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The evening herald., 1918-05-08
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The evening herald., 1918-05-08

Miss Amalie Ruzicka, i4i9 South
18th St, Omaha, Nebraska. writes
Il have suffered with catarrh of the
throat | caught cold and u settled
IN my throat, and | coughed badly
and was very weak. I could not sleep
and had no appetite. had two doe
tors. ana had taken so many different
medicines and found no help. thought
I win have To give up; but 1t last
my mother read about Peruna, so !
thought 81 trying TINT grcut medicine
peruua / got bottle ~ II ana iu
about four days I almost stopped
coughing, and after d while surely
found relief and from that time ""
are not without Pcruuu In our home"
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and she nodded her grateful apprecia-
ton.
In her enthusiasm she expected that
everybody who looked would buy, and
she began to feel a bit discouraged
when three or four ladies looked over
the stock and then went on without
taking anything. Then came fresh
faced young woman in the early TWEEN
ties, who stopped by rack of suits
that was placarded, Special Bargain.
$15.75."
Are these all wool?" she asked a
little doubtfully, and when she re-
ceived assurance that they we're, she
searched till she found one that
pleased her in color and material and
was the size she wanted. Still she
hesitated, looking from the trim,
jaunty suit to the price placard above
the rack.
Have these suits been marked
down." she asked.
mo, indeed" was the prompt reply.
"They are the new fall models"
How do they happen to be so rea-
sonable?" was the next question Il
haven't found anything in the other
stores that seemed to me to be as
good value for the money"
TheNnew clerk hesitated. 1t flashed
across her suddenly that she had not
been posted as to the practice of the
house in case like this and that it
had not occurred to her to ask There
had been much else to learn. She did
not want to lose this customer, who
was evidently strongly inclined to
take the suit that she had selected
from the rack; she did not want to
lose her position with the firm She
looked about for the good-natured girl
who had offered to help her out in
case of difficulty, but she was nowhere
to be SEEN 1t would not do to hesi-
tate too long over her answer.
Swiftly there came to her the realiza-
ton that she must be true to what she
felt was right, even though it cost her
the sale in this case, and perhaps her
place in the store.
There was a very small fire in the
store last week, and those suits were
a trif1e damaged by smoke or water =
she answered. repeating what she had
heard one clerk say to another that
very morning.
The customer looked relieved.
Il always like to know the reason
why goods are sold below the usual
price," she said. It was afraid it
might be something about the ma
terial, for I'm not a very good judge.
wonder where the damage comes on
this suit"
A little investigation showed that
the lining was spotted in places, but
the customer seemed to consider this
mere trifie.
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jump cut of bed when called, but she
lay without moving. And then Eliza
beth turned and lifted the baby from
the other bed Marie is but two years
old, and she lay quietly in the arms
of her big siX-year-old sister. 1t was
strange, when she had been sleeping
so long, that her big blue eyes did
not fly open.
Elizabeth carried Marie into the
hall and laid her on the floor. Then
she rushed back and pulled Margaret
off the bed. Margaret was harder to
lift. Elizabeth could not carry her,
but she dragged her out of the bed
room and laid her in the hall beside
Marie.
Mrs. Schaeffer was busy in the
kitchen when a white-faced little girl
made her appearance.
81 didn't wake the children, mani
ma" she said. "They won't wake up.
But l dragged them out into the hall
because the bedroom smells dread
full, and you can punish me If you
want to-"
But the odor of gas from the room
Elizabeth had left open, reached the
kitchen and the terrified mother went
flying up the stairs. Her screams
brought neighbors to the rescue. An
ambulance from the nearest hospital
came in haste and the surgeon in
charge used the pulmotor on both chill
dren. First Maries eyelids fickered,
and then Margarets. "A narrow
escape" said the surgeon.
The two sisters were sick next day,
but in spite of that, Elizabeth's sew
enth birthday was one she will never
forget.
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SAVED HER SISTERS LIFE.


Elizabeth Schaeffer, a little Brook
lyn girl, tried an unusual way of cele-
brating her seventh birthday. To be
exact, Elizabeth celebrated not her
birthday, but the day before. The
very last day she was six years old
she saved the lives of her two sisters.
Elizabeth's two sisters, Margaret
and Marie, are still so small that
they have to take maps, and this after
noon they had been put to bed upstairs
and Elizabeth had been charged not
to wake them. But along in the
afternoon Elizabeth thought of some
thing she wanted, in the room next to
that in which Margaret and Marie
were sleeping. AS she tiptoed along
the hall, mindful of her mothers
charge, she stopped and shifted. The
hall was filed with strong, unpleas-
ant odor.
Elizabeth forgot that she was not to
wake the little ones and opened the
door of the room where they lay
asleep. And within, the unpleasant
odor she had noticed in the hall, was
very much stronger. In fact, even to
breathe the tainted air made her feel
sick and dizzy. Instinct told her that
this ill-smelling room was no place for
her little sisters.
She hurried into the room and
pulled Margaret's dress. Margaret is
four years old, quite big enough to
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it friendly hand will beckon and a
kind voice will cry out. Here you
are! Just the place for you! Short
hours, generous pay, every Saturday
afternoon off and two weeks vacation
with full salary,
Regretting the necessity of weaken
ing such confidence, the writer as
serts: ''The plain fact is that to-
many girls the want column is a
danger trap" He gives an example
of young girl who was delighted
over the inducements set forth in
want" ad.
twenty-five dollars week for
congenial work. No experience neces-
sary. Must be refined and of good
family" Here was the dreamed-of
opening! Fortunately the girl show
ed the lad" to a friend, an expert
enced business woman, who con-
vinced her that some concern, of
questionable methods, was seeking to
attract good-looking, refined young
girls to act unwittingly as their
agents. Again a lure is held out:
Profitable homework for amateurs"
On inquiry the work seeker finds
that deposit is necessary, and she
rarely gets it back. The dodge is that
her work is not satisfactory and the
deposit must be kept to reimburse the
employer for material wasted. Some.
times such an advertisement gives a
private address at which the reader
must call, but should never call.
Within few years several tragedies
resulted from unwary young girls go
ing alone to such places.
There cannot be too much care ex.
ercised in answering ''help wanted"
notices. To all who are obliged to
use such means of finding employ
ment the following rules will be of
help:
l. Disregard every advertisement
that offers what you know, on reflec-
ton, no business house could afford
to give.
2. Answer no advertisement that
is vague. Men in legitimate business
are not afraid to tell the truth about
it, and to say in detail what they
want.
8. Do not pay any attention to ad-
veftisements that give an address at
lodging house. Any business that
is worth while has offices.
4. Pay no heed to advertisements
that ask you to call at private house
at night unless they give a SatiSfac-
tory reason for the time and place.
And even when such a reason is
given, have a companion, we would
add-an older person, whose maturer
judgment and wider experience will
safeguard youth.
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GOLD MAIDS"

A prominent priest has forwarded
to the Ecclesiastical Review" a let
ter sent to him by a parishioner pro-
testing against the expression "old
maid" in the pulpit.
The writer of the letter says of the
practice:
1T is not only un-Christian, but
rather coarse-don't you think ?
While the clergymen may have no
old maids in their families, other
clergymen may have unmarried sis
tiers or aunts. I heard a preacher re-
Gently make the astonishing state
ment that old maids are curse /
don't suppose our Saviour ever said
anything similar 1t hurt me and
others very much indeed, but afford
ed amusement to number of the
congregation, probably ignorant or
illiterate or BOTH
The writer confesses that she is an
old maid, and continues:
II am an old maid If I were not
might be married to a fool or a
crook or a drunken beast, as many
a woman is. If | were married am
quite sure that l could not give as
much money as 1 do to the church.
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DON'T BE MAD AT MOTHER.

Don't be mad at mother
When her patience seems to break
Meath the thousand little duties
That she does for childhood's sake;
Ii she scOlds bit when worried,
If her temper seems to slip;
Her brow may wear wrinkle,
But a smile is on her lip.
Don't get mad at mother
II she seems little cross;
It's a privilege she possesses
As the manager, and boss;
And perhaps beneath her worry
And her temper stern and ILL
She's the same old lovely mother
With a heart that loves you still.
Don't get mad at mother
When her. cares and worries seem
To fret her and arouse her
Maybe mother has her dream,
And it fades as yours does often,
And her many hours go wrong
And she can't be always smiling
Nor forever hum a song.
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The VANISHING WHALE.

Unless whales are protected by in
ternational game laws, properly en-
forced, the time is not remote when
these magnificent mammals will soon
be as scarce in the sea as the buff
falo is on land.
No one knows this better than the
whaling companies, of course, who
have millions of dollars invested in
plants which could probably be used
as fish reduction plants in case of the
exhaustion of the whaling grounds
below paying yield.
It is said by some that when a
ground is abandoned on account of
exhaustion, the whale will breed back.
But modern steam whaling is so an
Initiating that it will not leave
enough whale to breed back.
The determination of the nam
moths of the sea would be lamenta-
BILE loss to mankind, not only owing
to their great commercial value, but
because they are among the noblest
Of creatures.
Steam whaling and the business of
converting every part of the whale
into commercial products are one of
the profitable industries of British
Columbia. 1t would be reasonable to
suppose that the whaling companies
would be in favor of prolonging their
profitable business by the conserva-
ton Of the whales. This conserva.
ton would have to be one of the
larger movements Of the kind. which
have international scope, like the
sealing laws, and the proposed agree.
ment between the United States and
Canada to conserve the halibut by a
closed season.
Vancouver Sun.
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TUBERCULOSIS.

The disease known by this name is
called so because it is believed to be
caused by tubercle, small granular
tumor or mass of round cells which
tends to spread and to cause a de-
structive change in tho surrounding
tissues of the part affected, ultimately
ending in death. Though the organs
in man mostly attacked are the lungs
when it is called pulmonary tuber-
cuIosis or consumption other parts
of the body are not immune, and bones
or brain or intestines may be affected
SO that people, e. e., speak of con-
sumption of the bowels, and the like.
Though the frightful inroads of con-
sumption are of comparatively recent
date, the disease was known already
to the ancients, and also ancient In
dian medical and religious books de-
scribe it's chief symptoms. The
Greek Hippocrates called it phthisis,
which literally means wasting 1t was,
however, only in 1882, that DR.. Koch
discovered the so-called tubercle bacil-
lus, since which time doctors have
made a special study of the disease.
Apparently, even now, they are not
in perfect agreement, at all events, as
to its actual cause, and while some
assert that the tubercle bacillus is
the cause of tuberculosis, others main
tain that the tubercle is rather a
feature which accompanies the dis
ease. Whatever might be said, in
general, about the tubercle bacillus,
as matter of fact, all known micro
organisms are mans servants, not his
enemies. And it is really our ignor-
ance that is to blame for not knowing
how to make their activity harmless,
if not useful. 1t all depends upon the
environments, as is evident from the
extremely useful work of some of
these micro-organism which helped
to make our butter. cheese, vinegar,
etc. But many modern habits of life
imposed upon Us, partly by conven-
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THE JURY SYSTEM.

The jury was established by the
Frankish kings, being introduced in
to England by the Normans at the
time of the conquest in 1865. AT first
it was merely royal prerogative,
men being brought in to give what
they understood to be the truth re-
garding certain matter which was
being considered by the king. Under
King Henry II it became a regular
privilege which was given to the peo-
pie to use in the settling of their dis
putes. By the end of the Twelfth cen
fury it was established, and it repre-
scented the collective knowledge of the
community. By the end of the fiji
teenth century, it was already similar
to our jury of modern times, having
become an important liberty of Eng
lishmen.
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tion, for example, the modes of mod
ern clothing which tend to cover up
the whole body and so interfere with
the work of the skin and weaken it;
and partly by social retrogression, for
instance, the rearing of infants by arti-
fetal expedients, cows milk, ETC., in
stead of at the mothers breast, all in
One particularly modern and increas-
ingly difficult problem is that Of OBJ
tanning food stuffs, unadulterated, and
of getting fruit, vegetables, fish and
the like, fresh.
1t is the solemn duty of every en-
lightened person, in whatever official
position or place of authority, trust
or responsibility, whether a teacher or
a priest, a father or a guardian, or an
employer of labor, to instruct and to
advise the ignorant and the needless
on the nature of this fell disease, and
to assist in every way in combating
it. Neither nlust it be fancied that
tuberculosis be found only in towns
and where people congregate in large
numbers. tuberculosis exists also in
the villages, and is spreading also in
them. Colleges, schools and hotels
as well as factories and mills are
particularly dangerous places, if any
of their population be infected with
tuberculosis, especially as the deli
cate young are so liable to be affected.
! AS for treatment, is is quite certain
that, in the early stage, cure is both
| possible and easy. The sanitarium is
| the proper place, where the patients
live continuously in the open-air, their
diet is carefully regulated besides be-
| ing ample and properly chosen; due
exercise with no OVERRIDING it, is also
necessary. In more advanced and
critical cases, the patients wear kind
| of mask over the nostrils and mouth
to inhale along with the air certain
| medicines which act directly on the
bacillus in the lungs. Attention to
rural sanitation, hygiene, pure drink
ing water, conservancy. well-lit and
| well-aired homes, fresh pure air every
where, with adequate wholesome food,
are the "home-remedies" for tuber-
culosis.
! -Catholic Waterman. Madras India
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PLATING

at won't interfere with the wearing
qualities of the suit" was her verdict.
II want it for business suit and
must get something that will stand
hard wear"
When the clerk went to one of her
companions for little help in max
ing out the fitting card, the latter
asked:
did you tell your customer that the
suit had been damaged by water?"
The new clerk looked up at her with
anxious eyes.
Yes she answered. "She asked
me why the suits were so cheap, and
told her."
THAT was the right thing to do
the other clerk said, answering the un-
spoken question in the troubled face
before her. THAT is one of the prin-
ciples of the house, never to send any
goods out under false pretenses."
AS the new clerk went back to her
customer, her face was beaming. Her
first sale meant great deal to her,
but not the least of her pleasure was
the knowledge that in following out
her own idea of what was right she
had been true to the policy of the
house that employed her.
Exchange.
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SEVEN HIS MAGIC NUMBER.

President Johnson had seven letters
in his name. When he was fourteen,
twice seven, he became a tailor's ap-
prentice, where he remained for seven
years. When he was twenty-one, three
times seven, he gave up tailoring.
When he was twenty-eight, four times
seven, he became an alderman. At
thirty-five, five times seven, he entered
the legislature. In 1912, six times
seven, he was a member of congress,
AT forty-nine, seven times seven, he
was a senator. On the 7th of March,
1862, he was military governor of Ten
nessee. At fifty-six, eight times seven,
he became vice president.
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The CHILDREN'S HOUR.
vERBlAGE.

/ asked a pretty Adjective
To go with me to town.
She said, II really cannot, sir,
I'm promised to the Noun
saw them sitting side by side,
And neither one had stirred.
What keeps you now?" l asked.
They said,
Were waiting for the Verb"
But when the Verb came dashing up
There was no more delay;
He took them up into his cab
And whisked them both away!
So Adjectives are pretty Maids,
And Nouns are Lovers frantic,
And Verbs are Cables" brisk and
bold. pop
Now isn't this romantic?
-R0i0h n. Jones. IN Youth s Companion.
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RULES FOR SUCCESS.

Ebert HI. Gary, chairman of the
United States Steel corporation, after
thinking the subject over carefully,
compiled the following prescription for
the young man ambitious to attain
success: s n, d. .s
l. He should be honest, truthful,
sincere and serious. g.
2. He should believe in and preach
and practice the Golden Rule.
8. He should be strong and healthy,
physically and morally.
4. His habits and mode of living
should be temperate and clean and his
companions selected with regard to
their character and reputation.
5. He should possess good natural
ability and a determination constantly
to improve his mind and memory.
6. He should possess a good educa-
ton, including particularly the funda-
mentals, such as mathematics, gram
mar, spelling, writing, geography and
history; and also technical education
concerning the lines he proposes to
follow.
Z. He should be studious and
thoughtful, keeping his mind upon a
subject until it is mastered.
8. He should be conscientious,
modest, but courageous, energetic, per
sistent, even-tempered, economical,
faithful and loyal to his friends and
the interests he represents.
| AS he handed over his recipe for
success, Judge Gary remarked:
"The above qualifications, you will
notice, are within the reach Of all. II
possessed and put into practice they
will bring success to the individual
and satisfaction to any others inter.
ested''
ID. C. Forbes. tn the American Magazine.
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THE MYSTERIES OF RAIN.

1t is usually supposed that the down.
pour of rain that sometimes follows a
flash of lighting is due to the coales-
cence of fine drops on losing their
electrical charge, but a Finnish OBJ
server concludes that the thunder jars
the drops together. Near Vasa a
heavy thunderstorm came up from the
east late one afternoon, and, as the
sun was unclouded, brilliant double
rainbow appeared in the east for half
an hour, arching from horizon to
horizon. At each roll of thunder the
rainbows seemed to be much shaken,
the wedge being displaced and the
colors blurred. This could not be due
to the lightning, and it seemed that
the same cause might enlarge the
raindrops and disturb the rainbow.
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ABOUT THE PuRITANs.

In The American Magazine William
Roscoe Thayer says: "It is the
fashion of late to speak condescend-
ingly of the Puritans as of a people
of narrow views and of men of sour
temperament, but no descendant of
theirs and no later immigrant who
now dwells in the commonwealth they
founded and enjoys the blessings
which it bestows upon us will fail to
glory in being able to trace back to
such forerunners. The story of the
conditions which faced the passengers
of the Mayflower when they landed at
Plymouth can never be too often re-
peated. To have as founders of our
state men and women who had the
fear of God in their hearts, but feared
the face of no man. ranks as the
initial glory of Massachusetts"
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PERUVIAN WEAvERs.

The ancient Indians of Peru are
now considered the worlds greatest
weavers. This noteworthy revelation
in the history of textile art is the
result of the critical examination Of
many rich and beautiful tapestries
and other fabrics executed by the
gifted ancient Indian population of
Peru. Though buried three centuries
or more in the sandy desert after be-
ing made with primitive hand looms
and other weaving implements, these
wonderful fabrics are now found to
be superior to those turned out by
the automatic looms Of the great mills
of today.
The primitive Peruvian hand loom
consisted of two sticks, one at the
top and one at the bottom. In GER
tain tapestry looms, when it was de-
sirable to allow the warps little play,
they were fastened directly to the
loom bars. But in most cases the
warps were strung over strings of
soft yarn, and these yarns attached
by a second string to the bars. But
how little the loom Influenced the ma
ture of the fabric produced may be
judged from the fact that many fab
RIGS contain three distinct classes of
decoration. The change from one
type to the other was apparently I'M
der the easy control of the weavers.
In Egyptian weaving it is very COM
on 10 And I,ardorc cowod ~, @I,o
garments. The Peruvians generally
scorned such makeshifts. If the Dor
der to fabric we're desired, it was
woven on in the most careful manner.
In the same piece they changed from
plain warp stripes to double cloth
with a tapestry border. or stripes of
bobbin weaving with narrow tapestry
border, or embroidered edge.
Southern WoHkm0n.