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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-12
Why Care Should Be Given to Chill.
dren's Eyes.

An elaborate study among many
kinds of workers has convinced an au-
thority that the use of the eyes in
close work makes the severest strain.
The trouble is likely to be aggravated
by the abnormal position of the head
and the body, particularly when habit
ually maintained. With proper teach
ing in schools much of the evil might
be obviated but, unfortunately, in this
matter the school authorities have
been both ignorant and neglectful.
However, among educators just now
there Is an increasing realization
Of responsibility. In many schools
throughout the country they are in
sisting on a strict examination Of the
eyes of children. It really should be
one of the first things done to a child
on entering school. It should be part
of a careful physical examination, re-
sulting in the correction of bad hab-
its and the forming of habits that are
wholesome.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-12

Wonder what upset your stomach
which portion of the food did the
damage-do you? Well, don't bother
If your stomach is in a revolt; if
sick, gassy and upset, and what you
just ate has fermented and turned
sour; head dizzy and aches; belch
gases and acids and eructate undi-
gested food; breath foul, tongue coat
ed-just take a little Pape's Diapep-
sin to help neutralize acidity and in
five minutes you wonder what be-
came of the indigestion and distress.
Millions of men and women today
know that it is needless to have dys-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-12
ALMANAC FOR TODAY

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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-12
old FOLKS NEED
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Liver, bowels
Salts, calomel, pills act on
bowels like pepper acts
in nostrils.
Enjoy life! Don't stay bill
ious, sick, headachy and
constipated.
Get a Decent box now.


Most old people must give to the
bowels some regular help, else they
suffer from constipation. The condi-
ton is perfectly natural. 1t is just as
natural as it is for old people to walk
slowly. For age is never SO active as
youth. The muscles are less elastic.
And the bowels are muscles.
So all old people need Cascarets.
One might as well refuse to aid weak
eyes with glasses as to neglect this
gentle aid to weak bowels. The bow
els must be kept active. This is i'm
portant at all ages, but never so much
as at fifty.
Age is not a time for harsh physics
Youth may occasionally whip the
bowels into activity. But a lash can't
be used every day. What the bowels
of the old need is a gentle and natural
tonic. One that can be constantly
used without harm. The only such
tonic is Cascarets, and they cost only
10 cents per box at any drug store,
They work while you sleep--Adv.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-12
MADERo CAPTAIN EXECUTED

San Antonio, Tex, Feb. 12-Reports
received here today were that Lazaro
Gutierrez de Lara of Los Angeles, who
was captain under Madero, had been
executed at Altar, Sonora, by order of
Gen. Elias Gales.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-06-16
Rise of the Tomato.

HE tomato plant is growing in
nearly every war garden in
Washington and the suburbs, and
the regular" vegetable garden far
Their out in the country would seem
incomplete without its quota of to-
mato plants or tomato vines"
The rise in popularity of the
tomato is one of the romances of
the vegetable world. 1t was long Gull
tivated before it was considered edi-
BILE. Up to 1880 the tomato was not
used as food in the United States. It
was grown only as an ornamental
plant, and it was not grown for orna-
mental purposes because of its
foliage. but because of its fruit,
which was considered very strange
and curious. It was called the love
apple" and was thought to be poi
sonous. Some venturesome Ameri-
cans here and there tasted the love
apple" and found that it did them
no harm. but it did not gain rapidly
in popularity. 1t was about the time
of the civil war that the tomato be-
gen to rise rapidly in estimation as
q ASoN- AS toHdIO u ltIOSc udyS
was a very different tomato from
that of commerce today. The fruit
was very small and that of many Of
the varieties that were grown was
not larger than a good sized cherry.
One of the old varieties was called
the cherry or currant tomato. the
little red globes growing in clusters
and forming very handsome plants
for the flower garden.
A great amount of experimentation
has been carried on with the tomato
for the purpose of improving the
bearing capacity of the plant and
the size. shape. flavor and solidity of
the fruit. The list of the names of
the varieties would be a very long
one. and the number of commercial
varieties cultivated today would sur
prise most persons not identified with
the work of growing tomatoes on a
commercial scale. New varieties are
brought to the attention of growers
every season. Those men interested
in creating new tomatoes are as
active and enterprising as the men
who are always bringing to the at
tention Of flower growers and flower
buyers q new rose or new car
nation.
The tomato is Of South American
origin. It belongs to the night
shade family. one Of the members of
which is belladonna. or deadly night
shade" The potato and many of the
useful peppers are members Of the
same family.
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roll of honor is headed by DIR. Bar
rett Anderson. C. B. E.. and DIR. Flora
c. b. E., the first woman
doctors to manage military hospital:
with its staff made up entirely OF
women, and includes in the list Lazy
Padgett. who took a hospital unit to
Serbia when the typhus was raging
there; Miss Agnes Borthwicke WORKS
manager in a big filling factory u
der the ministry of munitions Com
mandant Damer Dawson. who organ
lied the woman police: Dorothy MA
thews, engaged in blowing and o'her
heavy land work, and q roster OF
nurses in various forms OF hospital
service-"both at home ana at cas
uaIty clearing stations nearest 10 INC
battlefields, hospitals and on NOS
pital ships and trains"-with spe
cial reference to an ambulance tram
attacked by an aeroplane in Wnlcu
the bravery of the nurses IN chals &c
was reported by the COMMANDING "a
ficer: THE sisters went about .ne..
work coolly-and by their magn a the
conduct they not only aliayed ths
alarm of the helpless patients ana
those suffering from shell shock ots
caused both patients and personnel W
play UP to the standard which they
set"
THE REAL FRONT. By Arthur Hunt
Chute. late LIST Canadian DIVISION
New York: Harper & Bros.
- Unique is the expression best con-
veying the spirit of 1.-The Real Front"
by Arthur Hunt Chute. an ofhcer OIL
the 1st Canadian Contingent. or all
the books of the war that have been
written by men who have actually
participated in the conflict, there have
been few which dealt with the spir-
itual side Of the fighting armies, as
well as the physical. Lieut.. Chute's
book does this, and in doing it tells
the story of the heroic fighting of the
list Canadian Contingent. No finer
fighters have ever been seen than
these colonial troops. Recruited from
the plains of Saskatchewan, the
mountains of western Canada and the
cities of the Dominion, these men en-
short course of training went abroad
and became the heroes of the fighting
in Flanders.
1.-The Real Front" tells the story of
the LIST Canadian Contingent from its
inception at Valcartier training camp,
through the savagery of the first gas
attack at Ypres down to the time the
writer came back to this country. The
authors description of the conquering
OF mans soul in taking ammunition
to the guns down the famous Death
valley of the Somme in daylight is
remarkable piece of word painting!
Lieut.. Chute has been not only a
combatant in the present war. but
had already been trained as a war
correspondent in l.. the Mexican and
Balkan campaigns.
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THE ADVENTURES OF JABEZ BUNKER

to be about $225.00o to divide
amongst us stock-owIers. It's too
bad you author-folks always gets left
The elevator came to a stop on the
ground floor with slight jolt. Mr..
Bunker was moving away.
Wait" said ar. Oliver Pipps
Brown. Hold on! Look here. Bunker.
have share of that stock, is there?
There's no reason why ! should see
others make all the profit from my
work! l cam can nut $25,0c3 into
1t. l might as We'll make somethi ing
both ways. There is no reason why I
should be, be what you call one Of the
that much of the stock-you let me
have twenty-five thousand dollars
WorLh. You and your wife don't want
1t all: do youa"
"Pshaw, no." said Mr.. Bunker. IT
kin let you have that much, anyway.
You Win have twenty-five thousand
dollars worth, il you want to have
About two weeks later Mr.. Bunker
climbed the stairs to his bedroom at
Mrs. Winners boarding house and
threw off his coat. Then he dug into
his pocket and pulled out q plump roll
of bills. From this he peeled off one
OF the hundred dollar denomination
ard dropped it into Mrs. Bunker's
There. ma" he said, there's the
hundred dollars you gave me to in
vest in movie picture stock for you.
and you've got that pretty stock GER
tifieate left: l told you you wouldn't
IBID you bunk them. Jabez?" she
asked, fondly.
Eyes. ma, I bunked. I bunked that
highfaultin' author-feller. and 1t wasn't
no trouble at ALL l fixed it so Miss
Deare has a five-week job at a hun
bred dollars a week, whether she works
or not, and Mr.. Packet and MIR. Hart
way, too, and the author-feller gets five
thousand cash down."
Seems like you let him have the
most Of it," said Mrs. Bunker.
II let him have the same as me-"
chuckled Mr.. Bunker, 80 he wouldn't
one hundred of your money into the
company and one hundred of mine. be-
cause 1 said you and me was goin' to
put some in"
"You always was honest, Jabez."
81 aim to be-" said Mr. Bunker. 81
misunderstood me, ma. l guess he
thought you and me was goin' to put in
more. but 1 never said So"
"of course, you wouldn't If you
want goin' to, Jabez."
mo, ma. But the funny thing was
that when we come to fgger up. no
body had put in any money but you
an me an Oliver Pipps Brown. And
he put in twenty-five thousand" Mr.
Bunker reached under the bed for his
slippers. Somehow" he said. cheer
fully, II wrote into the contract with
we that I was to get 20 per cent Of
the cash that was paid for stock. So
it was five thousand of Mr.. Oliver
Pipps Browns cash I got. And it was
five thousand of Mr.. Oliver Pipps
Browns cash that Mr.. Oliver Pipps
Brown got"
He slid into his slippers and seated
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Continued from Third Page.)

he gets cash. and Mr.. Hartway, and
he gets cash; and the author is the
only man that don't get cash. 'Taint
right! 1t amt nothing to me. mind
you. but he puts up his book, and he
"But my dear sir" said Mr.. cudd.
40 per cent Of the net profits will be far
more than $1,000
1T ought to be nearer $4,000 than
5000" said Mr.. Brown. positively.
my book will make the greatest mo-
ton picture of the age! Absolutely!
There is no question about it"
I'm glad to hear you say So" said
Mr.. Bunker, "seein' as me and ma are
goin' to put some of our money into
it. But cash is cash. You ought to
get some cash. Now I dggered that
if you did get some cash, Mr.. Brown.
I wouldn't feet so mean about takin'
some cash myself"
what for" asked Mr.. Cudd.
"For sellin' stock in the company"
said Mr.. Bunker beamingly. II fig
gered 1 would get the company incor-
porated-The Oliver Pipps Brown
Photoplay Company'-and sell stock.
I'd be what you might call a pro-
the cash 1 took in"
twenty-five per cent? queried Mr..
Cudd. How much would you in
corporate for"
Hundred and fifty thousand" said
Mr.. Bunker. He chuckled. "Of
course, other folks wouldn't be pay
in NE all-Td be payin' myself some
of it because I'd be putin money in
to the company myself"
Twenty per cent is enough" said
Mr.. Cudd.
We'll. say 20 per cent them" agreed
Mr.. Bunker. "And so. il everybody
was gettin' some cash. Mr.. Oliver
Pipps Brown ought to get some cash.
too. He ought to get $4,000
and that 10 per cent you was talkin'
of. He ought to get cash."
"Cudd. do think so, too" said Mr..
oliver Pipps Brown. when I put up
my book, and my book is the back
bone of the whole affair"
"All right" said Mr.. Cudd. THAT
is a mere detail" He excused himself
and drew Mr.. Oliver Pipps Brown to
with him. When they returned to Mr..
Bunker they were affably willing to
go ahead on the basis Mr.. Bunker had
proposed. 1t was agreed that Mr..
Bunker should sell the stock, secure
the incorporation papers, and SO on,
while Mr.. Cudd secured an option on
the services of Miss Deare, Mr.. Pack
EFT and Mr.. Hartway. and Mr. Hart
way looked up studio and prepared
to begin operations. Mr.. Cudd was
also to draw up contract with Mr.
Oliver Pipps Brown. securing the
motion-picture rights in ''The Max
ing of James" for $1,000 cash and 10
per cent of the net earnings Of the
company Mr.. Oliver Pipps Brown
and MT Bunker went down the ele-
vator together.
II guess it is goin' to be a money
maker for US stockholders" said Mr.
Bunker. "If you figger on gettin'
$4,000 when $4,000 is only 10 per
cent Of what we make. there ought
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-06-16

san aristocratic society. The VOL
ume IN hand is given over to the
sketch of some of the most obvious
OF the revolutionary elements and
movements. There is very little here
mat stands for the serious study of
situation or for the penetrating
analysis of character. Rather, does
.Il volume come under the head of
Summing impression. and light gos-
sip about the social affairs of the
arlstocracy of Russia. Like the ay-
erage gossip, this one leans toward
Inc fraiities of human nature, rather
than toward its virtues This comes
OUT markedly in the writer's obvious
rightly of dislike toward the Rus
sian empress. The book, far from its
intent, reflects against the intelli-
gence of the Russians for so easily
becoming dupes Of the clerical Ras-
putin. just as it emphasizes a pass
ing and relatively unimportant in
cident in the affairs of Russia. AS a
work Of plain gossip the book has
Its points. 1t Is vivacfous. ready. OBJ
servant Of a multitude of non-essen-
tlaIs, punctilious in respect to forms
and ceremonies-in a word. it is light
and colorful. with no more than
passing diversion as its outstanding
appeal.
ATTACK: An Infantry subaltern's Inn
preSsions Of July I, 1915. By Ed
ward G. d. Liveing. With an intro
duction by John Masefield. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
This small book glimpses a mighty
event, which win be detailed into
volumes by historians later on. The
authors share in it begins with the
allied attack on the fortified village
NJ NJ
a shrapnel wound consigns him to
a hospital in the rear. His ac-
count-on the firing line and behind
it's given with tense terseness
which enables the reader to hear
with him the Kissing of machine gun
bullets: to see through his eyes the
panorama of three co1ors; the white
of smoke, the red of shrapnel and
blood and the green of grassland
to understand with him how suffer-
ing knits men together, and how
much sympathy is brought out in a
man at the sight Of a badly wounded
comrade." John Masefeld, in an in
PRODUCTION which pictures the might
of the enemy intrenched in the forth
fed walls of Gommecourt, pays trib-
ute to Mr.. Liveing's work with the
assertion that no better account has
been written in England since the
war began.
WOMEN OF THE WAR. By Barbara
McLaren. With an introduction by
the Rt. Hon. H. H. Asquith, NJ. p.
New York: George H. Doran Com
pany.
The prominence of the author of
this book and Of the statesman who
contributes its preface gives assur-
ance that proper recognition is hereby
accorded to British women who have
taken the places of their fighting men
in practically every line OF profess
sional and manual endeavor. AS it
would be impossible to consider in
any one book the individual efforts
of the British women as a nation, the
author explains that she cites the
thirty-one examples given simply as
pictures showing the influence which
women in varied spheres have exer-
cised in the course of the war" The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-06-16

live, adds to Mr.. Schoenrich's sources
of information concerning the is
lands, and furnishes him, moreover.
with unusual means for studying and
interpreting the general conditions of
this locality. The volume in hand
gives a bird's-eye view of Santo Do,
mingo in its history and its natural
resources, in its commercial import
ance. in it's diplomatic significance.
and in its present status of material
and social condition. The compre-
hensive character of the study fits
the book especially for that general
grasp of a subject that must lie at
CATION. The authors first-hand seiz-
ure of the facts of Dominican affairs
counts again for the value of the
study, just as his enthusiastic faith in
the future of the country gives a
quite communicable zeal to his obser-
ject itself is one that calls for a larger
information on the part Of the people
of the United States. Since the Pan
anna canal became q fact the Carib-
bean countries have stepped into the
first rank Of American consideration.
This book is a distinct contribution to
the study of one of the important
links in the Caribbean chain of is
lands and mainland.
SACRIFICE: And Other Plays. By Sir
Rabindranath Tagore, author Of
"Chitra," etc New York: The Mac
milan Company.
Four of the Tagore dramas find
place in this little volume-"San-
yasi." 'Malini," 1.-The Sacrifice" and
''The King and Queen" Each, in point
of substance. is based, like all of the
works of this oriental writer, upon
some one of the fundamental and uni
versal facts of human nature work.
ing out through one or another of the
common aspects of organized society
Each, too, is in form, the essence of
perfect DRAMA single point in hui
devlat1ng line converge the move
ments and attitudes of the contribut-
ing elements. All Is projected in the
clear simplicity with which Tagore
clothes the deep-seated motives that
he Invariably employs. All, too, are
I OF the eastern atmosphere.
that combination Of land and custom
and people STEPPED into a single brew
of ancient beginnings.
THE HAPPIEsT TIME OF THEIR
LIVES. By Alice Duer Miller, au-
thor of Come Out of the Kitchen"
etc. Illustrated by Paul Meylan
New York: The Century Company.
Mrs. Miller's new novel is a love
story-bright, gay and enjoyable as
one now has right to expect this
writer's stories to be. A likable
young man and lovable young wom-
an step right out in the first page
with their intentions toward each
other openly declared. in spite of the
commonly deterring fact that thew
have been acquainted just about no
time at all. The girl is lady of i'm
portance with prospects. The youth
has captivating mother and a good
5ob-no more. The traditional trials
of being in love are based upon this
inequality of worldly state. One fol-
lows them about in complete SYM
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himself with sigh of satisfaction.
And amt it funny how unreason-
able folks can be- mar he queried.
oliver Pipps Brown was right mad
at me. And il 1t hadn't been for me.
he wouldn't have got that five thou
sand cash told him he ought to
get cash.
lConyrlght 1918 hx Mcclure sxndicatel
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pathy with their feeting unhappi-
nesses, but it must be admitted that
the readers chief interest lies with
the elders in this situation. The
young fellows mother Is new WON
an-reformer, and all the rest of 1t
a haphazard creature who is just a
Charm. The girls mother is beauty.
and a wife-but she is first and fore
most a beauty. And this is pretty
disqualifying characteristic. when one
is expected to be anything else. There
are hints of the problem about this
story-but not too many. One catches
no more than glimpses Of the new
and the old woman in these two
mothers. Their respective brands of
appeal do not come from the social
problems that they present, but rather
from themselves. Mrs. Miller has
done her best work with these two
women, who. against the background
Of their children's love affair. lure the
reader back and forth between their
contrasting and opposed charms of
person and behavior.
WANTED-A TORTOISE SHELL. BY
Peter Blundell, author of Love
Birds in the Coco-Nuts," etc. New
York: John Lane Company.
A bit of Blundell nonsense that car
ries one over to the other side of the
"ollo "hVlS AAhpOSoA0AC hoPhSn"S0
take on a plausible and acceptable
color to the long-distance credulity
of the western reader. Tropical
islands. set down in the very bluest
of all the VIGOROUSLY blue chambers
OF the Pacific, and bedecked in their
everyday habit of coral reefs and
this adventure. Within this setting
Malaysian population pads about as
assistants and supers in the farcical
TODD that centers at the English res
idency. Here, with his daughter and
his official staff, lives the representa-
tive of English dominion. We are
told that no one completely escapes
insanity, that everybody is more or
less mad. The residents bug of mad
ness is cats. The quest Of pure tor
toise shell usurps the common bust
ness of the consulate. An American
made up out of whole cloth and have
agreed to brand with this stamp,
finds himself bewildered member of
this caterwauling household where
the master grants neither a domestic
nor an official hearing to one not able
to pass hundred on the subject of
cats. A deal of fair humor goes along
with the absurd invention. A touch
of satire helps the matter appreci-
ably. Through this hit-or-miss me-
Qlum a romance OF sorts develops be-
tween the professor and the daughter
of the resident. One skins the not
unskillful invention more engrossed
with. the authors. turn of mind than
he is with the particular ms and outs
of this extravaganza which recalls the
character Of the comic opera that
twenty years ago or SO contained
what the general public called enter
tainment.
ton. By Princess Catherine Radzi-
will, author of Behind the Veil at
the Russian Court" etc. Illustrat-
ed. New York: John Lane Com
pany.
Now Under the name of Princess
Radziwill, and now. under that of
Count Paul Vassili." this author
writes voluminously Of Russian court
matters, of the ms and outs of Rus