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Taiban Valley news., 1917-11-16
FROM OUR U. :. BOYS

Th e following is part of a letter
from private Ray Davies at
Camp Kearny Cal.
1t has been raining here and
sure was muddy yesterday but
is drying off to- day but it is still
awful muddy around the quarter.
l went 10 San Diego Saturday
and took a trip out in the bay to
the battleship Oregon it took me
Taiban Valley news., 1917-11-16
WANT THEM FAR AWAY.

"Saloonkeepers," says ex-Alderman
Francis of Chicago, "are in favor Of
having women at the polls-at the
North and South poles"
Taiban Valley news., 1917-11-16

Mr., and Mrs. Payne have
m ,ved to Clovis this week; MT
Payne having oeen-transferrtd d
st) Clovij,
Taiban Valley news., 1917-11-16
NOTICE

w. F. Miller, has the Agency
or the cheapest full equipped car
on the market, Chevrolet car,
$4,000 let him show you TIL
Car before you buy elsewhere.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-17
QUIT MEAT WHEN
 BACK HURTS OR
 KIDNEYS BOTHER
Says Uric Acid in meat clogs Kid neyS and irritates Blad-
 der.
A glass of Salts is harmless way ru flush Kidneys, says Au-
 thOrity.

If you must have your meat every day, eat 1t, but flush your kidneys with salts occasionally, says a noted authority who tells us that meat forms uric acid which almost para lyzes the kidneys in their efforts to expel it from the blood. They be- come sluggish and weaken, then you suffer with a dull misery in the kid ney region, sharp pains in the back Or sick headache, dizziness, your stomach sours, tongue is coated and when the weather is bad you have rheumatic twinges. The urine gets cloudy, full of sediment, the channels often get sore and irritated, obliging you to seek relief two or three times during the night.
 To neutralize these irritating acids, to clease the kidneys and flush off the body's urinous waste get four ounces of lad Salts from any pharmacy here; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for few days And your kidneys will then act fire. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice com- bined with lithia, and has been used Tor generations to flush and stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to neutral1ze the acids in urine, so it no longer IT, ritates, thus ending bladder weakness.
 lad Salts is inexpensive; cannot 1n- lure, and makes 8 delightful effer- yescent lithia- water drink.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-17

casually to last nights raid. Tonight is the fifth raid we have had in seven days. They started with the first moonlight night, last Monday. Monday we had a terror of a raid. Tuesday we had a little one. Wednesday it rained. Thursday we had none. Fri day we had a little one, one which did not quite reach London. Last night they gave the warning just after sun set Then they gave the all clear sig nal and followed it almost immediate ly by another Take cover and pres ently the guns started in. Tonight about o'clock while Byron and I were sitting downstairs in the kitchen over a much -belated tea, we heard the booming, and I said to myself T get no dinner downtown tonight. For you see we get only breakfast here, and it's very inconvenient to have to dine downtown because every one lights out for the nearest concrete buildings basement as soon as the police go round With signs on their fronts and backs Take cover.
 II can't tell you all there is to tell about a raid because I suppose I'm so used to them that I forget little details. The noise of tonight's raid has now
 
 "As I was saying it is very incon- venient to have raids about dinner time-that's when they have been coming this moon. If we should start out now to go downtown to a restaur- ant we should possibly be hit by shrapnel. We should possibly, if things started to be dangerous, be ar rested for not obeying the warning and taking cover. We should surely find the tube station crowded with people, and might find it hard to get train, and if we got downtown we should hardly dare go from the tube to a res taurant.
 You see as soon as word comes that enemy aircraft are approaching London the police are told. If it is daytime--all recent raids have come at night-rOCkets. are fired. At night. the police ride around on bicycles with signs on their front-bang, bang, whiz. bang bang. It's started again, louder than ever and the guns in Regents Park few hundred yards away are pouring shrapnel into the air above our heads. The things must be over us, though we can't, as usual, hear the hum of the machines.
 "Also, Friday night, when the raid overlook Byron and me in the Eagle Hut we saw motor rushing down the Strand, with the sign illuminated on it, blowing its horn
 POLICE NOTICE
 TAKE COVER.
 "As soon as the warning is given the tube stations open their lifts (eleva- tors) free to every one, and crowds of people pile down into the under ground station, with babies on their arms, books and mattresses on the1r heads, whiskey in their pockets, fear in their hearts, and curses on their lip. The basement of buildings that are bombproof are opened to every one. People desert the streets, busses continue to run for a while, but their passengers rapidly dwindle, and very
New Britain herald., 1917-10-17

soon all the busses are drawn up be- side the pavement and deserted. TaXis--always scarce nOwadays-stop taking passengers. By the time the firing begins people are shut up some- where for the evening.
 Little actual damage is done by even the worst raid. The nervous strain is very terrible. As Byron said, if there had been a raid Wednesday night, things would have been pretty we'll upset. As it is, the poorer and foreign element of the population live in tho tubes nOW-tO speak with some eXaggeration. When we came hom 3 in broad daylight about half past 5 we saw women with babies in their arms waiting outside the tube sta tiOnS. Those people who can afford it and whose business does not keep them in town, like to go outside the metropolitan district.
 Personally, I find the raids very inconvenient. Monday night I was home here, and we had some fun watching it. Tuesday night, Byron and I were riding up on bus when the bus conductor Ca girD came up and said I don't know how you feel about being up on top. but I'm warn ing you to take cover, and when we got to Mornington Crescent under ground station we got off so as to be ready to take cover, but when the first guns had ceased, got home safely Friday we had just got into the (American Y. M. c. A.) Eagle Hut to hear girl sing when the warning came, and we all went up to the Ma sonic room of the Waldorf Hotel and continued the concert there. Last night I came home because I expected a raid and knew that Mrs. B. (whose husband has just gone away to an o. T. O would be horribly frightened if she was here alone. Sure enough, when the guns started she was very much scared, but I managed to get "her talking and she charmed her own fears away.
 "You see in the moonlight the raid CTS can see us and we cannot see them. Thus we expect (and we have been disappointed only once) to have a raid every clear night during the moon. One gets very used to it. AL ready it seems the regular thing to take cover after dinner and just wait until the raid is over. One does feel rather helpless being weaponless on the earth while ones adversaries are up in the clouds.
 "Tomorrow is the last night of the moon, think, then we'll have a little peace again.
 Don't worry about me for I feel perfectly safe; 19 Regents Park Ter race is outside of the district they like to bomb--the firing has stopped again. Goodnight.
 "EUGENE P. CHASE"
New Britain herald., 1917-10-17

The only gamble in Liberty Bond subscription is the .Rmble on how long Germany can lasSNnow America is in it. Every signatuNe on a sub- scription blank is another nail in the coffin of Germanys hopes and ambi- tions to boss you and the/est of the world.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-17
HOW LONDON ACTS
 DURING AIR RAID
Eugene p. Chase Tells Of AViat0rS'
 Visit to British Capital

How would you like to be hungry andeunable to go to a restaurant just because a few Prussians were fitting overhead waiting to spoil your appe- tlte and everything else you owned with a shower of bombs? This has been the experience of Eugene P. Chase, son of Charles F. Chase of 241 West Main street, who is connected with the American Y. M. c. A. in London. MT. Chase is Rhodes scho1- ar at Oxford, having won the honor at Dartmouth college. He has tenn porarily given up his studies at the fa,- nous English school to do his bit in the war.
 MT. Chase was in the thick of the recent series of raids by German air men on the British capital and his letter gives some interesting sidelights on London during a visit from hostile aviators. Incidentally, he says that the Prussian has done little material damage by his "frightfulness". When the police warning take cover' is given all humanity in London disap- foo has flown away.
 Mr. Chase's letter follows:
 "19 Regents Park Terrace,
 London,
 Sept. 30, 1917. Dear Family
 My situation at present, as I write this letter, is not at all pleasant I am, to be sure, sitting in a beautiful old chair of Mrs. B's, beside a gas fire which is keeping me nice and Warm-but it is all in the midst of an air raid. My associate, Byron, (who is with me) says it is the most com fortable raid he's ever experienced He means the fire, but to me it is the least pleasant, because, though the guns are not loud, we can hear the shells whistle through the air so very plainly. We have closed the heavy solid wooden shutters before the win dow and are sitting in the dining room with good many solid floors above us-but it's hard not to remem- Der the unexploded shrapnel shell that landed in Camden Road, very near here, last night. You see the raiders drop bombs (which are not numer- ous) but when they land--well, it's all up with every one who isn't under a concrete shelter, but the anti-air- craft guns shoot shrapnel-from which any ordinary house is a protec- tion Nevertheless it's not very pleasant to hear the shrapnel cases whiz through the air.
 You may notice that referred
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-09

return before midnight. And / will
have seen her. Then l win go back
to the dull old grind, content"
As he reached the purlieus of the
town Rowland observed that the
place was in gala attire. The cen
ter of the town was alive with lights,
decorations, activity. People arrayed
in mask and costume were flocking
to the great central square. A street
carnival was on. Rowland skunk
from street to street Finally his
wish to conceal his identity was graf
flied. A half-drunken parader in
reckless abandonment flung aside
the half mask and faneifuI tinseI
cape he wore. Rowland donned these.
Now, mixing with the throngs, he
was holder and felt more secure. He
did not know where the Landons
lived, but he planned to make inqui-
Ties that would lead to that discov-
cry, AS he approached the public
square he came to a halt with
shock. An automobile had drawn up
to the curb in a side street. It con-
tanned an old man, the chauffeur and
a girl At her Rowland stared,
bfeathless, .ecstatic.
It was Eunice 1t Was>the object
of the undying love he had cherished
all these years. Her father spoke to
her as if asking her to join him in a
tour of the gay square. Her face was
set, cherries She shook her head, |
settled herself back in the seat and |
her father and the chauffeur mingled |
with the throngs and were lost to |
view.
Eunice Landon gazed with lack
luster eyes at the bubbIing-oVer iv-
ing panorama. 1t did not interest
her. Only her own secret thoughts
kept her company. She started as a
hand touched her arm. She strange
ly regarded a man who had ap-
proached the machine, half-masked,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-09
/ own, with the fervent, thrilling

own, with the fervent, thrilling
words:
ooh, at last-I knew you would
come. My lovel My lover
The man fairly staggered. She did
not release his hands. He stammered
forth:
you do not moE-that am still
a convict?"
You are my love, my own true
love. That is all / know, and the
moment is raptUrousp' she said sim
ply. "a convict? Yes, but innocent"
you believe"
81 know% she declared. ''Fhe man
you suffered for, my unworthy rela-
tive, confessed to me, dying, and he
died ere could secure a witness to
his confession. And then my father
Il promised him l would never seek
you or write to you, but knew that
some day you would come to me, and
you are here and am content.
She drew him toward her as if to
have him by her side, In a rapid
storm Rowland told of his situation,
of his brief furlough of an hour.
'Listenp' she burst forth as he
had finished. There has not been
an hour since you-you went away
that you have not been in my
thoughts. l promised my father 1
would not seek nor write to you. 1
shall keep my pledge. But you have
come to me. Take me away, here,
now. Speak the word and l viii go
with you anywhere. care not what
poverty or hardships may be before
us-let us hide from all the world,
happy man and Wifep
He was amazed, he was thrilled.
For moment he was urged to take
her at her word. Then he straight
ened up. His soul Of honor spoke In
his eyes.
"Eunice," he said, his voice CULVER
ing with profound emotion, you
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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-01
kauai OBSERVES
CHILDREN'S DAY
Especial Star Bulletin cOrrsspondsncs.)

LII +, haual, May sum sun
day, May q, a patriotic service was
held at the Lihue Union church, the
occasion being Children's Day. A
new flag was raised over the church
with impressive ceremonies.
A feature of the service was the
raising of the flags of all the allied
nations in the order in which each
nation entered the war. The child
rem of the Sunday school saluted as
Zach flag was brought forward, and
the long row Of flags made a fine and
imposing sight.
The service which followed con-
sisted of patriotic recitations by the
children, and the singing Of patriotic
songs by the choir and audience.
Rev. ]. NJ. Lydgate told the story OF
THE Man Without a Country to the
children in a most impressive man
ner.
The church was beautifully decOrat'
ed with flags and flowers, while
small flags were presented to each OF
the children and to members Of the
audience.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-01
COUNTY FAIR At
Y. VIC. A. TOBE
REGULAR AFFAIR
Young Ladies Will Stage En-.
tertainment ON Friday EV-
ening, June 8

The Asilomar County Fair, planned
by the Honolulu Business Girls Club
as q means of raising money to send
q delegate to the summer conference
Of the Young Women's Christian AS
. sociation at Asilomar, California,
promises amusemen: Of a sort little
different than the usual week by
week entertainments. The fair will
be held on the evening OF June in
the building Of the Young Women's
Christian Association.
As In all county fairs, there will be
exhibits Of the useful arts-wonderfui
economy" dishes prepared by the
household efficiency class, dainty ~.
W. c. A. goodies" prepared by the ad-
vanced cooking class, ravishingly
beautiful creations" made by the
members Of the millinery class, and
frocks of all kinds made by the dress
making classes.
As in all county fairs, too, there
will be marvellous side shows to de-
light the small boy, and the grown
ups who have not forgotten the days
of their youth. The physical depart
ment is preparing a circus, the best
ever presented in Honolulu, including
a large collection Of trained wild ami
mails, acrobatic stunts, clowns, and
all the rest. Mrs. Mae Scharlin will
present a vaudeville troupe which will
provide an entertainment slightly
more intellectual. The board Of direc.
tors, however, will have the mos:
timely stunt, an animated vegetable
garden. The rivalry is keen as to
who shall impersonate the animated
uumpkin, who the animated string
bean. and the animated carrot
The very useful country store will
be operated by the homestead. This
store is being planned along the sue
cessful lines established by the fam
ous, Woolworth five and ten cent
chain Peanuts, lemonade, ice cream
comes. and canoy will be sold by
other association clubs and classes
A fancy work booth in charge of the
I,vrio Club and a flower booth in
charge OF the Wakaba Kai are being
most attractively planned.
Two other features show with wha!
oore the convenience and safety OF
the patrons Of the fair are being con-
sidered These are a checking coun
tarEnot included in the price OF ad,
,o;ssion-and several stalwart police.
rnan provided by the Hawaiian Girls
Tbe committee in charge OF the al
fair consists Of Miss Ma!me NetSon'
chairman; Miss Ethel Garter Sec
tarv Mrs. Mae Scharlin' MIS- NOME
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-01
BEAUTY CHATS
Collars That Beauty
BY EDNA KENT FORBES

neck makes one loon lutte demure
and debutante-ish.
Low decollete of any sort makes
youth look mature. The deep W
back and front belongs to the
woman in her thirties; the dress
cut OF in a straight line running
under the arms, with only small
straps or putfs of maline over the
shoulders, belongs to the same Pc
Rod. The young girl, or the wom-
an who wishes to appear younger
than her years, should keep to but
slight decollete and rounded necks,
for youth is supposedly far moro
modest than maturity and age.
Sailor collars, unless cut very
long in back, are rather youthful,
too, and almost universally becom-
ing. Indeed, any wide white collar
takes years and lines and hardness
from the face. The high, tight COL
lar belongs to but two sorts-the
woman so beautiful she can be
pretty in spite Of 1t, and the un-
usually thin woman who must hide
her scrawny neck. But even here,
a collar that opens a trifle in the
front, and then rolls softly over the
shoulders, will be much more be-
coming.
Do a little experimenting with
collars and see which sort looks
best on yourself.
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pattern. a

She can tar a CO. paper pattern, a
few Yards O. cheap cloth, and sew
< r.ar hiHr. and evOIve a creation
,Lat IuUHs turtynIne dollars instead
- HorTynInr cents Moreover, a Ger.
tain taste and style and way Of wear.
.:.g things are InLIEeEOus with the
<o',"', OF this country that makes
d tn. wc,Eto-dO woman Goes abroad
We have no rcasaHt women in the
/ $ \, and none that look like
peasants
no man neei be afraid Of marry.
Ing an American girl. She'll do her
Fart Il he will do his. And there's no
dancer of losing her in time If need
SIZE II stick thro"Eh adversely as we'll
as prosperity. If YOU will also 90
down and attend a session Of tht Do
mestic Relations Court. you will OBJ
serve that there are practically no
Husband Nescyters. bur the Wife De
sortcr3 keep the Judge busy handing
uut warrants Il is the men wh1 hava
Quit on the job when things got bad
at home. not the woman.
It i'll becomes anyone in this coun-
try to sueak disparagirgly Of Ameri-
can wives when practically al of US
are the children and grandchildren
of those heroic pioneer women who
followed their men into the wilder
ness, and with their own hands helped
ol1ze the dth Of civilization from the
Atlantic to the Pacific and from the
Gulf 10 the St. Lawrence All the
hardships that the men endured the
women dared a thousandfOld, because
they braved the dangers Of mother
hood with no science or skill Of a
physician to help them in their ex-
tremity.
And these women, who had the
strength and courage to do and dare,
left behind them worthy daughters, !
who are just as ready to stand baCk-tO-
back, fighting with their husbands as
their fOremOthers were. Read the |
stories Of the successful self-made |
men Of today and YOU will find just
such a wife working, saving, sacrifice
ing, pushing him on to the goal.
There is nothing the matter with |
the American wife. She's all right
Three cheers for her.
copyrighted, 1911, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, InC)
Dorothy Dix articles appear regu-
arIy in this paper every Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.
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AMERICAN WIVES
py OOFNO - Ut"
The Wor1:'s Highest Pad Woman
Writer.

ne "orl - HtShest NSIo woman
Writer
4 IHENEVER foreigners or eXIa,
w triated Amcr.can= run out az
any thing else to say, they take
few VhachA at the American Wife.
whom they accuse II hear.Iossness,
crtrsyaRancH. la2inc-B and Aeneral
tritlInGness.
The latest individual 70 hea'e a few
verbal br1ckbats a. his cX -cnuntryulen
is Il preacher, who has :ust O. No back
home a1lnr living il Munich for t"r've
years, and the HIugs nc hus TO say
about American wives would raise
the very hair on tbRiT heads Nth hOr-
ror and Indignation II they NPrcn 7
so accustomed to II and hadn' heard
It all so often before.
The reverend gentlemen s remarks,
however. have greatly impressed d
man, who writes me a letter in which
he echoes the preachers charges, and
tells q pathetic. story Of a friend OF his
whose wife. deserted him because be
lost his money. This is the way the
selfish American wife treats her hus
band in the day OF adversely" says
my correspondent The Euro
pean woman, devoted only TO her hus-
band and family. would not act So"
Plttie. Also, nonsense There are
good wives and bad wives, faithful
wives and unfaithful ones, the world
over Loyalty has no geographical
limitations. One swallow does not
make a spring, nor should one selfish
American wife queer the whole race
Of Patient Grizeldas in this country.
Judge woman by the majority and
not the exception. One American
wife may have left her husband when
he lost his property, but how many
thousands of women have you seen
roll up their sleeves and 90 to work
to help their husbands under similar
circumstances? Don't you know doz-
ems Of women who have converted
their fine houses into boarding houses
after their husbands failures in bust
ness?
Cant you recall plenty Of women
who have dismissed their servants
and gone into their kitchen to do the
work, who have made over their old
clothes, and trimmed their hats, and
pushed their own baby carriages
when their husbands came a crop
per In business, and who not only
turned smiling face upon the world,