THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL
DADDY S EVENING
RY TALE
£9 MARY GRARAM BONNER. |
THE GOSHAWKS.
“There is just one family of birds,”
commenced Daddy, “that I really don’t
care for.”
“Oh, Daddy,” said Nancy, “all birds
aren't as kindly and gentle as others,
but it’s because they need te kill for
their food, isn’t it?”
“Yes, there is a great deal of what
they call self-protection about it, isn't
there, Daddy?” asked Nick.
“With all other birds, I think, ex-
cept these.”
“Tell us about them,” said Nancy.
“Have you ever told us a story
about them before?” asked Nick.
“No,” said Daddy, “but they don’t
come to this part of the world very
often. They live very far North, but
once in a while they come off on a
trip of killing all the birds and small
animals they can—just for the joy of
killing.”
“What horrid birds,” said Nancy.
“They should hardly be called
birds, it seems to me,” said Nick, “be-
cause birds are such lovely creatures.”
“Have they any special name?”
asked Nancy.
“] suppose they must have,” said
Nick.
“But we're taking up all Daddy's
time in talking and asking questions.”
Nancy said after a second’s pause.
“That’s so,” said Nick. “We'll keep
quiet, Daddy, so won't you tell us all
about them?”
“They are called goshawks, and usu-
ally they like cold weather, but once
fn a while they come South, or that
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The Cruel Goshawks.
is south from where they are, and they
do all the worst work they can in as
short a time as they can.
“They are very powerful and very
strong,and all the Mrs. Goshawks are
even stronger than the Mr. Goshawks.
They also love to fight and destroy
creatures even more than their hus-
bands do.
“They can even capture big animals
like hares and they keep them in their
clutches so that they cannot escape.
“Well, about two or three years ago
a great many goshawks made a raid
on one section of the country and de-
stroyed any number of other birds, as
well as many of the little barnyard
creatures.
“So that when they were seen again
this year, in another section of the
country, every one got very much ex-
cited and said: ‘We must get rid of
the cruel goshawks.’ For there is all
the difference in the world between
creatures who kill for the sake of kill-
ing (they really feel it is the joy of
killing, though joy is such a lovely,
happy word that I hate to use it in
that place) and those who kill to save
themselves and thelr families and
their friends.
“Think of the brave mother birds
who stand guard ourside their nests,
thinking not of themselves, or whether
they will be hurt, but only trying to
protect the little birdlings within the
nest.
| “And think, too, of the brave dad-
dies who look after the little birds
and the mother birds. They only kill
to protect themselves or to live. For
some animals must destroy other ani-
mals in order to live. That is a law
of dear old Mother Nature.
“So every one is trying to drive
away the wicked, cruel goshawks who
only care to destroy and to be as cruel
and horrible as is possible.
“And the more we think about such
cruel animals who love to kill the
more we appreciate and admire the
brave animals and birds who will risk
great dangers to look after each other
—who forget about their own little
feathered or fur-covered bodies and
think only of those of their very dear
ones.
“The goshawks are the only birds,
as I said before, that I haven't the
slightest scrap of use for.”
«I should say not,” said Nick.
“They're terrible,” agreed Nancy.
«This story is very different to
most,” said Daddy, “for usually there
are all the wonderful things to tell
you of about animals and birds—the
beautiful, brave things they do, and
their funny little habits and ways—
but I wanted to tell you the story of
the goshawks, for I think in hating
them it only makes us love and re-
spect all the other creatures of the
animal and bird world.”
“yes,” said Nancy, “the goshawks
aren't nice to hear of as the robins
are, but it just makes us sce the dif-
ference between brave and unselfish
birds and cruel ones who simply use
their strength to hurt everything they
can!”
Lane
Light in the Hall
“It the light out in the hall?”
Suit and Daytime Frock for Street Wear
Stand Stockily Behind Boys Over
There” in Every Word and Action
By ABBIE FARWELL BROWN of the Vigilantes
What are you about, while they are over there fighting for us?
Enjoying yourself? Earning your living stodgily—“business as
usual?’ Making capital as fast as possible out of the safety they are buy-
ing with their blood ? Taking advantage of the crisis which they meet with
the offer of their young lives, to demand higher wages, shorter hours, luxu-
ries, privileges which they have renounced in order to fight for you
That’s not patriotism! That’s not even fair!
That’s hoggishness!
In these big days, when one has got to live big, I don’t know which is
the smallest no-account trash—you selfish woman, thinking only of amuse-
ment ; you selfish capitalist, thinking only of a business chance; you selfish
laborer, thinking only of the opportunity to squeeze your employer. You
are all squeezing your country. You are all traitors to our boys out there!
You are all side-stepping your duty.
You are punk citizens!
If the workers who pioneered this country had been like you—there
would never have been any foundation solid as Plymouth Rock to build on.
If the men and women of ’76 had been like you, it’s a weak Constitu-
tion we'd have inherited ; far gone in consumption!
If the Unionists of *60 had been slack-kneed like you, where would lib-
erty be now? Knocked higher than a kite! We’d be all ready to kow-tow
to the Prussian helmets.
It won’t do! You've got to stand stockily behind the boys over there,
with every muscle, every enthusiasm, every thought you've got. You've got
to make sacrifices, and concessions, and give up comforts and prejudices
and present hopes. If you don’t, this great national idea of ours may
weaken ; the army may be handicapped ; the allies may be beaten ;.and we
ourselves may be enslaved. ,
That is about the size of it. It’s not exaggeration, believe me?
Who cares? Then show it by your actions.
Be big and generous and patriotic, whether you are employer or em-
ployed.
Be strong and helpful to the government, whether you are a manior a
woman.
Then, when the brave boys come back, you needn’t be ashamed to face
them, wounds and all. :
Suppose America Had Been Insulter;
Would Teutons Have Declared War?
By H. A. WAGNER
Chairman of Executive Committee, Wiscousin Loyalty League
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We have citizens of alien birth or alien parentage—mostly | en of
sterling character, of honorable motives, of patriotic tendencies, an of lov-
able human qualities, whose sympathy with their fatherland orsshat of
their parents has so beclouded their vision that they have been unable as
yet to sce that this country has been forced into this war 4nd that it needs
and deserves the same enthusiastic support of all its citizens that they so
admire in the people of the countries with whom we are at war.
To get a clear vision of the situation let us assume that conditions
had been reversed—let us say that during our war with Spain our official
representatives in Germany had forged German passports, had fomented
strikes and dissatisfaction in its industries, and planned and carried out the
destruction of property and lives of its citizens, had boldly violated the
laws which were to protect its citizens while they themselves were enjoy-
ing the protection of those very laws; that they had brazenly criticized its
form of government and had vilified and sneered at its highest officials.
Suppose that our government had deliberately destroyed German ships and
German lives while our ships were being protected against the enemy ‘by
Germany in its own harbors. Suppose that after being warned by Ger-
many that a repetition of these outrages would result in a declaration of
war, we had instructed our ambassador at Berlin to arrange with France
and Russia to attack Germany, if the latter declared war on us—that we
would finance the enterprise, and reward them with a liberal slice of Ger-
man territory. If our government had been guilty of such perfidy, such
brutality, such arrogance and such stupidity in its dealings with Germany,
would the latter have docilely submitted or would it have sprung to its arms
when the first outrage occurred to uphold its rights and to protect its citi-
zens ? aR [hale parr" pass bo ms
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Good Health Depends on Condition
‘of Heart, Lungs, Liver, Etc.
¢ By GEORGE M. MARTIN
Director of Physical Education, Central Y. M. C. A., Chicago
‘We used to feel that a big man or a man with big muscles was neces-
sarily the healthier and even today we frequently hear the remark, “Why,
he looks so big and healthy” or “He looked so strong and well!” The
word “health” is synonymous with “wholeness” and a chain is no stronger
than its weakest link.
I remember attending a side show where a strong man, expanding his
chest, apparently broke a heavy chain. Investigation showed that by
spreading and hammering back one of the links it had been crystallized
and was therefore exceedingly weak. The surface looked fine but the core
was rotten. A flabby muscle is not only the chasm between willing and
doing but may be also the weakness in an otherwise strong chain. It may
even be a cesspool through which the blood passes in its course around the
body. A city’s water supply may be unexcelled and the mains good but if
one section is bad and the sewage gets in then the whole is tainted. In the
human body it is not the quantity but the quality which counts.
The unused muscle is neither ready to meet the emergency of sudden
exertion nor to resist disease. We do not need much muscle in city life,
and more than we need is too expensive to keep up. No business man is
going to pay the upkeep of a hundred-ton crane in his work if his
heaviest load is never over five tons. Muscles larger than necessary for
health are a drain on vitality to keep up, and frequently the very strong
man or the very big-muscled man goes under, until now we hear frequent-
ly, “give me the wiry man for endurance.” Again, the size of muscle and
body produced by normal hygienic conditions plus vigorous exercise of
large muscles will give you the most enduring physique. Real health de-
pends on the condition of heart, lungs, stomach, liver, kidneys and so
forth, as well as muscle and it takes constant vigorous exercise to deve’op
these or maintain organized vigor.
“Yes. Shall I bring it in?”
Once upon a time—that is before
the war—nothing ever presumed to
dispute the supremacy of the tailored
suit for street wear, and nothing will
require men to make them and in
France the men were gone to war.
So “the dressmaker’s dress” came in,
the one-piece, daytime frock made its
appearance on the street. We have
gone further now, as war has com-
pelled economy, and we have two-in-
one frocks and daytime frocks that
are evidently made for street wear in
place of a suit.
Both a tailored suit and a daytime
frock for street wear are shown in
the illustration as examples of good
styles for young women. In the suit
the coat is made interesting by point-
ed panels at the back and front, over-
lapping pointed side pieces and fin-
ished with rows of large bone buttons
ever outclass it. But tailored suits.
in its skirt. The sleeves are long and | buttons, reveal expert designing. And
a white embroidered overcollar calls | the wide, soft girdle on the front of
attention to the fact that the coat is | the skirt bears further witness to it.
cut high in the neck at the back,
which is characteristic of this season’s
coats. The skirt is plain, as it should
be, and is shorter than the modes of
the season authorize—a concession to
the youthfulness of its wearer.
The dress of navy blue satin is
somewhat complicated. The skirt is
in one piece but has the effect of a
tunic caught up at the sides near the
bottom with satin-covered buttons.
The bodice gives the impression of a
short coat, open in front to the waist-
line where it fastens with hook and
eye and is finished with two satin-
covered buttons. It is cleverly ex-
tended at each side to form a panier
drapery over the hips. The ends of
the drapery are brought up to the
bodice at the back. The narrow,
shawl collar and long sleeves, extend-
ed into flaring cuffs over the hard
and finished with small satin-covered
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Millinery in Established Styles
In millinery, as in other things, the
season's styles have gravitated toward
a few types that have established
themselves and will last as long as the
summer lasts—and perhaps longer.
One may be sure of them anywhere.
Among them are wide-brimmed and
moderately wide-brimmed sailor
shapes, small hats that have a sugges-
tion of the poke bonnet in their lines
and the cloche or drooping-brimmed
bell shape, with its brim a little wider
than in the beginning of spring. These
persist among others that are almost
as popular; as small turbans and me-
dium-sized turbanlike shapes with spir-
ited brim lines and coronets. The lgst
is a type that women of middle age
like best.
Plenty of variety appears in these
favored shapes in popular hats. One
does not look for eccentricities in the
shapes themselves; but in the trim-
mings all sorts of pretty whims find
expression, especially among street
hats. An example of this appears in
the smart hat with curled quill trim-
ming that is shown in the accompany-
ing picture. This model has been made
in black and in several colors—each
hat all in one color—with brim and
side crown of caterpillar braid, facing
and top crown of satin. The quill
that trims it is of the same satin and
is the spice of the creation. It departs
from the way of quills, leaving their
straight and narrow path to follow a
willful spiral of its own.
A beautiful wide-brimmed hat 1s
made of crepe georgette faced with
braid. The upper part of the crown is
covered with folds of crepe and the
lower part with a smooth band of it
trimming. Large satin acorns express
a happy afterthought of the designer.
This hat would be pretty in sand-color
or gray or white for midsummer.
Black is the best choice for the re-
maining hat. It is of lisere braid and
taffeta silk with a narrow collar of
grosgrain ribbon. It is given a crisp,
military style by upstanding ostrich
feathers at the front. They are un-
curled and brilliant and are set on with
a handsome jet ornament.
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New Shaded Red.
The new shade of red known as
Wilson red or Swiss red is really very
taking, especially early in the spring.
It ought to look well even in mid-
summer at the seashore or in the coun-
try, but of course the favor in which a
color is held at this date is no criterion
of the midsummer favor it may enjoy.
At all events, just now all sorts of
odds and ends are featured in this
clear new shade of red. Especially ef-
fective are the many red beads that
shop keepers have dug up from some
forgotten corner and that manufactur-
ers have rushed to the shops. They
are strikingly pretty with white blouses
and especially for the young girl
Jersey Suits.
The sleeveless idea is in high favor
in three-plece suits, of jersey, or jersey
and silk stockinette, or of silk stockin-
ette and tricotine.
The very smart three-piece semisport
suits have a sweaterlike bodice of silk
stockinette with jersey sleeves, a skirt
that makes a perfect background for
the tie of narrow moire ribbon and |
embroldered leaves that form ‘le |
| of jersey and a 32 or 34-inch sleeveless
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Russian Land Question.
“The economists, sociologists and
statesmen of Russia seem agreed that
communal land-holding is an outgrown
system. They want the muzhiks to be
acted upon by the same individualizing
and stimulating forces which have put
the French farmer and the American
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Beulah—\Weren’t you in the conserv-
atory with Fred last night?
Belle—Yes, I was.
“It was dark. wasn’t it?
“Yes, pitch dark.”
“Did he say «nything?
“Of course.”
“What?”
“Oh, I couldn’t hear what he said.”
“How do you know he sald any-
thing?”
“Because I felt his lips move.”
“How do jou know his-lips:moved?
“Now, that's just like you! You al-
ways want to find out everything!”
A man’s idea of sympathy is to look
sad and pat a girl’s hand
A promising young mam Is good,
hut a paying one is hetter
War Demands
Saving of Sugar,
Sass of Fo.
Use of other
Grains with Wheat
* =No Waste.
GrapeNats
answers every .
demand. it's an
economical, nour
ishing and deli-
cious food, a build-
er and maintainer
of Vigor and Health.
Try it.
“There's a Reason”
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