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The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26

length admiringly-"do you want to
know how strong / am for taking q
chance with you? Well, l was on my
way out to flag the next train East,
just to see-Just to see If you still cared
two pins; to see IL you still thought
your game was better than mine"
"Well, you don't have to take any
eastbound train to find that out" she
cried gaily. "Tm here to tell you I
care lot more than any number Of
pins. Oh, I've learned lot In the last
six months, Bill. / had to hurt my
self, and you, too. had to get jolt
to jar me out Of my self-centered little
orbit. got 1t, and it did me good.
And it's funny. I came back here be-
cause / thought I ought to, because It
was our home. but rather dreading 1t.
And I've been quite contented and
happy-only hungry, oh. so dreadfully
hungry. for YOU"
Bill kissed her.
II didn't make any mistake in you,
after ALL" he said. you're q real
partner. You're the right stuff. I
love you more than ever. If you made
a mistake you paid for 1t, like dead.
game sport. What's few monthsS
We've ell our life before us, and It's
plain sailing now we've got our bear
ings again"
Amen" she whispered. T-but
say, man Of mine. you've been on the
two ri
You must be hungry. I've got all
kinds Of goodies cooked in the kitchen.
Take off your clothes, and I'll get you
something to eat"
''Ill go you," he said. "I am hungry.
Made long mush to get here for the
night. got six huskies running loose
outside, so If you hear 'em scufliing
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26
Diplomats Hard Hit.

The cost of living at present is
matter Of real concern to our diplo-
matte and consular representatives in
foreign countries. According to the
state department, the percentage of in
crease over 1916 is: Italy. G5; Spain.
25; Greece, 250; Switzerland, OF; Swe-
den, 225; Denmark, 20; France, 81;
Holland, co. The figure for Switzer-
land contains bit Of solace when one
remembers that Germany has some
400 men on its diplomatic staff at
Berne.-The Nations Business.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26
GIRLS! USE LEMONS
FOR SUNBURN, TAN
Try tti Make this lemon lotion
TO whlten your tanned or
freckled skin.

Squeeze the Juice Of two lemons in
to a bottle containing three ounces of
Orchard White, shake we'll, and you
have quarter pint Of the best freckle.
sunburn and tan lotion, and complex
ion whitener, at very, very small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and any
drug store or toilet counter will supply
three ounces of Orchard White for q
few cents. Massage this sweetly fra
grant lotion into the face, neck, arms
and hands and see how quickly the
freckles, sunburn, windburn and tan
disappear and how clear, soft and
white the skin becomes. Yes! 1t Is
harmleSS.-Adv.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26
An EnuliSh Failinu

"The fiends! The pitiless Hun bar
barians."
And Humorist Ring Lardner of Chi
cagO tossed down his newspaper and
rose and paced the floor with long, agi-
tated strides, putting feverishly the
while on his cigarette.
"The Hun fiendS !" he resumed.
"Have they no chivalry, no compass
sion? Think Of it-their latest device,
when they are about to drop bombs on
London, is to paint their Gothas all
over with jokes, so that the English
can't see them"
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around you'll know It's not the wolves.
Say. 1t was some welcome surprise to
find fire when / came in. Thought
first somebody travelling through had
put up. Then saw those slippers ly-
ing there. That was sure making me
take notice when you stepped out"
He chuckled at the recollection.
Hazel lit the lamp, and stirred up the
fire, plying 1t with wood. Then she
slipped a heavy bathrobe over her
nightgown and went into the chilly
kitchen, emerging therefrom presently
with tray of food and a kettle of wa
ter to make coffee. This she set on the
fire. Wherever she moved Bills eyes
followed her with a CLEAN of Joy, tinc-
tured with smiling incredulousness.
When the kettle was safely bestowed
on the Goals, he drew her on his knee.
There for minute she perched in rich
content. Then she rose.
"Come very quietly with me, Bill"
she whispered. with Ane air Of mys-
terry. II want to show you something"
"Sure! What is IT." he asked.
"Come and see," she. smiled, and
took up the lamp. Bill followed obedi-
entity.
Close up beside her bed stood a
small, square crib. Hazel set the lamp
on table and, turning to the bundle
Of blankets which filed this new piece
of furniture, drew back one corner, re-
vealing q round, puckered-up infant
face.
"For the love Of Mike!" Bill NUT
tered. 'Is its it"
TITS our son." she whispered proud
ly. "Born the tenth Of January
three weeks ago today. Don't, don't
you great bear-you'll wake him."
For Bill was bending down to peer
at the tiny morsel Of humanity, with q
strange, abashed smile on his face, his
big, clumsy fingers touching the soft,
pink cheeks. And when he stood up
he drew long breath, and laid one
arm across her shoulders.
"Us two and the kid" he said whi,
sicahy. 'It should be the hardest COM
bination In the world to bust. Are you
happy. little person"
She nodded, cfinging to him, word.
lessly happy. And presently she COW
cred the baby's face, and they went
back to sit before the great fireplace,
where the kettle bubbled cheerfully
and the cracking blaze sent forth its
challenge to the bevy Of frost sprites
that held high revel outside.
And, after time. the blaze died to
q heap Of glowing embers, and the
forerunning wind Of a northeast storm
soughed and whistled about q house
deep wrapped In contented slumber, q
house no longer divided against itseaf
(THE TND.)
Daily Thought.
kfnx, 60 tho uart o. ~ - -
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Knew From Sad Experience,

Mother said Buddy would have to
sprinkle the lawn and flowers every
evening till 1t rained; he had been do
ing it for over a week, and was getting
pretty tired Of his job, as the water
pressure was low, and 1t took him
quite little while till he had every
thing watered. Finally one evening he
said to his mother, Lets all have a
picnic tomorrow, and 1t will be sure to
rain"
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26

welcome resting place. She turned
her gaze ont the open door where the
forest fell away In vast undulations
to range Of snow-capped mountains
purple In the autumn haze. and verse
that Bill had once quoted came back
to her:
oh. to feel the wind grow strong
Where tho tran leaps down.
could never learn the way
haa And wisdom os the town.
She blinked. The iown-it seemed
to have grown renote. a fantasy in
which she had played puppet part.
But she was home again, II only the
gladness Of II endured strong enough
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26

Every time pesslmist smiles he
feels ashamed of it.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26

Daily Thought.
Conversation il the vent Of chsracteD
as well as Of thought.--Emersou.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-12-14
Make Yourself Happier By Send
ing a Christmas Gift to a
Wounded Soldier
By EARL GOODWIN.
Here Opportunity Show Your Appreeation Of
What the Boys Have Done for Us.

Let us make this the best Christmas had by
sending present to wounded soldier at Walter Reed
Hospital.
That splendid way of making those fellows out
there feel that the people of Washington appreciate the
BIG sacrifice they have made for their OUk
country.
Christmas is never really Christmas until each of rs
has done Christmas thing for one else who would
have been left Of otherwise Of course Christmas
fails but this year to we have so much
to be thankful for that each of ought to pick out
really useful present for those who have faced the Ger
man line and stopped with THEIR own bodies the bullets
that were coming OUR way.
could go on writing in this strain for long double
column but it isn't necessary Words will never tell the
real story of those wounded at Walter Reed; and
words will never tell them how much appreciate IT. But
Christmas gifts will show them that even II they are
wounded in hospital many miles from their own homes
this city the National Capital, wants them to know
they are in our hearts in this holiday which Is all
the more glorious for the work the army did In France
The Christmas gifts for the boys Will be carefully and
wisely distributed by the Red Cross, which has heartily
ndorsed the plan The Times Will receive the gifts either
money Or otherwise and will that the officials OF the
Red Cross get them in plenty of time
1t is probably not amiss to remind you again the kind
of things the boys like best The list have received
from the hospital and the Red Cross specifies fountain pens
tobacco in every FORM pipes cigarette and cigar holders
musical Instruments photograph records, boxing gloves
tennis racquets tennis balls basebas baseball gloves bats
wooden gloves, neckties, razors, and books.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-12-14

GEORGE APPLICABLE also nom
mates it "Pershing street"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-12-14
TODAY'S TOPIC
MAKING CHILDHOOD HAPPY

much space and sunshine as they
have themselves, and let them do
as they like in it, so long as the
club rules-that is, the family
rules-are followed.
You will probably ask where
these rules come from. That's
very important. The parents and
children make them together. The
children who are old enough, that
is. Once in a while they have
a family council and talk things
over and decide what to do about
everything. Some of the best sug-
gestions come from the children.
Make Their Own Rules.
When boys and girls make the
household rules themselves, it's not
a great hardship to keep them.
And they're simple rules, anyway.
Then, finally, these parents Sc
riously take their children into
their confidence, and l assure you
that this is a magical thing to do.
Do you remember how, in your
own childhood. father and mother
were jealous custodians Of all the
family secrets-and how you felt
that pretty nearly everything that
was interestin gand important was
kept from you, as a matter Of
course?
Do you remember the blank cur
tains that your elders used TO let
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duces a really happy household.
This means treating children as
IL they could reason-which they
can! 1t gives them their own
fair share Of the family RESPONSE
bilities. II means running the
household. not like a prison, but
like a club.
Try it, and see how it works
Shall / explain a little?
Parents who believe in manag-
ing their families on the club
principle, resist the temptation OF
prolonging the babyhood of their
children. And 1t is a temptation.
When these boys and girls are six
years old, they are not treated as
II they were three. Their intelli-
gence is respected. Their queer,
new, little personalities. which
probably aren't a bit like their
parents, are respected, too, and so
is their right to express themselves.
Another thing these parents | am
speaking Of try not to do is to seize
the whole house for themselves
and keep it unnaturally orderly
and otherwise impossible to play
in, banishing the children to a few
untidy corners.
These parents see that the only
square way to do, II you have in
vited little people to come out Of
the infinite and live with you, is
20 divide up your home with them.
Doesn't that seem reasonable?
They give their youngsters just as
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-12-14
HEARD AND SEEN

the irresponsible wagon driver, hut
sees IN opportunity to collect . ine
from the other fellow.
LIEUT. c. J. HIRLIMAN, in pri-
vate life q movie magnate. has had
q lot to do with the forthcoming
presentation Of New Glory for Old
which viii be given at a premier
performance for the benefit Of
wounded soldiers. This film Is an
official United States army produc-
ton, showing a lot Of things that
it would have been mwise to show
before the armistiee.
POP FLEMING comes across
with Q dollar for the Walter Reed
Xmas Fund. Believe me, boy, that
dollar is going to be spent very
carefully 50 that it win warm thu
heart Of some wounded boy far
away from home.
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the Problems Pitfalls of the War Workers
Especially for Washington Women
By T. E. Powers

fall over their faces when you
entered the room, and the whisS
pering that went on behind these
curtains, and the long, tantaliZing
words that they used to spell to
each other aloud?
So that II a little sister was
coming, or father had lost his po-
sition and was hard up-these
were matters that they took any
amount Of time and trouble to keep
from you, and that you had to fer
ret out for yourself and then act
as IL you we're as ignorant as they
supposed you to be.
And you see now, of course,
that that wasn't the most reason
able way Of conducting a home.
OF course most children now
adays are told when little broth
ers and sisters are on the way. It
saves unnecessary mystery, it
gives them the pleasure and ex-
element of anticipation, and it
leads them to be more tender and
considerable of Mother than they
might be otherwise.
But why not tell them such
other things as they are able to
understand? If, for instance.
Cousin Margaret is lonely and
you think you ought to ask her
to come to live with you, ask the
children to talk this over and cast
their vote.
Let the Children Vote.
Then why not tell them frankly
what the family financial status
is? Let them know if you are
hard up. If you can either have
a servant all through the year, or
else go to the country in the sum-
mer, get the children to help you
decide which is most important.
We have all heard parents Won
der what they can do to keep their
fast-growing boys and girls con-
tentedly at home.
Well, make them feel it's their
home, as well as yours. If they
are at liberty to follow their own
pursuits freely, without being con-
.tinually repressed, and to invite
their friends when they like, they
will be only too glad to stay there.
This doesn't mean giving up the
family living-room every evening
in the week to Dorothy and her
beaux, while Mother and Father
skulk in the cold dining room.
And it doesn't mean that every
visitor, who passes through the
front hall should be doomed to en-
tanglement in Busters toy railroad
system. Adult right and privileges
shouldn't be depressed, any more
than children's.
But a fair field for old and
young alike means happy house
hold, and children started out in
life in the right spirit
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What's Doing; Where; What Time

west. 9 p. m.
MeetinE-Missouri State Society. at
Washington Club. 1909 X street northwest.
.. m.
Meeting-Potomac Council, knights of
Columbus. to confer the third degree Of
the order on special class, at X. Of c. Hall.
sos r street northwest. p. m.
Lecture-StAn Captain william Halpin.
Salvation Army. on experiences OF a Sal
walton Army worker at the front. Church
Of Covenant, y. m.
MeetinE-Mount Pleasant Citizens Asso-
citation. Brown Betty Inn, p. m.
Dance-WAshington Camp. Modern Wood
men Of America, old Masonic Temple. 8
p. m.
TOMORROW.
MeetinE-To honor birthday of DR. L. L.
Zamenhof. by Washington Esperantists.
". c. T. U. Hall, 522 sixth street north
west, 3:I5 p. IN.
Address-JAmss A. Edgerton. before
New Thought Association, Studio Hall.
1919 Connecticut avenue, $50 p. m.
Tour-Jewish Welfare Board for SOL
diers, sailors and marines. from Eleventh
and streets northwest, 2 p. m.
Observation-Disclosures Of Columbus. at X.
Of e. Hall. sos street northwest, $50
y. m.
Address-Edward King. before Washing
ton Secular League, Pythian Temple,
p. m
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The Education of Children
CONTINUED From First Column.)


servants Let the children be Clean if you possibly can
We mean by that CLEAN IN BODY. Keep them washed
keep the pores of their bodies open that they may be
mind if the hands and the faces get smudgy the
day goes on
Keep your children warm at night, WITH PLENTY
OF AIR IN THEIR BEDROOM, but without draughts d.
rectly upon their heads
ABOVE ALL MAKE THEM SLEEP LONG HOURS
AND MAKE THEM LIVE REGULARLY
Try to have them eat always at the SAME HOURS.
Try to have them eat SLOWLY Try to keep their minds
free from superstition and from and from foolish
ghost stories any other stories that give them false
idea of life or the government of the universe.
ABOVE ALL, TEACH THEM TO READ EASILY
A CHILD THAT READS EASILY HAS OPEN BEFORE
1T ALL THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD.
DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE LACK OF SERVANTS
THAT WOULD ONLY RUIN THE 0HILD'S CHANCES
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TODAY.


Conference-Washingto College OF Law
1917 New York avenue northwest, p. m
on the minimum wage law. Mrs. Ellen
Spencer Mussey will speak.
Smoker-Navai and Military Order OF
the spanish War. Army and Navy Club 3
p.
MeetinE-AshlAr Club OF Master Nelson's
New Masonic Temple. 1880 p. m.
Musical drama-UkrAiniAn Federation IN
the United States, with cooperation OF
War Camp Community Service. Central
High School. p. m.
Banquet-The Airnauts, a club from the
division Of military aeronRutics OF tho
army, wArdman Park Hotel, p. m.
Dinner-District Four-Minute speakers
Lafayette Hotel. 1880 p. m.
Annual meeting-Biological Society oil
Washington. Assembly Hall Of Carnegie
institution. Sixteenth and p streets north
west, y. m.
Dance-ohIo Girls Club. Wilson Normal
School, s p. m. Ohio uniformed men and
civilians invited.
Annual meeting Golf Club
Club House. Chevy Chase. p. IN.
Dance-Military and civilian stan OF
Surgeon Generals office. Medical Depart
ment building. Seventh and streets
northwest. p.
] Meeting-Mississippi State Society, hall
Of Washington Chapter OF American In
stituts Of Banking 1914 Z street north
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-12-14

IT AVE you ever thought What
II a tremendous risk a child
L l runs in allowing itself to
be born and thereafter to become
a member of an average house
hold?
The household may be one where
the child will be given plenty OF
room to be himself in, to find
twenty-four-hour-a-day happiness.
Or it may be one where the grim
people in authority were them
selves born grown-up, and who
therefore believe in suppressing all
infancy.
The newborn baby may find it.
self in the control of parents who
regard children as a lower and
subject race. Or it may alight
among elders who really believe
that children are human like them
selves.
But it's all so uncertain that one
wonders the little creatures have
the courage to be born at all.
Isn't it time that all parents had
an understanding as to the part
that children should play in a
home?
We've all heard a great deal
about the old-fashioned idea of
keeping Children in Their Place"
This meant speaking only when
they were spoken to, eating what
was set before them, and being
whipped if they wandered into any
interesting little by-path Of their
own discovering. Being a child
in those days must have been a
state that one hurried to grow out
of with all ones might and main.
Simple, friendly New England
households used to say in regard
to a young girl who came to do the
homework, that they made her
zone of the family"
1t seems to me that this is al
most more than could be said of
the old-fashioned child, trained
as he was TO believe himself the
inferior of all adults. They SIM
ply didn't make him one of the
family.
Juvenile DespOtisms.
On the other hand, we have seen
households where the children re-
duced their elders TO a most unbe-
coming, groVeling sort Of slavery,
and disagreeably held the position
OF tyrants-households where
parents had to plead for a chance
to talk or think or pursue their
affairs.
There's not much happiness for
anybody in such a state Of things
as that.
But there's still another way OF
handling this child question and
/ think is the only way that pro-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-12-14

Fitting tights on sausages Is an
activity about to reopen, see BY
a letter from VANCE MCCORMICK.
the chairman of the War Trade
Board. Vance says that Sausage
castings" may now be imported from
Russia
CHARLIE ALBERT has tie
largest golf cap in Washington.
LOUIS F. POST, Assistant See
Rotary, U. S. Department Of Labor,
is the guest Of honor at the Com
mercial Clubs second club night
next Tuesday.
JOSEPH E. GOODKEY. Of the
G. P. o., wants to call Sixteenth
street Marshal Foch boulevard.
GEORGE APPLICABLE also nom
mates it "Pershing street"
HARRY KING was telling me the
other day that his son MILTON
KING is back again after having
great adventures in the navy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-12-14

I suppose that nine out Of ten
automobiles believe that traffic
policemen will allow an irresponsible
wagon driver to drive anywhere at
night without a light while n re-
spOnsible business man Is arrested
on the slightest suspicion OF speed
ing or q broken headlight. Now
there's n reason for that suspicion.
Many n policeman Sympathlxes with
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-12-14

How about opening the street
car windows again, now that the
flu is raging. Young SPEED
KARGER reports air-tight con-
ditions on the Fourteenth street
line and begs for q return to
sanitary precautions.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-12-14

Commissioner GARDINER came
to Washington when he was twenty
years old with a twenty-dollar bill
in his pocket and the injunction
from his good old father not to
return to the farm unless he made
good. !,
He loved the old farm, which had
been in the GARDINER family
more than a hundred years, and IS
now owned by the Commissioner
himself. He took q notion to Try
his luck in Washington and told his
father of his intention
Here's the place for you, but II
you are bent on going" advised the
elder Gardiner, there's $50. Make
good or don't come back"
Young GARDENERS first job
was with the Equitable Life office
in this city and his first roommate
was JAMES F. NEAL, for many
years in the purchasing office Of
the District building. Mr.. GAR
DINER is today recognized as one
Of the most learned lawyers in the
country on insurance subjects.
am glad to know that you are
with US again. BY the way how is
your memory?
Do you remember when REX
SMITH and WILL ROBINSON had
bicycle riding school on New
York avenue, located between the
Bond Building and the Evans Build
ing? They used the old-style Co
lumbia" bicycle with the 52-inch
wheel in front OF the small rear one.
They also rode on the coping Of the
Cabin John bridge. as we'll as down
the front steps Of the Capitol on one
wheel, the rear one was kept one
side, out Of the way. There was a
market store near the corner Of
Fourteenth street and New York
avenue kept by F. ]. TIBBETT.
Do you remember any Of these lit
tie things?
Your substitute has done well for
you.
ALLAN McLANE ALERT.
Special Police.
Federal Trade Commission.