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The Washington herald., 1918-04-24
The Perfect Baby
OF the Future
A Simple Method that Has q
Wonderful Influence Upon
the Future Infant.

Before the arrival Of baby know
ing women for over half century
have used with regularity the time
honored preparation n, Mothers
Friend.
Here is a most wonderful applica-
tion for the abdomen and breasts.
Il penetrateS the muscles, ligaments
and tissues, rendering them plant
to readily yield to natures demand
for expansion
By its use the anxious weeks of
pregnancy are made comfortable.
The usual wrenching strain, bear
.ng-down and stretching pains are
counteracted. The system Is pre-
pared for the coming event, and its
use brings rest, repose, and happy
anticipation.
BY the regular use Of Mothers
Eriend during the period the mus
cles expand easier when baby ar
rives, and naturally the pain and
ianger at the crisis is less.
Mothers Friend is prepared after
he formula OF a noted family doc
:or by the Bradfield Regulator Co.
A So Lamar Bldg, Atlanta, Ca 1t
utely and entirely safe and won
ierfully effective. Write them for
heir Instructive and interesting
Motherhood Book" There is q
wealth of instruction and comfort
20 be derived in reading this little
book. 1t is plainly written; Just
what every woman wants to know
book OF guidance, not only for your
self. but will make you helpful to
jthers, and in the meantime obtain
4 bottle of Mothers Friend from the
1ruggist. and thus fortify yourself
Igainst pain and disco cmfort-Adv.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-24

is a married man with a crouch so
thick you could cut it with a
knife.
Take it from me-" he says, "the
married man is the eternal goat.
All he has got to do IS to work
like a galley slave for the benefit
of grocers, butchers. dry goods
merchants, milIiners, dressmakers,
doctors and school teachers. All he
gets is the privilege of paying the
bills. And the worst OF - is that
nobody throws a bouquet at him for
the sacrifice he makes OF his whole
life on the family altar. The wife
and kids think he ought to smile,
and do the little sunshine act
around the house while he's going
to the slaughter. Much I've got to
grin over with a wife and two chill
dren to support"
So goes the wall OF the chronic
complainer which we cannot choose
but hear, because the pestiferous
wilmer is always in Cur midst wet
blanketing every occasion, chilling
hope and enthusiasm. and doing his
or her conscientious best to blot out
the sunshine and happiness OF all
| with whom he and she come in con-
tract.
There's no use in being sorry for
the chronic complainers. They are
never having such a perfectly good
time as when they ascend to the
wailing place and smite their
breasts, and howl their tSoubles
aloud. They are not really suffer
ing. Their cries are not the cries
of pain. They are the cries OF van
ity. They merely want to call at
tentiou to themselves. and they hit
on this doleful method OF crafty
ing their egotism.
And they are utterly unaware OF
the spectacle they are making OF
themselves. They can not see how
craven. cowardly, how little, weak
and futile they seem when they
moan aloud over pin pricks to 9TH
ers who are. perhaps, enduring a
death agony in silence.
II you are acquiring the COM
planning habit, quit it. Don't cul-
tivate the yellow streak in your
self. Cut It out Whining does no
good. The less you think and talk
about an unpleasant job you've got
to do, or a hard thing you've got to
| bear. the better for you, and much
the better for other people. For
there's no other such bore on earth
as the chronic complainer.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-24
Freekles and BIotehes
Are Easily Peeled OF

II you are bothered with any Gu
taneous blemish, it's a poor plan 90
use paint, powder or anything else
TO cover IL up. Too often this only
emphasizes the defect BesideG ifn
much easier 20 remove the disfigure-
ment with ordinary mercoliEed Nax.
Applied nightly, the wax will grad
Ually remove freclZles, pimplez.
moth patches, liver spots, salioE-
ness, red blotches or any surface
eruption The affected cuticls IS
actually absorbed. a little each day,
until the clear, soft. youthful and
beautiful skin beneath il brooght
wholly TO view.
Ask the druggist for one ounce
Of mercoliZed wax and use this IKE
you use cold cream. Remove in the
morning with soap and water.
Many who have tried this simple,
harmless treatment report aston
, ishing results-Adv.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-24
The Complainer
OROTHY DIX
ny D01NO ~ D1<k3
THE WORLDS HIGHEST PAID WOMAN WRITER.

a whip. II there's any hard work
I'm the George that has to do 1t
and as for salary you couldn't pry
up your pay envelope another plunk
with a steam lever.
"Oh, I'm the great original hoodoo
alright. I'm never around when the
plums are being passed out. I'm
never one OF the golden haired boys
who Is teachers pet and gets soft
snap. The only thing I ever look
around here for is injustice, and get
that you bet"
Sometimes the chronic complainer is
a wife and mother. She has got a
good home, a good husband, nice chill
dren, but she forces the whole family
TO live to the tune of the dirge that
she perpetually chants.
'Oh, yes" she means out in a
cracked-ice voice, Il suppose this is
an attractice house to a guest. Yes,
my husband spent a great deal of
money on building 1t and furnishing
it trying to make 1t comfortable and
artistic, but my dear! II you only
knew what a burden it is to run a
Rpa3Se like this. or course l have
JeNy OF servants, but it's just i'm
possible to find perfect ones who will
do everything unless the mistress
keeps her eyes upon them. I have
to order everything, and it's Just a
bore having TO think of what to have
to eat for every meal.
"Of course my children are darlings.
but they are a great care, too. I'm
always so worried about them for fear
they will get sick or get hurt, and
they are always outgrowing their
clothes and wearing them out, and
wanting something to eat. or to go
somewhere, or do something that's
a lot OF trouble. Oh, it's a terrible
responsibility to be a mother, and II
takes up all of your time so that you
don't have leisure to do anything else.
So that sometimes 1 think the child
less women have the best Of It
of sorrow. Mine haven't. but they
may. You never can tell.
And while I'm not saying a word
against my husband. who is as kind
and generous as he can be, still
husbands are so unreasonable. even
the best of them. They think a
woman should be happy and con-
tented If she is healthy and pros
porous. and has a man who loves
her. and a nice family, and never
realize what we poor women have
to bear, or the work we do, or the
sacrifices we make. Oh, dear, life's
very sad, isn't it?"
Perhaps the chronic complainer
The Washington herald., 1918-04-24
C11fG.lSstgll1s
SQd Mic
EBB. TIDES AND FLOOD. Tides OF GRIEF.

Sometimes think, Margie,"
Donna continued as Mrs. Trent left
the room in apparent disgust, "that
I can never live again without Will
Why, ordered my motor only last
week and drove miles and miles
with only one thought surging
through my brain, and choking my
breath and making my heart beat
wildly.
1T was that I could not live an
other day. another hour, without
VIII. could recall every little
glance Of his eye. every tiny man
nerism, and, oh, Margie, wanted
him SOL wanted his arms about
me, 1 wanted to feel his kisses on
my hair. my eyes, my mouth. and I
found myself almost crazed with
the thought that out there In the
cemetery he was lying so cold and
calm and cannot know of what !
am thinking.
When this mood wears away
am calm again for weeks and then
sometimes feel that 1 am very
hard-hearted for I cannot even re-
member how Will looked. He is a
stranger to me and all our life to-
gether is as though 1t never was.
TT has been like this with me,
Margie, since Will first died and !
intended to tell you this, even II
Mother Trent had not given me
such q good excuse. for have often
thought that perhaps most widows
feel this way and probably between
the whfles that grief overcomes
them they scourge themselves with
the thought that they are not truly
sorrowful."
"oh. I'm so glad. Donna" said.
that you have told me this. II is
just the way I am feeling and to-
day Just before you came in I
thought was very hard-hearted,
for 1 could not recall Dicks face.
do you know. dear, have want
ed to dream OF him, but for some
reason have never once seen his
face in my dreams.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-24
Interest the Women Readers
HOSTESS HOUSE wins
FAVOR OF NAVAL men
Has Become Center of Social Life
at Quantico.

The social world IN navy and Marine
Corps circles is buxzing with the news
OF the great success Of the charming
new Hostess House In the great Ma
rine Corps training camp at ouantico'
Va. Since its opening. which was a
distinguished social event early in
March, It has passed from one triumph
to another, and has proved more pop
ular and more useful to the boys in
field green with every passing week.
On Thursday evening preceding the
wonderful musical comedy staged by
the enlisted men OF the Marine Corps
of Quantico, q charming dinner party
was given n the cafeteria room by Mr..
and Mrs. William Eaches Fendall, at
which Gen. John A. LeJeune, COM
manding officer Of the post, and Mrs.
Lejeune were guests Of honor. Among
the guests who made up the party
were Mr.. and Mrs. Hunter Calf. broth
er-in-law and sister-in-law OF Presi-
dent Wilson; Mr.. and Mrs, r. D. Shep-
ard. OF Shepardstown; Mrs. Francois
Berger Moran, Mrs. Malcolm Gordon,
Mrs. William @. Delonoy and Mrs.
Arthur Ross.
On the same evening a number OF
other dinner parties were given in the
Hostess House. Among the guests
who inscribed their names on the hos
tess book are Brig. Gen. Gerald Trot-
ter, of the British Military Mission;
Walter Damrosch. director Of the New
York Symphony Orchestra: Capt. Ar
thur Lucas. OF the Canadian Expedi-
tionary Army; Judge and Mrs. George
W. Goolrick, OF Fredericksburg; Mai.
and Mrs. w. T. Hoadley; Lieut.. Cress-
well Micou. Mrs. Charles z. Tackett,
Col. and Mrs. Charles G. Long, Col.
and Mrs. George Van orden, DR.. and
Mrs. A. W. Russell and Miss Rachel
Harris.
The Hostess House at Quantico Is
operated by a committee OF Washing
ton women in connection with the
Y. w. c. A. authorities, under the
chairnanship OF Mrs. Josephus Dam
iels. Mrs. George Barnett, wife OF
the major general commanding the
Marine Corps. Is chairman of the hos
tess committee, and Mrs. John A.
Lejenne. wife Of Gen. Lejeune, COM
manding ofiicer at Quantico, is vice
chairman OF the committee in charge.
Members OF the committee in charge
are: Mrs. John Newbold. Mrs. S. C..
Neal. Mrs. Henry Roosevelt. Mrs.
william Eaches Fendall, Mrs. William
II. Bayley. and DR.. z. B. Niver. post
chaplain at ouantico.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-24

The individual for whom I have
the most respect is the man or wo-
man who puts on the smile that
won't come or as he shaves, or she
powders her nose in the morning
and who goes cheerfully and bravely
about the days labor. however
hard and disagreebale that may be.
And the person for whom I have
the most blighting contempt is the
miserable, weak, spineless creature
who whines through the world,
howIing with self pity over every
lick of work he or she has to do.
and every burden he or she has to
bear.
You know the sort of person I
mean, for nobody is lucky enough
to escape these Jeremiahs and hav-
ing to listen to their lamentations
over their having to bear the or
dinary human lot.
Sometimes the chronic complainer
is your fellow worker. If she's a
girl she begins the recitation of her
woes as she opens her desk of a
morning and let's the sad tale drib-
BILE over you all day long.
"Oh dear" she sighs, II do hope
there won't be much work today,
because I've got a perfectly dreadful
headache and my poor nerves are so
jumpy that 1 don't feel that I could
take dictation without screaming.
haven't any appetite. didn't eat hard
ly a bit OF breakfast, 1 sleep so badly
at night; while look perfectly we'll
and healthy I'm really not what you
could call strong and work doesn't
agree with my constitution. anyway.
My doctor says that the trouble
with me is that l am tempermental;
that what need is pleasure and
amusement; a carefree life with no
responsibilities or duties and that I'd
De perfectly well IL 1 could only go
to Honolulu, or some nice warm place
like that in the winters. and spend
my summers at Bar Harbor. It's all
very we'll for girls who are not sensi-
tive, or highly strung. to have to
work, but it's just terrible for me TO
have to do it. 1t makes me sick. Oh.
dear, my poor back! It's just terri
ble!'
II the chronic complainer is a nan
he nails you to your cross while ne
pours into your ears the story Of bis
wongs.
Say" he says, did you ever see
such a dump as this. or such a lot
Of boneheads running a business
Solid ivory. And tightwad. Look at
the way they work me. Think I'm
nothing but a slave to be driven with
The Washington herald., 1918-04-24

at 4 o'clock. Mrs. Gertrude Bonnin,
wife OF Lieutenant Bonnin. U. S. A.
Sioux Indian. whose tribal name is
Zitkala, ,-Fa. will speak. Mrs. Bonnin
will wear Indian costume. She is a
graduate of Carlisle. All interested in
the meeting will be welcome.
Justice and Mrs. Mahlon Pitney have
as their house guest. Mrs. Pitney s
sister, Miss Sheldon.
Senator Le Baron Colt has gone to
Providence for a short visit with his
son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Harold J. Grose.
This wednesday, afternoon Mrs.
John Hays Hammond is giving
a reception to the members of the
American Orthopaedic Association,
who have just held their annual con-
vention here, and to their wives, at
her home. 30H Kalorama road. The
hour of the reception is at 4:SO, and
Mrs. Gorgas and other notable ladies
will assist Mrs. Hammond in receiv-
ing. Mrs. Baker, the wife of the
Secretary Of War, though it is her
own reception day, has promised to
come in and spend a part of the af-
ternoon.
Senator and Mrs. Francis Warren
have as their guest Mrs. Arthur NJ.
Parker, Of Detroit.
Former Ambassador to Japan and
Mrs. Thomas O'Brien entertained at
dinner last night.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-24
FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH.

1t Is not myth, but a reality and
women may find it in perfect func-
tional health. Women who want to
grow old gracefully should guard
against all organic weakness and
arrangements. and at the first
symptom Of such conditions resort
to Lydia z. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. natures own root and
herb remedy. to restore health. For
three generations women of Amer
lea have depended upon this sue
cessful remedy and have found no
2saas nsd!sins @ saqal itsfAdyiy
The Washington herald., 1918-04-24

forecast and q naval battle Is IndI-
Gated
Person whose bIrthdAte Il ID hass
q happy outlook for ths year. ThsF
should make no changes.
Children born on this day are H.
ly 70 be generous. They should sue
ceed in business, but the ehisf fault
may be an inclination TO Worry over
trineA.
tOopy1irht, lsnl
The Washington herald., 1918-04-24
RESORTS.
ATLANTIC CTTY, ". =,

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.
Americas Famous All-Near Resort
ASBURY PARK, n. ].
SummeE homes; set the bsS by ssleottns
yours at once. Write PUBLICITY BUREAU,
6o6 Boardwalk, AsbUy Pan. n. J.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-24

The star. incline. bu: do not compel q"
The Washington herald., 1918-04-24

Mrs. Louis Perrine, who has been
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. L L. NichoI-
son. 1r.. has returned to her home
in Trenton.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-24

Senator and Mrs Willard SALISBURY
entertained at dinner last night in
honor Of the italian Ambassador and
Countess Macchi dI Cellere.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-24

Mr.. and Mrs. Archibald Barklie
Will close their apartment here about
the middle OF May, when they will
open their country home, Inver
House, at Wayne, Pa.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-24

The Persian Minister Mehdi Khan
moved from the embassy at 15l3 Six.
,senth street, yesterday, and will
spend q few days at a hotel before
going to New York, whence he ex-
poets shortly to return permanently
TO Persia
The Washington herald., 1918-04-24

wedding will probably take place on
the evening Of April 30. at St. Thom-
as Church. Maj. Cook Is stationed
at Anniston, Ala.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-24

The wedding Of Miss Ethel HUM,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. George
A. Huhn. Of Philadelphia. and Lieut.
Joseph w. Bailey, jr.. U. s. "A, on
duty at Fort Sill, Okla, son Of ex.
Senator and Mrs. Joseph W. Bailey
OF Washington. formerly of Texas
will be solemnized in June.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-10-01
Filipinos Being Re-Examined for
 Military Duties

SAN JUAN, P. R., Oct. 1.-Men ex- empted from military service after examination by the local boards are being called for re-examination in San Juan and in many other municipalities in the islands.
 In San Juan those being re-eXamin- ed include chiefly those called for the second draft of l5,O00 who prob ably will be called for active service iu October. In other towns il is said that boards are senerauy going over their lists and calling men previously exempted for re-examination.
 This action by the examining boards is said to be voluntary on their part but comes in response to general crit icism that throughout the island men of the better class have not found it difficult to find grounds on which to obtain exemption.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-10-01
TRAINING CAMP
 LIFE IS GREAT
 SAYS MITCHELL

William Leonard Mitchell, who was in Cordova two years ago. writes of army life at Camp K"arn"y, Califor- mia to his sister, Mrs. Daniel Grr"nig, as follows:
 "Wcll at last am soldier in Uncle sans army training hard pre- pairing to "strafc the IIun.'
 Your letter was received while was still in the Wcstwood hospital where l had my arm broken over and strengthened so that could get in
 The If" of d civilian in the States now is an uncnyiable position, espe. cially if he can tote gun.
 This life isn't half bad inasmuch baby. They make you go to bed at 9:3O; then you are allowed to sleep until , 30 next morning; then that you might not miss the glorious sunrise (which you never see down here on account of the fog you are very nice ly reminded that you are still in the world by fellow whom they give a horn to play with. Seems that he is in some way related to the owl inas much as he never sleeps nights. Just as you roll over he is in front of your tent playing something which he seems to think is tune. Of course it wakes you up; one can hear him a mile away; and then you just natur ally climb out, being reminded that Il cold shower is as good an eye-open CT as a glass of rum. which last we are forbidden to taste as it makes ones breath smell bad.
 After the shower you are surprised to see that the dear cook has remained up all night preparing your breakfast which he serves to you in q little tin pan Uncle Sam bought for you along with the knife and fork and spoon of the same material. that you may play you are with Kit Carson or Dan iel Boone.
 After breakfast a lot of boys come over to play We decide to play sol dier and so line up in two lines and march out on the parade ground which is two miles square, and parade al around 1t, Crosswise- and otherwise So that we may think We are mer Uncle Sam gives us n pair of shoes size nine and half (this is the truth and while my foot only calls for q small five and half, wear them all the time. It kinda takes a load a load off my mind.
 After we have levcled n hill into a prairie by marching over it we play drop the handkerchief. only the hand kerchief is q whip four feet long One | of us drops it and then runs around the circle twice into the place Jeff l by the one to whom you gave tn, whip. All the time you are running he is running also and each time h, catches you he swings the whip
The Cordova daily times., 1918-10-01

Every time he does that you know it without looking back-and my back is all sunburned.
 How did it get that way? Well, you see. this is d new neighborhoOd and when 1 came down the boys thought they'd hay" some fun so next Iay d lot of us stripped to the waist and tn" sun was 9S in the shade, and there's no shade in Camp kearny. We went up to call upon the doctors and as there were one hundred of us playing and it took about ten or fifteen minutes for each of us to call on all the doctors. my back got jealous of the brightness and strived to glow the same way. But it couldn't do il and 1t got so chagrincd that it now blushes from my waist to my neck.
 There were some more doctors in camp and we went to see them but they wer" mean doctors and hurt us. One of them grabbed my left arm and cut it thrc" times near the shoulder and then put some germs in the cuts He calls it vaccination Then we went a little further into the room and one painted my right arm yellow; he said it matched the streak up my back. | don't know what he meant, for my back was red and didn't have streaks. Then We went down the room and another doctor grabbed my right arm, Look out the window he said, l turned by head to look over my left shoulder and he jabbed a needle in my arm about an inch and q half and then pushed d long handle on the other end. He hurt me worse than the other one. which was some. He called that innOculation.
 Tomorrow I've got to go get an other one and they say that it knocks d lot of them on the spine and even puts some in the hospital.
 Well, after playing drop the whip or Hun and Yank" as we like to call it, we play leap frog After we've leaped over fifty fellows and as many have done the same to us we go back and do it again only they add "spats and spurs" Sunburned backs and lean ribs get harsh treatment in this game, so we play it hard. Then we 20 in and rest an hour and then eat dinner. then rest an hour and then go out and swing our guns around up, down and idewise-until 400. Then we go in and rest until 500 and eat again Then we can play baseball or football or tug-of-war, or anything, un- til 800.
 We got this worthless old carcass insured for ten thousand dollars. sc I'll be rich if I should get killed or hurt while playing tag, or Get the Aaiser
 T tell you this is a great life-and l am tired, but happy"
The Cordova daily times., 1918-10-01
DELEGATE SULZER'S ATTITUDE COMPARED WITH WICKERSKAl'S The Former Shows Practical Friendship for Labor While Latter Is Friend" for Political
 Purposes Only.

into disrcputc. and tends toward an Irchy.
 There are now. as there always have been in American politics, men who announce themselves friends of labor" and "in favor of the cight-hour day for political effect alone. The hes; test of mans friendship for labor is his dealings with labor.
 Charles A Sullrr. upon whom th" sl.lIs of Wickcrsham are expected to reflect. showed years ago, and in the most practical way. his attitude to. ward labor. Almost fifteen years ago he granted the oight.hour day to th" men employed by him. because he was "convinccd that eight hours was the proper standard for a days work.