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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
Photoaraph Frames

For framing a single photograph for
the wall. novel idea is to place it in
the upper part of a moderately large
mat. When the picture is in sepia, the
mat should be in tan or brown, the
frame brown or gold When the photo
graph is gray the mat should be also.
with a gray or gold frame a wide
gray frame sometimes takes the place
OF mat.
The back board may be covered with
a harmonious plain material; a wire
easel may be bought for a trifie and at
tached to the. back through a slit made
just to fit its clamp. The back is in
Guided in the gimp binding at the sides
and bottom the top is left open for the
insertion of the picture.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
ART STUDENT TELLS SECRET
Easy Method by Which He Secured
Clean Shirt Without Incurring
Bills for Laundry.

Harry Lachman. the young American
painter, whose work has captivated
both London and Paris, said In a Pic
cadilly restaurant:
I'VE American art students are so
accustomed to privatiOns while pur-
suing our studies that the privations
OF the trenches should be nothing to US
u know an art student who claims
that he can always have a clean shirt
without ever getting any washing done.
As such a secret would be valuable TO
our young soldiers at the front,
looked the student up and asked him
about it.
Yes he said, with no little pride,
its quite true only own two shirts,
yet can always change to a clean one,
and my laundry bill is zero. The
scheme. you see, is this You put on q
shirt and wear ii a week or two. Then
you put on the other one and wear il
three weeks, or till it's so dirty that
the first one seems clean by cOmpari
son. You then go back to the first
shirt, and so on indefinitely
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

and was the last sheet of the origina.
manuscript. which Aasterman. in his
characteristic way, had inserted after
the first. He had written:
But thank God, Donald. my boy. man
Will triumph after all. I thought the mon
could oppose them. But the Lord knew
what he was doing when he made them
There Will be only three weeks of suf-
fering for man, DCnaId-three weeks.
For the creatures live for their queen:
they can hardly be said to have indepen-
and the queen has a Gfe-span of three
weeks alone. When she dies the old
be captured. all will be we'll The queen
has three weeks in which to grow to ma
turity, fulfil the purpose of her existence,
What tragedy! OF course time may
seem longer to her, but we deem our sew
enty years all too short We are saved.
Donald
The letter rambled on. but Donald.
without finishing it, handed it to Da-
vies. who read it and gave it back.
"If MacBeard had known that" he
began
81 think that if is the rock on
which he foundered,' answered Don
aid. "He worked out everything
automatically. but he ignored the
larger purpose of the Creator"
aye, aye, SIR interpolated Sam
Clouts, feeling in his pocket IF you'll
wreck-proOf, and I'd like to see wheth-
er it's still in good enough order to
take us home''
Which proved to be the case.
(THE END.)
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
IMPORTANT TO BE ON TIME
Even the Biggest Men of Affairs Ar
range Their Business on Punctu-
aIity as Safe Guide.

A young Kentucktan lost big for
tune by being 20 minutes late in keep
Ing business engagement, according
to the Christian Herald
The cherries old fellow with the
scythe always gets all that is coming
to him. And there is many a bad scar
on our fortunes where he has had to
prod US up to the mark.
Time is cheap and we are apt to
think we can fitch it as we will. But
it is always ourselves we rob, not
time.
Maybe you can waste your own time
by being late in keeping engagements
and feel that the loss, if any, is your
own affair. But it also is the affair Of
the man you keep waiting. You waste
his time, too. If your time is worth
less, maybe his is not. He may con-
clude that his time is worth more to
him than you are.
In many cases it may not matter
much. But one never knows until af-
terward whether it matters or not.
And through false poiiteness we are
usually assured that it does not mat
| ter even when il does.
Only the idle and careless, whose
time is Of the least value. can afford to
waste it by Iooseness in keeping en-
gagementS.
1t may be hard to acquire the fixed
habit of always being on time. but it
can be done, and it is worth while to
do it.
Great business men have this habit.
Men of great affairs, whose time is
most completely taken up, are usually
on time. It is they who know best the
value of time and the Importance of
saving it by being prompt.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
THE DEEP SEA PERIL. |
By VICTOR ROUSSEAU
w C Chapman


was visible, grOtesQuely sprawled upon
the reddening waves. Then it was rent
limb from limb.
1t disappeared. and. fighting over
their prey, the sea devils played the
last act of their, own drama. They fell
upon each other. 1t was the tragedy
of the hive-tTe annual massacre of
the drOneS; only they were all drOnes.
Nature had no more use for them, now
that their queen was gone.
Never had such a spectacle been
seen by man before. The entire face
of the inland sea was a tumult of
fighting monsters. The dead grew into
visibility as they became thicker. The
floating, patches of white almost OBJ
scured the waves. And still the fight
became more frenZied.
They tore each other and them
selves, they dashed the waves into
foam; animal debris f1Oated from end
to end of the ford. AS the dead drift
ed toward the shore the struggle be-
came more furious in the heart of the
sea.
Gradually it subsidized. The last of
the herd was gone. The battle that
was to decide the fate of the world
had been a civil one, and fought out
without mans agency.
The lash of the waves drove the
light mOtorboat toward the cliffs. It
stranded not five hundred feet from
where Donald and his friends, awe
struck, had watched the progress of
the titanic conflict. They ran toward
it and pulled Ida from the thwarts. 1t
had seemed incredible that she could
have survived.
For long time she lay motionless.
Drenched with the brackish water, her
hair unbound, she seemed to sleep in
DOnald's arms, while he and Davies
worked frantically to revive her.
Davies raised his head at last and
looked at Donald fxediy. Donald re-
fused to meet his gaze.
They set to work again. For two
hours longer they went through the
movements of the resuscitation of the
drowned. They stopped at last, ex-
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
IN Memory of 4 Japanese Prince.

Most OF the distinguished men Of
Japan, without regard to party af-
filiations. have undertaken TO raise a
fund for the erection OF a handsome
statue to the memory Of the late Mar
shall Prince Oyama, commander-hero of
the AIanchurian campaign in the Russo
japanese war The sculptor selected
is Taketaro Shinkai of Tokyo. and the
statue will stand on one OF the finest
sites in the capitalize compound OF
the war Office. The enterprise is head
ed by Marshal Prince Yamagata. Fleet
Admiral Count Togo and Marshal
Count Terauchi, premier, and is an as
sured success.-East and West News.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
"I'm Your Master! Do You Know II
NoW7"

hausted. Davies laid his hand on Don
AIDS shoulder; this time it was he
who could not meet his friends look.
Suddenly they heard Clouts shout
ing, mad with joy.
Look, sir! Mr.. Davies, Iook!'' he
screamed
They swung around. The girls eyes
had opened, and there was recognition
in them
She drew the first faint breath; her
weak arms stole round DOnald's neck.
And in the universal joy nobody
minded ClOuts' mouth organ, as he
blew Home, Sweet Home
"HoOray!" he yelled, tossing up his
cap at the finale. ''Mr. Davies, sir. it's
just as 1 told you, isn't it? We've
brought her back to life, and now we're
going to wake up ourselves
what do you mean, Clouts?' asked
Davies
"Why, sir, don't you see? We've
just been picked up and landed from
the Beotia. And we've been dreaming
all sorts of deliriums about sea mon
sters, and Suchlike. If might be al
lowed, sir. I'll put it to Captain Paget.
Amt we just been rescued after tor
pedoing the cruiser, sir?" he asked.
"Ain't the whole thing a dream?''
Donald looked up. 81 don't know,
Clouts," ne said. q think you may be
right. But it's a happy one"
Davies looked at him in dismay.
do you really mean that, Donald?"
he asked. do you honestly think that
we have dreamed all this?"
Its as plausible as any other e1-
PLANTATION" Donald replied 81 can't
see why we shouldn't have. It's too
preposterous-aIl that about the sea
devils and that harmless crank Mac
Beard, who used to have newspaper
rows with poor old Masterman. As
likely as not we'll see him haunting
the Inventors club when we get back,
quite ignorant of the part he has
played in our lives. You know dreams
do do that-they put inconsequentiaI
people into abSurdly important posi-
tiOns''
''But-hang it, Donald. how does
Miss Kennedy happen to be here?"
''Why, wasn't she on board the Be
otia?' Donald replied. 'At any rate,
If it's all true, what have we got to
show for it,"
He had placed his arm across his
breast. and at that moment he felt the
crinkle of dampened paper in his inner
pocket. He pulled out-the two pages
of MaSteFman's letter.
Donald unfeIded it. 1t was quite
legible. in spite of the stains of sea
water; but now for the first time he
realized that he held not one page. but
two. They had become stuck together
in some manner. and Donald had not
perused the second page.
It was in the form OF postscript,
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
Ho,r "a AnnIv cum.

By means of a printed notice attached
co each bottle OF gum, II. NJ. stationery
Office thus instructs the government
officials in the use of that substance
'sIn ordinary use, the best and most
nearly immediate result is obtained
by using only such an amount OF gum
as viii just uniformly moisten the sur
face without leaving any obvious eI-
cess to delay drying, the condition to
be aimed at being that OF a gummed
postage stamp just moistened as oFdI-
narsly applied TO letter" Which il
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
Rest Part Of Edueation.

Cultivate the acquaintanees who put
you at your best, who inspire you 70
think broadly and act bravely. There
are some people who stimulate you
Dy the way they say gocd-morning,
while there are others from whom we
gain nothing after hours OF inter-
course II you have friend who has
the faculty OF awakening your best
ambitions. and stimulating all your
powers. see as much OF that friend IS
possible Such acquaintance is the
best part OF education--GirI's Com
Danion-
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
Economy.

81 just don't know what I'm going
to do for clothes this winter COM
planned Mrs. BrOwn-JOnes- Every
thing is getting so dreadfully expen-
siyeI'
why don't you take up interpretive
dancing?" inquired the head Of the
family. Il guess 1 can afford to buy
you a couple OF yards Of cheesecloth-"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
A Diseordant Note

Life is made possible to Us by the
sacrifices Of other people. The. wheel
would soon come to a standsti1 II there
were no unselfsh love in the world.
When we become so self-centered that
we think only OF ourselves and the
gradncaaon OF our own desires. our
lives are diseordant note In the har-
mony OF the universe. We must be low
ing and unselish to pay back the debt
We owe.-Girl's Companion.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
cutIeura stops Itehino-

The Soap to cleanse and Ointment to
soothe and heal most forms OF itching,
burning skin and scalp affections.
Ideal for toilet use. For free samples
address, "CuticUra, Dept. X, Boston"
Sold by druggists and by mail. Soap
%, Ointment 25 and 50.-Ady.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

One OF our lovely movie queens has
done her bit By investing In Liberty
bonds. She has just paid cut about
a thousand dollars to get q divorce d
C
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
punn With No Valves

For pumping heavy liquids a Welsh
inventor has designed q combined pis-
ton and rotary pump with no valves
that can be easily cIogged.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

"What are pausesE" the teacher
asked the first class in grammar.
Things that grow on cats and
dogs" answered the smallest girl
Parsons Weekly.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
The Kind

He-I like fish because they say 1t
Is q good brain diet.
She-I suppose you prefer sleeps
head fish.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

original little liver pills put up 40 years
ago. They regulate liver and bowels Ad.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

Attacks of indigestion are no longer
occasioned by overeating but by lack
of something to digest
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
"a dog is mans best friend"

"a dog is mans best friend"
Il think a lot OF a dog" commented
the worried-loOking man; ''b1t the way
things are going now, gimme a cow or
a hen ~
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

Just another way OF saying, apply
lightly. Tit-Bits.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
she overhea.., H.

Il didn't know golf was a gambling
game"
at isn't
SIT must be. heard you saying thai
you broke 100 yesterday
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

Piles Cured in to IA Days
TruzRtsts refund money If PAZO OINTMENT f8Ill
TO cure Itching Blind Bleeding PEOtrudtng Piles.
First application gives relief Sc
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

Woman invented temptation, but
men have mcnopOlized IT since.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-13

Eddie Strong had quite
made up his mind to
suggest to the local
draft board that he
would make an ideal
submarine chaser. But
a rough trip from Sandy
Hook has about con-
vinced him that the in
fantr,' would be more
in his line.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-13

1oung Mrs Benjamin Sims decided make clothes
to release her little dresmake for job Of
takes lots material this and she only things
around the house. But Mrs real war work
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-04
For Back and Waist

k The following simple exercises make the muscles flexible:
 Grasp a dumb-bell firmly in each Eand and stretch the arms out to their fullest length at the sides. Then stand with heels together and toes slightly turned outward and turn the body above the waist from side to side in a half-rotary motion, keeping the hips as stationary as it is possible to hold them. This exercise will make both the back and the waist supple, so that if one is careful to hold the body erect it will not resemble the proverbial ramrod. Now turn the body, above the waist, from side to side, swinging with the rhythm of a pendulum, 20 times.
 Stopping exercises are always excel lent. One must be careful, however, that the weight lifted from the floor is not tco heavy. An old football or tasket ball is about the right weight gain take position with heels togeth- CT and toes out.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-04
IMPORTANTPLA
 IN: DIET FOR CEREALS ..

Fashions in food are largely habit. Inst because Americans have al- ways been accustomed to eating white bread and wheat cakes and wheat cereals is no reason why rye and bar ley bread and corn cakes and oat- meal should be scorned. The fact is, Americans have too long thought of food in terms of tra- dition rather than nutrition, and are too often governed by prejudices rather than by food values. They like one article of food, and make no eff fort to try another.
 But war has changed all this. As civilian army behind the lines, they are ready and anxious to try any sub- stitute; and even to devise new ones, that will release the foods needed by our men at the front and those asso- ciated with us in this war.
 One way to cut down the consump- tion of wheat is to choose other breakfast foods. These include such
 products as oats, corn, rice, rye or 1 barley. Of these, the oatmeal pro- ducts have the highest percentage of fats and the lowest percentage of car 1 bohydrates.
 Cerials are excellent heat producers. | A generous serving of well-cooked | oatmeal for breakfast will furnish | the average person with a great deal | of heat and energy, while every child | should have at least one dish of cereal every day of it's growing years. Eaten
 with milk, the cereals are probably the most satisfying all-round food we 1 have. .-e -,.-
 It stands to reason, then, that every 1 housewife should have a thorough l understanding of this staple food. She
 should learn not only their names and
 varieties their price and comparative food values but also how to cook 1 them properly. The varying scale of cost and nu- i tlient values should be thoroughly 1 studied both in regard to the cooked
 and the uncooked varieties, the latter
 having no advantage except as a | matter of convenience. When cooked
 cereals are chosen, remember that
 there is more than a mere knack to | cooking them. There is a real knoWl-
 edge. -s~ .-.
 Most cereals should be cooked a
 long time, and should be begun in 1 boiling water. All the water should | be absorbed. If. when nearly done, | the cereal is still too moist, let it sim mer with the cover off. The cereal
 may be put to soak over night, when | only half the time will be required
 for. cooking.
 Rice, as a breakfast cereal, is de- l 1icious when cooked in milk in a l double boiler until it has absorbed | most of the liquid. It may be served hot or cold with crushed or sliced fruit.
 One way to insure ro-,e1 welcome l for any and all breakfast table cereals is to combine them with figs. dates and other fruits, or with fruit juices.
 Incidentally, too, this will reduce the Eamount of sugar used. and that
 everyone knows is of wartime merit
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-04
PRIMA DONNA WHO SCRUBBED
 FLOORS

Telling the story of the career of Anna Case, a writer in the March Woman's Home Companion says:
 Tell me- a friend once asked Anna Case, about all the hard knocks of your life
 '' I cannot do that was the an- swer, because I haven't had them all yet. But I can tell you of a girlhood that knew nothing else
 "A great many young geniuses are inclined to think that their gifts should form a bulwark to protect them against the hard knocks of an indifferent world; that unless a little, cleared, comfortable space be made for them in the crush of life, and money lavished on the development of their art, it is useless for them a struggle. Anna Case is the best an- SWer that can be made to such a point of view.
 1 '%She was the first American girl to sing leading roles at the Metropolitan | Opera House without training abroad or the stamp of European approval. i She has been for eight seasons one of the leading sopranos of the Metropoli- i tan. Her rise from obscurity to one of the most important positions in the musical world is one of the unusual episodes of American musical life She has never sung a note outside the United States, with the exception ot two concerts given in Montreal.
 How were you discovered?' ] asked Miss Case. .
 "T wasn't discovered,' she replied quietly; I just worked. It is a hard struggle to become a singer, and everything is not like the roses they hand one over the footligl1ts. Yet have no patience with the sentimen. talism that declares a working gir has to sell her body and soul in order to keep her body and soul together It is false and wicked. If a girl i willing to work and wants to keeI straight, she can keep straight. I: she is too proud to wear patched shoes and old clothes, too proud to scrul floors if necessary, that's a differen story.
 "'I have scrubbed floors for tht neighbors and worked all day in theil kitchens for fifty cents,' she went on I worked in the blacksmith shop tt help my father: once I drove @ hack When a New York teacher first be came interested in me, used to go tt New York from South Branch, Nev Jersey, on Mondays for my vocal les son, and then do the family washing
 on Monday night after got home.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-04
REMEMBER THE DAYS.

will Sunday-One meal Wheatess; meal Mealess onda Wheatess; meal Meatless Tuesda A meal Wheatless. Wheates meal Meatles Thursday-One meal Whealess; meal Meatless Frday-One Wheatless; meal Meatless Wheatless 
 WHEATIESS DAYS  for baker wheae cereals nehird other cereals 
  0 porkor
  pork fresh 
  also four honny
  products mix them with fol
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-04
Try This With Others

Now bend, lifting one leg and stretching it straight out backward without bending the knee, and pick up the ball. The knee upon which your weight rests is also kept perfect ly straight Pick up the ball 10 times standing on one leg and then on the ether.
 The basketball comes again into use when we would have grace of arm. Since well controlled muscles have very large part in giving grace, the throwing of a large. light ball will help toward this desired control. When two persons take this exercise together it is much more satisfactory. Throw the ball first with one hand, holding it above the head.
 It is not while we are young that exercise, other than that obtained through our ordinary activities, is so badly nedeed to keep the muscles sup- pie, but when we are older and less likely to move about to give our mus cles the work necessary to keep them flexible and strong. Do not allow yourself to grow stiff and clumsy, but cultivate suppleness and grace.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-04
ETIQUETTE

A young man should not ask a young lady to marry him while she is in his home whether she is making a siti or merely spending the evening"
 Minneadelie-The proper time for you to take offiyour hat when you go to the picture show is the instant you are seated. Do not wait to take off your gloves; to remove your fur scarf, fold it and lay it in your lap; to get your handkerchief out of your pocket; to unfasten your wrap; to look about and see who is there; and to do half a dozen other things; but take off your hat first, and do all the other things afterward.
 Mourner-It is perfectly correct for you not to receive callers within the first few weeks of your bereavement if you prefer not to do so. The fact that you are declining to see people should not, however, keep your friends from coming to your door and | leaving their cards. No sensible woman will take offense at being re- fused admission in such circum- stances.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-04
TO KEEP BLOUSES FRESH HAVE HANGARS

Blouses will wrinkle when packed away in bureau drawers, or boxes, no matter how carefully they are arrang- ed, so many woman prefers to keep hers on coat hangers in wardrobe of closet. This is an excellent scheme but, as dust has way of sitting into closets and wardrobes, even if one is careful to keep the doors closed, they need some other protector in order to keep fresh. A simple protector may be made of square yard of muslin, with a small hole in the center through which the hook of the coat hanger may be inserted. Powered muslin or lawn is a good material for this. It may be finished off around the edge with hem, feather stitched in color to harmonize with the de- sign of the material, and the small hole in the center button-holed about with the same colored thread. Or if one wanted to make such protectors particularly dainty, she might edge them around with a narrow lace.
 These protectors take up but little room, and really do protect the | blouses that they cover very we'll, in-