, run-down peo- vw trh In two v.-oeka l time, In many H ln*Uneee, II Hat ha on u tod and JH oi'.r*ad by aueh men a* Hon. Lnallo M. Sfurw, former Secretary . oHb ot (he T'vy,:ry and Ev-Guvornor w&k. KlchsnJ Potlattd Kannoy of fILJB WA DJt* m, Major of tha M| • "f (trummor boy of M SMoh - • aorpaont In tho /%y *. Prmy „ only 12 yooro of r.*X Oft*-' -i Ltat'ad Statoa Judo* €l. M ■ EW#M invi.tfl tno Court of Ctalmo ■ ■ of Watli'i.igfon and othars. Aak your doctor or d'utfglat about It* DiRON MAY 4, 1018 Secret Service For Cooks Car. you tell the difference be tween a barley flour chocolate cake and a wheat flour chocolate cake ? Do you know whether your biscuits jare rice flour or wheat flour ? Could you, make an accurate guefi as to, whether thiit pie crust was corn flour or wheat flour If you can't then isn't it silly to say "O, 1 can't use these wheat substitutes. The family won't eat them." It is not a question of becoming used to wheat substitutes, but we must realize that the time for idle prejudice and idle talk has gone. It is a question of life and death for our soldiers that we eat other cere als and send the wheat to them. Cooks of America, line uj> in the ranks of the secret service. You do not hear an employe of that branch of the service TALKING about his work. But he gets results. So can you. Don't say to your family, "We have no wheat on the table, we are eating no wheat, we haven't had any wheat for weeks." Say rather, "Yes, I think that bread is pretty good myself," (a wheatless baking pow der loaf bread,) "but there's no need of neglecting the potatoes, John. Here, eat more of them and less of the bread. What are we going to have for dessert? Oh, something you like. Fruit gelatin and cakes" —barley flour) —"if you must know. Well what's the news about Ypre& tonight ?" And so on. Do your talking about wheat sub stitutes when you meet with the other wives who are secretly serv ing. There is the place to compare notes, and, incidentally receipts. There is the place where you may talk shop to your heart's content. But In your family let your conver sation, as well as your meals, be wheatless. |NO ADVANCE IN PRICE j ® T "^ jMEURALGIA ! The Value of | rub the Forehead 1 Correct ft and Temple with /Mlft i | .1, . _ Litil* Body-Guard inlbwr Hmne* v//sKfir M T C- I tyesignt 25c—50c—$1.00 ; Faulty vision —an annoyance ' anOUr eyCS ' Pric 60 Cents. Special 90 Cents I We v. ill I'lll'lliwli the clashes I lilted Medicine Co., X. 10th St.,! Philadelphia, I*a. [ Relief from Eczema | / W.P^LQ _ , , | Eyesight Specialist Don t worry about eczema or other sa MIIITH TIIIIJM STHICET skin troubles. You can have a clear, s;iiteinner Haiidias healthy skin by using a little zemo, IT'.'.'i' 'rrrsssss &&&'£% obtained at any drug store for 35c, or —*" —' ll ■■■ ■■ extra large bottle at SI.OO. Zemo generally removes pimples, T-_ „ _ I ¥ rvTTT blackheads, blotches, eczema a.id ring- L"drJl HOW worm and makes the skin clear and healthy. Zemo is a clean, penetrating, to antiseptic liquid, neither sticky nor greasy and stains nothing. It is easily i rjr TRY "T applied and costs a mere trifle for each JJC _MI application. It is always dependable. J. The E. W. Rose Co., Cleveland. O. Nearly everybody's knitting theye dnys, so of course, you want to do Jl*-*"™ l *".. "™" 1 - ■" * ■ your BIT for OUR soldier boys us Ualn wnntorl well as make a sweater and other r WalllCU comfort articles for yourself. by many women THK WI\IRNRO CT>ARK SWEAT TF a woman suffers from sich EH BOOK i. ailments as Backache. Head- I , ncludeß lnstrU ctlon a for the .land •che. Lassitude and Nervous- ; ard Red CroM Army and lVavy fiess - - the symptoms indicate j sweaters and helmets. Karrisburg tare College Troup lJulldln, 13 fi. Uarkei s%. this paper to-day and the Wlnifre