LIFE'S PROBLEMS ARE DISCUSSED Dear Mrs. Woodrow Please don't lay my appeal aside, but kindly read it and tell me what to do. I am a young girl, past eighteen years old. i nave worked nearly five years in one place and am now earning twelve dollars a week. Don't you think that is a meagre salary for a girl nowadays? "The firm I work for does not pay high wages and I don't think I will ever be able to climb the lad der as I wish and intend to do as long as I stay with them. "But this is the point; I know that I could earn more in another position, but when I say so, my mother objects. She wants me to stay where I am, thinking that I may not get such a good place again if I try to change. It is a good place in many ways, but I want to earn more money and I know that I can do so. One rea son, the great one, is that I could help so much more at home. I have not even been able to buy a Liberty Bond out of my salary, but I have bought Thrift Stamps all of the time. "I can do almost anything that a business firm would expect. My present position requires a great deal of figuring, which I delight in. Oh, I know that I can earn much ! more than I am doing now, so j please, Mrs. Woodrow, tell me your opinion of this matter. "L. M." My dear L. M.: I think that any clever, conscientious girl of eigh teen, who has held one position for nearly five years to the satisfaction i of her employers should feel free to follow her own best Judgment in a g* ORETHROAT \&Y/ or Tonsilitis, gargle Jm/ with warm, salt /jEfcEp, water then apply— I'MWI/ NEW PRICES —3oc, 60c, $1.20 ■ Garments of Quality BBBTTB New Arrivals For Late Buyers In Attractive Gifts For Womer We've had a wonder ful sale of BATHROBES for men and women. But 10: not much wonder, at the prices we are quoting. The purchase of a manufacturer's overstock at a price explains our exceptional values. There is still a goodly selection, but It won't last long. Come promptly. 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Naturally, she has your best interests at heart, and her knowedge of life is much greater than yours, but, on the other hand, she may have no ex perience whatever in tne easiness world and a very slight under standing of it. Whereas you, with your experience of several years, may have a bettet- idea of modern conditions and a greater apprecia tion of the prospects which open before you. You are ambitious and anxious to get ahead in the world. You feel within yourself the ability to | fill a bigger niche. It is usually wise to follow our leadings, espe cially when they are so strong and clearly defined as yours. We do j not have our intuitions for nothing, and if we obey them they are very 'apt to lead us on to better things. ! The fact that you feel so sure that I you have a greater earning capacity j than you are at present exercising is a pretty sure indication that you possess it. How much should youth heed the advice of age and experience? That ;is a very delicate question and an individual one in every case, de pending upon the character and temperament of the persons in-! volved. In all matters dealing with i human relationships, the opinions of older persons should be thor oughly pondered: but to abide en tirely by their advice in the choice of an occupation is another matter. No other person, no matter how j closely associated with us, nor how | well he may think he knows us, can truly form any idea of our untried abilities. We really know practl-! cally nothing about them ourselves. ' If you are thinking of these prices will settle the question \ Fox Scarfs Values, (28.95 W5 Values / n en e autiful wolf furs in large shawl black, taupe scarfs in gen- ." and brown. uine fox, in Large shawl taupe and SEh scarfs and the brown only. new round muffs. Single Others in pieces, worth natural fox, 128.95. 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Hut that's not a marker 10 the way I've been attacking tho sterling qualities of your best spoons. Never have I seen such housekeep ing. I've spent an hour trying .o wear down the luster of your dishes. Now what?" demanded Jim teas ingly. "Now you spend ten minutes more watching me take all the silver out and put it away again," I replied serenely. Behind closed doors in the living room Neal and Phoebe were having tneir hour hour of, farewell. Soon, very soon, the clock would tick out its warning and Neal must hum to the station and entrain for camp. Until then I wanted to keep Jim busy and out of the way. I "It was one fine dinner. Princess Anne. I hope you don't feel hurt with Phoebe over her seeming lack iof appreciation," said Jim quizzl cally. "She didn't eat much,' I confess ed. "I suppose her heart was up in her throat and there wasn't room for anything else." "They both managed the ice cream. It slid!" Jim spoke in rol licking good humor, but ended on a more serious note, "Poor little Phoebe —I expect she'll have to go through a lot of thrills and aches I like this before she tinds her true love." "Why, Jim —they mean this! It's everything to them! Neat's twenty two and Phoebe's almost eighteen. I think it's wonderful that they've found each other so young. It makes little Phoebe a woman and it gives Neal something to tight for—not Just j war, but his own battles. It —It will keep htm—clean and—worthy." • Jim laid his arms gently about me and drew me into their shelter. "I.ittie matchmaker Why, they're only children. This is play. Don't take it so solemnly. Honey girl, the way you brooded over those kiddies all through dinner almost choked me. Talk about a hen hatching out ducklings—well, your wide-eyed ex citement was as good as her cluck ing. Now we've hud enough ro mancing, in we go. It's one-ihirty, and that young redhead of ours will miss his train and be court-martial 'ed if I don't play ogre and eat up his sugar-plum dreams." So in .we went, but I managed to get ahead of Jim, and I fumbled iwith the doorknob a moment before I I turned it and marched into the liv | ing room. On the couch sat little : Phoebe, crumpled up in a heap like ' a tired child. One hand was tucked j under her face and the other lay i doubled up into a tight fist In her i lap. Her eyes were wide open, and she'seemed to be propping them wider by little muscular jerks that rippled up from her set mouth and her elaborately unquiverlng chin. Neal was pacing up and down the room nonchalantly trying to light a ! eigaret and letting the match flicker out. Suddenly he flung cigaret and Daily Dot Puzzle 2o C " 9 -X %-*• * '* 23 # 7 6 9 " 6* * .15 ~V ~ ,o //'' l,s -=r v "'/ -- 2 ; iz 28 . 29 46* 5q Sl* .3 • _______ 47* 4$ Sl* , ■ • Z • -46 • &s ' -Za— *4B - 34 .1 # "44 -- 35 4Z - * 'I 36 Draw from one to two and so on to tho end, matches down on the table and dashed over to fling his arm about Jim's shoulders. Then he fell to patting Jim on the back and telling him over and over again what shar ing our home had meant to him. Little Phoebe sat silent, radiant eyed, watching him. At this point Jim seized the helm hard in both hands and began steer ing the ship of events where he thought it ought to go. "Get your things on, Princess Anne," said he. "Phoebe will stay here and keep her brother company while you see yours oft to the sta tion." "Oh, Jim)" wailed Phoebe. I was afraid to say a word. Jim only tolerated their fondness for each other because he didn't take it seriously—this he had Just made What Britain Wants At the Peace Table The leading article in THE LITERARY DIGEST this week presents an enlightening sum mary of the demands that Britain may make at the peace conference as revealed in the editorial pages of the great English newspapers; also the most significant editorial comment in this coun try regarding them. While German sympathizers and propagandists, we are told by Judson C. Welliver, in the New York Globe, are blowing assiduously upon every spark of anti-British feeling that is still alive in this country and are magnifying every suggestion of divergence between President Wilson and the British goverment, we find the American press discussing in an entirely dispassionate vein the outspoken words of Winston Churchill and Lloyd George concerning Britain's naval policy and other questions that will surely come up for discussion at the peace conference. Other articles of great interest in this number of "The Digest" are: Holland's Unwelcome Guest Translations From the Dutch Press Which Throw a Clear Light Upon the Present Condition of the Kaiser in His Retreat in Holland Germany Not Starving War-Taxes For Peace Years Our Share in Winning the War The . Peru-Chile Tiff A Critical Moment For Jugo-Slavia Wireless Emancipated by an American Inventor Nnety-nine Per Cent. Starvation Whale Steaks Substitutes For War How the "Flu" Mask Traps the Germ Rostand Democracy in the Berlin Opera Sowing Seeds in Shipyards Where Women Do Not Lead Whitefield on the Pennsylvania Campus Bolshevism Challenging the Church The Shipyard Religion Personal Glimpses of Men and Events News of Finance and Commerce Best of the Current Poetry Many Striking Illustrations, Including Maps and Cartoons The Digest Your Best Mirror of World Events % The outcome of the epoch-making visit of the various delegates approach the peace conference is President of the United States to Europe to take part to study the real issues, the actual conditions that lie in the peace deliberations, and of the great task that beneath the surface, that are every day making his lies before him and the Allied leaders associated with tory at a rate that is simply amazing. To get these him of effecting a just redistribution of nationalities facts, stripped of unessential details, clean-cut, and up and establishing stable governments in the new states tp the minute, you have only to turn each week to to be created, is of vital moment to us in this country THE LITERARY DIGEST, which provides you no less than to our brothers overseas. The best way with world news of the first importance in instantly to inform yourself upon the attitudes in which the accessible form. December 21st Number on Sale Today—All Newsdealers—lo Cents (j| Jiterefry Digpst i® FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY (Publisher! of the Famous NEW Standard Dictionary). NEW YORK very evident to me. I couldn't do a thing. But Neal could. He sheer ed off a bit and spoke to Jim man to-man fashion. "Jim, you've been the best friend to me—the best and most—most revealing Influence .... Oh, you know darn well what I want to say. I was a fresh kid when I came here and you made a man out of mo. Only you don't believe it yet. You think I'm a kid yet and don't know my own mind. But I do. And I know what's in it—and in my heart." Neal's voice sank low and trembled a bit. "Jim, Babbsie's my sister and I'm all for her. But I want Phoebo to be the last one I—say good-by to . . . and when I come back with a good record—l'd like you to listen to—to how I feel about—things." Neal's voice trailed off. Jim got up, cleared his throat and remarked as if he'd never planned anything else, that he guessed he'd call a taxi and we'd all be starting along. Then, with a great bustle of speech and exclaiming, we got ready to go. And in the taxi we talked bus ily of "shoes and ships and sealing wax" —of everything w e weren't thinking about. Little Phoebe kept silence —until at the train gate she stood on tip- DECEMBER ZU, 1918 toe for Noal's kiss and cried over and over again; "Come back to me, Neal. Come back to me!" Her kiss was the last before he marched away through the gate with the other lads who were going to be soldiers. Then all unashamed Phoebe lifted her hand to wipe away the tears Neai had not seen her shed. And on her hand there gleam ed something brighter than her tears—the circlet of tiny diamonds that had been Father Andrew's be trothal pledge to Neal's mother— and mine. Jim cleared his throat and limped ahead. But even as I caught Phoe be's fingers in mine a question flared across my mind: What would Virginia say when she saw that circlet on Phoebe's left hand? tCuticura Promotes Hair Health Ointment 25 4 60. Talrum 25. Sam pi* each trie ot "Cat lta; a, Dapt. I. Baaton." FOR COUGHS,X. COLDS AND X SORE THROAT X There H no remedy equal to \ the old reliable \ JUNIPER TAR\ The safest, bestfe?£! and cheapest fam-JWy ily medicine. y 60 Doses, \3O Cents NI I X At k TEJJRmnwnl* \ AII ; UNDEHTAKKH 1745 f Chas. H. iVTauk *• u'l" 1, I Private Ambulance l*bone 1 i 9
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