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to whom I Introduced him asking her to write
know just what his idea is. am young
and far from good Hooking. I don't think
the man thought he was doing wrong when
he acted like that in the country. What
readers could help a high school girl. I
graduate in another year. l don't care much
for boys. but every one meet falls in love
With me and is so serious that I worry over
| VIII watch the papers. BRUNETTE.
If. my dear. by his kissing you too
much you lost your respect for him, why
on earth should you want to hear from
him again or mind his asking others to
write? He is evidently just lonely boy
who likes girls. You know If a girl gives
any boy chance to kiss her and make
love to her he will do It whether he
cares much for her or not
You cannot well blame him. Men are
like that and it's UP to a girl to keep a
man in his place. man will not make
advances Of that kind unless a girl
shows him some encouragement first
1t is mistaken idea that you are
helping Uncle Sam, as you express it,
by writing to the men and getting up
fiirtations with them. On the contrary,
such things soften rather than harden
them. 1t Is true that there is nothing
better for any of the men than n strong
friendship or love of good woman, but
an idle Irritation Is a waste of time for
both concerned As you are very young,
dear, and had your mothers approval I
do not blame you except for allowing
the kissing. but / would drop the ac-
nuaintance now and not seek to renew II,
II he really cares for you he will seek
you out Let any sign of friendship come
from him first
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NUNS AT NIERION CONVENT
HELP WIN WAR BY FARMING
Sisters OF Mercy Find Countless Duties added to Their Daily
Tasks but accept Them AH Cheerfully
and Sing as They Hoe

CLUSTERS of the Convent ofs Mercy at
~ Merton have serenely accepted the
numerous complexities which the war
has brought into their busy quiet life,
and quite without any fuss they are
doing work many a jealous war-worker
would never dream of.
Besides wedding the gardens and pre-
serving the fruits and vegetables. they
milk the cows. make the buffer and
bring in the hay from the wide, sweet
smelling fields. This work is over and
above the regular duties of their life,
such as keeping every nook and corner
of the huge building as shiny and spot
less as glass. teaching the children their
lessons in music and sewing.
OF course, not long ago, there were
men on the place to weed the gardens
and milk the cows and attend to the
hay, but now there are only one or two
old gardeners. and a man in the engine
room to attend to the furnace.
y "And that is great blessing" said
the reverend mother, though we did
have a sister who could do that. too
/ will say one thing---that boiler house
Is not what II was when the sister was
there. There is something about men
which renders them careless OF oil and
general untidiness When the sister
was in charge of that boiler house II was
like a parlor-beautifully neat
But now the sisters have a greaI
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Alice Kent and the Days Work
The Story OF Business Girl Who You'd Not Fail
By
TIA keller


was not in reality the laggard | had
seemed TO be. and convince them that
even during my approaching absence In
Hilliston | could keep UP with my class.
The vague hopes and fears which
swarmed upon me in the summertime
had now given place to a definite ambi-
tion. First of all, must graduate from
high school, and when that goal was at
tanned 1t would be time enough to set up
another and devise ways and means of
reaching it. This viewpoint was but
natural, since the difficulties already
overcome had furnished ME with n meas
the difficulties which threatened to be-
come permanent factors of the problem
were held in allegiance temporarily OF
Barbara | tried not to think since her
foster parents hostility to me made II
evident that the hope--CherisheCf from as
far back as | could remember--of being
reunited with my sister was far distant
at the best: in pursuance of the policy
had marked out for myself her name
never crossed my lips. and l made a
practice not only of keeping my dis
tance from the village OF Ouunda but
also of avoiding everybody whom l had
reason to suspect Of living there.
While the encounter with Mrs. Blake
at Millinger's had to some extent embit-
tered me. the affection shown me by the
family at Twln-Oaks warmed the cookies
of my heart. I regarded Mrs. Carruth
almost as mother now. while Richard
was steadily taking on the character of
! a big brother, and 1t was constant
comfort to recall that his fiancee had
already accepted me as a member of the
family ! must be a credit to them ALL l
! thought, and to other friends.
| This brought up the memory of Helen
| Earle. from whom I had not yet been
able to redeem my watch. on arriving
at Bellington from Letbury I promptly
wrote to her and soon received a long
reply. peppered with exclamation points
| and black with underscores but from
! the day of its receipt till now my pros
! poets had been too uncertain for me to
| communicate with her: however now
| that | was again quartered at the y. w.
| @. A. with work in sight and time to call
my own. before ! went to bed 7 dis
patched note to her, saying that I was
a member Of the senior class in the Bell
ington High School and also under con-
tract to teach term of district school
in the vicinity. But what gave me the
greatest joy to write was the news that
just as soon as I received my salary I
would send her the money for my watch.
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Distance Does Not Affect Love

Dear Cynthia--Perhaps you can help me
as you have others. l am in love with a
girl who Is spending a vacation with a
neighbor of ours. But she has gone away
to New York to spend a few days with some
friends and then is coming back here only
for two days more.
Although her home is in this state it is
hours by train to reach here. She says she
doesn't like the place where she Is staying
here and that the people she is with do not
treat her right. So you see she is always
at our home.
When she comes back shall I tell her I
love her and ask her to write to me when
she is back home or will 1t be use be-
answer me in Tuesdays EVENING PUBLIC
Ledger. for she will be back, suppose, 20
morrow l want your advice. for l will do
a. you say. A. NJ.
So sorry, A. NJ, but your letter did
not reach me, in time to be answered in
Tuesdays EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER, so
l hope Wednesday will not be too late.
If you really love this girl and she
loves you, the fact that she is far away
should not make any difference. If you
marry, you will not be far away and in
the meantime distance only makes one
grow fonder of the other If the feeling
Is true one. Tell her you care for her
II you really do and ask her If she can
care for you. But be sure it is love be-
fore you say anything, as II It is friend
ship you could take little more time
and learn to know each other better by
letter Then IL that friendship ripens
into love, well and good.
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Picnic Suggestions

Are you going out in the woods some
time soon? II you are packing a lunch
here are some suggestions from the
United States food administration:
Take Your Pick
Sandwiches-Boston brown bread and
cream cheese. wheatless raisin bread and
butter. wheatless bread and nut filling.
wheatless bread, peanut butter and chop
ped celery.
Meats Weinerwursts, sliced beet
heart, picnic ham, summer sausage, beef
tongue.
Instead OF meat-Chicken fish. eggs.
game.
FruIts-Oranges. bananas. cherries,
plums. berries, cantaloupes, peaches,
watermelon.
Vegetables Tomatoes, cucumbers,
corn on cob (for roasting). potatoes (for
roasting or cooked for salad).
To drink-Milk. lemonade. punch, cof-
fee.
Bread-Try a wheatess bread like
this:
One cup liquid, four tablespoonfuls
fat. four tablespoonfuls syrup, two eggs.
four teaspoonfuls baking powder. one
teaspoonful salt, two cups barley flour,
one cup ground rolled oats.
Or
Make ash cake like this:
Sift fresh white cornmeal add pinch
Of salt. wet the meal with cold water to
a fairly soft dough. shape 1t by turning
1t from hand to hand into small pones
Sweep the hot hearth very clean, pile the
dough on it in a hattsh mold, cover
with Goals over them and leave for an
hour or more according to size. Take
up. brush off ashes, and break away
any cindery bit. Serve with butter.
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convince the grocer and the butcher
to lower his prices for the teacher so
that the integrity of our school staffs
remain intact.
Teachers are only human. No one
can blame them for abandoning a pro-
fession where remuneration Is so
much less than the work that Is now
bidding all women come and take 1t.
There is no doubt about il. A great
many salaries, as the sci ool board
says, are abnormal now. and because
of that will go down after the war.
But, as | have intimated, this fact
does not pay the grocer.
Then. over and above this, there is
something else to consider.
Whether salaries do or do not go
down, there is one big fact that stands
like a sinister threat to the whole
teaching system. The doors of oppor.
tunity that wartime has opened for
women will never close again. School
teaching and housekeeping can never
again be regarded as the two possible
vocations for the genteel graduate
from the city high school The wages
of school teachers must rise and for
all time. because ranged alongside in
structing the young will be many pro.
fessiOns and occupations. Each will
lure in its own way either through
salaries or chances for advancement
If school teaching is to compete with
these other lines of work for women it
must have equal inducements to offer
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CHAPTER LVI


AT the Y. W. c. \. was assigned to
q Athe same room which had been al
lotted to me on my arrival from Letbury,
and II had been grateful for the refuge
Then, after quarrelinE with grandfather
: md coming bag and baggage to town
wherein was an utter stranger. only to
discover that the one individual on whom
y had relied for counsel was on the high
seas bound for Europe I was doubly
grateful now; for the physical and men
xRi strain Of caring for the young War
ringtons-when l was all the time con-
ecfous that my school work was going
by the boards in consequence--and the
qfmculty of keeping the peace in a
household whose members were gen
orally wrangling among themselves
when they were not conspiring to make
me bear the brunt of their misdeeds.
rendered privacy more precious than
eould possibly have pictured 1t on my
most strenuous day in Letbury. Accord
ing 10 the calendar only few months
had elapsed since I left grandfather's
yet Il seemed to me I had lived a lifetime
In the interim. Outwardly, to be sure.
3here was little difference, save that the
city parks now We're covered with dead
3eaves instead of urging pedestrians at
avery turn to keep off the grass: from
my window the lake looked just the
Time. and the grandeur of the mountain
4entinels beyond was no whit more i'm
Rressive now that frost was in the air.
but my feeling for my environment had
taken on a new quality Indeed, |
4lready glimpsed the truth-though at
the time I could not have put 1t into
Rords--that the spell Of even the love
Hest scenery In new locality fades into
insignificance before the sanctity of the
way-worn paths and wonted landmarks
which have witnessed our struggle and
suffering.
When entering this room in June.
$WAs q stranger and the notice on the
Noor warned me that at the expiration
Df two weeks I must move on: now.
5Although / had no permanent address
sand no likelihood of obtaining one at
present. looked on Bellington as my
home town; and the rules and regula-
sfions Of the Y. w. c. A. were powerless
to terrify me now that under the organ
ztsation's auspices sought simply COM
tbination of a breathing spell and student
lamp. In other words, the next fortnight
meant chance for me to retrieve my
school record. show the teachers that !
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Wants Work During August

Dear Madam-Your department has inter
ested me very much and have noticed mat
through it. Therefore / shall venture to
make mine known.
am a girl who has been out Of high
school year. | have not been prepared for
any special work and am not good at figures.
want 10 get some work to do for the month
Of August SO j can earn money for college.
have saved enough for tuition, but not for
StTa ean o SS the
Ladies Depository on Seventeenth street and
my work is accepted sha, i try their ex-
change. Can you tell me where can pur-
YOU suggest any other work that I could do?
l can use typewriter. but not very well. l
help me find some work. as / have read
pages of advertisements without finding
anything can do.
AN INTERESTED READER.
I am glad you decided to come to me
with your problem. hope I shall be
selling your reedwork to a tea house at
some summer resort? If you will send
me your name and address l will send
| you the names of some wholesale dealers
! in reed. The price Of reed has gone up
| very much since the war started, and you
| have to charge high prices in order to
| make any profit on your work. Do
nestle reed, made of twisted paper and
wire, Is just as easy to work with and
| makes very attractive baskets and lamp
| shades. 1t can be vanished or painted
| Just as the other reed can, and Is much
| less expensive. Candle shades and sand
| wich baskets of this in attractive colors
would be great addition to the charm
| or some summer tea house, and 1t would
pay you very well II you could get this
custom. Consult the women's division
| OF the Federal Employment Bureau at
| lS5 south sixteenth street and tell them
| tnat you can use typewriter. Women
who can use typewriter are much in
demand these days, and there might be
some work of that kind that you can do
just for the one month
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College Girls Work for U. S.

The United States Government had the
distinction of graduating a larger class
or 1918 than any school or college in
the world when on June l the United
tates Food Administration issued from
Washington, d. G., 10000 diplomas to
college girls who had completed the food
conservation courses.
THE young women to whom diplo-
mas were issued have been put in touch
with the secretary of the voluntary COL
lege workers of the Food Administration
in each State who will place them where
their special training and aptitude will
make their services most valuable" said
Dean Olin Templin, head of the collegi-
ate section.
In letter recently received from
the New York secretary, she said
We are placing volunteers in the fol-
lowing lines of service: Speakers in
schools, wCmen's organizations, church
organizations, shop meetings, service to
farm bureaus, disseminating literature,
istration work, writing articles for local
newspapers and working with the
Bureau Of Publicity. aiding the COM
plant division. the division of trade or
ganization, and the bureaus of produc-
ton.
And I might also add" said Dean
Templin, that in New York State these
| college girls are doing police duty ir
reporting violations of food rules on the
part of grocers, restaurants and house
| holders.
However. the girls in all sections Of
| the country are organizing food clubs
and giving demonstrations in wartime
| cooking, and in canning and drying
| Many are cooperating with communit!
clubs, churches, libraries, theatres, news
papers, boards of trade. and other agen
Cies In the distribution of literature. II
| Indiana they are doing a splendid worl
| in the child-saving campaign, and II
| many States they are giving the foo,
| conservation information in story form
| to groups of children.
Some are taking the food conserva
tIon message into isolated rural dis
tricts. while others who are able Il
speak foreign languages have gone int
foreign districts of cities explaining tn
purposes and methods of food conser
who might not be reached in the or
dinarY channels"
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YESTERDAYS ANSWERS

1. Medical EXPERTS agree snch child should
have quart Of milk day. This
amount Is not increased as the child
grows older. but more solid foods are
added to Ii.
2. The latest novelty in lamp shades i the
cover that Is thrown over Derfectly
fiat round wire frame. more or less
pancake shane. The cover IL cir
cular piece Of lace such as Is used
for u renterpiece and it falls In ripples
over the edge.
3. NiscoGen is a syrup Of lime that can be
used to make cream whip when Ii is
too thin or to make whipped cream
from condensed milk or cream.
I. 1t is possible to draw rusty nails easily
by driving them in little first to
break their hold.
B. The five methods Of canning are the
cold pack. one period cold pack. inter
mlttent sterilization. steaming. oven
canning and the open kettle method.
O. The paraffln carton such as Ii used for
oysters or Ice cream makes an ex-
Cellent cOntainer for storing dried
fruits and vegetables. Cardboard
boxes. baking powder cans or similar
The boxes and cans should he sealed
by Dastlng o strip Of paper around
the cover to keep air from getting in
The paraffin cOntainer can be sealed
with Daraffn.
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Crocheting for W. S. S. Fund
no the Edition ot Woman,s Paoe.

Dear Madam am young girl thirteen
years Of age. You have helped me through
your columns before. I would like TO earn
some money l am very handy with a
this kind OF work. Do you think that any OF
your readers have any crocheting which they
wishsdone2 II SO, give them my address,
want the money TO pay for w. 8. g.
S. W.
Try few words in the want column
OF the paper for prospective buyers. Or
why don't you tell your friends and
ne.ghbors what you are doing7 Perhaps
some of them would give you some work
% do. hope you have good luck II is
In good cause.
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Forget the Young Man

Dear Cynthia-I have a problem that Is
really worrying me. 1t is rather long, but
unless tell it all you could not help.
! met a young man in the service in the
early spring. My mother thought good bit
OF him and he wrote to her asking II she
would write him. he was lonesome and in
the infrmary, Mother asked me to write.
| wanted to help Uncle Sam, so wrote, to
he got better and came on to see me. We
went out that evening and the next day de-
cided to 20 for walk in the country. Now
mother thought this man gentleman or
would never have gone with him. But
blame myself as when the man asked me to
let him kiss me did. This led him to kiss
ing me, more until finally l lost respect for
then I didn't know that the man was merely
flirting with me-: He came again and then
left Tor over there / received letter
from him saying good-by and how he would
remember my people, etc. I have been walt
none. and now he writes to friend of mine
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10
TODAY'S INQUIRIES

n. what is the origin OF the Red Cross en-
blem?
3. do the women canteen workers serving
with the Y. NJ. &. \. overseas pay their
own expenses and TRANSPORTATION?
.. Is It proper for woman to prefix Miss"
to her name in signing 1t to letter,
etcc
4, At a wedding. where some of the ushers
are in uniforms what II the correct
dress for the ushers who are civilians?
= what will remove grease from mating"
3. How can rice be whitened In the boiling?
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Adventures
With QPurSe
FOUND TODAY

FOUND TODAY
1. A gay brush to fit in the knitting
bag to brush away the lint from
wool
>. A service star matchbox for father.
8. Pinl, wash-satin petticoets with lace
of filet design; for less than 33.
4. Hat Innings all ready to put in and
for just ten pennies.
rs THERE anything more eXasperating
| than to knit away industriously,
completely absorbed in that sweater
or sock, and then to find lint all over
ones best suit skirt or dress? But, this
can easily be removed with the cum
ming brush | saw today, for all the
world shaped like a toothbrush. only
longer. The straight handle is of black
wood. on the back of which is painted
a spray of flowers and leaves in pink
and green. The brstles are soft and
white: attached to the handle Is an or
namental tassel Of gay colors; and the
size of the brush will gain il admit
tance to any knitting bag. The price
Is 75C.
You may think you have seen the very
latest service novelty, but | assure you
you are mistaken IL you have not seen
the safety matchbox, the front of which
consists of the service flag in COlors,
with its blue star. If that boy of yours
Is wearing "A uniform I'll wager his
father would be ever so pleased to carry
one of these boxes instead of n common
place wooden safety matchbox with the
customary unpronOunCeable words on
the front. Can't you picture him proudly
showing it to the other boys fathers?
You can purchase one for soc.
OF course, ones petticoat isn't meant
to show. but. then, there's a nice, COM
| Portable feeling about knowing that it's
mighty attractive affair If it should
get "out of bounds" Picture. for in
stance. pale pink wash satin petit
coat. with full ruffle. edged with lace of
rich flet design. in width about two
and a half inches, and banding of this
lace where skirt and ruffle join. And
the incest part of all Is that it can be
had for the very special price of s2.95
There's one disadvantage in trimming
ones own hats-it's such n nuisance
to make a lining And although I pains
takingly save and transfer the Innings of
my winter bonnets TO my summer
''ChapeauX," l generally manage to come
out one shy. Naturally, therefore, / was
| delighted to find hat Innings all ready
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Letters and questions submitted to
this department must be Drftten on one
side OF the paper only and signed toith
the name Of the Griter. Special queries
Ike those piper beloto are inrfted. 1t
Is understood that the editor does not
necessarily fndor5e the sentiment er-
pressed. All comm nun tcdtions for this
department should be addressed rs fol-
LOUIS: THE WOMAN'S EXCHANGE.
Evening Public Ledger, Philadelphia. Pa.
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Christian Scientists in France

Four women are in the group of ten
workers recently sent to France by
Christian Scientists, according to a
statement from headquarters by the
Christian Science relief and camp well
fare committee. The purpose of the
group Is to extend war relief already
started by Christian Scientists in France.
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Dies After Being Hit by Truck

luke a. Tracey, president of the
Phoenix Sporting Goods store. Fifth and
Market streets, died In the Jefferson
Hospital few hours after he had been
struck by a United States mail truck
yesterday. His home was at 1918 Chest
nut street The driver of the truck was
said to be running rapidly. trying to
make up lost time. .-.'