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man cannons. From your little boy,
 Ebert Billingsley.


 Prescott, Arkansas. Hello Santa Claus. Please bring me pair of gloves, some oranges, nuts, candy and doll. l am nine year old.
 Your little school girl,
 Jessie Billingsley.
 Prescott, Arkansas. Hello Dear Sandy Claus please send me pair of gloves and some fire crackers and little automobile and some apples nuts oranges and candy and Dear sandy pleas Remember my little Brother willie send him little wagon and knife.
 Your little boy
 John Auxier.
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Woman.
Topeka Capital.

Topeka Capital.
 Every time she leaves home a "
 man dies a thousand deaths brousn, ', on by the fear that the house ~A. M
 catch fire and burn down during he' absence.
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CLAUS LETTERS

O AXV II N ~Ax \
 Prescott, Arkansas. Dear Santa
 I want stick of candy like that in Carl Porters. My bud want a drum and horn I would like dolly that can cry and go to sleep. You forgot me last Xmas I want a green dress like Fay Newth and some red ribbons. Brother Charlie will take a shat gun like Terrell Moore bring me turkey and ice cream.
 Your little girl,
 Minnie Tagard
  Rosston, Arkansas. Dear Santa Claus:- I am a little girl six years old. I want big doll and some pretty dishes doll trunk and some fruit and candy and please don't forget the poor lit tie children that have no papa and mama.
 Your little girl,
 Evelyn Walloch.
 
 Prescott, Arkansas. Gear Santa Clause I arn little girl years old and I want you to bring me doll and a set of little dishes son candys nuts and fruit and please don't forget my littleb rother and sister Deward and Nellie and little Gertrude Pye.
 Your little friend.
 Fife Tyner.
 k
 Prescott, Arkansas Dear Santa Clause 1 am little Boy years old want you to bring me an air gun French harp some candys nuts and fruits and please don't forget my little friend Afford Sinclair at Warren, Ark.
 Your little friend,
 Rufus Tyner.
 Prescott, Arkansas. Dear Santy Claus:- 1 am little boy nine years old. go to school every day. I like my teacher fine.
 1 will tell you what l want. I want a want a pair of roller Skates, box of P shells form y gun, little Goat and wagon, and lots of nuts, candy, oranges, and Bananas. I guess that is all I want be sure and don't for get my sister.
 From Joe P. Stoudt. P. s. Oh yes, and be sure and bring me some frecrackers and watch.
 Prescott, Arkansas. Dear Santa
 l am little girl 10 years of age please bring me a sleepy doll 24 in. long bannaes, apples. oranges. nuts candy, handkerchief and a yard of rosy ribbon. by by don't forget me A school girl.
 Maggie Billingsley.
 
 Prescott, Arkansas. Dear Stanta
 I am a little boy years old. Please bring me pair of gloves. ap- pies, oranges. candy nuts. handker- chief, fire checkers, and knife with a chain.
 A school boy,
 Abraham Arnott. Don't forget my little brothers Jam es and Jessie.
 Prescott, Arkansas Dear Santa Claus
 l am little girl just nine years old. live on the Okolona road four miles from Prescott. Don't forget me l want Whistle and a whirelygig and whip that will chack hammer and hatchet and box of tacks.
 Ruth Wilson.
 
 Prescott, Arkansas. Hello Dear Santy Claus pleas send me doll and a little Brown Apples oranges nuts and candy your little girl
 Ethel Auyior
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A.-As--...4 -. .NI US LETTERS Prescott, Arkansas. Hello Dear Sandy please send me a little doll and scarf and pair of gloves and apples nuts oranges and candy Your little School girl, Bessie Auxier.
  Prescott, Arkansas. Dear Santy
 I want bycycle some marbles ap- pies candy nuts and some oranges. I am going to the Buchanan School house. am years of age. In the third grade and I want a little negro that climbs up string will close. Dillon Mcclure. Rochelle, La. Dear Santa. Please come to my house early and bring me lots of things I want some fruit candy oranges baby doll with lots of cloths in trunks tea set with tray and five cups. Don't forget the little children who haven't any mothers and father. l will go to bed early and shut my eyes. Your little girl, Vanway Virginia Smith. P. s. Don't forget, Meril, Allie, Billy and Louis and grandma and grandpa.
 Prescott, Arkansas. Santa Claus: 1 am a little girl twelve years old. Please bring me some apples, nuts, doll "A in. high, an auto cap and yards of black ribbon.
 A school girl
 Ida Billingsley.
 
 Prescott, Arkansas. Santa Calus:
 I am litle girl twelve years old. 1 go to Buchanan school and learn all l can. l want you to bring me tea set, candy, oranges, apples and nuts.
 Your little girl,
 Velma Billingsley.
 Prescott, Arkansas. Dear Santay am little boy eleven year old. 1 go to school and in the second reader. I want you to bring me some marbles nuts candy and all kinds of fruit and fire crackers. that's all. Your truly Dalton Buchanan.
 
 Prescott. Arkansas. Dear Santa claws I am a little boy nine years old and 1 want you to please bring me a little wagon and lots of candy and fruits nuts of all kind please don't forget my little bro- ther. Your truly
 Neel Buchanan. l Prescott, Arkansas. Dear Sata Claus I am a little girl Il years old and I am in the fifth grade when you come by my house l want you to bring me a gold ring and bracelet and sleeping doll apples nuts oranges, candy and a doll buggy Your little girl
 Miriam Wilson. Santa Claus don't forget me. Prescott, Arkansas. Hello Santa Claus: l l am little boy six years old. Santa l want some apples, oranges, nuts, candy, knife with a chain on it, rubber ball, fire checkers and a French harp. Santa don't forget me Mammals Baby boy Owen Billingsley.
 Prescott, Arkansas. Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me bycicle, top, and some candy, apples oranges and an air gun.
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May Day bring forth it's share of the Good Things life and Happiness and real Content Above al may be day spent among those Live the Best and who Love May that which unprotabe and unpleasant during the Nine Hundred Fourteen disappear with the old and Health Good Fortune and Happiness be companions for 1915.
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Appreciation.

The Spirit Of The Season prompts express to you our Appreciation for the us during the mast year. We hope 1914 has proven extend Sincere Merry Christmas and Han py New Year.
The Prescott daily news., 1914-12-23
For 1915!

RESOLVE-you and Ito do better than we did in 1914-beer for ourselves our families for our for all humanity So that when January first rolls round truly ay have just year of my life" Here's hoping can all say just that
The Prescott daily news., 1914-12-23
A Bountiful 1915!

This Bank appreciates the business during the 1914 by it's depostor The Officers deos of showing that the confidence reposed in the Bank the of the public appreciated The continuance of helpful and accommodating this appreciation will be shown.
The Washington times., 1914-08-21

and and all that sort OF thing. AS
matter OF fact. she was a New York
modiste. They've since discovered /.
/ gather from the fact that Mrs. Hen
derson was positively scandalized and
the moIiste was ashamed of her voca-
tiOn that economic snObbery among
women is fairly we'll developed"
You're right. Peter" said mother
nodding. It's an unfortunate fact. but
II s true
You know" said, you never meet
a girl who writes. or sketches. or dab
bles in music. or the stage profession
ally. but what she let's you know II in
short order-almost as soon in fact. as
the collegian takes the opportunity to
quote his college so that you'll know
he's a college man. But II girl is a
clever typist. or a dressmaker. or a
milllner, she keeps It strictly to her
sell"
You have struck a point. Peter said
mother quietly. that I've always felt
very strongly about. Id like to see col
lege girls deliberately turn their heads
and their hands 10 simpler occupations
and really put some effort in it. AS II
is now. most of that work is left to
women who are cleverer with their
fingers than they are with their heads.
liIldSlht the result d pTl illSHl ODldlH
who was clever both with her fingers
and her head
''She ought to get excellent results"
| admitted cordially.
Take, for instance. a girl who has
made wonderful doll things as a young
ster Send her to college and instantly
she forgets the skill of her fingers and
lays too much stress on the skill OF her
head She wants to write tAgedies in
blank verse and tries. II she fails,
The Washington times., 1914-08-21

she's broken-hearted and we have on
our hands a very poor playwright minus
the dinamic life force of cheertinnes=
and content where we might have had
an excellent modiste. AL Peter, be-
cause of this economic snobbery. as you
so aptly term II"
"lt's an idea with tremendous possi-
bilities." / suggested, for men as well
as women. \ good carpenter gets lots
more money than a routine clerk. Yet
there are an overplus OF clerks and too
few good carpenters. Why not college
carpenters. etc?
If college girls took up dressmaking
and nursing and millinery went on
mother, we'd soon eliminate all this
foolish snobbcry and attain excellent re-
suits. A girl with skill In designing
might better be designing clever clothes
and hats than. say. wall paper and fol-
de-rOls.
Goodness knows, a good percentage
: Of women need somebody to design bet
ter clothes for them I exclaimed.
There. by the way. is good vocation
for clever girl. Confidential dress
| adviser If she had brains and taste
enough, she could keep the fat woman
! from wearing fussy things and the tall,
I thin one from wearing up and down
| stripes. imagine a handful of clever
girls like that could work revolution
in dress | may be mistaken. but il
The Washington times., 1914-08-21
TEDDY is LOST-FOR A WHILE.

on the porch. she said yes without
looking at him.
Poor Ted stumbled out on the
porch and put his head in his hands;
he simply could not read that book,
Yet he would rather die than disap-
point dear Mrs. Tabby. He was so
ashamed OF himself as IL was that
he did not know what TO do. Sud
denly he raised his head. picked up
the book and started aWay.
When Mrs. Tabby came out an
hour later and found him gone. she
sat right down and cried. for she
thought that she had driven him
away-'TO goodness knows where
she sObbed. Then she sat up and
wiped her eyes. This is no Wav for
me TO act she said to herself I'm
just take look around for him
But look as she might. she could not
find Ted. nor could any of the kitty
girls and boys
The last place TO go TO tell the
news was to Granny Tabby's house.
and the kitties STAYED sorrowfulll at
home while Mrs. Tabby went. She
had a very determined look on her
face. and although the road was hot,
dusty. and flew up on her soft. clean
fur. she hurried along very fast.
She MUST find him. The more she
thought about it. the sweeter and
dearer the adopted kitty boy seemed
TO her.
She went into Granny Tabby's gate
without looking up. but some one
called 10 her-she glanced over on
the lawn, and almost sat down on
the ground in her surprise and re-
ef For there. sitting in the lap OF
Miss Flax. the dolly girl. was Teddy.
calmly reading while Miss Flax
looked over his shoulder and cor
Tected the mistakes.
Mrs. Tabby called to Ted TO come
The Washington times., 1914-08-21
Answers to Health
Questions

A: 6. Nam twenty years of age and
quite unable to grow a mustache Is
there any way to change this?
Growth Of hair in the flesh is an In
herited matter. Massage will help a
little bit.
X. F.-My eyebrows are light brown.
How can I make them darker?
II you will gently rub sulphur oint-
ment in one night and ammoniated mer-
curry ointment in the next night-be
careful that they do not go on the skin
they will grow thicker and darker.
B.-what will prevent falling hair7
My hair Is extremely dry and thin.
Try the electric hair brush and scalp
massage, and use this twice day:
Resorcin. Is grains; balsam Peru.
dram: sulphur loti. drains: castor oil.
IA drains; oil theobrome. drains.
A Constant Reader.-What will pre-
vent dandrurr and itching scalp? What
will prevent gases of the stomach.
About two hours after eating gas forms
on the stomach?
Rub this into the scalp twice a day:
Ralsam Peru. three drains; Cocoa But
ter, three drains: Sulphur. three drains;
Resorcin, FIVE grains: Castor Oil. three
ounces.
Take a teaspoonful Of Milk of Mag
nesia before meals.
Mrs. E. w.-Please give a remedy for
inflamed and swollen ankles.
1t would be inadvisable to give you
a remedy without an examination OF
your heart. kidneys and blood.
Mrs NJ. S.-What Is the cause Of ring
worm and what is the cure? Also what
is the cause of constant headache
in the back of the head and what can
be done for same?
l. Ringworm Is caused by a mold
which grows on the skin. Ammoniated
mercury ointment is the germictde
which kills the ringworm.
.. Aromatic spirits of ammonia. char
coal after meals, milk of magnesia be-
, fore meals and more sleep.
D. E. G.-I saw where you advise
camphor water for burning feet. Can
The Washington times., 1914-08-21
pH
By FLORENCE E. YODER.

vNDER the kindly influence
Of Mrs. Tabby and her fam-
fly of kitty girls and boys.
Teddy. the stray kitty. be-
came a very different person. He
was scarcely ever thought OF as
fly. and Mrs Tabby feared only
one thing from him.
He was inclined TO run away. OF
course. all children do that. and it
Is not such an awful 5 gn. but Mrs.
Tsbby was afraid that Ted would
roam away from Tabby!and entire
ly What would happen TO him in
case he did she did not know. but
she had grown TO love him almost
az greatly as she did her own kitty
children.
Every time that she punished or
scolded him. she was a little wor-
ried. but he usually came around
bright and smiling after the trou-
Die had cleared.
For some time she had been think
ing of speaking To him about his
reading. In the summer she had
hoped that by doing a little work
he could catch up. and be in the
same grade with Tommy in the fall.
She knew that he would be very
sorry TO have his other playmates
ahead of him. So she taught him a
thousand things ne had not learned.
bow TO walk without a sound, how
TO behave before Older PEOPLE, how to
call for just what he wished. and
how and what he. as a kitty boy.
was entitled to catch, in the way
OF birds and mice. But the hardest
thing of all was to teach him 10
read. He loved the other lessons,
but could not settle down long
enough 10 learn 10 read well.
At last one day Mrs. Tabby was
compelled to give him a good spank
ing. He had been told to study. and
had been put away with his book,
but all he did was TO hang out of
the window and watch the birds.
making queer little noises in his
throat and twitching his nose
Mrs. Tabby caught him right in
the act, and turned him over her
knee then and there. She looked
very solemn as she let him go, and
SAAa - aStsd u hs could study out
The Washington times., 1914-08-21

at sea. Indeed, usually thousand fur
longs Of sea Is far from a desirable ex-
change for an acre of even the most
barren ground.
But. when the dust and dirt of town
and country are to be Stunned: when the
rumble-bumble Of silly chatter is to be
avoided: with the sot-ways. the delu-
sfons. the habits and the axed ideas of
nome. neighbors and associations: then
the sunny stretches of clean beach and
the singing sad sea waves contain a
soiace and healing power not to be dis
regarded.
The sea! the sea! the open sea!
The blue. the fresh, the ever free,
Like the ocean bird, health IL found
Tar out upon the ocean. The assuase-
ment Of pain and the alleyiation OF
PHYSICAL discomforts are not the only
recompense for sea trip, sojourn al
the shore and ocean bathing.
The diversions Of the seashore with
the outdoor life, the change of diet. the
novel panoramas, the strange people, the
new experiences-all these have a mos,
/ worries. perverted memories and tht
like.
oh! what can sanctify the Joys of home
Like hopes gay glance from oceans
troubled foam
Water itself and even FRESH air NAV
be had in immeasurable supplies any.
where. To use these, however, as a
physic.- you must HE you to the wide
strands with the tapping waves of the
seven seas laying your feet below. and
Phoebus In his greatest glory On your
head burning bacilli to perdition ana
tlistering fresh ambition into your very
soul.
Tho swish and dash and wash and wa,
of the breakers along the beach at dead
of night luil the sleepless one to SOUND
slumbers. You hear the soft familiar
dashings and you are soothed into the
Land Of Nod.
Copyright 1914. Newspaper Feature Service.
The Washington times., 1914-08-21

seems to me that only about one woman
in thirty knows how to dress to suit
her size and coloring. Some women are
clever enough to give an impression OF
youth and slenderness merely by the
art of dress-but not many. Do you
think II Is all right for married women
TO work, mother?''
why not?" asked mother. provided
she has fulfilled her duty to nature and
borne children. Isn't il better, Peter to
help out a little than take your spare
afternoons for bridge whist and Brown
ing clubs? What dreadfully futile waste
of energy to spend hours boring for the
abstruse meaning of Browning when
you might be helping your son and
daughter TO a college course by the ap-
plica ton of a forgotten talent"
Mother Is easily the most sensible per-
son I know.
(Copyright. 1914. Newspaper Feature Service }
The Washington times., 1914-08-21

/ wrecked inland than ever were losy
one obtain camphor water at drug
stores or do you mean to use cam
phor oil in water?
Either. 1t Is made in this way and
you may do either.
E. C. M.-Does Digatalis have any
harmful effect on the heart? What
Is meant when medicine Is called
a heart defender.
Digatalis like all other drugs Is
poisonous and In unskilled hands
may cause death.
A heart defender usually Is under
stood to be drug to protect the heart
from further dangers.
J. d. ST. Have heard there Is a
voluntary action which causes faint
ing. VIII you please tell me IL this
Is true? Q. Rub vaseiine on face every
night. Sometimes get in eyes; VIII this
hurt them?
1. Yes. it is true to simulate fainty
spells.
2 No, the vaseline will not hurt
your eyes.
vaccine is sold to board of health at
reduced rates. Does the board of health
vaccinate people at low rates?
The Maryland and Baltimore health
board give vaccine without charge to
anyone that applies for injections.
Respectfully Yours-My foot turned
| over two years ago and I fell down
stairs. There Is a lump under my. ankle
very tender which jumps back and
forth and seems to be between the skin
and flesh.
This should be ,AeIled out by a SER
geon II, as suspected. 1t is ganslion.
4
G. A. S.-How Is limo water nader
How can ! obliterate blackheads and a
red spot left after squeezing them out?
1. Get quicklime and slack IT twice.
then wash 1t again with water and add
water 10 1t and pour the water OF of
! IL and use.
2 Do not squeeze the blackheads
out Massage them out with sterilized
surgical gauze.
cause of grtttfng my teeth In my sleep?
~ Ny back Is broken out with pinn-
Pies What is the cause? -sa- -
l. This is due to retiring too late.
having excitement before bedtime. eat
ing. and drinking at night.
2. Use ammoniated mercury ointment
for the back
s. BIS there anything that viii
darken the eyebrows and lashes without
I1nJurtng the eyes?
Oil and exposure. to sunlight and
colored cosmetic wakes.
K. X: What Is sciatica rheumatism
and cure is there for It?
Your letter Is not definite enough for
me to say what you have. there are
many maladies that go by the name Of
rheumatism"
Buck: What makes one feel tired
when they get up in the morning?
Evidently you do not take enough
exercise in the fresh air. Eat plenty OF
green vegetables, fruit, and drink twen-
ty glasses Of water a day.
w. Reimer: Does constipation cause
dizziness. especially in the morning?
Can constipation be cured? Could you
recommend remedy TO cure II?
Yes, constipation causes dizziness.
Yes. Take harmless laxative of which
there are many.
DR.. Hirshbero t1ill oHstoer questions
for readers of this paper on medical
hyoieRic and sanitation subjects that are
of general interest. He toiI not under
! take to prescribe or offer ddvtce for In
diridual cases Where the subject - not
of general interest letters tctll be on
srered personally, u q stamped and adj
dressed envelope IS inclosed. Address an
inquiries to DR.. L. x. Hirshber0 core
this office.
The Washington times., 1914-08-21

the bell calling from there through the
gray lakes the fog this morning.
When Lifes Fog Lifts.
"a dreamI A dream," It called This worlds a
dream" And 3d. indeed. seemed. while the fog was
soft and gray. -
But nowhere the children running in with the
sunshine turning their hair to gold and their cheeks
the kisses of the other
them. and the birds have begun to
gossip again the foaming green
willow gone for the day. the and creeping
fog. . .
great warships n the bay the little boats begin 60
entertainment aboard this morning,
doubt.
bellows the great ship mooing down the bay
right Of the leader of great heard
calls a verdant pasture
Room. and all the lesser craft scurry out Of the
way to give the great ship room-and the shines
and birds sing and the children laugh in the garden
and there is no longer any fog.
Some day. wonder. will the fog Of stupid misappre.
around great worlds of whose existence have
dreamed?
The insects down there is the roots-~hat world
their own they have I wonder what they think of
up here-are like giants stalking awkwardly
through strange fog?
This table whereon write-a wise tells me
the very wood is instinct with life I Law down
hand upon the table and under the of it are
millions of little molecules. and cannot believe
what my friend the wise man. tells me.
Some day-some day-w-hen the gray fog of human
limitations that shuts out much from human sight
shall lift, who knows what wonders We shall seer
The Washington times., 1914-08-21
THE TIMES BEDTIME STORY

home soon. hid her surprise as best
she knew how. and went back home
again.
Now. never tell that We mis-
trusted him." she cautioned her
kitty children. for he is doing his
very best" They all agreed that he
was.
Copyright, 1914, by Florence E Yoder.)