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should have a sepatate card. and the
requirements or suggestions pertaining
to each. Then. instead of a bulk list,
or worse. book. all that Is necessary,
is to take the required lew CARDS, shy
a rubber band on them, and slip into
shopping bag or purse. The reverse or
the cards might contain phone num-
bers, addresses of specially or gilt
shops and similar information. The
whole advantage is, only as many cards
as are needed are taken; or that num-
Der of new cards can be added as de-
street.-The system Ia flexible, inexpensive,
and most efficient.
But the use of cards does not end
here: for an important point Is to write
on cards the presents given to certain
people so that next year duplicates VIII
not be sent. For those who give lavish
ly, this Is most important, as nothing is
such a breach as to repeat gift, and
it Is almost impossible not to do this
unless some such system Is used as that
suggested.
When the present need for the cards is
over they may be slipped back into the
box, along with the other cards which
should keep track of the household ac-
cannot so easily be mislaid as account
books, and can be expanded at any
time. The cards can be arranged, head
ed, and carried rs you choose; there
is no page to tear" out, nor any ar
bitrary plan to follow. You make UP
your own plan and your own system,
according to your particular needs. Both
cards and boxes can be bought OF all
dealers in office supplies at a small
sum per 100 cards. Plan your Christ
mas shopping in a buslness-like manner.
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this means that they will be branded
with the crime. even though they
took the easiest way out IN shorten
Ing the routine of trial.
Costs of Record.
Docs the defendant wish to appeal
his case? The records are all in the
hands of the court stenograDher.
who charges about 80 cents per page
:or the typewriter account Of the
trial. OF course. the cost Of tho en-
tire record depends upon the amount
Of evidence offered. The filing clerk
OF the court receives a fee Of SIS.
Twenty-Five briefs of the case have
to be submitted. You con see that
for q poor man just and adequate
defense at court Is almost an inn
possibility.
THAT Is why am devoting much
Of my time to advocating bill for a
the one unable to hire able lawyers
the defense due him IL the case is to
That Bill was up before the
Washington legislature last year and
failed to pass. 1t will be presented
again this year. Its provisions are
something like this:
fender in each county. to be elected
in the same way as prosecuting at
torneys.
Second, the public defender shall
upon request of the accused or upon
order Of the court, defend any per-
son financially unable to hire coun-
sci.
Third, the salary shall not exceed
one-half that of the prosecuting at
torney.
Safeguard Of Poor.
For the future. mothers pensions
are the safeguard of the poor. For
the present. public defenders. That's
the whole situation. The women OF
the State Of Washington are back
of both ideas. They are are studying
the economic conditions of today and
fitting the laws they support to
those conditions. The man who
wins their votes Is judged by char
acter and ability, by progressiveness
of attitude, more than by his party
platform. l hold this to be one of
the most tangible effects of women
upon politics today. They build to-
ward the future of the race and as
builders the voters of tomorrow are
rousing their interest. 1t Is to pro-
tect these future voters that the
women of Washington advocate such
legislation as the mothers pension
law and adequate defense for all ac-
cused persons, be they guilty or in
nocent."
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BOOK REVIEWS

MY LADY'S HANDBoOK-Health. Strength
and Beauty. BY w. s. Birge, M. ID.
New York: Sully Klenteich. Price 20
cents.
Beauty. like everlasting youth, is the
object of endless searching after by far
the greater part OF womankind. MY
Lady's Handbook, therefore will have
grateful audience. In Its pages are
to be found much practical advice con-
cerning health and its twin-sister,
beauty, and numerous formula. A
series OF exercises and a chapter on
natures remedies complete a helpful
and sensible little volume.
APosTRoPHE TO HOPE. BY Laura Hull
Morris New York: The KpJckerbocker
Press.
Poems on various subjects, ranging
from Clara Barton to a Grain or
Rice"
THE son OF THE OTTER. BY George
Van schaick. Boston: Small, Maynard
Co. Price, N&
The Canadian fur country, its super
, stitions and its people, and the efrect
of q crime on a man inely wrought
and sensitive, form the dual theme or
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Dr.. Van Schaicks' latest book. The
childlike beliefs of the Canadian lnGi-
ans, strangely mingled with the re-
llgion taught by wandering priests
their devotion and generosity to each
other and their life during the bitter
cold weather of the trapping season
nave seldom been so clearly pictured
TO ONE FROM Already. BY Theodore L.
Fitz Simons. Boston: Sherman. French
& Co. Price. 81.
All the sensuous appeal OF italian
skies and flowers is contained within
the lines of the sonnet sequence and
lyric sequence with the title OF the
book. Miscellaneous poems are also in
cluded.
WAR LETTERS FROM THE LIVING DEAD
MAN. BY Else Barker. New York:
Mitchell Eennerley. Price. H.?5.
These are the communications re-
ceived by Elsa Barker from the spirit
of David p. Hatch. who died in 1912
the second series she has transmitted
The present group deals with European
battlehelds and gives interviews with
the astral selves OF rulers modern and
ancient For hose delving la the oc-
cult, the letters are bound to be OF in
teTest.
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Mrs. Mary E. Howe, Dele
gate to the Suffrage Con-
vention, Who Has Serv-
ed as a Juror in Washing
ton State, Claims That
"Institutionalized" Chill
dren Are a Menace to the
State.

<(T HE CHILD brought up in
an institution Is likely
when a man to find in
stitutional life the easiest
way out Of his troubles. He has
become institutionalized."
Mrs. Mary L. Howe. a voter. from
Seattle. Wash, in this city as a
delegate to the Congressional Union
Convention, has based most of her
work as club woman and a ctti-
zen upon that conviction. As she
gives her clear-cut, businessiiKe
arguments they fall naturally into
the form of a lawyers brief. Heads
and subheads adjust themselves IN
orderly lines as she talks, empha-
sizing them with quickly moving
fingers. Her eyes are blue and keen.
and they narrow slightly at the
corners when an important bit or
proof is advanced.
Many people have thought Mrs.
Howe lawyer. for she has legal
phraseology stored right in the
handiest cells OF her brain for Use
at any moment. She declares. how
ever, that her experience as q Juror
In Washington courts and as pri-
tenn has led her into a logical way
itself
Having given her main argument,
she began to suggest possible rem
edies for the situation. And
mothers, mothers pensions come first and
Fate of the Child.
The mother who has no money to
support a large family either goes
to work or leaves the children 10
shift for themselves. II she goes
to work the children are left alone
through the daytime to run the
streets at will. The child who has
nothing to keep him at home is the
one most likely to be brought before
tho juvenile court. The child VINO
publicly disgraced is likely to com
init other petty crimes and be puc
In correctional institution.
NOW TO 60 back to the child
whose mother deserts her RESPONSE
biIity; went on Mrs. Howe. swiftly
child Is likely to. be committed to
an orphanage or q home. Institu-
ttona1 life has begun, then. whether
Il be In one OF these homes or in
tne institution for deljnquents
institutional life means living by
bells-bells to get up by. to eat by,
to work by. There Is no training
In initiative. The growing child has
no opportunity to Judge for himself
and ras every minute OF his time
planned out in advance. He lives
the same life as hundreds OF other
children do.
Simpler Labor.
III he receives any training at all,
1t is in the simpler forms of labor.
tho low-paid industries. When the
time comes to enter the world once
more, he is dazed. He hasn't those
bells to tell him what to do. His
life Is no longer the same as hun
dreds of other lives. He Is given a
free rein and doesn't know what to
do with 1t.
HE can't secure a position that
pays well. for he has had little vo-
cational training. The stigma of in
stitutional life cliugs to him. He Is
branded with It, Being unused to
directing himself. he falls all too
readily under the influence of crimi-
nails. At last comes a time when he
hos no work and no money. A pet
ty theft seems the easiest way out.
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ADVICE TO GIRLS
Bv Annie Laurie

Dear Annie Laurie: I am a
utt,o country girl, in love with a
how who is nineteen. am twen
tv.one. His parents do not want
hin, 70 60 with me. but he says
thnt the more they talk the more
he loves me. They DO ,H,tse
many things to make him oisnte te
me, and he said l am SO ota, ae
him that nothing coula nther
. his feeling. He a ma GIVEN up all
othars Tor him. Shall I continTme.
t"tt;ng him call? HIS father car
NV home for him to coide
$3.50 so az one time-it was then l1:@,
would rather give him up '"'"
have him scolded: GIRL.
SAD HEARTED COtNi'i
x~yHY you're right I'm IN a,se ,ne
midst of one of those as
w tcessing family quarre's'
,rpn't YOU, and don't you
s,1,slfmss wish that such thihs 49,
reieliycs never ex'staa' Ioo MIC" 40,
.l,s fect trat y0" ace ~" years VI"
.r hs;. Ga, hnv may have s''i'e
.t,,no ,o .o w'Eh the way his peo-
,,o are ac:tng. Ave you thoueh'
~ that? The. may want their son
N have a career--to settle ooWh
seriously to a trade, and your at
tacbmcnt Is standing in the way
OF it. ,o.,n
As for the father calling at lo:3o-
the young man should have gone
nv that time. my dear. for unless
Won are formally engaged. the can
sbou,d end at 10. The father IS
n-ohahlv n hot-tempered man who
nenta Ills own way and cannot bear
tho thought of his son being Ola
enough to think for himself. ,,o,,
This is my advice to you both-,you
especially: Give the Young man d
chance to make good. That may may
be the only way you can win oEer .,l
Ms parents. II you are IN rove WI, w
him, you will be content 10 wall i''
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Is entirely too young to. marry for
at least two years. with four the
safer number. Four years will test
his grit and his love, yours as well.
Dear Miss Laurie: Recently
took two, young ladies to the
vaudeville, and during the per-
formance one Of them kept con-
tinually staring over the audience
and turning in her seat to gaze
at anv one who came In the thea
ter. / was very much embarrass-
ed and spoke to her about IT, She
argued that It was not improper
for her to do 1t. I should much
appreciate your advice.
7 T Is ALWAYS considered rude for a
person in a gathering Of any
/ kind. whether 1t is In a theater
or a church. to turn to look at
any other person entering. Though
the girl NAV naturally be angry be-
cause YOU took II upon yourself to
criticise her actions. you were in
the right.
Dear Annie Laurie: A. friend of
mine was married recently, and
at NHTlSlIldS WISH 10 give her
some table linen. Should the pieces
be marked with the initial OF her
maiden name or her present
one? NJ
" lNCE the gift is not to be
given at the time Of your
~ friends marriage. the initial
of her present name is tho one
to be used on the linen you are
planning for Christmas.
Miss Laurie totH Ue!come letters
OF inquiry on subjects of interest
from readers Of this paper, and totlI
reply to them IN these columns.
They should be addressed to her,
care this office.
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CREAM OF CATARRH
OPENS UP NOSTRILS
Tells How to Get Quick Relief
from Head Colds. It's Splendid! A!

In one minute your clogged nostrils
will open. the air passages of your head
will clear, and you can breathe freely.
No more hawking, snufhing, blowing,
headache, dryness. No struggling for
breath at night; your cold or catarrh
will be gone.
Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream
Balm from your druggist now. Apply
little of this fragrant, antiseptic.
healing cream in Your nostFils. 1t pene-
trates through every air passage of the
head soothes the infiamed or swollen
mucous membrane and relief comes in
stantly.
It's just fine, Don't stay stuffed up
with cold or nasty catarrh-Relief
comes so Quickly.-Advt.
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effect. something must he done for
criminals brought up before Justice.
l said that the chief cause OF crime
was lack of money. This being the
case. how can an accused person
secure the defense pledged him by
the Constitution II he has no money
to paw competent lawyer.
II have found when serving on n
jury that in the majority OF cases
where the defendants are making use
of public attorney they plead
guilty. 10 you know why this is:
TIE lawyers assigned them are either
inexperienced young men handling
their first cases or 'has-beens.' who
are out of the running. BY promises
OF a suspended sentence, the Door
defendants are urged TO plead guilty.
Many OF them do not realize that
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mar, at the Parker. Wednesday
morning at 1890. The subject Will
be the work Of r. Y. Tirreu, treated
by Mrs. Cunningham.
The civics section announces =
lecture on the evening of December
II at o'clock at All Souls Church.
Edward b. Clark will speak on THE
War-torn Marne" for the benefit or
the work in aid of the suffering
women and children in that valley.
The sections of French and civics
Will undertake this work Jointly
this winter. Mr.. Clark recently re-
turned from the war zone, where he
had opportunity to observe condl-
tions at close range. This is an en-
urcly different lecture from the one
given last month as part OF the
regular program of the Twentieth
Century Club.
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To Health
Questions
BY DIR. L. X. HIRSHBERG.


copyright. Newspaper Feature Service. Inc)
o, K.-Csn you suggest a remedy for
slightly enlarged pores Of tho skin,
What Is the best way of cleansing
the face? My skin Is sensitive to not
WAFER. WAFER. D. Is powder injurious to the
Take q Tactic acid bacilli tablet after
meals tnree times. a day. Avoid fatty
oily and hot foods, sweets. pastries,
candies. sauces. and highly seasoned
foods At night peroxide and sulphur
EIao,a l2tlon may ;S De kept on the face. .
and massage 1t each night and morning
with good peroxide crea,n. Never use
hot water on the skin. s. Genuine rice
powder Is not Injurious.
J. S. P.-Kindly send stamped, self
addressed envelope with your queries
repeated. and l will be glad to give you
the required information. but am un-
able to do so through the columns.
L.. C.-Is there not something you can
suggest which will remove hair perma-
nently?
There is no known remedy which will
remove superfiuous hair permanently.
Reader-will you please suggest some
thing FOR the cigarette habit? I have
smoked them for twenty years. and am
now unable to stop using same. What
will help me?
Swallow one or two tablets every
three hours each Of 1-200th grain Of sui
phate Of strychnine. These tablets are
bitter. and when chewed take away that
craving. Glycerite Of tannin should be
applied to the gums.
1. C. B.-Kindly give me your opinion
as to the best thing for me to do in
this case. / have been unable to go
downtown or anywhere by myself. A
hn uytl mn
and / get so that cannot control my
feelings. What would you advise?
Go to a hospital for q thorough ply
sical examination as soon as you can
find 1t convenient to do 50.
me what to do for falling hair? Also ad-
wise me what to do for my skin, which
is very tender and becomes sore when
shaven.
Apply the following to the scalp each
night with friction: Fluid extract of
tharides. u dram: uncture Of capsicum
dram: rose water. ounce: distilled
water. ounces. 2. Use the violet
shaving cream which comes in porcelain
Jars. and bathe the face sfterward with
hot water on the face. '.-.t' '<n e.
A Daily Reader-Kincly give; me .
remedy for itching hands. =
Your diet is not correct You need
and not mere white bread. meats, po-
tatoes. Also apply the following lotion
each night: Calamine. ~ drarnsi zinc
oxide, 2 drains: phenol. u dram; glycer-
inc. drains: li'newater and rQsewater
enough to make three ounces.
L. WI am sufferer Of int,an naplasien 4 a.
after meals, followed by a throbbing for
about an hour. What do you recon
mend? .'t<#y Z. ,Ezs.,
You must eat more apples, figs. baked
sour apples, carrots, green vegetables
and those that contain salad oil, cereals.
dried and fresh fruits, orange Juice.
prunes. stewed pears. prune juice. and
drink two glassfuls of distilled water "A
| half hour before each meal. three times
| a day. Take a tablespoonful OF milk
of magnesia and seven grains oxide OF
magnesia before meals. and six char
| coal tablets after meals. Avoid consti
patton, inactivity. sleeplessness, and in
| door life.
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Three Minute Journeys
By TEMPLE MANNING.

To be shipwrecked on the desolate
Bounties spelled death I was assured,
for there Is not a vestige of vegeta-
ton or a blade of grass to be found.
Even with the depots for castaways
on each island. to be shipwrecked
there Is a terrible fate Indeed.
1t 1s seldom. so fierce are the
storms in the waters that wash the
Antipodes. that the relief ship makes
its yearly rounds without taking or
some castaway, or, sadder STILL find
ing mute evidence In the graveyards
of tragedies 1t came too late to avert.
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The Washington times., 1915-12-06

The Women's Alliance of All Souls
Church is holding a fair today and
tomorrow at the New Willard. The
program for this evening includes a
concert and dancing, with the for
NAL opening Of the bazaar. Tomor-
row afternoon there will be special
attractions for the children.
The next meeting of the alliance
will be held at the church on Friday
morning at II, when symposium on
the new hymn book will be con-
Quoted. Mrs. A. r, Crandall will
speak on Its Literary Merits;
Mrs. Henry Farquhar. Its Doc
trinalSPoints," and Mrs. G. w. Cog
geshall. Its Musical Value" Mrs.
Fairfax Bayard Is to be the hostess.
This is the last meeting until Janu-
airy A.
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News Items and Notes of Club
Activities in Washington

Margaret Whetten Chapter. d. a.
r.. is planning to undertake the
preservation of one of the milestones
marking the boundaries OF the Dis
trict of Columbia. Action to this
effect was taken at the November
meeting. held last Saturday after
noon. The lines of work for the
winter have been discussed and re-
ferred to the various committees.
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A large box OF tin painted black,
with dampcning pad inside so that
it may be used as Il humidor. is in
expensively priced at $l.50 The box
is large enough 10 hold both cigars
and cigarettes, II wanted. Someone
suggested that il. would even make
an excellent box to keep cake or
cookies fresh.
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that marched to meet the women
bringing petitions to Congress this
morning
Or. william Robbins will lecture
on The Subcoconscious Thought"
under the AUSPICES of the league at
Paul Institute. 21W street. on
December IL
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A butterfly. poised with quivering
wings upon the edge Of bowl or
the side of jar. somehow takes
away the artificial effect flowers in
punches always have, no matter how
artistically arranged. The price ts
81 and up at an + street shop.
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The French section OF the Twen-
ership of Miss Elizabeth Carhart,
will meet with Mrs F. w. F1tz-
patrick. 1900 Sixteenth street, on
Wednesday at o'clock. The report
Of the committee on maisonettes for
the Marne sufferers will be heard,
Followed by games and CONVERSE
tion.
The literature section will meet
with the leader. Mrs. Henry Farqh-
The Washington times., 1915-12-06

Why not the present of some ma
terial for a batbrobe? About six
yards are needed and the price 80
cents a yard at one of the local de-
partment stores.
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THE TIMES DAILY AZINE PAG
Seattle Clubwoman Begs Mothers Pensions Be
fused as Substitute for Chldren's Institutions

Living by a System of
Bells She Claims, "Is
No Training in the Initia-
tive Which Makes Boys
and Girls of Weak Wills
Into Strong Men and
Women Capable of Work
ing Out Their Own Des-
TIMES Satisfactorily
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Seen In The
Shops
Rv THE SHOPPER.

BY THE SHUPPER'
ATH towels, fuzzy striped
ones. in white with yellow.
blue, pink. or lavender. are 30
cents at a G. street depart
ment store. These would make an
ideal addition to any girls nope
chest or substantial Christmas
present for the housewife.
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Mrs. Frank Foster Greenawalt,
state regent. has called a meeting
of the District of Columbia Daugh-
ters OF the American Revolution at
Memorial Continental Hall this FRI
day at 2:3O D. M. for the revision Of
bylaws
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pale pink nightie with gathered
neck and short sleeves-puffed-is
ST. There are about five ether styles
with the same material and price.
One honest-to-goOdness novelty
has appeared out of a haze of pres
ents that threatens to swamp the
local shops. II is comb cleaner OF
unique construction, with metal
loop at the top and bottom. One end
may he slipped over a hook in the
wall. the other held with the Iefc
hand as the comb is passed through
Innumerable strands of fine. rather
wooTIy, twine In the same way that
a razor is stropped. The gilt is at
tractively boxed, with a presenta-
ton verse on the cover. The price Is
" cents.
Telephone Main $3.50 and ask "The
Shopper" for intorm0tioH 0iviH0 the
names Of shops phich carry the ar
ttcles referred to IN this column.
Mall inquiries should be eaoloSsd
U,sh stamped, addressed envelope
~ postal card for reply.
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THE Effort of Association Work,
pageant descriptive of the phases of
activity OF the Young Women's
Christian Association. will be given
in honor of the ORGANIZATIONS tenth
anniversary this Friday evening at s
o'clock. at St. Paul's Lutheran
Church. Eleventh and II streets
northwest All branches of work
undertaken bv the Y. w. c. A. are
10 be included in a series of tableaux.
planned by a committee under Mrs.
Frank G. wilkins.
The Gaiment branch OF the Sun
shine and Community Society, organ
ICED several weeks ago. will give its
initial tea at the New Ebbitt Decem-
ber l6. The proceeds will be devoted
TO Christmas work of the society.
Members OF the Anthony League
acted ss part OF the envoy escort
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J. S. P.-Kindly send stamped. self
addressed envelope with your queries
repeated. and I will be glad to give YOU
the required information. but am un-
atle to do so through the columns.