}jjl|l| all ike fcrcahj jj^Pj 0 MAKING THE MOST OF I . OUR CHILDREN U A Series of Plain to J By Ray C. Beery, A.8., MA. I President o( the Parent Association. .:■ ' When the school bell rings, is your: child always there, right on the dot, 1 ready to hold up his hand in re- i spouse to the teacher's first tion? Or, is he just on his way, halt run ning and half walking? You desire him always to be on \ time and very naturally, too. It is a good sign when a boy takes pride , ih being punctual. It shows that he i is mentally alert. Punctuality is an important trait .of good character and it can easily be developed in children if right methods are employed. # Here is a simple case. A mother ! writes to me: "How can I make my two boys, seven and five years, dress them- j selves promptly before sch<ij)l —in- stead of playng with each other and dilly-dallying? 1 have to be in the kitt-hen myself." Announce to your boys seven and five years of age that you are think- ! ing of taking them on a very de- ' lightful little hike some evening and j that you may take along a little lunch to eat on the way. Get them j to become very Athusiastic about it j and then say something like this. "How there's only one condition j about going on this little excursion j and that is that you both dress your selves ready for school quickly every morning, starting to-morrow morn ing. I am sure you can do this be cause I know you'll both want to go —and say but won't we have a tine time?" Don't suggest that they race, be cause this often causes other trou bles, but suggest that both of them are going to dress quickly. Suggest this just before you bid. them good night and the lirst thin® in the morn ing, referring optimistically to the j fine trip you are to take in a few ! evenings. Arrange for this trip to come in three or lour days. After you have I taken the trip, simply approve them | both on how quickly they can dress, | not comparing the speed of one with j the other, but always say, something like this: "Both of you boys certain ly are getting to be prompt, I be lieve you could almost beat me dressing." If they should ever grow lax. you could set up some other privilege ahead, dependent upon their quick preparation for school, but the I DONT STARVE THE KIDDIES 1 || The growing bodies of children need food. |j| || that builds muscle, bone and brain and is II easily digested. Don't allow your food- w ||t saving zeal to deprive the kiddies of need fill |\ ed nourishment. When you dive tKem I H wheat food be sure if is the whole wheat jj| I Shredded Wheat 1 || is the whole wheat prepared in a digestible 11 || lbrm.lt is readycookedreadytoserveand requires 111 j| no sugar Serve if with hot milk and a dash of sak || Iff! Steckley's Shoes I; ' This house of Better Shoes meets the foot- |fj IW/V wear requirements of everybody that comes H / / J \ here for shoes. People always expect more Pi It j** MsS V store than they do of the average I \ shoe store. We are responsible for this fact, 1 for we have always asserted that this store j \ 1 gives the best of SHOE VALUES and the | ' \ utmost SHOE SATISFACTION. || br V Regardless of the great increase in the I ; , j cost of shoes, we still offer our trade The Best Shoe Values at Any Stated Price ■ CTECKLEY'C I w-/ 1220 N. Third Street ■..jr.- ... - : . - i • . . >, \ ~ * • . . , ** " ' " . ' . -hi' .. ' ' • . : TUESDAY EVENING, HXRRISBURO TELEGRXPH! DECEMBER 10, 1918. j chances are that you can start them | 1 into the habit without any other ] : than the first reward. One mother purchased a little j ' wrist watch for her daughter, taught i her how to tell the time by it and I told her she could wear it so long I as she started for school on time ! and went to bed on time. When- ! ever she failed, she had to be de- 1 1 prived of the little watch for a day j !or two. The plan worked, i Make it a point to play with the I boys enthusiastically for a few min- j utes after school nearly every even j ing. This will keep them on the most friendly terms with you and! ! they will be much more easily man \ aged. Boys like to do things to please ! adults whom thqy really love and I will do almost anything to win ! their approval. Show them that you ' ; are a friend indeed and that you no- j j tice their slightest improvement in : j punctuality and, in all probability, j i they will actually sho\y an improve- 1 : ment worth while. Follow Flag to Germany; Red Cross Units Leave / * —— Directors of the Bed Cross arc ! hoping that the'windows of every house in this country will, in addi tion to the red and green on Christ- j mas Day, carry the Bed Cross "ser- | vice flag" denoting litis member- j ship in the Bed Cross. The member- i ship campaign begins on December j, 16. The Hag is similar In desigg , to the flag given to members who i joined in the Christmas campaign i last year. It differs in that it has j a narrower inner border of blue. | which is separated from the outer I j border by a narrow white stripe, i The second, or inner border, is to I indicate the second year of service |on the part of the member since I America's entry into the war. The six mobile hospital units or ganized by the American Bed Cross I left Paris yesterday for the eastern 1 border of France and Germany to care for the sick and wounded of the Allies in the territory occupied by the American Army and to take over the hospitals in the territory abandoned by the retiring Germans, I according to a cable message re ceived yesterday at Bed Cross head quarters. The units will also aid • returning prisoners. i Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1918, International News Service - By McManus "Tl II 111 OEF>EYF>TER |( HUP.RA.H' V/E'LL HAVE TO WE? TOU ARE N<JT ~J TOO HURRV AND <ET OOT || ij \\ I TRICKED!!'.! 1 V JUBT OHOMED AN FEHET) THE HUFTRT AN FIX COLMC, TO MEET HER OF HERE I DON'T WANT M§ §1 # R I MKHT HAVE KNOV/TM 1 SAID SHT'B <OMIN LEADER OF OP FOR HER- JR> TOO AREN'T_TJPJ / HER TO EVEH T>EE A — J IE 1} ' I HE WA'O TO J ~/Y RKIHT OVER TO T>OCHETV r~> " When a Girl Marries" By ANN MSLE A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing Problems of a Girl Wife __ _____— | i Xo one appeared to notice tnat ; Virginia and 1 parted without a j word. I congratulated myself on • the fact that every one probably thought we had said an affection ! ute farewell when we were alone in the bedroom. Ruefully T reflected on the real | situation. Virginia's last words to i me had been: | "Your husband happens to be imy brother kindly remember that. I did what 1 thought best I for him. But that didn't Include I lying to him." I After calling on Betly and Terry I to find worK for my Jim, Virginia j.had turned on me with actual fury ' for the Way 1 helped carry out j their plans. And she had snubbed i Xeal and called him an outsider! j Hadn't sho always treated me as if 1 were one? ■ As 1 turned these I things over in my mipd there was something very like hate for Vir j ginia in my heart. And her ac ' tions had not indicated much love for me. T was so preoccupied with this ugly situation that X began mak ing preparations for dinner in com plete silence. But Jim didn't ap pear to notice this. He had brought out his books on account ing and was working away with complete single-heartedness of purpose—to master that difficult I study at one sitting . I Now and then as I came into the living room with something for the ' dinner table, I heard him fling a question at Xeal, who was standing I idly at one of the windows playing j with the apricot silk curtains. Now i this hurt my house-wit'ely feelings, but 1 realized that Neal was still ! sore from the rebuff Virginia had ! given him and that he would be I frightfully hurt by even the slight est correction. Presently Neal followed me into the kitchen. "Anything I can do, Ilabbs?" he asked, with an entire lack of ani mation that was no odder than his question. Generally he plunged in and helped without any direction from me. "Don't bother if you're tired, dear. I've nothing much to get—l saved a few sandwiches for you, and the | rest of the dinner's just chops and I carrots and baked potatoes." "I'd like something to do. % I—I | don't want to think, Babbs," per sisted Neal—then suddenly, "Say, Babbs. have you heard from father lately?" "That's funny, Neal —I was going Ito ask you about that. I've written I twice a week as usual ever since you came, but I've had only a couple of postals from l-'ather Andrew. I thought it was because he was writ ing to you." "Ive had exactly one letter front father since I cante," Neal replied, in a voice that was almost husky. "One letter? And you've been here over three weeks —almost a month. What does it mean, Neal?" I cried in amazement, slamming the dOOf of the broiling oven on my chops and turning to face him. There was a flash of defiance in his eyes as he responded: "1 told you when I came, didn't I that I hadn't consulted father about my job? I said I just got it and lit out." "Yes, you did, and I sat right down and wrote Father Andrew you were with us and that everything would be all right. It hurt me a little that he didn't answer my let ter with more than a postal—but I thought he was busy, and 1 didn't ask to see your letters, because you'd naturally show them to me if you wanted me to see them. After all, no matter how I love him. Fa ther Arfdrew is your really, truly dad—not mine," I said slowly feeling my way through the tangle 1 began to sense. "I guess he's been wishing he was yotgy t'athA-—instead of mine," Neal said bitterly. I went over and laid my hand on his shoulder. "Neal —is there something you want to tell Babbsie?" "I'll keep my affairs to myself," ; replied Neal, shaking oft my hand and muttering with a boyish gruff ness I might liuve known masked actual emotion. "I—l .only get hurt when 1 talk about what really matters. No one believes in me. And maybe they're right not to. But I might be different if they did. You ; think I'm as ilckle as the deuce and that Dalton woman thinks I'm not to be trusted at all, and Jim " He stopped abruptly. His voice had risen high and tense—it broke ' on a high note. "Yes, Neal?" asked Jim's voice. He had hobbled across the living room and stood in the doorway of 1 the kitchenette. His face was stern i and set. His voice had a ring of authority. , "You were saying that no one . trusted you. No, Neal, you needn't ] look so indignant—l wasn't eaves dropping. When I heard you shout that no one believed in you, I hur ried out here <as fast as my—ankle ! would permit. So you think I don't trust you?" "How can you trust me—knowing 1 what you do?" Neal tried to hold 1 his voice steady, but in spite of him, 1 a broker, note crept into it. "You've stood by—and tried to help me. But * what must you think of me—you with that smashed foot you got in t the fight I—I" Then he turned to me and flung his young head high as he choked ' out the confession it must have tor tured Jiim to make. And, strafigely j enough—instead of wavering away —Neal's eyes held mine as he mut tered, luiskily: "I'm a slacker, Babbsie. A draft dodger. I ran away from home to get out of being a soldier—to get 1 away from the draft." ' (To be Continued.) Positions For the Soldier-Teathers ' Boston. —The division of education ] •of the United States Kmpolmyent | Service will undertake to place the j returning soldier-teachers in posi tions as fast as possible. In a state- < ment it says: "It is to be remembered that the i members of a school faculty are usu ally engaged for a full year, and it would, manifestly work serious hard- J ships, In many cases, to replace every j returning soldier-teacher in his form- 1 er position at once, except where this 1 has been provided for in contracts I with the present" teaching force. "But there will be no lack of va cancies. In some states, schools have len almost forced to close for lack • \>f 'teachers, and now with their re turn from overseas, it will be neither a case of lack of teachers nor lack of schools, hut a direct niatter of proper distribution " * .. Little Talks by Beatrice Fairfax ! The world is growing kinder to or ! phans. Nowadays it dosen't follow in evitably that if your parents aro dead somebody will clip your hair very close and put you In a blue gingham apron and make you an Inipate of a co-called "home" that has many of the features of a jail. On the contrary, there's a very good chance that somebody will ' adopt you and give you a chance to grow up in really human • surround ings. In fact, there never wa3 a time when it was so easy for the home less child to break into the child less home and to stay there as It is now. It used to be the case that mar ried -couples either, had children of their own or else remained sternly arid forlornly childless. "It's such a risk to take in a strange child," peo ple had a way of saying. "You can never tell how he will turn out." They forgot that the same thing is true when a child is of one's own flesh and blood. Who knows whether a baby will grow up to be tall or short—a useful servant of his coun try or an idle waster? Guarantees as to a child's future can't possibly be issued, even If his parents Are the I most sound and praiseworthy In the I world. There's chance in it always— whether it's one's own blamelessly ancestored progeny or the nameless baby from the orphan asylum. This is what people with empty homes have been learning to realize. They are coming to see that a home less. parentless baby isn't an object to inspire fear In anybody. So one by one they are letting down the bars, both the bars you can see and those that you can't, and they are deciding to give the orphans of the world a chance. Home mill I,live Needed Warm-hearted, sensible men and . women have always known that rigid institutional life was bad for chil dren. A few years ago scientific peo ple found this out too. They said that living by machinery, having no freedom and never being happy, had actually a bad physical effect. And they came to the conclusion that even from a scientific stand point children need, not -only shel ter and food and clothing, but free dom and happiness and love. I suppose there nren't many in fant asylums In the world that can supply love In anything like the measure that it's needed. But any normal, happy home should be able to supply plenty of It. ,'And when every such home reaches out to de mand an extra baby to love and care for, the orphans' millennium will be on its way. And it will be a much prompter and pleasanter millennium because women are seeing that child-adopt ing isn't just a matter of being char itable and kind. If two lonely people, disappoint ed in their own hope of parenthood, a baby that happens to he friendless, but that hasn't a bit less Infant charm on that account, the baby surely isn't more to be con gratulated than they are. Perhaps they are even going to profit a good deal more by having a beautiful little human creature to love than the baby himself will profit. At the very least. It's an even thing. There's no charity about adopting children, unless you make, a pretty big sacrifice to do it. And even then you're sure of big returns—in the way of love and adventure and added life. There's reciprocity In it al ways. A normal woman has mother emo tions, and hunger for a child toward, "which to direct them. What is she to do with this extra, unsatisfied love MHE-WICK RELIEF! NO BUSIER! It Soothes and Relieves Like a Mustard Plaster Without the Burn or Sting Musterole is a clean, white oint ment, made with the oil of mustard. It does all the work of the old-fashioned mustard plaster does it better and does not blister. You "*o not have to bother with a cloth. You simply rub it on—and usually the pain is gone I Many doctors and nurses use Muster ole and recommend it to their patients. They will gladly tell you what re- !' lief It gives from sore throat, bron- > chitis, croup, stiff neck, asthma, neu- JL ralgia, congestion, pleurisy, rheuma- f tism, lumbago, pains and aches of the ii!j back or joints, sprains, sore muscles, brhises, chilblains, frosted feet, colds cl the chest (it often prevents pneumonia) . 30c and 6Qc jars; hospital size $2,50, unless, lacking a child of her own, she finds another baby to take its place? Give Your Child CotniMinlons And one baby, by the way, isn't ever enough. It isn't good for a baby to be an "only" child or for a mother to focus all her love and Interest on one object. "But one baby Is all we can afford," some mother who has taken the plunge of adopting a single orphan will object. Children do cost something, it is true. There are sickness and shoes and schooling to be taken into ac count always. But if one cares enough for the experience of doing the best one can to develop little human beings,—if the love of them and the care of 'them Is sweet enough, one Is willing to practise whatever economies may f>e necessary. Perhaps one can cut down on house rent, or clothes, or amusement. It will be worth while, whatever it Is. Scarcely any price is too high to pay for the privilege of being a parent. Ask any wise mother or father whom you may happen to know, whether this isn't true. 1 know a woman who is the mother of a beautiful boy. No other babies followed him, but this woman didn't therefore resign herself to being the mother of a single child. She knew she had more motherhood than one Burns' Christmas Sale of | Upholstered •' j ! Chairs and Rockers For Library and Living Room | TN this great shipment of upholstered, rockers and chairs there is a wonder ful variety to select from— a chair for any home, for man or woman. II It is a mighty fine thought to give a chair or rocker as a Christmas token for |l f it means that the donor seeks to afford comfort for the recipient. There is another side to a gift of this character. The practical and useful || side, the feature of home decoration and home comfort for everybody. THERE ARE PLAIN BACK ROCKERS AND CHAIRS, WING BACKS, WIDE ARMS AND LOUNGING SEATS. SOME HAVE SPRING SEATS AND SEPARATE CUSHIONS. EACH PIECE IS BEAUTIFULLY FINISHED, SOLIDLY CONSTRUCTED \ND EXPERTLY UPHOLSTERED WITH IMITATION BROWN SPANISH LEATHER OR GENUINE SPANISH LEATHER. These Prices Are Special This Week. On Small Payments If Desired j sl9-$23 ■$25-$43-$49 Tea Wagons—ldeal American Gift | < Fifty Styles to Select From | Standard Size Tea Wagons $lB fLBBI. • ji In genuine quartered oak or dull mahogany finish. Removable glass ja * tray. Rubber tired wheels. j : Tea jjl h, lB unique features; drop sides which can be used as table for serving H luncheons; drawer for cutlery. • ( pTuM i j Amer. Walnut Tea Wagon $35 || beautifully finished, rich nntural walnut, removable glass tray, rubber , kj>) M tire wheels. 1 * I Full Line of Toys at Lowest Prices in Town 'I *'• J, H.,' H g ' • ... . . t • ... child had use for and she wasn't i afraid to take a strange child Into her home and put It on the same . footing with her owtv . So she did this. Her own boy and the stranger child became brothers, But their mother felt that she must enlarge her motherhood still further. And life was always revealing to her some lialf-cared-for boy or girl who seemed to need a home and love and all-round happy development. When ever she found such a child she , adopted It, until phe had ten. An IJiiderslnndlug Mather These were the fortunate children. Not alone because they were taken Into a home, but because their moth er loved and understood the Job of ' motherhood and did it well. And she wasn't afraid of being a mother ; on as large u"esfle as the conditions of her life allowed,. It's a beautiful, thing to see, this eager, generous, Intelligent kind of : motherhood, that is bent on being of service to the next generation, and refuses to be limited by any withhold ing on the part of the stork. And a i mother who declines to make any dis • tlnction between her own child and the motherless one whom she has just happened to pick up is a mother worth having. Besides, mothers who have adopt i ed children know a secret that all women don't know. It is that love t of a child doesn't depend on being i its parent. That one loves any child that Is dependent on one. That It's the easiest thing In the world to de velop a strong, real mother love for a small being whom one never saw until a month ago. The type of mother who felt a jealous dislike of every child outside her own family is pretty thoroughly extinct. The universal mother type is taking; her plaod. Dyspeptics Can Eat What They Like if tliey take two or three Hl-ne*l tablets immediately after eating. No matter how badly you may suffer from indigestion, dyspepsia, gas flau lence or acidity no matter how many medicines you may have tried without success—don't give up hope. Thousands who once suffered as yoitj now suffer —who have tried every-*- thing without obtaining relief —now enjoy perfect health and can eat' most anything without the slightest pain or discomfort. You can do tiio .same if you will go to-day to Geo. A. Oorgas or any other good drug gist. and get a 50c. package of Ht neslu Tablets. Take two or three after eacli meal or whenever pain is felt and if you aren't delighted with the results you can have you 50c back tor the asking.. Don't wait; don't delay. Get 111-nexlii to-day and - forget you ever had a stomach. 7
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