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The British Army Machine.

One Of the best authorities upon
British army organization Is Lord
HALDANE. who was Secretary of State
for War from 1906 to 1912, When he
came into office there was no separa-
ton OF the command and training Of
troops, which should be the business of
n General STAFF. and the supply and
transport service, which should be
directed by an Administrative STAFF.
The most important lesson of the Boer
war was that England did not have a
modern army, The Usher committee.
named by Mr.. BAIxoUB. was author.
ifs!f TO investigate the War. Once
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Greece.


From high Olympus have the MUSES. fed .
There il no hand to tend tho sacred
fire
Upon their affairs, mono 10 touch the
Tyre,
The Tyre beloved Of the immortal dead ,
None now at the Plerian fountain head
Sets drausht to lip. and sings with
lyric ire.
o for "A bard to rise who should in
spire
The land to valor as when Sparta led
For who SC fatuous as to gainsay
The hour is big with mighty destinicso
Behold the world an amphithcatrc
war The nations grippcd In grim
array;
Time, that should rouse a Plndar. and
should stir
To tragic furS,a Euripides.
CLINTON ScoLLARp,
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sion requiring It's information In a form

sion requiring It's information In a form
slightly different from the others.
ID Com recommended that one cen.
trail authority in Albany be created
through which all the business of the
various State institutions could be done.
These essentially duplicated re.
ports, which in many Of their details
are originally unnecessary. go to Al
bany to give employment to scores of
other clerks: they furnish material
for printing presses working on State
contracts they are tabulated, reduced
to percentages, checked Off, totalled,
subdivided, and generally bedevilled
In an imposing manner; and all this
Is done at the expense Of the tax
payer. from whom tho operations sup
ported by his pocketbook are care
fully concealed. All he is allowed TO
know Is that an enormous amount Of
money Is spent annually for reports
that mean nothing and whose ulti-
mate destiny Is 10 pile mp The States
bills for storage.
DR.. CoBB wants GENERALIZATION. o
omy of money and the tine of clerks.
a generally sensible system. Does he
not realize that the principal object
of Government is to provide useless
Jobs, utter documents nobody will
read. and generally to keep the
mere citizen from retaining 700 large
a proportion of the cash he is lucky
enough 10 get his hands on as he
the gauntlet of determined and
tax eaters?
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cannot afford to be suspected of ind,f.

cannot AFFORD to be suspected Of indif.
ference to the appeal Of humanity.
As to the charge that the British
Government has for some time re-
FUSED permits for the despatch Of all
hospital supplies to the enemy, there
appears to be Misrepresentation
somewhere. The Embassy at Wash
ington enters a vigorous denial. Alp
parently there is u confusion Of rub.
Der with general hospital supplies on
the list agreed upon. II Is Incredible
that Great Britain has treated the
listed hospital material as contra
band. Perhaps again red tape is to
blame for the misunderstanding.
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The continued good health of Mayor
MITcHEl. Is guaranteed by the fact
That his mother designed and con-
structed tho plum pudding that topped
his Christmas dinner. There could be
nothing better or n convalescent rub
lie office holder than "A stimulating
and sustaining dish fabricated under
such auspices.
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The kaisor's presence at the Ho-
hcnzollern Christmas festivities should
convince amateur diagnostlcians that
tn" inflammation of the cellular It's
sues from which he suffers affords
no basis for n comparison with the
disease that carried off an illustrlous
ancestor.
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Why Are ADnlcS Hisho

To THv EpiroR Oh TIM Sv,-Sr. 7,
apples are so abundant. why ar. we
Obliged TO pay from three and "A half IN
six cents apiece for good eating apples7
Why are they not sold as CHEAP here ~
the Same apples are sold In other coun.
tries? AN APPLE ,oxv,
NEW yonN, December "a.
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k"ntucky's Honey County.
klrno H.

Nendlcton county has produced A won.
dcrful crop of honey this year. Mr.. Ceorro
Shotwcll of Butler gathered 10, ooO pounds
from two bee yards, one IN PeudI.ton and
the other IN Bracken near the PendIeton
line. Several bcemen have done as wall.
and ono claims TO have saved $4,000
pounds.
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The idea hat Mr.. BRYAN will take
the place of Mr.. HENRY FoRp on the
quarter deck OF the Ark of Peace IS
amusing. II Mr.. BRYAN could see moth
ing in the enterprise for him before
the Ark put out on the face of the
waters. he must now he congratulate
ing himself upon his warincss. All
Of Mr.. BRYAN's Ideals pay.
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Mr.. Charles Dickens was gracefully
rejected after this fashion


per eH-"e are returning hy mail
.vus hoNe' David Coprerheld," which you
49, se"' uS ioF examination. The re-
p " 'H r'Ni'rH az" not encourage us
:" win IN" DOCK although 1t l.
N'u"tS "r"''h WIN sincerity and In
So"ie r"spectS u pleasing But the tale
% 'o"s ura"h out ana iir"some in many
80, 49, '''e" vi inc characters are
-. 80 '''N'''hg 10 ""ntem-
- ~ Ss" say mat your
WORK eViuehtes TOO much i"ndness for PEG
p v. 40" shu hhrehned stock and that
- wv NUN gwen 70 contemplating
Tile "''s OF NE from tho ives OF con-,
'"on pL'p'r' rms would not appeal to
S . our Class Again We ara In
'"N' E"u' S'NIe IL Tar from per-
~" N'' u '"'hs olesdh'e and polish,
90 '""S,'"'h'h 10 ADVISE YOU to ahan-
W. Wv 'n~' :" 'b~"'''inang a literary
"',"'' "'' suggest mat YOU might DO
q d newspaper reporter. VITA best
80 ~ your future We remain. Yours
lhe next recipient of polite regrets
was Washington Irving, t.so. of T,rr,.
"'' l.
Dear sir-W return. with regret. the
manuscripts YOU kindly submitted for e>.
animation last month. our readers re-.
,aL. - ""no' duNAs" VS. 70 under
sL.,,,aa S'n' OF your
49,, " "''"ou' Ine'lt "o are
800" e' 70 say ana you might ind them
NNaAi&n'e Tor use In IA" newspapers and
.s"e4oH pe''"o''"S bit We do not find
80 S""' worn should ever hu
!" ''"'' 'o"' MP van Wrinkle"
.,,, " "H'u'F hum"fous' but not
a. - ""''tht us production
-, - ''"' II - " prepoStcrous
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We could tolerate n schoointstcr
who pronounced meadow "medder":
who viii say that highly rcspcctahle
authority for this form OF the word
cannot be produced? "~Bepology" for
biology presents n dffer"nt problem:
II tn" teacher were otherwise capable
we should dispose of IT hy abolishing
he study of this science in his iIrisdic-
ton and assign the time left unused
the three RS.
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The gentleman who subscribed
$1,000 to a cha ritahle enterprise and
finds himself celebrated as the riyer
OF $4,000, 400 will never believe the
world is ~ungenerous with other pco-
pies money.
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Norway has put an embargo on the
export OF sardines preserved in lard.
but so long as the Maine fisheries en-
dure our supply of the Mediterranean
delicacy win be unimpaired.
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Madame BERNHARDr Is recovering
from her illness. a fact that adds TO
the joy of all lovers OF art in this
Christmas season.
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a Valuable Citizen Go,.

from tie Kansas car JouJua}.
Since Police Judge Biggs has resigned
Barnard KAN is without u police Judge.
city marshal or resident preacher.
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" or friends trho favor US tcifA p,aaN
scvipts and Wustrdtions for publication rish
. have rejected articles returned they must
- Oh cases send stamps for tAat purpose.
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London oalee. bingham House. | Arun-
DE- street, strand.
Paris once. Rue de ia Michodiere. OF
Rue du Quatre Septombre.
Washington once, Hibbs Building
Brooklyn Office. los Livingston street.
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The elevator men who struck On
Friday and inco%nvcnienccd the ten
ants in the building they serve because
the management could not agree with
them on the basis for dividing the
Christmas gifts showed a disposition
unlike that Of most of their brethren.
The gratitude exhibited for the holt
day reinembrances is genuine and un-
affected; the avariciots and habtually
impolite elevator operator is a crca-
ton OF the imagination. But If rows
over Christmas presents became the
rule. how quickly the benevolent or
coerced givers would reform their OMEN
handed habits,
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One Of the war correspondent syn
NEY A. M~osELEY's Pictures From CAL
lipoii" in the FortniDhtly Rericic is an
ineffaceable memory. The scene Is a
hospital ship on the route from the
peninsula to Alexandria. \ severely
wounded officer. with head and chest
swathed in bandages. Is screened from
the rest" Always he Is reading and
v has a word TO say. MosELEY
wonders why this man is isolated. al
though made as comfortable as posi-
BILE. One day he reads. two days, three
days: You could Just see his face,
and the man was dying" In the after
noon Of the fourth day "a short but
impressive service was held, and then
"A body cnCased in saCking-looking
like an Egyptian mumny-was shot
overheard. landing Nat with a fearful
splash upon the blue waters of the
Mediterranean" The reader was dead
he had read on without bewailing
MS fate and with no complaint until
his pulses began to f%iutter. and then
he died.
The Arab burning his face IN his
burnoose as he les in the walls shadow
stoically meets his end. Here was an
Englishman who had served his Coun-
try we'll and missed a soldiers glory.
philosophically accepting fate's decree
far from his kindred. over the mis-
managed and futile Giallipoli campaign
death eeme TO he ever brooding. The
soldiers Of the Alhes fought on with
out hope. and as many thousands as
would make an army corps gave M
lives and were buried in the
ar sunk in the sea. 1t WIS war
at its worst. too terrible TO ponder on. |
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1919,
The century
VIII soon be cen
A dobutante
OF sSsst-un
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100 Nassau street, In the Borough OF Man
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-26
WHERE NATURE SMILES.

r-ees ere aere- erf ~ ere sara sssr
nf Hrersf sFr~aF ssF weeds re wsT
CD feas HrsF ns.rsou tsss WNFe q
rae ara set Hs fsr HFawte r WI hs
orc 81 ere prssfi-st fsssarrs on ttr
ra-t F7 reet ere waller ee ss.FeF days
Hrsr Hs EsEeFes ttr view Gel rszrrs
Ier r1sF COW. ere f-FfsEr roc r1rerfa-
rsF as fs vFrr s tssf- later ere BEAST
fst rrsra ~ sssvrrtsE euls1ss were
ere sa- SEEKS E-es rose 11~ go flEff
Frtr reess ef rf5afs oss Ne1vs F~
ers seer ets.a~ sFsf eafsEFr rsEras
r1frarr on rfevss. asf art galleries
t--ar- scale srssrs fs seat on ere
grassy FeeT lsss ssss ste af ere 81
refs rn-rr ss % fsv1efFs view ~ ere
f-sr-rtsE srr 20 BE- Esf hefWFrF o.
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eaFrsH are nF.rs.5 ss 90 comrades. stF
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fhrr uee FtF gray spar. LEI @see-
81 f1rt Of craze ssris-.t ard fs also very
frrf ~ efvtrr se~ bose far~~f Tr Fis
watershed bart ts Eel ore ~ Fsr'r
corning sights Co see Bin trest.sE
sFT keeper Far slower
rg- r.rfs tess make ftr.r Bones Dol
f.~ ears ere very welcome fFiFets.
ere sHrert~s=-frrs s7srE su FRI Fjs
power tr snake attractive F.frrs fr-
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artistic t.r.{eeasr DO sF7.tt see ftat
made bv crrss rseEv Or .s ~ smstt
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safety
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were ssafTIeE fsr cast sFsf1vs tr GRE
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ere willow f-1rfs srf bgrEs Sharply
eaF Oh ere ssr.rf wssrr. ar1r4srE q
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ire gsefe'rrss ~ trsGFv vas sP-
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Levers af afE4rr and Hl.r efre.srs
Nsru a1reaf s bs7ias sf taHr View
Dara eesterGsF, s.siast rtta.aa cas-
barsla Easrs .a gaiat sf altsadsn.s
The naimg ar sau sflHanf tsrerf..l
aaalsnf ~ enc past Vees has Barrier,
Ella mother aaF4rs sf bee agrIaE Nefs
aad she s grsftf srt..ea fsr 0aaa
aHesd OIL enc ieaf n bee aaei-ff .t TO-
ssoad Cd suea fsfJsf.as raTarae-s.
More aad more enc public ar.aE
latrosiacsd Js fBs great outdoors sat
sAs srsffiesf view af everglades .rfgr
g.f4f hs Cd be- gat ltr enc faaf lsai
slower fiasg at Gee door as u were.
Ia Lana view Centrally located. 90
- fsfiaueiess walls trom most aeg
notion af che eitg TIE scenery oil.
fAs surreaaGtaE e1gaFrV i9otlsz wes.r
ward aad ravart uateupa is en-
ffvalsd aad aaEtaes tae llais apes OF
Turner Cor Artistic egastv ast atalas9
gasrg
several bets of aas tasei- u.es
are IN Bloom rGc ptasY beds af eaF
sntraace aad che patterned eor3-r az
sAe crest ef enc blI are uaFve.s ia
plants OF Size aad Individuality. pass
l.s esfns 90 mgea Hsr r9ts .a saa,rs
of difference tnd variety az fol sake
them enc most mpaaIauta.~ at
aowsrs soae faNerY branches ta a
mystic brambie OF pup .sH pint are
a mass % color and were generously
admired b. Sundays tourists
ROCK fsianf fs Fortunate ia f5e pos
session 90 a working superiefrgl.ert
Of parks one thsF gets rtshf Gown
and IN ant ueder srd dfFs. Long View
andsr hts usanaEsmeet and char 1t ar
iatetiissgt veuns heIpet. who takes "a
tevtna I'M tsrest tn bis e1nEerl at verE.
r. Kept an oasis ~ beaHfV frrrUEt1tsf
enc season. Wourtsen Doe bels are .a
operation this sprisE fr frr rrsf
grounds aad agmerous c1ff franc are
sIief wfth transptsnfsf seedlings Wet
rotted maiea sed other good plant food
n on haaf wJfH muleH ru preparrftar
Cor aext wears worE OH these BEDS
NAY ne seen martE1,f. EE.f tst ssr
gurtuss fully siE jgeses fslt. sweet
peas EruwH fe pots. rfeF saw-t ss fr
color AT ts~ rfaets have fHr.r Ratio
names attached aet soms 1911 have fF
bloom ant fheu some before ftr aver
age ontoossr may know ere variety
4rabdfaa1rs t1beiss aa1 fsvsrfFws
mfEhf not deceive -r tarsHrv bas
einerarts. fstbF fauas .rFruasgesa. rFra
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rhe sew waserfsff vhlsf was t-ssr
last rsar bs warEias r.rsfT ard starts
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-26
ORION

Size E=rf uii'~y vas q rr.-r.ry shop
pr WEDNESDAY
r. - Wright ts able fH F~ Que a.
Ger q Tons ard serious i..rrrH.
wallace MecaadIrss o. N~w Yo-s
city visited ,ast w~~E wifa tis moth
o. 1frs John Mrcari,rss.
Frask q. szHguist % Rockford. Wis
itrf wish oriaa frisz1E wednesday.
Misses Cal soath ard Brrtha Eh6i-
arm~r we're Cambridge visitors FTi-
sav
a team b~lrrEsHs t9 q. 2 Chase be-
came fr.Ebtrr~d and uur1utr1.iabis
era ran uaF. The horses uTrr cauEat
near che Eiatr farm.
Mechanics sfrFrf and B1-1vr'f
drove 90 CAMBRIDGE ThurElay ant
spent che day
Members ~f ss~ srrh1uo=r class
saeE tFFir dinners and sent f1r n
9irs.- iH enc woods near Er.ar BigF
Fritav
Miss Gau South has a a-r saxon
car
SIRE p ? Wsz-1s~u cut-rrairri
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far aftrrrr1-
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-26
THE TABLE.

Economical Breakfast Dish FOR
Three Persons-Cut four slices ba-
con in dice and fry brown Beat one
tablespoon -four and little milk or
water to smooth paste, then add three
eggs and beat thoroughly. Now pour
in one and one-half cups milk. then
stir in with bacon until thick: sea
son with salt and pepper to taste. be-
con may he omitted for ham, or both
may be omitted if You use bacon fry
ings in spider.
japanese Koto-Cut FIVE pounds
rhubarb into small pieces and sprinkle
with equal weight Of sugar. Let stand
over night. In the morning pour boil
ing water over one and one-halt
pounds figs cut into bits, add rhubarh
and grated rind and juice of two lem
ons, then cook until thick. This IS
2 coed relish 70 serve with cold meats
and can be used for cake filing
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-26
TASTEFTL DESSERTS.

Floating Island of Fresh Strawber-
ries-Crush one pint fresh strawber-
ries and sweeten TO taste. Beat whites
OF four eggs 10 a stiff froth and grad
ually mix in one-half cup powdered
sugar and sufficient strained Juice
from berries 20 color and flavor, then
beat again until meringue will stand
alone. Meanwhile prepare a boiled
custard from one pint milk, yolks Of
the eggs, pinch of salt. one-half cup
OF sugar. Cook custard over hot wa
ter until well thickened do not let
il boiD. favor with a little vanilla
extract and when cool pour into glass
dish. Place carefully over custa-d p
layer OF the crushed berries and drop
the meringue in peaks on top OF the
fruit. Place on ice to chill before
serving.
old-Fashioned Flaky Shortcake-
Make a common biscuit dough with
either sour milk or baking powder,
then roll il out about half inch thick
and spread shortening over it-Iard
or butter. or lard and butter mixed
Sprinkle a little -four over. then roll
u IN like Jelly rel. s:5 coll on: again
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-26
YOUR GARDEN.

The vegetables that Will bear early
planting are peas, lettuce. radishes'
parsley, beets, turnips. onion sets Po-
tatoes and cabbage plants.
Your earliest crop viii be radishes.
Before planting any seed. plan the
location of the vegetables II you
know the garden plan of last year
try 10 plan it different this year. so
that the same vegetables are not
grown twice successfully in the same
place. Cabbage, turnips and 5eeis
seem to be most affected by continu-
Gus planting in the same spot, ana
beans and peas the least.
Do not plant cucumbers, squash OF
melons near each other
In most gardens the vegetables are
planted in long rows, but for the
very womanish reason that il aHords
shorter rows you can divide your
garden into four sections by a length
wise and crosswise path intersecting
in the center One section is for po-
tatoes, one for lima beans. one for
beets. carrots. peas. parsley and let
tuce: the fourth for string beans
wa- beans. cabbage and rsdifhsA
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-26

ask TO come ahead of time? Would
you lei him come when he asks TO
the last minute7 KATE
/ should think a girl would rather
have a boy phone the last minute,
because then she can be sure he really
wants TO come and is not merely
keeping a date in which long before
he has lost interest. So many times
after date is made something else
comes up which one would much
rather do. The girl as well as the
boy ought to find II more convenient
TO make the date the day it Is to take
place.
Dear Mrs. Thompson; Ever since
I was child I have loved the little
girl who lived next door TO US We
played with dolls together. started
school at the same time, and even
went to the same college. There was
always a deep mystery about the
girls mother which only lately was
explained to me; she is in q hospital
for the insane. During the girls
sophomore year at college she was
called home 10 her brothers funeral,
he had committed suicide. ] did not
at first consider this suicide strange
hut about a month ago when I asked
the girl TO become my wife and she
told me of her mothers condition, I
wondered If the brothers. suicide had
not been the result OF insanity. The
girl refused to marry me because Of
the faint in her family. but at first
refused to give her up. Now that
have thought the matter over I too
wonder If this marriage would be
best. DO you think insanity is hered-
itary and that there would be
chance of our children becoming in
sane? BATES,
The chances are that your chill
dren would inherit a tendency toward
insanity.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: How old
should girls be before they can learn
TO dance?
MABEL AND HENRIETTA
I think children should be taught
as soon as they are able 20 compre-
bend the steps.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-26
WXpT ono
HOME
pQeBIEMS|
mrs AELTE TE1GSoN

Dear Mrs. Thompson: Wnen 1 was
ls thought that I was sincerely in
love with n girl one year my senior.
After leaving high school l got job
and In . short time ! worked into an
excellent position for boy of my age
Ny salary was 500 a month, which
seemed ample al the time to support
q wife. and. with chances OF a raise,
q family And so l proposed to the
girl. She refused me fatty, and when
persisted she told me that il had
been all she could do TO tolerate me.
Ny life seemed 10 stop right therei
all enthusiasm and ambition left me:
I was IN despair. I had read of men
who forgot their grief in drinking,
and. desperate, tried the same. II
worked, az least partly so. because
when I was drunk I did not suffer so.
The drinking habit got the better OF
me until l became so dissipated that
! could not keep my Job. Then l
went from bad TO worse. doing odd
Jobs to get money enough 10 buy
drinks. Ny parents were brokenheart-
ed and my father disowned me. For
three years kept UP my dissipation,
and then one spring night I came TO
myself. ! buckled up, got Job and
since then have not fallen. = short
time ago I had a desire to seek my
old friends-not the girl, she is con
neoted with the horror of those three
years-but the boys who used TO mean
so much 10 me. They would not well
come me back as a friend, had sunk
too low. What can I do? I crave
friends, but I cannot make them, be
cause everyone seems TO know of my
past shrink from girls and any
way II I cared 20 be with them they
would not have me. Thank YOU, Mrs.
Thompson. for any advice you can
give me. JOHN.
AS soon as you can, move to an
other city and take up work. The
friends YOU make will know nothing
OF your past and their attitude to-
ward you will be a help rather than
hindrance in the new life you are
leading a man who can brace up
after what you have gone through is
bound 10 succeed wherever he is.
Dear Mrs. Thompson; l am a girl
OF Is and I am going with a boy of
whom I am very fond. This boy an
noys ne. however. by telephoning the
last minute and asking 20 come over
or 20 take me riding. When he wants
me 20 go TO a dance or entertainment
he phones long enough ahead of time.
Why do you think it is that he doesn't