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 Gracious. no." cried both of the girls.
 Well, it's something I wear, isn't it?" insisted Tommy.
 Silly" said Ruth. "Of course it is but fashions, you see, are whether or not things you wear are in style. Now my shoes are the very latest fashion in shoes"
 And my jacket is, too," put in little Mabel. My Mamma says so, and she ought to know because she bought it.'
 T heard my Papa say that Mouser has lots of style-so is he fashions ?s asked Tommy.
 Ruth threw up her hands in de- spair. My, did you ever see such a stupid boy." she exclaimed Listen, Tommy; that is a new hat you have on, isn't it? And you wore different one last year, didn't you? Well. why did your Mamma buy that new one for you this year?"
 Because the other was wore out and Mouser dragged it down in the coal bin and got it all dirty"
 Mercy sakes!' cried Ruth. And Mabel echoed her cry.
 T could shake you, Tommy! Even if Mouser hadn't soiled your old hat your Mamma would have bought you this new one-because the old one was no longer in style and this one is."
 Tommy grinned. "Oh no she wouldn't" he declared. My Papa said he ought to spank me for wear ing out my old hat so soon. And he said if I wore this one out I would have to go bareheaded next year. So"
 Tommy interrupted Ruth. in de- spairing tone, Don't you ever look at the fashions in a newspaper or any of the magazines your Mamma gets? Don't you see the pictures of the new kind of dresses and hats and shoes and coats people are going to wear?'
 Tommy shook his head
 Say, Ruth," he asked presently. CT heard my Mamma say your Mamma was fashionable Did she say that because your Mamma wears fash ions?"
 Ruth smiled proudly. "Of course" she replied. My Mamma wears all the latest fashions and"
 'Huh." cried Tommy. triumphant ly Huh. She does. does she. We'll I never saw her dressed in any pie lures! I'd like to see her wearing pictures out of a magazine-or any body else in this cold weather. Now you think you know it all. don't you"
 And Tommy laughed and laughed until-well. until Ruth, very angry. stamped her tiny foot grabbed Mabel by the arm and walked away in a great rage
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tree with nuts and acornS; besides, he had hidden quite lot in a crack be- tween some rocks, plenty to last him through the winter, but he didn't stop, but worked on, day after day plant ing a nut here and an acorn wonder.
 His business in life seemed to be to get everything eatable under the ground just as quickly as possible and then to look just as unconcerned as possible. How he manages to To- cate these buried nuts when the ground is covered with snow is one of the things MT. Squirrel has never told
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his empty hands.
 That mushroom certainly did taste good, cool and dripping with last nights dew: but his appetite wasn't quite satisfied. So he ran up the near est tree, climbed, like a slack wire walker, way out on the tip end of a Bwaying, swinging branch, and secured a nut that was just ready to drop.
 Perching himself on a big limb, where he had a clear view all around, he finished his breakfast.
 With his long, front teeth, he cut neat little opening on one side of the nut and, with these same front teeth, got out every bit of the meat, better than you could have done with the very best of nut picks!
 Now, with breakfast over, he was all ready for his days work.
 What do you suppose that work could be?
 Well, winter was coming on before long, and something whispered to him that the things he loved to eat were hard to find on cold, rainy days, and when the ground was all under the snow; and that a real wise squirrel would not forget to hide a whole lot
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sn the wall which seemed to suit his purpose and, dipping his long handled brush into the bucket, Sloshed paste on the smooth surface of the wall md, unwinding his rolls, put up huge poster, section by section.
 The children watched him as he worked. It was most fascinating. Piece by piece the poster was put on; nnd 1t wasn't until the last piece had been fitted snugly into place that the children could read it.
 Then they recognized the words Fashion Show" just behind dainty miss dressed in a flaring skirt, with Il black-and- white-check band around the bottom of her skirt and a waist of the same amazing color and de- sign.
 His work finished. the man picked up his tools, lighted his pipe and went on down the street seeking another place on which to paste poster
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$ $OUPPUZZLE M(NOPNER

DIAMOND. My first is a consonant. My second is 8 slippery fish. My third is a tart fruit. My fourth is used in an open fire place. My fifth Is consonant. HIDDEN PIECES OF JEWELRY., Come. child, embrace Lefty and then go to bed. A gale of wind blew at China's coast, causing much damage. To say "The latch aint fixed" is poor grammar. The General commanded that the Dutch arm themselves against the enemy.
 A certain tower in Greece has stood for centuries. Last week you could hear ringing in the. midnight stiffness, the New Year Bells.
 Answers. DIAMOND: l.
 eel
 lemon
 log HIDDEN PIECES OF JEWELRY:. Bracelet. Watch, Chain, Chdrn,, Ring, Edr-ring.
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he couldn't have known, for they don't have fashion shows in Catland, you know.
 Tommy repeated his question.
 Well" replied Ruth, "a fashion show is where they show fashions. Of course, What else could it bel"
 Tommy thought for while. Pres ently he looked up. What are fash ions?" he asked.
 Mabel looked at Ruth and Ruth looked at Mabel Both of them snick- cred.
 You tell him." said Ruth.
 ''Oh, no, you go ahead and tell him. insisted Mabel.
 This time it was Ruth who thought while before replying. Well" she said finally, Fashions are-are- fashions are what you wear"
 ''Huh." exclaimed Tommy. I've got red flannel chest protector that my Mamma makes me wear--is tha.
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"He made a face-like this" And Joey did his best to initiate the antics of the clown of the school. It seemed he did the work imperfectly, for his mother merely said: "Humph | don't see anything about that to make anyone laugh"
 Yet Joey knew that Tom Ansel had looked funny. If he had failed to con- vince his mother that Tom looked funny he wondered how he should jus ify himself in her eyes for what fol- owed. He had felt sufficiently dis traced when the teacher had publicly ,ebuked him for laughing. thus offend- ng his boyish dignity. He was the more indignant when Billy Upton ati recess had shouted at the top of his lungs: Joey Hubbard laughed out ioud in school Joey Hubbard laughed put loud in school" Joey still felt that he was justified when he protested and shouted You had better quit that, Billy Upton." And when Billy had in- auired, Who will make me?" and! foey had responded, q will,' and when the taunt had been repeated and Joey had grappled with Billy and had ais own hair severely pulled in the. tussel that ensued, he had felt az; grieved because he had not made a; better showing. He felt that he was only trying to maintain his dignity, as was right for him to do, and if his mother could not understand why he had laughed aloud in school, she would charge him with fighting, did she know. Joey was unhappy all the even- Ing, and when he went to bed at g o'clock he could not sleep
 Then something strange happened, Out of the dark corner of the room arose shadow bigger than any man. The shadow had an amiable smile upon it's face, removing fear from. Joey's mind, as it held out a hair to his sight.
 .'Is this the hair Billy Upton pulled out?" the Shadow asked.
 "Why, don't know" faltered Joey.
 "It must be-" unused the Shadow Tt is Number 7,S93,436."
 q don't believe I have that many hairs in my head" faltered Joey.
 "Oh, yes, you have. If you don't believe it, count them and see.'
 Joey didn't feel competent to argue the matter. He looked at the Shadow, and he looked at the hair with mild curiosity, wondering why the scrip sure said, as he remembered jt did. that the hairs of our head are num- oered, and that not hair falls from ,ur heads without the Fathers notice,
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Then why do you keep thinking about it ?''
 Tt isn't the hair, it's the hurt, ;" Joey said.
 Docs it hurt now?"
 NO"
 Seems to me you are making your self a great deal of trouble over little things that you don't need and don't miss and that can't be helped" com mented the Goblin. It was the thought Joey had had about numbering the hairs, only now it had returned to him.
 Tom Ansel did look funny" Joey whispered
 Shall I throw the hair away and forget about it?'' The Goblin turned his head sideways in the most comi- cal manner and looked at Joey. But Joey did not laugh aloud now. It. didn't seem that funny now. Very meekly he replied:
 If you please
 And we will both forget about it?"
 What's the good of remembering disagreeable things that can't be helped?"
 And you want me to go too?"
 This was puzzler. Joey feared it would not be polite to say yes, though he really didn't care to have the Gob- lin hanging about him and keeping, him awake. Who would want such thing? It must have been that the Goblin understood even though Joey did not reply, for he gradually faded, from view. As he did so, Joey felt; yank on his head. and a moment.
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E # pink glow in the West told of W another day MT. Squirrel, in his " sleeping porch of dead leaves, way up in the topmost branches of big hickory, opened first one eye and then the other.
 He gave a jump when he saw how late it was, and, that he had overslept himself
 He had never bought an alarm clock for he had always depended on Mir. Red Head, a woodpecker neighbor to wake him up just at daybreak But, this particular morning MT. Red Head failed to come as he had to stay at home and help Mrs Red Head feed the five little Red Head babies who had taken the place of the five small eggs of the day before.
 So Mir. Squirrels alarm clock, the rattling drum-beat of the woodpecker's bill, failed to go off that morning. He was awfully put out about sleeping so late, as he had planned to do a big days work, and here it was almost sunrise and he wasn't even dressed! It was lucky he did not have a whole lot of clothes to put on and button up
 Once down on the ground he sat on his haunches, his little hands crossed meekly over his white fur vest IA quick glance around assured him there were no enemies in sight, SO how for breakfast!
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A NE Qay last spring the uItle town
 of Roi-de-l e-la-Somme, In France,
 was unexpectedly shelled by the V Germans, and Canadian chap lain describes the scene as he saw it. Life was going on as usual, mothers were busy in the homes, children play ing on the streets. In a few moments all was wild confusion, everyone seek ing safety, mothers rushing wildly about searching for their children who had been at play. Some found them, some did not.
 Among the number who was not found was little lad about eight years old named Julien DecauX. He was playing football when the shells came among them and ran with the others for safety. One of the British car drivers a few weeks later when com- ing from Boulogne saw a little fellow, dirty, half naked and lonely about three miles from town. He seemed lost- and he was. It was Julien De- caux. He told the chaplain that he had never seen his mother since he was playing on the square that day; he was the only child of his parents. Can you imagine the broken hearted mother hunting for the little lad while
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 also a remarkable, one might - almost say a mystic number.
 The little girl in Wordsworth's s well-known poem said. we Are Seven." The days of the week are seven. The colors of the rainbow are seven. The notes of the musical scala are seven (the eighth one being the same as the first). There were said to be seven sages of Greece, and seven kings of Rome and the city of Rome was built on seven hills. London city has seven hills also: Cornhill Snow Hill, Ludgate Hill. Fish Street Hill, Bread Street Hill, Holborn Hill and Tower Hill.
 The world was made in seven days. There were seven famous cities of an- tiquity: Rome, Antioch Nineveh, Babylon, Athens, Tyre. and Carthage. There are seven wonders of the world, that is of the ancient world. and these were: the Colossus of Rhodes Ga huge statue striding across the entrance to the harbor of Rhodes), the Pyramids, the Ephesian temple of Diana, the Mausoleum Cor tomb of King Mausolus, the remains of which are now in the British Mu- seum), the hanging Gardens of Baby lon, the Statue of Jupiter and the Pharos.
 There are also seven wonders of history. These are: the Colosseum, the Catacombs. the Great Wall of China, Stonehenge, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Porcelain Tower of Nan kin, and the Mosque of St. Sophia at Constantinople.
 Here are the seven new wonders of the world: Wireless, the Telephone. the Aeroplane, Radium, Antiseptics and Antitoxins, Spectrum Analysis, X-Rays
 There are many passages in the Bible in which the number seven is mentioned, and it is on this account and the facts mentioned above that Seven is considered sacred number,
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of nuts and acorns where he could easily find them later
 So whenever he saw a good, sound nut, the wormy ones he passed by with merely a sniff, he dug little round hole among the grass roots, rolled iB his nut, drew the earth quickly over it then patted it down firmly with his paws-sat upright a moment to make sure that none of the Blue Jay family saw where he had buried it. He then hopped away as unconcernedly as if such a thing as hiding a nut had never entered his head. He had already stuffed the hollow limb in his home
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FASHIONS - WHAT ARE THEY p

Ruth and Mabel and Tommy stood before the big sheet, spellbound. And Mouser gravely took his place beside Tommy and stared up at it, too.
 What is a fashion show?" asked Tommy.
 Ruth laughed. Don't you know ?" she said. And then, nudging Mabel, bn her right, she added, He doesn't know what fashion show is, Mabel,'' Then both of them laughed
 "Mee-yow." cried Mouser. Perhaps he, also, was laughing, though surely
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Now if he put up little signboard of some kind, or at least stuck a broomstraw in the ground to mark the place, all would be easy. But he did none of these things.
 On some still, cold winter morning. he runs out on the snow, pauses for minute, as if thinking selects cer- tain spot and begins to dig. Down and down he goes, until the cold, damp ground is reached, and up he pops, holding in his paws nut that he planted months ago! He never makes a where he digs he gets a nut and that is all there is to it
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later was lying on the floor He had rolled out of bed, having been asleep all this time.
 What is the matter with my poor little boy?" asked his mother, as she came into the room and turned on the light.
 Tt is Number 7,S93.436," muttered the still sleepy boy.
 What is that, precious? Bless me- If here isn't a tuft of hair that was.
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What shall I do with it?" asked tn,
 Goblin.

pulled from your head when you fell out of bed"
 Mamma, will you forgive me for laughing out loud in school. Tom An sel was so funny?"
 Did you really laugh out loud in school? It must have been a dream my boy'
 Joey was wide awake now. If his mamma said so, maybe it was dream m The only real thing about it all was the hair that his mother held in her hand She kissed him, and he murmered drowsily:
 Number 7,893,4s6"
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~ UTH and Mabel and Tommy had been having a really delightful
 time of it playing in the long
 IN narrow side street. with it's tall stone wall that ran along one side.' And Mouser, too, Tommys black cat. had been enjoying the frolic.
 Then, of a sudden, man carrying several long, mysterious rolls of paper. a bucket of paste and a long handled, brush, came walking down the street: and all play instantly ceased to watch: him. He stopped presently at place,
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= NUMBER, 7,893,436 @

thinking it must be a great deal of trouble to take over such little things.
 What shall I do with it?" asked the Shadow The Shadow looked like Goblin now. Joey had never seen a Goblin, but he was certain the Shadow looked like one.
 q don't know" Joey replied.
 Don't you want the hair? Don't NOu miss if ?v
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THE ALARM CLOCK @
 @ THAT DIDN'T GO OFF

Moving in long. graceful leaps over the dew-wet grass, he found a beauti- full crisp, white mushroom, all rosy pink on the under side. Biting this
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I'll keep my eye to the landward side And watch for the men and dogs. Then boatman coming near the shore With high-strung bow let fly A we'll aimed shaft. that pierced her
 heart
 On the side of the blinded eye.
 xx 's* And so, on every side of life lis we'll to be protected; For injury IS like to come From quarter not suspected.
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he wandered about among the troops for three months? The chaplain took him to the Chief of Police and they are trying to hunt up Juliens mother. The police wanted to keep him mean time, but he got a firm grasp on the chaplains leg and emphatically de- clared that he was going to stay with mon capitaine." He is staying; if his parents can be found he will be restored to them--if not the chaplain will see that he has a good home.
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A ONE-EYED doe by the hunt "A CTS aim

T1ad IoSt her lawn ana HIdte , Fearing to go in search of food.
 Hers was a woeful state. At last she found place of grass
 That looked on the open sea. Over a steep protecting ledge,
 With a land view wide and free. She said, "the water front is safe
 With its rolling surf and fogs;
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 the of the
  marked and ending
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ioEY HIBBARD had laughed aloud

~OEY HIBBARD had laughed aloud
 in school. Never before had he
 done anything of the kind, and his folks couldn't understand why ~, whose department mark had al- ways stood almost to the hundred, should be guilty of such wrong doing. Tom Ansel was so funny nobody could keep from laughing" he had told his mother.
 What did Tom Ansel do?" his
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The Mystic Number

~HE Germans say that All good
 things are three;;" but seven is
 also a remarkable, one might almost say A mystic numher
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nNE autumn morning. just as the # pink glow in the West told of H another day Mir. Squirrel, in his " sleeping porch of dead leaves,
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A Little Lost Boy Tn
 War Time

ME day last spring the little town of Roi-de-la-Somme, In France,
 was unexpectedly shelled by the
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1916-06-22

tors and drug stores, and may even
find that nature is not over-anxious
to forgive them for their continual
transgressions.
Sixth: Fletcherize. Some one has
said II you chew long you will live
long. Too many people think they
have not time TO eat. They merely
chop their food up enough so that
they can swallow il without chok-
ing.
God put the teeth in the mouth,
and il we insist that the stomach
shall do the work that was intend
ed for the teeth we are laying the
foundation for gastric ulcer, hyper
acidity, and many other unpleasant
disorders. We owe a debt OF graf
itude to Horace Fletcher for help
ing us to discover the Importance
OF fletcherizing.
Seventh: Why indulge in light
stimulants at mealtime? DR.. Evans,
formerly health commissioner Of the
City Of Chicago, wrote recently in
The Chicago Tribune: I'm order that
no misunderstanding may arise I
should say that psychologists regard
coffee, tea, tobacco and whisky as
drugs in the same sense that opium
and cocain are" DR.. Samuel g.
Dixon, commissioner Of health for
the city Of Pittsburg, wrote recent
ly: Neither coffee nor tea is to be
considered a food. Both are slim
ulants; and it is this which is re-
sponsible for their popularity. As
with all other stimulants, there Is
continual tendency TO over-indul-
gence because a moderate allowance
after time fails TO give the neces-
sary Indictment to the nervous sys-
TEN. While the mind is often stimu-
lated to good work for a short time
by coffee or tea, any stimulus which
they give is transitory, for there is
a period OF depression following the
use Of all stimulants. Hot water,
or the cambria tea" (hot water,
whole milk and sugar. of our child
hood days is far better.
Eighth: After you have bowed
your head and thanked the Lord
for the meal which He has permitted
you to enjoy, do not forget to be
thankful during the entire meal.
II is good for the digestion. Fletcher
said, do not eat when you are bad.
or mad, or sad; only when you are
glad" Cheer up before you eat and
be cheerful when you do eat.
We have made marvellous discov-
cries in a thousand different direc-
tions during these recent years, but
most people have as yet learned lit
tie or nothing as to how TO "eat, or
drink to the glory Of God."-I Cor.
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WHY THE CITIZEN COSTS

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ly twice what IL did when we be-
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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1916-06-22
FOR KENTUCKY HALL

Kentucky Hall is rising in beauty
An army of workmen are employed
and Berea is overlooking with pros
perity.
But the money given for the Hall
has run out and more subscriptions
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Fora Cosby, Nicholas, man.
slaughter.
James Hicks, Jefferson, robbery.
Charles Tabs, Bell, manslaughter
Johnson Elliott, Casey, life, muir
der.
Steve Ratliffe, Wolfe, manslaugh.
ter.
John Benton, Johnson, assault.
Joe Scott, Nicholas, OBTAINING q
woman.
Charles Favor, Christian, sentence
committed 10 four days.
Allen Creech, Breathitt, murder.
Lack OF space and interest forbids
our printing the list Of seventy-flve
psuedo-colonels.