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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
She Didn't
Know
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BY Mary Parrish
BY Mary Parrish
SS&NA
Copyright, by W. G. Chapman.)

Copyright, by w. G. Chapnan)
"I can't understand, Hilton, where
you got your low IDEAS"
Glow mother" repeated the young
man. "Did you say IowT"
"Yes, I did" answered Mrs. Flavia
Bayes, with emphasis. "What else can
you call it?'
81 can call 1t a good many other
things" said her son, with some indig-
nation. 1.-THE trouble is you refuse to
see them"
81 should hope 1 did. My breeding
and education have taught that hui
mainly is not all on the same plane,
either socially, mentally or spiritually.
The day laborer, or common clerk,
the butcher or the baker are not fitted
to associate with my circle of friends,
and you know it.
'"That's true in the main. 1 don't
think Simmons, the butcher, would be
exactly comfortable in the company of
Professor Askew, nor the grocer with
Doctor Wakeman. Yet I'm not exact
ly sure" reflected young Bayes.
DlIllGI vi lllOSt LuGu-l LlNuu llC
butcher or the grocer-may be pursu-
ing lines of study it would be an adj
vantage to your friends to know"
"Hilton! How can you talk such
nonsense? You were born an aristo-
crat. You have been educated an aris-
tocrat. You know these different
classes of people can no more mix to-
gether than oil and water"
"How do you know that? What do
you know about these people?" he de-
manded.
"Where do you get such ideas as
you've just been expressing, and a lot
more quite as crazy, if not from those
people?"
81 tell you, you don't know them
You don't want to know theml'
you're quite right. 1 don't" she
answered.
'Then don't judge till you do know"
ne retorted.
II suppose when you go down there
and talk to those clubs and societies
you think you are ~elevating them?"
"No," he answered, quietly. IF I
=tarted out with any such idea I've
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
HOME -
TOWN - -
7EL.PSRJ
SITE MATTER OF IMPORTANCE
Should Be Selected by Home Builder
Only After Many Things Are
Taken Into Consideration.

Selection of the proper site, the one
most adapted to the style of structure
contemplated, is a question Of great
Importance to the prospective home
builder. Many features should be con-
sidered in choosing the location. All
of the reasons why much care should
be exercised in picking the right situa-
ton have an important bearing on the
enjoyment of the home by the occu-
pants.
Proximity to the business of the
head of the house and to transit facili-
ties, schools and church should be as
certained before a site is decided upon.
Other features to be considered are
advantages from a pub%lic-facilities
viewpoint-good streets, drainage, gas
and water supplies and sanitation.
Healthiness and beauty of location,
street lighting, privacy and general
character of the neighborhood are
other features to be investigated.
Relation of the sites value and sur
%roundings to the proposed cost of the
contemplated home should be consid-
cred. Size of the lot should also
greatly influence the style of building.
The type of the home should be deter
mined by definite conditions, In which
the character of the site and surround
ings are of predomlnating Importance.
While a prospective builder may
have in his Imagination an adaptation
or reproduction of a period design, it
Is very frequently unwise to permit
such an imagination to be the deciding
factor as to what design a home should
represent. Errors in construction are
often made through placing a repro
duced design in an inappropriate set
ting, where a uniquely constructed
dwelling is entirely out of place with
its surroundings.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
Less Unemployment Likely
In America in Near Future
As Result of the Great War

At present, and in all probability in
the near future, according to a re-
port of a medical committee on social
assurances reported in the American
Medical Journal, this country will have
less and less unemployment, and there
Is 40 question that with the war and
with the destruction of life and peo-
pies in Europe, in the very countries
from which, In recent years, this coun-
try has drawn its vigorous unskilled la
Dor, the immigration which has come
to these shores so ab%undantly will enor
mously diminish, and there will be a
dearth of labor and a rise in wages.
At present, however, there is no
question that even in good times the
wage earners of this country are I'M
employed for from one-fifth to one
fourth-20 to % per cent-of the work.
ing days Of the year. Those who are
dependent on their daily wages have
thus to consider a further diminution
of what is apparently their actual wage.
All Investigations on the amount of
wages have shown that about four
ifths of the men and nineteen-twenti-
eths of the women earn less than 5000
a year to support their families, and
this amount of wage Is not able, eve
In this country, to support those fam
lilies on a fair standard of living. This
is one cause Of the enormous mass
of woman and child labor.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
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Brother Needed Attention.

Governor and Mrs. Stanley of Ken.
lucky have an interesting young fam
lily. They are also regular Sunday
school attendants. The youngest mem
Der Of the house of Stanley has been
very much INDUCED, but lately the
wise mother has taught him that he
must not ask God for such things as
he coveted. The small heir ceased
praying after that for a speckled pony
and cart, which a little friend of his
owned.
One night not long since the COVER
nor and his lady were entertaining
guests in the executive mansion when
the elder boy called his mother to the
foot of the stairs. The visitors were
amused to hear the lad saying, in a
stage whisper:
Mother, l wish you'd come up here
to brother-he's worrying the Lord
again about that speckled pony and
dog-cart."-Harper's Magazine.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11

slippers and pink roses, looked very
alluring. He has taken her home from
dances, perhaps a h~alf-dozen times and
at the end of hat time proposed mar
ringe. Neither had peeped beyond the
first chapter of the book of life. Their
entire conversation had been about
other girls and boys-what Il jolly good
time they had had at the skating rink
or barn dance. Yet these two killings
considered themselves in love and had
the notion that they ought to wed.
The boys father does his best to
have Il serious talk with his son, en-
%deavoring to make him understand
that married life is something more
than continuous love-making; that it
entails obligations, such as winning
the support of two, to start with that
a pretty sweetheart transferred to the
~kitchenette is not always the amiable
companion n youth fondly believes
she would be.
The girls parents do their best to
make her understand that a young man
should have at least Il start in life be-
fore he essays matrilnOny; that all
love-making, no work, would put out
the kitchen fire. If, despite earnest
parental advice on both sides, the
young people take their own heads
and marry, they have only themselves
to blame for much of the tribulations
that may follow. Parents on both
sides should be eager for the match,
then it will turn out happily.
Copyright. 1910
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
JOY Riding In Army.

Joy riding seems to be a regular
sport of French army officers. Accord
ing to charges of reckless extravaganza
made against the touring-car section Of
the French army, the officers think
that the cars they use are their own
private property. Indeed, competition
is rampant, each officer wanting the
best machine and the most expensive
assortment of accessories, says the re-
port. The cost of 20 cars for the gen.
eral headquarters staff cost $4,000.
Three thousand dollars is the annual
upkeep Per a r The only remedy, as
France now sees it, is to refuse to al
low any officer, no matter what his
rank, to have a personal car.-Popular
Science Monthly.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
Grenades of Many Types.

The grenade has become one of the
leading weapons of the European war.
Each belligerent uses several, types,
Austria as many as six. Grenades are
thrown by hand by means of a spe-
cial racket" by catapults, shot from
guns and from trench mortars. Hand
grenades have a range Of some twenty
five or thirty yards. The grenades
fired from mortars may range up to
five hundred yards. The most power
full grenade is a Danish invention. 1t
is shot from a mortar, weighs about
three pounds, and in addition scat
tering the fragments of Its case on e X
plosion, 1t carries some $50 bullets.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
Getting Privacy About Home.

Within the last few years Ameri-
cans have begun to discover that the
land about their house should be treat
ed as a part of the home and that IL
should have the charm of intimacy
and privacy. They have reverted to
the ways of the early Colonial days,
when the fence was not only a pro-
lection but an ornamental part of the
grounds. Some of the fences around
the old houses in Salem, Mass; in
Charleston, Sc, and elsewhere bear
witness to the state and dignity of the
persons who lived behind them, and
through the gates one still gets
glimpses of charms that would lose by
half If they were not secluded and kept
for the persons who live In the houses
Of which they form the setting.
We are ever borrowing the foreign
idea, hesitatingly, of turning our
houses about, with theil backs to the
street and their fronts TO a garden of
lawn and flowers which may be as fully
and freely enjoyed as the most COM
Portable living room In the house
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11

scores before Lajoie broke into the
limelight, is back again in the role Of
utility infielder with the Cards.
His comeback marks fms to a Is
year absence from the National league,
for he jumped from the Cardinals back
In 1902 to cast his fortunes with the
Browns, who were making their first
start In st. Louis. His long years of
service with the Browns and his ulti-
mate release Is remembered by all fans
today. 1t seemed only natural that Wal
lace should step down and out, and
when he was made a member Of the
Wichita (Western leaguc) club the ma
Jors bid him good-by for all time.
But Wallace is back, and the own
ers of the Cardinals figure that he is
a valuable asset, in which they are
more than likely to be upheld by his
work whenever the occasion arises to
use him in the lineup.
The return of the veteran Wallace
recalls the fact that 1917 has seer a
number Of players in the veteran class
return to the big tent while hundreds
Of youngsters are pining their young
lives away in the bush leagues for a
chance. Ping Bodie, purchased last
winter from the San Francisco club by
Connie Mack, has made good with a
vim since his return. Harry Walter
and Charley Deal, brought back from
the minor leagues by the Cubs, and
Jim Thorpe, recalled by the Giants.
aud later sold to the Reds. are other
examples.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
MARRYING AGAINST
WISHES OF FAMILY
BY LAURA JEAN LIeeEY.

An old farmhouse with meadows wide,
Sweet with clover on either side;
A bright-eyed youth. who looks from out
The door with woodbine wreathe with
Wished this one thought all the day.:
"Oh, II l could but fly away
From this dull spot the world to see,
o happy l would be-"
What youth of one and twenty and
maid of sweet sixteen if they happened
to become enamored of one another
would not tell you that there Is just
one person in the world for them, and
each has met that one? 1t is all in
vain for relatives or friends to attempt
to dissuade them from their feeling.
The young man declares he will leave
home and all belonging to him and go
out into the world to earn fame and
fortune for the girl he has chosen.
The maid declares that if she cannot
wed the hero of her heart she will
never, never marry. Though her lips
may not complain her sad eyes will
be a reproach to those who have sep
arated her from her love for all time
to come.
How the parents are to deal with
such n determined young couple is a
problem. The youths parents know
that it is his nature to fall quickly in
love, and as quickly climb out Of it.
The girls parents realize that the kind
of mar who fills her fancy at sixteen
she would possibly be heartily tired of
at two and twenty.
They met at a ball. The girl in her
tulle party dress, white gloves, white
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
Cornmeal Douuhnuts.

Put three-fourths of a cupful Of milk
and ~ cupfuls of cornmeal into a
double boiler and heat together ten
minutes. Add three-fourths of a cup
full of sugar and a fourth of a cupful
Of shortening. Sift together IL cup
fuls of wheat flour with a te%aspoonful
of cinnamon and two ~teaspoonfuls of
baking powder, add these and two
w~ell-beaten eggs to the meal. Roll out
on a well-houred board, cut and fry In
hot deep fat.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
Neua Mes~eaA
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EPlGRHYMES:

I'd like to be as FORTUNATE
as lots Of MEN l know who
rouse an agitation in all
hearts where'er they go. Now
take YOUR old friends Tyrus
Cobb he leads the COUNTRY,
fans, in clever execution of
the tricks Hugh Jennings plans.
And then, in little, old New
York, LIVES "Muggsy," John Nc
Graw, and many other notables
who follow fame" quite raw
BECAUSE it's served to them
so fast there is no time to
cook the adulatlon that they
get each blessed way they look.
You've got to hand 1t to these
chaps; they've earned all they
have won, and it's worth while
to rouse the shout Gee!
Attaboy! Well done!' But, humbly,
may l ask of YOU to ponder
Garfield's thought: Behold u
land, in twenty years, and see
the men who fought in this, we
pray, the final war for ever
lasting peace, and hear all
nations cry of thanks which
nevermore shall cease! And then
imagine, if you can, that
reverence multiplied ten thou
/ sand times ten thousand, for
the Fighting Men-who DIED!
Robert Russell.
Fortunate men your country
lives because you died"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11

units have risen from thousands to mil
lions of men, and fields of operations
stretch from sea to sea, and more am
munitiOn is expended in a single en-
gagement than was employed in entire
wars of other days, absolute serenity
prevails. 1t is only when your magma
ton cOnjures up the picture of flame
and fury hat lies beyond the horizon
line that you get a thrill.-Isaac F.
Marcosson in Everybody's.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
Flashlights.
About all that jealousy ask

About all that jealousy asks
to make trouble Is a chance.
Fair as women are, even they
are no excuse for the so-called
ladies' man.
No matter how much a man
may neglect his wife it always
makes him mad to discover that
some other man is slightly inter-
ested in her..
This world may owe you a liv-
ing, but if you don't care enough
for 1t to hustle round and col
lect it, the world isn't going to
do any worrying.
Luck doesn't play nearly so
big a part in the other fellows
success as you imagine.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
Mothers
Cook Book


The woman of moderate means, who
markets in person, with a basket on
her arm, often gets better goods for
less money than her wealthy sister,
who trusts to servants or the telephone
and takes what the market merchant
chooses to send her, in blissful igno-
rance of food values or food quality.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
cornmeaI and Wheat Wafaes.

Cook a half cupful of cornmeal,
added very gradually to a cupful and
a half of boiling water, for 20 minutes,
then add a cupful and a half of milk,
three cupfuls of flour, three tablespoon
fuls of sugar, IL tablespoonfuls of
baking powder, ~ te%aspoonfuls of
salt, the yolks and whites of two eggs
beaten separately. When all is well
mixed, add two tablespoonfuls of melt
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
Indian Pudding.

Cook five cupfuls of milk and n third
of n cupful of cornmeal in n double
boiler, a half cupful Of molasses, a tea-
spoonful each of salt and ginger. Mix
all together and pour into a buttered
baking dish and bake two hours In a
slow oven serve with cream.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
Some Cornmeal Dishes,

The rainy consistency of cornmeal is
an advantage when used in grlddle
cakes or wafles, for it renders them
very tender.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11

ed shortening, just before adding the
stitfly beaten whites.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
Amt 1t So?

! If yea want to live in the kind ;
{ of a town
! Like the kind of a town you j
{ like,
! You needn't slip your clothes ]
I in a grip
I And start on a long, long hike. !
I You'll only find what you left be- !
! hind,
/ For there's nothing really new. =;
! It's a knock to yourself when j
{ you knock your town, i;
! 1t isn't your town-it's you. j
! Real towns are not made by
! men afraid
! Lest somebody else gets !
Z ahead;
: When everyone works and no. !
7 body shirks
3 You can raise a town from the
! dead.
! And If you can make your per- !
: sonal stake,
/ Your neighbor can make one, ]
Z too.
Your town will be what you !
! want to see;
1t isn't your town-it's you. !
! Dotted Line. j
Evening star., 1917-04-26
ADAM A. wEscHLER. AUcTIoNEER.

TRUSTEES SALE OF TW0-sTORY BRICK
S9s Sss Sso So ATR ss
STORY FRAME DWELLiNG. NO. 5l2
1Ith STREET SOUTHWEST.
By virtue Of three certain deeds of trust re-
ISss soio
ct seq. of the land records Tor the district Of
es .ssrs sss It @ q s s.y
~ s4S ssSsssSs SE ssaSfsSf Il +
Washns.sa city, nstrst At s''i1s fnora IN
e eet pfs ssSa
n fad sRa sss sf lots and
said % M ae.eabes L s ss f follows. as Esssss
for SAID part Of lot 2 at a point 1lth street
west 81. A feet north of the southwest corner Of
feet sss
thence west Is feet to the beginning. and begin
M north s .th sr
ssd saa running fsnnens thence east
and north ae the
and . said % part Of lot A. being the north 25 feet
.sa os IN .s wss x
gether with the improvements thereon.
Terms Of sale; ons. third Of the purchase
years, with interest at si1 per cent per annum:
by deed Of trust upon the property sold. or all
cash at the option Of the purchaser: A de-
posit of $100 required of the purchaser. on
each .iouse at time Of sale. All conveyancins
and recording at the cost Of the purchaser.
teen days from day Of sale, otherwise the tfus-
tees reserve the right to resell the property
chaser e M after M i've Ve day.. .dvertissment r q such
resale In some newspaper published In the
HENRY II. BERGMANN,
GEORGE n. ElfMERICH,
Evening star., 1917-04-26
TELLS HOW TO AID CHILDREN.
DR.. Claxton Urges More Hours Of
Profitable Work.

DIR. Philander r. Claxton. oommis-
sioner of education, urged more hours
of profitable work for school children.
In his address last night before the
conference of the Mothers Congress
and Parent-Teacher Association, in the
Raleigh Hotel. He also proposed that
children should be taught some useful
and productive occupation. =.
Mr.. CIaxton cited the teaching ef
good music as another benefit for chill
dren. For recreation, he asserted that
there should be Fairgrounds attached
to every school, which should be open
all week. He said he favored the Gary
system of school training.
In the discussion that followed his
address he said that the bureau OF
education needed greatly Increased
appropriation to carry on its work, and
urged the mothers present to appeal
to their members Of Congress and edu-
cate them TO the needs of the bureau.
The evening concluded with several
practical moving pictures loaned BY
Thomas A. Edison. A selection on the
piano by Miss Ethel Coffin was one Of
the features pf the evening.
Evening star., 1917-04-26
FUTURE DAYS.
ADAM A. wEscHLER. AucrIoNEER.

ADAM A. WESCHLER, AuCTIONEER.
EXECUTOR AND TRUSTEES SALE OF g.
STORY BRICK BUILDING. NO. 2ao0 n
STREET NORTHWEST.
BY virtue of authority vested In the under
signed by the last will and testament Of Elise
Stohesand. Administration No 2242S, the un-
dersigned will sell by public auction In front Of
the premises. on THURSDAY, THE THIRD
DAY OF NAY 1917, AT FIVE O'CLOCK P NJ.
the following described real estate situate in the
Part Of lot It's in square i21o, contained within
the following metes and bounds. Wis: Beginning
for the same at a point in the north line 81 u
street about feet Z inches from the southeast
corner Of said lot. said point being the south
west corner of house formerly owned BY John
Bridges, and running thence west with said north
line Of NJ street "a feet to an alley feet wide,
thence north and with said alley 100 feet, thence
east "a feet and thence south 120 feet to the
place Of beginning. tosether with the tree and
uninterrupted use Of said alley forever. and the
Improvements thereon. - ~
Terms q sale: One-third cash. balance In one
and two years with interest at 9 per cent, pay
able semi i-annually. from day Of sale. and Sc
cured by deed Of trust on the property sold. or
ali cash. at purchasers option. 4 deposit Of 500
required at time Of sale. All couveyancing and
recording at cost Of purchaser. Terms to b. com
piled with within fifteen days. otherwise the light
ls reserved to resell the property at the risk
days advertisement OF such resale in some
newspaper published in the city Of Washington.
ID. C. LOUIS kETTLER,
Executor and Trustee.
NJ p. MANGAN. Attorney.
406 Sth NV apSS-dkd9, ,eX0u
Evening star., 1917-04-26
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proved Real Estate, No. 1922
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