;Little Talks by
i Beatrice Fairfax
1
I have been thinking about an
out-of-the-ordinary letter that a
young woman wrote me the other 1
day. She wrote from the city where 1
she has successfully supported her- ;
self for a number of years, and she J
remarked, in a very direct, clear- i
eyed way: I
"I wonder if you have found out
anything that has surprised you I
about the sophistication necessary
to guide a young woman through j
the village opportunities for sin as
compared to the city, also about the
really clever and studied efforts of
the village Don Juan as compared to
the city man'.'"
And she speaks of the earlier life '
in a busy office in the small town,
where she was born as '"the best ■
training possible for enabling a girl,
to resist temptation."
There is honesty and good sense;
in this letter and there is character, j
too; for ;he writer thinks of her|
own difficult experiences as so many
lessons in self-protection. She feels
that she has been exposed to all the
dangers that threaten reckless, im
petuous girlhood, but that she is
merely wiser and safer for knowing 1
about them. She has gotten a kind!
of immunity.
Knowledge llio Best Shield
Doubtless there wouldn't be any:
hoy-and-girl tragedies if every young!
girl were as self-controlled and sane ,
as my correspondent is. And of
she is right in maintaining 1
that knowledge is a far better shield j
than ignorance.
But what I wish to emphasize is.
the distinction that she draws be
tween village ami city life.
It is too often taken for granted
that a girl who comes to earn her
living in the city is immediately be- i
set with every form of luring temp- j
tation.
Her innocent acquaintances "back
home" think of her as plunged in j
the center of an unending carnival. [
distinctly flame-colored, and they,
scarcely think it possible that she j
can escape without becoming justi
the least bit scorched.
Whereas the truth probably is '
that the only people she sees are in t
the subway and at her office. That'
she comes home overtired and is
glad to go to bed at 9 o'clock. That
she is lonely, dull and bored. And j
that if anybody from home —some-
body who knew all the news and;
spoke her language and understood •
her allusions—would look her up|
some evening, she would like it bet
ter than anything in the world.
Humdrum City l.ife
Life in a city can be just as hum - j
drum as life in a small place, and it i
can be a good deal more lonely. It is I
quite possible, as many girls know, |
to live for a long time in a city with- '
out knowing any young man in a
social way.
And if a girl is very careful about
her acquaintances and if she lias,
besides, as much backbone as the
young correspondent 1 have already
quoted, I don't think the youns
people who are idling about the
home village need worry about her.
it must be remembered that if the
working girl who has gone to the
city is busier than the one who has!
stayed at home, the young men
PUNY, WEAOOT
Made Strong and Well by Yinol—
Why It Is. Best For Children
Williamson. W. Va.—"My little
hoy was weak, puny and tired all
the time, did not want to do any
thing. Vinol was recommended and
it has built up his strength and
made him healthy."—Harley Clay,
Williamson, W. Va.
The reason Vinol was so success
ful in this case is because it con
tains beef and cod liver peptones,
iron and manganese peptonates, and
Glycerophosphates, the very ele-;
ments needed to build up a weak- i
t-ned, run-down system, ma-ke rich,
red blood and create strength.
George A. Gorgas, Kennedy's i
Medicine Store, 3i'l Market street;
C. F. Kramer. Third and Broad
■ireets; Ktzmiller's Pharmacy, 1325
Derry street, and druggists every
where. • ,
A Clean Cool Scalp.
Parisian Sae Stops Itching, Keeps
the Sculp Coo*—l*revcnts Dandruff
Almost everybody nowadays knows
that Parisian Sage, the invigorating
hair restorer, is guaranteed to re
move every trace of dandruff, stop 1
falling hair and itching scalp, or
the cost, small as it is, will be re
funded.
But you should know more about
this marvelous hair grower. You j
ought to know that it immediately
destroys all odors that are bound to
come from the excretions of the
scalp, and in five minutes after an
application, no matter how hot the
weather, your head will feel cool i
f>nd comfortable.
Everyone should have a bottle of
Parisian sage handy because it is
such a pleasant and exhilarating
hair treatment. Ladies use it be
cause they know it is delicately per
tumed, not sticky or greasy, and
surely does make the hair beautiful,
s,lky and abundant. Here's what a
New York woman writes: "I have
used Parisian sage two weeks only,
yet in that time find my hair has
wonderfully increased in beauty,
thickness and luxuriance, but what
surprised me most was the disap
pearance of all dandruff."
A large bottle of Parisian sage
• ian be obtained from Kennedy's
■ • Drug Store or at any good drug or
toilet counter —it's not expensive.
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THURSDAY EVENING,
Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1918, International News Service *•* *-* By McManus
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Whom she will meet there are no i
less occupied.
And that the busy youth, either
interested in his job or occupied
with the problem of making a living,
isn't likely to be the one who will
misuse the privilege of her acquaint
ance. Interested busy-ness is the most
wholesome thing for young people
and the best possible protection
against all the sad things that follow
in the trail of "temptations" yield
ed to.
But if it is a little absurd to think
of the city girl as engaged in a daily
combat with vice, it is also wide of j
the mark, as my wise young corre
spondent has pointed out, to take it
for granted that village life is the;
equivalent of a nunnery.
Village l.ife No Nunnery
A village girl's life isn't a mere i
alternation of dusting the parlor and '
going to the Christian Endeavor So-j
ciety. Unless she has very strongly the
temperament of the recluse, she i
shares what there is of boy and girl
companionship. And there is usually;
a good deal.
Unchaperoned intimacy is. ofi
course, the rule in the American;
village, and in the case of whole- •
some, normal boys and girls there \
isn't a word to be said against the i
custom. But it is to be admitted!
that villages and small towns aren't
altogether free of a less pleasant'
type of male—the unwholesome-!
minded idler who makes it his pas-!
time, in fact his businss, to present'
"temptation" to young girls.
Such a man or such a boy, or per
haps more than one. is practically i
sure to be found in any quiet, lei-!
surely community. Perhaps he can't
accomplish any greater harm thanj
temporary unhappiness. Undoubted
ly he cannot, if the girl has knowl
edge and good sense. But it's just as
well to realize that he is a pretty un
varying feature of small town life.
And if we are generalizing about the
dangers to which girls are exposed,
it is better to face the fact that the
girl who has never left her native
village has nevertheless her own,
problems and difficulties, and that if
she has cheerfully and sensibly sur
mounted them it is greatly to her
credit.
Most wise and thoughtful people
of the present day would, I am sure,
advise the mothers of young girls to
fortify them as carefully as possible
against probable dangers.
A girl is. of course, happy in be
lieving that romance is waiting just
around the corner and that a six
months' decorous courtship, follow
ed by a pretty wedding and life in
a charmingly furnished flat with the
one right man in the world, are to
constitute her love experience.
But it doesn't always happen that
way. And if she meets other than
the right man and becomes confus
ed by her own emotions, she ought
nevertheless to know that there is
always one direct course to take,
and she should have the courage to
take it. Preparation for possible un
happy encounters is what every
mother ought to give her daughter.
I am inclined to believe that the
girl who wrote me so cheerfully
about the educative value of experi
ence must have had a wise and far
sighted mother.
COLD PACK METHOD I
IN 12 SHORT STEPS |
No. 8
NATIONAL
To adjust the cover of the wash
boiler in home canning a cloth will
give tighter fit and hold the
says the National War Garden Con:
mission of Washington, which wi. ;
send you a free canning hook, for .
two-cent stamp to pay postage
| Watch for step No. 9.
LIFE'S PROBL
ARE DISCUSSED
By MRS. WILSON WOODROW
Everywhere you go these Summer,
days you see tiie soldier and his I
girl, and we observe them with a
very different feeling than that with
which we used to regard the Summer
lovers of other years at the beaches'
and parks, or on ferryboats, trains
or trolley cars.
Then it was with a sort of amused ,
tolerance at the best that we used
to survey them, but now it is with
sympathy and a kindly interest. |
Yet the situation so far as the I
principal actors is concerned is not'
materially altered. They still cling
to each other in fond embrace heed- ;
less of the passing multitude the
world forgetting if not by the world
entirely forgot.
Nor is the girl changed to any
noticeable degree. She is still to j
all intents and purposes the same
eternal "summer girl." The cut of I
her skirt may change and the style
of her blouse and her hat. and her ,
hosiery; she may vary from season,
to season between pumps and ties,
between suede and buckskin. But
her type remains fixed and unalter- .
able as the laws of the Medes and j
Persians.
The great difference is that the
arm which encircles her is sleeved
in khaki instead of near Palm Beach, j
and that the head which bends pro
tectingly above her is crowned with
a campaign hat instead of a guar
anteed Panama from New Jersey.
All the difference, in fact, between
"Bobby" Jones who was particular
about the color of his socks and the I
crease of his trouser and Private R. I
Jones one of the husky doughboys of ,
Uncle Sam.
Where are all those "advanced
dressers" and "tango hounds" and •
"would-be sports" we used to see? I
Where are the snows of yesterday?
It's more than a mere shift of clothes. !
There's something gone into those
young fellows which has affected the 1
whole warp and woof of their be- i
ing. It shows in the steady set of >
their bronzed faces in the level,
serene gaze which meets your own. <
And it makes you proud to be an
American.
The soldier has always held an at- 1
traction for the feminine heart. Even
back in the days of mythology it
was Mars who won the Goddess of
Love and Beauty and Shapespeare
makes Othello, with all his handi- j
caps, the favored suitor of the love- j
ly Desdemona. As he explains it.
"She loved me for the dangers I had
passed and I loved her that she did
pity them."
But there's more than the tradi
tional fascination of the brass but- |
tons about these lads. Never were
there such soldiers before. Just
think of it. They are the picked !
manhood of the nation, physically |
perfect every one of them, to begin ,
with, and brought by a careful regi- >
men of diet and training into the i
very pink of athletic condition fit |
and keen as so many race horses:
groomed for a Derby.
And beyond all that, it's an army j
with a soul. This is a holy war,
and every man of them feels it. i
They are Crusaders all, enlisted in '
the cause of humanity and freedom, i
They show it in their zest and en- ;
thusiasm. in the stalwart pride of;
their bearing. It glows within themi
like a flame.
What an evolution this year has |
wrought! With what different eyes I
do we regard the "Bobby" Joneses j
of our acquaintance, and the breed |
of "Bobby" Jones in general. Then
it was with scant respect and a not
entirely unmerited disapprobation. I
But to-day they are our hope and j
pride; they carry our prayers and ad- |
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I oration. And they deserve every bit i
' of the homage that we give them.
And I think that is one of the rea
sons why we smile so sympathetical- •
| ly upon the open love-niaking In the)
parks and on the trolley cars this j
summer instead of viewing such dem-j
, onstrations as we did in the past with i
an impatient:
"What can that pretty young girl I
see in such a brainless-looking
1 whippersnapper?"
The whippersnapper has become a :
' splendid young warrior whom we |
realize that no daughter of Eve could I
possibly resist. Possibly we have a
subconscious realization, too. that the -
soldier with his changed ideal and '
his wholesome, healthy outlook ,
upon life, with his imposed restric-l
I tions and those of his own self-re- j
] spect. is a far safer companion for
• her than his counterpart of a twelve
month ago, was chiefly engaged in
, sowing a crop of wild oats. As he is |
without fear, he is also without re
proach. "The bravest are the tender- 1
est. the loving are the daring."
. Ah, the augury for our country's i
future that this mighty army gives
these young men with their free
swinging stride and their hardened '
muscles and their aroused spirit of i
valor and devotion!
I sometimes wish that our girls'
could have been drafted, too and I
put through a similar experience.
There can he no criticism of the
part that American woman have play-!
Ed in this war. They have responded !
to every call, they have volunteered
| ror the most arduous dutv. Yet might !
. it not be that with a general con-I
scrtption for service our daughters :
l might be even more worthy to stand
: beside our sons. Under such a svs
| tem even the leopard might change
his spots, the summer girl lost her
! giggle.
Advice to the Lovelorn
: „ INVESTIGATE
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
I am employed as telephone opera
tor and secretary and have been in
; m> present position for two vears.
ihere is a young man. who I am
given to understand is married, who
has been persistent in his attentions
; to me although I have repeatedlv re
i pulsed them. He has gone so far as
; to ask to call on me.
As I have no relative to whom I
could turn. 1 would appreciate your
valuable advice.
1 ... WORRIED.
ir this young man is married of
j course you do not want to start a flir
tatioiT with him. The thing I like is
i that he has asked to call on you in
| your own home. If you have anv
j faith in him, why don't you quietly
I tell him of the rumor you have heard
] and in a dignified and sensible way
! ask for he truth?. Can you not in
■. vestigate through the men in vour of
! flee? Girls take great risks when thev
| start up affairs with fellow employe's
! of whom they know practically noth
! ing and of whom they have heard un
i favorable things. Your own sus
-1 picion would seem to be a sort of
! warning. Proceed slowly, and be very
i very careful.
SHE COULD NOT
STAND OR WORK
But Lydia E. Pinkham's
1 Vegetable Compound Re
stored Her Health and
Stoppd Her Pains.
Portland, Ind.—"l had a displace
ment and suffered so badly from it
I 111 at times I
I I I 111 • could not be on
I\ | •—' my feet at all. I
1 was all run down
•yfwjjflyf nervous and could
.-La-aS 3 not lie down at
-^rni ' ni sht- I took
Tj treatments from
a P h >'Bi c 'an but
they did not help
ORu me. Mir aunt rec
ommended Lydia
w /MKggWW E- Pin kha m' s
"T — Vegetable Com
rJL t /iyß#* l Pound, I tried it
ft74!)ufriAiiMf ~ and now 1 am
strong and well
_i again and do my
" own work and I
give Lydiu tC. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound the credit."—Mrs Jose
phine Kimble, 935 West Race St
j Portland. Ind.
• Thousands of American women
give this famous root and herb
| remedy the credit for health re
j stored as did Mrs. Kimble.
For helpful suggestions In regard
I to such ailments women are asked
I to wj-ite to Lydia E. Plnkham Medi
cine Co., Lynn, Mass. The result
I of its long experience is at your
I service.
After Baby's Bath
10,000 -nunes will tell you that nothing
keeps the tkin so free from torenets as
Sykes Comfort Powder
Its extraordinary healing and toothing
power it noticeable on nrt application,
i 25c at the Vlnol and other drug stores
The Comfort Powder Co.. Boston, Matt.
The Ladies' Bazaar's
1918 Mid-Summer
Ladies' Stylish W
Begins Tomorrow, Friday Morning at 9 O'clock
An unusually remarkable and noteworthy event, in view of the drastic reductions that
bring prices down to a point scarcely to be expected in these days of war-time costs. Note
these exceptional offerings in
Dresses, Skirtsand Waists Just About Half Regular
Dresses at Sharp Reductions
$7.95 Dresses White Lingerie You'll not have another opportunity during the war to buy
such quality at these prices. They're good for immediate and
S3 95 Dresses early fall wear. Styles are correct.
in lawns, voiles, batiste, etc., 28 All Wool Serge Suits
In colored voiles and ging- in many dainty models,
hams in many models. $7.00 values ... $3.95 $£ -4 Q Z
SIO.OO values ... v
~ $22.95 values ...$10.95 -*■
$5.00 Dresses Values to $10.95
Q1 QZ sls Silk Dresses ■ . * lade 00 . 1 mannish serge, belted modefl, full .lined.
t/pl .&U . button and braid trimmed, silk pophn collar, navy, black and
Linene Coat Dresses, full $7.95 garnet, all sizes, except 36 and 38.
length button front. Smart taffeta dresses in plain 22 All Wool Suits $55 Suits
I ' colors.
1.50 House Dresses . ' : s 1 //•'SOQ.7S
515.95 Silk Dresses JL jl £
Limited quantity in figured $10.95 ~ , y al,,Cs to * 25 just 14 in the lot—striking
and striDed lawns , . . i ?. e ° f ' wool poplin, full models in poplins, gabardines
P Made of crepe de chine in I "'JJ 1 lined, belted model, white tricotine, velour and and silver
plain colors. ! ni* ln t^ n ' tone - ° ne a nd two of a model—
Pecan. Copen. Broken sizes only an unusually rare buy.
Rare Offerings in i r ' I w/u . r , ~ ,
Voile, Net and Velvet Sleeveless Coats Wash Crepe Spits Zwei e.
Silk ß/ouses or
1.95 VoileQO„ $6 95„ *?,?
H7 • J r/Of excellent belted model in
in navy and black only, all purple and green only, * 1,50 Gabardine Skirts, patch
trimmed', sailor coHar ran sizes, formerly $8.95. wh j te trimmed collar and pockets and belts, sale price.
collars, cuff edged with lace, high " I ruffs.
and low necks. _ 66 C
$1.25 Voile Waists 33 Handsome Coats
•5 9c Trt fhp Sale $2.49 White Gabardine Skirts,
Flesh and white voile waists, 1111/ natrli r.r„-We K.l* u a
lace trimmed and plain tailored \A/<= Ai\r'iAe*A _„ C P ' 1 pockets, belt, button
formerly 98c to >1.25. . divided them into tWO IOT trimmed, sale price
** or AT * VXR -4 quick selling. Like our suit offerings they are
$3.95 Net Waists priced lower than yoii'll buy like quality for $1.49
again during this war. Suitable for vacation
Silk net wulst, with sailor col- onrl m rlv foil u7or
lar. silk lace trimmed. an <J early tall wear. $3 g5 White Gabardine Skirts
Georgette and Satin Wool Poplin Coats All Wool Velour and large gathered pocket, but-
Wai*t* Poplin Coats I ton trimmed, sale price,
58! $ 10' 95
Dainty models, plain and fcand . J. m
embroidered. • jvv/u-<vwaiwj
\alucs to *17.95 Values up to $22.95 *< ne iiri.-. r% . j-
C 9 <sQUI. ta, a <
Striped JUK Just 14 in the lot—made of all pecan, and sand, belted model natch norWet<s hHt hnttnn
w• . w '° ol poplin, belted models, silk, half lined; and all wool poplin paten pockets, belt, button
Vr aiSIS poplin collars, half lined, all coats in three different models, trimmed, sale Drice
4 r\Q shades. . all shades. r '
Jpl.&ct flff Qr
Plain striped tub silk waists, I W * KJ
with sailor collar. B j • ■ W
$2.95 Crepe de Chine aches nazaar $7.00 White Washable Satin
Waists Skirts, gathered pockets,
$1.95 49 O rniTDTU T "tra special, sale price.
Plain and lace trimmed, sailor - JL mm |3* Jk V/UtVl ll A I . HO
collar, in flesh and white. **
JULY. 18, 1918.
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