Life's Problems Are Discussed BY MRS, WILSON WOODROW "Do you believe in fate?" That was the sort of a depth-bomb which was flung at me in the very opening sentence of a letter from one of the most interesting of my correspondents. I paused to consider. "Well, whiles 1 do," thought I; "and then again, whiles I don't" the "whiles" when I do resulting partly, no doubt, from early training in a Presbyterian Sunday school where the doctrine of predestination was rigidly incul cated, and to a later penchant for consulting astrologers, soothsayers and those who peep and mutter. I think most people are inclined to be fatalists regarding any mis fortune which overtakes them. Like the race track gamblers, when they lose they claim luck is against them; when they win they charge it up to their own acumen. Zeno, the Stoic phiiospoher, who believed in fate, once detected his slave in the commission of a theft, "Ah, master," pleaded the slave in an effort to escape punishment, "was it not fated that I should commit this theft?" "Doubtless," replied Zeno; "and it was also fated that you should be flogged for It." The one notable exception to the rule I have cited is in marriage. No pair of lovers ever yet failed to lay to fate the miracle of their mutual attraction; but in divorce-or separa tion the blame is given to no mystic power, but always to the faults or shortcomings of the other. It was not, however, concerning fate in general that my correspond ent wished to inquire, as I discovered by reading a little further; it was rather the question of personal des tiny. "Do you believe," she asked, "that people are born to fill a certain niche in life, or to fulfill a certain mis sion?" Then she goes on to explan ihat she has recently been taking stock of herself, as we all do at times— philosophizing a bit, and thinking back over her own career and that of the friends have grown up with her. And the point which seems to have struck her most forcibly in her reflections is that even from a child she has always been a leader in whatever association or circum stances, she has been thrown. At school she was always the "honor" pupil; in her social circle she has always been the chief and director; her friends look upon her as an au thority; and in business, for she ia now a business woman, she has en tire charge. Yet she has never push ed herself, she says; on the con trary, she is by nature modest and retiring. Nevertheless, she is al ways "found out" in spite of Her self and elevated to the front rank. And it puzzles her. 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It is a puzzling question, almost as confusing as the old poser, "Which came tirst, the chicken or the egg?" , A man's 'character is such a com posite of heredity and environment, his career such a blending of in nate abilities and opportunity, that it Is. extremely difficult to determine just what factor is responsible for the final result. We seem to choose our steps and decide our course, yet when we look back over any given period of our lives we seem to have been impelled by some power en tirely outside ourselves. Would the end have been different had we made the contrary choice at any moment of decision? What, too, is the effect [of circumstances? Would Lincoln ' liave been the same exalted figure had jhe been reared in affluence? What would have been the experoence of Nicholas, last of the Romanoffs, if he had been born the son of a cob bler? Leadership, what Is its secret? Lack of leadership, wherein lies it cause? Is a man the product of forces beyond his knowledge and control, or of his own will and Intel ligence? Both are true to some extent, I think. Each of us, I believe. Is en dowed with some especial gift or talent peculiar to himself #nd Just a little different from the endow ment of every one else in the world, as his face and figure is just a little different from all other faces and figures, in the world. To the degree that he. recognizes and cultivates that gift or talent a man becomes pre-emient , a leader. To bury It In a napkin is to court failure and disappointment. It is the key to his destiny, the founda- > FREE CANNING BOOK 32 pages fully illustrated for every reader of THE HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH We have arranged with the National War Garden Com mission, Maryland Building, Washington, D. C., for you to get this Free Canning Book of instructions. Send this coupon and a two cent stamp ft<r postage NOW to NATIONAL WAR GARDEN COMMISSION Maryland Building Washington, D. C. Herewith two cent stamp for postage for which please send me your Canning and Drying Book free. (Please Write Plainly) Name Street City Sfate WARNNIG! You Must Fill Out These Blanks! i tion stone upon which he must archl- , tect his foruntes. The leaders of earth—a Shake speare, a Michael Angelo, a Colum bus, a Washington—are those who have seen their mission and have fol lowed It in the teeth of'every ob stacle. The followers are those who have sought it only half-heartedly, or who through circumstances or In dolence have permitted themselves to be turned aside and miscast. Advice to the Lovelorn BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX MAKING GOOD DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: A few weeks ago I met a girl I love very much. She confessed her love through a letter which she sent me. Everything was all right till I told my past, which is not a good one, but a year ago I changed and have held down a good position. I am well liked by my employers (who know my case). The young lady says I may see her once a week and become engaged when I make good. This will take a long time, as I am going to college when I can. IRVING. * My dear boy, if you want to give years to study and education and growth, don't you think a wife would be a pretty serious handicap? Four years at college—perhaps two years of preparation; have you a right to ask a girl to wait so long. Now that you have torn yourself awav from your former life and have felt the stirring of ambition, wouldn't it be better if you devoted yourself to work tor awhile? V'ou know you want to justify your employer, the good friend )vho is helping you to live down your past. Don't be foolish about the girl. Surely you would not want to cutheroff from all her friends and acquaintances and have her sit waiting for you for years. Think how you have changed in the last year. You are going to continue growing ind developing—do | you want to risk marriage in your present state? Don't you think you are likely to grow away from this girl?. Be friends with her, but don't try to bind her by any promises and don't be selfish enough to take her away from other friendships. NOT FAIR I DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: I am a high school girl, 17, and my brothers—A, 21. and B, 19— have al ways shown the most brotherly love l for me. B lately haa met a certain girl, 17, who has forced her attentions upon him by writing love letters. A is soon to leave for the service. He told B that he could not marry now, as he would have to be the sole sup port of mother and me after he (A) leaves. B said that he will help sup port us after marriage. I have not told B not to marry, as I love him too much to Interfere with his happiness. What shall I do? SISTER. Perhaps your brother was Just en joying a little "flirtation" with this girl, and now all of you, by taking it so seriously, have put the Idea of marriage into his head. Of course, he is too young to marry, but some day he will want a wife and home of his own, and you must not take a selfish attitude about it. A little tact will help you put over your present difficulty, but don't drive him to the very step you don't want him to take by making it seem too romantic to be foregone. Your brother owes it to his mother to think of her now. CANT BR DONE DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: I am 20, and it happens that on my way to business every morning, I see a young woman whom I would like very much to meet. What can I do to make her acquaintance? HARRY. Harry, no one yet has ever worked out a solution of your problem. Chance may give you an opportunity to meet this girl in a way that will give the proper element of dignity to your ac quaintance. But you know nothing of each other, you may have nothing In common, and were you to meet in formally, each of you would have doubts and questionings about the other. We may not always like the conventional "rules Of the game"— but most of them have been tested and found to work. Being Intro duced Is a mere formality—but It works. The Introduction Is a ort of mutual guarantee of respectability and It makes a fine basis for the right kind of a friendship. BAKEUSBURG TELEGRAPH! "Mother Fries It in a Pan" Remember the little rhyme about the flsh in the brook? Catching fish is real war work. Eating It instead of meat is patriotism. The United States Food Administration submits these menus to give you some ideas: 1 Halibut with Mexican Sauce Belgian Baked Potatoes Spinach Corn Bread Jellied Peaches with Rice 2 Fish Pilaf with Spanish Sauce Fried Qreen Tomatoes Tapioca Pudding 3 Jellied Salmon Loaf with Nippy Sauce Cabbage and Green Pepper Salad Blackberry Pudding Halibut With Mexican Sauce Six slices halibut, 2 tablespoons corn flour, 2 teaspoons salt, 2 table spoons fat, cups water, 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce. Dredge halibut with flour and salt. Melt fat in baking dish and brown slices of halibut on top of the stove. Pour water and Worcestershire over fish and bake in a moderate oven thirty-flve 'minutes. Then pour Mex ican sauce over flsh, bake fifteen min utes and serve. Mexican Sauce Two cups tomato, 1 tablespoon grated onion, 3 tablespoons corn flour, 2 teaspoons salt, % cup cold water, 1 chopped green or red pep per. Bring tomatoes and onion to boil ing point. Mix flour and salt with cold water and add tomatoes, stir ring constantly; add pepper and pour over fish. Flsh Pllaf With Spanlxh Sauce One cup rice,-2 quarts boiling wa ter, 2 teaspoons salt. 1 cup cooked flsh, 1 cup fine wheatless bread crumbs. 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce, % cup rice stock. % teaspoon pepper. Cook the rice in boiling salted wa ter until thoroughly done. Drain, re serving the rice stock. Line a greased baking dish with part of the rice. Mix the flsh, crumbs, Worcester shire sauce, pepper and rice stock and pack it into center of dish. Cov er witti remainder of rice, packing it down to make a firm mold. Tie a paper over the top. Set in a steam er or on several thicknesses of paper in a pan of boiling water and steam for thirty minutes. Serve with Span ish Sauce. Spanish Sauce Two tablespoons fat, 3 tablespoons corn flour, 1 teaspoon salt, >4 tea spoon pepper, 1 cup stewed tomatoes, 1 cuj* rice stock. 1 tablespoon chop ped onion, 1 tablespoon chopped plm ientoes. Melt fat. add flour, salt and pep per; remove from flre, add tomato and water; return to flre and bring to the boiling point, stirring con stantly; add onion and pimiento. Turn mold of flsh on a platter and pour sauce around It. DOGS ON THE BATTLEFIELD Experiments made In the training of dogs as messengers with the ar mies in the field have, it is stated, given satisfactory results. The dogs which have proved most receptive under Instruction are chiefly half bred collies and retrievers. A rather poor breed of bob-tailed sheepdog has also done well. All have been trained to perform their errands dur ing heavy firing, both rifles and guns. They can be fired over as easily as the ordinary sporting dog. and, what is quite another thing, they will face flre at close range. Many have shown amazing skill In getting over, under and through all sorts of obstacles, Including wire. • FLYING WITH SHAFFER ■ ALL SMILES LETTERS FROM A DAUPHIN BOY TO HIS MOTHER Escadrille M. S. P. 156 11 Sicteur Postal 12 ! 1 May 7, 1918 | 1 Dear Mother—To-day I met an | , American "observateur," those men | ( who take pictures do "reglage" for I ] artillery and some times shoot a j Boche. He was a very rolypoly body i and his only worry seemed to be |, that he would outgrow his uniform ; if he kept on growing—stouter, i which same was caused by the drinks ; pressed upon him by the amiable j ; Frenchmen. In fact, I found him! in the bar shaking dice to see who 1 paid for the drinks, and he ex- i claimed proudly that he hadn't paid for a drink since he came, and they were numerous, and hoped his luck would hold, etc. He was bored to | extinction as he had been given sno work to do since arriving, and was j openly envious of the Frenchmen who had come with him and who were flying every day. Albert, he was a most jovial companion and told a laughable story of the won j derful eats he got, and the way his I wine glass was always kept full by his attentive companions. Three glasses were always in front of his I plate, when one became empty his neighbor on the right asked him something, and when he turned back from answering, the glass was full, and so It went during the whole meal, so that when ha got up re plete with good champagne and eats, two more inches were added to his girth, and two more buttons strained at their moorings. Being on the "observateur's" end of the game he told me many amusing stories of this class of men. Directing the fire of artillery is quite interesting, and is done with biplane airplanes, the observator be ing in command and the pilot merely a chauffeur, being guided like a horse with reins, a rope tied to each arm. Thus when the observer wants to go to the left he jerks the left rop'e, and around he comes. It's when these American observers get their baptism of shrapnel that the I fun begins. First they hear a hoi-1 low "ker-oomp" to the right, and j then see a small black cloud, then another bursts to the left, and then they begin to wonder if the gunner' far, far below will split the differ ence next crack, as troubles are supposed to come singly, about this time a Boche sights them from his perch high aloft and comes hurtling down to the attack, spitting lead as he comes. That's the way one of the stories went anyway, told by this plump. Jovial observer. He was over the lines for the first time and had just about recovered from his first scare at shrapnel and was looking over his large scale, two by four] map, when happening to look up, here was a Boche coming down on him, shooting like all possessed. Right then he decided he wanted to go home "toute de suite," but in stead of signalling "home, James," or pulling on both ropes and stand ing on his tail, he chose a more ef ficient way of informing his pilot what was af<*ot, or rather doing, by smashing his cap case over the pilot's head. It was . well the pilot had a heavy casque on for it did no harm, but It did draw his at tention, and they got away. Here's Another Here's another! A plane was all ready to sit out on a mission, when the French observer took suddenly sick. An American observer, stand ing nearby, was asked If he wanted to take his place. Did he? You bet your bottom boots he did! But, did he know how to handle a machinegun, the French com mander wanted to know. Oh sure. He was an expert, and made pre tence of adjusting the sight ami looking over the gun, to such good cause that the commander was re assured. The truth of the matter was it was his first close view of one, I and about all the knowledge he had ! of his functions was a vague idea that one pressed the trigger and the gun did the rest. Sometimes that is the case, but not always. So y.ou I can Imagine his feeling as he was j sailing serenely along, enjoying him- | self to the full, when the rapid, spiteful crack of a machine gun! \is heard above. And there came I a Boche, Bure, true and swift as I death, spitting lead as he came. After the flrsf. second's shock, as to the realization of what it meant, he suddenly remembered he had a gun —and grabbed for one. But his 1 heavy gloves were too thick for the trigger guard, so, he promptly threw them off, pointed the gun in the gen eral direction of the Boche and pulled the trigger. Still the Boche kept coming, al ways shooting, and then he remem bered he had another gun, and quickly found Its trigger. Lead sure flew then, but the Boche seemfed unhurt and kept coming down. When nearly on top of the French i plane he suddenly swerved, bringing the belly of his bus into view and the American promptly filled It full of lead, and down he went in flames. So cold was it at that height (5,000 m.) that his hand had frozen to his gun. which nearly caused its ampu tation. But he sure was a hero, und no sooner had he landed then all J the happy admiring Frenchmen tried I to kiss him. Some succeeded much to his dis- I gust, whether it was the strain of! the fight, or being kissed, I don't I know, but as the jovial narrator put j it, he came into the bar and leaning ! thei'eon gave voice to numerous sighs I of relief. Like my plump friend, the two I American observers sent here before 1 him had just as little to do as he, I und naturally, soon tired of it. One i morning the limit was reached, and ! they decided to do some sightseeing jon their own hook. Having an am j bition to see the first-line trenches, j they directed their steps that way | first, and had gotten as far as the j second line trenches when a sentry 1 I stopped them. And here was where ' ] the resources of the American was proven again, for without batting i an eyelash, or letting the gravity of his face relax, he handed over a mining certificate pertoining to a company in Wyoming. The simple-minded Poilu was all grins immediately, for seeing all the official-looking stamps and things he promptly saluted with a "e'est" past. They went only a little further, and ran into a captain. By this time one of them had found an insurance policy and promptly showed It to the captain—and got away with it. But they soon ran into another Captain, and he politely, but firmly said they must see the major before proceed-' ing further. With no doubt that they would get by the major with the satne official-looking document, they followed the captain. But no sooner had they entered the major's room than their hopes were dashed for he wanted to know "How in the hell did you get here"? And then as they went on to explain why they had gone sightseeing, that they were Americans, he broke in with "yon needn't tell me you are Americans, your presence here proves it." Which shows how a Frenchman regards our resourcefulness, even if he does think we are all crazy. Even ut that, we are supposed to be abso i lately fearless, which reputation is very hard to live up to, as even Americans are human. WALTER. PRYING PEAS Of all our common garden vege tables, there is none more popular for winter and summer use than peas. Also they are of much nu tritive value and may be counted upon, when stored for the future, to supplement the meat supply. They may be dried readily and inexpen sively. The free drying manual which the National War Garden Commis i sion, Washington., will send you upon request gives detailed directions for drying fruits and vegetables. En close a 2-cent stamp to cover pos tage. Garden peas, which have a non edible pod, should be shelled, and without washing first, blanched three to five minutes according to size and maturity. Full grown peas are prime for drying. • After blanching cold dip, drain and remove surface moisture by gently pressing between clean towels. Spread in single lay ers on trays or 'boards with thin mus ■ lin or paper underneath. Drying time is between three and four hours. Peas require care in drying. Start at 110 degrees F. and raise tempera ture slowly, in about one and one half hours to 145 degrees F. Avoid overheating. For use In soups or puree, shell mature peas, pass them through a meat grinder and spread the pulp on platters or trays to dry. With young, tender sugar peas, use the pod also. After washing, cut Into one-quarter inch pieces. I Hlanch six minutes, cold dip to re | move surface moisture. Dry as i mentioned above. The Commissiori I will gladly answer any questions i written on one side of the paper and sent In a self-addressed stamped j envelope. WHEN CHILDREN CRY OUT ; And are feverish and don't sleep well, are consti pated and have symptoms of worms, inot hers will | And quick relief In Mother Orajr's Sweet Fowdera j for Children, the standard remedy for HO years, r They are easy to give and children like them. They cleanse the stomach, act gently on the bow els and break lip colds. Relieve headaches and teething disorders. We have 10,000 testimonials. Ask yonr druggist and be snre to get Mother Gray s Sweet l'owders for Children, 'JSC. Relief from Eczema \ Don't worry about eczema or other skin troubles. You can have a clear, healthy skin by using a little zemo, obtained at any drug store for 35c, or extra large bottle at SI.OO. Zemo generally removes pimples, blackheads, blotches, eczema and ring worm and makes the skin clear and healthy. Zemo is a clean, penetrating, antiseptic liquid, neither sticky nor greasy and stains nothing. It is easily applied and costs a mere trifle for each application. It is always dependable. ! The E. W. ROM CO.. Cleveland. O. JUNE 29, 1918. Salads For Summer Leafy vegetables have come into] new favor. Like milk they give us pome kinds of food that we cannot get along without. They are some times even called "protective foods." Here are some salads suggested by the United States Food Administra tion. Yellow Tomato Salad Peel and slice yellow tomatoes, lay them on lettuce leaves, and pour over French dressing, j Kohlrabi Salad Peel and cut in two and slice thin, the young kohlrabi; parboil in salt water, pour off, and stew in plain water for twenty-five minutes. Drain and let cool. Serve on lettuce leaves with red mayonnaise. 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Stenotypy being easier, shorter, more accurate and more speedy, which is in keeping with other Twentieth Century Methods, you will do well to give it careful consideration. Schools teaching Stenotypy also teach shorthand. They KNOW both. They have watched the progress of both in the class-room and in the offices. Only such schools have an intimate, first-hand knowledge of both. Only such schools can advise you intelligently, safely and honestly. Students may select the course desired, and are advanced individually. SCHOOI, AM. SUMMER ENTER ANY MONDAY SCHOOL OF COMMERCE Troup Building 15 So. Market Square BEUi 485 DIAL, 43S USE A "NORCROSS" HAND CULTIVATOR I f\iC f I In your garden and watch /V / the plants grow Good cultl- V. vatlon is half the erofc, It al * lows the roots to "loosen up." I "Norcro" Cultivators made in three "stretch" out, gain strength, aizea fresh air and get new food S PRONG, 4 foot handle, .... 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"It seems as if all the big drums in my orchestra had been multiplied by a million and suddenly gone mad." The composer gave open-air con certs in' the trenches, on one occa sion attended by the King of Italx, and he set himself at work on a great patrtotic symphony, designed I to be a musical apotheosis of Italy 's I "war of redemption." 5
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