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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-19
Miller Rhoads
'The Shopping Center"
A Simple Idea
Explained

COME has said that thc of satisfactory SER
- vice to put yourself in the other fellows place.
in other Words strict application of the Golden Rule
Simple enough in expression, surely but not quite so
simple in execution.
TO well in any capacity believe, definite
knowledge Of the place fill it knowledge
only after of study and concentration upon the needs
of institution connunya study such this has
carried for than thirty years placed it
supremey position to the people of Richmond
vicinity.
Service far as applies public institution like
this be divided three equally parts: the service
of merchandise which provides the things the community Desires
the service of fair prices which permits nothing
more than its legitimate cost plus reasonable profit and the
of shopping convenience which features many little
forts that unknown to the average store.
The store of today probably does SO well as
will the store of tomorrow but infinitely better than
the store of yesterday For Store of
evoutonthe less essentials changing with the
times while the principles of good bookkeeping
remain in pelpetuty.
.ui24 MILLER & RHOADS
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
Advice to the Lovelorn
FORGIVES HER INCONSISTENCY
Dear Miss Fairfax.

FORGIVES HER INCONSISTENCY
Dear Miss Fairfax:
| am 20. About a month ago
I met lady two years my junior
We have learned to love each other.
Now about six weeks ago she met
another young man. Soon I re-
ceived letter stating that
shouldn't come down to see her any
more, and that she was going to
be married to the other. But after
going about with him for two weeks
they parted.
Now Miss Fairfax, what l want
to know is this-I really care for
her and 1 know she cares for me.
Should l go back and ask her to
become good friends again?
A READER.
Since you are sure that real love
exists at bottom between you and
this young girl. why not seriously
talk things over with her, at least.
Not many young men would forgive
such an act of fickleness, but it is
true that she is very young, and
the fact that she was temporarily
fascinated by some one else need
not destroy your common happi-
ness, since you are tolerant enough
to look at more than one side of
the matter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25

I had heard her declare that what
| she wanted she took.
Lane" I said, whatever you did
! I know you meant it to be right
| If you blundered Jim and 1 are
! going to stand by now and see that
| the world doesn't make you pay
more than you should. Now will
you tell me whatever you think
ought to know"
III tell YOU the rest-and get 1t
over he muttered. And then the
story poured out as if it couldn't
be stopped or stayed any longer.
II came up from the orchard
when it was dawn. Loretta knew
me. She stirred and asked me where
I'd been all night. l said out moon
ing over the fruit trees-never
thinking she'd understand. Then she
smiled, and I didn't understand. She
was quiet all day, didn't give a bit
of trouble. l put it up to Etienne
Demarrais that l was going to be a
millionaire if I wasn't one already.
and that since l was his Oldest
pal he could take little from nae
and let me give his girl the things
she'd have had if he hadn't lost his
fortune.
He saw it the way 1 did. So we
picked out a school and told Val
she was to go off the next week.
She couldn't do enough for Loretta
at the last. Seemed as if she want
ed to make up to her for-loving
me. And the last night Val was
going to be home we walked out in
the garden and said goodby. She
cried little and l had to kiss her.
l had to-
Next morning she didn't come
back as quick as usual from taking
Loretta her breakfast l went IN
to see why she was staying. And
there was little Val tied UP in a
sheet, with Loretta hacking at her
with a pair of garden shears shed
used the day before to cut roses.
l went crazy, too, then, fearing
she'd kill my little girl.
II had to put Loretta away after
that. When they get murderous
the asylum's the only place for
them. Naps got the scar on her neck
yet under her hair.
Once a week I'd go to the asylum
to see Loretta. She didn't know
me. She'd just sit and brood and
talk about the devil who'd stolen
her man and how she'd get her
sure as fate. She kept saying that
she had. right to kill the girl who
laughed at her and boasted that she
was going to marry her husband.
All the time she'd say, If I kill her
she can't marry my husband, can
she?'
I trembled for poor little inno-
cent Valerie, who just seemed TO
live for me. And then one day when
I came to see Loretta she'd got out
escaped. Straight to the Demer-
rails place I went. And there was
Loretta, lying on the mating IN
Fals room. She'd got a revolver
somehow and shot herself AS she
lay on the floor-dead-a picture of.
me that Val had stuck in the corner
of her mirror was looking down
at her. We found poor little EaI
, locked up in her mothers room.
She was frightened till she was half
crazy, too. 1 married Val the year
later-and I've tried to make up to
her for all she's been through. But
now"
Lane Cosby ended his story with
a sudden choking, sobbing breath
that caught in his throat I knew
he was seeing every detail of the
horror he had sketched for me. I
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
LIES PROBLEMS
ARE DISCUSSED

she paints of her home life is
even half true. Her husband she
describes as a lazy loafer who in
the last five years has not put in
more than two of them at work.
What he wants is job paying
good wages but requiring very
little effort, and instead of going
out to hunt for it, he expects it to
plate. Then, when he does Sc
be brought to him on a silver
cure a position, he makes himself
so disagreeable over it and is so
eager to avoid over-eXertion that he
finds himself soon let out.
So, for the most part, he lives a
life of elegant leisure. sleeping
until ten or eleven o'clock in the
morning, and then dawdling about
the house while he occupies him.
self in smoking and a perusal of
the days racing sheet. And if
some horse he has doped as a
winner happens to come in first
he fills the air with lamentations
because he did not have ten dollars
to bet on it.
With absolutely no idea of the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25

felt as If some one ought to take
this great big, broken man in their
Arms and mother him. But didn't
dare move. Lane Cosby's breathing
rasped out heavily in the stiffness
of the room. He was painting as If
he had run a race. Suddenly his
voice thundered:
Now this Mason woman's got
hold of it. And she comes and
taunts my poor little Val, twisting
it to suit herself. l don't know
how much she knows-or what she
wants to keep still. But III pay her
whatever her price is"
Why should you" l began.
But Lane Cosby interrupted me,
and his ashen face told me what
was his most terrible fear.
Don't you see. Anne? Don't you
see?" he cried. My poor little Val
was alone with the-crazy woman
that afternoon. No one saw what
happened between them. I know
Loretta thought Val had stolen her
man from her, and that she was set
on that one idea-to kill my little
girl. But the pistol Loretta clutched
in her dead hand belonged TO
Etienne Dem errais."
ITO Be Continued)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
MAKE SERVICE
STAR PERENNIAL

An electrically lighted service star
on top of an evergreen tree which
has been planted in honor of it's
heroes is the methods which Ba-
tavia, ILL.,, has adopted to keep be-
fore it's people the services of these
men, says a report to the American
Forestry Association, of Washington,
which is registering all memorial
trees planted. The evergreen at
Batavia also is to serve as COM
munity Christmas tree, and some
other communities throughout the
United States are setting out "a tree
which can be used every Christmas
or on other occasions instead of get
ing a new tree every time one is
needed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
AWise Mother and
Good Dessert

"I wish 1 could find something for
the children that they would like as
we'll as cornstarch pudding or blanc
mango" said Mrs. Matthews, as she
and Mrs. Edmonds sat talking one
afternoon. They're such nuisance
to make, and one never knows
whether they are going to turn out
right"
why don't you make Puddine?
That always turns out right replied
her friend.
"Puddine? questioned Mrs. Mat
thews, with interest. What is 1t?
Another dessert that sometimes is
success, but generally isn't?"
NO, indeed" said Mrs Edmonds.
empha atscally "Puddine is per-
fectly wonderful dessert that always
turns out right. You Just add milk
and sugar to it and boil for three
minutes, and you know that when II
has cooled you will have nice, rich
mold of delicious creamy dessert
1T sounds wonderful" interrupted
Mrs. Matthews.
1T is wonderful" replied Mrs. Ed
monds You can get it in number
of fiavors-chocolate, vanilla; orange,
lemon-and you can use Puddine for
all sorts of things. 1t makes the
most LUSCIOUS cake and pie filings.
and smooth, velvety ice cream"
lis it expensive?" asked her friend.
"Oh, no. indeed. A 15c package of
Puddine will serve Is people. And
then what l like about 1t is that !
can let the children have as much as
they want. because it is pure and
wholesome"
u certainly shall get some Pud-
dine said Mrs. Matthews. I'm glad
you told me about it."
week later the two friends were
talking together on the phone. by
the way" said Mrs. Matthews, my
whole family simply loves Puddine
| think they'd like to have it for
every meal 1 certainly am glad you
told me about it."
Include a box of Puddine with to-
days grocery order.-Adv.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
BY MRS. WILSON WOODROW

Temperament, / find, is by no
means monopoly with poets,
painters and prima donnas. 1t is a
far more prevalent complaint than
half of those imagine who so proud
ly fiaunt its possession.
Outside of having had an opera
ton, l doubt if there is anything
the average human being cherishes
quite so fondly as the suspicion
that he is "temperamental." Yet
two-t thirds of the time the term is
merely camouflage to deceive the
squirrels.
A building contractor was tell
ing me the other day of the pecu-
lar disability which affects one of
his employees clear case of tenn
permanent.
Generally speaking, there isn't
n better teamster in the world"
he said. Hes a big, burly fellow
with strength enough in his arms
to hold a runaway locomotive, yet
wouldn't fret the most fractious
colt He understands horses =
can almost speak their language
and when he is right, can get
more out of a team with less strain
than any man 1 ever saw.
For seven months of the year
he's almost worth his weight in
gold to me; but with the first
touch of winter I might as we'll
lay him off. Cold weather, espe-
cially if there happens to be the
least presence of snow or sleet on
the ground, practically takes the
heart out of him.
There's some peculiar kink in
his mind, some suggestion of fear
or failure, that at the sight of a
sprinkling or snow brings the yell
low streak out in him and rem
ders him incompetent. And the
horses know it even sooner than
we do. He can take his seat on
the box, gather up the lines, crack
his whip, and holler 'Giddap" till
he's black in the face; but not a
step for him will they bulge. Put
another driver in his place.
though, and the team will move
off as quiet and willing as you
please. A horse, you know. is a
ticular about who's driving him"
Now, l admit that The Temper
amental Teamster" sounds more
like a farce title than the subject
for a homily; yet it struck me as
I heard the anecdote that it was
not without significance as a lesson.
I recalled it this morning when
I was considering letter I had
received from "a Disconnected
Wife"
Not that she lacks ample rea-
son for discomfort, If the picture
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
Tan, Red or Freckled
Skin Is Easily Shed

To free your summer -soiled skin or
its muddiness, freckles, blotches or
tan, the best thing to do is to free
yourself of the skin itself. This is
easily accomplished by the use of
ordinary mercolized wax, which of
course can be had at any drug store.
Use at night as you use cold cream,
washing it off in the morning. I'm
mediately the offending surface skin
begins to come off in fine powder
like particles. Gradually the entire
outer scraf skin is absorbed, without
the least harm or inconvenience. The
second layer of skin now in evidence
presents a spotless -whiteness and
sparkling beauty obtainable in no
other way. One ounce of mercolized
wax usually is sufficient to COM
pletely renovate a bad complexion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25

value of money, he expects as his
and never bothers his head about
who pays the bills. Hes is per-
fect!y satisfied to let his wife
meet their expenses out of her in
come, and unless money is forth
coming to meet his constant crav-
ing for amusements, he acts like
a spoiled baby, And on top of all
this he is finished 'nagger,"
ready at any time to start on a
lltany of the poor womans
alleged shortcomings.
Naturally all affection is gone
for so despicable and contemp-
tible a character. The wife would
be perfectly willing never to see
his face again. There are no ties
to bind them together. She is not
dependent on him for support
Again and again, she says, she
has started out with the intention
of leaving him. Then, why hasn't
she done so?
no relatives and no friends who
could take her in, and she shrinks
from going among strangers. The
world seems to her so big and cold
and cherries that after each at
tempt to leave she crawls back to
the things she knows.
She deplores her own lack of
moral courage and initiative and
wishes she had father or a
brother or some one to take her
by force out of her present envi-
ronments. but knowing her own
weakness, she sees no hope.
I have every sympathy for that
poor wife, and / would be the last
person in the world to offer any
excuses for her worthless husband.
Yet as l read her letter I could
not help being reminded of those
horses who knew when the "Yellow
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
:" was uppermost in their

streak" was uppermost in their
driver.
May it not be that the yellow
streak" she herself admits is part
ly responsible for the husband S
worthlessness, that he senses it and
treads upon it just as the horses
did with their driver, and that with
more forceful character he might
have shown himself a different man.
If she cannot bring herself to leave,
why doesn't she try the big stick"
policy at home?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
CHAPTER CCVI
Copyright 1919, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)

Copyright 1919, King Features
Syndicate. Inc)
What did you do?" 1 gasped,
shaken by the tragedy in Lane Cos"
by's voice when he told me no"
Valerie Demerrais-nurse to his IL
sane wife and daughter of his boy
hood friend-had confessed her love
for him.
Whatever he had done, l felt that
this was Lanes tragedy, not Nal's--
and there was that poor ansane
woman, his wife. Loretta. l tried TO
think of her alone on that great
fruit ranch for weeks at time,
with only Val to minister to her. I
saw walls hands-soft sand dead
white in their thick puff1ness-
tending the sick woman. AND L
found myself thinking of some
thick jungle-creeper mating ana
twisting about a tree and squeezing
the sap and life out of it.
Lane Cosby's voice brought me
back.
what did 1 do?" he repeated,
lifting one wiry brown hand to his
forehead and pressing it there al II
he wanted to hold back some of the
thoughts that were struggling to
get out. II put my arms about that
pretty little girly and | asked hcr
to let me send her away to school
where she'd meet folks. l told her
I had enough money to get a dozen
nurses for Loretta and set up tlne
place of our own. And ! SAID tndt
I knew she'd forget me II she met
nice young men her own age.
But little Val clung to me anG
asked me if I wanted to kill her
And all of a sudden, with that sim
young thing trembling there in my
arms, l went mad. 50 to save us
both l pushed her away and ran
down to the orchard to think things
over. It went to my head to nave
that little Nal-girl love me. / knew
then that I wanted her more than
ANYTHING in the world. And l knew
she was mine-for the taking.
AS he spoke Lane Cosby trembled
with the depth of his feeling for
Val. 1t was fine feeling, too-that
I knew. And however things ap-
peared, I felt sure that for Nals
sake this big grown pear of a man
had tried to fight down the savage
she had reused in him. To him Val
was. a child even now. But | had
seen her smiling cynically with the
wisdom of Cleopatra or any of the
other sirens whose wisdom was dS
deep and dark as the Nile. And
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
What is His Motive?
Dear Miss Fairfax:


l am eighteen. Several months
age my brother introduced me TO his
ohum, whom I have since learned
to Sove. He has taken me out
many times, and has been very at
tentive to me, Recently have been
told that he loves another girl and
that he is only going with me
to make her jealous. Now, Miss
Fairfax, l would not worry So much,
hut like him very much, and more
tkan one person has told me this.
Moreover, they are people whose
word cannot be doubted.
MIRIAM.
If this is true, perhaps the same
fate may overtake the young man
that has overtaken many others. ne
may start out to do this rather
igroble thing and wind up oy falling
in love with you. He will not do
this. however, if you lose your head
and show him plainly how much
you care. An element of upcertain-
ty is a good thing in a love affair.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
"Whe11 a Girl MQrrieS"

New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing
Problem of Girl Wife
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
How to Rid the Skin
of Objectionable Hairs
aids to BeautYl

A simplified method is here given
for the quick removal of hairy or
fuzzy growths and rarely is more
than one treatment required: Mix Q
stiff paste with some powdered della
tone and water, apply to hairy sur
face and after 2 or minutes rub
off, wash the skin and every hair
has vanished. This simple freat-
ment cannot cause injury, but care
should be exercised to get real della
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25

2sS7. - This one-piece dress is
suitable for taffeta. linen, gingham,
serge, gabardine, voile, crepe de
chine and satin. 1t may be finished
as illustrated, with graceful close
hitting sleeve in wrist length, or
with an elbow sleeve.
The pattern is cut in z sizes 81,
3e, 3s, 40. AZ, A and 46 inches bust
measure. Size 3s requires 5 yards
of 42-inch material. Width of skirt
at lower edge is l 7-S yards.
A pattern of this illustration
mailed to any address on receipt of
10 cents in silver or stamps.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
CHECK SHIFTING SANDS

The Michigan Agricultural Col
lege, through its forestry depart
ment, is planting about $4,000 trees
among the sand dunes in some of
the western Michigan districts in an
effort to check the shifting of these
big sand piles, says a report to the
American Forestry Association, of
Washington, which is encourag ging
the planting of trees set out as me-
memorials to soldiers and sailors.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-11
CONF R0M|SE ON
WAR PROFITS IS
BEING DISCUSSED

IBV MOANING JOURNAL SPECIAL LessES tisE
Washington. Jan. 10.--War excess
profits and insurance company taxes
were considered today by senate and
house conferees on the war revenue
bill
A compromise on the war excess
profits was proposed, with house man.
ayers advocating somewhat higher
rates than the senate provided, and,
although action was deferred today,
the confereees hope for prompt
agreement on this section, which is es-
timated to raise $2.400, 900 900 of the
total of $4,000. 5000 tax levy
planned this year. The house con-
ferees urged an increase in the thirty
and sixty per cent rates on corpora
tons incomes under the war excess
profits plan for 1919.
An agreement on insurance taxes
was reached by the conferees when
the senate managers yielded the sem
ate amendment providing for a twelve
per cent tax on incomeor life, mutual
insurance companies and accepted the
original house program for taxation
on life, fire. marine, casualty and 9TH
er insurance companies based on the
premiums issued The house insur-
ance rates were established to raise
$12,000,000 and the senate plan about
Sl0OO0,000, e
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-11
bLAMES
WAR DEP PARTMENT
FOR MAIL DELAY
Says Thousands, Maybe Mil
lions Of UndeIivered Letters
viii Arrive in New York
Soon for Return.

Washington, Jan. 10.--From eight
to ten carloads OF mail for American
soldiers are undeliyered in France,
Second Assistant Postmaster General
Praeger told the senate postoffice
committee today, and thousands and
probably millions of letters addressed
to the men overseas will arrive in New
York soon TO be sent to the dead let
ter office, where an attempt Will be
made to return them to the writer's.
Blame for the failure to deliver this
mail was placed on the war depart
ment by Mr.. Praeger, who again ex-
planned that the army authorities ham
die all soldiers mail in France, the
postoffice department delivering out
going mail at Hoboken and receiving
returning mail at the French ports.
Mr.. praeger said one way to inn
prove conditions overseas would be to
send force of experienced mail clerks
to France to deliver the mail to the
soldiers.
"The trouble does not lie at the
French ports" declared Praeger, ut
lies in the interior 1t gets tied up
somewhere between army headquar-
ters, censors and the ports'f
Mr.. Praeger told the committee that
one reason for the confusion in the
delivery of mail to soldiers was the
failure of the war department to keep
up its index system. This same cause,
he declared, also was responsible for
the departments delay in sending out
allotments to soldiers and in reporting
casualties.
Another source of delay, he added,
was the transferring of units Of troops!
from one port to another, but he said
this should cause only few weeks
delay, as the mail could readily be
forwarded to the moving troops.
Mr. Praeger said about fifty expe-
rienced mail clerks were sent by that
department overseas, while the re-
mainder Of the necessary force for this
work was made up of inexperienced
men.
Mr. Praeger appeared before the
committee to urge appropriations of
$4,000, 600 for the maintenance Of the
aerial mail service. He predicted a
great future for this service and de-
clared that extensive plans for devel-
oping aerial mail facilities are being
made by France. England and Canada.
Extension of the present air mail
service between Washington and New
York so as to connect Boston with At
lanta is planned. Mr.. Praeger said.
In addition, it is also proposed to es-
tablish routes connecting New York
and Omaha, Neb., via Chicago and
Boston with Detroit through Albany
and Buffalo. Establishment of these
routes, he said. would cost $2,034, 900,
while he estimated the revenues would
total $2,050.125.
Replying to questions of senator's,
Mr.. Praeger said the cost Of operat-
ing the air mail service between Wash
ington and New York during the last
six months was $75.i65, while the rev.
enue totailed $60,653. s