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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-01-08
jackson. He. too. was frivolous; he,
too, longed for the fiesh-pots OF New

~8InnuAs NO. tUbs Was lIlFOtOu5s Q6,
too, longed for the f~iesh-pots OF New
York"
Il never did, sir" he said, gravely.
Il wish | might feel sure of that"
said Abner Jones. Il should feel surer
Of the safety of the gum"
Il shall never harm the gum, sir"
You must not only never harm IL;
you must help 1t. Let me tell you,
Jackson-there is a trust in the gum
business"
Yes, sir, I've heard OF it."
II would have been remarkable If he
had not. For two years the air of
Jonesyille had been full of timid ru-
mors Of the gum trust. The whole
town was fearful that the great Jones
factory might be sold to it and closed.
After | am gone they will endeavor
to secure our factory and business
Abner Jones went on. Il shall never
let them have 1t. You must never let
them have it. OF your pride in the
Jones gum
It's surely been a handsome little
hAohCy AidhtI, bIOdu way IdllSu.
Il do not like your language" said
his uncle, but the meaning of your
words Is accurate enough. 1t has made
money. 1t still continues to make
money-as an independent gum. 1t"
Broadway was getting idgetty. The
Spotswoods were waiting supper for
him. Mrs. Spotswood was a plump
and cheerful housewife, who dotted on
the recipes he brought back from New
York upon the rare occasions when his
uncle let him go there.
1T would make more. uncle, wouldn't
II, IL it lost its Independence" he in
quired.
The plan of the trust is to take it
from the market. They have not
thought of continuing it as an indi
vidual product. They merely wish to
eliminate Ii utterly. This would free
their other products of its competi-
ton"
Did some one of them chew it?"
his nephew inquired earnestly.
Jackson, you should be ashamed!
my hiNiNts "iSh W NdhS IL lIui1 lLlt
market SO that it no longer will affect
their"
Yes, I've heard" He had-a thou
sand times.
That is the reason | am anxious
that you should begin to show some
vital interest in our splendid enter
prise. 1t must be protected at all haz-
ards. 1t should be the pride. as 1t has
been the fortune, of the Jones family"
Honest. uncle, I don't believe
know enough to go into the business.
Aren't you afraid that il would spoil
the sale of the gum If anybody should
find out | helped to make it? That
worries me. The gum must be pro-
tected. | leave 1t to you, uncle. L"
Jackson, you are frivolous. You
are a tremendous disappointment to
me You"
Il don't want to be a disappointment
but I'd almost rather be a disappoint-
ment than a gum-maker. I'd"
"Go!" said his uncle angrily. e
But Jackson did not hear the re-
mainder of the sentence. He had
needed its first word.
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Group and Cough Remedy

Group is IA terrible disease. it at
tacks children SO suddenly they are
very apt to choke unless given the
proper Iemedy ut once. There is
nothing better in he world than DR..
Kings New Discovery. Lewis Cham
berlain, of Manchester, Ohio. writes
about bis children: Sometimes ia
severe attacks we were afraid they
would die. but since we proved what a
certain remedy DR.. Kings New Dis
covery is, we bave no fear. rely on
it for Group, coughs and colds So
can you. soc and 81. A bottle should
lie in every home. At al druggists.
II. E Bucklen & Co. Philsdelphis
and st. Louis. ADV.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-01-08

Guarding Against Group. The best
safeguard gainst Group is a bottle of
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound in
the house. p. h CHM, Middleton.
Ga, writes: MY children are very
susceptible to Group, ea.ily catch
cold. | give hem Foley'S Honey and
Tar COMPOUND and in every instance
they get prompt relief and are soon
cured. We keep it at home and PIE
vent Group" For sale by all drug
gists. ADV.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-01-08
The Man Who Neglects himself.

When his condition points to kidney
trouble takes sn uuwise risk. Back
ache, pain and soreress over the kid
neys, nervous or dizzy spells, poor
sleep, are all symptoms that will dis
appear with the regular use CT F.
ley's kidney fills. They pnt the
strong and healthy condition. For
sale by all druggists. ADV.
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This Home-Made Cough
Syrup Win Surprise You
Costs Little, but there Is Moth
ing Better at any Price.
Fully GuarauteetL

Here is a homemade remedy that
takes hold of a cough almost instantly
and viii usually CONQUER an ordinary.
cough In. a hourx. This recipe makes q
pint-enough for whole family You.
couldn't buy as much or as good ready
made cough syrup for $50
Mix one pint of granulated sugar Wltn
l1 mint Of warm water, and str
minutes put 21s ounces OF P1nex lnity
cents WORTH in a pint bottle and add
the Sugar Syrup. This keeps perfectly
and has a pleasant taste-ehildren Ike
it Braces up the appetite and is
slightly laxative. which helps end
cough
Won urobably know the medical value
of zine in healing bronchial asthma
bronchitis, spasmOdic cough and whoop-
in. cough. Pinex is most valuable
concentrated compound OF Norway
white nine extract, rich in gua1aeol and
other natural healing pine elements
other preparations viii not work IN this
The prompt results from this inexpen-
siva remedy have made friends for 1t IN
thousands OF homes in the United states.
and Canada, which explains why the
pian has been initiated often. but never
successfully.
a guaranty of absolute satisfaction,
or money promptly refunded, goes with
this preparation Your druggist mas
Pinex. or will get it for you. II not,
seEd to The Pinex Co., Ft Wayne, Ind-
-Advt-
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BEST LAXATIVE FOR
BOWELS S-'CASCARETS'
When constipated, headachy,
bilious, breath bad,
stomach sour.
Get a l0-cent box.

Get a D-cent box.
Are you keeping your bowels, liver,
and stomach ciean, pure and fresh
with 'Cascarets, or merely forcing a
passage every iew days with Salts,
Cathartic Pills, Castor Oil or Purgative
Waters?
Stop having a bowel wash-day. Let
Cascarets thoroughly cleanse and regu-
late the stomach, remove the sour and
fermenting food and foul gases. take
the excess bile from the liver and carry
out of the system all the constipated
waste matter and poisons In the
bowels
A Cascaret tonight will make you
feeling great by morning. They work
while you sleep-never gripe. sicken or
cause any Inconvenience. and cost only
10 cents a box from your druggist Mil
lions Of men and women take Cas-
caret now and then and never have
Headache, Biliousness. Coated Tongue,
Indigestion. Sour Stomach or Consti-
pated Bowels, Cascarets belong in every
household. Children just love to take
the Advt
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strain. 1t requires g tcat concentration
of the will as well Is physical effort,
and it is emotionaliy exciting. All this,
in conjunction with : ahe long and late
hours. is enough to- sihatter any ones
nerves. .
''Once we went to p; lrties and danced
five or; six hours dni ing the evening.
Now we begin atr in the afternoon
and keen " up into he. small hours of
the morning. barely ! topping for bite
of dinner.
Furthermore. the dancing is fire.
ouently done in hot, lusty. overcFowded
XII-ventilated rooms.I Just sitting stlll
III these rooms woulc be ipjurious to the
health. and they ar surely not suited
70 TIporous exercise Also believe that
dancing IN restaura ats tends to increase
the tOnsumption OF alcoholic liquors
aroo,,g| : women. Tney become hot and
ibirst9 ,SIirIng the dance and the meansi
Of satisfaction is My too close at hand. han
6thcrwise they wO uld have left alone;
%rhs h. yStsirjda Scijd wS95 @St,Ioistcai,v fHsti Pf
must saw. thoug h. that the sooner ~
stops the bet 'er :ior women"
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HOMES

Mrs. Samuel IT, Howard and Miss
Nellie Clair Howard Will be at home
Tuesday. January 70
Mrs. w. S. Knox, Mrs. Harry Smith
Perry. 2aud-::sttss Van, Arsdale wiit:not
l6, but win receive the following Fri
day. - =,
Mrs Francis E. Warren, on account
of absence from the city, will not re-
celve today. but will receive on the re-
naming Thursdays in January and in
February.
Mrs. Thomas ]. Walsh and Miss
Walsh. of Montana, will be at home at
the Highlands this afternoon.
Senator and Mrs. Walsh and Miss
ton from a three weeks trip to the
Canal Zone.
Mrs. L. B. swormstedt and her
mother. Mrs. Godfrey. will be at home
informally today.
Mrs. Frederick H. Newell and Miss
Newell will be at home informally
Wednesday,. January q. Also the first
and third Wednesdays Of the following
months Of the season. ....
MT 'ItOi &c L w ISeIeT, OI -oo- MdSSa-
chusetts avenue, will not receive today
on account of being called suddenly
from the city.
=
The Congressional women at Congress
Hall will entertain at a tea at the hotel
on the afternoon Of January %. from
3 until o'clock. Invitations will be
sent out within a day or two.
=
Mrs. McCaIlum. of 1852 Massachusetts
avenue, has sent out cards for two Fri
days at home, January g and jan
uary 90
Mrs. Oscar Wilkinson. Of f7O1 Avenue
of the Presidents, will be at home Fri
days during the season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Abel will be at
home Thursday evening from until 10
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chasing down to the engine room for
not water
Mrs. Nemo-Yes, taat was ineonveni-
ent but after they Got the tea room
started there weren't any chairs. Now,
nobody can stand up end drink tea with
any satisfaction unless they're a sociIl
climber at one of those cream or lemon
affairs, and being an F. +. " myself
confess / didn't ike the idea of wait
ing in line, Ike the inmates OF some
institution. The char had been ordered
all right. but there was some hitch IN
the delivery, so things huTnmed some
more
chaired bunch on the second floor wish
ed they had a nice quiet job In a boiler
factory somewhere just about time Shat
talk was turned Dose, didne they?
Mrs. Nemo-rhere was so puch
b6zzing going on that everybody took
It into, their heads to boycott the place.
For several days nobody went near the
'cozy corner and / guess Miss Eichel-
berger was lOnesome Tor few days. L
know she told somebody she was going
to brew some tea herself. IL nobody
came, just to set the. pot a-boIhng.'
Lucy-We she HASN'T any chance
to get lonesome these days, take it
from Little Susie! Why. that place was
fright down there today. and maybe
that tea urn wasn't working overtimei
II she hadn't took pity on me and had
our cups all brewed up nice for me
when she saw me, l guess there'd been
nothing stirring, not even a teaspoon,
for our cup that cheers, but doesn't get
you piffed-or something like that
Mrs Nemo-Oh, yos; and We had a
moving day, too. The first room some
how wasn't very populaF-oYer there in
$50 they moved il around the corner
to a smaller place. Then the women
kicked because, IL was too small But
they've got all, over IL now and l. eliess
everybody Is, happy. and the only ques-
tion ever raised now is whether it's. to
be enc lump or two 49, Z
I Lucy Gmunchins the last of her SAND.
wich-IWeII, for my part, I amt got
any kick coming. / like it fine. II il is
grand scramble chasing down the eie-
vator every day. 1-Goodness gFaciousi
Look at that fool watch o. sninet Here
| it l. O clock, and time. to go 70 work
again. Pass them clips, and whadhye
says the chief wanted done about those
circulars?
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DEPARTMENT DIALOGUES
ByEdith Lobet.

Scene: Treasury.
Time: 1873. any week day
Characters: Lucy, who Sny,aex - NJ
Memo. who doesn't.
Eucy-Here's your -, ,rrs Nar,o,
Take. it from your Stt,e playmate n
goes down slick the: .e ,,avs Iemme tell
you: = fresh guy IN the elevator fig
. gled most of # oye r my new lace tamn,
hut I should bibt Iel
Mrs. Nemo-TF ere rbare daari,, IA,
very sweet Oh y U to bring Tue my cuppa
tea. Now whe Re did 1 put that lemon ?
on yes mere it is--isht on this bill
fiAe Where left it! I>rememSer when
I FIRST cam here, twenty years ago
the 18th o. next month, 4 nobody ever
fhfcRlsht 81 restricting Jour little tea
ttfrse plf'asantries, 7hV,z-uther times,
other manners, my ieyrl
Z ESfce'-Geewhiz. I sR ould say so! Well
'.as ..oE thts little eS -ibit A. I'm right
glad somebody tur .ked that little tea
cadds Gown on tn at: 5aseInent corridor
even L. IL Is wor sc than tea fight up
on the aYnoo O the PRESIDENTS to grab
On the "ouiP Hyson! It's no fun
chaslng o. 1t or lunch this weather, an
getting ou face puffed up like red
appie db the mumps! I'll do without
Sle ca S first, an-oh, well, it isn't SO
t Dau % sip a. cuppa tea along WIN
tile s9m-plus sandwich la dillpickle-
w % Is Nemo-No, indeed, my little glri;
Sn, Sdo tigh / don't in the least Know what
~ are talking about. Did i ever tel
y - about the time that tea room start
sidT IL was back m. the MaeVeagh ae-
yninistration when the order went around
that we mustn't have anything TO ear
IaTound our desks at all. Scmenog
I hwent through here onoe and saw some some
tHttle ants creeping afehnd The j1ikstands
land decided that ants weren't sanitaTy'
Poor Mr. Farflfson went around here Ike
/, This last friend had committed suicide.
And. of Course, ME wasn't to blame, bHi
| a lot of, women ss. nought he .was, and
they Just naturally made things shum,
IThen somebody had bright idea. We
! have n tea sfoorn--it was, so much more
r sanitary, anyway.
TLucy-Weiti4 Il fsuess yess; Why, ]
wouldn't want my typewriter desk al
messed up With. -tutf.l TO say nothing OF
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Apples a. Joy Diet
By ANDRE DUPONT.

Copyright. 1914 by the Press Bublshlng Co
.r<- IoW you keep yourself -
- good-natured don't see"
said the Club woman 20
the commuters wife.
You kAoS the old saying. An apple
q day keeps the doctor away i have
found that II not only keeps him AVA,
cut u Keeps the whoie family good-
nStured as well. So We always have a
oish fuH on the dining room table And
1 eat one and sometimes two or three
= day through the winter. Apples are
extremely good for the digestion, as
tneir mallc aid becomes transformed
within the body into alkaline carbon
ates which nentralIze Injurious acids
and ward or Indigestion, gout or rheu-
lnatIsn They are also, 50 my doctor
says, an excellent article Of diet for
PEOPLE of sedentary habit, who suffaF
las aoes everybody who cannot take
as coed digestion makes for good ma
ture, suppose that's the reason 4
don't morry about trifies. =
But L feel rs IL had swallowed
Jump OF lead whenever eat an
epple," objected the Clubwonlan.
Then try them cooked. You rntist
remember what Is one mans meat Is
sometimes another mans pOisoa. n
rawapples DO not agree with YOU eat
them baked or in the form Of apple
the complexion. Look at yourself in
the glass after you nave been eating
apples every day for a month ana see.
II your skin Is not clearer. your flesh
trmer and your color better IL you
are little too stout apples viii inalxs
you slender quicker than almost any
thing else. 1 have . friend who lost
twenty-five pounds IN six weeks and
felt better and stronger than she hsd
for years by taking fof breakfast a
cup of black coffee without milk or.
sugar. a slice Of toast with very little
butter and n large red apple. For
lunch she had more toast e dish OF
apple sauce, made rather tart and one
sCft boiled egg. At dinner she had q
chop or a little of almost any kind OF
meat except pork, green salad and an
apple for dessert She never Jouched
soup, potatoes or sweets, and never
drank any water until al, least half
an hour after eating. After she had
fegained normaEsweiSht she ate what
ever she fancied sexcept p0tatoes, even
iRdulsing occasionally In that torbiEidsn
| lUxGry. candy. becauSe she had learn.
ed that she could always melT on The
few extra pounds th6s acquired oy
going for few days ON a strict apple
Diet )
"I was reading the other day N a
French Review" said the CIubwomaJl,
ian article by a Paris physician who
claimed that people who ate . good
many apples or drank cider were In
mune from typhoid fever. a. the ~
phcid bacillus can live but a very short
time in apple juice"
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o'clock in -celebEation of their fifteenth
wedding anniversary. : 2. -
Members OF the Dramatic Club of st
Stephens Church viii give a comedy
entitled The DoetorP T-in the Parish
Hail. Fourteenth street, between Colum-
bia road and Irving street, this evening,
Friday, and SATURDAY. evenings The
cast Is under the direction of Prof. +.
@ Townsend, and includes Miss Ethel
JFFayfer. Miss Mary <Mifnix, Mr. ~and
Mrs. Wesley Peekham. Roscoe Afleman,
Carl Butmap, and Oswald Camp
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severe strain on that member In the
deep dip which is so generally IN 'etpo
lated in this dance.
Then there is the physical str5n u o.
long hours OF violent exercise unA leL .
taken. for the most part, by persons uii ~
accustomed to it. There is no dOS 'pt
that the present method of dsnc1ng 10
distinctly aging, and that therefor
wrinkles and haggard expression may
be expected to result from It.
Men Show Some Sense.
"It also seems % me that women
wear the wrong clothes for such stren7
uous work" contirued DR.. Wheeler,
unconsciously confirming DIR. GreiPs
statements. 'T should think they would
be terribly uncomfortable in those long
corsets and tight, narrow skirts, which
throw the movements upcIn the wrong
sets of muscles"
Then his blue eyes tw inkIed. THE
men have a trick worth two of that"
he chuckled. They wea' tango shirts.
you know. A man wo uld dance an
ordinary dress shirt TO p leces in sin
gle night. So there has been designed
for evening wear 4 so It white shirt
with a great man, sma ] pleats, and l
believe though I do not CLAIM to be an
authority on the latest haberdashery
that soft white 2Olla is worn with
this garment, That's reasonably SEN
s'Ole CoS'uhiS SESii ~ CoHuuCliuP d
wrestling match on d anCing floor"
! He shook his head vii h a slight Ironi-
cal lift Of his well-m arked eyebrows,
| though tolerant smi lie tempered the
| irony. DR.. Wheeler Is as whUlesomely
! Un-cyniCal as the aft ErnOOn sunshine
| that floods in at the window left of
! his desk. When I ask 81 him il he had
! any psychological eX pianation of the
| prevailing dance ma dness, he cnIy
| laughed.
ITS development If our aut mobile
age, he asserted. ''It Is a phase Of the
demand for swift distraction. it's
worse than the motor fever. because The
sufferers from that tere at lea bebt
out of doors. But tn E craze for motor.
ing and the craze ( Or turkey trottinr
! are both due To- the modern Impulse tT
get away from on IS. self, TO forget
ones troubles and a hXieties in some in.
The normal way Of selfrTorgetfuI.
ness is TO throw ones self into 0ne's
work. But the e are many who try
other ways"
Decided NERVOUS Strain.
Then You fe,L" I suggested. tina
the new dances are an abnormal mani
festation, that th ey are bad for nerves
as well as for hip bones?"
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-EL
The tango will get" you if you don't watch out!
Mavbe its qot already the that you're spending
mare time and money than you afford But that isn't ALL There
voeIsn. medical uf for the prediction that the tango will
eventually get you almost the facility of New York gunman
or Kentucky feuds lain English the tango rather the New
York of dangero life and limb mention health
and good looks you've ed so far its no sign you'll always be
so lucky.
The aoIoocaI neI of the dance which has much
attention in its moral aspects hav only begun be seriously
considered French investigator covered that the and neck
tango performers quickly nked that their mouths had
expression their shoulders oPed that they did not carry
their heads properly andhorror of horror they were subject
to double and triple chns
Cece GreiI of the Manhattan Trad. oCool conhmed an
these dire prophecies and added that she expected epidemic of
troubles follow the present dancing In recent num-
ber Journal of American Medical Association = writer points
there grave danger for the many elderly persons who nave
dancing of the Thea hears
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CTbmorrow's story win be The Cap
ktivfs PriRcess.'0
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Peril Crows With Age.

The older the DANCER the more prob
able this danger of fracture, because
the bones of the mid,5le-aged and the
elderly are specially brittle. But only
this week there were two cases right
here in New York of young persons who
sustained fractures OF the hip bone while
dancing the tango. There is sharp and
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And when 1 talked with DR.. Claude
u Wheeler, editor Cf the New York
Medical Journal, l found him full of
! Orebodindgs as to the physical effect
q turkey trotting on the human SIS
te N
Modern Dancing Awful
There's no question:" he said, that
mo, IeTn dancing is a physically dan
zero Us fad. Why cant the Riddle
aged ,or the elderly. at least, stick to
their bridge whist and golf?
'.Bu : the new dances are an intoX
ication a vice as inexCrable as any
olher. They may be compared to
gamblir V or drug taking. Dancing is
no long er an agreeable recreation, to
be taken up and laid down at pleasure,
II is one of certain bad habits which
seem to possess an unbreakable grip
over tho e who have once adopted
them.
Il am rel srring, of course, added Dr..
Wheeler, 't o the sort of thing one sees
in the New York and Paris dance halls
and restaurs arts. 1t seems too bad 10
sum up thes. dances under the generic
| rame Of tan go and heap criticism on
that A youI z man told me the other
day that he h I'd seen the tango danced
| in Buenos a fres -by- Argentinians in
their native 90 stume, and that it Was a
graceful. bean Eiful thing. He added
| that it in no way resembled the So
| called tango of New York and Paris
Certainly there is nothing Of grace OF
fbeauty about QUIZ local version of the
South American Figinal."
Just what are some Of the physica
l dangers of these uances?" l asked the
! doctor.
/ The journal Of lhe American Medica
! Association is Ger tainly right when I
laspeaks of the peril 60 weak hearts from
the violent and long continued exertion
! of the new dances he replied. Fur
] thermore, there is Il lie danger Of burst
Ing 4 blood vessel, And there is con
siderable chance of fracturing the hi
bone.
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Decided NERVOUS Strain.

Then You fe' tl," I suggested. that
the new dances are an abnormal mani
festaton. that they are bad for nerves
as well as for hip bones?'
Modern dancing is a decided nervous
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be Attorney General will entertain at
Inner party this evening in the red
Ing roomsof the New Willard in COM
|nent TO members Of the Supreme
|1r-r
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tr. and Mrs. James Mcdonald, Of
hoon. who are spending a Part Of the
ktGr at the Shoreham. entertained at
mail dinner Wednesday night in the
|e room when their guests were Mr..
b Mrs. Alexander Legare and the
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4 noon today the marriage of Mrs.
ulse \ Sheppard Vail and Charles
.nry Stone took place in st. Thomas
u-ch. in the presence Of small party
elatives and a few intimate friends.
< rector of the church the Rev. G.
nest Smith, performed the ceremony.
-lc bride was escorted and given in
.rriage by her brother, Arthur Bishop
leopard. OF Cleveland. Ohio.
= Ut Com. G. l.. Stone was his
others best man and the ushers were
b. lies .Tittmsnn, John w. Dayidge,
sTry Hickey. DR.. Breckenridge Bayne
Ghn w. Holcombe, and Captain French
. :. A, retired.
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81 Assistant Surgeon " 'aiter A
'dUrn, L. s. N, and Mrs. SloeqoIn
entertain at q lance on trloay
Ing at 9 O'Clock, at their {, NaTteTs
be navy yard.
the evening of February. L, s'they
b. hosts. at q dinner party
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And, sure enough. the next morning
Billy Pig and Billy Goat were ham
merin away on the roof OF the shed
naTd at work
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Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Abel will be at
home Thursday evening from until 10
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gressman and Mrs ! Albert johnson
ashington viii be Hosts at a din
no dance at Congr, IS Han Friday
Hng in compliment 70 MISS Hazel
Hing Cook, of AsbUry lark, n J,
D Is the house guest Of 1rs; Jonn n.
! entertain at a luncne pn for Miss
=. who will leave washiI SSton SatuT-
10 spend the weekend Fhilaoel-
efore returning to her Nnome'