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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-11-30

taught at school instruct their elders
so that everybody knits but father,
and perhaps father lInits, too. At any
rate. he might, if knitting proved as
fascinating and reStful to the nerves
as women find it. Children who be-
come expert in knitting squares oct
casionally knit scarfs also.
Another thing That they are doing
will help the hospital units. All the
old scraps of linen, worn-out table
linen or bed linen, is cut up into small
pieces for making lint. These pieces
are laid on a board or kitchen table,
and Scraped with a knife blade, con,
verting them into lint. Small knives
such as are used for pairing vegetables,
or pocket knives, are used for the
work. The linen must, of course, ba
perfectly clean.
Other clean rags of white cotton are
cut up into small strips to be used to
stuff pillows. The strips are less than
an inch wide, and may be frayed along
the edges. They vary in length and
are used as q substitute for feathers
These are all things that even the
smallest children can do. AS soon as
they become expert enough at knitting
there are other things to be made be.
sides squares and scarfs-Such as eye
bandages.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-11-30

In the city sch0Olchildren are PROV
Ing how useful they can make them
selves, doing good work in which they
are enthusiastic, and turning out guam
titles of comforts for the soldiers. The
supplies they make are gathered up
by agents of the Red Cross, so that
the responsibility of the teachers ends
with the delivery of these supplies.
Boys and girls along with tiremen
and policemen and about everybody
else with an hour to spare OCCASION
ally are knitting. The children are
taught to knit small squares of yarn,
to be set together to make cOVerletS
tor the BeIgians, or whoever else the
Red Cross may discover pinched by
the cold, where coal is scarce. Odds
and ends of yarn do for these squares,
and even the smaller children learn to
make them nicely The youngsters
like the work, and their teachers show
them how to least on" the number of
articles required, which varies little,
according TO the thickness of the yarn.
They are taught to make the squares,
with even and exact stitches, and also
how to take it off the needle when
finished. The practice is good for
them, for they must undo the work
If stitch is dropped, and knit it over
again. In some households children
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-11-30
TO THE MOTHER
Z BY Edgar Rice Burroughs. :


One Saturday afternoon boy in
uniform came up to Chicago from
Camp Grant, on leave. 1t may be that
he was your boy-I do not know. He
was a stranger in Chicago. He went
to movie show and then he walked
the streets searching for something,
for anything to relieve the gnawing
ache of the homesickness in his heart.
He could not enter, q saloon and to
drink if he had so desired for he was
in uniform; but there were other,
more alluring, deadlier forms Of vice
that were not denied him. They Of
fered him human cOmpanionship and
q substitute for love-hOwever sordid
and mercenary a substitute it might
be.
He stood on street corner and
watched thousands pass, and never in
all his life before had he felt so alone
and lonely.
Then q woman arCOSted him. She
was handsome, welI-dreSSed woman,
and she awed the boy Il little, so that
he shuffied his feet, and stammered,
and blushed, but he went with her.
They boarded Il car together and went
to her home. The boy thought it quite
the most beautiful place he had ever
seen. The woman called young girl
down from an upper floor. This is
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-11-30

father time to precede him and con-
clude his business with Paulvitch, the
lad fastened to the Russians room.
Knowing nothing of tire mans true
character, the boy dared not take him
fully into his confidence for fear that
the old fellow would not only refuse
him aid, but would report the whole
affair to his father.
Instead, he simply asked permission
to take Ajax to Dover. He explained
that it would relieve the old man of
tiresome journey, as well as placing a
number of pounds in his pocket, for
the lad purposed paying the Russian
we'll
You see."' he went on, there will
be no danger of detection, since l am
supposed to be leaving on an after
noon train for school. Instead l will
come here after they've left me on the
train Then l can take Ajax to Dover,
you see, and arrive at school only a
day late. No one will be the wiser, no
harm will be done, and l shall have
had an extra day with Ajax before l
lose him forever"
That afternoon Lord and Lady Grey
stoke bade their SON goodbye and saw
him safely settled in first class COM
partment of the railway carriage that
would set him down at school in a few
hours. No sooner had they left him,
however, than he gathered his bags
together, descended from the compart-
ment and sought cab stand outside
the station. Here he engaged q cabby
to take him to the Russians address.
1t was dusk when he arrived. He
found Paulvitch awaiting him. The
man was pacing the floor nervously.
The ape was tied with stout cord
to the bed. 1t was the first time that
Jack had ever seen Ajax thus secured.
He looked questioningly at Paul
witch. The man mumblingly explained
that he believed the animal had
guessed that he was to be sent away
and that he feared he would attempt
to escape.
Paulvitch carried another piece of
cord in his hand. There was moose
in one end of it, which he was con-
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-11-30
Jack and Akut disappear and
eIude all pursuit. They start out
as partners in a strange country.
(TO BE CONTINUED }
TO SETTLE, FAMILY ARGUMENT
Friendly Waeers Between Husband
and Wife Serve to Quench Fre-
quent Dangerous Quarrels.

Here is plan by which great many
family quarrels have been averted for
a certain couple They used to quar-
rel all the time.
Before, the wife would say:
MY dear, you'll make mistake if
you do 50 and So"
And the husband would reply:
My darling, you are altogether too
fussy. l know my business. Kindly
let me alone, will you?"
Then would ensue q row of fearful
dimensions that sometimes would
shake the house, startle the servants
and scandaliZe the neighbOrhOOd.
But now they do differently.
When they disagree they do it thus ::
well, dear, if you think you're right
suppose you back your opinion? If I'm
wrong I'll give you half dozen pairs
of gloves"
If she feels pretty confident she
backs her opinion with box of cigars,
and the agreement is carefully signed
by both and locked up. Then one or
the other pays when the decision is
reached. The young woman has an in
come of her own, so the arrangement
is a fair one, which it might hardly be
were she compelled to take her hus-
bands own money to pay for his Gig
a2S.
Gambling is, of course, a wicked
thing to do, but it checks wild asser-
tions and smothers, in this case, many
a fire that would burn up comfort
New York Evening Post.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-11-30
Curious Weapons.

A member of the st. Louis bar tells
the following story: A lawyer Of Mis-
souri,, who shall be called Smith, was
seized suddenly with an attack of
temporary insanity while travelling
across that state.
Stepping off the train at a county
seat where he was quite unknown, he
walked into the bank and requested
the cashier to grant him permission to
warm himself by the stove. The cash
ier, noticing that Mr.. Smith was q
stranger of culture and refinement
who seemed confused about something
or other invited him back of the rail
ing. Inside the railing, Smith savage
ly attacked the cashier with his fists
and gave him beating. Smith was
arrested and then indicted by the
grand jury (at the time i'll SESSION. for
assault with dangerous and deadly
weapons.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-11-30

No one knows why the odd suit
shown above was chriStened by Its eX-
hibitor at a recent style show as "Po-
cahOntaS," except that the material it
Is made of is in light leather brown
and has q surface like doe-Skin. Fan
Tan" or "Sing Joy" would fit it eX-
actly and "Pitti Sing" leave nothing
to be desired in the way of a name.
Its inspiration halls from the FlOWery
kingdom, as plain as day, and it does
credit to its origin. 1t managed TO
help its designers to win the laurelS
for originality and beauty of design in
apparel for all hours of the day and
evening and. for all occasions that
happen in the lives of women of to-
day.
4 glove finish material Of wool,
which may have been VelOurS, was used
TO make the straight one-pieCe frock
without waist line and the Chinese
coat that constitutes this suit. One
might question the origin of the style
In the dress but "China" is proclaimed
by every line of the coat. The lining
of tan-colOrcd satin makes a facing
for the arms and sleeves with edges
finished with buttonhOle stitches in
black yarn. An 0verCOat stitch of the
same defines all the seams in the frock
and outlines the pockets on the coat.
They have pointed flaps buttonhole
stitched about the edge and fastened
down with small flat brown button.
At the front of the body of the
frock, cutout applique figures in cloth
and needIework stitches form ii large
medallion in which white appears with
fl little blue and red. 4 similar medal
lion, but much smaller, appears on
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-11-30


! with an angry oath, he WiI@cI"d Tar
Z1n'S SON about, tripn"d hin amt hurled
| him violently to the floor. lCaVinS Upon
| his breast as he fcIl. From the bed
! the ape groWIcd and struggled with
| his bonds.
The boy did not cry out-a trait So
hcrited from his savage sire, who dor
| ing years in the jungle following the
! death of his foster mother, kala. the
great ape, had learned that there was
| none to come to the succor of the
| fallen.
Paulvitchs fingers sought the lads
| throat. He grinncd down horribly into
the face of his victim.
your father ruined me- he num-
bled. This will pay him. He will
think that the ape did it. I will tell
him that the ape did it; that I left
him alone for a few minutes and that
YOU sneaked in and the ape killed you.
l will throw your body upon the bed
after have chOked the life out of you,
and when l bring your father he will
see the ape squatting over it, and the
twisted fiend cacklod in gloating laugh
ter.
His fingers closed upon the boys
throat.
Behind them the growing of the
maddened beast reverberateG against
the walls of the little room. The boy
palcd, but no other sign of fear OF
panic showed upon his c0unt9nance.
He was the son of TarZan. The fingers
tightened their grip upon his throat. 1t
was with difficulty that he breathed-
gaspingly.
The ape lunged against the stout
cord that held him. Turning, he
wrapped the cord about his hands, as
a man might have done, and surged
heavily backward. The great muscles
stood out beneath his shaggy hide.
There was rcnding as of splintered
wood-the cord held, but a portion of
the footboard Of the bed came away.
At the sound Paulvitch looked up.
His hideous face went white in terror
the ape was free!
With a single bound the creature
was upon him. The man Shrieked.
The brute wrenched him from the body
of the boy. Great fingers sank into
his flesh Yellow fangs gasped close
to his throat-he struggled futilely-
and then they closed, and the soul of
Alexis Paulvitch passed into the keep
ing of the demons who had long been
awaiting it.
The boy struggled to his feet, as
sisted by Akut. For two hours, under
his instructions, the ape worked upon
the knots that secured his friends
wrists. Finally they gave up their Sc
cret, and the boy was free.
He cut the cord that still dangled
from the apes body. Then he opened
one Of his bags and drew forth some
garments.
His plans had been well made. He
did not consult the beast, which did all
that he directed. Together they skunk
from the house, but no casual observer
might have noted that one Of them
was an ape.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-11-30
The Ruling Passion.

'I'm sorry, Rollo," said the young
woman, gently, ''but fear that you
must not hope. I am fond Of you, but
we can never marry. You see"
"Yes, l see!" he interrupted bitterly,
"You cannot marry me because ]
weigh 200 pounds. Nobody loves a
fat manw
And with this quotation he STROBE
forth into the night.
But there is always Chapter III.
Three weeks later our hero again
stood in the presence Of our heroine.
81 have come back to renew my
suit" he said.
But, Rollo, did not tell you that
it was hopeless?"
"Wait! Do not spurn me till you
know all. 1 have been taking a GYM
nasium course. Today am a bargain.
I am reduced from 200 to 1881"
Unable to withstand the great slash
in values she fell into his arms
Cleveland Leader.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-11-30
His Hideous Face Went White in Ter
ror-The Ape Was Free!

tinualiy playing with. He walked back
and forth, up and down the room. His
pockmarked features were working
horribly as he talked silently TO him
self. The boy had never seen him
thus. 1t made him uneasy.
At last Paulvitch stopped on the op-
posite side of the room far from the
ape.
Come here" he said to the lad. Il
will show you how to secure the ape
should he show signs of rebellion dur
ing the trip"
The lad laughed ut will not be
necessary" he replied. Ajax will do
whatever l tell him to do"
!. The old man stamped his foot an
grily. Come here, l tell you" he re-
peated IF you do not do as say you
shall not accompany the ape to Dover.
l will take no chances upon his es-
Gaping"
Still smiling, the lad crossed the
room and stood before the Russ.
Turn around, with your back to-
ward me-" directed the latter, so I
can show you how to bind him
quickly"
The boy did as he was bid, placing
his hands behind him when PaulVitch
told him to do so. Instantly the old
man slipped the running moose over
one of the lads wrists, took couple
of half bitches about lis other wrist
and knotted the cord. The moment
that the boy was secured the attitude
OF the man changed. He had known
and bitterly hated Tarzaa in Africa
years before, for Tarzan had broken
up his business as slave dealer. Now,
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-11-30

I can afford to increase your pay If
you increase my profits.
4.-You owe so much to yourself" you
cannot afford to owe anybody else.
Keep out of debt or keep out of my
shop.
s. Dishonesty is. never an accident.
Good men, like good women, never see
temptation when they meet 1t.
6. Mind your own business, and in
time you'll have business of your
own to mind.
Z. Don't do anything here which
hurts your self-respect. An employee
who is willing to steal for me is willing
to steal from me.
8. 1t is none of my business what
YOU do at night. But if dissipation af-
fects what you do the next day, and
you do half as much as demand, you'll
last half as long as you hoped.
20 9. Don't tell me what I'd like to hear,
but what I ought to hear. l don't
want a valet to my vanity, but one for
my dollars. ..- F..
10. Don't kick if kick. If you're
worth while correcting you're worth
while keeping. 1 don't waste time cut
ting specks out Of rotten apples.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-11-30

my daughter" she said as she in
troduced the boy, land want you to
come in here now ana meet my hus-
band. Our only son is in France.
There is nothing that we can do that
we would not do for. any boy who
wears that uniform. The French moth
ers have been good to my boy, so, If
for no other reason, I couf~< not do
less than be good to the boys of my
own country"
They kept him for dinner that night,
and all night and all day Sunday i'm
til his train left for Rockford. He
went to the movies with them, and to
church, and for an automobile ride,
and now he goes there whenever he
is on leave.
Suppose another sort of woman had
accosted him?-and may be he. was
your boy. You can do the same for
some other boy in uniform. You can
open your home to him. You can
that other woman saved the boy in
Chicago. And you can send him on
to France with realization, based on
your actions rather than upon words,
that all America honors ''the sacred
cloth" in which he marches forth to
battle, and perhaps to die, for you and
yours and fer me and mine. Associa-
ton with these boys will elevate you
and your daughters as much as it will
the boys, for while it keeps them from
evil. it will inspire you with the high
ideals which dominate the men of the
National army.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-11-30
Counting a Billion.

- are beginning to speak of a
y of dollars as we used to speak
million, says the Ladies' Home
nal. But do we really know
Il Il billion dollars means? AS an
:::npIe, an expert counter of money
4 the treasury department at Wash
ington can count 1000 silver dollars in
an hour. SO working eight hours Il
day, he counts $4,000 silver dollars in
a day. At that rate t.takes him more
than month to count q million silver
dollars-a little over 81 days, to be
exact Therefore, if he kept this up
for ten years he would have counted
100 million dollars. Now, to get an
idea of what a billion dollars means, in
silver, it would take 102 years of
steady work, eight hours day, to
count a billion dollars in silver.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-11-30
"TEN DEMANDMENTS" OF
BUSINESS

Up in Canada there is a successful
business concern that expects, as most
successful concerns do, that every en-
ployee shall do his full duty. To assist
him in the task that concern places
conspicuously before him these ''Ten
Demandments: :"
1. Don't lie. 1t wastes my time and
yours. I am sure to catch you in the
end, and that is the wrong end.
2. Watch your work, not the clock. A
long days work makes q long day
short; and short days work makes
my face long.
8. Give me more than 1 expect and
1 will give you more than you expect.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-11-30
As a Woman Shops.

She entered a downtown cigar store
and the clerk left regular customer
to wait on her.
II want to get birthday present for
my husband" she began.
"Yes. ma'am," agreed the clerk. "A
box of nice cigars, now"
"No, indeed" she interrupted, firm.
ly. "Tve read enough funny-paper
jokes about the kind of cigars WON.
an buys. No, 1 want to buy him a
pipe"
Certainly. What kind of a pipe
would you like to see"
zone suited to man about forty.
two. though he doesn't look so old as
that, feet inches tall, rather stout
and with dark hair and mustache."
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-11-30
Many Thousands of Horses
and Mules Are Used in War.

Despite the fact that the great war
is~being waged largely by means Of
mechanical devices, horses and mules
have played an important part in 1t.
Up to the present time, says Popular
Science Monthly, 100000 horses and
$4,000 mules have been sent to the
theater of war from the United States.
The value of the horses which have
been exported is 194,000,0OO, and of
mules $66,0OO,OO0.
The number of mules being sent to
the war is increasing from year to
year. The sagacity of the mule makes
him very valuable in war work. Most
of the horses and mules shipped from
this country go directly to France,
Others are sent to Great Britain and
Canada and a few to some Of the other
European countries.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-11-30
FOR THE POULTRY
GROWER
Heavy Feedinq in Winter.

Many reasons have been given for
the scarcity of fresh eggs during the
late fall and winter months. The reg
ular poultryman gets a goOdly number
Of eggs during all seasons of the year,
and the writer is firm in the belief that
few eggs are produced on the farms of
the country during the cold months
because the hens are underfed, says Il
contributor to a farm journal. The
poultry raiser Is prone to forget that
his hens require more feed and better
attention during the cold months than
they do during warm weather. Even
the hens that are penned the year
around, require much more food in
winter, because a large part of the
food eaten must go to maintain bodily
heat.
For winter feeding, the only safe
rule to follow is to feed the hens all
they will eat. Many skimp their hens
on feed during the cold months, be-
lieving that If they feed heavily, the
hens will become too fat to lay. y
hen gets too fat to lay not because
she is fed too much, but because she
is fed too heavily on fat-producing
foods. Like cattle and hogs, hens re-
quire certain amount of bulky foods,
and unless these foods are fed, it will
not be possible to get many eggs dur
ing the cold months.
One-half the food supplied the hens
should be ground, in the form Of Ell
ther a wet or dry mash. The mash
should be bulky-that is, it should 'oc-
cupy a relatively large bulk in proper
ton to it's food constituents. One-half
the mash should be composed of bulky
foods, as bran and cut clover or cut al
falfa. The other half of the mash
as middlings, corn bread and beef
scraps. The bran and cut clover will
in bulk, be fully three times greater
than the other ingredients in the mash.
The feeding Of green food, or the
green food that fowls obtain on range
and hens can safely be fed all they
will eat, when fed equal parts of n
bulky mash and grains.
In cold weather feeding, animal food
must be included in the ration if a
good egg yield is expected. This may
not be in the form of beef scrap or
green cut bone. If a plentiful supply
of skim or buttermilk is at hand, the
beef scrap or bone may be dispensed
with. The mash should be wet with
the milk. In addition to this, milk
should be placed in vessels, so the
hens can help themselves at will. One
need not fear that the hens will over
eat of the milk Milk will not take the
place of water, and where milk is kept
before the hens in vessels all the time,
water should also be supplied.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-11-30
No Food Takes Place of
Potato, Says Department
of Agriculture Bulletin

'There is no food which exactly
takes the place of the potato when one
Is accustomed to it," says a statement
issued by the United States depart
ment of agriculture, urging an In
creased consumption of this vegetable,
now that the markets Of the country
are well supplied,
at has come to be such part Of
our dinner that we miss it when it is
not served. Besides, any leftover po-
tato can be used in many very pala-
table ways for breakfast or supper,
and this is a convenience from the
standpoint, since it helps
her to make palatable meals. Not only
is it useful from the ease with which
it can be prepared and the number of
palatable ways in which it can be
served, but it is very important for
the food material it supplies. 1t is
one of the most wholesome sources of
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-11-30
Spoke Without Thinking.

As the doctor was showing some
friends through an insane asylum he
drew their attention to stately old
woman wearing paper crown. He
explained that she imagined she was
the queen of England, and for their
amusement he advanced toward her
with a courtly bow and said: "Good
morning, your majesty"
The old woman looked at him and
retorted scornfully: you're a fool,
sir"
The doctor was greatly astonished,
but totally collapsed when one of the
party remarked innocently: "Why,
doctor, she was sane enough then"