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make creamy biscuits, and how to
churn and how to set bread, and make
pie, and what's the best way of scald-
ing out a crock, and where to plant
flower seeds so they's grow, and what
to have when the minister comes to
tea.
and how to keep bees, and what's
the best way to keep cream sweet;
and apple dumplings and doughnuts
she'll make-and all in pink she'll be,
and a prince will ride by and she'll be
making butter, and he will stop his
horse in the red and white clover and
get down and fall on his knees and ask
her to be his princess. And she will
blush and say, Yes, Prince and they
will ride away to the loveliest little
white cottage in the green trees, and
she will keep house all the rest of her
life, and never see a book or know
what time it is, only supper time
The little girl with the curly hair
took her doll in her slender, sensitive
hands and held it carefully.
She's a Sister" said the little girl
with curly, hair, land she lives in a
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never had any chance. Her folks are
poor and she has to work. I'm going
to send her to the city and have her
go to school; she shall go for years
and years and she shall learn all there
is to be learned. She shall play the pi-
ano, she shall play the fiddle, she shall
play the organ.
she shall talk French and Latin
and Italian and German, and she shall
write the loveliest hand, and she shall
be educated-my doll, and then she
will never have to hold down her head.
There's nothing like being educated
it's the one thing that makes you
proud. If you are educated you can do
anything you want to do, and folks
will say you are smart no matter how
dull you are. Mother says So"
'Pooh!" smiled the chubby girl.
MY doll isn't going to school-she's
going to stay home and learn how to
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MARRIED LIFE THE FIRST YEAR

purse. It's in the top drawer of my
dresser.
A New Disagreement.
Anna brought the purse and Helen
gave her the money.
Don't you always count your
clothes when they come back from the
wash?" Warren's mother asked Sc
verely.
why, l did. but since the baby came
have so little time"
Then how do you know if they are
all returned?"
ooh, | have very good laundress
don't think she ever loses anything"
We'll, must say, Helen that is very
careless. | always make a list when
the wash goes out and then check it
off when the clothes come back And
$3.25-that's a great deal for just you
three. You ought to get your laundry
done cheaper than that"
why, think that is very reasona-
BILE. The baby has great many things
and that includes the towles and
sheets and pillow cases, and she does
them very we'll
Torn Clothes.
Mrs. Curtis left her chair and cross
ed over to the laundry basket well,
she ought to at that price, as she lift
ed the cloth that covered the clothes.
One of the baby's fine white dresses
lay on the top. She took it up critical
ly. The lace on the little yoke was
badly torn. She held it up for Helen to
see.
"And you call this a good laun-
dress?" severely. "She has simply
ruined one of your handmade dresses!
Now, what did I tell you about expen-
sive baby clothes? 1t is a criminal
waste of money. And here's another
with the buttons torn off. And here's
Helen arose, the baby still in her
arms, her eyes flashing angrily
Mrs. Curtis, that is my laundry, and
will ask you not to go through IL If
the clothes are torn | am very sorry,
but | cannot wash them myself.
Asserting Herself.
"I manage the best | can, and |
would much prefer that you did not
constantly scrutinize and criticise all
that I do And think Warren would
prefer it, too"
Mrs. Curtis left, highly indignant.
After the first flush of anger had
worn off, Helen began to regret her
words. After all, she was Warren's
mother, and her advice was meant
only for her good.
She picked up the little dress got
out her sewing basket, and sat down
to mend it. Perhaps she did not man
age very well, she thought sadly; per-
haps about the baby's clothes she had
been foolish and extravagant. But this
was her first aby, and she was doing
the best she could. And a mother-in-
laws surveillance and criticism were
very hard to bear.
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GY DOROTHY DIX.

=" HERE is no other human rela.
tionship that should be so
close as that between mother
and daughter Every step that
the girl must tread the mother has al
ready trodden before her: every ex-
perience that the girl must undergo
the mother has already known: every
impulse that stirs the girls heart the
mother has already felt. And one
would think that out of this very IN
animity of sex and blood and knowl-
edge, and experience there would
grow a sympathy and affection that
would be the strongest tie on earth.
This is far enough from being the
case. There is no other girl alive with
whom the average woman feels so I'M
acquainted as with her own daughter.
and there is no other woman in the en-
tire universe TO whom the girl could
not easier open her heart than TO her
own mother.
No one will deny the truth of this
assertion, or question that this es-
arrangement between mothers and
daughters offers a grave problem for
the consideration of parents. For one
thing, it robs two women of the sweet
est, the most unselfish, and the purest
love they can ever know; and, for an
other, it deprives the girl of the pro-
lection and guidance that would pre-
vent many young creature from max
ing a shipwreck of her life.
1t is not the girl who is friends
with her mother and who tells her
what she thinks who goes wrong il is
the girl who goes to fortune tellers
for advice. who confides her heart
secrets 10 strangers, who meets on the
streets young men of whom her moth
er never heard. and who finds every
place more homelike than her own
home. who furnishes the skeleton for
so many family closets.
Many reasons may be given for this
unfortunate state of affairs, the most
obvious of which is that we put too
much stress on what We call natural
affection. We do not love people simp-
them because they are congenial to
us and because they do something TO
make us love them. Ii is said that
blood is thicker than water. but il is
often also sourer than vinegar, and
there are no other people that so set
our teeth on edge as the uncongenial
people of our own family, to whom
we are bound by the ties of relation
ship.
SOME BETTER CLAIM.
No girl ever yet whispered her shy
little secrets to her mother because
her mother had right to know what
she thought and felt no girl was ever
companionable with her mother be
cause she owed her mother some re
turn for years of care and service.
The woman who wants to be her
daughters best friend has to establish
some better claim upon the girls af.
lection than that.
She has to make the girl feel that
her love and sympathy are an unfail.
ing fountain, to which she can always
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bert Whites Natural History of Sell
borne"-one of the most delightful
books ever written-you will be quick
ly convinced that the bird world is
worth a great deal of attention, and
that those who know nothing about it
are as ignorant of some of natures
greatest charms as are those who do
not know one star from another.
When you go into the country or to
the seashore for your vacation, take
book on ornithology along, and
make acquaintance with the many spe-
cies. Study them with an opera glass
and make photographs of them with
your camera. Learn to distinguish
them from one another not only by
their plumage, but by their songs, their
calls, their manner of flight, the char
acter of their nests and the places
that they frequent; watch their daily
life and habits; follow them through
the fields and into the forests-and
don't shoot them! You will find in this
way that a new source of interest in
the world you live in has been opened
for you.
One of the recollections of child
hood that l should most regret to lose
is that of the wonderful song of
thrush that l used to hear at shutdown,
ringing across the fields from some
far away hidden place. the sweetest
sound lever heard! | would leave my
play and stop to listen in simple won
der. 1t was long before I found out
the name of the bird that sang that
marvellous evening song, which fas-
cinated everyone who listened to it,
and I never caughts sight of the bird
itself, and yet it seems to me that
shall hear that melody as long as the
cells of memory transmit their inn
pressions!
And yet men endowed with the d.
vine gift of human intelligence muir
der birds by Wholesale; murder them
for their plumage; murder them to
get new dainty for jaded appetites;
murder them, most horrible of all, for
the mere sake Of killing; to see their
delicate feathers fly from the impact
of the shot, and their little bodies
drop mangIed upon the ground! And
this is caIIed-SPoRT!
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Towser-down. sir" What stir about
nothing.
Hum-hum, the bees are busy down
there in the clover. Why do they work
so hard all day? There Is honey en-
ough. and to spare. in the round hives
there under the water birch
What's that on the gray old wall
white. pink and scarlet? Why. 1t Is the
Wise Woman, the Milkmaid and the
Sister of Charity. How quiet they all
are, there together on the wall. In the
soft wind and the shining sun. II It.
should rain nowi
The hollyhocks stand tall and proud
and yet humble. too-at the gate
There are always more. aren't there.
little girls? Always more to be had for
the picking What sort of dolls shall
you make next time, / wonder?
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sy MABEL HERBERT uRNER.

nv r Ellen, don't think you
keep the baby dressed
warmly enough
- u "Why it has it's little
flannel skirt and jacket" Helen ans
wered rather shortly. She was grow
ing somewhat FESTIVE under her moth
er-in-Iaw's constant advice about the
baby.
Yes, but it's little hands are cold
now. | think these sheer linen dresses
are too thin. / always had flannelette
slips for my babies in the morning. Ba-
by clothes should be plain and warm;
it isn't necessary that they be so fan
cy. All this lace and hand tucking is
not going to make the baby any more
comfortable.
Helen flushed hotly. Il always
thought everything about a baby
should be dainty and fine. don't think
/ would care to have my baby wear
flannelette.
Grandma's Criticism.
We'll, flannelette was quite good
enough for your husband when he was
a baby" stiffly. Il should think it
would be good enough for his child"
1T isn't a question of it not being
good enough, answered Helen, quietly,
trying to restrain her resentment, but
] prefer to see my baby in dainty
things"
swell, all these expensive dresses
will soon be outgrown. You could have
used your money to much better ad-
vantage than buying hand-embroidered
dresses for a very young baby. War
ren's income is not large enough to
warrant that"
Warren wanted me to have every
thing for our baby the very daintiest
and best more holly. HE did not
think l had been extravagant."
Wholesome Advice.
"Oh, man has no idea about such
things. And, of course, at such time
he wanted to please you. / don't want
to interfere, Helen, but | do think in
the future you should buy the baby
less expensive clothes. When it is
older and can appreciate nice things,
that's time enough to have them. Just
so it's clean and comfortable is all
that's necessary now"
This was undoubtedly very sound adj
vice. If most of the money spent on
expensive baby clothes were saved I'M
til the babies grew up, they would
probably be very grateful. But not
one young mother in thousand ever
stops to think of that.
Just then Anna appeared at the
nursery door with a large basket.
1.-THE laundry, ma'am-$3.25. The
boys waiting.
Put it down there and bring me my
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THE GIRL AND HER MOTHER
1t Is Not the Girl Who Is Friendly With Her Mother
Who Goes Wrong

turn TO refresh herself. and this not
only in big things. but in little ones-
Few mothers have this comprehen-
sion of their daughters. They might
sympathize about a ruined dress, for
clothes are a common level on which
all women meet. but when IL comes
TO little things in which the mother
has no personal interest. the girl who
expects sympathy OF her mother gen.
orally asks for bread and is given a
stone. In the majority of cases a
mothers sympathy narrows down TO
purely personal tastes. and when you
hear woman lamenting that her
Mary is queer" or her Sally such a
disappointment" ninety-nine times
out of hundred il is merely case
of Mary or Sally wanting TO do some
thing that her mother never wanted
her TO do.
CRITIC ON THE HEARTH.
Another bar between mothers and
daughters is that the mother so often
allows herself to be nothing but the
critic on the hearth, and keeps her
self in a sternly disappearing attitude
that frightens away every confidence
as completely as n scarecrow does
timid birds. II there ever was a time
when she was silly and giggling she
has forgotten it. IL there ever was a
time when she thought il triumph TO
adorn herself in seventeen secret fra
ternity pins and wear college colors.
and considered IL madly fascinating
10 have callow youths write tner
names on her fan. she ignores H.
Now the girl is miserably conscious
that she and her friends fall far below
that exalted standard She knows her
mother despises them accordingly. and
she protects herself as best she can
by silence. and by keeping her chums,
male and female, out of her mothers
sight. IL is no wonder that the girl
who knows her mother is going to
ridicule her friends meets them else
where than in her own home. II IL
the mother with the chronic don't"
habit who drives her daughters into
actual wrong-doing.
Another potent cause of friction be
tween mothers and daughters is in the
inability OF mothers to realize that
their daughters are grown and nave
the rights of grown people. There Is.
apparently, no other thing SO impos-
sible as for parents to see that their
adult children resent being treated
like babies. Sometimes a father rises
! to the height of granting his son the
| liberty to do as he pleases. but as
| long as a girl remains at home her
mother considers she has a perfect
right to dictate to her about her
clothes. what she shall eat. and think.
and believe and how she shall breathe.
There is nothing new in these sug-
gestions. Almost every mothers
daughter of us has had a good mother
who would have died for us--and who
rubbed us continually the wrong way
We remember how she worked for
us, and sacrificed for us. and how she
bossed US. and the wonder of IL all Is
that. having been through IL all, and
knowing just how a girl felt, we
should be passing the same kind of
laundering affection on to our own
daughters.
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any real benefit to himself is the tern,
or sea-swallow, some remarkable pho
tographs of which, made in England,
are shown herewith.
They belong to the gull tribe of
birds, and get their popular name
from their curious flight, which re-
sembles that of a land swallow. Like
the true gulls, they have great power
of wing and often go far out to sea.
Including the long tail, they are about
fifteen inches in length, and they pre-
sent very picturesque appearance as
they skim along the surface of the
waves, with their black heads, gray
wings, white bellies and red legs,
catching small fishes and molusks
without stopping, and sometimes div
ing after their prey.
They breed along the coast and Of
ten follow rivers, and even reach in
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convent. There are lilies on the altar
and my little girl raises them in her
convent garden-the tall trees make a
pleasant shade, and there's a little
clear stream running by the gray wall
and white roses climb on the wall, and
the blue-birds build there.
"And it is always quiet and clam
and nobody comes there but Sisters
but sometimes a little girl who is to
make her first communion; she wears
white flowers in her long white veil
and carries lilies in her hands There"
the little girl with the curly hair
caught up a spray of bluebells from
the thick grass at the edge of the old
wall and swung it in her hand
there she said; Sister, don't you
hear the chapel bell ringing?"
And the tall girl with the china blue
eyes is the daughter of poor woman
who has never been to school and who
thinks that all that is good is shut up
in the books she can never understand.
The chubby girl who never wants to
hear of a book is the daughter of a
school teacher and has never been in
a real home in her life And the girl
with curly hair has for mother a
great actress very beautiful and a
very vain woman-who likes a crowd
about her night and day, and who new
er was quiet in all her restless life
Is il so with all of us, wonder
what we cannot have we long for bit
terly?
Here comes the shaggy dog. he
wants TO play. Hurrah, The little girls
are on 70 ra scamper. Up hill and
down dale they go; laughing, painting.
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Remarkable Cure Of oysen.erS.

Il was attacked with dysentery
about July 18th, and used the doctors
medicine and other remedies with no
relief, only getting worse all the time.
was unable to do anything and my
weight dropped from las to lbs pounds.
I suffered for about two months when
was advised to use Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
/ used two bottles of IL and IL gave
me permanent relief" writes b. w.
Hill. of Snow Hill. N. C. For sale by
all dealers.
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THE HOLLYHOCK DOLLS
BY WiNIFRED BLACK.

~ HE three little girls sat by the
old stone wall, making dolls.
They picked each silky bios
som from the hol1yhock near
est at hand. The tall girl with the Chi
ma blue eyes chose a scarlet blossom,
the chubby girl with the freckles
chose pink flower, and the little girl
with the curly hair chose hollyhock
of satiny white.
Now" said the three girls and they
took slender blades of grass and tied
the hollyhock blossom about the mid
die and made petti-skirt flounce and
ruffled and fluted and they tied little
silken hood of petals over the green
button that is the center of the flow
er, and 10! there stood a dainty lady
balanced on the stone wall like a dan
Ger bowling to a great audience.
My doll is a country girl said the
tall girl with china blue eyes She's
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THE LESSON OF A FALSE WIFE
Copyright. 1918, by Star Company.

ny
kind of honor to be known as a para
mOur of a married woman; but he re-
CARDS it dishonor to be that woman's
husband when she is liberated, and at
his command.
Yet in spite of the fact that such
cases are to be seen in the world all
about us, other women take no warn
ing, and rush into similar compromis-
ing situations, blindly believing the af-
finity will be eager and glad to claim
her as his own, once she is free.
Neglected Wives Should Ponder
Long Before Seeking
Affinity.
When a wife, however neglected and
misused she may be, begins to confide
her trouble to another man, and to
seek for his sympathy, it will be we'll
for her If she turns over the files of
old newspapers and reads some of the
divorce trials which are occurring and
reoccurring every year.
1t will be we'll for her if she sits
alone in her room and recalls some of
the cases she has personally known,
and seeks vainly to find shining exam
pies of brave and loyal lovers who
have stood boldly by their scandalized
mistresses and protected them with
fine honor to the very altar.
And if she finds such examples, she
would do we'll to follow them through
| the years after the marriage, and see
how many have brought the woman
happiness in her new relations.
False Wife Lessons Her Value i'm
Eyes of the Other Man.
There is something about a woman
who has proven false to her marriage
VOWS and who has compromised her
self with another man which seems to
lessen her value even in the eyes of
the man who has led her into folly;
and it is seldom that peace or happi-
ness ever accompanies the two across
the threshold of a new life.
Men are quick to boast of the favors
of married women.
But they do not prize them.
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THE MURDER OF THE BIRDS

to that of the arrival of the conquer
ing Normans.
The story of the terms serves to
call attention to one of the most neg
lected parts of everybody's education.
The man or woman who knows the
birds is a rara avis t''rare bird") in
these days and that. too. when so
much is said of the charms and won.
ders of natural history. Even in the
country. there are only about half a
dozen birds, such as the robin. the bob
olink, the barn swallow, the blue-bird
and the sparrow that any person you
meet can tell you anything about. For
most people birds are only birds Yet if
you will read such a book as old Gill
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1t has been estimated that the num-
Der of recruits available for the
French army was reduced from 23s.-
900 in 1906 to $4,000 in 1911. owing
to the diminution of the birth rate in
France
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Sacrificed Her to Shield Himself
in Divorce Scandal.

The price he demanded for the let
tiers was the husbands promise to OBJ
tain the divorce quietly and make no
mention of the correspondents name.
And this was the Romeo for whom
a wife had sacrificed her honor and
her good sense, and her self-respect!
What humiliation of spirit, what
self-contempt, what shame she must
have experienced when the miserable
story came to her knowledge.
When the husband obtained his di-
vorce, the lover was not waiting out
side her door to sanctify the relation
by marriage
He was hurrying to distant scenes
to avoid any unpleasant notoriety,
He was one of many men who are
ever ready to enjoy the position of
lover to married woman, but are not
at all eager to make the woman a wife
after she is freed.
That type of man feels it certain
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MONG the interesting ami
mails that man has succeed
ed in more or less complete
1y DISCRIMINATING without
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BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

~
~ infatuated with man who
Il was not her husband. She
wrote this man a letter ev-
cry day.
Wild, reckless, impassioned, impru-
dent letters, which the judge refused
to allow read in court.
She believed her lover would guard
her letters like precious gems, and
that he would in every way protest
her name.
The husband naturally, in time,
learned of the relations existing be-
tween his wife and the other man.
He began proceedings for divorce
So soon as the lover learned of this
he went to the husband and asked for
a private interview.
Then he informed the injured man
that he had package of letters in his
possession which would make it an
easy matter for the divorce to be gain
ed.
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purse. It's in the top drawer of my
dresser.
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~ HERE is no other human rela.
tionship that should be so
close as that between mother
and daughter. Every step that
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