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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-03-09

dear. the only thing I want you 10
bring is yourself. l know you're too
busy TO bother about shopping, so
cont try. About Winifred just bring
her some little thing-a coll will do.
Dolls are always easy to get, and
she loves them better than anything.
Have you written your mother you
are coming soon? I've thought of
calling her up this morning and tell
ing her. Your letter had made me
SO happy that I want to make every
one else so. Perhaps / was rather
abrupt when she was here that day,
and / feel now that / should like to
tel her ] am sorry-if only I knew
how. After ALL dear. she is your
mother and / canont bear to think
that she feels unkindly toward me.
Pussy Purrmew just made that blot.
She insists on sitting up on the desk
as / write, and every now and then
puts out her paw 10 catch the pen.
You ought to have seen Winifred
playing with her this morning-she
was very sweet. She had the kitten
on it's back trying to make il play
"Patty-cake" with its paws.
Oh, dear. he whole world seems
different now that you're coming
back. If only / could put into words
all that it does mean to me. I'm
going TO write you again tonight But
I felt that | must write this now.
With love-oh. great deal OF love
HELEN"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-03-09
THE THOUGHT OF WAR
REN'S HARDSHIPS MELTS
HELEN INTO TEN DERNESS

the desire to bring her something
that, too. from him, was an unusual
consideration.
Happy Anticipations.
And he was coming home soon
very soon, And he was coming in
happier and better mood because the
deal was going through! For Helen
the whole world seemed changed by
this letter To her ii meant as much
as the most ardent lOVe-letter would
have meant to anyone else.
The sentence. Now, Kitten, what
shall / bring yOu2" and. take good
care Of yourself, little woman seem
ed TO glOrify the whole letter And
all through between the lines she read
into IL her own version of tenderness
And the part where he said. SO
if I've kicked at the expenses back
there-its because I've been up
against it hard. Knew I'd need every
cent L could scrape together TO put
this deal over" To Helen that atoned
for ALL with a rush of love and
tenderness she thought of the hard
ships he had undergone out there.
All the resentment and bitterness that
she had felt was swept away IN
flood of compassion.
1t had been hard for him-harder
than she knew. And she could have
made more allowances for this, she
told herself reproachfully.
She should have considered that he
was worried and anxious and har-
assed, and should not have resented
his letters, even though they did seem
harsh and unjust.
There is nothing that SO melts
woman 10 tenderness as the thought
OF hardships and anNieties weighing
upon the man she loves. And now
her loving impulses swept her on 10
the writing OF this letter;
\ Cheerful Letter.
Dear Warren: Oh, L cannot tell
YOU how happy-how very happy your
last letter has made me. The thought
that YOU are coming home soon-Very
soon oh. dear. nothing else seems
10 matter You don't know how l
need YOU and how desolate 1 have
been with YOU away.
And. dear. this last letter has made
me most pentient. 1 see now that ]
was wrong 10 resent your attitude
abouth the expenses / begin 10 I'M
derstand how much YOU have had TO
worry YOU out there. the anXieties
and heavy eNpenses-and / should not
have minded anything YOU wrote,
suppose l have been too sensitive. but
I'm going TO try not TO be any more.
oh. dear IL is going 10 be happy
home coming. A most wonderful
homecoming Let me Know the eN
act time as soon as yOC can, so i can
cross of even the hours on the calen-
dar. That viii make il seem nearer
And oh. I'm so proud and happy
that YOU are putting through the deal
successfully. But / knew you would
You know I have never doubted that
for a second. When you really un-
dertake anything, you have so much
force and determination that you can
not help but be successful.
And you say you VIII make over
$4,000. oh. dear. that is wonderful
You know il isn't the money that
care for-but the. fact that II will
make things easier for you. You
viii not be so worried now.
About bringing me something
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-03-09
THIRD YEAR OF
MARRIED LIFE.
By MABEL HERBERT URNER.

Dear Helen: That's better That's
more like it. Glad you're getting
some common sense at last. But you
say you're unstrung. I don't like that
Nothing TO be unstrung about
You've been sitting around the house
and moping too much. Get out every
morning and take a brisk walk ThatU
do YOU good. You don't get enough
exercise. That's what's the matter
with most of you women.
Now get yourself in good shape,
for I'm coming home soon. Can't tell
yet just the date. But things look
pretty good out here-got these Ben
ningtOn people just about where
want them. They're getting mighty
anxious now, and they'll be a darn
sight more so before m through. I'm
putting the screws on hard. and they
know it. And they're going TO knuckle
down and come 20 my terms.
It's only a question of a week or
so now--they can't hold out much
longer. ] saw Winthrop yesterday,
but he hadn't much TO say. He
rather intimated that the whole thing
was in Clarkson's hands. that he was
the one that was holding il up. I've
known that all along But he's about
ready TO come across now.
From the way things are going I'll
clear up about $4,000 out of the deal.
That viii come pretty near being
worth the trip ont here-wOn't il?
And it's been devilish uncOmfortab bic
at that. Have had a two-by-four room
and no bath. and it costs me $3.50 a
day. High~ay ROBBERY prices. But i
had 10 have good address out here;
had 10 put Up "A good bluff. And had
60 entertain a.lot OF these men at
luncheon. You can't do that on
nothing.
$50, II I've kicked at the expenses
back there, it's been because I've been
up against fl hard. Knew I needed
every cent I could scrap together 10
put this deal over. Couldn't take any
chances on any trip-up-too much at
stake.
But now that I've just as good
as won out. things are easier And
I've got everything else In good shape.
As soon as they sign the final papers
III clear out OF here quick And Wei
celebrate In fine style when i get back.
tn be mighty good 10 see Broadway
again.
Now. Kitten. what do YOU want
me 10 bring you2 / won't have much
time 20 fool around the shops. but
guess / can manage TO get something
III you'u let me know what YOU want.
How about one OF these embroidered
japanese things-the long kind with
the big sleeves-the kind they wear
for opera cloakS? There's some mighty
good looking ones ia the shop win
dOws out here. i get YOU a stunning
dress II I could III you-but these
loose things viii iii anybody. And
what shall I bring Winifred? You
think up something aud write mel
never know what TO set
Now. little woman. rake good care
OF yourself-IH wire YOU when ] start.
AS ever.
WARREN
From anyone else this would hardly
be considered a loving or tender let
ter--but from Warren 10 smeant a
great deal The kitten" and Little
Woman" was as near an approach
~ endearment as he ever came. and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22

cred remiss In his business methods. He
is. in many instances, lax in his collec-
tions. pays but little attention to the cost
of selling and knows less of the value OF
the stock on his shelves. In many In
stances he has been In business 20 years
and has never taken an invoice OF his
goods. Double-entry bookkeeping is un-
known in his scheme OF things and as to
reaching out for new business. it's some-
thing he never considered.
Following are some of the subjects that
will make up the course for the Kansas
storekeeper:
How to write circular advertising let
ters, country paper advertisements that
would bring business. instead of being
an announcement that the merchant has
store and asking for business.
How to dress show window
How to display goods that will make
the interior of store appear attractive
Lessons In determining the quality OF
merchandise.
Lessons in determining the quality OF
merchandise.
Lessons In handling irate customers.
Lessons IN invoicing and keeping books
correctly.
Economical and efficient store manage
ment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22

finishing walk with girl attired in
the most up date, 1914, winter sports
attire, by coming up TO the glass door
entrance OF the Hotel des Alpes tea
room, the one that looks on to the skat
ing room.
"Sir James would not come in. He
remained outside while his companion
went in to make an inquiry.
Gle hardly looked like a winter
sportsman. He was wearing a black
town overcoat, black trousers. a muf-
Her, and tweed cap. No doubt as
useful but not nearly so picturesque as
the more conventional jacket and
broeches and white bob cap of the mod
ern winter sportsman.
Last evening after tea time he ae-
companied his young charges to the
small luge run which leads from the
hotel down to the railway station, and
even tried to run himself. Not a soul
recognized him. At night he dimes with
Lord and Lady Lytton in the Hotel des
Abs The former Is of course a
grandson of Bulwer Lytton. who wrote
"The Last Days of Pompeii.' and is like
his wife keen advocate of Votes for
Women
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22

pltifully for years. There are diseas
spots on the back Of them which
heal with care and time and perfect rel
but sight will never be restored to the
entirely.
1T is the most curious thing to me
said the oculist. meditatively. that PC
pie take care Of every part of themselv
except their eyes. Careful people go
a dentist at least twice a year. They pay
the most rigid attention to their teeth.
yet loss of teeth however inconvenient.
is not irreparahlc. Artificial teeth, piv-
oted teeth and bridges can. In large meas
ure replace natural ones.
'sBut there Is no substitute for eyes.
Once sight Is gone it Is only restored by
miracle of surgery or by the grace Of
God. Why. then, are eyes 50 much neg
lected? Why do people SO to chropodisr
ana to all sorts OF healer persons. ard
never consult an oculist until fright drives
them to him2
The eyes are abused more than any
other organ. People read by half light
and living down, and with the light IN
front of them and in every other wrong
way known, and expect TO retain their
vision. They are mighty careful abort
their hair; they feel that their eyes are
with them to stay and that nothing can
rob them of these. You are one of those
who Is about to discover that eyes stand
only a certain amount OF bad treatmer 5.
You will probably consider that matter
at length for the month that you are in
the dark ROOM
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
Rival to Henry James

Henry James must look to his laurels or
he may be deprived of his championship
belt as the perpetrator Of the longest and
most obscure sentence on record. The
Right Hon. Arthur James Balfour evil
IDENTIFY yearns to rival James supremacy
in this respect, at least Judging by a SEN
tence that he reeled off in an address to
a scientific gathering at Glasgow this
week. Here it is Take a long breath be-
fore you begin 1t.
HE hoped to indicate fair4 clearly be-
fore the course came to an end that all
these tendencies and influences, which
were not contrary to logic. not contrary
to sound reason. but which were undoubt-
edly independent of IL and beside t-that
all OF them had moulded the body OF
knowledge which We now possessed, that
without them we would not possess it,
that even now the theory of knowledge
had been most imperfectIy worked out
and that above all. If they looked at life
not through such maxims as that which
he had read to them from Locke's Essay
but tried to see for themselves how hu-
man beings did their work, how they got
their opinions by the only way in which
they could get their opinions. then he
thought that he had succeeded in show
ingto them that not only We're their moral
emotions and the aesthetic emotions
driven to a theistic setting if they were
to maintain their value, but that, even in
the region of hard reasoning and unemo-
tional thought that same setting was an
absolute necessity if they were to sec the
whole body of their beliefs in their most
rational framework.
What do you think of that? 1t reads
like one of those famous German SEN
tences on which Mark Twain said one
could ride all day without changing cars
James must ne green with envy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
SCHOOL FOR STOREKEEPERS
Is NOVEL KANSAS PLAN

Kansas has sounded the knell of cross
roads store methods. says the Star. 1t
has aimed shot at the goods box loafer,
the dried prune and apple barrels clut-
tered about the cannon box stove in an
atmosphere OF tobacco smoke and politics,
says a St Louis special TO the Phila-
delphia Public Ledger
Kansas storekeepers are to be sent to
school to learn how to keep the stores
they have been running in a desultory
fashion for the last half century. The
idea of a school for storekeepers orig
mated among the heads of the Kansas
University at Lawrence and the College
of Agriculture at Manhattan.
The Kansas storekeeper is to have the
benefit of the advice of men high in the
councils of the big department stores of
the land. All that will be necessary for
him to do is to visit the state college at
Lawrence and take the course of lectures
provided for this winter
Especial effort is to be made to interest
the shopkeeper in the small community
the man who handles everything from a
package of pins to plow or a harrow.
1t is this man who generally is consid-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
EYES ARE ABUSED
UNCONSCIOUSLY

From the Baltimore sun.
The woman whose eyes had suddenly
commenced to hurt went to consult an
oeulist concerning them. She expected
him to give them perfunctory exam
ination and then make some change In
her glasses but instead Of that he put
her carefully through number of tests
and then began to question her.
what have you done to strain your
eyes?" asked the physician.
~" replied the woman. q? Why,
nothing"
mo fancy work of any sort -
"Oh, yes: I've crocheted 20 table mats
recently, but that wasn't strain on my
eyes"
you wear a veil?''
Yes"
"Dotted?'
''Oh. yes
And you embroider I suppose"
"A little. I embroidered a blouse not
long ago, but the work wasn't very fine
and didn't hurt me a particle"
Il hate to have 10 put YOU In a daes
room," said the oculist but u shall have
TO do so for at least n month You viii
rot be able to do any fine needlewofi X
for several years, II ever You must no;
go to the theatre, for to motion picture
shows. You may not play cards. Yor
must rest your eyes absolutely for
months. or l will not be responsible for
the result.
You have been straining your eye'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
Doyle Has Own Mystery

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, one hears,
has received no fewer than Is invita-
tions to investigate the mystery of the
death of Willie Starchfleld. the little
boy who was found strangled in a
compartment on one of the London sub
urban railways, but the creator of
Sherlock Holmes has declined them all.
Personally l doubt If Sir Arthur was
entirely satisfied with the result of
his intervention in the grea, Wyrley
manning case. similar outrages having
followed, though Sir Arthur believed
lie had solved the mystery of their per
petration. The famous literary knight
is uncommonly busy with literary work,
however,, and Is also occupied with at
tempting to discover If a fine painting
which recently came into his possession
from a relative Is, as he believes, a
Van Dycie. So he obviously has no time
for crime mysteries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
IF KIDNEYS FEEL LIKE LEAD
OR YOUR BACK HURTS, TAKE SALTS

sediment. irregular of passage or at
tended by a sensation of scalding, get
about four ounces of Jad Salts from
any reliable pharmacy and take a table
spoonful in a glass of water before
breakfast for few days and your kid
neys will then act fine. This famous
salts is made of the acid of grapes
and lemon juice combined with lithia
and has been used for generations to
flush elogged kidneys and stimulate
them to activity, also to neutralize the
acids in urine so it no longer causes
irritation, thus ending bladder disor-
ders.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and cannot
injure; makes a delightful effervescent
lithia water drink which all regular
meat eaters should take now and then
to keep the kidneys clean and the
blood pure, thereby avoiding serious
kidney complications.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
We Eat Too Much Meat,
Which Clogs Kidneys and
They Need a Flushing
Occasionally

No man or woman who eats meat
regularly can make a mistake by flush
ing the kidneys occasionally, says a
known authority. Meat forms uric
acid which clogs the kidney pores so
they sluggishly filter or strain only
part of the waste and poisons from the
blood, then you get sick. Nearly all
rheumatism, headaches. liver trouble.
nervousness, constipation, dizziness,
Eleeplessness, bladder disorders come
from sluggish kidneys.
The moment you feel a dull ache in
the kidneys or your back hurts, or if
the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
Declines to Trust Himself
Either to Skates
or Skis
LITERARY GOSSIP
OF THE OLD WORLD
Doyle Declines to Investigate Lon
don's Latest Crime Mystery, Be-
ing Busy With One of
His Own
By HAYDEN CHURCH

London, February 24-(Speeial)
There still seems to be no prospect OF
any kind of a book from Sir James
Barrie, as We gradually are learning
to call him, though he is represented
on the London stage at present by no
less than three pieces. Two. 1t is true,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
Changed

T
First Chorus Lady: "What do you think,
dear? George Is back from Alaska, stone
broke and so altered that you would
hardly know him.
Second Chorus Lady: I'm sure ]
sha' mt, dear"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
Plausible Sign
From Judge.

From Judge.
Gladys-Jack is horrid, When we
were out tonight little bug flew right
into my mouth and I asked him or
what that was sign.
Clytie--What did he say it meant?
Gladys--That I should keep my
mouth shut
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
Criticizes Hardy,s Verse

A writer in the New Age protests
quite rightly, it seems to me-. against
what he calls the exploitation by certain
journals of the dotage of Thomas Hardy.
I'm common with every other Judge of
literature" he says. II find Mr. Hardys
verse not only wretched, but even pathet-
ically So Il could not laugh at such lines
and rhymes as:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
Why Not?

from Judgc.
Zoology Teacher; Edgar what is the
highest form of animal life?'
Edgar. THE giraffe"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22

are rivals of old successes, Equality
Street. and Peter Pam" and the third
is only a curtain raiser, albeit an un-
commonly good one.
Meanwhile Sir James. care free TO all
appearances, is disporting himself at
Murren. in switzerland, having with
him there four of the six boys whom,
as was first made public in this COR
respondence, the baronet is bringing up
at his own expense. He is giving them
sports holiday it seems, and spends
practically all his time with them,
probably not 20 people in Murren know
ing that the author is in their midst.
"Barrie's party. writes an acquaint-
ance of mine now at Murren, are liv-
ing in one of the dependencies of the
Hotel des Alpes, chalet at the foot
of the hillock on which the hotel
stands. 1t so happens that the chalet
is also a toy shop, and the creator of
Peter Pan has given his proteges a
free run of the shop. The boys went
so far the other evening as to purchase
a chess board, but when after dinner
at the hotel they adjourned to their
sitting room in the chalet they decided
that chess was not their. game and came
over to demand draughts instead of
chessmen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
Twas hard to realize on
This sad side of the horizon

IhlS SAD side OF the noflzoH.
1.-THE contrast between them and Mr.
Hardy's prose was too grievous, but /
could be and am angry with his publish
ers and his mean-spirited fatterers This
was as long ago as 1902, think, and Mr.
Hardy has been fooled almost continu-
ally ever since. The New Year issue of
the Saturday Review for example
prints six-stanza'd poem by Mr.. Hardy
and refers editorially to 1t as something
of literary distinction. But can the most
snobbish mind see in the following speci-
men stanza phrase or hear rhythm of
real poetry:
:" 1T is not death that harrows u.s. they
Tipped.
"'The soulless cell is in itself relief,
For life is an unfenced flower, benumbed
and nipped
At unawares. and at it's best but brief.
at is. of course, difficult for journal to
resist the temptation to publish anything
a once-great man writes: hut in the case
of Mr.. Thomas Hardy>the attempt should
be made"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
Sticks to Snow Shoes

"'Sir Barrie, as the proprietor of the
chalet calls his distinguished guest, is
perhaps the only person in Murren-
IL not the only English holiday maker
in Switzerland-who goes out on snow
shoes. Not for Sir James skates or ski;
not for him breeches and putties, and
the waist band jacket.
81 saw him yesterday at tea time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
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am n womsa.
know a woman's trials.
know her need of nxmnathx and helr.

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IL feel unfit for household duties social pleasures
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and ask for my free ten days trial of home treatment
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suiferings What we women know from experience. we
know better than any want to tell you how to
yourself at home at cost of about12 cents week.
YOU suffer from women IS peculiar ailments caus-
ing pain in the head. back bowels feeling of weight
and dragging down aton falling displacement Of
pelvic organs. causing kidney and bladder weakness
constipation and pixies. painful irregular periods.
catarrhal condition: and discharges extreme nervous
ress Depressed spirits desre to fear OF
something evil about to happen. feeling along
the spine. hot weariness saio COM
plezion with dark circles under the in the 1eft
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
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