Little Talks by Beatrice Fairfax m Letters to me usually come in naves; there will be a wave of in quiry regarding the wisdom of marrying soldiers and sailors before they sail for "over there." Then there will come a wave of protest from the wives of jealous men; next an inundation from wives who feel they have been (skimped in their household allow ances more than is necessary; then girls write about meeting "him" and his acting ' cool," and does it mean he doesn't care any more? But the last wave has been from ; the mothers of girls and boys whose fledglings are growing up to have their love affairs. And these good I ladies are as unhappy and worried, over the strange behavior of their! children as is the proverbial hen who has hatched out a brood of ducklings anti see it take to the wa-j ter for the first time. The Oase of Gladys' Hair They seem to forget—these anx-! ious mothers and fathers that they ever took to the water them-| selves, leaving more or less fran-l tic mothers on the shore. My ad vice is, De sympathetic and "don't lake the affair so seriously. Also buy or borrow Booth Tark-j ingrton's "Seventeen" from the near-i est library, and forget your own wor-! ries and perplexities in a studv of s youth and first love as delightful as' it is appealing. "Do you thing Gladys is losing i her mind?" one mother writes to; me. "She has always been such a ; sweet, sensible child; but now she giggles all the time and is so silly, i In addition to this, she has taken to the craziest way of doing her hair; sometimes she pulls it out in bunch es over her ears and looks exactly like photographs of her grandfather, who wore whiskers." And, after telling more of Gladys' queer doings, the mother continues; "She drags her hat down over her eyes till she has to tilt her head backward to see; and if I remon-j strate there are giggles, giggles, gig gles, till I'm almost wild." Jolui a Slave of tlie Tub The mother of a boy writes: "John has become so clean that I am wor-! ried about him. Fortunately, I am j ashamed to say, I always had to pay \ him to take a bath; now no one else 1 ian get one. And when he isn't tub-i bing and scrubbing he is slicking his' hair or doing his nails. His younger! brother tells me he is interested in a girl—a classmate of his—in the J high school. Do you think this can be true? The child is only seven teen." i And I hasten to answer that I think the symptoms of John and* also of Gladys are unfailing. In the! case of a boy, water may be de-! pended upon for an adequate diag-j nosis in any attack of first love. But; water, taken in connection with "hair! slicking" and nail culture—the casej is as easily determined as mumps or; a cold. And, unless complications | set in, there is really no cause fori alarm. But there is occasion for endless I patience and sympathy; and if you must laugh at Gladys' hats andj hair and John's tubbing and scrub bing, don't do it when they are about, because both of them, de spite occasional moments of rap ture, are having troubles of their own. It was Thomas Moore who sang, "There is nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream." And while it seems delightful, on paper, in real life it is only true in spots. "Love's young dream" is apt to be complicated with tragic possi bilities due to inexperience, an j NO ADVANCE IN PRICE MOTHERS $ Keep the family hee j /a from cold* by using "/ V KCTP Littly Body-ourd InTxr Hom> \ MssalssiiaM 25c—50c—$1.00 Keep the Sickroom /\ Sanitary HUM \'i||BP vitality The system put up a good y< %. : fight a & ainst disease - bearing mi- S \.' mT^IP# M Cr ° beS - A Patient suff ering from one -***ss i| . f llment oft en contracts others. That is why %***** ;, jt is im P° r tant to keep the sickroom sanitary; *^£=ss^ ■ to See } no dan Serous germs reach the patient while % m a weakened condition. Aemeslime y will make the sickroom safe; no germ can live where it \ ls used " Physicians and nurses all agree that chlori- nated lime gives effective protection both to the patient and other members of the family. ACME Chlorinated Lime kills odors as \ and home fresh and clean. A wonderful sterilizer and 15 cent* a can 4, bleacher Of white goods. Be sure it'a ACME, at good druggists Simple, safe, Substitutes mayba and grocers Sure. "tale and worthless The - Men^son^orporation 11 Broadway Factories . New York ** Albany, N. Y. • • ■ , r , v i* 4 f % . - ' V ■ WEDNESDAY EVENING, Bringing Up Father * m * i m * * m * Copyright, 1918, International News Service By McManus empty pocket and the cruel humor| of a cynical world which declines' to look with sympathy on Johni struggling in the grip of a great cos-| mie force. It sees in him only an urchin who had to be scourged or bribed to the tub but yesterday and; to-day is a parody on the maxim, 1 "Cleanliness is next to Godliness." ] But to John there are few laughs left in the world; there is usually aj hated rival—a middle-aged man of twenty-two or twenty-three who; has quit school and has a job. This commands wealth sufficient for l ice cream sodas, "movies," the the-i ater itself, and the family is still! asking John what he did with the; fifty cents he had the week before 1 last. John, waving his arms wildly, mutters that it is enough to drive j "a man" wild! And so it is, but no; one realizes it but the poor young; victim himself. "Wealth Beyond the Dreams of Avarice" Sometimes a mother, wise be-1 yond her generation, will realize the anguish of an empty pocket| during the bitter-sweet season ofj first love. And she will contributej the half dollar or so that means "wealth beyond the dreams of ava-| rice." to borrow Dr. Johnson's phrase. This will enable John to order the! two ice cream sodas that, side by side; on the little metal table at the cor-j ner drug store, with "her" opposite,' is "paradise enow." ' No; "love's young dream" is not I ; an entirely blissful experience, des-, pite the endorsement of poets and others. When the boy grows to be a ; man he will cherish, in retrospect,! | the memory of his first love, and the | older he grows the more exquisite I will seem the experience, but while | it is in progress it is not rapture un alloyed. Do not laugh at Gladys' hats, | hair and giggles; she can't help them any more than she could help her first tooth, or outgrowing her short frocks. And John after a while will tub less, as he withdraws his head from the rainbow and gets down to earth again. In the meantime, please be kind to John and Gladys, and don't grudge the occasional fifty cents that will enable them to sauter, some times, down the road to paradise, j either at the corner drug store or the j "movies" four blocks farther. Re- I member this experience will come to j them only once. WOMEN MAKE WAR ARTICLES London. —Articles used In the war, all the work of women, attracted much attention at an exhibition or ganized by the Ministry of Munitions and opened recently in I-iondon at the Whitechapel Art gallery. Two hundred specimens of parts of en gines for aircrafts, on which women are doing work of high precision, were among the objects shown. THE PLOTTERS A New Serial of East and West By Virginia Terhune Van de Water CHAPTER I. Dr. Douglas Wade, aged twenty eight, most recent arrival among the tew physicians of the small town of Riverhill, Wyo., sat in his office read ing a letter one spring afternoon. lie 1 read slowly and thoughtfully. The < epistle was from his sister, Elizabeth, j the only creature in the world be- ! longing to him. "Thank you so much for the check, dear Douglas," the girl wrote. "I needed it, for we will have to pro vide our own costumes for the per formance of 'Twelfth Night' which we girls are to give during our com mencement week. And costumes mean something to a poor girl like me. "I am to take the part of Viola, i The professor who is coaching us ' says complimentary things, about my acting—insists that I have 'genuine histrionic ability,' etc. X wish that you had a flourishing practice that you could afford to run east and see our play. But if you had. you could not afford the time to come. So there you'd have to stick, just as | your lack of money makes you stick now. Luck does not consider our financial needs —does it, dear? But 1 am in the best of luck in having the dandiest brother in the world. A Graceful Sister "I have told you bften —or tried to tell you—how grateful I am to you for keeping me in college, so 1 will not try to tell you again now. There never was such another brother. Since mother died, you have been both mother and father to me, Doug las. Some time, in some way, the chance may come for me to try to repay you. Tou will let me know won't/you?—if there Is ever any way in which I can help you? No matter what it is- I —l will be— Oh, so glad to do it! "At any rate, in a year mort I am coming to Riverhill to keep house for you. That Is —unless you marry before then. How about the wealthy widow —the Mrs. Butler of whom you wrote me? Tou say her. son is a nervous wreck, and speak of him as an educated man. So I fancy his mother is too old to have matri monial designs upon you. What Is the matter with her son? Tou did not tell me. "I got a letter to-day from Amos Chapin. He says he is willing to continue running the farm on the same share basis if we will pay for the farmhand that he has had to hire. If not, Instead of half and half, he will ask you to give him two-thirds of the profits. He is surely an old skinflint, and I believe he wants to force us into selling the ttAKRISBURG t&£££& TELEGRAPH farm. If his wife was not such a dear soul, I would want him to be bounced. And yet what would we do without him? I only wish that some up-to-date man, with modern and scientific methods, could be on the farm and give old Amos some hints. But. of course, we could not pay for any such person. "I hope we won't have to part with the old place. It is the only remnant of our young life that is left to us. And mother loved the farm so much—and she says that father did also. "Well, go'od-by! Don't forget that if there is any earthly thing 1 can do to help you, I am right here to do it. Cheer up! Perhaps there will be an epidemic in Riverhill soon, and Dr. Wade will become famous through his many cures. "Your devoted sister, ELIZA BETH," The physician read the letter twice, then thrust it into the tiling cabinet holding other letters from the same source. When he had bought this cabinet he had fondly hoped that it would hold the records of the many patients who would flock to him to be cured of various ailments. Where were those antici pated patients? A Reminiscence When the letter was put away, Douglas Wade leaned back in his desk-chair and gazed out over the waters of the North Platte river, sparkling in the sun. The river flowed at the foot of the sloping streets of the Western set tlement, a thriving community that a'few years ago had been a cattle town. The rapid growth of the place had tempted Douglas Wade to come West, assured by friends who "knaw" that there was an excellent opening here for a progressive physician. The building in which Wade had his office was very quiet this after noon. From the street came the noise of passing vehicles and the hooting of automobile horns. Tiny particles of dust gleamed in the sunlight slanting across to the floor of the small room. This room con tained no furniture except the hos pital table, a desk and two chairs. On the wall above the desk hung a framed diploma from an Eastern university. The doctor sighed as his eyes fell on this diploma. He always sighed nowadays when he looked at it. For beside It should hang the diploma of a famous French univer sity. He had been studying there when he had received the cable from his sister telling him of his mother's dangerous illness. He had hurried home to find his mother dead. He also discovered that the money which he had al ways supposed would keep Eliza beth and himself in comfort had gone, through rash investments. The Readjustment He felt as if he had changed from a mere boy to a man during the few weeks that followed, as he Daily Dot Puzzle % 35 28 \ V • 38 30 37 . *2fe i 3. J 48 . rv 44' ° a •" /W • > • 15 UsX ? > 7 i * .„V *. s V- s - J * M : s 4? -\je. •a f t , 1 7 . . ° - ?<rry k 48 A . '4 v 49- X £ . V\M W " So N • W, c- * 0 ' 5i • 57 . sk. I Do not make a bit of noise. And I'll catch this fine —. Draw from 1 to 2 and so on to the end. tried to settle his mother's affairs') and readjust his ideas of life for I himself and his younger sister. The result of this readlustment ' was that he was here in Riverhill j now, while Elizabeth was in an ! Eastern college, living on the small sum that he sent her every three ! months. He realized with a sink i ing of heart that it was becoming ! more and more difficult to send this ! quarterly check. What was he to ; do? i A fly droned on the windowpane, | and Dr. Wade dreamed on. These | were his office hours. Where were | the hoped-for patients? They were just where they were every day, he reflected moodily. Ex- I oept for an occasional accident he had alarmingly little practice. When would the long lane turn? To Be Continued. 'Condensed Wine' Promised So as to Save Tonnage Paris.—"Condensed wine" is prom- j ised by Food Minister Boret as one ' of his measures of saving tonnage, i There is a iargQ supply of wine "in j Algeria, but difficulties of transport j prevent bringing it to France. The | minister appealed to the scientific ! world and a method has been discov- j ered of reduciilg these wines to a j sort of honey which only needs dl- I luting to bring it back to its previous state. The process is still in the ■ laboratory stage, but the minister is I assured of its practical realization j and expects to make an economy of ! 1 four-fifths of the freight which I would be necessary if these wines I were shipped in barrels. I I It's all in Knowing Howj | If j I to Cook Food |I ll * Marked Improvement in Cooking After ! Using Mazola—the Oil from Corn || QUINCE the war emphasized the need for food thrift jj O more and more people have realized how much ! ;|| good food used to be spoiled by bad cooking methods. I And the advance in cooking ideas is nowhere so marked as in the preparation of pastries, fried and One reason is because we must save animal fats. i Thousands of housewives now know that with Mazola they can cook better than they ever did before — and much Mazola is a vegetable oil pressed from the heart of Mazola does not burn as easily as butter, lard or suet— Foods fried in Mazola retain all of their natural flavor. f|l iii 3| Not a single drop of Mazola is PIMT | ever wasted—it can be used and J used again because it never carries For sale in pints, quart s,half '|| ll|l H=y "M * gallons and gallons. For greater H? 4kjm flB ff f II economy buy the large sizes. |=f KEdvl IB ff I II la II There is a valuable Cook Book MAZOLA |§§ I* I i*! JLIIII for Mazola users, it shows you how GINGERBREAD 111 neo.U9.MUfr. to fry, saute, make dressings and I cup rugar liSSpH A PURE. sauces more delicious, make light, I i cufTmUk A I twM digestible pastry. Should be in I teaspoona gr. ginger V fcjjlßl every home. Send for it or ask I teaspoons baking povday P. _ your grocer. FREE. '£ COOKING M M _ _ _ Mazola and apices all gfkftwStHth I M—W OIL >£==• Cora Products Refining Co. together; addtheegg.sift ' ■ \ Jzsmsw P. O. Box 1, New Vork I , : j • FASHION'S j (By Annabel Wor thing ton) *1 V. I i r This pattern will be mailed to any address upon receipt of 12 cents J |in stamps. Ad'Jress your letter to Fashion Department, Telegraph, Har- I I risburg, Pa. JUNE 19, 1918. 9 Tn these war and thrift days there is plenty of opportunity for feminine In- ; genuity to convert old garments into nev ones, and one of the easiest ways of going ■ it is to add an attractive overhlouse to an \ old dress, make the skirt narrower if nec- ! essary. and immediately you have a smart j new frock. For this very purpose was fke set given in Xo. SBSS designed. No. 1 j has two straight panels at front and hack, with a sash on the outside or run j through a casing and tied at the left side i No. C shows an apron front gathered at the shoulders to a deep shawl collar and held in place by a wMe draped cirdle j Xo. 3 shows a shawl collar, which ex tends into sash ends. The ends are brought ■ around the waist and tied at the left side | The lady's set of overhlouses No. SSS" ! is cut in one, size. Vo. 2 requires 1 yard ' 30-inch or wider: Xo 1 requires 1 yard ' 30-inch or wider, with T £ yard 30-inch j contrasting material. No. 3 requires 1 yard 30-inch or wider. Trice 10 cents. j SILVER HOARDING ILLEGAL London—The new regulation un der the Defense of the Realm act prohibits any person from retaining any more silver coinage than he ac tually needs for personal expendi ture and in his business. Sale of any* British coin for an amount exceed ing its face value is prohibited. Cuticura Cares For ! Your Face and Hands Dainty women everywhere use Cuticura Soap and no other for every | day toilet purposes with touches of Ointment toVpurify and beautify the complexion, hands and hair. Abso lutely nothing better than these fra grant, super-creamy emollients. Sample Each Free by Mail. Address post , card: "Cuticura, Dept.lSA, Boaton." Sold everywhere. Soap 25c. Ointment 25 and 50c.
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