Eii—i ii ■ i 1 MARIETTA jj By MILDRED WHITE. | Caro Dalton fretted, because the kind of French poodle she especially desired was not to be found. Caro's whims were so many and varied that It was fortunate —or unfortunate, as the case may be —that her inherited wealth was not taxed in their fulfill- 1 ment. She had tired of the luxurious new car, the sailboat and the city apart ment ; her much-tried guardian was at his wits' end to please. Yet not to please Caro was to bo himself miser able. For David Rlair, junior law partner and trusted friend of the girl's departed father, had loved Caro with a deep, unselfish love', from the trium phant epoch of her first long dress and "done-up" hair. She, unconscious, perhaps of this love, had led her devoted slave a merry dance from the time of his Instituted guardianship. David was given little anxiety concerning the various admir ers who flocked in her train. Cnro herself dismissed each promptly In turn. Now, it seemed her overwhelm ing desire was for some pet upon which to lavish her affection. "A dog," Caro told her guardian, "is a faithful creature, responding un questionably to one's moods." "But why," David asked patiently, "must it necessarily be a white dog, and very small?" "White, because I shall have to keep it bathed and cared for," Caro an swered; "small, so that I may hold It In my lap." The guardian sighed. Caro's expla nations were as unsatisfying as the sinile which accompanied them was charming. "Better wish for a dog of that de scription," he suggested. "For you to wish is to have —is it not, Caroline?" There was a saddened note in the guardian's voice. * "Not always," Caro replied; she looked at him quickly with inscrutable eyes. But as she drove her car that after noon beyond her accustomed way, a small dog of exactly the kind she de sired. came dashing out across a bar ren field to bark furiously at her intrusion. CnVo stopped the car, but the little animal continued to bark, until at length it paused breathlessly, to listen to her caressing voice. "Come." coaxed the girl; "you dear little thing—" And as she sprang down Into the road the dog's feathery tall wagged fervently in greeting. Before her astonished gaze he arose presently, waving his two fore-paws in the air, and executing a solemn dance around her. "You funny thing," she exclaimed. "You little trick dog!" Before she could forbid the little white creature had leaped into the car, grinning at her in dog fashion from the front seat. "He's mine," Caro told herself defi antly ; "I wished for him." But the guardian failed to rejoice with her. when he learned the discovery. Though the dog devoted himself jealously to Caro, David Blair insisted upon placing an advertisement .in the "Found" column of that evening's pa per,'and following closely upon its ap pearance came a pitiful reply. "The little found dog is ray 'Fid get,' " came scrawled in a childish fashion. "He is all I have to love. He acts with me in the circus. Please bring him back to. Marietta." And though there was no further di rection or adress, David and his re bellious ward drove that evening with Fidget between them to the faraway grounds, where the traveling circus pitched its great tent. The little dog of the loved Marietta was at once recognized by welcoming watchers. "She didn't sleep last night," a painted clown said. "Fidget is all the folks Marietta's got now, you see. Her mother didn't live long after her dad was killed in his famous jump last year. The circus had sort of 'dopted Marietta since. Every one likes to fee the kid danCe with her dog, tho' It ain't much of an act after all. Mariet ta," called the clown, "come here, honey." And Marietta came. A vision of flying golden curls and short ruffled skirts, she flew toward her pet, and had him In her arms. Then tear-filled, the child's blue eyes sought Caro's. "I'm sorry," she said, "that you can't have Fidget, but—l love him. And I haven't got anything else to love." The Dalton heiress nodded unuer standlngly; her guardian noted In dis tress that her eyes were also filled with tears. Suddenly, Impulsively, the girl's arms closed tight about the childish form. "Dear," said Caro. "do you suppose that you could possibly learn to love meT Would you like to come and live In a big. stone house with a garden; would you like to be —my little sis ter?" "Caro!" David Blair expostulated, "think seriously what you are offer ing." "I do think." the girl answered quiet ly. The old twinkle came back to her eyes. "Marietta will be more satisfy ing than Fidget," she said. And as he stood looking down upon the two, David Blair's face softened into a great tenderness. "I am afraid, Caro, that I have never known the real you." he said. And the girl's eyes again raised to his, reflected their radiant light. (Copyright, 1919, Western Newspaper Union) SPROUL FULLY ENDORSES SE«LB Governor Says Christmas Sale I' is Potent rorce back of State Health Program. j Harrisburg, Pa. —Governor \\ illiam ! C. Sproul sees in the Christinas Red I Cross Seal Sale one of the mosi po- I tent agencies now being used to eniist the public back of the slates public ; health campaign. i "Only the co-operation of the pub lic,-' says Governor Spiv>ul, who is : honorary chairman of the state seal | committee, "will make it possible for ihe slate adequately to deal with the ■. arioiis disease problems that face | us. 4, \Ve cannot hope to prevent all d:s -i ea=e. Bufc'we can properly hope to go far in the direction of preventing preven ;t 1»1 ■ • d!seas '. We can reduce the dangi rs of contagion. But in every health movement it necessary that the public and ihe state work along j the same lines. "The < "nristnwis lied Cross Seal has j back of it the force of Christmas j sentiment. But it also stands for practical endeavor. The funds raised by the seal sale are used to bring home to all of our people a realiza imii of tlte fact that the white plague can be conquered and a knowl edge of how to conquer it. Ihe Christm::.- - seal is intimately associat ed with ilie child victim of the while plague. If we can so order society that the children are safe from she ! white plague, we are -»n a fair way to solving our problem. ''Tin- private agencies that are fi nanced by means of the seal sale co operate, I mrU'i'vii:;id, with tlie state ! department of health, and particularly wlib the bureau of tuberculosa, and the local i übe: <-ajo<is dispensaries. , '*ln short tin seal sale helps make it possible to al'g". the public back of #he st::.c's heal !■ ] rograni. And for ill:!! reason ii has m\ cordial endorsed ment, a ; well as t'e approval of the stale departi.ent of liealth." TUBERCULOSIS A SYMBOL OF CHARITY AMD HELP TO HUMANITY Thei double reo cross as ii symbol ' or emblem of the .organizations fight ing the white plague has been in use for seventeen years. It was lirs adopted for this purpose by the Inter national Anti-Tuberculosis Associa tion in Berl'n in October, 1902. It was proposed by Dr. (J. Sersiron, of Paris. Dr. Sersiron took the shape of this cros> from tin 4 common Croix de Lor raine and the cross of the Greek Catholic church. Today this emblem is used by anti-tuberculosis workers ! all over the world. The National Association for the Study and Previr." on of Tuberci:losis : '.;oy atl.-; ; .s; , • double ban «d cross .'or use T :Is«* United S'.ai'S. Neither the fonn/iior ihe p'ropor ions were specified and the result was a I ...."ieiy of sha; os .'"d proportions. Be cause of this coiid ' > :ith 'uil Association in I'd I .' appointed a spe cial committee to consider the design and the dimensions of lie double bar red cross as the emblem for all anti tuberculosis organizations in the Fnited States. The committee report ed in favor of a double cross with equal cross arms, the upper standard ; being shorter and 'the lower standard Monger than the cross arms; the ends of both arms and standards being pointed instead of square. I This design was fixed upon for these reasons: Because the design selected is furthest removed from any design having a religious significance. Because it is furthest removed from the well-known emblem used by the American lied Cross. Because its widespread use in this country by many anti-tuberculosis associations over a long period of years*has associated it in the pub lic mind with the ;r.berculcs's r.iove ment. The* two crosses, the Croix de Lor raine and the cross of the Greek CnMioPc <-hurch, united in form'rig the tu' ere, b>sis cross, are symbolic of i charity and help to humanity. YOUR CHANCE TO BECOME BOND HOLDER OF HEALTH A new feature of the Christmas Red Cross Seal Campaign this fall is the Health Bond. Health Bonds are used as substitutes for senls in cases where persons do not care to accept seals, at one 1 cent each, for the amount of their subscription. The seals come in denominations of five, ten, twenty five, fifty and one hundred dol j lars. The Health Bonds can be bought by a person who wishes to devote any one of the sums men tioned to the fight on tubercu- I losis and ttfe improving of the | public health and does not want i seals. Liberty Bonds return interest in j money, Health Bonds return in- i rerest in good health, for Health i Bonds will help to improve the j health of your community and your neighbors, and your health ■ | partly upon the health | t of your neighbors. YOUR SYMBOL OF HOPE HL 4 II This is the emblem of the tubercu losis organizations which sponsor the sale of Red Cross Seals at the Christ mas season. In this state the organ ization is the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, which has affiliated societies in many communities. RED GROSS SEAL FUNDS BO USES State and Local Tuberculosis Societies Carry on touch Constructive and Defi nite Work. : Proceeds from the sale of Red Cross Seals finance the fighi on Tuberculo -1 sis. This work in Pennsylvania is | carried on under the direction of the Pennsylvania Society for the Preven : tion of Tuberculosis. This associa i tion has local organ izations in many localities which conducted the eom ; niunity work. The largest proportion of the money coming from the sale of seals stays in the community in which the seals are sold. A small portion goes to ihe State Society. The State Society and its associat i ed branches carry on a definite and * constructive work for eradicating the white plague and the improving of the public health. Following are the uses to which Red Cross Seal funds are applied: Aiding in the work of the Penn sylvania Society, which has a con structive program for ihe preven tion of tuberculosis, and organizes, co-ordinates and unifies measures for the fulfillment of the program. Co-operating with ihe state de partment of health, particularly in the bureau of Tuberculosis Sana toria, the local tuberculosis dispen saries, and the state health exhibit; and with local departments of health, for the promotion of all forms of anti-tuberculosis work. Carrying on direct educational work as to the nature, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis, such educational work being addressed to securing the adoption of defin nite community activities in the anti-tuberculosis campaign. Propaganda efforts for the estab '■ lishmenf\and operation by publie authorities of survey, nursing, clin ic, hospital, sanatorium, day or night camp, open-air school or class, or other kindred agencies. Educational and other work for I safeguarding infants, school chil dren, industrial employes, and otli j ers from tuberculosis infection, and for increasing their powers of re sistance to such infection. Looking after men rejected in the draft because they had tuber culosis and also soldiers leaving the army with impaired health. Names have been secured from the surgeon general's office and tuber culosis workers are hunting out these men. Employment of nurses for tuber culosis surveys or for assisting and nursing the siek, securing admission to hospitals and sanatoria, giving instruction in the home for safe guarding other members of the fam ily and the public. Aiding in the work and develop ment of the state dispensaries for the diagnosis and treatment of tu berculosis, demonstrating the need of, and, if necessary, temporarily operating open-air schools or fresh air classes for children. Establishment and, if need be, temporary operation of preventoria for pre-tuberculous cases, or chil dren's divisions of sanatoria or hos pitals. In an emergency, payment in whole or in part for maintenance of patients in hospitals or sana i toria. After-care, that is, advice, em ployment. and relief of patients leaving sanatoria as arrested and cured. Relief, of whatever medical or | material form" may be needed for i ' families in which there is a case of | tuberculous which cannot be plac | ed in a hospital. . Relief wlib-h may be needed to enable a paric who is a bread winner or caretaker of a family to I accept hospital care. REDCKbSSoij'LS WILSON'S WORDS tiir Cniiuiid CLEAR UP DOUBT Chairman E.J. Stackpole Says CALIF °™ IA THROWS ° VE « J LEADER, JOHNSON, AND Sale Means Health and - RALLIES TO LEAGUE. Happiness to many. . , Harrisburg, Pa. —"The Red Cross Seal —as millions of Americans know it today," said E. J. Siackpole, chair- - mail of the Pennsylvania State Seal committee, "is an agem of happiness and health. The seal was originated in 1907 by Miss Emily P. Bissell, of Wilmington, Delaware, who learned through Jacob liiis of somewhat simi lar seals that were sold in Norway for the purpose of raising funds with which to light tuberculosis. "Miss Blssell persuaded the Ameri can Red Cross to take up the idea with the re>uh that seals were sold in limited numbei of communities iu 11)08. In 1!»17 the number of seals s. Id was 180,000,000. "This year the seals are again on •••.de. beginning December 1. More 11.an half a billion have been printed for distribution to state and local agents. In addition to the seals, "Health Bonds' in denominations rang ing from $5 to $lOO are to be sold in lieu of seals to large contributors, who do not send out a sufficient quan tity of mail in December to make use of all the seals they would like to purchase. "Pennsylvania, outside of Pitts burgh and Philadelphia, is pledged to sell "0,000,000 seals. The national quota is Jj!(i,r>oo,(XH). Eighty per cent of this money, in round figures, will be expended by local organizations in ihe fight against tuberculosis. "The seal sale is more than a charity. It represents a construe. ve work. The sale nutans health and happiness to countless children and the children must be our chief con cern. The tuberculosa figures were appalling in 1017. C mditions have grown worse rather tlr > ber.er since that" lime. Every hre • minutes some one dii s from tuberculosis in this country. "Sir William Osier says: "'The battle against, tuberculosis is not a doctor's affair; ii belongs 10 the entire public!' "The Christinas Red Cross Sea! is one of the ag, ncies through which the public can ger into the battle against the white plague in an effective way." THE CHILDREN'S SEAL ' The Red Cross seal of 191!) has a particular appeal for children. Santa Claus, printed in red with white fringes on his outfit and a white beard, stands with a full pack at the top of a (chimney ready to descend. The child knows what it means when Santa Clans'conies down the chimney. A very important part of Ihe work carried on with the money realised from the sale of Christmas Seals is the training of children in better health habits. This will mean the saving of a great many lives. It has been proven that a large percentage of children become infected with the tuberculosis germs and unless they are taught to make and keep them selves strong and healthy many of them will die before attaining man hood or womanhood. So the Christmas seal of 1919 gives a "Healthy and a Happy New Year" in a real measure. GOVERNOR ASSISTS WHITE PLAGUE FIGHT Governor William C. Sproul, in writing to Dr. Thomas McCrae, president of the Pennsylvania So ciety for the Prevention of Tuber | culosis, strongly approves the Red Cress Seal Sale, saying: "Dear Dr. McCrae: "I have your kind favor of sev eral days ago. inviting me to act as the Honorary Chairman of the committee in charge of your com ing Red Cross Seal Drive, and assure you that it will give me pleasure to serve in that, or any other capacity that will assist you in your relentless campaign for the prevention of tuberculo sis. "Very truly yours, (Signed.) WM. C. SPROUL." HELP SAVE A LIFE! . A I NE BUY AND USE RED CROSS CHRISTMAS SEALS (WEST GIVES HIM OVATION All Doubtful Features of Pact Are Explained Away By President, and Former Doubters Hasten to Give Him Their Support. (By Independent News Bureau, form erly Mt. Clemens News Bureau.) Aboard President Wilson's Special Train —A continuous ovation along the Pacific coast and then on his eastward way back toward the capital was given to President Wilson as he came toward the end of his month daylong speaking tour in behalf of the League of Nations. California, particularly the delightful city of Los Angeles, went wild in its enthusiasm for him and his adrocacy of the League, and it was in that state, perhaps, that he did his most successful missionary work. Hiram Johnson, California's former , governor, now her United States sena tor, and considered by her as the most likely Republican candidate for the presidency in 1920, had before the ar rival of President Wilson, convinced a great number of citizens that the League as at present formulated was not a good thing. He« had told them that the United States, because of it, i would be drawn into every petty European quarrel; he argued that we would lose our sovereignty by joining with the Europe 0 " nations. blamed the presid- fo" assenting to , the possession by , a pan of the Penin sula of Shan Tung in China. — v BUREAU CHANGES NAME The Mount Clemens New: \ Bureau, which has been furnishin? reports on President Wilson's tour , in behalf of the League of Nations 1 to 5,500 papers, has adopted a new name and will hereafter be known j i I as The Independent News Bureau. ' \ ' Mr. Wilson, with clear logic and ' ! ith compelling eloquence, answerer the entire satisfaction of Califor - vv.'s people every objection which nator Johnson had made to the : League. And thousands of the state'r ' citizens deserted 'he Johnson stand r.rd immediately ami rallied to the sup vert cf the president. More than that 1 they came forward and said, "We were against you, Mr. President, but you have cleared everything up and now we are with you heart and soul." Still more than that, they let Senator 1 Johnson»know that they were no longer with him and that they disap i proved of the speaking tour which he . , himself was making in opposition to ! the League and so powerful was the „ volume of public opinion which reacli . Ed him, that the senator almost im „ ; mediately abandoned his tour. The > | Shan Tung question, because of the • j anti-Japanese feeling which undoubted . j ly exists along the Pacific coast was " > the most serious which the president - | had to answer. He explained to the ; people that he had been powerless to i ! prevent the rich peninsula from being ' given to Japan. England and France, through a secret treaty, had promised it to Japan for entering the war and remaining in it. That treaty had tr be carried out. Anyway it was not China that was losing Shan Tung, but Germany, which had seized the terri tory from China in 1898 and held it ever since. Japan had promised, the president explained, to return Shan Tung as soon as the peace treaty was ratified and it was only through the ratification of the treaty with the League of Nations inclusion, that CJiina could ever expect to get her former property back. And she surely would get it back, he declared, through the ratification of the League. There- through the same instrumentality no other nation could again prey upon the "Great, patient, diligent, but help less kingdom." As to our being drawn into any European conflict. The pres ident pointed out that no direct action such as the sending of troops to any part of the world to maintain or re store order could be taken bv the Council of the League without a unani ( mous vote of the council members, therefore our vote could at once nega i tive any such proposition as sending ■ our soldiers where we did not want them sent. Besides, Mr. Wilson argued, "If you have to quench a fire in Cali i fornia you don't send for the fire de partment of Utah." But, he argued, ihere probably never will be another war, if the League is established, for I the members promise either to arbi trate their difference and accept the decision of the arbitrator, lay the dif ferences for discussion and publica tion before the Council of the League for a period of six months, and then, if possible, accept the council's advice. That failing, they agree to refrain from war for a further period of three rronths and nine months of "cooling otf," the president contended, would prevent any armed conflict. These clear explanations satisfied every reasonable hearer and destroyed the "Bugaboos which Senator Johnson and others had raised against the League. Through rugged Nevada into L tah, the land of Mormons, the president swept to find that those fine people were heartily with him for the League and a per manency of peace.' inNKWJBXaMBK THE MAY BASKET | By GENEVA A. ELDREDGE I Scent of apple blossoms filled Cyn thia Smith's living room, a clumsy bee tumbled up and down the outside of the screen door, and now and then a swallow darted across the sunshine, his blue wings glistening. Away down the street sounded the rat-tat of a drum, and Cynthia heard the patter of children's feet running toward the town squa«>c. Still she sat tense and upright in the old-fashioned rocking chair, her mouth drawn in a straight hard line, her <»yes fixed upon the work in her hands. The screen door squeaked on its spring and a round-faced, brown-eyed little boy squeezed in. his eyes filled with surprise when he saw her sit ting there so stiff, her work in her hands, and he stammered a little as he said: "Wh-why, Aunt Cynth, ain't you going to meet the train and see 1 the p-parade?" Soft and quick came her answer: "No, dear, not today." "But Aunt Cynfh, they ain't goin' to be no more p-parade days, an' I got on my white suit, an' mother thought maybe you'd like to have a little boy what was all spic and span to go Wlt you." And his little face grew wistful and troubled. He had never seen an Aunt Cynth like this before, so straight and strange. He meant to know before he left just why she was staying home the day everyone else in town was going down to welcome the boys from France. So crept up close and whispered: "Is it 'cause Joe ain't com ln'. auntie?" Tears sprang to her eyes as she gathered the little spic and span boy close. "Yes, Toddie boy. that's just why auntie isn't going. She can't bear It." Now that Teddie was sure he felt that he ought to say something to help make auntie happier, so he said as he stroked her face with his fat little hand: "Never mind, auntie; I've got a secret and maybe tonight 'bout dark you'll know It. Maybe right 'fore supper, maybe right after, anyway, don't you come out doors right that time, will you?" And auntie promised to stay In the house. Then hearing his mother call ing he scampered away leaving Aunt Cynth alone with her thoughts. Slow ly she closed her eyes and In Imagina tion saw the town square filled with people, the traUi pulling in tilled with returning soldiers, the happy greet ings, and far :ynd faint she, heard the band and the cheering. The hot tears trickled slowly down her face as she whispered, "And mine reported missing; my boy, who was the pride of my heart!" And then Teddle's happy little face seemed tcr shine out, and she remembered what 1 a comfort he had been all the weary months, "and now he is coining to hang me a May basket, bless his dear little heart, and I must cheer up for his sake. I think I will plan a little surprise myself." So she went into her dining room and set the pretty table, bringing in great bunches of apple blossoms to decorate it with until the room looked j like fairyland in the pink and white dress. She frosted little round cakes and made un iced drink for the crystal glasses, and almost before sh3 knew it, twilight came drifting down. The drums had ceased their rat-tat and happy voices called to one another in the street. "It's almost time for Ted die and his secret," she thought as she patted her hair into place. Then she heard steps tiptoeing up the board walk and a child's quick panting breath, and she smiled the old time glad smile that she used to greet the boy with who was missing tonight when he came to hang May baskets at the very same door. When two fat fists pounded hard on the screen door she waited only long enough for a small boy to hide before she opened the door, to find a dainty little basket, all fringed and festooned and fairly bursting with candy kisses, setting on the step. "Why, how surprised I am," she said. "Who could have left this beau tiful little basket here? Surely it's a mistake; some little boy must have though/ Susie Grimes lived here." Just then a small boy In white wrig gled out from behind the snowball bush and called breathlessly, "No, no r Aunt Cynth, 'taln't no 'stake, it's mj secret and some more of it is 'hind the catalpa tree. You come see." But Just then a khaki-clad figure sprang out with wide-open arms, and then Ted's secret was out. "Oh, Joe," cried Aunt Cynth as she wept In his arms, "how you must have felt not to find me at the train t* meet you." "That's all right, mother; I don't blame yon under the circumstances. "When Ted teld me his secret I thought I'd wait and surprise you. "Some May basket all around, heyT Say, Ted, it looks like frosted cakes and lemonade in the dining room; let's hurry for mess." And as mother and son wiped the tears of gladness from their eyes, a little voice shrilled out: "You won't never cry no more on p-parade day, will you. Aunt Cynfh?" (Copyright, 1919, McClure Newspaper Syn dicate.) No Housework for Them. "Well, the soldiers learned to sweeps wash and cook." "Yep. the present crop of brides is going to have a perpetual cinch.*'
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