\ Little Talks ,by Beatrice Fairfax We were discussing' the widow the other day and the amazing success she has made of her life. We had all been schoolmates of hers, and we remembered her as a homely little girl inclined to fatness and tears. This was way back in the fourth and fifth grades, and that picture persist ed—a tearful little girl consoling herself with a surreptitious pepper mint. Never an attractive child, she de veloped into rather a peevish girl who always had a woe or two on liand that she was more than ready to tell you about. She seemed chronically in need of sympathy, and she absorbed it as a blotting paper absorbs ink. We were surprised—in the unflat tering way of classmates—when she married a young Army officer and went to live In the Philippines. None of us ever knew what hap pened in the islands. Perhaps one fine morning she met a long-lost fairy godmother who confided to her the secret of "charm:" perhaps, like Aladdin, she found an old lamp that worked miracles, or maybe she just schemed out the whole thing by her self. At any rate, rumors began to fly homeward that Louise we'll call lier that—was the most fascinating woman in Manila. "She's got 'em all \ on the string," the reporting friend , confided: and by "'em" she meant everything in a uniform, from young and slender second lieutenants to pompous colonels no longer slender. And we who had been to school with her found It hard to believe- Then we heard she had begn left a widow and had gone to China, where she had a brother in the con sular service. And the China bulle- j tins equaled those from the Philip- i pines—Louise carried everything be- | fore her. She was like a racing | yacht, full sail on a winning breeze. 1 > o Unpleasant Gonulp In Her Wnkr The sole difference between Louise J and other women who make "charm" | a business was that there were no i unpleasant stories in her wake. No j broken home wreckage, no spectacu- j lar gossip, nothing unpleasant. And j the former classmate jury sat on her I case every time it met It couldn't understand, still remembering the fat j little girl, eating peppermint on the sly. Finally she came home, and we j nearly broke our necks In the haste i we made to call on the "siren." Had ; the dumpy little girl been turned into j a daughter of the gods—divinely tall and most divinely fair?" I think, despite our impressions, we went expecting to find a triumph of the "beauty parlor." And a clever "stage manager," too; a woman who would understand clothes and back ground effects and rose-colored cur tains. But, bless you, no; we found Louise still rather inclined to be dumpy and not at all good looking. And as for "effects," the afternoon sun was shining unmercifully on the table at which she was pouring tea. But she had entirely given up the tears of childhood and the thirst for sympathy of early youth. She was j cheerful and she remembered the ; most charming things of all of us. | She remembered all our good points, ! too—which had the beautiful com- j plexion, which the curly hair, which played well enough to adorn the con cert stage, and very delicately she insinuated each had kept these gifts. There was nothing suggestive of trowel work about her way of say ing gracious things. It was all as delicate as an old pastel drawing. We may have had our own misgiv ings, but it was highly gratifying and agreeable. On Good Term* With A'ourself There was nothing as gross as flat tery about her methods, a fine ap preciation more nearly conveys the effect it produced. And the rather hostile schoolmate Jury began to bearfi as it realized what a success it had made of life. While we were there several men called—officers she had known in the Philippines and now on their way to France. She didn't ha\e to ask any one how he liked his tea—she re membered. Again I heard her con vey to each, when he was out of hearing of the others, that she looked to him, personally, to save civiliza tion. She hoped Colonel Smith would have time for Just a round of golf before he sailed—no?—too bad!—he play.ed such a wonderful game. She recalled Mrs. Smith's "inspired" BAKER'S I BREAKFAST I COCOA | The food drink 1 without a fault | Made of high grade cpcoa I beans, skilfully blended and jj manufactured by a perfect mechanical process, without the use of chemicals. It is j> absolutely pure and whole- \ some, and its flavor is deli cious, the natural flavor of | the cocoa bean. The genuine bears this J m trade-mark an d is made \ ihl • i\ onl y b y I HII ill Walter Baker 8 Go. Ltd. ISmIIJ. I JJfll DORCHESTER, MASS. Mo/rSoFP. fctabliabed 1780 • mm SATURDAY EVENING, BAIURISBURG TELEGRAPH *Bl6l '8 TINHf Bringing Up Father ,*•' Copyright, 1918, International News Service *•* *■* *,* By McM DON'T VOO CARE COME T 0 THE 1 , , \&TO K ) YHE>< TELL (W \ i V \ f T T^ TMT '-' O&E ' o ' I E VW KCO TOO KNOW, 323 c |P? * NOE , TfUHK L NENA> "" SNEro bridge. She asked for, by name, some one's children. She was remi niscent over a poodle, in Manila, named "Dixie," and the mistress of the deceased dog recalled his most beguiling tricks. Mrs. Smith, who had played the "inspired" bridge, begged her to "save August" for her—she had taken a cottage at the North Shore. Some one else entreated her to go on a mo toring trip, and a camp in the Adi rondacks would be a rank failure without her presence. The eummet would be a very economical season | for our old schoolmate, we decided. My conclusion in regard to her I was that she was life in the terms I of a salad, and that her receipt called | for oil, more oil, and then some more. [ If there was any vinegar added to I her famous dressing, no one could ! detect it. Oil, oil, oil —until all the human ingredients that she manipu lated at her pleasure fairly whirled without a hint of friction. Louise was a wonderful salad dresser; of that there could be no doubt. The Secret of Her Influence We noticed that she accepted none of the invitations for the summer, and that her eye rested favorably on a certain very eligible man, some eight or ten years younger than she was. Could it be possible that she was going to marry him? Before our call was over it was made plain to us, by the happy man, that this was so. He has a highly important war "job," his influence is felt by thou sands, yet our homely little friend turns him around her finger. On my way out I heard some one ask a bluff Englishman what he thought of her. "Wonderful little woman!" he an swered. "But her power over peo- ple?" bis questioner persisted. "Al\ quite easy to see," drawled the Briton. "She puts you on such ripping terms with yourself." ffmm "m Food Clabs - Every woman in every community should, be interested enough to help form, or at least to become a mem ber of, a food club. In some states such clubs have been organized in a very thorough and systematic manner by the Fed eral food administrators. It is the province of these clubs to dissemin ate food administration literature, to act as a community exchange for receipts, and to spread in various ways the message of food conserva tion. If no such club exists in your community, appoint yourself a com mittee of one to interest the women of your circle or neighborhood in some systematic work along these lines. Regular monthly meetings might be held with occasional call ed meetings between times. The following suggestions are given for the conduct of these meet ings: Qive conservation news in answer to rollcall. Read messages from state and county food administrators. Give cooking demonstrations. Conduct receipt contests. Exchange receipts. Report unpatriotic acts. Conduct a question bpx. LIFE'S PROBLEMS ARE DISCUSSED By MRS. WILSON WOODROW If you hear these things said once, i you hear them a dozen times: "I (•don't know what is the matter with jme this spring; I can't shake off i this depression. I am not at all like | myself. 1 never was irritable before. ! And now I'm cross and horrid all j the time." Or, "I have just had one I thing after another happen to me — i illness, bad luck, everything gone j wrong.' Or, "I don't know what it is, j but I have never been so miserable and unhappy before. There is some, j thing in the air." They are right. {There is something in the air—War. I For: "The grim gods of the past have arisen, The black swamps throb and the mountains boom, And the dust from their iron-san dalled feet Shrouds the sun in a blood-red gloom; Out of the northern mountain passes Flame the banners and glare the swords, The old gods march from their wild morasses. The old gods march with their an cient hordes." And no matter how occupied we may be, or how remote the actual scenes of battle, we are all involved with the mighty struggle. The waves of that sea of conflict and pain and death are beating ceaselessly upon our inner ear and breaking over our hearts. We are all in It, whether we are soldiers or nurses of Red Cross or Y. M. C. A. workers, or sitting here in the safe security of our homes. It is a part of our con sciousness, and none may escape it, rich or poor, high or low. The war has come home to us all. Many of us read the other day of a conversa tion which a nurse who had recently returned from the front is said to have held with a famous surgeon. He was by nature and training an agnostic. But he said that since he had witnessed in the hospitals and on the battlefield the courage, the self-sacrifice, the indifference to dan ger, the transcendent heroism, which was universal and not confined to the few, he had been convinced against his will and beyond all per adventure of the subliminal nature of man and of the existence of the great Over-Soul. Those who have been much at the r Daily Dot Puzzle 19 | 20. 17 \ 23 ' L 6 25 A - V' / • . # • ! *4 . ♦ *° I • • 55 .5i •• * *6i *43 ' So 63. 6# f bB. •a* So V- 4* , • .&4- 4® 3 66. 9*. . • • a s 7 *47 W^L Draw from one to two and so on to the end. > i NO ADVANCE IN PRICE COLDS Head or chest—ere best treated "externally" Vi^wRUK 25c—50c—$1.00 front talk more of the splendors of human nature than of the horrors they have seen. All the history we have ever read seems tame in comparison with the pages we are turning so fast to-day. The ages have resounded with the echo of great and chivalrous deeds, ,but all of them which have lived as the theme of song and story are the commonplaces of to-day. While we sip our coffee we read each morning in the newspapers epics that will fill the books of his torians thousands of years from now. There are many who say that this tremendous conflict is the travail of a world prior to the birth of a great new era. I, for one, can never see the marching ranks of our splendid boys without believing that this new era, predicted for ages by the dreamers, the prophets and the seers of this earth, is already at hand. I venture to say that now with our American boys fighting on the western front, there are very few of us who do not immediately turn to the casualty lists in the newspapers. Our interest in them is very per sonal. So that we who remain be hind are also in training and on the battlefield. For although we "war not with flesh and blood," we do with grief and headache and sorrow and despair. Therefore, it is the hour for all the courage and all the cheer and all the determined putting aside of our personal woes and disasters. Our first duty is to keep our spir its up and to encourage others to do so, for our mental states will cer tainly react upon those dear to us who either have gone to France or are going. They should have from us the bravest, brightest and most hearten ing letters possible, not messages filled with glooYny forebearings and details of home worries. I am aware that this has been said before, but it cannot be repeated too often. "They also serve who only stand and wait." And our service should be to see that no words of despair go wailing across the sea. Neither does it help you or any one else to go about moping and complaining that you are so "blue" or so indefin ably "depressed" or so "apprehen sive." By this you are only giving aid and comfort to the enemy. The things we want to send across the ocean are men and ships and food and stores and guns and am munition and aeroplanes, but above all we want to send cheer And to send it we must foster and conserve it at home. The thing for every one of us to do is to Hooverisse on gloom. Wheatless Meatless Meals • Bv this time everyone knows the wheat substitutes pretty thoroughly. But we must now relearn.the meat substitutes: Milk, cheese, peas, fish, eggs, nuts, beans. BREAKFAST Fresh Strawberries Oatmeal with Milk or Cream Cottage Cheese Sausage Hashed Brown Potatoes DINNER Broiled Fish Mashed Potatoes Lettuce Peas Corn Bread Lemon Gelatine Barley Flour Cookies SUPPER Omelet Potato Cakes Wheatless Bread Fruit Salad Oatmeal Brown Betty Chre*e Snusaires 1 tablespoon finely chopped onion. 2 tablespoons savory fat, 1-3 teaspoon soda, 1 tablespoon milk, 1 cup cot tage cheese, % cup cold cooked rice, V 4 cup wheatless bread crumbs. >4 cup coarsely chopped peanut meats, % teaspoon powdered sage, H tea spoon thyme, 1 teaspoon salt, tea spoon pepper, '4 cup peanut butter. Cook the onion in the fat until ten tier, but not brown. Dissolve the soda in the milk and work into the cheese. Mix all other dry ingredi ents thoroughly with the bread crumbs. Blend peanut butter and onion with the cheese and mi* with them the bjead crumbs. Form into fiat cakes, dust with bread crumbs or cornmeal and fry a delicate brown in *a little fat in a hot frying pan. Wheatless Bread ' 1 cup liquid, 4 tablespoons fat, 4 tablespoons syrup, 2 eggs, 6 tea spoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 cups barley flour, 1 cup ground rolled oats. Add to the liquid the melted fat, syrup and egg. Combine the liquid and well-mixed Bake as a loaf in a moderately hot oven for one hour or until thorough ly baked. Milk Soups j The United States Food Adminls i tration is encouraging in every way j the use of milk. Since it is one of the best meat substitutes and since meat is upon the list of foods to be conserved, let us modify our eating habits accordingly. Try one of these milk soups instead of serving meat: Peanut Soap 4 cups thin white sauce, Vt cup peanut butter, 1% teaspoons salt. Add peanut butter to white sauce and serve at once. Cream of Asparagus Soup To one cup white sauce add one cup milk and one cup asparagus puree, one cup of the water in which the asparagus was cooked may be used for part of the liquid. Thin White Sauce 1 tablespoon fat, 1 tablespoon bar ley or oorn flour, 1 cup milk, % tea spoon salt, >4 teaspoon pepper. Melt fat in saucepan, stir in the flour, salt and pepper and cook slow ly without browning until the mix ture bubbles. Remove from the high heat, add the milk gradually, beating and stirring constantly until the sauce thickens. Potato Soup 2 potatoes, 4 cups milk, % onion, 2 tablespoons savory, fat, 1 tablespoon cornstarch, salt, paprika, pepper, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley. Cook the potatoes in boiling salted water until soft and put through a sieve. Scald milk with onion and add milk to potatoes. Melt fat, add cornstarch and seasonings and then the potato mixture. When thorough ly blended add chopped parsley. , Chofne Soup % onion, 2 tablespoons fat, 1 table spoon rice flour or 2 tablespoons sago or tapioca. 1 quart milk. 1 egg or 2 p Sg yolks.- cup grated cheese, 1 teaspoon salt, paprika. Cook the onion in the fat until i tender, but not brown. Remove the onion, add the flour, then the milk gradually, saving out % cup. Cook until smooth and add seasoning. If > sago or tapioca is usred in place of flour, add it to the milk and cook j fifteen minutes or until tapioca Is: clear. Pour the soup over the egg beaten with V* cup of cold milk. Add the greated cheese and serve im mediately. Cream of Tomato Soup 1 slice onion, 1% cups canned to matoes, 2 tablespoons savory fat, 1 tablespoon cornstarch, % teaspoon sugar, salt, paprika, 1 clove, bit of bay leaf, IV4 cups milk. Cook onion with tomatoes ten! minutes and rub through strainer. Make tomato sauce, using fat, corn starch, tomato puree and seasonings. Allow this mixture to become very cold. When ready to use, combine with the cold milk. Heat in a dou ble boiler and serve. No soda is needed if this method Is followed. GOI.DBKRG'S FUNNY PICTURES in Sunday's New York American. 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Richmond, Virginia Advice to the Lovelorn BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX OF COURSE IT IS "PROPER" DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: Some time ago I was introduced to a young man at a social gathering at the home of a relative. We have corresponded since then, and now he has asked to take me out to my girl friend's home. mother has met him, but not his parents, and knows nothing about them, and she will not consent to my going, as she believes it is improper for a girl ever to go •out with a man unless she intends to marry him. Do you agree with her? I am seventeen and he is two years my senior. Will you please advise nitf whether it is proper for me to go out with him? M. S. C. I am a decided believer in clean, honest, good times for young peo ple, and of pleasant friendships be 'tween boys and girls I will always be an advocate. So I see no reason why you should not be permitted to visit your most intimate girl friend's home with this boy. who has been received as a guest in your home, and with, whom you have been al lowed to correspond. I would not suggest your going about with just any boy—or going just anywhere with this boy. But to the home of your girl chum, and with a boy you met in the home of your kinsfolk, and whom your mother in turn has met, why not? It is "proper," and is just the sort of little outing a moth er can safely permit her daughter to have. WHERE THERE'S A WILL— DKAR MISS FAIRFAX: My fiance has gone to France to fight for the American flag. I have every intention of marryin- him as I love him very dearly. Now. Miss Fairfax, there is a man who visits my *home, a friend of the family, who asks me to go out with him, just as a friend, offering auto , mobile rides and lots of good things similar' to same. I cannot go out with him, as I think of my sweet heart who is sacrificing his all. What can I do?. A CONSTANT READER. Aren't you creating a little dramatic situation for yourself out of whole cloth?. Maybe this family friend thinks he must offer the daughter of the house some little courtesies and means nothing at all serious by them. However, 1 am only offering this as a possible solution. If the man knows of your engagement and tries to force his attentions upon you, he deserves no mercy. Tell him simply and with emphasis that your heart and loyalty are both all for your soldier boy. and that you have no interest in other men and no respect for a man who annoys you with his unwelcome atten tions. If he does not know of your betrothal, tell him. A little plain, un varnished and yet dignified English is whiit best fists your needs. DON'T HURT YOUR HUSBAND DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: I have married a man who is In every respect a wonderful man, only he is insanely jealous of me, even of my women friends. Dast October he was called and at present is in the Army. Three months ago I met a man and have grown to love him dearly. Of course, no one knows of our meetings and I have told Mm so many times that were the world to know of our love they would not be lieve us innocent of wrongdoing. My husband has made me miserable by his jealousy, and it is in this man's companionship alone that I find any comfort, although I love my husband and would not hurt him for the world. Do you believe any woman can really love two men at the same time? TROUBLED. Do you think a generous woman who knows her husband is "Insanely Jealous," would risk any hurt to him when he is absent fighting in the cause of liberty? Apart from any question of "propriety," this seems to me most .unworthy of womanhood or —patriotism. Please, my dear friend, give to your absent husband the loy alty every decent woman must feel for a soldier lover Over There. HOW DEEP ARE VOI R FEELINGS f DEAR MISS FAIHFAX: Two years ago my sweetheart and I had an understanding that we were to be married as soon as certain cir cumstances permitted. We are now engaged and the circumstances ad justed but he is in the draft and doesn't know when he may be sent to France. Now, some say we should be mar ried before he goes and I agree, but he says although he would desire it, | it would be sacrificing me, for if he should not return he could never think of what condition I might be left in. ANXIOUS. I approve of war marriages forewo men and men who are fine enough to dare them. If your feelings are big and strong and you are ready to sac rifice and suffer for love—and true love is always proudly prepared to endure what it must —then marry and may God bless you. This decision is a matter of your basic character and the permanence of your feelings. No fete. 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