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The Red Cloud chief., 1918-11-07
Go to Bed and Stay Quiet -
Take a Laxative - Eat Plenty
of Nourishing Food-keep
Up your Strength - Ma
ture IL the Only Cure"
ALWAYS CALL A DOCTOR
NO OCCASION FOR PANIC

Spanish influenza. which appeared in
Spain In Mny, has all the appearances
of grip, or In grippe, which has swept
over the world In numerous epidcmlcs
as far back as history runs. Hippoc'
rates refers to an epidemic In Alp
Il. c., which Is regarded by many to
have been Influenza. Every century
has had its attacks. Beginning with
1881 this country has had five epidem-
les, the last In 1SS9-0O.
There Is no occasion for panic-influ-
enza Itself has very low percentage
OF fatalities--not over one death out
Of every 400 cases, according to the
n. G. board of health. The chief danger
lies In complications arising, attack
ing principally patients I'm rundown
conditlon--those who don't 60 to bed
soon enough or those who get up too
early.
THE SYMPTOMS
Grip, or influenza. ns II is now called,
usually begins with chill, followed by
aching, fcvcrlshness, and sometimes
nausea and dizziness, and general
feeling of weakness and depression.
The temperature Is from 100 to 1O4,
and the fever usually lasts from three
to five days. The germs attack the
mucous membrane or lining Of the air
passages. nose. throat and bronchial
tubes; there Is usually n hard cough,
especially bad at night; oftentlmcs n
sore throat or tonsillitis, and frequently
all the appearances OF n severe head
cold.
THE TREATMENT
Go to bed at the first symptoms. not
only for your own sake. hut to avoid
spreading the disease to others-take
II purGative, eat plenty of nourishing
food, remain perfectly quiet and don't
worry. Qulnine, aspirin or Dover's
Powders. etc, may he administered by
the physicians directions to relieve the
aching. But there Is no cure or spe-
cific for infiuenza--the disease must
run its course. Nature herself will
throw of the attack II only you keep
up your strength. The chief danger
lies In the complications which may
arise. Influenza so weakens the bodily
resistance that there is danger Of pneu-
monia or bronchitis developing, and
sometimes Inflammation Of the middle
ear, or heart affections. For these rea.
sons 1t Is very important that the
patient remain In bed until his strength
returns-stay In bed mt least two days
or more after the fever has left you, or
IL you are over 80 or not strong stay
in bed four days or more, according to
the severity Of the attack.
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Get New Kidneys !

The kidneys are the most overworked
organs OF the human body, and when they
fail in their work of hltering out and
throwing off the poisons developed in the
system. things begin to happen.
One of the first warnings is pain OF stin
ness in the lower part Of the back; highly
colored urine; loss of appetite; indiges-
ton; irritation, or even stone in the blad-
der. These symptoms indicate q condition
that may lead to that dreaded and fatal
malady. Brights disease. for which there
is said to be no cure.
Do not delay n minute. At the first I
dication of trouble in the kidney. livek
bladder. or urinary organs start, taking
Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules. and
snvs yourself before it is too late. Instant
treatment is necessary in kidney and blad-
der troubles. A delay is often fatal.
You can almost certainly find immediate
relief in Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules,
For more than 200 years this famous prep
aration has been an uRfailing remedy f0I
all kidney. bladder and urinary troubles.
II is the pes, original Haarlcn, Oil your
great-ga.dmother, used. About two cap;
aales each day will keep you toned up and
feeling fine. Get IL at any drug store, .snd
II il does not give you almost immediate
sure you get the GOLD MEDAL brand.
None ether genuine. In boAes< three
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Riches need not spoil a man.
The Red Cloud chief., 1918-11-07

Soothe Baby Rashes
That itch and burn with hot baths OF
Cuticura Soap followed by gentle
,anointlngs Of Cuticura Ointment.
Nothing better. For free samples ad-
dress, "Cuticura, Dept. X, Boston,"
Sold by druggists and by mail. Soap
rs, Ointment 26 and 60.-Adv.
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Riches need not spoil a man.
The Red Cloud chief., 1918-11-07
CALLING A HALT.

senator Fudge relates an amusing anecdote--'
"If It's new. all right. But don't care to
listen to a stale story Just because II Is tackled
onto a United States senator."-Kansas City
Journal.
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A pure blue IL shown by experiment
to be the natural color Of water.
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)OK1NG st sen 's Dot wh't It usC"
to be in the good old days" that we
read abort. "A hard biscuit and n
slice of c)ld salt beef" which Dana
mentions In Two Years Before the
Mast" a. his usual meat after II
long, hard watch or Cape Horn. is
no longer the diet of the American
merchant sailor
The modern sailor man Is well
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Unemployment In Scotland has dis
appeared, due to the demand ror labor.
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Try Freezonel Your druggist sells q
tiny bottle for few cents, sufficient to
rid your feet Of every hard corn, soft
corn, or corn between the toes, and
calluses, without one particle Of pain,
soreness or irritation. Freezone is the
discovery OF noted Cincinnati genius.
ADV.
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This country now leads the natioAA
as an exporter Of manufactured goods.
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Canteen Work of Red Cross Along Battle Front France

encounter with the poilus and her first
goodbye at departure of the troops
while was talking with the di-
the yard in front of
Of her big baskets. she was called away
and while / stood there waiting for her
q funny little dark soldier came up and
Basket (big pink boxes with Arabian
characters, whose Significance I knew
not). In q very businesslike manner he
grabbed a tin can from a comrade. put
s he the os t
It .truefSre wearen % fs' E xouldnt get Knosksd
ever pulled out ., his purse which held
insistently for. one Of the pink boxes.
xsn.ed me @ te pun 1t apart and let him
IT kept telling him that couldn't sell
it. didn't know what it was. that it be-
longed to Miss c.. and the more
protested the more insi:tent he became:
seen It! few of them understood
my French and more Of them didn't
and the ones who did stood ready to
pull the little soldier of. while he kept
buy he must. The crowd of fifty or
sixty soldiers was so sweet and would
certainly have taken him of II 1t
hadn't been such q friendly fight.
Fln6lly as OHo lASI appeal TO my Op.
ponsnt t said very slowly and em-
phatically. syllable by syllable. in
French, SO he would be sure to under
stand. that I did not speak or under
stand French. And he. thinking this
burst into a thousand cajolings and
tried to force all his sous in my hand
with one Of his hands. and to mako
slit with his fngernail on the pink
wrapptngs Of my boxes with the other.
eft thny I q w n or,l
ran after her. the crowd opening to let
me through. When found her and told
her about the passionate eagerness for
something in the pink boxes she said
to her. that the boxes were Algerian
cigarettes and that he had served in
the colonies and was doubtless wild for
some, and she would let him have an
extra lot.
"I found him finally and told him to
come with me. and never did you see
any one so thoroughly scared. He
hadn't known Miss IS name, and
it suddenly dawned upon him that the
boxes were he, hers and all that "a been
thought that we were going to arrest
him. for he started to run away.
couple of the soldiers got on each side
of him and kind of showed him along
many Tres Biens' and 'cigaretts pour
vous,' and he frightened, glowering and
suspicious. Thanks to the others, we
got him pushed up to where Miss G.
was, and there he saw her dealing out
the cigarettes to the men who were
going on depart. pointed him out to
her. and she filled both his hands. He
was 80 bewildered, taken aback and
overcome that he was the most pathetic
little figure In all France.
Then soon there 10 another train.
another crowd. another set Of men with
each one different from all the rest
yet the crowd curiously the same. all
starting at the same second, tug at
the strap over the shoulders q shuffling
step-just one; then solid, practical
tramp-oh to the trenches--al In the
days work"
The American Red Cross is, aS had
been said, co-operatine with the French
in the establishment Of the canteens. It
IL expected that eventually there Will
be q canteen for every corps OF the
Army.
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to them all, whether that home is a
tent in Morocco or a cottage in Eng
land. There one may see them in his
imagination, as Mai Grayson NJ. p.
Murphy, Red Cross commissioner to
Europe, described them. sitting COM
fortably. swapping stories over a cup
of coffee. struggling over q game or
with our workers"
Tragedy and comedy walk hand in
hand at the canteen. There pass the
men who have lost families in the ex-
posure and hunger the refugees en-
dured or died of in their flight from
burning villages; the young men start
ing out with the eager look; the black
man who does not know what 1t is all
about and does sunhesl.atinSly: the Tom
mics with their song and our men with
their good-natured curiosity and jokes.
Through the fall and winter months
they passed to the fire and back for
'the little rest" from the jolly or the
sacred things of the little rest" back
to the flre again.
The canteens sent the men out warm.
their hunger satisfied. their bodies
clean. the letters written. their hearts
full Of confidence that their countries
were looking after them. Many an
amusing story the canteen workers
write home-when they ever get time
and many a memory may change all
their lives. overturning the conven-
weeks in a canteen many things that
once doomed large seem small. and
many Just little things seem the great
wonders Of the world.
A letter from an American girl to
her mother. written after her flrst day
as an assistant at one Of the Croix
Rouge cantsens near Paris. tells Of her
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truly artistic. but undoubtedly gay and
cheerful.
These rainbow apartments form the
sleeping chambers. with cots, whose
mere aspect watts the sleep-starved
soldier into the realm of dreams. The
walls after the French manner. ana
there are, besides, a bathroom a loung-
ing room and recreation room with
books and games and cards. and still
another room where the uniforms and
other items of clothing are subjected
to sterilization and disinfection with
steam and formalin.
Such spot is "a little bit of heaven"
in the day of the soldier when he Is
hours for train connections that will
take him back to his home or back to
the trenches. French trains are slow
and uncertain in war time. All avail
able rolling stock is in use for tho
transportation of munitions. supplies
and troops. and the trains must ac-
commodate their movements to those
of the army.
On the evening when the first of the
American Red Cross canteens was
opened, among the first guests to be
served with refreshments was a troop
Of French chasseurs who had come
from instructing American soldiers, and
they were followed a. few hours later
by a company Of American engineers.
One can fancy the khaki uniforms
among the blue-the keen. young Amer.
Many kinds of men and many kinds
of uniforms pass through these can
teens-Arabs, English. Scotch. Cinga-
lese, Russian, Irish. Indian. Canadian.
French and Amertcan--and the canteen
means . little OF the feeltng Of home
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stances they have bssn paid higher
price than markets could obtain for
practically the same commodities. This
was an incentive to the child. but the
department thinks II wiser for each
At the ONCE Of pomolosical and horti-
cultural investigation some Interesting
data can be found. For example. from
reports relative to boys and girls home
gardens Of less than 500 feet the fol-
garden. 1e6 square feet; average ex-
pense per garden. 81 cents; average
hours Of labor per garden. ~" Gar
dsns, labor and expense were divided
strong. enough to do their share Of
work thoroughly. and who were able to
assume easily the expense. Their in
terest was unqusstionabls, as was the
during the season. The experiment.
also necessitated practical lessons in
economics.
From other records on nle, from eight
and some girls. an average was struck
which showed that the average area
per garden was 1903 square feet; aver
age expense per garden, $2.5l; average
tainly the expense was reasonable. the
toll. AZ measured in hours. was moder-
ate and each garden covered an area of
moro than 500 square feet.
IN tnlS COnneCtlOn the department.
AYERS that any we'll kept garden Of
approximately half an acre can be
made to produce not only an abundance
Of vegetables for an average family's
use during the growing season. but
also a liberal supply for storage. If
Mrs. Smith goes to market and pur-
chasea from time to time the same
quantity Of vegetables that can be
grown in a single season from half
an acre of ground. she will find that
she expends between 800 and 5000 in
vegetables alone. But II Mrs. Smith
actually had no garden and felt in
clined to invest a couple OF hundred
dollars In vegetables. IL is probable
that she would be compelled to de-
prive herself Of certain favorites. for
there are always other things that
are exceedingly necessary for the
housewife to purchase. However. II a
neighbor persuades Mrs. Smith to try
a garden she will, in all probability,
manage to have one each season there
after. as the advantages derived are
manifold.
Gardens under the supervision of
schools or institutions are often more
successful than gardens raised by the
average individual, assuming that he
is a novice. This is because an or
ganized body Of persons has trained
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Riddles.

NnIss MARY GARDEN, tho singer,
4v1 commiserated at New York re-
ception with a movie star. whose be-
trothed had had the bad taste to aban-
don her for another.
MY dear child. can't understand It."
said Miss Garden. You're the prettiest
girl In the profession. To leave you for
that scarecrowl All. we'll"
And Miss Garden smiled and sighed.
"Ah, WELL" she said. ''msn are riddles.
They keep ~ guessing, ana ut we'll
never give them up"
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quently gives what he has more care
than IL possible when a garden is larE-
er and but one or two people available
to do all the labor. The department
emphasizes the fact that the secret of
the best backyard gardens is fertility
Of soil-which 10 true Of all gardens.
The importance Of the vacant-lot gar
den, agricultural experts allege, must
not be underestimated. Vacant lots are
very often Of an ideal size for the rais-
ing Of potatoes. caulifower. corn. as
paragus, eggplant. peas, spinach. mel
ons and other plants that cannot be
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Seen Through.

SsN ERMANY loves the little nations
VI Belgium. Rumania. Serbia and 80
on-and now 1t appears that she loves
the big nations. like Russia, too"
The speaker was Saburo Okabe Of the
Japanese embassy.
"But all of u.s." he went on, ''see
through Germany as clearly a. the
pretty Chicago heiress saw through the
titled fortune hunter.
"sYou love me?' she said to the for
tune hunter. lightly. oh, yes. Of course
you love me for my pelf alone"
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successfully grown in ordinary back
yards. Boy and girl scouts and other
clubs are urged to interest themselves
In these vacant lots which can be made
most productive. People with any es-
thetic sense will welcome these gardens
In many unsightly spots, for If growing
plants do nothing else they are often
the means Of hiding ground which, left
to itself. soon becomes Uttered with
every sort of disdguring debris.
Last year many favorable reports
were submitted to the department
showing the result of work on vacant
lots performed by the country's boys
and girls. Children are paid well for
vegetables they raise. 1t has been as
certained that. in innumerable in
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"Give In!''

A RTHUR TRAIN. the novelist. put
~ down a German Newspaper at the
Century Club in New York with an im-
patient grunt.
at says here" he explained. ''thst Il
IL Germany who win speak the last
word in this war;"
Then tho novelist laughed a4ssily end
added:
''Yss. Germany wll speak ne Last
word In the war. and that lAst wosa
viii be .KAmeradc" :.
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gardens, vacant-lot gardens and school
gardens. The first Of these Is given
first place because Of its inevitable in
timacy with the home. OF course. 1t
can be readily understood that the
backyard garden is by far the most
convenient.
The only regret is that the average
backyard garden Is not Of sufficient
size to grow satisfactorily any great
variety of vegetables. The department
suggests the following: String beans,
tomatoes, cabbage. beets, onions and all
the smaller vegetables. The backyard
gardener often has a garden superior
to that OF the man who works over
half an acre or more; the former has
less to claim his attention and conse-
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~ APT. WILLIAM J. MANNING.
n U. NJ. R. c.. is the inventor Of
u trenching tool which may
~ prove of especial value in mod
ern warfare. It is In the form of a
trenching shovel. with the added EN-
cheney of being turned into a protec-
tion for the soldier while firing upon
the enemy from the open.
The tool. built upon the same plan and
following the general line of the
trenching shovel. is notched along one
side of the blade. thus affording a val
liable saw edge for rapid lateral cutting
through root-like obstacles. against
which an ordinary trenching shovel is
useless. Tho handle Of the shovel un-
screws from the shank, exposing q steel
tip, which facilitates the entrance of
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ley and other of the smaller but ex-
ceedingly palatable vegetables.
Many urbanites are planning to make
their gardens on the roofs Of their
homes or in their window boxes. Spare
time will be utilized to excellent ad-
vantage in exersise about the garden,
and the outdoor exercise will pay for
itself in improved health. not to men,
tion compensations in actual achieve
ment and luscious food
-
Men and women, boys and girls Of all
ages and in every walk of life become
interested and enthusiastic over gar
dening If they have an opportunity to
work about in one. Most children de-
light in it. The parents Of one child
interested their five-year-oId in 1t to
such an extent this past season that he
insisted on doing his own planting in
SO far as he was able. He sprinkled
his garden assiduousuy each day and
watched eagerly for the first sign of
tender green shoots. When they ap-
peared he was thoroughly excited and
anxious to see them grow big and
strong rapidly. He was shown how to
weed and was told that weeds were
the common foes of his garden, and
that they must be fought and conquer
ed With a right good will he aided in
wedding and in keeping his garden At
and trim. When his vegetables had
reached maturity he knew their names
perfectly, and an amazing amount
about each variety. He could be trust
ed to go joyously into the garden for
any one of the several varieties and to
return with the right one.
The Department of Agriculture knows
of one man who had an odd and orig
inal garden. This individual was de-
termined to grow as much food as he
could for home consumption. He was
embarrassed. however. by lack of prop
er ground. But he soon conceived q
novel idea. He straightway gathered
together a number of empty barrels
and arranged them as he wanted them
in the limited area of his back yard.
Laborious work was required to fill the
barrels to within a third of the top with
ashes. The ashes were covered with u
generous foot of soil which. in turn,
was planted with a variety of vegeta-
bles. This unique garden was given
every attention and amply repaid the
gardener in fine lettuce, radishes. car
rots. onions, tomatoes. etc.
The department divides gardens into
three classes. designated as backyard
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E1 HERE is probably not single
eanteen in France among all the
long. line of rest and refresh-
q ment stations that the American
and French Red Cross are uniting to
eutablish where somebody's genius Tor
nomefnaking or poetry is not bringing
m Unexpected bit Of comfort or interest
o. beanfy. Where this bit OF home or
plrit-B expressed. Immediately al
fects every one. like an amazingly SWIFT
oumpound interest and extending its in
nuencs to the next sotourner and the
nsxt canteen along the line.
TheTa-ls one canteen where an Ameri-
can Hpspan has planted a flower bed
along munition factory wall And
there G-anothsr where a French soldier
left ar-book for his fellows to write or
draw eudden inspiration in and they
did-sxperiences that the newcomers roar
With delight over. tributes to lost COM
rndes and great sacrifices. drawings that
~oune day may be immortal. q blank"
book which some time will help future
renerxffons Of France to love and under
Thers~is still another canteen where a
womsu--worker has made shelf for chill
.dren'G-toys.. for the small visitors who
come Sometimes And, at great rail-
rad peation where the troop trains start
for tiis-front, Nine Courcol (never rests)
takes the flowers or the lovely weeds
and grasses which have been decorating
hsr refreshment truck from which the
outxoi1T soldiers have been having bread
and eo&ee and fastens them high and
5auntily to the end Of the train just be-
FORE 1t moves out-ths field flowers. the
iI1ies and the flag Of France
sfanv American women who have been
Nvin6s abroad are now in the canteen
serSIce OF the Red Cross. Fifty have
rscsntiy sailed. fifty more are preparing
70 90 soon. and other groups continually
yiu be leaving. Wherever they win be
On duty In this war some outward life
q the spirit will blossom. The nearer
fher shedn hs ssn
thefr dugouts are bombarded. the more
naturally will they hang green branches
to the door. festoon the ceiling with
bright colors or tack some heartening
p1cture to the wall. not out of deliber-
ate purpose, but out of their natural
Instinct.
II is. perhaps. the principal reason
Why they are SO needed. There is some
thing almost wistful in women's won-
der II they Will rise to the emergencies
of havoc and destruction. They have
been on duty in many a shattered place,
and vet the next shed under the same
nre had more of home than the one
before. 1t is woman in war and in
peace.
There are various kinds of canteens
now IN the field, from the portable
kttchens which send hot drinks right up
to the men In the trenches to the way
sfations that AFFORD hot meals. sleep
ing rooms. recreation. baths. disinfect-
Ing and laundry plants. Each one has
ITS own Individuality.
r. One of these large canteens is unique
rat III
| III was Constructed solely by the labor
~ German prisoners of war. 1t is
| 6Nift In train shed, divided into apart
E1euts. decorated, perhaps fearfully and
Wonderfully. but after the heart Of the
|Etonch soldier. There 10 a pink room,
IL blue room. q green room and q room
IW6ose walls are gayly striped. There
| - m abundance Of plaster figure deco.
Ipn9f6nG in "Dear-Della Robbia" style,
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THE TRENCHING TOOL WORN AZ A
HEART AND LUNG SHIELD PRO-
TECTS THOSE VITAL PARTS FROM
SHRAPNEL AND MACHINE GUH
BULLETS.
thus protecting the soldiers entire
body.
The principal idea of the tool a. Q
shield is that 1t may AFFORD protection
to the soldier who is caught in the
open without cover or time to seek II.
The new trenching tool is no heavier
than the one now In use: in fact, it
weighs somewhat less because certain
portions are done away with, and its
use for trench digging 10 without Q
doubt more valuable on account OF the
cutting edge.
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New Trenching Tool Is Also Used as Shield by Soldier

when Il fs to be used as q protection
or emergency shield. The blade Of the
shovel contains 4 slotted circular ap-
erture to fit and rest the sight END OF
the soldiers rifle. permitting tho night
ed to accurately cover the enemy when
prone upon the ground.
The handle OF the new shovel has q
spiral groove for augmenting rapid en-
trance into the earth. The spiral also
tends to increase the hand grip on the
tool when it is used as an ordinary