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Temperance
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AS HEALTH OFFICERS SEE 1T.

DIR. Haven Emerson, health commits
sioner of New York city:
at Is, as I conceive 1t, the duty of
departments of health to teach, teach,
teach, persuade, demonstrates, exhibit,
cXhort, prove that alcohol as Il bever-
age Oh in patcnt medicines Is Il men
ace to personal and community health,
Is common source of sickness and
death, is blocking the path of prevcn-
tive medicine and is menace to the
physical and social development of the
nation"
Health Commissioner Ford of Clcve-
land. o.:
''Trnching the effects of alcohol is
public health function. There is
nothing more important than this ques-
ton"
Dr. ]. n. Hurry, secretary Indiana
state board of health:
'Wc know that alcoholic liquor is n
vile and evil thing. 1t is IL horrible
thing from an economic and social
point of view; 1t is always and cv-
crywhcrc injurious from the physical
standpoint. Every drop is Il poison.
It's use is always injurious, and if l
had the power l would close every
public saloon as public dope shop
DIR. John Dill Robertson, health
commissioner of Chicago:
"ln the city of Chicago, where the
death rate is approximately 100 II day,
it is safe to say that at least % per
cent of these deaths are caused direct
ly or indirectly by alcohol. Alcohol
produces acute Inflammation of the
stomach, hcmorrhage of the pancreaS,
heart disease, cancer of the stomach.
Bright'S disease, fatty liver, hardened
liver, Inflammation of the nerves, cpl
lepsy, hardening of the arteries and
multitude of other Affections of the
body. Those are known medical facts.
1t is not only Il cauSativc factor in the
diseases and Affections mentioned, but
it invades the mental man and pro-
duccs insanity"
The New Jersey Health Officers as
sociation passed Il resolution recon-
mending that campaigns of publicity
be inaugurated by the state and local
departments of health for the purpose
of informing the public of the dangers
attending the use of alcoholic bever-
ages.
The Vermont state board of health
is planning an anti-alcOhol crusade
similar to that of New York city.
Other city and state health boards
are also incorporating anti-alcohol
| work as n regular part Of health de-
partment programs.
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in part: you have put forth a rule
that is mighty hard to follow. ! am
an honorable young man, intensely in
tereSted in sweet girl, the daughter
of widow, who lives in a nearby
town. My business keeps my nose to
the grindstone seven days out Of the
week from early morning until nearly
nine at night. If l make the attempt
to call on this young lady, l cannot
reach her home until nearly ten. 1t
would be useless for me to take of my
hat If | could not remain longer than
half an hour. You can judge how
quickly time can pass and, arriving
often at half after ten, l have re-
manned until almost one before noting
the time. She says her ncighbors are
beginning TO talk Now, it's either
give the girl up or continue calling to
decide to the satisfaction of both if
we are sufficiently congenial to each
other to wed or not. It's up to you to
decide for me-"
While 1t is not pleasing to have
ones opinion overruled, there's much
satisfaction in the old maxim, "Cir-
cumstances alter cases." and in "All
the world loves lover" l am no ex-
ceptiOn and would willingly stretch
an adverse judgment that it might
smooth your path. Neighbors are wont
to talk If light, whether too bright
or too dim, burns too late in girls
parlor, If they have beheld, from be-
hind closed blinds, a young man enter.
Let it be known, however, that If the
girl sits up entertaining her guest Ia
ter than the generally accepted hour
Of leave-taking her mother shelters her
good name by being always present,
and gossiping tongues will have little
to feed on.
An honorable young man will make
his decision under those circumstances
as speedily as possible. He should
quit calling If he cannot see his way
clearly to matrimony. No greater I'M
kindness can be shown a young woman
than to cause her to lose her beauty
sleep several evenings week for per-
haps years for the sake of a man who
has not the remotest idea of making
her his wife.
Courtship extended into the wee
sma' hours Is highly imprudent. The
man who respects his sweetheart will
not indulge in such indiScretion. A
girl must respect herself If she de-
sires others to respect her. The girl
who permits her male callers to keep
late hours invites censure. Only when
a lovers business ties him down so
completely that he is not enabled to
call early should the proprieties be
stretched to welcome him later. If
his visits arc necessarily brief because
Of this he will be anxious to marry,
courting afterward as long us he
pleases. Rules cannot be made to gov
arn all cnSaS
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In Wuman's Realm
Suggestion for Dainty and Useful Frock Appropriate for Any 0c
casion-CharmeIse Panne Velvet the Best Materials
to Be EmpIoyed-Three Styles That Are Among
the Best of the New Hats.

Here Is frock for afternoon wear
which will give its owners the sense
of being well and appropriately
dressed for many occasions. 1t is
made of one of the soft weaves in silk
or satin which are christened with new
names occasionally. for the sake of
variety. ChnrmeuSe will suggest about
the texture and lustcr that are of
greatest advantage to the designer in
gowns of this kind. Pnnne velvet is n
good substitute for silk or satin, in
the winter season. although more
gowns are made of satin than of the
other materials.
The skirt is Exchanging and
weighted with wide hem. The side
panels are shirrcd into many parallel
folds ut the top, which extend to the
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RAINING TODAYS
BOYS AND GIRLS
rofessor Asks for a Scientific
Method of Punishment.
Efficiency EXPERT REPLIES
h His Plan Of Correcting the Child
nv the Automatic, Reflex Meth
cd of Nature" Won't Al
ways Work.
Nv slpoNIE M. eRUENBERG.


la professor in southern city, who
evidently not II specialist on chill
On writes to an deficiency expert"
Information on the scientific meth
of furnishing child for misdcmcan-
such as theft, falsehood ana dis
tedcncc." He asks rather pathetical-
rs there no sane middle course
ktwern the oId-fashioned whipping
M the new-fangled, spinelcSS idea
nonpunishmcnt that makes the typi-
4 American child either Il moIlycod-
L or II bully, according to tcinpcra
ent?'
{Thr expert replies by laying down
fprncIplc: "Thc right way to cor
Ia a child is by the automatic, re-
n method of nature. Every viola
In Of natural law carries with it II
Mural penalty, which, through pain.
krust or deprivation, teaches the
fongdurr not to repeat his mistake.
Each parental rule should be
ksed on some natural law, and the
Mural penalty for trunSgreSsion
Now there is just enough truth in
bis reply to make it sound right and
ERE is just enough error in 1t to make
misleading or dangerous. 1t is true
[nt the child learns from his mis-
kes, that every unpleasant expert
Ice teaches the lesson, Don't do that
kln." This is natural law" and
e application consists in establishing
kpleasant associations between the
tions we disapprove and certain CON
quenccs. This is the diverse of the
inciplc of rewards" namely, estab-
hing pleasant associations with the
>proved acts.
But the fallacy in the alleged prln
ble is brought out by the experts
IN Illustration of how he would apply
He asks us to suppose that II boy,
Wing been told not to eat between
balls, disobeys the parental injunction
ID is seized with an attack of cramps,
be way to enforce obedience, says
e expert, Is mot by administering
in killer inside and Il switch out
be-the usual inefficient method"
II by allowing the transgrcSSOr to
Her the natural consequences" of
misdeed, with frequent reminders
bit he is getting what he deserves
his disobcdience. He recommends
20 harmless bitter medicine" to
d to the chIld's disgust, in order to
ptenSify natures method of disci-
|ne." "No coddling, no chastising,
i the immediate linking of cause and
ect in the mind of the child, and the
tural revulsion from a deed that pro-
yes physical or mental pain; this
ecrbes in brief the efficiency plan
juvenile correction"
TO every experienced mother two
pughts will instantly occur. Sup
Ee the lad disobeys and gets away
thout any cramp-having fortunate
q tough digestive system? And sup
Pc, as sometimes happens, that
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pockets. The large pockets are fea-
tured in this model by covering them
with an embroidered pattern which in
PRODUCES fine metallic threads among
those of heavy silk that make up the
design.
The skirt is Joined to the bodice at
the normal waistline, and the bodice
opens down the front. 1t is cut in at
the neck, extending to the bust line,
and buttons from there to the bottom
with small satin-covered buttons. A
narrow collar of fine organdie or
batiste finishes the neck opening. A
novel decoration for the bodice ap-
pears In the wide band of embroidered
satin that is wrapped about 1t over the
bust and above the waist. 1t termi-
mates in a pointed end at the left side,
where it fastens.
The sleeves are plain to the elbow.
From this point to the wrist they are
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French Words In Enalish.

Men have been trying to invent the
international language, and they have
all failed, but it is being formed nat
urally; the present international war
is helping to this end, and hundreds of
French words, which people use be-
cause they think they look nice, have
crept into the English language from
the battlefields.
William de Morgan is one of those
writer's who like to sprinkle their
pages with French, and I asked him
the other day, "Why do you scatter
French phrases through your work 2"
"Don't you like French words, Mr..
Moore?" he asked, and said II avoid
them" He was surprised and said !:
Il always like to put four or five
French words on page" William de
Morgan, you know, did not publish his
first novel until he was on toward
seventy, so I answered, Eyes, Mr.. de
Morgan, but you came late into liter
ature!"
People who use French in English
writing are always those who don't
know French very well.-From an in
terview with George Moore by ]. L.
Balderston in the Atlantic Monthly.
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of the second week to dire want. Then
put my shoulder to the wheel.
got girl I had known to sleep here
at night with the children while 1
went to work among the night shift in
the factory near by. Taking care Of
my little ones by day and working all
night is strenuous-I get so little sleep
and rest-but woman never knows
how much Sc can endure for her loved
ones sake until she is put to it."
The wife of mechanic who had
thrown up an excellent position to an
swer his country's call was in quite as
sorry plight for lack of money to
care for u still larger family and q
bedridden mother-in-law. 1.-The girls
in the shops admired my blOuses and
1 turned my hand to making blouses
for them. l have no sewing machine
and my fingers must fairly fly to earn
bread and roof for so many of us,
but l do not complain. l want my
husband to be proud of what I have
done when he comes back to u.s." she
said
OF the thirty odd homes of soldiers
now on the border we found every wife
a genius in one line or another in
supporting the family when the mans S
pay was not Forthcoming. Such wom-
en- never realize their strength until
they stand at the helm. Not one wom-
an had sunk powerlcss at the in
creased burdens laid upon her.
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MARRYING A DOLL.

| or the idle and brainless the world has
enough,
Who eat what they never have earned:
| Who hate the pure stream from the foun-
| tain OF truth,
And wisdom and knowledge have
spurned.
If all men should love wisely, the
major part of the worlds woes would
be eliminated. 1t is usually the grave,
very sensible man who loses his heart
| to the fluffy kitten kind of girl, weds
her and expects to make companion
| able, judiciouS wife of her
1t does not take him long to learn
| after wedlock that it is impossible to
make hardworking bee out of n but
| terhy. He should not complain if he
has to pay his hard dollars for
| every hands turn that is done for her
He should have realized that If a
girls ambition is just to look bewitch-
| ingly pretty it will take half life
| time to make her realize that darning
| hubby's socks is of far more import
nnce than spending hours doctoring up
her face to look fascinating in his
eyes. If the cook leaves in hun, the
doll wife is as helpless rs babe. She
could not tell to save her life whether
an egg should be baked. broiled,
stewed or boiled, or whether it takes
five minutes or an hour.
The doll wife loves herself more
than she could love the best husband
on earth. She never will become do
mesticated while there is shred of
her youth, beauty and power to fasci-
nate left. Even having children does
not bring about a needed reform. She
will dress her little girls like dolls and
rig out her boys in long curls and
fluffy frocks until they rebel and their
strenuous fight for pants is too much
| for her.
Her children-like her husband-are
imbued with the belief that there is
nothing mother can do. The doll of
sweet sixteen or even twenty is a
sight lovely to behold. but the woman
who insists upon getting herself up
| like doll when she is nearly forty
though ever SO fair-is n cross to even
the most patient Of husbands.
There is no use whatever in at
| tempting to give advice to the man
who is in love. He is firm in the be-
lief that you are prejudiced against
his sweetheart, and resents it, After
he marries the beauty whose sole aim
is to outshine other girls he realizes
that much beauty and little brains are
poor combination in wife.
A wife should be useful as well as
ornamental. It's mans own fault If
the doll he weds refuses to learn to
do household tasks after marriage. He
should have expected that.
If a man puts the question fairly to
n girl: "Can you manage home from
the parlor to the kitchen?" ere he pro-
poses, under ban of leaving her If she
answers "No," more girls would learn
to be housekeepers without delay.
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PHYSICAL alteration with nm onto,n,

phvsical alteration with nm outomo.
pie. Undoubtedly the lesson is wei:
learned, but 1t Is much more expensive
than 1t need have been. The BOYS who
SWIM out beyond their depth have II
variety OF opportunities to learn" II
one OF them loses his head and browns
ne mas but renped the natural reword
"i disobe .cnc". II another loses his
he"u, nut - saved by II strong com
Pah'"h' he Is thoroughly scared, and
hlS" learns valuable lesson. If thr
ihlrd, IN the face OF danger. mustrrs
all his moral forces and calmly tiouts
uhtil rescued, he has learned the best
lesson of all. Does it follow therefore
that we should give our orders and lcf
the children obey or not, trusting to
me natural consequences tC teach
them wisdom?
Inc eiilcicncy man is right when he
says that we should concern ourselves
more with correction and discIplIuc
than with punishment. and we must
be sure that the distinction we make
Is more than verbal. There is n same
course that avoids the brutal and un-
discriminating whip, as well MS the
other extreme of letting mature take
her course and that sane course is
certainly not to depend upon "nutural'
penalties.
The fact is that there can be no
fixed rules for the discipline of chill
drrn. Every ofTrnSc is IL new situa-
ton; every child presents IL peculiar
combination of Problems. our meth
od of correcting will h" influenced ny
our attitude toward the child-whcth-
er we seek to impose our own more
or less arbitrary scheme of rrtributive
Justice. But il We are sure that we
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Up to Them.

Little james, aged six, had been
taught to pray each night for all his
relatives and friends, and consequently
the list had grown quite large. SO one
night, when it came time for the Gus
tomary prayers, he refused to say
them.
swell, well, james" said his moth
or. "why don't you say them? All good
little boys say their prayers.
"Yes, but I'm too tired
"Oh, my, that's no excuse. Come
now; that's good boy
SWELL" reIented james, Il guess III
have to. But, anyhow, I'm not going 10
pray for everybody. I'm going to cut
n lot of 'em out. Some OF EN- VIII
hnye to save themselves" es."-TomDigDee
Clarion.
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PARROT GIVES FIRE ALARM
Cry of "Fire" Brings Help and Saves
the Building From De-
struction.

The parrot owned by ]. II. Webster
bears out the claim of its owner that 1t
Is "some bird" 1t undoubtedly pre-
vented the building owned by Freeman
Rogers, and used to store yacht sup
plies, from entire destruction by fire.
Seeing the blaze coming from the
windows of the loft, the bird, which
had for few days been on the house.
boat of Mr.. Webster in the vicinity OF
the shop, called vehemently for help.
Cries of "fre" being heard by work.
men nearby, they looked about to see
what had so excited Polly.
The fire was discovered, and with
some trouble cxtinguished. Mr.. Rog-
ers has the bird to thank that his
place of business was not wiped out
completely.-Noank (Conn.) Dispatch
New York Herald.
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ID of the angelic, obedient kind gets
lolent cramp? One is tempted to
whether the expert knows any chill
"a, and whether he has tried out the
thods he recommends. 1t would
e a child of an unusually dOcile
habby mind to accept the doctrine
the pain was the consequence OF
obedience, and n child as soft as
Is really no problem ut all.
we are concerned, in the supposed
e' with teaching the child to refrain
IN rood between meals, we should
mat he has plenty of wholesome
u FOR each meal, and that the meals
pc with sufficient frequency. We
Ruid see to 1t that he is spared the
pptadon to eat when he should not
and we should cultivate In him an
Petive faith in our judgment as to
oest time for eating. But II we are
cerned with making the child obey
proposed method will be equally
lective-or inefficient" IL you like.
tne only lesson that a normal boy
set from the association between
poedience and punishment" is the
on to avoid getting caught.
we extend the principle Of natural
alties little further we may see
nfility or even its viciousness. The
tnat disobeys the order not to
the crowded street alone meets
natural" conscquet1cssso ~ I direct
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A newspaper man said to me the
other day: "There must be sad cOndi-
tions among the families of many of
the men who have gone to the front.
Ten to one their wives and children
are on the border of starvation If the
soldier has found any hitch in getting
his pay home to them promptly"
''You do not know the spirit of moth
erhood," I answered. "Come, let us
do little investigating today and see
for ourselves what the helpmeets of
the soldiers are doing"
He readily agreed, with the proviso
that we should draw lots as to which
might write up what we discovered
when the days investigations were
over. won.
At the first home to which we d.
rected our steps we were met at the
door by a comely young woman with
four little ones, who appeared to be
about of one size, clinging to her
skirts.
eyes, my husband has gone to the
border" she said. "He was q clerk,
with a good position in a department
store, where I was also employed be-
fore we were married. He thought he
would be able to send money home
after the first week, but there was Z
delay In receiving It and in conse'
eusncs W. were reduced By the end
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DOES 1T?


Beer promotes efficiency" says the
advertisement of certain brewing
company. Someone replies as fol-
lows:
'If you We're about to huve dam
gcrous surgical operation performed,
would you prefer to have the surgeon
take few glasses of beer just before
the operation, to promote efficiency?
"If you We're about to take trip on
a railroad, would you prefer to have
the engineer and the telegraph opera
tors and the switchmen along the line
take II few beers while you were on
your way, to promote efiiciencyT
'If you are business man, do you
prefer to have your employees rush
the cam occasionally, to promote etfi-
ciency.'
Remember, you can get just as
drunk on beer as you can on whisky
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are seeking the child's own good in
our discipline, and not merely giving
relief to our feelings, these few sus-
gestions ought to prove helpful:
Never punish Il child in anger.
Consider the motive and the tempta-
tions rather than the consequence of
Il deed.
Condemn the misdeed, but not the
child.
Make sure that the child under
stands exactly the offense with which
he is charged.
Make sure that the child sees the
connection between the oifense and
the penalty that is imposed.
Never administer excessive or un-
usual punishment.
Never exaGgerate the magnitude Of
child's Offense.
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curious Basque language.

IT is said that though the Basque
language, which is spoken In the fSr.
enees. is one Of the most dithcuit OF
nil languages to acquire, the youngest
child conscious of his own thought
can express himself perfectly In II.
II is averred that. in vigor and WORD
palnting, this is the richest OF oil IAN
rnaues. This may be partly due to
the fact that nouns, pronouns and ad-
iectiyes change into verbs at Will, ana
yerbs may be transformed into nouns
and adiectives. Every part OF speech
and even the letters OF the a,pnaps' ,.ss
can be declined like nouns, ana ao'sS
sives are corrugated IKE verbs
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pie velvet and is shown in other colors.
1t has n pert bow perched on the
brim near its edge, finished with a
long pointed end.
The big hat at the bottom of the
picture is of white hatters' plush faced
with velvet in the color of moleskin.
There is heavy chenille lattice work
about the side crown, in the same color
rs the facing, and three little ostrich
tips, also in taupe, are perched at the
back MS If to draw attention to the
lift in the brim. A small painted
apple of velvet Is set in two velvet
leaves at the right front.
No color takes precedence over
taupe, which is another name for mole,
this season, and moleskin has outdis-
tanced other furs, In the estimation
of milliners, anyway. Wide scarfs of
it, made up with ermine, and smaller
neckpieces made to match hats on
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here. They have been chosen from
among many others that are destined
TO add zest to life for the younger
women during the coming winter. Two
of these hats are broad-brimmed, dig
nified and picturesque shapes, and the
third Is moderately small jaunty
affair.
The hat to the left Is of gray velvet
faced with rose crepe and has a crown
covered by rows of chenille of the
same shade of gray us the velvet. The
brim Is wide and droops n little. 1t
is trimmed with n fiat rose made of
embroidery in dark red rose shades.
There is a single embroidered leaf
and a long and slender stem OF
chenille that rests on the brim.
The small hat ut the right is in pur.
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NO REAL OBSTACLE.

Sumptuary legislation? Yes. CUR
tailment of the citizens personal pre-
rogative? Yes. We used to halt at
this rock, too. And it is still there.
But how easy it is to go around it
and find out what is on the other side
How much more is on the other side
than on the side which, only, we have
seen up to now.-Augusta (Ga) Chron-
icle (oldest newspaper in the South,
which has taken its stand for national
prohibition).
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BOTTLES SCARCE.

A chemist in Chicago. who is eS-
perilnenting with n formula for max
ing catchup and other preparations in
tablet form, explained to friend that
this change was all "because of pro-
hibition." "Second-hand bottles are
used to great extent by manufac-
turers of many of these products
said the chemist, "and the spread OF
prohibition is making it almost i'm
possible to secure bottles for this pur-
nose"
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he would not have
his jud d & m e n t
Overruled and his
theory go for
naught. A letter
from the heart of
the West has just
reached me which
topples over Il pet
theory of mine
that an accepted
lover should do
his cOurting be-
tween the hours
of eight and ten
thirty, promptly
taking his leave
of his lady love
at that auspiciouS
hour.
The writer SAYS